History Main / LetsMockTheMonsters

* ''Film/PressStart Adventures'' [[http://www.darkmaze.com/pressstartadventures/episodes/019.html ep 19 up to code:]] "What happened to the bodies of these medusas?"

* In the second season of ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', Lina and company encounter a monster that looks like a floating tribal mask. Then its body grows in and it resembles, well... a ''penguin'' wearing a tribal mask.

* Peter Venkman's specialty in the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' franchise, although the others get in on the act. Interestingly, this doesn't kick in until ''after'' the [[Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}} first movie]]: after beating ''Gozer the Gozerian'' (and ''Cthulhu'' in the [[WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters animated series]]), everything else seems a bit pathetic in comparison.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} 13: Ten Desires'' has Marisa meeting Mamizou Futatsuiwa, the {{Superboss}} of the game, who she couldn't resist making fun of after finding out what she is despite it being [[TemptingFate a hazard to her health]].

* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' regularly mixes this trope with AlternateCharacterInterpretation for the robot masters. While on the subject of ''VideoGame/MegaManClassic'', the way the fandom treats him Bubble Man may as well be Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}'s EvilCounterpart.

* ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}} 13: Ten Desires'' has Marisa meeting Mamizou Futatsuiwa, the BonusBoss of the game, who she couldn't resist making fun of after finding out what she is despite it being [[TemptingFate a hazard to her health]].

* ''VideoGame/PokemonQuartz'' has its Pokémon frequently made fun of.
** Zorak's LetsPlay being the most well-known mockery of the game. Available [[http://lparchive.org/Pokemon-Quartz/ here]].
** Yuoaman's LP on the Pokecommunity forums has this in spades as well. Can be found [[http://www.pokecommunity.com/showthread.php?t=202024 here]].

->''"Tell that big dumb scary face to take a hike and leave you alone and if he thinks he can scare you then he's got another think coming and the very idea of such a thing just makes you wanna HAHAHAHA-, heh LAAAAAAAUUUGH!"''

-->-- '''Pinkie Pie''', ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony "Friendship is Magic, part 2"]]

** Find someone who's never heard of ''Doctor Who''. Show them a picture of a Dalek and tell them it's the most dangerous creature in the universe. Odds are high this trope will be their instinctual reaction. Even in their own series, they get mocked. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek "What are you going to do? Sucker me to death?"]] [[TemptingFate And so it did.]]
** Even fans of ''Doctor Who'' can't take the villains of [[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionofTime "The Invasion of Time"]] seriously, due to some poor handling by the writer, uninspiring costumes, and a big heap of SpecialEffectsFailure. (Which is a pity, because their basic concept, had it not been mishandled, is frankly terrifying.) When they returned in the ExpandedUniverse, the Doctor's companion spent several minutes riffing on the theme of "Oh, good, it's only the Vardans!" ''to their faces''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX "Treehouse of Horror X"]], Homer mocks a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolf]] Flanders, while he's being mauled!

* ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'' does it a lot with the {{jump scare}}s within the Arise series. "John McCain! Why?!"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX Treehouse of Horror X", Homer mocks a [[OurWerewolvesAreDifferent Werewolf]] Flanders, while he's being mauled!

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS11E4TreehouseOfHorrorX Treehouse of Horror X", Homer mocks a [[OurWereWolvesAreDifferent Werewolf]] Flanders, while he's being mauled!

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':

** "Where No Fan Has Gone Before": Upon seeing EnergyBeing Melllvar, Bender's response is "What a cheesy effect!"
** "Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch": Bender again. "What's that big, ugly thing? A frog? a toad? Or [[YoMomma your momma]]?"

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', in a "Treehouse of Horror" episode, Homer mocks a [[OurWereWolvesAreDifferent Werewolf]] Flanders, while he's being mauled!

-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tiynTPuUUM Pinkie Pie,]]''' ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E2ElementsOfHarmony "Friendship is Magic, part 2"]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Adventurers}}'' has its [[http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0343.html infamous evil pants.]]

