History Main / StockNessMonster

* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': The episode "[[Recap/TheLoudHouseS4E6WashedUpRecipeForDisaster Washed Up]]" has Plessy, who turns out to be a dragon.

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* In ''ComicBook/BillyTheKidsOldTimeyOddities'', Nessie turns out to actually be [[spoiler: an alternate form of the shape-shifting {{Dracula}}]].

* ''Film/LakePlacid'' had a giant crocodile, which was raised by a surprisingly foul-mouthed and sociopathic Creator/BettyWhite, and was running amok eating people. [[spoiler: As it turns out, there's actually ''two'' of them. And they had babies. At least 10.]]
* ''Lake Tianchi Monster'' / ''Monster of Lake Heaven'' is a 2020 Chinese film revolving around an expedition to Lake Tianchi - supposedly the "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Tianchi_Monster Loch Ness of the East]]" due to sightings of a prehistoric monster living in it. As always, the legend turns out to be ''real'' and the titular monster quickly goes on a rampage.

* ''Film/AmazonWomenOnTheMoon'' reveals that Nessie was also [[spoiler: UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.]]

-->'''Tourist''': Tell me; when does the monster usually appear?\\
'''Local''': Usually after [[PinkElephants the sixth glass]], mister.

* ''Literature/InCryptid'', utterly unsurprisingly, has a number of these. The first that the reader sees is the Michigan Lake Monster, which features prominently in the short story "Loch and Key." A second plesiosaur appears in the ColdOpen of ''Chaos Choreography,'' the pet of a trio of archaeology students from a Portland-area community college, whom [[DanceBattler Verity]] and her [[spoiler: husband]] [[DefectingForLove Dominic]] move from a city reservoir to a much more secluded lake high in the mountains. Specifically noted as not being ''sea'' monsters, as these are freshwater beasts and will quickly die if introduced to the ocean.

* In the first episode of ''Series/MonsterQuest'', the suggestion that "Champ", or "the American Loch Ness Monster" could be a plesiosaur is bandied about. In another episode, they were searching for "Ogopogo", and they found what they believed was a dead baby Ogopogo... and it turned out to be [[spoiler: a decomposed salmon or trout fillet.]]

* ''Series/PrehistoricPlanet'' features a number of appearances by plesiosaurids, but they are much more scientifically grounded than the other entries here listed. Nevertheless, a few of these sequences do play up the sense of mystery associated with these animals, featuring strangely mystical music and with Creator/DavidAttenborough describing one such genus - ''Mortuneria'' - as one of the most mysterious and secretive animals on Earth.

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-->'''Dougal''': So we ''did'' have a monster ... and you killed it. And now we don't even have a log.

* ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'': While not quite a sea serpent or plesiosaur, the game nonetheless has its own lake monster -- the Hideous Hulking Lungfish of Lake Oblongata, who is... [[spoiler: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin an enormous, mutated lungfish who lives at the bottom of Lake Oblongata]]. [[FluffyTheTerrible Her real name is Linda.]] [[GentleGiant She's pretty nice]] when she's not being brainwashed by the BigBad into kidnapping kids.]]

* ''VideoGame/MonsterQuest'' has for its third mission El Monstro, which is in the fictional lake in Mexico Lago verde (meaning Green Lake in Spanish), which is said to bring good luck and chase off evil spirits. The mission is based around invesigating fishermen seeing the monster and the photo they took of it, as well a neclace made from its scales and a skeleton of its baby both owned by a curio shop owner. [[spoiler: It turns out the former was merely a log they mistook for it and decided to make money off the photo, the scales were from garfish and for the same purpose, and the skeleton was forged to attract tourists.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Transarctica}}'' has a bridge over a lake in the north-western part of game map guarded by this monster. [[spoiler: Crossing it without the unique harpoon car, which can obtained in only one location, is definitely a bad idea.]]

* According to Mike Wazowski from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'', Nessie was actually banished to the human world along with [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti the Abominable Snowman]].

* ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'': One strip (that guest-stars Doraemon's sister, Doralin, with Doraemon absent for some reason) have Nobita making a bet with Suneo and Gian about proving the Loch Ness Monster's existence. After Nobita's research evidence get debunked, he asks for Doralin's help, who then produces a drilling underwater gadget to create a tunnel all the way from Japan to Scotland to lure the monster in. To Nobita and Doralin's surprise, ''it works'', and the actual Loch Ness Monster ends up in Japan, but they have to quickly take it back to avoid being spotted by local authorities.

* According to Mike Wazowski from ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', Nessie was actually banished to the human world along with [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti the Abominable Snowman]].

* The non-human cast of ''WesternAnimation/TheFamilyNess''.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' has an ''undead'' lake monster, [[FluffyTheTerrible named Agatha or Aggie]]. One assumes it was a ''living'' lake monster at some previous point. There's also a still-living one, the Avanc, in another lake, who turns out to be a human victim of a BalefulPolymorph {{Curse}} from an [[TheFairFolk evil shadow fey]]. Unsurprisingly, the two Domains where they're found (Forlorn for Aggie, Tepest for the Avanc) are Celtic-themed.

* Music/TheyMightBeGiants' have a song called "Lake Monsters" that questions whether such creatures might exist: "Is this a different world? Are they really there?"

* "Literature/TheMonsterOfLakeLametrie", 1899 short story, provides an {{Unbuilt|trope}} example: Two scientists discover an Elasmosaur living in a lake high in the Wyoming mountains and manage to kill it, shortly afterward one commits suicide and the other decides to perform a BrainTransplant into the creature’s body.

* The Creator/ShawBrothers film, ''Film/DragonSwamp'', has the titular swamp being inhabited by a plesiosaur-like monster, who pursues the heroine while she attempts to cross the lake on a boat.

''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}, as a FantasyKitchenSink, of course has those, but also has a major subversion in the Ogopogo, as they're actually an almost-extinct (as in, it's possible the only ones left in the entire [[TheMultiverse Megaverse]] are a single mated pair and their small-ish brood) breed of serpentine water dragons, who like many other extradimensional lifeform on Rifts Earth are simply refugees trying to live in peace; fortunately for them, they're gentle and very intelligent, and their little corner of the planet is one of the less dangerous locales in the setting, so they've easily ingratiated with the few locals.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'' has an ''undead'' lake monster. One assumes it was a ''living'' lake monster at some previous point.

* ''WebVideo/TierZoo'': An AprilFoolsDay episode discusses the Loch Ness Monster during its look at cryptid builds. It's assumed to be a plesiosaur build that managed to survive the [[TheDinosaursHadItComing massive balance patch]] that banned most prehistoric reptile players. Plesiosaurs were top-tier builds prior to the patch thanks to their long reach proving useful for catching schools of fish, and Nessie would fare just as well in the current metagame. In fact, there's no way that the Loch Ness server could ever suport a build as overpowered as Nessie, which is a point against its very existence.

* Canada has several, including [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogopogo Ogopogo]] (which is actually protected under provincial legislation, just in case) in the Okanagan Valley lakes and its cousin [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manipogo Manipogo]] (who lives in Manitoba), [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igopogo Igopogo]] (also known as Kempenfelt Kelly, who lives in Lake Simcoe, Ontario), and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphre Memphre]]; (in Quebec/Vermont, the first recorded North American monster). All of them were recorded in local legend long before the 1930s; as far back as the 1810s for Memphré. There is also Winnipogo (Lake Winnipegosis) and [[ComicStrip/{{Pogo}} Igopogo]].

* Lake Okanagan (85 miles long and 3 miles wide) in British Columbia is supposed to the home of Ogopogo, a Nessie-type monster. Other alleged lake monsters across Canada have been given names that riff on Ogopogo's, including Manipogo (Lake Manitoba), Winnipogo (Lake Winnipegosis), and, most whimsically of all, [[ComicStrip/{{Pogo}} Igopogo]] (Lake Simcoe).

[[caption-width-right:349:It's... [[{{Narm}} kind of hard to take it seriously]].]]

* ''VideoGame/TheSims'': Occasionally, one of these swims down the river in the Neighborhood view. It's a random event, and not in any way related to any of the games going on in the households.