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11-> "''Monkeys, apes, they all hold stuff with their feet, man! We're talking freaks of nature!''"
12-->-- '''[[ProperlyParanoid Ron Stoppable]]''', ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''
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14 Apes and monkeys with human-level intelligence, whether [[UpliftedAnimal artificial]] or natural, have a recurring tendency to be antagonists in fiction. If the protagonists are humans, they might be suffering an inherent sibling rivalry with the human race, and want to either wipe it out or subdue it. If it's a story [[WorldOfFunnyAnimals with a cast of animals]], they might see themselves as "superior" to the other species and try to rule over them. Either way, these monkeys are used as signs that something bad is about to go down.
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16This trope is distinct from KillerSpaceMonkey in that these monkeys are usually [[SuperIntelligence Super Intelligent]] {{Mad Scientist}}s who want to TakeOverTheWorld or at least make life difficult for humanity. Another possibility is that they are {{Genius Bruiser}}s determined to both overpower and OutGambit their fellow primates. However, often they are just highly aggressive animals that attack humans (which may be TruthInTelevision for some primate species).
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18This here is the opposite of SillySimian. Compare MischiefMakingMonkey, where the trouble the monkey causes is more harmless. KillerGorilla is a subtrope, as gorillas (and other great apes) are particularly often portrayed as malevolent, due to their great strength and menacing appearance. For the underwater equivalent, see DeviousDolphins. For primates in general being depicted as intelligent, regardless of whether or not they're dangerous, see IntelligentPrimate.
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25* The Beast Titan, from ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''. It's 17 meters tall, with CreepilyLongArms, [[spoiler:a cruel, brilliant mind, and the ability to turn humans into Titans he can control]]. Its appearance heralds very bad things. [[spoiler:He's the Warchief of Marley's Titan warriors and is rather fond of baseball]].
26* Etemon from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. And [[SmugSnake Makuramon]] from Anime/DigimonTamers.
27* The Saiyans from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' are like this. They are galactic conquerors who can transform into giant apes during the full moon. Their only simian-like characteristic in their normal form is their monkey tails.
28* One of the first monsters seen in ''Literature/TheFruitOfEvolution'' are primates literally called "Clever Monkeys". Not only are they massively more powerful than you'd expect for something that looks like a chimpanzee with a spider monkey's tail, being ''Level 150'', they back it up with high stats, high speed, and powerful attacks, including a RazorWind kick attack called Guillotine Kick. Their highest stat is actually their intelligence, which allows them to craft (and use!) well-made tools and all kinds of herbal medicines and potions. The Clever Monkeys that Seiichi meets are encountered working under a [[KillerGorilla Kaiser Kong]], but it's unclear if that's normal for them.
29* ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'': Forever from ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Stardust Crusaders]]'' is an orangutan who gained human-level intelligence after acquiring the Stand Strength, and antagonizes Jotaro and his comrades.
30* The apes in ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', who distrust and hate San.
31* ''Manga/SetonAcademyJoinThePack'': Pan Saruhara is a chimpanzee beast-girl who is portrayed as conniving and malicious, using her mastery of man-made tools and weapons to cheat in order to get ahead in competitions while taking out her rivals.
32* In ''Literature/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' the Anogratch are a species of aggressive monkey-type monsters. They will attack anything that enters their territory and if a member of a troop is killed [[SuperPersistentPredator the rest will pursue the killer endlessly]], [[RevengeBeforeReason no matter how many die in the pursuit]]. Given their troops can number in the thousands, the Revenge Monkeys are exceptionally dangerous. Their evolved form, the Bagragratch, is a much larger and stronger baboon-type monster but is actually considered less of a threat as it lacks the Vengeance and Wrath skills of the previous form.
33* Aozaru from ''Literature/TheTwelveKingdoms''.
34* ''Manga/UshioAndTora'' has two notable examples: The Namahage, a monster who skins women and devours their intestines in an attempt to turn into a human, is revealed to be the transformation of a macaque, who [[TragicMonster originally wanted to become a human for the sake of his childhood human friend]] but eventually lost himself in villainy. A later arc has some monstrous babboons lead by a gigantic white elder monkey, who enjoy eating young women. They are a nod to the tale of Shippeitaro.
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38* One of the rival teams faced by the Sunny Farm F.C. in ''Animation/{{Dreamkix}}'' had several spider monkeys who'd physically impede their progress, even in blatant displays like covering Roy's eyes and trying to drag George down. Yet they were apparently not committing fouls because they were deemed "too small and weak to really physically assault anyone".
39* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': As shown in episode 31 of Season 2, among planet Gray's graduate monsters is a giant ape that Big and Little M.'s commander describes as "ferocious".
40* ''Animation/RimbaRacer'': [=OoAa=] the chimpanzee is never shown to speak intelligibly, unlike the other {{Funny Animal}}s on the show, and tends to screech and grab people when annoyed.
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44* From ''ComicBook/AstroCity'' There's the Brass Monkey, a foe of Jack in the Box, who was a janitor whose soul got transferred into a monkey statue.
45* ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'': Thunder Girl's ArchEnemy is Dr. Hy Q. Binana: a MadScientist talking chimpanzee who styles himself "the most brilliant chimpanzee on the planet!"
46* ''Franchise/TheDCU'':
47** [[Characters/TheFlashRoguesGallery Gorilla Grodd]], one of ''ComicBook/TheFlash's'' major villains, is probably the most archetypal example of this trope, because of his utter disdain for humanity, psychopathic nature and plots to make gorillas the dominant species on Earth. Do NOT [[IAmNotWeasel call him a monkey]], though -- unless [[BerserkButton you really want to make him mad]]. And he hates bananas.
