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14Centaurs are a specific kind of MixAndMatchCritters originating in mythology, possessing the upper body (head, torso and arms) of a man and the lower body (everything below the waist) of [[VirileStallion a horse]] (though other animals are common). In the original myths they tend to be a [[AlwaysChaoticEvil savage and brutal species]]: most Greek depictions show them living only to drink, to [[MarsNeedsWomen capture women for unsavory purposes]], or to attack travelers [[HorseArcher with their arrows]]. One possible [[{{Demythification}} explanation]] for the original myth is of a non-horse-using culture seeing [[BornInTheSaddle horse riders]] for the first time and misinterpreting what they saw.
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16Some modern depictions will have centaurs as [[ProudScholarRace wise scholars]]; this version is inspired by the mythological centaur Chiron, who mentored several of the Greek heroes. He was [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch very much atypical, though]].[[note]]Justified to a degree: standard centaurs have the ancestors Ixion/Nephele, only Chiron has Kronos/Palmyra.[[/note]] The other common modern depiction is to make them into {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s, which at least agrees with the myths that centaurs are violent, even if the whole "code of honor" thing seems to clash with the Classical centaurs' frequent depiction as drunken, dimwitted thugs. Regardless of type, fantasy centaurs tend to live apart from two-legged civilization, and are typically encountered out in the wilds. It's also common to depict them as skilled archers, which was a common trait in the myths as well.
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18Physically, a few other things can vary. For one, traditional centaurs [[ExposedExtraterrestrials do not bother with clothing.]] Also, modern depictions (possibly to make them look more distinctive) sometimes have their human parts look [[LittleBitBeastly slightly equine]], which was never mentioned in the original myths.
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20Centaurs are often depicted as a OneGenderRace composed entirely of males ([[MarsNeedsWomen which often explains why they sexually prey on human women]]), but in fact, female centaurs (''kentaurides'') are also mentioned in some ancient Greek and Roman myths, albeit infrequently. According to Creator/{{Ovid}}, they were [[CuteMonsterGirl quite comely]].
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22A few works of fiction include winged centaurs, sometimes as the result of a cross between a centaur and a {{Pegasus}} or a [[OurGryphonsAreDifferent Hippogriff]]. Other fictions include centaurs with black skin and African features, often combining them with the body of a zebra. Centaurs with the lower bodies of non-equine animals show up from time to time, with the most common variants being based on other ungulates -- deer-like "cervitaurs" are particularly common, often as forest dwellers with thematic ties to elves or nature spirits. Centaur-like beings based on large cats and sometimes draconic reptiles are also fairly common, and tend to be depicted primarily as roaming hunters and warriors.
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24SubTrope of VertebrateWithExtraLimbs. See also FaunsAndSatyrs who are half-man half-horned animal, [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Mermaids and Sea People]] who are fish from the waist down, SnakePeople who are snake from the waist down, SpiderPeople who are spider from the waist down, ScorpionPeople who are scorpion from the waist down. TankTreadMecha could be considered the mechanical equivalent, being humanoid robots which are tanks from the waist down. {{Nuckelavee}} are similar, but have the torso on the middle of the horse's back instead of replacing the head.
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32* [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike Old Spice]] advertised their new moisturizing bodywash with commercials and print ads featuring a centaur, to go with the theme of "It's two things." The ads were soon discontinued, because the male centaur's human girlfriend led to UnfortunateImplications.
33* Advertising/{{Progressive}} Insurance also used a centaur to emphasize the two-in-one aspect of their bundled insurance in "The Bundler" commercial. Later commercials introduce the Motour, the [[MyHorseIsAMotorbike motorbike version of a centaur]].
34* The 2011 Preakness horse race ran the "Kegasus" ad campaign, featuring what the Baltimore Sun described as "a centaur with a nipple ring, body hair and ample beer gut," "half-man, half-horse and altogether drunk" and "a 'party manimal'" clearly going more for the frat-boy version of the myth. Kegasus returned for the 2012 running.
35* A [[TheNineties '90s]] self-promotion commercial for TVE, the public television of Spain, had a man with a newspaper on his hands complaining about its programs and television schedule... until the camera zoomed out and turned out he was a centaur.
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39* In the ''Golden Yarn'' side story of ''Manga/TheAncientMagusBride'', its revealed that while you have the four-legged Centaurs as per usual, in some cases they are born with two legs like a human. As a result they take far longer to learn to walk and have weaker hearts, resulting in shorter lifespans and being frail, but they can use their hands easier. They're seen as something of a disgrace because they can't keep up with the herd, so they're sent to be raised with humans or other two-legged centaurs as babies, with it being noted that in the past they were outright killed instead. Hazel, one of the four-legged centaurs, hates that his aunt was left to live by herself because of this.
40* Locus in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' in his [[OneWingedAngel Apostle form]] is a faceless metallic centaur. All the demon cavalry's transformations are like this, except a giant mutated version of their mount's head appears at the waist.
41** There are also more typical-looking centaurs among the elves and other magical creatures in the Fantasia arc.
42* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': [[ExtremeOmniGoat Nel]] is based on antelope and goat-antelope themes to such an extent that when she enters resurrection, her form takes on a centauroid shape. The animal part of her body is based on the gemsbok rather than a horse.
43* Pegasus Saber from ''Anime/TheBraveFighterOfLegendDaGarn'' is a CombiningMecha in the shape of a winged centaur.
44* ''Manga/ACentaursLife'' stars Himeno, a Japanese ''kentauride'' teenager and chronicles her daily life in High School. She's a classic centaur, though with horse ears on the top of her head, and considered just as human as angels, mermaids, and [[LittleBitBeastly long ears]]. Probably the biggest thing setting these centaurs apart from other kinds is their insistence on wearing clothing on their lower bodies. The centaur equivalent of a bikini is a three-piece, with an item of clothing at the base of every pair of limbs.
45** The setting of the series also features weretigers, who have human torsos on top of 4-legged tiger bodies. They went extinct before the rise of civilization (kind of like Neanderthal man) but appear in flashback stories [[spoiler:and the Antarcticans are secretly cloning them back from extinction and controlling them for mysterious and apparently nefarious purposes]].
46* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'', [[spoiler:Isley's]] awakened form is a gigantic, bizarrely shaped centaur. [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091118111610/claymore/images/0/0a/Isleay_awakened.jpg And it looks awesome!]]
47* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
48** Centaurmon from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' and ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' is an odd looking variety since their "human" features are hidden, are covered in odd purple pustule looking things, and are partially cybernetic with a built in arm cannon despite still being considered a "nature spirit" type.
49** Gulfmon from the first ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' movie has definitely [[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Gulfmon nothing to do with a horse]].
50** Also from ''Tamers'', Vajramon and Pajiramon are the Ox and Sheep Devas respectively and both have centaur-like body plans. [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent Vajramon]] has the lower body of a bull with a minotaur-ish upper body. Pajiramon's design is the same idea, except that both halves resemble sheep and the anthropomorphic upper half has CreepilyLongArms that reach to her knees.
51** Sagittarimon, which appeared as a FillerVillain in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', is a LizardFolk centaur with both Flamedramon (a biped) and Raidramon (a quadruped) based features due to its species being an armor digivolution of Veemon like both of those are. In the broader lore of the franchise, the species is also a SuperMode of Centaurmon.
52** A royal knight from ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'', [[Myth/NorseMythology Sleipmon]] or [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Kentaurosmon]], is a 6 legged centaur with a more horse-like head on its humanoid upper body, thus having [[MeaningfulName 8 limbs in total]] (though they also have two fake "legs" acting as a belt just in case the last two being arms "didn't count") just like the horse they are originally named after. Their weapons of choice are a shield and crossbow instead of a traditional bow though and unlike many other examples is covered head to hoof in armor. Also, [[BridgeBunnies Miki and Megumi]]'s partner Digimon digivolve to [=KnightChessmon=], chess-themed mechanical centaurs decked out in medieval-styled armor of opposite colors.
53** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' has two fully mechanical examples of this trope in the form of Shoutmon [=X4B and X5B=], centaur-like upgrades to the more humanoid Shoutmon X4 and X5 respectively created by [[FusionDance adding]] Beelzemon onto each. Beelzemon's legs become the centaur forms' forelegs and are on backwards, making his boots more closely resemble hooves while his guns become hip-mounted cannons and a central WaveMotionGun that takes up most of the quadrupedal lower body. There's also [=GrandGeneramon=], a mindless humanoid mashup of six of the Seven Death Generals fused at the waist to the snout of Splashmon's quadrupedal Water Tiger form.
54** In ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'', Tagiru [=DigiXrosses=] Arresterdramon with another hunter's Dobermon when fighting [[AnimateInanimateObject Ganemon]]. The end result is Arresterdramon body from the waist up fused to Dobermon's quadrupedal body in the style of a centaur. Their combined form also has Arresterdramon's extendable tail and is much faster and more flexible than either of the component parts despite the seemingly ungainly body plan.
55** ''Anime/DigimonUniverseAppMonsters'' has [[OlympusMons Hadesmon]], a dragon-centaur that serves as [[spoiler:Hackmon's]] final form. He's a massive dragon-centaur decked out in white and gold armor and [[RealityWarper able to alter both data and matter at will]] in addition to more ordinary attacks.
56** The ''Applimonsters'' manga has Gossipmon, a mechanical centaur dressed up like a freelance reporter, appear as a MonsterOfTheWeek alongside Gomimon in Astra's debut chapter. Gossipmon is a ConsummateLiar that can make anything seem true in writing and gets caught making fake reviews of Astra's videos.
57** ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' has Gyukimon, who has a lower body resembling a spider and the upper body of a purple minotaur with an ArmCannon. The spider half has a mouth of its own, giving Gyukimon a similar body plan to [=GrandGeneramon=]. This mouth's teeth inject a mutagenic venom from the tubes on its back to turn others into more Gyukimon.
58* ''Anime/FutureCardBuddyfight'' has a few dragon-centaurs. The most notable one is the second form of [[LargeHam Genma]]'s buddy monster Duel Sieger. The form is actually intermediate between his quadrupedal first form and anthropomorphic third form.
59* ''Manga/{{Jagaaaaaan}}'': Medetaurus, a bride with a horse's body replacing her lower half, her right arm converted into a lance and her left into a organic crossbow, all crowned with the mother of all [[SlasherSmile slasher smiles]] on her face.
60* ''Anime/KotetsuJeeg''. The mechanical horse Panzeroid [[DubNameChange (known in Italy as Antares)]] allows Jeeg to become a powerful centaur armed with a drilling lance. The module is launched by Big Shooter, once launched the horse retracts its head to allow it to connect directly to Jeeg. The module can act independently and is able to fly in the air.
61* ''Manga/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime1999'': When Link confronts Dark Link on horseback, the latter shapeshifts his lower body into a horse.
62* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': [[{{Robeast}} Mechanical Beast Kentol Γ7]] was a blue, armored mechanical centaur. It was armed with a spear and a spiked shield, was capable of flying, and its helmet's horns shot beams that could control other machines.
63* ''Literature/MonsterGirlDoctor'': Tisalia is a tall, blonde centaur girl who is the heiress of Scythia Transportation and a champion fighter in the city's Arena. She is practically never seen without her attendants, [[ThoseTwoGirls Kay and Lorna]] (who are also centaurs). Centaurs in this setting seem to have a [[ProudWarriorRace chivalrous noble culture akin to the knights of medieval Europe]].
64* Centorea Shianus from ''Manga/MonsterMusume'' is a very attractive centaur knight. Male centaurs are shown once. They're so {{Gonk}}ish (and generally unpleasant) that not even female centaurs find them attractive [[spoiler:and in fact Centorea is a HalfHumanHybrid whose mother fell in love and slept with her human "teaser" instead of her husband]].
65* In the anime ''Nessa no Haou Gandalla'', the BigBad has LostTechnology [[spoiler:that is controlled by music, so he kidnaps promising musicians,]] transforming his victims into winged-centaurs (or [[Creator/HRGiger Giger-esque]] monsters if they rebel). It MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext.
66* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
67** Franky's centaur transformation is a parody of this trope. His legs split apart to act as front legs and hind legs, but he's got it reverse; his front legs are in front of his torso rather than having the hind legs behind the torso. Several characters have lampshaded how he got it backwards. The main function of Franky's centaur form is to capture the enemies with his legs.
68** In the beginning of the Thriller Bark arc , three of the characters are escorted to a mansion in a carriage. One of the horses drawing the carriage is a [[EverythingsDeaderWithZombies zombie centaur]].
