What are some underutilized mythological beasts in comics and cartoons?

What are some underutilized mythological beasts in comics and cartoons?

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Kelpies,Cocktrices,Bunyips

>Cockatrice
Just a poor man's basilisk

Giant fire breathing chicken is better than stone sight snek.

>Roc
Remember reading about these fuckers back in elementary school. Didn't realize how big they were till I saw the little sketch beside the entry that showed them picking up a goddamn elephant.

I want to fuck that sphinx.

Reminder Trivia is a slut.

Would you a bird trap?

What about an Amazon reverse trap?

Sphinx is a cute

I want to have sex with everyone in this comic. Not at the same time mind you, that would be degenerate. Probably one a day.

You'd have to put Phobia last.

Most of them. Animators stick to things proven by Harry Potter, Marvel Thor, or Clash Of The Titans.

Even Japan just uses the same ones of theirs over and over. They had Miyazaki to make obscure ones cool and they still don't bother.

Didn't the creator of Gastrophobia cancel the comic because he was upset Trump won or something?
Because last time I checked to see if it updated there was some message along those lines.

Why?

Griffins are cool

Need more cutie gorgons

Angels

>better than snek.
What's it like to be this wrong?

Where the fuck are the four faces?

The Hundred Armed ones. You could give them guns for a silly pun too.

>mfw I had that book
Maybe someone here can help me.

Does anyone remember an illustrated adventure book that took place on a spooky, haunted island? Turned out to be an amusement park by the end?

Each page was a full illustrated map of some level of the park. There was a crazy amount of detail - kitchens with cooks digging boogers from a gigantic nose, a haunted maze with sentient lawnmowers, demon summoning chambers and whatnot.

Anyone remember?

OOOH ITS A BIG SNAKE WITH CURSED BLOOD WWWWOOOOOOWWWW SO CREATIVE

you're think of a seraphim, I posted an ophanim

You mean Cherubim. Seraphim have 1 face and six wings covering their body.

Actual boogeymen.

Roc is lucky it's got at least one quality movie appearance.

>working on the development side of a D&D porn comic
>essentially protag adventurer gathers a harem of qt monster girls
>already have a full cast
>keep thinking of more and more monsters to add

I guess this is the sort of problem it's good to have, but still.

so essentially the character is a bard

Is that the one with the princess in a cage? Or was that another Rukh?

I need to rewatch Harryhausen's movies but it's the 7th Voyage of Sinbad.

I think it's so hard to remember because the title is very generic, whereas the contents are not.

I had a similar idea of an Adventurer porn comic because for some reason Fantasy settings make for the best porn.
But I'm too lazy to ever make anything come of it.

So you survived to the end.

I like how the closer an angel is to god the more fucked up they look

>Be born ugly
>Dad shoves you up your mom's snatch because he can't stand looking at you
>Little Bro overthrows dad
>Throws you in Superhell because you're still too fucking ugly
>Nephew overthrows Little Bro
>He does you a solid and stations you in hell
Being a Hecatonkaires is suffering
Atleast one of them gets to chill on beaches with his sea nymph wife

Also they're fucking impossible to draw

>mfw I had that book
Me too

Basilisks are shit. Deviantart OC-tier mythology.
>This is my OC! He's the king of snakes!
Okay.
>You'll die if he just looks at you!
Sure.
>His breath is so poisonous that every living thing around it rots and dies.
I guess?
>He's so deadly that his footprints are pools of noxious poison!
Really?
>Even if you stab him with a spear the poison will do up the spear and kill you and the horse you're riding on!
Go fuck yourself.

>huge eagle-shaped bird
Why not saying huge eagle?

More like OG tier mythology.
All the best monsters are just cribbing off Basilisk.
Because it's a Roc.

Because it's a Roc, not an eagle.

The four-faced angel and the wheels-with-eyes angel are different.

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Nobody can seem to get the Fair Folk right nowadays. Mike Mignola is the only good example I have seen lately

Yeah, but a huge eagle isn't an eagle either. Especially if your sentence begins by "the roc is a huge eagle".

Just draw them the way Hindus draw Vishnu.

>mirror shiled
>reflect the background but not the cave

To anyone wondering, it's called Bestiary: An Illuminated Alphabet of Medieval Beasts, by Jonathan Hunt.

Yeah, wehn people think of fae they usually just picture Tinkerbell.

Aren't Roc's also a enemy in final fantasy games?

Fucking everything is.

Thank you, I remember "A" was this thing with a head at each end that rolled into a hoop to chase people.

Slavic dragons aka. Zmey.

The amphisbaena.

Oh, and chicken-legged shacks.

