Benkei's death is very much similar to the death of Dian Wei in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in that the hero fought a great fight for his master and died on his feet as he was shot by so many arrows.
主君を守るために奮戦し大量に矢を射られ直立不動で死ぬという点で、三国志演義における典韋の死に様と酷似している。