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* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': One enemy that only appears when fishing during Blood Moons is the Hemogoblin Shark (a pun on hemoglobin, the substance that binds oxygen in blood; and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_shark goblin shark]]). True to its name, it has the appearance of a goblin SharkMan (plus it vomits blood).
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* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': One enemy in ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'' that only appears when fishing during Blood Moons is the Hemogoblin Shark (a pun on hemoglobin, the substance that binds oxygen in blood; and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_shark goblin shark]]). True to its name, it has the appearance of a goblin SharkMan (plus it vomits blood).blood).
* One of the characters in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is Snowdrake, a monster that looks like a drake (a male duck), with a snowflake-shaped plumage on his face. There's also Aaron the seahorse, which is a muscular, horse-headed [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent merfolk]].
* One of the characters in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' is Snowdrake, a monster that looks like a drake (a male duck), with a snowflake-shaped plumage on his face. There's also Aaron the seahorse, which is a muscular, horse-headed [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent merfolk]].
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* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' uses this trope in spades: Wallnuts are used as walls, Peashooters shoot peas, Sunflowers produce sun, Starfruit shot stars in a star pattern, Squashes squash enemies flat, and Marigolds produce coins. There's also the Plantern, which is a lantern shaped plant that gives off light; the Blover, a clover that blows fog away.
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* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' uses this trope in spades: Wallnuts are used as walls, Peashooters shoot peas, Sunflowers produce sun, Starfruit shot stars in a star pattern, Squashes squash enemies flat, and Marigolds produce coins. There's also the Plantern, which is a lantern shaped plant coins, Planterns are lantern-shaped plants that gives give off light; the Blover, a light, and Blovers are clover that blows blow fog away.
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* ''VideoGame{{Terraria}}'': ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': One enemy that only appears when fishing during Blood Moons is the Hemogoblin Shark (a pun on hemoglobin, the substance that binds oxygen in blood; and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goblin_shark goblin shark]]). True to its name, it has the appearance of a goblin SharkMan (plus it vomits blood).
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoyInTheIceberg The Boy in the Iceberg]]", the first [[MixAndMatchCritter hybrid animal]] that we're introduced to are tiger seals, but they could just as easily be seatigers (as opposed to sealions).
** In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheTalesOfBaSingSe Tales of Ba Sing Se]]", the escaped zoo animals include a swarm of dragonflies, depicted as lizards with insect wings.
** In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoyInTheIceberg The Boy in the Iceberg]]", the first [[MixAndMatchCritter hybrid animal]] that we're introduced to are tiger seals, but they could just as easily be seatigers (as opposed to sealions).
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** In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoyInTheIceberg The Boy in the Iceberg]]", the first [[MixAndMatchCritter hybrid animal]] that we're introduced to are tiger seals, but they could just as easily be seatigers (as opposed to sealions).
**''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheTalesOfBaSingSe Tales of Ba Sing Se]]", the escaped zoo animals include a swarm of dragonflies, depicted as lizards with insect wings.
** In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoyInTheIceberg The Boy in the Iceberg]]", the first [[MixAndMatchCritter hybrid animal]] that we're introduced to are tiger seals, but they could just as easily be seatigers (as opposed to sealions).
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* A television commercial for a metropolitan fiberoptic internet service in the NYC Metro area (possibly Optimum Lightpath?) pretended to be an ad "from the future", where high-speed internet allowed a biotech company to lead the industry in designer hybrid pets such as the gazellephant, the platypussycat, and the Golden ReBeaver.
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* A television commercial for a metropolitan fiberoptic internet service in the NYC Metro area (possibly Optimum Lightpath?) pretended to be an ad "from the future", where high-speed internet allowed a biotech company to lead the industry in designer hybrid pets such as the gazellephant, the platypussycat, and the Golden ReBeaver.[=ReBeaver=].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': ''Trap Team'' gives us High Five, who's a dragon with the wings of an insect. A literal dragonfly.
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* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': Wallnuts are used as walls. Peashooters shoot peas. Sunflowers produce sun. Starfruit shot stars in a star pattern.
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* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'' uses this trope in spades: Wallnuts are used as walls. walls, Peashooters shoot peas. peas, Sunflowers produce sun. sun, Starfruit shot stars in a star pattern.pattern, Squashes squash enemies flat, and Marigolds produce coins. There's also the Plantern, which is a lantern shaped plant that gives off light; the Blover, a clover that blows fog away.
** ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2'' expands upon this. Iceberg Lettuces freeze enemies, Snapdragons have dragon heads and breathe fire at enemies, Guacodiles are avocado crocodiles (which is a pun on the fruit's old name, "alligator pear"), Citrons are robotic citrus fruits (hence "-tron") that fire plasma energy, and so on.
