Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-37076256-20181111001255/@comment-4010415-20181111002239

No one said it has a different face. The argument is that it has a different head, as in the entire skull, not just the mask's shape or designs. For example, if you actually compare their snouts, they're entirely different. The Manticore has a much longer and wider snout than the Sphinx.

So, you think that the Manticore's scorpion tail transforms into a snake just because it got older? Also, the King Taijitu is half black and half white, so not all of the Grimm are 100% black aside from their bone spikes and masks.

In order for a Manticore to grow up into a Sphinx, this is what would need to happen:


 * Its snout would shrink, becoming much shorter and narrower.


 * It would lose a bunch of its bone armor, including the bone spikes that resemble a lion's mane.


 * It would lose its bull horns.


 * Its neck would become much longer.


 * Its body would become more slender.


 * Its scorpion tail would transform into a snake.


 * It would lose an entire toe, on each paw.

It is currently far too speculative to blatantly state on the article pages that the Sphinx is a form of Manticore in any way whatsoever. If it turns out that it is not a Manticore, then we will have been spreading misinformation. It's not like the Sphinx page states "This is not a Manticore at all." It simply states that CRWBY calls it a Sphinx.