69** The ''actual centaurs'' from Punk Hazard. There's giraffe centaurs, leopard centaurs, alligator centaurs... However, none of them are natural centaurs, as they were originally humans and lost their lower halves.
70** Jack's Human-Beast form differentiates itself from other Human-Beast forms where his lower body becomes the body of a mammoth, while his upper body is a mammoth-man. This unique form gives him the physical advantages of a mammoth without losing a pair of legs.
71** Similar to Jack, Black Maria's modified Human-Beast form is a spider centaur. Her upper body retains her beautiful human body, while her lower half is a headless spider body with a face. As stated earlier, her Human-Beast form that we see is not natural, but the result of a drug-induced modification, as stated by WordOfGod.
72* ''Anime/PanzerWorldGalient'' has the entire Panzer Trampler [[HumongousMecha mech line]], which are naturally shaped like centaurs.
73* In ''Manga/{{Stardust Memories|Manga}}'', Hoshino Yukinobu took an interesting take on the centaur concept in one of his series of short stories, [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/stardust_memories/c004/2.html "The Centaur of Sagittarius"]] in his science fiction anthology "Stardust Memories". Said centaur was an alien on a distant planet called Sagittarius Alpha that looked like a thick-tailed, headless ungulate with a circular maw filled with rows of sharp teeth. Lacking most of its brain, nervous system, and digestive organs, the creature survived by preying on the nearby amphibian-like aliens, eating everything beneath their abdomens and merging with the rest to make it appear as a hideous-looking centauroid creature. In the story, an [[EvilOldFolks elderly]] {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}} of a gigantic corporation funds an expedition to the planet Sagittarius so he can capture [[RuleofSymbolism Chiron]] (the name of the alien) in hopes of using its body to give his dying body immortality and eternally rule over his vast empire. After incurring many casualties, the man is betrayed by his female assistant (whose family was one of the many victims he crushed on his bid to the top) by poisoning his pills and leaving him to die. While trying to escape on her aircraft the assistant is killed by Chiron, who discards its used-up host and gallops towards the old man, mouth wide open. The story ends with the old man becoming Chiron's new host, having [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor finally attained his immortality]] at the cost of [[AndIMustScream suffering excruciating pain forever]].
74* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' has Elg, a member of the Gourmet Corp., who fused with a baby legendary horse called a Heraku, which along with the typical centaur also granted him an [[FromASingleCell astonishing]] HealingFactor which essentially made him immortal and stopped him from aging.
75* ''Manga/YuGiOh'':
76** Early on, the centaur "Mystical Horseman" was introduced as part of Kaiba's deck. It was immediately [[FusionDance fused]] with "Battle Ox", a minotaur, and they become "Rabid Horseman", a centaur-minotaur hybrid, and its Japanese name is actually "Minocentaurus".
77** Another centaur used by Noah Kaiba is "Chiron the Mage".
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81* ''Art/TheBirthOfVenusBouguereau'': Taking after Myth/ClassicalMythology, these ones have the body of a horse and the torso of a man. They are also able to keep themselves afloat in the middle of the ocean with no trouble. Finally, they know how to play conch shells to accompany the CherubicChoir.
82* One of Creator/{{Michelangelo|Buonarroti}}'s first works was the ''Battle of the Centaurs'', based on an incident from Myth/ClassicalMythology. The centaurs are so clustered together it is difficult to tell them from the humans, with the only clear indicator being that the centaurs are all above bodies that have been trampled to the floor.
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86* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Centaurs are a recurring creature type, usually aligned with Green, the color of nature, tradition and the wilderness. On planes with color-aligned groups, they are typically found among red/green or green/white factions.
87** They're mostly fairly standard fantasy centaurs, but there are some unusual variations. Centaurs from the Gruul Clans of Ravnica, for instance, have large antlers, as did some Dominarian centaurs from the Ice Age, while [[http://magiccards.info/pc/en/139.html other Dominarian centaurs]] have the heads and lower bodies of antelopes. Bear-centaurs also exist, but [[https://scryfall.com/card/ody/275/still-life only one]] has appeared in-game thus far. [[https://scryfall.com/card/c16/25/stonehoof-chieftain Stonehoof]] [[https://scryfall.com/card/cmm/325/stonehoof-chieftain Chieftain]] is a centaur with a rhinoceros-like lower body and an upper body that looks different in each printing of the card. Even more unconventional is the [[https://scryfall.com/card/dgm/54/beetleform-mage Beetleform Mage]], which has a centaurine body plan but is typed as a human and an insect instead since their fused form is the product of FantasticScience.
88** Given the plane's roots in Myth/ClassicalMythology, centaurs are naturally also a major race in Theros. There, they’re divided between the civilized Lagonna Band (representing the traditionally wild but generally benevolent ''Magic'' centaurs) and the savage, aggressive Pheres Band (representing the dangerous and barbaric centaurs of Greek myth). [[https://magiccards.info/c16/en/205.html Iroas]], the god of victory, honor and war, also takes the form of a centaur with the lower body of a bull.
89** [[https://scryfall.com/card/cmd/207/karador-ghost-chieftain Karador]] is the VengefulGhost of a centaur chieftain who was slain in battle and now wants to kill the rival that offed him. He has antlers and a more elven-looking face than most centaurs.
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93* ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'' in the ''Gallimaufry'' storyline briefly shows "Silverrunners" as one of engineered HumanSubspecies. Little is told other than them being good at unarmed combat -- on par with {{Heavyworlder}}s like Buck. Since the setting also has {{Uplifted Animal}}s like talking cats and dogs, half-horses would fit right in.
94* ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': Dawn is turned into a [[RunningGag centaur]][[InsistentTerminology ette]]. Cravings for hay are mentioned.
95* ''[[http://www.bedetheque.com/serie-2447-BD-Centaures.html Les Centaures]]'' by Pierre Seron is about a pair of young blue-skinned centaurs that wander across the Earth after being expelled from Olympus. Do not, we repeat NOT confuse it with the French comic by the same name. You will recognize that one by the interesting concept that the author tells the same story, with only slight differences, with a) centaurs b) Hell's Angels (an interesting analogy -- the bike works as the horse part). Oh, and by the gratuitous porn.
96* ''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'' includes an antagonist named Marcus. He's a centaur, [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot who was bitten by a werewolf, bonded with an alien Symbiote and later given robotic legs]].
97* ''ComicBook/DiabloChile'': When Alex, the protagonist, travels to hell, he meets centaurs who act as guardians, preventing the damned from escaping from hell.
98* ''ComicBook/{{Mampato}}'': On a trip to the time of the Trojan War, the protagonists meet centaurs, and harpies, and sphinxes. [[spoiler:All of these creatures are actually genetic experiments.]]
99* ''ComicBook/RequiemVampireKnight'': Centaurs are the reincarnations of rapists, used as heavy cavalry by the Lemures against the vampires.
100* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Tim runs up against a particularly proud centaur woman in Bludhaven who introduces herself as Equina, which is hopefully not her real name, though that might explain why she turned to villainy if it is.
101* Speed Centaur, a UsefulNotes/{{The Golden Age|of Comic Books}} comic character, is a centaur who fights crime in New York. His adventures were published in ''Amazing Mystery Funnies'', a magazine published by Centaur Comics editorial.
102* ''ComicBook/{{Stinz}}'' features the adventures of the Bavarian "half-horse" of that name (In this setting "Centaur" only refers to the barbarian nomads of the same species.)
103* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': "ComicBook/TheSuperSteedOfSteel" introduces Comet the Superhorse; originally a centaur named Biron, who took a potion that was supposed to make him human but instead made him a horse.
104* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
105** An {{Elseworlds}} story, ''Superman/Wonder Woman: Whom Gods Destroy'', sees Superman transformed into a centaur at one point, and Lana Lang turned into a centaurette.
106** ''ComicBook/SupermansGirlFriendLoisLane'': Issue #92 has a story claiming that Lois Lane [[http://www.vinegeek.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/LoisLane_centaur_comiccover.jpg would turn into a Centaur.]] [[CoversAlwaysLie In the actual story, the centaur form is only a one-panel transitional form before she is turned completely into a horse, which is how she spends most of the story. She's a centaur for one more panel when she changes back.]]
107* ''ComicBook/TigerWoman'' features centaurs and other fantastic creatures. The story takes place in a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic future]] where mythical creatures are descendants of humans who were transformed while attending futuristic theme parks and became trapped in these bodies when society broke down.
108* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'': The Caliegia is basically a centaurette goddess with wings, horns and a dragon tail.
109* ''ComicBook/WeirdWarTales'' issue #65 story "The Last Cavalry Charge": Centaurs carry machine guns and fight tanks.
110* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
111** In one story Diana fights Slaughter, a big, blue, twelve-armed cyclops centaur with a single, red eye.
112** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': In the Silver Age ComicBook/WonderGirl Impossible Tales the hidden merfolk village in the waters off Paradise Island has a longstanding feud with a herd or sea-centaurs.
113** [[https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/1/15776/998250-suzy.jpg Mustang Suzy]], a sometime ComicBook/{{Hawkman}} foe who turned up as part of [[Characters/WonderWomanVillains Circe]]'s giant collective of villains in [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 "The Witch and the Warrior"]], has the torso and head of a woman and a gilded motorcycle in place of legs.
114** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanHistoriaTheAmazons'': Having VoluntaryShapeshifting, some of the Gods take on a Centaur-like appearence. Poseidon is depicted as having the upper-body of a man, but his lower half is a cross between an hippocampus and the Pegasus (a horse with bird wings). In a later scene, Artemis takes on the form of a centaur-like appearance with a lower-half based around a deer made entirely of deer antlers.
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118* ''Fanfic/DailyEquestriaLifeWithMonsterGirl'': An InUniverse example comes up. The plot is about a MagicMisfire summoning Centorea Shianus to Equestria, only a few months after Tirek's rampage. While she isn't Tirek, doesn't have his magic-draining powers, and is a kind and honorable girl/filly, she still has to deal with the all-but-overwhelming terror of centaurs that Tirek had inspired. Ponies also find the basic anatomy of centaurs highly unsettling, since they perceive it as a normal person's body with the torso of a random creature growing where the head should be.
119%%* ''Fanfic/Homecoming2026'': At least one exists, working in the Whateley kitchens.%%ZCE. How is it "different"? What is it like in-story?
120%%-->''Standing in the middle of the room was a female centaur, clad in linen barding.''
121* ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone'': George [[VoluntaryShapeshifting does a centaur]] frequently, both to carry Ringo and to trot along with serious stamina and still be able to talk. In that shape he's extremely hairy, he's terrified of things that smell like predators, and he has good hearing and night vision. He defaults to a heavy warmblood horse-half rather than a sleek Arabian, so he's not very fast (though he could certainly do a sleeker one if he wanted).
122* "Monster Falls", a ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] based on the premise of Gravity Falls' residents being turned into various mythical creatures by water from a cursed river, typically has Dipper become a deer centaur.
123* ''Fanfic/NineDaysDown'': Twilight encounters a centaur living alongside the wight clan. As Twilight has never seen anything humanoid before, she has trouble describing its upper body outside of thinking of it as a sort of strange ape with weird, shortened jaws.
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127* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'': The Pastoral Symphony segment features centaurs and centaurettes. Most of them are the standard human/horse version, but there was also a dark-skinned one with the lower half of a donkey, named "Sunflower", who was shown as a servant to the others. She has since been removed from more recent releases of the film due to her racist implications. There were also two centaurettes whose equine halves were that of [[ZebrasAreJustStripedHorses zebras]].
128* ''WesternAnimation/TheFearlessFour'' has a mechanical cyborg centaur that sings a VillainSong. In what appears to be a setting that is anything but fantasy or futuristic.
129* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', the title character battles one named Nessus when first meeting Meg. He's a rather odd-looking centaur, though, with blue skin, fangs, and a large protruding chin. More traditional centaurs also appear in certain episodes of [[WesternAnimation/HerculesTheAnimatedSeries the animated series]].
130* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGoVsTeenTitans,'' [[spoiler:[[TheDogBitesBack TTG!Trigon eats TT!Trigon]], giving him a OneWingedAngel form that's more centaurish than his usual goat-legged devil look]].
131* One of the Thirteen Monsters in ''WesternAnimation/{{TMNT}}'' was a centaur-cyclops creature with a muscular humanoid upper torso, and a stocky, hippo-like lower body. It was shown emerging from the portal during the prologue and later was seen being captured by the Foot Clan in a warehouse.
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135* ''Film/TheGoldenVoyageOfSinbad'': Near the end, Sinbad fights a one-eyed centaur.
136* ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians-The Lightning Thief'' features Creator/PierceBrosnan as Chiron.
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140* ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'': The Andalites are best described as mouth-less blue centaurs with a scorpion tail and two extra stalk eyes. One book even has a TV show with a few seconds of a Andalite on film as a centaur. It's sometimes noted, however, that the "horse" portion is about the size of a deer.
141* In ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'', the LEP's InsufferableGenius and TechnoWizard Foaly is a centaur. Centaurs are polygamous, so one can, if one squints, perhaps see where a reputation for kidnapping women might have came from. They're also an endangered species because they tend to be paranoid, even of each other. Foaly muses at one point that he should start dating because there are only about forty left.
142* ''Literature/BasLagCycle'':
143** ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'' includes a Remade man who's been turned into a centaur for his crimes. Unusually cruel in that the biomancer responsible attached his human torso to the equine neck ''backwards'', meaning he can only see where he was going if he forces his horse body to back up, which horses aren't built for.
144** ''Literature/IronCouncil'': Rahul is a lizard-bodied centaur Remade.
145** Some non-equine centaurlike beings turn up in other books, such as an aquatic lobster-bodied race in ''Literature/TheScar'' and the ravening, caterpillar-like inchmen from ''Iron Council''.
146* ''Literature/BookOfImaginaryBeings'':
147** Borges describes most of the main Greek myths concerning centaurs, in addition to an incident where a herdsman brought an infant centaur birthed by one of his mare to the ruler of Corinth (which the ruler's court sage implied was born from... less than wholesome practices on the herdsman's part) and Lucretius' claim in ''De rerum natura'' that centaurs are impossible due to the different growth cycles of men and horses -- a three-year-old centaur would be part adult horse and part babbling child, and the horse half would die fifty years before the human one.
148** Ichtyocentaurs, discussed separately, originate after the period when most myth-making took place but are very common in Greek and Roman art. They have the tail of a dolphin and the forelegs of a horse or lion, and live among the gods and sea horses in the ocean.
149* ''Literature/{{Changewinds}}'' has the ba'ahdon, who look more like a cross between a chalicothere and a pygmy elephant from the waist down.
150* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': The centaurs are completely opposed to the classic Greek ones, as they are brave fighters in Aslan's army. The individual centaurs Glenstorm (''Literature/PrinceCaspian'') and Roonwit (''Literature/TheLastBattle'') are Chiron-like scholars.
151** In an interesting detail, in [[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia the movies]] the centaurs have pointed, horselike ears that stick out almost horizontally from their heads as well as more horselike noses.
152** The books note that they are expensive guests because they have both a human and a horse stomach "and naturally both want breakfast."[[note]]Considering that you're essentially feeding most of a horse ''and'' half a person at the same time, of course a centaur would be hungry, no matter how many stomachs....[[/note]]
153* In ''The Clocktaur Wars'' duology by T. Kingfisher, clocktaurs (a.k.a Clockwork Boys) are centauroid golems the colour of old ivory and made of slabs of clockwork gears set in impossible ways. They're 8-10 feet tall and have 4 or 6 legs. Each one is a mighty siege engine and in only 6 months since their appearance, they've reduced the Dowager Queen's borders by half.
154* In James White's short story "Custom Fitting", which is part of the Literature/SectorGeneral universe, we have His Excellency the Lord Scrennagle of Dutha. He is described as basically shaped like a centaur, but has two thumbs on each hand and his face is described as "dominated by two large, soft, brown eyes that somehow made the slits, protuberances, and fleshy petals which comprised the other features visually acceptable." [[https://mcgrewstudios.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Lord-Scrennagle.png Greg and Tim Hildebrant's depiction]] for the cover of the second issue of Science Fiction magazine "Stellar" makes him look much more like a traditional centaur.
155* In ''Literature/TheDarkswordTrilogy'', Centaurs are ''warchanged'', humans who were turned into savage berserkers to take part in a war, with the intention of turning them back mentally and physically once the war was won. The war proved far bloodier than expected and mages capable of restoring them became quite rare. As a result the centaurs went feral and interbred with "men and beasts", becoming a new species [[AlwaysChaoticEvil similar in disposition]] to their mythological counterparts. Notably, actual horses are thought to be extinct on Thimhallan, due to most of them being as raw materials for creating centaurs.
156* ''Literature/DeepSecret'': Centaurs turn out to be very central to the plot, after they first appear roughly halfway through. They're standoffish and proud with a distinctive set of cultural norms, and they, like other magical creatures, can no longer live in this world for long since [[TheMagicGoesAway it's less magical than it used to be]]. Their human halves are [[AmazingTechnicolorPopulation the same color]] as their horse parts, and their culture is clannish and matrilineal. Also, female centaurs [[HalfHumanHybrid can interbreed with humans]], though it's noted that a human woman could not carry a male centaur's child.
157* While they never get as much focus as other fantasy races like Dwarves and Trolls, Centaurs are mentioned a few times in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series. ''Literature/TheScienceOfDiscworld'' implies that they're the descendants of people and horses who were fused together on a molecular-genetic level by a {{Magitek}} nuclear reactor meltdown that wiped out the ancient Loko civilization.
158* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': Centaurs are found in the ''Inferno''. They are armed with bows and arrows and ensure that the sinners stay in Phlegethon, a river filled with boiling blood. They share they area of Hell with the Minotaur, which while possessing the usual taurine head also has the body of a bull instead of human legs.
159* ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' has cat-centaurs, who live near the Paths of the Dead. Vlad and Morollan share a NotSoDifferentRemark moment with them in Taltos.
160* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' briefly includes a blacksmith centaur in [[Literature/SummerKnight the fourth book]], depicted as being a breed of Fairy. While centaurs are Summer-aligned, he's not really what you'd call friendly, and seems to have some of the rage tendencies of more traditional centaurs.
161* In ''Literature/TheEchoriumSequence'', centaurs are one of the four races of "half-creature". They use herdstones to bend light so as to render themselves invisible to humans; obtaining one's herdstone serves as a rite of passage into adulthood.
162* The centaurs in Crawford Killian's AfterTheEnd novel ''Literature/{{Eyas}}'' have a more-or-less equine lower body (albeit with a tail more like that of a mule or donkey than a horse) with a slightly outsized and blunt-featured humanoid upper body. Additionally: the closest analogues to horses, deer, cattle, goats, and sheep that exist in the setting are in fact non-sapient six-limbed centaur-kin animals (sixfoots, woodsrunners, browsers, splithoofs, and longfurs, respectively). [[spoiler:All of them were genetically engineered, likely from ungulates of some sort; an A.I. that manifests its holographic interface in the shape of a pony is conceptualized by comparison to centaurs.]] The men are all {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s [[spoiler:(albeit kind of ''bad'' at it at first, as they initially have no real sense of ''teamwork'' in combat and [[GloryHound are all out for]] [[GlorySeeker individual glory]]; they become far more effective after the title character convinces them to ''adopt'' one)]], are culturally discouraged from having many interests ''beyond'' that, tend towards bay or black coloring, and tend to have nouns or {{Noun Verb|er}}s such as "Boulder" or "Foehewer" for names; the women are Proud Artisan Race Gals, are mostly chestnut, and tend to have verbs suffixed by their craft for names, such as "Standaway Blacksmith" or "Dance Gaily Potter."
163* ''Literature/{{Fablehaven}}'': Centaurs are a typical ProudWarriorRace, skilled and powerful fighters, but they're also arrogant jerks who think they should naturally be in charge and are uninterested in helping anyone but themselves, even when the fate of the world is on the line. Every character who has expressed an opinion has said they dislike dealing with them. Additionally, an alcetaur (human above and moose below) appears in book 4 as one of the inhabitants of Wyrmroost.
164* ''Literature/FightingFantasy'': The centaurs in the gamebooks are (mostly) intelligent and honorable, if unfriendly and avoiding contact with humans. They believe themselves to be horses who were cursed with a human appearance for angering Hunnynhan the Stallion God.
165* ''Literature/GaeaTrilogy'': The Titanides are different on several levels. For one thing, their colors vary wildly, from normal horsey hues to patterns like checkers or plaid. For another, each one is a multiple {{Hermaphrodite}}, with both types of equipment on the horse half plus a third set on the human half. The third set determines the individual's pronoun gender (while all Titanides can give birth, those who can do so [[TrulySingleParent by parthenogenesis]] are considered female), but even the [[{{Bishonen}} males]] have [[MostCommonSuperpower prominent breasts]], causing most humans to mistake them for [[OneGenderRace an all-female race]].
166* ''Literature/GarrettPI'': Centaurs are somewhat smaller than usual (donkey-sized), and are natives of the war-torn Cantard region. Their tribes served as mercenary scouts for both sides of the war until they deserted to support Glory Mooncalled's renegade republic, which makes them even less popular with [=TunFaire's=] human majority than most non-humans in the war's aftermath.
167* ''Literature/HarryPotter'''s centaurs are a fiercely independent society of forest-dwelling stargazers, who tend to be distrustful of humans and dangerous with a bow. However, a few help out when Harry gets lost in the forest, as well as terrifying Umbridge in a most satisfying way. Despite only having males appear in the main books it is pointed out that female centaurs do exist according to the W.O.M.B.A.T test since "[[OneGenderRace There are no female centaurs]]" was a false statement that appeared there (The seemingly true statement being "Hags eat small children" instead), and are explicitly not a [[HalfHumanHybrid hybrid species]] which rules out Centaur/Human breeding being a common event.
168* In Kevin J. Anderson and Brian Herbert's ''Hellhole'' series the alien Xayans have a humanoid top half and caterpillar-like bottom half.
169* Creator/DavidGemmell's "Lion of Macedon" cycle has centaurs as human riders who can mindlink with their horses and ultimately merge with them into a composite creature, the classical centaur.
170* Centaurs appear in some books by Creator/LordDunsany, including, obviously, ''The Bride of the Man-Horse'', where they're rather warlike -- said to have defeated some human cities and tried to play a Trojan Siege with the city of gods. Also, briefly met in ''The Long Porter's Tale''.
171* When Eric meets one of these in ''Literature/AMagesPower'', the narration takes care to make a distinction. This is not a creature with the lower body of a horse and the upper body of a human, but a horse with a human head. It also has a snake for a tail. He thinks Eric is the weirdo.
172* ''Literature/TheObsidianTrilogy'' portrays centaurs as somewhat rustic but very intelligent farming people who are creatures of the Light along with unicorns, brownies, elves and others.
173* ''Literature/OlogySeries'': ''Monsterology'' describes classical centaurs, which are found in Greece and the lower Balkan Peninsula. They do not use tools as complex as those of even iron age humans, but sometimes craft rudimentary bows.
174* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'' has Chiron, the wise trainer to heroes. He's pretty much just like the original myths, except he can hide his horse self in a magical wheelchair. His relatives, though? The "Party Ponies" could be best described as four-legged frat boys (a young adult-acceptable version of their original portrayal in Greek mythology). In the sequel series, ''Literature/TheHeroesOfOlympus'', Percy discovers another tribe of horned centaurs that are bad guys and part of Gaea's army, terribly confusing him.
175* Creator/PoulAnderson's "Polysotechnic League" stories mention centaurs being common, but they rarely appear and the ones that do are quite non-human.
176* ''Literature/PrincessesOfThePizzaParlor'': ''Cookies and Campers'' mentions centaurs in the prologue, as a kind of "beast-folk".
177* ''Literature/StarmanJones'' has centaur-like aliens. They appear to be stupid, but the humans who land on their planet discover that they're highly intelligent and have other alien creatures on the planet under their control.
178* In ''Literature/ThisImmortal'', centaurs are only mentioned in passing, but are said to live in the mountains of Greece and to be the product of [[{{Mutants}} genetic mutation]] caused by nuclear pollution.
179* Centaurs in the ''Literature/TortallUniverse'' look standard, but they're Immortals -- creatures that live forever unless killed, never aging beyond maturity. "Killer centaurs" are just [[AlwaysChaoticEvil clawed monsters]], but the standard variety is variable, with individual alignments. They refuse to be shod, hate crossbows, and like using Immortal feathers in their fletching. In ''Squire,'' it's shown that they keep horses, call them "slaves", and [[BestialityIsDepraved mount them]]. Female centaurs attack males if not given gifts, they call killing their own people "culling", and one attempts to purchase Keladry of Mindelan, believing she's stocky enough to "breed well, maybe even bear sons of my kind". Kel doesn't like them.
