History Main / OurCentaursAreDifferent

** When Trafalgar Law was in residence at Punk Hazard, he used his SpaceMaster abilities to replaced the disabled/destroyed lower halfs of several people with animal parts. There's giraffe centaurs, leopard centaurs, alligator centaurs...

** Similar to Jack, Black Maria's modified Human-Beast form is a spider centaur. Her upper body retains her beautiful human body, while her lower half is a headless spider body with a face. As stated earlier, her Human-Beast form that we see is not natural, but the result of a drug-induced modification, as stated by WordOfGod.
** Speed, Fuga, and several other minor Animal Kingdom pirates ate horse [[ShoddyKnockoffProduct SMILE Fruits]] that gave a centauroid body shape (though some that at the same fruit remained bipedal). Speed also has horse ears, but her front legs are more humanlike than usual. Fuga (who was also a giant even before eating the fruit) just has the legs, which are disproportionately squat and short compared to his body. Other SMILE fruit mutations tend to be much, ''much'' stranger.

** The ''actual centaurs'' from Punk Hazard. There's giraffe centaurs, leopard centaurs, alligator centaurs... However, none of them are natural centaurs, as they were originally humans and lost their lower halves.

Some modern depictions will have centaurs as [[ProudScholarRace wise scholars]]; this version is inspired by the mythological centaur Chiron, who mentored several of the Greek heroes. He was [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch very much atypical, though]].[[note]]Justified to a degree: standard centaurs have the ancestors Ixion/Nephele, only Chiron has Kronos/Palmyra.[[/note]] The other common modern depiction is to make them into {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s, which at least agrees with the myths that centaurs are violent, even if the whole "code of honor" thing seems to clash with the Classical centaurs' frequent depiction as drunken, dimwitted thugs. Regardless of type, fantasy centaurs tend to live apart from two-legged civilization, and are typically encountered out in the wilds. It's also common to depict them as skilled archers, which was a common trait in the myths as well.

* ''Anime/{{Devilman|1970}}'': The demoness Ebain is a centaur with the ability to travel through reflective surfaces. What makes her unique among centaurs is that she lacks arms and has horns that make her look like a human-faced minotaur.

** Yrth, the world of ''TabletopGame/GURPSBanestorm'', has fairly conventional (human/horse-like) centaurs. They're actually immigrants from Loren'dil, a world without humans or horses; the mere existence of horses (initially seen as deformed or maimed centaurs) may confuse or horrify them, and they dislike the paraphernalia of human horse-riding. They live in small nomadic herds across the plains of al-Wazif, al-Haz, Cardiel, and the Orclands. Most are brash, impetuous, footloose party animals, and not especially bright, but a few are highly intelligent and scholarly -- thus reflecting both the Greek idea of thuggish centaurs (in toned-down form) and the intellectual Chiron.

Physically, a few other things can vary. For one, traditional centaurs [[ExposedExtraterrestrials do not bother with clothing.]] Also, modern depictions (possibly to make them look more distinctive) sometimes have their human parts look [[LittleBitBeastly slightly equine]], which was never mentioned in the original myths.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'':

** In ''VideoGame/DragonQuestV'', Kon the Knight is an inverted centaur: he has a horse head on a human body.

* ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': Centaurs are found in the ''Inferno''. They are armed with bows and arrows and ensure that the sinners stay in Phlegethon, a river filled with boiling blood. They share they area of Hell with the Minotaur, which while possessing the usual taurine head also has the body of a bull instead of human legs.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': When Eric meets one of these in ''[[Literature/AMagesPower A Mage's Power]]'', the narration takes care to make a distinction. This is not a creature with the lower body of a horse and the upper body of a human, but a horse with a human head. It also has a snake for a tail. He thinks Eric is the weirdo.

* Creator/DavidGemmell's has centaurs as human riders who can mindlink with their horses and ultimately merge with them into a composite creature, the classical centaur in his "Lion of Macedon" cycle.

* Creator/MercedesLackey's ''Literature/TheObsidianTrilogy'' portrays centaurs as somewhat rustic but very intelligent farming people who are creatures of the Light along with unicorns, brownies, elves and others.
* Literature/OlogySeries: ''Monsterology'' describes classical centaurs, which are found in Greece and the lower Balkan Peninsula. They do not use tools as complex as those of even iron age humans, but sometimes craft rudimentary bows.

* Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/StarmanJones'' had centaur-like aliens. They appeared to be stupid, but the humans who landed on their planet discovered that they were highly intelligent and had other alien creatures on the planet under their control.

