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Slaying Mantis

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Slaying Mantis	comment	In fiction, mantises occupy an unusual position relative to their fellow arthropods. They can't match the universal positive connotations of Pretty Butterflies or Virtuous Bees, but they're not necessarily frightening like spiders and scorpions, centipedes, or moths, and certainly not disgusting like cockroaches or flies. Rather, mantises are often portrayed as the badasses of the insect kingdom. With their distinctive combat-ready stance and stock-still poise, they can easily be made to evoke martial artists — in fact, there's more than one kung fu style themed on the mantis, as mentioned in the Real Life section below. Naturally, in a world of Talking Insects, expect the mantis to fill the role of an Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy or a Master Swordsman or such, if not a full race of proud warriors. On the more negative side, the mantis might also be rendered as an Ax-Crazy Blood Knight due to the murderous spiky appearance of its raptorial forelegs. And, of course, female mantises may draw on the expected stereotype of devouring their partners after mating (this doesn't occur every time in real life, but it's been observed among nearly all predatory mantis species because mantises simply tend to catch and eat anything smaller than them when hungry — and the male is typically smaller than the female). This provides an alternative way for a writer to use the Black Widow trope while leaving spiders or spider-motif characters free for other purposes. All of these uses of the mantis can get extra personality mileage out of its upright posture and expressive "arms", making it one of the easiest insects to anthropomorphize. That's not to say you won't find some Big Creepy-Crawlies takes on the mantis as well, since it makes for a great dinosaur-like predator in a story with fifty-foot insects running around. No matter which kind of mantis you're encountering, if it strays in the least from strict realism, expect its forelegs to be depicted as having scythe-like blades in fulfillment of the Rule of Cool; having such blades would actually make the forelegs useless for a real mantis, as the purpose of their raptorial design is to grasp prey, not slice it to pieces (which in itself is a feat requiring Absurdly Sharp Claws).note Mantises have been observed to eat their prey even if they're still alive, having survived being impaled on the forelegs' spikes and not suffered any mortal injuries in the attack. As mentioned above, mantises also make a great substitute for spiders. After all, Spiders Are Scary, but they're also pretty cliche, and not as malicious as usually portrayed. Thus, a mantis can be used to make a somewhat more unique killer bug villain. Often a case of Lean and Mean, if the mantis is a villain. Green and Mean is also common, although they do come in different colors. Not to be confused with The Deadly Mantis, though that film obviously stars a Slaying Mantis, specifically of the Big Creepy-Crawlies variety.
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Slaying Mantis / int_11e6bf74	comment	In Sonic CD, the Kama-Kama enemy is a robotic mantis who inhabits Collision Chaos Zone and attacks the player by throwing his claws at him in a horizontal fashion.
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Slaying Mantis / int_13c7e530	comment	Let's Go Jungle: There's a giant mantis as a boss at the end of the Temple Level. Unlike many examples its claws aren't very sharp.
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Slaying Mantis / int_169f043b	comment	StarCraft: The Zerg are a Horde of Alien Locusts that take different forms, but almost always have some sort of scythe-like blades, that, along with their chitinous shells and vaguely-insectoid nature, make them similar to mantises.
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Slaying Mantis / int_17655771	comment	Shadows of the Apt: In a world where humanity evolved alongside Big Creepy-Crawlies and emulated them for power, those who mimicked the (gigantic, man-eating) praying mantises of the deep forests naturally developed into a race of stone-cold killing machines single-mindedly obsessed with battle and death. It's taken for granted that the Mantis-kinden are the best fighters on the planet; however, between technology making it ever easier for regular people to kill others, and their own Crippling Overspecialization, they're now a Dying Race doomed to irrelevance if something about their culture doesn't change.
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Slaying Mantis / int_1cc09117	comment	Bleach: Nnoitra Gilga is an insane, misogynistic Blood Knight who can turn into a multi-armed, shell-covered One-Winged Angel form based off a mantis equipped with multiple scythes. His release phase is even "Pray, Santa Teresa [Praying Mantis]!"
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Slaying Mantis / int_2319cc69	comment	Ori and the Will of the Wisps has giant mantises that periodically jump and try to pounce on Ori, with Underground Monkey variants that jump more frequently and/or produce a Shockwave Stomp.
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Slaying Mantis / int_27d467a3	comment	The Magic School Bus: The spider episode "Spins a Web" has a Show Within a Show with a giant praying mantis. The kids get Trapped in TV Land and end up having to fend off both the mantis (they solve that problem by trapping it with the spider-bus and hitting it with the porta-shrinker) and the general who's trying to kill it using Liz as bait.
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Slaying Mantis / int_27f4c7fb	comment	Coraline: Double subverted. The Other Father rides around on a giant clockwork mantis a couple of times, and far from being threatening, it's treated as pretty and whimsical. Unfortunately, since the Other World is actually a trap set by the Other Mother to ensnare Coraline and eat her soul, she's quick to turn this against Coraline and the Other Father (who is essentially her slave) once Coraline realizes what's really happening. The result is the poor Other Father being strapped to the mantis and forced to chase after Coraline so that he can kill her.
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Slaying Mantis / int_2bd39fd7	comment	Hollow Earth Expedition supplement Mysteries of the Hollow Earth. The Hollow Earth has giant mantises the size of a large horse. They will attack any creature up to their own size, lashing out with their forelegs at blinding speed. The Half-Human Hybrid Mantismen are human-sized and fully sapient; and have even developed their own martial art.
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Slaying Mantis / int_2ce70ac5	comment	Kung Fu Panda: One member of the Furious Five is a mantis who's very powerful despite being the size of, well, a mantis.