48** Likewise, Ultra-Humanite sort of fits this trope, as he is a MadScientist inside an albino gorilla's body.
49** DC love this trope; in addition to the two examples above, there's also the late [[Comicbook/DoomPatrol Monsieur Mallah]], [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot a superintelligent machine-gun-toting communist revolutionary homosexual French-speaking gorilla]] (seriously), the muscle (and lover) of the also deceased [[BrainInAJar Brain]]. Coincidentally, Grodd killed both of them in ''ComicBook/SalvationRun''.
50** In the ''Saga of the Comicbook/SwampThing'' story arc, a demonic creature resembling a marmoset fed on the terrors of traumatized children.
51** While the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1942 original]] Giganta was a KillerGorilla transformed into a human body via a DevolutionDevice, the [[ComicBook/WonderWoman1987 Post-Crisis]] Giganta was a human scientist whose mind was transfered into a gorilla as an emergency act to save her life when she was dying of a genetic condition.
52* Hans Gruber, one of the bad guys from ComicBook/TheEyeOfMongombo, has a chimpanzee named Boris who does whatever Gruber wants for Nutter-Butters.
53* ''ComicBook/TheFinalPlague'': During a quarantine, some scientists are investigating a breach, and find an [[RaisingTheSteaks undead monkey]] attacking someone.
54* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
55** Ape X from ''ComicBook/SquadronSupreme.'' Which in ComicBook/SquadronSupreme tradition is a homage to the above comic book supermonkeys.
56** [[RedScare Red Ghost]] and his [[ApesInSpace Super Apes]] are enemies of the Comicbook/FantasticFour. Red Ghost has the power of {{Intangibility}}, the gorilla has SuperStrength, the orangutan has VoluntaryShapeshifting, and the mandrill is a GravityMaster.
57** Marvel also has a C-Lister mutant villain called The Mandrill, because [[BeastMan he looks like a humanoid mandrill]]. He has a weird backstory involving prenatal exposure to radiation that [[ChocolateBaby left him deformed in a way that made his father think he was born from adultery]], and he's infamous for the fact that he's [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain an out-and-proud misogynist]] with women-specific LivingAphrodisiac powers, which he uses to enslave women as patsies, goons and sex-slaves. There's a reason Marvel prefers to not bring him up any more.
58* The Disney ''ComicBook/MickeyMouseComicUniverse'' features the monkey mad scientists Ecks, Doublex, and Triplex as enemies of Mickey Mouse. Another comics pal of Mickey's is the tough robot operator Sam Simian, seemingly a gorilla. There's one story where Mickey and Sam take on the three Professors. Apart from Mickey himself, everyone in the story is a monkey!
59* ''ComicBook/RebelDeadRevenge'': Satan uses a reanimated monkey as his MeatPuppet, making for an exceptionally vicious example.
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63* After Calvin opens a circus box in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'', he releases a monkey and HilarityEnsues.
64* The ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9565191/1/An-Old-Foe-Returns An Old Foe Returns]]'' gives us Mastermind, a sinister super-intelligent chimp who intends to make simians the dominate species on Earth. [[spoiler:It's revealed that he used to be Bobo, the Camp Wannaweep mascot that created Ron's monkey phobia]].
65* The ''Psychonauts'' fanfic ''Fanfic/LaterTraitor'' introduces a new type of mental enemy, Intrusive Thoughts. They manifest as black-furred monkey-like creatures with barbed tails, sharp claws, and glowing jack-o-lantern-like faces that attack in packs and spew vile insults. Frazie encounters swarms of them in [[StepfordSmiler Clem Foote]]'s mind.
66* Near the end of the ''Literature/LordOfTheRings'' fic ''Fanfic/{{Sary}}'', a monkey suddenly appears in Rivendell and brutally kills Aragorn for no reason.
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70* In the “Bolero” sequence from ''WesternAnimation/AllegroNonTroppo'' there is an ape going around being a {{Jerkass}} to the marching dinosaurs.
71* The main antagonist in ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' is a prehistoric ape pirate captain called Gutt.
72* [[BigBad Shen's]] gorillas from ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' are EliteMooks in his army that otherwise consists of SavageWolves.
73* In Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{Tarzan}}'', Jane gets attacked by a group of baboons and is saved by Tarzan from them.
74* The CymbalBangingMonkey from ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', who monitors Sunnyside Daycare to see if any of the prisoners are trying to escape.
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78* The science fiction film ''Film/AdAstra'' features a bizarre segment when the main character played by Brad Pitt responds to a distress signal at a Dutch research station that has been overtaken by a pair of overly aggressive baboons. The implication is that the baboons were used in experimentation. One of the baboons ends up [[FacialHorror eating the face]] of an astronaut accompanying Pitt.
79* The gorilla in ''Film/BabysDayOut'' doubles as this and also an ape version of a PapaWolf.
80* The main antagonists of ''Film/BloodMonkey'' are a bunch of super-smart, utterly ravenous apes picking off college students in the jungles of Thailand.
81* The Killer Apes of Zinj from ''Film/{{Congo}}''.
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83* The Simians from ''Film/GodzillaVsMechagodzilla'' and ''Film/TerrorOfMechagodzilla'' are green chimpanzee aliens who attempt to use Mechagodzilla to TakeOverTheWorld.
84* In ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'', the game introduces a troop of monkeys to wreak havoc: "This will not be an easy mission. Monkeys slow the expedition". Though the monkeys aren't so much dangerous as a sheer nuisance.
