History Main / MixAndMatchCritters

* West African band Osibisa, who formed in London and did a lot to make African music known in the West, adopted a flying elephant for their [=LP=] covers, which became the band's iconic mascot. This is beleived to have been inspired by a snotty and possibly racist remark made by a record company executive, who voiced the opinion that African music was as likely to take off in Britain as an elephant with wings. Osibisia's [=LP=]s became million sellers. And all of them had winged elephants on the cover - [[Film/{{Dumbo}} often a suspicious shade of pink]], with scaled-up dragonfly wings and compound insect eyes.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Aion}}'''s natural wildlife would fit right at home with the ''[[Franchise/WinnieThePooh Woozles]]'' or ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender''; amongst the combination seen in the game: Faurons (ram/wildebeests), Airons (crane/peacocks), Brax (boar/bison), Snufflers (armadillo/elephant), Sparkies (beetle/firefly), and pangolin squirrels.
* [[spoiler:Kuro]] from the card battle/otome game ''VideoGame/AyakashiRomanceReborn'' is a [[spoiler:Nue]] (see "Mythology" above for the description of this {{Youkai}}). He keeps it a secret.
* The ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos'' have such things as "bunnycats" (long-eared cats), "pows" (pigs that give large quantities milk, and are white colored with black splotches) , as well as Dog/Deer and Sheep/Goat hybrids.
* In ''VideoGame/BillyHatcherAndTheGiantEgg'', the hatchable animals include a kangaroo/lion, a sheep/camel/ostritch, a monkey/bat, a cheetah/gazelle, and a rhino/bird...thing.
* One of the levels in ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'' involves trying to save a group of "catfish" (half-cat, half-fish) from a "bullshark" (half bulldog, half shark).
* ''VideoGame/{{CarnEvil}}'' has deadly "spider-monkeys" (crosses between monkeys and spiders) in the Freak Show stage.
* The fifth boss of ''VideoGame/ChimeraBeast'' resembles a green-coloured cross between a lion and a boar.
* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'':
** Dingodile and Rilla Roo, both anthropomorphic, are near-equal parts dingo and crocodile, and gorilla and kangaroo, respectively.
** The now-defunct epilogue of ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing'' said that Dingodile went on to form him own highly successful business which made even more of them, including the Gir-Bat, Kanga-Rooster and Dingo-Rilla. "Combine them all", indeed.
** ''VideoGame/CrashOfTheTitans'' and ''VideoGame/CrashMindOverMutant'' have mix and match critters in the form of the mutants. Examples of such are the Scorporilla (Scorpion/Gorilla), the Snipe (Fox/Tropical Bird) the Rhinoroller (Rhino/Armadillo) and the Battler...which is half Bat, half ''Switch Blade''!
* The online game ''VideoGame/DragonFable'' inflicted the Dreaded Chickencow upon the world. Head, wings, breast, and front legs of a chicken, hindquarters of a cow; all of which adds up to the meat industries' dreams manifested in flesh.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' has several, such as the Catbear.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'': Pazuzu is a long-tailed monkey with wings and ears of bat.
** ''VideoGame/DragonQuestIX'': Nodoph is part lion, part dragon, and maybe part ape; his monster type's fairly clearly a nod to the mythical Chimaera and Manticore monsters.
* ''VideoGame/TheDungeonOfDoom'' gives us Alligogs (alligator-frogs) and Lizzogs (lizard-frogs).
* ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy5'' has the Camel Mammoth, a mammoth with yellow-tan fur and a camel's humps. Anna cracks up at the sight of it:
--> "Haha, is that some kind of desert mammoth? I've never seen such a derpy animal before."
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'':
** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has Nightstalkers, the result of an experiment in splicing coyote and rattlesnake DNA.
** So far all versions of the game have centaurs as well, which are a mixture of humans, dogs, cats, and FEV.
** ''VideoGame/Fallout1'' & ''2'' have the pigrat as well. Also, the deathclaw is a mixture of Jackson's chameleon and various 'other species'.
** The main selling point of ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'''s ''Automatron'' [=DLC=] is the addition of a new RobotBuddy companion who can be upgraded and customised using various parts from the different robots of the ''Fallout'' universe. She starts out with an Assaultron's head and upper body, a Protectron's stubby legs, and a GatlingGood for a right arm, but her body, armament and characteristics can all be made different by swapping with parts you can collect in your travels, whether you want a FragileSpeedster CloseRangeCombatant or a MightyGlacier LongRangeFighter. You can also customize your BattleButler Codsworth, a Mr. Handy, to your liking.
* Crowrilla from ''VideoGame/FightOfAnimals'' is a gorilla with the feathers and head of a crow.
* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
** The series features mole-bats, or ''moguri'', known in English as Moogles. The fact that they end up looking more like teddy bears than anything else can be chalked up to the RuleOfCute. [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance In]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Ivalice]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2 though]], moogles tend to look more like a half-bunny, half-bat.
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII we have the [[BigCreepyCrawlies kimera bug]] with the head and body of a mantis, the head and spinnerets of a spider, and the head and wings of a butterfly.
* Torque from ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet'' is a "shellduck": A duck wearing a tortoise shell. Aside from a skeptical comment from Lilac, nobody really seems to notice. [[spoiler: Although it's subverted in that the shellduck is a poorly-constructed disguise, and Torque is actually an alien.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{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.)
* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' has its share of these:
** ''Ghost of Sparta'' has SeaMonster Scylla, who has teeth and jaw of the shark (but with even [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily more teeth]]), tentacles of the squid, as well as shells of crustaceans.
** In ''II'' there is also the Kraken who has octopus-like tentacles and mostly humanoid-like appearance just like in the ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans'' film.
** ''Ascension'' gives us Manticore who has an interesting design, having a large purple lion-like body with chiropteran wings and chitinous plates, a spiked scorpion tail, the upper head and nuzzle of a lion and the maws of a shark.
** In ''III'', there are Chimera enemies who just like in the original Greek Mythology, have lion-like body with lion and goat heads and snake-like tail.
** Also from ''III''', there are Hippocampi, who are water horses with tails of fish, and lobster-like limbs.
* ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' has the Antlions, ant-like critters with the comparable size and strength of lions. They sound creepy, but admittedly they can get really cute.
* ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}'': Everyone say hello to [[https://halo.wiki.gallery/images/3/30/H2_DobermanGator_Concept.jpg Doberman-Gator!]]
* Deathstalker Rexxar in ''VideoGame/{{Hearthstone}}'' lets you make your own with your hero power. Choose a beast from two sets of three, smash them together, and have fun!
* ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic'':
** In ''I'' and ''II'', while no explanation was given (beyond the one implicit in them being the diametric opposition to the nature-focused Sorceresses) this was a theme for the Warlocks -- in ''I'' half their available creatures belong in this trope (and they were alone in having creatures that fit it), while in ''II'' half their base creatures belong in this trope[[note]]upgraded variants counted separately, it is 4/9th of the creatures[[/note]], and the only non-Warlock mix-and-match is the neutral Medusa... who was turned into a Dungeon (equivalent of Warlock) creature for ''III''.