** The Citron is also available as a playable hero in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare 2'' and ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesBattleForNeighborville''.
** ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies2'' expands upon this. Iceberg Lettuces freeze enemies, Snapdragons have dragon heads and breathe fire at enemies, Guacodiles are avocado crocodiles (which is a pun on the fruit's old name, "alligator pear"), Citrons are robotic citrus fruits (hence "-tron") that fire plasma energy, and so on.
** The Citron is also available as a playable hero in ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesGardenWarfare 2'' and ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombiesBattleForNeighborville''.
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** Baashaun and its evolutions are literal black sheep, with black fur and the amoral dispositions of Dark-type Pokemon.
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** In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoyInTheIceberg The Boy in the Iceberg]]", the first [[MixAndMatchCritter hybrid animal animal]] that we're introduced to are tiger seals, but they could just as easily be seatigers (as opposed to sealions).
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoyInTheIceberg The Boy in the Iceberg]]", the first hybrid animal that we're introduced to are tiger seals, but they could just as easily be seatigers (as opposed to sealions).
** In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheTalesOfBaSingSe Tales of Ba Sing Se]]", the escaped zoo animals include a swarm of dragonflies, depicted as lizards with insect wings.
** In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheBoyInTheIceberg The Boy in the Iceberg]]", the first hybrid animal that we're introduced to are tiger seals, but they could just as easily be seatigers (as opposed to sealions).
** In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheTalesOfBaSingSe Tales of Ba Sing Se]]", the escaped zoo animals include a swarm of dragonflies, depicted as lizards with insect wings.
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* ''VideoGame/PokemonUranium'':
** Baashaun and its evolutions are literal black sheep, with black fur and the amoral dispositions of Dark-type Pokemon.
** Cocaran is a literal coconut crab -- as in, a crab hiding inside a coconut shell, which eventually becomes a giant crab with a coconut palm growing from its back.
** Baashaun and its evolutions are literal black sheep, with black fur and the amoral dispositions of Dark-type Pokemon.
** Cocaran is a literal coconut crab -- as in, a crab hiding inside a coconut shell, which eventually becomes a giant crab with a coconut palm growing from its back.
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*** Baashaun and its evolutions are literal black sheep, with black fur and the amoral dispositions of Dark-type Pokemon.
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*** Baashaun and its evolutions are literal black sheep, with black fur and the amoral dispositions of Dark-type Pokemon.
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*** Baashaun and its evolutionsThe Applin line are literal black sheep, with black fur and the amoral dispositions of Dark-type Pokemon.
*** Cocaran is a literal coconut crabdragons -- as in, a crab hiding inside a coconut shell, which eventually becomes a giant crab with a coconut palm growing from its back.or ''wyrms'' -- [[WormInAnApple that live in an apple]].
*** Baashaun and its evolutions
*** Cocaran is a literal coconut crab
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* Is a strong aspect of the ''Franchise/Pokemon'' franchise. Some of these creatures' names (Such as Charmeleon, Squirtle, Feraligatr, etc.) are based around a pun that has to do with their appearance. Then again, one can ask, how did these creatures get named? Were they given from their appearance, or was it because of the [[VerbalTicName only word]]/[[PokemonSpeak name]] they can actually say?
* Is a strong aspect of the ''Franchise/Pokemon'' franchise. Some of these creatures' names (Such as Charmeleon, Squirtle, Feraligatr, etc.) are based around a pun that has to do with their appearance. Then again, one can ask, how did these creatures get named? Were they given from their appearance, or was it because of the [[VerbalTicName only word]]/[[PokemonSpeak name]] they can actually say?
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* Is a strong aspect of the ''Franchise/Pokemon'' franchise. Some of these creatures' names (Such as Charmeleon, Squirtle, Feraligatr, etc.) are based around a pun that has to do with their appearance. Then again, one can ask, how did these creatures get named? Were they given from their appearance, or was it because of the [[VerbalTicName only word]]/[[PokemonSpeak name]] they can actually say?
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* Is a strong aspect of the ''Franchise/Pokemon'' franchise. Some of these creatures' names are based around a pun that has to do with their appearance. Then again, one can ask, how did these creatures get named? Were they given from their appearance, or was it because of the [[VerbalTicName only word]]/[[PokemonSpeak name]] they can actually say?
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* A television commercial for a metropolitan fiberoptic internet service in the NYC Metro area (possibly Optimum Lightpath?) pretended to be an ad "from the future", where high-speed internet allowed a biotech company to lead the industry in designer hybrid pets such as the gazellephant, the platypussycat and the Golden ReBeaver.
