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[[folder:Aitos Kaukasios / Aetus Caucasius/ Caucasian Eagle]]
Another of Typhon and Echidna's offspring, this one is one of the less famous. A gigantic eagle, it roamed the Earth until Zeus found a use for it and made it the tormenter of Prometheus, flying every day to eat his liver and killing whoever tried to free him until Hercules/Herakles killed it. In other versions, the Eagle was a bronze automaton made by Hephaestus, while in others, it was created by Gaia. Occasionally referred to as ''Ethon'', ''Aethonem Aquilam'' or the ''Griffin-Vulture'' (also the name of a real life bird of prey). Is the basis for the constellation Aquila.
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* AdaptationalBadass: Early accounts implied that the Caucasian Eagle was either merely a regular eagle that Zeus sent after Prometheus or one of Zeus' divine pets. Later myths would claim the eagle was a fearsome AnimalisticAbomination sired by Typhon and Echidna, or an automoton created by Hephaestus.
* AnimalStereotypes: Averted; the eagle was a symbol of Zeus and generally honoured as the king of the birds in the classical mythology, but Aethon was one of Typhon's monstrous offspring. Still fitting, as he was part of Zeus' punishment for Prometheus.
* AnimalisticAbomination: Being a monstrous bird sired by Typhon and Echidna, this is kind of to be expected. Averted in the versions where it's an automaton.
* BrutalBirdOfPrey: A giant, vicious eagle.
* ContinuitySnarl: In some versions, Prometheus was punished before Gaia created Typhon, which begs the question of how the Eagle could be attacking him if its father hasn't been born yet.
* FeatheredFiend: It was tasked by Zeus with disemboweling Prometheus on a daily basis.
* GiantFlyer: A massive demonic eagle (or vulture, depending on which translation you read). Sorta fits as one of the Leathery Winged Avian variant.
* MechanicalAnimals: In the version where Hephaestus made it out of bronze.
* MultipleChoicePast: It was either one of Typhon and Echidna's monstrous offspring, sprung from the Earth as a child of Gaia (or Gaia and Tartarus, like Typhon) or an automaton crafted from bronze by Hephaestus. Interestingly, Hyginus brings up all three options in his telling and then more or less [[TheUnreveal states that it doesn't really matter which origin is true]], as it isn't relevant to the monster's purpose.
* SatelliteCharacter: It's pretty much only known as Prometheus' tormentor.
* VileVulture: In some tellings, it was a vulture rather than an eagle.
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[[folder:Argus Panoptes]]
A giant born of Gaia who acted as the loyal servant and attendant of Hera, Argus's most well-known trait was the fact that he had a hundred eyes and could sleep by only closing two at a time, allowing him to be constantly watchful. He was tasked by Hera to diligently guard a cow she had asked Zeus to give to her (she knew it was really his mortal lover Io) to make sure she couldn't escape from Hera's grasp. He met his end when Hermes put him to sleep and chopped off his head. To commemorate him, Hera placed his eyes upon the tail of her pet peacock, [[JustSoStory and that's why peacocks have eyes on their tails]]. In some myths, Argus had a few adventures of his own, including being the one to kill Echidna, the mother of all monsters.
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* AnimalMotifs: His eyes were placed on the tail of a peacock after his death.
* AntiHero: Though primarily remembered as Io's monstrous guardian, he also did his fair share of adventuring and monster slaying. This includes hunting down a group of murders, slaying a monstrous bull that was ravaging a local village, defeating a satyr that had taken up banditry, and slaying either Echidna herself or at the very least a dracaena who shared her name.
* TheBigGuy: Tall and bulky, as befitting a giant. He acted as the bodyguard of Hera.
* EyesDoNotBelongThere: He had a hundred eyes, all over his body, though he also had proper eyes on his face.
* JustSoStory: His eyes were placed on the tail of Hera's peacock after his death, which is treated as an explanation for why peacocks have eye-spots on their tails. In the modern day, his name has been given to the Argus pheasant, a relative of the peacock with a lot of eye-spots on its wings.
* KilledOffForReal: A rare example of a ''very'' definitive "for real" death in Greek Mythology, due to the mythology's variable nature and NegativeContinuity; Argus was killed by Hermes, who took on the epithet "Argus slayer" afterward.
* MeaningfulName: His epithet "Panoptes" means "all-eyes" or "all-seeing," due to his many eyes.
* OffWithHisHead: By Hermes; to add insult to injury, Hermes's most famous epithet became "Argeiphontes," meaning "Argus-slayer".
* OurGiantsAreBigger: He was a giant, though compared to most giants in Greek Mythology, he was pretty small. Still towered over most gods and mortals.
* PunchClockVillain: Argus was mostly just doing his job as Hera's guard.
* UndyingLoyalty: To Hera.
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[[folder:The Birds of Stymphalia]]
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Man-eating birds with metal feathers, bronze beaks, and toxic feces that were driven to Lake Stymphyalia by a pack of Arab wolves, where they thrived in great numbers, much to the dismay of the local inhabitants. Heracles's sixth labour was to defeat them.
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* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine : Heracles kills several of them with his feathered arrows, exactly like how they killed people with their metal feathers.
* BrutalBirdOfPrey: Possibly. DependingOnTheArtist, they could be birds of prey or just massive storks/ibises.
* DeathFromAbove: They dropped their razor-sharp feathers on their prey.
* FearOfThunder: More like a fear of loud noises in general. Heracles used this to his advantage by scaring them out of their nests using a krotala (similar to a castanet) made by Hephaestus, then shooting them down while they were in the air.
* FeatheredFiend: They are huge birds of prey made out of living metal.
* FeatherFlechettes: Their feathers are weaponized metal razor blades, flying at your face!
* GiantFlyer: Though less giant than some, they can take some pretty big prey.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: An obscure later myth claims that the Stymphalian Birds weren't birds at all but ordinary mortal women whose parents were named Stymphalia and Ornis ("ornis" being Greek for "bird") and that Heracles killed them for violating ''[[SacredHospitality xenia]]'' rather than being man-eating abominations. This variant on the tale is such an outlier that there's little wonder as to why it's so obscure.
* RazorWings: Their feathers are razor-sharp bronze blades, though they prefer dropping them on their prey.
* ZergRush: They tended to attack in numbers.
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[[folder: Boar of Calydon]]
The Calydonian Boar was hunted by a great gathering of heroes, a lot of whom had their pride when the woman Atalanta was the first one among them to wound it.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: A giant boar that was sent to reap vengeance for Artemis.
* BreathWeapon: Often forgotten, but there is a brief mention that it in fact breathes lightning.
* FullBoarAction: One of the many giant monster boars in Greek mythology.
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[[folder:The Boar of Erymanthos]]
A boar of immense size and ferocity that lived on Mount Erymanthos and was often sent by various gods in vengeance against villages. It may well have killed Adonis, unless that was Ares (or Apollo) in the shape of a boar. Capturing it was Heracles's fourth labor.
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* AccidentalMurder: One myth has the Boar accidentally rip Adonis's thigh open with his tusks when he tries to kiss him.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Boar was so charmed by Adonis's handsomeness that he tried to kiss him. Unfortunately, he forgot about his own tusks and ended up goring Adonis in the leg.
* FullBoarAction: One of the oldest examples in the book.
* PalsWithJesus: While Heracles's earlier labors involved him killing monsters like the Nemean Lion and the Hydra, Eurystheus specifically required him to capture the Boar instead of killing it. Eurystheus didn't want to risk angering Apollo, who'd previously employed the Boar's "services."
* RevengeByProxy: Apollo sent the Boar after Adonis because he was the beloved of Aphrodite, a goddess whom he had a grudge against for blinding his son Erymanthus for accidentally seeing her bathing.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: It does the rampaging; the gods get the revenge.
* VictoryByEndurance: Heracles captured the Boar the same way he did the Hind of Ceryneia: he scared it with his loud shouting, then wore it out by chasing it until it got stuck in a snowdrift.
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[[folder:Charybdis and Scylla]]
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Charybdis and Scylla lived on opposite sides of a narrow strait. Charybdis was a whirlpool, sometimes personified as a massive [[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Sarlacc]]-like maw that sucked water into its many mouths three times a day and spewed it back out the rest of the time. Scylla was a drakaina with six heads on long necks attached to a body with twelve tentacle-like legs and a fish's tail. One or both of them may have been offspring of Typhon and Echidna, Echidna's sisters, or alternately former nymphs turned monstrous.
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* AllegoricalCharacter: Thought to be allusions to real life sailing hazards, with Charybdis embodying powerful storms and whirlpools while Scylla represents dangerous rock formations.
* BigEater: Charybdis. Indeed, some versions more or less describe her as a massive living ''stomach''.
* EldritchAbomination: Both of them, but Charybdis--or at least some versions of her--was a notable one.
* ForcedTransformation: One or both of them, depending on the legend you're reading.
* LesserOfTwoEvils: Odysseus opts to go against Scylla instead of Charybdis as the worst Scylla would do is eat as many of his men as she can fit into her mouths, whereas Charybdis would swallow them all at once.
* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: It's generally agreed by modern historians that Scylla and Charybdis were said to have been located in the narrow Strait of Messina, with Scylla being a rationalization for a dangerous rock shoal while Charybdis represents a legitimate whirlpool off the coast of Sicily... that is very weak and surely would have never been a threat to the full-sized ship that Odysseus would have been on.
* MegaMaelstrom: Charybdis. In the original myths she was a hideous monster that sucked in the sea thrice a day, resulting in the vortex, but in later accounts, she was simply a gigantic whirlpool.
* MisplacedRetribution: Scylla is on the receiving end of this in accounts that state she was the object of Glaucus's affections. Circe fell in love with Glaucus and was angered when he refused her and instead proclaimed his undying love for Scylla instead. The sorceress then transformed the nymph into a horrific sea monster, even though the nymph wasn't interested in Glaucus at all and fled from him, which led to Glaucus seeking out Circe in the first place to ask for a love potion.
* MultipleChoicePast: Both of them have multiple origin stories. Scylla in particular is either a daughter of Phorkys and Ceto (and thus a sister to the Graeae, Gorgons, Echidna, and at least some of the Sirens), a daughter of Typhon and Echidna, or a transformed nymph.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Scylla had at least ten heads--some of which were around her waist--tentacles for legs, and a fish-like tail.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Both are pretty odd for classical myth.
** Charybdis is essentially a living stomach.
** Scylla is often described as having the upper torso of a woman, the forward ends of six to eleven wolves then emerging from bellow that (often reduced to three in visual art), and the tail of a sea serpent or cat. Occasionally, she also has visible VaginaDentata on the serpent part. It's a small wonder why modern depictions often simplify this into something like an oceanic hydra.
* ScyllaAndCharybdis: {{Trope Namer}}s.
* SeaMonster: Both were oceanic, though Scylla spent most of the time perched on a cliff.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Charybdis is also spelt Kharybdis.
* VillainousGlutton: Both of them, but Charybdis especially.
* WasOnceAMan:
** According to myth, Scylla used to a beautiful nymph and was loved by the sea god Glaucus. However, the witch Circe wanted Glaucus's affections for herself and in jealousy poisoned the waters where Scylla lived, turning her into a horrible monster. Others say that she was Poseidon's lover and was turned into a monster by his jealous wife Amphitrite, but this contradicts Amphitrite otherwise turning a blind eye to her husband's affairs.
** Charybdis was also a nymph in some myths, but Zeus threw her into the sea for stealing Heracles's cattle and turned her into a monster. Another version claims that she was a daughter of Poseidon who flooded coastal towns as a way to wage war on Zeus, resulting in the latter turning her into the toothy bladder/sea anemone creature she's famous as.
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[[folder:Cerberus]]
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An offspring of Echidna and Typhon (second born by Hesiod's reckoning) and [[HellHound a three-headed hound with a tail and mane made of live serpents]], [[ArtisticLicense although most artists stopped reading after the word "hound"]]. Unlike his siblings, Hades took him as a guard dog of his realm. He prevents mortals from entering the underworld and keeps the dead inside. Although there is no tale where Hades actually [[PetTheDog pets him]], the king of the underworld cared about his pet dog well enough and only allowed Heracles to take him for the twelfth labor if the hero didn't injure him. He is arguably the strongest of his siblings, as in one myth, he defeats an escaped ''Titan'' unaided and drags them back to Tartarus, and he is the FinalBoss of Heracles's labors.
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* AngryGuardDog: He guarded the Gates of the Underworld, ensuring that the living didn't get in and the dead didn't get out.
* AmplifiedAnimalAptitude: Towards Hades, Persephone and even Heracles. He clearly understands speech and emotion. It's unclear if this inborn or due to Hades' training.
* BigFriendlyDog: Vase-work of him while next to his master portrays him as essentially an overgrown dog leaning into being pet. Of course, he was still dangerous to those trying to break in or out of the Underworld.
* DarkIsNotEvil: He may be a forerunner of the hellhound, but the fact is that sometimes the dead don't realize they are dead. By keeping them in Cerberus manages to prevent whatever trouble they would have caused and ultimately is a hero in his own right.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Managed to take down and maul the crap out of Koios, who was one of the Elder Titans, when he tried to break out of Tartarus.
* FluffyTheTerrible: According to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerberus#Etymology some]], his name translates as "spotted"... or "Spot", you might say.
* GateGuardian: He's the one keeping the souls of the dead in the Underworld.
* HellHound: [[TropeCodifier Surely one of the most famous examples!]] Cerberus is a giant, three-headed hound that guards the gates of the land of the dead.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Many older depictions depict him with a mane of snakes in addition to his otherwise canine anatomy.
* MultipleHeadCase: Quite famous for his three heads, not counting the heads of the serpents that made up his mane and tail.
* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: How Orpheus got past him.
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: According to [[http://www.theoi.com/Ther/KuonKerberos.html others]], his name is derived from ''kêr'' and ''erebos'' which would roughly translate to ''"Death-Daemon of Darkness"''. It's also possible that his name means "Flesh-Devouring", which is fitting for a beast of the underworld since the earth "eats" bodies of the dead.
* NonMaliciousMonster: One of the few sapient examples. Quite deadly and fierce but largely non-evil -- he's a well trained pet specifically tasked with guarding his master's home and tends to spit out the souls of anything he catches.
* PetTheDog: Hades cares for Cerberus such that one account of him requesting Hercules subdue with Cerberus "...without shield or iron" to capture him, leaving Heracles to only use his bare hands.
* PuzzleBoss: AvertedTrope according to one account -- unlike most of the rest of Hercules' labors, he needed no assistance from the Gods or tricky methods for overcoming Cerberus; Hercules asked Hades if he could borrow Cerberus for his labor, Hades said yes as long as he didn't use any weapons (probably not wanting Cerberus harmed), and Hercules proceeded to wrestle Cerberus with little more than his strength, skill, and his Nemean Lion skin for protection. Heck there's even a version where Heracles showed up, was greated warmly by Hades and Persephone, and Hades essentially handed him Cerberus' leash and told his nephew to return him once his task was done.
* PunchClockVillain: Vicious hellhound though he may be, he is ultimately just on guard-duty. Don't try to escape/break-in and he will leave you be.
* SoleSurvivor: He's the only child of Echidna and Typhon, depending on who you count among their offspring and which versions of the stories you use, that's yet to be slain -- obviously because Hades owns him.
* SweetTooth: The tale of Psyche had the girl get past him using cake. She was advised to use it because others had succeeded before with the same ploy.
* TokenGoodTeammate: Probably the only one of Typhon and Echidna's offspring who is never claimed to be malicious or evil. Indeed, [[PethTheDog Hades]] may well have called him [[BigFriendlyDog a good boy]].
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[[folder:Chimera]]
One of Typhon and Echidna's children, the chimera/chimaira (Greek for she-goat) was part lion, part goat and part snake or dragon. Specifically, her body was that of a lion, the snake or dragon head was her tail, and a goat head just popped out of her spine in the middle of her back. She breathed fire, too. It lived in Lycia in Asia Minor. She was eventually slain by Bellerophon with the help of Pegasus.
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* AnimalGenderBender: She's a female, but most myths say that her lion head had the mane of a male lion. Greek art tended to depict ''all'' fabulous lions with manes, with females having less pronounced ones.
* BreathWeapon: Her goat head could [[BreathWeapon spit fire hot enough to melt at least lead]].
* BrotherSisterIncest: In some texts, she mated with her brother [[{{Hellhound}} Orthrus]] to produce the Sphinx and the Nemean Lion.
* ClassicalChimera: The oldest descriptions have her as essentially a fire-breathing goat with a lion's head and a serpent's tail; later artwork shows her with two heads, goat and lion, in the front, a leonine body, and a ''full'' snake for a tail. The bit about her being a child of Echidna and Typhon first shows up in the ''Literature/{{Theogony}}''. It's generally believed that the chimera got her name from Mount Chimaera, a volcano close to Lycia which was most known for its unexplained and constant fires.
* HoistByHerOwnPetard: Bellerophon killed her by using her own fire breath against her. He tied a lump of lead to the front of his spear and thrust it into her lion mouth. Her fire breath melted the lead, which became stuck in her throat and suffocated her.
* MixAndMatchCritters: A lion, a goat, and a snake; the precise combination varies from depiction to depiction, but she generally has a lion's head and some part of a snake for a tail.
* MultipleHeadCase: Her most popular depiction has three heads. A lion in the front, a snake forebody in the back for a tail, and a goat head coming out of the middle.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: She's sometimes described as having a dragon's tail instead of a snake. More thematically, Bellerophon slaying the Chimera is the visual inspiration for a lot of later European dragon slaying motifs, including most of those of St. George and the dragon. She may even be the reason why dragons drifted from breathing poison to fire in European mythology.
* SamusIsAGirl: Despite the Chimera having the mane of a male lion, she's one of Typhon's ''daughters.''
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Some tellings have her use her fiery breath and three heads to create a sort of point defense system by incinerating any arrows aimed at her mid-flight. The three heads prevented any blind spots. This unconventional use of her flames rendered her functionally unassailable from the ground. However, this tactic was her ultimate undoing, when she tried to do this against Bellerophon's lead tipped spear.
