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* The giraffe-like {Franchise/{Pokemon}} Girafarig, which has a smaller head on its tail that [[OrganAutonomy bites without warning.]] In its original design, its heads on both ends were identical.

* The giraffe-like {{Pokemon}} Girafarig, which has a smaller head on its tail that [[OrganAutonomy bites without warning.]] In its original design, its heads on both ends were identical.
* Played with the {{Orochi}} in ''{{Ranma}}'', which has seven small heads on one end and a ''single, mountainous head on the opposite end.''

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* In {{Mythology}}, the amphisbaena (literally "[[IThoughtItMeant both-way goer]]") was a snake or snake/bird BiologicalMashUp with a deadly-venomous head at each end of its body.

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

CatDog, naturally, is the TropeCodifier.

* The Pokemon Girafarig, which has a smaller head on its tail that [[OrganAutonomy bites without warning.]]

* In ''HarryPotter,'' the witch at the Magical Menagerie, a wizarding pet shop sells double-ended newts.

* Played with the [[Orochi]] in ''Ranma'', which has seven small heads on one end and a ''single, mountainous head on the opposite end.''

* Some versions of [[GreekMythology Cerberus and the Chimera]] give these creatures living, biting snakes for tails.

* Ischiopagus ConjoinedTwins can resemble this trope, while vertical craniopagus conjoined twins are inversions.

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* A Native American petroglyph in Utah depicts a bighorn sheep with heads on both ends. Another petroglyph from Tibet portrays a yak with heads on front and back.

* In the ''DoctorDolittle'' novels, the Pushmi-Pullyu is an antelope with two front halves, attached at the waist.

** In the film adaptations, it's a two-front-ended llama: a creature actually mentioned in Peruvian folklore.

* The Process, the monster in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' ''VirginNewAdventures'' novel "Time's Crucible".

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' gives us the pukeme-poopyou, a two-headed goat that continually ejects vomit/diarrhea from either end, filling a pool that the loser of a contest will have to jump into.

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* In ''9'', the Seamstress is a mechanical horror with a doll's head at one end and [[spoiler: the salvaged upper body of a soul-drained stitchpunk]] at the other.
* One of these creatures was spotted in the cavern from the film ''Evolution'', during its bug-dominated period.

* One of the many weird critters from Wayne Barlowe's ''Expedition'' is a similar subversion, sporting an entire simulated head on its rear end to confuse predators as to which way it's facing.
* The Process, the monster in the ''DoctorWho'' ''VirginNewAdventures'' novel "Time's Crucible".

* 1st/2nd Edition ''DungeonsAndDragons'' had a giant Amphisbaena snake with a head at each end.

* Girafarig from the ''{{Pokemon}}'' games is a giraffe with an extra spherical head on its tail.
* A whole series of inversions (two bodies joined at a shared cranium) appear in ''EarthwormJim'', most notably Professor Monkey-for-a-Head.

* Twingersnap from ''VivaPinata'' is a snake with a head on each end. It can give rise to Fourheads, which has three heads on one end and one on the other.
* Diplocephalus in ''CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' is a crocodile-like beast with the upper body of a fireball-slinging human woman attached to its tail.

* The whole premise of the animated series ''[=CatDog=]''.
* In ''Porky In Wackyland'', there's a half-dog, half-cat creature (an ancestor of [=CatDog=], maybe) that continually fights each other.
* On one of ''TheSimpsons'' "Treehouse of Terror" episodes, 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.")
* During the "Pink Elephants on Parade" number in ''{{Dumbo}}'', two of the elephants cross through each other and briefly become this.
* ''{{Futurama}}'' gives us the pukeme-poopyou, a two-headed goat that continually ejects vomit/diarrhea from either end, filling a pool that the loser of a contest will have to jump into.
* An episode of ''{{Dragon Tales}}'' 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.