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Remove Asian Lion Dogs as a subtrope, because they're not "fusions of lion and dog." They're stylized like most animals in art, and some Western observers have mistaken them for dogs, but they are meant to be straight-up lions. Add a couple of other examples.


* AsianLionDogs -- obviously a lion/dog mix.


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* ''Film/UpsideDownMagic'': All of Nory's animal forms are mixes of cat with at least one other animal, and sometimes two or three. Her signature form is a 'dritten' (dragon + kitten), a cat with dragon wings and fully capable of flight.


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* In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series, the Mage Storms create huge numbers of 'hobgoblins', which are fusions of two or more animals that got caught and changed by the storms.
** The first of these "Changecreatures" found by the Valdemarans is a fusion of rabbit and fox.
** A shaman for one of the northern barbarian tribes manages to get some of his fighting men caught in a Change-Circle along with some bears; the result is humanoid bears (or very bearlike humans; it isn't clear which).
** A series of short stories in the Valdemar anthologies focus on a boy (later a young man) named Ree. As a boy he was caught in a Change-Circle along with a hungry rat and a dying cat; afterward, Ree is a basically human boy with the fur and tail of a rat; the claws, eyes, and whiskers of a cat; and a vaguely but clearly not-human face.
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** In the ''Unstable'' set, the Crossbreed Labs faction is focused on splicing together different creatures ([[ProfessorGuineaPig including themselves]]) to improve them and for self-expression. Their cards tend to have bizarre combinations of creature types such as "Spider Monkey Scientist" and "Racoon Lizard Bird". There's also a mechanic called augment letting players create their own hybrid monsters by combining a host creature with parts of another creature, resulting in such things as steam-powered iguanas, [[Music/JonathanCoulton half-monkey-half-ponies]], and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment half-kitten-half-kittens]].

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** In the ''Unstable'' set, the Crossbreed Labs faction is focused on splicing together different creatures ([[ProfessorGuineaPig including themselves]]) to improve them and for self-expression. Their cards tend to have bizarre combinations of creature types such as "Spider Monkey Scientist" and "Racoon "Raccoon Lizard Bird". There's also a mechanic called augment letting players create their own hybrid monsters by combining a host creature with parts of another creature, resulting in such things as steam-powered iguanas, [[Music/JonathanCoulton half-monkey-half-ponies]], and [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment half-kitten-half-kittens]].
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Leo}}'': Leo is supposedly a ''tuatara'', but he also has the coloration of an iguana, the tongue abilities of a chameleon and the can stick to walls and regenerate his tail like a gecko.

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*** Scylla, a desert-dwelling arthropod combining features of spiders and crustaceans, while having a tentacled, cephalopod-like head

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*** Scylla, a desert-dwelling arthropod combining features of spiders and crustaceans, while having a tentacled, cephalopod-like headhead, and coiled, ammonite shell-like body.



*** Methuselah, a MonsterShapedMountain that resembles a tortoise, but with a tyrannosaur-like head and a pair of downward-curved bull-like horns

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*** Methuselah, a MonsterShapedMountain that resembles a tortoise, but with a tyrannosaur-like head and a pair of downward-curved bull-like hornshorns.
** ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'': Two of the minor monster species in the film, the Warbats and Hellhawks, are clear mixtures of two or more animal types in their design. The former resembles a giant cobra, but the "hood" is made up of elongated fingers with membranes stretched between them like a bat's wings, and its face and skin are crocodile-like. The latter resembles a featherless hawk with bat wings, as well as spikes running down their backs.

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* ''Literature/InfiniteBloodcore'': Discussed and deconstructed. A scholar who has studied evolution points out that the mix-and-match critters that occupy the island where the main characters are stranded must be artificial creations, since their numerous redundant or conflicting capabilities would be extremely biologically expensive and don't fit clearly into an ecological niche in a way that could have evolved naturally.



* Discussed and deconstructed in ''Literature/InfiniteBloodcore'', where a scholar who has studied evolution points out that the mix-and-match critters that occupy the island where the main characters are stranded must be artificial creations, since their numerous redundant or conflicting capabilities would be extremely biologically expensive and don't fit clearly into an ecological niche in a way that could have evolved naturally.