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[[folder:The Cretan Bull]]
Father of the Minotaur by Pasiphae, the wife of King Minos of Crete. It was sent from the oceans by Poseidon to show the god's support of Minos's claim to the Cretan throne. However, Minos soon earned the Olympian's ire by not keeping his promise to sacrifice the bull to Poseidon. Thus, the god went to Aphrodite, who already bore a grudge against Pasiphae's father Helios for revealing her affair with Ares, and had her [[LoveMakesYouCrazy curse Minos's wife with love for the king's prized but uncontrollably angry bull]]. Poseidon also passed his own anger on to the bull, resulting in it rampaging throughout the land. Captured by Heracles as his seventh labor, and when released, it became known as the Bull of Marathon after its new home. It was eventually captured by Theseus and sacrificed to the Gods.
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* BestialityIsDepraved: Why else would Aphrodite and Poseidon curse Minos's wife to lust after a bull?
* BrutishBulls: It was incredibly strong and completely savage.
* GypsyCurse: Aphrodite and Poseidon used it as part of one.
* KilledOffForReal: Theseus captured and sacrificed it.
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: Not an example itself, being an actual bull instead of a bull-man, but being the father of the Minotaur makes it the UrExample, or at least the progenitor of the actual UrExample.
* RevengeByProxy / RevengeThroughCorruption: This is why you don't break promises made to gods or offend [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower the goddess of love]]. Ever.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: It rampaged after Minos failed to sacrifice it for Poseidon's revenge.
* ShoddyKnockoffProduct: Not wanting to part with it despite having promised to sacrifice it to Poseidon, Minos substituted it with a lesser bull. Poseidon was not impressed.
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[[folder:The Cyclopes]]
Three brothers: Steropes, Brontes and Arges. They are sons of Ouranos and Gaia. Embodiments of brute strength and power, they each have one single eye in the middle of the foreheads. Ouranos feared them for their power and violent tempers, and then he sealed them away in Tartarus shortly after they were born with their other brothers, the Hekatonkheires. In some versions, Kronos either freed them and put them back in some time later or just kept them inside Tartarus, guarded by the Dragon, Kampe. In the final year of the Titanomachy, Zeus freed them and they forged the Olympians' weapons for them (if Hephaestus didn't do so already). Afterwards, they served as assistants to Hephaestus in his forge. They had the same names in Roman myths, both individually and collectively.

They had four mortal sons named Euryales, Elatreus, Trakhios, and Halimedes, and there was also a mortal tribe of them that lived near the island of Sicily, the most famous of them being Poseidon's son [[Literature/TheOdyssey Polyphemos]]. The original three can be seen to have been the Monster Progenitors of the larger cyclops population.
For tropes relating specifically to Polyphemus, see the [[Characters/ClassicalMythologyMortalsAndDemigods Mortals and Demigods section]].
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* BarbarianTribe: Cyclopes fathered by Poseidon were somewhat barbaric, though still capable of farming and forming social communities. Polyphemos even had a taste for humans.
* TheBlacksmith: The original immortal trio. They were the ones who forged Zeus's lightning bolts, Poseidon's trident and Hades's Helm of Darkness. In other myths, they also made Apollo's bow.
* CharacterExaggeration: Overlapping with PlanetOfTheCopyHats, many later adaptations of Greek Mythology depict all cyclopes into ravenous brutes with no intellect whatsoever whilst they were more complex in the original mythology.
* ClassicalCyclops: In contrast to later depictions, Greek Cyclopes are as diverse in morality and intellect as gods and human beings are. They are often described to be grotesque and temperamental, but also intelligent and great Blacksmiths.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Whether or not Polyphemos's siblings were man-eaters or [[ThickerThanWater just supported Polyphemos because he's their brother]] varies depending on the writer.
* HairTriggerTemper: They were described as having very foul moods.
* MisplacedRetribution: On the receiving end of this from Apollo, who kills them for making the thunderbolt that Zeus used to kill Apollo's son Asclepius.
* MonsterProgenitor: They start with three. The rest of the race came later.
* RandomSpeciesOffSpring: This seems to be a trait of Cyclopes.
** The original three Cyclopes were the children of the primordials Ouranos and Gaia, neither of whom looked anything like their chidlren.
** Later Poseidon's sons with a nymph were born as Cyclopes.
** A few myths have Polyphemos father a humanoid child with the nymph, Galatea.
* SatelliteCharacter: Polyphemos's brothers really only exist so Polyphemos has non-divine allies that he can make an attempt to call for backup that leads to the oldest-known WhosOnFirst joke, and his brothers never receive any actual characterization in any myths.
* SealedGoodInACan: The original immortal trio, whom Ouranos and later Kronos sealed away in Tartarus until Zeus busted them out.
* ShockAndAwe: Each of the immortal three represents a part of the nature of lightning that they each put into Zeus' thunderbolt: Steropes is lighting itself, Brontes is thunder, and Arges is its brightness.
* ToServeMan: Some of the mortal ones that lived off Sicily, like Polyphemos, would eat sailors who came ashore there.
* WithFriendsLikeThese: When Zeus killed Apollo's son Asclepius, Apollo wanted revenge but could not directly injure Zeus. Some writers have him kill the cyclopes who forged the lightning bolt while others, noting that the sons of Gaia are immortal, have him kill the four sons instead. In some versions, the three had helped to make Apollo's bow beforehand.
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[[folder:Delphyne]]
A drakaina (female dragon or dragon-woman hybrid), usually a daughter of Gaia and sometimes either conflated with or mated to the below mentioned Python. Delphyne appears in the Homeric ''Hymn to Apollo'' as the nameless foster-mother of Typhon after Hera creates him to one-up Zeus giving birth to Athena through his forehead, before being slain by Apollo at Delphi. Apollodorus claims that she assisted Typhon in the battle against Zeus by acting as the latter's warden when he's imprisoned, but others claim that it was Python who did that.
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* BrotherSisterIncest: When not portrayed as [[CompositeCharacter the same entity]], she and Python are sometimes portrayed as mates, and both are children of Gaia.
* CompositeCharacter: With both her brother Python and her sister-in-law Echidna on occasion.
* NamedByTheAdaptation: The oldest sources about her didn't give her a name. "Delphyne" was added later.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: This one's a woman from the waist up.
* SnakePeople: A monstrous serpent from the waist down.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: She resembles Echidna in a lot of ways, including being half-human and half-serpent and having a connection to Typhon.
* WalkingWasteland: She was said to cause desolation wherever she went.
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[[folder:The Dragon of Colchis]]
This Dragon was a child of Typhon and Echidna and the guardian of the Golden Fleece sought by Jason and the Argonauts.
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* MusicSoothesTheSavageBeast: In some myths, Jason obtained the Fleece after the Wyrm was put to sleep by Orpheus's lyre music.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: A monstrous, serpentine dragon.
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[[folder:Ekhidna / Echidna]]
The "Mother of All Monsters" (no, not ''that'' "[[Music/LadyGaga mother monster]]"), usually depicted as half [[OurFairiesAreDifferent nymph]] and half serpent. She was the mate of Typhon, mother to nearly all the notable monsters in Greek mythology.
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* {{Blackmail}}: She stole Heracles' horses and the only way for him to get them back was... To have sex with her.
** Except in versions where it's a Scythian dracaena he sleeps with and not Echidna.
* CuteMonsterGirl: Half nymph, half serpent.
* TheDreaded: As Typhon's mate, it's no surprise that many feared her. After all, how evil would you have to be to want to marry ''him?''
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As evil as she was, she dearly loved her husband and it's implied that they both loved their children.
* GodCouple: With Typhon.
* GreaterScopeVillain: All the other monsters who terrorize Greece are her children.
* HappilyMarried: Weirdly yes. She and Typhon have a very productive marriage by Greek deity standards--he never cheats on her, all her children are his, and they support one another in their respective endeavors. [[SealedEvilInACan Even if one is sealed under Mt. Etna]].
* InformedAttribute: She's known as the "Mother of All Monsters", but at most ''ten'' monsters from the mythos are truly considered her offspring, and this is discounting MultipleChoicePast. Indeed, the majority of other monsters in Ancient Greek lore are either her siblings, her in-laws, her aunts and uncles or her nieces and nephews.
* KarmaHoudini: In any version save the one where Argus gets her. In some versions, this is invoked on Zeus' part, due to him believing she and her children should become challenges for future heroes to prove themselves with.
* {{Kaiju}}: Just like her husband Typhon.
* KilledOffForReal: By Argus Panoptes, the hundred-eyed giant (later killed by Hermes). (In one story, at least.)
* MermaidProblem: Probably {{Averted|}}, her humanoid body was said have gone down to her buttocks and presumably possessed the usual female human reproductive equipment adjacent to that. Underneath there, she was a serpent.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Cerberus, the Hydra, the Nemean Lion, the Chimera, the Sphinx, Orthrus, and a number of other beasties are all her children by Typhon.
* NecessarilyEvil: Zeus may think so, as some versions have Echidna be left alive so she and her children can act as challenges for future heroes.
* OutlivingOnesOffspring : ''And how.'' See OutOfCharacter moment. This goes farther if we ignore the versions in which Argus offed her.
