Siren is monster #80 from the Series 3 figures, and has a point value of 20.
Like other Series 3 monsters, Siren was only available through restaurant promotions.
Official Biography[]
(Translated from Spanish.)
Species: Humanoid / Animal
Born: 4000 years ago
Size: 1.50 meters
Habitat: A mysterious island
These creatures have the torso and head of a woman and the tail of a fish. Her beautiful singing causes sailors to lose course and wreck. The only way to escape is by covering your ears with cotton and singing a sweet song. If you succeed she will sink into the sea and become coral.
2006 Series[]
Siren is a monster in the class "The Ghosts. " She is monster #39. This version of the Siren has a more beautiful appearance to her, with very long blonde hair and a red dress, but hiding her true evil and intent with a cunning smile. Her background photo is of a coast with an island at dusk.
Official Card Biography[]
The beautiful Siren sings her ghostly sweet songs to lure men and their ships from the sea towards the dangerous and rocky reefs of her remote island hideaway! Tempted by her bewitching, hypnotic songs, seamen sail smiling and willingly into their cold, deep, watery graves.
Origin[]
Sirens are well known in Greek mythology, but their appearance varies from story to story. In some their entire body is that of a bird, with only the face of a woman, and in others they have entirely human bodies with the wings of a bird on their back. In some stories, they have the tails of fish, like mermaids.
The sirens were the beautiful daughters of Achelous, the river god. In most stories, the women were turned into the sirens as punishment when their friend, the goddess Persephone, was kidnapped by Hades and they didn't help save her. The sirens lived on a small island in the Mediterranean Sea. The creatures lured passing sailors to them by singing in beautiful voices that no could hear without falling in love with the singing. When seamen, enchanted by song, sailed to the sirens, fierce waves crushed their ships against the rocky shore and sent the sailors to their doom. The sirens would pluck their bodies from the water and devour them.
Only two ships managed to pass the sirens unscathed. The first was Jason and the Argonauts. They had Orpheus, a skilled musician, on board with them, who sang loudly to drown out the sirens' songs as they passed their island. The other was Odysseus. He made his crewmembers stuff wax into their ears then tied himself to the ship's mast. This way, Odysseus could hear the siren's songs but his crew couldn't, nor could they hear his orders to be untied or to turn the ship towards the sirens.
Gallery[]
Comic Series (1991)