History MonsterHunter / TropesNToR

* ReplayMode: Entering new zones, defeating certain monsters for the first time during the village quests and finishing certain {{Final Boss}}es will unlock their respective intro cinematics, monster ecologies and staff rolls for viewing in the game's Gallery menu; ''4U'' also adds special Event cinematics to the list. In ''Freedom 2/Unite'', the Gallery was only accessible from the main menu, but in ''3U'', ''4'', and ''4U'', the Felyne butler who lives in the player's house can give you access to the Gallery without needing to exit the game proper.

* RealityEnsues: Despite the fantastic world it takes place in, the series takes a fairly serious and grounded approach to its premise.
** With limitless stamina and a small hitbox, Prowlers would be great for those irritating egg transport missions, right? Wrong. It turns out that lugging an object bigger than the Palico itself slows them to a crawl, makes them weave back and forth as they walk, and completely prevents them from dashing. And since that huge egg over their head is now part of their hitbox, they're more vulnerable while transporting than a hunter would ever be.
** Hunters traveling through desert or LethalLavaLand regions must stock up on consumables to avoid dehydrating in the scorching heat, or freezing during the cold nights.
** Ever wonder why the food you seem to eat before hunts are as fattening as possible? The reason why has to do with real life excising: many athletes bulk up on highly caloric foods in order to ''survive'' their workout regimens, as the constant exercise they do runs the risk of literally depleting their body and killing them. Thus, the meals you eat in ''Monster Hunter'' are designed to give you as many calories as possible before a hunt so that carrying your armor, weapon and inventory doesn't completely exhaust you by the end of it. Even then, eating before a quest does not stop the hunter's stamina from depleting as they burn through these excess calories.
** For all their awesome weapons and armor, Hunters are still fighting monsters far larger and more powerful than themselves. It only takes a few hits, and in some cases just one, to knock Hunters out; and even the smallest blows can still send them flying. As a result, every Hunter using a weapon that doesn't have a shield is a FragileSpeedster or a GlassCannon. The one exception being the Great Sword, which is large enough to guard with.
** When the First Fleet arrived in the New World, they tried to create a society without money. However, things became too personal without a means of fair trade. So when the second fleet was dispatched, it was requested that they bring some currency so a real economy could be created.

* RaptorAttack: The first aggressive monsters the player always encounters are basically these, with the exception of ''World''. The first generation introduces the "Velociprey" line -- Velociprey, Genprey and Ioprey, as well as their "alpha" males Velocidrone, Gendrome and Iodrome, respectively, with the second generation adding the Giaprey and Giadrome to the family. The third generation replaces them with the "Jaggi" line -- Jaggi and Baggi, with their "alpha males" Great Jaggi and Great Baggi, respectively, with ''Portable 3rd'' adding the Wroggi and Great Wroggi to the roster. ''Generations'' introduces the Maccaos and their alpha, the Great Maccao, which are feathered, kangaroo-kicking raptors. ''World'''s Jagras, named for its behavioral similarities to the Jaggi, is instead a panther-like iguana.

** ''Generations expanded it to 8-Stars. 6-Star monsters consist of very powerful regular monsters, most Deviant monsters, and lesser Elder Dragons, 7-Star monsters are mostly Elder Dragons, and 8-Star monsters are multiplayer final bosses.

* NoNameGiven: People in these games are only ever referred to by their job and/or title, like the Handler, the Commander, the Bherna Elder, and so on. The ''sole'' aversion to this thus far is from ''Iceborne'', where the General calls the Ace Cadet/Excitable A-Lister "Aiden", who then mentions his master "Julius".

** "Elder Dragon" is a term used to classify a lot of things that don't even resemble dragons, from the Kirin to various flavors of EldritchAbomination. ''World'' finally clarifies that this is correct nomenclature for any organism with no connection to the evolutionary Tree of Life, and the name caught on before they realized just how weird the things get.