180* Jorkas from ''Literature/TheTravellerInBlack'', is a unique variant: instead of a human upper body in place of a horse's neck and head, he consists of a complete (and purple) horse body with a young man fused thigh-deep in its back. A byproduct of Chaos, Jorkas's human and horse bodies share a single mind and reaction in concert, such that his equine portion shies when he'd insulted to his human face, and his horse portion trots and bobs its head in time as his human portion sings and plays music.
181* Creator/HarryTurtledove's short story ''[[https://www.tor.com/2010/02/03/vilcabamba/ Vilcabamba]]'' has the Krolp alien invaders with a vaguely centauroid body plan, though dark gray with tiger stripes and jack-o-lantern shaped heads, as seen in the illustration at the link.
182* ''Literature/WellWorld'':
183** Dillians and Rhone [[spoiler:(which are basically the same race on two different planets; long story)]] as more-or-less the classic model (albeit with horse ears, and only about the size of big ponies) in the original series. The Lillian's lead a primarily pastoral and communal existence in a low-tech hex, where they live in small villages scattered among fields and forests. Dillians who made their way to the Mediterranean area of Old Earth were responsible for myths of centaurs. Dillians also appear in the ''Watchers at the Well'' series; there, they're stated to have become a [[LittleBitBeastly smoother synthesis of hominid and equine]] than the classic centaur.
184** The Gekir are matriarchal felitaurs; the women are rowdy tailless tigertaurs, while the men are white-furrd liontaurs who have slightly twee personalities and gravitate towards the position of sex worker.
185* ''Literature/AWrinkleInTime'': Winged centaur-like creatures lived on the planet Uriel. Mrs. Whatsit transformed into one in order to help show Charles Wallace, Meg, and Calvin the nature of what they were fighting against.
186* ''Literature/XanaduStoryverse'': Wynd, who is initially turned into a {{Pegasus}} by the Change, is eventually transformed into a winged centaur -- the closest to her original human form that the magic of the Change will permit.
187* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'': Centaurs series are a race of scholars and researchers who consider magic (which is pervasive in Xanth) to be obscenity when used by centaurs, although they generally don't have a problem with PunyHumans resorting to its use. That said, it's mostly the ones from Centaur Isle that have a problem with it. Centaurs living in Xanth proper tend to be more open-minded about one of their own practicing magic. They tend to have a superiority complex like -- although not as severe as -- [[OurElvesAreDifferent elves]], and are excellent archers.
188** They are said to have originated when a couple of [[InterspeciesRomance human men and their female horses]] unwittingly drank from a [[LovePotion love spring]]. But only man/mare pairings seem to produce centaurs. Woman/stallion pairings instead produce a werehorse.
189** Winged centaurs develop as an additional subspecies of centaurs. Regular centaurs tend to consider them to be dirty half breeds, which is ironic give the [[BestialityIsDepraved origin of centaurs.]]
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193* The Vedrans of ''Series/{{Andromeda}}'' have four legs and a humanoid torso and arms. Only one is depicted in the series, but their quadrupedal nature is frequently alluded to, their family units are called "herds" and the bridges of Glorious Heritage ships are clearly designed to accommodate them.
194-->'''Seamus Harper''': Watch your step here; the ramps can be a little tricky, but we think of it as part of the original Vedran charm.
195* The 1990s television version of ''Series/{{Beastmaster}}'' featured an episode titled "Centaurs." The titular centaurs Sagitto and Radia were unique in that they could split into separate beings, two humans and two horses, and merge together to become the combined creature. If separated for too long, both beings would die.
196* Dobbin the [[PantomimeAnimal Pantomime Horse]] in ''Series/{{Rentaghost}}'' was occasionally turned into a Chiron-like centaur. On one occasion he became a two-headed centaur (one at either end).
197* In ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' Justin briefly dated a female centaur.
198* Centaurs often appeared in both ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' and were the most common non-human race. Episodes featuring them usually dealt with FantasticRacism.
199** Centaurs were all male, and bred with human females. In one instance a young woman fell in love with and married a centaur, and gave birth to a (naturally male) centaur child (the human portion appeared to be equivalent in development to a 6-month-old child, to functionally complement the abilities of a newborn foal).
200** ''Hercules'' also had the Golden Hind, an all-female race in contrast to the all-male centaurs (but the two are not shown to be related). Golden Hinds have the lower body of deer, golden hooves, and golden horns on their heads. They have a healing ability and their blood can kill a god.
201* In ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'', Wolzard can form [=WolKentauros=] with his giant steed Dark Magic Horse Barikion. This is a seen as a giant Centaur Mecha formation that he uses to fight the Rangers. In ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'', this formation is called the Centaur Megazord.
202* An episode of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' had Creator/ChrisParnell as a centaur interviewing for a typical office job. He was quite polite and well-mannered, but the boss, played by Creator/ChristopherWalken, could not get past the fact that he was, indeed, a centaur; asking such questions like, "Does centaur pornography exist?" and, "If I watch centaur porn with the bottom half blocked out by a sheet of paper, would I be aroused?"
203--> '''Centaur:''' Are there going to be any questions regarding my aptitude or employment history?\
204'''Walken:''' All the remaining questions... will be centaur related.
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208* The eponymous "Witch of the Westmereland" in the song by Archie Fisher (later covered by Music/StanRogers) is described as having "one half the form of a maiden fair with a jet-black mare's body." Given that she later transforms into a fully human woman with a blue gown, she's likely actually a [[OurKelpiesAreDifferent kelpie]], a shapeshifting water spirit common in Scottish folklore.
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212* Myth/ClassicalMythology:
213** Centaurs were something of a BarbarianTribe in Greek myth, with the only exceptions being Chiron (who raised the hero Achilles) and Pholus.
214*** According to legend, the centaurs were descended from Ixion ([[SadlyMythtaken and not from Zeus having sex in the form of a horse as some believe]]). Ixion being a grade-A jackass who attempted to hit on Zeus' wife Hera in his own home, he was tricked into sleeping with a cloud nymph named Nephele who looked like Hera, their son Centaurus having sex with wild horses to produce the centaurs.
215*** A straighter example is Nessus, who before being killed by Heracles' poisoned arrows, told his (Heracles') wife to dip her philandering husband's tunic in the centaur's blood, as this would make him faithful. However, [[ThanatosGambit this ended up killing Heracles as the poison ate him alive]].
216*** The ''Centauromachy'' is another well-known story: having been invited to a wedding and getting drunk, proceed to kidnap the women at the wedding, including the bride. This does not go well with the groom, and violence ensues.
217*** Some early Greek vase paintings depict a bizarre variant of the centaur: a complete human body, with the rear end of a horse attached to the butt. There's no explanation for [[FridgeLogic how these could walk, let alone run]]. One vase even depicts what's clearly supposed to be Medusa as a female one of these, with a SkullForAHead, and somehow wearing a dress.
218*** There were at least two other sympathetic centaurs depicted in Creator/{{Ovid}}'s ''Literature/TheMetamorphoses'', the husband and wife Cyllarus and Hylonome. They were attending the wedding feast depicted in the ''Centauromachy'' when they got swept up in the ensuing battle. No word if they were taking part in the drunken revelry with the rest of the centaurs, but Cyllarus was killed by a spear during the ensuing brawl, and heartbroken, Hylonome took her own life rather then go on without her husband.
219*** Female centaurs such as Hylonome are not especially common in myth, but appear fairly often in art. They are properly referred to as ''centaurides''.
220** [[OurSirensAreDifferent Sirens]], though commonly remembered as [[SirensAreMermaids mermaids]], were also depicted as bird-centaurs -- they had the torsos of women (usually with exposed breasts) and the bodies of [[FeatheredFiend birds]] from the waist down. Which is also the physical description of the East-Asian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnara Kinnara]]; with the exception of conflicting Indian literature of demigods with the same name, like the ''Mahabharata'' which describes the Kinnaras as horse-centaurs.
221** There are also the Ipotanes, humans with the legs and tails of horses, considered the original centaurs.
222** Ichthyocentaurs can be thought of as the mermaid version of a centaur, having the lower body of a hippocampus (a half-horse, half-fish creature) instead. Some depictions also gave them lobster claws on their heads. They do not appear in myths, and seem to have been strictly artistic motif instead.
223** Onocentaurs are creatures from medieval bestiaries depicted as centaurs with the lower bodies of donkeys.
224** The constellation of Sagittarius is traditionally depicted as a centaur wielding a bow and arrow, and bow-wielding centaurs in European heraldry are likewise referred to as sagittarii.
225** There is also the bucentaur, kind of an inverted minotaur: The Other Wiki says, "The term bucintoro [referring to the state galley of the Doges of Venice] was Latinized in the Middle Ages as bucentaurus on the analogy of an alleged Greek word boukentauros meaning "ox-centaur" (from bous, "ox", and kentauros, "centaur"). The common supposition was that the name derived from a creature of a man with the head of an ox, a figure of which served as the galley's figurehead. This derivation is, however, fanciful; the word boukentauros is unknown in Greek mythology..."
226** Notably, while [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent the Minotaur]] was classically depicted as a man with the head of a bull, an alternative interpretation was popular during Roman and medieval times that swapped which part belonged to which species, depicting it as having a human torso, arms and head mounted on a bull's body. This was in large part because, after the fall of Rome, Greek texts largely became unavailable until surviving examples were uncovered or obtained from Arab libraries much later, and the most widely available version of the myth were Ovid's -- which did not specify which part was bull and which was human -- and the Aeneid's -- which explicitly noted the Minotaur to have the lower body of a beast and the upper of a man.
227* UsefulNotes/{{Christian|ity}} legend has the enigmatic legend of St. Anthony Abbot and the Centaur, which may represent the desire of early pagan converts to have some of the more poetic elements of their beliefs adopted by the new religion.
228* Myth/MesopotamianMythology:
229** In ancient Persian and Mesopotamian sculpture, AlwaysMale guardian statues called shedu and lamassu have the forms of bulls and lions, with human heads and eagle wings. The leonine ones are basically male sphinxes. Unlike centaurs, they don't have arms.
230** Much closer Mesopotamian analogs to the centaurs are the urmahlullu, which have a human torso on a lion's body.
231** The aqrabuamelu or girtablilu are essentially centaur scorpions, with some depictions adding wings as well.
232* Myth/CelticMythology: Some depictions of Cernunnos, the Celtic god of fertility, are like this; with a deer's body, a man's torso and arms, and a stag head and horns.
233* The Nuckelavee, a creature from Scottish folklore, appears as a skinless man fused onto the back of a similarly flayed horse.
234* The ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bestial_beast besta-fera]]'' or "bestial beast" from [[{{Myth/BrazilianFolklore}} Brazilian]] and Portuguese folklore is a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demonic]] centaur armed with a whip which terrorizes villages at nighttime until it finds a tomb where it disappears.
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238* The antagonist of Creator/{{Bally}}'s ''Pinball/{{Centaur}}'', who has a human/horse face, a human torso, a motorcycle lower half, a horse's tail, and some sort of clawed feline hindleg.
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242* ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'' features a centaur who has to eat constantly to maintain two almost entire metabolisms, and to make it worse can only eat things his horse stomach can digest, which his human tastebuds hate.
243-->'''Centaur''': Honestly, sometimes I wonder how we even evolved!
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247* ''Arcanum'' RPG, ''The Lexicon (Atlas of the Lost World of Atlantis)'':
248** The Dreaming Wood had the arcitenus (two headed centaurs) and malataurs (half human, half ram). ''The Bestiary'' says that malataurs are specifically a combination of human and mountain goat.
249** In the Mediterranean Sea, the islands of Delphos and Tenedos have centaurs that are skilled painters, musicians and artisans.
250* ''TabletopGame/{{Arduin}}'': Chaeronyx are centaurs with the upper bodies of {{Medusa}}s, with rocky skin, a nest of vipers for hair and a petrifying gaze.
251* Centaurs in ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'' are faerie creatures concerned with exploring the boundaries of civilization/barbarism and humanity/beastliness. As with other faerie beings, rules for playing them can be found in "Realms of Power: Faerie".
252* ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu''. The T.O.M.E. (Theatre Of the Mind Enterprises) supplement ''Pursuit to Kadath'' has the Dragon Warriors, a set of monsters created by the Franchise/CthulhuMythos deity Yig. One of them is Choara, a giant black scorpion with the torso, arms and head of a human.
253* ''Creator/{{Chaosium}}''[='=]s supplement ''All the Worlds' Monsters'':
254** Volume I. The humbaba is half human, half giant scorpion with a tail 6-9 feet long.
255** Volume III. The Jushkaparick is a half man, half ass (donkey) with a jaw made of brass. It will attack any centaurs it meets on sight.
256* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has quite a few. Many of these have actually been playable in various editions, from the classic centaur to odder species like the wemic, dracon, pegataur and bariaur.
257** Centaurs are the classic horse/human variant. They're wilderness nomads who follow long, winding paths across temperate and tropical lands, sometimes making circuits of entire continents that take generations to complete.
258** Wemics have the torsos of humanoid lions and the bodies of big cats. They mostly live as Neolithic nomads in tropical grasslands.
259** [[SpiderPeople Driders]] have the torsos of dark elves and the bodies of giant spiders.
260** The Inevitables -- interplanar MechanicalLifeforms charged with enforcing law and order in the universe -- include the Zelekhut, a (winged) clockwork centaur specifically charged with hunting down criminals who fled from their punishment and those who, for whatever reason, the law cannot touch.
261** Basic ''D&D'' has the winged pegataur (pegasus plus centaur), the chevall (horseweres, which can shapechange between horse, human and centaur forms), nuckalavee (a horse with a human torso spurting from its back and transparent skin) and the [[https://rollplaydnd.fandom.com/wiki/Man-Scorpion manscorpion]] (human top half, scorpion lower body).
262*** Manscorpions stuck in ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'', where they're known as "stingers" or "tlincalli".
263*** Humans aren't the only ones combined with scorpions. Since ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}''[='s=] [[OurElvesAreDifferent drow are different]], they have the Scorrow.
264** Common lamias are described as having the upper body of a woman and the lower body of either a lioness, a goat, a deer, or an antelope (only the lion form ever got drawn) in earlier editions of the game, but were permanently switched over to being lioness-taurs in 3rd edition. Their noble lamia rulers are [[SnakePeople tauric mixtures of human and snake]]. In 4th edition, [[CallAPegasusAHippogriff they were depicted as skin-stealing carnivorous beetlel swarms]], one of the edition's many depictions of TheWormThatWalks.
265** 1E has the hybsil (half pixie/brownie/sprite, half antelope).
266** 2E has centaur-kin: dorvesh (dwarf plus donkey), gnoat (gnome plus goat), ha'pony (halfling plus pony) and zebranaur (human plus zebra).
267** 2E also has the armanite (demon tanar'ri centaur), manotaur (human plus bull) and [[http://tinyurl.com/y98f8lt bariaur]] (human/mountain sheep) from the plane of Gladsheim. The latter is a PlayerCharacter race in TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}.
268** 2nd Edition ''TabletopGame/KaraTur Monstrous Compendium Appendix''. The hannya is a ChaoticEvil monster. Its upper half is that of an ugly woman and its lower half is that of a giant constrictor snake.
269** ''The TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' setting has several of these.
270*** The Monitors are InvoluntaryShapeshifting winged centaurs [-IN SPACE-].
271*** Dracons are human/dragon hybrids that are 10-12 feet long. They have the body of a ''Brontosaurus'', a human torso and arms, a dragon's head and a long tail like that of a snake.
272** At least in TabletopGame/{{Mystara}}, a pegataur is the ''elf''/pegasus variant centaur. As to the attitude -- take a guess from this:
273---> "I'm half elf, half mighty stallion, and half noble eagle, and more'n sum of me parts."
274** The 3.5E ''Monster Manual 3'' describes dracotaurs (a reptilian humanoid torso coming up from the lower body of a wingless dragon; they despise regular centaurs and centaurs hate them right back) and quaraphons (a squat, muscular centaur with lumpy blue skin, elephant's feet, and two mouths and four eyes randomly placed on its face... don't look up the picture, you don't wanna know.) The former return in 4E, albeit renamed as drakkoths.
275** 3.5 has a "tauric" template that can be applied to combine still more critters with humanoids, centaur-style.
276** 3rd Edition ''Creature Collection'': The Proud (lion bottom, human trunk, lion head), Marrow Knight (skeletal undead), Sandmasker (scorpion/human).
277** One webpage has a [[http://www.elftown.com/_Centaur%20Races list]] of the different centauroids that populate the ''D&D'' universe. It's kind of out of date, though.
278** ''Magazine/WhiteDwarf'' magazine #44 "Fiend Factory". The wodennian is sometimes called a "dracocentaur". Its main body is that of a giant lizard, including a large tail, with a humanoid torso on the front. Its head looks like that of a crocodile with a short snout, but it's [[MyBrainIsBig swollen to indicate the creature's low-genius level intelligence]].
279** ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #116 "Dragon's Bestiary". The Sea Centaur is an aquatic creature that appears to be a cross between a triton and a hippocampus.
280** MC13 ''Al-Qadim Monstrous Compendium Appendix'' has the desert centaur. Its top half is human. Its body has a barrel-like chest (like a pony) and long antelope-like legs.
281** The 2E version of Strahd von Zarovich was the inventor of a [[MixAndMatchCritters Mix-and-Match Critter]]-creating spell, and was fond of combining a werewolf's upper body with a giant spider, drider-style, plus giant bat wings.
282** ''TabletopGame/EpicLevelHandbook'': Phanes are vaguely humanoid from the waist up and have the bodies of panthers from the waist down.
283* ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' offers various variations on the theme in different supplements:
284** Yrth, the world of ''TabletopGame/GURPSBanestorm'', has fairly conventional (human/horse-like) centaurs. They're actually immigrants from Loren'dil, a world without humans or horses; the mere existence of horses (initially seen as deformed or maimed centaurs) may confuse or horrify them, and they dislike the paraphernalia of human horse-riding. They live in small nomadic herds across the plains of al-Wazif, al-Haz, Cardiel, and the Orclands. Most are brash, impetuous, footloose party animals, and not especially bright, but a few are highly intelligent and scholarly -- thus reflecting both the Greek idea of thuggish centaurs (in toned-down form) and the intellectual Chiron.
285** ''GURPS Fantasy Folk'' has Onocentaurs: half human, half donkey.
286** ''TabletopGame/GURPSTechnomancer'' has two relevant chimeras: a spider centaur (Homo Sapiens Arachne) and a serpent centaur (Homo Sapiens Serpens).
287* ''TabletopGame/HcSvntDracones'' has "taur" Vectors which are based on a variety of species.
288* ''TabletopGame/KingsOfWar'' has Abyssal Dwarf half breeds which are half-dwarf and half-demon.
289* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' has the girl Centaur Warrior card, and that same character is featured on a few other cards including Crushinate!, DING!! and The Banhammer.
290** Later expansions introduce Centaurs as a race. Due to being part horse, they can have any number of Steed cards in play as followers (although they can only "equip" one at a time). Their four legs also allow them to equip two Footgear items at once.
291* ''TabletopGame/MutantsAndMasterminds'': In the earth-Prime setting, Doctor Chiron, a greek superhero, built a cybernetic horse body to replace his legs. He's essentially a cyber-centaur.
292* In ''TabletopGame/{{Nightbane}}'', centauroids are just one of the shape variations available for Nightbane with an animal-based Morphus. These are typically described as the body of the animal in question attached to a furred/scaled humanoid torso with the animal's head on top.
293* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
294** Classic centaurs are a reclusive, often semi-nomadic forest-dwelling race. They are very widespread in the modern day, but are thought to have first originated in the islands of Iblydos (a FantasyCounterpartCulture of UsefulNotes/AncientGreece) as a nod to their origin in Myth/ClassicalMythology. The Exalted Wood of the River Kingdoms is also home to a strange race of centaurs with horselike heads.
295** Svathurims are gigantic centaur-like beings with the upper bodies of horned frost giants and the lower bodies of massive eight-legged horses.
296** More exotic taurine creature include several variations of lamia with upper bodies of women mounted on lioness torsos (specifically common lamias, lamia harridans and hungerers), ichthyocentaurs (who have the upper bodies of merfolk and lower bodies of hippocampi) and the girtablillu ([[ScorpionPeople scorpion-centaurs]] inspired by Mesopotamian myth). The ''Legacy of Fire'' adventure path has buraq (winged mules with human faces).
297** Cervinals are agathions -- NeutralGood outsiders whose various kinds are all based on various sorts of animals -- resembling elk-based centaurs with large antlers growing from their heads. They are the warriors of agathion society, thundering onto enemy forces with powerful charging attacks.
298** ''Pathfinder'' ported Driders over from ''Dungeons and Dragons'' and added a dash of SexyDimorphism. Female Driders are the classic spider-centaurs, but males are based on tarantulas and have tarantula heads.
299* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'':
300** Centaurs visited the Earth during the ancient age of magic, entering Europe through {{Atlantis}} and hence coming to feature in later legends. In modern times they returned to Earth after the Coming of the Rifts and mostly settled the prairies and forests of North America, where they live as nomadic hunter-gatherers.
301** There are also the high-tech Cyber-horsemen from Ixion, who hail from an eponymous city rumored to be somewhere within the wildernesses of British Columbia. They're a proud and honorable people who believe that they were brought to Earth to spread knowledge and enlightenment, and are best known for their extensive use of cybernetic enhancements -- all have at least a bionic limb or two, they often replace their horse bodies entirely by middle age and elderly members are often full-conversion BrainInAJar borgs. They're allied with regular centaurs and on generally good terms with humans, but don't much trust other species.
302** Serving the Mesopotamian Gods are also the ScorpionPeople, who given this trope are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
303* ''TabletopGame/{{Rolemaster}}'' ''Shadow World'' setting supplement ''Star Crown Empire and the Sea of Fates''. Centaurs are not wild creatures living in the wilderness: they are full citizens of the Empire, live in buildings and practice farming and shepherding.
304* ''TabletopGame/RuneQuest'': Centaurs, the most common and important Beast Men, are horses with the upper body of a human in place of the horse's neck and head. They were long extinct when Time began, but were artificially resurrected by the Empire of the Wyrms Friends in an effort to reform extinct species that were believed to be necessary to populate the mythic era they sought.
305* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' has modern-day centaurs that are half-man and half-motorcycle.
306* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'': First introduced in ''Paranormal Animals of Europe'' supplement, centaurs of the Sixth World are an awakened (magical and sapient) type of horse, and 4th edition's ''Runner's Companion'' and 5th edition's ''Run Faster'' make them playable. Physically they're distinct from most centaurs in that they only have three fingers and a thumb, and standard centaurs have horse-like faces with shorter snouts, though a fraction of the population includes "lesser" centaurs with human faces that face discrimination from their common brethren. Centaurs were originally thought of as primitive and barely sapient, but in truth just prefer a less technological lifestyle and are every bit as intelligent as humans; some outliers among their kind have become well known mercenaries or started rock bands.
307* ''TabletopGame/{{Splicers}}'': This is also one of the options for [[PoweredArmor Host Armor]], as shown [[http://chuckwalton.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d3k3lql here]]. The pilot's legs fold up inside the lower body.
308* ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'':
309** One of the Major Races is the K'kree (alien centaurs), which live in the Two Thousand Worlds.
310** ''Marc Miller's TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'' supplement ''Aliens Archive''. The Graytch look like six-legged spider centaurs (and were in fact nicknamed "spidertaurs").
311* ''TabletopGame/VillainsAndVigilantes'' adventure ''Devil's Domain''. The Abomination demons had a lower half like a bent over gorilla (with four legs like a gorilla's) and an upper half like a gorilla's trunk, with four arms. They had four [[RedEyesTakeWarning glowing red eyes]] and a malevolent face on their chest.
312* Generic RPG supplement ''Booty and the Beasts''. The Masjenada is a 12 foot long lobster with the torso of a human female sticking out of it. They are powerful magicians and are fairly civilized, not normally attacking strangers.
313* ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'':
314** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyBattle'': Centauroid creatures, like most chimeras, are typically associated with Chaos.
315*** Dragon Ogres resemble giant (some can look over city walls, and the oldest one is often mistaken for a mountain) horned humanoids from the waist up and wingless dragons from the waist down.
316*** The [[Characters/WarhammerBeastsOfChaos Beastmen]] have centigors, a sub-breed of beastmen resembling goat-bodied centaurs with horns and clawed feet instead of hooves. The are raging alcoholics, and will [[DrunkenMaster randomly receive bonuses]] according to their level of intoxication. The unnatural fusion of humanoid and ungulate bodies is explicitly something that makes life difficult for them, and combined with their lack of fine motor skills makes them unable to efficiently manufacture anything; they consequently depend on the Beastmen for even the crudest shelters and weapons, and deeply resent creatures whose minds and bodies are better matched. 3rd Edition originally had fairly straightforward, fully horse-bodied centaurs, which share all of the centigors' characterization and which were later updated into the modern incarnation to make them fit the larger Beastman faction's themes more closely.
