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Published: 2017-04-19 17:38:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 3266; Favourites: 97; Downloads: 32
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The Mighty Monkey Sage Equal of Heaven, main protagonist of Chinese epic "Journey to the West" This guy is one of the most badass mythical characters I can think of. He's like a mix of Loki and Hercules!Here he is wearing tiger skin and is armed with his iron Wishing Staff (that could extend or shrink based on his wishes)
He is also using his trademark ability to transform his hair into various objects. Most frequently he transforms them into clones of himself (probably inspiring Naruto xP )
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The Wishing Staff figured in the animated series where it grew to battering ram size and smashed out walls of a castle, The hero grew so headstrong & sure of himself that it took Buddha himself to break him and imprison him under a heavy mountain ! Buddha's unlimited power was well portrayed !
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I guess this only happened bacause the author was favoring Buddhism himself
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Thor once fought the personification of old age and death. I'm sure he can handle this guy. Specially if it's Scandinavian epic version of thor.
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As much as I like Thor I doubt he'd win. He dies from a snake venom after all. Sun also fought against death, he kicked his ass, broke into his office and registered himself and his monkey subjects as immortals.
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Well, said snake was destined to kill him, so he did have fate itself against him. He's smarter then most people think, too!
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Awesome drawing! But what's the lil bald monkey doing there
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It's his hair clones forming.
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It can spawn minions from its hair ? That's pretty cool especially if it can get a haircut !
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yeah. And after they are done he can pick up the hairs and stick them back into his skin.
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That's a little op
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mythological figures in a nutshell honestly
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This. All this. If a mythological hero loses to someone/something, it's usually because that one/thing is even more op than op.
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Well, that guy is generally sort of indestructible
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Dawno nie widziałem takiej harmonii w żadnym Twoim rysunku (co jak najbardziej pasowało do wszelkich maszkar). Ale również nie za często rysowałeś bohaterów, więc podoba mi się taka zmiana konwencji
Tej postaci akurat nie znam, choć skojarzyła mi się z Hanumanem (może jakaś inspiracja kulturowa?).
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No pewnie jest jakieś kulturowe powiązanie ale hanuman to cienka pizda w porównaniu z nim.XD
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I really have to read Journey to the West, it has been waiting in my Amazon wishlist for some time now xD
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It's a small monkey clone summoned from his hair.
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Didn't he single handedly beat down all of Heaven's Army until the Buddha came to stop him? Freaking Boss he was. Just a badass made flesh, not even his facets and beings who were inspired by him are as cool as he was, the very original.
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He did! It made the second half of the story kind of boring, I mean after he kicked asses of all the major gods what difficulty would he have with some minor demons and obstacles in their way xP
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It is epic and yeah I do agree, it feels like a scenario where the best and most exciting parts happen in the beginning before the end but of course it is a story about humility, and granted a really good one. He does learn to become stronger through enlightenment and character and even becoming A/The God of Victory which is always cool.
But yeah, still hard to beat the start where Wukong flies to the edge of Literal Everything and pees on Buddha's hand only to be hurled to a Magic Mountain XD
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The scene where they defiled a temple was cool too.
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I think the author generally found Buddhism to be the BEST way to live your life given how Buddha was written as the BE-ALL/END-ALL of Deities. From what I've read (As a Chinese dude myself) and heard, the Jade Emperor was a representative of Confucianism and Lao Tzu of Taoism. Neither one of those guys were depicted as being effective against SuKong, not even close until Buddha came. In fact, many of those individuals did not clash well with our favorite monkey, it was only until Buddha trapped him under a Mountain and had him take a quest in helping him gain some humility did Sukong learn to be a better person.
So basically in Journey to the West The Buddha is #1.
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Yeah, I noticed that but then there is the scene where ruin Taoist temple and troll the priests into drinking their piss. XD This seemed like something more personal against this religion.
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Boy did you gave his badass simian nature an even more badass touch with your style. Awesome job dude !
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One of the coolest mythic characters ever. And he's a monkey! Sun Wukong is cool in every possible way. A badass, a trickster, a funny primate, weird as hell powers, he's basically the perfect hero/antihero.
I especially love how you emphasize the monkey traits more than most. Imagining a monkey accomplishing such awesome feats in weird ways is both awesome and hilarious. And his clone looks very much like something you'd design. XP
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Yeah, most of his depictions I've seen feature him with human-like posture just with monkey face. that's not something I wanted to go for.)
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To już wiem skąd w League of Legends miał tą umiejętność z tworzeniem swojego klonu na polu bitwy. Widać powstawała z włosów. Ciekawe.
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On miałtaki arsenał mocy jakiego nie powstydziłaby się żadna postać z gry.
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