** In ''V'' and ''VI'', mix and match critters can be created in two ways: they're either {{Half Human Hybrid}}s known as 'beastmen' who were created by wizard's experiments, or two species can become fused by the powerful magic present in a dragon-vein ([[OurGriffinsAreDifferent griffins]] are believed to have been created in this manner).
* ''Hybrid Animals'' is a game ''based'' around this trope. By [[InterspeciesRomance breeding two different animals together]] from a list of them, you can create bizarre monstrosities such as a tiger-bunny or a T-rex-scorpion. Since every fusion is generated from an algorithm, your fusions will often look very odd, and more often than not will be either stronger or weaker than they look.
* This is the concept of ''VideoGame/ImpossibleCreatures'', a RealTimeStrategy game wherein you can make an army of chimeras from your choice of a few dozen base animals.
* ''VideoGame/ImpressiveTitle'':
** The player's avatar can fall under this thanks to CharacterCustomization allowing players to mix and match body parts to however they please. While they are limited to feline heads and lion bodies, they can still add things like fox tails, spotted hyena markings, and wings to their lion-like personas.
** {{Subverted}} with ''VideoGame/FeralHeart'' thanks to the introduction of species selection, so some markings, ear and tail shapes are exclusive only to feline and canine characters. However, there are some exceptions to the rule as players can still create wolves with cat tails.
* ''VideoGame/JadeCocoon 2'' has the Tomokana line of divine beasts, which have swordfish-like snouts, stingray fins and spiked lower bodies that can swell up like a pufferfish. There's also a monster from the Ku family that looks like a dog but has boar's tusks, a unicorn-like horn, an armored shell and a lobster-like tail.
* Many creatures in ''VideoGame/JakAndDaxter''. One of the main characters is an ottsel (otter-weasel), and there are yakows (yak-cow), crocadogs (crocodile-dog), monkaws (monkey-macaw) and hiphogs (hippo-hog) running around.
* The ''[[VideoGame/KatamariDamacy Katamari]]'' series (specifically ''We ♥ Katamari'' and ''Katamari Forever'') has the Cowbear (infamous for being one of the harder items to roll up) which consists of the upper half of a bear and the lower half of a cow.
* The pet system introduced to ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX'' in late 2017 comes by default with cat options ("Kitstar") and dog options ("Pupstar") and various rewards have provided numerous other options, including rabbit options ("Bunstar"), pig options ("Pigstar") and reindeer options ("Reinstar") to name just a few. These can be freely mixed and matched with the arms, legs, ears, head and tail.
* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' has the Lobsterfrogmen. ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* You get the chance to play as one of these in ''VideoGame/EVOSearchForEden'', since the game lets you mix and match creature parts.
* ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'':
** Klonoa himself. Combine one part cat, one part dog, one part rabbit, and [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter sixteen parts cute]].
** Popka, who is half dog, half insect, and also appears to be part stuffed animal too.
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': Blupees, magical creatures found around Hyrule's forests, resemble blue rabbits with owl-like faces and moth-like antennae.
* ''VideoGame/LetsBuildAZoo'': The CRISPR machine allows you to gene-splice two animal species together to create hybrids with the head of one species and the body of another.
* ''VideoGame/{{Lorwolf}}'':
** The premium currency Volmyr breed is a fusion of a wolf and a bat, interpreted as a wolf with bat-like wings attached to its arms.
** Many campaign enemies and companions also have this design, such as Vulpecitas combining foxes and butterflies and Canictonis combining swans with scorpions.
* ''VideoGame/MasterOfTheMonsterLair'': Many examples, including crowbats (crows with bat wings), crowcats (cats with crow wings), pigboars (granted they look about like regular boars), and buffalobull (a buffalo with longhorn bull horns). Also applies to a few bosses:
** The apple viper, which also qualifies as a {{Planimal}}.
** The rogue leon, which is a humanoid with lion head and bat wings.
** The devlin, which is half devil and half goblin.
* ''Merge Zoo'' focuses on making the strangest crosses you can (a tiger and a giraffe, anyone?) and seeing what kind of offspring results.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has the Mooshroom mob, which is a red-and-white half-cow, half-mushroom.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterCrown'' touts "True Crossbreeds" as one of its main features. Once monster breeding becomes available to the player, the offspring of any two creatures is a hybrid that incorporates both parents' appearances, abilities, and elemental affinities; for example, mixing a three-headed hydra with a wolf will produce a three-headed wolf.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter'':
** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter2Dos'': What happens when you base a monster on a [[{{Youkai}} Raiju]], a gorilla, a mountain goat, and a minotaur for good measure? Rajang.
** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterFreedom2'': What do you get when you cross-breed a dragon, a tiger, and a T. rex? A 22-meter-long embodiment of raw power, sheer ferocity and an incredibly foul temperament. Also known as a Tigrex.
** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter3Tri'':
*** What do you get when you crossbreed a dragon and a smilodon? A Barioth. Also, pain. Lots and lots of pain.
*** And in the [[ReadingsAreOffTheScale Elder Dragon]] side of things, Jhen Mohran. Jhen Mohran is what happens when you cross a crocodile, a shark, and a whale and give it two narwhal tusks. The related Dah'ren Mohran, which debuted in ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter4'', replaces the narwhal tusks with a giant [[ThisIsADrill drill horn]].
** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunter4'':
*** What do you get when you toss a frog and a shark in a blender, then [[AnIcePerson freeze it?]] Zamtrios and its platoon of Zamite {{Mooks}}.
*** Kecha Wacha takes a proboscis monkey as its base and gives it the skin membranes of a flying squirrel while exaggerating its schnozz to resemble that of a tapir. The large eye patterns on the helmet-like" part of the membranes that go over its head resemble the eye-spots some caterpillars and moths use to intimidate predators.
** ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'':
*** Paolumu appears to be a fruit bat with the wing structure of a ''Microraptor'' and the head of a Sphinx cat. Its neck pouch may have been based on frogs and toads combined with the frills of a frilled lizard. This being a monster, Paolumu is a lot bigger than any of those animals.
*** What happens when you mix a seahorse, a vampire squid and a salamander and [[MakingASplash soak it?]] You get Namielle.
* ''VideoGame/MonsterSanctuary'':
** As its name suggests, the Gryphonix is a gryphon combined with a phoenix.
** Rampede looks like a mish-mash of several dinosaurs, with the head-frill and spikes of a ceratopsian, the tail-club of an anklyosaur, and the bipedal, hunched-over stance of a theropod.
** Rathops mostly looks like a ceratopsian, but it has feathers.
* ''VideoGame/MOTHER3'' provides the page image[[note]]clockwork from top left: Monkalrus, Parental Kangashark, Horsantula, Muttshroom and Ostrelephant[[/note]], with some of its many Chimarae; bio-engineered animal hybrids that are the standard {{mook}}s for most of the game. Some of the crazier ones, like the Cattlesnake and Pigtunia, aren't shown in the above image.
