Portmanteaus can be used in ingenious ways. Without their versatility, we wouldn't have words like cyborg, bootylicious, or labradoodle. On the other hand, we'd never have had to suffer through Mantaur's mid-1990s WWF run. Mantaur, as his name suggests, was a man/Minotaur hybrid, a wrestler who actually incorporated charges, trampling, and mooing into his matches. Mantaur, despite being a fundamentally terrible idea, actually made a PPV appearance, entering the 1995 Royal Rumble and lasting over ten minutes! Mike Halac, the man behind the gimmick, also played the roles of Tank (a member of the Truth Commission) and Goldust's unnamed bodyguard. Sounds Like: A very lazily-designed Pokemon, only a step or two below Mr. Mime on the "not even trying" scale.