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Slaying Mantis / int_2ddf611	comment	Dark Sun also establishes that the true name of the thri-kreen is actually just "kreen"; "thri" is a prefix designating a tribal or nomadic kreen, but there are also civilized, settlement-building kreen distinguished by the prefix "tohr" (or "tohr-kreen" in full). It likewise divides the kreen into six subspecies; To'ksa and Jerals are virtually indistinguishable and represent the "common" thri-kreen and tohr-kreen respectively, whilst the remaining four received only the barest of details. J'ez are black-colored, warlike, and favor rocky environments. Jerals are the most physically human-like of the kreen and distinguished by their reddish-pink chitin. T'keech are green and adapted to moist environments that the other kreen can't handle. Tondi are a exclusively female subspecies who reproduce through parthenogenesis and who physically resemble orchid mantises.
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Slaying Mantis / int_2fc7f3cd	comment	AnchÃ´romÃ©, a subsetting for the Forgotten Realms, features a land where thri-kreen are the dominate race — it actually differentiates that these thri-kreen descend from kreen ported in from Athas, whereas their counterparts from the Shaar are the feral descendants of stranded Spelljammers. Anchorome's thri-kreen consist of thri-kreen (traditional nomads), tohr-kreen (settled kreen, culturally driven to mine deep crystal caverns), zik-chil (fleshwarping mystics who think the tohr-kreen are being manipulated), apleurus (a rare and xenophobic subspecies who have developed the power to change into living sand), smaragtin (aquatic thri-kreen engineered by the zik-chil), and ulyssies (forest and mountain-adapted scouts engineered by the zik-chil). Weirdly, only the zik-chil are non-playable.
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Slaying Mantis / int_305faa76	comment	Spacetrawler references mantises' reputation as dangerous when Yuri, well on her way to Unhinged-ville, gets her arms replaced with robotic, mantis-like laser-scythes.
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Slaying Mantis / int_35800114	comment	Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate: One such creature turns out to be the one behind the "giant monster" steamrolling over civilizations: Ahtal-Ka, a golden mantis that steals architecture and machinery from hunter societies and binds them together with its silk to create a walking fortress. It is the Final Boss of the G-Rank questline and the only Neopteron to be classified as an Elder Dragon-level threat.
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Slaying Mantis / int_3b442d5c	comment	Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves has anthropomorphic mantises fill the role of Chinese Vampire enemies.
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Slaying Mantis / int_3bd96c18	comment	Alita: Battle Angel: Cyborg Serial Killer Nyssiana has scythe-like robotic arms that are shaped like the forelegs of a mantis.
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Slaying Mantis / int_3d532d77	comment	Ys: Ancient Ys Vanished ~ Omen has a scythe-juggling mantis named Pictimos as one of the bosses in Darm Tower.
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Slaying Mantis / int_3ee9493b	comment	Ghosts of Fear Street features a human-sized mantis as the Big Bad of Nightmare in 3-D. It comes out of a magic eyeball poster after the protagonist makes out the image, then follows him to school. And he's the only one who can see it.
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Slaying Mantis / int_3f8cd89b	comment	The Prism Pentad: K'Kriq is a thri-keen, a four-armed mantis man, who can resist mind attacks and even magical fireballs. Unlike other examples, he hasn't got "scythe-like arms".
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Slaying Mantis / int_41b0198a	comment	The Dresden Files: One of the Denarians, Tessa, has a mantis-like alternate form. She's up for whatever causes the maximum amount of chaos and suffering for humanity.
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Slaying Mantis / int_44127c7c	comment	Power Rangers: Both the original Super Sentai versions and the adaptation have featured mantis monsters, who tend to be pretty ferocious. U.S.-only versions include: Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Season 1's "Zyu2" footage features a monster simply called "Mantis", who's extremely skilled in Praying Mantis Kung Fu. Trini is forced to learn praying mantis kung fu to defeat him one-on-one. Power Rangers Beast Morphers: Beast Morphers Gold is infused with mantis DNA (this is an Adaptation Species Change from Beet Buster, who was instead based on a rhinoceros beetle), and proves pretty skilled right off the bat.
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Slaying Mantis / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: The Assassins' Guild School has gone co-educational and now teaches young ladies how to inhume with style and grace. One of the all-female houses of study, supervised by Miss Alice Band, is variably described as Tump House and as Mantis House depending which side of the continuity error you're on. It evokes The Vamp stereotype.
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Slaying Mantis / int_49a88435	comment	Final Fantasy XII has several of them, mostly in areas accessible later in the game. One variant eats Chocobos to power itself up. Other variants eat each other instead.
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Slaying Mantis / int_49ad83ee	comment	World of Warcraft: The Pandaren's main enemies are an insect-like race known as the Mantids, introduced in the "Mists of Pandaria" expansion. While primarily enemies, you do quests for one particular faction of them.
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Slaying Mantis / int_4ab17360	comment	Inuyasha: There's a nightmarish mantis Yōkai that feeds on women's innards and then wears their skins. She's offed by Miroku, but manages to cut his Kazaana open, putting him in danger.
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Slaying Mantis / int_4be3aedd	comment	Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: Season 1's "Zyu2" footage features a monster simply called "Mantis", who's extremely skilled in Praying Mantis Kung Fu. Trini is forced to learn praying mantis kung fu to defeat him one-on-one.
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Slaying Mantis / int_4c9cce88	comment	Age of Wonders: Planetfall: Hopperhounds are an invasive species of aggressively predatory insects that can be found on almost every planet. They resemble a mix of mantis and grasshopper, combining scything claws with the ability to jump well enough to attack aircraft in flight.
