| 1 | [[quoteright:330:[[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/lizardmenskinks-1.jpg]]]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:330: Apparently, lizards are {{Mayincatec}}.]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | -> '''Cole:''' My husband was joking about Reptilians earlier. I bet you've seen them with your own eyes.\ |
| 5 | '''Ruby:''' Damn hard to kill. |
| 6 | -->-- ''ComicBook/TheDepartmentOfTruth'' |
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| 8 | Almost every StandardFantasySetting with the StandardFantasyRaces is bound to to have one group of these guys. A civilized or semi-civilized race of humanoid lizards, they vary from being [[RubberForeheadAliens scaly humans]] to [[BeastMan large bipedal lizards]] to small dinosaurs and everything in-between. Sadly, they are [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent almost always one of the bad guys]], and even when not AlwaysChaoticEvil, they usually end up as antagonists. More modern depictions tend to make them TrueNeutral, being an old race that just wants to live with their old ways without modern civilization stamping down on them. |
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| 10 | Most Reptilian Humanoids fall somewhere into this category, with the notable exception of lamias, nagas, and gorgons, which generally fall under SnakePeople. |
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| 12 | Whenever SnakePeople are given hind legs, they are usually just Lizard Folk with fangs. They also rarely ever look like turtles, except for perhaps some individuals having beaks for mouths or using turtle shells as shields. If given a culture or civilization expect them to live in either a jungle, swamp or more rarely a desert, be fairly primitive and tribal, and use various larger reptiles as [[HorseOfADifferentColor beasts of burden]]; they may even keep DomesticatedDinosaurs. The more human-like in appearance the Lizard Folk are, the more [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman sympathetically they tend to be portrayed]]. |
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| 14 | Lizard folk are often depicted as a very ancient race, far older than humanity. In such depictions, they will have once ruled the world before the rise of warm-blooded peoples, in a callback to how the AgeOfReptiles preceded the Age of Mammals. In this case they might be considerably more civilized, or rather they were in the past but are now a dying, degenerate fragment of a once mighty civilization. As lizards are exotic, their civilizations tend to be based on real life ones considered exotic, such as {{Mayincatec}} (as in the trope picture) or based on DarkestAfrica, and Lizard Folk typically come from analogues to these environments. |
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| 16 | Expect some form of {{Sssssnaketalk}}, regardless of whether or not the culture (or species) is actually snake-themed. [[{{Phlegmings}} A mouthful of phlegm or mucus]] is also popular. May overlap with FishPeople, FrogMen and/or [[DraconicHumanoid Draconic Humanoids]], [[ColdBloodedWhatever depending on how willing the author is to stretch or disregard conventional taxonomy]]. If the lizard folk are friendly, or even cute, this can overlap with LovableLizard. |
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| 18 | Also, expect that appearances aside, most Lizard Folk don't have any biological link with the lizards you'll find here on Earth. In fact, Lizard Folk tend to be more commonly associated with dinosaurs than living reptiles, in which case the race name will include 'Saur' in it. Such dinosaur-derived creatures are sometimes called "dinosauroids", a term first popularized by paleontologist Dale Russell's hypothetical ''Troodon''-descended humanoid. |
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| 20 | Along with CatFolk, Lizard Folk are one of the most common types of BeastMan. Also common in both [[ScienceFiction sci-fi]] SpaceOpera and [[OralTradition mythology]]. Also see ReptilianConspiracy. |
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| 23 | !!Examples: |
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| 25 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 26 | |
| 27 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 28 | * ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'': Lizardmen are well-loved by many of the show's villains as {{mooks}}. |
| 29 | * ''Manga/{{Dorohedoro}}'': TheProtagonist Kaiman was once a normal guy who had his head turned into a lizard’s through a spell, and spends a good part of the series trying to find the person who transformed him so he can play NoOntologicalInertia fatally straight and get his normal head back. |
| 30 | * ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' has more than a few of these, usually falling under the "Dragon Man" classification. Examples include [=WarGreymon=] from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', and [=OmegaShoutmon=] from ''Anime/DigimonFusion.'' This being Digimon, they tend to overlap with OurDragonsAreDifferent, and others. |
| 31 | ** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' also introduces Iguneetmon, a Reptile Man type based on the Iguana. |
| 32 | * ''Literature/Overlord2012'': Several different tribes of Lizardmen live in a massive swamp and by the time of the story, have recently come out of a brutal resource war. When Ainz Ooal Gown sets his sights on conquering them, he sends the Floor Guardian Cocytus to test them in battle. Upon having their best warriors utterly slaughtered by the insectoid Guardian, Ainz elects to resurrect them at Cocytus' request due to his being impressed by their warrior skill, whereupon they become vassals of Nazarick. Notably, the Lizardmen of ''Overlord'' are portrayed as being peaceful between the tribes, friendly to others, and very badass. |
| 33 | * Bido from ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'' is a somewhat downplayed example. He's a chimera who's part-lizard, and, while he's more human-like than some examples, he's got a tail and visible scales on some parts of his body. Also, he's got a lizard-like ability to easily scale walls. |
| 34 | * ''Literature/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'' has Lizard Folk. The main character form an alliance with them to battle against the Orc Lord. |
| 35 | * One of the regular customers of the ''Literature/RestaurantToAnotherWorld'' is a lizard man who always orders omelet rice and orders takeout for the rest of his tribe. Only the strongest warrior in the tribe is allowed to enter the restaurant to bring back food. |
| 36 | * One of the members of ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'''s party is a Lizard Priest who dresses like a Native American and worships dinosaurs. |
| 37 | * The Dinosaur Empire from ''Manga/GetterRobo'' are composed of Lizard Folk Mooks, with several humanoid, scaled generals with a variety of dinosaur features. |
| 38 | * Daibazaal/Zarkon in ''Anime/GoLion''/''Anime/{{Voltron}}'' has slitted eyes, scales on his body, and finned ears. Several other residents of Planet Galra/Doom have similar appearances. |
| 39 | * ''Manga/HeterogeniaLinguistico'': Among the many species Hakaba meets are lizardmen. Their heads look just like an alligator or crocodile's, and their "written" language is very color-based. Two of them, siblings Kashoo and Kekoo, become Hakaba and Susuki's traveling companions. |
| 40 | %%* Taurians from ''Manga/OutlawStar''.%%ZCE |
| 41 | * ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheKnightsOnDinosaurs'' deal with reptilians whose civilization thrives BeneathTheEarth, and seek to alter the timeline so it's them, not the humans, who flourish above ground. Despite their sinister motives, they are actually no less moral than humans, if not objectively better (their technology being far more eco-friendly, for example). The finale of the movie has them agree to stay under the earth, because [[DeusExMachina Doraemon's future gadgets]] saved their ancestors from extinction. |
| 42 | * ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': A member of the League of Villains, Spinner's overall character design reflects this trope due to his '''Gecko''' Quirk, [[AllOfTheOtherReindeer which he was ostracized for]] in his conservative, backwater hometown. He idolizes the Hero Killer Stain and joined the League based on the (incorrect) belief that they were ushering in Stain's ideals. Even after being proven wrong in that regard, he still sticks by the League purely because they showed him genuine friendship compared to the bigotry he faced in his early life. |
| 43 | [[/folder]] |
| 44 | |
| 45 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 46 | * The Grith, from ''ComicBook/XenozoicTales''. |
| 47 | * ''Creator/MarvelComics'': |
| 48 | ** ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The Lizard, [[InvoluntaryShapeshifting is sometimes]] a straight up bi-pedal version. After ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay'' his villain Komodo is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a Komodo dragon. |
| 49 | ** Lots of alien races, including The Badoon, Skrulls, and Snarks. Ch'od of the ComicBook/{{Starjammers}} also fits the description (although he's basically a good guy). As does, to some degree, Stegron the Dinosaur Man. And the {{Space Pirate|s}} Captain Reptyl. And the Tribbitites, aka Toad Men. Along with assorted reptilian {{mutants}} such as Slither, Scaleface, Primal, etc. Basically, Marvel likes this trope. |
| 50 | ** ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' has the Chitauri, who are a DarkerAndEdgier reimagining of the Skrulls. |
| 51 | ** ''Marvel'' also has the Serpent Men, borrowed from ''ComicBook/{{Conan|TheBarbarian}}'' in the days when he had a comic there. |
| 52 | ** ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': [[Characters/MarvelComicsBruceBanner Bruce Banner]]'s Devil Hulk form has his appearance in Bruce's mindscape. ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' later revealed that one: this is a case of AppearanceIsInTheEyeOfTheBeholder and he really looks like a normal Hulk and two: this came about because Bruce was looking at a picture of the Serpent from ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' when his father Brian was in one of his abusive moods. |
| 53 | * ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'': [[GorgeousGorgon Delphyne Gorgon]] is a much more reptilian take on the classical myth which combines this trope with PerkyGoth, CatholicSchoolGirlsRule and {{Tsundere}} in a DatingCatwoman storyarc. Her race, the Gorgons, are portrayed as Lizard-folk with snake-hair, with a few having serpent tails instead of legs. It's stated that the reason why she has legs is because after the Amazons cleared out a Gorgon nest in Atlantis they took some of the Gorgons with them, to interbreed them with humans. |
| 54 | * The Croccos, in ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' comic strip. |
| 55 | * ''Creator/DCComics'': |
| 56 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Killer Croc ''used'' to be just a big strong guy with a skin condition, but he's become more lizard-like over time. He was specifically mutated with a virus by Hush and [[spoiler:[[Characters/BatmanTheRiddler The Riddler]]]] to make him more violent and feral, and less human. By the end of the book it's mentioned he's received the antidote but it ''didn't work.'' After ''[[ComicBook/BatmanWarGames War Games]]'', he's more feral than ever and a scientist reveals (shortly before Croc [[EatenAlive eats her]]) that there's no way to undo it. |
| 57 | ** The Lizarkons of the planet Thanagar, ComicBook/{{Hawkman}}'s homeworld. Also the Gordanians and Psions, who both terrorize [[Characters/TeenTitansStarfire Starfire]]'s home system of Vega. |
| 58 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': A pair of unnamed slaves on Hope's End are humanoid with reptile features. |
| 59 | ** [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] comics had Mr. Mind's alien flunkies, the Crocodile Men from Planet Punkus. |
| 60 | * In ''ComicBook/TheDepartmentOfTruth'', Reptilians are real ([[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve or at least they are since people believe they exist]]) and are apparently a bitch to kill. Somehow, Black Hat kept one in its employ. |
| 61 | * Creator/CrossGen gives us the Saurians, notable among other things for being able to acquire traits and knowledge from the creatures they eat, and for having ridiculously hot women. |
| 62 | * Vaughan Bode populated his UndergroundComics with lizard men existing on basically equal terms with humans. (The lizards were virtually all male.) |
| 63 | %%* Clonezone the Hilariator from ''Comicbooks/{{Nexus}}''.%%ZCE |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' had the Kleggs, thuggish and dim crocodile-like mercenaries who accept payment in meat. |
| 65 | * The ComicBook/{{Primortals}}, being descended from different ancient Earth animals, include reptilian races, most notably Zeerus's pterodactyl people. |
| 66 | * The Venn species from ''ComicBook/{{Reyn}}'' are basically bipedal salamanders, albeit rough sketches indicated that they originally were going to look different. |
| 67 | * ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': The main villains of the second series are snake-men. |
| 68 | * Robyn clashes with a group of lizard folk living in New York's severs in ''ComicBook/RobynHood: I Love NY''. |
| 69 | * The Dystopians in ''ComicBook/RequiemChevalierVampire''. Dystopians are people that went to hell by committing acts of evil in the name of imperialism and, aside from being reptilians, they resemble the Victorian age British Empire. |
| 70 | * There is at least one tribe of crocodile-type lizardmen in ''ComicBook/RedSonja'': ''The Art of Blood and Fire'' living in competition with the bog dwellers. They're obscure enough that professional adventurer Sonja has never heard of them [[AlwaysChaoticEvil (though she catches on quickly)]]. According to Gribaldi their eggs and young are pretty tasty. |
| 71 | * The [[ComicBook/NeilGaimansTeknophage Teknophage]] and his species (at least the newborns before most were extinct) are somewhat the lizard folks they were. |
| 72 | * ComicBook/{{Mampato}} [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ASw5lNu3Ork/XLxw6HB_CyI/AAAAAAAGTE8/dzqrfESUA8MdnVjcdTZUsrJb7LfdyNH9QCLcBGAs/s1600/LADM_01021.jpg has the Kili-Kili]], a race that lived in prehistory, which unlike other examples are shy, harmless and very friendly, but are chased by cavemen who want to snatch them the secret of creating fire. |
| 73 | * ''ComicBook/{{Ungrounded}}'' has Lt. Lizard, a reptilian beat cop who looks like [[Film/CreatureFromTheBlackLagoon Gill-Man]]. |
| 74 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': Victor Borkowski/Anole is a mutant who has green, scaly skin, and can regrow severed limbs like a lizard. |
| 75 | [[/folder]] |
| 76 | |
| 77 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 78 | * The Tayhil, only implied in ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'' (since they'd been wiped out) but overt in ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone'', when they were restored to C'hou. They're considered snakemen but fit this trope better, since they're bipedal. |
| 79 | * ''Webcomic/{{Hackbent}}'': Nohmyt, being a fan-species of super-intelligent lizard aliens that can shapeshift based on the [[Series/TheTwilightZone1959 Kanamit]]. |
| 80 | * ''Fanfic/BlessedWithAHerosHeart'': One of Izuku's slave girls is an alligator demihuman whom he names Liza. She looks mostly human barring having her arms and legs covered in scales, reptilian ears and an alligator tail. |
| 81 | * ''Fanfic/TheVioletDemon'': The Fornaxians, the aliens responsible for abducting Gaz and [[MadeASlave selling her as a slave]], are humanoid reptiles. |
| 82 | [[/folder]] |
| 83 | |
| 84 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 85 | * ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal2000'': Tyler discovers a very violent race of lizard men, and becomes their new king after fighting theirs to the death. |
| 86 | [[/folder]] |
| 87 | |
| 88 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 89 | * ''Film/SuperMarioBros1993'' presents AnotherDimension where dinosaurs have survived and evolved into a species that outwardly resemble humans. There are still a handful of dinosaurs that haven't fully evolved, namely Yoshi. |
| 90 | -->'''[[TheHero Mario]]:''' What single-cell organism did ''you'' evolve from?\ |
| 91 | '''[[BigBad Koopa]]:''' UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex -- the lizard king, thank you very much. |
| 92 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'' has [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Reptilian_sentient_species an extensive list.]] |
| 93 | ** The Trandoshans — or T'doshok, as they name themselves — are the main reptilian species in the setting. They're scaly humanoids with poor reputations and a history of warfare and slave trading. They're also [[ProudHunterRace very fond of hunting]] — and Trandoshan rites of passage involve hunting other intelligent beings. The most notable member of the species is Bossk, one of the {{Bounty Hunter}}s sent after the heroes by TheEmpire. |
| 94 | ** The [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sarkan Sarkans,]] which are sentient, egg-laying bipedal reptiles. The species made its debut in the 1997 special edition of ''Film/ANewHope''. |
| 95 | ** A more humanoid example are the Falleen, who appear to be green-skinned humans except for their long claws and spinal ridges. (They even have hair!) |
| 96 | ** The ''Legends'' Universe includes Barabels, who are predatory pack-hunters but also generally good guys, though since the Vong War they are somewhat endangered. The species [[CanonImmigrant became canon]] after being introduced in the first issue of the ''Darth Maul'' comics. |
