List of reptilian humanoids

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Reptilian humanoids appear in folklore, science fiction, fantasy, and conspiracy theories.

Mythology

Adi Shesha : lit, The first of all the snakes, mount of Hindu God Vishnu; descended to Earth in human form as Lakshmana and Balarama.
Boreas (Aquilon to the Romans): the Greek god of the cold north wind, described by Pausanias as a winged man, sometimes with serpents instead of feet.{{cite book|author=Pausanias|title=Pausanias's Description of Greece|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CetszVxoxAoC&pg=PA616|year=2012|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-04725-8|pages=616–}}
Cecrops I: the mythical first King of Athens was half man, half snake.
Chaac: the Maya civilization rain god, depicted in iconography with a human body showing reptilian or amphibian scales, and with a non-human head evincing fangs and a long, pendulous nose.
Dragon Kings: creatures from Chinese mythology sometimes depicted as reptilian humanoids.
Some djinn in Islamic mythology are described as alternating between human and serpentine forms.
Echidna, the wife of Typhon in Greek mythology, was half woman, half snake.
Fu Xi: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology.
Glycon: a Roman snake god who had the head of a man.
The Gorgons: Sisters in Greek mythology who had serpents for hair.
The Lamiai: female phantoms from Greek mythology depicted as half woman, half-serpent.
Nāga (Devanagari: नाग): half-human half-snake beings from Hindu mythology{{cite book |last=Elgood |first=Heather |title=Hinduism and the Religious Arts |year=2000 |publisher=Cassell |location=London |isbn=0-304-70739-2 |page=234}} said to live underground and interact with human beings on the surface.
Nüwa: serpentine founding figure from Chinese mythology.
Shenlong: a Chinese dragon thunder god, depicted with a human head and a dragon's body.
Serpent: an entity from the Genesis creation narrative occasionally depicted with legs, and sometimes identified with Satan, though its representations have been both male and female.{{cite book|last=Olson|first=Dennis T.|title=Numbers|year=1996|publisher=Westminster John Knox Press|location=Louisville|isbn=978-0-8042-3104-6|pages=135–8}}
Sobek: Ancient Egyptian crocodile-headed god.
Suppon No Yurei: A turtle-headed human ghost from Japanese mythology and folklore.
Tlaloc: Aztec god depicted as a man with snake fangs.
Typhon, the "father of all monsters" in Greek mythology, had a hundred snake-heads in Hesiod,Hesiod, Theogony [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0130%3Acard%3D820 823–835]. or else was a man from the waist up, and a mass of seething vipers from the waist down.
Xian: immortal beings in Taoism who were sometimes depicted as humanoids with reptile and human features in the Han Dynasty{{Cite journal |last=Wallace |first=Leslie V. |year=2001 |title=BETWIXT AND BETWEEN: Depictions of Immortals (Xian) in Eastern Han Tomb Reliefs |journal=Ars Orientalis |volume=41 |pages=73, 79}}
Wadjet pre-dynastic snake goddess of Lower Egypt - sometimes depicted as half snake, half woman.
Zahhak, a figure from Zoroastrian mythology who, in Ferdowsi's epic Shahnameh, grows a serpent on either shoulder.

Folklore

Cuca, an humanoid alligator witch from Brazilian folklore.
Enchanted Moura, from Portuguese and Galician folklore appears as a snake with long blonde hair.
El Hombre Caimán, a peeping-tom of Colombia using a potion turned caiman-man due to bungle.
Kappa, sometimes turtle-shelled humanoid from Japanese mythology and folklore.
The Lizard Man of Scape Ore Swamp in South Carolina, United States
The Loveland Frog (or Loveland Lizard), in Loveland, Ohio, United States
The Thetis Lake monster in Canada
The White Snake, a figure from Chinese folklore{{cite book |last = Idema |first = Wilt L. |year = 2009 |title = The White Snake and Her Son: A Translation of the Precious Scroll of Thunder Peak with Related Texts |publisher = Hackett Publishing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ok8qyivasGcC |isbn = 9781603843751}}

Fringe theories

Reptilians appear in some claims of alien encounters and in the conspiracy theories of David Icke{{cite journal| last = Lewis| first = Tyson|author2=Richard Kahn|date=Winter 2005| title = The Reptoid Hypothesis: Utopian and Dystopian Representational Motifs in David Icke's Alien Conspiracy Theory| journal = Utopian Studies| volume = 16| issue = 1| pages = 45–75| doi = 10.5325/utopianstudies.16.1.0045| s2cid = 143047194| doi-access = free}}{{cite web | author = Frel, Jan | title = Inside the Great Reptilian Conspiracy: From Queen Elizabeth to Barack Obama – They Live! | date = 1 September 2010 | url =http://www.alternet.org/story/147967/| publisher= Alternet | access-date = 2010-09-01}}

Scientific speculation

The dinosauroid, a hypothetical reptilian humanoid conjectured by palaeontologist Dale Russell.{{Cite journal | last1 = Russell | first1 = D. A. | last2 = Séguin | first2 = R. | year = 1982 | title = Reconstruction of the small Cretaceous theropod Stenonychosaurus inequalis and a hypothetical dinosauroid | url = https://archive.org/details/syllogeus37nati | journal = Syllogeus | volume = 37 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/syllogeus37nati/page/n8 1]–43 }}
Other speculated sapient dinosaurs{{according to whom|date=June 2022}}

Fiction

A wide range of fictional works depict reptilian humanoids.

