History Main / Chupacabra

* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'', while not having any actual Chupacabra's, does have a main character named "[[MeaningfulName Moka]]" that is a vampire, which is likely a case of ShownTheirWork .

** In "[[Recap/FuturamaS4E9TeenageMutantLeelasHurdles Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles]]", the Planet Express crew ventures into the sewers where the local mutants live in fear of a vicious monster they call el Chupanibre, which feeds on their domesticated crocodiles, much to their anger.

* ''WesternAnimation/GrojBand'' had one episode feature a monster called "El Chewpoocaca" as a {{Homage}} to this.

* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "[[Recap/JackieChanAdventuresS2E8TheCurseOfElChupacabra The Curse of the Chupacabra]]" features Jackie and El Toro fighting one of these while in Mexico and El Toro being scratched by it causing him to become one himself, until the curse is broken. Like the ''Scooby Doo'' example above, the creature is mistakenly said to be from Aztec legend.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheMonsterOfMexico'' not only gets the origin of the creature ''completely'' wrong (treating it as being part of '''Aztec''' mythology!) but redesigns it to look more bigfoot-like. (The writers might have gotten it confused with the Nahual, a lycanthropic being from local folklore.)

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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' introduced two to the game as "Beast Horrors" in Ixalan block, set in a plane based off of Mesoamerican history and mythology: [[https://scryfall.com/card/xln/111/lurking-chupacabra Lurking Chupacabra]] and [[https://scryfall.com/card/a25/104/ravenous-chupacabra Ravenous Chupacabra]].
-->''"Shadow birthed it. The moon gave it eyes, and the jungle gave it teeth. But it was Death that taught it cruelty."''
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* The IDW graphic novel "Chicacabra" (written and drawn by Creator/TomBeland who also did the above mentioned Fantastic Four story) is about a Puerto Rican girl named Izzy who finds an abandoned lab and gets merged with the last living Chupacabra (the rest were killed).

* ''Film/FantasticBeastsTheCrimesOfGrindelwald'' introduces Chupacabras to the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' franchise. They are portrayed in a manner consistent with the original Mexican version, being lizard-like creatures with blood-sucking fangs.

* A ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' issue of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' featured one as a failed experiment by Professor Frink. After killing everyone at Moe's, he meets his end when he is unable to handle the amount of blood in [[TheAlcoholic Barney's]] blood.

-->-- '''Brock Samson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers''

* In the manga of ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'', when the girls are planning to go to the zoo to see real pandas instead of just pictures, Osaka thinks of something else she wants to see. When she remembers, what she says is translated as "the chupacabra". (The anime version of the same scene says something else, and the original version says she wanted to [[MyLifeFlashedBeforeMyEyes see her life flash before her eyes]].)
* The Chupacabra is referred to by name in ''Manga/SgtFrog'', complete with a RecycledInSpace variant called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Space Chupacabra]], but eating goats is never brought up - it's still considered as urban myth though, and the resident mythological-creature-hunter Alisa Southerncross goes after it - but gets [[TheWorfEffect curbstomped bigtime]] as it ''eats'' her surrogate father Nevula.
** Additionally, one episode featured a giant Chupacabra with a frill named [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/ultra/images/c/cd/Capras.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20150121084251 Capras]], a parody of a monster from ''Series/{{Ultraman}}'' called [[http://ultra.wikia.com/wiki/Jirass Jirass]] whose design was simply another classic monster with a frill added -- Godzilla.

* In ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'', Otae inexplicably finds a cave swarming with chupacabras while the gang is lost in the mountains and in search of shelter from a snowstorm. She thinks it would be a good place to stay if they can beat all of them up, but everyone else is too creeped out by them to bother.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' manga ''Manga/TouhouSuzunaanForbiddenScrollery'', [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Remilia]] has a pet chupacabra which she initially believes is a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treeshrew tupai]]. Even after finding out the truth, she still thinks "Tupai" is cute.

