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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3830949" data-attributes="member: 22779">Again, I ask the same question:  if the image is depicting a character as described, and that written description is similar to anime tropes, is it inspired by anime?  Our Mindflayer here is a ninja.  So, it makes sense that he's going to be dressed LIKE a ninja.  Also, he's traveling the Plane of Shadow, so, the background is... well... shadowy.  The pose is stock martial arts and can be found in pretty much any comic book.  The energy aura makes sense for a creature that carries a magic weapon with some sort of energy attack (I don't have this book, but, I'll guess that the mind flayer comes with a stock cold weapon of some sort).  As far as the impossible polearm, well, I've seen some collections of polearms in museums that actually look very similar to this.  Granted, the museum was in Korea, so, certainly an Asian flavour to the weapon, but, Asian =/= Anime./edit - as far as the pose goes, I just happened to watch 300 last night.  Compare the pose of our Mind Flayer with the young Leonidas pose as he defends himself from the wolf in the beginning of the movie.Anyone have the MMV so we can compare the image to the actual stats of the creature?</blockquote>