History Main / ClassicalChimera

** The Harpy is a monster originally named "Chimera" in the Japanese version of the game. It has what looks like a lion's head with boar-like tusks, with the heads of a goat and a dragon on either side, a lion's front arms, a goat's rear legs, a pair of eagle's wings, and a serpentine tail. It can shoot poisonous spray at its victims and also [[MakingASplash use the powerful Aqualung enemy skill.]]
** The Maximum Kimaira is a Harpy palette swap seen towards the end of Disk 2. It primarily uses ice abilities, and a has a more centaur-like design, with a bird's hide-quarters, a goat's front-quarters, and two lion-like arms. It has a snake-headed tail, a large pair of bird wings and three heads (a goat, a lion, and a dragon).

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': The Maximum Kimaira is a randomly encountered enemy, toward the end of Part 2. It primarily uses ice abilities, and a has a more centaur-like design, with a bird's hide-quarters, a goat's front-quarters, and two lion-like arms. It has a snake-headed tail, a large pair of bird wings and three heads (a goat, a lion, and a dragon).

** ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'': A Chimera appears as a miniboss, fought before you shoot Helios off his Chariot. The goat is the dominated head, with the lion's being on the chest and the snake taking the place of its tail. It has three phases for each of its heads. During the first one it's on all fours, with the snake being used as a whip, spitting out paralyzing poisons and on occasion grabbing Kratos. Once the snake has been cut off, the Chimera enters a bipedal phase, where the lion is dominant. During this stage, the lion will claw at Kratos and shoot giant balls of fire from its mouth. After Kratos gouges out the lion's eyes, the goat takes the helm and goes back on all fours, ramming into him with her horns and breathing large waves of fire. The Chimera is finally defeated when Kratos impales it with its own horn.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'': Chimerae are among the most dangerous monsters of Chaos, and are so heavily mutated from their origins that their ancestral forms are impossible to guess at. The mutating influence of Chaos makes each subtly or drastically different from all others, but almost all have three heads — usually monstrous distortions of rams, lions and fire-breathing dragons — wings, and snake or draconic serpent for a tail. Most breathe fire, or produce corrosive saliva, or similar things. Only appearing when the Winds of Magic are at their strongest, these vicious and dangerous monsters are taken as mounts by powerful Chaos lords and sorcerers as they ravage the southern lands.

* ''Literature/TheDarkswordTrilogy'': Chimeras are one of Thimhallen's Warchanged creatures, animals created or altered during their civil war as living weapons that escaped their creators' control. ''Darksword Adventures'' details the creature more thoroughly. It has the forequarters of a lion, the hindquarters of a goat, the tail of a viper, and three heads (lion, goat, viper) each possessing a poisonous bite. It was created to be the ultimate sentry, capable of spotting an approaching enemy from multiple directions and combining the ferocity of all its component creatures. [[RealityEnsues Unfortunately,]] [[AwesomeButImpractical its three heads operate independently of one another, meaning a consensus must be reached for its body to do something.]] While not a problem when facing a single opponent, multiple opponents can confuse the creature and cause it to wildly attack any target close by.

* ''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'': The chimera is the myth unit for Artemis, appearing as in its traditional appearance. It has the ability to breathe fire, burning multiple enemy troops at once, though this ability can only be used, every 20 seconds.

The most common depiction of a chimera is that of a beast with a lion's head and body (despite being female, it is commonly shown with a male's mane), a venomous snake instead of a tail and a [[BreathWeapon fire breathing]] goat's head protruding from its back. While the design is altered a bit on occasion (the traits are switched around; or the creature sometimes features new appendages such as, most commonly, the a goat's hindquarters, a pair of wings, a snake head, a fourth dragon's head, a regular dragon's tail, etc.), it is still mainly composed of a lion, goat, and snake. Another common depiction is a one-headed variant depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body and a snake's tail.

** The chimera is an evil-aligned creature that looks like a lion with leathery wings on its back. Instead of a snake, this chimera has a dragon's tail, along with a dragon's head on one side of the lion's and a goat's head on the other. In personality, some chimeras take more after their dragon side and hoard treasure in solitude, while others take more after their lion and goat sides and live in groups with others of their kind.

* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'': The Chimera is the central antagonist in "[[Recap/AmericanDragonJakeLongS02E9Dreamscape Dreamscape]]". It appears as a dark red, bipedal monster, with three heads (a lion's in the middle, a cobra's on the right and a goat's on the left), the upper body of a lion, the lower half of a goat and a snake's tail. It's considered very dangerous and one of the Top 13 Threats to the Magical Community. Jake and Rose first encounter it whilst exploring Dr. Rotwood's dream looking for the answers to a secret test. They manage to defeat it and escape, but accidentally release into [[DreamLand the Dream Realm]], [[NightmareWeaver where it goes on to haunt the dreams of others]]. They manage to recapture it after chasing it through various dreams and send it back to Dr. Rotwood's Mind.

* In the modern era, people have begun making their own "chimeras" by fusing embryos from two different species together. As opposed to hybrid animals like ligers and mules, which have one embryo that came from two related species, a chimera is made when [[LegoGenetics an organism is given two embryos from two related species, resulting in it having two genetically distinct sets of cells inside it]]. An example of this is the Geep, a fusion of a goat and sheep, made by mashing the two fertilized embryos together into one and then implanting the result into sheep and goat mothers.

* The ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010'' Video Game, features the Chimera as one of the bosses. This one is more closer to the original myth than the Film/WrathOfTheTitans incarnation, with a large goat head on its back, though with wings and the ability to summon lightning.

* ''Videogame/RedEarth:'' one of the bosses, Ravange, is a variant of a chimera that has a goat's hindquarters, and an extra eagle and dragon heads beyond the 3 usual ones.

** ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'': A Chimera appears as a miniboss, fought before you shot Helios off his Chariot. The Goat is the dominated head, with the Lion's being on the chest and the snake taking the place of its tail. It has three phases for each of its heads. During the first one, it is on all fours, with the snake being used as a whip, spitting out paralyzing poisons and on occasion grabbing Kratos. Once the Snake has been cut off, the Chimera enters a bipedal phase, where the Lion is dominated. During this stage, the Lion will claw at Kratos and shot out giant balls of fire. After Kratos gouges out the lion's eyes, the Goat takes the helm and goes back on all fours, ramming into him with her horns and breathing large waves of fire. The Chimera is finally defeated, when Kratos impales it, with its own horn.

* Subverted with ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII's'' Chimeras, which are flying, two-headed dragons that spit lightning or corrosive bile and are used as flying artillery by the Night Elves.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': Chimeras are rare creatures that have appeared on multiple planes, but the majority are from the Myth/ClassicalMythology-based plane of Theros. They're generally agreed to be the result of the magical fusion of multiple disparate creatures, either as the product of mages maddened by the god Keranos or the byproduct of a bygone city whose natives used magic carelessly. They're physically extremely variable, although almost all are winged, but the classical lion-goat-and-snake form is represented in [[https://scryfall.com/card/ths/44/coastline-chimera Coastline Chimera]] and, with some additions, in [[https://scryfall.com/card/thb/10/daybreak-chimera Daybreak Chimera]] (with an eagle head, and horns on the lion) and [[https://scryfall.com/card/thb/297/treeshaker-chimera Treeshaker Chimera]] (with a wolf head).

* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'':
** The Bandai card of the Chimera depicts it as a lion with a dragons' wings and tail.
** By fusing Berphomet and Gazelle the King of Mythical Beasts, Chimera the Flying Mythical Beast is summoned. It is depicted as a two-headed lion, with the horns of a goat, the wings of a bird, and a snake for a tail.
** While based on an Alchemical Chimera, the Scarp monster, Scrap Chimera bears a striking resemblance to the Greek monster, with the head of a lion, the body of a pegasus, and a snake-headed tail.
** Chimaera, the Master of Beasts looks nearly identical to the Flying Mythical Beast version, though with different coloring and horns. It can only be summoned by sacrificing 3 beast-type monsters.