* A ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'' miniseries, "Isla de la Muerte" (Island of Death), had the superheroes coming to Puerto Rico to deal with the Chupacabra.
* In ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'', [[Franchise/TheFlash Impulse]] raced over to Puerto Rico to look for one after reading a cryptozoology book - [[http://img269.imageshack.us/img269/2817/impulsechupacabra.png lifting rocks and animals while calling out for it]].
* In the MonsterMash comic ''Comicbook/ThePerhapanauts'', the team's comic relief and somewhat TeamPet is Choopie, a [[UpliftedAnimal intellectually enhanced chupacabra]] (though not that enhanced).
* The comic book ''Proof'' features a chupacabra as a recurring character. Its true form has never been seen, because its M.O. is to kill people and wear their skin.
* In his New 52 mini-series ''SelfDemonstrating/{{Bizarro}}'' is keeping a Chupacabra named Collin as a pet [[spoiler: as it turns out he is an alien who lost his translator and he used to be a ''Franchise/GreenLantern'']]
* SelfDemonstrating/{{Deadpool}} fought a bunch of chupacapras who kidnapped a goat named [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Bella]].
* Paradox Press's ''The Big Book of the Unexplained'' explores the Chupacabra legends in depth.
* A ''WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror'' issue of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'' featured one as a failed experiment by Professor Frink. After killing everyone at Moe's, he meets his end when he is unable to handle the amount of blood in [[TheAlcoholic Barney's]] blood.

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* Numerous obscure little horror films, including:
** ''Chupacabra Terror''.
** The "Mongo Chupa" segment of ''Terror Overload''.
** ''[=GoatSucker=]''.
** ''El Matadero''.
** ''Mexican Werewolf in Texas''.
** ''El Chupacabra''.
** ''Legend of the Chupacabra''.

* In the horror anthology ''Tropical Tales Of Terror'' The Chupacabras were actually a hidden race of intelligent, predatory birds.
* A Chupacabra named Xolo shows up in the ''Literature/CalLeandros'' 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 ''Literature/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.]]''
* Numerous chupacabras appear in the ''Literature/InCryptid'' series as therianthropic cryptids: James (Verity's competitive dance partner) in ''Discount Armageddon'' and ''Midnight Blue-Light Special,'' Princess Leya-you-out, one of Antimony's fellow [[UsefulNotes/RollerDerby jammers]] in "Bad Dream Girl" and "Jammed," and Malena, one of Verity's fellow dancers in ''Chaos Choreography.'' Their beast form is the typical scabrous reptile-wolf creature, their human form is indistinguishable from a Latin American person of their age and build. For the most part, they're quite friendly and don't attack farm animals to drain their blood.
* Chupacabra packs are among the first creatures encountered in ''Literature/JackieAndCraig'' and form a central element of the book's overall atmosphere/storyline.
* Chupacabras appear as the guard dogs for the [[TheGreys Little Green Men]] in ''Literature/MrBlank''. The narrator wonders if they aren't some weird hillbilly version of the Greys.
* 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]].

** The episode "El Mundo Gira" reveals that the Chupacabras are actually illegal immigrants who have been infected by an alien fungus.
** The standard version is discussed in "Bad Blood". Mulder presents Scully a new case -- dead cows that have been exsanguinated. Scully ironically asks if it wasn't by any chance that Mexican goatsucker.
--->'''Scully:''' You're not gonna tell me you think it's that Mexican goatsucker thing.
--->'''Mulder:''' El Chupacabra? No, they got four fangs, not two, and they suck goats, hence the name.
--->'''Scully:''' So, instead, this would be...
--->'''Mulder:''' Classic vampirism.
--->'''Scully:''' Of a bunch of cows.
* An episode of ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' amusingly featured a rampaging critter which wasn't ''called'' a Chupacabra on-screen, but was blatantly modeled after the standard description of the beast. (See picture above for the general idea.)
* A featured monster on Creator/AnimalPlanet's ''Series/LostTapes''. This version differed from the image above in that it was more of a canine-like ground-dwelling bat monster.
* One of the three leaders of the Yuumajuu in ''Series/TensouSentaiGoseiger'' is [[spoiler:Buredoran]] of the Chupacabra.
* ''Series/{{Bones}}'' had a Chupacabra as a possible ''suspect'' in one episode, "The Truth In The Myth".
* ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' had a Chupacabra episode.
* In an episode of ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', another hunter brushes off Sam and Dean by telling them he's heard there's one "two states over". The implication is that chasing after chupacabras would be a waste of the Winchesters' talents.

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' makes a quick joke about it. Sarge calls it a "Chupa-thingie."
** He is still fond of calling the team's jeep "Chupa-baby."

* One of the ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' Gangrel clanbooks has a Chupacabra character template, with a backstory of being Embraced while in wilderness, driven half-crazy by the [[EnemyWithin Beast]] and feeding on animals due to lack of human prey in the area.
* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' introduced two to the game as "Beast Horrors" in Ixalan block: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=435265 Lurking Chupacabra]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=439739 Ravenous Chupacabra]].

