History Main / MonstrousScenery

* Near the end of ''Film/TheMist'', David and the other survivors were driving out of the monster-infested town covered by the titular mist when they come across a multi-legged, multi-tentacled, kaiju-sized creature (identified in the film as the "Behemoth") who's easily the largest monster in the entire movie. Despite noticing the survivors, the Behemoth simply ignores them and casually strolls past.
* In ''Film/PalmSprings'', a herd of sauropod dinosaurs appear in the distance in a few scenes, wandering through the desert and apparently caught in the same GroundhogDayLoop that the human protagonists are.
* In ''Film/HouseIITheSecondStory'', when the protagonists are sent back in time to HollywoodPrehistory, the first indication of where they are is a gigantic sauropod casually strolling by in the distance.

* ''VideoGame/FZero [=GX=]'': A giant SandWorm is occasionally seen in the desert track. Thankfully, it doesn't do anything to hurt you and your competitors, since all it does is jump through the dunes.

* ''VideoGame/ChasingTheUnseen'' have you exploring an abstract world and climbing through all kinds of background, including giant monsters whom were completely idle and ignores you. The trailer notably sees you running along the tentacles of a hovering GiantSquid.

*** The campaign maps are decorated with ambient creatures depending on the locale, ranging from nests of giant spiders in the forests, circling griffons and wyverns around mountaintops, patrolling gyrocopters in dwarfen territory, daemons within the Realms of Chaos, and sea monsters in the oceans.

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TheMandalorian'': In Episode 13, "[[Recap/TheMandalorianS2E5Chapter13TheJedi The Jedi]]", huge long-legged creatures can be seen in the background of many shots, ambling through the burnt-out forests of Corvus. They are never seen at closer quarters, and the only interaction Din Djarin has with one is staring at it through his binoculars before being ambushed by [[spoiler:Ahsoka]].

* ''VideoGame/DemonSkin'' has an area where two stone giants in the background pummels each other as you fight skeletons in the front. And another where a reptilian monster is chained in an alcove who actually makes lunging moves at you, but it remains chained to the spot no matter what and you can't interact with it either.

** ''Videogame/GodOfWarPS4'': The landscape of Hel is dominated by a Titan-sized eagle perching on the tip of the highest tower of the City of the Dead. Neither the main cast nor any secondary character describe it, let alone interact with it and call it by name (although it's implied it's a shapeshifting Giant from Myth/NorseMythology known as Hraesvelgr, i.e. "the corpse swallower").
** ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'':
*** The bird will speak to Kratos and friends briefly, [[spoiler:to chide Atreus for freeing Garm to tear holes in reality.]]
*** Similarly, Jörmungandr the World Serpent is a constant backdrop in the main HubWorld of the first game, interacted with only in the beginning and then as a feature of the endgame.

* ''Videogame/GodOfWarPS4'': The landscape of Hel is dominated by a Titan-sized eagle perching on the tip of the highest tower of the City of the Dead. Neither the main cast nor any secondary character describe it, let alone interact with it and call it by name (although it's implied it's a shapeshifting Giant from Myth/NorseMythology known as Hraesvelgr, i.e. "the corpse swallower").
** In VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok, the bird will speak to Kratos and friends briefly, [[spoiler: to chide Atreus for freeing Garm to tear holes in reality.]]
** Similarly, Jörmungandr the World Serpent is a constant backdrop in the main HubWorld of the first game, interacted with only in the beginning and then as a feature of the endgame.

* ''VideoGame/KabukiZ'' has a stage where a gigantic oriental dragon that takes up the entire background watches you fight. But being a background is it's sole purpose.

* ''VideoGame/PiratesTheLegendOfBlackKat'' has a giant whale creature in the fjord's sea who periodically sticks its head above and below the water. But despite its size the monster os harmless and doesn't interact with the player.

* ''VideoGame/{{Darius}}'': Several stages have humungous dragons simply loitering in the background without interacting with your ship. One stage is even set on the back of a sleeping dragon.

* ''VideoGame/ThePhantomMenace'' have the third level, the underwarer city of Otoh Gunga, where gigantic aquatic monsters like the Colo Claw fish and Opee Sea Killer from the film can be seen swimming outside the city's force-field walls.

** [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} Brinstar]] is backed by a giant brain-like creature that occasionally wriggles around (and doesn't ever actually appear in any ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' game).