List of fictional animals

This list of fictional animals contains fabulous or mythological animals that do not occur in nature and that are depicted in sagas, mythological stories, novels, films, comics or computer games. Invented animals based on a biological model are not included (see list of fictional animals )!

Monkey and bear-like ones

Beorn (sometimes bear, sometimes human, from JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit )
the three-headed monkey (from the game Monkey Island )
Drop Bear in Australia
Gruffalo (from the English children's book of the same name)
Marsupilami (in the comics by André Franquin )
Oropoi (leader of the baboons in Simak Büchel 's children's book of the same name)
Panserbjørne (armored talking bear, from Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass )

Basilisk

Basilisk in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by Joanne K. Rowling
Basilisk in The Little Aquarius by Otfried Preußler
Basilisk of the Wawel Castle in Krakow ( Poland )
Basilisk (Monster from Dungeons & Dragons and The Dark Eye )
Basilisk (appeared briefly in the Bartimaeus trilogy )
For other basilisks see basilisk (mythology)

Dragons and their relatives

Dragons are a common category, some of which have been named in stories.

Alexstrasza from Warcraft / World of Warcraft , also called "the life-binder", one of the five aspects and brood mother of the red dragonflight. Alexstrasza is the aspect of life and every now and then, like some other dragons from the Warcraft universe, takes on an elf-like shape.
Alduin the Eater of the World is a dragon from the Elder Scrolls universe . He is regarded as the messenger of the end of the world and is able to travel to Sovngarde (the afterlife in the mythology of the north), and there to eat the souls of the fallen.
Aryn the Frostweaver is an ice dragon of almost godlike power. No army was able to defeat him, under his wings the land froze to ice, only the song of the elf queen Cenwen warmed his heart and he gave her people the power of winter on the condition that she would sing for him forever. From Spellforce : Breath of Winter.
Ancalagon , the first and largest of all winged fire kites, is described in the Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien .
Dorn, from the book Eragon - The Order of the Elder by Christopher Paolini .
Dragon in the book The Dragon Who Didn't Want to Fight by Kenneth Graham , based on the film Dragonheart.
Dragons that are used in The Dragon Gate by Jenny-Mai Nuyen as riding and flying animals in war.
Draco the dragon in the movie Dragonheart .
Drogon, Rhaegar and Viseryon. Dragons from Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones .
Dunkelzahn, dragon from the Shadowrun universe, former President of the UCAS and leader of the dragons. Left a complex will after a successful attack on his life. He was succeeded as the leader of the dragons by Lofwyr.
Elliot, the smirking monster from the Disney film of the same name .
Fafnir , is a figure in Norse mythology .
The Fearful family, a modern dragon family (father Robert, mother Rita, daughter Pamela, son Paul and baby Tinchen) from the radio play series of the same name.
Fauch is a good-natured children's book character and friend of Sebastian who has come to life. He is portrayed by Wolfgang Jansen in a sandman bedtime story series.
Feodaron and Feomathar are fire dragon brothers from the valley of mines and live in the halls of Irdorath in Gothic 2 .
Finkregh, the ice dragon from the valley of mines in Gothic 2 .
Fírnen, the newly hatched, green dragon from Eragon - The legacy of power from Christopher Paolini .
Flitze Feuerzahn is the hero of a radio play series.
Mrs. Mahlzahn the dragon from the book Jim Button and Luke the Engine Driver by Michael Ende . The transformed Ms. Molar becomes the Golden Dragon of Wisdom in Jim Knopf and the Wild 13.
Fuchur is the lucky dragon in The Neverending Story of Michael Ende.
Fumé is a single parent dragon father in Grisu , who tried in vain to talk his son out of his career plans as a firefighter.
Fyrmir is a flightless dragon from Spellforce .
Glaurung is a dragon from JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion.
Grisu is the little dragon who really wanted to be a firefighter.
Glaedr, the old, golden dragon from Eragon - The legacy of power from Christopher Paolini .
Hector is a little big-belly dragon from the cartoon: Lilli the witch .
Laurin the Deceiver is a wind dragon made of Spellforce , which can make copies of itself on so-called dragon stones.
Longfang Witherhide is the only dragon with its own name from Might & Magic 6.
In the Shadowrun universe, Lofwyr is the chairman of the supervisory board of the fictional Saeder-Krupp group and also the leader of the dragons.
Lung is presented by Cornelia Funke in Drachenreiter .

