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* Myth/AztecMythology: The Aztecs saw an eagle devouring a serpent while it was perched on a cactus plant and took it as a sign to build their capital city, Tenochtitlan, there. In commemoration of this, the [[UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} Mexican national flag]] has an eagle holding a snake in its talons.
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* Myth/AztecMythology: The Aztecs saw an eagle devouring a serpent while it was perched on a cactus plant and took it as a sign to build their capital city, Tenochtitlan, Tenochtitlan (today's UsefulNotes/MexicoCity), there. In commemoration of this, the [[UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} Mexican national flag]] has an eagle holding a snake in its talons.
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* ''Manga/HeavensDesignTeam'': One of the [[{{Foil}} many contrasts]] that fuels the professional rivalry between Mizushima and Kanamori is that the former invented serpents and the latter invented birds. One chapter involves an evolutionary arms race between their creations when Kanamori creates a weaver bird that builds false openings in its nest to foil predators like snakes.
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* ''Manga/HeavensDesignTeam'': One of the [[{{Foil}} many contrasts]] that fuels the professional rivalry between Mizushima and Kanamori is that the former invented serpents and the latter invented birds. One chapter involves an evolutionary arms race between their creations when Kanamori creates a weaver bird that builds false openings in its nest to foil predators like snakes. (especially egg-eating snakes), and eventually escalates to Kanamori inventing a bird that preys on snakes (the secretary bird).
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* ''Myth/ChineseMythology'': The Fenghuang is a DivineBird which is sometimes depicted attempting to kill a snake with its talons.
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* ''Myth/ChineseMythology'': The Fenghuang is a DivineBird {{Divine Bird|s}} which is sometimes depicted attempting to kill a snake with its talons.
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* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': This conflict plays out symbolically between Katniss Everdeen and President Coriolanus Snow. As her token in the Hunger Games arena, Katniss wears a pin shaped like a mockingjay, a songbird beloved by her late father and an unintentional reminder a past Captiol humiliation. As the series goes on, Katniss' relationship with the mockingjay becomes more and more literal, to the point that both she and the bird become leading symbols of the new rebellion to overthrow the government. President Snow, meanwhile, is compared to a snake on multiple occasions; his surgically altered features make him resemble one, his cunning and duplicity are very snake-like, and it's later revealed that he rose to power by poisoning his enemies ("the perfect weapon for a snake").
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* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': This conflict plays out symbolically between Katniss Everdeen and President Coriolanus Snow. As her token in the Hunger Games arena, Katniss wears a pin shaped like a mockingjay, a songbird beloved by her late father and an unintentional reminder of a past Captiol Capitol humiliation. As the series goes on, Katniss' relationship with the mockingjay becomes more and more literal, to the point that both she and the bird become leading symbols of the new rebellion to overthrow the government.Capitol. President Snow, meanwhile, is compared to a snake on multiple occasions; his surgically altered features make him resemble one, his cunning and duplicity are very snake-like, and it's later revealed that he rose to power by poisoning his enemies ("the perfect weapon for a snake").
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* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': This conflict plays out symbolically between Katniss Everdeen and President Coriolanus Snow. As her token in the Hunger Games arena, Katniss wears a pin shaped like a mockingjay, a songbird beloved by her late father and an unintentional reminder a past Captiol humiliation. As the series goes on, Katniss' relationship with the mockingjay becomes more and more literal, to the point that both she and the bird become leading symbols of the new rebellion to overthrow the government. President Snow, meanwhile, is compared to a snake on multiple occasions; his surgically altered features make him resemble one, his cunning and duplicity are very snake-like, and it's later revealed that he rose to power by poisoning his enemies ("the perfect weapon for a snake").
** In the prequel novel ''Literature/TheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes'', the symbolism is also present. A teenaged Coriolanus Snow is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute in the 10th Hunger Games. A performer by trade, her singing is a key part of the story, and she is the one who first mentions mockingjays to young Snow. While Snow is not explicitly associated with snakes quite yet, Lucy manages to survive an onslaught of mutated snakes in the arena thanks to his help, and towards the end of the novel he poisons his first enemy, starting him on the path that will eventually lead to where readers met him back in the original trilogy.
** In the prequel novel ''Literature/TheBalladOfSongbirdsAndSnakes'', the symbolism is also present. A teenaged Coriolanus Snow is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute in the 10th Hunger Games. A performer by trade, her singing is a key part of the story, and she is the one who first mentions mockingjays to young Snow. While Snow is not explicitly associated with snakes quite yet, Lucy manages to survive an onslaught of mutated snakes in the arena thanks to his help, and towards the end of the novel he poisons his first enemy, starting him on the path that will eventually lead to where readers met him back in the original trilogy.
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* ''Myth/ChineseMythology'': The Fenghuang is a DivineBird which is sometimes depicted attempting to kill a snake with its talons.
