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'''Monster''' Dionysus' life sucks. He's got a dead-end job which he absolutely hates, a nagging [[Tsundere]] girlfriend from hell, can barely afford the roof over his head, and worse yet he has to face the inevitable prospect that one day he'll be completely out of a job.
Wait, did we mention that his job was capturing and retrieving [[Our Monsters Are Different|cryptozoological creatures]]? Because if not, its really important that we do...
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Oh, and his girlfriend from hell? Yeah, [[Legions of Hell|she really is from hell]].
This covers the book written by A. Lee Martinez. Not to be confused with [[Monster (
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* [[Affably Evil]]: Lotus.
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* [[Glamour Failure]]: The cats around Lotus' house are actually transfigured humans and animals, and they can be recognised as such by their shadows.
* [[Horny Devils]]: Monster's girlfriend is a succubus, requires regular sex to keep her happy, and can give a man an erection by just waving a hand. It hasn't stopped their relationship from going sour, though.
* [[Humans Are
* [[Humans Are Idiots]]: Chester's view of the human race; appart from the nicknames of "monkeys" and "protoplasm," he frequently doubts that human beings can even be classified as sentient.
* [[Humans Are Special]]: Lotus' view of the human race; according to her, human beings are the only race in the cosmos that voluntarily make themselves miserable.
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* [[The Magic Goes Away]]: Magic and the rest of the supernatural are in serious decline as humans lose their ability to comprehend it {{spoiler|and Lotus continues draining energy from the universe}}.
** [[The Magic Comes Back]]: In full swing at the end of the story.
* [[Muggles]]: At the beginning of the book, the human race can be classified as either Incogs, Light Cogs, or Cogs: Incogs are classic [[Muggles]] who can't interact with or even notice magic no matter how hard they try. Light Cogs can observe magic without the [[Weirdness Censor]] and even learn to cast the odd spell from time to time, but forget what they saw very quickly; [[Blessed
* [[Never Mess
* [[Only Known
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: Not mentioned much in the story, but there is apparently a difference between a drake and a dragon.
* [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder]]: Chester is a being from a higher plane of existence, who folds himself into a creature that looks rather like a very short, skinny human being ''but made out of paper''. In addition, this condition is about as close as he ever gets to dreaming. And they call him a ''gnome''.
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* [[Our Monsters Are Different]]: No, not the character. But there are enough monsters in the story to shake a hat at, including some that are so old and weird that humanity has forgotten about them (well, more than they already have).
* [[Phlebotinum Killed the Dinosaurs]]
* [[Stock Super Powers]]: Monster has a number of them which reset every time he wakes up from sleep or unconsciousness. And they're [[Color Coded for Your Convenience]]
** [[Wreathed in Flames|Fireproof]]: Red
** [[Flight]]: Goldenrod
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[[Category:Fantasy Literature]]
[[Category:Monster (novel)]]
[[Category:Literature]]
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