Octopus

The Man of a Thousand Faces was infinitely adaptable.

Lon Chaney was the ultimate shape-shifter, transforming himself into grotesque and tragic characters through extraordinary self-applied makeup and physical contortion — from the Hunchback of Notre Dame to the Phantom of the Opera. His ability to completely dissolve his own identity into wildly different roles makes the octopus a natural fit: multi-talented, hard to pin down, and capable of becoming something entirely new at will. Beneath the disguises lay a deeply private, introverted man, adding to the mysterious, hard-to-classify quality that defines the octopus personality.