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel has a good depiction, and Tolkien's "Smith of Wooton Major" is good if you want the "good fairy" version. Their point is they are so alien to us that their culture and morality is incomprehensible.

Here's the page for it.

A hawk could be described as a small eagle but is not one.

"Sonny! What happened to you!?"
"Got embraced by suck, mom. Wounds. Prosthetics."

i mean olgaf already exists

That's exactly what I'm saying. A huge eagle isn't an eagle, same way a small eagle is not an eagle, but can be a hawk. I don't understand why it is not an appropriate way to describe a roc.

I liked how they looked in Sandman, with how different they were from the actors portraying them in Midsummer Night's Dream.

Nuckelavee, Grindylow, Bloody Bones, Marool, Afanc. British Isle mythical creatures in general are underappreciated.

I sorta specifically want to avoid that because autistic ideals I want to express in them. Also something in me feels like there's a really unique design that can work for them that can work. But all I keep coming to either looks hideous or is mashing Argus in there. Doing all 50 heads just looks so cumbersome and unattractive.

Paimon needs so more representation and love in media

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Asians have a lot of cool Vampire monsters...and they really like causing miscarriages and have good hair.

>sausage walls

Jesus christ how horrifying

gave 'the vorrh' a read, (novel not a co/)

they made use of cyclops' and the Anthropophagi, although I thought they were universal myths, each culture coming up their own version. despite the book being set in Africa.

>Paimon

Straight to the trap devil. Naturally.

I like the tree-shaped designs.

I dunno. A lot of japanese ghosts are the same shit. Just ghost girls that will kill you. Not interesting or scary.

>tfw family is from a lineage of witch doctor and monsters
>tfw they always assign me to the morgue since they dont want me near dying people

but he is the good kind of trap
>draw it a boy
>call it a girl

The penanggalan is honestly a pretty cool version of the vampire.

A Song of Ice and Fire has a nice neat twist on the Fae Folk.
Too bad the show completely ruined it from day 1

Fucking this, thanks bro.

>Giant fire breathing chicken

>In Harry Potter lore, this thing attacked the judges, and wrought so much devastation it caused an inter house school competition to be cancelled for the next forever

What the fuck

>Sirens are not sexually dimorphic
>Insert jokes about sailors here

I'd be interested in a scenario that could make the Chinese jumping vampires scary.

NGE probably got it closest though without creating a fucking awful game, like Square Enix did . Everyone else is just going to use the winged versions rather than ribbons and gyroscopes and six winged entities.

I always find it great that Mignola pays attention to the real fine details in the horrifying parts of different creatures, all without making them instantly evil.

That's my point for whatever reason Fantasy settings lend well to good porn comics.
Oglaf, Alfie, that Manolo Carot comic, that guy who used to do guro porn.

>Everyone else is just going to use the winged versions rather than ribbons and gyroscopes and six winged entities.
Bayonetta

This comic is boring and bad when the characters aren't fucking.

You're right, most of the creatures depicted are universal. Mungo Park speaks of coming across stories similar to Arabian Nights, when he was being entertained in West Africa. That picture surprised me, as I thought Cyclops and Unicorns to be alien to Africans.

Probably. The Princess is shrunk by a magician and they need the eggshell of a Roc to make a cure, so they travel to the island and Sinbad carries the Princess in a little, pillowed box in his pocket.

Goddamn, I love that movie.
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That's brilliant

>reverse trap
That's not what that means you flaming faggot!

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How do you know she's in a cave at all? If the mirror shield is to be believed, she's just in the shadow of a big rock.

>Beavisfinallyscores.jpg

>No one gets violated

Fuck, why even have that monster then?

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There's still time and a literal forest of them.

Bunyip, Yowie, Yurlurngr, the Big Bogan, Harold Holt, Drop Bears

But that IS what it would mean in Amazon culture.

I am so sick of kappas.

My google fu is weak what strip is this?

I wouldn't say Sphinxes are underutilized in comics and cartoons, they always pop up guarding some door or passage to tell a riddle and then never be seen again, but they are absent in anime, manga and porn about monster girls. Which is a shame. They are by far the superior monster girls.

Why is Gastrophobia the epitome of wasted potential? Lazy author would rather tweet and draw MLP than continue his story.

It's been long regarded that children born retarded, blind, or albino got that way because they were touched by God. Proof that God is actually of the Elder- variety?

That's basically the nuckelavee except lizard not horse-thing.

Is that what he's doing, drawing MLP? I thought that entire thing was an April Fools joke a few years back.

He's a boy, who looks girly.
Or the devil.
But ultimately yeah, People read "in his image" as literal. But you can blame those Renaissance Romaboos for turning God into Jove and angels into humans with wings then people never getting past it.