Mix And Match Critters / Western Animation

"What the hell is that?"

Mix-and-Match Critters in Western Animation.

Avatar: The Last Airbender and The Legend of Korra have their own page.

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• 100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone: The eponymous artifact is what created werewolves by fusing a human warrior with a wolf he was fighting. It can also fuse other animals, but the results are unstable and end up as permanent hybrids. The first is a rat fused with one of its fleas, named Chubsy.
• Adventure Time: Dr. Gross has made several of these, including a scorpion-chipmunk, a mouse-shark, a bee-chicken, and a clock-bear. They also have plenty of cybernetic implants like she does.
• Aladdin: The Series:
  • Squirt, a creature which grants wishes when it's frightened, somewhat resembles a koala bear with hands and feet like a monkey.
  • Saurus, the mount used by the bounty hunter Mukhtar, looks like a hybrid between an ostrich and a theropod dinosaur.
• Penny, Gumball's girlfriend from The Amazing World of Gumball, is an anthropomorphic peanut with antlers.
  • The non-anthropomorphic animals from the Forest Of Doom used to be this trope to the extreme, until the show changed the art-style for regular animals, and they were replaced by generic, more realistic ones.
• Arthur: Starting from the sixth season, D.W.'s friend Emily is implied to be one of these, as her mom and dad are a rabbit and monkey respectively and her jaw was redesigned to be more rounded and slightly "monkey-like" compared to the other rabbit characters in the show.
• Batman: The Brave and the Bold's B'wana Beast has this as his superpower. He can combine two separate animals into one. Even Batman thinks it's kinda weird.
• Batman Beyond: Cuvier's splicing company is fittingly named Chimera Studios. At the start of the final battle, he turns himself into a creature with the head of an eagle, the torso of a tiger and the lower body of a snake, calling himself "a true chimera". But then Batman makes things worse for him by injecting all kinds of animal DNA into him, turning him into a blob monster.
• Biker Mice from Mars has Fred the mutant, who has a duck's foot, a bear's foot, a human arm for his right arm, an octopus tentacle for his left arm and three eyes.
• CatDog: The main character/s are the front half of a cat and the front half of a dog, conjoined at the middle.
• Chowder: Chowder and Panini are a cross between a cat, bear, and rabbit. However, the original idea for the Chowder design was to look like some sort of squeeze toy.
• Class of 3000: One episode shows that Eddie owns a pet crocobear named Mindy.
• Clone High gives us the hunkicorn: "half hummingbird, half donkey, and half unicorn."
  "I hope your Mom wasn't the hummingbird!"
• The Crumpets has José, a pet octopus owned by Grownboy Crumpet who got thrown by a hook rod held one of his younger sisters Blister, and hits a flying mosquito before the two creatures fall to the Crumpet mother's fusing machine and become the episode's namesake "octosquito". José transformed to an octopus with a mosquito proboscis and wings, and he grows, flies, and shoots ink at the other Crumpets in havoc.
• Cupcake & Dino: General Services has Kattycorn in "Everybody loves Kattycorn", who's part cat, part unicorn. Also parodied in another episode with the Manygoose, a goose with the head of a goose, the body of a different goose, and a horn that's just another goose.
• Dawn of the Croods follows its source material in having lots of these. Besides the ones already featured in the movie, there are also things such as chickuna (Chicken Tuna).
• Doc McStuffins: In "A Pet for Everyone", the Wicked King creates the Perfectly Royal Perfect Pet Pavilion which allows toys to create designer pets. When the McStuffins Pet Rescue Team has to break in at night to rescue Bob, a non-designer pet toy dog that Hallie has decided to adopt, they end up accidentally creating a designer pet as well. It has a rubber duck head, a squirrel tail, rabbit and cat ears and parts from various other animals. The Wicked King itself ends up adopting it.
• Duck Amuck: One scene has the animator erase Daffy's body, leaving only his head. Daffy then gets angry at him and tells him to draw his body back. The animator instead redraws Daffy as a bizarre quadruped with a flower-shaped head, mismatched feet, and a flagpole for a tail, with Daffy's flag displaying a screw and a ball. The animator then draws a mirror in front of Daffy, causing him to freak out after seeing his reflection.
• Elena of Avalor: The realm of Vallestrella is inhabited by these types of creatures, who are based on the Mexican folk art of alebrijes. Notably, the Series Mascot, the jaquins, are jaguars with the wings of macaws. There are also flaringos (flamingo-giraffe hybrids), butterfrogs (frogs with butterfly wings), peabunnies (bunnies with peacock tail feathers), and sun birds (Feathered Serpents, who are based off of Quetzalcoatl).
• Family Guy:
  • "You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives": Noah is on his ark and discovers that an elephant and a penguin made love and produced a penguin with an elephant head. They named it Paul.
