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Modern Fiction

Examples of polycephaly in modern fiction include:

• In Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Percy and his companions sight a hydra. They also have multiple encounters with Cerberus, the mythical three-headed dog who guards the underworld in Greek mythology.
• Zaphod Beeblebrox, in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• Joe-Jim, from Robert A. Heinlein's Orphans of the Sky, is a mutant case of dicephalic conjoined twins.
• Various Yu-Gi-Oh monsters have three heads, most notably, the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon.
• Magic: The Gathering has Hydras and sporadically features various creatures with multiple (particularly two) heads since Limited Edition Alpha like Two-Headed Giant of Foriys, which has also a multiplayer format named after it, implying that two players team up against two other players. Further cards include Two-Headed Dragon, Two-Headed Sliver and also Double Header, which could be regarded as a parody of such creatures.
• Troigs from the Star Wars universe
• Various Pokémon, including Doduo (two heads), Dodrio (three heads), Exeggutor (three or more heads), Girafarig (two heads), Zweilous (two heads) and Hydreigon (three heads with two lacking brains). Dugtrio is often cited as having three heads, although it may as well be a colony of three animals.
• Gleeok, from The Legend of Zelda is a multi-headed dragon, with his number of heads depending on his occurrence. It appears in the Legend of Zelda(two heads in level 4, three heads in level 6, and four heads in level 8), Oracle of Seasons(two heads), and Phantom Hourglass (two heads).
• The Red Etin, three-headed giant of Scottish folklore.
• The Three-Headed Giant in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
• Fluffy, a gigantic three-headed dog in the novel Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. The dog is based on Cerberus.
• King Ghidorah, the evil dragon king in the Godzilla franchise and Godzilla's arch enemy.
• Tryclyde, the three-headed snake enemy from the video game Super Mario Bros. 2.
• In the third episode of the sixth production season of Futurama a two-headed goat with heads on opposite sides of the body is shown puking one end and vomiting diarrhea the other.
• Linda-Louise Carney, a comic book character, who's a two-headed, teenage circus freak and part of the cast from Archie Comics' The Carneys. She also appeared on a cover of a different comic book series known as Dumb-Ass Express.
• Devon and Cornwall, a two-headed dragon character from the Warner Bros. animated film Quest for Camelot.
• Rose and Ruby Darlen, craniopagus parasitic twins in the novel The Girls, their fictional autobiography told from alternating viewpoints as they approach their thirtieth birthday, making them the world's oldest craniopagus twins.
• The Pushmi-pullyu from the Doctor Dolittle books by Hugh Lofting.
• In the Fallout series there are 2-headed cows known in-game as "Brahmin."
• Zak and Wheezie from Dragon Tales.
• CatDog has the head of a cat and dog, from the series bearing the same name as the character.
• The Two-Headed Monster on Sesame Street.