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{{quote|"In the world of Monster Hunter, you are never alone."
|''Monster Hunter Freedom Unite'' [[Tagline]]}}
'''''Monster Hunter''''' is one part role playing game, one part action game, one part [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game|MMORPG]] and two parts adventure game, cooked by a pack of anthropomorphic cats and lifted from the flames the second it turns a delicious bronze hue, all to the sound of a surprisingly cheerful jingle. [[Signature Sound Effect|So tasty!]]▼
▲{{quote|"In the world of Monster Hunter, you are never alone."|''Monster Hunter Freedom Unite'' [[Tagline]]}}
▲''Monster Hunter'' is one part role playing game, one part action game, one part [[MMORPG]] and two parts adventure game, cooked by a pack of anthropomorphic cats and lifted from the flames the second it turns a delicious bronze hue, all to the sound of a surprisingly cheerful jingle. [[Signature Sound Effect|So tasty!]]
Developed and published by [[Capcom]], it wasn't so big a smashing success in the United States as it was in Japan. However, its portable sequels are among the most popular games available for the PSP, and subsequent sequels have been released on the Nintendo Wii, PSP, and [[Nintendo 3DS]] (an expanded port of the Wii game, and also a new game).
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* ''Monster Hunter G'': Playstation 2, Japan only - An [[Updated Rerelease]] of MH1 with some new monster variants.
* ''Monster Hunter Freedom'': Playstation Portable - A straight port of MHG.
* ''Monster Hunter 2 (dos)'': Playstation 2, Japan only - A sequel to MH1, with all new monsters and new subspecies of old ones.
* ''Monster Hunter Freedom 2'': Playstation Portable - A sequel to MHF1, separate from MH2. Uses the same monsters but has different quests and setting.
* ''Monster Hunter Frontier'': PC and Xbox 360,
* ''Monster Hunter Freedom Unite'': Playstation Portable - An [[Updated Rerelease]] of MHF2 with a few new monsters and subspecies. Has the most content monster-wise of any game in the series to date.
* ''Monster Hunter Tri'': Nintendo Wii - The third main game. Many new monsters, but only three old ones make reappearances.
* ''Monster Hunter Portable 3rd'': Playstation Portable - A sequel to MHF2. Has several new monsters and subspecies. Not a port of MH3, same deal as MHF2.
* ''Monster Hunter Tri
* ''Monster Hunter 4'': Nintendo 3DS - The fourth main game, which introduces many new monsters, and has a big focus on story regarding a virus spread by the [[Dark Is Evil|Gore Magala]], which can weaken Hunters and cause Monsters to go berserk.
* ''Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate'': Nintendo 3DS - A rereleased version of 4, now packing G-Rank missions (The hardest level) as well as an extended storyline that provides high rank village quests set in the second game's online town.
* ''Monster Hunter Generations'': Nintendo 3DS - A spinoff featuring a truly huge cast of monsters chosen from the series' history, as well as several new ones, the most prominent being the game's ''four'' flagship monsters Glavenus, Gammoth, Mizutsune, and Astalos: the Fated Four. There are also Hunter Arts, powerful super moves that spice up the player's moveset and can really bring punishment down on the monsters you hunt.
* ''Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate'': Nintendo 3DS/Nintendo Switch - Generations Ultimate, but bigger: like with 4U it adds G-Rank as well as High Rank village quests, and even more monsters than before.
* ''Monster Hunter World'': PS4/XBOX One/PC - The fifth main game, with a focus on open world exploration and boasting an even bigger focus on story than 4.
* ''Monster Hunter Rise'': Nintendo Switch - A spinoff that combines the Japanese aesthetics of ''Portable 3rd'' with World's gameplay, with a lot of focus being placed on vertical mobility thanks to the wirebug assistant that lets you run up walls and enhances your attacks.
Here is the [[Loads and Loads of Characters|list of]] [[Monster Hunter
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* [[An Interior Designer Is You]]: Monsters are used for equipment and decoration of the headquarters.
* [[Ancestral Weapon]]/[[Empathic Weapon]]/[[Evil Weapon]]: Weapons come with a description that can fit one of these. For example...
