History Main / HarpingOnAboutHarpies

* In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', harpies are a regular facet of the dungeon ecosystem. They have female human faces and breasts, however they are biologically fully avian, are not intelligent, and even lack teeth. As Laios explains, they prefer to home in other creatures meals, and then they scream and poop everywhere to make the original hunter leave. After gorging themselves full they return and feed their young by vomiting into their mouths. Their breasts do no produce milk, as they are fully oviparious, their purpose is to serve as a bald patch on the chest to hold their young and eggs while nesting, and they even eat the young's feces to keep the nest clean. As if their resemblance to humans is not gross enough, Laios explains all of this in precense of poor Kabru, who is currently trying to force down the harpy egg omelette Laios gave him and his biology lesson is not helping things.

* In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', harpies are a regular facet of the dungeon ecosystem. They have female human faces and breasts, however they are biologically fully avian, are not intelligent, and even lack teeth. As Laios explains, they prefer to home in other creatures meals, and then they scream and poop everywhere to make the original hunter leave. After gorging themselves full they return and feed them young by vomiting into their mouths. Their breasts do no produce milk, as they are fully oviparious, their purpose is to serve as a bald patch on the chest to hold their young and eggs while nesting, and in return the young eat the parent's feces to keep the nest clean. As if their resemblance to humans is not gross enough, Laios explains all of this in precense of poor Kabru, who is currently trying to force down the harpy egg omelette Laios gave him and his biology lesson is not helping things.

* In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', harpies are a regular facet of the dungeon ecosystem. They have female human faces and breasts, however they are biologically fully avian, are not intelligent, and even lack teeth. As Laios explains, they are mostly scavengers and when finding a carcass they scream and poop everywhere to make potential competitors leave. They also feed their young by vomiting into their mouths, and the young in turn eat any extrement around the nest when they leave. As if their resemblance to humans is not gross enough, Laios explains all of this in precense of poor Kabru, who is currently trying to force down the harpy egg omelette Laios gave him and his ecology lesson is not helping things.

* In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', [[spoiler: the Lunatic Magician sends a group of harpies to attack Team Touden and Team Shuro. They deal with them, but then she sends in Falin...]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Miitopia}}'': Here, harpies look more like a RidiculouslyCuteCritter, as they are winged creature with CatSmile and small claw-like feet. They are notoriously bothersome because of their TornadoMove, which can temporarily remove a non-guest party member from the battlefield.

** Kyôkahas Cool Mask looks vaguely like a bird's head, hair that resembles wings, and talons. Her [[OneWingedAngel Etherious form]] adds feathers onto her back and horns.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLastUnicorn'' contains Celaeno (based on the character of the same name in ''Literature/TheAeneid''), a harpy that looks less like a harpy and more like a ugly, eared and toothed vulture with three disgusting breasts that are way [[{{What do you mean its for kids}} too detailed for a film that is supposedly kid friendly]]. She was captured by Mommy Fortuna for the old hag's traveling circus and the unicorn sets her free. She then reveals herself to be [[spoiler:just as evil and nasty as most harpies, and attacks the unicorn]]. Oddly enough, she speaks with a male-sounding voice despite being female.

* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' has a character called Harpy in reference to the mythical harpy, [[NonIndicativeName but her appearance and mannerisms are more comparable to an angel]]. In the UsefulNotes/PC98 version of ''VideoGame/MadouMonogatari 1-2-3'', she's an actual harpy, thus fitting this trope.

* ''Manga/MonsterMusume'': Papi and her fantasy {{expy}}s, Aero of ''Manga/DeadlineSummoner'' and a different Aero of ''Manga/TwelveBeast'', are humanoids with birdlike legs and wings instead of arms. In lieu of hands, they possess a single taloned on their wings. ''Manga/TwelveBeast'' also has several harpies as part of Eita's mercenary army.

* The ''Literature/TortallUniverse'' has Stormwings: female and male harpy-like creatures with sharp steel feathers and talons, who desecrate bodies of those slain on the battlefield and are so odoriferous that they repel most humans. As they're in a class of beings called Immortals, they live forever or until accident or malice kills them. Stormwings were dreamt up by a traveller who wanted to make people realize that WarIsHell by taking any glamour out of the fate of the war dead. Some are evil but many aren't, merely tending to be quite offputting to many humans. They also tend to be [[FriendToAllChildren Friends To All Children]] as they lay few steel eggs and even fewer hatch, so they have a soft spot for others' young and will often befriend children or rescue them.
** In ''Literature/TheImmortals'', a Stormwing gives the BigBad a Stormwing feather and tells him that if he plunges it into his flesh, it will allow him to escape any danger "on wings of steel". The BigBad uses it when cornered and is transformed permanently into a Stormwing himself. In ''Literature/TortallASpysGuide'' Daine says ''any'' shed Stormwing feather can do this - considering that the feathers are also sometimes used to fletch arrows to give them MageKiller properties, this suggests humans transforming into them happens more than once in an era.