Displacer Beast
In D&D, the Displacer Beast is a really famous tentacled six-legged panther-like monster that can create doubling illusions of itself - hence the "displaced" factor.
However, there is a darker side, that of RIPPING THINGS OFF (which is kinda normal).
In A. E. Van Vogt's 1950 sci-fi novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle, there is an alien called Coeurl who looks just like this - six legs, tentacles, panthet parts. It's been admitted that this is where the idea for the Displace Beast came from, too. And hey, Final Fantasy uses this monster, and calls it a Coeurl, too!
Voyage of the Space Beagle also had its space ship exploring new worlds and boldy going where no man had gone before. And one of the aliens they found reproduced by laying eggs in innocent people. The spawn would then burst out of 'em. I think it's safe to say that pretty much all modern science fiction owes something to that book.
Displacer Beast
In D&D, the Displacer Beast is a really famous tentacled six-legged panther-like monster that can create doubling illusions of itself - hence the "displaced" factor.
However, there is a darker side, that of RIPPING THINGS OFF (which is kinda normal).
In A. E. Van Vogt's 1950 sci-fi novel, The Voyage of the Space Beagle, there is an alien called Coeurl who looks just like this - six legs, tentacles, panthet parts. It's been admitted that this is where the idea for the Displace Beast came from, too. And hey, Final Fantasy uses this monster, and calls it a Coeurl, too!
Voyage of the Space Beagle also had its space ship exploring new worlds and boldy going where no man had gone before. And one of the aliens they found reproduced by laying eggs in innocent people. The spawn would then burst out of 'em. I think it's safe to say that pretty much all modern science fiction owes something to that book.