  • "Into Harmony's Way" has a parody of Muppet Babies only it's about babies of the Muppets rather than the Muppets as babies, with Kermit and Miss Piggy's son Kermie Jr. being a gross frog/pig hybrid that is in pain and begs to be killed.
  • "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!": Peter once took the lyric "two turtledoves" literally and gave Lois a pair of genetically engineered doves with turtle shells for Christmas. After letting them loose, they flew around the living room erratically and the Griffins decided to spend that Christmas outside.
• Fanboy and Chum Chum has the Rattleskunkupine, which Fanboy describes as "half rattlesnake, half porcupine, all skunk".
• The Farm Of Tomorrow: Most of the jokes consist of bizarre cross-breeding experiments such as an ostrich with a chicken (for bigger drumsticks), a duck with a banana (you peel the feathers off instead of plucking) and a dove with a high chair (a stool pigeon).
• Futurama: Zoidberg's species, the Decapodians, are hybrids of every sea creature there is — crab claws, cuttlefish for heads, ink-squirting, moltable shells, and then there's the dozens of larval stages they go through, including lampreys, trilobites, sea urchins, clams, and anglerfish and coral phase. When they mate, the males display their crest, but when you get lucky, you're really unlucky: all those who mate die.
• Gravity Falls:
  • The Gremloblin, a cross between goblins and gremlins. Apparently, those who gaze into its eyes are shown their worst nightmares and in all cases suffer catatonia from it. Contact with water also makes them turn far more menacing, even growing wings.
  • In a later episode, after Mabel witnesses a snake and a badger fall in love, she excitedly claims that they're going to make a "snadger".
• He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983) was full of these. Some examples:
  • Molkrom, a centaur-like demon with the head of a horse, a wolf's tail and teeth, bull horns and tentacles for arms.
  • In "Son Of Celice", Orko accidentally creates a chimpanzee with a rabbit's head when he means to summon a gift for the king of Tahrin.
• Hilda: The eponymous character's loyal companion, Twig, is a creature called a deerfox, having the head, body, and tail of a fox, but the legs and antlers of a deer.
• I Am Weasel: In "I Am Deity", the miniature weasels and baboons breed, which results in waboons and babeasels.
• Kim Possible villain DNAmy loves plush toy Mix-and-Match Critters called "Cuddlebuddies" (like pandaroo) and makes living ones with LEGO Genetics.
  • She used her knowledge of genetics to create a cat-snake, rabbit-rhino, chicken and pig men, a lobster dog, a poodle-gorilla, a naked-mole man (from Rufus and Mr. Barkin), and supervillain Monkeyfist.
  • If you look closely, you can see she wears an otter-fly brooch on the front of her top, one of her favorite cuddle-buddies.
• The Life and Times of Juniper Lee has an episode dedicated to Juniper meeting a bat-otter.
• Loonatics Unleashed has The Ringmaster and Otto the Odd capture all six Loonatics, and conduct LEGO Genetics resequencing on them, which converts the Loonatics into patchwork composites of different species. Ace Bunny gets cheetah fur and moose antlers, Lexi Bunny gets skunk fur and reptilian belly plates, Rev Runner gets a bat's fur and wings plus a pig's snout, et cetera. The fiendish process also switches their superpowers. The villains have apparently done this with other people, converting random children into "galactic oddities" which they display for amusement.
• Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart: Orangusnake, as the name indicates, would be a hybrid of orangutan and snake with the latter taking the head and the former being most of the body. And then it turns out to be a subversion, as Orangusnake is actually two individuals: A snake named Coby, and an orangutan named Tanner. They just join and use armor to pretend to be a single, more intimidating criminal.
• My Little Pony: Rescue at Midnight Castle:
  • Scorpan, The Dragon to the first Big Bad of the franchise, is for all intents and purposes a baboon with bat wings.
  • Tirac also has mooks that can be described as half-orc and half-lizardman.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Numerous monsters in the show have fit this trope, including:
    • Manticores are lions with bat wings and scorpion tails. "No Second Prances" has a manticore that also sports a pair of horns.
    • Cockatrices have vaguely draconic bodies and chicken heads.
    • Fruit bats are literally hybrids of bats and fruit. "Bats!" introduces "vampire fruit bats", a Darker and Edgier form of the same that suck fruit dry of juice.
    • The classic Greek Chimera shows up in season 4. However, its main head is now that of a saber-toothed cat in place of a lion.
    • Flyders are just that — spiders with fly wings.
    • Maulwurfs are described as half-mole, half-bear, half-raging-pile-of-claws. The one in "To Change a Changeling" is, in practice, a giant mole with a bearlike stance and the teeth of a pocket gopher.
    • "Daring Done?": The sphinx is a massive lion-like creature with feathered wings and a pony's head.
