The myth is directly referenced, being tied in with the group's name, Sphinx. Nine and Twelve present the riddle in Terror in Resonance as part of a bomb threat.The only "true" correct answer was to point out that the riddler is cheating. The riddle giver in that episode is cheating, so the person answering is always wrong. The person who answers "a human" gets it wrong. Parodied in Final Fantasy: Unlimited episode 16, where the "correct" answer is the Hemoran bacterium.Strangely, most mythology used in the show was based on Greek mythology, and the Riddle is also Greek, but it was all done in an Egyptian setting. Ulysses 31: "The Secret Of The Sphynx" had this.Sakon from Karakurizoushi Ayatsuri Sakon corrects a man who tells him about the Egyptian riddle of the sphinx.The Quirky Miniboss Squad, stumped, tries to guess a chimpanzee. Used by a riddle-based time-shifter in Flint the Time Detective.(An additional part of the riddle, "The more legs it has the weaker it is", is usually omitted now.) Versions of the story itself was told by oral tradition long before Apollodorus, and in the earliest versions, the exact riddle asked by the Sphinx was not specified by early tellers of the stories, and was not standardized as the one given in Apollodorus' version. The answer? "A man." As a baby, a human goes about on all fours ("four legs in the morning" morning = childhood), until he learns to walk, which he does so well into adulthood ("two legs in the afternoon" afternoon = adulthood), until old age requires him to use a cane to support himself ("three legs in the evening", evening = old age), finally he dies ("no legs at night", night = death). This is one of the oldest Stock Puzzles out there, going back to the Greek writer Apollodorus in the second century AD. He was the first one to solve it-all the others who failed were eaten by the Sphinx-after which she threw herself down a chasm. The classic riddle presented to Oedipus Rex by the Sphinx in Greek Mythology.
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