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Treant is a popular character type/race found in newer-strategy/RPG computer games.

===Computer and video games===

...r. When a person or ghost hunter develops the picture or loads it onto his computer the photo has a hovering, round ball. Some of the orbs show up filled with

*Dryads appear as servants of the Trickster in the [[wikipedia:Thief (computer game series)|Thief]] series. * Dryads are featured throughout the [[wikipedia:Quest for Glory]] computer game series.

...st or wraith, and so many works of fantasy fiction, role-playing games and computer and video games use the term as the name of spectral creatures very similar

...re (video game), a 1991 video game developed by Velocity for the Macintosh computer

In the computer sci fi horror game [[Doom 3]] the '''Hell Knight''' is a gigantic demonic l

==Use in computer games == In computer games. the Jinn are often broken into five classes (jinn, jann, ifrit, mary

...rince and lord of the undead; through this latter use Orcus appears in the computer game NetHack as a demon prince found in Gehennom who holds a wand of death.

*In the computer game Serious Sam and it's sequels '''Kleer Skeletons''' are one of the most *The 1998 computer game ''Grim Fandango'' was about animated skeletons.

* In the ''Myth series'' of computer games, shades are undead sorcerers much like liches. Another monster called

A monster called a "sea monk" also appears in some fantasy-based computer and card games, such as Lost Kingdoms II and Final Fantasy XI.

* The characters Yomu Konpaku and Yuyuko Saigyoji in the Toho Project computer games are accompianied by hitodama. Youmu is described as a half-ghost, wit

* Kamaitachi is the name of the program used to subvert the Apple Computer-supplied bootloader / kernel system in the Apple iPhone to get it run alter

* A jackalope was featured on the cover of Sam & Max Hit the Road, a computer game starring a dog detective, Sam, and his rabbit sidekick, Max, whose mis * A jackalope character appears in the first chapter of the computer game King's Quest VII: The Princeless Bride.

...empire is an advanced computer modeled after Quetzalcoatl. Eventually this computer gains sentience and creates its own multi-dimensional theocracy. *In the computer game ''Rise of Legends'', there is a playable race called ''Cuotl''. There

* In The Heroes of Might and Magic series of computer games, Sprites are the weakest troops available to the Sorceress class.

The [[Warcraft]] series of computer games, night elves, though not quite the traditional Dark Elf, are a predom In [[The Elder Scrolls]] series of computer RPG, '''Dark Elves''' (often referred to as '''Dunmer''') lived generally p

...& Dragons'' character, have appeared in other fantasy games, particularly computer and console role-playing games. A five-headed dragon, intended by Takhisis

In 1995, Robinson bought a computer and started looking for females to unleash his sexual [[fantasy (psychology

...ective of five rats with entwined tails who were able to communicate via a computer terminal.

...ped by computer programmers who do not understand the deep workings of the computer.

...ntrollable unit in Age of Mythology – a mythology based real-time strategy computer game developed by Ensemble Studios and published by Microsoft Studios. Chir

...of Energy]] has a service called Hoaxbusters that deals with all sorts of computer-distributed hoaxes and legends. A TV series, ''[[MythBusters]]'', tries to

...allen Angel'' is the name of a freeware Role Playing Game for the Personal Computer – Abaddon [http://abaddon.igerard.com]

*The CF/A-17 Wraith is a Terran space superiority fighter in the popular computer game StarCraft. It is armed with Gemini Air-to-Air Missiles and a 25mm burs

* The computer game X-COM: Terror from the Deep features, as its climactic final mission,

...and horror settings. They feature prominently in many role-playing games, computer role-playing games, MMORPGs and strategy games. In such games, special rule

...never used, would be ''kraker''), has appeared in many games, particularly computer and video games. ==Computer and video games==

...that Humberside Police did not check under the name Huntley on the police computer - if they had then they would have discovered a burglary charge left on fil