* ''VideoGame/MrSaitou'': The Llamaworms are striped llamas that are all head, neck, and no body. They are extremely flexible and can burrow into the ground just like a worm.
* UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast ActionRPG ''VideoGame/NappleTale'' has Frocar, anthropomorphic frog on top and automobile on the bottom. He's a [[PermanentElectedOfficial pillar of the community]]!
* ''VideoGame/NinjaShadowOfDarkness'': Some of the bosses are hybrid creatures. The first one is a combination of a Minotaur and a [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile giant crocodile]], while the Cloud City Boss is a [[TRexpy T-Rex with Dragon wings]] (it looks as ridiculous as it sounds, a combination of those massive wings with its scrawny arms...).
* ''VideoGame/NoMansSky'': The aliens are generated procedurally like the planets, but the game doesn't always take into account common sense when assembling them and since most of the body parts are based on real animals it occasionally leads to some... [[https://gfycat.com/OldfashionedUnkemptFritillarybutterfly interesting]] [[http://i.imgur.com/Nxoedeb.gifv results]].
* In ''VideoGame/{{Octogeddon}}'', Octogeddon starts off as a normal octopus with octopus tentacles, but with all the DNA it acquires it can replace those with crab claws, turtle shells, rooster heads, and many, many more.
* ''VideoGame/OviPets'' has this in spades due to the mutation mechanics. You can have wolves with cat heads, eagles with butterfly wings, lizards that look like platypuses, chickens that look like pigeons and ferrets that look like skunks to name just a few.
* In ''[[VideoGame/{{Parodius}} Gokujou Parodius]]'', the first boss is a tutu-wearing panda with a quacking duck's head on top of its own.
* ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'': The Snagrets have the heads of a bird and the bodies of a snake. The Pikmin themselves are [[{{Planimal}} plant and animal hybrids]].
* Several Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, especially plant/animal hybrids under the Grass type.
** Arcanine is a [[CanisMajor large wolf-like dog]], with the stripes and coloration of a tiger that appears to be based on a Shisa (lion-dog cross that originated from sculptors that had never seen lions before referencing dogs and going by descriptions of lions).
** Seel and Dewgong resemble seals with large protruding teeth and single horns on their heads, reminiscent of the tusks of a walrus and the tusk of a narwhal. Dewgong's tail also slightly resembles that of a mermaid.
** Eevee and its Eeveelutions take aspects from foxes, dogs, cats, possibly rabbits, and in the case of Flareon, a lion, Jolteon, a coyote and a cheetah, and Vaporeon, a mermaid. The fandom generally, but not universally, believes that they are supposed to be seen more as foxes or dogs more so than the other animals they borrow traits from. Atsuko Nishida, designer of Eevee and everything that evolves from it, stated that she wanted Eevee to look like a mammal but [[CartoonCreature not resembling anything in particular]] to reflect the many different Pokémon it can become.
** Totodile's evolution Croconaw is a crocodilian that looks like a dinosaur with the crest on its head and the skin pattern resembling the wild hair and animal skin outfit of a caveman.
** Entei is a lion-like dog possibly based on similar myths as Arcanine. It's said to bark, and it has a mane and retractable claws like a lion.
** Mightyena and its pre-evolution, Poochyena, are based on hyenas, and have many wolf-like traits, like howling.
** Type: Null and Silvally from ''Sun and Moon'' are lab-produced chimeras with many traits coming from unknown sources. It has bird talons, a fish fin for a tail, a wolf-like head with a beak, cat or dog back feet with scales, and a crest of feathers on its head, and overall a wingless griffon-like appearance.
** Sharpedo is a shark with the body of an ocean sunfish.
** The Fossil Pokemon Dracozolt, Arctozolt, Dracovish and Arctovish from ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' are [[FossilRevival revived from]] completely mismatched fossils -- one of two front halves (-zolt, -vish) and one of two back halves (Draco-, Arcto-), taking stats and abilities from both. Many of them have improper proportions and placements, such as Dracozolt's upper body being too small, Dracovish's head being placed on the end of the ''tail'', Arctovish's head being upside-down, etc.
* In ''VideoGame/QuestForGlory'', there are several of them:
** Mantray, a cross between a manta fish and a ray. They don't swim however: they fly and [[ShockAndAwe shoot lightning]].
** [[OurGriffinsAreDifferent A lone griffin]] is in the secodn game. It isn't hostile, but if you disturb or attack it, [[SuperPersistentPredator watch out]].
** Flying cobras are found in the third game and yes, they spit poison.
* In ''VideoGame/ReturnToMysteriousIsland'', Mina must get past a sea creature with a crocodile-like head and a shark's body. Possibly it's meant to be an ichthyosaur, but if so, the designers put its tail on upside-down.
* The ratigators from ''VideoGame/SewerShark''.
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** A variation occurs in ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'' and [[VideoGame/SonicAdventure2 its sequel]], where the Chao develop physical traits similar to the small animals they play with (bunny ears, peacock crest, tiger arms...). Neutral and Dark "Run Type" Chao resemble Sonic and Shadow respectively, with blue or black striped head spines. Also, it's possible to make one look like ''Chaos''.
** The series also has Fang the Sniper (aka Nack the Weasel), who is a purple-furred bounty hunter. He is sometimes referred to as a "weasel-wolf" by fans but his actual species is wolf/jerboa. In North America he was accidentally referred to as a wolf/weasel for a period of time, resulting in fan confusion over his species.
* Part of the appeal of ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' is the ability to build your own Mix-and-Match Critters, among other possibilities.
* ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'''s concept is all about cranking up random generation, up to the animals inhabiting the planets, which can have a variety of weird body types grafted together.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'':
** Yoshi is supposed to be a dinosaur... with a turtle-like shell that doubles as a saddle, a chamelon/froglike tongue that [[BigEater swallows]] [[ExtremeOmnivore everything]], and has been known to [[DinosaursAreDragons grow (feathered) wings and breathe fire]]... and he wears boots.
** Bowser is commonly confused to be a dragon-turtle, but he's actually designed to be an ox-turtle. Miyamoto originally envisioned him to be an ox, but his staff convinced him to make Bowser a turtle instead. Bowser's final design merged the two creatures.
** The first boss of ''VideoGame/VirtualBoyWarioLand'' is the aptly named "Dinosaur Fish."
* That's how traits of all organisms in ''[=SimLife=]'' are represented. Every type of ''head'' specifies creature's intelligence and diet, ''body'' represents mode of locomotion and habitat, and ''tail'' corresponds to type of reproduction. Same thing with plants with ''blossom'' signifying type of flowers and fruit; ''stem'' -- life cycle, biome and size; and ''roots'' -- habitat and conditions in which it's seeds sprout.
* ''VideoGame/SlimeRancher2'' has Sea Hens, which are chicken-shaped seagulls.
* ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'' has Dr. M's henchmen, including elephants with bat wings and gorilla arms, alligators with lobster arms and kangaroo feet, and snakes with tiger arms and frog feet. Dr. M himself controls several giant monstrosities in his various fights, too.
