History Main / FrogMen

* One character in Matt Furie's ''Boy's Club'' (set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals) is a frog named Pepe. Then Website/FourChan got their hands on him, using him in a series of "reaction face" memes that eventually outstripped the original comic in popularity via PopCulturalOsmosis. During the 2016 presidential election in UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates, though, Pepe became something of a DiscreditedMeme when UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton's campaign team labeled Pepe as a right-wing hate symbol due to 4chan's significant far-right presence. By that point, Pepe had spread beyond 4chan and was popular in many other online communities, but the association with the far right became a SelfFulfillingProphecy nonetheless: everyone else dropped the meme like a hot potato, leaving extreme right-wingers as the only people willing to use Pepe anymore.

* One of the characters in Matt Furie's ''Boy's Club'' (set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals) is a frog named Pepe. Then Website/FourChan got their hands on him, using him in a series of "reaction face" memes that eventually outstripped the original comic in popularity via PopCulturalOsmosis. During the 2016 presidential election in UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates, though, Pepe became something of a DiscreditedMeme when UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton's campaign team labeled Pepe as a right-wing hate symbol due to 4chan's significant far-right presence. By that point, Pepe had spread beyond 4chan and was popular in many other online communities, but the association with the far right became a SelfFulfillingProphecy nonetheless: everyone else dropped the meme like a hot potato, leaving extreme right-wingers as the only people willing to use Pepe anymore.

* One of the characters in Matt Furie's ''Boy's Club'' (set in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals) is a frog named Pepe. Then Website/FourChan eventually got their hands on him, using him in a series of "reaction face" memes that eventually outstripped the original comic in popularity via PopCulturalOsmosis. During the 2016 presidential election in UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates, though, Pepe became something of a DiscreditedMeme when UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton's campaign team labeled Pepe as a right-wing hate symbol due to 4chan's significant far-right presence. By that point, Pepe had spread beyond 4chan and was popular in many other online communities, but the association with the far right became a SelfFulfillingProphecy nonetheless: everyone else dropped the meme like a hot potato, leaving extreme right-wingers as the only people willing to use Pepe anymore.

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** The Mon Calamari are a cross between this and cephalopods, complete with bug-eyes and big mouths. They're also powerful members of LaResistance.

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* ''Anime/SpiritedAway''; Al male servants of Yubaba are very human-like (but not entirely) frog spirits.

* CultClassic BMovie ''Hell Comes to Frogtown'' is about a post-apocalyptic world with very few fertile men and an entire sub-race of mutated humanoid Frogs kept in a ghetto due to FantasticRacism.

* ''Website/{{Neopets}}:'' The Quiggle species.

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* ''Wensitee/{{Neopets}}:'' The Quiggle species.

* ''Franchise/{{Neopets}}: The Quiggle species.

** The Hutts, of which Jabba is the most famous one, are toad-like in appearance, though they're legless like a tadpole.
** The Gungans also have frog-like characteristics, such as webbed hands and feet, a broad mouth with long sticky tongue, and an amphibious lifestyle. Boss Nass, their green-skinned, overweight leader looks particularly toad-like.

* The Hutts in ''Franchise/StarWars'', of which Jabba is the most famous one, are toad-like in appearance, though they're legless like a tadpole.

* Speaking of Tolkien, his friend Creator/CSLewis included a FrogMan[=/=]{{Fish Pe|ople}}rson named Puddleglum in ''Literature/TheSilverChair''

* Gollum [[spoiler:originally a Hobbit]] is described as frog-like in Creator/JRRTolkien's ''Literature/TheHobbit'' and ''Literature/LordOfTheRings''. Creator/RankinBassProductions' AnimatedAdaptation ''WesternAnimation/TheHobbit'' kept this look to uncanny extremes.

Unlike their cousins, the LizardFolk, Frogs do not suffer from the ReptilesAreAbhorrent stereotype, thus can often be portrayed as good. Of this, Frogs are often the heroic and Toads the villainous due to the common GoodAnimalsEvilAnimals[=/=]UnpleasantAnimalCounterpart duplicity.

Part of the PettingZooPeople SuperTrope. Compare with BewitchedAmphibians when a human is turn into a non-anthropomorphic frog or toad.

Unlike their cousins, the LizardFolk, Frogs do not suffer from the ReptilesAreAbhorrent stereotype, thus can often be portrayed as good. Of this, Frogs are often the heroic and Toads the villainous due to the common GoodAnimalsEvilAnimals/UnpleasantAnimalCounterpart duplicity.

Unlike their cousins, the LizardFolk, Frogs do not suffer from the ReptilesAreAbhorrent stereotype, thus can often be portrayed as good. Of this, Frogs are often the heroic and Toads the villainous due to the common GoodAnimalsEvilAnimals duplicity.

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* Especially trained military and police scuba divers are known as "Frogmen".

-> "There's no society of anthropomorphic frog people living in the sewer, Freeman. You're just being paranoid."

-->--Gordon Freeman, ''Machinima/FreemansMind''

* Creator/{{Marvel}}'s Amphibius, a supervillian mutant and former member of the Swamp Men is a humanoid frog.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Battletoads}}'' was a failed animated show based on the videogame, but only the pilot was made and the series was not pick-up. As the videogame is about three heroic humanoid toads.

* ''Manga/SgtFrog'' is about a Japanese family dealing with a race of [[IntelligentGerbils frog-like aliens]].

* ''Manga/SgtFrog'' is about a Japanese family dealing with a race of frog-like aliens.

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* The Huts t in ''Franchise/StarWars'', of which Jabba is the most famous one, are toad-like in appearance, though they're legless like a tadpole.

* Creator/FrankHerbert's ''Literature/TheDosadiExperiment'' has the frog-like aliens the Dosadi.

* Frog-Man, a one time villain that the ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats1985'' faced was an anthropomorphic frog.