monster / n, pl. monsters:
- A being of frightening and inhuman appearance and/or demeanor, and quite possibly inhuman origin.
- A term so broad and popular for work titles that we had to write this page to cover all our bases (and The Other Wiki covers even more of them than we do).
- The one under your bed that eats your shoes.
(The) Monster(s) may refer to:
Anime and Manga
- Monster (1994): A manga and anime written by Naoki Urasawa about a doctor who must hunt down a Serial Killer he feels responsible for letting loose on the world as a child.
Fan Works
- Monster (A Death Note AU): A Death Note Dark Fic.
- Monsters (Aofie): A fanfic crossover between Once Upon a Time and Aliens.
- The Monsters Who Always Lie: a Death Note Continuation fic.
Films - Animated
- The Monsters, Inc. franchise:
- Monsters, Inc., the Pixar film with monsters playing the role of Punch-Clock Villain.
- Monsters University, the prequel film where monsters attend a college to learn about proper scaring.
- Monsters at Work, a Disney+ series continuing from the end of the first film (but before the epilogue).
Films - Live Action
- The Monster (1925): A 1925 horror movie starring Lon Chaney.
- Monster! (1999): A direct to video film about a film director whose monster movies come to life every three years to wreak havoc on a small town.
- Monster (2003): A 2003 American film Based on a True Story about a female serial killer played by Charlize Theron. It won Theron several awards including an Oscar Award and Roger Ebert called it one of the best films of that decade.
- Monsters (2010): A British sci-fi thriller released in 2010, directed by Gareth Edwards.
- The Monster (2016): A 2016 horror film by Brian Bertino about a mother and her estranged daughter who encounter a monster on a secluded road.
- Monster (2023): A 2023 Japanese film directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, unrelated to the manga.
Literature
- The Monster (1948): An Alien Invasion short story by A. E. Van Vogt.
- Monster (Myers): A 1999 Young Adult novel by Walter Dean Myers with a 2018 Film of the Book
- Monster (2009): A 2009 book about a guy named Monster Dionysus trying to survive real life around his job of capturing cryptozoological monsters while putting up with a girlfriend who's a real monster.
- Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein: An adaptation of Frankenstein from the POV of the creature.
Live Action Television
- Monsters (1988): A horror anthology series from The '80s about monsters.
- Monster (2022): A Netflix anthology series about notorious murderers.
Music
- Monster: A song by Skillet.
- Monster (KISS album): The musical album by KISS.
- Monster (R.E.M. Album) The musical album by R.E.M..
Video Games
- Monster (Doujinsoft): A Doujinshi Fighting Game developed by 8105graphics that fell into Vaporware.
- Monster Hunter: a popular video game series that bears some semblance to other games with Mons but replaces the cute monsters with big nasty dinosaur monsters and the Gotta Catch 'Em All with "kill or be killed".
Western Animation
- Aaahh!!! Real Monsters: a Nickelodeon cartoon about three monsters who live under a dump and attend monster school.
Web Comics
- Monster (Bitstrips): A shortlived web-comic hosted by Bitstrips.
Tropes
- Complete Monster: a YMMV item about a villain who is the most degenerate in a work, provokes fear or hatred in all the characters and is completely devoid of redeeming features. Its namespace is Monster/.
- Mons: Little (often cute) monsters that you capture and train to fight for you against each other. See Monster Rancher, Pokémon, Shin Megami Tensei et al.
- You Monster!: a Stock Phrase characters say to people they consider monsters.
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