What is the best fictional animal ever created?

[Kolby Jack]

RULES!!! READ FIRST!

1. It has to be a full-on animal. No human traits (other than human personality traits that writers often place in animals). Basically no cat people or centaurs or whatever.

2. It can't have a voice. I don't care what it looks like, when it starts speaking it basically becomes a person in an animal's body.

3. It can't be an actual real world animal. I'm not talking about fictional animals that are actual real world species here, I mean animals that were thought up in the imagination. Hybrids of two or more animals still count, but no Scooby-doo! He's just a Great Dane (and he can talk).

Now that that's out of the way, here's my favorite (sorry to everyone I'm sure I'm gonna ninja with this):


Ah yes, the humble Chocobo. I don't know why, but you just can't hate these things. I don't know if they're fluffier, yellower ostriches or giant chickens, but every time these appear in a Final Fantasy game I instantly perk up, regardless of how I actually feel about the game itself. They also look really fun to ride, but somehow I doubt riding an Ostrich would be as fun. I'll ask Jim Carrey when and if I ever meet him.

 

[Hollyday]

most practical animal ever - fantastic transport and cosy sleeping bag

 

[hazabaza1]

Dragons.
The thread can end right there. Fuckin' dragons, yo.

 

[Muspelheim]

Griffons, of course. An eagle-lion. What's not to like? Well, unless you're a horse.

 

[Scarim Coral]

This guy-
It's a huge lava lizard that can drill underground and the ceiling with its beak and best of all it can shoot a lazer like beam from its mouth!!!

 

[x EvilErmine x]

It's a Liger, bread for it's skills in magic .

[sub]cookie for the reference[/sub]

 

[theparsonski]

It's a Liger, bread for it's skills in magic .

[sub]cookie for the reference[/sub]

Napoleon Dynamite.

Make it a chocolate chip one please.

EDIT: I'm gonna break the rules of the thread and say Bill the Pony. I DON'T CARE THAT PONIES ARE REAL FFS!

I'm so sorry Bill, you didn't deserve to be left in such a way.
No doubt the Watcher in the Water ate him after everyone else had left...

Here's a montage of his best moments:

Bill getting matey with his elf friend.

Bill with his best friend. *sniff*

Bill being a hero. (Yes, I know he's just walking but in my mind he just saved the entire Fellowship from all of Saurons minions)


Buh Bye Bill :'(

 

[Cyntac Wong]

Dragons is a good shout.

Do Aliens (Giger ones) count?

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Dragons, Chimeras, Unicorns, Griffins... y'know, the mythological sort of animal.

 

[BENZOOKA]

There's no doubt about this.
HUAN
from Silmarillion
http://img-fan.theonering.net/~rolozo/images/nasmith/sil-luthien.jpg

 

[Sablestick]

The Dopefish. swim, swim, hungry

 

[Simmo8591]

I know it beaking pretty much every rule but.... Hobbes, of Calvin and Hobbes fame

 

[Wereduck]

Dragons is a good shout.

Do Aliens (Giger ones) count?

I believe LV426 Xenomorphs are kosher so +1 to this.
I've always suspected they were macroscopic bioweapons but they're certainly animals, don't talk and nobody said they had to be naturally-evolved. They're nastier than dragons too: both can eat you but for when they don't would you rather get burned to ash or have a larval monster eat its way through your chest?

 

[Thaluikhain]

Half the animals in Australia may or may not actually exist, but will still kill you if you provoke them.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

How about a Luck Dragon?

 

[Rumpsteak]

Uhh do weeping angels count?

If not Dragons, who doesn't love dragons.

 

[tippy2k2]

I don't know if it counts because it can say one word but it doesn't really speak, so I'm counting it. They're ever so cute, can be fiercely loyal, and in a jam, can get your gaming back up and running if you have a power outage!

Spoiler: Do you know who I am?

That's right! It's Pikachu!!!