85** Then in sequel ''Film/JumanjiTheNextLevel'', the danger is very real with a huge group of mandrills who attack the protagonists (as they need to cross fragile rope bridges, no less), down to throwing one of them in the BottomlessPit below.
86* 1986 film ''Film/{{Link}}'' had a killer chimpanzee butler.
87* Ella in ''Film/MonkeyShines'' is an assistant to a paralyzed man who develops a psychic connection with him. Whenever he lashes out at someone, she is soon out to get them.
88* ''Film/{{Nope}}:'' One of the characters is a survivor of an incident in which a chimp went berserk during the filming of a TV sitcom, and killed and mutilated several people.
89* An infamous scene from ''Film/TheOmen'' has [[CreepyChild Damien]] and his mother at a drive-through safari park when a troop of Hamadryas baboons suddenly go berserk and attack their car. We eventually learn that the baboons, much like an EvilDetectingDog, were responding to Damien's diabolical aura.
90* A heroic aversion in ''Film/{{Phenomena}}'' with Inga, a chimpanzee of normal intelligence who helps Creator/DonaldPleasence's character Professor [=McGregor=] (who is disabled) get around. Inga spends most of the movie as a fairly gentle, amiable primate, but in the film's climax, [[spoiler: after her master has been killed]], she goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and [[spoiler: [[OffWithHisHead decapitates]] the villain with a straight razor.]] This is one of those movies where HumansAreTheRealMonsters.
91* The apes from ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'', who have replaced humanity as the superior species, although the whole point of the franchise is that they're no worse - or, [[CulturalPosturing despite what they think]], better - than humans.
92* In ''Film/{{Primal}}'', the cook is killed by the pack of monkeys that have taken over his galley after he grabs one of the babies, despite Frank's warning not to.
93* A Capuchin monkey in ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'' works as a spy for ThoseWackyNazis. No, really. [[spoiler:She ends up inadvertently helping the heroes when she eats a date and dies, tipping Sallah off that the bowl of dates is poisoned.]]
94-->Bad dates.
95* In ''Film/SandsOfTheKalahari'', the survivors of the plane crash are menaced by a troop of baboons inhabiting the area. Initially content to holler at the intruders from the distance, the animals gradually become more aggressive as they realize the people are only a physical threat to them when they have weapons.
96* In ''Film/TheShadowOfKilimanjaro'', thousands of aggressive baboons ransack villages and attack humans because a drought has depleted their natural food sources.
97* The title primate in ''Film/{{Shakma}}'' is a genetically altered baboon with a murderous attitude.
98* A segment from the anthology horror film ''Film/TerrorTract'' features a killer capuchin monkey named Bobo, who has a talent for stabbing people offscreen.
99* Creator/DavidLynch's short film ''Film/WhatDidJackDo'' revolves around a [[TalkingAnimal talking capuchin]] who is suspected of [[MurderTheHypotenuse murdering his girlfriend's lover]]. Downplayed, however, in that Jack's possible motive has nothing to do with him being a monkey, and he is mostly presented as just a poor dumb schmuck who got in over his head and made some bad decisions, rather than some kind of AxCrazy maniac.
100* The Flying Monkeys from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. [[spoiler:Though they're actually {{Punch Clock Villain}}s.]]
101* In ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'', the monster in the segment titled "The Crate" resembles a grotesque, fanged baboon.
102* In ''Film/{{Braindead}}'', the FleshEatingZombie outbreak is the result of the bite of a hideous critter called a Sumatran Rat-Monkey. A zookeeper mentions a folk story that the rat-monkey is the product of ship rats raping island-dwelling monkeys.
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106* In ''Literature/AfterManAZoologyOfTheFuture'', several species of deadly predator have evolved from monkeys, including the fish-eating [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin swimming monkey]], the cheetah-like [[FragileSpeedster horrane]], and several species of [[ItMakesSenseInContext theropod-like raboon]].
107* ''Literature/ApeAndEssence'' by Aldous Huxley uses apes to symbolize the decline and fall of human civilization.
108* In ''Literature/CatchingFire'', the Hunger Games arena contains genetically-modified killer monkeys with claws and fangs.
109* Apes were a common monster in Robert E. Howard's ''Literature/ConanTheBarbarian'' stories, being prominent antagonists in "Literature/ThePhoenixOnTheSword", "Literature/IronShadowsInTheMoon", and "Literature/RoguesInTheHouse".
110* In ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials,'' Mrs. Coulter's dæmon is a handsome golden monkey with long, lustrous fur. Considering how your dæmon signifies your true self, that shows that Mrs. Coulter is ''very'' intelligent, cunning, and charming; then again he also likes to ''pull small creatures limb from limb'' when he's bored. Mrs. Coulter is not good.
111* In ''Literature/TheEnemy'', the Holloway kids are attacked by diseased monkeys and apes which have escaped (or been released) from London Zoo, resulting in them losing five members of their group.
112* The Wickersham brothers from ''Literature/HortonHearsAWho''.
113* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': ''Looming Shadow'' boasts of a monkey beastfolk who becomes a LifeDrinker with necrocraft and [[AGodAmI goes on a screeching and insane rant about how he has become a god]].
114* The Bandar-log (Monkey-folk) from Creator/RudyardKipling's ''Literature/TheJungleBook'' capture Mowgli so he can teach them human things and help them become masters of the jungle. It's a subversion because the Bandar-log's attention spans aren't long enough to complete their plan.