* OutOfCharacterMoment: The version in which she has a son by Heracles, which goes against [[ToServeMan her usual attitude towards humans]]. We can also point out Heracles was directly responsible for the deaths of several of her children (the Nemean lion, the Lernaean Hydra, the Caucasian Eagle, Orthrus and Ladon). In most other versions it isn't Echidna who sleeps with him, but a different creature called a Scythian dracaena, which had twin snake tails instead of legs.
* SnakePeople: She had the upper torso of a gorgeous nymph...and the lower body of a snake. Along with dragon wings.
* ToServeMan: In some versions, she carries off passers-by.
%% * UnholyMatrimony: With Typhon.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the versions where Argus didn't kill her; she just sort of disappears and is never mentioned again after her husband's defeated. Her offspring carry on her husband's VillainousLegacy by acting as challenges for future heroes, but she herself never appears and doesn't appear to be commanding them.
* YouWillBeSpared: In some versions, Zeus spares her life, on the grounds that her offspring will become NecessarilyEvil for heroes to prove themselves against.
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[[folder:Geryon and Orthrus]]
Medusa's grandson Geryon was a giant who lived on the island Erytheia. He had either three heads on one body or three bodies, either way, he also had six hands, six feet and sometimes even wings. Orthus was the two-headed herd dog of Geryon and the brother of Cerberus. They guarded red cattle which Hercules was instructed to steal as his tenth labour.
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* AngryGuardDog: Orthrus, Cerberus's two-headed brother.
* BrotherSisterIncest: In Hesiod's ''Literature/{{Theogony}}'', Orthrus mated with his sister the Chimera to produce the Nemean Lion and the Sphinx. Later texts say that all four were the children of Typhon and Echidna.
* HellHound: Orthrus is the brother of the trope codifier.
* InvertedTrope: You ever noticed how mythologies tend to have a penchant for multi-headed creatures? Well apparently the Greeks did, because Geryon has ''one'' head and multiple ''bodies''. No, we don't know how that worked out either.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Geryon, who is the grandson of the gorgon Medusa.
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[[folder:Gigantes]]
The last children of Ouranus, born from his blood fertilizing Gaea when Kronos castrated him, possibly as Aphrodite was born from the sea. They didn't get involved much in the Titans' affairs, including when the Olympians took power in the Titanomachy and when their younger brother Typhon nearly overthrew the Olympians. However, they later fought the Olympians in the Gigantomachy, which they would have won if not for Hercules' aiding the Olympians. Many individuals are named, though again there are multiple different accounts of just what occurred with each of the Gigantes.

Eurymedon was their king. The brothers Ephialtes and Otus of Aloadae were either caused to kill each other by accident by Artemis after they captured her in an attempt to take her and Hera for their wives, or else slain by the arrows of Apollo and Hercules. Alcyoneus and Porphyrion were among the strongest of them and slain by Hercules in the Gigantomachy, the latter being first wounded by Zeus' lightening bolt before taking Hercules' arrow. Athena killed Pallas and Enceladus, burying the latter under Mt. Etna like Typhon. Artemis killed Gration with her arrows. Poseidon crush Polybotes under an island. Hephestus killed Mimas with molten iron. Hermes turned invisible to kill Hippolytus with a sword. Dionysus killed Eurytus with his thyrsus. Hecate immolated Clytius. Even the Moirae joined in, beating Agrios and Thoon to death with [[CarryABigStick bronze clubs]].
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* AvengingTheVillain: The Gigantomachy was to rescue the Titans from Tartarus.
* BarbarianTribe: Thought to represent those kinds of people from the North.
* BornAsAnAdult: Like their sisters the Meliae, the Furies and Aphrodite, they were born fully formed from Ouranos' blood.
* DependingOnTheWriter: Quite a few Titans (Coeus, Kris, etc.) and even a Hekatonkheires (Briares) are sometimes confused to be Gigantes.
* GodsHandsAreTied: The Olympians could wound the giants with their attacks, but couldn't actually kill them. A mortal man could permanently kill a giant if he was strong and bold enough, and Heracles was the man for the job. In some myths, Zeus sired him specifically to be TheChosenOne who could save the Olympians in the Gigantomachy.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: While a few others get called giants, these guys were the giants proper of classical mythology.
* SealedEvilInACan: After the Gigantomachy.
* SpontaneousGeneration: They were born from Ouranos' blood after it spilled upon the Earth, along with the Ash Nymphs, the Erinyes and Aphrodite.
* WarArc: The Gigantomachy.
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[[folder:The Gorgons]]
A set of three sisters: Stheno, Euryale and Medusa, daughters of either Phorcys and Ceto or granddaughters of Typhon and Echidna. Most people only know the story of Medusa, who is most well known for having snakes for hair and a visage that turned mortals to stone. In the original Greek myths and works based on them (like Hesiod's ''Theogony'') she and her sisters were born either hideous or as beautiful yet still monstrous, but Ovid's ''Metamorphosis'' reinvented at least Medusa as a normal human cursed by Athena for [[MisplacedRetribution getting raped in her temple]].
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* AdaptationalSympathy: The original myths consistently claim that they were always evil, dangerous monsters. Ovid's take on the story, however, has them start out as ordinary humans only to be turned into monsters by Athena after Medusa was raped by Poseidon in one of their temples. While they're not better people, it's still easier to feel a least a little sorry for them in Ovid's telling.
* AdaptationalVillainy: Early artwork of the Gorgons were said to ward off evil with their frightening appearances, not unlike medieval gargoyles. Later, however, Gorgons were reimagined as frightful, murderous monsters.
* AdaptationExplanationExtrication: Ovid's version of the myth where Medusa is a transformed human leaves it unanswered ''why'' Medusa has monster sisters, much less immortal ones, if she was transformed by Athena in response to something that happened specifically to ''her'' (although collective punishment wouldn't be particularly unusual for the source material). Earlier sources don't have this problem as the sisters were simply born as gorgons, and as seen with the differently powered demigods sharing the same godly parent, powers were inherited basically randomly.
* AxeCrazy: Stheno, who was said to have killed more men than either of her sisters combined.
* BeautyToBeast: Some versions state that Medusa and her sisters were so beautiful that Athena got jealous of them and turned them into gorgons just for that.
* BrownNote: The Gorgons were so hideous, merely looking upon them would cause a person to be TakenForGranite.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: [[https://notbecauseofvictories.tumblr.com/post/56181406414/dont-go-talking-classics-out-of-school-medusa Boy, does it ever]].
** The Gorgons were first mentioned in the Trojan Cycle, completely unnamed. They're established as TheDreaded from the get-go, as their visage is said to kill/petrify anyone who looks upon them and said visage not only graces Athena's Aegis, but they can apparently be found in the Underworld and Odysseus shudders at the thought of encountering one.
** Hesiod ended up not only giving them names, but also clarifying that the Gorgons were frightful, female monsters with snakes for hair and rattling wings, but evidently still fair enough that Poseidon was smitten with Medusa and slept with her, impregnating her with Pegasus and Chrysaor, who were born when Perseus cut off Medusa's head.
** The story remained that way largely unchanged until Ovid (who had had something of a NayTheist streak and loved making the gods look like assholes) came along and changed the narrative completely by claiming Medusa was instead a human priestess who was assaulted by Poseidon in Athena's temple and Athena, in a moment of pettiness, turned her into a monster to punish her for something she didn't even do (and possibly did the same to her sisters just out of spite). Ovid's version ended up being the most widely-known, cementing the position of the gorgons as tragic victims of uncaring gods.
* DeathWail: As mentioned below, Euryale's response to Medusa's demise.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: In the story of Perseus, Medusa is initially built up as the primary obstacle he has to overcome. Once Perseus kills her, however, he's still not out of the woods, having to deal with a series of further threats and enemies, most notably the SeaMonster Ketea, a [[MurderTheHypotenuse murderous romantic rival]] named Phineus, and Polydectes, the tyrannical king who sent him after Medusa in the first place to [[UriahGambit get him out of the way]] so he could go after the boy's mother Danaë.
* TheDreaded: The Gorgons were feared by all, due to their frightful visage and ability to turn people to stone.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Monsters they might have been, but Stheno and Euryale were both understandably distraught when Perseus killed Medusa. Euryale cried out in anguish and both of them tried to kill Perseus for it.
* ForTheEvulz: In their original greek myths, the sisters killed people because it amused them.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: In Ancient Greek art, most characters were seen in profile. Not the Gorgons. They were always depicted ''staring straight at you''.
* FunctionalMagic: The Gorgons' image was often used as protective magic, in hope that the user's enemies would be turned to stone.
* GorgeousGorgon: While definitely common in modern interpretations, this is OlderThanTheyThink given that later myths exist of the Gorgons still appearing beautiful but [[IronicHell ironically turns everyone who looked at them to stone]]. An artistic example of this can be seen in [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/Alexander_close_up.JPG a famous mosaic]] of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat found in Pompeii, with a perfectly normal face with some tendrils coming out of it on his armor's breast.
* HairSubstituteFeature: Medusa has snakes instead of hair.
* HealingSerpent: The gorgons, which were some sort of SnakePeople. Blood taken from the right side of a gorgon had wondrous healing properties and in some myths could even bring the dead back to life.
