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* "Satyr" is the translation of the Hebrew ''se'irim'' in [[Literature/TheBible the King James Bible]]. According to [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]], a more literal translation is "hairy ones."

** Maryland's Goatman - One version claims [[WasOnceAMan he was a normal human turned into a goat hybrid]] possibly by genetic engineering.
** Texas Goatman/Lake Worth Monster - It haunts the aforementioned Lake and has the most goat-like appearance of the bunch.
** Kentucky's Pope Lick Monster - Said to live under a railway bridge with one of its origin stories claiming it was a Cirus Freak that escaped and now kills people who dare enter its home.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has satyrs that are a combination of the fauns and satyrs of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]. They like to party and they're great panpipe musicians, but generally spend their days frolicking in the woods. The 3.5 edition of ''Deities and Demigods'' also offers stats on fauns as a separate, less powerful race (who unlike satyrs explicitly come in both male and female forms.) Also worth mentioning are the Ibixians, a race of humanoid goats.

* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': Satyrs are night elves corrupted by demonic influences, resembling red-skinned humanoids with hooves and tall, straight horns. Some sources mention the centaurine dryads as having the lower bodies of fauns, but given that every other source and every depiction of them shows them with the bodies of deer this was most likely a misspelling of "fawn".

* ''VideoGame/{{Diablo}}'' has Goatmen, which are actually demons and not related to either goats or humans.
* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'': Goat demons appear in the second game as EliteMooks.

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* ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'': One of the two races of Beastmen , the appropriately-named Satyros, take this form.
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'': Satyrs feature as some of the [[EliteMooks toughest regular enemies]].
* In ''VideoGame/TheBattleOfOlympus'' (which is based on Myth/ClassicalMythology), satyrs show up as FragileSpeedster {{mooks}} in Attica.
* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}'': Satyrs appear despite this being a game set in ''Heian'' period Japan and is specifically about Japanese mythology.
* In ''VideoGame/GemsOfWar'', the region of Pan's Vale is home to them, as befits its name. The units which can be fought and recruited there reflect this (notably the Satyr unit and the Faunessa unit).
* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series has an example in the Herne, a race of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] who invoke this in appearance. They are humanoid, but have [[HornedHumanoid goat-like horns]], tails, and cloven feet.
* ''VideoGame/{{Battlerite}}'': Blossom is called a faun in her bio, although she's half-deer instead of half-goat.
* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' has Beatrice's Goat Butlers who can devour humans such as those who lost in Beatrice's game.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2'', [[SummonMagic Ifrit]] has the appearance of a satyr wearing a red, horned helmet.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology: Satyrs are available in The Titans expansion pack to Atlantean players who worship Hyperion. They are elite skirmisher units who throw javelins.

* ''VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}}': Satyrs appear despite this being a game set in ''Heian'' period Japan and is specifically about Japanese mythology.

** Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' alters Philoctetes, a human who lit Heracles's funeral pyre and was perhaps his lover, into Philoctetes "Phil" the satyr, an EccentricMentor to Hercules and a ChivalrousPervert (as well as a Creator/DannyDeVito [[InkSuitActor look-alike]]).
** ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'': The "Pastoral Symphony" segment includes fauns among its menagerie of mythological creatures.

* ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Percy's BlackBestFriend Grover is a satyr.

See OurCentaursAreDifferent for a similar half-man half-beast creature from ClassicalMythology.

* Creator/MarvelComics: The long-forgotten character [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Woodgod_(Earth-616) Woodgod]] resembles one. He's actually biologically engineered.

Originally, Satyrs had the tail and ears of either horses or donkeys, though later they acquired goat legs, becoming almost identical to fauns. In earlier Greek art they were portrayed as quite ugly, though later they became more youthful and graceful. They were associated with [[ReallyGetsAround sex]], [[TheAlcoholic wine]], and [[MagicalFlutist pipe]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking playing]] (the Classical Greek equivalent of SexDrugsAndRockAndRoll). They also laughed at everything, and had reverence for none but their patron deity, Pan.

See also OurCentaursAreDifferent.

** Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' alters Philoctetes, a human who lit Heracles's funeral pyre and was perhaps his lover, into Philoctetes "Phil" the satyr, an EccentricMentor to Hercules and a ChivalrousPervert.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'': The main [[BigBad villain]], the Storm King, has a mostly non-human satyric appearance, being essentially a [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti yeti]] with goat-like hooves.

See also OurCentaursAreDifferent and OurNymphsArePrettier.

See also OurCentaursAreDifferent.

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* Caesar Clown's GasMaskMooks in ''Manga/OnePiece'' are actually [[spoiler: become]] this [[spoiler: before events the series]]. [[spoiler: They used to be fully human, but because they lost the use of their legs due to the poisonous gas on Punk Hazard, they were given new animal legs by Trafalgar Law]].
* Fauns and satyrs are shown to be separate species in ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', as sheep-like liminals and and goat-like respectively. Personality-wise, they are {{Foil}}s of each other: satyrs are dark-skinned, sharp-tongued and aggressive and one of THE most [[AnythingThatMoves sex-crazed]] liminals shown in the series, with only the melusine [[SnakePeople lamia]] giving them any real competition. Fauns are light-skinned, gentle, shy, and fitting for a species that represents purity and chastity...[[{{Subverted}} they're every bit as lustful as satyrs]], while just being more [[CovertPervert covert]] and [[NiceGirl polite]] about it.

* The long-forgotten Creator/MarvelComics character [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Woodgod_(Earth-616) Woodgod]] resembles one. (He's actually biologically engineered.)

* "Satyrs" have become somewhat popular on 4Chan's [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic /mlp/]] board and [[FanCommunityNicknames brony]] sites like Derpibooru. Essentially they are the theoretical offspring of Anonymous and one of the ponies, with the entire Mane 6 having Fanon satyr children all with generally agreed-upon appearances and personalities. A number of minor characters like [[OurGriffinsAreDifferent Gilda]] and Chrysalis have been done as well, and even one of the Diamond Dogs [[note]], a semi-humanoid dog in canon[[/note]].

* Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' alters Philoctetes, a human who lit Heracles's funeral pyre and was perhaps his lover, into Philoctetes "Phil" the satyr, an EccentricMentor to Hercules and a ChivalrousPervert.
* The "Pastoral Symphony" segment of Creator/{{Disney}}'s ''Disney/{{Fantasia}}'' includes fauns among its menagerie of mythological creatures.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' the main [[BigBad villain]], ''The Storm King'' has a mostly ''non-human'' goat satyric-like appearance with some [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Yeti]] elements.

* Film/{{Percy Jackson|AndTheOlympians}}'s BlackBestFriend Grover, at least in the movie.

* What little we in see of [[spoiler:the [[BadSanta real Santa Claus]]]] in ''Film/RareExportsAChristmasTale'' implies him to be a creature like this.
* Pan the pipe-playing God of Joy is one of the ''Film/SevenFacesOfDrLao''.
* ''{{Film/Monkeybone}}'''s portrayal of Hypnos (''Greek God of Sleep'') is this but shorter with brown skinned.

* Mr. Tumnus, a faun in ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia''. Also, other fauns are mentioned throughout the series, along with satyrs. The difference between them is that fauns have long tails, and satyrs have goat tails. [[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia The films]] expanded this difference, and made fauns human from the waist up with regular goat tails, and satyrs looking more like human-sized goats that walk on their hind legs.

* Matthew in ''Literature/{{Satyrday}}'' is ages old, but is quite irresponsible, with [[ImmortalImmaturity a mind of a child.]] Bonus points for having a pipe and being quite skilled with it.
* Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote a novel called ''TheMarbleFaun'', though the faun there is the statue by Praxiteles, which is almost totally human in form. The faun has a human counterpart, however, in the novel's Donatello (no, not [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles that one]]), Count of Monti Beni.
* Martin Silenus from the ''Literature/HyperionCantos'' undergoes SpaceOpera style body modifications to turn himself into a satyric figure. (He gets it changed back eventually).
* In ''Wolfwinter'' by Thomas Burnett Swann, one of his many stories drawing on classical mythology, a human woman searches for the satyr who fathered her child. Swann's portrayals of non-humans can involve BlueAndOrangeMorality.