317*** The Chaos Dwarfs have Bull Centaurs, created by the Chaos Dwarves' sorcerers by mutating their people's own infants into the image of their evil bull-god Hashut. Their earliest incarnations in 3rd Edition notably had the bodies of boars instead of bulls.
318*** Centaurs (not merely centauriod creatures) were part of the Chaos forces in the '80s supplement ''The Lost and the Damned''. Similar to the Greek myths, they are foul-tempered and prone to drunkeness. They were also known to defecate in public at Beastmen gatherings. Still, the Beastmen tolerate Centaur behaviour as they recruit them as shock troopers as Centaurs are stronger and better fighters than most Beastmen. They have since been replaced by Centigors.
319** Zoats are centaur-shaped reptilian creatures who, in ''Fantasy'', have inhabited the world longer than any other mortal race and now live deep within ancient forests. In ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', they are instead used as vanguard troops by the Tyranids in their early attacks upon the galaxy. Between wars against the Imperium, the Tyranids not needing them after the invasions' start and a failed rebellion on the Zoats' part, they are almost entirely extinct by the setting's present.
320* ''TabletopGame/WorldOfSynnibarr'' has Cattars, who have the lower body of a tiger and a humanoid upper body.
321* ''TabletopGame/WorldTreeRPG'': The cyarr are a form of hyena-centaurs, with the lower body of a giant hyena and the torso, head and arms of a humanoid one.
322%%* Zombie centaurs are nothing new when necromancy is involved. For Swords and Sorcery in-universe, magic users specializing in the dead can sew the bodies of different creatures to create one composite one, such as a skeletal undead with the upper torso of a human attached bone to bone to the body of a horse.%%Examples aren't general. Provide a link.
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326* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': Artakha Bulls are, for all intents and purposes, biomechanical centaurs with bull heads.
327* From the ''SD Gundam Gaiden'' series, Knight Gundam from ''[[Anime/SDGundamGaiden Sieg Zeon Hen]]'' can turn his lower extremity into an equine body, granting him the ability to travel faster. Knight Unicorn Gundam from ''[[Toys/NewTestamentSDGundamGaidenSaddracKnightSaga Saddrac Knight Saga]]'' ([[CanonImmigrant Although he first appeared in]] ''Toys/SDGundamUltimateBattle'') can do this too.
328* Toys/MonsterHigh has the main character Avea Trotter (who is a hybrid with a harpy) and a smaller side set of "Fright-Mares" that are all also hybrid centaurs. There are also background characters.
329* The fourth series of Penny's Box BlindBagCollectables series, "Dreamlike Tea Party," is based completely on centaurs, with six easy to find dolls and two [[RareRandomDrop harder to find hidden dolls]]). They all have horns as part of their hairstyle and magnetic wings, and come with a simple dress that covers the torso and the back upper half of the body.
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333* ''VideoGame/AbyssOdyssey'': Pudutaurs are basically Deer-Centauresses. They wield poleaxes and can bring the hurt due to their agility and attack range. As a mook, pudutaurs need support to back them up or they get "jumpy". When playing as one, use area attacks to push back the melee attackers.
334* The Centaurions of ''VideoGame/AdventureQuest'' were originally created by magic, but since then became a conquering race.
335* ''VideoGame/Bayonetta2'' combines this with OurAngelsAreDifferent with a dash of EldritchAbomination, introducing new angelic species such as the Acceptance, the Accolade, and the Allegiance, who are all depicted as bulky, headless centaurs with angelic wings and armor, and a giant marble face on their abdomens. And that's not even getting into what they look like [[NightmareFuel once they start taking damage]].
336* ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'':
337** ''VideoGame/Castlevania64'' had drider-like spider centaurs: top half human woman, lower half spider.
338** And a GINORMOUS one in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaOrderOfEcclesia'', which requires a ColossusClimb to defeat.
339* ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'' has pig centaurs as enemies. They're heavy damage dealers and tanks, but they lose combat effectiveness if you force them to stay in the front row of combat, preventing them from using their knight spear.
340* ''VideoGame/DefenseOfTheAncients''[=/=]''VideoGame/DOTA2'' has several:
341** Aiushtha, the Enchantress, a NatureSpirit that appears in the form of a perky, cute red-haired elf atop a doe (female deer).
342** Bradwarden, the Centaur Warrunner, is a fairly normal BloodKnight centaur, save the bull-like horns and tusks.
343** Atropos, the Bane is a centauric EldritchAbomination with DreamWeaver powers.
344** Harbinger, the Outworld Devourer is a winged centaur-like alien possessing SuperIntelligence.
345** Leshrac, the Tormented Soul is a ghost centaur, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation an insane]] embodiment of GaiasVengeance.
346** Magnus, the Magnoceroes is some cross between a Centaur, a Mammoth, and a Rhino, with powers derived Tectonic and Volcanic energies that somehow result in magnetic effects.
347** Vrogros, the Underlord is a demonic centaur-like being originating from deep underneath the earth.
348** There's also a generic Centaurs as neutral creeps, although the bigger one's blue and the smaller one's white.
349* ''Franchise/DragonQuest'':
350** The series has a few examples, such as the [[PunnyName sintaur]] from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVI'' and the [[MoneySpider balhib]] from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV''.
351** Kon the Knight from ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'' is an inverted centaur: he has a horse head on a human body.
352* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Centaurs are one of a small number of creatures that exist as in-game myths: they have a bare minimum of game data and show up in engravings, but they do not exist as actual creatures you can encounter. Despite this, dwarves can still express a liking for their strength. A female centaur is called a centauress.
353* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIDaggerfall'' has centaurs as an enemy, and also the player character can learn their language as a skill. This has been their only appearance in the series to date.
354* The Land Dreugh in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion''.
355* In ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'', centaurs are freakish mutant creatures with whiplike tongues, and are what you get when you dip multiple people and animals in a vat of FEV for a while. As one can imagine, they are also epitomes of BodyHorror.
356* ''VideoGame/FantasyGeneral'': Centaurs appear as several types of heavy cavalry units (not horse archers). In addition to "normal" Centaurs, there are also Ogre Centaurs, who have the upper body of ogres instead of humans, and Centaur Knights, armoured Centaurs who know a spell that can bring their dead companions back to life -- unsurprisingly, they're one of the most powerful units in the game. Unlike their typical mythological counterparts, Centaurs in this game are not evil, but neutral, and will serve any champion with the Beast Master trait.
357* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': Red Hare is Lu Bu's [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted]] steed, taking the form of a centaur with a horse's head atop the humanoid half. Mechanically, this is represented by him only ever getting the benefits from the Battle Maneuver (Horse) skill since he can never be dismounted. His ascensions deck him out in increasingly heavy armor, with the third and fourth also giving him FlamingHair and turning his body bright red.
358* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
359** In keeping with the "savage monsters" interpretation of the creature type, various ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games have centaurs and centaur-like creatures as {{Mooks}}. If it has armor, it has a roughly 90% chance of being given a name like "[[{{Pun}} Centaurion]]." Some Centaurions, such as the ones from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'', are fully mechanical instead of armored.
360** The Easy Type version of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'' changes [[FinalBoss Zeromus]]'s appearance to resemble a crustacean-like centaur that wields a huge sword and has an elven-looking woman fused into its humanoid torso. This sprite would reappear in later versions of the game as [[{{Superboss}} Zeromus EG]].
361** The Ultimate Weapon in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' is a mechanical dragon-centaur. Many later games' incarnations of the Ultima Weapon would also have variations on this design, including the ones from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', and ''VideoGame/WorldOfFinalFantasy''.
362** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'''s Ultima Weapon mostly keeps to the draconic centaur look of its counterpart from the previous game, but has smaller wings and a demoning face on the front of its quadrupedal section. It also wields the InfinityPlusOneSword of the same name. The Omega Weapon is a PaletteSwap of the Ultima Weapon and doesn't carry the sword.
363** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'''s Ultima Weapon is still centaurine and has a ChestBlaster, but is bulkier and downplays the mechanical elements in favor of chitinous plating inscribed with runes and patterns. It also has a glowing core on its chest that acts as a ChestBlaster. The Ultima Weapon is TheHeartless of a monk named Omega, who became the powerful Omega Weapon upon dying out of sheer hatred for Yevon. The two have [[PaletteSwap the same design]] except that where the Ultima Weapon is white and red, the Omega Weapon is entirely black and the two have different ribbons hanging from their collarbones. [[{{Superboss}} Nemesis]] is an artificially-created fiend that looks like a gold-and-blue version of the Ultima Weapon and its model is re-used for the Paragon in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX2''.
364** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'': Valfodr, the Arbiter of Time, is a DLC boss who takes the form of a mechanical centaur with a [[OurWeaponsWillBeBoxyInTheFuture boxy]]-looking ArmCannon on one side and wielding a giant axe in the other hand. His forelegs are clawed while his hind legs end in cylinders that vaguely resemble hooves with dewclaws. Valfodr's head is made of plating that looks more like a helmet than a face.
365** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'':
366*** In battle, [[TheFourGods Seiryu]] is humanoid from the torso up and has a four-legged serpentine lower body resembling a Chinese dragon with two snakes grafted onto the forelegs.
367*** Eden Ramuh looks like a fusion of Ramuh and Ixion in the shape of a centaur. The humanoid upper half is a much more athletic version of Ramuh with [[{{Pegasus}} Poqhiraj]]'s wings attached. Ixion forms the equine lower half, mostly unchanged from the original beast.
368* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemTheSacredStones'': the Tarvos and Maeldiun monsters who wield giant axes and bows.
369* In ''VideoGame/GemsOfWar'', there's a kingdom inhabited mostly by centaurs. True to common form, they're avid hunters (although most of them aren't depicted using bows. Unlike some depictions, there are female centaurs, and no mention of abducting women.
370* The first ''VideoGame/GodOfWarI'', as well as [[VideoGame/GodOfWarIII the third]], has you kill a number of these. They match the Greek tradition, and are [[GiantMook about a rung below miniboss]].
371** Despite Myth/NorseMythology not featuring any centaurs, ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'' introduces Stalkers, an enemy unit that are centaur-like creatures with antlers who worship the jötunn Skaði.
372* Dora, the centaur girl from ''VideoGame/GoldenAxe: Revenge of Death Adder''. When mounting other creatures, she turns her lower body into that of a human woman.
373* ''VideoGame/GrimmsNotes'' has Machina Prince, Shadow Dinah and Chaos Archteller.
374* ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' has several "prides" of centaurs. Prides from Tyria generally like furry humans on a horse body, and are all hostile, and prides from Elona have a more bestial, catlike head and horns, and ally with you. You even get one as a party member.
375** Also present in ''VideoGame/GuildWars2''. The centaurs, who can be male or female, live in tribes, and all the ones from Tyria are hostile and engaged in war with the humans. The only exception is Ventari, a wise healer who created (and is venerated by) the Sylvari, who is likely based on Chiron. The centaurs of Elona are all dead, due to genocide on the part of Palawa Joko.
376* The ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'' series has centaurs in various forms. Centaurs in I and II are Warlock (evil) aligned archers. Centaurs in III are Rampart (good) aligned wood dwelling spear wielders. In IV, they're Might-aligned spear throwers who hate magic a la Xanth's centaurs, and in V and VI they're {{Half Human Hybrid}}s created by [[AWizardDidIt magical experiments]], allied with the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]].
377* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'': Assault Riders are spear-wielding centaur Heartless that can move surprisingly quickly despite their exaggeratedly top-heavy horse and humanoid sections. Their strength causes their attacks to deal both heavy damage and serious knockback. Outside of tournaments, Assault Riders only appear in [[WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}} the Land of Dragons]] and wear armor that resembles that of the local army.
378* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': [[https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/champions/hecarim/ Hecarim, the Shadow of War]], a champion, is certainly not your normal centaur -- he's a spectral undead monstrosity that seems to be a centaurlike AnimatedArmor filled with baleful fire. Not a friendly chap by any means. He also wasn't a centaur when he was alive: he was a human who, after falling victim to the Black Mist, was fused with his steed to turn him into the monster he is today. [[https://leagueoflegends.fandom.com/wiki/Lillia Lillia, the Bashful Bloom]] is almost an exact {{Foil}} to Hecarim, being an adorable, sweet-natured and, as her name suggests, ''painfully'' shy and timid fawn-centaur with a slim, delicate body, as good and gentle as Hecarim is evil and brutal. She's also not actually part of any centaur race, being a nature spirit born from the dream of a magic tree.