* ''{{VideoGame/Diablo}}'' has a Scavenger-type boss monster named el Chupacabras. ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' has a monster known as Chupa Khazra as well.
* In ''{{VideoGame/Hearthstone}}'', Chupacabran is a boss you can encounter during Monster Hunt in The Witchwood expansion.
* Appears as a [[DemonicSpider tough regular enemy]] in the later ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' games, although a translation error led to it being called "Cave Troll". In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'', getting its soul lets Soma attack with a Gene Simmons-style [[OverlyLongTongue long ass tongue]].
* Chupacabra is one of the many mythical and folkloric beings that appears in the ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTensei'' games.
* You can summon Chupacabras in ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' -- they attack goats on sight. Amusingly, they can wear hats and can hold items.

* In ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts 3'' one of the hunting quests is for the Chupacabra. In [[spoiler:Chichen Itza]] of all places.
* ''VideoGame/RedDeadRedemptionUndeadNightmare'' has a chupacabra that can be killed as part of a challenge. There's even an achievement for doing so, titled "[[Machinima/RedVsBlue Chupathingy]]."
%%* Greasels from ''VideoGame/DeusEx''.

* They're an tough enemy in ''VideoGame/LetsGoFindElDorado'' that can kill off one of your party members on contact with your wagon.
* There's one in the flash game, ''VideoGame/SteppenwolfTheXCreaturesProject.'' It's depicted as a winged monster with two fangs and a {{cult}} devoted to it, who control it by means of a whistle.
* The primary enemy in ''VideoGame/{{Faith}}'' is a monster inhabiting the woods that has been cited as a Chupacabra by the local newspapers. It’s depicted as a pallid, nightmarish HumanoidAbomination that runs on all fours, speaks in BlackSpeech, and rips you and the wildlife to shreds. [[spoiler:It’s hinted to actually be [[WasOnceAMan a human]] who has been [[DemonicPossession possessed]] for so long that their body has been mutated beyond recognition.]]

* ''VideoGame/ArkSurvivalEvolved'': The ''Aberration'' DLC has two creatures that are visual homages to the two different iterations of the chupacabra. The [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Nameless]] are a reference to the alien type and are vicious, hunchbacked bipeds who are [[WeakenedByTheLight harmed by chargelight]]. The [[CanisMajor Ravagers]] reference the bald coyote type and are big, mostly hairless canines with massive fangs that cause bleeding damage.

* In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', while avoiding Bun-bun, Aylee (Torg's alien secretary) goes to pick up a tray of drinks for the group. The waitress is terrified and stammers "Do not eat me, chupacabra!" to which Aylee cheerfully responds "Do not eat ''me'', senorita!", thinking it's a normal human greeting. She later resolves to use one of Bun-bun's greetings, "your money or your life!"

* Jeffrey Rowland's ''Webcomic/{{Overcompensating}}'' has featured several storylines featuring a Chupacabra.
* In a throwaway gag, a victim of the gender-shifting orb in ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' is in gathering signatures on a petition to save the "spotted chupacabra".
* ''Webcomic/BloodyUrban'' lampshades this trope. The Chupacabra is a disguise used by [[VegetarianVampire Shaun]] in the [[http://bloodyurban.smackjeeves.com/comics/2071158/throwback-tuesday-chupacabras-partial-recolour-redraw/ strip of the same name]].

* [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2636 2636]], or ''[[GratuitousLatin Potrix caprarum sapiens]]'', is the sapient and [[MakeMeWannaShout loud]] [[LastOfHisKind last remnant]] of the chupacabra species, and [[spoiler:the virgin mother for their MessianicArchetype]].
* In ''WebAnimation/NoEvil'' chupacabras are large long-limbed creatures that prey on livestock, such as jackalopes. They're first mentioned in "Brom Bones" when Huehuecoyotl makes a giant spooky puppet out of a jack-o-lantern and chupacabra bones, which gets animated by Angel. And they actually appear in "Conduct" as part of the village of Hatfield's plan to get back at [=McCoy=] for stealing their food.
* The chupacabra was one of the cryptids covered during the AprilFoolsDay episode of ''WebVideo/TierZoo'', where it was determined to not be a very viable build. To unlock the chupacabra, a player would have to select a canine build and deliberately infect themselves with mange. Aside from a buff in intimidation, mange is a significant hinderence to the player that costs them sanity points. As such, chubacabras were ranked at the bottom of the tier list because of these drawbacks.