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Slaying Mantis / int_4cdb8dac	comment	The Deadly Mantis features a giant, prehistoric mantis. There's also a brief monologue about how mantises are, for their size, the deadliest and most ferocious hunters in the animal kingdom.
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Slaying Mantis / int_4fe8fd1e	comment	War of the Monsters has Preytor, a preying mantis Kaiju as one of the fighters.
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Slaying Mantis / int_5013e2bb	comment	Warcraft: Warcraft III: The Crypt Lords evoke this trope: their body has the same limb distribution as a mantis (four legs supporting and two huge claws), but is much thicker and stockier, like a beetle the size of a rhino. World of Warcraft: The Pandaren's main enemies are an insect-like race known as the Mantids, introduced in the "Mists of Pandaria" expansion. While primarily enemies, you do quests for one particular faction of them.
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Slaying Mantis / int_59da62aa	comment	Fallout: New Vegas: Giant Mantis's are a common enemy found in Vault 22, and in Zion Valley. Fortunately they are very fragile, and go down easily.
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Slaying Mantis / int_5ce4cd79	comment	Grounded: An Optional Boss encounter is with an Orchid Mantis. Unlike all other bosses who can summon minions in their fights, the Orchid Mantis fights by itself, and is heavily implied to only fight those who it deems worthy of being a challenge to fight. It's also blatantly spelled out for you that it preys upon one of the other game's bosses, the Hedge Broodmother. Its attack repitoire includes passive bleeding damage on most of its strikes, long distance jumps to disengage/initiate, hitting the ground and sending out waves of dirt, a Super-Scream that can knock you onto the ground, and a potential One-Hit Kill in its triple slam attack.
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Slaying Mantis / int_5d88e44e	comment	The Haunting Hour: Swarmin' Norman features a normal-sized mantis named "Manny", who can actually hiss, as the Big Bad. He commands an army of insects, and at first is on good terms with the titular protagonist. However, when Norman goes back on his word about not hurting bugs, Manny turns on him and successfully engulfs Norman in a swarm of cockroaches. The final scene is Manny lashing his claws out at the audience, as the narrator explains how easily insects could overpower humans if they so desired.
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Slaying Mantis / int_5e16d550	comment	Black Clover: Jack the Ripper is the leader of the Green Praying Mantises and looks the part with his thin body, green clothing, and magic that forms scythe blades on his forearms. He's also a bloodthirsty fighter who wants to slice strong opponents, allies or not.
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Slaying Mantis / int_61d236b7	comment	InCryptid: The parallel dimension that Calculated Risks takes place in is home to several varieties of Big Creepy-Crawlies, including giant mantises that the local sapient lifeforms ride.
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Slaying Mantis / int_638624c8	comment	Slayers: A bunch of mantis-like bugmen appear in season 1, among Rezo's beastmen. Little characterization is given beyond "big creepy crawlies".
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Slaying Mantis / int_63ac9abf	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has Slicer, a robotic mantis who serves as an enemy in Metropolis Zone. He attacks the player by tossing his claws at them.
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Slaying Mantis / int_68237790	comment	Pathfinder: Giant mantises are extremely deadly, stealthy and efficient predators — some of the deadliest vermin-class creatures around, in fact — and have gained fearsome in-universe reputations. People who live alongside these giant insects fear them deeply, and believe any number of myths about them — that they can make themselves invisible, that they can smell fear, that they devour the souls of those they eat... And the really big ones (called Deadly Mantises) are able to kill and eat giants and dragons. There are even assassin societies that have taken to worshiping them as gods of sorts and emulate them in their fighting styles. The mantis god Achaekek is the pantheon's resident assassin and the divine patron of all Professional Killers of the setting, particularly of the universally-feared Red Mantis guild that worships him. Weremantises are deadly and Lawful Evil killers whose interactions with society are often limited to brief but passionate trysts that often end with the weremantis killing their lover. The example weremantis in Bestiary 6 is also classed as a monk, mirroring mantises' associations with deadly martial artists.
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Slaying Mantis / int_698a3e12	comment	Sorcery!: In the second gamebook, KharÃ© — Cityport of Traps, depending on your route through the city you can end up facing off against a Mantis Man, a humanoid with mantis style arms. While not particularly skilled in combat, it had around a 28% chance of instantly killing you every combat round by catching you with its arms and tearing your throat out with its jaws. As this fight would, even with the best possible results and rolls, last a minimum of two combat rounds this encounter was often lethal. It could however be circumvented with the correct spell, but mishandling the encounter could also result in instant death.