* HumanizingTears: Euryale was said to have let out a mournful wail when Medusa was killed, which serves to humanize her a little.
* {{Immortality}}: Stheno and Euryale are immortal. Medusa... well, wasn't.
* ImpossibleTask: What Polydectes intended Perseus' slaying of Medusa to be, since even in the unlikely event he did kill her, he would have to get away from her two unkillable sisters.
* IronicHell: Some versions of the myth twist the GorgeousGorgon concept into this; they were still beautiful, but their beauty was pointless because no one could look at them without being turned to stone.
* LivingProp: In the original Greek myths, Medusa was less of a character and more of an obstacle for Perseus to overcome. The gorgons were known however for being the sisters of Echidna, who was the mother of basically every monster in Greek mythology.
* LogicalWeakness: Their ability to turn people to stone with their gaze only works with direct eye contact, not reflections, and doesn't work on the blind or those who simply keep their eyes closed are safe from it.
* MultipleChoicePast: Not only are there ''two'' options as to how the Gorgons came to be, but there are multiple variations on ''one'' of those options.
** Homer mentions a singular gorgon, who appears to be an underworld monster and whose visage is on Athena's aegis.
** Hesiod states that the gorgons are sea monsters, daughters of Phorcys and Ceto, and there are three of them- Stheno, Euryale, and Medusa.
** Euripides's ''Ion'' says that the gorgons were monsters born by Gaia to aid the Titans against the Olympians.
** Ovid wrote the famous version where Poseidon rapes Medusa in Athena's temple, and since she can't punish Poseidon himself as he's stronger than her, she punishes Medusa in a fit of pettiness.
* OffWithHerHead: How Medusa bit the dust.
* OurGorgonsAreDifferent: The {{TropeMaker}}s themselves!
* QuestionableConsent: Even in Hesiod's take on Medusa and Poseidon's affair (which does not paint the relationship as a violent assault like Ovid's account), the story never makes it clear just how consensual the relationship was, especially since Hesiod's views on women were... not great, to say the least. While the framing makes it sound romantic -- with references to Poseidon and Medusa "laying in a soft meadow", it's also worth noting that the focus is ''mainly'' on Poseidon, with no mention of how Medusa feels about it.
* RapeAsBackstory: Ovid's take on Medusa, though this appears to be his own invention (Ovid was banished by Emperor Augustus for adultery, and as consequence had a very dim view of authority figures like gods) as the Greeks generally saw the gorgons as being monsters from the start.
* ReluctantMonster: Depending on which myth (more in the Roman one), Medusa will be played this way, being turned into a monster by Athena.
* RevengeByProxy: In Ovid's version that is, while we know how Medusa was turned into the monster she was, Stheno and Euryale, as far as we know, didn't do anything to deserve this.
* SadlyMythtaken: The Gorgons did not have magic eye lasers they could use to turn people into stone, like many modern depictions spin it, rather the Gorgons were said to have an appearance so repulsive and/or horrifying that anybody who looked directly into their faces would turn to stone (or, more rarely, die) out of shock. Why using a mirrored shield would prevent people from turning into stone if said appearance was so frightening is anybody's guess.
* SatelliteCharacter: Little is known about Stheno and Eurayle other than being Medusa's sisters.
* TheScream: Euryale's most noteworthy trait was her bellowing cry. She let out a particularly loud one when Medusa died.
* SnakePeople: How much varies, but they always have snakes for hair.
* TakenForGranite: While it was technically the act of looking ''upon them'' that turned you to stone, it's popularly remembered as ''them'' looking upon ''you'' that results in petrification.
* VillainByDefault: Even in the myths where Medusa is a monster from birth, the myths don't usually clarify whether or not she ''actually'' did anything wrong. She's just a monster and monsters need to be killed, though some stories say that she and her sisters were killing people. Possibly justified on some level, as Polydectes had ''no intention'' of making Perseus a hero and mainly sent him to take on Medusa as a wild goose suicide mission, while Athena mainly helped him as a FetchQuest for Medusa's head, so she could incorporate her petrifying visage onto her Aegis.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Their petrifying powers only work if a person looked directly at their faces, meaning reflections of their faces do nothing. Similarly, their powers only work if their victims look at them, meaning anyone who is blind or just able to keep their eyes closed will be immune.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Stheno and Euryale. Where did they go after Medusa died and what happened to them?
* WingedHumanoid: A forgotten fact about the Gorgons; they had claws of bronze and wings like eagles.
* WolverinePublicity: Find a description of a lone Gorgon anywhere, and it'll inevitably be Medusa. Her sisters, Euryale and Stheno, are relatively overlooked -- or ''nonexistent'' -- in most depictions.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: Only in Ovid's very late version. Of course, this depends on ''which'' myth you're going by -- in the Greek myths they never were intended to be sympathetic. In fact, in the Greek version, she brought all her punishments on her self because of actions she did of her own free will.
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[[folder:The Harpies]]
Half-bird, half-human monstrosities. Jason encountered them on his quest and they were being used to punish a man who spoke out against Zeus.
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* AlwaysChaoticEvil: There's nothing pleasant about any of them.
* BrutalBirdOfPrey: More specifically, half woman, half CirclingVultures.
* DeathFromAbove: They were tasked with preventing a guy from eating by stealing his food.
* FeatheredFiend: They had the bodies of birds but human heads.
* GiantFlyer: Possibly the UrExample of the "Leathery-Winged Avian" variant.
* HarpingOnAboutHarpies: The TropeMaker.
* MultipleChoicePast: Sort of--two of the Harpies, Aello and Ocypete, are usually portrayed the daughters of the Oceanid nymph Elektra and the sea god Thaumas (who are also the parents of the messenger goddess Iris and her sister Arke); later sources add a third one named Celaeno to this parentage. However, others claim that Typhon is their father (though no mother is mentioned, we can assume this would mean Echidna is their mother)--though in this account, only Celaeno is named and the Harpies accompanying her aren't so they could be different Harpies.
* NauseaFuel: {{Invoked}} literally. What food they didn't eat off of Phineus's table was left with a smell so foul, even a starving person wouldn't touch it.
* VileVulture: Their bird halves were usually portrayed as vulture-like.
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[[folder:The Hind of Ceryneia]]
A hind is a doe, [[Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic a deer; a female deer;]] of one of the larger species, of which the male would be a hart, buck or stag. This one had antlers like the male, only golden in color and matching fur as well as being sacred to the Goddess Artemis and fast enough to outrun an arrow. Hercules' third labour was to catch it, alive.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Heracles couldn't shoot the Hind, so he had to chase it for ''a whole year''. Finally, the Hind was so weary from the chase that it gave up and allowed Heracles to capture it.
* SuperSpeed: It could move fast enough to dodge arrows.
* VictoryByEndurance: Heracles couldn't catch or hit the Hind, but the Hind couldn't outlast Heracles in a chase.
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[[folder:The Hydra of Lerna]]
[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hydra_etruscan_pottery_getty.jpg]]
Another child of Typhon and Echidna, the Hydra was many-headed serpent that lived in the swamps of Lerna. For every head you cut off, two more grew in its place. Oh, and one head was entirely immortal. Killing it was the challenge set forth in Heracles' second labor.
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* AndIMustScream: The Hydra ultimately never died, Heracles just burned its body to ashes in a manner that ensured it would not grow back anymore, and then buried the immortal head under a rock.
* BloodyMurder: The poisonous kind -- its blood was so toxic that even touching it was deadly.
* EvilEvolves: It would regrow two heads for each one cut off.
* GiantEnemyCrab: Hera called a monstrous crab in to aid the Hydra since Heracles was proving difficult to beat. Heracles just crushed it underfoot.
* HealingFactor: Heracles did not even resort to cutting it: he just smashed its heads with his club, but that did not keep them from coming back either.
* HydraProblem: The TropeNamer -- it grows back two heads for every lost one. Obviously, this made it extremely difficult, if not impossible, for most warriors to deal with.
* KillItWithFire: It can't regrow its heads from a cauterized stump.
* MultipleHeadCase: Its usually depicted as starting off with nine heads, but it can grow more...
* OurHydrasAreDifferent: The TropeMaker, TropeNamer and TropeCodifier, and quite possibly the UrExample. The Hydra of Lerna is the root from which the many-headed, regenerating, poisonous and swamp-dwelling serpents of later Western culture all spring.
* PosthumousVillainVictory: Heracles kills her, but she ends up causing his death many years later, as his hydra-blood arrows taint the blood of Nessus, which is used to kill him.
* SamusIsAGirl: It's occasionally described as being female, as is the Chimera.
* WalkingWasteland: It was the reason Lerna's swamps were so lifeless. This ferociously anti-life quality also extended to its toxic blood post-mortem. Heracles dipped his arrows in the blood, and he used them as his go-to way of killing enemies from that point onward...and unfortunately, [[HoistByHisOwnPetard eventually himself]].
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[[folder:Kampê / Campe]]
A drakaina set to guard the Hecatonchires by Cronus. She is described as having the head and torso of a woman, a scorpionlike tail, and snaky legs.