=Literature=

Dracs from the Enemy Mine series by Barry B. Longyear.
Evra Von from Darren Shan's "Saga of Darren Shan"
The Horibs from the Pellucidar books
The Barabels from Star Wars
Hork-Bajir from K. A. Applegate's Animorphs
The Lady of the Green Kirtle from CS Lewis's The Silver Chair who can turn into a giant snake
An unnamed race from H.P. Lovecraft's The Nameless City - later Cthulhu Mythos tales have named these the Valusians or simply "serpent people".
The Race from Harry Turtledove's Worldwar series
The Serpent Men from Robert E. Howard's "The Shadow Kingdom" (also in the Marvel universe)
Yig, the serpent god from H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
Yilané from the Harry Harrison's novel West of Eden
The Creeps and the Snake Lady from the Goosebumps franchise.
The Troglodytes from The Trials of Apollo
The Green Fangs from The Wingfeather Saga

=Television=

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==''[[Doctor Who]]''==

Draconians
Foamasi
Homo reptilia
Silurians
Sea Devils
Ice Warriors

==''Star Trek''==

==''Ninjago''==

Serpentine
Vermillion

==Other==

Bunbo and Iguara from Sailor Moon
Cobra-La and Cobra Commander from the G.I. Joe series
Chase Young from Xiaolin Showdown
The Culebra from From Dusk till Dawn: The Series
Drakh and Narn from Babylon 5
Lizard Man, Saurod, the Snake Men, and Whiplash from the Masters of the Universe franchise
Lizardman Phantom from Kamen Rider Wizard
The Lizardmen from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World
Lizardo from The Ambiguously Gay Duo segment of TV Funhouse
Scarrans from Farscape
The Sleestaks from Land of the Lost
Slithe and his fellow Lizards from ThunderCats
The Snake People from the TV-movie The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
Spinner from My Hero Academia
Tilian from A.T.O.M.
Unas from Stargate
Visitors from V
Zafiro from Disney's Gargoyles is a Gargoyle who has a red-skinned snake-bodied gargate, with two humanoid arms and feathered wings, reminiscent of Kukulcan in Mayan myth and leader of his gargoyle clan
The Zilards from Mighty Max

=Comics=

==[[Marvel Universe|Marvel]]==

Badoon, another hostile alien race
Chitauri, alien shapeshifters from the Ultimate Marvel universe.
Iguana, an enemy of Spider-Man
Lizard, an enemy of Spider-Man
The Lizard Men of Subterranea
The Lizard Men of the Savage Land
The Lizard Men of Tok from the Microverse
Sauron, a Pteranodon-like enemy of the X-Men
Skrulls, an alien race of reptilian shapeshifters
Slither, a snake-like mutant and ally of Magneto who has been a member of the Resistants and the Serpent Society
Stegron, a Stegosaurus-like enemy of Spider-Man
Zn'rx (Snarks), a race of reptilian aliens bipeds encountered by the Power Pack

==[[DC Universe|DC]]==

Copperhead, some versions are part snake
Gordanians, a species of alien reptilian slavers
Killer Croc, an enemy of Batman
The Lizardmen from the Warlord series.
The Llarans
The Psions

==Other==

Dinosaurs for Hire, dinosaur-like alien mercenaries
Henry Phage from the Mr. Hero comics from Tekno Comix
Kleggs, alien mercenaries in the Judge Dredd universe.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Slash, Leatherhead, and even the Triceratons.
Treens from Dan Dare
Tyranny Rex, a reptilian artist in stories published in 2000AD.
Zarbon from anime and manga Dragon Ball Z.
Calliope, a reptilian figure of prophecies, from Homestuck

=Film=

Draco from Above Majestic
Dracs from Enemy Mine
Lectroids from Buckaroo Banzai
Snake Men from Masters of the Universe
Snake People from the TV movie The Archer: Fugitive from the Empire
Thulsa Doom from Conan the Barbarian
Trandoshans from Star Wars

=Games=

==Roleplaying and strategy games==

Argonians, a race in The Elder Scrolls series{{cite web |last=Petty |first=Gabriella |date=2018-10-22 |title=The Elder Scrolls Online: Murkmire gives the Argonians the homeland they deserve |url=https://www.pcgamesn.com/the-elder-scrolls-online/the-elder-scrolls-online-murkmire-review |website=PCGamesN |access-date=2025-02-04 |quote=Ah, the Argonians of Elder Scrolls. Tamriel's friendly neighbourhood swamp lizards have been an essential part of Elder Scrolls [...]. Surely there's more value in the reptilians than immunity to disease and the ability to breathe underwater?}}{{cite web |last1=Lee |first1=Stephanie |last2=Madrigal |first2=Hector |last3=Graeber |first3=Brendan |date=2016-10-11 |title=Argonian |url=https://www.ign.com/wikis/the-elder-scrolls-5-skyrim/Argonian |website=IGN |access-date=2025-02-04 |quote=Argonians are a reptilian race from Black Marsh.}}
Bangaa, a race in the game series of Final Fantasy
Drell, a race in the Mass Effect series
Dinaurians from Fossil Fighters and Fossil Fighters: Champions
Iksar, a race from the EverQuest franchise.
Lizalfos from the Legend of Zelda series.
Lizardmen from the Warhammer fantasy tabletop games.
Naga from the Warcraft series.
Reptites from Chrono Trigger
Saurians from Risen
Susie from Deltarune