* Happens in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' when Dr. [=McNinja=] [[http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/8p22 punches a zombie and then taunts the helpless monster]].

* Spider-Man does this to his enemies all the time, especially during their first meetings.

** ** In the ActionPrologue, Constance Goodheart is abducted by Slo-Man (an expy of ''Film/RobotMonster'') and actually stops [[ScreamingWoman screaming]] to comment how ridiculous he looks.

* ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space''. When the alien invader D'Ork of the Thorkoth does his DoNotAdjustYourSet thing, everyone bursts out laughing as he looks like a bad special effect from ''Film/ItConqueredTheWorld''.

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* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' descends into self-mockery every "Un"-set with cards like [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=8904 Hurloon Wrangler,]] [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74236 Carnivorous Death-Parrot,]] and [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74257 little girl.]]
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** Even fans of ''Doctor Who'' can't take the villains of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS15E6TheInvasionofTime The Invasion of Time]]" seriously, due to some poor handling by the writer, uninspiring costumes, and a big heap of SpecialEffectsFailure. (Which is a pity, because their basic concept, had it not been mishandled, is frankly terrifying.) When they returned in the ExpandedUniverse, the Doctor's companion spent several minutes riffing on the theme of "Oh, good, it's only the Vardans!" ''to their faces''.

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** "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E17Benderama Benderama]]": The crew make a delivery to a giant alien and are warned not to remark on his hideous appearance. Naturally, Bender (and the two clones of himself he created) let fly with the ugly jokes, and the giant attacks them. Later, the giant flies to Earth to apologize, but everyone is drunk because all water has been turned to alcohol (Bender's fault, of course) and ends up being insulted and going on the rampage all over again.

** In "A Dog and Pony Show", Rarity is initially intimidated by the Diamond Dogs who are holding her captive, but when they try to force her to find and dig up gemstones, she obstinately refuses, then goes on to mock their appearance, manners, and personal hygiene. By the time her friends show up to rescue her the dogs are begging for them to take her away, and pay them to do so.

--->'''Peter:''' [[OhCrap I think it can hear you, Ray]].

* ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' regularly mixes this trope with AlternateCharacterInterpretation for the robot masters. While on the subject of ''VideoGame/MegaMan'', the way the fandom treats him Bubble Man may as well be Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}'s EvilCounterpart.

Whether it's the CausticCritic harping on the quality of the game's monsters, or the actual characters within a story, this trope applies any time monsters are being ridiculed. [[AttackOfTheKillerWhatever Killer Whatevers]], {{Slurpasaur}}s, and monsters that have suffered from a SpecialEffectFailure are particularly prone to being mocked.

Has nothing whatsoever to do with: HeWhoFightsMonsters, TalkingTheMonsterToDeath, MuggingTheMonster, or BullyingADragon. Although the last two might well result in a CurbStompBattle.

* In ''Fanfic/GettingBackOnYourHooves'', the BigBad assumes the form of an alicorn to terrorize the Mane Six within a dreamscape. They mock her for it, since they've fought a real alicorn and fail to be impressed.

* Any customer who walks into Clauss' garage in ''Literature/{{Unique}}'' and behaves like the customers described in Notalwaysright.com is unknowingly doing exactly this. Of course, even if they don't know that the big grey bearded biker is actually a literal PapaWolf, that still doesn't change the fact that he's a big, grey bearded biker with hands like slabs of rawhide covered meat. Not to mention that it's just plain rude AND stupid to piss off the guy you're paying to repair the vehicle you don't know how to fix yourself.

** Find someone who's never heard of ''Doctor Who''. Show them a picture of a Dalek and tell them it's the most dangerous creature in the universe. Odds are high this trope will be their instinctual reaction. Even in their own series they get mocked. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E6Dalek "What are you going to do? Sucker me to death?"]] [[TemptingFate And so it did.]]