* Creator/JohnVarley's [[Literature/GaeaTrilogy Titanides]] are different on several levels. For one thing their colors vary wildly, from normal horsey hues to patterns like checkers or plaid. For another, each one is a multiple {{Hermaphrodite}}, with both types of equipment on the horse half plus a third set on the human half. The third set determines the individual's pronoun gender (while all Titanides can give birth, those who can do so [[TrulySingleParent by parthenogenesis]] are considered female), but even the [[{{Bishonen}} males]] have [[MostCommonSuperPower prominent breasts]], causing most humans to mistake them for [[OneGenderRace an all-female race]].
* Centaurs in the Literature/TortallUniverse look standard, but they're Immortals -- creatures that live forever unless killed, never aging beyond maturity. "Killer centaurs" are just [[AlwaysChaoticEvil clawed monsters]], but the standard variety is variable, with individual alignments. They refuse to be shod, hate crossbows, and like using Immortal feathers in their fletching. In ''Squire,'' it's shown that they keep horses, call them "slaves", and [[BestialityIsDepraved mount them]]. Female centaurs attack males if not given gifts, they call killing their own people "culling", and one attempts to purchase Keladry of Mindelan, believing she's stocky enough to "breed well, maybe even bear sons of my kind". Kel doesn't like them.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'', centaurs are freakish mutant creatures with whiplike tongues, and are what you get when you dip multiple people and animals in a vat of FEV for awhile. As one can imagine, they are also epitomes of BodyHorror.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Ultrakill}}'': The 1000-THR "Earthmovers" are ''[[HumongousMecha colossal]]'', [[MechanicalHorse horse-shaped]] {{Killer Robot}}s that serve as analogues to [[Literature/TheDivineComedy the poem]]'s Centaurs, as three of them reference their poem counterparts by observing the ForeverWar taking place in [[HellIsWar the 2nd ring of Violence]].

* ''VideoGame/SoulSacrifice'': The centaur is an utterly grotesque mix of man, horse and wagon. It was originally a man whose limitless indolence led him to a quest to do the less as possible as he considered that even the minimal effort was an insurmountable task. While starving to death inside his wagon, even eating and drinking was too much of a bothersome thing to do for him, he saw a white chalice floating in front of him and heard a voice that told him: "An offering shall be rewarded with a wish befitting the sacrifice." The man then sacrificed his body in exchange for a body that would make his life easier. Thus this revolting aberration was born.

** [[OurSirensAreDifferent Sirens]], though commonly remembered as [[SirensAreMermaids mermaids]], were also depicted as bird-centaurs -- they had the torsos of women (usually with [[EvilIsSexy exposed breasts]]) and the bodies of [[FeatheredFiend birds]] from the waist down. Which is also the physical description of the East-Asian [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinnara Kinnara]]; with the exception of conflicting Indian literature of demigods with the same name, like the ''Mahabharata'' which describes the Kinnaras as horse-centaurs.

** The ''actual centaurs'' from Punk Hazard. There's giraffe centaurs, leopard centaurs, alligator centaurs... However, none of them seen to be natural centaurs, as one of them was originally introduced as a human.

** Not to mention [[spoiler: the ''actual centaurs'' from Punk Hazard. There's giraffe centaurs, leopard centaurs, alligator centaurs... However, none of them seen to be natural centaurs, as one of them was originally introduced as a human]].

** Another centaur used by Kaiba is "Chiron the Mage."

* The title characters of ''Webcomic/AccidentalCentaurs'' are humans from Earth who find themselves transformed into centaurs after a teleporter accident.
* 'Taurs in ''Webcomic/AtArmsLength'' are not a natural species, but rather beings that have been transformed. Most are mortals used for slave labor or victims of magical curses.

* ''Webcomic/BeyondTheEnd'': Purgatorian centaurs - including Roman - have horse ears and teeth.
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', there is an Aberration described as a [[http://www.egscomics.com/comic/2017-12-22 Scorpion Bull Centaur Vampire]]

* Briar O'Hennessey, in ''Webcomic/{{Magellan}}'' seems to be a fairly standard centaur. She first shows up in a set of strips featuring a support group for students who are only "superpowered" in that they are normal for their race in their own world, Briar coming from "Centaur Ireland" according to the cast page.
* One strip in ''Webcomic/ManlyGuysDoingManlyThings'' had some of the guys setting up a ''D&D'' campaign; Jared wanted to play as an "elephant centaur" Ranger. After the DM points out the obvious (an elephant ANYTHING isn't quite known for ''stealth''), Jared uses his Skill dice rolls to mitigate the flaws. Cue the DM's brain giving up ("You are a ''dude'' growing out of an ''elephant''!")... and Commander Badass laughing his ass off.

* A centaur male features in a strip in ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'', where a nervous young woman offers herself to him since their village cannot afford to pay him a proper reward. To her immense relief, he can detach the human part of himself from his horse half.