| 97 | --->"On Nal Hutta, the [[ScaryDogmaticAliens Vong]] are invaderz. What doez one call them on Barab?"\ |
| 98 | "Prey?" |
| 99 | ** ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'' features [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Zam_Wesell Zam Wesell]], a shapeshifting Clawdite assassin hired to kill Senator Amidala. |
| 100 | * In ''Film/{{Cinderella 2015}}'', the lizards transformed into footmen by the fairy godmother retain a number of reptilian traits (such as long tongues). |
| 101 | * ''Film/MagicLizard'' is a Thai fantasy film where the main characters, a bunch of sentient, andromorphic lizard-people does battle with various monsters. Oddly enough, every other character is a human. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNKLmtPSiPs&t=83s It needs to be seen to be believed]]. |
| 102 | * Grig, the overenthusiastic gunner from ''Film/TheLastStarfighter,'' is a rare heroic example. |
| 103 | * Caymen of the Lambda Zone is a [[AntiHero (more or less)]] heroic example in ''Film/BattleBeyondTheStars.'' He seeks revenge on Sador for [[LastofHisKind wiping]] out his people, the Lazuli. |
| 104 | * ''Film/{{Zathura}}'': The Zorgons, a species of nomadic, reptilian PlanetLooters who move from world to world to burn everything they can find, in order to sate their reptilian obsession with heat and warmth. |
| 105 | * General Sarris and his people in ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' are members of an unnamed reptilian race engaged in a genocidal war against the peaceful aliens the main characters are drafted into helping. |
| 106 | * The Drac from ''Film/EnemyMine'', though the movie's main point is that [[GreyAndGrayMorality they're not really the bad guys, and humans aren't really the good guys either]]. |
| 107 | * The "Predator" alien in ''Film/CodeRedTheRubiconConspiracy'' is one of these under his (its?) mask. |
| 108 | * At the end of ''Film/WolfCop'', [[spoiler: the AncientConspiracy running the town are revealed to be these]]. |
| 109 | * A proto-example in ''Film/TwentyMillionMilesToEarth'', where the Ymir - an alien from Venus - is distinctly lizardlike, while also fairly anthropomorphic, though it doesn't wear clothes, and is portrayed as a [[NonMaliciousMonster dumb, frightened animal]], rather than a DiabolicalMastermind. |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Gamebooks]] |
| 113 | * In the ''Literature/LoneWolf'' series: |
| 114 | ** Gourgaz are massive lizardmen coming from the Maakenmire swamp and employed by the Darklords to lead the Giak soldiers in combat. |
| 115 | ** Crocaryx are crocodilian humanoids in service of the god Kai, who guard the Lorestone of Tahou in the lost city of Zaaryx. |
| 116 | * ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebooks like ''Literature/IslandOfTheLizardKing'' and ''Literature/BattlebladeWarrior'' features the heroes battling against the tyranny of evil Lizard Men. Subverted in ''Literature/IslandOfTheUndead''. The titular island is also home to a tribe of lizard people, but while some are hostile, there's also a tribe of harmless lizard people who can help you if you get on their good side. |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 120 | * ''Literature/AlmostNight'': Several are seen throughout the story. They have green scales and never wear shirts. A row red spikes go down their back. They're called velikaps and they avert the AlwaysChaoticEvil. |
| 121 | * ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The Hork-Bajir are large, dinosaur-like herbivores with blades growing from their heads and limbs, enslaved by the villains. |
| 122 | * ''Literature/{{Destroyermen}}'': The Grik, descended from raptors according to the WordOfGod. The fact that they have feathers as well as scales is further proof of their ancestry. They also have other avian characteristics, such as hollow bones. |
| 123 | * ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'': The Tarsi are a race of Lizard Folk whose culture is based upon UsefulNotes/ImperialJapan. Unusually for this trope, they are [[InvertedTrope some of the most morally good people on the planet]], and they possess both SuperStrength and the Gift of Wisdom. |
| 124 | * ''Literature/TheToughGuideToFantasyland'': Scaly Folk of the "lizard kinds" are found living on land in warm climates. They can range from knee-high to ten feet tall or more. They are often very knowledgeable and wise, but may be unfriendly to the Tourists. |
| 125 | * ''Literature/WellWorld'': Marquoz starts life as one of a small saurian [[BreathWeapon fire-breathing]] race. After reaching the Well World, he is reborn as a Hakazit, a race of huge armored dinosaurlike war machines. |
| 126 | * ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian'': The Serpent Men originally appeared in one of Creator/RobertEHoward's non-Conan "King Kull" stories, "The Shadow Kingdom". They were imported into Conan's world by later writers, with the justification that Kull and Conan are said to share a history. (Later still, they were also imported into the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, which is also nominally linked to Conan's world.) Despite their name, they are usually portrayed with a full set of limbs. |
| 127 | * The Ternaui in ''Literature/TheExcaliburAlternative''. Initially appearing as silent bodyguards to the BigBad, it turns out that [[spoiler: they are telepathic and detest their slavery. Eventually they side with the humans]]. |
| 128 | * Creator/PoulAnderson's Merseians in ''Literature/TechnicHistory'', although usually at odds with humanity, are a more nuanced portrayal (and have a culture [[FantasyCounterpartCulture based off of the Sassanid Empire]]). |
| 129 | * ''Literature/{{Uplift}}'' has a few reptilian species, but two stand out: |
| 130 | ** The Soro are imperialistic, cruel and warlike. And to be expected, enemies of Earth Clan. |
| 131 | ** The Thennannin are also reptiles. They are incredibly conservative, self-righteous and dogmatic. However they are not actually evil. In the second novel, ''Startide Rising'', they are fighting Humans along with everyone else to get the big secret they think the Streaker is carrying. By the third novel they have "adopted" [[spoiler:Gorillas]] as a client species and are dutifully helping protect Earth. |
| 132 | * The Quintaglios of Robert J. Sawyer's ''Literature/QuintaglioAscension'' trilogy are the descendants of small Tyrannosaurs. Since the series focuses on an important period of their planet's history, we get a characterization of them that is far more nuanced than usual. |
| 133 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 134 | ** The ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' novel ''The Captain's Table: War Dragons'' has the humanoid reptilian Anjiri and the theropod-like Nykkus, [[spoiler:which turn out to be [[BizarreAlienBiology two forms of the same species]]]]. While their dialogue does not use SssssnakeTalk, their language relies so heavily on gestures that [[TranslatorMicrobes Universal Translators]] can't handle it. While the first ones to show up are basically incompetent SpacePirates, it turns out that neither of these traits [[PlanetOfHats is their hat]]. |
| 135 | ** The Gnalish in the ''Literature/StarTrekNovelVerse'' are a rare example of a benevolent, heroic Reptilian race. Okay, they're still grumpy and sour, but at least they're friendly. |
| 136 | * Lisanne Norman's ''Literature/SholanAlliance'' series has the antagonist species, the Valtegans with no tail, and the friendly Sumaan with a very strong thick tail. |
| 137 | * Ssilissa of the ''Literature/{{Larklight}}'' trilogy; blue, scaly, with spines for hair and a heavily clubbed tail. Is noted occasionally for averting NonMammalMammaries (and thus not fitting into dresses cut for humans), and has a few self-image issues on account of being raised by humans. [[spoiler:In the third book, we meet her race, the Snilth, a [[LadyLand matriarchal]] {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} who serve as {{mooks}} for the book's BigBad. They live in clans identified by the shape of the weapon on their tails, and Ssil's proves her to be the [[RagsToRoyalty only known heir to the banished queen]] who [[HeelFaceTurn turned against]] the BigBad long ago.]] |
| 138 | * Creator/HPLovecraft: |
| 139 | ** "The Nameless City": The denizens of the Nameless City are straight-up lizards, with no connection to Howard's Serpent Men. |
| 140 | ** "Literature/InTheWallsOfEryx" by Kenneth J. Sterling and Lovecraft: the Venusians are described as reptilian humanoids. |
| 141 | * The ''Literature/{{Kadingir}}'' series features ''two'' different reptilian races, which are usually at war with each other: the Musdagurs, bipedal lizards that can in some instances change the colour of their scales to camouflage, and the Sutums, which are more akin to humanoid salamanders. Both are very agile in combat and [[LeParkour can easily attatch themselves to walls and cealings]]. |
| 142 | * ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'': The Serpentwar Saga features the Sauur Lizardmen and the Pantathian serpent people. |
| 143 | * ''Literature/WestOfEden'' has the Yilani;, a race of mosasaurs that evolved to intelligence in an AlternateHistory where the asteroid that supposedly wiped out the dinosaurs missed. Although there is conflict between them and humans they are actually more advanced (with [[OrganicTechnology technology based on genetic engineering]]) than the Paleolithic level humans. The first book spends much of its first portion with them and we get a very detailed look at their world; they are semi-aquatic (they are related to seagoing lizards), have a matriarchal society thanks largely to their borderline BizarreSexualDimorphism. Oh, and once the humans enter the picture in a significant way, they immediately become the {{Card Carrying Villain}}s of the book because {{humans|AreSpecial}} are [[MostWritersAreHuman awesome]] and reptiles... [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent well duh]]. It's awkward. |
| 144 | * ''Literature/FightingFantasy'': The Lizardmen of this {{Gamebook|s}} are the rulers of a vast and expansionistic empire, though there are also isolated tribes of primitive barbarian Lizardmen. |
| 145 | * ''Literature/PlayPlaces'': Councilman Shuk is a humanoid alligator. |
| 146 | * Creator/AndreNorton: |
| 147 | ** The stand-alone short story "The Gifts of Asti" featured NonHumanSidekick Lur, a good guy example; he doesn't walk upright, and speaks only through [[PsychicPowers telepathy]]. |
| 148 | ** In ''Literature/StormOverWarlock'', the native species is reptilian, vaguely draconic, whence their name Wyverns. [[BeautyEqualsGoodness They manage to look good.]] And doubtlessly benefit from the contrast with the InsectoidAliens PlanetLooters, the Throg. |
| 149 | ** ''Literature/QuagKeep'', which is set in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''' world of TabletopGame/{{Greyhawk}}, featured a Lizardman named Gulth as one of the protagonists. |
| 150 | ** Norton's Zacathans turn this trope upside down and inside out. Yes, they're reptiles. They're also highly intelligent, extremely civilized, and tend to be top-level Intelligentsia (having very long lifespans gives them lots of time to learn a lot of stuff); their [[PlanetOfHats "hat"]] is archaeology and history.[[LawOfAlienNames Their names all begin with "Z".]] And they're still outstanding fighters if they have to be, due to reptile hide and very long teeth. (Oh yes, and the highest known psi rating in the galaxy, which they keep a Deep Dark Secret.) |
| 151 | * Creator/TamoraPierce's ''Literature/TortallUniverse'' series has basilisks, which are bipedal, 7-foot tall, slender, lizard-like immortals that use SssssnakeTalk, speak most mortal languages, and can turn enemies to stone with a spell. The only basilisk seen in the series, Tkaa, is a good guy. |
| 152 | * Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs created the Horibs for his ''Literature/{{Pellucidar}}'' series. Pellucidar also has the telepathic GiantFlyer race, the Mahar, descended from pterosaurs. |
| 153 | * The Viis, the main antagonists of Deborah Chester's ''Literature/AlienChronicles'' novels, are decadent, humanoid, frilled lizards. |
| 154 | * ''Literature/HumanxCommonwealth'': The [=AAnn=]. Lighter and weaker than humans but much faster with sharp claws and teeth. [[spoiler:Almost]] [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent Always the antagonist]] when they appear. Includes SssssnakeTalk. They also communicate with hand gestures to show emotion, although this is a common linguistic trait in that universe. [[spoiler:There have been several sympathetic [=AAnn=] characters in the Flinx setting, even one that fell in love with the titular redhead. None outlast the book they are introduced in.]] |
| 155 | * Creator/TerryPratchett's ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' has (in ''Literature/TheLastHero'') the last two "Stupid Lizard Men", a race whose entire purpose seemed to be to act as drama-appropriate idiotic {{mooks}} for {{evil overlord}}s. They're all called Slime. Given that other races considered absent from the Disc, namely orcs and goblins, make a return it may turn out those were just the last two ''stupid'' ones. |
| 156 | * Creator/RichardKMorgan's ''[[Literature/ALandFitForHeroes The Steel Remains]]'' frequently refers to a great war that happened before the book itself is set, between the forces of humanity and their allies against the aquatic, lizard-like "Scaled Folk". |
| 157 | * How the archaic human protagonists of ''Literature/QuestForFire'' perceive the anatomically modern Wah tribe: They have strange cylindrical bodies with arms that stick out without shoulders to speak of, [[BodyPaint seemingly scaly skin]] and a lethargic temperament. |
| 158 | * ''Literature/{{Worldwar}}'': |
| 159 | ** The Race is a species of chameleon-like reptilians whose strong sense of cultural pride drives them to try and conquer Earth. The two species they subjugated before invading Earth (Rabotevs and Halessi, though those are probably the Race's names for them) are also reptilian in nature, as they are mentioned as being fairly similar to the Race. |
| 160 | ** In ''Homeward Bound'', humans finally meet members of the two other species after reaching Home, although they claim to have already seen pictures of them. This is also the first description of the races that the readers get. The Rabotevs have two thumbs on each hand and eye stalks instead of the Race's eye turrets. The Halessi look more like cross between LittleGreenMen and lizards, being small, squeaky-voiced, more erect and smaller-snouted than members of the Race. Unlike the Race, the Rabotevs and the Halessi don't suffer narcotic or mating-inducing effects from ginger. |
| 161 | * The Aandrisk in the ''Literature/{{Wayfarers}}'' series look like human-sized bipedal lizards with multicolored feathers on their heads. |
| 162 | %%* The villains in the Literature/JasonWood story "Viewed in a Harsh Light".%%ZCE |
| 163 | * Creator/MarionZimmerBradley's ''The Brass Dragon''. The Dikri are a race of cold, ruthless dragon-like aliens who can Shape Shift into human form. They act as renegades, interfering on primitive worlds in violation of interstellar rules. |
| 164 | %%*''Literature/BraveStory,'': The waterkin. |
| 165 | * ''Literature/WildCards'' has Wyrm, Troll, and Detective Harvey Kant, all scaly reptilian Jokers. |
| 166 | * ''Literature/AnonymousRex'' had some dinosaurs surviving their mass extinction. They adapted to human society by disguising themselves as people. |
| 167 | * ''Literature/TheAncestralTrail'': The Reptile Forces includes both crocodilian lizardmen and actual crocodiles; unusually, they're the good guys (OK, so they start off under [[BigBad The Evil One's]] control, but so does everybody else). The Cyber Dimension has a group of peaceful, highly cultured lizard folk who are oppressed by Goffal and Pixar. |
| 168 | * In the Literature/{{RCN}} novel ''Some Golden Harbor'', occasionally {{sssssnake talk}}ing reptilian alien Fallert is on Daniel and Adele's side -- and [[InterspeciesRomance very taken with]] [[PsychoSidekick Tovera]]. This {{squick}}s Daniel something fierce; interestingly, his [[BattleButler servant]] [[SociopathicHero Hogg]] gets along just fine with Fallert. |
| 169 | * The Rrertaxi in the ''Literature/Spaceforce2012'' universe. We don't know much about them other than their spicy cuisine has become popular with Earthers. |
| 170 | * The ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}'' universe has Draconians. They start off AlwaysChaoticEvil, and usually appear as some variety of {{mook|s}} (either regular or [[EliteMooks improved]], depending on the story), but the depictions have become more nuanced over time. The most notable subversion is Kang and his band of engineers, who while starting out as evil (in the alignment sense) are nonetheless sympathetic, likable, and relatively honorable characters (they eventually ensure their race's future, found a city, and if a scene at the end of the War of Souls trilogy is anything to go by, pull a HeelFaceTurn on [[spoiler:Takhisis]]). |
| 171 | * The silkar in the ''Literature/{{Duel of Sorcery|Trilogy}}'' and ''Dancer'' trilogies. Our first introduction to the race is in the form of a minor character "scaled like a viper and green as the new leaves of spring", who has a voice described as "[[SssssnakeTalk harsh and inhuman]]." They're implied, however, to be [[IntelligentGerbil quite human-looking]] [[RubberForeheadAliens otherwise]]; they've even got [[NonMammalianHair hair]] (although it's green). |