** [[Exactly What It Says
** Tenebra - "A dark blade that pulses with the lifeforce it saps from any who wield it..."
* [[And There Was Much Rejoicing]]: Naturally, defeating the flagship monster of the game results in this. Special mention, however, goes to ''Portable 3rd'', which features a festival for which Yukumo invites people from across the realm (explaining several [[
* [[An Axe to Grind]]: The new weapon class, Switch-Axe. Bonus points for being a [[Swiss Army Weapon]].
* [[And Your Reward Is Clothes]]: Played straight. You usually make either Armor ("Clothes") or Weapons with the materials of monsters.
** Averted in the sense that the "clothes" aren't actually useless, with many being awesome and completely practical. Since you are making the clothes out of monster parts, you can pick and choose what you make, so getting a full set is actually a lot easier than just getting [[Rainbow Pimp Gear|anything that looks good]].
* [[Antidote Effect]]: Who actually bothers with the Lightning Rod? Ditto the Tranq Shot...
** However, the usual target of this trope (Items that only heal a certain status ailment) are actually ''very'' useful in Monster Hunter, because the statuses are indeed quite debilitating
* [[A Taste of Power]]: The training missions and many of the downloadable quests give you pre-determined sets of equipment, some of which is far beyond what you're capable of making around the time you first unlock these missions.
** Ditto the arena battles in Tri.
* [[Attack Its Weak Point]]: For the higher rank monsters, this is pretty much the only way to inflict decent damage to them.
* [[Attack of the 50
** Taken to new heights in Monster Hunter Tri. While exploring the woods outside your town you may encounter super-sized versions of normal creatures with increased HP but much better drops. While not as big as some of the elder dragons they can still be quite massive, with the super-sized aptonoths appearing to be around 30 feet tall.
*** In the online event quest World Eater, you hunt a Deviljho so huge you [[Oh Crap|barely come up to its ankles]]. [[It Got Worse|It's attack power and range increase proportionally.]]
*** Coincidentally, Tri also inverts this trope in the form of the Phantom Uragaan, in which it's almost one-tenth of the the size of a normal Uragaan but retains all of its power (normal Uragaan are around
** Frontier manages to beat them all with Raviente. He's so big that up to 32 players can hunt him at once in 8 groups of 4 hunters each (it's a server-wide battle) AND he has an entire quest just to get carves off of him. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sDpGYrhqzc Just look here if you want to see for yourself].
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: Most of the Dual Blades that feature two elements. They look [[Crazy Awesome]], but in the 2nd Generation games, the combinations of elements are unwieldy, i.e. monster is weak against one but immune to the other. The notable exception is the [[Nintendo Hard|Fatalis]]/[[That One Boss|White Fatalis]] duals, which do kick ass.
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* [[Badass Normal]]: The Hunters in general, though one tends to wonder how "normal" they are.
* [[Bag of Holding]]: The storage boxes and the hunter's (unseen) item bag. Q: How does a hunter store dozens of claws carved from the [[Giant Enemy Crab]]? A: In a [[Bag of Holding]] of course!
* [[Beary Cute]]: Arzuros isn't exactly cute in a traditional sense, thanks to being a ferocious yellow-and-blue grizzly bear with red eyes. But Komitsu the Sweet-Tooth from ''[[Monster Hunter Rise]]'' thinks they're adorable, and tasks the player with taking a picture of a sleeping one as a sidequest.
* [[BFG]]: Well, big f*** ing ''bowgun'' at any rate. If it looks like a gun and it shoots like a gun...
** Don't forget the gunlance!
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** Even so, the Akantor Broadsword (Great Sword) is absolutely humongous even compared to other Great Swords.
*** And then there's also the [http://blog-imgs-26.fc2.com/m/h/f/mhfyukis/mhf_20090727_080158_650.jpg Huge Dragon Sword "Olympus"], which makes the ''Akantor Broardsword'' seem tiny.
* [[Big Badass Wolf]]: [https://web.archive.org/web/20131023015152/http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Jinouga Jinouga], the flagship monster of ''Portable 3rd'', combines lupine features and an ability to [[Shock and Awe|generate electricity from its body]].
* [[Bizarre Sexual Dimorphism]]: The Great Jaggi is an adult Jaggi, they mate with the female Jaggias, which look like mere toddlers when they stand next to a Great Jaggi.
