"mother's death. He hands Chloe off to a stranger. The rat population is growing and Willard cannot afford to keep feeding them. After overhearing one of Al's friends boasting of a large cash withdrawal, he sneaks into the man's house and orders his now-trained rats to tear up the bedroom door. The man and his wife wake up and flee the house upon seeing the rats, and Willard steals the bundle of cash. The next day, a worker spots the rats. Al bludgeons Socrates to death, devastating Willard. When Joan refuses to persuade Willard to sell his house to Al,"
"a dense moustache, which makes him the object of mocking abuse by his underlings as a human walrus. He is very short-tempered and usually gets angry with Mort and Phil because they fail in their missions, leaving a spectacular mess - occasionally at the expense of his own possessions. Just as often, however, he ends up as the one being chased by his underlings, as his frequently short-sighted assignments cause them no end of grief. He owns a variety of wild animals that he uses to coerce the pair, including tigers, crocodiles and he apparently has a soft spot for"
"named Mowgli, who has extraordinary skills in hunting, tracking, and driving wild animals (with the help of his wolf brothers). He asks him to join the forestry service. Mueller, the head of the Department of Woods and Forests of India as well as Gisborn's boss, meets Mowgli, checks his elbows and knees, noting the callouses and scars, and figures Mowgli is not using magic or demons, having seen a similar case in 30 years of service. Muller also offers Mowgli to join the service, to which Mowgli agrees. Later, Gisborne learns the reason for Mowgli's almost superhuman talents; he was"
"the genre trappings of 1950s science fiction. A common reaction to meeting Howard the first time is a startled, ""You...you're a DUCK!"" His near-constant companion and occasional girlfriend is former art model and Cleveland native Beverly Switzler. Like Howard, Beverly wants an ordinary life but is frequently singled out for her appearance, though she is a beautiful and sexy woman rather than a duck. Their only other friends are Paul Same (a painter who briefly became a sleepwalking crime-fighter named the Winky Man) and Winda Wester (a lisping ingénue with psychic powers); he has worked with Spider-Man and the Man-Thing"
"Anguilla. In the 1989 film ""La Vouivre"", the vouivre was a wood nymph. Guivre A guivre is a mythical creature similar to a dragon. In legend they were portrayed as serpentine creatures who possessed venomous breath and prowled the countryside of Medieval France. The words ""guivre"" (wurm, wyvern (which is derived from it), or serpent) and ""givre"" are spelling variations of the more common word ""vouivre"". Vouivre, in Franc-Comtois, is the equivalent of the old French word ""guivre."" All these forms are derived ultimately from Latin ""vīpera"", as is English ""viper"". Guivres were said to possess a long, serpentine body"
"Trevor (a rat) and complains to her boss and lover, Bletch (a walrus), who is actually in an adulterous relationship with Samantha (a cat). Meanwhile, Robert (a hedgehog), the newest member of the team, arrives at the theatre and immediately falls in love with another newcomer, Lucille (a poodle). Samantha confronts Heidi, insults her, and reveals her relationship with Bletch. Robert confesses his love to Lucille, and the two become engaged. Sid (an elephant) receives a visit from his ex-girlfriend Sandy (a chicken) with his alleged son Seymour (an improbable-looking elephant/chicken hybrid). Sandy informs him she will be preparing a"
"Mordiford, Maud, who had desperately wanted a pet. While wandering the forest adjacent to her village one day, Maud had found a small bright creature with a snout and small, translucent wings prowling around a small group of flowers. Excited by the creature, the girl took it home to show to her parents. Immediately her mother and father realized it was a wyvern and commanded Maud to take it back to where she had found it because it would cause trouble in the village. The indignant Maud pretended to obey but instead hid the infant dragon in a safe place"
"Orleans and among the many creatures he has to deal with on a regular basis are some loup-garou. In Romauld Racioppo’s children’s picture book series Les Pjyamasques, the Rougarou is called “Grogarou” in his first book called “Les Pjyamasques Et Le Grogarou” The 2015 short film ""Atchafalaya"" centers around a game warden searching in a Louisiana swamp for a missing person who is hinted to have been taken by a loup-garou. The creature is only vaguely seen in the film with a head resembling a bear. In Pascalle Lepas' webcomic ""Wilde Life,"" one of the main characters is a ""werewolf,"""
"he is fearful of all human beings. He says he needs two herbs to save Michelle's life: lungwort and eyebright. With limited time, the Furlings head off for their journey the next day. After encountering numerous dangers, including a hungry barn owl, a flock of religious wrens led by preacher Phineas, and intimidating construction equipment that the wrens call ""yellow dragons"", the Furlings make it to the meadow with the herbs they need. There, they meet the bully squirrel Waggs, and Willy, a tough but sensible mouse who grows a liking for Abigail. After getting the eyebright, they discover that"
