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* SuperStrength: Yet another one of monster! Max's powers.
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* TitleDropTitleDrop: When a girl sees Max in monster form and asks what he is, a boy replies "That's my pet monster".
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Max in monster form.
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* SuperSpeed: Another of Max's powers in his monster form.
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* BaldOfEvil: Schneider has male pattern baldness.
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* ImADoctorNotAPlaceholder: "I am a man of science, not a tour guide!"
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* BigBadEnsemble: Schneider and the dognappers are separate threats.
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* SuperSenses: One of the powers of Max's monster form.
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* WorstNewsJudgementEver: Apparently, in the world of My Pet Monster, a dog being the favorite to win a dog show is worthy of the front page.
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* GreaterScopeVillain: The statue that transforms Max and transforms Schneider at the end.
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* ChildHater: Dr. Schneider hates being a tour guide to "brats".
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* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorateMorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Dr. Schneider.
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* VillainousUnderdog: Dr. Schneider wants to catch Max to use as a specimen to boost his career, but really has nothing that makes him a match for a [[SuperStrength super-strong]], [[SuperSpeed super-fast]] monster that can [[ExtremeOmnivore eat anything]]. Had there been a sequel he would've been on more even footing with a monster form of his own.
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* TheCameo: Two other characters appear in the 8-bit opening - Beastur, Monster's ArchEnemy, and My Football Monster, a spin-off of the toy.
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* SequelHook: The film ends with the BigBad implied to gain monster powers of his own. Though, with how the statue looks, it's also implied that he will become Beastur.
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* PaperThinDisguisePaperThinDisguise: At the end of the movie they take Max to a dog show pretending he's their dog. A blue-furred gorilla/troll thing. And nobody questions it.
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Also turned into an AnimatedAdaptation by Nelvana a year later, where Max is the best friend of a creature from a world where everyone's a monster, instead of a kid who turns into a monster himself.
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Also turned into an AnimatedAdaptation by Nelvana a year later, where Max is the best friend of a creature from a world where everyone's a monster, instead of a kid who turns into a monster himself.
himself. A series of storybooks based on the property had a similar set-up, where the monster lived in a cave that let out into the basement of Max's new house.
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''My Pet Monster'' is a 1986 direct-to-video movie distributed by Hi-Tops Video (a subsidiary of the now-defunct Media Home Entertainment) and produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}} based on a toy of the same name. It's about a young boy named Max who goes to a museum and sees a statue resembling the titular monster which somehow turns him into a monster (but only when he's hungry). Also turned into an AnimatedAdaptation by Nelvana a year later.
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''My Pet Monster'' is a 1986 direct-to-video movie distributed by Hi-Tops Video (a subsidiary of the now-defunct Media Home Entertainment) and produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}} based on a toy of the same name. It's about a young boy named Max who goes to a museum and sees a statue resembling the titular monster which somehow turns him into a monster (but only when he's hungry). hungry).
Also turned into an AnimatedAdaptation by Nelvana a yearlater.
later, where Max is the best friend of a creature from a world where everyone's a monster, instead of a kid who turns into a monster himself.
Also turned into an AnimatedAdaptation by Nelvana a year
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My Pet Monster is a 1986 direct-to-video movie distributed by Hi-Tops Video (a subsidiary of the now-defunct Media Home Entertainment) and produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}} based on a toy of the same name. It's about a young boy named Max who goes to a museum and sees a statue resembling the titular monster which somehow turns him into a monster (but only when he's hungry). Also turned into an AnimatedAdaptation by Nelvana a year later.
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* HulkSpeak: This is how the monster talks in the animated series.
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* ThemeTuneRap: The animated series does this in the bridge, but the theme song is sung otherwise.
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* [[ADogNamedDog A Monster Named Monster]]: In the series, the monster is only ever called "Monster", although Max's sister Jill insists on calling him "Monzie".
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* [[ADogNamedDog A Monster Named Monster]]: In the series, the monster is only ever called "Monster", although Max's sister Jill insists on calling him "Monzie".
