History Main / HarpingOnAboutHarpies

** Adittionally, Marco the Phoenix, former First Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates, possessed the Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Phoenix Devil Fruit. When Marco transforms into his human-beast hybrid form, his arms are completely replaced by fiery Phoenix wings and his feet are replaced by bird feet with wickedly sharp talons.

* ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' harpies are ugly old hags who attack via curses. The OneGenderRace and GorgeousGorgon aspects of them are played with, in that there are a few rare male harpies who are the good-looking ones; this is in explicit contrast with the goblins, which in Xanth are mostly ugly males with a few beautiful females. It also becomes clear in one of the novels that ''young'' female harpies are actually very pretty; it's not until they grow up (which tends to also entail becoming embittered and losing all regard for hygiene) that they become ugly.

* In ''Series/Charmed1998'', harpies appear as a minor demon in the episode "Bite Me". They're identified by their long sharp talons. Both the harpy and her leader are played by black women.

* The ''Literature/TortallUniverse'' has Stormwings: female and male harpies with sharp steel feathers and talons, who desecrate bodies of those slain on the battlefield and are so odoriferous that they repel most humans.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'': The Mass-produced Evangelions in ''The End of Evangelion'' have picked up the FanNickname of "harpies" because of their wings, monstrous appearance, and vulture-like behavior.

* In ''Comicbook/GoldDigger,'' Charlotte, aka "Charlie", is a genetically engineered harpy. She was created by a villain as a disposable [[{{Mooks}} book]], but after he was defeated, Penny adopted her. Despite being the size of an adult, she is only a few years old and has the emotional maturity of a child. She's both attractive (in a fuzzy-yellow-feathers-all-over-her-body kind of way) and very sweet-natured, but she also has big scary bionic claws on her arms.

** Hagravens are a flightless variant of this, who were [[WasOnceAMan once mortal women]] that performed a ritual to trade in their humanity for [[WitchSpecies access to powerful magic]]. A HumanSacrifice is required for the ritual to even become a Hagraven, and Hagravens serve as {{Evil Matriarch}}s to [[BarbarianTribe Reachmen clans]] as well as generally being an EnemyToAllLivingThings. Naturally, they have feathers, beak-like noses, and [[FemmeFatalons talons for fingers and toes]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': In ''VideoGame/Shantae2002'' and ''VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero'', this is the last required [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transformation]] that the heroine could get. It grants her VideoGameFlight and a short-ranged attack with her talons if she finds the necessary upgrade. Naturally, she's a CuteMonsterGirl in this form.

* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': In the first game and in ''Half-Genie Hero'', this is the last required [[VoluntaryShapeshifting transformation]] that the heroine could get. It grants her VideoGameFlight and a short-ranged attack with her talons if she finds the necessary upgrade. Naturally, she's a CuteMonsterGirl in this form.

Related to the ''other'' mythological half-woman half-bird creature, the EnthrallingSiren. Sirens and harpies are confused almost as much as [[SirensAreMermaids sirens and mermaids]], usually by giving harpies beautiful or hypnotic voices, a characteristic that only sirens possessed in Greek myth. This is probably due to the harpies often being portrayed as bird-like, and of course birds are well known for singing.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'' has the Harpie Lady cards, the signature monsters of Mai Kujaku. ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'' adds the Lyrical Luscinia archetype used by Ruri Kurosaki, which cross over into EnthrallingSiren with their songbird motif.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Harpies, resembling giant vultures with women's heads, exist on the planes of [[MerchantCity Mercadia]] and [[Myth/GreekMythology Theros]], with [[https://scryfall.com/card/pls/97/cavern-harpy at least one]] making it to [[HubWorld Dominaria]] during the Invasion. They are generally foul, vicious creatures; the harpies of Theros, in particular, are filthy and hideous scavengers who live on the edges of civilization and attack travelers to steal their belongings. They have no true concept of value, however, and as a result their lairs are filled with treasure, trinkets, broken objects and garbage piled haphazardly together with the remains of the harpies' meals. They are distinct from [[EnthrallingSiren sirens]], which are generally more intelligent, civilized and humanoid.