* In Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/{{Coco}}'', Mamá Imelda's [[OurAlebrijesAreDifferent alebrije companion]], [[CatLikeDragons Pepita]], seems to take some cues from the Chimera in her design. She's a [[PantheraAwesome majestic feline creature]] covered in snake-like scales, has a pair of ram horns growing from her head, can [[BreathWeapon breathe fire]] and sports a pair of wings that allow her to [[GiantFlyer fly]], similar to newer depictions of the Greek creature.

The most common depiction of a chimera is that of a beast with a lion's head and body (despite being female, it is commonly shown with a male's mane), a venomous snake instead of a tail and a [[BreathWeapon fire breathing]] goat's head protruding from its back. While the design is altered a bit on occasion (the traits are switched around; or the creature sometimes even features new appendages, such as most commonly, the chimera having a goat's hindquarters, a pair of wings, a fourth dragon's head, a regular dragon's tail, etc.), it is still mainly composed of a lion, goat, and snake. Another common depiction is a one-headed variant depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body and a snake's tail.

* ''Creator/DCComics'': The chimera occasionally appears in ''Franchise/WonderWoman''-related stories. Its description is never consistent; one appearance has it as a fire-breathing lion with a goat's horns and body and a snake-headed tail, while another time it's portrayed as the more common version with a lion's front quarters and head, a goat's hindquarters with its head in the middle and a tail with a snake's head.

* ''Film/WrathOfTheTitans'': The Chimera appears, as the first monster, Perseus faces in the movie. This time around, it's given a much more hellish design, with a giant lion body, huge bat wings, and a tail that is ended with a serpent's head. Although one of the heads does bare a horn, it does not resemble a goat, nor does the other one resemble a lion's. Its fire breath has also been changed so that both heads have to work in tandem in order for it to work. One head spits out a flammable liquid-substance, while the other one lights it. Perseus is able to kill it, by tricking it to burn itself.

* ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans'': The Chimera appears twice in the first season, both times as a lion with the hide quarters of a goat, with a goat head on the back and a red snake in place of a tail. Its first appearance, in the episode "Sibling Rivalry," the Chimera is a virtual guardian of Medusa's cell, that is brought to life by the heroes fighting it. They manage to defeat it, by not fighting back, thus causing it to dissolve. Then in "Road to Hades" the real Chimera appears in the opening, being defeated, but not before poisoning Jay. This then leads to a RaceAgainstTime, as his friends must go through the Underworld, to find a cure.

* The ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010'' Video Game, features the Chimera as one of the bosses. This one is more closer to the original myth than the WrathOfTheTitans incarnation, with a large goat head on its back, though with wings and the ability to summon lightning.

** Chimeras are evil creatures with lion heads, goat bodies and draconic tails. They mostly live in the badlands and jungles west and south of the main setting, and are said to have been the accidental creations of a wizard who wanted a creature as strong as a lion, [[CrookedCaprines as vile as a goat]], and with a dragon's breath.

* ''Literature/{{Monstrumologist}}'': The chimera is one of the multiple supposed extinct creatures reconstructed by Dr. Black, who gives with the three heads -- goat, lion and snake -- a regular snake tail and a triple vertebra for its three necks to anchor to. He speculates that its heads allowed it to feed on disparate food sources -- the snake and lion heads could hunt when prey was abundant, the goat head graze when it wasn't -- and that it was related to similarly snake-tailed and polycephalic hellhounds.

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* In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', the chimera is an evil-aligned creature that looks like a lion with leathery wings on its back. Instead of a snake, this chimera has a dragon's tail, along with a dragon's head on one side of the lion's and a goat's head on the other. In personality, some chimeras take more after their dragon side and hoard treasure in solitude, while others take more after their lion and goat sides and live in groups with others of their kind.

[[caption-width-right:350: Don't even ask what its internal organs even look like.]]

The most common depiction of a chimera is that of a beast with a lion's head and body (despite being female, it is commonly shown with a male's mane), a venomous snake instead of a tail and a [[BreathWeapon fire breathing]] goat's head protruding from its back. While the design is altered a bit on occasion (the traits are switched around; or the creature sometimes even features new appendages, such as the chimera having a goat's hindquarters, a pair of wings, a fourth dragon's head, a regular dragon's tail, etc.), it is still mainly composed of a lion, goat, and snake.

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