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* ThemeTuneRap: The animated series does this in the bridge, but is sung otherwise.
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* CursedWithAwesome: Max hates the fact that he periodically turns into a monster with SuperStrength. His sister, however, is convinced that it is the coolest thing.
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* PinballProtagonist: When left to his own devices, Max does little more than mope. He has to be pushed along by Melanie to get anything done.
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* CursedWithAwesome: Max hates the fact that he periodically turns into a monster with SuperStrength. His sister, however, is convinced that it is the coolest thing.
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That ending was definitely them hoping for a sequel.
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My Pet Monster is a 1986 direct-to-video movie based on a toy of the same name. It's about a young boy named Max who goes to a museum and sees a statue resembling the titular monster which somehow turns him into a monster (but only when he's hungry). Also turned into an AnimatedAdaptation by {{Nelvana}} a year later.
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My Pet Monster is a 1986 direct-to-video movie distributed by Hi-Tops Video (a subsidiary of the now-defunct Media Home Entertainment) and produced by Creator/{{Nelvana}} based on a toy of the same name. It's about a young boy named Max who goes to a museum and sees a statue resembling the titular monster which somehow turns him into a monster (but only when he's hungry). Also turned into an AnimatedAdaptation by {{Nelvana}} Nelvana a year later.
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My Pet Monster is a 1986 direct-to-video movie based on a toy of the same name. It's about a young boy named Max who goes to a museum and sees a statue resembling the titular monster which somehow turns him into a monster (but only when he's hungry). Also turned into an AnimatedAdaptation.
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My Pet Monster is a 1986 direct-to-video movie based on a toy of the same name. It's about a young boy named Max who goes to a museum and sees a statue resembling the titular monster which somehow turns him into a monster (but only when he's hungry). Also turned into an AnimatedAdaptation.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The monster looks ''nothing'' like the creature on the cover of the box. That's because the costume used in the movie was so cheap and awful that they decided to use a doll instead.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The monster looks ''nothing'' like the creature on the cover of the box. That's because the costume used in the movie was so cheap and awful that they decided to use a the actual doll instead.
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My Pet Monster is a 1986 direct-to-video movie based on a toy of the same name. It's about a young boy named Max who goes to a museum and sees a statue resembling the titular monster which somehow turns him into a monster (but only when he's hungry). Also turned into an AnimatedAdaptation.
!! Tropes found in this movie
* CoversAlwaysLie: The monster looks ''nothing'' like the creature on the cover of the box. That's because the costume used in the movie was so cheap and awful that they decided to use a doll instead.
* GeckoEnding
* InNameOnly: The movie does a TitleDrop, at one point, but shouldn't the ''point'' of the movie be the fact that the ''Monster'' is '''supposed to be the pet'''? The title makes no sense when you take those facts into consideration.
** There was a Saturday morning cartoon version where the monster actually is Max's pet, rather than Max turning into the monster.
* MerchandiseDriven: It's a movie based on a stuffed animal.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate
* PaperThinDisguise
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: The villain fell off of a window ledge and exited a building using the door. No explanation is given for how this might be possible.
* SequelHook
* TitleDrop
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!! Tropes found in this movie
* CoversAlwaysLie: The monster looks ''nothing'' like the creature on the cover of the box. That's because the costume used in the movie was so cheap and awful that they decided to use a doll instead.
* GeckoEnding
* InNameOnly: The movie does a TitleDrop, at one point, but shouldn't the ''point'' of the movie be the fact that the ''Monster'' is '''supposed to be the pet'''? The title makes no sense when you take those facts into consideration.
** There was a Saturday morning cartoon version where the monster actually is Max's pet, rather than Max turning into the monster.
* MerchandiseDriven: It's a movie based on a stuffed animal.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate
* PaperThinDisguise
* ScoobyDoobyDoors: The villain fell off of a window ledge and exited a building using the door. No explanation is given for how this might be possible.
* SequelHook
* TitleDrop
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