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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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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, 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
  • 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

Fringe theories

  • Reptilians appear in some claims of alien encounters and in the conspiracy theories of David Icke

Scientific speculation

  • The dinosauroid, a hypothetical reptilian humanoid conjectured by palaeontologist Dale Russell.

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

  • Cardassians
  • Gorn
  • Jem'Hadar
  • Voth
  • Tosk
  • Xindi-Reptilians

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

  • 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

  • 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 and Caliborn, reptilian aliens from the webcomic 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
  • Bangaa, a race in the game series of Final Fantasy
  • Deathclaws, a species in the Fallout franchise
  • 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

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Dungeons & Dragons
  • Kobolds
  • Lizardfolk
  • Troglodytes
  • Yuan-ti