"her. Neff and Wilson consult another expert, Dr. Carl Ferguson, who works at the Museum of Natural History and has examined the paw-print casts by Rilker. Ferguson observes the paws' resemblance to canine paws, except for longer fingers and claws, and belong to a species not classified yet. Neff becomes concerned after developing the feeling, much as Wilson did, that observed her when she was near a window with a balcony, a location difficult to reach due to its height. It is discovered that a pack of intelligent and savage canine creatures called the Wolfen are stalking the city. These"
"the monster; the film opens up with Fievel having a dream about being chased by what he thinks the monster looks like (a fiery demonic cat with a mouse trap on its tongue). When, through Tanya, he is assigned the job of following Nellie and drawing up interperatations of what the monster looks like based on witness testimony, this makes his insomnia all the worse. A particularly suspicious miniature French poodle named Madame Mousey, who has started living among the mice about this time, appears at every crime scene, claiming to be a fortune teller. The heroes finally decide to"
"Wilde would later have a casual sexual relationship. He received the name of ""Dragon"" (due to his fin and green skin) from Nurse Ann Stevens, who would later become a supporting character in ""Mighty Man"". The Dragon was found in a burning field by Lt. Frank Darling. At the time, Chicago was being terrorized by villainous ""superfreaks"" (Larsen's collective term for superpowered characters), namely the criminal gang called the Vicious Circle, led by the mysterious Overlord. Realizing that the Dragon's superhuman powers would be a terrific boon to the police in battling the Vicious Circle, Darling asks the Dragon to"
"in 1997. Caillou is an average, imaginative, bald four-year-old boy with a love for forms of transportive machinery such as rocket ships and airplanes. A dreamer, Caillou is prone to frequent dream sequences in some episodes, visualizing his daydreams and hopes, and many episodes chronicle his normal daily experiences with his parents, friends, and neighbours. Caillou particularly loves his stuffed dinosaur Rexy and teddy bear Teddy, along with his pet cat Gilbert, all of whom are depicted as puppets in segments featured in the earlier episodes. The puppet segments were used only on the PBS telecasts of ""Caillou"" from 2000"
"1861 dealing with gorillas, ""The Red Eric"" and ""The Gorilla Hunters"". The idea of an imaginary double consisting of gorilla and hunter most likely resulted from the work of American missionary and naturalist Thomas S. Savage, who was the first (with Jeffries Wyman) to name the animal, in 1847, and explicitly set it in opposition to the hunter:They are exceedingly ferocious, and always offensive in their habits, never running from man as does the Chimpanzee ... The hunter awaits his approach with his gun extended; if his aim is not sure he permits the animal to grasp the barrel, and"
"in """"De Mosterd van Abraham"" (""The Mustard of Abraham"") (1973)"", but, despite wanting to marry him at first, she eventually rejects him """"because his moustache is too long and his socks too short."""" In """"De Gladde Figaro"" (""The Slippery Figaro"") (1991–1992)"" he wants to marry Madam Pheip, but she too rejects him. Tuizentfloot usually gets on well with animals. In """"De Granaatslikker"" (""The Grenade Swallower"") (1957), ""Het Wonderwolkje"" (""The Magic Cloud"") (1960)"" and """"Kouwe Kwibus"" (1967) (""Cold Weirdo"")"" he respectively uses a pig, a pelican and a giant mosquito as his personal mount. Still he can attack and kill them"
"a tiger, though he still wears his trousers, as does Bud, who becomes a rooster when he is frightened or disgusted. Mei Mer's legs are replaced by a porpoise's tail; Tuttle becomes a sea turtle, his cumbersome body becoming an armored sphere. The first three are heroes of their tribes of beasts, each committed to protecting a magical statue of their tribe, which are called ""Jinn."" Each has a stereotypical childish desire: Wan is hungry, Bud Mint wants girls, Mei Mer wants wealth. In addition, Bud often begins his responses with English expletives or sayings. The joke is that the"
"films such as Ultraman and Godzilla franchise. Several of these were odd enough to catch his eye, and he used them to represent several new monsters, including the owlbear, the bulette and the rust monster. The owlbear is depicted as an eight to ten foot (2.5–3 meter) tall cross between a bear and an owl. According to descriptions in ""Dungeons & Dragons"" source books, owlbears are carnivorous creatures, famed for their aggression and ferocity; they live in mated pairs in caves and hunt any creature bigger than a mouse. They use a ""hug"" and their beak to attack. In the"
