History Main / MuckMonster

* The title creature in ''Literature/{{Slime}}'' by William Essex: a living lake of toxic waste that eats people and animals.

** And a variation with a snot-based clone of the Tick himself created by the being from the alternate dimension down the hall (34B, IIRC?). Not exactly a blob of muck, but it was made of snot/mucus and, while shaped like the tick, could squish itself into other shapes and use it's semi-gelatinous consistency to seep through cracks and around attacks and such.

The Muck Monster is a living embodiment of filth and slop, and the GreenAesop tends to be his stomping grounds. Nothing tends to hammer an anti-pollution message home like an colossal, animate pile of (sometimes [[TalkingPooliteral]]) crap. Plants die from this beastie's approach; sometimes animals and even people bite the dust from [[WalkingWasteland being in mere proximity to this abomination]].

The Muck Monster is a living embodiment of filth and slop, and the GreenAesop tends to be his stomping grounds. Nothing tends to hammer an anti-pollution message home like an colossal, animate pile of crap. Plants die from this beastie's approach; sometimes animals and even people bite the dust from [[WalkingWasteland being in mere proximity to this abomination]].

* Master Belch and his upgraded form, Master Barf, from ''Videogame/{{Earthbound}}''. There are also the smaller monsters like "Pile of Puke" and "Stink Spirit".

* The Smoky Progg from ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' could count too as it is a horrifying crawling cloud of polllution which instantly kills any pikmin it touches. Not even unpicked ones are safe from its wrath.

* The Amoeboids in the VideoGame/RatchetAndClank series are a kind of slime monster that walks in circles and says "Nein!". When hit, they split into two, half as small slime monsters (except for [[GoddamnedBats the smallest sort]], which just disappears). The biggest ones will split five times, meaning that you have to kill 63 slimes in total.

* VideoGame/TheBindingOfIsaac has a lot of poo-themed enemies, including Dips, Squirts and Dingas (each progressively larger and which split into their smaller kin when killed), and bosses Dingle, Dangle, the Turdlings and Brownie.

The Muck Monster is a living embodiment of filth and slop, the GreenAesop tends to be his stomping grounds. Nothing tends to hammer an anti-pollution message home like an colossal, animate pile of crap. Plants die from this beastie's approach; sometimes animals and even people bite the dust from [[WalkingWasteland being in mere proximity to this abomination]].

* ''WesternAnimation/FernGullyTheLastRainforest'': Hexxus, the Tim Curry-voiced pollution-demon villain, although he was the primordial spirit of destruction before he latched on to human inventions. His forms varied from a sludge-based blob monster to an exhaust fume-based ghost to a ''giant burning skeleton made of tar''.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' had a number of these, such as the Shambling Mound and the demon prince Juiblex.

* ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' has the [[spoiler:River Spirit that was mistaken for a]] Stink God, who is literally just a moving pile of sludge with eyes. His smell is so bad that it makes everyone's eyes water and makes all of the food around him rot. [[spoiler:It's due to the pollution in he river he inhabits.]]

* Franchise/{{Batman}}'s enemy Clayface [[LegacyCharacter (all eight of them)]] fit the Trope in some way, although some are more humanoid than others. The worst part is, all of them [[WasOnceAMan were once human]].

* ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' had a demon, the Golgothum, constructed from crap - specifically, the crap of all the prisoners crucified at Golgotha ([[JesusChrist yes, including Him]]). He's defeated by deodorant (which "knocks out strong odors").

* The title creature in ''Slime'' by William Essex: a living lake of toxic waste that eats people and animals.

Compare BlobMonster, which is more transparent (and generally less smelly), TalkingPoo. See also ToxicWasteCanDoAnything, where the toxin creates a monster without being sentient itself.

* The Amoeboids in the VideoGame/RatchetAndClank series are a kind of slime monster that walk in circles and says "Nein!". When hit, they split into two, half as small slime monsters (except for [[GoddamnedBats the smallest sort]], which just disappears). The biggest ones will split five times, meaning that you have to kill 63 slimes in total.

* ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' had a demon, the Golgothum, constructed from *bleep* - specifically, the *bleep* of all the prisoners crucified at Golgotha ([[JesusChrist yes, including Him]]). He's defeated by deodorant (which "knocks out strong odors").

* ''[=MonSturd=]''. It's like ''Film/JackFrost1997'', except the SerialKiller was genetically fused with *bleep* instead of snow.

* ''VideoGame/BulbBoy'' has a PuzzleBoss based on this concept. After the protagonist eats the cooked corpse of a evil zombie chicken the resulting bowl movement creates a large worm-like turd monster that must be flushed down the toilet before it eats Bulb Boy.

* The deities [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith_deities#Abhoth Abhoth]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clark_Ashton_Smith_deities#Ubbo-Sathla Ubbo-Sathla]] in Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith's CthulhuMythos stories.

The Muck Monster is a living embodiment of filth and slop, the GreenAesop tends to be his stomping grounds. Nothing tends to hammer an anti-pollution message home like an colossal, animate pile of *bleep*. Plants die from this beastie's approach; sometimes animals and even people bite the dust from [[WalkingWasteland being in mere proximity to this abomination]].

The Muck Monster is a living embodiment of filth and slop, the GreenAesop tends to be his stomping grounds. Nothing tends to hammer an anti-pollution message home like an colossal, animate pile of crap. Plants die from this beastie's approach; sometimes animals and even people bite the dust from [[WalkingWasteland being in mere proximity to this abomination]].

* ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' had a demon, the Golgothum, constructed from crap - specifically, the crap of all the prisoners crucified at Golgotha ([[JesusChrist yes, including Him]]). He's defeated by deodorant (which "knocks out strong odors").

* ''[=MonSturd=]''. It's like ''Film/JackFrost1997'', except the SerialKiller was genetically fused with shit instead of snow.

* The smoky Progg from ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' could count too as it is a horrifying crawling cloud of polllution which instantly kills any pikmin it touches. Not even unpicked ones are safe from its wrath.

Compare BlobMonster, which is more transparent (and generally less smelly), TalkingPoo. See also ToxicWasteCanDoAnything.

Compare BlobMonster, which is more transparent (and generally less smelly), TalkingPoo.

* Ginta uses Babbo: Alice to dispel this curse off "Gramps" in episode 97 of ''MarchenAwakensRomance''.

* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDKWDkNLi9c Zingy animated ico]]n used by British energy company EDF has often been likened, unfavourably, to a parasitical turd-monster. Embittered website ''Website/AdTurds'' has not been slow in likening it to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'''s Mr Hankey in its relentlessly cheerful disposition while - well, remaining a turd. The advertising agency has responded by making its colour a more orange-yellow rather than brown: but the current advertising depicting a very-large Zingy in the form of a hot-air balloon does make it look like a giant turd floating above British suburbia.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Thundercats}}'' episode ''Mandora: The Evil Chaser'', one of Mandora's criminal prisoners is a Muck Monster known as The Living Ooze.
** Defeated with a powerful weapon of the ancients - [[spoiler:SOAP!]]

* In the 1500s, the [[UsefulNotes/NativeAmericans Indians]] who met Europeans bathed regularly. In contrast, the Europeans had historically been in close contact to livestock and the attendant manure, and were averse to bathing. To the Indians, they would have seemed like this trope.

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* During the lifeforce crisis in ''{{Discworld}}/ReaperMan'', one of the [[WizardingSchool Unseen University's]] ''compost heaps'' comes to life. It attacked the gardener and dissolved its way through the main door before the wizards [[StuffBlowingUp blew it up]] with a bottle of [[BlazingInfernoHellfireSauce Wow-Wow sauce]].

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* Eva Mudlark of ''TheAquabatsSuperShow'' has made several of these out of anger from being treated as a lowly garbage collector.

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In ''The Royal Book of Oz'', the first [[Literature/LandOfOz Oz]] story by Ruth Plumly Thompson, the Scarecrow briefly encounters Middlings, man-like creatures made of mud.