* The [[SapientCetaceans Liir]] from the ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' games combine aspects from various sea creatures. They look mostly like dolphins, but also have patches of downy fur like seals, tentacles on their snouts like cephalopods, hermaphrodism like many sea invertebrates, and like lobsters they keep growing and growing until [[SquareCubeLaw their bodies get too big to be sustainable]] [[spoiler:except for the [[TheSociopath Suul'Ka]], [[ImmortalityImmorality who said "fuck that" and became]] {{Eldritch Abomination}}s instead.]]
* In ''VideoGame/{{Syberia}}'', youki have characteristics of seals, bears, and dogs.
* The Sea Creatures of ''VideoGame/TalesOfMonkeyIsland Chapter 2: The Siege of Spinner Cay''. They have the head of a sea horse, the body and shell of a turtle, the fins and flippers of a fish, and the large bulb antenna of an angler fish. [[HellIsThatNoise And their calls are... kind of weird]].
* ''VideoGame/TalesSeries'':
** In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', we have rappigs: pigs with soft pink fur and rabbit ears. [[BunnyEarsLawyer Emperor Peony]] keeps several as pets (and apparently also gives them as gifts to people he likes, at least according to one sidequest). They appear to be the size of real-life pigs in the game, but TheAnimeOfTheGame shows them being closer to the size of a small dog.
** ''VideoGame/TalesOfXillia'' clarifies this. Rappigs are biologically rabbits that look like pigs, and introduces a new species, Piggits, which are biologically pigs that look like rabbits. Naturally, due to a mix of convergent evolution and using the same character model, they look exactly the same.
* Longma from ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'' are horse/dragon hybrids. Tianhuo looks like a scaley horse with a firey mane.
* Some animals in ''VideoGame/UncleAlbertsAdventures'' turn into hybrids when you use the transformation potion on them.
** The frogen is a dragon/frog hybrid. It looks like an orange frog with dragon wings and a dragon tail.
** The spider/snail hybrid looks like a spider with a snail shell in place of the abdomen.
** The blue scorpion is described as a scorpion/frog hybrid by the laboratory scan.
** The yellow ladybug is described as a ladybug/stag beetle hybrid by the laboratory scan.
** The spotted stag beetle is a stag beetle/ladybug hybrid which looks like a stag beetle whose back is red with black dots.
** It's possible to turn Kipling the parrot into a parrot/frog hybrid. He looks exactly like a frog, but he retains his ability to talk.
* The [[PlanetOfSteves Temmies]] from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' are strange, catlike creatures that also appear to have floppy dog ears.
* In ''VideoGame/VivaPinata: Trouble in Paradise'', depending on which bones you tinker, the Choclodocus can have the head of a ''Triceratops'', ''Brontosaurus'', or ''Stegosaurus'', as well as a tail that doesn't fit any of them.
* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'' games contain many mythological mix and match critters, such as gryphons, hippogryphs and chimaeras. Then there are wyverns, which are lions with batlike wings and scorpion tails (The "wyvern" name is odd since these beings are clearly ''manticores''), magnataurs (essentially a wooly mammoth centaur) and zhevras(zebras with a small horn on their forehead). There's also creatures that look mostly like real-world ones but with few parts added, like giraffes with gazelle-style horns and crocolisks (6-legged crocodiles).
* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
** ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' includes Moonkin, which are owlbears, as well. Druid characters are shapeshifters, and if one takes the offensive spellcasting talents, you can change into one.
** ''[=WoW=]'' also has the wolpertinger. It has the body, head, feet, and tail of a hare... and fangs, wings, and antlers. They can also only be seen when ''[[MushroomSamba drunk]]''...
* The [[HelpfulMook Dragonturtles]] from the ''VideoGame/WonderlandAdventures'' games, which are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin turtles with dragon horns]].
* ''VideoGame/YokusIslandExpress'': Kickback, your sidekick, has a body like a pufferfish, but flowing fins like a goldfish. [[spoiler:And during his reveal as the BigBad, [[OneWingedAngel he takes on gigantic talons and attributes from still other creatures]]]].
* Zera from ''VideoGame/ZeraMythsAwaken'' is supposed to look like a mix of an axolotl and a bat.
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* [[EvilutionaryBiologist Dr. Gross]] from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has made several of these, including a scorpion-chipmunk, a mouse-shark, a bee-chicken, and a clock-bear. [[spoiler: They also have plenty of cybernetic implants like she does.]]
* Penny, Gumball's girlfriend from ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'', is an anthropomorphic peanut with antlers.
** The non-anthropomorphic animals from the Forest Of Doom used to be this trope to the extreme, until the show changed the art-style for regular animals, and they were replaced by generic, more realistic ones.
* Starting from the sixth season of ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', D.W.'s friend Emily is implied to be one of these, as her mom and dad are [[InterspeciesRomance a rabbit and monkey respectively]] and her jaw was redesigned to be more rounded and slightly "monkey-like" compared to the other rabbit characters in the show.
* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and SequelSeries ''Westernanimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' take this to ridiculous extents. The series initially had a few hybrid animals among those that just looked slightly different from real ones, but they became more of the norm as the series went on. Interestingly enough, most animals in the material world are hybrids, while the majority of spirit animals seem to be real animals. Eventually, it's evident that the Gaang are confused by the very presence of a regular ''bear.'' Regular dogs and cats seem to exist however.
** The TeamPet, Momo, is a flying lemur (it has wings similar to a bat's).
** Earlier designs of Appa, the ''other'' TeamPet, a flying bison, are a mix between a bison and a manatee, only with six legs. Appa's final design, while still only called a "bison", doesn't ''quite'' resemble any real animal, being a large white furry CartoonCreature with six legs.
** Boarcupines are recurring creatures resembling huge boars bristling with porcupine quills.
** Turtle ducks have duck heads, tails and legs and bodies hidden in a turtle shell. Secretly, they're Zuko's favorite animal.
** Ostrich horses are flightless birds with beaked equine heads, and serve as the main means of travel before the invention of air-balloon and cars.
** Badger-moles are giant burrowing animals and the original earthbenders (which makes sense considering both badgers and moles are excellent digging animals).
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoyInTheIceberg The Boy in the Iceberg]]": The "[[CallASmeerpARabbit penguins]]" have four flippers and otter-like tails. They are only called "penguins" however, similar to Appa.
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderZukoAlone Zuko Alone]]": The farm has almost every common meat animal, albeit mixed with a pig.
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheWaterbendingMaster The Waterbending Master]]": There are "koala otters" (creatures with sea otter bodies and koala heads) living in the waters around the Northern Water Tribe.
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheSouthernRaiders The Southern Raiders]]" has a plant example with a tomatocarrot. This is a particularly odd example, as other fruits and vegetables -- melons, mangoes, eggplants, cabbages, apples and so on -- have shown up completely unaltered.
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderSozinsCometPart2TheOldMasters Sozin's Comet, Part 2: The Old Masters]]" has Aang making a reference to "a spider-fly caught in its own web".