"neighbors are Bob and Constance, a married couple going through some rough times in their relationship. Because of their failing relationship, Bob becomes depressed. Meanwhile the Logan brothers are looking for their bowling trophies stolen three years earlier. The brothers have turned their happy life of bowling into a life of vengeance. Brautigan tried to have all the main characters in the story have an intersection that is comically sad. Richard Brautigan got the name Willard in the novel from his friend Stanley Fullerton's paper-maché bird named Willard and, in fact, a bird is on the front cover of the"
"Aside from his best friend Bill Badger, some of the most enduring pals are an elephant (Edward Trunk), a mouse (Willie), Pong-Ping the Pekingese, Algy Pug (who actually pre-dates Rupert), Podgy Pig, Bingo the Brainy Pup, Freddie and Ferdy Fox, the identical twins Reggie and Rex Rabbit, and Ming the dragon. The kindly Wise Old Goat also lives in Nutwood, and helps Rupert in some of his adventures. One of the most unusual and evocative characters is Raggety, a woodland troll-creature made from twigs, who is often very grumpy and annoying. In the 2006 television revival of the series, Raggety"
"boys are able to identify each of them as mythological animals. The identifications were: a Gulon, a Mi'raj, a Basilisk, a Catoblepas, a Peryton, a Shadhahvar, an Eale, and a Barometz. Frustrated at this, Donald becomes obsessed with getting to humiliate his nephews, so he runs to Grandma's farm and begins disguising her horse. However, he has mistaken Grandma's new, more sanguine horse for her old, calmer one, and when the horse kicks Donald out of annoyance, everything goes out of control. The boys expect to see perhaps a griffin or a chimaera, but what they do see is a"
"girl, Lilla Watford, while a local lady, Arabella March, seems to be running a game of her own, perhaps angling to become Mrs. Caswall. Edgar Caswall is a slightly pathological eccentric who has Mesmer's chest which he keeps at the Castra Regis Tower. Caswall wants to recreate mesmerism, associated with Franz Mesmer, which was a precursor to hypnotism. He has a giant kite in the shape of a hawk to scare away pigeons which have gone berserk and attacked his fields. Adam Salton discovers black snakes on the property and buys a mongoose to hunt them down. He then discovers"
"dozen anthologies. Peterson, a crew member of a spaceship loading up with food animals on Mars, buys an enormous pig-like creature known as a ""wub"" from a native just before departure. Franco, his captain, is worried about the extra weight but seems more concerned about its taste, as his ship is short of food. However, after takeoff, the crew realizes that the wub is a very intelligent creature, capable of telepathy and maybe even mind control. Peterson and the wub spend time discussing mythological figures and the travels of Odysseus. Captain Franco, paranoid after an earlier confrontation with the Wub"
"beech wood in Oxfordshire, near the director's home. Kenneth Williams provided voices for all of the characters. The principal narrator, Willo the Wisp, was a blue, floating creature drawn as a caricature of him, while the name refers to the ghostly light will-o'-the-wisp from folklore. The other main characters were Arthur the caterpillar (as a gruff cockney), Mavis Cruet, a plump, clumsy fairy with an erratic, magic wand, and the principal antagonist, Evil Edna, a witch in the form of a walking, talking television set who could zap people with her aerials. Other characters included Carwash, a snooty bespectacled cat"
"three passions are the clarinet, poetry, and interior design, but he keeps this private out of fear of being mocked. On the other hand, Greg, the younger brother, is all about play and being carefree, much to Wirt's chagrin and the danger to himself and others. Greg carries a frog (Jack Jones), whose name is undetermined and who can communicate only through singing. Stalking the main cast is the Beast (Samuel Ramey), an ancient creature who leads lost souls astray until they lose their hope and willpower and turn into ""Edelwood trees"". In the final two episodes, it is revealed"
"college student friend of Norman's. L. Floyd Gargle: a neighbor with a mutual loathing of Ralph. Wally: The Drabbles' hyperactive dachshund. Wally was introduced in Christmas 1998 when Norman gave Ralph a dog because he couldn't afford something. Bob: The Drabbles' duck. To protect him from the Neighborhood Homeowners Association, Norman lies and tells everyone that Bob is a rare South-American parrot who takes on the characteristics of a duck for survival. Oogie: The Drabbles' cat, who Ralph does not like, but June adores. George W. Steinbauer: The Drabbles' next door neighbor who does not like Ralph, and Ralph feels"
"who frequents the location of their cave. However, many of the dinosaurs are herbivores, posing no threat to the Marshalls, unless unintentionally provoked. One is a particularly tame young ""Brontosaurus"" whom Holly nicknames ""Dopey"", and whom Holly looks upon as a pet. They also encounter the mostly hostile Sleestak (lizard-men), and the primate-like creatures called Pakuni (one of whom, Cha-Ka, they befriend), as well as a variety of dangerous creatures, strange geography and unfamiliar technology. The main goal of the three is to find a way to return home. They are occasionally aided in this by the Altrusian castaway Enik."
