#Evil minion series#

The television franchise V features the Visitors, a lizardlike alien race who disguise themselves as humans. Other examples include the Gorn from Star Trek and the Dracs from the film Enemy Mine (1985). An early appearance was in the story ' The Lizard-Men of Buh-Lo' (1930) by Francis Flagg. In works of science fiction, aliens are often depicted as closely resembling animals, with reptilian aliens being no exception.

#Evil minion series#

Merchandise based on the series included several series of toys, among which they included replicas of the reptilian Rulons. In the 1980s, the animated television series Dino-Riders feature a race called the Rulons, of which some individuals were reptilian humanoids, that served as the main antagonist to the protagonist Valorians upon which the series is based. These almost simultaneous inventions originated the modern reptilian humanoid trope. Edgar Rice Burroughs' Pellucidar series featured primitive dinosaur-descended humanoids living in the Hollow Earth called the Horibs or snake-men in his 1929–1930 crossover Tarzan at the Earth's Core. Howard's King Kull stories starting in 1929 as well as in the linked Cthulhu Mythos. The Serpent Men, reptilian humanoids who can project illusions of human form, appeared as villains throughout Robert E. They are often depicted as powerful warriors, though their relative intelligence to humans varies – as with other anthropomorphic races, a greater resemblance to humans often denotes more 'civilized' behavior. They can be based on various reptiles, like lizards, crocodiles, alligators, snakes, dinosaurs, and the fictional dragons. In fictionĪnthropomorphic reptilian races or beings commonly appear in fantasy and science fiction. In the late 1980s, there were hundreds of supposed sightings of a ' Lizard Man' in Bishopville, South Carolina. Ĭlaims of sightings of reptilian creatures occur in Southern United States, where swamps are common. In South Asian and Southeast Asian mythology, the Nāga are semi-divine creatures which are half-human and half-serpent. Two Nāga heads carved into the Baphuon Temple at Angkor Thom, Cambodia