Salamander (legendary creature) in popular culture

References to the legendary salamander in popular culture - in fiction (especially fantasy fiction), role-playing and video games, animation, and so on - can be categorized in three ways: as a fantastic (sometimes magical) beast with an affinity with fire, as a true fire elemental, [cite encyclopedia
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Fantastic beasts

;Books
*In "Estates and Empires of the Sun and Moon", Cyrano de Bergerac depicts a battle between the salamander as fire-creature and the remora as ice-creature, culminating in the triumph of the remora.
*In C.S. Lewis's Narnia novel "The Silver Chair" (1953), salamanders are said to be very wise creatures that live in the flames of Bism and speak to the gnome-like Earthmen there.
*In Piers Anthony's Xanth novel "A Spell for Chameleon" (1977), salamanders are lizards who breathe magical fire.
*In Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, salamanders are used by iconographers to create the flash for their pictures. See, for example, "The Truth" (2006).
*Salamanders appear as magical beasts in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series (1997-2007). They are bright-orange lizards that can live in fireplaces.
*In the Spiderwick series of children's books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black (2003 onwards), salamanders appear as lizards with many paws that can live in the fire without burning and evolute to wyrm dragons as they become adult. Goblins, griffins and giants are shown eating salamanders, the latter being able to breathe fire when they do so.
*In Emily Gee's novel "The Thief With No Shadow" (2007), salamanders are humanoid fire-breathing troglodytes with blood-red skin, (figuratively) flaming eyes, spiny crests, and snake-like tails: "Not lizard, not man, but something else."
*In "", salamanders ("Salamandra ignis"), are shown as being black and yellow, six-legged creatures who live in volcanic vents and secrete a "milk" which puts out the flames.

;Games
*In the "RuneScape" MMORPG, salamanders can be caught and used as weapons that shoot fire.
*Throughout the entire Final Fantasy media franchise, salamanders can be found as fire-breathing enemies.
*In the "Warcraft" series, the salamander is a monstrous reptilian quadruped with a fiery breath weapon, reaching about 40 feet long and weighing close to 4,000 pounds. [http://www.wowwiki.com/Salamander Salamander - WoWWiki, the Warcraft wiki] ] Compare salamander (elemental), below.
*In the tabletop fantasy wargame "Warhammer Fantasy Battle", a salamander is a giant, predatory amphibian that inhabits jungle swamps and estuaries and can vomit a fiery venom.
* In the tabletop space opera wargame "Warhammer 40,000", the Salamanders are a chapter of the Imperium's Space Marines, named for the lizards native to their volcanic homeworld, themselves named for the legendary salamander.
*Salamander is one of the eight elemental spirits featured in the "Mana" series. Unsurprisingly, he represents the fire element.
*The Digimon Salamandermon has fiery qualities to it and a flame pattern on its back.
*In the Pokémon media franchise, Charmander is a salamander-like Pokémon with some of the fiery characteristics of the legendary salamander.
*In the "Age of Wonders" PC game, a salamander is a type of Lizardman that is born once in a generation. It is "born of fire" and delights in lighting things ablaze. Lizardmen hate and fear fire, and think of salamanders as outcasts. However, the salamanders are still fiercely loyal to their lizardmen brethren, and will fight for them in battle.
*In the PlayStation 2 video game "Odin Sphere", Salamanders are small, lizard-like reptiles that are enemies in the fiery Volkenon region.
* In the online game "AdventureQuest" The player can fight the fire creatures Young Salamanders and Salamanders.
*In Dungeon Keeper 2, the salamander is a creature that resists lava and can launch fire balls from its mouth.
*In the NES game "The Magic of Scheherazade", Salamander is the fire demon fought at the end of the fourth chapter.

;Other
* In the anime Legendz, Salamander is an anthropomorphic fire lizard who is relegated a role as a minor character.
*In the episode Little Orphan Hero of Drawn Together, Foxxy Love references a Salamander Jesus.
* In the television show, Beyblades, Johnny McGregor has a bitbeast that is a salamander-like creature named Salamalyon.

;See also :Reptilian humanoids in fiction

Fire elementals

*In Poul Anderson's short story "Operation Salamander" (1956), fire elementals appear as lizard-shapes hidden in flame.
*In the Mercedes Lackey's Elemental Masters series (1995-2005), salamanders are portrayed as lesser fire elementals.
*In "Dungeons & Dragons", salamanders are serpentine beings who dwell in metal cities in the Elemental Plane of Fire. The Flamewalkers of the Warcraft series are based on these. [cite book
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*In the "Warcraft" series, the salamander (elemental) is the flame-loving cousin of the fire elemental, originating from the Firelands on the Elemental Plane. Compare salamander (beast), above.
*In the "" video game, Nathan can summon Salamander to provide him with fire-elemental magic.
*In the Nintendo DS game "Lost Magic", the Salamander is one of the four elementals, found in Blaze Lake; attacks using fireballs.
*In the Super Sentai series Kyuukyuu Sentai GoGo-V, Salamandes and his infant form Drop are homeage to the Salamander and the constellion Leo. Both were brought into the US adaptation as Olympus and Impus respectively.

;See also: Elementals in fiction

Allusion

; Books

*In the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451 (1953), the vehicles driven by the "firemen" are called Salamanders.
*In David Weber's Honorverse series, the main character, Honor Harrington, is often referred to as "The Salamander" as she is always to be found where the action is the hottest.

;Games

*In the "BattleTech" franchise, the Salamander is a Clan anti-battlemech and anti-infantry battle armor that utilizes a flamethrower-type weapon in conjunction with incendiary missiles.
*In the second and third installments of the games in the Mega Man: Battle Network series, a player with a style aligned with fire can harness the power of fire and sent a great flame in the shape of the creature flying at the enemy, a powerful attack known as the Salamander.

;Other

*In the manga/anime "Fullmetal Alchemist", Colonel Roy Mustang, known as the Flame Alchemist has a salamander depicted on the transmutation circle on his gloves. While wearing the gloves, with a snap of his fingers, he can set anything ablaze.
*In the anime "Digimon Frontier", Kanbara Takuya's human evolution Agnimon has three attacks, two of which are Salamander Break and Burning Salamander. In addition, Takuya's theme song is "Salamander", performed by Takeuchi Junko.
*Jethro Tull's song "Salamander", from "", contains several allusions in its lyrics; for example: "born in the sun-kissed flame" and "burn for me and I'll burn for you".
*In "See Homer Run", an episode of The Simpsons, Homer Simpson becomes the Safety Salamander, a fire-safety mascot.

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