* The animated movie ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheMonsterOfMexico,'' 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 lycanthropic being from local folklore.)
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' had an episode that claimed Dexter had created it as a little reptilian monster that he named Charlie to scare off Dee Dee from his lab, but he had escaped to Mexico and started attacking goats ("I never said it was a completely successful experiment").
* ''WesternAnimation/Sealab2021'' had an episode titled "Isla de Chupacabras."
* The monster also appears in an episode, "Dia de Los Dangerous!", of ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', inexplicably leaping from Brock's car to attack Dr. Venture. Apparently, Mexico is full of them. Amusingly, Dr. Venture had earlier declared them to be nonsense.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', the Planet Express crew ventured into the sewers where the local mutants lived in fear of a vicious monster they called El Chupanibre, which fed on their domesticated crocodiles, much to their anger.
** The Bone Vampire from the {{Uncancelled}} episode "Fry am the Egg Man" is also inspired by the Chupacabra.
* The ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'' episode "The Curse of the Chupacabra" features Jackie and El Toro fighting one of these while in Mexico and El Toro being scratched by it causing him to become one himself, until the curse is broken. Like the ''Scooby Doo'' example above, the creature is mistakenly said to be from Aztec legend.
* It appeared in one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': It comes out of the TV screen while Billy is watching a magical videotape in a parody of ''Film/TheRing''. It latches onto his nose. Grim presumes that it's trying to eat his brains, and Mandy thinks it'll starve. Of course, Billy being [[TheDitz what he is]], doesn't know what it is and can't even pronounce its name ("Chupa-ma-flablah").
* On ''WesternAnimation/MayaAndMiguel'', the title characters tried to claim that they had one as a pet. Then, it turned out that there really was one in town.
* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/ElTigreTheAdventuresOfMannyRivera'', Manny adopts a baby chupacabra as a pet.
* The ChristmasEpisode of ''WesternAnimation/MuchaLucha'' had chupacabra as [[BadSanta Rudo Claus']] reindeer.
* Referenced in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZIM'', when Gaz tells Dib she thinks she saw one lurking around the mall's parking garage so she can get rid of him for the afternoon. Dib notes that there aren't any goats around for miles, but nonetheless, he spends the rest of the episode wandering around the garage in search of it.

* The 2011 ''WesternAnimation/PussInBoots'' movie has chupacabra as one of Puss' nicknames.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', Pam refers to herself as "... like some kind of Chupacabra. [[Dissimile But for]] [[ReallyGetsAround dicks.]]"
* One ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' had Cartman's hunt for the Jewpacabra.
* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', the gang sets out to find the Chupacabra, who apparently turned out to be a secret agent by OWCA unbeknownst to them.
* ''WesternAnimation/RoswellConspiracies'': Chupacabra is actually a vampire named Dvorak, who became deformed and driven nearly insane after biting something that didn't agree with him ([[spoiler:General Rinaker]]).

* In ''WesternAnimation/MikeTysonMysteries'', in "The End", Mike Tyson fights a Chupacabra and beats it by punching it in the groin. It gets back up and it gets taken down by Creator/CormacMcCarthy [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext as a centaur and the Chupacabra is actually John Updike, a novelist, who was thought to be dead but he actually transformed into a Chupacabra for some reason]].

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* [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP]]-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2636 2636]], or ''[[AltumVidetur Potrix caprarum sapiens]]'', is the sapient and [[MakeMeWannaShout loud]] [[LastOfHisKind last remnant]] of the chupacabra species, and [[spoiler:the virgin mother for their MessianicArchetype]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'', Pam refers to herself as "... like some kind of Chupacabra. But for dicks"

* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', [[ConspiracyTheorist No-Bark Noonan]] confuses a Nightkin for one of these. When someone explains the holes in the murdered cattle were made by bullets, Noonan concludes that's even worse: [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} it's a Chupacabra with an automatic weapon!]]

* Numerous chupacabras appear in the ''Literature/InCryptid'' series as therianthropic cryptids: James (Verity's competitive dance partner) in ''DiscountArmageddon'' and ''Midnight Blue-Light Special,'' Princess Leya-you-out, one of Antimony's fellow [[UsefulNotes/RollerDerby jammers]] in "Bad Dream Girl" and "Jammed," and Malena, one of Verity's fellow dancers in ''Chaos Choreography.'' Their beast form is the typical scabrous reptile-wolf creature, their human form is indistinguishable from a Latin@ person of their age and build.

* Native tribes in Central America have a legend about an entity they call "Mosquito Man", whose description has led some folklorists to suggest the chupacabra is OlderThanTheyThink.