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See also [[Killer Space Monkey]], [[Maniac Monkeys]], and [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]] (which invokes this trope quite often); also check out [[
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* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds (Anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh 5 Ds]]'', the Dark Signer Demak had the Dark Signer Birthmark of the Monkey, his Deck had monsters that were primarily Monkeys/Apes... and, of course, [[Eldritch Abomination|Earthbound Immortal]] Cusillu.
** ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh GX (Anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'' had one episode featuring an experimental dueling monkey. In the dub he's named Wheeler as a callback joke to a comment Kiba made in the original series about Joey being a "dueling monkey".
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* ''[[Buster Keel (Manga)|Buster Keel]]'' has Keel, a Dragon Ape, stuck in human form.
* In ''[[Ask Dr. Rin (Anime)|Ask Dr. Rin]]'', one of their four [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|Ridiculously Cute Critters]] is Tenshin, a monkey that does nothing but squawk and eat candy, but due to being something of a mascot for the series, gets a lot of screentime.
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{{quote| '''Professor Zoom''': You know what makes '''everything''' better?! GORILLAS!}}
** The Mod Gorilla Boss: He's one hip swinger, Clyde, and you'd better believe that he's the big man behind the criminal underworld in Bludhaven. And that he thinks vertical stripes are cool.
** ''[[Doom Patrol (Comic Book)|Doom Patrol]]'' villain Monsieur Mallah: [[Mad Scientist|Superintelligent]] [[More Dakka|machine-gun-toting]] [[Dirty Commies|communist]] [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized|revolutionary]] [[Badass Gay|homosexual]] [[Cheese
** Sam Simeon: Comic artist and half of ''[[Angel and The Ape]]''. No points for guessing which half.
** Titano: Giant chimp with kryptonite-laser-shooting eyes.
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* Mega City One in ''[[Judge Dredd]]'' has a simian ethnic enclave (named Apetown), and an Orangutan named Dave was once elected Mayor of the city. He ended up being assassinated.
* Matt Fraction's ''Mantooth'' is about a super-spy gorilla who's a super-smooth ladies man.
* ''[[The Savage Dragon]]'' features Brainiape, an evil gorilla with a [[
* [[Squirrel Girl]] thinks that everything is better with monkeys.
* ''[[Y the Last Man (Comic Book)|Y: The Last Man]]'', or, as it should've been called, ''&: The Last Male Monkey''. Seriously, if you read it, you'll get it.
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* ''[[The Filth]]'' has Dmitri, a talking chimp who also happens to be a Soviet assassin. He offed JFK.
* [[Secret Six|Ragdoll]] used some of his mercenary money to buy "a monkey house and a variety of little monkey outfits" for his monkeys. He dressed them up as his team members, covered himself with monkey chow and giggled as they attacked him. It was unsettling and hilarious.
* The villains of ''[[Tintin (Comic Book)|The Black Island]]'' keep a gorilla named Ranko to guard their island base.
* [[Gaston Lagaffe]] once gave Fantasio (of ''[[Spirou and Fantasio]]'') three circus-trained chimpanzees as a birthday present. [[Hilarity Ensues|They proceed to wreak havoc in his office]].
* ''Monkeyman and O'Brien'' is about an intelligent gorilla from another dimension.
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** Trope referenced directly in [http://www.gocomics.com/libertymeadows/2007/05/13 this comic.]
* Marvel brings us Hitman Monkey. No word as to whether he is ''that'' hitman monkey yet.
{{quote| "Let's be clear: HITMAN MONKEY is the harrowing tale of a Macaque monkey from the mountains of Japan who, though fate and circumstance, is transformed into the world's deadliest assassin," [Axel] Alonso continues. "I fail to see what could be funny about-oh. I see [[
* The Norts in ''Rogue Trooper'' once attempted to counter the Southers' [[Super Soldier|GIs]] with part-human-part-gorillas, who like the GIs could breathe the atmosphere of [[Death World|Nu Earth]]. They failed when Rogue beat their leader in one-on-one combat, [[Asskicking Equals Authority|becoming the new commander]] and persuading them to rebel against their evil masters.
* In ''[[Promethea]]'' there is The Weeping Gorilla.