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Slaying Mantis / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: Giant mantises are twelve feet tall and have ten hit dice (ten to eighty Hit Points). They can grab prey and hold it helpless, damaging it every combat round until death. They can also camouflage themselves in order to perform ambush attacks. The thri-kreen ("mantis warriors") are a race of social insectoids who resemble a mantis with grasshopper-like legsnote in their AD&D artwork; in 3rd edition and onwards they became increasingly more humanoid-shaped, with a culture that can be summed up as a cross between humanoid nomads and a wolf pack. Favoring arid regions, they originated in the Forgotten Realms setting, but became an iconic race for the Dark Sun setting when it debuted thirteen years later, as they were Promoted to Playable in that setting. Unlike most mantis-people, they lack the iconic scythe-like armsnote except during their most juvenile state, but instead are Multi-Armed and Dangerous, with two pairs of human-like arms that they can use in natural synch, favoring barrages of bladed crystal throwing stars for ranged weapons and Dual Wielding a pair of double-ended bladed tridents in melee. Other oddities include paralytic venom they can deliver by biting, spectacular leaping abilities, and a racial affinity for Psychic Powers. Whilst not a true Hive Mind, they also do maintain a Genetic Memory; this allows their young to know intuitively how to function as an adult from hatching — "childrearing" for thri-kreen is more a matter of polishing social skills and providing skill refinement than anything. AnchÃ´romÃ©, a subsetting for the Forgotten Realms, features a land where thri-kreen are the dominate race — it actually differentiates that these thri-kreen descend from kreen ported in from Athas, whereas their counterparts from the Shaar are the feral descendants of stranded Spelljammers. Anchorome's thri-kreen consist of thri-kreen (traditional nomads), tohr-kreen (settled kreen, culturally driven to mine deep crystal caverns), zik-chil (fleshwarping mystics who think the tohr-kreen are being manipulated), apleurus (a rare and xenophobic subspecies who have developed the power to change into living sand), smaragtin (aquatic thri-kreen engineered by the zik-chil), and ulyssies (forest and mountain-adapted scouts engineered by the zik-chil). Weirdly, only the zik-chil are non-playable. Dark Sun is especially associated with the thri-kreen, and is also home to several other species of humanoid mantises such as the trin, which are believed to be ancestors of, or at least closely related to, the thri-kreen. Not as intelligent as their cousins, but still smarter than mere animals. They hunt in pack and are even faster and stronger than thri-kreen, and have the typical scythe-like arms used to crush their prey — the fact they only have one pair of arms and two pairs of legs is as much a defining feature as the presence of scythes for distinguishing them from thri-kreen. It's also home to the mysterious zik-chil, who practice Biomanipulation, and the zik-trin; kreen subjected to zik-chil Biomanipulation to make them into biological drones, and divided into the zik-trin'ta (scouts) and zik-trin'ak (warriors). Dark Sun also establishes that the true name of the thri-kreen is actually just "kreen"; "thri" is a prefix designating a tribal or nomadic kreen, but there are also civilized, settlement-building kreen distinguished by the prefix "tohr" (or "tohr-kreen" in full). It likewise divides the kreen into six subspecies; To'ksa and Jerals are virtually indistinguishable and represent the "common" thri-kreen and tohr-kreen respectively, whilst the remaining four received only the barest of details. J'ez are black-colored, warlike, and favor rocky environments. Jerals are the most physically human-like of the kreen and distinguished by their reddish-pink chitin. T'keech are green and adapted to moist environments that the other kreen can't handle. Tondi are a exclusively female subspecies who reproduce through parthenogenesis and who physically resemble orchid mantises. Spelljammer is home to the Xixchil, an Insectoid Aliens species of humanoid praying mantises whose racial hat is Mad Doctor; they have a religion that is essentially a form of transhumanism, believing that the body is the "house" of the soul and, as such, it is the duty of an individual to customize and tailor their body to better express their soul's inner nature. Modifications range from completely aesthetic, such as embedding gemstones or inlaying precious metal into their carapace, to fully functional, such as implanting concealed daggers and dart-throwers. They're even capable of completely changing an individual's biological sex. Unlike thri-kreen, they do have bladed limbs, as well as an ability to produce venom, which they can tailor to an individual's biology to make it function as a paralytic, anesthetic, or deadly neurotoxin. Which makes them natural surgeons and assassins. However, they don't share the aesthetic senses of the demihuman races, and because they believe that form follows function, this often leads to problems when others request their surgical talents. In contrast to thri-kreen, xixchil are also characterized as extremely individualistic, with a Social Darwinist attitude. Many fans speculate that the zik-chil of Athas are stranded and possibly devolved xixchil. They received an "Ecology of the Xixchil" article in Dragon #266. A Spelljammer adventure anthology called "Skull & Crossbones" establishes that there is an entire empire of spelljamming thri-kreen somewhere out in Wildspace, and the thri-kreen of the Shaar in the Forgotten Realms are their barbarian descendants via a crashed spelljammer.
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Slaying Mantis / int_6c1d09b4	comment	Fallout 4: Far Harbor has the Fog Crawlers, giant amphibious monsters mutated by the sheer amount of radiation in the oceans that rolls onto the island through the fog, distinguished by their long, scythe-like arms and by being the most powerful monsters on the island. While they resemble mantis they have elements of shrimp, implying that they descend from mutated mantis shrimp.
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Slaying Mantis / int_6d8311c4	comment	PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver introduced Scizor, an evolution of Scyther which trades its Flying type for the Steel type and its scythes for pincers. Interestingly, its base stats don't get higher but just get shuffled around (turning a Fragile Speedster into a Mighty Glacier).
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Slaying Mantis / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk: Rosine's minions are all some kind of Big Creepy-Crawlies. Guts slaughters them by the dozen, but almost finds his match when facing Rosine's two Elite Mooks. One of them is a huge rhinoceros beetle and the other one a lightning fast praying mantis. They are also considerably skillful fighters due to the fact that (at least according to the mantis) they used to be knights, whereas the insect mooks were mooks even before they transformed into monsters. He deals with them by shooting one with his Arm Cannon and using the momentum to smash his sword into the other.
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Slaying Mantis / int_70da6e51	comment	Goosebumps: A Shocker on Shock Street has six giant mantises, which live in the Cave of the Living Creeps, where they attack the main protagonists. They are defeated by... being kicked in the leg, causing them to fall over. This, however, is justified when it's revealed that the mantises, as with all the other creatures in the book, are actually animatronic robots in a horror attraction.
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Slaying Mantis / int_72262aee	comment	Southern Praying Mantis Kung Fu (which, incidentally, is the style Toph's earthbending is based on) is a very close-range fighting style. Northern Praying Mantis Style (also known as Seven Star Praying Mantis Style) is a style of unrelated lineage which utilizes much longer range techniques, including whipping, circular blocks, and high kicks, as well as signature "mantis hook" hand techniques which use three fingers (imitative of a mantis's claws) to strike vital points.