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* Discussed ''Literature/XanaduStoryverse'': Rampede, a type of [[{{Phonymon}} Gamimon]], resembles an armless theropod with the fur, head, and deconstructed in ''Literature/InfiniteBloodcore'', where hooves of a scholar who has studied evolution points out that the mix-and-match critters that occupy the island where the main characters are stranded must be artificial creations, since their numerous redundant or conflicting capabilities would be extremely biologically expensive and don't fit clearly into an ecological niche in a way that could have evolved naturally.bighorn sheep.
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* ''Fanfic/DeltaInvasion'': One of the more narmtastic elements of the titular creatures is that they all look like they were assembled from random body parts (and constantly described as " it had the body of X, arms of Y, head of Z...") with no apparent concern for functionality, effectiveness or sense.


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** The [[spoiler:BioMEGAs]] are lab-grown monstrosities with whatever animalistic traits that could combine to make them deadlier, with cybernetics (and in one case, a cordyceps-like fungus) added for extra effect.
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* ''WebAnimation/SuperThings'', fitting the AnimateInanimateObject nature of the lore, hybridizes the animals of the world with inanimate objects. Dogs in particular come in a large variety of objects, though Ron Ron, mixed with a bone, is the most recurring one. Cats are always mixed with yarn, mice with cheese, and worms are mixed with rope. The [[Toys/SuperThings toyline]] would add onto this trend through the ''Wild Kids'' and ''Evolution'' series.

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** The first arc of Jamie Delano's run on ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'' has Buddy Baker die and revive as an amalgamated creature with the head of a tiger, the horns of a ram and enormous bat wings. He eventually regains his human form by eating the severed fingers of his original corpse.



** Five words: [[http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2009/08/dpavmman-456.jpg The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man.]] Technically, he was a ridiculously overpowered [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Shapeshifter]]. [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs Who liked turning into mix-and-match critters. A LOT.]]

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** Five words: The ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' villain [[http://wac.450f.edgecastcdn.net/80450F/comicsalliance.com/files/2009/08/dpavmman-456.jpg The Animal-Vegetable-Mineral Man.]] Technically, he was a ridiculously overpowered [[VoluntaryShapeshifting Shapeshifter]]. [[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs Who liked turning into mix-and-match critters. A LOT.]]
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' is loaded with prehistoric animals that look like tiny elephant/mice, small wolf/crocodiles, large ostrich/rams, giant mammoth/rabbits, birds that look like turtles, a saber-toothed cat with a parrot's colors, and a bear with the face of an owl. There's also an animal that looks like a gourd but has a load of sharp teeth.

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* ''WesternAnimation/TheCroods'' is loaded with prehistoric animals that look like tiny elephant/mice, small wolf/crocodiles, dog/crocodiles, large ostrich/rams, ram/emus, giant mammoth/rabbits, saber-toothed tiger/rabbits, birds that look like turtles, a saber-toothed cat with a parrot's colors, and a bear giant cat with the face of an owl.owl and the built and claws of a bear. There's also an animal that looks like a gourd but has a load of sharp teeth.
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** ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'' adds wolf/spiders, pig/crocodiles, and chicken/seals, among others.

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** ''WesternAnimation/TheCroodsANewAge'' adds wolf/spiders, pig/crocodiles, and cow/mammoths, pig/alligators, chicken/seals, narwhal/walruses, and a spiny ehcidna/mandrill/gorilla among others.

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** Kirins are traditionally depicted as creatures with the general characteristics of a long but with the body plan and cloven hooves of ungulates. As such, they usually resemble deer- or ox-like creatures with the scales and fangs of reptiles. It's worth noting that, although they are consistently described as draconic or dragon-like, at least one giraffe is known to have been identified as a kirin when brought to China during the reign of the Ming dynasty. Qilins of much the same description also feature in Japanese mythology.

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** Kirins {{Kirin}}s are traditionally depicted as creatures with the general characteristics of a long but with the body plan and cloven hooves of ungulates. As such, they usually resemble deer- or ox-like creatures with the scales and fangs of reptiles. It's worth noting that, although they are consistently described as draconic or dragon-like, at least one giraffe is known to have been identified as a kirin when brought to China during the reign of the Ming dynasty. Qilins of much the same description also feature in Japanese mythology.


