Mythological Creatures

Chimera (13)

In Greek Mythology, a chimera is a creature that breathes fire and has a lion's head, a goat's body and a snake's tail. 

Also the word Chimera can mean: something that exists only in the imagination & is not possible in reality. (like an impossible dream) 

In genetics, the term is applied to someone who has at least two different sets of DNA.  It sounds crazy, but it happens! In fact, doctors think it probably happens more often than we realize. Unless there were some reason to test the DNA from cells in different parts of your body, you could easily be a chimera and never know it.  

The term chimera has come to describe any mythical or fictional animal with parts taken from various animals or creatures, or to describe anything composed of very disparate parts, or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling.  

This is exactly similar to what the Dread Doctors did. Their prime goal was create the perfect killing machine. They nearly succeeded with Theo who they described as "perfect evil," however, they discovered to create real evil was to "corrupt something good." Harnessing the power of The Beast of Gevaudan , they resurrect Sebastian Valet through Mason Hewitt. Once the beast remembered who it was, it killed the doctors while they revel in their success. 

The Doctors created hybrids by combining parts, most seem to have some werewolf traits mixed with more exotic species, to form a chimera. Theo says they are "cheap knockoffs" of the supernatural creatures they resemble.

 Sheriff Stilinski and Melissa had figured out that several of the chimeras they knew about had skin or other tissue transplants at the hospital in the past. This suggests they were all genetically chimera before the Dread Doctors. 

It was when they started bleeding or secreting mercury that they were failed chimeras or 'failures'. 

"In a small New England town, teenagers are taken in the night and buried alive. Days later they emerge transformed wreaking havoc and spreading terror, commanded by an ancient order of parascientists known only as the Dread Doctors."