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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KarinsDad" data-source="post: 6414987" data-attributes="member: 2011">Evidence for this claim?<a href="http://polaqu.wikia.com/wiki/Tarrasque" target="_blank">Not yet</a>"The tarrasque is a creature of French myth. It first appeared in the MM2, written by Francois Marcela Froideval."<a href="http://rpg.crg4.com/originsT.html" target="_blank">Still not yet</a>The closest thing I can find is an article written in 2012 entitled "Tarrasque, Godzilla's AD&D" (probably a translation error, it probably means "Tarrasque, AD&D's Godzilla"), hardly an early source. The article does not have a single source to back up its claim and the translation is a little sketchy. It does state that it got some of its information from the web forum Dragonsfoot. Again, not exactly evidence of anything.I suspect that a lot of people here believe that the Tarrasque was developed as a Godzilla-like creature and maybe it was. Who can say what the influences are on monster manual monsters in the mind of a designer? It's original incarnation didn't look too much like Godzilla. Nor is it's motivation Godzilla-like. It appears to exist to eat.[ATTACH]64705[/ATTACH]This really does appear to be an urban myth, probably propagated by gamers.</blockquote>