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Chimera is referenced when describing the shape shifting guardian creature that follows and protects John smith in the movie "I Am Number Four"
- The character Beast from Disney's Beauty and the Beast (1991 film) is a Chimera like creature, with the horns of a bison, brows of a gorilla, nose and mane of a lion, the back mane of a hyena, the tusks of a boar, the arms and chest of a bear and the hind legs and tail of a wolf.
- In the second installment of the Mission: Impossible series, known as Mission: Impossible II (2000), a pharmaceutical company creates a virus called Chimera in order to generate a market demand for the antidote it also created, Bellerophon.
- In the film "The Relic", the creature is described as a combination of creatures, derived from the Brazilian relic statue described to Sizemore's character as a Chimera. The creature is a modern incarnation of the mythological Chimera. as one of the first creatures
- A Chimera appears in the 2012 film Wrath of the Titans as the first creature Perseus fights and is presented as a colossal double headed beast with huge bat wings. Although it still has the body of a lion and a serpent head on its tail, the creature's two main heads do not bear any particular resemblance to either a lion or a goat, although the left head does bear a single horn on its forehead. The creature uses its two heads together in order to breathe fire, with the horned head spewing a flammable liquid and the other head producing the spark to ignite the fuel.
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