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** Bookwyrms are dragons made out of paper, ink and book bindings, and summoned in a ritual conducted using books or scrolls.
** The Clearcall Forest is home to literal pine martens, with wooden legs, pine needles for fur and pinecones for ears.
** The Clearcall Forest is home to literal pine martens, with wooden legs, pine needles for fur and pinecones for ears.
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** The Clearcall Forest is home to literal pine martens, with wooden legs, pine needles forfur fur, and pinecones for ears.
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** Wormholes are found in Otherworld, and appear as vortexes with literal worms coming out of them. The Junkyard area of Otherworld also has the doombox, an living, antagonist boombox.
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*** Over its run, the show introduced multiple pun-based creatures derived from literal interpretations of real-life animals' names. Fruit bats, for instance, are {{Planimal}} bats with bodies resembling plump fruits and leaves for ears, cragadiles are crocodiles made out of craggy stone, and timberwolves are literally made out of timber, logs and branches in a roughly lupine shape.
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*** Over its run, the show introduced multiple pun-based creatures derived from literal interpretations of real-life animals' names. Fruit bats, for instance, are {{Planimal}} bats with bodies resembling plump fruits and leaves for ears, cragadiles are crocodiles made out of craggy stone, and timberwolves are literally made out of timber, logs logs, and branches in a roughly lupine shape.
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** By interacting with bookshelves in two specific locations, you can encounter the dust bunny, a LivingDustBunny that takes the form of a bunny made out of dust.
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* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': Sunflowers produce sun. Starfruit shot stars in a star pattern. The game is filled with puns like these.
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* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': Wallnuts are used as walls. Peashooters shoot peas. Sunflowers produce sun. Starfruit shot stars in a star pattern. The game is filled with puns like these.
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* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': [[SdrawkcabName Tacs]] are small feline enemies notable for two things: they dress like bandits and try to steal your copy ability (they're cat burglars) and they also possess the Copy ability( they're copy-cats).
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* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': [[SdrawkcabName Tacs]] are small feline enemies notable for two things: they dress like bandits and try to steal your copy ability (they're cat burglars) and they also possess the Copy ability( they're ability (they're copy-cats).
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* ''TabletopGame/TailsOfEquestria'': The Clearcall Forest is home to literal pine martens, with wooden legs, pine needles for fur and pinecones for ears.
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** Mohawks are rebellious, noise-loving birds of prey with flamboyant, brightly colored crests.
** Bookwyrms are dragons made out of paper, ink and book bindings, and summoned in a ritual conducted using books or scrolls.
** The Clearcall Forest is home to literal pine martens, with wooden legs, pine needles for fur and pinecones for ears.
** Mohawks are rebellious, noise-loving birds of prey with flamboyant, brightly colored crests.
** Bookwyrms are dragons made out of paper, ink and book bindings, and summoned in a ritual conducted using books or scrolls.
** The Clearcall Forest is home to literal pine martens, with wooden legs, pine needles for fur and pinecones for ears.
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* A television commercial for a metropolitan fiberoptic internet service in the NYC Metro area (possibly Optimum Lightpath?) pretended to be an ad "from the future", where high-speed internet allowed a biotech company to lead the industry in designer hybrid pets such as the gazellephant, the platypussycat and the Golden ReBeaver.
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* A television commercial for a metropolitan fiberoptic internet service in the NYC Metro area (possibly Optimum Lightpath?) pretended to be an ad "from the future", where high-speed internet allowed a biotech company to lead the industry in designer hybrid pets such as the gazellephant, the platypussycat and the Golden ReBeaver.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Skylanders}}'': ''Trap Team'' gives us High Five, who's a dragon with the wings of an insect. A leteral dragonfly.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLadAirbender'': In "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheTalesOfBaSingSe Tales of Ba Sing Se]]", the escaped zoo animals include a swarm of dragonflies, depicted as lizards with insect wings.
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** Orange Oasis has several enemies with pun-based names. In the Arrow Cave area, you can encounter the Gingerdead Man, a zombie-like gingerbread man. By using the summoning circle in the Breaven, you can fight a {{Creepypasta}} (a living rigatoni pasta tube that constantly turn into a creepy version of itself), copypastas (living rigatoni pasta tubes that can clone themselves), and hushpuppies (literally poorly-drawn, screaming dog faces). The Dino's Dig area also has the porcupie, a fusion between a porcupine and a cupcake.
