History Main / Chupacabra

* ''{{Deadlands}}'' tells us that Chupacabras...Chupacabrae... Chupacab... "Goat Suckers" have actually been around since the late 19th Century. [[AllMythsAreTrue True to the stories that have sprung up around them]] in modern times, [[spoiler: they are formed when someone of Latin American descent betrays another.]]
* ''{{Pathfinder}}'', in its desire to fill up its Bestiaries with as much cryptids and folkloric creatures from real life instead of making up new things like [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons its arch-rival]], includes a chupe that's a fair bit more [[http://images.wikia.com/pathfinder/images/c/cb/Chupacabra.jpg lizard-like]] than the standard portrayal.

* [[Creator/Robin T. Popp]]'s ''Night Slayer'' paranormal romance series features chupacabras as the creatures who create vampires, though they're more like critters than monsters. They're also interesting in that they [[spoiler:temporarily turn to stone in daylight]].

* In the MonsterMash comic ''Comicbook/Perhapanauts'', the team's comic relief and somewhat TeamPet is Choopie, a [[UpliftedAnimal intellectually enhanced chupacabra]] (though not that enhanced).

* In the MonsterMash comic ''ComicBook/Perhapanauts'', the team's comic relief and somewhat TeamPet is Choopie, a [[UpliftedAnimal intellectually enhanced chupacabra]] (though not that enhanced).

* In the MonsterMash comic ''ComicBook/Perhapanauts'', the team's comic relief and somewhat TeamMascot is Choopie, a [[UpliftedAnimal intellectually enhanced chupacabra]] (though not that enhanced).

* In the MonsterMash comic ''Perhapanauts'', the team's comic relief is Chupie, a talking chupacabra.

* Chupacabra is one of the many mythical and folkloric beings that appears in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney''.

** Also note that the Chupacabra shown here is much more comical than most versions, resembling more a spotted potato with fangs than anything else.

** Partly justified, however: [[spoiler:the man running the plot hadn't the slightest clue about Aztec mythology, as everyone pointed out.]]
*** It still convinced the villagers though.

* Appears in ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' as one of the few creatures not affected by the nanites.

* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', [[ConspiracyTheorist No-Bark Noonan]] confuses a Nightkin for one of these.

* One of the three leaders of the Yuumajuu in ''TensouSentaiGoseiger'' is [[spoiler:Buredoran]] of the Chupacabra.

* One ''SouthPark'' had Cartman's hunt for the Jewpacabra.

* ''{{Pathfinder}}'', in its desire to fill up its Bestiaries with as much cryptids and folkloric creatures from real life instead of making up new things like [[DungeonsAndDragons its arch-rival]], includes a chupe that's a fair bit more [[http://images.wikia.com/pathfinder/images/c/cb/Chupacabra.jpg lizard-like]] than the standard portrayal.

* A Chupacabra named Xolo shows up in the [[CalLeandros Cal Leandros series]] as the vampire Cherish's cute, seemingly harmless pet. That is, until he's revealed to be [[spoiler:a telepath who [[MindRape Mind Rapes]] Niko and whom Cherish uses to control the other characters.]]
* One of ''FalconQuinn's'' friends is a chupacabra named Pearl. Rather than an alien, she more closely resembles a fairy with a large [[BewareMyStingerTail stinger tail]]. And while she does enjoy chupa-ing the occasional cabra, she's more fond of flower nectar. She's also ''extremely'' proud of her heritage. ''[[BoisterousBruiser Extremely.]]''

* The animated movie ''[[ScoobyDoo Scooby Doo and the Monster of Mexico]],'' which not only gets the origin of the creature ''completely'' wrong (treating it as being part of '''Aztec''' mythology!) but redesigned it to look more bigfoot-like. (The writers might have gotten it confused with the Nahual, a supposed Mexican were-jaguar.)

-->-- '''Brock Samson''', ''TheVentureBrothers''

The Chupacabra is sometimes known as the [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Chupacabras]]. This is in fact the original form of the name in Spanish; this type of compound word in Spanish (verb + noun) usually has the plural form of the noun (other examples: ''el abrelatas'' "the can opener", ''el sacapuntas'' "the pencil sharpener", ''el tocadiscos'' "the record player", ''el pisapapeles'' "the paperweight"). [[{{Demythtification}} In 2010, corpses of quadrupedal "Chupacabra" were analyzed and revealed to be coyotes afflicted with mange]], while the bipedal Chupacabra originated from Madelyne Tolentino, the eyewitness from the Puerto Rico cases, believing that the monster Sil from the science fiction horror film ''{{Species}}'', which she had watched prior to making the report, was real.

* Ursula Vernon's small webcomic ''Irrational Fears'' features a chupacabra facing down various monsters.

* A recent ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' miniseries, "Isla de la Muerte" (Island of Death) had the superheroes coming to Puerto Rico to deal with the Chupacabra.

* In the [[TheElderScrolls Elder Scrolls]] series of games, a chupacabra like monster called a "Hunger" appears as regular enemy in Morrowind and in the Shivering Isles expansion pack for [[TheElderScrollsfour The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion]]. More so resembling their counterpart considering they posses strong "Drain Health" spell and attack with their tongue.

* A recent ''FantasticFour'' miniseries, "Isla de la Muerte" (Island of Death) had the superheroes coming to Puerto Rico to deal with the Chupacabra.

* The 2011 PussInBoots movie has chupacabra as one of Puss' nicknames.