History Main / AHeadAtEachEnd

* ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'': The Gloink Queen has a head on both ends up her body, though she seems to only talk and eat with one end while the other just spits out new gloinks made of the stuff she has eaten. Weirdly, she seems to have only one pair of lips that wrap around her whole body so they are shared by both ends. We don't know if she is capable of or what would happen if she opened her lips all the way round.

* In ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}: The Mutran Chronicles'', the Makuta are seen solving smaller issues by flipping mutated animals like coins. One time, they flipped one that had two heads and no tail, so it took a while to reach their decision.

** Leela's mutant parents have a mutant cat with a snake's body and head for a tail. Leela herself is revealed to have a tiny talking boil resembling a head on her right buttock in the same episode where Mr. Chunks (see above) appears.

** Leela's mutant parents have a mutant cat with a snake's body and head for a tail.

* In ''VideoGame/MouseHunt'', the Monster Tail mouse from the Polluted series has a toothy maw like a Venus flytrap at the tip of its tail.

* Myth/JapaneseMythology: The nue is a MixAndMatchCritter with a snake for a tail.

* ''WesternAnimation/DragonHunters'' has a Dragon of the week living in an icy cavern looking like an extremely long blue snake... with an additional head on his tail, which foils the heroes' plan to ambush it from behind.

* ''VideoGame/VivaPinata'': Twingersnap is a snake with a head on each end. It can give rise to Fourheads, which has, well, four heads -- one in the front, one on the back and two on necks attached to each side.

* One large sea turtle on display at the Sea World park in San Diego ''looks'' like this trope, having lost most of its tail to an injury. The stump which remains looks very much like a head when seen from the left side, thanks to a long mouth-like scar and a large misplaced scale which resembles an eye.

* Some trains will appear to invoke this trope, either with locomotives (such as the Fairlie articulated steam locomotives, as mentioned in the ''WesternAnimation/ThomasandFriends'' example above, as well as many modern diesel locomotives that either have a cab on both ends or a long or short hood on either end, though the short hood is treated as the default "front half" of larger locomotives) or with entire trainsets (such as freight trains with a second locomotive at the rear end, and passenger locomotives composed of either multiple units with the ends having powered, controlled cars, or a locomotive on the front and an unpowered "control car" at the back allowing the driver to operate the train from the other end), likely to make it easier for the train to change direction without having to turn the entire train around, as the track layout often tends to limit the train's movements.

[[caption-width-right:350:Twice the llama, twice the spitting.]]

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* ''Anime/MazingerZ'': Several [[{{Robeast}} Mykene War Beasts]] have a head at each end (which happens fairly often, since all Mykene War Beasts have several heads). This trope is used for first time in the ''Mazinger'' universe in the ''Mazinger Z vs. Great General of Darkness'' feature.

* In the newspaper strip ''Nest Heads'', one of Nick's imaginary insects is the Milli-Vanillipede. One of this many-legged creature's two heads sings, the other lip-synchs.

* Zak and Ko of ''Zany to the Max''.

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* The Vanterviper from ''WesternAnimation/{{Gallavants}}'' has two heads as such...but one is male and the other female. And they [[MultipleHeadCase hate each other so much,]] they even sing a weird song on their woeful plight.

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* The Mix-and-Match Critter in ''Film/{{Sharktopus}}'' has a shark head at one end and a cephalopod's beak embedded among the tentacles at the other.

* In the 1967 film ''Film/DoctorDolittle'', it's a two-front-ended llama: a creature actually mentioned in Peruvian folklore.
* It also appears briefly in the 1998 Eddie Murphy ''Film/DrDolittle'' as a nod to the original source material.
* One of the cobbled-together undead from the sealed tunnel in ''Film/BrideOfReAnimator'' consists of the upper halves of two cadavers, their truncated waists stuck together end-to-end.

* This is how Creator/TheAsylum's computer animators managed to shoehorn head #5 into the title creature of ''[[Film/FiveHeadedSharkAttack 5-headed Shark Attack]]''.
* ''Film/SuperiorUltraman8Brothers'': Giga Khimaira has four heads at its front (King Silvergon's, Goldra's, Guesra's and Super Alien Hipporit's) and King Pandon's two heads in its posterior area.

%%* ''Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures'': The Process, the monster in ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoNewAdventuresCatsCradleTimesCrucible Time's Crucible]]''.

* In ''Literature/HarryPotter,'' double-ended newts are sold at the Magical Menagerie, a wizarding pet shop in Diagon Alley.

* ''Literature/{{Fragment}}'': Some of the freakish and terrifying animals have at least parts of a head at their rear end, including one that eats through its hind mouth and a few with rear brains and eyes.

* Creator/GamesWorkshop:
** The Khornate [[BodyHorror Chaos Spawn]] Scyla Anfingrimm from ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' has a snapping serpentine head on the end of his tail, in addition to the ape-like head that sits upon his heavily muscled shoulders.
** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': Amphisbaenas are snakes native to the Lustrian jungles with an additional head in place of their tails. This is patently against basic biology even for the setting, and amphisbaenas are thus assumed to be touched by Chaos to some degree.