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Slaying Mantis / int_76b8cb10	comment	Fallout: Fallout: New Vegas: Giant Mantis's are a common enemy found in Vault 22, and in Zion Valley. Fortunately they are very fragile, and go down easily. Fallout 4: Far Harbor has the Fog Crawlers, giant amphibious monsters mutated by the sheer amount of radiation in the oceans that rolls onto the island through the fog, distinguished by their long, scythe-like arms and by being the most powerful monsters on the island. While they resemble mantis they have elements of shrimp, implying that they descend from mutated mantis shrimp.
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Slaying Mantis / int_76e7de99	comment	The thri-kreen ("mantis warriors") are a race of social insectoids who resemble a mantis with grasshopper-like legsnote in their AD&D artwork; in 3rd edition and onwards they became increasingly more humanoid-shaped, with a culture that can be summed up as a cross between humanoid nomads and a wolf pack. Favoring arid regions, they originated in the Forgotten Realms setting, but became an iconic race for the Dark Sun setting when it debuted thirteen years later, as they were Promoted to Playable in that setting. Unlike most mantis-people, they lack the iconic scythe-like armsnote except during their most juvenile state, but instead are Multi-Armed and Dangerous, with two pairs of human-like arms that they can use in natural synch, favoring barrages of bladed crystal throwing stars for ranged weapons and Dual Wielding a pair of double-ended bladed tridents in melee. Other oddities include paralytic venom they can deliver by biting, spectacular leaping abilities, and a racial affinity for Psychic Powers. Whilst not a true Hive Mind, they also do maintain a Genetic Memory; this allows their young to know intuitively how to function as an adult from hatching — "childrearing" for thri-kreen is more a matter of polishing social skills and providing skill refinement than anything.
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Slaying Mantis / int_776109e3	comment	Kouchuu Ouja Mushiking: A mantis can be summoned by winning with the special skill Card "Special Skills Stopper". When it's on the field, it negates the opponent from summoning anything for once.
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Slaying Mantis / int_77a5226	comment	Eat Them Alive is a very violent horror novel about giant praying mantises who eat people in excruciating detail.
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Slaying Mantis / int_7848e564	comment	Monster Warriors: "Marauding Mantis": While the Monster Warriors battle a herd of giant praying mantis, Luke finds himself strangely bothered by Tabbyâ€™s friendship with her good-looking student council co-president. A giant praying mantis is one of the monsters brought to life in "Terror at the Drive-In".
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Slaying Mantis / int_7aa49a74	comment	Spider: The Video Game have regular-sized praying mantises, which normally wouldn't be this trope if not the fact that you're a regular-sized sentient spider. They can even fire Sword Beam attacks from their arms which you need to jump to avoid getting hit.
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Slaying Mantis / int_7c19a801	comment	On your side, Kazaaakpleth, a mantis from FTL: Faster Than Light appears as a cameo pilot. Just like in FTL, where mantises are terrifying attackers but poor repairmen, he trades the normal repair ability for a highly damaging melee attack.
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Slaying Mantis / int_81f5d35d	comment	Kamen Rider: Any mantis-themed Rider or monster fall under this. The most notable examples are Kamen Rider Chalice, and by extension the Mantis Undead, and Kamen Rider OOO himself, whenever he uses the Kamakiri Body Medal, which grants him a pair of Reverse Grip Sinister Scythe. Chalice himself gets twin scythes in his Super Mode, also mantis-themed.
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Slaying Mantis / int_847a1ace	comment	Attack of the Clones: The Acklay is a deadly alien creature that looks like a cross between a crab and a mantis, with some reptilian features thrown in, that is used by the alien Geonosians to execute prisoners in their arena.
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Slaying Mantis / int_855fd453	comment	Brave10: Iga Ninja Kayou can summon insects and bugs to do her bidding: one of her techniques summons an army of a thousands large mantises and unleash them on her foes.
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Slaying Mantis / int_8645d677	comment	Spellsinger: The Plated Folk are ruled by a praying mantis queen. She routinely eats courtiers who offend her, fail her, or simply can't get out of her way fast enough when she gets upset.
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Slaying Mantis / int_86814cc3	comment	Final Fantasy II: Mantis and King Mantis are two powerful monsters.
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Slaying Mantis / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI has the Greater Mantis/Mantodea. Despite being a regular enemy, it has an incredible amount of attack power, the highest of any mook and more than twice as much as the final boss, being able to kill most characters in one hit unless they're overleveled.
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Slaying Mantis / int_892a1541	comment	My Family and Other Animals: Gerald Durrell tells of a huge (over four inches long) specimen of mantis he names Chervil, and keeps her in a box because he wants to see her give birth... sadly this does not happen, as Chervil escapes and meets Geronimo, a large gecko that hunts for bugs in Gerard's room, and in the ensuing battle Geronimo loses his tail but bites Chervil in half, killing her on the spot.
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Slaying Mantis / int_8b8ce8ce	comment	The House of the Dead: OVERKILL: The Creeper is a mantis-like mutant, whose scythe-like arms can easily slice steel. The arms are also his Achilles' Heel.
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Slaying Mantis / int_8da0ea80	comment	PokÃ©mon Red and Blue introduced Scyther, a Flying/Bug person-sized mantis that also has some dinosaur-like features (mainly the head and feet). It has a reputation of being a savage hunter that slashes its prey to ribbons with its bladed forelimbs.
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Slaying Mantis / int_8ee278fb	comment	ChalkZone: A giant literal praying mantis that prays and chants as it attacks.