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** In ''Literature/TheMahabharata'', the Navagunjara had the head of a peacock, the body of a zebu, a snake for a tail, and four different legs - back left was a tiger's, back right a deer's, front left an elephant's, and front right was a human arm (the last usually shown raised off the ground and holding a lotus flower). It was encountered by the hero Arjuna, who was quick to raise his bow at the unfamiliar beast until he realized it meant no harm, upon which the creature revealed itself to be a form taken on by the god Krishna to test him.

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** ''Website/{{Serina}}'' has canaries overrun a terraformed planet with no other competition. Over millions of years, they evolve into {{Fantastic Fauna Counterpart}}s of different birds, such as the falocnaries and the sparrowgulls, and others take on forms such as the deer-like serezelles, the primate-like ornkeys and the aquatic fish-like eargills.
** ''Website/{{Amphiterra}}'' features a parallel universe where ''frogs'' are the dominant species. As such, they fill the niches of other animals, such as the Tree Frixel, resembling a mix of tree frog and gibbon, or the Catastrophic Fraggon, a large predator resembling a cross of a toad and a tyrannosaur.
** ''Blog/HamstersParadise'' fills every concievable niche with descendants of ''hamsters'', such as the hammoth, a giant herbivore resembling a cross of bison and capybara with mammoth-like tusks that branch like moose antlers, the giraard, a giraffe-analogue hamster descendant that filled an aardvark-like insectivore niche, and the greater snoa, a member of the trunked macropod-like rhinocheirids that is best described as a cross between an elephant, a kangaroo, a mallard duck and a therizinosaur.

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** ''Website/{{Serina}}'' has canaries overrun a terraformed planet with no other competition. Over millions of years, they evolve into {{Fantastic Fauna Counterpart}}s of different birds, such as the falocnaries and the sparrowgulls, and others take on forms such as the deer-like serezelles, the primate-like ornkeys and the aquatic fish-like eargills.
eargills. There's also the tribbets, which resemble a mix of frog and mudskipper, which later give rise to bizarre terrestrial fish such as the aptly-named multi-limbed spiderfrogs, to the tripedal mammal-like tribbetheres, which look like familiar mammals like canids or ungulates but with three legs and distinctly fish-like skull anatomy.
** ''Website/{{Amphiterra}}'' features a parallel universe where ''frogs'' are the dominant species. As such, they fill the niches of other animals, such as the Tree Frixel, resembling a mix of tree frog and gibbon, the Marbled Snapapple which is similar to chameleons but has later forms like sea squirts, the Colonial Gobolin which are vaguely similar to garden eels crossed with meerkats, or the Catastrophic Fraggon, a large predator resembling a cross of a toad and a tyrannosaur.
** ''Blog/HamstersParadise'' fills every concievable niche with descendants of ''hamsters'', such as the hammoth, a giant herbivore resembling a cross of bison and capybara with mammoth-like tusks that branch like moose antlers, the giraard, a giraffe-analogue hamster descendant that filled an aardvark-like insectivore niche, and the greater snoa, a member of the trunked macropod-like rhinocheirids that is best described as a cross between an elephant, a kangaroo, a mallard duck and a therizinosaur. In the Temperocene, this trope goes into full play with species such as the wingles, resembling a mix between lizard, hummingbird and butterfly, or the daggoths, resembling a cross between a centipede, a star-nosed mole and a naked mole rat.
** ''WebOriginal/{{Athyrmagaia}}'' has a few examples, such as the Emperor Zouyu, an apex predator resembling a cross of a bird, a mantis and a lion, or the Tarrasque, a herbivore that looks like an ankylosaur crossed with an earwig. There are also the Boreal Oliphants, which with their intelligence and dexterity seem to mix both elephants and gorillas in their demeanor.
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* ''Fanfic/{{Mendacity}}'': The Bugul Noz, Discord's "uncle", is an even more extreme version than his "nephew". His skin is a patchwork of hair, feathers, scales, slick skin and chitin from hundreds of animal species, his head and neck are crowned with dozens of horns and antlers, and two of his wings are chimeric mixes of bird, bat and insect limbs while the third appears to be a whale fin.
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** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIThePhantomMenace'': The {{Sea Monster}}s of Naboo include the opee sea killer, a mix of a crustacean and a piranha with a chameleon-like tongue; the colo claw fish with a head of a crocodile, a body of an eel and crab legs for mandibles; and the sando aqua monster, a somewhat feline mammal with the gills, fins and tail of a fish.