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** Orange Oasis has several enemies with pun-based names. In the Arrow Cave area, you can encounter the Gingerdead Man, a zombie-like gingerbread man. By using the summoning circle in the Breaven, you can fight a {{Creepypasta}} (a living rigatoni pasta tube that constantly turn turns into a creepy version of itself), copypastas (living rigatoni pasta tubes that can clone themselves), and hushpuppies (literally poorly-drawn, screaming dog faces). The Dino's Dig area also has the porcupie, a fusion between a porcupine and a cupcake.
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** Pyrefly Forest has the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes bug bunny]], a bunny with the legs of a spider.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'': When Tiger gets flung from a train and lands in a lake, he encounters what he identifies as a "dogfish", which has a dog's face and starts barking at him.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'': When Tiger gets flung from a train and lands in a lake, he encounters what he identifies as a "dogfish", which has a dog's face and starts barking at him. Later, he's caught by a fisherman along with some catfish, which, while looking like real catfish, can be heard meowing.
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A Pun-Based Creature is a fictional critter designed to embody some sort of witticism, which can happen in as many ways as puns themselves do. Often, this occurs when a real-life creature has a name describing its environment or habits that in a work of fiction is taken literally -- for example, a forest- or desert-dwelling animal named "wood" or "sand [something]" may be shown as a version of its real counterpart literally made out of wood or sand. Similarly, a syllable or word in a name may be replaced with another, similar-sounding word, with either the base or inserted term being an animal name, to create a beast based on this wordplay.
This is typically done simply as a form of visual humor, exaggerating minor misunderstandings to create absurd creatures based on overly literal interpretations of common phrases.
See also PunnyName. Subtrope of OurMonstersAreWeird and VisualPun. Supertrope to SeahorseSteed and LiteralBookworm. Can overlap with MixAndMatchCritters if the pun happens to combine names from two or more creatures.
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* [[https://www.deviantart.com/cryptid-creations Cryptid-Creations]]' Website/DeviantArt gallery is filled chiefly with creatures based on wordplay in real animals' names or portmanteaus of the same, such as dragonfruit flies, avocatos and apricats, literal snake plants and leopard geckos and tree pythons and mountain lions, drakes halfway between a dragon and a male mallard, lamplike lampreys, dark blue indingos, and the like.
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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoyGalaxy'': The green alien feline from Planet Gurunda, a desert planet, is named Cattus. Each of his kind has [[MultipleTailedBeast three tails]] that allow them to camouflage themselves, appearing as cacti.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Many ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics expand on the show's own pun-based creatures, often by introducing their own.
** ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': {{Roc|Birds}}s are giant birds literally made out of living rock.
** ''Fanfic/RainboomsAndRoyalty'': ''Hot Heads, Cold Hearts and Nerves of Steel'' features snow leopards made out of actual snow, with icicles for teeth and claws.
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[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'': One of the two caterpillars seen behaves like a cat, and has AnimalJingoism with the fictitious "dogerpillar".
* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'': When Tiger gets flung from a train and lands in a lake, he encounters what he identifies as a "dogfish", which has a dog's face and starts barking at him.
* ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'': The FantasticFaunaCounterpart of insects are tiny VW Beetles with insect wings.
* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2'': After Swallow Falls is abandoned and the FLDSMDFR left to run unchecked, the machine creates an entire ecosystem of living food items that often resemble real-world creatures, mostly with PunnyNames. There are flamingo-like mangos ("flamangos"), chimpanzee-like shrimps ("shrimpanzees"), elephant-like watermelons ("watermelophants"), hippopotamus-like potatoes ("hippotatomuses") and so forth.
* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': The food items are anthropomorphized, but the only ones that are treated like animals are horseradish, which act and are ridden on like horses.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/SpyKids2IslandOfLostDreams'': Romero's MixAndMatchCritters are named after animal puns or {{portmanteau}}s. Juni befriends a Spider Monkey, a centaur-like creature with a primate's upper body and a spider's lower body. Other animals named after puns include a catfish (a cat with a fish's head and tailfin), a tiger shark (a tiger with a shark's head and fin), a horse-fly (a horse with a fly's head and wings) and a bullfrog (a bull with the hind legs of a frog).
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'':
** The Gnat tells Alice about three Looking Glass Land insects. The rocking-horse fly looks like a winged hobbyhorse and lives on sap and sawdust. The bread-and-butterfly looks like what it sounds like and lives on weak tea with milk. The snap-dragonfly has a body of plum pudding and a raisin burning in brandy for a head. It lives on mince pie and frumenty and nests in a Christmas box. This last is the most obscure to contemporary readers, the pun being based on a popular Victorian Christmas game.
** The Mock Turtle is stated to be what mock turtle soup is made of. Mock turtle soup is traditionally made with a calf's head, so the John Tenniel illustrations depict it as a [[MixAndMatchCritters sea turtle with a bovine head]].
