The manga series WWE’s Brock Lesnar. Reiner Braun aka the Armored Titan bears a striking resemblance to the professional wrestler leading fans to wonder if the Titan’s design was a deliberate tribute or purely coincidental. In an english translation of a 2016 interview, the creator of Attack on Titan confirmed that Brock Lesnar is in fact the inspiration behind the Armored Titan.
The Armored Titan made his manga Attack on Titan chapter titled “That Day” by Hajime Isayama. The Armored Titan, later revealed to be Reiner Braun, is one of the Nine Titans bestowed upon the people of Earth by a godly force granting them the ability to transform at will into a Titan with their intelligence intact in order to fend off any threat they may face. The Armored Titan is depicted as a physically imposing giant with skin covered in plates of armor, making him incredibly strong and nearly indestructible.
In an interview with creator. When looking for inspiration behind the larger-than-life fighter that a normal human could transform into, Isayama looked towards real professional fighters. In the case of Reiner Braun’s Armored Titan, that inspiration came from WWE’s Brock Lesnar in both exaggerated physical appearance and enhanced fighting style, turning the wrestler into a fictional monstrous version of himself.
Brock Lesnar is an American professional wrestler with WWE and a mixed martial artist who holds the primary heavyweight championships in WWE and Ultimate Fighting Championship among other professional fighting accolades. Lesnar is an accomplished fighter and he looks it, standing at 6’3’’ and weighing nearly three-hundred pounds of honed muscle and imposing bulk.
When developing a character such as the Armored Titan, it makes sense that a fighter of Lesnar’s calibre was used as the blueprint for developing the look and fighting style of the monstrous Titan. Keen-eyed fans initially assumed Brock Lesnar was the inspiration behind the Armored Titan, but after Hajime Isayama’s interview with Gong Kakutogi, which was translated for English-speaking readers, fans now know that one of Attack on Titan’s giants is based on WWE’s Brock Lesnar.
Source: Gong Kakutogi
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