379* ''Legend of Keepers'' from Goblinz Studio, has the gigantic centaur Maug the Slaveholder Centaur and [[VillainProtagonist newly hired manager of dungeons]]. Maug is said to be [[WorldsStrongestMan unrivalled in his strength among mortals]] and he's about [[EvilIsBigger twice as tall]] and several times as long as the human enemies that [[BossBattle somehow manage to fight past his/your minions]]. Maug carries a {{BFS}} of an axe but he never fights with it except to wave in the air [[SupernaturalFearInducer as an intimidation]]. Instead he uses his [[WeaponBasedCharacterisation slaver's whip]] and against enemies that are bleeding, he take a bit of it in to restore some health. Maug also has a magic trick of turning his whip into a [[FlamingSword flaming lash spell]] to attack a frontal enemy in specific rooms. Uniquely of the [[FinalBoss 3 Masters]] you may choose from, Maug gets [[MiniBoss Interns]] who will work for him once he gets a promotion. It shows how powerful Maug is when one of these interns is Chalcodon the Colossal Hydra and it has less than half the health that Maug has.
380* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' series has an enemy known as the Lynel, which usually manifests as a lion-human centaur, always with a leonine head; their original appearance gives them equine bodies, while later 2D games make them more fully feline. Despite appearing commonly in the [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI first game]], they've only appeared in a few games since. Which is a good thing because [[BossInMookClothing they are extremely difficult to deal with]] and get progressively harder every time they appear, especially in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', where the [[LawOfChromaticSuperiority Silver and Gold]] [[EliteMooks variants]] are even tougher to beat than the FinalBoss. In ''Breath of the Wild'' they're also horned and much larger there than in previous games, reaching about the size of an elephant, and are skilled and deadly archers. During combat, Link can also mount them like horses to strike at their backs.
381* ''VideoGame/MegaMan6'' introduces Centaur Man, a mechanical centaur who is one of Dr. Wily's first quadripedal Robot Masters. The extra legs give him superior mobility when compared to most of his bipedal counterparts (except for Quick Man), but they make him unable to jump.
382%%* ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'': They do not look human at all.
383* ''Franchise/MortalKombat'': The Centaurians, of which Motaro is a member, have whiplike scorpionish tails and a set of nasty-looking horns in conjunction with tauric, reptilian-looking forms. They are the natural enemies of the MultiArmedAndDangerous Shokan race.
384* ''VideoGame/{{NOISZ}}'' has Stella, a Noise Beast who resembles this when purified. Otherwise, she resembles a {{Pegasus}}.
385* ''VideoGame/OddworldStrangersWrath'' features the steef, a race of centaur-like creatures with gorilla-like forearms, antlers, and leonine heads. Being the setting's equivalent to the Bison, they have been hunted down to near-extinction.
386* ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': Orisa is a centaur-shaped [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots Omnic]].
387* ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'':
388** The first game has classic centaurs, who are perfectly civilized, but also has cheetaurs, which have a panther's head on a human torso on a panther's body and are always hostile.
389** The second game introduces Rakeesh, a liontaur who becomes the hero's mentor. Liontaurs are similar to cheetaurs but [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin have leonine features]] and are also civilized. The third game in the series has the player spend most of the game in their capital city, and meet his wife, Kreesha. Rakeesh also joins the hero in the fifth game.
390* ''VideoGame/ShadowBane'' has them as a civilized playable race.
391* The ''VideoGame/ShiningSeries'' series featured Centaurs as a major player race. They act as Knights in both the player's force and enemy armies, being fast and heavy-hitting troops, and a few on both sides also use bows or other ranged weapons. Most party members are friendly, and the personalities are varied, though they have a reputation for arrogance among the common folk. The enemy armies also use ''Pegasus'' Centaurs(the second game features one who makes a MookFaceTurn), as well as demonic ones with no heads.
392* ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'''s centaurs looks nothing like those you are familiar with. They are bipedal blue creatures with hoofed hands and feet, a horse's tail, no head, and {{Winged Unicorn}}s on its shoulders.
393* The final boss of ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishmentStarSuccessor'' turns into a huge robot centaur with a lance for the final battle.
394* ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'': Chiron, as in the original mythology. A couple of his optional skins turn him into unusual variants on this trope, such as a centaur with the lower body of a demonic HellishHorse, or one with the lower body and the head of either a moose or a reindeer.
395* ''VideoGame/SoulSacrifice'': The Centaur is an utterly grotesque mix of man, horse, and wagon. It was originally a man whose limitless indolence led him to a quest to do the less as possible as he considered that even the minimal effort was an insurmountable task. While starving to death inside his wagon because even eating and drinking was too much of a bothersome thing to do for him, he saw [[ArtifactOfDoom a white chalice]] floating in front of him and heard a voice that told him: "[[DealWithTheDevil An offering shall be rewarded with a wish befitting the sacrifice]]." The man then sacrificed his body in exchange for a body that would make his life easier. Thus [[TranshumanAbomination this revolting aberration was born]].
396* [[spoiler:Belius]] from ''VideoGame/TalesOfVesperia'' is a giant [[FantasticFoxes fox-like monster]] with arms and four legs.
397* ''VideoGame/TotalWar'':
398** ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'':
399*** Centigors, centaurs with horned heads and claws instead of hooves, are present as a cavalry analogue in the Beastmen army. They're violent and barbaric even by Beastman standards, and spend a large portion of their lives drunk out of their tiny minds.
400*** The Warriors of Chaos have access to Dragon Ogres, monstrous scaled centauroids with an affinity for lightning. They also have even bigger ones in the form of Shaggoths as well as the Legendary Lord Kholek Suneater, who has recruitment bonuses for his kind.
401*** ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII'' adds a few unorthodox examples such as the Necrosphinx, a centauroid sphinx, and the Zoats, more benevolent reptilian centauroids who align themselves with the Wood Elves.
402*** ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerIII'': The Chaos Dwarfs have access to Bull Centaurs, mutant Dwarfs with the bodies and horns of monstrous bulls. Gameplay-wise, they act as powerful heavy cavalry.
403** ''VideoGame/ATotalWarSagaTroy'': Centaurs, a unit recruitable in Arcadia and Anatolia, have two distinct portrayals in two of the game's modes:
404*** In Truth Behind the Myth mode, Centaurs are present as bronze-armored, bareback horse riders hailing from barbarian tribes found north of Greece -- the only cavalry units in the game. As part of the mode's focus on portraying the truth behind the classical Greek myths, these centaurs represent the first horse-riders whom the Myceneans interpreted as a horse-bodied people.
405*** In Mythos mode, centaurs are patterned directly on the mythical beings, and while not cavalry in the literal sense fulfill broadly the same purpose on the battlefield.
406* ''VideoGame/{{Ultrakill}}'': The 1000-THR "Earthmovers" are ''[[HumongousMecha colossal]]'', [[MechanicalHorse horse-shaped]] {{Killer Robot}}s that serve as analogues to ''[[Literature/TheDivineComedy The Inferno's]]'' Centaurs, as three of them reference their poem counterparts by observing the ForeverWar taking place in [[HellIsWar the 1st ring of Violence]]. [[spoiler:Their lore entry also refer to them as TheFourHorsemenOfTheApocalypse because they're the pinnacles of the LensmanArmsRace that plagued humankind for 200 years before they caused so much destruction that they blotted out the sun, resulting in an environmental calamity known as the Long Night. This lead to the downfall of the Earthmovers, as they require sunlight as their secondary power source to accommodate their large size.]]
407* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'':
408** The centaurs of Kalimdor follow the brutal and savage description to a T, with a society based on Mongol hordes (their leaders are called Khans and use axes and bows). They're said to be the cursed offspring of Cenarius, a night elf/stag god who takes the form of a stag centaur with antlers on his head. Cenarius's non-cursed centauroid children are the Dryads (night elf/doe) and the Sons of Cenarius, also night elf/stag (with a wooden claw replacing one hand).
409** There are also Magnataurs, a much larger polar creature that are a mix of human and mammoth.
410** Dragonspawn are draconian versions, following the same body layout as a centaur. They used to be human, but gradually evolved after centuries of serving dragons and taking in the energies they gave off.
411** Nerubians are sometimes presented as spider versions, although there's some inconsistency about whether they're a humanoid torso stuck on top of a spider-like creature or a more coherent and not particularly centaur-like form. Artwork has shown them as clearly resembling [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons driders]] and holding weapons, something no Nerubian in the actual games does.
412** And then there's the Pit Lords, humongous demonic mixes of god-knows-what, with thick reptilian hides and tails, bat wings, and spider eyes.
413** The Tol'vir, introduced in ''Cataclysm'', are feline (feline lower body and CatFolk upper body) centaurs created by the Titans to guard the (Egypt-inspired) land of Uldum. The Tol'vir used to have stone-like bodies, but most of them lost them. The Ramkahen have normal flesh bodies, while the Neferset have regained their stone forms.
414** ''Dragonflight'' introduces the Maruuk Centaur of the Ohn'ahran Plains, who still draw some inspiration from the Mongols but are -- with the exception of the aggressive [[ArcVillain Clan Nokhud]] -- much friendlier than their cousins on Kalimdor. They still have a ProudWarriorRace streak, but their storyline draws a lot more attention to their traditions and spirituality.
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418* ''Webcomic/AccidentalCentaurs'': The titular characters are humans from Earth who find themselves transformed into centaurs after a teleporter accident.
419* ''Webcomic/AtArmsLength'': 'Taurs are not a natural species, but rather beings that have been transformed. Most are mortals used for slave labor or victims of magical curses.
420* ''Webcomic/{{Bard}}'' has Vas, who became a centaur by various incidents caused by his brother. His sheer stature makes him ideal for the job of being a bar bouncer.
421* ''Webcomic/BeyondTheEnd'': Purgatorian centaurs -- including Roman -- have horse ears and teeth.
422* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': There is an Aberration described as a [[http://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-12-22 Scorpion Bull Centaur Vampire]].
423* ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' ups the ante with Unipegataurs; [[{{Unicorn}} horned]], [[{{Pegasus}} winged]] centaurs. Some of which are turned [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot undead]].
424* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': A centaur can be seen in Mechanicsburg behind [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110404 Vanamonde von Mekkahn and his aide while they are discussing the city's defenses.]] She evidently sharpens knives, swords and tools for a living and is presumably the result of a Spark experiment, likely having started out life as an ordinary human.
425* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': Equius' [[RaisedByWolves lusus]] Aurthour is a male mustachioed centaur-shaped creature... [[AnimalGenderBender with cow udders]]. His species was the only one that could handle Equius's absurd strength and acts as a sort of a butler to the boy. [[spoiler: These creatures later propagate an island on an alternate version of Earth, where it's shown they can reach ''sauropod-level sizes.'']] It's worth noting that Equius's self-picked screenname is "[[UnfortunateNames centaursTesticle]]".
426* ''Webcomic/{{Hotblood}}'' has a centaur protagonist. Centaurs and humans live together on Earth (even in places where horses never lived or died out). Interactions between the two run from apathy to fetishization to FantasticRacism.
427* ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' has Her Royal Highness Adharia Kuvoe, who is a felitaur from an as-yet-unseen alien civilisation.
428* ''Webcomic/{{Magellan}}'': Briar O'Hennessey is a fairly standard centaur. She first shows up in a set of strips featuring a support group for students who are only "superpowered" in that they are normal for their race in their own world, Briar coming from "Centaur Ireland" according to the cast page.
429* ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'': One strip has some of the guys setting up a ''D&D'' campaign; Jared wants to play as an "elephant centaur" Ranger. After the DM points out the obvious (an elephant ANYTHING isn't quite known for ''stealth''), Jared uses his Skill dice rolls to mitigate the flaws. Cue the DM's brain giving up ("You are a ''dude'' growing out of an ''elephant''!")... and Commander Badass laughing his ass off.
430--> "... You are the greatest."
431* ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'': A centaur male features in a strip where a nervous young woman offers herself to him since their village cannot afford to pay him a proper reward. To her immense relief, he can detach the human part of himself from his horse half.
432* ''Webcomic/RunawayToTheStars'': In-universe, "centaur" can refer to one of two things:
433** Some genetically-modified humans are created to possess taurine lower bodies based on odd- or even-toed ungulates.
434** Centaur aliens are distinct species from another planet -- "centaur" isn't what they call themselves, but like all other species their languages' native endonyms aren't reliably pronounceable for other aliens -- with six limbs, hoof-like digits, and short trunks. On their homeworld, they are divided between sedentary cultures that raise livestock and nomadic ones that make endless, year-long circuits of their planet's single supercontinent.
