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The '''Manticore''' is a monster originating from Clasical Mythology. Said to originate in Persia, it is a [[Sphinx]]-like monster consisting of a lion with a fang-toothed human's head and a tail covered in myriad spikes, which it can launch to impale victims from a great distance. Some variants instead just give it a simpler [[scorpion]]-like stinging tail instead. In fantasy games, the manticore is occasionally depicted with bat-like wings, allowing it to fly.

The creature is generally considered a fierce, malevolent and ravenous brute, seeking only to gorge itself on as much raw meat as it can find and attacking anything that moves in pursuit of food and/or the pleasure of the kill.

==Dungeons & Dragons==
The manticore has been around in [[Dungeons & Dragons]] pretty much since the beginning. Just like the [[Chimera]], they decided to put wings on it for seemingly no reason. The standard depiction is as a brutish but roughly sapient flying predator with vicious melee attacks and the ability to hurl spikes from its tail as ranged attacks.
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==Warhammer==
In the [[Warhammer Fantasy]] setting, manticores are flying, leonic beasts associated with [[Chaos]]. They are sometimes used as steeds both by [[Chaos Champion]]s and by [[Dark Elves (Warhammer Fantasy)|Druchii]] leaders - indeed, the Druchii revere the manticore as an animal sacred to [[Khaine]] and one of his aspects, such is the beast's love of slaughter. They're so bloodthirsty, even their riders often struggle to control them. Mention is also made of Mer-Manticores in Aranessa Saltspite's backstory.

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==Star Wars== 
An Imperial Star Destroyer named Manticore shows up in the ''Jedi Academy'' trilogy (which sucks) aping the earlier established ISD [[Chimera|Chimaera]]'s name. What's interesting about this is the trilogy also stated the Manticore was a supposedly extinct beast that was since proven to be an archeological hoax/mistake that people still thought was cool enough to name things after anyways. While the trilogy is bad enough to dismiss this as more of Anderson's bad writing [[Wikipedia:Archaeoraptor|this kind of thing happens]] [[Wikipedia:Hadrosaurus#Classification|more than you think]] [[Wikipedia:Apatosaurus#Discovery_and_species|in real world palaeontology]], especially if you count young and adult dinosaurs being mistaken for separate species, and plenty of [[Dinosaur]]s known to be fake still show up in fiction.

==Monstergirls==
[[File:MGE Manticore.jpg|thumb|250px|right|The legendarily infamous MGE Manticore.]]
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Manticore monstergirls are rare, but quite distinct from your standard [[catgirl]], what with the flying and the stinger tail. They are often especially aggressive in temperament.

The [[Monster Girl Encyclopedia]] version of the manticore is particularly infamous, as not only does it have a tail covered in spikes that secrete aphrodisiac venom, but the bulbous tip of the tail actually opens up into a tentacle-filled secondary vagina that secretes the same venom as part of its lubricating fluids. The ability of this monstrous sexual organ to extract semen from men is almost memetically infamous.

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