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I love frogs(with favorite being Beezlebufo), but it just looks so weird and silly compared to other creatures.
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I’m not sure i even know what half of these are. Some names would be nice to go with the pictures.
Which ones you don’t know?
I probably know most of them if i were to see their name but i can’t tell what most of the pictures are supposed to be.
Maybe my eyesight is bad and the pictures too small but right now i only recognize:
Dragon, Werewolf, Kraken, Cerberus, Griffin, Phoenix, Big Foot, Grim Reaper, Centaur, Mermaid.
Aight:
S - Dragons, Vampires, Werewolves, Ghosts, Aliens, Mongolian Death Worm, Bloody Mary, Nine-tailed fox and Quetzalcoatl
A - Kraken, Lernaean Hydra, Gorgon Medusa, Cerberus, Minotaur, Chimera, Scylla and Charybdis, Manticore, Griffin, Phoenix, Moth Man and Bauk
B - Babaroga, Baba Yaga, Boogeyman, Loch Ness Monster, Bigfoot, Yeti, Grim Reaper, Biblical Devil/Demons, Drekavac and Pegasus
C - Harpy, Sphinx, Centaur, Zombies, Krampus, Gremlin, Dwarfs, Wendigo , Thunderbird, Undead Skeleton and Mummy
D - Fenrir, Carnivorous Man-eating Plant, Elves, Trolls, Giants, Angels and Chupacabra
E - Loveland Frog, Piscine Humanoids/Fish Man, Goblins and Fairies
F - Mermaids and Succubus
Thanks! But what do you have against mermaids? Lol, if anything i’d have thought Big Foot would be F tier.
They like rape/sexually assault people and stuff. Monke supremacy for Bigfoot and Yeti.
For me the list (excluding the ones i don’t know) would be:
S - Dragons, Medusa, Minotaur, Phoenix, Mummy, Vampires
A - Kraken, Hydra, Harpies, Sphinx, Centaur, Succubus, Quetzalcoatl, Manticore
B - Ghosts, Skeletons, Grim Reaper, Griffin, Chimera, Mongolian Death Worm, Dwarves, Giants
C - Cerberus, Fenrir, Baba Yaga, Zombies, Goblins, Devils/Demons, Elves, Fairies, Trolls, Mermaids, Scylla and Charybdis
D - Wendigo, Chupacabra, Werewolves, Angels, Pegasus, Thunderbird
E - Yeti, Aliens, Fish Man, Gremlins, Boogeyman, Carnivorous Plant
F - Big Foot, Krampus, Loch Ness Monster, Bloody Mary
Understandable for the most part, but whe Werewolves and Bloody Mary so low and why Succubus so high?
Succubus just always seemed cool to me aesthetically, and in games i’ve played where they feature as a monster they were always very powerful. The whole theme they share with mermaids/sirens of resistance to temptation is an interesting one narratively in stories.
I’ve never liked Werewolves and i always side with the Vampires whenever there’s a Vampire vs Werewolves story just because the undead are conceptually much cooler than doggy-people. But it’s all subjective of course.
And i don’t know much about Bloody Mary outside of what you see in movies…isn’t it just one of those modern American teenager myths? Or does it have some deeper history? I’d put it higher if there’s some interesting lore behind it.
Also i think Cryptids are silly so that’s why i tend to put those very low as well in case you were wondering.
Yeah but this is real version of the creatures, it can be cool in games of course, but ‘‘irl’’ Succubus are basically rapists along with mermaids.
As for Werewolves and Vampires, me personally I always loved both almost equally with liking vampires just a bit more, after Shiki and RE 8, yeah Vampires no question, but I still like the Werewolves a lot. It’s just that there’s lack of good movies and content about them in general as opposed to Vampires that makes them get the shorter end of the stick, we don’t even have the most famous and iconic one from legends. Next year there’s a Werewolf movie coming out, I have absolutely 0 hopes for it but we’ll see.
It isn’t, Bloody Mary is centuries old British legend about ghost in the mirror, who after being called 3 times or so, kills whoever summoned it, it has been hypothesized that it’s possibly a ghost of Queen Mary I. We tried that ritual quite a few times irl, it’s known worldwide.
Yeah they can be(I mean, T-Rex in Central Africa, frogs on 2 legs, aliens, Unicorns, living pterosaurs? wtf was up with that?) but some of them are realistic like Bigfoot and Yeti for example. Giant Squids and Komodo Dragons were once considered cryptids and turned out to be real.
If you want to expand on this, here’s some more creatures that you could add to your list:
Cyclops, Dryad, Satyr, Titan, Leviathan, Basilisk, Jinn, Ifrit/Efreet, Jörmungandr/Midgard Serpent, Valkyrie, Lindwurm, Rusalka, Strigoi, Chinese Dragon, Qilin, Yaoguai, Rakshasa, Naga, Lich, Wyvern, Gargoyle, Ogre, Leprechaun, Golem
S - I put all the dragons in one, Chinese Dragon and Wyvern automatically in S
A - Basilisk and Leviathan
B - Jörmungandr
C - Satyr, Titan, Lich, Qilin, Golem, Naga Gargoyle
D - Cyclops, Leprechaun, Valkyrie and Rusalka
F - Dryad
I don’t know about Jinn and Ifrit.
I tried to pick a few from different cultures (Greek, Celtic, Slavic, Germanic, Indian, etc.) and Jinns and Ifrits are the only Arabic ones i could think of:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jinn https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ifrit
And yeah, there is always going to be some overlap simply because different cultures have different names for similar(-ish) creatures. For instance, i left out Celtic Banshees because they are too similar to Ghosts. And Strigoi could probably be considered a variation of Vampires, but i thought the Eastern Europeans could use some more representation. For me Chinese and Western Dragons are pretty different but i can see your point.
So they’re essentially demons?
Well the Jinn was westernized into the Genie, as seen in Aladdin. And the Ifrit, as far as i understand, is kind of a desert demon yeah, but in a lot of media they’re depicted as the evil, fiery counterpart of the Genie.
Yeah I know of Jinn/Genie as a typical ghost who grants wishes, I didn’t know that it was originally a demon.
Mythological creatures don’t always have a clear definition because the way that people imagined them would change over the centuries. You see this when you look at how medieval people drew some of these in their illustrations (for instance medieval Europeans would often draw dragons with dog-like faces) vs how we draw them in popular media today.
I mean yeah, I can tell you about the original Balkan vampires and what we see today. As for dragons, Medieval art of animals and creatures was notoriously abysmal, so it’s no wonder how they depicted reptiles.
