Chimera

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Chimaera is a member of group of cartilaginous fish related to sharks.

Chimera or chimaera may also refer to:

[edit] In fiction

[edit] In music

  • "Chimera", a 1983 solo album by Bill Nelson
  • Chimera (album), a 2003 album by Delerium
  • Chimera (Mayhem album)
  • Chimera (Andromeda album)
  • "Chimera", a song by Duncan Sheik from a version of Daylight
  • Chimaira, a thrash metal band from Cleveland, Ohio
  • "Chimaera", a song by Bad Religion off their 1992 album Generator
  • "Chimera", a song from The Tea Party's 1999 album TRIPtych
  • "Chimera", a song by Yahpp, former leader of the group Banya, for the game Pump It Up NX
  • In Gravity, a medical thriller written by Tess Gerritsen, the chimera virus killed astronauts aboard a space station after mutating when introduced to space atmosphere
  • "Chimeras" is a track from Tim Hecker's album Harmony in Ultraviolet.
  • "Chimera Hummer" is a song by the Japanese techno and gamewave group, FLOPPY, off of their 2005 album, Sine Wave Orchestra.

[edit] In games

  • A Chimera is a magical beast in the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons
  • The Chimera APC is a vehicle of the Imperial Guard in the tabletop miniatures game Warhammer 40,000.
  • The world in which the computer video game Harlequin takes place
  • A mutated insect-like creature in Resident Evil
  • Chimera are the creatures that have first appeared in Russia and overrun most of Europe during the 1950s in Resistance: Fall of Man
  • A unit for Night Elves in Warcraft 3 [1]
  • In the game Final Fantasy VIII It is a creature with four different heads and a tail which is a snake. It has the resistences of multiple creatures.
  • In the game Final Fantasy XI, there is a creature named Khimaira that has the head of a lion, the body of a behemoth, and the tail of a scorpion.
  • In the Dragon Quest videogame series, a chimera is a type of monster with a vulture head and a worm body. It has been called wyvern outside of Japan.
  • In the Japanese game Mother 3, the monsters manufactured by the Pig Masks are named Chimeras

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