Swamps Are Evil
In fiction, swamps are often portrayed as godforsaken places that no man enters willingly. When they aren't infested with undead horrors, they hide tribes of hideous frog-, lizard-, or fish-men (or possibly fishlizardfrogmen) who slink from their half-sunken temples to grasp the unwary with their cold hands and drag them beneath the still black water. At the very least, they are the home of poisonous snakes and strange, incurable diseases. Often, there are ancient curses that cause travelers to become lost and wander the swamps forever. A
Scary Symbolic Shapeshifting
Some characters have the ability to take different forms at will; in a similar vein, some villains take dramatic forms in the climax, especially reptilian forms.
This is not about those characters.
This is about characters who aren't shapeshifters, and may not have any supernatural powers at all; they may even be characters in a story with little or no supernatural elements whatsoever. However, the character is most commonly a villain, or at the very least an unpleasant person in general. At some point, they are briefly shown turning into something scary to illustrate how unpleasant they are. It may simply be a scarier-looking version of themselves, it may be an animal that represents their predatory personality, or it may even be an outright monster.
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Episode 352: Episode 338 - Trek to Yomi May 16, 2022