* The [[Take Over the World|megalomanical]] Doctor Vulter is the villain of the early [[Mickey Mouse]] story ''Mickey Mouse and the [[Instant Plunder, Just Add Pirates|Pirate]] [[Sub Story|Submarine]]'', a Captain Nemo [[Expy]] [[Mad Scientist]] with a [[High Class Glass]] and a penchant for [[Putting On the Reich]] (well, it ''was'' published in 1936...). He has returned in European Disney Comics several times since then, and has been a [[Funny Animal]] gorilla since the beginning.
* In ''[[Requiem Chevalier Vampire]]'', Thurim's sex life gets better with gori-mandrills! {{spoiler|For those thoroughly [[Squick|squicked]]: Aiwass actually turns back to her true vampire babe form to do the deed... and if ''this'' repels you, what are you doing reading ''Requiem'' in the first place?}}
* German comic ''[[Nick Knatterton (Comic Strip)|Nick Knatterton]]'' has one story about two chimps who were taught to steal. One of them ends up as Nick's "housemaid", having learned to do that job.
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** Disney comics feature the monkey mad scientists Ecks, Doublex, and Triplex as enemies of [[Classic Disney Shorts|Mickey Mouse]]. Another comics pal of Mickey's is the tough robot operator Sam Simian, seemingly a gorilla.
*** There's one story where Mickey and Sam take on the three Professors. Apart from Mickey himself, everyone in the story is a monkey!
** ''[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]'' had Abu as Aladdin's [[Non
** ''[[Tarzan (Disney)|Tarzan]]'' was based on ''Tarzan of the Apes'', but Disney did work the monkey trope into a wacky lather in the film. In [[Recycled:
** ''[[The Lion King (Disney)|The Lion King]]'' had the shaman-type, Rafiki, who was an African vision-having kung-fu mandrill.
** King Louie from ''[[The Jungle Book (Disney)|The Jungle Book]]'' was Disney's original addition to the movie, yet arguably, [[Adaptation Displacement|feels very much as if he belongs to Mowgli's world]]. The original book ''does'', however, have a scene where the monkeys try to make Mowgli their leader, and won't let him go.
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* ''[[Time of the Apes]]'' (like ''Planet of the Apes'', only Japanese and terrible). The film was featured on Mystery Science Theater, as was ''Overdrawn at the Memory Bank'', which involved the main character temporarily inhabiting the body of a baboon as therapy.
* Inverted in ''[[Back to The Future]]'': One of the early drafts of the script for the first movie featured a monkey as Doc Brown's pet instead of Einstein the dog. Apparently it was changed because one of the producers was under the impression that no movie with a monkey in it had ever made a profit (this was some years before ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean|Pirates Of The Caribbean]]'' came out.)
* The Toho/[[Rankin
* The 2 directors of ''[[American Pie]]'' insisted on having a monkey in it somewhere as "any film with a monkey in it is twice as good as the same film without a monkey".
* [[Ronald Reagan]] [[Never Live It Down|never quite lived down]] his role opposite a chimp in ''Bedtime for Bonzo''.
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* [[Buster Keaton]] would appear to agree.
** In "[[The Playhouse]]," he impersonates a performing orangutan.
** In ''[[The Camerman]],'' he acquires an organ-grinder's monkey as a [[Non
* The 1987 film ''[[Project X]]''.
* In ''[[The Lord of the Rings (Film)|The Return Of The King]]'', the orc skeleton which Frodo trips over in Shelob's lair appears to be that of a chimpanzee.
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* [[Dean Koontz]]'s Christopher Snow books, ''Fear Nothing'' and ''Seize the Night'', feature a tribe of monkeys that are escaped lab animals.
* In ''[[Animorphs (Literature)|Animorphs]]'', Marco's favorite battle morph was a gorilla. Chimpanzee and monkey morphs show up as well, although the monkey morphs were sario rip morphs and unusable after the end of the rip.
* [[HP Lovecraft]]'s "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn And His Family". {{spoiler|The title character [[Tomato in The Mirror|eventually realizes that he is]] a [[Half
** {{spoiler|Though to be more precise he's a thirty-one thirty-secondths human hybrid. As it turns out, most caucasians in Lovecraft's universe are probably the result of interbreeding between ancient African tribes and degenerate albino [[Frazetta Man|ape-things]].}}
* [[Edgar Allan Poe]]'s {{spoiler|first tale of Detective Dupin, ''The Murders in the Rue Morgue''. The murderer is an escaped orangutan}}.