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderAppasLostDays Appa's Lost Days]]" has a shot of a {{Jackalope}}. Appa also encounters buzzard wasps, wasps the size of a condor with a turkey vulture's head.
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderCityOfWallsAndSecrets City of Walls and Secrets]]": A "train" powered by earth benders passes by a herd of fox antelopes.
** Catgators: catfish/alligator crosses. Kept as pets by the waterbenders of a swamp region.
** Goat gorillas are white-furred apes with hoofed hind legs and horns.
** Tiger seals are pinnipeds with stripes and feline heads.
** Saber-tooth moose lions are giant moose with saber teeth and paws instead of hooves.
** Sparrowkeets are part-sparrow and part-lorikeet, in practice resulting in a fairly standard small songbird.
** Wolfbats resemble wolves with bat wings and faces, allowing the chase prey on land and in the air.
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheWesternAirTemple The Western Air Temple]]": Badgerfrogs are large amphibians with badger-like striping.
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheRunaway The Runaway]]": A dragon-moose with an ungulate body and a draconic head is seen drawing a cart.
** During the series finale, Toph, Sokka, and Suki ride on an animal called an "eel hound" which is renowned for its speed over both land and water. It's supposed to be a hybrid of greyhound and eel, but in effect it resembles a four-legged dinosaur.
** A subversion are the elephant koi; despite their name, the only elephant-like attribute of theirs is size. Otherwise, they just look and act like normal koi.
** "Snail-sloths", though not seen, is used as a phrase to indicate slowness or laziness.
** The "elephant-rhino" is similar as it is never seen, but is used as a replacement in the idiom "elephant in the room".
** Rat vipers are hybrids between vipers and rats, used in a proverb similar to our own "two-headed snake". Particularly interesting since rats are a viper's main diet.
** Aang meets an ancient giant lion turtle posing as an island, who [[spoiler:teaches him the art of energy-bending]].
** Hippo cows resemble holstein cattle with hippo heads. Despite being composites of two herbivores, the apparently [[FridgeLogic like to eat meat]].
** A pirate captain is encountered [[PirateParrot with a parrot iguana on his shoulder]] (which in effect makes it look more like a prehistoric dino-bird like ''Archaeopteryx'').
** "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheTalesOfBaSingSe Tales of Ba Sing Se]]": A turtle-seal, a seal with a turtle shell on its backs, is seen padding along at the back of a stampede of zoo animals and providing some MoodWhiplash. The escaped animals also include a swarm of dragonflies, [[PunBasedCreature lizards with insect wings]], an armadillo tiger, and a group of "hog monkeys" (which resemble baboons with porcine faces).
** Koala-sheep are incredibly docile balls of fluff that make great pillows.
** Rabaroos look like giant marsupial rabbits. The one shown also has three babies in its pouch, way too many for a kangaroo but a small litter for a rabbit, implying that the mixing goes beyond external features.
** Korra's CanineCompanion Naga the polar bear dog, just as [[CanisMajor giant]] as one might assume.
** Bolin's pet fire ferret Pabu, is a mix between a ferret and a red panda, with the general appearance of a red panda, and the elongated body of a ferret.
** Lizard-crows, lizards with corvid wings and heads, scavenge in Republic City's urban sprawl. Additionally, spider-rats seem to be a pest problem.
** The bounty hunter, June, rides upon a creature known as a shirshu which resembles a cross between a star-nosed mole, a giant anteater, and a wolf, with the shared attributes of these components. It has an incredibly acute sense of smell, no apparent eyes, paralytic venom (which moles do possess), and a long, lashing tongue.
** Bolin once mentions a "poodle-pony" which is apparently a pet species.
** Korra uses a comparison to a "weasel-snake" as an insult.
** Bolin mentions that Eska [[FedToTheBeast threaten to feed him to "dolphin-piranhas"]].
** The animal companion of the first Avatar, Wan, was a cat-deer, specifically a hybrid of a caracal and a pronghorn ([[NonIndicativeName which isn't really a deer]]).
** In Season 3, Korra, Asami and the crew of a downed airship are chased by [[ThreateningShark a giant sand shark]] that looks like the cross between a Great White and a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcastic_fringehead Sarcastic Fringehead.]]
** Dragons combine the overall shape and spiritual connection of Asian dragons with the wings and association with fire of European dragons.
** Averted by the Earth King's pet bear. That's it. Just a bear. And unlike the "penguins" from the first episode, it looks and behaves exactly like a real bear. The others are confounded by this information.
--->'''Aang:''' You mean, platypus bear?\\
'''Katara:''' No, it just says "bear."\\
'''Sokka:''' Certainly you mean his pet skunk bear.\\
'''Toph:''' Or his armadillo bear.\\
'''Aang:''' Gopher bear?\\
'''Katara:''' Just "bear."\\
''[{{beat}}]''\\
'''Toph:''' This place is ''weird''.
** Platypus-bears aren't just something Katara said in the above quote. They're seen beforehand, thus creating the oddity of a Mix-and-Match Critter that has ''another'' Mix-and-Match Critter as one of its components.
** An ExpandedUniverse comic has scorpion bees.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'''s B'wana Beast has this as his superpower. He can combine two separate animals into one. Even [[SeenItAll Batman]] thinks it's kinda weird.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'': Cuvier's splicing company is fittingly named Chimera Studios. At the start of the final battle, he turns himself into a creature with the head of an eagle, the torso of a tiger and the lower body of a snake, calling himself "a true chimera". But then Batman makes things worse for him by injecting all kinds of animal DNA into him, turning him into a blob monster.
* ''WesternAnimation/BikerMiceFromMars'' has Fred the mutant, who has a duck's foot, a bear's foot, a human arm for his right arm, an octopus tentacle for his left arm and three eyes.
* ''WesternAnimation/CatDog'': The main character/s are the front half of a cat and the front half of a dog, conjoined at the middle.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'': Chowder and Panini are a cross between a cat, bear, and rabbit. However, the original idea for the Chowder design was to look like some sort of squeeze toy.
* ''WesternAnimation/ClassOf3000'': One episode shows that Eddie owns a pet [[NeverSmileAtACrocodile croco]][[BearsAreBadNews bear]] named Mindy.
* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' gives us the hunkicorn: "half hummingbird, half donkey, and [[TooManyHalves half unicorn]]."
--> ''"I hope your Mom wasn't the hummingbird!"''
* ''WesternAnimation/TheCrumpets'' has José, a pet octopus owned by Grownboy Crumpet who got thrown by a hook rod held one of his younger sisters Blister, and hits a flying mosquito before the two creatures fall to the Crumpet mother's fusing machine and become the episode's namesake "octosquito". José transformed to an octopus with a mosquito proboscis and wings, and he grows, flies, and shoots ink at the other Crumpets in havoc.
* ''WesternAnimation/CupcakeAndDinoGeneralServices'' has Kattycorn in "Everybody loves Kattycorn", who's part cat, part unicorn. Also parodied in another episode with the Manygoose, a goose with the head of a goose, the body of a different goose, and a horn that's just another goose.
