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* '''Oblina''', who resembled a black candy cane with big red lips and eye stalks. Could pull her insides out at will; naturally, this made her the best at scaring, and she was considered the Gromble's best student. Came from a rich family, and had a [[What the Hell Is That Accent?|strange accent]]. Often fought with Ickis over his bad habits, and had a tendency to lecture, which... never really helped her make her case.

* '''The Gromble''', the [[Sadist Teacher]] and Headmaster who constantly belittled and punished his students for poor scares. Was particularly hard on Ickis (who admittedly brought a lot of it onto himself), but also occasionally showed [[Pet the Dog|fondness for him and his other students]].

 

* [[Absurdly Spacious Sewer]]: Large enough they can hold surfing contests inside. Not to mention how they normally use toilets to get into different houses and such...

** With the using pipes to infiltrate buildings, that's less because the pipes are large and more because monsters can ''squeeze''... Ickis is shown moving effortlessly through a pipe maybe a centimeter wide in one episode.

* [[A Boy and His X]]: "Puppy Ciao" involved Ickis trying to keep a puppy, Fungus, and hiding it from the Gromble.

* [[Braces of Orthodontic Overkill]]: Oblina ended up with these once, because her teeth were ''straight'' (due to her youthful indiscretion of brushing her teeth once). This actually caught the attention of the [[Romantic False Lead]], who admired his reflection in the massive things.

* [[Camp Straight]]: The Gromble was expressive and melodramatic, and wore bright red high heels on all four of his feet.

* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: Bradley first appeared in "Monsters, Get Real!". At the end of the first season, he reappeared in "Simon Strikes Back" as a key figure, and wound up becoming Ickis' [[Secret Keeper]] and a recurring character.

* [[Couch Gag]]: The different phrases shouted by the Gromble during the opening credits.

* [[Curse]]: "Curse of the Krumm" reveals that Krumm's species ([[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|which are all called 'krumm']]) are cursed to {{spoiler|eventually lose their stench}}. With his friends' help, he manages to break it.

** No, this was his family specifically. It usually skips a generation which was why his father never told him.

* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]: Ickis had a ''very'' shrill voice at times. And when he tried '''singing'''...

** The monsters of this series are of the 'only exist if people are scared of them' variety. They have to scare humans to stay alive.

* [[Dean Bitterman]]: The Gromble and Blook.

* [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]]: Krumm's species is simply known as 'the Krumm'. Interestingly, his father had a name: Horvak.

* [[Eyepatch of Power]]: Krumm's father, Horvak, lost one of his eyes and wore a black glove on that hand afterwards.

** He lost it because [[Eye Scream|it was used as the bullet in the Shot Heard 'Round The World]].

* [[Eyes Are Unbreakable]]: Played straight with Krumm and Horvak, save for the above incident. Which is good, considering how many times Krumm lost or misplaced one or ''both'' of his...

* [[Eyes Do Not Belong There]]: Eyes should not be free-rolling!

* [[Forbidden Fruit]]: Ickis's fascination with human culture partly stemmed from the Gromble forbidding everything to do with it.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: "Eeny meeny slimy guts, catch a monster by the..." Also the allusion in a reference to "scare-us interruptus."

* [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]]: Or rather Monsters Need Scares Badly. In "Where Have All The Monsters Gone?" it's shown that, if humans stop being afraid of monsters, then monsters will start disappearing, one body part at a time.

* [[Gross Up Close-Up]]

* [[Halloween Episode]]: "The Switching Hour", which also served as the first episode.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: In "Simon Strikes Back", Ickis convinces Bradley to abandon his monster hunter apprenticeship and help them escape.

* [[The Hunter]]: Simon the Monster Hunter.

* [[I Warned You]]:

* [[The Informant]]: The Gromble's spy Zimbo.

* [[Insufferable Genius]]: When it came to scaring, Oblina usually knew what she was talking about, and gave her roommates good advice (like doing their scaring homework on time instead of putting it off). Unfortunately, she came off as extremely overbearing and a smarmy know-it-all. Didn't help that she loved rubbing it in Ickis' face when she was proven right.

* [[It's Personal]]: The first time they met, Simon was just trying to prove monsters existed. After Ickis and the others thwarted and humiliated him, however, he developed a personal vendetta against Ickis and went out of his way to target ''him''.