* ''Literature/CatbirdsAndDogfish'' depicts animals with portmanteau names as MixAndMatchCritters. For example, catbirds are portrayed as cats with wings and dogfish as fish with bulldog heads, instead of medium-sized gray birds and small, speckled sharks like in real life.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** The game's take on the sea lion, present in bestiaries since first edition, is quite literally a lion with the back end of a fish, mermaid style.
** Wolf-spiders resemble giant spiders with the heads of wolves.
* ''TabletopGame/TailsOfEquestria'': The Clearcall Forest is home to literal pine martens, with wooden legs, pine needles for fur and pinecones for ears.
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': The Beastmen of Bretonnia sometimes deal with fortified positions by goading massive, forest-dwelling beasts known as ramhorns into charging at their gates, smashing them open so that the Beastmen can surge through -- in other words, they use literal battering rams.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'':
** Bug's mount is a dragonfly with the head of a dragon.
** One enemy is a fish with a doglike head and collar. It's a dogfish.
* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': [[SdrawkcabName Tacs]] are small feline enemies notable for two things: they dress like bandits and try to steal your copy ability (they're cat burglars) and they also possess the Copy ability( they're copy-cats).
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'': ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' feature a type of enemy resembling a hopping flower with reptilian jaws and legs, which is referred to as a Snap Dragon.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': Mushroom Island biomes are home to an unusual variety of cows with fungi growing from their backs, called mooshrooms.
* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'':
** By interacting with bookshelves in two specific locations, you can encounter the dust bunny, a LivingDustBunny that takes the form of a bunny made out of dust.
** Wormholes are found in Otherworld, and appear as vortexes with literal worms coming out of them. The Junkyard area of Otherworld also has the doombox, an living, antagonist boombox.
** Pyrefly Forest has the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes bug bunny]], a bunny with the legs of a spider.
** Orange Oasis has several enemies with pun-based names. In the Arrow Cave area, you can encounter the Gingerdead Man, a zombie-like gingerbread man. By using the summoning circle in the Breaven, you can fight a {{Creepypasta}} (a living rigatoni pasta tube that constantly turn into a creepy version of itself), copypastas (living rigatoni pasta tubes that can clone themselves), and hushpuppies (literally poorly-drawn, screaming dog faces). The Dino's Dig area also has the porcupie, a fusion between a porcupine and a cupcake.
** Underwater Highway contains mussels, which are mussle shells with muscular arms coming out of them. There are also the squizzards, which are squids with wizard hats and beards.
** Within Humphrey, you can randomly encounter watermimics, creatures that disguise themselves as regular watermelons.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': Sunflowers produce sun. Starfruit shot stars in a star pattern. The game is filled with puns like these.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Farfetch'd resembles a duck always holding a stalk of green onion, and is a joke on a Japanese saying where a fortunate but unlikely coincidence is compared to a duck holding a leek -- that is, a meal walking by while carrying its own seasoning. Farfetch'd embodies both the literal aspect of this saying, as it's noted to be a very popular food in-universe, and the metaphorical one, as in a few games it turns up precisely at a point where it's the kind of Pokemon the player would find it useful to have.
** Stantler's Japanese name is Odoshishi, from ''shishi odoshi'' (literally "deer scarer"), the term for a variety of contraptions that scare away animals such as deer and birds. Its antlers look like a pair of eyes and are said to be mesmerising, and one kind of ''shishi odoshi'' are eyeball-like balloons that birds find extremely unnerving.
** Flygon is an insectoid Dragon-type. In other words, a dragonfly.
** Empoleon is an emperor penguin modelled after an actual emperor, Napoleon.
** Alolan Exeggutor is a Grass/Dragon type that looks like a tall palm tree... or a dracaena plant, whose name means "female dragon" in Greek.
**''VideoGame/PokemonUranium'':
*** Baashaun and its evolutions are literal black sheep, with black fur and the amoral dispositions of Dark-type Pokemon.
*** Cocaran is a literal coconut crab -- as in, a crab hiding inside a coconut shell, wich eventually becomes a giant crab with a coconut palm growing from its back.
* ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'': Zizare is quite literally a wyrm; it's a giant earthworm with draconic features.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': One of the creatures brought to the siege of Mechanicsburg is a literal [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120917 battering ram]] used to try to break down the city's gates.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': The frog world's {{Fantastic Fauna Counterpart}}s include caterpillars, insect larvae that look and behave like cats.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': The Neitherworld is full of these, including timberwolves (wolves with logs for torsos) and horseradishes (horses with radish-like rumps). In one episode, Beetlejuice got a pair of pants (faces on legs that pant).