"visions that feature a Wendigo which serves as symbolism for the cannibalistic titular character of the series. The Wendigo featured is tall and thin, emaciated, with tar-black skin and antlers protruding from the top of its head. Characters with the name appear in a number of computer and video games, including ""Until Dawn"", ""The Legend of Dragoon"", ""The Secret World"", ""Fallout 76"", and the ""Warcraft"" universes, as well as role-playing games such as ""Dungeons & Dragons"". Wendigo In Algonquian folklore, the wendigo () or windigo is a mythical man-eating monster or evil spirit native to the northern forests of the"
"nymphs in Wagner's Venus Mountain. Chauchat's feline characteristics are noted often, her last name is derived from the French ""chaud chat"" (Eng., ""hot cat""), and her first name includes the English ""claw"". (Her name may also be a reference to the Chauchat machine gun, a French weapon that saw significant use by the French and American forces during World War I.) Clawdia Chauchat leaves the Berghof for some time, but she returns with an impressive companion, Mynheer Peeperkorn, who suffers from a tropical disease. Mynheer Peeperkorn, Clawdia Chauchat's new lover, enters the Berghof scenery rather late; but he is certainly"
"and is wary of unfamiliar things. Fizzgig is at first wary of Jen, but becomes his friend. The name of Fizzgig's species is not mentioned, nor are any more of his kind seen, although Fizzgig's species are said to be native to Thra. Fizzgig is the only major character represented in the movie by a puppet with immobile eyes. Fizzgig later made a cameo in the ""Fraggle Rock"" episode ""Gobo's Discovery"", as one of the background cave creatures. Fizzgig was designed by Brian Froud and his Design and Fabrication Supervisor was Rollie Krewson. Aughra is an Oracle and the sole"
"a habit of wandering off in search of food. Rat and Mrs Otter warn Mole about the inhabitants of the Wild Wood and tell him of wise but solitary Badger who lives there. Then of the extraordinary amphibian, Mr Toad, and his need for speed (""Speed is of the Essence""). Summer is drawing near, and the Swallows arrive (""One Swallow Does Not a Summer Make""). Mole and Rat visit Toad Hall at the request of Mr Toad. Mr Toad is rich, jovial, friendly and kind-hearted, but aimless and conceited; he regularly becomes obsessed with current fads, only to abandon them"
"years older, she tried (but failed) to convince Ritchie to join her in a sham marriage so she could get a work permit. John Lydon nicknamed Ritchie ""Sid Vicious"" after Lydon's pet hamster Sid (which was named after Syd Barrett), who had bitten Ritchie, eliciting Ritchie's response: ""Sid is really vicious!"" The animal was described by Lydon as ""the softest, furriest, weediest thing on earth."" At the time, Ritchie was squatting with Lydon, John Joseph Wardle (Jah Wobble), and John Grey, and the four were familiarly known as ""the Four Johns"". According to Lydon, he and Vicious would often busk"
"Elder Wand has a core of Thestral hair, the only wand with such a core. ""Thestral"", a shield bug genus, is named after Rowling's Thestrals. """" writer M.A. Larson also noted Thestrals as an inspiration for a bat-winged variant of Pegasus ponies featured rarely in the series. The werewolf is a creature that exists only for a brief period around the full moon. At any other time, a werewolf is a normal human. However, the term werewolf is used for both the wolf-like creature and the normal human. A werewolf can be distinguished from a true wolf physically by several"
"and Astarté, a brave falcon with an injured wing. However, the national park had undergone security measures while Félix was gone. Mysterious animal kidnappings have occurred at other national parks and animal preservations, which had caused the shelter to be turned into a prison-like structure, leading Félix's paranoid chameleon friend Gus to believe that their human caretakers are in a conspiracy to keep the animals locked up for experiments. While the others are skeptical of Gus's claims, a female lynx, Lincesa (Lynxette in the English version), is brought to the shelter; she and Félix begin to form an attraction to"