Talk:Sphinx/@comment-33287020-20181104003255/@comment-25936766-20181104010425

You know, considering both the Sphinx and the Manticore are lion-like creatures in mythology, if MK really planned for the Sphinx to be an alpha of the Manticore, then why give them a completely different name that, combined with the different bodies (Sphinx has no mane and far less boneplate, different skull, more slender body, much longer neck, a more feathery body, snake tail instead of a scorpion tail), would only create unnecesary confusion?

They could've gone with the "Adjective" idea they've used for literally every other Grimm species whose elder forms have been named. For example, they could've called the Sphinx "Panthera Manticore", or "Apex Manticore", because "Panthera Leo" is the genus Lions belong to, and Lions are apex predators, at the top of the food chain.

They got different anatomy and names. Only similarities are the fireballs and being flying quadrupedal Grimm. In other words they are about as similar to each other as Beowulves and Ursas. They couldn't call it "Big Manticore" because it's literally not a big manticore, it's a different creature altogether. Similar, but different.