monster / monsters, n:
- A being of frightening and inhuman appearance and/or demeanor, and quite possibly inhuman origin.
- A term so broad and popular for work titles that we had to write this page to cover all our bases (and The Other Wiki covers even more of them than we do).
- Monster - A manga and anime written by Naoki Urasawa about a doctor who must hunt down a Serial Killer he feels responsible for letting loose on the world as a child.
- Monster - A 2003 American film Based on a True Story about a female serial killer played by Charlize Theron with nothing at all in common with the above anime. It won Theron several awards including an Oscar Award and Roger Ebert called it one of the best films of that decade.
- Monster - A book about a guy named Monster Dionysus trying to survive real life around his job of capturing cryptozoological monsters while putting up with a girlfriend who's a real monster.
- Monster: A Novel of Frankenstein - An adaptation of Frankenstein from the POV of the creature.
- The Monster - A 1925 horror movie starring Lon Chaney.
- The Monster - An Alien Invasion short story by A. E. Van Vogt.
- Monsters: - A horror anthology series from The '80s about, um, monsters.
- Monsters: - A British sci-fi thriller released in 2010, directed by Gareth Edwards.
- Monster! - A direct to video film about a film director whose monster movies come to life every three years to wreak havoc on a small town.
- Monster - A Death Note Dark Fic.
- Monster - A song by Skillet.
- The musical album by KISS
- The musical album by R.E.M.
You might also be thinking of:
- The Monsters, Inc. franchise:
- Monsters, Inc., the Pixar film with monsters playing the role of Punch-Clock Villain.
- Monsters University, the prequel film where monsters attend a college to learn about proper scaring.
- Monsters at Work, a Disney+ series continuing from the end of the first film (but before the epilogue).
- Mons, little (often cute) monsters that you capture and train to fight for you against each other. See Monster Rancher, Pokémon, Shin Megami Tensei et al.
- Monster Hunter, a popular video game series that bears some semblance to the above, but replaces the cute monsters with big nasty dinosaur monsters and the Gotta Catch 'Em All with "kill or be killed".
- Complete Monster, a YMMV item about a villain who is the most degenerate in a work, provokes fear or hatred in all the characters and is completely devoid of redeeming features. Its namespace is Monster/.
- You Monster!, a Stock Phrase characters say to people they consider monsters.
- Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, a Nickelodeon cartoon about three monsters who lived under a dump and attended monster school.
- The Monsters Who Always Lie, a Death Note Continuation fic.
- The one under your bed that eats your shoes.
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