History Main / FrogMen

** One of the ancient "creator races" of the ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'' were the betrachi, a race of frog-people who rose to prominence after the collapse of the [[LizardFolk sarrukh]] civilizations, then were brought down in turn after the (self-inflicted) cataclysm of the Tearfall. Long extinct, they're thought to have been the ancestors and/or creators of many later races of FrogPeople, FishPeople, and shapeshifters.

* ''WesternAnimation/MovilleMysteries'': [[spoiler:Mr. Pong from "Pet Shop of No Return" is eventually revealed to be the reincarnation of Emil's very first pet, a toad named Ping Pong, who is now Back from the Dead as a humanoid toad with a thirst for revenge against his former owner.]]

* The ''VideoGame/{{Star Fox}}'' franchise gives us Slippy Toad, the team mechanic.

* ''VideoGame/{{Armello}}'' has them as their PettingZooPeople. Armello features a heroic example (Guppy, the squire who is also essentially the game's mascot) as well as a conventional "Evil toad" example in the [[https://armello.fandom.com/wiki/Slanderous_Toads Slanderous Toads]] card. A random event also allows a more neutral example where a frog apparently will offer a poisoned hero some form of salvation.

* ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast1988'' has the Frog men {{Mooks}} and their variants, frogs and toads that walk on their hindlegs like a human. They're fond of RollingAttack and [[SuperSpit spitting acidic fluids]]. They're mentioned to be part of the experiment to create the Merman Genome Chip.

* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitaAndTheSpaceHeroes'' have Doraemon and friends facing several silly-looking aliens, one of them, TheDragon Hyde, being a green-skinned amphibian-humanoid.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'': The Frog Men, a very powerful group of foes faced by the ComicBook/{{BPRD}}. Also, [[spoiler:after the complete razing of the planet's surface in the finale, Abe's body births a new race of ape-like frog people who will inherit the Earth after mankind.]]

* The Malaysian 4-panel comic, ''Lawak Kampus'', have a recurring character named "Froggy" who is an anthropomorphic frog teenager, the only animal character in a cast otherwise consisting entirely of humans. No, it's ''never'' explained.

* In the ParodyFic ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace'', [[Film/TheAdventuresOfCaptainProton Captain Proton]] places a VideoPhone call to Deep Sea Nine and is answered by a frog-like humanoid with a [[NationalAnimalStereotypes French accent]], wearing a [[MockCousteau red watch cap]].

* Gune from ''WesternAnimation/TitanAE'' is a short, fat, frog-like creature. According to [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary material]], his species are called Grepoans.

* The titular Lake Monster of ''Film/ScoobyDooCurseOfTheLakeMonster'' is depicted as one of these, a monstrous bipedal frog who attacks with its long tongue, and revealed to be one of a few. [[spoiler: Unnaturally for this franchise, they're ''not'' people in masks. They're actual monsters, raised as {{Mook}}s by an evil witch.]]

* ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'': A Frog Man[=/=]{{Fish Pe|ople}}rson named Puddleglum appears as a central character in ''Literature/TheSilverChair''. He has disproportionately long legs and arms as well as webbed hands and feet, and lives in a marsh.

* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': The niri nigri from Creator/FrankBelknapLong's short story "The Horror in the Hills" are a race of toad-like humanoids created by the [[EldritchAbomination Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn]] from toads when he arrived to Earth.

* ''Literature/DemonsOfTheDeep'', set in Atlantis, have various underwater folk inhabiting the ruins of the city, including an area occupied by a frog-humanoid race called the Deep Ones.
* The Gowachin, a frog-like alien species from Creator/FrankHerbert's ''Literature/ConSentiency'' series (most prominent in ''Literature/TheDosadiExperiment'', but they pop up in other books). They can breathe both air and water and are highly amphibious -- their homes typically contain a number of flooded rooms and tunnels -- and go through a tadpole phase after birth. They are one of the more powerful races of the [=ConSentiency=] and are somewhat infamous for their strange and elaborate legal system.

* In ''Literature/TheMoonPool'' by A. Merritt, the Akka are a race of frog people whose semi-sentient ancestors were uplifted by another super advanced prehuman species millennia ago. They are some of the nicest people the protagonists encounter during their adventure, badass warriors and steadfast allies.
* In ''Literature/TheShipWho Won'', the foot tall "globe frogs" that the heroes have been noticing trundling around in hamster ball-like pods, watching them curiously for the entire book, turn out to actually be intelligent aliens and BenevolentPrecursors.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': The Crannogmen of the North are (somewhat) normal people, but since they live in the swamplands they are subject to rumors that they have webbed fingers and toes and can breathe underwater.

