| Typology Reptile |
| Total Entries 19 |
| Representative Lizard |
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Snake People, Nagas, Lamias, Valusians, or “Sneople” (singular Snerson) are a type of liminal being usually depicted with a human head, arms and torso with the added twist of a snake’s tail as a lower body, similar in many respects to a mermaid, centaur, and some genies. Beings like this can also involve more exotic bodily configurations such as wings or changing the ratio of snake to human. Sometimes they can have legs but will usually be far more reptilian in appearance. Also, for some reason, most examples are female. Most of the time such Snake People are depicted as slithering upright like a cobra about to strike, instead of slithering face-down with their whole body. Female Snake People are almost always depicted with “Non-Mammal Mammaries” and often with “Non-Mammalian Hair”; they’re almost always bewitchingly beautiful. Snake People may have some proficiency for aquatic movement as well, either being superior swimmers than other species or actually being able to breathe underwater, in which case they would be a subtrope of “Unscaled Merfolk”, with the best of both worlds. They may or may not talk in “Sssssnake Talk”. Similarly, they are often evil because “Snakes Are Sinister”, but like many other “Cute Monster Girls”, “Dark Is Not Evil” may come into play. Or they were already villains who just turned into snakes. “Wise Serpents” are just as likely — associating them with wisdom, cunning, and knowledge because of the way they hunt… Compare with “Lizard Folk” (another species likely to be behind a Reptilian Conspiracy), and with “Gorgeous Gorgon” when the Snake Person is hot. Because Snakes Are Sexy, this happens quite often even though snake people are, like mermaids, frequently subject to the “Mermaid Problem”. Medusa is occasionally depicted this way… ~ Snake People – TV Tropes
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