Diablo, Lord of Terror
Wow, Diablo looks girly! He looks like a she! There’s been a bit of confusion on this, so it’s a good time to clear the air. Yes, Diablo has high heels, child-bearing hips, a wasp waist, and boobs. No, Diablo is not magically female in this game. You see, Diablo takes on some characteristics of each of his host bodies – in 1, the host was a child, and he was smaller than the other two incarnations. He was also slightly more humanoid and lacked a tail. In 2, he was bigger, more dinosaury, and more intimidating in general. And in 3, his host was female, so he seems to have kept a few vestigial traits despite still being male, self-identifying as male, and having a dude’s voice. But wait, there’s more! As part of the plot, Diablo merged himself with the essences of all the other Prime and Lesser evils, and instead of just being a big red dinosaur, Diablo’s design now has influences from all of them – general spikes and red Diablo-ness, Baal’s shoulder spikes, Mephisto’s horns, ribcage, and extra arms, Duriel’s insectoid mandibles, extra wing bones from Azmodan, Belial’s shoulder-mouths, and Andariel’s, um… feminine attributes. And hooves, too, as his digitigrade legs kind of match her. So there are two explanations, and both work, but the latter one also explains why he looks less like a dinosaur and more like an H. R. Giger nightmare.
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Diablo, Lord of Terror
Wow, Diablo looks girly! He looks like a she! There’s been a bit of confusion on this, so it’s a good time to clear the air. Yes, Diablo has high heels, child-bearing hips, a wasp waist, and boobs. No, Diablo is not magically female in this game. You see, Diablo takes on some characteristics of each of his host bodies – in 1, the host was a child, and he was smaller than the other two incarnations. He was also slightly more humanoid and lacked a tail. In 2, he was bigger, more dinosaury, and more intimidating in general. And in 3, his host was female, so he seems to have kept a few vestigial traits despite still being male, self-identifying as male, and having a dude’s voice. But wait, there’s more! As part of the plot, Diablo merged himself with the essences of all the other Prime and Lesser evils, and instead of just being a big red dinosaur, Diablo’s design now has influences from all of them – general spikes and red Diablo-ness, Baal’s shoulder spikes, Mephisto’s horns, ribcage, and extra arms, Duriel’s insectoid mandibles, extra wing bones from Azmodan, Belial’s shoulder-mouths, and Andariel’s, um… feminine attributes. And hooves, too, as his digitigrade legs kind of match her. So there are two explanations, and both work, but the latter one also explains why he looks less like a dinosaur and more like an H. R. Giger nightmare.
Featured on Life In Plastic: nerditis.com/2014/06/27/life-in-plastic-toy-review-diablo...