| 172 | * H. Beam Piper messed with this trope in ''Uller Uprising''. When the reptilian Ullerians fight against the humans on Uller, some forces side with the humans. The story was a retelling of the Sepoy Mutiny In Space, with the humans as the British, so FridgeLogic gets a workout. The people of Uller, good and bad, are multi-dimensional and complex, with several different cultures. |
| 173 | * In the SpeculativeDocumentary book ''Literature/AllTomorrows'' by Nemo Ramjet one of the successors of mankind is a race known as the Saurosapients, which evolved from large lizards brought to a tropical planet by humans. Ironically they were once the livestock of a minimally-intelligent species of genetically modified human, who degenerated to become ''their'' livestock after the reptiles out-evolved them. Saurosapients are neither evil nor very human-like in general appearance (more like featherless raptors), but their society grows paranoid that an alien race will wipe them out like the humans before them. [[spoiler: It's presumed that the cyborg Gravital did wipe them out eventually, along with many other races that ''were'' human-descended.]] |
| 174 | * The ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'' series feature the K'Chain Che'Malle. They destroyed themselves warring with the Short-tails, the K'Chain Nah'ruk, which [[HoistByHisOwnPetard they themselves had created]] as a ServantRace. Mostly a fallen and forgotten civilization by the time of the main series, they appear as [[OurZombiesAreDifferent powerful zombies]] and [[LandmarkOfLore large ruins]]. A few living individuals are encountered, one having been imprisoned in an AncientTomb and now quite mad, two others [[EliteMooks aiding]] a human who encountered them "in another land". The K'Chain Che'Malle organized themselves around [[HiveQueen Matrons]] in a manner similar to ants or bees and lived in [[FloatingContinent levitating hive cities]] they had carved out of mountains. A Matron could produce several kinds of breeds (workers, warriors, assassins, and so on) depending on the task they were needed for. Despite possessing their own [[FunctionalMagic racial Warren]], the K'Chain Che'Malle also were able to manufacture what they called [[{{Nanomachines}} drones]] and enable them to run certain programs even thousands of years after their makers had died, creating the effect of MagicFromTechnology. ''Literature/DustOfDreams'' features the last remaining functioning hive city called Kalse Rooted and reigned over by the failing and mad Matron Gunth'an Acyl. It also reveals the [[BlueAndOrangeMorality beliefs and morals of the K'Chain Che'Malle]]. |
| 175 | * Creator/TerryBrooks' ''Literature/{{Shannara}}'' series has the Mwellrets. They're actually a subspecies of [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Troll]], that survived in the swamps instead of the northern mountains. They have hypnotic eyes, limited control of magic, and a penchant for FantasticRacism. One of the few species that has so far been AlwaysChaoticEvil. |
| 176 | * The Chingers of ''Literature/BillTheGalacticHero'' are a peaceful race of four-armed space lizards. Not that this stops the galactic empire from making [[HumansAreBastards war with them]]. |
| 177 | * The rakoshi from F. Paul Wilson's ''[[Literature/RepairmanJack The Tomb]]'' hatch out of eggs and are described in highly reptilian terms, although they don't have scales. |
| 178 | * In Creator/VernorVinge's proto-cyberpunk novella, "Literature/TrueNames", the guardian of the Coven's online castle is a t-shirt-wearing Lizard Man named Alan Turing (after a famous computing pioneer from WWII). |
| 179 | * ''Literature/MajipoorSeries'': The Ghayrogs, one of the many species living on Majipoor, resemble humanoid lizards, right down to their forked tongues. [[EmotionlessReptile They display little emotion from a human perspective]] (as it's mostly expressed via changes in scent), rarely sleep, and sometimes serve as functionaries in the human-dominated government. |
| 180 | * The ssyrean in ''Literature/SsaliaAndTheDragonsOfAvienot'', to which the eponymous Ssalia belongs. They're [[CallASmeerpARabbit referred to as snakes]] and do possess some snake-like attributes, but have a humanoid shape with arms and legs, making them closer to this. |
| 181 | %%* ''Literature/TheRogueKing'' has the raptereons.%%ZCE |
| 182 | * In the Literature/PerryRhodan franchise, the reptilian Topidians from planet Topide are introduced as a not-quite-as-smart-as-human race in "The Vega Sector", number 5 in the American translation. They exhibit foolish traits such as keeping their fleet's high ranking officers in the flagship instead of sending them down to the planet to investigate what is happening first-hand. Cold-blooded cwards! They show up from time to time in later books. |
| 183 | * ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': There is a race called the lizard demons living on Tariatla. They look like mundane lizards except they're over five feet tall and walk on their hind legs. Eric meets one when he attends Roalt Public High, Oito. He's a prankster and a rookie jouster. |
| 184 | * ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' has mriswith, a race that came from a GoneHorriblyRight attempt to give wizards invisibility. They also overlap with BeePeople, since, though covered with scales and possessing ChameleonCamouflage, they procreate through a dragon sized, pheromone communicating HiveQueen. |
| 185 | * The ''hertasi'' of the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series started off as large animals but were [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted]] by mages looking to make a ServantRace, made bipedal and capable of speaking out loud, and instilled with gratitude to their creators and an industrious nature. They're rarely much more than four feet tall and retain the aquatic skills of their swamp-dwelling ancestors. Thousands of years after their creation, most of them are partnered to some degree or another with [[MagicalNativeAmerican Hawkbrothers]], either working for them in their Vales or nearby, where they're safe from the magic-contaminated wilds the Hawkbrothers purify and from people who'd exploit them. ''Hertasi'' tend to be either shy or {{Servile Snarker}}s, though one did prominently become a powerful mage of Kethry's order. |
| 186 | * ''Literature/TheBalancedSword'': Zarathan, the setting of the story, has two prominent types of reptile folk: |
| 187 | ** The ''mazakh'' are the bad-guy type; they're demon-worshippers and commonly appear as mooks. The point is made, however, that their unpleasantness is due to culture and upbringing, not inherent nature, and that non-evil members of the species can and do exist (though they tend to call themselves something other than ''mazakh''). |
| 188 | ** The Saurans are a larger and more impressive type of lizard folk (the appendix uses the phrase "miniature Godzilla"), reputedly descended from dragons, who fill the setting's ancient and advanced civilization role. |
| 189 | * In ''Literature/TheLarkAndTheWren'', Topaz, one of the ladies who works at Lady Amber's establishment, is implied to be one of these. The main character, Rune, doesn't have the temerity to ask exactly what race Topaz is from, but notes that she is humanoid enough to be popular with the patrons that frequent the place, and suspects that close inspection would reveal tiny scales instead of skin. |
| 190 | * ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'': One of the most frequently seen races are the Drakes, which are humanoid lizards, though you should never call them that. |
| 191 | * The German SF series ''Literature/{{Maddrax}}'' has the daa'mures. A race of alien lizardmen. |
| 192 | * ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'' introduces a robot in ''Literature/SoLongAndThanksForAllTheFish'' that comes from a planet where "the people are people and the leaders are lizards". |
| 193 | * In the science fiction novel ''Literature/NationOfTheThirdEye'' by K.K. Savage, there is the reptilian race of Draconians. They live in a higher astral dimension but can also enter physicality at will. Needless to say, they are among the bad guys. |
| 194 | * Invoked by the Pervects of the ''Literature/MythAdventures'' series, who are green-scaled, sharp-toothed humanoids from the dimension Perv. Although they look the part, most ''actual'' Pervects aren't so much evil as rude, pushy, and egotistical; their racial reputation for being decadent, cruel and bloodthirsty is mostly propaganda, disseminated by the Pervects themselves to discourage non-Pervect freeloaders from immigrating to their wealthier, more advanced dimension. |
| 195 | * In ''Literature/TimeRiders'', the heroes travel back in time to the dinosaurs. There they encounter a species of humanoid and intelligent dinosaurs. |
| 196 | * ''Literature/TheHighCrusade'': The Wersgorix are reptilian aliens who have blue skin. |
| 197 | * In ''[[Literature/SolarWarden Alien Secrets]]'', the race the humans calls the Saurians are one of the three known alien races (alongside the [[HumanAliens Nordics]] and TheGreys) and are the only race to be truly extraterrestrial. The other two are {{Ultraterrestrials}} from different time periods in the future (about 11,000 years and a million years, respectively). They first made contact with the Nazis (who called them the Eidesche, "lizards") in TheThirties, after one of their ships crash-landed in the Black Forest with only a single survivor. Since they're a telepathic HiveMind, more Eidesche followed and offered to help the Nazis develop advanced aircraft using ArtificialGravity and other alien tech (apparently, had the war lasted a little longer, the Nazis would have had the weapons they needed to crush the Allies once and for all). After the fall of Berlin, the man in charge of the secret program fled on an experimental space/time vehicle called ''Die Glocke'' ("the bell"), piloted by an Eidesche. The vehicle traveled 20 years into the future and landed in Kecksburg, PA, where it was retrieved by the Americans. |
| 198 | * ''Literature/ShadowsOfTheEmpire'': |
| 199 | ** Xizor's people, the Falleen, had evolved from reptiles. However, they look much more like humans than most examples, even having some hair, though only enough for a single topknot (oddly). Their females [[NonMammalMammaries have breasts]] as well (though none appear in the book). Aside from green, slightly scaly skin, they don't have much "reptilian" to their physiology. |
| 200 | ** A more straight example is the female Barabel who's the leader of the bounty hunters who'd captured Luke. Her species has far more resemblance to lizards, with black scaly skin, large black eyes, taloned digits, forked tongues and sharp teeth. |
| 201 | * In the first book of ''Literature/InCryptid'', Verity learns that the cultists have been creating reptilian "Servitors" by exposing humans to mutagenic [[ThePowerOfBlood dragon blood]]. She calls them "[[Series/LandOfTheLost1974 Sleestaks]]" until she finds out what they are. |
| 202 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': |
| 203 | ** Children of House Targaryen are sometimes born with scaly skin, tiny wings, and tail, which may be connected to the family's historical relations with dragons. In this case, however, these children are always stillborn. Daenerys is the latest to suffer this, when a witch curses her child, Rhaego, in exchange for saving her husband. Rhaego is also made as though he has been dead for years, because when his skin is touched, it falls off to reveal graveworms. |
| 204 | ** ''Literature/TheWorldOfIceAndFire'': |
| 205 | *** The Shrykes are described by the [=YiTish=] as having scaly skin and venomous bites. Yandel mentions the possibility that they could be normal humans who dress themselves in lizard skins. |
| 206 | *** The people from the Thousand Islands apparently have green skin and pointed teeth. |
| 207 | * ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Dragons of Argonath]] definitely have shades of this trope, being essentially bipedal, sentient and tool-using lizards who live within a civilized society. Just don't even think of calling them "lizards" to their faces. That won't end well. Also, they're good guys, [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent unlike most examples]]. |
| 208 | * ''[[Literature/KingdomsDisdain The Kingdom's Disdain]]'': The Clokken people. |
| 209 | * ''Literature/KnownSpace'' has the [[AbusivePrecursors Thrint]] - green-skinned, one-eyed alien carnivores. Also called the Slavers, because of their ability to mind-control other sapients. They dominated the galaxy long before the evolution of humans, and were extinct before then too. See, the Thrint faced a SlaveRevolt amongst their chief slaves, the Tnuctipun, and when they realized they were going to lose the war, they issued a single amplified telepathic command to every living chordate in the entire galaxy: "Die". The Thrint were apparently very stupid for sentient life (the very smartest of their kind would have an IQ of 80) and self-absorbed since they just relied on other races for anything that relied on thought or effort and held a fervent belief that their telepathic abilities gave them a divine destiny to conquer the Galaxy. It took a billion years for life more advanced than bacteria to evolve from their food yeast. |
| 210 | * ''Literature/SpaceAcademy'': The Sorkanan race is the oldest and most powerful alien species in the Community. It is a humanoid race of these with the men looking like upright T-Rexes and the women looking like velicoraptors. |
| 211 | * ''Literature/SpaceCadetRvbomally'': The Kerdin, who were genetically engineered from cloned Velociraptors in order to provide interesting prey for the wealthy on hunting worlds. The collapse of the Second Empire allowed them to escape and found their own empire. |
| 212 | * ''Literature/{{Legatum}}'' has the stilios, which are anthropomorphic lizard and salamander creatures. |
| 213 | * ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' has a few Lizard folk students, most prominently "[[TheUnpronounceable Hissy]]". They aren't evil, though they are in the wrong clique for the UnreliableNarrator to think much of them. |
| 214 | * ''Literature/TheMapToEverywhere'' has the Naysayer, who is essentially an oversized, four-armed sentient lizard. He's one of the good guys, despite being TheGadfly. |
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| 217 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 218 | * ''Series/{{Knightmare}}'': Lissard, Lord Fear's henchman in later seasons. |
| 219 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 220 | ** The Gorn. Most famously, one has a duel with Kirk in the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E18Arena Arena]]". In other media, they've been more neutral (in ''VideoGame/StarTrekStarfleetCommand'', they're actually allies of the Federation), though their [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy their martial prowess]] is usually emphasized regardless. |
| 221 | ** The rarely seen brandy-making Saurians. |
| 222 | ** The Cardassians. Though they're the least reptilian, looking pretty much like [[RubberForeheadAliens humans with scales tacked on]], they also happen to be the most villainous of the reptoid lot. |
| 223 | ** The Reptilian Xindi in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''. |
| 224 | ** The Voth from the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "[[Recap/StarTrekVoyagerS3E22DistantOrigin Distant Origin]]" were descended from Earth hadrosaurs. Which is at least a new one, as far as Dinosauroids go. |
| 225 | ** The Hirogen and the Jem'Hadar also at least look the part, and are the villains in most of their appearances. In both cases, the makeup was designed to make their skin reminiscent of crocodiles. |
| 226 | ** The Beta Annari, whose highly developed olfactory senses make them a LivingLieDetector. They can also smell the last thing you ate and the last person you had sex with... [[OutWithABang if they're not the same thing]]. |
| 227 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'': |
| 228 | ** The Drazi, along with other less significant species, although their ProudWarriorRaceGuy personalities are a bit different from the metaphorically cold-blooded norm, and they are not hostile to Humans (during the [[HopelessWar Earth-Minbari War]], they were the one member of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds to send warships to help Earth. Even after their fleet 'disappeared' in hyperspace and they were forced to neutrality, they still gave Earth the plans for a WaveMotionGun to mount on defensive satellites). The Drazi do engage in random ceremonial war with one another in one episode, which proves to be a hazard [[spoiler: until Ivanova inadvertently forces them to stop]]. |
| 229 | ** Subverted with the much more significant Narns, who have scaly skin and appear reptilian from the outside, but are actually closer to marsupials in terms of Earth biological analogies. |
| 230 | * ''Series/{{CSI}}'' had an episode, "Leapin' Lizards", where the dead guy of the week was a believer in a ReptilianConspiracy. Their website is shown, with several world leaders morphing into reptilians, and one of the guys hallucinates Brass with a reptilian tongue and Greg with reptilian characteristics-which leads to Greg being bitten. |
| 231 | * ''Series/{{Farscape}}'': The extremely brutal Scarrans, who create one of the two [[TheEmpire evil empires]] of the show. The one HalfHumanHybrid we see of them is also a vicious ManipulativeBastard. He also requires technology to survive (cooling rods in the brain that have to be replaced regularly), as his reptilian half craves heat, while his HumanAliens half can't stand it. |
| 232 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 233 | ** The Ice Warriors, the inhabitants of Mars, though their reptilian features aren't emphasized as much because they're usually seen in full armour. |