* ''VideoGame/PushMePullYou'': Two players take control of a two-headed humanoid worm-like creature, to compete against another pair in a ball game that's part soccer and part sumo wrestling.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** [[FunWithPalindromes Girafarig]] is a giraffe with an extra spherical head as its tail, which [[OrganAutonomy bites without warning]]. This head is incapable of higher thinking and only responds to outside stimuli. [[https://twitter.com/DrLavaYT/status/1219968764252315648 In its original design,]] its heads on both ends were identical in everything except color.
** Exeggutor that are found in the [[VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon Alola region]] have a tail that has another egg-shaped coconut head on the end.

* ''VideoGame/ThrillKill'' has Judas, conjoined twins connected at the waist in such a way that there are heads at each end, two pairs of arms, and ''no legs''. They usually crawl about, but in combat one walks handstand while the other fights.
* ''VideoGame/VivaPinata'': Twingersnap is a snake with a head on each end. It can give rise to Fourheads, which has, well, four heads -- one in the front, one on the back and two on necks attached to each side.
* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': According to Luigi, during his adventure, he battled Hizza, a giant snake that Plumpbelly Village had to sacrifice maidens to. Luigi notes that the snake had a second head on its tail.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'': Diplocephalus, called Amphisbaena in the Japanese version and called as such in ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'', is a crocodile-like beast with the upper body of a fireball-slinging human woman attached to its tail.
* In the Website/{{Facebook}} game ''Hatchlings'', the hippogriff egg hatches out a creature with a beaked, horse-like head at each end. The "Snake-allufagus" of the Basketball series has a squat humanoid body with a snake (complete with basketball-grasping mouth) for a tail.
* In ''VideoGame/MouseHunt'', the Monster Tail mouse from the Polluted series has a toothy maw like a Venus flytrap at the tip of its tail.
* ''VideoGame/SeriousSamTheSecondEncounter'': Lampshaded upon seeing a statue of such a creature:
-->'''Sam:''' Hmm, they always say two heads are better than one, but how does it fart?
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'': The Duke's Dear Freja looks like one huge spider at first, but it's actually two huge spiders conjoined at the rear end. Naturally, each head serves as a weakpoint.

* ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'': The TrueFinalBoss is Black Doom's OneWingedAngel form Devil Doom, an enormous [[RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver red and black]] gargoyle-like monster with two heads, both with one yellow eye but one having two horizontal horns and the other having one unicorn-like horn.
* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestII'': Malroth, God of Destruction, has a snake-like head on the tip of his crocodilian tail.
* In the freak show stage of ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'' you'll encounter an enemy who is a conjoined twin with each man's torso meeting at the waist. He also talks like [[Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon Goofy]] for some reason.
* ''VideoGame/SilentHill3'' features hovering, blade-twirling creatures called Pendulums, which appear to consist of two human torsos attached at the waists, heads at opposite ends and facing in opposite directions.
* ''VideoGame/{{Dredge}}'': Twinned Eels (#114): ''"Two spiteful siblings splitting at the seams."''

* ''WebOriginal/{{Polinices}}'': The Amphinatan at first glance looks like a tropical fish with heads at opposite ends of its body. However, the thin "mouths" at each end are actually two cephalopod-like siphons, the real mouth is located at the bottom center within its mantle, and it has four eyes — two on each side of its thin carapace — right at its center.

* In ''WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland'', there's a half-dog, half-cat creature whose heads continually fight each other.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
** In the "WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror" segment "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E4TreehouseOfHorrorVIII Fly vs. Fly]]", Bart puts Snowball II and Santa's Little Helper through a teleporter and they come out as two different pets: one with both heads, ("Twice the pet with none of the poop!") and [[InvertedTrope one with both butts]]. ("Eww! You can be Lisa's.")
** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E17LastExitToSpringfield Last Exit to Springfield]]", Burns and Smothers both play with a two headed dog at the plant. Implicitly it was mutated by the radiation.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'' gives us Meow, the Copy Cat, a literal copycat with two cat heads (one at each end of its body) who had the power to make someone act like another person just by licking their face. The only way to reverse the effects of Meow's spell was to have her lick the affected person a second time.
* In ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'', Mighty Mac is a Fairlie, a double-ended articulated steam engine. Each end -- Mighty and Mac -- has a distinct face and identity.
* In an odd example, ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' has Quickstrike, a Transformer whose beast mode is a scorpion with a cobra for a tail.

* ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'': Swapper is an experiment with heads on both ends. Its primary function is [[FreakyFridayFlip switching the bodies of two individuals]], which it accomplishes by exerting energy from both of its sets of eyes at its targets.
* ''WesternAnimation/DragonHunters'' has a Dragon of the week living in an icy cavern looking like an extremely long blue snake... with an additional head on his tail, which foils the heroes' plan to ambush it from behind.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', after having a magical fight involving taking apart {{Voodoo Doll}}s of each other, Cosmo and Wanda spend a good portion of the plot trying to [[PullingThemselvesTogether put themselves back together]]. At one point, they end up conjoined in this fashion.
-->'''Cosmo:''' How do we go to the bathroom?

* One of these creatures was spotted in the cavern from the film ''Film/{{Evolution}}'', during its bug-dominated period.

* One of the aberrant fish you sometimes haul up in ''VideoGame/{{Dredge}}'' is an eel with this physical anomaly.

* One of the aberrant fish you sometimes haul up in ''Dredge'' is an eel with this physical anomaly.