** The "Misfit Monsters Redeemed" supplement is written to avoid this trope to some degree. Basically, it takes several silly Gygax-era monsters and attempt to reimagine them as serious and digified encounters. For instance, the Flumph, originally a silly flying jellyfish prone to falling over by itself, is now a good-aligned extraplanar harbinger who seeks to warn other races of the approach of malevolent aberrations and other {{Eldritch Abomination}}s. The Wolf-In-Sheep's-Clothing, which originally looked like a stump with an unconvincing rabbit-puppet sitting on it, is now a tentacled monster that uses the corpse of its last meal as a lure to draw in more victims.

* Torg and Riff from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' do this pretty much instinctively. It comes in handy one time when they need to cause K'Z'K pain in order to exorcise him. He's invincible, but still suffers from their horrible puns about his name.

** Which Warrior channeling a demon and then unleashing a lighting storm that destroy's Phelous's little friends.

* Sadie Doyle of ''Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour'' is incapable of taking [[MonsterClown Nightmares the Clown]] seriously. When she sees him she excitedly cries "Clown!" and keeps making fun of him. This often stymies the clown, who feeds off fear, and bolsters Sadie's husband Frank, who has feared Nightmare since he was a child.

** "[[Recap/FuturamaS6E17Benderama Benderama]]": The crew make a delivery to a giant alien and are warned not to remark on his hideous appearance. Natually, Bender (and the two clones of himself he created) let fly with the ugly jokes, and the giant attacks them. Later, the giant flies to Earth to apologize, but everyone is drunk because all water has been turned to alcohol (Bender's fault, of course) and ends up being insulted and going on the rampage all over again.

* In Soviet cartoon ''Two Epic Warriors'' Russian and Central Asian warriors ended up in wrong fairy tales, which made their enemies WrongGenreSavvy. Russian warrior faced a giant daeva (kind of a demon) who was empowered by fear. He mocked him until he became small, then lured him into a narrow cave and said "I'm very afraid of you!" The daeva got stuck there.[[note]]Meanwhile the Central Asian hero faced an immortal undead wizard. Instead of searching for the magic needle with his death or fighting a HopelessBossFight he just lassoed him and left him tied up.[[/note]]

[[caption-width-right:340:''Did you trade your left half for that sword?!'']]

* WebOriginal/BuzzfeedUnsolved: Shane's entire MO for the "Supernatural" seasons consists of actively threatening/mocking whatever paranormal entities he and Ryan have come to find.

* This supposedly happened the first time settlers found out about the [[EverythingsBetterWithPlatypi Platypus]], often described as God's idea of a joke. Then we found out just how dangerous these things really are...

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--->'''Peter''': [[OhCrap I think it can hear you, Ray]].

* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'' has an ancient evil appear in the form of -- a chicken. That cackled. Even staunch fans of the series agree that was utterly {{Narm}}tastic.
* This is the proper way to fight boggarts in ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series -- use Riddikulus charm and concentrate on something funny. The boggart will become funny and powerless.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': Harry Dresden] does this as a matter of course, though it's sometimes a strategic choice -- the name [[spoiler: naagloshii]] evokes such terror that Harry's sarcastic nickname "Shagnasty" keeps it from becoming unbeatable.

** Find someone who's never heard of ''Doctor Who''. Show him a picture of a Dalek and tell him it's the most dangerous creature in the universe. Odds are high this trope will be his instinctual reaction. Even in their own series they get mocked. "What are you going to do? Sucker me to death?" [[TemptingFate And so it did.]]

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'':
-->'''Xander:''' Who's a little fear demon? Come on. Who's a little fear demon?\\
'''Giles:''' Don't taunt the fear demon.\\
'''Xander:''' Why? Can he hurt me?\\
'''Giles:''' No, it's just tacky...

* Creator/{{David Mitchell|Actor}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt2u4dlZBHE mentions]] this trope on ''Series/MockTheWeek'' when discussing the Russian-Georgian war in 2008.
-->"Shall we have a bit of fun? Poke the Russians! Poke the Russians! [[OhCrap Oh my God they're coming!]]"

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