| 234 | ** The Silurians and their aquatic cousins the Sea Devils.[[note]]Both of these are technically FantasticSlurs: the [[Franchise/DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse Expanded Universe]] has "Earth Reptiles" as a more respectful term (but a very non-specific one since it equally applies to all the non-sapient reptiles on Earth), and the Eleventh Doctor uses the taxonomically inaccurate "''Homo reptilia''."[[/note]] They are not extraterrestrials, but the previous inhabitants of Earth before humans came around. They do live underground and abduct people, though, which still fits in with Reptilian lore. However the [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians serial]] in which the Silurians are introduced [[GreyAndGrayMorality avoids presenting them as evil]]; instead they're not that different from the humans. |
| 235 | ** There are also the Slitheen, a clan of Raxacoricofallapatorians who invade Earth, kill human government officials, and wear their skins to infiltrate our society. |
| 236 | * ''Series/LandOfTheLost1974'': The Sleestak are primitive, tribal bipidal lizard folk with bug eyes, who are generally hostile to the humans who they perceive to be intruding on their territory. They were once called Altrusians, and boasted a great civilization, but it collapsed long ago. One [[FishOutOfTemporalWater time displaced]] Altrusian from that civilized period becomes a friend and ally to the humans through most of the series. |
| 237 | %%* ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'': The Lizardmen, led by Tribune. |
| 238 | * ''Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury'': The Saurians were evil and they were also able to take [[VoluntaryShapeShifting human form]]. Exposing them to cold stripped away the disguise and revealed their true form. |
| 239 | * ''Series/TheOrville'': The Krill are a hostile race of reptilian humanoids with pale skin who double as ScaryDogmaticAliens, being religious zealots who see it as their divine right to rule over all other lifeforms. |
| 240 | * Many of the alien species featured in ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' fit this trope. In most cases, ReptilesAreAbhorrent. |
| 241 | * ''Series/StargateSG1'' has the Unas. They are a species that lives primitively and is a race of hunters. On some planets, they are also the slaves of humans. They were the first hosts for the Goa'uld before they developed a preference for humans as hosts (apparently out of vanity, since Unas are physically stronger and more durable than humans). On their homeworld the Unas wear bones around their necks as armor, because that's the favored entry method for Goa'uld to claim a host. |
| 242 | * ''Series/{{Grimm}}'': Various reptilian Wesen are standard lizard-like Skalengecks and Phansigars, snake-like Lausenshlange and Konigschlangethe turtle-like Genio innocuo, the alligator and crocodilian Skalenzahen and Gelemcaedus, draconian Daemonfeuer, and even the glow-in-the-dark alien-like Gluhenvolk are reptilian. |
| 243 | * In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' there are demons that look like this. However, you rarely see them in the series, but more often in the books and comics. |
| 244 | * The Visitors from ''Series/{{V 1983}}'' are the {{Trope Codifier}}s. They infiltrate many parts of human society, and they want to ''[[ToServeMan eat us]]'' (along with other tasty mammals). Rather than shapeshifting, however, they use fake human-like skin to mask their true appearance, a method best exemplified by the iconic shot of Diana peeling back the skin on one side of her face to reveal green scaly skin and a catlike eye. It should be noted that, aside from [[FollowTheLeader inspiring the creation of other fictional Reptilians]], ''V'' led to the plethora of conspiracy theories about Reptilians, which were pretty much nonexistent before the show aired. |
| 245 | * The ''Series/{{V 2009}}'' reboot series was much the same, except the Visitors were more of a combination of [[WhatMeasureIsANonCute yucky reptile-people and icky bug-people]]. The reboot also has them literally grafting human skin onto their scales. One form of punishment for the [=Vs=] is to be skinned alive, which causes just as much pain as it would a human, since the grafted skin has perfectly working nerves. There's also the possibility of [[HalfHumanHybrid interbreeding]] between humans and [=Vs=]. |
| 246 | * In ''Series/WarOfTheWorlds1988'', the Martians are essentially turned into the aforementioned Visitors. Except that they're body snatchers. |
| 247 | * ''Series/ResidentAlien'': The reptilian aliens of UFO folklore exist, Harry confirms, and are trying to conquer the universe by [[HalfHumanHybrid breeding hybrids]] on Earth, but they won't succeed because they're "gross" and have "serious hygiene problems". |
| 248 | * ''Series/SeigiNoSymbolCondorman'': One of the Monster Clan executives is Salamander, a humanoid lizard monster who commands their East Asia branch. There's also Oil Snake, a humanoid snake man with an oil cannister as an ArmCannon. |
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| 251 | [[folder:Magazine]] |
| 252 | * ''{{Magazine/Analog}}'': The [[Recap/Analog1931 April 1931 cover]] has a bunch of crocodile-like humanoid figures menacing a pair of humans. |
| 253 | [[/folder]] |
| 254 | |
| 255 | [[folder:Myths, Religion and Folklore]] |
| 256 | * [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]: |
| 257 | ** There was a race called the Ophiogenis (meaning "serpent born") who were born from the union between a drakon -- one of the snakelike, usually limbless dragons of Greek myth -- and a [[{{Squick}} human woman]]. It was said that the males of this race could cure people of snake bites with a touch of their hand. |
| 258 | ** Another race of Reptilian humanoids were the Skiritai, who were a nomadic tribe of lizard folk that have a bow legged stance. |
| 259 | ** A bandit named Sauros [[AmbiguousSituation may or may not]] have been one. He attacked Heracles when the demigod was on his way to capture the Erymathian Boar and was slain. |
| 260 | * The field of cryptozoology has its share of reptilian humanoids, including the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lizard_Man_of_Scape_Ore_Swamp Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loveland_frog Loveland Frog]]. The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thetis_Lake_Monster Thetis Lake Monster]] was described as such, however, one of the witnesses has come forward and said that the encounter was a hoax. |
| 261 | * From Louisiana folklore we have the Grunch, who crosses this with FaunsAndSatyrs and BigRedDevil. The Grunch is a satyr [[SwampsAreEvil who haunts the bayous]] with scales, fangs, claws and a forked tongue. Depending on the story, it was either [[HillbillyHorrors created from inbred dwarfs and albinos]] [[MultipleChoicePast or from]] {{Satan}}'s testicles after they were (allegedly) [[GroinAttack severed by]] RealLife voodoo queen Marie Laveau. |
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| 264 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 265 | * ''Podcast/{{Jemjammer}}'': Finn the cook is a kobold, which are a lizard-like race in that and other ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' settings. |
| 266 | [[/folder]] |
| 267 | |
| 268 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 269 | * ''TabletopGame/DinosaursAttack'': A "[[https://www.bobheffner.com/dinosaursattack/front27.htm humanoid dinosaur]]" calling itself a "[[https://www.bobheffner.com/dinosaursattack/back27.htm saurian]]" appears in a dream to provide helpful exposition. |
| 270 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Godforsaken}}'': Lizardfolk are fierce predators who live in isolated, territorial communities in wetlands far from civilization. They are viewed as savage and barbaric by city-dwellers, but their low-tech culture is complex and sophisticated in its own way. |
| 271 | * ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': |
| 272 | ** The [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Alien Alien]] archetype. Most of the members have some sort of lizard-like attributes to them, and they are all Reptile-type. They aren't exactly portrayed in a good light either, considering their card artworks depict things like [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Brainwashing_Beam brainwashing]], [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/%22A%22_Cell_Recombination_Device experimentation]], and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Planet_Pollutant_Virus planetary invasion]]. |
| 273 | ** There is also the [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Worm Worm]] archetype. While they don't have much in the way of reptilian features, they are also extraterrestrial invaders, and are likely Reptile-type because of this trope. |
| 274 | * ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': The Viashino creature type represents humanoid lizards found on various planes. Regardless of their plane of origin, they are known to share a relationship with dragons, as they are, alongside true dragons and the four-limbed flying drakes, descended from the victors of a civil war between the god-like Elder Dragons of the multiverse's distant past. They are almost always aligned with red, the color of (among other things) chaos, emotion, impulsivity and barbarians. |
| 275 | ** The viashino of Dominaria live in clans throughout the volcanic mountains of Shiv and the Burning Islands, where constant warfare against the goblins, human barbarians and dragons who also live there has turned them into fearsome warriors, although they're also known for their skill as smiths. |
| 276 | ** The viashino of Alara resemble hulking humanoid crocodiles and live in the red-aligned shard of Jund, a DeathWorld of volcanoes, swamps and jungles full of monsters and barbarians and ruled by dragons. They live in groups known as “thrashes”, and unlike other viashino may not be descended from dragons, but instead share ancestry with the nonsapient crocodiles that inhabit Naya, the green-aligned shard. After the shards fused once more, some viashino adopted aetherium technology to give themselves wings, forming the [[http://magiccards.info/query?q=%21Skyclaw+thrash Skyclaw Thrash]]. |
| 277 | ** Ravnican viashino are of the [[http://magiccards.info/gp/en/64.html small, wiry and sneaky]] type, often serving as warriors, rogues and assassins for the red-aligned guilds or on their own account. |
| 278 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 279 | ** The Lizard Folk give this trope its name (they were "lizard men" in first and second edition). They're generally depicted as swamp-dwelling tribals, and while not actually evil -- their canon alignment is TrueNeutral -- they don't like humans much. Except as emergency rations. |
| 280 | ** In the same series are the smaller draconic (in more recent editions) [[OurKoboldsAreDifferent kobolds]], and the similar-in-appearance but more hostile troglodytes. |
| 281 | ** The ''almost'' comprehensive list of reptilian humanoids that have appeared at some point or another in at least one ''D&D'' setting: lizardmen/folk, kobolds, troglodytes, saurials, cay-men (later renamed "cayma), gator men (renamed "gurrash"), chameleon men (wallaras, in their own tongue), yuan-ti, draconians (another humanoid dragon race), braxats, asheratis, dragonkin (''another'' humanoid dragon race), firenewts, pterafolk (humanoid pterodactyls), ophidians, sarkrith, khumats (humanoid crocodiles), scaled stalkers, and dragonborn (yet ''another'' humanoid dragon race). Almost all of these races where created by the Sarrukh, the Reptilian [[{{Precursors}} Creator Race]], for one purpose or the other). |
| 282 | ** The ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' have several breeds of saurials, which are dinosaur-like humanoids. |
| 283 | ** In ''TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}'', you can find Cay-men (little peaceful dudes), gator men (big ravenous thugs), and chameleon men (weird dragon-worshiping aborigine-analogs). Also [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin turtles and snappers]], if Turtle Folk count here. |
| 284 | ** The Yuan-ti are snake people, but pureblood versions just look like people with scales and reptile-like eyes. |
| 285 | ** ''TabletopGame/DarkSun'' doesn't have lizard folk [[spoiler: because they were wiped out, except those at the Last Sea]]. It has ssurans instead, who look quite similar (and in the 4th Edition, are identical). |
| 286 | ** In ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'', Lizard folk in Wildspace are chiefly descended from planet-bound ones taken as slaves by humans and mind flayers, who later escaped and freed themselves. They are more civilized than their planetary brethren and believe this to be due to being closer to the various suns in space. As such, they habitually fly their nursery ships as close to suns as safely possible in order to expose their eggs to as much solar radiation as they can. |
| 287 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'': Khaasta are natives of the Outer Planes, chiefly the chaotic ones and the neutral Outlands, who strongly resemble lizard folk. They're nomadic raiders and petty warriors, roving across the planes in search of sustenance, loot and opportunities to fight and swindle people. Their society is a shifting chaos of power grabs and backstabbing, and they're noted to be entirely willing to eat other thinking beings if that's what's available. |
| 288 | * ''TabletopGame/PalladiumFantasy'': |
| 289 | ** Lizard men are a reclusive race of humanoid, semiaquatic reptiles native to the Yin-Sloth Jungles. They are a DyingRace, as constant conflict with other jungle-dwelling species and the aggressive colonization efforts of the Western Empire have taken a steady toll on their numbers and society. |
| 290 | ** Lizard mages are a distinct and more draconic species that ruled the world in ancient times. They were eventualy overthrown by their servants, and are now a scattered and uncommon race of reclusive scholars obsessed with amassing knowledge and magical power. |
| 291 | ** Eandroth are another reptilian species mostly found as nomads in deserts and grasslands. They're proud and aggressive warriors, and ride theropod dinosaurs. |
| 292 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': |
| 293 | ** Lizard folk appear in much the same vein as they do in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', as a highly territorial but not strictly hostile swamp-dwelling tribal people. Variants include the large and powerful Lizard Scions, a desert-dwelling subspecies known as the sandfolk, and another, gecko-like subspecies that inhabits tropical mountains and can climb on vertical surfaces. |
| 294 | ** The subterranean, primitive troglodytes -- renamed xulgaths in 2nd Edition -- are the descendants of a great empire that collapsed long ago, leaving them as scattered bands of primitives lurking in the caverns of the [[BeneathTheEarth Darklands]]. They are also incredibly prone to mutation, and any given tribe can include a fair number of Lizard Folk variants, including gigantic, multi-limbed or poison-spitting ones. |
| 295 | ** Saurians are towering tyrannosaur people who live in isolated jungles, tropical mountains, and the jungle-filled, dinosaur-infested cavern-world of Deep Tolguth, which they share with the xulgaths. They see themselves as protectors of the natural world, and are particularly focused on protecting areas where dinosaurs and primordial megafauna still thrive. |
| 296 | ** Lizard folk, troglodytes and saurians are all incredibly ancient species, long predating the warm-blooded species' civilizations, and tracing their histories to a time when reptiles ruled the world. The lizard folk and saurians have changed little since ancient times, although their numbers have generally fallen, while the troglodytes' ancestors ruled a great empire before their descent into savagery. |
| 297 | ** Kobolds also return as diminutive dragon-worshippers who live in complex and trap-laden tunnel systems underground. 2nd Edition redesigns them to have a squatter, more compact look, with a pair of thick horns growing from their heads. |
| 298 | ** Reptials are agathions -- NeutralGood outsiders whose various kinds are all based on various sorts of animals -- resembling robust, three-foot-tall bipedal lizards with emerald-green scales and large crests on their heads. Unlike typical depictions of lizard folk, reptials are scholars and researchers by nature, putting a greater focus on overcoming evil through knowledge and learning than through martial might. |
| 299 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'': |
| 300 | ** The vesk, who are a core race, are a {{proud warrior race|Guy}} who historically, went to war with humanity and their allies before [[EnemyMine being forced to team up]] against the even greater danger of the [[HordeOfAlienLocusts Swarm]]. Physically, vesk resemble big, muscular allosaur-people. They tend to be LawfulNeutral and live in a highly-regimented, militaristic society. |
| 301 | ** The reptoids are the classic conspiracy theory take on this trope, in contrast to the vesk's more modern science-fiction interpretation. They're scaly humanoids with tails and lizardlike crests in their true forms, but they can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting alter their appearance]] to resemble other humanoid species, an ability they employ to infiltrate other cultures and manipulate them for their own unknown ends. |
| 302 | ** The ikeshti are cute little red-scaled desert-dwelling iguana people who [[WasOnceAMan metamorphose into ravening lizard-ogres]] if their first (and [[TilMurderDoUsPart potentially deadly]]) breeding season goes badly. |
| 303 | ** The yrgytchee are feather-crested coelurosaur-folk who are a bit ''[[YouCantGoHomeAgain too]]'' proud of their status as HeavyWorlder {{Gravity Master}}s. |
