| rdfs:comment | - A common way of making monsters or fantastic creatures is to simply take existing animals and combine their parts. For instance, the Chimera (lion head, goat body, snake tail) or the Minotaur (bull head, human body -- a Half-Human Hybrid). Also common is to simply take an existing animal and vary it a simple way -- Pegasus is a horse, but with wings, hippocampi have the heads and front bodies of horses but the tails of fish, etc.
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| abstract | - A common way of making monsters or fantastic creatures is to simply take existing animals and combine their parts. For instance, the Chimera (lion head, goat body, snake tail) or the Minotaur (bull head, human body -- a Half-Human Hybrid). Also common is to simply take an existing animal and vary it a simple way -- Pegasus is a horse, but with wings, hippocampi have the heads and front bodies of horses but the tails of fish, etc. Compare Biological Mashup, which is when two characters are combined after the fact; Mix-and-Match Critters are supposed to look like that. Mix-and-Match Critters may be the result of Hot Skitty-On-Wailord Action. If both creatures are already mythological/magical/whatever and get mixed, they become a Hybrid Monster. Application of the principle to humans may count as Bio Augmentation, see also Mix-and-Match Man.
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