115* The Pak in ''Literature/KnownSpace'' are [[spoiler:the ancestors of mankind, and are known to Earthly science as ''Homo habilis'']]; young Pak look like somewhat leggy chimpanzees. Their life cycle is odd, consisting of an animalistic "breeder" phase followed by eating a poisonous root, Tree of Life, that [[PowerUpgradingDeformation mutates]] them into Protectors, hyper-intelligent, super-strong [[EvilOldFolks sociopaths concerned only with the protection of their progeny]]. Most of them regard human beings as competitors, and therefore as appropriate targets for genocide.
116* ''Literature/LastAndFirstMen'': The sapient monkeys of the Second Men's time are possessed of a large selection of unpleasant traits, including immense avarice, high aggressiveness and bellicosity, a delight in chaos and mischief and an almost sociopathic inability to process the experiences of other beings. They consequently tend to be very cruel to theie subhuman livestock, which they routinely force into humiliating, obscene or painful situations, and react with offended rage when they lash out. They also often bait, trick and harass each other in gleeful and sometimes deadly confrontations.
117* The [[TalkingAnimal talking]] ape Shift serves as an [[TheAntichrist Antichrist]] figure in ''Literature/TheLastBattle''.
118* Literature/RickyRicottasMightyRobot once faced the "Mecha-Monkeys from Mars".
119* In Creator/DanielPinkwater's ''Literature/SnarkoutBoys'' books, the criminal mastermind Wallace Nussbaum relies on kidnapped and mind-controlled orangutans to do his bidding.
120* In Creator/ErinHunter's ''Bamboo Kingdom'' series A Troop of Snub-nosed Monkeys kill Root Rising-Tree by knocking the panda into a flooded river leaving his mate Orchid and soon to be mother a widow. Sunset Deepwood forges and alliance with another troop of monkeys lead by Brawnshanks who cause trouble for Rain and Ghost (2 of Root's posthumous children). By the end of the second book, Brawnshanks Troop intends to betray Sunset.
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124* In ''Series/{{Helix}}'', the hunt for lab monkeys infected with The Virus is critical to the CDC team's effort to figure out how to contain the outbreak at a remote research base. Though their existence is at first vociferously denied by Arctic Biosystems staff, Dr. Boyle discovers infected macaques are the source of zoonotic transfer after she's attacked by an unusually intelligent and violent escaped specimen. Balleseros later finds the rest of the infected lab monkeys frozen outside the base.
125* The third season Finale of ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' entitled "Monkey" had one. After Lois' coworker Craig is injured and confined to an electric wheel chair for 6 weeks, he chooses to get a free Capuchin Monkey Butler for the permanently disabled instead of using his insurance money to pay for a nurse. At first the Monkey seems friendly and helpful, but is soon revealed to be Deranged and Homicidal as he harms Craig and attempts to murder him in cold blood. Luckily, Hal is able to stop the Monkey and Calls animal control off screen.
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129* Music/DenkiGroove: The music video for "30th Anniversary Song" features a lab monkey that caves in a scientist's head and escapes, doing the same to a punk before meeting the love of his life. After the monkey wins a marathon, he has a reunion with the former scientist...and beats his skull in.
130* The Music/LemonDemon song "Fiberglass Monkey" is about a man tormented by visions in the night of "a fiberglass monkey with glowing red eyes", who is eventually driven to bring a baseball bat to bed with him in order to fight the monkey off.
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134* The "Monkey Mayhem" table of ''VideoGame/ExtremePinball'' is all about this trope.
135* The Crazy Monkey in Creator/SternPinball's ''Pinball/FamilyGuy''; hitting him repeatedly starts "Crazy Chris" mode.
136* In ''Pinball/TheWizardOfOz'', the Flying Monkeys carry the pinball from the lower playfield to the Wicked Witch's Castle.
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140* Dr. Cube's demon Hell Monkey of Wrestling/KaijuBigBattel.
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144* Medieval bestiaries [[http://bestiary.ca/beasts/beast148.htm often portrayed them]] as allegories of the devil, and sometimes illustrated [[FaunsAndSatyrs satyrs]] (another source of [[BigRedDevil Satanic imagery]]) to look [[http://www.theoi.com/Thaumasios/SatyroiNesioi.html very ape-like]]. This may be where C.S. Lewis got the idea for his example listed above under Literature.
145* Chimpanzees are rarely depicted in African mythologies (supposedly its because they're "too close for comfort"), but when they are they're almost invariably symbols of violence and sexual depravity, with the Hemba and Gio people using them as motifs for war masks. Averted with Ghekre, however, which is a just afterlife judge depicted as a gorilla.
146* In Myth/BetiPahuinMythology and culture chimpanzees were widely hated. They represented what humans would be if we lived according to basic impulses. The hero Oyono Ndana slew their king Mesi Me Kot Endong, thus kicking off the great chimpanzee war.
147** Gorillas were in contrast seen as peaceful weirdos best left alone. In the legends they were used as SlaveMooks for different tribes.
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151* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' has had a wide variety of ape and monkey-based monsters appear in it during its history, such as the psionic, carnivorous Su-Monsters and four-armed, carnivorous, gorilla-like Girallons.
152** Probably the most iconic instance of this trope is Demogorgon, [[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Prince of Demons]], a {{kaiju}}-sized tentacled horror with [[MultipleHeadCase two screaming mandrill heads]].
153* Among the factions of ''TabletopGame/FengShui'' are the Jammers, intelligent apes working in concert with the few humans immune to the influence of Chi. They're a faction of {{Mad Bomber}}s who do not care one whit about who they blow up, so long as they get to blow up Feng Shui sites and [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans bring about Battlechimp Potemkin's dream of a world without chi]].
154* ''TabletopGame/FreedomCity'' has several, including Dr. Simian, criminal refugee from a city of intelligent apes, and Dr. Geistmann, a Nazi scientist trapped in the body of an albino ape.
155* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' features a city of evil sentient apes called Usaro. Their ruler, Ruthazek the Gorilla King, is one of the setting's major villains.
156** A swarm of less lethal but very annoying monkeys is summoned by the spell "Mad Monkeys".
157** One of the setting's major demon lords, Angazhan, appears as a huge demonic gorilla who associates himself with primates, jungles, and tyranny. The aforementioned Gorilla King is one of his worshipers.
158* Given that ''TabletopGame/TerraPrimate'' is at the least a loose shoutout to ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' as a whole, this is quite applicable.
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162* ''VideoGame/{{Alundra}}'': The monkeys are bloodthirsty, violent and murderous little bastards.
163* ''VideoGame/ApeEscape'' is about tracking down and catching dozens upon dozens of mischievous monkeys and thwarting the schemes of their leader, an [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted circus monkey]] named Specter.
164%%* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'': Gohma Howlers, which don't hesitate to kill humans in packs.
165* ''VideoGame/Dominions4'': The Early Age nation of Lanka is composed of various castes of different sorts of primates, from chimps to gorillas, ruled over by gluttonous demon ogres. They're heavy users of BloodMagic and one of the few nations that can benefit from increasing the Turmoil in the land.
166* ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry'': Although apes are predominately the heroes of the games, there are the occasional primate pest;
167** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry1'' has Manky Kong, who throws barrels at you. They're members of the Kong family that were disowned ''because'' of their aggressive behavior.
168** ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'' has Minky Kong, who throws nuts at you when you climb up ropes.
169* ''VideoGame/EasternExorcist'': The Mandrill King, a powerful demon with a babboon motif, is the game's BigBad and a the overlord of the monsters terrorizing the land. There's also an early boss, the Snow Ape, an albino simian demon who serves the Mandrill King.
170* ''VideoGame/EXTRAPOWERGiantFist'': The frenzy wind that affects the animals in the first stage has even the monkeys aggressively attack the player, jumping in at an angle from above.
171* ''VideoGame/{{Einhander}}'': The MiniBoss "Ausf A Gestell" is a HumongousMecha ape. It attacks the player's ship like a deranged robot monkey would as well as having a number of dangerous weaponry. Befittingly enough, its battle theme is called "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ANSeJFNDYQ Madness]]".
172* ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2'' features a hyperactive tarsier assistant named Aaa, aptly named for his [[SkywardScream tendancy to scream]] whenever asked for his name. He aids Corazon Tea in fulfilling Merga's plans to resurrect Bakunawa and [[GadgeteerGenius built lots of contraptions]] to slow the heroines down.
173* ''VideoGame/{{Kuon}}'': the Yang Chapter has the heroines going to the mountain shrine through a dark mountain path infested with both Yamabito (zombies) and Mashira, massive, ferocious undead monkeys which will attack Sakuya with great speed and ferocity. Their boss, a massive monster erroneously called "Yeti" in some sources, patrols a ruined hut where a plot-relevan item is kept and will later ambush Sakuya in a glade as a boss fight.
174* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfSpyro'': The villains of the first two games, the Apes, are an army of aggressive and violent mandrill-like monkeys trying to take over the world, and most of them tower over Spyro.
175* ''VideoGame/MarioParty7'': The minigame Apes of Wrath begins as two dueling characters eat apples... and a group of Ukikis watch them and get mad (since they own the territory and don't like others eating the surrounding fruits). Cue the characters running for their lives. Whoever gets captured by the Ukikis will lose the duel, and render the other player victorious.
176* ''VideoGame/MonsterEye'' have swarms and swarms of vicious chimpanzees in the amusement park area, which the player will need to shoot at. And at the end of that stage, the players will battle the boss, a KingKongCopy giant gorilla.
177* ''VideoGame/TheOutfoxies'': Dweeb isn't just a simian murderer, he is a simian [[ProfessionalKiller hitman for hire]]. And he doesn't protest against killing off his cohorts.
178* ''VideoGame/PiratesTheLegendOfTheBlackBuccaneer'' have hostile, savage monkeys as one of the game's most recurring enemies, oddly enough, where they appear all over the beaches and ruins to attack you.
179* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Mankey and its evolution, Primeape are characterised for their HairTriggerTemper and violent outbursts, making them notorious for going on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge [[DisproportionateRetribution for minor slights]]. Various renditions of Primeape describe it as being willing to "[[{{Determinator}} chase you down]] '''[[{{Determinator}} forever]]'''" in order to give you a thorough beating if you piss it off. It gets even worse once it evolves into Annihilape, where it transcends physical limits through sheer rage and becomes a Fighting/Ghost type.
180* ''VideoGame/RuneScape'': The monkeys and apes of Ape Atoll form a terrifying militaristic faction bent on world domination. And during the Do No Evil quest, where [[spoiler:the desert god of monkeys has her senses split into 3 parts, and they take the form of 3 dark and powerful gorillas.]]
181* ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'': Hun Batz, the Howler Monkey God of the Mayan pantheon, is a rather sinister monkey driven with vengeance of being humiliated by the Hero Twins. While at first being introduced to replace Sun Wukong as the latter received a DarkerAndEdgier overhaul, at least Wukong's old kit was meant to be silly, Hun Batz made the kit more sinister as he's more serious in cracking the enemy's skulls wide open. Also, he babbles about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt because [[MayanDoomsday he's Mayan]].
182* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':
183** ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2'' has Coconuts, a robotic monkey who inhabits [[GreenHillZone Emerald Hill Zone]]. He attacks the player by [[CoconutMeetsCranium tossing coconuts at their heads]].
184** ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'': Monkey Dude is a robotic monkey who acts as Coconuts' successor, having a similar appearance and attack pattern and inhabiting [[PalmtreePanic Angel Island Zone]].
185** ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'': Kiki is a robotic monkey who serves as a recurring enemy. He [[MadBomber tosses bombs]] at the player, which can be picked up and thrown, but they explode rather quickly, so you'll have to throw them fast.
186** ''VideoGame/SonicSuperstars'': The mini-boss of [[EternalEngine Press Factory Zone]] is a primate Badnik who swings on the pipes of said factory.
187* ''Franchise/StarFox'':
188** Andross is an evil genius primate who leads an army of Maniac Monkeys and has two of them as his proteges, and is also the page image.
189** His nephew, Andrew Oikonny, is a highly incompetent Maniac Monkey, a character trait which is PlayedForLaughs.
190** His grandson Dash Bowman appears to be a subversion of this trope, as he joins the Star Fox team to clear his family name and right Andross's wrongs, but two of the possible endings of ''VideoGame/StarFoxCommand'' have him [[FaceHeelTurn follow in his grandfather's footsteps to become another galactic overlord]]. So far, there hasn't been a single ape or monkey in ''Star Fox'' who hasn't turned evil in some form.
191** ''VideoGame/StarFox64'': The Meteo Crusher pilot, yet another monkey who works for Andross. Falco even calls him a monkey in an insulting, derogatory way.
192--->'''Pilot:''' [[ISurrenderSuckers I am no match for you. I admit defeat.]]\
193'''Falco:''' Are you gonna listen to that monkey?
194* ''VideoGame/SuperSolvers'': [[BigBad Morty's]] Cyberchimps in ''Super Solvers: Gizmos & Gadgets'' can steal your vehicle parts and pick up parts on the floor, making them [[GoddamnedBats very irritating]]. Feeding them a banana makes them sleep and drop their parts. Later on the slow, fat Chimps are replaced with [[EliteMook fast, wheeled Chimps]] that sleep for a much shorter time.
195* ''VideoGame/SystemShock2'' has screeching monkeys with cryokenitic and pyrokinetic powers, who still have their heads cut open and their brains exposed from experimentation.
196* ''VideoGame/TempleRun'': The demon monkeys chasing you.
197* ''VideoGame/{{Thief}}'': The Monkeymen patrol many of the later levels. They're actually easier to deal with than regular guards, due to the fact that they don't count as humans, [[WhatMeasureIsANonHuman meaning you can freely kill them]] even on Expert difficulty.
198%%* ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters'': The Monkeys have guns.
199* ''VideoGame/TopHunterRoddyAndCathy'' contains a fierce, gigantic Black Faced Macaque MiniBoss with sharp claws and MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily, who escapes a cage to fight the titular characters.
200* ''VideoGame/Vigilante8'': In ''Vigilante 8: 2nd Offense'', the {{Secret Identity}} of [[spoiler:Astronaut Bob O.]] is none other than a [[spoiler:NASA chimpanzee who was sent to space]] and went [[AxCrazy insane]] in the process. Hinting at this is a line in his character bio revealing his favorite foods as being oatmeal and fruit, as well as a scene where the Garbage Man tries to bribe him with [[StockAnimalDiet bananas]] in exchange for his [[spoiler:stolen moon rover]]. He manages to hide this with his [[spoiler:spacesuit]] and by speaking through a [[RadioVoice vocoder]], as well as [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial insisting]] that his name is [[spoiler:Bob O., not "Bo-Bo"]].
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204* ''WebAnimation/GamingAllStars'': [[VideoGame/ApeEscape Specter]] and his army, [[spoiler: as well as [[Franchise/StarFox Andross]]]] in ''The Ultimate Crossover'' and ''Remastered'', are all villainous simians. The former also appears in ''2'', this time aided by Pipotrons Yellow, Blue, and Red. And that's not counting KillerGorilla characters like [[VideoGame/{{Rampage}} George]] and [[VideoGame/ApeEscape Pipotron G]].
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208* In ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' chimpanzees were [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted]] a century previous, but they retained their aggressiveness and lack of impulse control. The more recently uplifted Bowman's Wolves were engineered to be much more sociable, [[spoiler:and Florence is [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2500/fc02468.htm a little uncomfortable]] to discover that her creator is actually a chimp]].
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212* ''Blog/BadTwoSentenceHorror'': Don't open the monkey closet. If you do, evil monkeys will come out and they will [[BuffySpeak eat you to death]] and there will be blood.
213* The [=YouTube=] channel The Budget Museum did a video entitled "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0KlIk-3OJM Baboons!]]", in which - in between educating the viewer on baboons - the host is apparently being held captive by a troop of extremely threatening monkeys.
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217* Coconuts from ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfSonicTheHedgehog'' is a robotic monkey who serves as a member of Dr. Robotnik's Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad. His goal is to capture Sonic so he can get on Robotnik's good side and get off of [[TheDreadedToiletDuty janitorial duties]]. Coconuts is smarter than [[BumblingHenchmenDuo Scratch and Grounder]] and sometimes sees through Sonic's plans, whereas Scratch and Grounder rarely succeed in capturing Sonic.
218* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BackAtTheBarnyard'' dealt with a space test monkey who pretended to be friendly for awhile before revealing his true colors by somehow intending to take over the entire farm in front of the horrified animals due to his opposable thumbs (which is sort of FridgeLogic as Otis and his friends never had problems with manipulating objects before despite not having opposable thumbs), although it could all be down to playing the entire scenario for comedy.
219* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' has all DC Gorillas team up to form [[FunWithAcronyms G.A.S.P.]], Gorillas and Apes Seizing Power.
220* Dr. Wasabi's ninja chimps from ''WesternAnimation/ChopSockyChooks''.
221* Simian from the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' "Dial M For Monkey" shorts, though he gets a HeelFaceTurn.
222* During the first ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'' TV movie, AJ's monkey takes a bite out of a magic muffin that grants its eater any wish, regardless of Da Rules. The monkey's wish is--you guessed it--to make apes TakeOverTheWorld. [[EitherWorldDominationOrSomethingAboutBananas Or it could have been a banana]]. [[RunningGag Cosmo always mixes those two up.]]
223* Evil Monkey from ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', though he and Chris eventually become friends and he moves on to another boy's closet.
224** As a throwaway joke, in the episode where the family finally discovers his existence, Meg reveals she also deals with an evil monkey, this one being bigger and scarier looking.
225* ''WesternAnimation/{{Fangface}}'' had an episode where the MonsterOfTheWeek was a city of "ape men" who straddled the line between this trope and FrazettaMan. They lived in an UndergroundCity inside a mountain on an IslandOfMystery and practiced ritual HumanSacrifice to their "ape idol".
226* Literal example from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''
227-->The letter M: Dib's screaming like a Maniac... monkey.
228* The Monkey King from ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures''.
229* Monkey Fist and his army of monkey ninjas from ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible''.
230* ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Scarlemagne's a twisted, controlling Mandrill who wants to enslave all humans for his own entertainment. So he fits the "Maniac" part pretty well. He outright admits that he's insane, too. His {{mooks}} are also various species of primates.
231* ''WesternAnimation/MrBogus'': "[[Recap/MrBogusS1E9HipsterTripster Hipster Tripster]]" featured a trio of monkeys who Bogus plays around with in the first act, but in the second act, they become this after Bogus releases them from their cage. At the end of the second act, Bogus is able to corral the monkeys back into their cage by luring them away from the zoo's gift shop while hiding under a banana peel.
232* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyAndFriends'': The gizmonks, the villains from "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyAndFriendsE15TheGreatRainbowCaper The Great Rainbow Caper]]", are a pair of monkeys whose obsession with invention and technical gadgets leads them to cover the Rainbow of Light and to kidnap innocents to hold as hostage for it.
233* ''WesternAnimation/OnyxEquinox'': Episode 5 features gorilla-sized howler monkeys that were once the gods attempt at creating people, only to turn to their base desires. Even nowadays they're highly vicious towards both humans and each other, tearing one another to pieces for whatever reason.
234* Mojo Jojo from ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls1998'' is an evil genius chimpanzee with [[MyBrainIsBig an oversized brain]] and one of the girls' oldest and greatest foes. He used to be Professor Utonium's assistant helper monkey, but exposure to Chemical X caused his brain to mutate and grow, and the Professor's newfound love for the girls [[GreenEyedMonster led to his path of villainy]]. In ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirlsMovie'', he has a whole army of [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted simians]], but they [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters object to him being the one in charge]] and [[EvilVsEvil start fighting over who should rule Townsville]].
235** Even before Mojo Jojo became sapient, he was a menace that did nothing but smash everything the Professor owned and shoved him while he was working, [[NiceJobFixingItVillain inadvertently creating the Girls]]. He is ''[[VillainousBreakdown really]]'' not happy to be informed of this in the present day.
236* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'': The eponymous ape-men of the episode "[[Recap/Primal2019E5RageOfTheApeMen Rage of the Ape-Men]]" are a tribe of savages with a violent culture, holding some kind of fighting tournament in an arena and having a [[PsychoSerum magical serum that enhances size, strength and aggression]]. Their champions are [[KillerGorilla gorilla-like brutes]], but the commoners are smaller monkey-men (somewhat resembling Japanese macaques or Barbary apes) who ZergRush their opponents.
237* ''WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain'': Dr. Frankenollie, the MadScientist who swaps Mickey's brain with that of his creation, is a chimpanzee.
238* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Ned Flanders ends up in a baboon enclosure. The creatures are portrayed frighteningly straight (parodying a similar scene from ''Film/TheOmen'' with violent baboons), and they almost wind up killing him.
239* Baboon and ''his'' army of monkey ninjas from ''WesternAnimation/SkunkFu''.
240* Mister Smarty Smarts from ''WesternAnimation/{{Spliced}}'', the show's resident [[IneffectualSympatheticVillain Ineffectual Sympathetic]] EvilGenius, combines this trope with DeviousDolphins.
241* Addicus from ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011''. A serial murderer (with a dose of ImAHumanitarian), rescued from the death row by Mumm-Ra's forces to serve as a PsychoForHire.
242* In ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', Jack Spicer's favorite Shen Gong Wu is the Monkey Staff, which gives him the appearance and characteristics of a monkey.
243* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' has had robotic monkeys, Cobra venom mutated monkeys, Monsieur Mallah, the Ultra-Humanite, and Joker monkeys in the tie-in comic. You can understand Conner's hatred of these buggers.
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247* Nonhuman primates in general are extremely dangerous animals.
248** Baboons are territorial, and they often raid human settlements to steal food. They tend to travel in groups, too.
249** Inverted with gorillas, who are generally docile and peaceful despite being more menacing in their appearance. In the wild, they’re even known to use diplomacy to resolve disputes amongst themselves and other tribes of their species. [[BewareTheNiceOnes Harm them or their families, however, and you will soon learn why they have no natural predators]]. They also may react aggressively to a human chest pounding, smiling, or even looking them in the eye because these all are insults or threats to them. Unfortunately, these are all common things people do in front of them.