* ''WesternAnimation/DawnOfTheCroods'' follows its source material in having lots of these. Besides the ones already featured in the movie, there are also things such as chickuna (Chicken Tuna).
* ''WesternAnimation/DocMcStuffins'': In "A Pet for Everyone", the Wicked King creates the [[AlliterativeName Perfectly Royal Perfect Pet Pavilion]] which allows toys to create designer pets. When the [=McStuffins=] Pet Rescue Team has to break in at night to rescue Bob, a non-designer pet toy dog that Hallie has decided to adopt, they end up accidentally creating a designer pet as well. It has a rubber duck head, a squirrel tail, rabbit and cat ears and parts from various other animals. The Wicked King itself ends up adopting it.
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckAmuck'': One scene has the animator erase WesternAnimation/{{Daffy|Duck}}'s body, leaving only his head. Daffy then gets angry at him and tells him to draw his body back. The animator 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.
* ''WesternAnimation/ElenaOfAvalor'': The realm of Vallestrella is inhabited by these types of creatures, who are based on the Mexican folk art of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alebrije alebrijes]]. Notably, the SeriesMascot, the jaquins, are jaguars with the wings of macaws. There are also flaringos (flamingo-giraffe hybrids), butterfrogs (frogs with butterfly wings), peabunnies (bunnies with peacock tail feathers), and sun birds ({{Feathered Serpent}}s, who are based off of Quetzalcoatl).
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
** In "You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives", Noah is on his ark and discovers that an elephant and a penguin made love and produced a penguin with an elephant head. They named it Paul.
** "Into Harmony's Way" has a parody of ''WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies'' only it's about babies of the Muppets rather than [[SpinoffBabies the Muppets as babies]], with Kermit and Miss Piggy's son Kermie Jr. being a gross frog/pig hybrid that is in pain and begs to be killed.
** In "Jesus, Mary, and Joseph!", Peter once took the lyric "Two turtledoves" literally and gave Lois a pair of genetically engineered doves with turtle shells for Christmas. After letting them loose, they flew around the living room erratically and the Griffins decided to spend that Christmas outside.
* ''WesternAnimation/FanboyAndChumChum'' has the Rattleskunkupine, which Fanboy describes as "half rattlesnake, half porcupine, all skunk".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheFarmOfTomorrow'': Most of the jokes consist of bizarre cross-breeding experiments such as an ostrich with a chicken (for bigger drumsticks), a duck with a banana (you peel the feathers off instead of plucking) and a dove with a high chair ([[PunBasedCreature a stool pigeon]]).
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': Zoidberg's species, the Decapodians, are hybrids of every sea creature there is -- crab claws, cuttlefish for heads, ink-squirting, moltable shells, and then there's the dozens of larval stages they go through, including lampreys, trilobites, sea urchins, clams, and anglerfish and coral phase. When they mate, the males display their crest, but when you get lucky, you're really unlucky: all those who mate die.
* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':
** [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent The Gremloblin]], a cross between goblins and gremlins. Apparently, those who gaze into its eyes are shown their worst nightmares and in all cases suffer [[BrownNote catatonia]] from it. Contact with water also makes them turn far more menacing, even growing wings.
** In a later episode, after Mabel witnesses [[ItMakesSenseInContext a snake and a badger fall in love]], she excitedly claims that they're going to make a "[[LegoGenetics snadger]]".
* ''WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983'' was full of these. Some examples:
** Molkrom, a centaur-like demon with the head of a horse, a wolf's tail and teeth, bull horns and tentacles for arms.
** In "Son Of Celice", Orko accidentally creates a chimpanzee with a rabbit's head when he means to summon a gift for the king of Tahrin.
* ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'': In "I Am Deity", the miniature weasels and baboons breed, which results in waboons and babeasels.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' villain [=DNAmy=] loves plush toy Mix-and-Match Critters called "Cuddlebuddies" (like pandaroo) and makes living ones with LEGOGenetics.
** She used her knowledge of genetics to create a cat-snake, rabbit-rhino, chicken and pig men, a lobster dog, a poodle-gorilla, a naked-mole man (from Rufus and Mr. Barkin), and supervillain Monkeyfist.
** If you look closely, you can see she wears an otter-fly brooch on the front of her top, one of her favorite cuddle-buddies.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'' has an episode dedicated to Juniper meeting a bat-otter.
* ''WesternAnimation/LoonaticsUnleashed'' has The Ringmaster and Otto the Odd capture all six Loonatics, and conduct LegoGenetics resequencing on them, which converts the Loonatics into patchwork composites of different species. Ace Bunny gets cheetah fur and moose antlers, Lexi Bunny gets skunk fur and reptilian belly plates, Rev Runner gets a bat's fur and wings plus a pig's snout, et cetera. The fiendish process also switches their superpowers. The villains have apparently done this with other people, converting random children into "galactic oddities" which they display for amusement.
* ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart:'' Orangusnake, as the name indicates, would be a hybrid of orangutan and snake with the latter taking the head and the former being most of the body. [[spoiler:And then it turns out to be a subversion, as Orangusnake is actually ''two'' individuals: A snake named Coby, and an orangutan named Tanner. They just join and [[TotemPoleTrench use armor to pretend to be a single, more intimidating criminal]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyRescueAtMidnightCastle'':
** Scorpan, TheDragon to the first BigBad of the franchise, is for all intents and purposes a baboon with bat wings.
** Tirac also has mooks that can be described as half-orc and half-lizardman.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** Numerous monsters in the show have fit this trope, including:
** Manticores are lions with bat wings and scorpion tails. "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS6E6NoSecondPrances No Second Prances]]" has a manticore that also sports a pair of horns.
*** Cockatrices have vaguely draconic bodies and chicken heads.
*** Fruit bats are literally hybrids of bats and fruit. "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E7Bats Bats!]]" introduces "vampire fruit bats", a DarkerAndEdgier form of the same that suck fruit dry of juice.
*** The classic Greek Chimera shows up in season 4. However, its main head is now that of a saber-toothed cat in place of a lion.
*** Fly-ders are just that -- spiders with fly wings.
*** Maulwurfs are described as [[TooManyHalves half-mole, half-bear, half-raging-pile-of-claws]]. The one in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E19ToChangeAChangeling To Change a Changeling]]" is, in practice, a giant mole with a bearlike stance and the teeth of a pocket gopher.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS7E17DaringDone Daring Done?]]": The sphinx is a massive lion-like creature with feathered wings and a pony's head.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E9NonCompeteClause Non-Compete Clause]]": The main characters are menaced by a school of biteacudas, piranha-like fish with bat wings.
*** "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E26SchoolRazePart2 School Raze]]": This is exploited when [[spoiler:the main characters hatch a plan to escape Tartarus after having their magic drained by temporarily borrowing the magic inherent in the natures of the chimeric beasts imprisoned there; until their magic is returned, this causes the volunteer monsters to temporarily split into their component animals -- a manticore into a lion and a scorpion, a chimera into a snake, a goat and saber-toothed cat, a bugbear into a wasp and a panda, and a cockatrice into a cobra and a chicken]].