435* ''[[http://silvermoonwolf.web.fc2.com/ The Story of Cenzelburg]]'' is a {{doujinshi}} that features several of the horse variety in the "Grand Grass" and "Stray Dragon" prologues, as well as some half-tiger types in the "Twin Head Wolf" series. They exist in a world with all sorts of {{shapeshift|ing}}ers, primarily [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent wolves]] and [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent birds]].
436* ''Webcomic/TheWotch'' has Allison Taverner, a human-turned-centaur who runs a convenience/grocery store in downtown Tandy.
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440* ''Art/BeastFables'': Centaurs are a form of equine chimeras that develop insect traits, giving them six arthropod limbs -- four for walking and two for grasping; the latter are sometimes replaced by mantis claws -- alongside compound eyes and insect abdomens projecting from their hindquarters. They can emerge among zebras and donkeys as well as among horses.
441* ''WebOriginal/BosunsJournal'': The doubletaurs are a descendant group of the riderfolk and mountpeople who have become true, physically joined symbiotes. The rider attaches themselves to the neck of the mount, providing four grasping limbs while the mount provides mobility, and they share blood and food through organic ports in their necks.
442* Tumblr artist Jay Eaton:
443** Disliking the seemingly impractical body design of the "traditional" centaur, they came up with [[http://jayrockin.tumblr.com/post/88805330958/after-so-many-years-of-disliking-centaurs-for a more realistic and biologically plausible version]] depicting them as sapient, six-limbed ungulates that evolved their front limbs to fuction as hands, and the humanoid "upper torso" effectively being a modified extension of the neck. While commonly walking on four limbs, keeping the frontmost pair folded out of the way, they are also capable of using all six limbs for locomotion, running with a bounding gait that keeps the legs from colliding with each other at high speeds.
444** The same artist has also [[http://jayrockin.tumblr.com/post/118595542048/centaurs-come-from-a-planet-fairly-similar-to designed an alien race]] for a webcomic called ''Webcomic/RunawayToTheStars'', also known as "centaurs", though looking more like a cross between a praying mantis, a gazelle, and an elephant.
445* Platform/DeviantArt:
446** The [[http://valley-of-siyyon.deviantart.com/ Valley of Siyyon]] is a shared world populated entirely by centaurs. The twist is that the nonhuman half can be "any species of your choosing" and everyone must choose a unique species. This results in the population of Siyyon including [[http://pokemaniette013.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2t7s21 a Kangaroo-taur]], [[http://wingsgirl.deviantart.com/#/d2urmr2 an Armadillo-taur]], [[http://gwennafran.deviantart.com/art/Oko-Character-Sheet-175470436 Poison Dart Frog-taur]], [[http://konjiki-kitsune.deviantart.com/art/Valley-of-Siyyon-Kilah-170464474 Cassowary-taur]], ''[[http://readytoloseitall.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2upgyf Sea Slug-taur]]''. Ah, [=DeviantArt=]...
447** The [[http://iririv.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2i129c Mantidae]], drawn by IRIRIV, have only a superficial resemblance to mythical centaurs. In his description, they are actually a type of sentient bug that evolved from an era where birds didn't exist and insects became bigger and stronger until they changed into the first neovertebrates.
448** Member DoodleBuggy, [[http://doodlebuggy.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4ni8dc drew]] [[http://doodlebuggy.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4npt68 many]] [[http://doodlebuggy.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d4okh47]] [[http://doodlebuggy.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d5azlcx pages]] devoted to mermaids based on the myriad marine animals of the sea beyond simple nondescript fish. Also counts as {{Our Mermaids Are Different}}.
449* Artist Frederik K T Andersson takes a different direction with his [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2d/cb/a5/2dcba5a7873d1f3253742b1de257ae6b.jpg "Carcass Centaur"]]. An undead horse mutated by a demonic spirit, its fleshless skull and neck split vertically into bony hooks which it uses to grab living humanoid hosts that it has chased down. The lower waist of the victim is then pulled into the creature's neck-maw, while the head up the upper waist is encased in its split skull. After taking control of the still-living body, the monster sustains itself by feeding on the host's life force while appearing as an undead centaur. Similar to the alien Chiron centaur above.
450* Chakats of ''Literature/ChakonaSpace''. Female humanoid cat from the waist up, giant [[{{Hermaphrodite}} hermaphroditic]] cat from the waist down. The same universe also includes Skunktaurs and Stellaur Foxtaurs, which, other then the obvious species change, use the exact sort of physical arrangement.
451* A very NSFW web-game called ''Corruption of Champions'' has a {{Jerkass}} male centaur character named Kelt, who is incredibly abusive towards the player character, and a female centaur character named Edryn, a literal HookerWithAHeartOfGold who is friendly and affable whether she's working as a city guard or using her off-duty hours to prostitute herself for extra funds and her own pleasure.
452* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': One of the many variants of the [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]] is known as the [[TwoBeingsOneBody Nuckelavee]], a large horse-like creature with a horned humanoid fused to its back. One particular Nuckelavee was responsible for [[spoiler: destroying Ren's hometown of [[DoomedHometown Kuroyuri]], only for him to finally kill it during the later part of Volume 4]].
453* ''Website/SCPFoundation'', [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2869 SCP-2869 ("Fuckworms")]]. SCP-2869 are approximately 3.5 meters long. Their lower half is a long muscular tail like that of a caterpillar, with four claw-like legs and two long gripping limbs in front. The upper half is a humanoid torso (with arms and head) at one end of the tail.
454* ''Theatre/AVeryPotterSequel'' features Firenze as a parody of the "wise and noble" type of centaur. (The costume is half of a horse plushie sewn to the back of the actor's pants.) It also goes to explain that [[{{Gendercide}} a plague caused all the female centaurs to go extinct,]] explaining why they are so rare. Firenze also states that centaurs have attempted to find suitable human mates, but all the women they have tried have been killed by accident during mating. [[spoiler:Until they met [[{{Yandere}} Umbridge]].]]
455* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'': At least three of the students in the 2006-07 school year: Jacko, Mezzo, and Ponygirl. Notably, both Jaina (Mezzo) and Sted (Ponygirl) have [[VoluntaryShapeshifting other forms]] which they can hold for brief periods, while Jacko is a werewolf/centaur combination (wolf-man from the waist up). None of them have been major characters in the canon series, though Sted (being a CanonImmigrant) had a fanfic series of her own.
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459* ''WesternAnimation/{{Centaurworld}}'': Centaurs are the natives of Centaurworld, a parallel dimension, and have the bodies of multiple kinds of animals; the first ones introduced have the bodies of various ungulates, but other centaurs have the bodies of every animal in existence, including bird centaurs (which fly by flapping their arms), insect centaurs, and even non-animal centaurs. In general, no normal wildlife actually exists -- all animals are replaced by taur versions of themselves. Their humanoid bodies typically include parts of their associated animals, such as zebra ears or giraffe necks. On top of that, they know magic and can use it for silly means. [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Mermaids]] are also just those centaurs whose animal halves are those of aquatic creatures. There are also "[[WeirdWeather taurnadoes]]", tornadoes with funnels arranged like four legs, a body and a neck.
460* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chaotic}}'': Stalluk is a centaur that's mostly horse, having an equine head. He's not a natural-born creature, being a creation of the MadScientist Mommark.
461* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
462** Leela becomes one in the movie ''Bender's Game'', as well as a {{Hermaphrodite}} Hermes who leads a pacifist army of them.
463** Centaurs also appear in New New York. In "The Luck of the Fryish" they can be found at the race tracks where they serve as both the jockey and the horse (they even whip themselves to go faster). Also a female centaur appears [[http://theinfosphere.org/images/thumb/0/03/Us_people_cover.png/800px-Us_people_cover.png on the cover of a tabloid magazine]] in "The Thief of Baghead".
464* Katrina, the girl's gym coach in ''WesternAnimation/GalaxyHigh'' was a centaur, who frequently pawed the ground when she was annoyed.
465* A centaurette is one of the students in ''WesternAnimation/GravedaleHigh'', considered beautiful by monster standards.
466* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
467** In "Headhunters" one of [[CloudCuckooLander Mabel]]'s ideas for a wax figure to replace the one that got melted is "part fairy princess, and part ''horse'' fairy princess!", resembling a centaur with human front legs and a horse's face sticking out of her torso.
468** In the episode "Dungeons, Dungeons, and More Dungeons", Mabel summons a "[[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/gravityfalls/images/1/15/S2e13_Centaurataur.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20170710030008 centaurtaur]]," which is essentially a centaur with ''another'' horse half where its human half would be (or two horse bodies inversely attached at the neck).
469--->'''Stan:''' Mabel, I am so confused and so proud right now!
470* ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyHercules'': Hercules has his sidekick Newton (and, in one episode, a new more-competent centaur named Notwen).
471* [[IdiotHero Mike Tyson]] from ''WesternAnimation/MikeTysonMysteries'' assumes that Cormac [=McCarthy=] is one because he's a famed recluse. [[spoiler: Not only did this turn out to be true, but he had wings too.]]
472* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
473** The very first villain in the franchise was a demonic centaur named Tirac, who sought to bring about TheNightThatNeverEnds (in fact, he's the {{Trope Namer|s}}). The Little Ponies' human ally Megan killed him with the Rainbow of Light. He is a cross between a Centaur and a BigRedDevil, having red skin and a pair of large horns.
474** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Tirek returns in the Season 4 finale, "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Twilight's Kingdom]]", seeking to steal the magic of every living thing in Equestria for himself. He's probably the most humanoid character of the show so far (except maybe [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent Iron Will the minotaur]]). Even so, due to the the established point that [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals there are no humans in the world of the show]], his human parts are rendered as very ape-like instead, giving him a gorilla's head and torso on the body of a bull.
475* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfHeMan'' had the heroic Saggitar, a member of a race of sort-of-centaurs who have hands on their forelegs. They can walk on their hind legs and use their forelegs as an extra set of arms.
476* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' :
477** One "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror" episode involves Ned Flanders turning into a cow-centaur ([[AnimalGenderBender with an udder!]]).
478** Another "Treehouse" episode involved Lisa first becoming a [[FaunsandSatyrs satyr]], and later on a centaur.
479* ''WesternAnimation/{{Tigtone}}'': Centaurs are horned, with 99 women to one fertile male, who can seemingly conceive with any sexually reproductive species, even [[MisterSeahorse males of those species]]. They reproduce by dissolving themselves in a lake from where the next generation soon emerges. At the end they do this with a horse and end up looking like horses with human faces and tiny arms on the end of their muzzles.
480* ''WesternAnimation/{{Wishfart}}'' has a centaur named Howie as a recurring character. He's the local mailman.
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484* As was humorously pointed out in Tumblr, [[https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSaoEFc3-HbgJNho0nX6hOdr1fkwWQgYrKSFvFnXF-ROTKlERCePZBKiZKdQg praying mantises are basically a real life version of a centaur body-plan.]]
485** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantispidae Mantisflies]] even more so, complete with a MixAndMatchCritters physiology-- they look like they have the upper half of a mantis and the lower half of a wasp.
486* One theory of the origin of the centaur myth is that they were an embellished interpretation of mounted cavalry, which the proto-Greeks (or whoever the Greeks heard the story from) had never seen before.
487* In the early stages of the conquest of South America by the Spanish, horsemen were given orders to [[BornInTheSaddle live, eat and sleep on their horses]], so as to reinforce their "divine" appearance and reputation. [[note]]See the short story ''Vilcabamba'' above, which is an explicit allegory for the colonization of South America[[/note]]
488* Speaking of horsemen, Mexican revolutionary [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancho_Villa Pancho Villa]] was given the moniker "El Centauro del Norte" (The Centaur of the North, in English) for his impressive horse-riding skills.
489* The constellation Sagittarius, that contains the center of our galaxy, is a centaur archer. According to some interpretations, he used to be Chiron before being made into a constellation after death.
490* There's another centaur in the sky: the southern constellation of Centaurus, especially conspicuous as the nearest star to the Sun is there. Other interpretations consider it represents the aforementioned Chiron.
491* The traditional arms of King Stephen show either one or three "Sagittaries", which are usually, for some reason, depicted as being bow-bearing men to the waist conjoined to lion bodies.
492* The Centauro is a model of Italian tank destroyers, so named because it combines the main battery turret of a tank onto a swift moving wheeled chassis. This isn't that unusual for modern tank destroyers, but Centauro is unusually capable on uneven terrain or a wheeled vehicle, which helps along the analogy.
493* The French museum La Halle de la Machine has a huge mechanical bull-headed centaur [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFmgEi69UbI which people can ride on.]]
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