Katla, the female dragon in Astrid Lindgren's The Lionheart Brothers .

Coconut, courageous fire dragon from the children's book series The Little Dragon Coconut by Ingo Siegner .

Korialstrasz from the Warcraft universe. The preferred companion of Alexstrasza, also known in his human form as the magician Krasus.

Malygos, one of the five aspects of Warcraft / World of Warcraft . Malygos is the aspect of magic and head of the Blue Swarm. During the war of the ancestors, a large part of his swarm was killed, including one of his companions. Krasus / Korialstrasz hides some eggs from the Blue Swarm in an unknown location.

Mushu, the little dragon from the cartoon Mulan

Neltharion one of the five aspects from Warcraft / World of Warcraft . Neltharion is the aspect of Earth and head of the Black Swarm. During the war of the ancestors he fell victim to schizophrenia and was transformed into Deathwing / Deathwing. He also has a human appearance in which he calls himself Lord Prestor.

Nepomuk is a half-dragon whose mother is a hippopotamus and father is a dragon, also a story by Michael Ende .

Nidhöggr is the envy dragon of Germanic mythology .

Norbert is the Norwegian thorn-humped dragon of the gamekeeper Hagrid in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by Joanne K. Rowling . Later it turns out that he is actually a female and is called Noberta from then on.

Noradim the Black is the oldest of the dragons in the refuge on the continent of Godeland ( Spellforce ) .

Nozdormu, one of the five aspects of Warcraft / World of Warcraft. Nozdormu is the aspect of time and head of the Bronze Swarm.

Oarf, the dragon from Nihal from the novel The Dragon Fighter by Licia Troisi .

Toothless, the only known nightshade made from how to train your dragon .

Onyxia, a black dragon from the Warcraft series.

Pandrodor is the swamp dragon from the valley of mines in Gothic 2 .

Pedrakhan is the stone dragon from the valley of mines in Gothic 2.

Poldi, a dragon from the children's program Hallo Spencer .

Puff, the magical dragon lives, according to a song by Peter, Paul and Mary , in Honah Lee across the sea.

Raku, in these Alissa and other masters of the festivals can transform themselves into Dawn Cook's books of truths .

Rangarig, the golden dragon from Wolfgang Hohlbein's fairy tale moon.

Saphira, a sapphire blue female dragon in Eragon by Christopher Paolini .

Scatha is a snake-like dragon and is mentioned in The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien.

Schwarzfraß Midir is an alternative boss from Dark Souls III.

Smärg, Lord of Morgul, from the Land of Cold Fire is a character from Michael Ende's Neverending Story .

Smaug steals the dwarves' gold and is featured in the story The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien.

Spyro is a dragon from the video game series of the same name.

Tabaluga is a character from the musical fairy tale of the same name by Peter Maffay , Rolf Zuckowski and Gregor Rottschalk .

Temeraire is the dragon from Naomi Novik's Fire Rider series .

Tiamat is the dragon from the school bag of Bruce Coville .

Deathwing, father of the black dragons from the Warcraft series.

Underhill appears in a short story by Ursula K. Le Guin as Yevaud in the novel Erdsee .

Ur, also called the "grandfather", is the head of the Shaikan (people with dragon blood) from Spellforce 2 .

The "undead dragon", who has no name and lives in the halls of Irdorath, is the boss in Gothic 2 .

Vauvenal from Julia Conrad's novel The Dragons .

Wick is the "throat dragon" from the advertising for cough chewy candies.

Yoshi is a dinosaur from Nintendo's Super Mario video games.