* Satyrs appear in the ''Literature/{{Fablehaven}}'' books. They have some of the qualities of the original satyrs (they're often seen trying to impress girls, and at one point, they offer Seth wine), but they're also TV addicts.
* In the book ''Through the Ice'' the character Rame is in self-exile from the community of satyrs because he considers himself a faun. While he is less obsessed with sex and thus somewhat more acceptable to humans, his fellow satyrs treat him like a pervert.

* G. B. Harrison's ''The Fires of Arcadia'' features genetically-engineered human-goat hybrids that act a bit like creatures of folklore.
* Fauns are one of the [[LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces many races]] on Tiladnen in the ''Literature/{{Halvgudene}}'' book series.
* Kate Forsyth's ''Witches of Eileanan'' universe has "satyricorns". While they ''mostly'' look like the traditional model in appearance (except for being seven feet tall, having a variable number and arrangement of horns, and having six mammaries) and behavior (albeit towards the [[RapePillageAndBurn nastier]] [[CombatPragmatist side]]), they zigzag the trope by being primarily ''female''.
* A satyr is the villain in the Creator/BrianKeene horror novel ''Literature/DarkHollow'' (AKA ''The Rutting Season'').
* Edmund Spenser's ''Literature/TheFaerieQueene'' features satyrs, first as a group of surprisingly pious forest dwellers who even have a half-satyr knight living among them, Sir Satyrane. Later, a separate band of satyrs are depicted as the usual riotous sex maniacs.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''. Both male and female satyrs have large curling horns like a bighorn sheep. They're implied to be the Awakened version of the wild goat. Their saliva can ferment sugary liquids into alcohol. Another type of Satyr exists, as a racial variant of the Ork Metatype.
* Beastmen in ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', especially the goat- and sheep-headed and -legged Gors, are about all the darkest parts of this put together, embodying every unpleasant trait of mythical satyrs -- their wild and aggressive natures, their impulsiveness, their depravity -- exaggerated, worsened, and flavored with worship of dark and evil gods, barbarous savagery, pathological hatred for civilization, and plenty of fangs and spikes.
* Broos in ''TabletopGame/RuneQuest''. There are also actual satyrs. Mistaking the two for one another is ''not'' a good idea. The Broos are chaos creatures that breed by raping any creatures that are available (all Broos are male), and their offspring takes features of those creatures. Farm animals, especially goats, are apparently most easily available for them.

* Satyrs are one of the kith in ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheDreaming''. However, satyrs within the World of Darkness exemplify passion in general -- not just sex and drunkenness. Thus there may be satyrs who are passionate about debate or running (goat legs mean they're fast).

* Satyrs in the ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'' are more like goat-headed [[ALoadOfBull Minotaurs]] than the original. In ''Hordes'', the Circle Oboros fields them as [[BeastOfBattle Beasts of War]] to defend and carry out the wills of their Warlocks. How intelligent they are isn't mentioned much, but at least one was smart enough to become a ''Shaman.''

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* Satyrs also show up in ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'', in the bestiary. They use their flutes as a weapon.
* Satyrs in the ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' universe are half-demonic corrupted night elves, while Fauns are the Centauroid daughters of the Demigod Cenarius.

* Goat demons appears also in the second ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry'' game as EliteMooks.
* The satyrs in ''VideoGame/WillRock'' are mooks armed with bows.
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* One of the two races of Beastmen in ''VideoGame/RadiantHistoria'', the appropriately-named Satyros, take this form.
* Satyrs feature in the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' series as some of the [[EliteMooks toughest regular enemies]].

* One even shows up in ''[[VideoGame/{{Onmyoji}} Onmyōji]]'', despite this being a game set in ''Heian'' period Japan and is specifically about Japanese mythology.

* Blossom from ''VideoGame/{{Battlerite}}'' is called a faun in her bio, although she's half-deer instead of half-goat.