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* BewareMyStingerTail: Some myths describe her as having a scorpion-like tail.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Most myths describe her as having the head and torso of a woman, the body of a dragon and the tail of a scorpion.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: She was a drakaina, a draconic creature with humanoid features.
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[[folder:Ketea / Cetea]]
Perseus found a princess named Andromeda, who was being sacrificed to one of these sea creatures to appease Poseidon; he turned it to stone with the severed head of Medusa and they were married. Hercules is also credited with killing a cetus. The word has a very loose meaning and includes whales and big fish as well as more traditional sea monsters.
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* AKindOfOne: Some myths have them as one or two individual monsters, but others pluralize them into a race of sea monsters.
* KrakenAndLeviathan: The Greek word Ketos is basically the same thing as the Hebrew Leviathan in its broad meaning, though the size of it qualifies it for this trope as well.
* SeaMonster: It was Poseidon's pet, and its name is where the word cetacean comes from.
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[[folder:Ladon]]
One of the oldest monsters in Myth/ClassicalMythology, Ladon was an offspring of Typhon and Echidna (or of the sea gods Phorcys & Ceto, depending on which version you listen to). His form was that of a dragon, but one unlike either traditional European or Asian dragons, and indeed his own form is not even consistent in the different versions of the story. His job was to guard the golden apples of the Garden of Hesperides. Though tasked with retrieving them in his eleventh labor, Ladon was so fearsome an opponent that Hercules had to enlist the help of Atlas who was a relative of the Hesperide nymphs to complete the task. Ladon was later seen by the passing Argonauts as well.
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* AndIMustScream: He was ''still agonizing'' from Heracles's arrows by the time the Argonauts saw him.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: In some versions, Hercules had to shoot him in the mouth because of his thick scales.
* DueToTheDead: After Heracles offed him, Hera turned him into the Constellation Draco to thank him for his services.
* InformedAttribute: Many artworks portray Ladon as a small, one-headed, two-eyed serpent[=/=]dragon rather than the hundred-headed or hundred-eyed dragon portrayed in the story. LazyArtist may have contributed to those portrayals.
* MultipleHeadCase: He had the greatest number of heads of any Greek monster, numbering up to a full hundred (although others say he had one big head instead).
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: His form is inconsistently depicted, but he is always described as a dragon, albeit an extremely different one compared to the ones modern fantasy depict and in so many ways. In addition to speaking human language, he could have as many as one hundred heads or just one with one hundred eyes, depending on the description. Others say his head was half his total length.
* SeaMonster: As implied by his name (Greek for "strong flow"), some say he terrorized the high seas before being hired by Hera.
* ToServeMan: Some versions state that he terrorized villages and ate people before being hired by Hera.
* TheUnfought: Ladon was so mighty that not even Hercules dared challenge him. This is averted in some versions, however; according to those, Hercules shoots and kills Ladon with his arrows dipped in the Hydra's blood.
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[[folder:Laelaps the dog and the Teumessian Fox / Cadmean Vixen]]
A magical dog that would catch anything that it chased, and a giant fox destined never to be caught. The fox was also one of Echidna and Typhon's children. Zeus turned them into the constellations Canis Major (the dog) and Canis Minor (the fox) when Laelaps was set to chase the Teumessian Fox.
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* TakenForGranite: One version of the myth has Zeus turning them both to stone instead when the mortal Amphitryon created a philosophical dilemma by sending Laelaps after the Fox.
* TakeAThirdOption: Unable to think of a way to solve the paradox when the two creatures use their abilities against each other, Zeus avoids it altogether by turning them both to stone.
* UnstoppableForceMeetsImmovableObject: Of a sort. The poor dog had the misfortune of being sent after the one thing it could never catch.
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[[folder:The Lion of Nemea]]
Lived in Nemea. Its fur was impervious to attack by all mortal weapons and its claws could cut through any armour without difficulty. Sometimes counted among the children of Typhon and Echidna, killing it was Hercules' first labour.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Varies according to the version: either Heracles strangles the lion to death (thus not having to deal with his invulnerable skin), or he was able to kill the lion by shooting an arrow through the roof of its mouth and into its brain, bypassing the unbreakable hide.
* CuttingTheKnot: One of the solutions for Heracles's to kill an animal with an invulnerable hide - just choke it to death with his bare hands.
* {{Fingore}}: In one myth, the lion managed to bite off one of Heracles's fingers as they wrestled before Heracles finally won.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: The second version of his death, as mentioned in AttackItsWeakpoint.
* MultipleChoicePast: It is commonly remembered as one of Typhon and Echidna's children, but in Hesiod's account, it was the offspring of [[BrotherSisterIncest Chimera and Orthrus]]. Alternately, Selene conceived it parthenogenetically.
* NemeanSkinning: TropeNamer, having been skinned by Herakles using its own claws (although another popular version states that his famous apparel came from a different lion he killed before starting the Labors).
* NighInvulnerability: Heracles first tried shooting the Lion with his arrows, but they just bounced off. Then he attacked it with his sword, but the blade just bent. And ''then'' he tried whacking the Lion with his club, but that only dazed it (and shattered his club). Heracles finally managed to kill it by wrestling with and strangling it to death. When he tried to skin the Lion to use the skin as armor, Heracles had to use one of the Lion's own claws to do it.
* PantheraAwesome: A giant lion whose skin couldn't be pierced by any weapon.
* PuzzleBoss: Its unbreakable hide needs to be circumvented in order to kill it. Hercules either fired an arrow into its unarmored mouth or whacked it over the head with his club and strangled it while stunned.
* ToServeMan: While eating people is pretty standard for monsters in Classical Myth (some traditions even make it a defining trait of all monsters), the Nemean Lion is usually stated to be a man eater and previous victims even named.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: At least one version of the myth gives it the ability to shapeshift into a beautiful maiden. The lion would then pretend to be a damsel in distress to lure would be heroes into its den, where it would then change back into a lion to kill and eat them without outside interference.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Heracles, realizing he couldn't overcome the lion with weapons, got it in a wrestling hold and choked it to death with his bare hands.
* WoundedGazelleGambit: In one version, the lion would shapeshift into an injured maiden to lure heroes into its den, then transform back and attack them.

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[[folder:Manticore]]
!!!See also OurManticoresAreSpinier.
This monster had the body of a lion, with a scorpion's tail and the head of a man, though this didn't mean it lacked the sharp teeth of any other man-eating predator (in fact it had three rows of razor sharp teeth). It could also shoot poisonous spines from its tail.
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* CanonImmigrant: Allegedly. Ctesias claimed that it was an Indian story he heard in Persia, but it hasn’t been recorded from either of those countries; combined with the fact that he was fluent in Persian, he may have made up the story himself.
* FlechetteStorm: It could send a [[SpikeShooter barrage of needles]] from its tail.
* GiantFlyer: Some versions have wings, though this was added later.
* HybridMonster: Of the MixAndMatchCritters variety: A shark-like mouth, the face of a man (though some versions claim it merely had blue eyes that were extremely human-like), the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion.
* OurManticoresAreSpinier: Generally lion-like, in addition to having a human-like face, three rows of sharp teeth, and a scorpion-like tail that could launch spines like a catapult.
* PoisonedWeapon: Its tail could fire venomous spines (some accounts say to a distance of up to 100 ft).
* SpikeShooter: It shot poisonous ones from its tail to attack distant enemies.
* ToServeMan: Almost always portrayed as a man-eater -- in fact, its original name in Persian quite literally translates to "man-eater", which was on occasion directly translated in Greek as "androphagos". It was even said to prefer to hunt entire groups of people, so it had more human flesh to feast on.
* TheUnfought: Nobody fights a manticore in any of the myths.
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[[folder:The Mares of Diomedes / Thrace]]
Wild horses trained to eat human flesh by the giant Diomedes, King of Thrace, Son of Ares and Cyrene. Some versions of the story tell that they breathed fire as well. Hercules' eighth labour was to steal them.
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* AscendedToCarnivorism: They were trained to feed on human flesh.
* ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine: Done both by and to the horses:
** Diomedes regularly fed his hapless victims to the mares. When Heracles bested Diomedes, he threw the king to the horses himself.
** After Heracles brought them back to Thebes, they were eaten by wild animals.
* BreathWeapon: Some versions of the story claim they breathe fire.
* HellishHorse: They are carnivorous (and occasionally fire-breathing) horses.
* IncendiaryExponent: If that is the version being told.
* KarmicDeath: See ATasteOfTheirOwnMedicine.
* ToServeMan: They ate human flesh.
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[[folder:Minotaur]]
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Prince Asterion (meaning "Starry One"); the half-man half-bull, this beast was the offspring of the Cretan Bull and King Minos' wife Pasiphae in an odd combination of punishments from different gods. Fearing that it would anger the gods further to kill the beast, King Minos sealed it away in a Labyrinth beneath the city and fed its man-eating appetite with the flesh of slaves taken as tribute from Athens. That is, until an Athenian prince named Theseus took the place of one of the slaves, seduced the king's daughter Ariadne into helping him find his way out of the labyrinth and killed it with his bare hands.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: He was the son of the Cretan Bull and Minos's wife Pasiphae.