| 304 | * One of Mayfair Games' last 3rd-party D&D supplements was ''Lizardmen'', which addressed common Lizard Folk society and history. It also introduced several variant types, including Marsh Runners (diminutive pranksters with basilisk lizards' ability to WalkOnWater), lizardmen of Tek (monkish gecko-footed jungle tree-climbers), and the Mad Lizardmen of Pang-Leng (brutish, oversized Warders ruled over by frail, lunatic Artificers). |
| 305 | * Creator/GamesWorkshop games: |
| 306 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Necromunda}}'' has Scalies, large reptilian [[HumanSubspecies abhumans]] with tough scaled skin and the ability to regenerate wounds. While there are rumours of Scaly tribes existing in the most isolated and polluted sections of the Underhive, they are most often encountered alongside gangs of mutant Scavvies. |
| 307 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': |
| 308 | *** Lizardmen give this race a complete army and civilization (the FantasyCounterpartCulture of [[{{Mayincatec}} various Mesoamerican civilizations]], at that) which so happens to be the most ancient surviving civilization in the ''Warhammer'' setting. Their leaders are a priestly [[FantasticCasteSystem caste]] of magic using Frog Folk, the Slann, who are by a good margin the most powerful mages in the setting. Other lizardmen races include the Skinks (small and skittish skirmishers, assassins and wizards), the Saurus ([[ProudWarriorRaceGuy strong, ruthless and single-minded warriors]]) and the Kroxigor ([[SmashMook huge, strong]], [[DumbMuscle not overly bright]] saurians who work both as heavy support fighters and manual labour). They were created as servants to [[AncientAstronauts the Old Ones]] (described as fairly reptilian themselves). Their armies also make liberal use of distinctly dinosaurian monsters. Unusually for this trope, they're on the side of good, being opposed to Chaos, the Skaven, and other evil races, and the last remnants of a once-proud civilization. However, they're generally hostile towards the other good races as well, though the fact that they keep trying to colonize their lands probably doesn't help. |
| 309 | *** In early editions of the game, the frog-like Slann are the Old Ones themselves, a degenerate remnant of the starfarers stranded after the fall of the polar gates to the Warp, while the Lizardmen were a separate, evil race found in caves deep underground and often at war with goblins and dwarves. Their own civilization was destroyed in a war against the Slann, and many of their remaining tribes are subjugated by the latter and used as soldiers for the Slann empire. There were also the Troglodytes, larger and stupid relatives of the Lizardmen reminiscent of the later Kroxigors, who likewise fought as vassal soldiers for the Slann. While this is no longer canon, references to similar creatures persist as far as the 6th edition's ''Beasts of Chaos'' armybook, which mentions a species of primitive, reptilian humanoids covered in rocky scales and native to the mountains of Naggaroth, where they live a primitive existence in caves, war amongst each other with clubs and stone axes and periodically join up with Chaos hosts when these war against the Dark Elves. |
| 310 | *** The Fimir are a reclusive race of evil, cyclopean lizard folk who dwell in isolated bogs and marshes and worship Chaos. Originally {{Retconned}} out of the game the Fimir were later reintroduced in the background material (with the whole "reproduce only through raping human women" thing scrupulously excised) and received models from Games Workshop's subsidiary Forge World. |
| 311 | ** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar:'' |
| 312 | *** The Seraphon were once the Lizardmen of the [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} world-that-was]] who have since become beings of celestial magic rather than flesh and blood creatures. Summoned into battle by the powerful Slann Starmasters, the Seraphon fulfil the role of [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Daemons of Order]]. |
| 313 | *** The Fimir of the Mortal Realms are creatures of destruction that resemble bipedal, hunchbacked lizards with a single malevolent eye. |
| 314 | ** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Loxatl are a minor race of reptilian mercenaries, although quadrupedal and are more salamander than lizard. Early material also describes the Slann, based on their early ''Warhammer'' characterization as decadent descendants of an ancient empire. |
| 315 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' has a number of lizard-like races, mainly the plain old Lizardmen, Tautons (crocodile-men with scorpion tails that worship Egyptian Gods), Blucies (giant, blue-skinned and crocodile-headed reptile people from the wildernesses of Canada), Bruutasaurs (eleven-foot, Stone Age giants with prehensile tails), Gromek, and others. |
| 316 | ** In South America, a peaceful collection of Lizardman tribes was taken over by an organization of evil dragons who have set up their own religion with dragons as gods, and have built their own city for the various reptilian races. The Lizardmen, who would rather return to their simple lives along the (greatly-expanded) Amazon, are growing increasingly dissatisfied with this arrangement. |
| 317 | ** The Lyvorrk resemble loosely humanoid versions of outdated raptorial dinosaurs, being cold-blooded and having scaly skin, long serpentine tails and almost iguana-liked heads topped with spiny frills, in addition to an almost obsessive fondness for lizards and snakes. They don't make many concessions to anthropomorphism beyond a more upright stance and scaly and clawed but otherwise very humanoid arms and hands. Overall, they resemble sapient lizards far more than sapient theropods -- ironically, they're more lizardlike than many of the actual lizard people. |
| 318 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Earthdawn}}'' has the T'skrang, a river-dwelling race of flamboyant pirates and story-spinners. |
| 319 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': |
| 320 | ** The Dragon Kings are highly-advanced immortal, perfectly reincarnating humanoid reptiles who evolved from bestial savagery, make use of plant and mineral technology, use disciplined elemental powers, and ruled the world long ago. Who occasionally breath fire. |
| 321 | ** Wyld mutations and... [[BestialityIsDepraved inventive]] Lunars can produce lizard or dinosaur beastmen, who can sometimes pass for Dragon Kings in poor light. |
| 322 | * ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'', despite including the were-crocodile/were-monitor Mokolé {{Splat}}, does not have their forms resembling Lizard Folk. Instead, they transform into a mishmash of dinosaur anatomy based on their race's shared memory/dream of the time of Dinosaurs. However, they believe that during the Paleozoic, their ancestors known as the Lizard Kings managed to produce a race of Lizard Folk called Drachids that they and other prehistoric Werebeasts of the time could transform into (as humans did not exist yet). |
| 323 | * From fan-made ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'', the original Lemurians. |
| 324 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Talislanta}}'': Saurans and sauruds follow the trope right down to having a faster (saurans) and a heftier (sauruds) variety. They do live in volcanic hill country rather than swamps or deserts, though, and are skilled metalworkers. |
| 325 | * ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'': |
| 326 | ** The fantasy setting of ''Banestorm'' includes the Reptile Men, a race of reptile people originally from the Desert World of Gabrook. |
| 327 | ** ''TabletopGame/InfiniteWorlds'' includes Lizardia, a parallel universe in which humans don't exist and "neo-troodons" (the descendants of a small theropod dinosaur similar to a velociraptor) take their place. (Neo-troodons, by the way, avert the usual stereotype by being no more [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent abhorrent]] than humans.) |
| 328 | * ''TabletopGame/FadingSuns'' has the Hironem, who are a race of reptilian humanoids. Unlike many examples of this trope, they have saurian internal features, but their body shape (save for a short tail) and stature are very human-like. |
| 329 | * The German RPG ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'' has the Achaz as a playable race, as well as the more bestial Maru and Krakonians (who fit the AlwaysChaoticEvil bill). Apparently the Lizard Folk once ruled most of the known world, as servants to a great dragon. |
| 330 | * In the Glorantha setting for ''TabletopGame/RuneQuest'', dragonewts. Not evil or excessively hostile, but very alien in mindset and unable to speak human languages without surgery. |
| 331 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Rym}}'' has two of them: |
| 332 | ** The Koba, a race of humanoid Parasaurolophus' who actually deconstruct the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' tradition of portraying lizardfolk as dumb primitives -- the Koba are ''herbivores'' who already possess formidable natural defenses and armaments, meaning their brains never evolved as far as those of the other races of Rym and nor did they develop particularly advanced technology because they simply never needed to be smart to thrive and prosper. |
| 333 | ** The Czath, who have been brainwashed by the evil alien liches who have conquered the planet through a cocktail of potent drugs and religious indoctrination, leaving them suicidally zealous berserkers used as CannonFodder by an empire that already has plenty of [[NightOfTheLivingMooks undead thralls]] to fill that role. |
| 334 | * ''TabletopGame/Space1889'' has the lizard men of Mars. They are not evil or sadistic though. |
| 335 | * The Ithklur in ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' are a {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} that serves as soldiers to the Hivers (who need them badly being rather courage-deprived as a rule). The Ithklur are not evil but are [[BoisterousBruiser hearty souls that love a good fight]]. |
| 336 | * ''TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression'', being based on mad science, has these in the Third Race. They are manes (creatures made when the idea behind them was disproven- these guys came to life when everyone realized that there ''wasn't'' a hidden continent populated by lizard people) who formerly lived in the Bardo of Lemuria, before they [[RetGone ret-goned]] it by screwing with TimeTravel. They formed the Baramins of Lemuria to steer scientific development so their home could come about again, but they were overthrown by human Genii in a process beginning in the Renaissance. The race is now dying out, with the few remaining members in hiding. |
| 337 | * One of the potential races that you can play as in the ''TabletopGame/RedDwarf'' Role-Playing Game is a race of evolved Iguanas (or Iguana Sapiens). They are based on Jamacian Stereotypes and compared to humans, have inferior intelligence dexterity (but have superior willpower). |
| 338 | * The Martians in the 1962 Topps trading card series ''Mars Attacks'' looked like LittleGreenMen, only with skull-like faces and vaguely reptilian skin. When the cards were adapted for the [[Film/MarsAttacks 1996 Tim Burton movie]], the production designers tried to make the Martians (according to WordOfGod) look like a cross between skeletons and snakes. |
| 339 | * Green Ronin games ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'' and ''Freeport: The City of Adventure'' have the Serpent Men, who worship {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and used to rule the world in prehistory. |
| 340 | * ''TabletopGame/AnkurKingdomOfTheGods'': They are the original natives of Earth, who's civilization was destroyed in some cataclysm and now share the planet with the various HumanSubspecies created by the [[AncientAstronauts Nibruene]]. They are generally lumped together under a Nibruene vassal state called the Mush-Lu (reptile-people) Confederacy, but many resent this as they are actually four distinct species. Only 2 of them are technically lizard folk: The Nahash resemble your standard lizard folk, and are the de-facto warrior caste, second in power only to the [[SnakePeople Sarissyr]] (who rule the confederacy). And the Kurakene, who are anthropomorphic chameleons and often bullied by the higher caste species. The Chura are also low caste members, but being FrogMen, are not technically reptiles. |
| 341 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'': Lizard Guys/Gals are one of the available races in the standard fantasy setting. They have the ability to [[DetachmentCombat shed their own tail to distract pursuing monsters]]. |
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| 345 | * Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Amaluna'' has Cali, Miranda's pet half-human lizard who later becomes the main antagonist, and the reptilian creatures who perform the Suspended Poles act. |
| 346 | * In Creator/EdwardAlbee's play ''Theatre/{{Seascape}}'' a husband and wife vacationing on a beach meet a reptilian couple who have just emerged from the ocean hoping to evolve upwards; misunderstandings and complications ensue. |
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| 349 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 350 | * ''VideoGame/AgainstTheStorm'': Lizards are one of the villager species. They specialize in hunting and cooking meat while preferring to work in warm buildings. They are as fickle as the Foxes and Harpies, but are the easiest low-Resolve species to hang on to, as their preference for warm buildings and relatively easy access to their preferred food makes them easy to please. |
| 351 | * ''VideoGame/AgeOfWonders'': Lizardmen are a playable race in the first game. As they are neutral, both good and evil players can choose them as a second race during the campaign. In the sequel, they get replaced by the draconians. |
| 352 | * ''VideoGame/AITheSomniumFiles'': [[FanserviceExtra The receptionist]] at Lemniscate claims to be a reptilian. [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. [[TheDitz She means vegetarian.]]]] |
| 353 | * ''VideoGame/AlligatorHunt'' have an alien race resembling humanoid alligators invading planet earth, which you're tasked to fend off. Who else do you think the "alligator" in the title is referring to? |
| 354 | * ''VideoGame/AncientEmpires'' has the green-scaled Lizards as a unit type. They're as strong as normal soldiers on land, but get massive boosts to mobility and defence when in the water. |
| 355 | * ''VideoGame/ArcanaHeart'': [[{{Meido}} Fiona's]] ending shows a Lizard folk swordsman helping her in her quest to return to the human world. |
| 356 | * ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'': The Bedokaan are large, primitive and live in a swamp. They're not really evil, but have a very different psychology than "warmbloods". The conflict with them can be resolved peacefully, and one of them may join the party. |
| 357 | * ''VideoGame/{{Arknights}}'': Most members of the reptilian races [[LittleBitBeastly just have scaly tails]] on otherwise human bodies, but [[TheStoic 12F]] and [[CoolOldGuy Rangers]] are full-on lizard men, with fully scaled bodies and lizard heads. Additionally, Archosauria enemies in Gavial's sidestory are anthropomorphic crocodile-men. |
| 358 | * ''VideoGame/ArmiesOfExigo'' : The Lizardmen are an intelligent race who supply the Beast hordes with Striders (fast-moving, dinosaur-mounted, axe-throwing cavalry) and Warlocks (astrologer-type spellcasters). They're far more cultured than their BeastMan allies, and seem to have a society built on slavery and reading the stars. |
| 359 | * ''VideoGame/{{Ascendancy}}'': The Chamachies are Lizard folk Centaurs. Very smart Lizard folk Centaurs. |
| 360 | * ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'': The Slithzerikai are bipedal semi-aquatic lizards (or maybe crested crocodiles) with rather complex backstory. There's supposedly a highly magical peaceful civilisation hiding far deep, and the sliths you meet descend from the ones cast out for violence. There are both savage tribes you keep fighting and neutral to friendly civilized ones, hoping to be admitted back someday. The latter have integrated into Avernite society and become a PC race from game 2 onwards. All of them are skilled in combat or in clerical magic, if not both. |
| 361 | * ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'': A couple of skins for the other Battleborn turn them into reptilians. Whiskey Foxtrot's "It's Reptile Foxtrot!" skin turns him into a reptile scaled version of his normal self. Meanwhile, Ernest's appropriately named "Devolved" skin basically devolves the [[BirdPeople bird man]] back into a feathered dino man. |
| 362 | * ''VideoGame/BattleCircuit'': The Reptails, Dr. Saturn's henchmen, are green bipedal lizards. |
| 363 | * ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'' has the Saurians and the Drakes (both members of the same faction). The former are your average scaled semi-humanoids, the latter mini-dragons. |
| 364 | * ''Bloodstone'', a somewhat obscure CRPG which used ''VideoGame/TheMagicCandle III'' engine, had the Tlengle. Big, scaly, strong, usually red. But they were also known for being skilled tailors, and the playable Tlengle would often crack terrible jokes. Bloodstone also had the Tlatol, primitive and violent evolutionary cousins to the Tlengle. |
| 365 | %%* ''VideoGame/BreathOfFire'': Deis/Bleu is one of these. She would be a [[SnakePeople snake person]], but her entry in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV'' shows her to be a [[{{shapeshifting}} shapeshifter]] goddess, so she falls into this category as well as SnakePeople. %%How is she an example of *this* trope specifically, then? |
