Is nergigante a tiger ?

[Hubertdragon1]

Hej guys just one question ( i know nergi have a giant horns and spikes all over his baody and he is not in stripes ) but when you see under his limbs he have a feline footprint and also when you see face you can see feline features (exluding teeth ) and also we have in game teostra and lunastra as lions . But thats just my thoughts what are yours . Just tell me below.

[Tresh]

For me he's a big winged cat. Love his grooming animations.

[Egro]

more like a lion with spiky mane.

[Hubertdragon1]

Egro we have teo and luna for lions

[B R O K E M O N O]

Let's see what the wiki says...
"Nergigante is a dragon with a bristly appearance." (A dragon, okay...)
Wiki also says...
"Nergigante has fairly advanced forelimbs and can use them to swipe at the hunter in an almost human-like way." (A human like way you say...)

I'd say that Nergigante is some kind of Dragon that resembles a heavily modified lion with features of various other animals we have in our reality???

What do you think? Does he look more like a dog or a lion or a kangaroo? I can't really say.

[snakeeye98]

his idle animation looks like a dog, just look at him for a few minutes

[JPM岩]

Call it weird, but I think he's meant to be the cross between a starfish and a dragon; he has the standard dragon traits, 4 limbs, 2 wings, but the spikes all over his body remind me of sea stars, specifically the Crown of Thorns https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/CrownofThornsStarfish_Fiji_2005-10-12.jpg
Lore-wise, it reproduces asexually, the spikes it's breaks off being able to grow into new nergigantes if they absorb enough bioenergy; reproduction like this is very much a trait of sea stars as well

[NovasGoSuper2]

More like a hedgehog cause of his spikes.

[Marshmallow Bombshell]

Nergigante is a giant cat from hell. The way it bites it's wings and removes splintered horns from it's head appear cat-like.

[Tresh]

Originally posted by THE KERNEL:

Nergigante is a giant cat from hell. The way it bites it's wings and removes splintered horns from it's head appear cat-like.

Yup, this is exactly what I mean.

[Magnussen]

Originally posted by Dunathon:

For me he's a big winged cat. Love his grooming animations.

This. For me it looks "similar" to a cat, trying to stay clean :)

By the way, use the ghillie mantle and watch him and his animations from close. He is really well designed.

[Corrupt-nz]

Nah he's a fish ...

[lexilogo]

Nergigante is definitely one of the harder monsters to pin down one solid inspiration for.

I think cats appear to be the primary inspiration, what with him batting at hunters, the paw pads, and the grooming animations. However Nergi's stance is very much not cat-like (to be fair there are other examples like Legiana where the monster's skeleton kinda lets down the ecological lore side) and there's definitely a lot of other exotic features that distance it from the cat base.

I don't really see Nergigante being a tiger or inspired from any kind of cat in particular, though, and the cat inspiration is pretty removed from the monster as a whole.

[Your Mom's Oshi]

Originally posted by lexilogo:

Nergigante is definitely one of the harder monsters to pin down one solid inspiration for.

I think cats appear to be the primary inspiration, what with him batting at hunters, the paw pads, and the grooming animations. However Nergi's stance is very much not cat-like (to be fair there are other examples like Legiana where the monster's skeleton kinda lets down the ecological lore side) and there's definitely a lot of other exotic features that distance it from the cat base.

I don't really see Nergigante being a tiger or inspired from any kind of cat in particular, though, and the cat inspiration is pretty removed from the monster as a whole.

Also if you go into his character you see inspirations like Weapon and my favorite monster, Mothra.

[Fregi]

oh right he has toe beans, almost forgot about that.

[W+M1 Pyro]

tbh i see a bat in him