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
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.
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