History Main / MixAndMatchCritters

* Some of the Remade from ChinaMieville's ''Literature/{{Bas-LagCycle}}'' are this trope, sentenced by the New Crobuzon courts to have parts of animals, or occasionally of human cadavers, magically incorporated into their bodies as a punishment. Occasionally someone has similar modifications done voluntarily, to acquire useful features such as functional gills.

* ''{{Gauntlet}}: Dark Legacy'''s Chimera: A lion's body with dragon wings and eagle talons instead of claws, with three heads: A snake, a lion, and an eagle, to correlate with the three types of Gargoyles and their elements (Poison, Fire, and Electricity, respectively.)

Compare FusionDance and TwoBeingsOneBody, which is when two characters are combined. MixAndMatchCritters may be the result of HotSkittyOnWailordAction. If both creatures are already mythological/magical/whatever and get mixed, they become a 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.

Compare FusionDance and TwoBeingsOneBody, which is when two characters are combined. MixAndMatchCritters may be the result of HotSkittyOnWailordAction. If both creatures are already mythological/magical/whatever and get mixed, they become a HybridMonster. Application of the principle to humans may count as BioAugmentation, see also MixAndMatchMan.

* ''Fanchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' has several in each incarnation such as Wolfos (wolf human hybrids) Lizfos, Dinolfos and Aeralfos (lizard men of various shapes and sizes), the Zora (fish men) and their descendants the Rito (bird men).

* In ''Literature/OnFairyStories'', JRRTolkien cited this as the first stage in original monsters -- though raising the spectre of muddy and confusing HeinzHybrid.

* One scene in ''DuckAmuck'' had the animator erase DaffyDuck's entire body, leaving only his head. Daffy then gets angry at him and tells him to draw his body back. The animator doesn't listen, and as a result he instead redraws Daffy as a bizarre quadruped with a flower-shaped head, mismatched feet, and a flagpole for a tail, with Daffy's flag displaying a screw and a ball. The animator then draws a mirror in front of Daffy, causing him to freak out after seeing his reflection.

* TheDraka's ghouloons, who are constructed from the genes of a baboon, a dog, and a human. They are actually sentient, and used as CannonFodder. To some extent, the [[SuperiorSpecies post-human]] ''Homo Drakensis'' race itself qualifies, as the Draka used traces of feline DNA to increase muscle strength and sense acuity.

* Season one of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has featured a manticore (in episode 2), a griffin (in episode 5), and a cockatrice (in episode 17). Discord, the villain of the season 2 premiere "The Return of Harmony", is a vaguely dragon-like creature called a "Draconequus" with the head of a pony and a mish-mash of other animal parts, including a pair of mismatched antlers, a lion's paw, an eagle's talon, and a snake's tail.

** They were an entire sub-group when it came to the toyline. There were some weird combinations, but Injector took the cake as a lionfish/hornet. Injector is also one of the most ''notirous'' shelfwarmers of all time.

* The original {{Filmation}} version of ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse'' was full of these. Some examples:

* [[NostalgiaCritic PLATYPUS-BUNNY!!!]]

* [[WebOriginal/NostalgiaCritic PLATYPUS-BUNNY!!!]]

* And the wonderful Bat-Rat-Spider in ''The Angry Red Planet'', which is pretty much exactly what it sounds like.

* In ''House II: The Second Story'', we have Bippy, the dog with a caterpillar body that was found in the Triassic period.

* Penny, Gumball's girlfriend from ''TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', is an anthropomorphic peanut with antlers.