History Toys / MonsterHigh

Not related to ''VisualNovel/MonsterProm''.

The dolls have been noted for their unique concept, highly articulated bodies, and high variety of sculpts, with the dolls featuring a wide range of uniquely-sculpted bodies and heads with monster details. A 4-book series of tie-in novels was written by ''Literature/TheClique'' writer Lisi Harrison, followed by the ''Ghoulfriends Forever'' series by Gitty Daneshvari, and two graphic novels written by Heather Nuhfer and illustrated by Josh Howard and Kellee Riley. The series' first Halloween special aired on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} on October 31, 2010 and has been followed by others ever since. The franchise was expanded with a series of CGI DirectToVideo movies (excepting ''13 Wishes'' and ''Welcome to Monster High'', which had brief theatrical runs). A live-action movie was initially confirmed for fall 2016 with ''Film/TheDuff'' director Ari Sandel before [[http://variety.com/2015/film/news/the-girl-on-the-train-release-date-emily-blunt-1201663358/ being removed from the slate indefinitely]] -- until [[https://deadline.com/2021/02/monster-high-live-action-tv-movie-animated-series-reboot-nickelodeon-mattel-1234698667/ it was announced]] to be returning with Generation 3.

Cheerful and bright (but miserably lonely) 1600 year old vampire [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife Draculaura]] lives alone with her father Dracula, and has for years: in this world, monsters have lived isolated from each other and society at large ever since the Fright Flight, a mass exodus after humanity turned on them at least a century before present day. Dracula tries to stress to his daughter to stay in the safety of the home away from humans ([[WesternAnimation/HotelTransylvania never heard that before]]), but regardless of his efforts she's spotted by precocious 115-day-old [[GadgeteerGenius Frankie]] [[TheChooserOfTheOne Stein]] during a flying lesson. Frankie follows them home and convinces Dracula to let her stay at the house, after which she and Draculaura secretly decide to build a school--Monster High. One problem--they've no other students. On their search for them, they find 15-year-old Clawdeen Wolf, completing their trio. The three finally convince Dracula to help build a school, and create it. Afterwards they find many other students, starting with Cleo De Nile and Lagoona Blue, as well as new zombie nemesis Moanica D'Kay and ghost incognito popstar Ari Hauntington.

''Toys/EverAfterHigh'' was a fairy-tale spinoff set in the same universe as G1 ''Monster High''. While the two had subtle crossover elements, all plans to unite the two franchises were canned with the ''Monster High'' G2. The two franchises finally crossed over with the book "[[https://www.amazon.com/Monster-High-Ever-After-Legend/dp/0316352829 The Legend of Shadow High]]," though that crossed over Generation 2 with post-soft-reboot EAH instead of G1-with-G1.

* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: A LighterAndSofter example: in the Scarnival doll set, Clawd runs a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_striker high striker]] game, and gets a [[DropTheHammer hammer]]. Draculaura runs a balloon dart game, and thus gets [[LongRangeFighter darts]].

** The 2012 movie "Ghouls Rule" involved some hysteria going on in both the monster and human races due to the FantasticRacism that monsters are subjected to on Halloween. Holt was framed for trying to vandalize the human school because humans had previously vandalized there own school and mocked them for being monster; so a group of monsters wanted revenge and Holt just happened to be apart of it. Holt was caught with spray paint that was planted on him by a monster hunter. Human high-schoolers then started accusing people at a party of being monsters, and Holt was sentenced to the [[NeverSayDie Trick-or-Treatment]] which was a [[OffWithHisHead machine similar to a hanging gallows.]] When the monster hunter finally confessed to framing Holt, the [[InspectorJavert police officer]] refused to listen and wanted to continue with the Trick-or-Treatment. Oh, and this all took place in a town called "New Salem".

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The 2012 movie "Ghouls Rule" involved some hysteria going on in both the monster and human races due to the FantasticRacism that monsters are subjected to on Halloween. Holt was framed for trying to vandalize the human school because humans had previously vandalized there own school and mocked them for being monster; so a group of monsters wanted revenge and Holt just happened to be apart of it. Holt was caught with spray paint that was planted on him by a monster hunter. Human high-schoolers then started accusing people at a party of being monsters, and Holt was sentenced to the [[NeverSayDie Trick-or-Treatment]] which was a [[OffWithHisHead machine similar to a hanging gallows.]] When the monster hunter finally confessed to framing Holt, the [[InspectorJavert police officer]] refused to listen and wanted to continue with the Trick-or-Treatment. Oh, and this all took place in a town called "New Salem".

* WitchSpecies: Played straight in G1, with the Create-a-Monster Witch and Casta Fierce embodying classic witches as a magical monster type, green skin and all. Averted in G3, where witchcraft is depicted as a practice and skill anyone can fall into, and the first witch seen in G3 is Draculaura, who's a vampire first and foremost.

* {{Grimmification}}: A Target exclusive line called "Scarily Ever After" (also called "Scary Tales") It had Clawdeen as Little Dead Riding Hood, Frankie as Threadarella, and Draculara as Snow Bite; each came with a short rhyming storybook that retold the fairy tale from a monsterous point of view with the characters in their titles roles and other students in the supporting roles.