* HiddenDepths: He seems to have good (or at least amicable) relationship with his mother Pasiphae and was named after Minos's stepfather -- which, considering Minos's attitude towards him, make it likely it is Pasiphae's idea. He also seemed to have enjoyed some normalcy during his infant years (even being breastfed by his mother), and some painting and vases made by cultures less antagonistic toward Minoan Crete depicts him and his mother in a loving context.
* HumanoidAbomination: Part of the reason he eats people is because his existence is a defiance of natural law. In Greek thought, nature being divided into a number of distinct forms of beings was a crucial law of nature rather than just a chance arrangement of shapes; thus, hybrid beings like the Minotaur, and especially ones born of the hybridization of beings as distinct as people and animals, were in a real sense walking, living violations of how the universe was supposed to function.
* TheMaze: Its home, the Labyrinth; possibly the UrExample.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Minotaur" is a term meaning "Bull of Minos". "Asterion", a given name in the proper sense, is much rarer and only used in a few classical sources.
* OurMinotaursAreDifferent: The TropeMaker -- the original bull-headed, humanoid-bodied, flesh-eating monster born of bull and human woman.
* ToServeMan: He had a ravenous appetite for human flesh, leading to Minos having him caged in the Labyrinth and satiating him by trapping young foreign prisoners in there. This portion of the myth may actually have had ''some'' distant inspiration in reality -- excavations of Knossos have found the bones of children with signs that they were butchered similarly to sheep or goats, leading to theories of ritual cannibalism having occurred.
* WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds: In some versions of the story, baby Asterion was a victim of parental abuse and neglect by his stepfather Minos, which created his bloodthirsty nature. [[GoMadFromTheIsolation Being locked in a lonely prison didn't help.]]
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[[folder:Ophion(eus)]]
A serpent who ruled Mt. Olympus before the Titans and incubated the [[CosmicEgg Orphic Egg]] from which the other Protogenoi were born. Is only in the Orphic version of the myths and not part of the usually accepted mythology.
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* AnimalsNotToScale: If we were to go by the description, he is bigger than the ''entire universe''.
* AnimalisticAbomination: He was a serpentine entity larger than the known universe, which was born out of the CosmicEgg he incubated.
* GodCouple: Ophion's wife was Eurynome, who in some interpretations was a Titan and in others was an Oceanid. In the Orphic tradition, they are depicted as the original rulers of Mt. Olympus before being deposed by Cronus and Rhea.
* HappilyMarried: Despite him being a gigantic snake, he and Eurynome were depicted as being quite content with one another.
* TheOlderImmortal: Kaos may be older, but not by any amount of time that matters for a being so old.
* TarotMotifs: He and Eurynome are sometimes cited as the identities of the nude woman dancing with the snake often pictured on the last Major Arcana card, the World.
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[[folder:Pegasus]]
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A winged horse, and one of the most famous mythic creatures. He's the child of Medusa and Poseidon. Later became hero Bellerophon's steed after being captured on the Muses' Mount Helicon and helped him slay Chimera, as well as in a battle against the Amazons. After Bellerophon's fall (literally and [[FallenHero figurative]]), Zeus keeps him.

In another version, Pegasus is said to be born from Medusa's blood, as Perseus was beheading her (possibly after her blood mixed with sea foam, alluding to Poseidon); along with his human brother Chrysaor. Athena tamed the winged horse and gave him to Perseus, who flew to Ethiopia to help Andromeda. Was a later change to the story of Perseus, who already had winged sandals of Hermes, so a flying horse is somewhat redundant.
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* BoltOfDivineRetribution: Zeus used him to carry his thunderbolt.
* ChestBurster: A variant. Pegasus flies from Medusa's neck after she is beheaded.
* CoolHorse: Doesn't get much cooler than a divine horse with wings.
* {{Pegasus}}: TropeNamer.
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[[folder:Python]]
A serpentine dragon born to Gaia. Python was sent by Hera to chase after Leto when she was pregnant with Artemis and Apollo, to make absolutely sure the babies are never born. [[ForegoneConclusion Obviously this failed]], so he took up residence in Delphi, where he was eventully killed by Apollo to avenge his torment of his mother and his corpse used to decorate his temple, the fumes of his decomposing flesh helping to fuel the Oracle's visions. In some tellings, he also helped Typhon in the battle with Zeus, guarding the cavern Zeus was thrown into after having his tendons ripped off, though in others this was Delphyne, his mate.
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* CompositeCharacter: Sometimes conflated with his mate Delphyne, who in turn is sometimes conflated with Echidna.
* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Ultimately slain by Apollo, who then used his corpse to decorate his temple.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: This one is either a giant snake or a traditional dragon.
* SiblingTeam: As a son of Gaia, he was Typhon's brother and acted as Zeus' warden after Typhon defeated and imprisoned him.
* SuperPersistentPredator: Relentlessly chased after Leto while she was pregnant.
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[[folder:Scythian Dracaena]]
A type of monster with the upper body of a beautiful woman but with twin serpent tails in place of legs. When Hercules was trying to bring in the cattle of Geryon, he unknowingly moored himself near one's territory. She then stole the cattle and would only give them back to him on one condition: he had to sleep with her and give her sons. Hercules obliged and gave her three.
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* CuteMonsterGirl: Very beautiful once you look past the snake tails.
* MermaidProblem: Averted. Text specifically mention that they still had a human woman's buttocks (and presumably, other adjacent parts), with serpent tails replacing each leg at the thighs, rather than the hips. Which probably made it easier for Hercules to impregnate one.
* MonsterIsAMommy: Not initially, but after meeting Hercules she became a happy mother of three sons, who went on to become kings of Scythia.
* NonMaliciousMonster: The one met by Hercules didn't want to eat him or anyone. She was merely lonely and longing for children - which led her to commit SexualExtortion on Hercules admittedly, but a dramatic improvement over wanting to kill and consume people.
* SexualExtortion: She said that she would only give the cattle of Geryon back to Hercules if he stayed with her for a time and got her pregnant (she longed for a son but had no lover). [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]] in that Hercules not only happily consented to her terms, but went as far as to father three sons for her.
* SnakePeople: Woman down to her butt, twin snake tails below it.
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[[folder:The Sirens]]
A race of bird-women who sang hypnotic music. The only person to hear their song and live to tell the tale was Odysseus.
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: They lured sailors in with their song so they could kill and devour them.
* BrownNote: Their song.
* ButterFace: Inverted; Most artists depict their faces as being quite pretty, but their bodies are those of birds, from either the waist or ''neck'' down.
* DrivenToSuicide: Some say that when Orpheus played his song, the sirens were so heartbroken at being outdone that they threw themselves from their island, died and [[TakenForGranite turned into rocks]]. There is something similar in ''Literature/TheOdyssey'': after Odysseus heard their song, and lived to tell about it, the Sirens flung themselves in the water and perished.
* FeatheredFiend: They were originally depicted as half women, half song-bird (often interpreted as canaries) creatures. It explains why they sing so well and why they fly.
* ForcedTransformation: In one of his many tales of the gods doling these out, the poet Ovid re-invents the Sirens as Persephone's former handmaidens. When they failed to find her after her kidnapping, [[MamaBear a furious Demeter]] transformed them into bird-women, either as punishment or to assist in the search.
* ForTheEvulz: They didn't seem to have a reason to drown and eat all of those people. They just did. Although ForcedTransformation above gives the possibility of a FreudianExcuse, in later, Roman mythology, as least.
* JustSoStory: The tale where they drown themselves after hearing Orpheus singing more beautifully than them was likely made up to explain why the Sirens weren't around anymore in "modern" Ancient Greek times.
* LittleBitBeastly: Inverted, they were mostly beastly. Also despite being commonly remembered as part-fish, but they were traditionally viewed as part-bird.
* LogicalWeakness: Their power was completely ineffective if the target couldn't actually hear them or if they could hear them but were unable to go to them as happened with Odysseus and his men.
* MagicMusic: One of the most famous examples in fiction and the inspiration for many portrayals that came after.
* MultipleChoicePast: Similar to the Gorgons, in some tellings, they were daughters of either one of the Muses (usually Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy) or Gaia and transformed into Sirens by Demeter, while other tellings claim they were daughters of Phorkys and born as Sirens. Unlike the Gorgons, however, most tellings actually seem to split the difference, claiming that some Sirens were born that way while others were the transformed daughters of a Muse.
* NoNameGiven: Ultimately subverted--''Literature/TheOdyssey'', their first known appearance, never mentions the names or origins of the two Sirens Odysseus encountered. Hesiod would later give the Sirens the names Thelxinoe (or Thelxinope), Aglaophonus and Molpe and bumped their number up to [[TerribleTrio three]].
* NoSavingThrow: Their CompellingVoice bewitches ''anyone'' that hears it, regardless of [[YourHeartsDesire what they desire]] or how much HeroicWillpower they possess. Odysseus only survived listening to the sirens because he was tightly bound to the mast of his ship prior to entering their range; he ''was'' under their enthrall, and would have leapt to his doom if given the chance.
* OurSirensAreDifferent: Trope namers and codifiers.
* PetTheDog: In some versions of the Persephone myth, Demeter turning them into Sirens was cited as this--they were fretting about not being able to find her, so Demeter gifted them with wings so they could cover more ground. Eventually they gave up and flew off to their island to commit murder instead [[ForTheEvulz for some reason]].