* [[Jerkass]]: Zimbo. The Gromble was a [[Sadist Teacher]], but often showed that he ''did'' care about his students; The Snorch handled their [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|Cool And Unusual Punishments]], but was actually pretty nice overall. Zimbo, meanwhile, was just a flat-out ''creep'' who enjoyed making the students' lives miserable, and would go out of his way to get them in trouble and torment them. And all the while, he relied on The Snorch's reputation to keep him safe.

* [[Keet]]: Ickis again; he could get... very hyperactive at times.

* [[Killer Rabbit]]: Aww, lookit the little bunny-eared thing! Isn't it just the [[Ugly Cute|strangely]] '''[[Ugly Cute|cutest]]''' thing you've ever... [[Sizeshifter|Uh]]. [[One-Winged Angel|Why is it growing]]...?

* [[Lighter and Softer]]: In-universe example: an amusement park ran a "Monsters Aren't Scary" Tunnel for a while. Ickis took advantage of this to score some easy scares and undermine the intended message. This [[Gone Horribly Right|works TOO well]], as the ride operator figures out people ''prefer'' the scarier version and sets a trap, intending to make Ickis scare people for ''his'' fiscal gain.

* [[Loud of War]]: The Snorch punishes students by making them listen to opera and bagpipe music.

* [[Mickey Mousing]]

* [[The Movie]]: It was in the works but went splat.

* [[Mr. Vice Guy]]: Ickis was both horribly insecure ''and'' [[Pride|incredibly arrogant]].

* [[Not So Different]]: It's repeatedly implied the Gromble had a lot of the same problems when ''he'' was a young monster that Ickis has now.

* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: Simon was crazy, sure... Unfortunately, he was also frighteningly devoted to getting his revenge and proving to the world he was right all along. A few times it came down to Ickis having to stop him solo because everyone else had been captured or was otherwise unable to help out.

* [[Our Monsters Are Weird]]

* [[Parental Issues]]: Ickis had a whole slew of emotional issues thanks to his famous father; Oblina's mother was an [[My Beloved Smother|overbearing control freak]]; The Gromble's mother still treated him like a child... Krumm got along okay with his father, though. {{spoiler|Aside from learning that he'd flunked out of the Academy after losing his stench.}}

* [[Peek a Bogey Man]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: The Gromble got these now and then to show [[Hidden Heart of Gold|that he really does care about his students]].

* [[Ping-Pong Naivete]]: Ickis.

* [[Pride]]: All three of the monsters suffer from this. Oblina because she's a know-it-all, Krumm because he smells so awful, and Ickis because it's the only way he can step out of his father's shadow.

* [[Prison Episode]]: When Ickis gets put in jail because he was mistaken for a fugitive.

* [[Rashomon Style]]: In an episode titled, appropriately enough, "Rosh-O-Monster". The viewfinder the Gromble uses to view the students' assignments breaks down so the trio tells the class how their scare went. Ickis tells his story in a [[Film Noir]] style with him as the hero, while Oblina's account portrays her as a superheroine who has to rescue Krumm and Ickis from humans. The less-egotistical Krumm's retelling (which is [[Art Shift|animated in]] [[Stylistic Suck|a childish scrawl]]) only indicates that Oblina and Ickis spent most of the assignment arguing. Of course in the end the viewfinder is repaired and we see what ''really'' happened. {{spoiler|Turned out that they kept screwing up and the scare was a total accident.}} Of course, the Gromble wasn't pleased and punishes them by having them shine his massive collection of shoes.

* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Happens to Ickis when using his [[Sizeshifter|size-augmenting ability]].

* [[Sadist Teacher]]/[[Stern Teacher]]: The Gromble managed to be both. He genuinely enjoys tormenting his students but does also genuinely want to teach them.

* [[Secret Keeper]]: Bradley, Ickis's human friend.

* [[Shout-Out]]: Sublima, Oblina's mother, made her call her "[[Mommy Dearest|Mumsy dearest]]" and was a [[My Beloved Smother|complete control freak]].

* [[Sizeshifter]]: Ickis.

* [[The Stool Pigeon]]: Zimbo.

* [[Strong Family Resemblance]]: Ickis and Krumm looked a ''lot'' like their fathers, Slickis and Horvak. The Gromble also strongly resembled his mother. Oblina, on the other hand, took traits from both of her parents, as revealed when they finally showed up. She was also one of the only characters who ''had'' both parents appear.

* [[They Called Me Mad]]: Simon, who took the typical [[Mad Scientist]]-style route.

* [[They Would Cut You Up]]: Monsters are taught that if humans ever learned of their existance, they'd be hunted down, experimented on, and slaughtered.

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