Editing Manticore (section)

== Popular culture ==
In some modern depictions, such as in the [[tabletop role-playing game]] ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' (''D&D'') and the card game ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'', manticores are depicted as having wings.<ref>{{cite book|last=Wood |first=Juliette |author-link=Juliette Wood |date=2018 |chapter=Ch. 1: When unicorns walked the earth: A brief history of the unicorn and its fellows |title=Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore: From Medieval Times to the Present Day |publisher=[[Bloomsbury Publishing]] |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=48tjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA44 |page=44 |isbn=<!--1441130608, -->978-1-3500-5925-2}}</ref> They are more specifically given "wings of a dragon" in the implementation of ''D&D''′s 5th edition, according to the ''[[Monster Manual]]'' (2014),{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|Color illustration of the manticore by Jack Stella.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://criticalrole.miraheze.org/wiki/Manticore |title=manticore |encyclopedia=Encyclopedia Exandria |date=2 August 2022 |access-date=2023-04-25}}</ref>}}{{Refn|group="lower-alpha"|Another embellished feature of this D&D version is that a "bristling mane stretches down [its] back".<ref name="monster_manual_v5_2014"/>}}<ref name="monster_manual_v5_2014"/> though an earlier version of the manual described them as "batlike wings".<ref name="monstrous_manual1993"/>

In the animated [[sitcom]] television series ''[[Krapopolis]]'', the character of Shlub is depicted as a "mantitaur" which is a half-[[centaur]], half-manticore creature where he was the result of a union between a female centaur and a male manticore. In this show besides the fact that the manticores are depicted with dragon-like wings like other depictions of them, the manticores are shown to have dragon-like horns on their head.<ref>{{cite web |last=Bennett |first=Tara |title= Krapopolis Review: Beware of Greeks bearing too many poop jokes. |website=IGN |date=September 23, 2023 |url= https://www.ign.com/articles/krapopolis-review-dan-harmon-hannah-waddingham |quote= the monster mantitaur – that’s half manticore, half centaur, so human plus lion plus scorpion plus horse – Shlub }}</ref>