Ysera, one of the five aspects from Warcraft / World of Warcraft. Ysera is the aspect of dreams and the brood mother of the green swarm. Most of the time, her mind is in the “emerald green dream”, a kind of parallel dimension.

Zyrafir is a dragonling who killed the dwarf "Herger" and his guard ( Spellforce ).

Elephant-like

Mûmakil (Olifanten) (from JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings )

Fish-like

The Babelfish ("Translator Fish " from Douglas Adams ' The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy )

The beer newt (actually an amphibian larva )

Ningyo (Japanese fish creature with a human head)

Wish fish (from Kim Harrisons ' blood game )

Mermaid (half human, half fish, e.g. Ariel, the mermaid , or in Pirates of the Caribbean 4 )

Rabbit-like

The killer rabbit (rabbit with sharp fangs from the Monty Python film The Knights of the Coconut )

Kikaninchen (blue rabbit from the children's channel KIKA )

Kiko (Little blue rabbit from the animated series Winx Club )

The March Hare from Lewis Carroll's novel Alice in Wonderland

Caesar the hare , serial hare since the 1960s (series including the Caesar hare and Schlager for floppy ears )

Dog-like

Bumpan , torn animal that Hannes rides in a dream, children's book Hannes and his Bumpan by Mira Lobe , Susi Weigel .
Carcharoth is the most powerful wolf in JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion .
Draugluin , the first of Melkor's cruel wolves from JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion .
Garm , the dog at the gate to the Hel in Old Norse mythology.
Huan is a great hunting dog in JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion .
Fluffy , three-headed dog in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by Joanne K. Rowling .
Kerberos , also: "Cerberus" / "Cerberus", guardian and gatekeeper of the Greek underworld .
Lupo , a character from Fix and Foxi .
Wargs are wolf-like creatures and can be found in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien.
Werewolves are also described in the Silmarillion by JRR Tolkien (see also Werewolves ).
Gabriel dogs, the assistants of Palamedes in Michael Scott's The Secrets of Nicholas Flamel .

Insect and arachnid-like

Aragog , an acromantula from Joanne K. Rowling's Harry Potter
Shelob from JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings
Tsuchigumo
Ungoliant from JRR Tolkien's The Silmarillion
Anansi , crook god from West African myths
Lucas the spider , YouTube character
Thekla from Waldemar Bonsel's Maya the Bee

Rodent-like

Knuddelmuff, Minimuff are small bottle balls with faces
Stone louse " Petrophaga Lorioti " (a shy rodent feeding on silicates , "discovery" by the humorist Loriot )
Gnurrs (mouse-sized, shimmering gray, like wild boars with pink tails, yellow eyes and thumbs in front and behind, eternally hungry rodents with three rows of razor-sharp teeth. Occur only en masse, live in our world, but always "yesterday" and can from Papa Schimmelhorn can be brought to “today” with a certain musical instrument. From the SF short story The Secret Weapon , in the original: The Gnurrs Come from the Voodvork Out , by Reginald Bretnor )
Pikachu (a rodent used in Pokémon computer games, cartoons, and printed media that sends out lightning bolts)
Hot-headed ice borer (a type of carnivorous mole in Antarctica and famous April Fool's joke)

Horse-like

Abraxan horses (winged horses, possibly a kind of intermediate being between Pegasus and the thestrals mentioned in Harry Potter )
Alicorn (originally a name for a unicorn, also "pegacorn"; mixed form of unicorn and pegasus with forehead horn and wings, appears in various media, for example with My Little Pony )
Caballine ( centauress in the novels about Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer )
Cheollima (horse of Korean mythology )
Unicorn (horse or deer-like animal with a horn on its forehead, portrayed in the film The Last Unicorn , for example )
Foaly ( centaur in the novels about Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer )
Jean Kirschstein (Attack on Titan / a human-like horse)
Centaur (also: "Centaur" / "Centaurus", horse with a human upper body, in Greek legends )

z. B. Bane, Firenze, Magorian & Ronan ( Centaur in the Harry Potter novels by JK Rowling )