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Slaying Mantis / int_909ca4b1	comment	ReBoot: The first system we see an aged Enzo and AndrAIa enter has him go off on his own to put a bullet in the head of a virus modeled after a typical giant mantis.
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Slaying Mantis / int_90dca51e	comment	Jōjū Senjin!! Mushibugyō: the ninth giant insect introduced in the manga is the "Rumbling Blade Praying Mantis", a truly humongous mantis monster with oversized legs, scythe-like fangs and a reptilian head. Her handler uses a special flute to make her attack a series of banks to perform robberies.
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Slaying Mantis / int_91bd6a61	comment	The Mist a giant mantis-esque creature among of the other monsters. It kills people by snatching them with a claw and snapping them in half.
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Slaying Mantis / int_99e49e94	comment	Bug Fables: The mantis siblings Maki and Kina form one of the best explorer teams in the Association, and are very powerful warriors, with Maki always being sent by the Queen on the most dangerous missions. And their Optional Boss fight is one of the hardest boss fights in the game. Of the lesser variety, Acolyte Aria is a hooded mantis who, in spite of her delicate looks, is a fierce combatant who managed to thwart the Wasp invasion in the Golden Settlement and displays impressive fighting skills during her boss fight in the final festival ceremony, and mantis ruffians also appear as some of the stronger enemies in the Rubber Prison in Chapter 6.
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Slaying Mantis / int_9a527531	comment	Avernum: Chitrachs are a whole race of monstrous inects resembling human-sized, yellowish predatory insects similar to mantises, including large scything forelimbs. They invaded Avernum from the Vanhatai Lands below, and are noted for being infestant and annoyingly dangerous in combat.
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Slaying Mantis / int_9d48ae2e	comment	Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: One of the many Mecha-Mooks employed by McFist is a huge mantis mecha.
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Slaying Mantis / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: There are giant mantises with very sharp claws on Jaya island. Later. a similar mantis with blades instead of legs is seen among the monsters in Impel Down. Last but not least, the Tenth Movie has Don Kamakiriri, a foul-tempered mantis capable of taking down a gargantuan octopus with ease.
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Slaying Mantis / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: PokÃ©mon Red and Blue introduced Scyther, a Flying/Bug person-sized mantis that also has some dinosaur-like features (mainly the head and feet). It has a reputation of being a savage hunter that slashes its prey to ribbons with its bladed forelimbs. PokÃ©mon Gold and Silver introduced Scizor, an evolution of Scyther which trades its Flying type for the Steel type and its scythes for pincers. Interestingly, its base stats don't get higher but just get shuffled around (turning a Fragile Speedster into a Mighty Glacier). And likewise with Kleavor, an alternative evolution introduced in PokÃ©mon Legends: Arceus. Trading out Scyther's Flying type for the Rock type and its scythes for axes, Kleavor is a Lightning Bruiser and Glass Cannon, being faster and harder-hitting than Scizor, but not quite as defensive and with a much fewer type resistances.
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Slaying Mantis / int_9fa025d	comment	Mother 3: Parodied. Praying mantises can be encountered in Sunshine Forest starting from Chapter 4, but since they're completely ordinary praying mantises, they do about as much damage to your party as you'd expect from a bug. Their description in the Battle Memory points out it's a good thing they're not Big Creepy-Crawlies.
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Slaying Mantis / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla: Son of Godzilla introduces Kamacuras (also known as Gimantis in a bad English dub) into the Godzilla franchise. Already giant prehistoric preying mantises they get mutated by radiation to grow even larger. However, while they do pose a serious threat to the humans and even Minya, Godzilla manages to take them out very easily. Kamacuras appears in Godzilla: Final Wars where it now has a chameleon like camouflage ability and puts up a better fight but is still killed by Godzilla without much effort. Godzilla (2014) has the MUTO, somewhat mantis-like prehistoric parasitoids that are a natural enemy of Godzilla's species. They have a pair of large hooked forelimbs which to snag Godzilla's vulnerable gills with, a smaller pair of manipulator arms, and the female is twice the male's size but lacks wings.
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Slaying Mantis / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy II: Mantis and King Mantis are two powerful monsters. Final Fantasy VI has the Greater Mantis/Mantodea. Despite being a regular enemy, it has an incredible amount of attack power, the highest of any mook and more than twice as much as the final boss, being able to kill most characters in one hit unless they're overleveled. Final Fantasy XII has several of them, mostly in areas accessible later in the game. One variant eats Chocobos to power itself up. Other variants eat each other instead.
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Slaying Mantis / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: Powerful, dangerous mantises and mantis-like creatures have appeared at several points in the game: The Fallen Empires has the Thelonite Monk, a green Cleric creature that can sacrifice a fellow Green-aligned creature to turn a land into a forest and which, for some reason, is a giant mantis in a red robe. None of the other Thelonite cards in the game are giant mantises, as "Thelonite" is apparently the name of an order, not a race. The Jeskai of Tarkir have mantis riders who take a considerable risk of being eaten every time they ride their insectoid mounts. The Tangle, a trackless forest of copper-leaved plants found on the bio-metallic world Mirrodin, is home to a lot of dangerous predators, but the giant mantises that live there are noted to be the fiercest of them all. The joke set Unstable introduced a card called Slaying Mantis, which must be thrown into play by its controller. While the art does show it as an anthropomorphic insect, its aesthetic is decidedly different from typical examples.
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Slaying Mantis / int_a895e9d3	comment	Portal 2: Implied by Cave Johnson's messages over the intercom. The test subjects are told that instead of being injected with praying mantis DNA, they will be battling an army of Mantis Men, presumably the result of said DNA experiment Gone Horribly Wrong (or right, one can never be sure with Aperture Science).