    • "Non-Compete Clause": The main characters are menaced by a school of biteacudas, piranha-like fish with bat wings.
    • "School Raze": This is exploited when the main characters hatch a plan to escape Tartarus after having their magic drained by temporarily borrowing the magic inherent in the natures of the chimeric beasts imprisoned there; until their magic is returned, this causes the volunteer monsters to temporarily split into their component animals — a manticore into a lion and a scorpion, a chimera into a snake, a goat and saber-toothed cat, a bugbear into a wasp and a panda, and a cockatrice into a cobra and a chicken.
  • Griffins have appeared in several episodes. The first seen, Gilda, is a classic lion-eagle hybrid. Later griffin designs have been more varied, including things like tiger hindquarters and owl and hawk forequarters.
  • Hippogriffs, meanwhile, look more pony-like, with pony bodies and rear legs and the wings, beak and front claws of an eagle. Some have what appear to be pony manes and tails, though Queen Novo and a few others seem to have feathers instead. In their aquatic forms, they have pony-like heads with beaks and seahorse-like bodies with almost insect- or butterfly-like wing-fins on their backs and fluke-like fins at the end of the tail.
  • Discord, the spirit of chaos, is a vaguely dragon-like creature called a draconequus, with the head of a pony and a mish-mash of other animal parts, including an antler, a goat's horn, a lion's paw, an eagle's talon, a deer's leg, a dragon's claw, and a snake's tail with a tuft of fur at the end.
  • Alicorns such as Celestia and Luna are a combination of the three breeds of pony; the magic of a unicorn (horn), the flight of a pegasus (wings) and the strength of an earth pony (physical strength and size).
  • The G4 incarnation Tirek appears as centaur with gorilla-like facial features and bull horns.
• The New Adventures of Jonny Quest: The dinosaurs in "Peril of the Reptilian" include a Tyrannosaurus with Pteranodon wings. The Reptilian himself is said to be part human, part dinosaur, but he isn't as blatant as Phorbus' other creations, looking like your standard anthropomorphic lizard man.
• The Owl House: Luz’s palisman, Stringbean, is a small snake with a cat-like head.
• Peppermint Rose: Petalpuff the dragon is half dragon and half elephant.
• Phineas and Ferb:
  • The "something that doesn't exist" from the opening theme is a half-turtle, half-unicorn with webbed hind legs.
  • "The Chronciles of Meap: More than Meaps the Eye": The Bango-ru dolls are apparently like custom-made Wuzzles. Stacy orders an adorable bunny-bear, while Candace orders a Bango-ru that's half-cow, half-frog, which... didn't turn out so well.
    Candace: I just discovered why cows and frogs don't date.
  • "Wizard of Odd" has Buford as a combination lion, tiger and bear.
    Candance, Jeremy and Baljeet: Oh my.
    Buford: If I Had a Nickel... for every time I herd that...
  • "When Worlds Collide": The whalemingo has the body of a whale and the head, wings, plumage and legs of a flamingo. Also, it's an alien.
• The Pirates of Dark Water had Niddler the Monkey-Bird as one of its Ragtag Bunch of Misfits.
• The Problem Solverz: Alfe is supposed to be part human, part dog, and part anteater, although he doesn't really resemble any of those.
• Rainbow Butterfly Unicorn Kitty has Felicity, who is part-butterfly, unicorn, cat, and rainbow.
• Ready Jet Go!: Sunspot is described as being a mix of a dog, cat, rabbit, kangaroo, and raccoon. This can be seen in his appearance as well, where he has the figure of a kangaroo, the tail of a raccoon, and the ears of a rabbit. He also possesses the behaviors of both dogs and cats.
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: In one episode, the Monster of the Week is an army of skeletal cattle that are in reality a genetically engineered cross between cows, bees, and piranhas.
• The Simpsons:
  • One episode has fun with this when, at a Renaissance faire, Chief Wiggum's collection of mythical beasts includes the Esquilax, a horse with the head of a rabbit... and the body of a rabbit. Oh look, it's galloping away!
  • Played straight in one Treehouse of Horror episode where Homer gets turned into a bizarre creature with a fish's head, a donkey's ears, a pair of brooms for hands and a chicken's body.
  • There is also a memorable appearance by an "octoparrot" at a dubious center for scientific research which insists that "Polly shouldn't be".
• Sleeping Beauty: Maleficent's goons resemble evil pig-vulture-gorilla-crocodile-things.
• South Park has done it several times, including the half-squirrel half-chicken, Scuzzlebutt (looks like Beast but has Patrick Duffy for a leg among other things...) and ManBearPig (although ManBearPig is supposedly fiction created by Al Gore... until it wasn't).
  Al Gore: Manbearpig is real! I'm SUPER cereal!
  • And the God is best described as hippo-cat with a lizard's tongue.