* Slavic folklore has a handful or harpy-like creatures. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkonost Alkonost]], named after Queen Alcyone from Greek lore, and her counterpart, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirin Sirin]], are both woman-headed birds whose beautiful songs give humans LaserGuidedAmnesia. In the sirin's case, her songs foretold great fortune to saints but caused mortals under her spell to fruitlessly follow her and die. However, sirins eventually took on a more positive connotation, being portrayed as symbols of harmony, eternal joy and happiness. The [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamayun Gamayun]] was a symbol of wisdom and knowledge. All of these beings were based on legends of harpies and [[EnthrallingSiren sirens]] from Greek stories.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has had harpies throughout the various editions as ChaoticEvil {{Monstrous Humanoid}}s with [[EnthrallingSiren hypnotic singing voices]][[note]]in fact, an early sourcebook states that "siren" is simply a term for coast-dwelling harpies[[/note]], though their appearance has varied considerably. Similarly, their status as an AlwaysFemale OneGenderRace has fluctuated, from being always female and depending on parthenogenesis/crossbreeding with humanoid men/a combination of the two, to having males who are simply less common and/or expected to StayInTheKitchen.

** ''Pathfinder'' also includes a [[EnthrallingSiren siren]] species, which are bird-women like their harpy cousins (a woman's head, the body of a giant eagle/hawk/owl), but more benevolent. For starters, they don't eat their lovers, and in fact have been known to commit suicide if their lovers are stolen away from or leave them.

* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'': Generally speaking, the game has harpies almost everywhere and they behave like [[EnthrallingSiren sirens]], known for being both beautiful and hideous. Their depictions are actually accurate to the source materials due to their bird-like proportions. Harpies and their variants sing to hypnotise their prey to sleep and snatch them away. However, what makes them truly annoying is how the Pawns [[LampshadeHanging overreact]] to almost '''[[UpToEleven every]] [[OverlyLongGag single]]''' harpy.

** As for the literal [[EnthrallingSiren Siren]], their singing can [[MagicMusic heal nearby creatures]] instead of hypnotising prey.

* ''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 ''Madou Monogatari 1-2-3'', she's an actual harpy, thus fitting this trope.

* ''Literature/AFantasyAttraction'': Herbert is a scholarly harpy with magic glasses. No, ''really''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': Season 2, episode 8, "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" has [[spoiler:Eda make peace with the owl beast inside of her. When she wakes up from the experience, she finds that instead of her normal owl beast form, she has transformed into a winged, feathered humanoid with talons for hands and feet, which she dubs a "Harpy-Woman."]]

* Episode ''knock, Knock, Knocking on the Hooty's Door'' of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' has [[spoiler: Eda make peace with her inner own beast, which represents the monstrous form she turns into due to her curse]], learning to take a form of a winged, feathered humanoid with talons for hands and feet, which everyone calls "Harpy [[spoiler: Eda]]".

** ''VideoGame/ATotalWarSagaTroy'': Harpies are a unit of human women, wreckers and pirates recruitable from coastal regions, who smear their faces with soot, wear clothes and headdresses decorated with feathers and bird skulls, and fight with javelins. The implication is that, over centuries of retellings after the events of the game's time, memories of these harpies became distorted into the monstrous half-bird women of Greek myth.
* Harpies in ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'' look like turkeys with a woman's face on the torso. These creatures are extremely dangerous as they can use the [[InstantKill Banish spell]] on you.

** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Bat-winged harpies appear as a flying unit for Dark Elves and Hordes of Chaos. They're a OneGenderRace of winged female humanoids, a bunch of scavengers and snatchers. In terms of beauty, they're depicted as attractive but only from the belly up to the neck as a "parody of a woman's body". They often lair in desolate islets and sea stacks and use their entrancing songs to lure sailors to their doom, but others follow Chaos armies or Beastman warherds around to feed on the carnage that follows them.

** Harpies aren't necessarily ugly -- in fact, their artwork tends to make them look [[CuteMonsterGirl fairly attractive, if inhuman]] -- but they [[ThePigPen have absolutely no sense of hygiene (and powerful musk)]]. They may not be bad to look at, but you can usually smell them coming a mile away. They are explicitly a OneGenderRace that must mate with humanoids to procreate... unfortunately, not only do they tend to be sadists, they usually [[DeathBySex eat their partners when they're done]]. In fact, it's mentioned in one sourcebook on Classical Monsters that in Harpy society, ''not'' eating the father of one's daughter is a shameful event, unless said male is strong enough that he's more worthwhile if kept alive. They also possess captivating songs that they use to lure victims into their clutches.
*** Second Edition does away with their OneGenderRace status-- in fact, the illustration in the Bestiary is a male harpy.

* Harpies in ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'' look like turkeys with a woman's face on the torso. These creatures are extremely dangerous as they can use the [[InstantKill Banish spell]] on you.

* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' provides a rare male example with Kars's ultimate form, where he changes his arms into wings, and considering that he's a [[HumanoidAbomination Pillar Man]].

* ''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 [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar 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.

* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'': Papi and her fantasy {{expy}}s, Aero of ''Manga/DeadlineSummonner'' 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.