...mmend the use of [[headphones]], because the voices are often faint, and a computer for processing the recordings is very helpful. ...who is contacted by the spirit of a woman who has been transferred into a computer system and helps him bring down a corrupt medical company that is withholdi

'''''Doom 3''''' is a sci-fi horror first-person shooter computer game developed by id Software and published by Activision. Set in 2145 in t ...way with the id logo on a brick at the end. By selecting it as one would a computer in the game, a wall opens up, and on a table in the room is a PDA with cong

| [[PlayStation]], [[Personal computer|PC]], [[Sega Saturn]], [[GameCube]] (remake), [[Nintendo DS]] | [[PlayStation]], [[Game.com]], [[Personal computer|PC]], [[Dreamcast]], [[N64]], [[GameCube]]

Shub-Niggurath is the final adversary of the first-person shooter computer game ''Quake''. It also makes an appearance as the main villain in the onli

He also worked on the creative side of a horror computer game, ''Clive Barker's Undying'', also providing the voice for the characte

*[[Computer_icon|Computer icons]]

*In the computer role-playing game series "Exile" and its remake series "Avernum", the Nephi *The Shivans in the computer game Descent: FreeSpace fly a heavy bomber codenamed Nephilim by the Terran

* Mentioned in the CD soundtrack to the hit computer game "The 7th Guest". Though the song is not featured in the game, the them

In the real-time strategy computer game ''Age of Mythology'', Cronus—who is called Kronos within the gam

...[RuneScape]]'', goblins are creatures that are mainly for beginners to the computer game to loot for gold and experience. They are generic goblins and are very ===Goblins in other computer games===

...Simurgh has appeared in Squaresoft's Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy XI computer games as enemy and notorious enemy respectively.

...rk City library were also searched that day. Officers were seen removing a computer from his City Hall office, but it is unclear if any evidence was found at t ...ations were handwritten, but typed, stenciled, stamped with a stamp set or computer generated.

*In the computer game ''Dark Quest IX'', level 14, ''Danger in Hades'', Talos is a huge mons

* In the computer game ''Devil May Cry 3. Dante's Awakening'', Geryon is one of the bosses, a

* Golem XIV is name of a hyper-intelligent computer from a sci-fi novel written by Stanisław Lem in 1981. ...supplement called Warforged) and are almost ubiquitous in the many fantasy computer and card games inspired by it, such as NetHack, the [[Final Fantasy]], [[Wo

...painting [[Garden of Earthly Delights]] is parodied. Satan seems to have a computer on which he can view details about everyone who enters Hell. Bart's arrival * The first game in the ''[[Quake]]'' computer game series involves an invasion by forces from Hell. Note however, that th

* Cookie Monster Munch is a video game developed by Atari and Children's Computer Workshop for the Atari 2600 and released in 1983.[citation needed] The game

...n feature of many fantasy games, both pen-and-paper role-playing games and computer games. Examples of games which feature hobbits include the Quiz Magic Acade

The formless spawn appear as adversaries in the [[Computer and video games|video game]] ''[[Quake]]''.<ref>"Quotes from [[Sandy Peters

...y of cruelty to animals is one of the traits that regularly appears in its computer records of serial rapists and [[serial killer|murderers]], and the standard

* In the computer game Age of Mythology, the chimera is granted to Greek players for worship

* The dark side in the 1980s computer game ''Archon'' starts the game with two basilisks, which fire very fast pr

*''[[wikipedia:Escape Velocity Nova|EV Nova]]'', an Australian-designed 2002 computer game from Ambrosia Software contains attacks from Drop Bears in Auroran Emp

...high in numbers. They often ride wolves or wargs. In many role-playing and computer games, though not in Tolkien's works, orcs are often depicted with pig-like ...antasy settings and games, including a signature of the Warcraft series of computer games and spin-offs.

