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Originally Posted by Jester

Fish-Man is dumb. He's an obvious no-copyright-was-infringed riff on the Gill-Man from The Creature From the Black Lagoon, but the whole point of the creature is that he's humanoid enough to engage the audience's empathy.

I mean...yeah he's an obvious riff on the Gill Man. In case it wasn't obvious this whole set is a riff on the Universal Monsters without actually being the Universal Monsters.

But design-wise Fish-Man seems to have drawn his inspiration from H.P. Lovecraft's Deep Ones, which IMO is a pretty sensible way to go about it. I doubt Mezco really cares about how much empathy anyone has for a little plastic creature.