*shrug* People are people. It's a different genre, but I imagine it's fueled by the same sort of emotions that saw all the sort of devil imagery used in rock & metal music.
Oh! Was that Demondice doing the theme song? I love her work.
Looking at the video I think she's supposed to be Bacchus. At least that name flashes across the screen for a brief moment and it'd fit the whole drinking thing.
Still, eh, goat horns, goat ears, the color scheme, evidently having...
Humans as a species naturally look for patterns in things. Know the sort of patterns the audience is familiar with because of what they've read in the past and you can make use of that knowledge. Maybe that's as simple as calling a race in your story "Orcs" so that you don't have to spend the...
Tolkien was supposedly quite fond of monarchy, or rather, he didn't trust anyone that went about seeking power for themselves and kings were good because they didn't have a choice in the matter. Of course that's overlooking the sort of problems that can come about by someone that comes to expect...
Wasn't there another thread about this? I could've sworn I replied to something much like this.
Well, loosely speaking, I reckon a lot of stereotypical views of Asian countries here in the West match up with a lot of the classic traits associated with Elves in fiction; grace, dignity, etc. Plus...
Oh? What's this?
Man... All the Christian stuff in Marvel comics is... a lot.
You've got the One Above All which is basically Big-G with the numbers filed off (who is also an expy of the writers) but then you got all the religious stuff surrounding Ghost Rider which is entirely separate from...
It's a lego Evee.
Honestly, I'm lowkey impressed with how Lego basically managed to revitalize itself through licensing other properties like Pokemon or Star Trek. (Even if I still miss Bionicle. That was always so cool when I was a kid.)
Oh boy, I can answer this!
Artistically anime & manga has always had a connection to the west. It's not always easy to see now, but if you look at something like Astroboy you can see how things like the large eyes, small mouth and relatively simplified limbs descend from things like early...