Lamassu

Lamassu, also referred to as "King" or simply the mechanical lion, is the antagonist of Flesh of the Killer. The magnum opus of the artist M.T. Lott, it is an automaton that patrols the halls of the Museum of Moral Art, imprisoning all it encounters within paintings that embody the ideal moral life.

Design
Lamassu appears as a black orb with a single eye in its center, with six blue tentacle-like arms protruding from this core to a single white glove each; it also possesses a pair of white wings along its back. When not painting, it carries a large yellow mask resembles a kingly face, with the vague image of a crown, beard, and lionlike mouth.

According to its blueprints, it was planned to be a giant humanoid robot, but only the head was ever completed before Lott’s death.

Personality
As an artificial construction, Lamassu lacks any distinct personality of its own, and operates off a mechanical pattern recognition system. Upon detecting intruders to the Museum of Moral Art, it pursues them and attempts to devour them, transporting them within one of the paintings of the gallery and immortalizing them as "moral icons". When idle, it will attempt to construe paintings in imitation of its creator, albeit in a much less sophisticated manner. It is not very capable of thinking outside its programming, become enraptured by a simple play emulating moral behavior.

Trivia

 * It is the only antagonist of the Strange Town series without any dialogue - as such, much of its motivation is speculatively written from its behavior and background information.
 * It is also the only antagonist of the Strange Town series without any direct ties to the Killer, though the museum it inhabits has strongly benefited from the Killer's behavior. A statue of him makes an appearance in one of Lamassu's painting worlds alongside the Strangers, implying the robot does in fact consider the Killer's actions immoral.
 * Its theme song is called “Mumu’s Theme” on Tommy Tone’s Of The Killer album, despite it never being referred to by that name in-game. This may be explainable as a reference to a previous evil-clown antagonist garmentdistrict had planned for Flesh of the Killer before Lamassu was finalized as the villain.
 * It shares its only given name with that of an Assyrian guardian deity– befitting its nature as a moral guardian.