User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter X Discussion/@comment-28303251-20150810070231/@comment-25119729-20150811212643

Thing is, we don't even know if they used the greek mythology for Zinogre. Stygian Zinogre could simply be a play on the archtype of hell hounds and normal Zinogre could be based on the japanese thundergod like you said. What bothers me the most with the idea of a Zingore rare is simply the fact that Zinogre need something lightning shaped to work correctly. With Thunder and Dragon out of the way, the only thing lightning shaped would be Paralysis, which would be a pain the ass to fight. I could see it working with blast too, but that would be just boring and plainly uncreative if they did that. Also keep in mind that normally subspecies don't have that much differences in the physical model of the monster. CHanging a monster so drastic like a zinogre with fins, sounds more like a new monster entirely instead of a sub or rare species.