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** "WesternAnimation/DetouringAmerica": A prairie dog is depicted as an actual dog, rather than as a rodent.
** "WesternAnimation/PorkyTheRainmaker": Eggplants break apart in the heat, revealing that they have yolks like real eggs.
** The Tasmanian Devil's head hair is shaped like a pair of devil horns. When he wants to move fast he spins around like a whirlwind -- i.e., a dust devil.
** "Who's Who at the Zoo" has a cottontail rabbit whose tail is a literal cotton swab, a bald eagle who covers his head with a wig, and an Indian elephant in a Native American feathered headdress.
** ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'': The Road Runner is always depicted running along motorways, making it a literal "road runner".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moondreamers}}'': The animal-like Moondreamers include two, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, that resemble bears and are based on the constellations of the same name.
* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE15TheGreatRainbowCaper The Great Rainbow Caper]]" features as villains a pair of MadScientist monkeys obsessed with technology, inventions, and assorted gizmos, which are called the gizmonks.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
*** Over its run, the show introduced multiple pun-based creatures derived from literal interpretations of real-life animals' names. Fruit bats, for instance, are {{Planimal}} bats with bodies resembling plump fruits and leaves for ears, cragadiles are crocodiles made out of craggy stone, and timberwolves are literally made out of timber, logs and branches in a roughly lupine shape.
*** The changelings' original forms resemble black ponies with a single pair of transparent wings, and their larvae look like maggots. In other words, they're horseflies.
*** The Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are giant bears literally made out of stars and the night sky.
*** Windigos are spirits named after the {{Wendigo}} and best-known for producing freezing winds.
*** Poison joke is a vegetable example of this: it's a flower named after poison oak, but instead of being poisonous it causes people who touch it to undergo maliciously humorous transformations.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': The music video for the song "Today Is Gonna Be a Great Day" by ''Music/BowlingForSoup'' has the brothers taming a tiger shark, a shark with black and orange stripes.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': Lionfishes are depicted as lions with fish fins, rather than the actual venomous and prickly species of lionfish.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles'', being set on a world of MixAndMatchCritters, naturally has some examples. One episode has a character named Tycoon, who aside from being a tycoon (that is, a very rich person), is also a combination of tiger and raccoon. He also invests in stox -- storks with ox horns. Another episode has the cast dealing with a Brahma bullfinch, a Brahma bull with bird wings.
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[[caption-width-right:350:Clockwise from top left, [[WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}} a caterpillar]], [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic fruit bats]], [[WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2 a shrimpanzee]] and [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb a tiger shark]].]]
A Pun-Based Creature is a fictional critter designed to embody some sort of witticism, which can happen in as many ways as puns themselves do. Often, this occurs when a real-life creature has a name describing its environment or habits that in a work of fiction is taken literally -- for example, a forest- or desert-dwelling animal named "wood" or "sand [something]" may be shown as a version of its real counterpart literally made out of wood or sand. Similarly, a syllable or word in a name may be replaced with another, similar-sounding word, with either the base or inserted term being an animal name, to create a beast based on this wordplay.
This is typically done simply as a form of visual humor, exaggerating minor misunderstandings to create absurd creatures based on overly literal interpretations of common phrases.
See also PunnyName. Subtrope of OurMonstersAreWeird and VisualPun. Supertrope to SeahorseSteed and LiteralBookworm. Can overlap with MixAndMatchCritters if the pun happens to combine names from two or more creatures.
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!!Examples
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[[folder:Art]]
* [[https://www.deviantart.com/cryptid-creations Cryptid-Creations]]' Website/DeviantArt gallery is filled chiefly with creatures based on wordplay in real animals' names or portmanteaus of the same, such as dragonfruit flies, avocatos and apricats, literal snake plants and leopard geckos and tree pythons and mountain lions, drakes halfway between a dragon and a male mallard, lamplike lampreys, dark blue indingos, and the like.
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[[folder:Asian Animation]]
* ''Animation/BoBoiBoyGalaxy'': The green alien feline from Planet Gurunda, a desert planet, is named Cattus. Each of his kind has [[MultipleTailedBeast three tails]] that allow them to camouflage themselves, appearing as cacti.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Many ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' fanfics expand on the show's own pun-based creatures, often by introducing their own.
** ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': {{Roc|Birds}}s are giant birds literally made out of living rock.
** ''Fanfic/RainboomsAndRoyalty'': ''Hot Heads, Cold Hearts and Nerves of Steel'' features snow leopards made out of actual snow, with icicles for teeth and claws.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film -- Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'': One of the two caterpillars seen behaves like a cat, and has AnimalJingoism with the fictitious "dogerpillar".
* ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTailFievelGoesWest'': When Tiger gets flung from a train and lands in a lake, he encounters what he identifies as a "dogfish", which has a dog's face and starts barking at him.
* ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'': The FantasticFaunaCounterpart of insects are tiny VW Beetles with insect wings.
* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2'': After Swallow Falls is abandoned and the FLDSMDFR left to run unchecked, the machine creates an entire ecosystem of living food items that often resemble real-world creatures, mostly with PunnyNames. There are flamingo-like mangos ("flamangos"), chimpanzee-like shrimps ("shrimpanzees"), elephant-like watermelons ("watermelophants"), hippopotamus-like potatoes ("hippotatomuses") and so forth.
* ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'': The food items are anthropomorphized, but the only ones that are treated like animals are horseradish, which act and are ridden on like horses.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Film -- Live-Action]]
* ''Film/SpyKids2IslandOfLostDreams'': Romero's MixAndMatchCritters are named after animal puns or {{portmanteau}}s. Juni befriends a Spider Monkey, a centaur-like creature with a primate's upper body and a spider's lower body. Other animals named after puns include a catfish (a cat with a fish's head and tailfin), a tiger shark (a tiger with a shark's head and fin), a horse-fly (a horse with a fly's head and wings) and a bullfrog (a bull with the hind legs of a frog).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland'':
** The Gnat tells Alice about three Looking Glass Land insects. The rocking-horse fly looks like a winged hobbyhorse and lives on sap and sawdust. The bread-and-butterfly looks like what it sounds like and lives on weak tea with milk. The snap-dragonfly has a body of plum pudding and a raisin burning in brandy for a head. It lives on mince pie and frumenty and nests in a Christmas box. This last is the most obscure to contemporary readers, the pun being based on a popular Victorian Christmas game.
** The Mock Turtle is stated to be what mock turtle soup is made of. Mock turtle soup is traditionally made with a calf's head, so the John Tenniel illustrations depict it as a [[MixAndMatchCritters sea turtle with a bovine head]].
* ''Literature/CatbirdsAndDogfish'' depicts animals with portmanteau names as MixAndMatchCritters. For example, catbirds are portrayed as cats with wings and dogfish as fish with bulldog heads, instead of medium-sized gray birds and small, speckled sharks like in real life.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** The game's take on the sea lion, present in bestiaries since first edition, is quite literally a lion with the back end of a fish, mermaid style.
** Wolf-spiders resemble giant spiders with the heads of wolves.
* ''TabletopGame/TailsOfEquestria'': The Clearcall Forest is home to literal pine martens, with wooden legs, pine needles for fur and pinecones for ears.
* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': The Beastmen of Bretonnia sometimes deal with fortified positions by goading massive, forest-dwelling beasts known as ramhorns into charging at their gates, smashing them open so that the Beastmen can surge through -- in other words, they use literal battering rams.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Bug}}'':
** Bug's mount is a dragonfly with the head of a dragon.
** One enemy is a fish with a doglike head and collar. It's a dogfish.
* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'': [[SdrawkcabName Tacs]] are small feline enemies notable for two things: they dress like bandits and try to steal your copy ability (they're cat burglars) and they also possess the Copy ability( they're copy-cats).
* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'': ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' and ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds'' feature a type of enemy resembling a hopping flower with reptilian jaws and legs, which is referred to as a Snap Dragon.
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': Mushroom Island biomes are home to an unusual variety of cows with fungi growing from their backs, called mooshrooms.
* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'':
** By interacting with bookshelves in two specific locations, you can encounter the dust bunny, a LivingDustBunny that takes the form of a bunny made out of dust.
** Wormholes are found in Otherworld, and appear as vortexes with literal worms coming out of them. The Junkyard area of Otherworld also has the doombox, an living, antagonist boombox.
** Pyrefly Forest has the [[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes bug bunny]], a bunny with the legs of a spider.
** Orange Oasis has several enemies with pun-based names. In the Arrow Cave area, you can encounter the Gingerdead Man, a zombie-like gingerbread man. By using the summoning circle in the Breaven, you can fight a {{Creepypasta}} (a living rigatoni pasta tube that constantly turn into a creepy version of itself), copypastas (living rigatoni pasta tubes that can clone themselves), and hushpuppies (literally poorly-drawn, screaming dog faces). The Dino's Dig area also has the porcupie, a fusion between a porcupine and a cupcake.
** Underwater Highway contains mussels, which are mussle shells with muscular arms coming out of them. There are also the squizzards, which are squids with wizard hats and beards.
