Poll in a second. I’d explain my interest but I don’t care enough.
Green-skinned woman with snakes for hair.
The stop-motion animated Gorgon from the old-school “Clash of the Titans” movie.
Ugly, scaly woman with snake for hair, fangs, the whole Medusa bit.
Medusa
Medusa.
That’s my first thought. It’s immediately followed by Carrie Donovan, who the Onion once referred to as an “Owl-headed gorgon” in a Snapshot poll and that’s somehow stuck with me over all these years.
This, only in monochrome. Spent lots of hours playng that game.
ETA: Not trying to be funny. That’s really what comes to mind. I would have had to look up the mythology meaning.
Fool of a
:: pauses to check libel schedule ::
Kentaur!
Saying Medusa is no answer, as the thread question could just as well be rephrased to read “What should Medusa look like?”
What do they teach in these schools, anyway?
I think of Ernest saying "Never met such a Gorgon… I don’t really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair… "
Ditto!
The first two only. They don’t have to be ugly, but on the other hand, not hot because Vallejo’s muscley women don’t do much for me.
Please leave Patrick Swayze out of this.
When you criticize Borish Vallejo you are supposed to do so much more vehemently, using the phrase talentless semi-pornographic Etruscan hack at least twice. There’s a rule somewheres.
Anyway, the notion that gorgons were beautiful rather than hideous (even post transformation) did not begin with that talentless semipornographic Etruscan hack.
I’d expect a large, bull-like creature, possibly metallic, with a petrification special attack, either by gaze or breath. Dunno where my Monster Manual is, but it is definitely not at the office, so I can’t check quicky.
Also think it can only be hit by magic weapons. If you kill one in its lair, it might have pretty good loot from previous victims…
Louise Bogan’s poem which is one of my favorites for capturing a mood as well as a scene, and the fact that I think of Gordon the Gorgon because I’m weird that way. Boris and Frazetta can do the illustrations, too.
#1-3, with #5-7 being optional but not required.
Medusa with the hair of snakes. Also, Dungeons and Dragons had a monster called a Gorgon that was some sort of bull from hell covered with black scales.
The D&D one first, then the medusa. It’s usually easy to tell which is which by context.
My choice wasn’t in the list:
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Skald, you forgot an option for ST:TOS, ep #59