History Main / PunBasedCreature

** Baashaun and its evolutions are literal black sheep, with black wool and the amoral dispositions of Dark-type Pokemon.

** Farfetch'd resembles a duck always holding a stalk of green onion and is a joke on a Japanese saying literally translating to "a duck comes bearing green onions". It describes fortunate but unlikely scenarios, such as a meal freely walking up to you 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.

** Empoleon is an emperor penguin modelled after an actual emperor, Napoleon.

** Stantler's Japanese name is Odoshishi, from ''[[TheThingThatGoesDoink 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.

** The Junkyard Dogfish from "The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds" and Old Soggy from "The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell are dogfish with dog's heads. "The Case of the Creature of Coral Cove" has a dogfish that looks like a shark (somewhat closer to the real animal), but behaves like a dog and wears a collar.

** Kevin the sea cucumber from "I'm Your Biggest Fanatic" is drawn looking like an actual cucumber.

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': The "Pasadena Jones" segment of "Cinemaniacs" portrays the Abominable Snowman as a giant snowman.

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonsAdventures'': The "Pasadena Jones" segment of "Cinemaniacs" portrays the Abominable Snowman as a giant snowman.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts'': the dogfish look like normal dogfish, but they bark.

** "The Trickening!" has a character named Nosferatu, an anthropomorphic vampire bat who is an actual vampire.

* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': "The Trickening!" has a character named Nosferatu, an anthropomorphic vampire bat who is an actual vampire.

* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'' has an acorn frog named Donguri Gaeru, whose name means "acorn frog" in Japanese, but is also a pun on "denguridaeri", meaning rolling forward. This is his method of locomotion.

* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'': Mushroom Island biomes are home to an unusual variety of cows with fungi growing from their backs, called mooshrooms.

* ''VideoGame/MinecraftDungeons'': The PiggyBank enemy is an actual pig that carries a chest full of gems and valuable items.
* ''VideoGame/NetHack'': Fire ants [[PlayingWithFire can set the character on fire]].
* ''VideoGame/{{Omori}}'':
** By interacting with bookshelves in two specific locations, you can encounter the dust bunny, a {{Living Dust Bunn|ies}}y that takes the form of a rabbit 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/BugsBunny 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 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.
** 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.

** ''Fanfic/TheLongEventide'': Water dear are nonsapient, aquatic, deer-like creatures with fang-like teeth that live in wetlands.

* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomverse'':
** ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainKnightOfTheOrangeLily'' has a Doormouse Car filled with wooden mice that can transform into doors to other cars. Grace and Simon manage to collect a few of them in order to get to White Gestalt's locations to fight them off.
** ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocus'': The Red Lotus Trio once visited the Nightmares car, and a flashback reveals it's a car that has ghoulish-looking horses.

** ''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.

* ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'': One of the two caterpillars seen behaves like a cat, and has AnimalJingoism with the fictitious "dogerpillar".

* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'': In "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDWIssue93 Day at the Museum]]", during their expedition, Snap and Mane encounter a family of bush babies that resemble actual bushes with faces, arms and legs.

* ''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.