** Within Humphrey, you can randomly encounter watermimics, creatures that disguise themselves as regular watermelons.
* ''VideoGame/PlantsVsZombies'': Sunflowers produce sun. Starfruit shot stars in a star pattern. The game is filled with puns like these.
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
** Farfetch'd resembles a duck always holding a stalk of green onion, and is a joke on a Japanese saying where a fortunate but unlikely coincidence is compared to a duck holding a leek -- that is, a meal walking by while carrying its own seasoning. Farfetch'd embodies both the literal aspect of this saying, as it's noted to be a very popular food in-universe, and the metaphorical one, as in a few games it turns up precisely at a point where it's the kind of Pokemon the player would find it useful to have.
** Stantler's Japanese name is Odoshishi, from ''shishi odoshi'' (literally "deer scarer"), the term for a variety of contraptions that scare away animals such as deer and birds. Its antlers look like a pair of eyes and are said to be mesmerising, and one kind of ''shishi odoshi'' are eyeball-like balloons that birds find extremely unnerving.
** Flygon is an insectoid Dragon-type. In other words, a dragonfly.
** Empoleon is an emperor penguin modelled after an actual emperor, Napoleon.
** Alolan Exeggutor is a Grass/Dragon type that looks like a tall palm tree... or a dracaena plant, whose name means "female dragon" in Greek.
**''VideoGame/PokemonUranium'':
*** Baashaun and its evolutions are literal black sheep, with black fur and the amoral dispositions of Dark-type Pokemon.
*** Cocaran is a literal coconut crab -- as in, a crab hiding inside a coconut shell, wich eventually becomes a giant crab with a coconut palm growing from its back.
* ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'': Zizare is quite literally a wyrm; it's a giant earthworm with draconic features.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': One of the creatures brought to the siege of Mechanicsburg is a literal [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20120917 battering ram]] used to try to break down the city's gates.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': The frog world's {{Fantastic Fauna Counterpart}}s include caterpillars, insect larvae that look and behave like cats.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'': The Neitherworld is full of these, including timberwolves (wolves with logs for torsos) and horseradishes (horses with radish-like rumps). In one episode, Beetlejuice got a pair of pants (faces on legs that pant).
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'':
** "WesternAnimation/DetouringAmerica": A prairie dog is depicted as an actual dog, rather than as a rodent.
** "WesternAnimation/PorkyTheRainmaker": Eggplants break apart in the heat, revealing that they have yolks like real eggs.
** The Tasmanian Devil's head hair is shaped like a pair of devil horns. When he wants to move fast he spins around like a whirlwind -- i.e., a dust devil.
** "Who's Who at the Zoo" has a cottontail rabbit whose tail is a literal cotton swab, a bald eagle who covers his head with a wig, and an Indian elephant in a Native American feathered headdress.
** ''WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadRunner'': The Road Runner is always depicted running along motorways, making it a literal "road runner".
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Moondreamers}}'': The animal-like Moondreamers include two, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, that resemble bears and are based on the constellations of the same name.
* ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'':
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE15TheGreatRainbowCaper The Great Rainbow Caper]]" features as villains a pair of MadScientist monkeys obsessed with technology, inventions, and assorted gizmos, which are called the gizmonks.
** ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
*** Over its run, the show introduced multiple pun-based creatures derived from literal interpretations of real-life animals' names. Fruit bats, for instance, are {{Planimal}} bats with bodies resembling plump fruits and leaves for ears, cragadiles are crocodiles made out of craggy stone, and timberwolves are literally made out of timber, logs and branches in a roughly lupine shape.
*** The changelings' original forms resemble black ponies with a single pair of transparent wings, and their larvae look like maggots. In other words, they're horseflies.
*** The Ursa Major and Ursa Minor are giant bears literally made out of stars and the night sky.
*** Windigos are spirits named after the {{Wendigo}} and best-known for producing freezing winds.
*** Poison joke is a vegetable example of this: it's a flower named after poison oak, but instead of being poisonous it causes people who touch it to undergo maliciously humorous transformations.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': The music video for the song "Today Is Gonna Be a Great Day" by ''Music/BowlingForSoup'' has the brothers taming a tiger shark, a shark with black and orange stripes.
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'': Lionfishes are depicted as lions with fish fins, rather than the actual venomous and prickly species of lionfish.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles'', being set on a world of MixAndMatchCritters, naturally has some examples. One episode has a character named Tycoon, who aside from being a tycoon (that is, a very rich person), is also a combination of tiger and raccoon. He also invests in stox -- storks with ox horns. Another episode has the cast dealing with a Brahma bullfinch, a Brahma bull with bird wings.
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