History Main / MonsterTown

*** Burgh de Rott is the ruins town full of monsters. It is infested with shades and the human population is infected with a diseases that makes them act like non-intelligent zombies.

** Ape Atoll is populated by intelligent monkeys and apes.

** New Varrock in Dimension of Disaster, is populated by intelligent zombies.

** Tzhaar city is a city populated by lava monsters.

*** Darkmeyer is the vampyre capital and Meiyerditch is the slum where the vampires keep humans imprizoned.

Compare {{Halloweentown}}, which is likely to overlap with this trope.

* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'' had Tryan Gully, which happens to be the only town in the game that your transformed companion Trode feels welcome in, as the monsters are not afraid of him like the humans in other towns are.

* Gobbotopia, the homeland of goblins, hobgoblins and bugbears in ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs formerly known as Azure City]]. Also, lizardfolk seem to be a sizable minority in the desert kingdoms.

*** Sigil is a CityOfAdventure with [[PortalNetwork portals to the Multiverse]]: nearly ''anything'' can and does live there, and pretty much some of every intelligent species in the universe either lives or has lived there at some point.

* ''Film/LittleMonsters'' has an underworld populated by [[{{Trickster}} prank pulling monsters]] that serves as a hub that leads to children's beds.

* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting of TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} has several nations ruled by "monster" races: Darguun is the homeland of the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins and hobgoblins]], Q'Barra is settled by LizardFolk, the Shadow Marches is one of the last holdouts of the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]], Droaam (pictured above) is a safe haven for monsters of all kinds (from [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]] to harpies to hags), the continent of Xen'drik is inhabited primarily by drow, giants, and various other exotic intelligent species, and Argonnessen is another continent completely ruled by [[OurDragonsAreDifferent prophecy-obsessed DRAGONS]].
* Examples of the MonsterTown are quite common in the ''D&D Basic'' Mystara setting, both as independent states and as principalities within larger, multi-species nations.
* [[BeneathTheEarth The Underdark]] is controlled by multiple nations of drow, illithids, and other subterranean races, depending on the setting.
* Tormenta, a Brazilian setting, has the "Dark Alliance" that rules the south continent, though most of their towns are conquered.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' campaign, Sigil is, well... Sigil. Basically, ''anything'' can and does live there, and pretty much some of every intelligent species in the universe either lives or has lived there at some point.
** Minor example in the setting is the City of Glass on the Elemental Plane of Water, which is populated by numerous aquatic races, as well as humans and demi-humans, and governed by half-dragons.

* Monsters in the ''Final Fantasy Legend'' trilogy (if not the ''[[Franchise/SaGaRPG SaGa]]'' series in general) live alongside humans and so appear both in the wild and in town. In [[VideoGame/{{SaGa3}} the third game]] this is only true in the enemy's dimension of Pureland, though there are two classical Monster Towns along the way infested with random encounters and evil [=WaterHags=] and Dwelgs that will attack on sight if the party is not disguised.

* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'' has quite a few of these. Goblin Village, Barbarian Village (for a given value of "monster"), entire [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampire and vampyre]] cities on the members' worlds...

* In the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Monster Metropolis exists in the tunnels beneath New York, and was at one point inhabited by every single monster in the world. It was governed by the Legion of Monsters (made up of ComicBook/{{Morbius}}, ComicBook/WerewolfByNight, N'Kantu the Living Mummy and Manphibian) before Deadpool's succubus wife Shiklah took the reigns.

* Monsters in the ''Final Fantasy Legend'' trilogy (if not the ''VideoGame/{{SaGa}}'' series in general) live alongside humans and so appear both in the wild and in town. In [[VideoGame/{{SaGa3}} the third game]] this is only true in the enemy's dimension of Pureland, though there are two classical Monster Towns along the way infested with random encounters and evil [=WaterHags=] and Dwelgs that will attack on sight if the party is not disguised.

* DependingOnTheWriter on the different movies of ''Franchise/MonsterHigh'', the monsters have they own town and/or towns separated from the humans.

* Sheol City in ''{{ComicBook/Crimson}}'' is an underground city beneath Manhattan populated by all kinds of Darklings (a generic term used to describe inhumans and supernatural monsters like vampires, werewolves and many other dejects from human society). They use glamour to keep themselves hidden from humans.

* The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' setting of TabletopGame/{{Eberron}} has several nations ruled by "monster" races: Darguun is the homeland of the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblins and hobgoblins]], Q'Barra is settled by LizardFolk, the Shadow Marches is one of the last holdouts of the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]], Droaam is a safe haven for monsters of all kinds (from [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]] to harpies to hags), the continent of Xen'drik is inhabited primarily by drow, giants, and various other exotic intelligent species, and Argonnessen is another continent completely ruled by [[OurDragonsAreDifferent prophecy-obsessed DRAGONS]].

[[quoteright:350:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_jlhe0jc.png]]

* TabletopGame/{{Mortasheen}} is one of these around the size of Austrailia, with a massive abundance [[BodyHorror grotesque]] {{Mons}} used for almost everything you can think of. Even your player characters are monstrous, with Mutants, FishPeople, [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]], shadow-people, human-insect hybrids, morlocks that [[LooksLikeOrlock look like Orlock]], and brain-in-a-jar styled cyborgs.