History Main / BenevolentMonsters

* ReluctantMonster: A monster who just wants to have fun, unlike the other evil members of their species.

* ReluctantMonster: A monster who just wants to have fun unlike the other evil members of his species.

'''Warning: Since this trope is often the end result of a reveal, expect spoilers.'''

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-->-- '''Ekans''', ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'', "Island of the Giant Pokémon"

Monsters are born of human fears. Ghoulies, ghosties, long-leggety beasties, and ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight, and they all share a common factor -- they ''threaten''. Their [[FemmeFatalons claws]] are sharper, their muscles are stronger, their [[ScaryTeeth fangs]] tear faster... you can generally count on monsters to be capable of hurting things, usually ''you''.

* Pixar's ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' features this as the foundational WorldBuilding point -- monsters scaring children at night is just business. Indeed, monsters would be perfectly content to leave humans alone if they weren't dependent on human children for energy. Same goes for ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'', the prequel. Besides the heroes, many of their co-workers and classmates are exceedingly unscary.

* The monsters in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' have no malicious intent whatsoever, and are merely imprisoned to keep from scaring people with their presence. At least one, the Missing Link, likes to scare people for laughs, but otherwise they're pretty decent.

** ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': Despite the dragons menacing Berk, [[SubvertedTrope stealing their sheep and burning down their homes]], it turns out that they do this at the behest of a colossal dragon queen. On their own, [[DoubleSubverted they integrate with such ease into Viking life]] that it boggles the mind. Indeed, as far as the movie is concerned, the Dragon Manual listing the threat of some dragons is a string of {{Informed Attribute}}s.

* ''VisualNovel/ShallWeDate'' franchise:
** Raizo the {{Nue}} from ''Mononoke Kiss''.

** Biollante, thanks to the human DNA and spirit as part of her genetic makeup, is also a peaceful creature, except where Godzilla or threatening her father is concerned. She kills and drives off three intruders seeking the Anti-Nuclear Energy Bacteria in self- and home-defense, and in their first encounter she sought to neutralize Godzilla as well as join them together since they had the same DNA. In their second battle after she has evolved into her titanic crocodile-plant form she ruthlessly tries to kill Godzilla but again in order to stop his rampages.

** The [[Film/{{Godzilla2014}} 2014 US version of Godzilla]] is capable of causing tsunamis just by walking out of the water. He doesn't mean to, of course. It's just that he's so huge he ends up causing destruction by ''accident''. For the most part, he prefers to spend his time swimming peacefully in the oceans and feeding on Earth's natural radiation sources. The only reason he even showed up in civilization in the first place was to fight the comparatively more vicious MUTO.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AMonsterInParis''', when Lucille faints after seeing [[BigCreepyCrawly Francœur's face]], he automatically reaches out to catch her. The majority of the movie is Lucille passing off Francœur as a masked musician to allow him to perform in public. [[spoiler: The true monster in the movie is the glory obsessed police commissioner looking to kill Francœur to save his reputation.]]

-->-- '''Ekans''', ''{{Anime/Pokemon}}'' ("Island of the Giant Pokémon")

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: A benevolent [[OurVampiresAreDifferent bloodsucker}} who wants to peacefully coexist with normal humans as much as possible.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampire: A {{vampire}} who wants to peacefully coexist with normal humans as much as possible.
** VegetarianVampire: A vampire who refuses to attack people for their blood, preferring much less violent alternatives to sate their bloodthirst.

* InnocentAliens: Friendly extraterrestrial visitors who have no intentions of [[AlienInvasion attacking Earth]], [[AlienAbduction kidnapping humans]], or [[AliensStealCattle snatching cows]].

** HunterOfHisOwnKind: Sometimes, a [[HunterOfMonsters monster hunter]] [[{{Irony}} happens to also be]] [[TakesOneToKillOne the same kind of monster they hunt]], [[ProHumanTranshuman fighting off more malevolent members of their kind in order to protect humans]].

* BenevolentAbomination: An EldritchAbomination who operates on the good side of the moral spectrum.

** HunterOfHisOwnKind: Sometimes, a [[HunterOfMonsters monster hunter]] happens to be [[{{Irony}} the same kind of monster they hunt]], [[TakesOneToKillOne fighting off more malevolent members of their kind]] in order to [[ProHumanTranshuman protect humans]].

* DelightfulDragon: A [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconic creature]] that acts more like a big LovableLizard than a [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent savage reptilian beast]].

** HunterOfHisOwnKind: Sometimes, a [[HunterOfMonsters monster hunter]] happens to be [[{{Irony}} the same kind of monster they hunt]], fighting off more malevolent members of their kind to protect humans.

* DelightfulDragon: A [[OurDragonsAreDifferent draconic creature]] that acts more like a big LovableLizard than a [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent predatory reptilian beast]].

* WonderfulWerewolf: A [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] who acts more like a NobleWolf ([[WerewolvesAreDogs or a]] BigFriendlyDog) than a SavageWolf.

* WonderfulWerewolf: A [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent werewolf]] who acts more like a BigFriendlyDog than a SavageWolf.

* E.E. "Doc" Smith's ''Lensman'' series has the Velantians, Rigellians and Palaininans to name a few; monstrous sentient creatures which not only don't resemble humans (i.e. they are not even bipedal) but often have completely different sets of values - and who are wholly on the side of the good guys.

* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Sometimes, a [[HunterOfMonsters monster hunter]] happens to be [[{{Irony}} the same kind of monster they hunt]], fighting off more malevolent members of their kind to protect humans.

* TokenHeroicOrc: A rare good member of an otherwise AlwayChaoticEvil monster race.