History Main / OurMonstersAreWeird

** [[Series/KamenRiderX STARFISH HITLER!]]

* ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'' is a {{mon}} game with a huge variety of creatures to train and battle with that vary from being based on Japanese myth to fantasy-tale creatures to robots to... [[BuffySpeak things]]. Tri-segmented wind-up ducks, rhinos riding on wheels, clown-faced caterpillar triplets, humanoid shape-shifting blobs with the face of ''{{Film/Scream}}'', mole-dogs wearing [[NiceHat giant pointed hats]]. Hell, the very mascot of the series is a yellow, comma-shaped monster with only a big eye, almost as big mouth, and a tail that it stands on. All of this is even worse when you consider the possibilities that can be made when combining monsters. Golems with a goofy smile for a chest, giant beetle monsters with duck heads for a horn and arms, a giant blue-skinned camel-elephant with a [[SlasherSmile joker-smile]], [[UncannyValley a multi-colored humanoid jell with the colors of a little girl in a kimono]], [[WebVideo/Jerma985 a weird, round creature with a pug-like face that randomly sprouts legs and dabs]]... Jeez, this goes on. Over 328 of these guys exist, and a big chunk of them could easily stand-up the current trope image in surrealism.

** ''TabletopGame/Spelljammer'' also has a ton of weird monsters. One of the is the Fractine, which are living mirrors that fly around in space. It was one of the monsters that was brought back to fifth edition in a D&D Beyond online supplement.

* ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'' is a {{mon}} game with a [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters huge variety]] of creatures to train and battle with that vary from being based on Japanese myth to fantasy-tale creatures to robots to... [[BuffySpeak things]]. Tri-segmented wind-up ducks, rhinos riding on wheels, clown-faced caterpillar triplets, humanoid shape-shifting blobs with the face of ''{{Film/Scream}}'', mole-dogs wearing [[NiceHat giant pointed hats]]. Hell, the very mascot of the series is a yellow, comma-shaped monster with only a big eye, almost as big mouth, and a tail that it stands on. All of this is even worse when you consider the possibilities that can be made when combining monsters. Golems with a goofy smile for a chest, giant beetle monsters with duck heads for a horn and arms, a giant blue-skinned camel-elephant with a [[SlasherSmile joker-smile]], [[UncannyValley a multi-colored humanoid jell with the colors of a little girl in a kimono]], [[WebVideo/Jerma985 a weird, round creature with a pug-like face that randomly sprouts legs and dabs]]... Jeez, this goes on. Over 328 of these guys exist, and a big chunk of them could easily stand-up the current trope image in surrealism.

Given that monsters are by definition fictional, Administrivia/NoRealLifeExamplesPlease.

* Creator/GrantMorrison's tenure for ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol''. For evidence, just take a quick gander at [[BodyHorror John]] [[ImplacableMan Dandy]] [[https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_medium/3/31666/922233-dandy_1.jpg]], [[OmnicidalManiac The Candlemaker]] [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/marvel_dc/images/c/cb/Candlemaker_001.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20091218223640]], or ''any'' member of [[ReligionOfEvil The Cult of the]] [[CloudCuckooLander Unwritten Book]]

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** ''Film/GodzillaVsGigan'' has Gigan AKA The {{Cyborg}} [[FanNickname "Space Chicken"]]. With hooks for hands (chainsaws in one film) and a buzzsaw ''on his stomach.''

* Almost all of the summons in ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'' are given this treatment.

** Deus Ex is an array of television sets that shoots lasers.
** Susano o is a shadowy warrior who fires dark lightning using what looks like a radio tower as a staff/sword.

* ''VideoGame/ScarletNexus'': All the "Others" are designed based on surrealist art to evoke alieneness, sadness, and beauty, reflecting that they feed on human brains, as well as [[spoiler:that others are all animals or humans transformed by alien particles.]] It helps make the enemies hard to predict, compared to many JRPGs which just recycle the same basic enemy designs.

* You'd expect weird monsters from the game named ''Videogame/{{Pandemonium}}'' -- and you'd be right. The monsters -- allies or enemies -- are usually so weird that most of the time they cannot be even described properly. For example, the FinalBoss of the first game is a giant eyeball with cannon that transforms into spider tank (with legs attached directly to the eye) halfway through. And even if the monster looks relatively normal, it makes at least weird sounds, such as the turtles in the sequel that serve as a springboard and that ''meow'' each time you bounce of them.

* ''Webcomic/BlackWardEmptyChambers'' takes inspiration from the twisted creatues of Franchise/SilentHill for its monsters.

* In the Commodore 64 oddity ''VideoGame/DancingMonster'', the titular creature is a chunky purple man with curved horns, a green ratlike tail, big elephant-like ears, a pinkish trunk, and finally a long cyan tongue. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Oh, and it wears pants]].

* ''Film/TheGingerdeadMan'', who [[GiveAWholeNewMeaning gives a new meaning]] to JustEatHim.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'' is quite possibly the most triumphant example of this trope, ''by far'' [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/amoebeyes.htm There are faceless, headless giants whose amorphous eyeballs slither around their bodies like titanic protozoa and can shoot lasers,]] [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/clampire.htm blood-sucking mutant clams,]] [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/lascivenus.htm carnivorous flytrap sirens]], [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/anglesnipe.htm transdimensional fishing lure-like entities that are only part of a far vaster being]], and who knows what else. [[DarkIsNotEvil But that doesn't mean they're all bad, though.]]

* Mesoamerican Mythology has a lot of strange creatures and gods. The Aztec's Tzitzimitl, for example, were skeletal star goddesses with snakes sprouting from their groins that protected midwives but also attacked the Sun during a solar eclipse. If they would succeed in killing the sun, they would descend onto Earth and kill everyone. Their warrior-Queen Itzpapalotl,the Obsidian Butterfly, could take the form of a woman with a skull for a head and obsidian-tipped butterfly wings. She ruled over the paradise of still-born children and women who died in labor.

* The Philippines features quite the RoguesGallery of strange and [[AlwaysChaoticEvil almost always homicidal]] mythological beasties. The most famous is probably [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manananggal the Manananggal]], a vampiric creature that EatsBabies and can fly by separating its torso from its legs. Additionally, there's [[EnfantTerrible the Tiyanak]] (a vampiric baby that died before it could be baptized), [[GuardianEntity the Kapre]] (a Sasquatch-like figure that guards people but also likes to play tricks on them), [[FriendToAllChildren the Alans]] (mischievous bird-humanoids that like to take care of lost or abandoned children and have backward facing hands and feet), [[GentleGiant the Bungisngis]] (cheerful but dimwitted cyclops-like giants) and [[VoluntaryShapeshifting the Aswang]] (a frightening, shapeshifting predator).

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* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'' is quite possibly the most triumphant example of this trope, ''by far'' [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/amoebeyes.htm There are faceless, headless giants whose amorphous eyeballs slither around their bodies like titanic protozoa and can shoot lasers,]] [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/clampire.htm blood-sucking mutant clams,]] [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/lascivenus.htm carnivorous flytrap sirens]], [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/anglesnipe.htm transdimensional fishing lure-like entities that are only part of a far vaster being]], and who knows what else. [[DarkIsNotEvil But that doesn't mean they're all bad, though.]]
* The quasi-EldritchAbomination and meme [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zalgo Zalgo]].
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* In the Commodore 64 oddity ''VideoGame/Dancing Monster'', the titular creature is a chunky purple man with curved horns, a green ratlike tail, big elephant-like ears, a pinkish trunk, and finally a long cyan tongue. [[ArsonMurderAndJayWalking Oh, and it wears pants]].