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* Ray from ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' seems to have a deep appreciation for monkeys. The best example is when he mentions this one time when he and his family were at a zoo, and he was watching a man with a monkey, and Debra simply gave him the "don't even think about it" look just for thinking it might be fun to have a monkey in the house.
* In ''[[Never Mind the Buzzcocks]]'', host Mark Lamarr once got bored reading out the current joke so said "Never mind, here's a video of a monkey on a tricycle."
* If [[Saturday Night Live|Dieter]] allows you, you may [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|touch his monkey]].
* ''[[The Monkees (Music)|The Monkees]]'' have a stuffed one at their beach house.
* Averted in the ''[[Medium]]'' two-parter "Four Dreams", where one of the creepy prophetic dreams involves an animated monkey mother and her child fleeing a home invasion. It's [[Surreal Horror|as silly as it is disturbing]].
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* Chikara Pro Wrestling has a wrestler named U.S.Ape, who's your standard [[All
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* ''[[Deus Ex (Video Game)|Deus Ex]]'' describes {{spoiler|the Grays}} as (possibly) being genetically engineered hairless monkeys. This doesn't stop them from being the most annoying enemies in the game. Note that these are ''psychic'' monkeys.
* The ''[[Earthbound (Video Game)|Earthbound]]'' series has more than a barrel full of monkeys factoring into the plot. In the part of the game where you control Jeff, a bubblegum-chewing monkey is the key to getting across the river; another point in the game requires the party to give and receive gifts from several monkeys to proceed. And in the sequel, ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]'', the third chapter of the game is played ''entirely'' by a monkey.
** [[What Do You Mean
* One of the main villains in ''[[Earthworm Jim (Video Game)|Earthworm Jim]]'' is Professor Monkeyforahead, a mad scientist who shares his head with an upside-down monkey. The monkey's name is Monkey Professorforahead.
* In ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' series, the Imga and the Tang Mo are two monkey races, respectively from Valenwood and [[Wutai|Akavir]].
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* The main reason for the character of Skrunch in ''[[Ratchet and Clank Up Your Arsenal]]'' (in this case, a cyclopean alien monkey).
** And of course, the series wouldn't be complete without a gun that turns enemies into monkeys. Enemy robots? Cymbal banging monkeys.
* The ''[[Sengoku Basara (Video Game)|Sengoku Basara]]'' series has [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Keiji]] with his little monkey friend Yumekichi.
* At one point in the Infocom game ''[[Leather Goddesses of Phobos (Video Game)|Leather Goddesses of Phobos]]'', your character gets mindswapped with a monkey. In a cage. With an amorous monkey of the other sex.
* ''[[Sengoku Rance (Video Game)|Sengoku Rance]]'' of the ''[[Rance (Franchise)|Rance]] series is probably be one of the rare few inversions in that said monkey does not make the plot good for our heroes. In fact, said monkey ''steers'' the plot in which [[It Got Worse|everything got worse after that]] accident.
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* [[Doubly Subverted]] in ''[[Runescape]]''. There's an island populated by intelligent monkeys but it's a [[Death World]] to humans. Things get better when you get an item that turns you into a monkey.
* Subverted in ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'', with Gohma Howlers, which are anything but nice, as they kill humans without hesitation in packs.
* Averted in ''[[Star Fox (Video Game)|Star Fox]]'' - with the exception of a single specimen all simians are evil. And at least [[Mad Scientist|one]] is [[One
* The Hozen of ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' are a race of sapient mountain- and tree-dwelling monkeys. They are noted as having mentalities comparable to a fourteen year-old boy, made only worse when their new Horde allies give them rocket launchers and machine guns.
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* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' has Momo, a flying lemur [[Mix and Match Critter]], for comic relief and as the [[Team Pet]].
** There's also a [[Continuity Nod|recurring]] incredibly ugly ruby-encrusted monkey statue. It creeps the hell out of Katara, but Iroh thinks it's "handsome" enough to buy.