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Slaying Mantis / int_aa91bd59	comment	Tales of Arise features giant mantis-like Zeugles as an uncommon family of Elite Mooks. Of particular note is an enemy simply named "Mantis". It's the first Gigant Zeugle you encounter, and yet is one of the strongest. Make a mistake of bumping into it, and it will end you.
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Slaying Mantis / int_ac1b7a9b	comment	Golden Dragon Fantasy Gamebooks: Eye of the Dragon has Lord Mantiss, an insectoid nobleman. Easily offended and quite powerful, he's quite capable of inflicting a Non-Standard Game Over but can also kill you with a Critical Hit during normal combat.
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Slaying Mantis / int_ae54c340	comment	Reign of the Seven Spellblades: One of the types of chimeras that Ophelia Salvadori makes in volume 3 is a towering praying mantis-like beast that can regenerate severed limbs and also fire barrages of spikes at its enemies.
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Slaying Mantis / int_af54d560	comment	Goosebumps (2015) features the giant mantis from A Shocker on Shock Street. Unlike its book counterpart, however, this mantis is much more deadly: it's fifty feet tall, looks more like a real mantis, is not a robot, and can fly! It still retains its spitting ability, however.
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Slaying Mantis / int_b01be0fd	comment	Monster Sanctuary has Blade Widow, a giant mantis that learns a lot of attacks that involve slashing.
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Slaying Mantis / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: Sonic the Hedgehog 2 has Slicer, a robotic mantis who serves as an enemy in Metropolis Zone. He attacks the player by tossing his claws at them. In Sonic CD, the Kama-Kama enemy is a robotic mantis who inhabits Collision Chaos Zone and attacks the player by throwing his claws at him in a horizontal fashion.
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Slaying Mantis / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000: The Mantis Warriors are a chapter of Space Marines with a curious mutation that gives them supremely enhanced reflexes, but at the cost of irreversible tunnel vision. The Lictor is a stealthy Tyranid unit with massive mantis-like claws, whose purpose is to infiltrate enemy territory and spread chaos, death and terror.
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Slaying Mantis / int_bcb32dc6	comment	Shadowrun: Mantis spirits are far from pleasant (although they're not really evil, but just have a really weird mindset), as they share other bug spirits' need to possess human victims in order to perpetuate their kind. The fact they prefer to prey on other kinds of bug spirits makes them occasional allies-of-convenience for Ares and others campaigning against the bugs, however. There's also the Wyrd Mantis, which is "just" a giant Awakened species of mantis. They are nevertheless extremely deadly.
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Slaying Mantis / int_cc9f0389	comment	Titan Quest: The giant mantis monsters roam into the Chinese forests and viciously attack your hero when they sight him/her. You can also wear a special suit of armor (composed of helmet, greaves and cuirass) that makes you look like a mantis-man.
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Slaying Mantis / int_ccf875f7	comment	Criminal Minds: "The Inspiration" uses mantids quite creepily. The killer begins hallucinating that the girl who rejected him "ate" him, and develops an obsession with mantises because of their alleged sexual cannibalism; one of his delusions is actually of the girl speaking (though she was the first person he killed and he was forcing his other victims to eat parts of her head and mantises coming out of her mouth. He also keeps a pet one and tries to feed a baby snake to it.
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Slaying Mantis / int_cd13c469	comment	Uprooted: The monsters native to the Wood include immense mantises, which normally never leave the forest and instead act as internal guardians. They're much stronger and more dangerous than its more common beasts, and after the source of the corruption is cleansed they're implied to remain hostile.
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Slaying Mantis / int_cd81ac45	comment	Bug: Mantises are shown as psychotic murderers that go into a crazed slashing frenzy as soon as Bug gets near them, making them hard to defeat without taking damage, and they also have a very good amount of health to boot. Thankfully, they're only encountered at the tail end of Insectia Scene 3.
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Slaying Mantis / int_cf69b21e	comment	Beast Wars has a toy named Manterror (aka the Man Terror) that's a praying mantis. His arms can launch buzz saws.
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Slaying Mantis / int_d1702e57	comment	And likewise with Kleavor, an alternative evolution introduced in PokÃ©mon Legends: Arceus. Trading out Scyther's Flying type for the Rock type and its scythes for axes, Kleavor is a Lightning Bruiser and Glass Cannon, being faster and harder-hitting than Scizor, but not quite as defensive and with a much fewer type resistances.
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Slaying Mantis / int_d1aeff45	comment	Son of Godzilla introduces Kamacuras (also known as Gimantis in a bad English dub) into the Godzilla franchise. Already giant prehistoric preying mantises they get mutated by radiation to grow even larger. However, while they do pose a serious threat to the humans and even Minya, Godzilla manages to take them out very easily. Kamacuras appears in Godzilla: Final Wars where it now has a chameleon like camouflage ability and puts up a better fight but is still killed by Godzilla without much effort.
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Slaying Mantis / int_d5c8b37a	comment	Turok: A Boss in in Dinosaur Hunter is a giant mantis that can spit acid.
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Slaying Mantis / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends: Kha'Zix is a man-sized intelligent interdimensional winged mantis monster with an obsession for hunting prey, consuming it and evolving himself to become more deadly.
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Slaying Mantis / int_d8e24914	comment	Yaiba: The Mantis Man appears as one of Onimaru's minions. Subverted later when he's revealed to be a goofy Punch-Clock Villain.
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Slaying Mantis / int_d8fc57c2	comment	Rapid Reload has the giant praying mantis mecha as a boss in the forest stage, who can release Sword Beam attacks from it's scythes.