| 366 | * ''VideoGame/{{Brigandine}}'' has trident-wielding lizard men. They're an effective low-tier unit with decent stats who are especially noted for their impressive accuracy and high rate of critical hits, these traits shoot up even further when they evolve. |
| 367 | * ''VideoGame/BruteForce'': Brutus, a "Feral" (a scaly green lizard man with a voice like [[WesternAnimation/InspectorGadget Doctor Claw]]), is one of the main {{Player Character}}s. He's by far the toughest squad member, and sports a HealingFactor and AuraVision. |
| 368 | * ''VideoGame/CastleInTheDarkness'' features blue lizardmen as enemies found in the Cave of Serpents, which was stated to be used to be Alexandria's mine before the lizardmen took it over. They appear in two varieties: spear-wielding ones who charge at the player character when they spot him, and shield-wielding ones who stay in place and jump up synchronically with the player's jumping. |
| 369 | %%* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games: a minor enemy. |
| 370 | * ''VideoGame/ChoiceOfGames'' "Silverworld": The ophidians, an advanced nonhuman civilization in service to the [[BigBad False Icon]]. |
| 371 | * ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': |
| 372 | ** The first game has the cavemen of [[{{Prehistoria}} 65 million BC]] battling Reptites, humanoid, sapient dinosaurs. For the most part, the humans were losing the evolutionary war, but the [[ColonyDrop arrival]] of a starfaring planetary parasite named Lavos doomed the Reptites to extinction and ensured humanity's dominance. |
| 373 | ** ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' offers us a glimpse of what the Reptites would have become -- an advanced species called Dragonians who would master both technology and magic, while living in harmony with nature. Unfortunately for the Reptites, the future changed. |
| 374 | ** In the DS remake of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', after [[spoiler:the Ocean Palace]], weird time distortions appear in 65 million BC and 600 AD. There is a village of good Reptites you can visit, and perform many small quests, which eventually provide a store which sells the best items in the game. |
| 375 | * ''VideoGame/TheCurseOfIssyos'' has them as common enemies in the first couple of stages. |
| 376 | * ''Dark Planet: Battle for Natrolis'' has Sorin, the native inhabitants of eponymous planet. While they are living in civilization of roughly medieval level (though they also have [[SchizoTech some more advanced inventions]] like blimps or hot air balloons) with [[FantasyCounterPartCulture visible Asian flavour]], the game itself is set in science-fiction setting, pitting them against [[HumanityIsAdvanced high-tech human Colonists]] and [[HordeOfAlienLocusts space bugs Dreil]]. However, they can still fight them on equal ground, thanks to their [[MagiTek magic]] and sheer badassery. They are the ones who defend their homeworld against alien invaders, which technically makes them the good guys, but they are also quite ruthless and not above [[ImAHumanitarian eating their defeated enemies]] and tactics which involve slaughtering their foes [[LeaveNoSurvivors to the last man]]. |
| 377 | * ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' has the truly bizarre Flexile Sentry, which consists of two armoured Lizard Men torsos attached to a single set of legs. |
| 378 | * ''VideoGame/DarkVoid'': [[AncientAstronauts The Watchers]] are manipulative shapeshifting reptilians exiled into AnotherDimension by early humans. In keeping with this trope, their [[BizarreAlienBiology life cycle]] is based on metamorphosis: they emerge from the egg as larval, wormlike hatchlings, and they pilot PoweredArmor suits as basic mooks. As they get older and more intelligent, they grow arms and legs and become more snake-like; they also get to pilot something like an alien HumongousMecha. Finally, the Elder form is the most intelligent, and can shapeshift to perfectly mimic a human appearance. These serve as spies in human society and leaders for the rest of the species. |
| 379 | * In the ''VideoGame/DivineDivinity'' series, the Lizards are one of seven key species populating the world of Rivellon (alongside humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, imps, and the undead), although they hardly make an appearance in early games. |
| 380 | ** ''VideoGame/DivinityDragonCommander'': The Lizards are an aristocratic and high-class race who favor logic and pragmatism above all else. They're one of the more liberal races in the game, though the lizard general Edmund is a rather stuffy sort who can't help but talk down to the other races. |
| 381 | ** ''VideoGame/DivinityOriginalSinII'' has the Ancient Empire, which is run by lizard folk, who happen to be extremely haughty and look down on other races, mostly because they think they're descended from dragons. [[spoiler:They are.]] One of your possible protagonists/companions, the Red Prince, is an exiled prince from these lands, hell-bent on getting his throne back, and loves to remind the other party members how much better he is than them. He does eat some humble pie during the adventure, though, even if he gets his throne back at the end. |
| 382 | * ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'': The Kremlings are FunnyAnimal crocodiles in that they stand upright and wear clothes. Most of them are evil {{mooks}} and their king is named "K. Rool" (i.e. "cruel"). |
| 383 | * ''VideoGame/DoubleCross'': Reptarria is a dimension where the dinosaurs never went extinct, though a recent cataclysm has devastated the lands. |
| 384 | * In ''Videogame/DragonsWake'' the player character is adopted by a village of friendly lizard folk. |
| 385 | * The ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege'' expansion pack Legends of Aranna featured the Zaurask which fit the tribal muscled variety. |
| 386 | * ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'' and it's prequel, ''VideoGame/DustyRagingFist'' have their share of reptilian enemies, including andromorphic crocodile, chameleon and tortoises. |
| 387 | * ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Reptile men are fairly typical Lizard Folk. They’re one of the subterranean animal people, living in in small bands BeneathTheEarth and attacking intruders with spears and blowguns. They also speak in SssnakeTalk. In addition, the multitude of aboveground humanoid animals includes actual lizard men, saltwater crocodile men, alligator men, monitor lizard men, gila monster men, iguana men, skink men and chameleon men. |
| 388 | * ''VideoGame/DynaGear'' have you crash-landing on a planet where dinosaurs still exist, and your enemies include hostile dinosauroids in the village area. |
| 389 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': |
| 390 | ** The Argonians are the series' resident Lizard Folk. They are a species of humanoid reptilians with scales, elongated snouts, claws, tails, and AlienHair. They are known to reproduce via laying eggs and are said to be cold-blooded (but can survive in colder climates as adults thanks to "concentrated magicka" within the [[WiseTree Hist]] sap that they drink). They also have some traits in common with some amphibians, including [[SuperNotDrowningSkills the ability to breathe in and out of water]], and they are said to go through "life phases" in which their physical forms can change drastically, including, per some sources, [[GenderBender changing sexes]]. They are usually portrayed as a civilized and friendly people (and are playable), just like the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orcs]] and [[CatFolk Khajiit]], and generally are treated well within [[TheFederation the Empire]]. This has not prevented them from repeatedly becoming victims of FantasticRacism and [[SlaveRace slavery]] throughout much of the series' continuity, however, they get a number of TheDogBitesBack moments. They are slow to trust others, and their alien biology and culture are said to make it difficult for them to communicate with other races (for instance, they cannot express emotions facially), but this seldom comes up in-game, possibly due to most Argonians in the series being born or raised outside of their homeland. They are gifted in alchemy and magic, and due to their reptilian physiology, the treacherous swamps of their homeland, and centuries upon centuries of fighting back invasion and enslavement, they excel in stealth in guerilla combat. |
| 391 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsArena Arena]]'' has an enemy type called Lizard Men, hostile reptilian troglodytes described as "once thought to be distant cousins of the argonians [...] whose use of language stretches only far enough to communicate the location of their prey to the rest of their hunting party, which then move to attack and feed". Interestingly, they resemble the [[EvolutionaryRetcon modern Argonian design]] much more than ''Arena'''s [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness version]], where they resembled gray-skinned zombies more than reptiles. |
| 392 | * ''VideoGame/{{Elite}}'': In the entry on alien life forms, the instruction manual mentions that the Reptiloid life forms of Esanbe can make a trader's life very difficult. |
| 393 | * ''Videogame/EndlessLegend'''s Drakken are a race of dragon-like reptiles that were [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted]] by the [[{{Precursors}} Endless]]. When their world's [[JustBeforeTheEnd climate started to collapse]], Drakken eggs started to hatch bearing Drakken with hands instead of wings and with a more bipedal posture. Drakken Ancients born before the collapse still have wings and look much more like traditional dragons. Unlike most lizard folk, the Drakken are a race of scholars and diplomats, and their special ability allows them to force diplomacy between two factions that are at war. Their armies are small but very powerful. |
| 394 | * ''VideoGame/{{Eradicator}}'' grants you three playable character by default, one of them being Kamchak from the reptile-like Treydan race. He's also TheBigGuy compared to the other heroes and a BloodKnight who loves fighting to ''make his race proud''. |
| 395 | * In ''VideoGame/EverOasis,'' the Drauk are a {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} of lizard people who also happen to be entirely female. Considering the desert setting, this may be a reference to whiptail lizards, some species of which are entirely female. |
| 396 | * ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' brings us the Iksar. As worshipers of a god of fear, they are AlwaysChaoticEvil and you get to play as them. Although [=EQ2=] describes them as the orderly, structured evil to the dark elves' chaotic type. Considering the societies of Cabilis and Neriak respectively, this is not an unfair comparison. |
| 397 | * ''VideoGame/EvilIslands'': The most dangerous regular enemies in Gipath. |
| 398 | * ''VideoGame/EvolutionTheGameOfIntelligentLife'': "Dino Men" are one of the possible "intelligent" species you can reach, being reptilian humanoids evolved from dinosaurs. |
| 399 | * ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'': |
| 400 | ** The genetically engineered, chameleon-based Deathclaws. Although the typical Deathclaw is more like a vicious animal that attack humans on sight, the modified talking Deathclaws in ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' have the intelligence of eight-year-olds and are capable of abstract thought and reasoning (despite their tendency to mimic human speech the way parrots do). Contrary to their violent relations with humanity, their own social groups are rigidly hierarchical, peaceful, and pack-based, with a very strong ApeShallNeverKillApe attitude. |
| 401 | ** The ''Lonesome Road'' DLC for ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has the Tunnelers, bioluminescent reptile-skinned troglodytes descended from Divide residents who [[MoleMen took shelter underground]] during the Great War and were mutated by the radiation. |
| 402 | * ''VideoGame/{{Faria}}'' has the Lizard Men, whose language is practically unintelligible to anyone not using the Translation Machine from Teodoor. |
| 403 | * Reptilian humanoids are not an uncommon sight in ''VideoGame/FarnhamFables''. Although they look like reptiles externally, their anatomy is mostly the same as a human's, as is the case with the other types of animal humanoids, meaning that they have NonMammalianHair and [[NonMammalMammaries Mammaries]]. Notable examples include the natives who inhabit Glekutsu Village, and the Edison family. They're definitely examples of {{Lovable Lizard}}s rather than ReptilesAreAbhorrent (for example, the Edisons are {{exp|y}}ies of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic the Apple family]]). |
| 404 | * ''VideoGame/{{Fate}}'': Lizardmen appear as enemies who can wield weapons like swords, clubs, bows and crossbows. They come in two flavors: Standard Lizardmen and the much more powerful [[PaletteSwap Komodo Warriors]]. The fourth sequel, ''The Cursed King'', introduces Horned Lizardmen which resemble bipedal Horned Toads. |
| 405 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 406 | ** The lizard-like Bangaa race appear in most of the games set in Ivalice. Thanks to their muscled builds they're naturally formidable physical fighters, but they have little magical aptitude, in part because their raspy vocal cords make chanting spells difficult. They're noted not to be true reptiles, as they're capable of growing facial hair, and calling a bangaa a "lizard" is a ''[[IAmNotWeasel very]]'' [[IAmNotWeasel bad idea]]. |
| 407 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'': The Amalj'aa race are portrayed as a warrior tribe that live a nomadic lifestyle. The Amalj'aa easily dwarf the common races of Eorzea by a good headcount and [[TopHeavyGuy are extremely muscular from the waist up]]. Most of the Amalj'aa are shown as worshipers of [[EvilGod Ifrit]] and they kidnap people to use them as [[BrainwashedAndCrazy mindless servants for their god]]. However, there are also a small group of Amalj'aa known as the Brotherhood of Ash that do not worship Ifrit and wish to preserve their old way of life as a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy noble warrior tribe]] while fighting their own zealot kin. |
| 408 | ** ''XIV'' also features, in smaller number, the Mamool Ja. In comparison, the Mamool Ja are smaller and less muscular than the Amalj'aa, and more resemble geckos. The Mamool Ja are immigrates from the New World who came to Eorzea to work as mercenaries during the country's era of strife. |
| 409 | * ''VideoGame/{{Flashback}}'': The Morphs are the main antagonists of ''Flashback'' and its sequel, ''Fade to Black''. They are an alien race of [[ReptilianConspiracy shapeshifting reptilians]] that had infiltrated human society and influenced its governments and colonies. After being defeated by Conrad B. Hart, 50 years later, they enslave most of humanity and now fight a war with the Mandragore, the human resistance fighters. They are also responsible for the extinction of another alien race simply known as the Ancients. |
| 410 | * ''VideoGame/ForgeQuest'': The Kobold are a race of reptilian humanoids, which can be encountered as enemies, but the PlayerCharacter can also choose to be one in the CharacterCustomization. |
| 411 | * ''VideoGame/FTLFasterThanLightMultiverse'' has Guntput and his primitive Lizard race, based on the "furry tree lizards" from a vanilla event on a primitive planet. |
| 412 | * ''VideoGame/GalaxyOnFire'': |
| 413 | ** The Nivelians are lizard-like humanoids. They tend to be hard workers and are extremely loyal to their family. Most of the Nivelians live in the Nivelian Republic, but some broke away and formed the Mido Confederation with a group of Terrans and outlaws. Midorian Nivelians tend to be more easygoing than their cousins, having picked up those habits from Terrans. |
| 414 | ** It's pointed out that many Terrans assume the Vossk are also reptilian. They're not. |
| 415 | * One of the enemy types encountered in ''VideoGame/GoblinSword'' is red lizard men in green armour who wield a sword. |
| 416 | * ''VideoGame/Halcyon6'': The Yabblings, with green skin and red eyes. |
| 417 | * The Elites/Sangheili from ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' are a cross between this and PredatorPastiche, essentially resembling humanoid theropods with segmented mandibles. |
| 418 | * ''Videogame/{{Incursion}}'': Lizard folk follow the specification of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', with some liberties like having an alien mindset from a mammal point of view -- something akin to an unconscious hive mind, and their main purpose in life is to preserve life, not necessarily intelligent life. |
| 419 | * ''VideoGame/InPursuitOfGreed'' has the Zollessian aliens, a race of reptilian {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s who enjoys hunting and fighting. One of them, Xith, is among the five selectable player characters and the team's FragileSpeedster. |
| 420 | * The MMO ''Istaria: Chronicles of the Gifted'' features the Sslik as a playable race. Apart from their hermaphrodite natures they tick all the tribal, muscled trope boxes. |
| 421 | * ''VisualNovel/IWaniHugThatGator'': The majority of St. Hammond High's staff and student body consists of humanoid reptiles. Some of the notable characters encountered include Liz the Brachiosaurus, Mr. Iadakan the Pterodactyl, and Olivia the Baryonyx (who is the "Gator" of the title despite numerous differences between the two species). |
| 422 | * ''VideoGame/LastCloudia'' has the Vazards, a race of lizard-like humanoids who wield four-pronged tridents. Normally, they are enemies, but one can be unlocked as a playable character. |
| 423 | * ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'': |