** Griffins have appeared in in several episodes. The first seen, Gilda, is a classic lion-eagle hybrid. Later griffin designs have been more varied, including things like tiger hindquarters and owl and hawk forequarters.
** Hippogriffs, meanwhile, look more pony-like, with pony bodies and rear legs and the wings, beak and front claws of an eagle. Some have what appear to be pony manes and tails, though Queen Novo and a few others seem to have feathers instead. In their aquatic forms, they have pony-like heads with beaks and seahorse-like bodies with almost insect- or butterfly-like wing-fins on their backs and fluke-like fins at the end of the tail.
** Discord, the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification spirit of chaos]], is a vaguely dragon-like creature called a draconequus, with the head of a pony and a mish-mash of other animal parts, including an antler, a goat's horn, a lion's paw, an eagle's talon, a deer's leg, a dragon's claw, and a snake's tail with a tuft of fur at the end.
** Alicorns such as Celestia and Luna are a combination of the three breeds of pony; the magic of a unicorn (horn), the flight of a pegasus (wings) and the strength of an earth pony (physical strength and size).
** In the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E25TwilightsKingdomPart1 Season 4 finale]], the G4 incarnation Tirek appears as a mix of centaur, baboon and bull.
* The dinosaurs in ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfJonnyQuest'' episode "Peril of the Reptilian," most memorably the ''Tyrannosaurus'' with ''Pteranodon'' wings. The Reptilian himself is said to be part human, part dinosaur, but he isn't as blatant as Phorbus' other creations, looking like your standard anthropomorphic lizard man.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': [[spoiler: Luz’s]] [[{{Familiar}} palisman]], Stringbean, is a small snake with a cat-like head.
* In ''WesternAnimation/PeppermintRose'', Petalpuff the dragon is half dragon and half elephant.
* The "something that doesn't exist" from the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' opening theme is a half-turtle, half-unicorn with webbed hind legs.
** The Bango-ru dolls from "The Chronciles of Meap: More than Meaps the Eye" are apparently like custom-made Wuzzles. Stacy orders an adorable bunny-bear, while Candace orders a Bango-ru that's half-cow, half-frog, which... didn't turn out so well.
--->'''Candace''': I just discovered why cows and frogs don't date.
** Also [[Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz "The Wizard of Odd"]] had Buford as a combination lion, tiger and bear.
--->'''Candance, Jeremy and Baljeet''': Oh my.\\
'''Buford''': IfIHadANickel for every time I herd that...
** Within the same series, there is also the Whalemingo, with the body of a whale, and the head, wings, plumage and legs of a flamingo. Also, it's an alien.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePiratesOfDarkWater'' had Niddler the Monkey-Bird as one of its RagtagBunchOfMisfits.
* Alfe from ''WesternAnimation/TheProblemSolverz'' is supposed to be part human, part dog, and part anteater, although he doesn't really resemble any of those.
* ''WesternAnimation/RainbowButterflyUnicornKitty'' has Felicity, who is part-butterfly, unicorn, cat, and rainbow.
* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': Sunspot is described as being a mix of a dog, cat, rabbit, kangaroo, and raccoon. This can be seen in his appearance as well, where he has the figure of a kangaroo, the tail of a raccoon, and the ears of a rabbit. He also possesses the behaviors of both dogs and cats.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': In one episode, the MonsterOfTheWeek is an army of skeletal cattle that are in reality a genetically engineered cross between cows, bees, and piranhas.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** One episode has fun with this when, at a Renaissance faire, Chief Wiggum's collection of mythical beasts includes the Esquilax, a horse with the head of a rabbit... and the body of a rabbit. Oh look, it's galloping away!
** Played straight in one WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror episode where Homer gets turned into a bizarre creature with a fish's head, a donkey's ears, a pair of brooms for hands and a chicken's body.
** There is also a memorable appearance by an "octoparrot" at a dubious center for scientific research which insists that "Polly shouldn't be".
* ''WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty'': Maleficent's goons resemble evil pig-vulture-gorilla-crocodile-things.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has done it several times, including the half-squirrel half-chicken, Scuzzlebutt (looks like Beast but has Patrick Duffy for a leg among other things...) and [=ManBearPig=] (although [=ManBearPig=] is supposedly fiction created by [[StrawmanPolitical Al Gore]]... [[NoMereWindmill until it wasn't]]).
-->'''Al Gore''': Manbearpig is real! I'm SUPER cereal!
** And ''the'' [[PhysicalGod God]] is best described as hippo-cat with a lizard's tongue.
** Doubly subverted in one episode. They try to splice pig and elephant DNA, despite having heard that song by Loverboy. They don't get a pig/elephant hybrid. It looks like a normal pig. But...[[BestialityIsDepraved its face looks like]] [[DepravedHomosexual Mr. Garrison]].
* Creator/{{Nelvana}}'s ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'' could be considered ''The Wuzzles''' SpiritualSuccessor, with inspiration from ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau''. Entree is part chicken, part pig, part cow, and part shrimp; Two-Legs Joe is the front end of a rhinoceros with a bird growing out of his back; Mister Smarty-Smarts is a dolphin-chimpanzee; Princess is a gorilla-pony; Patricia is a platypus (the closest thing to a real-world example); Octocat is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin; and Peri is... well, [[CartoonCreature not even he knows for sure]].
* In "The Camping Episode" of ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'', Spongebob and Patrick are wary of sea-bears, which are a mix of piranha and bear. Squidward doesn't believe they exist and tempts fate by doing everything Spongebob and Patrick believe attracts sea-bears. [[ButtMonkey Naturally]] this attracts a sea-bear who spends the rest of the episode mauling Squidward. Just when Squidward thinks he's safe after he gets inside Spongebob and Patrick's protective dirt circle (the sea-bear leaves after making a threatening gesture to Squidward -- it ''really'' hates Squidward), a sea-''rhino'' appears. And Squidward isn't wearing anti-sea-rhino underwear...
** In "I Was A Teenage Gary", the snail plasma injection causes [=SpongeBob=] to turn into a snail-sea sponge hybrid. Ditto for Squidward.
* Centipeetle from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' has the general body shape of a centipede and a tail and mouth resembling the pincers of a beetle. On top of that, she has a white lion-like mane of hair, [[{{Cyclops}} a single eye]] [[EyesDoNotBelongThere in her mouth]], and acidic saliva.
* An early Fleischer Studios ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' cartoon had the Man of Steel pitted against the Hawk People, a WingedHumanoid species with bird heads, and strong enough to give Supes trouble.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SushiPack'' episode "Near Miss", Paradoxter, himself a man-ox of unknown origin, creates the Animixter Ray that combines two animals into one amalgam. The animals all go back to normal once it is broken, though.
* Just in case [[AnthropomorphicTransformation humanoid turtles]] (and a rat, a rhinoceros, a boar, a gecko...) didn't qualify, the first ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|1987}}'' TV series had an episode where the VillainOfTheWeek was a MadScientist that bred Mix-and-Match Critters to be his slaves (a gorilla-bison was among the examples).