* Ursula from ''Webcomic/TheHorrifyingExperimentsOfDrPleasant'' has horns and goat legs bellow her knees.

** Satyrs come most commonly in the classical goat form, but hornless, horse-based satyrs also exist. Both groups tend to resemble specific species or breeds of caprines and equines; donkey and zebra-based horse satyrs are known to exist, although they're rare.

* Though his species is named "Dashkin", Bitey in ''WebAnimation/{{Brackenwood}}'' is quite similar to a faun, being a woodland-dwelling humanoid with goat legs and horns, though his face is furry. He is also [[FragileSpeedster extremely fast]] and an amoral trickster.

* A few fauns were seen in Bacchus' fictional paradise in Lazy Smurf's dream in ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' episode "Paradise Smurfed".
* Tewt from ''WesternAnimation/TheMightyHercules'' was a recurring character as Newton's sidekick.
* A small almost goat-like satyr appears in ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' as a guard for Unicorn.

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* Fauns and satyrs are shown to be separate species in ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'', as sheep-like liminals and and goat-like respectively. Personality-wise, they are {{Foil}}s of each other: satyrs are dark-skinned, sharp-tongued and aggressive and hands-down THE most [[AnythingThatMoves sex-crazed]] liminals shown in the series thus far, beating out even the [[SnakePeople lamia]]. Fauns are light-skinned, gentle, shy, and coming from a species that represents purity and chastity...[[{{Subverted}} they're every bit as lustful as satyrs]], while just being more [[CovertPervert covert]] and [[NiceGirl polite]] about it.

The most famous of all goat people is the [[Myth/GreekMythology great god Pan]], and his Roman counterpart Faunus/Inuus. Pan was the god of all wild creatures, and [[TricksterArchetype had a trickster streak a mile wide]]. Despite his wildness and temper (his shouts would inspire ''pan''-ic in all who heard him) he was [[GentleGiant a true friend to shepherds and little critters]]. And if your Satyr lives underground in a cavern full of flame, well, he might be [[BigRedDevil a bit nastier...]]

* ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' has a faun, although, in a twist authorized by the RuleOfCreepy, he seems to be made mostly of rotting wood, thus representing a [[Main/Planimal fusion of both the animal and vegetable realms of nature]].

A faun, more akin to deer than to goats, would be the satyr's more gentle and retiring cousin, preferring the forest to the field. They live in harmony with nature, and are generally just low-key and peaceful. They also had goat legs originally, though now they also have deer legs in popular art (maybe because ''faun'' sounds like ''fawn?''

* The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huay_Chivo Huay Chivo Huay Chivo]] of Mayan legend is an evil sorcerer who can transform into a humanoid, demonic goat to carry out his evil deeds.

* Disney's ''Disney/{{Hercules}}'' alters Philoctetes, a human Greek who lit Heracles's funeral pyre and was perhaps his lover, into Philoctetes "Phil" the satyr, an EccentricMentor to Hercules and a ChivalrousPervert.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyTheMovie2017'' has its [[BigBad villain]] ''The Storm King'' does have mostly ''non-human'' goat satyric-like appearance with [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti Yeti]] elements.

* ''Film/PansLabyrinth'' has a faun, although, in a twist authorized by the RuleOfCreepy, he seems to be made mostly of rotting wood, thus representing a fusion of both the animal and vegetable realms of nature.

* The original [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fauns Fauns]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyr Satyrs]] the TropeNamers.
* Glaistigs from Scottish mythology is similar to satyrs. [[OneGenderRace Apparently, they were exclusively female.]]

* Goatman(s) from the United States has few versions of them have their [[UrbanLegends own many origin stories]].
** Maryland's Goatman - One version claim [[WasOnceAMan he was normal human turn goatman]] through [[WildMassGuessing possibly proto-genetic engineering]].
** Texas Goatman/Lake Worth Monster - Who haunt aforementioned Lake with most goat-like appearance.
** Kentucky's Goat-Sheepman/Pope Lick Monster - Claims it's live under a railway bridge with one of its origin story Cirus Freak who escape and (all them) kills people who dare enter its home.