* ''[[Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot (Animation)|Big Guy and Rusty The Boy Robot]]'' the CEO of the company that created the titular boy robot had a sidekick/business partner who was a sarcastic talking monkey. Voiced by [[Hey
* ''[[Camp Lazlo]]'' stars a monkey.
* ''[[Captain Simian and The Space Monkeys (Animation)|Captain Simian and The Space Monkeys]]''
* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (Animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' has a variety of primates at hand, too, ranging from chimpanzees (Heebie and Jeebie in "An Elephant Never Suspects") to a gorilla ([[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Kookoo]] in "Gorilla My Dreams").
* ''[[Clerks the Animated Series]]'': Jay and Silent Bob decide to get a monkey. When asked why, Jay replies "To teach it to smoke. Duh." Randal thinks it's infected like in that <s> [[Outbreak|Dustin Hoffman]]</s> [[Lawyer
* ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' had one episode with the near extinct fictional Purple Back Gorilla named Samson. {{spoiler|Later revealed to be a female}}, Samson played a part in the plot by kicking the main villain's ass.
* Let's not forget the "Dial M For Monkey" shorts on ''[[Dexters Laboratory]]'', where one of Dexter's test animals is secretly a super-powered crime fighter.
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* Monkeys and apes are a recurring joke throughout ''[[Kim Possible]]'', with them being the source of Ron's mystical kung-fu powers (which usually don't work until the [[Grand Finale]]), as well as his greatest fear and the source of power of his personal archenemy, Monkey Fist. Two words: ''monkey [[Ninja|ninjas]]''.
** There was also Josh Mankey, a character that Ron formed a [[Conspiracy Theory]] around, based on his last name being one vowel away from "monkey." And Camp Wannaweep, the camp Ron went to as a young boy, had a chimpanzee for a mascot. Ron was forced to bunk with said mascot, and this is where he developed the phobia.
* [[King Kong]] had his own cartoon series that was produced by [[Rankin
* ''[[My Gym
* ''[[Planet Sheen (Animation)|Planet Sheen]]'' has Nesmith, a [[Talking Animal|highly intelligent]] chimpanzee frequently dumbfounded by the title character's actions.
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]''' first nemesis is an evil monkey called Mojo Jojo.
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** "Pray. For. Mojo."
** "He's... Editor in CHIMP!"
** [[Rule
** Title on the multiplex cinema marquee: "Sing, Monkey, Sing."
** An in-universe example: Homer always finds monkeys (or actually, chimpanzees) hysterically funny whenever someone dress them in human clothes. Of course, we all know how easily amused he is.
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** Plus there was Phonics Monkey, who killed Kenny...
** And Dr. Mephesto's ([[Genetic Engineering Is the New Nuke|genetically engineered]]?) four- and five-assed monkeys.
* ''[[Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go]]!'', an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the [[Action Hero]] [[Five
* ''[[Tak and The Power of Juju]]'' had the chief of the tribe act like a monkey under a voodoo curse.
* Optimus Primal of ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]''. The whole Optimus-Gorilla vs. Megatron-Tyrannosaurus Rex thing was, of course, in reference to ''[[King Kong]]''.
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* ''[[Titan Maximum]]'' features Leon, the monkey janitor, as the pilot of the green fighter that makes up the giant mecha's left leg. Inverted in that Leon is usually shown reacting with a calm world-weariness to the antics of his human teammates.
* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown (Animation)|Xiaolin Showdown]]'' has the Monkey Staff, which turns humans into monkeys.
* ''[[Bucky O
* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' had the Baboon as a recurring character.
* A monkey participated in many of the Prometheus and Bob shorts on ''[[Ka Blam]]''.
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== Real Life ==
* Do a search by interest on any popular blog site for monkey and another word. Hit counts are highest for "mad monkey sex" or "mad monkey love" or "crazy monkey sex" or "crazy monkey love". What? This editor was bored that day.
** Some species of monkeys take promiscuity to a very high level. [[Brother
*** The "monkeys" most often mentioned in terms of sex studies are the Bonobo apes. They use sex as recreation and it is not limited to same-gender pairing. They've also exhibited rudimentary fetishes.
* Monkeys are being trained to [http://www.monkeyhelpers.org assist disabled people].
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