Comment on Is there anything like a Beholder monster before 1975?
Mothra@mander.xyz 12 hours agoThere is plenty of similar, I also recall a Powerpuff girls episode with something like a beholder, also in the 90s I think. No infringement either, because it wasn’t exactly a beholder nor it was called a beholder.
That Pixar movie did use a proper beholder though.
Anyway… They’re all after 1975 so…
bryndos@fedia.io 42 minutes ago
Yeah I'm surprised no one has dug up any obscure faerie or troll creature.
So it does seem to be fairly original thing with maybe some medusa inspiration.
In the real world some of the drawings of beholders with toothy mouths make me think of angler fish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_one-eyed_creatures_in_mythology_and_fiction
There's some cool things in this list, but i don't see anything like it really similar enough.
Closest in appearance might be this listed as a 1973 comic, so close in time, but maybe too tentacleish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuma-Gorath
I can't get past this one though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasa-obake
That should have been in D&D