History Main / OurHydrasAreDifferent

* ''VideoGame/DragonCity'': Hydra dragons are wingless, four-headed dragons described as having poisonous breath -- although in practice their attacks are all electricity- or water-based -- and are rumored to be able to grow back two heads for every one cut off.

* ''VideoGame/SkylandersSpyrosAdventure'': The Hydra, or Hydragon, is a huge reptile, which four draconic heads atop long necks. Each head is connected to and shaped to resemble one of the game's four elements, Fire, Water, Life and Undeath.

* The mythological Hydra itself appears as the first boss in ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiV''. This game depicts it with eyeless {{Xenomorph|Xerox}}-esque faces and teeth, covered with masks decorated with patterns reminiscent of Greek pottery. Much like its traditional depiction, it has Toxic Breath as a unique skill.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Krapopolis}}'': One episode featured a hydra named Camille that becomes adopted by Tyrannis' sister Stupendous. Like most depictions, this hydra is described as a quadrupedal dragon-like monster. However, she is fully sapient and capable of speech, with each of her heads having the same personality.

* ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'': Hydreigon (note the name) is a darkness-aligned dragon with three heads and six wings.[[note]]Behind the scenes, it was said to be based on the {{Orochi}}.[[/note]]

* ''WebOriginal/CodexInversus'': Hydras are animals mutated by the influence of the Infinite Woods, which occasionally cause creatures to be born with many repeating heads, each smaller than the previous. These creatures usually perish quickly, but some, most often snakes, survive and can become monstrous predators.

** In ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', Ghidorah takes the hydra similarities further by having heads that can grow back when destroyed (though they thankfully stay at three). This version of Ghidorah is also specifically referred to as a hydra at one point.

* ''Film/PercyJacksonAndTheLightningThief'': A hydra disguised as five janitors attacks our heroes at the Parthenon replica in Nashville when they attempt to retrieve the second pearl from the statue of Athena. The monster breathes fire from its middle head and is able to sprout two new heads when one is cut, but is ultimately defeated by Grover who uses Medusa's head to [[TakenForGranite turn the hydra into a harmless statue]].

** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI The original game]] features the multi-headed wyvern Gleeok, whose heads thankfully do not regrow when severed, but burst into flames and fly about the room attacking while you deal with the remaining heads still attached to the body, making the four-headed variant an especially tough fight. This boss would not reappear in a main console installment until ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'', almost 40 years later.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'': Hercules faces the iconic multi-headed serpent early in his hero career. Its face is rather disturbingly humanoid and it drags its bulky body with its only two birdlike talons. The creature starts out with only one head, but ''three'' new ones grow in the place of each cranium lost. [[spoiler: It's eventually defeated when it pins Hercules to a cliffside and the hero uses his super strength to cause an avalanche on top of the monster.]]

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* In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' the party [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0326.html once]] fights a hydra that keeps growing heads past the normal limit of twice its starting number of heads. Elan and Belkar keep chopping off heads until it grows too many for its blood supply to support and passes out. Then an enterprising goblin finds it and starts selling barbecued hydra heads.
* In ''Webcomic/YetAnotherFantasyGamerComic'' the Chimera runs across a Hydra that has managed to tie itself to a tree. Once the Chimera helps get them unstuck, they immediately get into an argument about whose fault it was. The Chimera sneaks away and [[MultipleHeadCase they]] muse on how their situation could be much worse.

** The [[https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/217/apex-devastator Apex Devastator]] is a Chimera Hydra with the heads of five different creatures including a lion, a bird, and a goat.

** Ravnica is home to [[https://scryfall.com/card/rav/218/phytohydra phytohydras]], serpentine [[ManEatingPlant carnivorous plants]] that only grow back more and more energetically the more they're cut back.

** Unusual hydras include [[https://scryfall.com/card/cmr/217/apex-devastator Apex Devastator]], a Chimera Hydra with the heads of five different creatures including a lion, a bird, and a goat, and [[https://scryfall.com/card/dmu/286/briar-hydra Briar Hydra]], a Plant Hydra with roots for feet and wooden necks and heads.

** ''VideoGame/WarcraftIII'': Hydras appear as neutral "creeps". They are three-headed, two-legged reptilian creatures. When a hydra is killed, [[AsteroidsMonster two smaller hydras spawn from its corpse]], as a variant on the usual regeneration. They also have high passive regeneration and will heal faster from wounds if left alone.

** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda The original game]] featured the multi-headed wyvern Gleeok, whose heads thankfully did not regrow when severed, but would burst into flames and fly about the room attacking while you dealt with the remaining heads still attached to the body, making the four-headed variant an especially tough fight. This fearsome and challenging boss would not reappear in a main console installment until ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'', almost 40 years later.

* The second volume of ''ComicBook/The Loud House''graphic novels features a story entitled "10-Headed Beast", in which Lincoln imagines himself as a barbarian fighting a hydra version of his sisters.