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* One of the [[{{Foil}} many contrasts]] that fuels the professional rivalry between Mizushima and Kanamori in ''Manga/HeavensDesignTeam'' is that the former invented serpents and the latter invented birds. One chapter involves an evolutionary arms race between their creations when Kanamori creates a weaver bird that builds false openings in its nest to foil predators like snakes.
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* ''Manga/HeavensDesignTeam'': One of the [[{{Foil}} many contrasts]] that fuels the professional rivalry between Mizushima and Kanamori in ''Manga/HeavensDesignTeam'' is that the former invented serpents and the latter invented birds. One chapter involves an evolutionary arms race between their creations when Kanamori creates a weaver bird that builds false openings in its nest to foil predators like snakes.
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* Chirin tries to protect some eggs from a snake after it kills their mother in ''Literature/RingingBell'' but accidentally breaks them during the scuffle.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2'': The subplot involves some Hatchlings and piglets trying to rescue some eggs they're trying to watch over before they hatch from a mother snake after said eggs get washed off to sea. [[spoiler: They end up taking the wrong eggs, but the mother snake arrives with the correct eggs, now having hatched into more Hatchlings.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2'': The subplot involves some Hatchlings and piglets trying to rescue some eggs they're trying to watch over before they hatch from a mother snake after said eggs get washed off to sea. [[spoiler: They end up taking the wrong eggs, but the mother snake arrives with the correct eggs, now having hatched into more Hatchlings.]]
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* In ''Literature/DrFranklinsIsland'', Miranda and Arnie are often at odds. When they're separately captured by a MadScientist, subject to a ForcedTransformation, they later meet mentally thanks to ElectronicTelepathy. Arnie conceals that he was turned into a snake monster as he dangles what Miranda sees as false self-serving hope in front of her. Miranda, who is a bird monster, calls Arnie a snake and attacks him, and he appears briefly in snake form. Later they meet again in the flesh [[spoiler: and put their differences aside, not-quite-apologizing, so they can fight the MadScientist.]]
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* In ''Literature/DrFranklinsIsland'', ''Literature/DrFranklinsIsland'': Miranda and Arnie are often at odds. When they're separately captured by a MadScientist, subject to a ForcedTransformation, they later meet mentally thanks to ElectronicTelepathy. Arnie conceals that he was turned into a snake monster as he dangles what Miranda sees as false self-serving hope in front of her. Miranda, who is a bird monster, calls Arnie a snake and attacks him, and he appears briefly in snake form. Later they meet again in the flesh [[spoiler: and put their differences aside, not-quite-apologizing, so they can fight the MadScientist.]]
* ''Literature/RingingBell'': Chirin tries to protect some eggs from a snake after it kills their mother, but accidentally breaks them during the scuffle.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the birdlike celestials known as garudas wage an ancient vendetta against the snakelike nagas, whose leader they believe once imprisoned the mother of their race.
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', the ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'': The birdlike celestials known as garudas wage an ancient vendetta against the snakelike nagas, whose leader they believe once imprisoned the mother of their race.
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* Within the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' games, when the capture the flag mode is played, the blue team will have an image of a bird of prey on their flag, while the red team has an image of a snake on theirs. This tradition began with the original ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' and continued until ''VideoGame/Halo4''.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterSanctuary'''s backstory states that the world was created by various celestial animal spirits, that came into conflict with one another regarding what role mortal life should play in their world - Celestial Dragon sided with the spirits who wanted mortals to worship and serve them, while Celestial Raven sided with the spirits who believed mortals deserved free will and the right to choose how to live.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterSanctuary'''s backstory states that the world was created by various celestial animal spirits, that came into conflict with one another regarding what role mortal life should play in their world - Celestial Dragon sided with the spirits who wanted mortals to worship and serve them, while Celestial Raven sided with the spirits who believed mortals deserved free will and the right to choose how to live.
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* ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': Within the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' games, when the capture the flag mode is played, the blue team will have an image of a bird of prey on their flag, while the red team has an image of a snake on theirs. This tradition began with the original ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' and continued until ''VideoGame/Halo4''.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterSanctuary'''s backstory states that the world was created by various celestial animal spirits, that came into conflict with one another regarding what role mortal life should play in their world- -- Celestial Dragon sided with the spirits who wanted mortals to worship and serve them, while Celestial Raven sided with the spirits who believed mortals deserved free will and the right to choose how to live.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterSanctuary'''s backstory states that the world was created by various celestial animal spirits, that came into conflict with one another regarding what role mortal life should play in their world
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* ''Blast-Off Buzzard'' (a segment of 1977's ''WesternAnimation/CBBears'') had the title bird in pursuit of Crazy Legs Snake.
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* The subplot of ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBirdsMovie2'' involves some Hatchlings and piglets trying to rescue some eggs they're trying to watch over before they hatch from a mother snake after said eggs get washed off to sea. [[spoiler: They end up taking the wrong eggs, but the mother snake arrives with the correct eggs, now having hatched into more Hatchlings.]]