  • Doubly subverted in one episode. They try to splice pig and elephant DNA, despite having heard that song by Loverboy. They don't get a pig/elephant hybrid. It looks like a normal pig. But...its face looks like Mr. Garrison.
• Spliced: Pretty much all the main characters qualify. Entree is part chicken, part pig, part cow, and part shrimp; Two-Legs Joe is the front half of a rhinoceros with a bird growing out of his rump; Mister Smarty-Smarts is a dolphin-chimpanzee; Princess is a gorilla-pony; Patricia is a platypus (the closest thing to a real-world example); Octocat is Exactly What It Says on the Tin; and Peri is... well, not even he knows for sure. Justified by most of them being the results of experiments by a Mad Scientist.
• Spongebob Squarepants:
  • "The Camping Episode": Spongebob and Patrick are wary of sea-bears, which are a mix of piranha and bear. Squidward doesn't believe they exist and tempts fate by doing everything Spongebob and Patrick believe attracts sea-bears. Naturally this attracts a sea-bear who spends the rest of the episode mauling Squidward. Just when Squidward thinks he's safe after he gets inside Spongebob and Patrick's protective dirt circle (the sea-bear leaves after making a threatening gesture to Squidward — it really hates Squidward), a sea-rhino appears. And Squidward isn't wearing anti-sea-rhino underwear...
  • "I Was A Teenage Gary": the snail plasma injection causes SpongeBob to turn into a snail-sea sponge hybrid. Ditto for Squidward.
• Steven Universe: Centipeetle has the general body shape of a centipede and a tail and mouth resembling the pincers of a beetle. On top of that, she has a white lion-like mane of hair, a single eye in her mouth, and acidic saliva.
• Superman Theatrical Cartoons: "The Underground World" has the Man of Steel pitted against the Hawk People, a Winged Humanoid species with bird heads, and strong enough to give Supes trouble.
• In the Sushi Pack episode "Near Miss", Paradoxter, himself a man-ox of unknown origin, creates the Animixter Ray that combines two animals into one amalgam. The animals all go back to normal once it is broken, though.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) Just in case humanoid turtles (and a rat, a rhinoceros, a boar, a gecko...) didn't qualify, there's an episode where the Villain of the Week was a Mad Scientist that bred Mix-and-Match Critters to be his slaves (a gorilla-bison was among the examples). This is essentially how the mutagen works; any being that's contaminated takes on the physical attributes of whatever creature they most recently came in contact with.

• Tiny Toon Adventures: In "Hare Raising Night", Melvin the Monster, created by Dr. Gene Splicer, has the head of a dog, the horns of a bull, the body of an orangutan, the wings of a bat, the legs of a pig, and the tail of an alligator. The pictures in Splicer's lab indicate he wasn't the only monster Splicer worked on, and Splicer tried to make Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton into a single species as well.
• Transformers:
  • Beast Wars: Fuzors are Transformers who turn into Mix-and-Match Critters. They include a wolf-eagle and a scorpion-cobra (no points for guessing who took what side). The television series explained this as a result of technical problems that occurred when they were scanning for new forms. A third Fuzor was introduced late in the series, though his origin was quite different, in that his body was the fusion of the bodies of two other Maximals.
  • Transformers: Prime includes a Shout-Out to the Fuzors, by having Ratchet mention one by name (Bantor).
    "He was all mandrill before I put a tiger in his tank!"
• Unikitty! has the title character, who is half-kitten, half-unicorn. Others include her brother Puppycorn (half-puppy, half-unicorn), her bodyguard Hawkodile (half hawk, half crocodile), and Hawkodile's rival, Eagleator (half-eagle, half-alligator).
• The Wuzzles: All of the characters are combinations of two different animals. The main characters include Eleroo (elephant + kangaroo), Bumblelion (lion + bee), Rhinokey (monkey + rhino), Moosel (moose + seal), Hoppopotamus (hippo + rabbit), and Butterbear (butterfly + bear).
  • Played for Laughs in a parody sketch Robot Chicken to explain ''how'' Wuzzles are made. The implications are less than pleasant.
  • Animalistic versions of Rhinokey and Butterbear appear in DuckTales (2017), though here it's Justified in that they are the result of Fusion Dances courtesy of the Stone of What Was.
• Zafari's cast features many such characters, including an elephant with zebra stripes, a giraffe with a peacock tail, a lion with flamingo feathers, an orangutan with penguin feathers, a monkey with parrot feathers, a hippo with a skunk's tail, an armadillo with a ladybug shell, a rattlesnake with porcupine quills, and a crocodile with the fur of a golden lion tamarin.
• Zeke's Pad: Sketch, the ideal pet Zeke creates in "Fetch a Sketch", is a is very weird looking creature, with a hyena's jaw, feathers, fins, and other weird parts.

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