I always thought gargoyles being stone by day was a mythology thing
Didn't know Weisman made that part up
I always thought gargoyles being stone by day was a mythology thing
Grayson Howard
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Evan Howard
Would Jordan Peele do a live action movie justice?
Zachary Fisher
I thought that too when I was a kid. I was surprised to find out there are very few actual myths about gargoyles.
There were a few horror comics from the 50s I've seen using that concept. It's really not that hard of a thing to imagine.
Dominic Garcia
>I was surprised to find out there are very few actual myths about gargoyles
Because they're sculptures. The idea of a gargoyle as a creature rather than an architectural feature is modern, I want to say probably D&D. It would be like there being mythology about statues.
Jason Adams
Doesn't the Japanese Shisa have actual myths to them despite playing the same role as western gargoyles?
Liam Young
The only example I can think of is King Shisa/King Caesar from "Godzilla vs. Mechagodzilla"
Ayden Ramirez
It's earlier than that, 1920s horror stories. I think Lovecraft or one of his contemporaries did one about a demonic gargoyle statue.
The 1970s and 80s had a few movies, and a comic, about living gargoyles, but I'm not sure where the comics are placed chronologically against D&D Gargoyles.
Chase Ward
Pretty much King Caesar himself isn't a figure in Japanese mythology
Dominic Garcia
I think it was Clark Ashton Smith, a lot of his ideas cropped up in D&D. I can't remember what story though.
There was also a Spectre villain called Oom who also came to life during moonlight but was a statue during the day, but he may not count since he was an alien.
David Collins
>The idea of a gargoyle as a creature rather than an architectural feature is modern
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It's way older than that,