* In the finale of ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'', the [[spoiler:troglodytes]] appear as subterranean, frog-like humanoids who [[TrademarkFavouriteFood eat lizards]] and [[ArchEnemy fight bulls]]. They play a crucial role in the book. This is a carryover from Greco-Roman mythology, as they are mentioned in the writings of Aelian and various other Greco-Roman authors.
* Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium: Gollum [[spoiler:([[WasOnceAMan originally a hobbit]])]] is described as frog-like in ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/LordOfTheRings''. Creator/RankinBassProductions' AnimatedAdaptation ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit'' took this look to uncanny extremes.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Monarch, the Urbankan from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E2FourToDoomsday Four to Doomsday]]". He keeps normal frogs and has two android servants made to look like Urbankans.

* {{Kappa}} are Japanese {{Yokai}} that look like frogs with a water-filled hole in the head and a tortoise shell. They are excellent at sumo wrestling, are renowned pranksters [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and are fond of drinking peoples blood and/or raping them]]. Spilling water from the hole in the head will cause it to lose its powers, and it can be distracted with cucumbers, its TrademarkFavoriteFood.
** The Philippenes have a marine version of the above, called a ''siyokoy''.
* The White Monkey, a 19th century UrbanLegend from southern Maine, was allegedly a pale white man with webbed fingers who was cursed by a MagicalNativeAmerican chief for drowning his child. These days, it's mostly remembered for allegedly being seen by none other than Joseph Smith, founder of {{UsefulNotes/Mormonism}} as a child.

* In ''TableTopGame/TheChroniclesOfAeres'', one of the three BeastMan races native to the SwordAndSorcery-themed land of Astreas are humanoid frogs called the Froskvir, one of three tribes warped into their inhuman state by the dying curse of a powerful witch-queen. The Froskvir are a peaceful and benevolent people, deeply devoted to mystical druidic traditions and with a tightly knit society dedicatede to the common good, contrasting the hidebound and arrogant [[BirdPeople orinvir]] or the primal, vicious [[LizardFolk sliskvir]]. They do have a skeleton in their closet; a number of their people have been lured away and enthralled to the worship of some EldritchAbomination, devolving into malevolent tribals known as the Beejaa, after their uluating chants of worship.

** Blindheims are four-foot tall frog-like humanoids that inhabit damp caves and particularly overgrown swamps, rivers and ponds. They come in various shades of pallid yellow and have huge eyes that can emit [[EyeBeams blinding rays of light]], with elite variants having unique colors and correspondingly unique EyeBeams. Despite their humanoid form, they're extremely primitive and unintelligent, and pursue a mostly animalistic lifestyle.

* Creator/GamesWorkshop games:

*** In later editions of the game, the gargantuan froglike slann were the original servants of the Old Ones, now the ancient leaders of the {{Lizard|folk}}men. Those still alive are the most powerful mages on the world (hell, one of them's dead and still one of the strongest mages), dedicated to fighting Chaos and carrying out what fragments of the Old Ones' plans they can find. Unfortunately, they're so long-lived their plans fail to take into account things like evolution and continental drift, hence their accidental destruction of the dwarf empire by shifting some mountain ranges back or trying to get the high elves, wood elves and dark elves back on the same island (never mind that they hate each other).

** ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay'': Lakemen, a variant of {{Beastm|an}}en native to the lakes and rivers of the forests of southern Lyonesse, resemble misshapen humanoid frogs with pincers and gills in addition to whatever other individual mutations they may have. They're as evil and vicious as any other Beastman, and prefer to attack amphibiously. They sometimes travel up rivers for very long ways to attack unsuspecting villages.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
** Boggards are short, evil biped frog people with no society beyond crude tribes living in muddy villages deep inside swamps and rainforests. They usually resemble common frogs, although those inhabiting tropical regions often the bright colors of poison arrow frogs. They start their life as tadpoles hatched in birthing pools, grow in their limbs and climb out of the pools. They typically worship Gogunta, the demon lord of swamps and amphibians, and ally themselves with amphibian-like monsters such as froghemoths. They're essentially Pathfinder's version of D&D's bullywugs.
** [[OurGiantsAreBigger Marsh giants]] have frog-like faces, bulbous black eyes, green skin and webbed fingers, official material outright describes them as "froglike", and they dwell in swamps, preferably those near the sea. Further, the boggards are the one species they ever get along with -- anyone else they find in their swamps will be beaten to death and eaten if they're lucky or sacrificed to an EldritchAbomination if they're not.
** The grippli return from ''D&D'' as bipedal, marsh- and jungle-dwelling tree frogs. They're far less malevolent than boggards and marsh giants -- they're TrueNeutral as a rule, and mostly just want to be left alone.
** Brughadatches are cruel trickster fey that begin life as large tadpoles, metamorphose into humanoid frogs, and eventually turn into bloated, barely mobile toads with PsychicPowers. Fitting their amphibious nature, they're mostly found in wetland areas such as the Mushfens and the River Kingdoms.