| 424 | ** A race of humanoid lizard monsters called Lizalfos appear as semi-recurring enemies in a number of games. The name presumably means "lizard folk" based off the other "fos" enemy humanoids like Stalfos and Wolfos. |
| 425 | ** The ones in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'' look specifically like chameleons, and can camouflage themselves to ambush Link. The same game also introduces some variants, including skeletal Lizalfos and Lizalfos that attack Link with [[ShockAndAwe electricity]] or with [[BreathWeapon fire or ice breath]]. |
| 426 | ** Other related enemies include the larger and stronger Dinolfos (''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime'') and the winged Aerolfos (''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''), as well as Darkhammer (also ''Twilight Princess''). |
| 427 | ** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' had the Tokay, who were mischievous but friendly lizard folk. |
| 428 | ** The Zazak enemy from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' are humanoid Lizard Thieves with durable armor and mohawks. In the former game, they were actually hylians under a curse. |
| 429 | ** In ''VideoGame/HyruleWarriors'', Lizalfos and the stronger Dinolfos relatives appear as Elite Mooks. Aeralfos, the winged versions of the Lizalfos from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', appear as {{Airborne Mook}}s, along with the new Fiery Aeralfos. There are also the Lizalfos and Dinolfos chieftains, who are larger and tougher than their regular counterparts. |
| 430 | * In ''VideoGame/LordsOfMagic'' the Water faction gets two units of these, Lizardmen and Slingers. Clearly suggesting it came about before the days of people saying Lizard folk instead of Lizardmen, the Slingers are male, while the Lizardmen are female. |
| 431 | * ''{{VideoGame/Lusternia}}'' has the Dracnari. Unusually for the trope, they're generally good guys -- or at least [[ChaoticNeutral neutral guys]] in their native city of [[BuildLikeAnEgyptian Gaudiguch]]. They're both hardier and more intelligent than humans, and have a proud tradition as mystics and warriors. |
| 432 | * The arcade action platformer ''VideoGame/MagicSwordHeroicFantasy'' has Lizard Man as an AssistCharacter who can be recruited if you [[BlindIdiotTranslation bride him]] with [[InterspeciesRomance a diamond ring]]. |
| 433 | * ''VisualNovel/MarcoAndTheGalaxyDragon'' has Dosgoro, an alien who looks like an overweight, anthropomorphic alligator. |
| 434 | * ''VideoGame/{{MARDEK}} RPG: Chapter 3'' features the Reptoids. They are actually LawfulNeutral, calm and meditative. They have a city (Xantusia) in the Sandflow Caves, and their chief Sslen'ck actually joins your party and becomes playable. Unfortunately, he leaves the city in the hands of his "trusted adviser", [[ObviouslyEvil Blatantly]] EvilChancellor. |
| 435 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 436 | ** The krogan and the drell; the former are from a hulking, dinosaur-style [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior-race]], while the latter are more humanoid (but still scaly) and specifically built to be MrFanservice. According to Javik in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', the salarians were essentially frogs back in his time. |
| 437 | --->'''Javik:''' The lizard people evolved?\ |
| 438 | '''Liara:''' I believe they're amphibious. \ |
| 439 | '''Javik:''' They used to eat flies. |
| 440 | ** The turians (in this case, SpaceRomans) remind some humans of the link between dinosaurs and birds. |
| 441 | ** Unusually, none of the quasi-reptilian species from ''Franchise/MassEffect'' are portrayed as evil. The krogan tend to be aggressive, warlike, and are frequently antagonists from shady mercenary gangs and the like, but two party members from the series are krogan and the species shows strong signs of moving beyond its violent past. The turians attacked the first humans they encountered, but this was because of a misunderstanding. The drell overindustrialized and destroyed the ecosystem of their planet, but they are now the devoted servants of the gentle, mystical hanar. The salarians have lots of....ethically questionable scientists, but overall they are portrayed positively. |
| 442 | * ''VideoGame/MercsOfBoom'': Reptoids are the second type of aliens you encounter and likely the aliens' front-line troops. They are much tougher than the [[TheGreys Grey]]-like Imps and carry heavy {{Energy Weapon}}s. Regular Reptoids wear blue armor, while Sergeants were red. |
| 443 | * ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'': |
| 444 | ** When they don't resemble InsectoidAliens, the Space Pirates occasionally have elements of this, particularly in the first ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime''. This may be tied into the fact that two of their leaders, Ridley and Kraid, are both very reptilian, being a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]] and a Franchise/{{Godzilla}}-like {{Kaiju}} respectively (at least since ''VideoGame/SuperMetroid''; the [[VideoGame/{{Metroid 1}} very first game]] had concept art portraying Ridley as some weird multi-eyed bug creature and Kraid as having fur). |
| 445 | ** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime3Corruption'' has the MultiArmedAndDangerous Reptilicus of Bryyo, one of the more atypical examples of this trope. Once known as the intelligent Bryyonians, with enough clout to have extensive contact with the [[{{Precursors}} Chozo]], a brutal conflict [[MagicVersusScience between the tech-using Lords of Science and the magic-using Primals]] devastated the planet. The point of no return came when the Leviathan Seed crashed into the planet and spread [[TheCorruption Phazon]] everywhere, after which the Bryyonians degenerated into savage beasts. |
| 446 | * ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'' : Lizardmen were introduced to the verse with ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic III'' 's Fortress town. They were a minor antagonist (annexing some border-regions of Erathia), but not evil (not doing anything more evil than, well, taking advantage of the chaos to annex some border-regions). Two lizardmen cultures were shown before the world blew up: Tatalia (represented by Heroes' Fortress town), a gnoll-lizardman-human swamp state currently ruled by a lizardman king, and the slightly less important Dagger Wound Islands lizardmen, who live on a set of islands that also houses a mysterious and ancient temple infested with various snake-critters (lizardmen also inhabited Enroth's south-eastern regions, but they did not appear to have much of a culture)... |
| 447 | * ''VideoGame/MilleniaAlteredDestinies'': The Reptoids are war-like desert-dwelling humanoid reptiles with a great emphasis on honor. |
| 448 | * Imori from ''VideoGame/MonsterSanctuary'' is an anthropomorphic, spear-wielding, armour-wearing lizard. |
| 449 | * ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': Reptile, his mate Khameleon, and a male also named Chameleon are reptilian ''[[GratuitousNinja ninjas]]!'' Going against the popular ReptilesAreAbhorrent trope, Reptile's probably the closest thing ''Mortal Kombat'' has to a sympathetic villain, and Khameleon's good. Reptile was supposedly the [[LastOfHisKind last of the Saurian race]] until Khameleon was revealed in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat3 MK3]]'', but as of the reboot to the series in ''[[VideoGame/MortalKombat9 MK9]]'', he's back to being the only Saurian. |
| 450 | * The machinima game ''VideoGame/TheMovies'' features unlockable costumes of lizard people with scaly skin and snake-like tongues. |
| 451 | * ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights'': |
| 452 | ** The main adversaries of the original campaign turn out to be a bunch of these coming out of hibernation they used to survive an ice age. These are specifically a type known as sarrukh, expanded upon by the ''Serpent Kingdoms'' {{splat}}book. It's also in several other ''D&D'' games, such as Temple of Elemental Evil, and ''VideoGame/IcewindDale I'' and ''II''. |
| 453 | ** ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2'' uses basic ''D&D'' lizard folk as primitive barbarians, mainly in the swamps around West Harbor. |
| 454 | * ''VideoGame/NosferatuLilinor'': One of the enemy types encountered in the game include large humanoid lizard men wielding swords. [[PlayerCharacter Lilinor]] can sneak up on them from behind and drink their blood to regain blood stock, and temporarily impair them. |
| 455 | * ''VideoGame/OgreBattle'' series: Only in ''VideoGame/TacticsOgre'' can Lizardmen be found. While they can be enemies, they can just as easily be members of your army, too. They aren't too bad of soldiers, either due to having high strength and vitality. Lizardman have a focus on physical classes and what little info on them seems to show they're barbaric warriors. |
| 456 | * The Skedar from ''VideoGame/PerfectDark'' bear some similarities to the Reptilians, being bipedal, dinosaur-like creatures who masquerade as Scandinavian men. Their offspring resemble tiny, vicious lizards. |
| 457 | * In ''VideoGame/QuestForGloryIII'', there were the crocmen, who served as generic wandering monsters. |
| 458 | * ''VideoGame/TheReconstruction'': Shra are humanoid lizards with a HealingFactor, in some cases anatomy-induced SnakeTalk and tendencies of following whoever they consider the strongest. The ones living in human civilization are mostly enslaved, while most free Shra live anachronistically in jungle tribes. The major exceptions are the violent, fanatic Si'Shra and the pacifistic Sikohlon order. |
| 459 | * ''VideoGame/{{Scaler}}'' has the main character Bobby/Scaler [[spoiler:and his dad, Leon]] turned into this. Although Scaler and [[OlderSidekick Leon]] are generally heroic, there are several other Lizard Folk who aren't [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent and serve as antagonists]]. |
| 460 | * ''VideoGame/SimEarth'': Dinosaurs or reptiles can become sentient, depending on the circumstances. |
| 461 | * ''VideoGame/SkeletalAvenger'': Kobolds are red bipedal lizard people who wear armours wielding swords and shields. They're an enemy type you encounter in the game. |
| 462 | * ''VideoGame/{{Slashout}}'' have the Lucer enemies in the forest stage, resembling armoured lizard men wielding curved swords, and an absurdly powerful Lucer KingMook as it's Gatekeeper, fought before the stage's boss. As part of the game's GratuitousItalian usage, their names are derived from "''Lucertola''" (lizard in Italian). |
| 463 | * ''[[VideoGame/SoulSeries Soul Calibur]]'': Lizardman, once the proud spartan warrior Aeon Calcos and transformed by the evil cult Fygul Cestemus. There are other men who were turned into lizards by the cult (who are included as a throwaway bonus character in ''II'', causing some confusion) but Aeon Calcos is the only one to have made multiple appearances in the series. |
| 464 | * The turn-based strategy ''VideoGame/SpaceEmpires 4'' has red lizard-people with vaguely [[Franchise/StarTrek Starfleet-esque]] ship designs as one of the possible appearances for your chosen empire. They are included in ''Space Empires 5'' as well, for which they decorated the cover, and originated in the third game of the series. Called the Jraenar in all games. |
| 465 | * ''VideoGame/SpaceStation13'' has lizardpeople as one of the playable alien races, employed on Nanotrasen stations as second-class workers to fill in vacancies in the human staff and generally taking the role of TokenNonHuman onboard. Their names follow the format of Verbs‑The‑Nouns (such as [[StockAnimalDiet Eats‑The‑Mice]]) and they speak with [[SssnakeTalk a reptilian accent]]. Because HumanityIsSuperior, lizardfolk are restricted from command roles and are frequently subject to FantasticRacism, nor are they protected by the ThreeLawsOfRobotics of station [[ArtificialIntelligence AIs]]. For a more stereotypical example, there are also the AlwaysChaoticEvil tribial lizardfolk referred to as Ashwalkers dwelling near the station's [[AsteroidMining mining outpost]] on a [[LethalLavaLand volcanic planetoid]] and hunting the miners and native megafauna alike. |
| 466 | * In ''[[VideoGame/RocketKnightAdventures Sparkster: Rocket Knight Adventures 2]]'', [[BigBad King Gedol]] and his henchmen are all anthropomorphic lizards. |
| 467 | * The Draske in ''VideoGame/StarbaseOrion'' are small, winged reptiles whose natural flight ability makes them superior pilots and navigators. [[AllThereInTheManual According to their backstory]], they are not warlike and haven't had to fight anyone in the thousands of years they have been exploring space (mostly using sublight ships). They are extremely long-lived (their lifespans are measured in thousands of years) and are ruled by [[{{Matriarchy}} Matriarchs]]. Every year, many Draske participate in tournaments. The victors experience a great boost in their careers. Those who lose the tournaments three times typically commit suicide to spare their families the shame. The Draske Hegemony incorporates several other races as client members, including the [[StarfishAliens Harge]] and the [[CatFolk Felinoids]]. The reason they're on part with the other races in the game is mostly due to them being unaccustomed to warfare. |
| 468 | * The [[SnakeTalk snake-talking]] Thrynn in ''VideoGame/{{Starflight}}''. Interstellar merchants and con-artists who, despite their depiction as having purely carnivorous dental structure, find themselves in constant war with their [[PlantAliens neighbors, the Elowan]]. The Thrynn have [[EatsBabies a taste for Elowan "headfruit"]] you see. Despite this habit, they are generally peaceful with other races, and selling plutonium to them can be highly profitable--unless you have an Elowan aboard, that is. |
| 469 | * ''Franchise/StarFox'', being a series with a cast composed almost entirely of {{Beast M|an}}en, naturally has some anthropomorphic reptiles, the most notable of them being Leon of team Star Wolf. ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'' features the villainous [=SharpClaws=], whose leader is BigBad General Scales. |
| 470 | * The Cardianon in ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope''. Originally a primitive race, the [[BigBad Grigori]] accelerated their evolution, and provided them with knowledge that led to them becoming one of the most technologically advanced races in the universe in a very short span of time, but also turned them into a bunch of fanatical planet conquerors. They look like somewhat reptilian humanoids in the lowest stage of evolution they're seen in, but their more advanced forms are traditional lizardmen, then dragonmen, and lastly, full fledged dragons. |
| 471 | * The Ashdar from ''Stars in Shadow'' are hadrosaur like-humanoids. They are composed of two subspecies: The tall and wise Haudir, and the short and hardy Teros. The latter are the game's JackOfAllStats. |
| 472 | * ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'' has "reptilian" as a category of species (along with stuff like "avian", "mammalian" or "fungoid"). There's an achievement for doing the "alien infiltration" ploy on a pre-FTL reptilian species with a human empire, and the achievement's symbol is [[Series/{{V1983}} a reversed "V"]]. |
| 473 | * ''VideoGame/SuikodenIII'' had a race of lizard men. They weren't portrayed as evil or stupid but, more as a {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}}. They also lived in giant underground halls and specialized in blacksmithing. So they basically served the traditional role of dwarves in the setting. |
| 474 | * The Tarka from ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' evolved from lizards but are very human-like, resembling [[http://sots.rorschach.net/images/9/95/SotS_TarkaMale.jpg scaled apes]] more than actual lizards. They are a highly civilized and pragmatic [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy warrior race]] whose empire is a few thousand years older than human civilization, and are presented as sympathetic if fairly machiavellian, warlike, and prone to picking on those weaker than themselves. |
| 475 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfLegendia'': Lizardmen show up one of the enemy types. There are some rather silly variants, like one donning a baker costume that tries to give you a BaguetteBeatdown, and [[SmashingWatermelons a blindfolded, stick wielding one in a swimsuit who's accompanied by a killer watermelon]]. |
| 476 | * ''VideoGame/TecmoKnight'' have you battling BeastMen, a lot of them which are reptilian in origin. There's notably crocodile-men who breathes fire, tortoise-men who attempts to crush you with their shells, and bomb-throwing lizard men. |
| 477 | * ''VideoGame/TelepathTactics'' has the lissit, natives to the Dundar Archipelago who live apart from humans. [[RaisedByNatives They raise the protagonists in the campaign]], and the campaign features them pretty heavily as a result. NonMammalMammaries is averted here; females have spines on their head and back instead. |
| 478 | * ''VideoGame/TerraBattle'' has the aptly named Lizard folk race. The narrations in early chapters describe them as savages who never smile. However, the actual Lizard folk characters who can join your team has just as much variety in personality and appearance as the other races. One particular trait is that their names always have an apostrophe in them (for example: A'misandra, Piz'fer, Ma'curi) |
| 479 | * ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'': The longmas fit this as Fœnum's equivalent. They are the only ungulates to have reptilian features due to being half-horse and half-dragon. |
| 480 | * ''Franchise/{{Thunderscape}}'': Rapacians are one of PC races (good guys, in other words). They are man-sized civilized bipedal lizards. Another PC race is ferrans -- humanoids who were [[LegoGenetics genetically engineered]] as slaves but gained freedom long since. Ferrans can be based on any mammal, bird or reptile, the only in-game difference is the portrait. In the novels there are also nagas (evil, but usually opposed to BigBad). |
