History Main / SnakePeople

* ''VideoGame/{{Shantae}}'': Nagas show up a bunch in the series. They're common overworld mooks, and quite durable and painful. The fourth game in the series, ''VideoGame/ShantaeHalfGenieHero'', introduces Tuki, a friendly naga NPC who will sell rare dance moves.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
** Nagas, giant serpents with the arms, heads and torsos of reptilian humanoids, are a dedicated in-game creature type. They are found on the planes of Tarkir -- where they are the rulers of the Sultai Brood, a clan of necromancers, sorcerers and assassins who inhabit the plane's swamps and jungles -- and Amonkhet -- where they are visually based on cobras, although some have elements of other snakes such as [[https://scryfall.com/card/hou/134/sidewinder-naga sidewinders]].
** An odd example of this trope are the [[https://scryfall.com/card/mm3/157/coiling-oracle coiling oracles]] of Ravnica, which are explicitly MixAndMatchCritters created by the {{Mad Scientist}}s of the Simic Combine by splicing together elf and snake. They do not have the naga creature type, although it is worth noting that they predate said type's introduction by some years.
** [[https://scryfall.com/card/thb/98/gravebreaker-lamia Gravebreaker Lamia]] resembles a cobra with humanoid arms.

** ''Magic the Gathering'' often has snake-people featured as snakes with arms, but one block (Kamigawa) contained snake-people with four arms, two legs, and ''no tail''.
* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'':

* ''Literature/{{Kull}}'' features the Serpent Men in the story ''The Shadow Kingdom'', a group of cultist snakemen who operate in secret among humanity, live by a ReligionOfEvil, and plan to resurrect their long-gone society by pulling a KillAndReplace on various people. The Serpent Men are pretty influential on the trope in fantasy, having appeared in various ''Literature/CthulhuMythos'' stories and been a major inspiration for the Snake Men of ''WesternAnimation/HeMan'' and especially the yuan-ti of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''.

* ''WebOriginal/CodexInversus'': Nagas, humanoid serpents, are among the inhabitants of the Beasts' Nations. They are known to be excellent cooks, thanks to their keen sense of smell and ability to sense heat, but their lack of chewing teeth means that Naga cousine is perforce heavy on soups, eggs, and food chopped into small pieces.

* ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian'': A naga-like "Man-Serpent", with a human head with snakes for hair on a purely serpent body (to differentiate its kind from "Serpent-Men", who have scaly human bodies with the heads of snakes), appears in "Literature/TheGodInTheBowl", sent in a large jar to a man who dabbled with secrets he shouldn't have touched.

** Controversially, the post-Comicbook/{{Zero Hour|CrisisInTime}} version of the previously totally [[HumanAliens human-looking]] Princess Projectra from ''Comicbook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'' was turned into an alien resembling a giant snake, who wore a robotic harness with little arms. She was named Sensor. Despite her appearance, she was friendly and sweet. She was later mutated into a half-humanoid Snake Person, which [[BodyHorror upset her very much.]]

%%* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': The minor villain Yith.

Snake People, Nagas, Lamias, Valusians, or [[WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse Sneople (singular Snerson)]] are a type of {{liminal being}} usually depicted with a human head, arms and torso with the added twist of a snake's tail as a lower body, similar in many respects to a [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent mermaid]], [[OurCentaursAreDifferent centaur]], and [[FogFeet some]] [[OurGeniesAreDifferent genies]]. Beings like this can also involve more exotic bodily configurations such as [[WingedTropes wings]] or changing the ratio of snake to human. Also, for some reason, most examples are female.[[note]]The reason is breasts.[[/note]]

* Gorgons are portrayed as more snake-like than humanlike in ''WebOriginal/LoomingGaia''. They have snake tails instead of legs, scaled hairless skin, forked tongues, slit pupils, and fangs.

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' has an Aesop villian become some kind of naga with stuff added [[FromBadToWorse before going]] ClippedWingAngel.

** Mariliths are a type of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] that resembles a [[MultiArmedAndDangerous six-armed]] [[AlwaysFemale female humanoid]] with a snake tail for a lower body. They're among the most dangerous of tanar'ri, due to their military genius and martial skill, and are natural generals for the demonic hordes.

** ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms'': The Sarrukh, one of [[{{Precursors}} the ancient creator races]], resembled fully reptilian snake people -- their torsos and arms were completely scaly, and their heads those of snakes. They are in fact the ones who created the rest of the setting's reptilian races, including the yuan-ti and the nagas as well as all other lizard-, dinosaur- and generally reptile-like species, as soldiers and servants.
** {{Medusa}}e have varied in this; in 2e, they were just human women with snakes for hair, but also had a 10% [[BizarreSexualDimorphism female only]] minority who were of the "Lamia style"; snake-haired human woman from the waist up, giant snake from the waist down. In 3e and 4e, though, they are fully humanoid Snake People, having no tails, but definitely reptilian features, scaly skin and, of course, snakes for hair. In 5e, they've returned to the "human with snakes for hair" appearance.
** Although common lamia are described as [[OurCentaursAreDifferent tauric hybrids of woman and beast]], with the artwork traditionally depicting them as a lioness, there is also a noble lamia (originating in the 1st Edition ''Fiend Folio''), a hybrid of man or woman and snake.

** Mariliths are a type of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demon]] that resemble a [[MultiArmedAndDangerous six-armed]] [[AlwaysFemale female humanoid]] with a snake tail for a lower body. They're among the most dangerous of tanar'ri, due to both their military genius and martial skill, and are natural generals for the demonic hordes.

** The lillend, a type of ChaoticGood outsiders, are a rare explicitly good-aligned example, with wings along with the female human torso and arms and a serpentine trunk. When they first appeared in the 2nd edition, they were one of ''D&D''[='=]s early dabblings into UsefulNotes/{{transgender}} issues; these early lillends came in feminine and masculine forms, though they were all biologically female -- "male" lillends looked male and followed male human patterns of dress and custom, but had female reproductive organs and produced offspring by spontaneous self-fertilised pregnancy, just like the visibly female ones. This trait has been lost in all subsequent editions.
** The salamanders are a [[WreathedInFlames fiery version]] of this with reptilian arms and torsos on snake bodies.
** The jarkung in ''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine #14 and #37 have a snake-like body, two arms and long tail with a knob on the end.
** The 1st Edition ''Monster Manual II'' and 3rd Edition ''Fiend Folio'' both include a monster called the ophidian, an intelligent snake with humanoid limbs and [[OurWerebeastsAreDifferent venom that turns humanoids into another of their kind.]] They're usually seen as a ServantRace to the yuan-ti.

** Nagas (snakes with a human heads) and marilith demons (AlwaysFemale, human head and torso, snake tail, and six arms).

** The yuan-ti mix human and snake features to a varying extent, ranging from almost entirely human with a few snakelike parts to being entirely snakelike.

** There are also the sthenos, who came into being when [[MonsterProgenitor a euryale named Stheno]] turned against [[EvilMatriarch Lamashtu]] in favor of [[LoveGoddess Shelyn]] at the cost of her own life, and was rewarded in death by the latter [[MotherOfAThousandYoung reviving her hair-snakes as independent humanoids]].

** There are also the sthenos, who came into being when [[MonsterProgenitor a euryale named Stheno]] turned against Lamashtu in favor of Shelyn at the cost of her own life, and was rewarded in death by [[MotherOfAThousandYoung her hair-snakes all becoming independent beings]].

* ''VideoGame/WindChildBlack'' gives us Echiradne "Ecchi" Abraxurxes, a long-lived sorceress who has slept for the last 10,000 years.