* The Sanrio Company created Kero Kero Keroppi and his family in 1988. And they are [[{{Moe}} very adorable]].

* ''VideoGame/AlteredBeast1988'' has the Frog men mooks and their variants, frogs and toads that walk on their hindlegs like a human. They're fond of RollingAttack and [[SuperSpit spitting acidic fluids]]. They're mentioned to be part of the experiment to create the Merman Genome Chip.
* ''VideoGame/{{AnotherEden}}'': Cyrus is a humanoid frog samurai.

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': Frog is a (short) human-sized frog, who still carries his clothes and weapons from before his ForcedTransformation. When you first meet him, he's still depressed, but by the end of the game he's come to realize that his new shape has a lot of advantages (several of his techniques make use of his tongue and jumping ability), and he's turned back in certain endings.
* ''VideoGame/CrossedSwords'' have frog-men enemies in areas near water, where they'll pounce out to attack. Some of them can even use their OverlyLongTongue to slap you from a distance.

* ''VideoGame/DustyRevenge'' have andromorphic toad-men enemies, who comes with a StomachOfHolding containing plenty of bombs they'll repeatedly regurgitate as an attack. The prequel ''VideoGame/DustyRagingFist'' averts this trope, but causes some FurryConfusion because you can find ordinary frogs in the cavern areas.

* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': Albinaurics are a race of {{Artificial Human}}s created from mercury. First-generation Albinaurics look human, but are all paraplegic and can't walk. In fact, their legs literally fade out of existence over time, and once they are gone, the Albinauric immediately dies. Second-generation Albinaurics were created using a more refined process and as a result are more stable and have fully working legs. However, this apparently came at the cost of making them look like fat little frog men (if there are frog women, they don't look any different).
* ''VideoGame/{{Everquest}}'': The Froglok are a species of anthropomorphic frogs that mainly worship Mithaniel Marr, the god of valor and honor and as such lean strongly towards the paladin class.

* ''VideoGame/GrimmsNotes'': The Frog Prince, who has a humanoid body and head of a frog.

* ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'': The Hunter Gamma is a branch of the Hunter line of [[SuperSoldier B.O.W.s]] that was created by using the T-virus to splice human genes into an unhatched tadpole, causing it to develop into a man-sized, bipedal frog. Though they appear in a few other games, the in-universe lore is that they were discontinued as a failed product, due to their need to stay moist in order to not dehydrate. Unlike other Hunters, they have the ability to [[SwallowedWhole swallow human-sized prey whole]], a trait they shared with their distant ancestors, the Lurkers from ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil0''.[[note]]Frogs injected with Progenitor Virus, causing them to grow into giant frogs the size of a small bear.[[/note]] ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil3Remake'' redesigns them to look more like a humanoid salamander, mostly thanks to a vestigial tail, but also increases their similarity to Lurkers by making them attacks revolve around trying to swallow Jill whole for a OneHitKill, in contrast to the clawing ability of the Hunter Beta.

* ''VideoGame/ShuihuzhuanLiangshanYingxiong'' have frog-men as enemies in the marshes, who can slap you with their tongues.

* ''VideoGame/{{Starbound}}'' features them as a minor race (albeit with an extra "G" thrown in), oftentimes found in [[BubblegloopSwamp swamp mini-biomes]] as merchants.

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* ''WesternAnimation/JosieAndThePussycats [[RecycledInSpace in Outer Space]]'': The inhabitants on the planet Kalex are frog people in the episode "Anything you can Zoo."

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'':
** The Galvans resemble lilliputian humanoid frogs, due to their sticky toes and horizontal pupils. ''Omniverse'' reveals that they have a tadpole stage of life.
** ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'': The Incurseans are a militaristic species of humanoid amphibians who have clashed against Ben and his buddies on multiple occasions.
* ''Franchise/DoctorWho'': The animated serial ''The Infinite Quest'' has Ulysees Meregrass, a mercenary who belongs to a sapient species of humanoid amphibians named [[http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Anuran Anurans]].

* The Mod Frogs in ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'' are evolved, mutated frogs that have adopted a Mafia-like society.
* ''WesternAnimation/MovilleMysteries'': [[spoiler: Mr. Pong from "Pet Shop Of No Return" is eventually revealed to be the reincarnation of Emil's very first pet, a toad named Ping Pong, who is now Back from the Dead as a humanoid toad with a thirst for revenge against his former owner.]]

* ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': The Punk Frogs are a group of mutant frogs that have allied with the titular brothers from time to time.