* PracticalTaunt: Palicoes and Shakalaka companions have "Taunt" skills that they can use to DrawAggro away from you. ''Generations'' introduces a Hunter Art known as Provoke and a meal skill known as Felyne Provoker that has the same effect, but with you as the subject. The negative armor skill of Sense manifests as increased aggro from monsters and is denoted with the description "Taunt" in the list of activated armor skills. In all of these cases a Blademaster can use this "skill" to draw some (but not all) attention from their Gunner teammates.

** ''Generations expanded it to 8-Stars. 6-Star monsters consist of very powerful regular monsters and lesser Elder Dragons, 7-Star monsters are mostly Elder Dragons, and 8-Star monsters are multiplayer final bosses.

** ''Rise'' expanded it to 10-Stars, but small monsters are no longer rated, meaning the minimum Threat rating for large monsters is 1-Star instead of 3-Stars. Regular monsters can have 6-Star or 7-Star ratings, 8 Star monsters are Elder Dragons and monsters comparable to Elder Dragons like Rajang, the only 9-Star monster is the penultimate final boss, and 10-Star monsters are the final boss and post-game BonusBoss.

* NamelessNarrative: With extremely limited exceptions, characters are only assigned descriptive titles and lack actual names. Only players and their Palicoes have names, and even then, they never appear in dialogue. A few characters' names have been revealed in [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]], but again, never in the actual games. It wasn't until ''Rise'' that a mainline game would give its cast full names instead of just titles.

* NamelessNarrative: With extremely limited exceptions, characters are only assigned descriptive titles and lack actual names. Only players and their Palicoes have names, and even then, they never appear in dialogue. A few characters' names have been revealed in [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]], but again, never in the actual games.

** It is the only game in the series with motion controls, although it is also compatible with the Wii's Classic Controller.

** All level 10 Special Permit quests in ''Generations'' require HR 8 or greater (meaning you must beat the final boss Urgent Quest of the Hunters' Hub, "Hellfire Star"), and the G5 quests require HR 13 or greater (beat "Castle on the Run"). Bloodbath Diablos similarly has a HR 13 requirement.

** The Japanese releases for certain games often include tie-ins with local gaming and manga publications. Some examples are the Jolly Roger set in ''Unite'', [[Manga/MahouSenseiNegima Asuna's sword]] in ''Tri'' and the [[Manga/InuYasha Tessaiga]] in ''4''.

** Infamously, ''Generations'' defanged the loving hell out of Charge Blade's Super Amped Element Discharge by removing its shockwaves, cutting out so much of its range and maximum damage that it's generally considered better to just use the regular Amped Element Discharge by comparison.

* {{Nerf}}: In previous games, Normal S [=Lv3=] ammo had the ability to bounce off targets when you hit them. This made it DifficultButAwesome due to requiring precise aiming and choice of target to get the shot to bounce between monster parts correctly, but it can inflict enormous damage if pulled off. In ''World'', Normal Ammo 3 was nerfed so that it's simply a stronger Normal shot.

** Rajang is roughly the size of two Hunters put together, yet its acrobatic fighting style and surprisingly strong muscles relative to its size makes it one of the most dangerous monsters that isn't an Elder Dragon, rivaled only by Deviljho.

** A number of monsters aren't available until after you beat the designated FinalBoss monster. Don't think of trying to piggyback on another player's quest, as the HR / G-Rank Permit requirements require the player to defeat said final boss.

** All level 10 Special Permit quests in ''Generations'' require HR 8 or greater (meaning you must beat the final boss Urgent Quest of the Hunters' Hub, "Hellfire Star"), and the G5 quests require HR 13 or greater (beat "Castle on the Run").

** All level 10 Special Permit quests in ''Generations'' require HR 8 or greater (meaning you must beat the final boss quest of the Hunters' Hub, "Hellfire Star")), and the G5 quests require HR 13 or greater (beat "Castle on the Run").

* NoNameGiven: No one is ever named in these games. They're only ever referred to by their job and/or title, like the Handler, the Commander, the Bherna Elder, and so on.