250*** [[https://youtu.be/YZUsj8Q68q4 This silverback took particular offence at a young girl chest pounding]], and quickly made the other humans laughing at him realise just who they were dealing with, courtesy of a punch that cracked the thick interior glass pane of his enclosure. Watch the reflections in the window closely, and you’ll see the exact moment everyone realises they made a serious mistake!
251** Chimpanzees are especially dangerous because the common comical and cute portrayal they get in media has led to a mass underestimation of just how violent they can be. Their stooped and modest frames belie their extremely powerful upper body strength, with which they can easily tear human body parts off. People get them as pets for their "cuteness" and have been mauled to death. Seriously, they've been known to torture other chimps, and other animals, to death in the wild. Males fight for and enforce dominance with brutal fights and aggression. They also have been known, as Jane Goodall can tell you, to go to "war", where two troops stay in conflict for a extended period of time until one is entirely wiped out. They also have been caught killing and cannibalizing other chimps, including infant chimps.
252** It's been well documented and established in the animal kingdom that very few predators, despite the danger they pose, attack with the intent to draw out their prey's suffering; they simply do so to survive and eat, and most wild animals who attack humans do so out of fear or provocation and don't actively try to kill unless they have to. [[AxCrazy Chimpanzees]] are an exception. As our closest living relatives and one of the most intelligent animals on Earth, they are one of the few animals to understand the concept of [[{{Sadist}} sadism]]. When they attack other animals - even their own kind - it is often premeditated and planned out by them (individually or more chaotically in groups) and they often go out of their way to inflict as much pain as possible. While many victims of their savage attacks, animal or human alike, survive the encounter, chimpanzees will ''[[EyeScream make them]] [[GroinAttack wish]] [[FacialHorror they]] [[AnArmAndALeg hadn't]]''.
253*** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travis_(chimpanzee) Travis]] was a pet chimpanzee who lived happily and peacefully for 13 years with his human owners. He had been treated like a surrogate son by them and socialized to humans since birth. But one day when he saw his owner's friend holding one of his favorite toys, he savagely mauled her, ripping off her face and hands. His owner tried to stop him by beating him with a shovel and stabbing him with a butcher knife, but he was only stopped when police arrived and shot him.
254*** [[https://www.livescience.com/1518-female-chimps-kill-infants.html Passion]] was a female chimpanzee and mother of three infants. She was part of the Kasakela community, studied and pioneered by Dr. Jane Goodall herself (who gave Passion her name), who took note of Passion's savagery. What was so unique about her? She was essentially a chimp female cannibalistic SerialKiller... of ''babies.'' She would lure the parents of chimps away using her daughter Pom as a "femme fatale" sort, before capturing, kidnapping and brutally murdering the offspring, then eating them and giving the remains to her three children. She would also viciously maul or kill any parent who wised up to her tactics and tried to defend their babies. Dr. Goodall even noted that her behaviour was very unnatural for a chimpanzee mothers and she was basically the chimpanzee equivalent of [[https://vocal.media/criminal/female-cannibal-killers-that-will-make-your-skin-crawl Mashilipa]], who had no lasting affection for her own infants, when even her daughter Pom, who helped her commit these atrocities, was [[MamaBear protective of her own son.]]
255*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znzfebSV6gM Bruno]] was a chimp who was born during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s. After his family were murdered by hunters who claimed his habitat for the war effort and Bruno was exposed to the horrors of war and greatly mistreated, he was sold on the black market as a pet, when a kindly couple bought him for a measly $30. Despite this act of kindness, Bruno's experiences left him with a deep-seated hatred for humans and when he was eventually transferred to the Tacaguma Chimpanzee Sanctuary, he grew into a dangerous and violent chimp quite a bit larger than the other chimps, even becoming the alpha male very quickly. One day in 2006, he and thirty-one followers escaped the sanctuary and they relentlessly attacked a group of four men in a taxi driven by Issa Kanu, who was brutally mauled to death and the three survivors were left greatly injured and mutilated. Bruno was never captured or found. While Bruno is admittedly a [[TragicVillain more tragic example]] of this trope, he is still a prime example of just how dangerous chimpanzees can be.
256* ''Human'' primates are sometimes considered [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the most dangerous]] [[HumansAreBastards animals]] [[HumansAreCthulhu on Earth]][[note]]While people tend to throw a hissy fit and say that "humans aren't monkeys, they're apes!", based on cladistics, [[https://paoloviscardi.com/2011/04/21/apes-are-monkeys-deal-with-it/ apes are monkeys]] (apes are more closely related to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_monkey some monkeys]] than they are to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_monkey others]]). This means that, technically, humans ''are'' monkeys.[[/note]], only outranked by one other animal for most lethal to other humans per year[[note]]The mosquito[[/note]]. Which makes sense, considering we're the only ones with guns and [[AtomicHate nukes]].
257* [[Series/TheJeffCorwinExperience Jeff Corwin]] has frequently handled venomous snakes and other reptiles, but dislikes and fears monkeys; everywhere he goes, monkeys cause him problems.
258* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacco_Macacco Jacco Macacco]] was an infamous fighting monkey in London who regularly fought against dogs and won, even dogs that were twice his weight. While his species is unknown, some believe him to have been a rhesus macaque based on [[https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1848-0205-41 this etching of his head]].[[note]]The name doesn't necessarily confirm it, as "macaque" was a generic word for monkeys at the time before later being used specifically for those of the ''Macaca'' genus.[[/note]]
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