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| - Ricou Browning portrays the underwater Gill-man throughout the three films. Ben Chapman plays the Gill-man on land in the first film, followed by Tom Hennesy in the second, and Don Megowan in the third. The Gill-man's popularity as an iconic monster of cinema has led to numerous cameo appearances, including an episode of The Munsters, the motion picture The Monster Squad and a stage show.
- <default>Gill-man</default> Home Planet Color First Appearance A monster from the 1954 movie Creature from the Black Lagoon.
- The Gill-man, better known as The Creature from the Black Lagoon, is the titular character and villain in the classic sci-fi film The Creature from the Black Lagoon and its two sequels. It has since become an iconic Universal monster, although never reaching the status of Frankenstein's creation, Count Dracula and others.
- The Gill-man in his natural habitat, as portrayed by Ricou Browning in Creature from the Black LagoonAfter having found the fossilized remains of another Gill-man, a marine biology institute funds an expedition to the Amazon in order to find more remains. Though the Gill-man reacts violently to the intrusion, he develops a soft spot for the team's only female member, Kay and repeatedly tries to abduct her, going as far as building a makeshift dam to prevent their boat from escaping. After having killed numerous members of the expedition, the creature takes Kay to his underwater lair, where he is tracked down by the remaining survivors and riddled with bullets. The creature sinks into the depths of the lagoon.
- Gill-Man (as he is referred to in the voice credits) is a one-off character and antagonist in The Venture Bros. episode Venture Libre. He is a lab-created gill-man and a member of U.R.G.H, serving as one of Venturestein's revolutionary soldiers. As such, he resides in Puerto Bahia.
- Gill-Man è nato vicino Palermo, circa 30 mila anni prima di Cristo, suo padre era un enorme merluzzo e sua madre una prostituta Ittio-zoofila. Purtroppo, però, il padre andò a comprare le sigarette, mentre la madre si sposò con Nessuno. Il neonato Gill-Man fu lo affidato al WWF, con cui crebbe, fino a diventare un uomo pesce adulto. Visse in Sicilia fino al 1815, anno in cui dilagò la mania della pesca, e fu costretto a trasferirsi in America, e più precisamente in una laguna dell'Amazzonia.
- According to producer William Alland, the idea behind the film was originally thought up by an unnamed Brazilian director whom he met at the home of Orson Welles. The unnamed man spoke of a friend of his who disappeared in the Amazon in an attempt at filming a documentary on a rumored population of fish people. There were various designs for the creature. William Alland envisioned the creature as a "sad, beautiful monster" and the sculpture of it was much like that of an aquatic development of a human. Alland said, "It would still frighten you, but because how human it was, not the other way around". Originally, the creature's design was meant to incorporate a sleek, feminine eel-like figure, which did not have as many bumps and gills as the final version. The designer of the approved Gill
- Rain Robinson had a figure of the gill-man on display in her office at the Griffith Observatory. (VOY: "Future's End") In early 2377, Tom Paris and B'Elanna Torres witnessed the creature while watching Revenge of the Creature with their 3D glasses on in a recreation of Chicago's Palace Theater on the holodeck. (VOY: "Repression")
- The Gill-man is a fictional monster that stared in the 1950's Creature from the Black Lagoon film series. He lived in "the black lagoon", which is located in the Amazon Rainforest. When a team of researchers sails into his lagoon, he kills a few team members. He is then captured and locked in a cage aboard the Rita, the scientists boat. The Gill-man escapes in the night and blocks up the crew's only exit with logs. The Rita is trapped on the Black Lagoon. While trying to remove the logs, the Gill-man abducts the head scientists beautiful assistant. When he flees to his cavern lair, his body is riddled with bullets. He retreats to the lagoon, where his supposedly dead body sinks into the depths. He is revealed to have survived, and he is taken to Ocean Harbor Oceanarium in Florida. He takes
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