Talk:Manticore/@comment-37076256-20181102222158/@comment-25936766-20181102231754

Actually, if we go by appearance it makes no real sense for it to be an older Manticore.

The Manticores all had a big, bony mane. And we know that as Grimm get older they either look the same or grow more boneplate, not lose it. And as you can see in the opening, the Manticore has no mane at all. In fact it was far less boneplate.

Given that such a thing has literally never happened with any other Grimm species since Vol.1 to Vol.5, Occam's Razor shoots down that idea.