** This was essentially how the mutagen worked in that series; any being that was contaminated would take on the physical attributes of whatever creature that they had most recently come in contact with.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}'' followed suit.
* Melvin the Monster from the ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' episode, "Hare Raising Night" is one of these, created by Dr. Gene Splicer. He has the head of a dog, the horns of a bull, the body of an orangutan, the wings of a bat, the legs of a pig, and the tail of an alligator. The pictures in Splicer's lab indicate he wasn't the only monster Splicer worked on, and Splicer tried to make Buster, Babs, Plucky, and Hamton into a single species as well.
* In ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}: WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', Fuzors are Transformers who turn into Mix-and-Match Critters. They include a wolf-eagle and a scorpion-cobra (no points for guessing who took what side). The television series explained this as a result of technical problems that occurred when they were scanning for new forms. A third Fuzor was introduced late in the series, though his origin was quite different, in that [[spoiler: his body was the fusion of the bodies of two other Maximals]].
** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' includes a ShoutOut to the Fuzors, by having Ratchet mention one by name (Bantor).
---> "He was all mandrill before I put a tiger in his tank!"
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Unikitty}}'' has the title character, who is half-kitten, half-unicorn. Others include her brother Puppycorn (half-puppy, half-unicorn), her bodyguard Hawkodile (half hawk, half crocodile), and Hawkodile's rival, Eagleator (half-eagle, half-alligator).
* This trope is exemplified by Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles'', where all of the characters the show's world are combinations of two different animals. The main characters include Eleroo (elephant + kangaroo), Bumblelion (lion + bee), Rhinokey (monkey + rhino), Moosel (moose + seal), Hoppopotamus (hippo + rabbit), and Butterbear (butterfly + bear).
** PlayedForLaughs in a parody sketch ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'' to [[InterspeciesRomance explain ''how'' Wuzzles are made]]. The [[HotSkittyOnWailordAction implications]] are less than pleasant.
** Animalistic versions of Rhinokey and Butterbear appear in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'', though here it's {{Justified|Trope}} in that they are the result of {{Fusion Dance}}s courtesy of the Stone of What Was.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zafari}}'''s cast features many such characters, including an elephant with zebra stripes, a giraffe with a peacock tail, a lion with flamingo feathers, an orangutan with penguin feathers, a monkey with parrot feathers, a hippo with a skunk's tail, an armadillo with a ladybug shell, a rattlesnake with porcupine quills, and a crocodile with the fur of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_lion_tamarin golden lion tamarin]].
* ''WesternAnimation/ZekesPad'': Sketch, the ideal pet Zeke creates in "Fetch a Sketch", is a is very weird looking creature, with a hyena's jaw, feathers, fins, and other weird parts.
* In ''100% Wolf: Legend of the Moonstone'' the eponymous artifact is what created werewolves by fusing a human warrior with a wolf he was fighting. It can also fuse other animals, but the results are unstable and end up as permanent hybrids. The first is a rat fused with one of its fleas, named Chubsy.
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** Bolin's pet fire ferret Pabu, is a mix between a ferret and a red panda.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has done it several times, including the half-squirrel half-chicken, Scuzzlebutt (looks like Beast but has Patrick Duffy for a leg among other things...) and [=ManBearPig=] (although [=ManBearPig=] is supposedly fiction created by [[StrawmanPolitical Al Gore]]).

* The ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' series features mole-bats, or ''moguri'', known in English as Moogles. The fact that they end up looking more like teddy bears than anything else can be chalked up to the RuleOfCute. [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance In]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Ivalice]], [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsA2 though]], moogles tend to look more like a half-bunny, half-bat.

* In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic V'' and ''VI'', mix and match critters can be created in two ways: they're either {{Half Human Hybrid}}s known as 'beastmen' who were created by wizard's experiments, or two species can become fused by the powerful magic present in a dragon-vein ([[OurGriffinsAreDifferent griffins]] are believed to have been created in this manner).

* The player's avatar can fall under this in ''VideoGame/ImpressiveTitle'' thanks to CharacterCustomization allowing players to mix and match body parts to however they please. While they are limited to feline heads and lion bodies, they can still add things like fox tails, spotted hyena markings, and wings to their lion-like personas.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', we have rappigs: pigs with soft pink fur and rabbit ears. [[BunnyEarsLawyer Emperor Peony]] keeps several as pets (and apparently also gives them as gifts to people he likes, at least according to one sidequest). They appear to be the size of real-life pigs in the game, but TheAnimeOfTheGame shows them being closer to the size of a small dog.

* The Beast in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' has the mane of a lion, the beard, horns, and general head structure of a bison, the brows and arms of a gorilla, the eyes of a human, the tusks of a Eurasian wild pig, the torso and claws of a bear, and the hind legs and tail of a wolf.

* The Peluda was a dragon from France that had the head, neck, and tail of a snake, the body of a green porcupine, and the feet of a turtle. Much nastier than it sounds -- it could breathe acid and fire, its quills were toxic and could be flicked at prey, had a special taste for [[DistressedDamsel young women]] and children and the only way to kill it was [[WeaksauceWeakness cutting off its tail]].

* The demons in Creator/{{Michelangelo}}'s ''The Torment of St. Anthony'' are a bunch of chaotic, humanoid hybrids with weird traits fish scales, primate arms, elephant trunks, and porcupine spikes spread among them. The most common trait is their [[GoodWingsEvilWings traditionally demonic bat wings]].

** Bolin mentions Eska [[FedToTheBeast threaten to feed him to "dolphin-piranhas"]].

** [[OurGriffinsAreDifferent A lone griffin]]. They aren't hostile, but if you disturb or attack them, [[SuperPersistentPredator watch out]].

** Hippogriffs, meanwhile, look more pony-like, with pony bodies and rear legs and the wings, beak and front claws of an eagle. Some have what appear to be pony manes and tails, though Queen Novo and a few others seem to have feathers instead. In their aquatic forms, they have pony-like heads with beaks and seahorse-like bodies with almost insect- or butterfly-like wing-fins on their backs.

* HeinzHybrid -- when this is mostly an InformedAttribute.

A common way of making monsters or fantastic creatures is to simply take existing animals and combine their parts. For instance, the Chimera (lion head, goat body, snake tail) or the [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent Minotaur]] ([[HornedHumanoid bull head]], human body). Also common is to simply take an existing animal and vary it a simple way -- {{Pegasus}} is a horse but with wings, hippocampi have the heads and front bodies of horses but the tails of fish, etc.

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

* In ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'', Alice encounters many creatures of this type which include Bread-and-Butterflies, Rocking-Horseflies, Dog-and-Caterpillars, pencil birds, hammer birds, [[PunBasedCreature umbrella birds]], cage birds, mirror birds, glasses birds, accordion owls, honker ducks, cymbal frogs, timpani frogs, and a broom dog.