Palomini (large winged horses, in the Harry Potter novels pull the carriage of Olympe Maxime and the Beauxbatons delegation)
Pegasus (winged horse in Greek legend )
Rachsch (horse from Persian mythology )
Sleipnir ( Odin's eight-legged horse in Norse mythology )
Svadilfari (horse from Germanic mythology , producer of Sleipnir )
Thestrals (horse beings with a skeletal appearance with reptile-like skin and leathery wings, pull the Hogwarts carriages in the Harry Potter novels and can only be seen by people who have seen another person die)
Xandim (Horse people of the prairie, whose members can transform into humans from the novel series Aurian by Maggie Furey . Some of these beings have clairvoyant abilities which they call wind riding, therefore the clairvoyants are also called wind eyes)
Steeds of Diomedes (Four horse beasts from Greek mythology. Their names were Deinos, Lampon, Podargos and Xanthos. Herakles' eighth task was to tame these man-eating horses.)
Xanthos and Balios (immortal, talking horses in Greek mythology, sons of Zephyr and the harpy Podarge)
Night Moravia (nightmare-causing horse beings in the fictional land of Xanth from the novels by Piers Anthony )
Epona (is Link's loyal horse. In various The Legend of Zelda titles)
See also: Category: Mythological Horse

Snake-like

Amphisbaene (two-headed, mostly winged snake)

Apophis ( ancient Egyptian god of darkness in serpent form; Lord of the Goa'uld from the TV series Stargate - Command SG-1 )

Midgard snake (encircling the world, in Norse mythology )

Nagas (snake beings or snake deities from Indian mythology)

Nagini ( Voldemort's giant snake from the Harry Potter novels by JK Rowling )

Nechustan ( brazen serpent from the Old Testament )
Tsuchinoko (Japanese cryptid)

Sphinxes

Sphinx (Greek) , from the Oedipus legend in Greek mythology
Sphinx (Egyptian) , hybrid creature with a male lion body and mostly a human head

Indefinable hybrid creatures

Egg-laying woolly milk sow (defined, but with an undefined appearance)
Elwetritsch (a very rare mythical creature that occurs mainly in the Palatinate, can only be seen with a good eye)
Hommingberger Gepardenforelle (invention of the computer magazine c't as a fictional term in a search engine optimization competition )
Nasobem (animal striding on its noses from the poem of the same name by Christian Morgenstern )
Kappa (Japanese water goblin)
The captain and his family from the Animal Crossing video game series

Marsupilami (from the cartoon series of the same name, a hybrid creature with cheetah skin , long thin tail and monkey shape (habitus))

Schnark (also: "Schnai" or "Schnatz", in the original: "Snark", unspecified animal that is to be caught in Lewis Carroll's ballad The Hunt for the Snark , in the original: The Hunting of the Snark )

Urmel aus dem Eis (bridge animal between reptiles and mammals, fictional character by Max Kruse , filmed by the Augsburger Puppenkiste )

Rasselbock ( Saxon - Thuringian relative of Wolpertinger)

Wächterling (shrub-like creature that communicates telepathically, from Tom Glasauer's book The Secret of the Soul Mirror )

Wolpertinger (mainly occurring in Bavaria , composed of various prepared bellows )

Raurackl (a relative of the Wolpertinger from Eastern Austria )

(Heraldic) panther, leopard, pantier (a hybrid creature with eagle claws and lion legs, often with a horse or dragon head and horns, breathing fire)

Aufroll (Dutch Wentelteefje, a six-legged animal with human-like feet invented by MC Escher , which can roll up and roll around)

Red caps are mushrooms that come to life and are very aggressive.

Bowtruckle creatures that look like a branch.

Nifflers look like platypuses and love everything that glitters.

