Underused and overused magical creatures in fiction.

[Cipiteca396]

Gargoyle
Sphinx
Cyclops
Treant/ent
Nephele

I would say some of these are overused, one of them is a name rather than a creature, and four of them will be appearing in my story.

 

[Derin_Edala]

Hmm, aside from all the ocean ones and Krampus...

Space monsters. It's that whole, 'If aliens existed they would have shown up by now' thing. Space should be filled with super powerful monsters, and some of them should be attacking at random every 12 minutes. Sure, maybe they wouldn't survive the trip into atmosphere. But it would really funny to have a constant rain of extra crispy space squid every couple days.

Have you read KA Applegate's Everworld? A bunch of teenagers get isekaied to a medieval-ish fantasy world that the Earth gods created after abandoning Earth (they found it too boring, if memory serves). It was all pretty stable, everyone essentially recreating little versions of the civilisations that worshipped them, a vast magical forest full of fairies, etc., but recently everything's been put in jeopardy because aliens showed up and started invading.

The isekaied kids selling random Earth tech to whoever happens to be interested in order to pay for the stuff they need... does not help matters.

 

[owotrucked]

I would say some of these are overused, one of them is a name rather than a creature, and four of them will be appearing in my story.

Yeah I meant cloud waifus