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Slaying Mantis / int_d930a4c7	comment	A Spelljammer adventure anthology called "Skull & Crossbones" establishes that there is an entire empire of spelljamming thri-kreen somewhere out in Wildspace, and the thri-kreen of the Shaar in the Forgotten Realms are their barbarian descendants via a crashed spelljammer.
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Slaying Mantis / int_dcd4ffd1	comment	Perdido Street Station: The reMade rebel/terrorist Jack Half-A-Prayer was an escaped criminal whose arm had been replaced with a giant mantis claw. A militia spy he kills is found with the claw's pincer-marks on both sides of her neck.
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Slaying Mantis / int_de8fbcb1	comment	Godzilla (2014) has the MUTO, somewhat mantis-like prehistoric parasitoids that are a natural enemy of Godzilla's species. They have a pair of large hooked forelimbs which to snag Godzilla's vulnerable gills with, a smaller pair of manipulator arms, and the female is twice the male's size but lacks wings.
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Slaying Mantis / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: A particularly bizarre example occurs in "Decemberween In July", during Strong Bad's version of That Time Of Year by Leomard Sportsinterviews. Instead of reading "Decemberween is almost here! Get ready," Strong Bad reads, "De giant mantis is almost here. Get ready to be pistol-whipped, snowman!" with illustration to match.
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Slaying Mantis / int_e26a1053	comment	Gyalis from Temtem is a 2 metre-tall mantis made of gemstones with spikes on its scythe-hands, and has a reputation for being a "scary monster" due to appearing in many horror movies.
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Slaying Mantis / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The She-Mantis in "Teacher's Pet" wants to lay its eggs on Xander and another boy with the indication the babies will probably eat them after hatching.
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Slaying Mantis / int_e4b5d35b	comment	Freedom Planet features a robotic mantis as a boss, complete with regenerating forelimbs.
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Slaying Mantis / int_e66a25a9	comment	Rifts: The Northern Gun 2 sourcebook has a suit of Powered Armor called the Mantis, which invokes the image with a pair of giant vibro-swords that fold out against the forearms of the suit. It is designed to take out Humongous Mecha. Not by destroying them, but by using its blades and Shoulder Cannons to wreck their weapons, sensors and motive systems, leaving them blind, crippled and unarmed in the middle of the battlefield while it seeks a new target.
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Slaying Mantis / int_e8d19c42	comment	Phantasy Star Online 2 has the Dicahda and its larger cousin, the Predicahda. They hit fast and hard, and are capable of doing a Flash Step to instantly reach their targets from virtually any distance, which makes them among the most threatening enemies overall.
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Slaying Mantis / int_e9d7acf9	comment	Lone Wolf: At the end of the first World of Lone Wolf book, Grey Star the Wizard, the title protagonist has to escape from a whole nest of man-sized, agressive, acid-spitting mantises.
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Slaying Mantis / int_ef8bd4a5	comment	Mega Man: Dark Mantis and Deathtanz Mantisk from the Mega Man X and Mega Man Zero series respectively, they both use a series of quick attacks with their bladed extremities, and both curiously had law related jobs before became mavericks (Dark Mantis was a prison guard, and Deathtanz Mantisk was an executioner, but he isn't exactly thrilled with the job note then again it was before Weil turned him into one of his warriors), however, by the time you come to face them, they are far from being cooperative.
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Slaying Mantis / int_f0841a69	comment	Primeval: Subverted. The Megopterans certainly look and act the part of this trope, but according to the official site, they're descended from beetles. The characters themselves, meanwhile, say that they're actually highly evolved ants.
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Slaying Mantis / int_f74b5f80	comment	Babylon 5: The first season has the crime boss N'Grath in Downbelow, who is an Insectoid Alien resembling a praying mantis.
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Slaying Mantis / int_f7656e2f	comment	Lost Planet: one of the primary enemy types is an Akrid that resembles a giant praying mantis full of glowy orange T-Eng. They come in an even larger, deadlier variety that is best fought in a Humongous Mecha. A yet larger variant serves as a Boss Battle.
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Slaying Mantis / int_f97683ef	comment	Hollow Knight: The mantis tribe, an isolated Proud Warrior Race tribe whose members respect strength above all and will attack the Knight on sight. After it proves itself by defeating the three Mantis Lords, the entire tribe will become non-hostile towards it and bow respectfully at its approach. There's also a separate group of Mantises encountered later in the game who were cast out after attempting to rebel against the tribe and subsequently went insane after willingly falling to the plague. The Mantises were fiercely independent even during the golden age of Hallownest, but agreed to a truce with the Pale King where they would retain independence while also serving as guards against the fearsome beasts of Deepnest.
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Slaying Mantis / int_fb8e866f	comment	Into the Breach: The Vek come in many insectoid forms, including giant mantises that leap around the battlefield and trap their targets in Projectile Webbing. On your side, Kazaaakpleth, a mantis from FTL: Faster Than Light appears as a cameo pilot. Just like in FTL, where mantises are terrifying attackers but poor repairmen, he trades the normal repair ability for a highly damaging melee attack.
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Vampire Survivors (Video Game) / int_8f298490	type	Slaying Mantis
Visions of Mana (Video Game) / int_8f298490	type	Slaying Mantis
A House of Many Doors (Video Game) / int_8f298490	type	Slaying Mantis
Jungle Juice (Webcomic) / int_8f298490	type	Slaying Mantis
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_8f298490	type	Slaying Mantis
Amphibia / int_8f298490	type	Slaying Mantis
Coraline / int_8f298490	type	Slaying Mantis
Growing Up Creepie / int_8f298490	type	Slaying Mantis
Minuscule: Valley of the Lost Ants / int_8f298490	type	Slaying Mantis
Aloha (Fanfic) / int_8f298490	type	Slaying Mantis

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