Monster and human-like

Humanoids

Chimera (a hybrid creature in Greek mythology with a lion's head, goat's head and a snake for its tail)
Fraggles (about 60 cm tall, different colored humanoid creatures from the series The Fraggles )
Godzilla (lizard from the film of the same name)
Gremlin (from the films of the same name)
House-elves and trolls (e.g. in the youth novel series Harry Potter).
Hydra (in Greek mythology a water snake with nine heads)
Jabberwocky (in Alice Behind the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll and the Monty Python film ofthe same name)
Karm (Giant Lindwurm in Die Brüder Löwenherz by Astrid Lindgren )
Manticore (in Persian mythology a lion with a scorpion tail)
Minotaur (in Greek mythology a hybrid, half human, half bull)
Nessie , the Loch Ness Monster
Nom (Being without hands that when you say his name comes to kill you. No matter how far away you are and how quietly you speak. Superhumanly strong, nothing can stop it. From the three-volume Chronicle of Thomas Covenant by Stephen R . Donaldson.)
Nue (Japanese chimera)
Ogre (a human-like monster , e.g. Shrek from Shrek - The daredevil hero and the sequels Shrek 2 - The daredevil hero returns and Shrek 3 )
Orc (sea monster from Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto .)
Ork (also: "Orc", submissive monsters from JRR Tolkien's world of novels )
Ork from the Gothic game series by Piranha Bytes ( written "Orc" in Gothic 1 )
Ork from the game series Warcraft and World of Warcraft
Pig-headed women
Scylla and Charybdis (sea monsters in the Odyssey according to Homer )
Stalon (a Scandinavian legendary figure)
Trolloc (subordinate monsters from Robert Jordan's fantasy series The Wheel of Time )

Bird-like (Avoide)

Arakkoa : bird-like humanoids from World of Warcraft by Blizzard Entertainment

Ba : Hybrid of human (soul) and bird, Egyptian mythology

Chocobo: an ostrich-like animal from the role-playing game Final Fantasy

Elwetritsch : mostly known as a chicken-like Palatinate fantasy animal

Griffin : Hybrid of eagle and lion, symbol for the power of the air (eagle) and the earth (lion), in many fairy tales and mythologies

Hanghuhn : a fantasy creature with two legs of different lengths, which means that standing across the sloping slope is possible, mainly in jokes or humorous stories, for example in the “Funzel. Evening paper for cloudy hours “a supplement to the Eulenspiegel .

Hippogriff : Duke Astolpho's mount, invention of the author Ludovico Ariosto

Buckbeak and the rest of the Hippogriff -Herde: winged horse with eagle head in the Harry Potter novels by JK Rowling

Salmon shawl : a northern European mythical creature
Phoenix : sacred bird in Egyptian - and based on it, Greek - mythology, which has the ability to recurrent renewal, as it perishes in the fire and emerges from the ashes. In addition the phrase: "Like a phoenix from the ashes"
- Fawkes: Phoenix from Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter novels
Bankrupt vulture : he circles about economically unsuccessful ventures
Roch : fairytale-like elephant-sized bird
Scavenger: a bird-like animal from the Gothic game series that cannot fly

Sparrow Prince: from the South Park series

Yatagarasu : Japanese, mythological, multi-clawed crow

Pofenion: a two-legged flightless bird, usable as a mount. These appear as gold, red and gray oenions in the online game LastChaos.

Thunderbird: Is a type of lion-clawed bird with three pairs of wings.

Worm-like

Earwig (also Audius Penetrantum Schleimum): from a song by Frank Zander
Sandworm (also Shai-Hulud): Giant worm that is native to the desert planet Arrakis in Frank Herbert's novel series Dune .
Zini, the Wuslon, from the show Fun on Tuesday

Literature and Links

Karen Duve and Thies Völker: Lexicon of famous animals. Frankfurt am Main 1997, Eichborn Verlag , ISBN 3-8218-0505-6
Bernhard Scheid: Animal gods and messengers of gods, part 1. Dragons and snakes in the web manual Religion in Japan
Karl Gjellerup : The most sacred animal. An Elysian book of fables. (1919)