* {{Revenge}}: In one story, they killed Telemachus upon finding out he was the son of Odysseus.
* {{Psychopomp}}: It seems the Sirens accquired at least some characteristics of psychopomps, as time went on. Throughout the Greek world figurines depicting Sirens were placed in the graves of the freshly deceased to guide and protect them on their way to the Underworld.
* SadlyMythtaken: [[SirensAreMermaids They were not mermaids.]] And they were not ''fully'' aquatic. This wouldn't make any sense; they are never stated to leave the rocks they live on and the one time they do, they ''drown''. Additionally, in Roman myth, Demeter turned them into Sirens to aid in the search for the kidnapped Persephone. So unless she thought Persephone was at the bottom of the ocean[[note]]though if she did, she wouldn't be too far off the mark; Persephone was certainly at the bottom of someplace...[[/note]], she wouldn't have made them part fish. On top of that they weren't beautiful. They were mostly bird with the heads of women and looked a fair amount like vultures.
** It doesn't help that the word for mermaid in Spanish is "sirena", which lead to the confusion.
* TakeOurWordForIt: The ''actual'' song of the Sirens has never been written in lyrical form by the Ancient Greeks, presumably because there was no way a human could put together a beautiful enough song for them. That hasn't stopped modern lyricists from trying though. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGX5kM2ro2E For example...]]
* ToServeMan: They fed on their victims after destroying their ships.
* VillainSong: The Sirens' song could be seen as one, as it was meant to lure mortals to their doom.
* WingedHumanoid
* YourHeartsDesire: Their song can do this. With their song, they hypnotized listeners into thinking that they could give them the things they desired most. For example, Odysseus, who was an individual who constantly wanted to learn more and the Sirens offered him in their song incredible knowledge and the ability to see the future.
* YouCantFightFate: According to Hyginus, sirens were fated to live only until the mortals who heard their songs were able to pass by them. Guess what happens when Odysseus heard their song, and survived.
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[[folder:The Sow of Crommyon]]
The Crommyonian Sow was a wild pig owned by Phaia (and sometimes named after her), the sow was a daughter of Echidna and Typhon and mother of the Calydonian Boar. It was killed by Theseus.
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* AnimalisticAbomination: The Crommyonian Sow was yet another of Typhon and Echidna's monstrous offspring, and so it follows that her own offspring, the Calydonian Boar also qualifies.
* FullBoarAction: Doesn't get more full-boar than a couple of giant, demonic piggies.
* TrulySingleParent: Possibly the Crommyonian Sow, seeing as no mention is made of the Calydonian Boar's father.
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[[folder:Sphinx]]
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One of the daughters of Typhon and Echidna (or in some versions, Orthrus & Chimera), the Sphinx had the head of a woman and the body of a winged lioness. She was born in Ethiopia and tasked by Hera to block the path to Thebes, where she asked travelers a [[RiddleOfTheSphinx tricky riddle]], and when they failed to answer she strangled and ate them. [[Theatre/OedipusRex Oedipus]] managed to figure out the answer, and she was so enraged she threw herself off a cliff.
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* AKindOfOne: Though she is usually treated as one of a kind, there are mentions by ancient writers of other, lesser sphinxes out there in the wild like her.
* DrivenToSuicide: Her riddle being bested was so devastating to her she committed suicide by she jumping off a cliff.
* MultipleChoicePast: Sometimes one of Typhon and Echidna's offspring, others the daughter of Orthrus and Chimera.
* OurSphinxesAreDifferent: She's typically portrayed with wings and a woman's head, sometimes also with human breasts or a serpent-headed tail. She was malicious and dangerous, and guarded the road to Thebes, killed all who could not answer her famous riddle and took her own life when Oedipus got it right. She was usually considered one of the many monstrous children of Echidna, making her a sister to the Chimera, Cerberus and other monsters, and to have lived in Ethiopia until Hera sent her to plague Thebes.
* RiddleOfTheSphinx: The TropeMaker. "Which creature walks on four legs in the morning, two legs in the afternoon, and three legs in the evening?" The answer: [[spoiler: Man. The periods of the day morning, afternoon and evening are analogies for the phases of human life - they crawl "in the morning while they are young, walk on two legs "in the afternoon" after that, and then use a cane at old age "in the evening".]]
* RiddlingSphinx: TropeNamer and TropeMaker
* SmugSnake: Absolutely confident that no-one could guess the answer to her riddle.
* ToServeMan: She ate the people she killed.
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[[folder:Typhon / Typhoeus]]
After the Olympians overthrew the Titans, Gaia gave birth to the biggest, nastiest, deadliest and most terrifying monster in Greek mythology, with arms that reached east and west -- with a hundred dragon/serpent heads on each -- huge wings that blackened the sky, fire blazing from his eyes and mouth, [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] a head like a dragon, sometimes with the head of a man, and sometimes with [[MultipleHeadCase a hundred dragon heads]]...yeah, Zeus had a pretty hard time defeating this guy. He also had numerous monster babies with Echidna. Zeus eventually trapped him under Mount Etna, where he causes volcanic eruptions.
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* AndIMustScream: Trapped forever under Mount Etna.
* ArchEnemy: Birthed by Gaia specifically to be this for Zeus.
* AttackOfThe50FootWhatever: To say he was ''incomprehensibly massive'' is a major understatement.
* AvengingTheVillain: Birthed by Gaia to take revenge for the Titans.
* BigBad: A good chunk of the horrible things that happened in Classical Mythology were, at least, indirectly his fault. He spawned almost all of the nastiest monsters and was specifically created to bring about Zeus' downfall.
* CombatTentacles: In some versions, he has snake coils below his legs that he can catch Zeus with.
* DecompositeCharacter: Strangely, Nonnus' ''Dionysiaca'' claims that there are two Typhons--the first is the one we know, the second is one of the Giants who battled in the Gigantomachy and generally regarded as the first Typhon's successor. The first Typhon is sealed under Mount Etna by Zeus while the second is killed by [[BewareTheSillyOnes Dionysus]] during the Gigantomachy.
* DraconicAbomination: Some versions of Typhon make [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Tiamat]] look like a gecko, possessing a hundred -- if not more -- draconic heads spewing fire, lava, and cacophonous noise.
* TheDreaded: The gods were terrified of this guy. To put it into perspective, when he showed up to fight Zeus, all the other Olympians ''fled in terror'', leaving only Zeus (and in some versions, Athena) to fight him.
* EldritchAbomination: Not kidding about that above description. Not to mention he can go toe-to-toe with ''Zeus'', the TopGod of Greek Mythology. Some myths say that he actually defeated Zeus and ripped off his sinews, but then Hermes (Franchise/TheFlash of Greek Mythology) recovered the sinews and gave them back to Zeus, healing him. Zeus won the second match and sealed Typhon.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: As evil as he was, he dearly loved his wife and it's implied that they both loved their children.
* EvilUncle: Kind of. He is Gaia's son and therefore the half-brother of Kronos, Zeus' father. At the same time, he is also Zeus' ''great''-uncle, since he is also the brother of Ouranos.
* EyeScream: Some versions say that his eyes oozed with venom.
* FatherOfAThousandYoung: He's the daddy of most of the monsters in Greek Mythology.
* GodCouple: With Echidna.
* GreaterScopeVillain: Just like Echidna, he's the father of all the other monsters.
* HappilyMarried: None of the myths portray him and Echidna as anything other than this.
* HeroKiller: Without a doubt ''the'' worst monster in Greek myth. And depending on the version, he whupped Zeus' ass in round one.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Some versions of the story say that Typhon was going to bury ''Zeus'' under Mt. Etna. When he lifted the mountain over his head, Zeus threw a few hundred bolts of lightning at Typhon and caused him to drop the mountain on top of himself.
* HumanoidAbomination: Half humanoid anyway.
* TheJuggernaut: It took a mountain getting dropped on him to stop his rampage, and he ''still'' didn't die.
* {{Kaiju}}: A metropolis-sized, destructive monster.
* MultipleHeadCase: Sometimes depicted as having a hundred dragon heads.
* OurGiantsAreBigger: Emphasis on big. When he raises his hands above his head they can nearly touch the stars.
* OurMonstersAreWeird: Even by Greek monster standards, his appearance was bizarre.
* SealedEvilInACan: Sealed beneath Mount Etna ([[Franchise/{{Disgaea}} no relation]]).
* SnakePeople: Not as obvious as Echidna, but it's still there.
* ToThePain: In Nonnus' ''Dionysiaca'', Typhon proclaims to Zeus all the horrible things he plans on doing to his family when he defeats him, including chaining up Poseidon with the same chains binding the Titan Iapetus, sending a stronger eagle to feast on Hephaestus' liver as revenge for Prometheus' punishment, trapping Hermes in a bronze jar, enslaving Ares and Apollo and having Hera, Artemis and Athena raped.
%%* UnholyMatrimony: With Echidna.
* VillainousLegacy: His wife is spared more or less to invoke this trope--after Typhon is defeated, Zeus orders for Echidna to be kept alive, as her offspring will make excellent challenges for future heroes to fight.
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