| 481 | * ''VideoGame/TrafficDepartment2192'' has the Selarian species, and their representative in Vulthaven's TD, Lieutenant Junior Grade Koth. If he's any indication, their species [[SnakeTalk hisses their S's]]. |
| 482 | * ''VideoGame/TyTheTasmanianTiger'': [[{{Mooks}} Frill Lizards]] along with their beefed-up counterparts, [[EliteMooks Über Frills]]. |
| 483 | * Many ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' games feature Lizardmen as {{mooks}}. ''VideoGame/UltimaUnderworld'', however, [[SubvertedTrope subverted this]] -- in the {{backstory}}, it turned out that the Lizardmen are actually quite intelligent, and were assumed to be mere monsters because they look fierce and are physically incapable of speaking the common tongue. When offered a peace deal and the opportunity to participate in a new, multi-cultural society, they eagerly accepted. |
| 484 | * ''VideoGame/Valkie64'': The main forces of [[BigBad the Goddess of Chaos]] are the Reptids, a race of anthropomorphic lizard men of varying colours. |
| 485 | * The Daemonites from ''VideoGame/WildCats1995'' are a race of reptilian aliens working for the BigBad, Helspont, and a recurring mook for the players to defeat. There's also gigantic [[GiantMook Red Daemonites]] as Helspont's personal guards in a few levels. |
| 486 | * ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}'': Lizardmen are a playable race. They're strong, tough, fast, resistant to acid, resistant to psionics... and comparing their intelligence to a sack of potatoes would be a grave [[InsultToRocks insult to the spuds]]. |
| 487 | * ''VideoGame/WorldsOfUltimaTheSavageEmpire'', as a nod to the Lost World pulp novels that influenced it, have a tribe of lizardmen in the Valley of Eodon. The Sakkhra, as they are called, are fairly friendly to the Avatar and even has one of their members join your party. |
| 488 | * ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': |
| 489 | ** ''Mists of Pandaria'' introduced the saurok, a race of ChaoticNeutral reptilian beings created by the mogu who turned against their masters after the latter tried to commit genocide against them and are often grouped into tribes across Pandaria, pillaging at the expense of the pandaren. |
| 490 | ** There are other races as well that overlap with other tropes. The serpentine Naga are humanoid reptilians (and also technically an Elf subspecies, just to make it confusing), but mostly fit into SnakePeople. There are also several types of dragonkin species which are dragon-like humanoids, such as the drakonid and the dragonspawn (former mortals empowered by the dragons they serve), and the playable dracthyr (soldiers artificially created by Neltharion before he went insane and became Deathwing), but mostly fit into DraconicHumanoid. |
| 491 | * The Teladi from the ''VideoGame/{{X}}-Universe'' series are a [[HumanoidAliens humanoid]] reptilian race whose aspect of life is entirely motivated by [[ProudMerchantRace money]]. Their society is comprised of a MegaCorp which dominates their politics and businesses, and their government is essentially a corporate republic. Because of their reptilian nature, the Teladi have a... [[SnakeTalk tendency to speak with an accent that emphasizes the letter s]] in such a way that it becomes [[MemeticMutation memetic]]. [[TrueNeutral They tend to be neutral to all the other factions]], even the SpacePirates. Because of this last note, it's not surprising to see some factories produce a fancy drug known as [[FantasticDrug Space Weed]], which is basically the series' version of marijuana [-[[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace IN SPACE!]]-] This drug is considered contraband in any sector that isn't Teladi or Pirate-owned, and often is a popular source of income to would-be smugglers. |
| 492 | * ''VideoGame/XCOMTerrorFromTheDeep'' has two examples: the Gillmen and the Tasoths. The Gillmen are an evolutionary offshoot of the human race that had, presumably, went extinct at the time mammals became dominant, but were somehow preserved and enslaved by the aliens. The Tasoths are creatures that look like lizardmen, but are in fact organic androids manufactured by the aliens. |
| 493 | * The Snakemen in ''Videogame/XCOMUFODefense'' are human-sized snake-like aliens with rapid reproduction times and appear about midway through the game. In ''Videogame/XCOMEnemyUnknown'', the Thin Men are a reptilian species that have been genetically-modified to resemble humans in order to serve as infiltration units. ''VideoGame/{{XCOM 2}}'' wheeled out the Vipers, a race of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb0Fo6-_b3g sexy lady snakes]], the Thin Men's true form. |
| 494 | * ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' have the Igna, a lizard-like race native to Satorl Marsh in the first game and Uraya in the second game. The latter game also sees them riding reptilian mounts. |
| 495 | * The Ma-non of ''VideoGame/XenobladeChroniclesX'' are a highly nonstandard example. Essentially resembling short [[Franchise/StarWars Gungans]] with more reptile-like scutes and ridges, their highly technology-dependent culture means that nearly every single one is a BrilliantButLazy ManChild who prefers to spend time eating [[TrademarkFavoriteFood pizza]] rather than putting effort into building and maintaining New LA. They're as chipper and trusting as can be, always excitedly asking questions about their new human and Nopon friends and never assuming maliciousness from anyone (Ackwar of the Mediators is an exception, as his familiarity with the cultures and mindsets of humans and other xenos makes him far less naive when it comes to his detective work). The "reptilian" part only ever explicitly comes up with a prejudiced shopkeeper who doesn't want to interact with the Ma-non due to her preexisting anxiety around reptiles from Earth; with some coaxing from the player, she can be convinced that they're nicer aliens than she is initially willing to give them credit for. |
| 496 | [[/folder]] |
| 497 | |
| 498 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 499 | * ''Webcomic/AfraidOfMonstersOzkosar'': Theodore resembles a green human with green hair. Also, his "skin" may or may not be scales. Despite the character sheet listing his species as "Reptilian", he seems to be a very chill dude, rather than someone trying to [[ReptilianConspiracy subvert human government.]] |
| 500 | * Legrakix from ''Webcomic/MyRoommateIsAnElf'' is a morbidly obese version of this. Not really evil, though he did eat everyone's lunch at work. |
| 501 | * ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'': Being a StandardFantasySetting, there are Lizard folk in the Fantasy subset. We don't see much of the civilization though, the most we know is that Draak is serving as a mercenary to support his home. He's also [[EloquentInMyNativeTongue pretty smart and articulate]], [[HulkSpeak just not in common]]. |
| 502 | * Webcomic/{{Harkovast}}: The Tsung Dao are a peaceful race of lizard-folk, but there is one [[https://www.harkovast.com/post/159242436571 exception...]] |
| 503 | * ''Webcomic/TheChallengesOfZona'': The Urrt |
| 504 | * ''Webcomic/{{Terinu}}'': The Galapados are justified in that they were genetically engineered from Galapagos Lava Lizards to serve as cannon fodder for the BigBad. |
| 505 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' is a ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' parody, so no surprise that this race eventually shows up. They seem to be common minions in the [[TheEmpire Empire of Blood]]. The prequel book ''[[Recap/TheOrderOfTheStickStartOfDarkness Start of Darkness]]'' also features a tribe of swamp-dwelling lizard folk. Roy also brings up the "lizardmen -- lizard folk" changeover, with Belkar quipping that "the lizard-feminists must be so proud of you." |
| 506 | * ''Webcomic/TheMansionOfE'' has (cave-dwelling) Troglodytes and (forest-dwelling) Saurs. |
| 507 | * ''Webcomic/{{Holystone}}'': Agamidians are one of the three races. The villainous implications are averted, as they're largely treated like normal people who happen to be more cold-blooded and prickly than others. |
| 508 | * ''Webcomic/ILogInAlone'': There are lizard monsters that spawned outside. [[spoiler: They were players that made a contract with a god.]] |
| 509 | * ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': There are three kinds of Lizard Folk in the Tower so far: Anaak's species, green humans with stout tails as long as their legs; Rak's species, giant, bipedal alligators with clawed hands, scales and a humanoid torso so that they look similar to Franchise/{{Godzilla}}; and Levin's kind, basically humans with deep-slitted cheeks and reptilian fangs. |
| 510 | * ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'': Called "two-toes" here, named after the fact that they have, well, two toes per foot. They're pretty small compared to humans though. They used to be subterranean, so they have poor sight and hearing but excellent senses of smell, making them useful as trackers. They're also almost universally treated as a shunned, ignored, and despised servant caste by the human majority. Stockyard takes advantage of their status by [[spoiler:using the cleaning lizards as spies]]. |
| 511 | * ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'': No two [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]] look alike and some have this kind of appearance, (it is most common with [[PlayingWithFire fire]] and especially [[MakingASplash water]] demons) the two most prominent of these reptilian demons is the water demon [[DefectingForLove Lakritz]] and the fire demon [[EvilOldFolks Dakos]]. |
| 512 | * ''Webcomic/ChampionsOfFaraus'' has Lizardos, which are more lizard-like in body shape. One coffee shop has a sign that specifically advertises that they have lizardo-friendly seating available. |
| 513 | * The Reptoids in ''Webcomic/TryingHuman'' can be divided into two main subspecies: Draconian and Terran Reptoids. The long-tailed Terran Reptoids evolved from Troodon dinosaurs and were uplifted by the winged Draconian Reptoids, making them forever indebted to their benefactors. Both sub-races are capable of shape-shifting and enjoy eating meat, including human. |
| 514 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Earthsong}}'', one of the ill-fated Guards in Earthsong's welcoming party for Beluosus is a Reptilian. |
| 515 | * ''Webcomic/ReptilisRex'' is centered around the "Reptoids" being forced to move to the surface and reveal themselves to mankind, which [[FantasticRacism treats them like second class citizens]]. They can't shapeshift per se but own shapeshifting pets which they can wear as masks, hence there have been an unknown number of Reptoid infiltrators throughout history including [[spoiler:UsefulNotes/BarackObama and UsefulNotes/MittRomney]]. |
| 516 | * They make a brief appearance in ''Webcomic/RasputinBarxotka'', with their planned invasion of Earth thwarted by the strip's version of TheGreys. |
| 517 | * ''Webcomic/NeoKosmos'': Compies are very lizard-like humanoid aliens, with gray-blue skin, long tails, and sharp teeth. |
| 518 | * In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Nanase and Sarah get [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/nanasecraft-14 turned]] [[https://www.egscomics.com/egsnp/nanasecraft-17 into]] humanoid geckos during the "Nanase Craft And The Crypt of Zappiness" storyline. |
| 519 | [[/folder]] |
| 520 | |
| 521 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 522 | * In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', the Sirithai are lizard folk who live in the desert. They initially appear to be antagonistic but the Alliance eventually convinces them to join their cause...although later a renegade faction of the Sirithai end up working behind the Alliance's back for their own goals. |
| 523 | [[/folder]] |
| 524 | |
| 525 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 526 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'', alongside the humanoid frogs and toads, there are the newts (on a technicality, they're NOT lizards, which are reptiles, not amphibians). The capital of Amphibia is even called Newtopia, which is ruled by King Andrias, who turns out to be a BitchInSheepsClothing that comes from a long line of {{Multiversal Conqueror}}s. However, this doesn't make his species AlwaysChaoticEvil as a whole as his fellow newts were completely unaware of his true nature and many were even appalled at his actions. |
| 527 | * ''Franchise/Ben10'': |
| 528 | ** ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': [=XLR8=] is a Kineceleran, a vaguely lizard-like alien that has SuperSpeed. |
| 529 | ** ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' introduces Humungousaur, a huge humanoid dinosaur-like alien. He seems to be based on multiple herbivorous dinosaur species, having a sauropod-like face with flat teeth and developing stegosaurus-like spinal plates in his [[{{Sizeshifter}} larger form]]. |
| 530 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'': Brankor the zookeeper. |
| 531 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': The only minotaur seen without a helmet is a lanky, humanoid and hornless lizard with a forked tongue. Notably, the characters still refer to it as a minotaur. |
| 532 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Chaotic}}'': The Mipedians are fairly decent and honorable Lizard Folk, compared to the other tribes in the setting. They're desert dwelling, can turn invisible, have wise members, and generally aren't a given episode's aggressors, having even been the subject of at least one episode proving false BeautyEqualsGoodness and ReptilesAreAbhorrent. Peyton is on very good terms with the entire tribe, more so than Tom, Kaz, and Sara with the Overworlders, Underworlders, and Danians respectively. |
| 533 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Dogstar}}'': The Gavinians. Gemma ends up joining the crew of the Valiant. |
| 534 | * ''WesternAnimation/FlashGordon1979'': There is a race of sexily dressed Lizard Women who all serve Ming the Merciless -- he even has a few in his harem. In a later episode, we meet a Lizard Man BountyHunter whom Ming hires to capture Flash. But when they crashland on a planet and Flash saves his life, he decides to aid him instead. |
| 535 | * ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' occasionally featured Lizard Man, a friendly and helpful character, though not much of a fighter. Good for getting into a second-story window, though. |
| 536 | * ''WesternAnimation/InsideJob2021'' has the Reptoids, the race of shape-shifting lizard-like beings who live in secret amongst humanity [[ReptilianConspiracy with the goal of world domination]]. |
| 537 | * ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': "[[Recap/JusticeLeagueS2E13And14Eclipsed Eclipsed]]" has the Ophidians, who fought humanity "before cities, before writing", and whose spirits now form SealedEvilInACan. They're clearly meant as an AlternateCompanyEquivalent of Franchise/{{Conan|TheBarbarian}}'s Serpent Men. |
| 538 | * ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlackTheSeries'': A race of iguana-like alien gangsters appear as antagonists in one episode. |
| 539 | * ''WesternAnimation/MightyDucksTheAnimatedSeries'' has a straight-up evil race made up of anthropomorphic ceratopsians, along with more conventional lizard-people types. |
| 540 | * ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'': All the high-level executives at the [[TakeOverTheWorld world domination]] bent MegaCorp Conglom-O (including the CEO, Mr. Dupette) are [[FunnyAnimal lizards]] with a habit of picking their noses. |
| 541 | %%* ''WesternAnimation/ShadowRaiders'': The inhabitants of Planet Bone are reptilian. |
| 542 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': The Anabaj are humanoid aliens with a long forked tongue, a frilled-neck like a chlamydosaurus, and their ability to climb up vertical surfaces is lizard-like. |
| 543 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' gives us Toffee. Despite his rather silly name, he's actually the show's most competent villain. For starters, not only has he been awfully close to take Star's wand in a couple occasions, but he's also [[spoiler: upstaged Ludo and taken his role of BigBad]]. There is also Rasticore, a burly bodyguard and bounty hunter. In this universe, lizardmen who are called Septarians in this series can apparently regenerate to the point that they can grown back (slowly) from just a severed limb. |
| 544 | * ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'': Bull Gator and Axl are pretty much good examples of this, in that they are anthropomorphic alligators who try to catch Taz for zoo-going children. |
| 545 | * ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': The Triceratons, essentially {{Proud Warrior Race|Guy}} anthropomorphic ceratopsians. |
| 546 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' has the ''Lizards'', led by Slithe. It's true that they're mooks for Mumm-Ra, but he had an easy time winning them over because the cats treated them like vermin. When Lion-O shows one of them kindness, [[BecauseYouWereNiceToMe that one returns it]]. |
| 547 | * ''WesternAnimation/TrippingTheRift'': Whip is a bipedal chameleon-like alien (though he looks more like an iguana) who acts like a typical teenage boy and can employ {{Hollywood Chameleon|s}} invisibility. |
| 548 | * ''WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa'': Mr. Gus is a Franchise/{{Godzilla}}-esque humanoid dinosaur. |
| 549 | * ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'': Chase Young from can turn into a lizard man because he drank PsychoSerum. |
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