The Lizard in Society

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There is no particular order to any of these, just lizard related things I find in today's media. This is a work in progress and will be updated whenever I find the time. Please feel free to write a comment or email me about anything you think would fit here and I will endeavor to add it in.

To actually read about lizards in society instead of looking at pictures visit the My Thoughts on Lizards in Society post.

Spider-Man 

The Amazing Spider-Man Comic 1963

The Amazing Spider-Man Movie 2012
The Lizard, a.k.a. Curt Connors in the Spider-Man comics and The Amazing Spider-Man

Tangled

2010

2010
 (sooo cute!!!! I coudn't resist adding this)
Pascal, Rapunzel's chameleon friend and sidekick in Tangled

Ahhh! So cute! A chameleon

Mulan

1998

1998

1998
 (technically not a lizard but I just had to add him)
Mushu, the guardian, sidekick, and comic relief of Fa Mulan...but don't call him a lizard  

The Rescuers Down Under

1990
Joanna the Goanna, McLeach's pet lizard. 
Based off of the predatory Australian monitor lizards

A Goanna

1990
Frank, an insane and hilariously funny frill-necked lizard, 
seen as one of McLeach's prisoners.

(Isn't he just the most adorable thing you've ever seen!)

A frill-necked lizard, also known as a frilled dragon.

Bill the Lizard 

1951
First seen in Alice in Wonderland
(I have no idea what kind of lizard he could be, any ideas?)

1986
Unfortunately Bill falls in with the wrong crowd 35 years later as one of  Ratigan's lackeys in The Great Mouse Detective  

Rango

2011
Rango Vazquez Gutierrez, a strange pet chameleon who becomes stranded in
 the desert and uses his unique wit to survive.

Same family of lizards as Pascal from Tangled 

Chameleon...so cool! 

2011
Beans Sanchez Hernandez, the equally strange
 desert iguana female counterpart in the movie Rango.
I have to say I did not know she was suppose to be a lizard until recently, 
I think the hair throws me off

A desert iguana, I have to say the coloring is similar to Beans. 

2011

Waffles, another character in Rango, is a "Horny Toad," 

a general nickname for the desert horned lizard you may hear me talk about.

The desert horned lizard or horned lizard if you prefer,

 the same lizard that's on my welcome post 

2011

Bad Bill, one of the main villain's minions, is a Gila monster.

A Gila monster, the only venomous lizard native to the US, 

however it is so slow-moving and sluggish 

that it does not pose much of a threat to humans.

Look at that tongue! Beautiful colors too.

The Lion King

1994

I don't know if this counts as a lizard in society but that's too bad 
because I feel amazing for actually remembering 
that there is a lizard in Lion King

This seems to be the most similar lizard, the Jackson's chameleon 
or three-horned chameleon.
Probably one of the the funkiest looking lizards I've ever come across


FernGully: The Last Rainforest

1992
Simply known as Goanna, the almost villain who wants to eat the 
main characters and actually has his own rather disturbing 
song about how much he wants eat them.
  Same species as Joanna the Goanna from The Rescuers Down Under

A goanna or monitor lizard. 
As you can see, they can be colorful but not quite as colorful as the FernGully version.

The Magic School Bus

1994-1997
Liz, the pet sidekick to Miss Frizzle

The Jackson's lizard seems to be the most similar to Liz's design.
As you can probably see by now, 
entertainers tend to reuse lizard species a lot.


Godzilla

1998
Now before anybody says anything, I am aware that there are a lot of versions of Godzilla and his/her origin story varies widely. However, in this particular movie Godzilla is the result of a 
nuclear fallout near an iguana's nest.
That said I really liked this movie but it got bad reviews...then again I like just about anything that has Matthew Broderick in it.

So it's kind of hard to decide exactly what kind of lizard Godzilla is suppose to be and it doesn't help at the opening credits for the movie shows multiple species. I went with the marine iguana mostly because they look similar and Godzilla takes a swim in the Hudson River during the movie.

Colin Versus the World

2002

Colin, the only main character lizard I've ever seen in a TV show. Unfortunately only the pilot episode was aired and the show never caught on. I watched it and I'm sad to say that I'm not surprised it ended with episode. See the one and only episode here. By the way, this is the only thing I've ever looked up on the internet for pictures of and they just didn't exist.

This is a Wellington green gecko. I really have to idea what kind of lizard Colin might be, but I'm guessing he's a gecko of some kind, because of his sticky tongue but there are really no distinguishing marks so this is my best guess.

GEICO Gecko

 1999-present

I don't believe the GEICO gecko has a name but we all know him. 

I love GEICO commercials, they must have a great PR team. 

And it does make me happy to see a lizard mascot.  

The Madagascar giant day gecko. Nobody seems to know what kind of day gecko the GEICO gecko is and it doesn't help that there are 43 species of day geckos. I think this is a pretty good approximation. 

Holes 

 2003
Shia LaBeouf as Stanley Yelnats IV covered in the deadly "yellow-spotted lizards."
This lizard doesn't actually exist, the ones you see here are bearded dragons with makeup for the spots.

A central bearded dragon, the most likely species of bearded dragon used in the movie.
This lizard to not as big as it appears, which kind of threw me off. 

Teen Wolf

2012
The character Jackson (Colton Haynes) seen as a kanima, 
which looks lizard-ish... definitely reptile like.
Similar to The Lizard in The Amazing Spider-Man comic, also no idea what species this was based off of, he's got some ridges on his back though.



Cirque du Soleil

Cali in the Cirque du Soleil production of Amaluna. I just saw it and it is amazing! I was so excited to see a lizard/human character. The story is based off of Shakespeare's The Tempest. If you ever get the chance to go to Cirque du Soleil I highly recommend it.