*In the computer game Quest for Glory V: Dragon Fire, an immortal Hydra is one of the monste

* In the computer game God of War 2, Kratos fights against the Moirae so he can go back in ti

In video and computer games, the Universal Monsters have also made appearances, in titles such as

...a:Weird Science|Weird Science]]'' film and television series was a sort of computer-generated Frankenstein monster, designed to be a toy for Gary and Wyatt. Th

...from a full-grown mountain troll. In the film, the troll was animated with computer-generated imagery. There are a few other subsequent mentions of trolls; for In computer games with a fantasy theme, trolls appear in many shapes and dispositions.

...signs of a slavery on his home planet and the dominant race had also had a computer chip inserted in his brain, making the beast more intelligent. The alien's

...er Colin Wilson. David Langford described how the book was prepared from a computer analysis of a discovered "cipher text" by [[John Dee|Dr. John Dee]]. The re

*Verant Interactive's smash hit computer game Everquest (1998-). Shaman characters may learn and train in this skill *Square Enix's Final Fantasy XI computer game (2003). Alchemy is one of the tradeskills a character may learn and tr

...ition Everest at Disney World's Animal Kingdom. The Yeti (in the form of a computer generated shadow and a large robotic creature) attacks a mountain train. In

...Even so, Ghidorah appeared to be winning the battle until its controlling computer was sabotaged, allowing Godzilla to use his atomic ray to decapitate Ghidor

...tute of Technology (the prestigious '''MIT''') developed ''Kerberos'' as a computer network authentication cryptographic protocol which allows individuals comm

...''H'''ome '''O'''ffice '''L'''arge '''M'''ajor '''E'''nquiry '''S'''ystem) Computer system.

Unique demons or monsters named Baphomet appear in many computer and video games, often acting as a boss monster. Notably, the final boss of

*In the computer game ''Diablo II'' (specifically the expansion pack ''Diablo II: Lord of De *In the MMORPG Computer game Lineage II, The Homunculus is a unique mystics sword used commonly by

...niverse, in which the naga is a race of evil serpent-like humanoids in the computer games series developed by Blizzard Entertainment.

===Computer games=== The Daleks have featured in computer games since the 1980s, beginning with an unlicensed modification of the ''R

* Named Sydonai, he is the final boss in the computer game Hellgate: London. He looks similar to Cthulhu.

...fantasies (aided by modern technology for photo modification or completely computer generated images). There have been extreme cases of real life sexualized ca ...cher. At least one of his requests was successful: Jürgen Brandes, another computer administrator, offered himself to be slaughtered. The two men agreed on a m

...arctic environments and they can shoot ice shards from their wrists. The computer role-playing game ''Diablo II'' features the Wendigo as a large and weak ye

*Anubis appears in several computer games such as '''War Gods''', '''Zone of the Enders''', '''Broken Sword 3''

...cially as non-player characters) in ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' and in some computer fantasy role-playing games, such as the [[MMORPG]] ''RuneScape'', the [[Fin

In the late 1970s parapsychologists Alan Gauld and A. D. Cornell did a computer analysis of those cases collected since 1800 to that time. They identified

===Digital arts & computer games=== ...te of Souls' is a computer game developed by Koei and released on the PC98 computer system in 1994 and was never released outside of Japan. It is an Action Adv

...radio in 1978 and subsequently spawning a series of best-selling novels, a computer game, comic books, audio recordings of the radio program and other products

...ine, an [[Dungeons & Dragons (TV series)|animated television series]], and computer games such as the MMORPG [[Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach]]. Hobby

...is often specifically chosen by the Japanese producers of [[anime]] and [[computer games]] as a translation of some other Japanese concepts as well.

*Phoenix was one of the characters in the 1980s computer game|Archon, originally released for Atari but later ported for various oth

...intelligence]] definition, has had important consequences for logic and [[computer science]].

...ess Discovered that featured a digital enhancement of the Dinsdale film. A computer expert who enhanced the film noticed a shadow in the negative which was not

...cartoon Neurotically Yours, the character Foamy the Squirrel refers to his computer being "...as unstable as Charles Manson."