| Minotaur | |
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| Biographical Information | |
| Real Name: | Minotaur |
| Species: | Half-Man, Half-Bull |
| Originally From: | Crete |
| Family: |
Cretan Bull (Father) |
| Weapons: |
Horns, Claws & Teeth |
| Affiliations: | |
| Physical Description | |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hair color: | Black |
| Eye color: | Red |
| Height: | 6'8 + |
| Character Information | |
| First appearance: | Mazed and Confused |
| Voiced by: | Ty Olsson |
| GALLERY | |
A cloned version of the original Minotaur that was defeated by Theseus.
Appearance[]
As in the myth, the Minotaur has the lower body of a bull, torso of a man with light green skin, and head of a bull. It has red eyes that constantly glow.
Differing from the myth, the Minotaur's shown were smaller in appearance and did not solely walk on their back legs, instead charged on all fours.
Personality[]
The Minotaur is a highly vicious creature. It is very aggressive but also quite clever as it was shown to store away the people it kidnapped and trapped the heroes by cornering them numerous times. However, still being part animal, it does fall for decoy attempts and appears unable to swim.
In the series[]
In Class of the Titans, Cronus obtains the bones of the original Minotaur and tricks a scientist into cloning the genetics so that Cronus can raise an army of Minotaur's to obey him.
But in New Olympia, a Minotaur escaped their confinement and began to kidnap tourists from underground subway tunnel tours. Now there was an entire herd of Minotaur's that had green-skin and were more bull-like in appearance than the original. The Chosen Ones (minus Atlanta, who was leading away a single Minotaur at the time, and Odie, who couldn't enter the maze due to his claustrophobia) defeated the Minotaur's by collapsing the tunnels' supports and Atlanta tricking one to fall into a river and it presumably drowning in the powerful current.
Myth[]
After he ascended the throne of Crete, Minos competed with his brothers to rule. Minos prayed to Poseidon to send him a snow-white bull, as a sign of support (the Cretan Bull). He was to kill the bull to show honor to Poseidon but decided to keep it instead because of its beauty. He thought Poseidon would not care if he kept the white bull and sacrificed one of his own. To punish Minos, Aphrodite made Pasiphaë, Minos' wife, fall deeply in love with the bull. Pasiphaë had the archetypal craftsman Daedalus make a hollow wooden cow and climbed inside it in order to mate with the white bull. The offspring was the monstrous Minotaur.
The Minotaur is a half-man, half-bull creature who was imprisoned in the labyrinth. At a time when Minos' son was killed by youths of Athens, it was demanded by Minos that seven pure girls and seven pure boys were to be sacrificed in the labyrinth every few years to atone for the murdered prince. The Minotaur was one of the reasons that Crete was the dominate power of Greece until Athens eventually rose to power. The beast was defeated by Theseus, who navigated the maze with string given to him by Minos' daughter.
Trivia[]
- In Mazed and Confused, the Minotaur was seen being defeated by Theseus when he was an adult. In the original myth, Theseus was in his late teens when he defeated the Minotaur.