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** ''Film/StarWarsEpisodeIThePhantomMenace'': The {{Sea Monster}}s of Naboo in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' include the opee sea killer, a mix of a crustacean and a piranha with a chameleon-like tongue; the colo claw fish with a head of a crocodile, a body of an eel and crab legs for mandibles; and the sando aqua monster, a somewhat feline mammal with the gills, fins and tail of a fish.



* The Thing from Creator/JohnCarpenter's film [[Film/TheThing1982 of the same name]] is this plus the TheAssimilator and YouAreWhoYouEat.

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* ''Film/TheThing1982'': The Thing from Creator/JohnCarpenter's film [[Film/TheThing1982 of the same name]] is this plus the TheAssimilator and YouAreWhoYouEat.

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* ''Film/JurassicWorld'':
** The ''Indominus rex'' is a man-made [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically engineered hybrid]] composed of various different dinosaur species, designed to be a new attraction for the park. She is a ''T. rex'' primarily, but has genetic code from cuttlefish ([[spoiler:making her capable of camouflaging her skin]]), tropical frogs ([[spoiler:making her capable of camouflaging her heat signature]]), and [[spoiler:''Velociraptors'']] ([[spoiler:making her capable of communicating with actual ''Velociraptors'']]). The truly scary thing is it's implied there's also a bit of [[spoiler:human]] [=DNA=] in there -- when was the last time you saw a dinosaur with [[spoiler:four fingers and opposable thumbs]]?

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* ''Film/JurassicWorld'':
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** The ''Indominus rex'' from ''Film/JurassicWorld'' is a man-made [[GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke genetically engineered hybrid]] composed of various different dinosaur species, designed to be a new attraction for the park. She is a ''T. rex'' primarily, but has genetic code from cuttlefish ([[spoiler:making her capable of camouflaging her skin]]), tropical frogs ([[spoiler:making her capable of camouflaging her heat signature]]), and [[spoiler:''Velociraptors'']] ([[spoiler:making her capable of communicating with actual ''Velociraptors'']]). The truly scary thing is it's implied there's also a bit of [[spoiler:human]] [=DNA=] in there -- when was the last time you saw a dinosaur with [[spoiler:four fingers and opposable thumbs]]?



* ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' had several:

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* ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'' ''Literature/TheDarkTower'' had several:



* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': In ''Literature/{{Eric}}'', the demon-god Quetzovercoatl is described as "half-man, half-chicken, half-jaguar, half-serpent, half-scorpion and half-mad".
** Making for "a wossname total of three homicidal maniacs."
** Discworld also has the chimera in ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}''. Unlike the Greek version, the Disc's chimera has the legs of a mermaid, the hair of a tortoise, the teeth of a fowl and the wings of a snake. It's similar to the Greek chimera in having the breath of a furnace, and the temperament of a rubber balloon in a hurricane.
** From ''Going Postal'': It was said that there was one horse in Ankh-Morpork that had a longitudinal seam from head to tail, being sewn together from what was left of two horses that had been involved in a particularly nasty accident.
** And in ''The New Discworld Companion'', it's mentioned that many of the animals kept at the College of Heralds are descended from previous generations of heraldic models, who'd gotten rather friendly with one another. And it shows.

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* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
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In ''Literature/{{Eric}}'', the demon-god Quetzovercoatl is described as "half-man, half-chicken, half-jaguar, half-serpent, half-scorpion and half-mad".
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half-mad", making for "a wossname total of three homicidal maniacs."
maniacs".
** Discworld also has the The chimera in ''Literature/{{Sourcery}}''. Unlike the Greek version, the Disc's chimera has the legs of a mermaid, the hair of a tortoise, the teeth of a fowl and the wings of a snake. It's similar to the Greek chimera in having the breath of a furnace, and the temperament of a rubber balloon in a hurricane.
** From ''Going Postal'': ''Literature/GoingPostal'': It was said that there was one horse in Ankh-Morpork that had a longitudinal seam from head to tail, being sewn together from what was left of two horses that had been involved in a particularly nasty accident.
** And in In ''The New Discworld Companion'', it's mentioned that many of the animals kept at the College of Heralds are descended from previous generations of heraldic models, who'd gotten rather friendly with one another. And it shows.



* ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' has the Bene Tleilaxu's Sligs -- slugs and pigs genetically mashed together. Apparently it makes the meat tender and succulent.

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* ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' has the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'':
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Bene Tleilaxu's Sligs -- are slugs and pigs genetically mashed together. Apparently Apparently, it makes the meat tender and succulent.
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* Many of the gods are often depicted as humans with animal heads, although it's more artistic representation then a literal depiction.

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* ** Many of the gods are often depicted as humans with animal heads, although it's more artistic representation then a literal depiction.



** The Sphinx. There is the famous "Lion body with Human head", but some other depictios had ram heads (known as criosphinxes) or falcon's head.

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* Myth/EgyptianMythology: Gods are often depicted as humans with animal heads.

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** The Sphinx. There is the famous "Lion body with Human head", but some other depictios had ram heads (known as criosphinxes) or falcon's head.
** According to one theory, The unknown-indentitied [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_animal Set animal]] (also known as the Sha) might this as opposed to being single species.
** Another hybrid creature associated with both Set and the might of pharaohs is the [[https://abookofcreatures.com/2021/02/01/akhekh/ Akhekh]], an oryx with the beak and wings of a bird of prey, as well as three cobra uraeis on it's head. Though one source makes it out to be a winged lion with an eagle's head - in other words, a standard griffin.
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Compare FusionDance and TwoBeingsOneBody, which is when two characters are combined. ShapeshifterMashup usually results in this. Mix-and-Match Critters may be the result of HotSkittyOnWailordAction. If both creatures are already mythological/magical/whatever and get mixed, they have a newborn HybridMonster and if mundane they can end up with a {{Patchwork Kid|s}}. An AnimalisticAbomination may look like this. Application of the principle to humans may count as BioAugmentation, see also MixAndMatchMan. {{Mon}}s often have aspects of different animals. PuzzlingPlatypus may count as a RealLife example of this trope.

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Compare FusionDance and TwoBeingsOneBody, which is when two characters are combined. ShapeshifterMashup usually results in this. Mix-and-Match Critters may be the result of HotSkittyOnWailordAction. If both creatures are already mythological/magical/whatever and get mixed, they have a newborn HybridMonster and if mundane they can end up with a {{Patchwork Kid|s}}. An If it's too freakish and bizarre, you may have an AnimalisticAbomination may look like this.on your hands. Application of the principle to humans may count as BioAugmentation, see also MixAndMatchMan. {{Mon}}s often have aspects of different animals. PuzzlingPlatypus may count as a RealLife example of this trope.
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Compare FusionDance and TwoBeingsOneBody, which is when two characters are combined. ShapeshifterMashup usually results in this. Mix-and-Match Critters may be the result of HotSkittyOnWailordAction. If both creatures are already mythological/magical/whatever and get mixed, they have a newborn HybridMonster and if mundane they can end up with a {{Patchwork Kid|s}}. Application of the principle to humans may count as BioAugmentation, see also MixAndMatchMan. {{Mon}}s often have aspects of different animals. PuzzlingPlatypus may count as a RealLife example of this trope.

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Compare FusionDance and TwoBeingsOneBody, which is when two characters are combined. ShapeshifterMashup usually results in this. Mix-and-Match Critters may be the result of HotSkittyOnWailordAction. If both creatures are already mythological/magical/whatever and get mixed, they have a newborn HybridMonster and if mundane they can end up with a {{Patchwork Kid|s}}. An AnimalisticAbomination may look like this. Application of the principle to humans may count as BioAugmentation, see also MixAndMatchMan. {{Mon}}s often have aspects of different animals. PuzzlingPlatypus may count as a RealLife example of this trope.
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** For those who are confused as to why the image of the whale vulture seems to be a whale with robot legs, this is because the "vulture" in question is a [[TabletopGame/BattleTech BattleMech]].
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** The Stagmen meanwhil are more BeastMen.

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** The Stagmen meanwhil meanwhile are more BeastMen.[[BeastMan Deer-themed Beast Men]].

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