** Same goes for the Ludroths. The Royal Ludroths are only males of the species, the regular Ludroths are mostly female, and they are easily less than 1/4 of a Royal Ludroth's size.
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** Normal Shot level one, for the Bowgun, and (At least up until Unite) the Autoreload skill actually makes it so you don't have to reload, either.
* [[Bragging Rights Reward]]: Seriously, if you can clear all the training missions with all the weapons, you probably don't need that Sword Saint Piercing. Ditto for the stuff that's unlocked once you clear G Rank in Unite. Also applies for getting a full set of White Fatalis armor.
** In ''Tri'', most HR51-armorsets count (Deviljho, Alatreon, High-Rank-Ceadeus and High-Rank-Jhen-Mohran). Getting these means you already killed everything you can kill. Multiple times.
* [[Breakable Weapons]]: Subverted, as they don't really break, but lose sharpness. Even the hammers.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: The aptonoths seem to be at the very bottom of the food chain. Wyverns, raptors, Hunters. Name a carnviorous species, chances are they've eaten an aptonoth at some point.
* [[Came Back Strong]]: With the Survivor skill found on equipment such as the [http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/HellHunter_Jacket HellHunter Jacket], your attacks get a stackable boost each time you faint.
* [[Captain Obvious]]: The Guild Sweetheart, or rather, her guidebook.
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* [[Cats Are Mean]]: Melynx, black Felynes who tend to snitch Hunters on sight, charging at and sometimes knocking them out. Can be irritating during those egg fetching quests.
** "Wild" Felynes can be just as bad. Though they have to be provoked first, at least Melynx don't go around tossing ''explosives''.
* [[Chainsaw Good]]: The Prototype Saw-slicer. ''[[Dual-Wielding|Dual-wielded]]'' chainsaws. There is also the Chain Blade, a ''BFS'' chainsaw.
** Which both do ''lightning damage''.
* [[Challenge Gamer]]: In games that allow modding, many players produce differently sized, stronger or more numerous versions of regular monsters. Many also stick to one 'trademark' weapon regardless of how suitable it is for a quest, refuse to use items and traps or solo online-only superbosses like the infamous Fatalis. There are players who do all of that and more.
* [[Character Level]]: Notably absent. Played straight in Unite with the Felyne Fighters as well as in Tri with Cha-Cha the {{spoiler|Shakalaka}}.
** Played straight however with the Hunter Rank system in the online modes of the console games. Completing quests awards Hunter Rank Points, which contribute to raising a player's Hunter Rank. In most cases, clearing out all the quests in one tier won't be enough to unlock the next set. You'll have to redo quests over and over until your HR is high enough. It doesn't really make a difference though, since you'll be farming the wyverns for their armor and weapons anyway.
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* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Your hunter, a normal-ish human, can fish out a 20-30 meter Plesioth.
* [[Character Select Forcing]]: Played straight-ish though averted. Any monster can be killed with any weapon once you understand the limitations and openings specific to each weapon. However, some weapons have a huge advantage over others against certain monsters. e.g Any close range weapon against a Plesioth is frustrating as hell since it has the hitbox from hell and it sometimes refuses to leave the water. A bowgun or bow prevents both of these.
* [[Charged Attack]]: Comes in ''eight'' different flavors (as of Monster Hunter Portable 3rd)!
** Collect Type: Long Swords, Switch Axes, Dual Swords
** Hold Type: Great Swords, Hammers, Bows, Gunlances
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* [[Cherry Tapping]]: Killing a monster by kicking it. For Plesioth (a giant amphibious fish-like "wyvern"), it is possible to kill it by ''fishing it out of the water''. In rare cases, the monster will die ''by accidentally getting hit by a [[Mook]]''.
** In ''Tri'', letting Cha-Cha get the kill can feel like this; though he ''can'' reach decent levels of power, he's still not nearly as strong as your hunter.
** Also Felyne Comrades in Unite.
* [[Colossus Climb]]: While fighting the Jhen Mohran, you have the option to jump on it's back so you could either blow it up, [[Attack Its Weak Point|attack its weak points]]...or [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|mine ore off of it]].
** A lot of enormous monsters have this, including Lao, Yamatsukami and Shen.
* [[Cool Shades]]: The Shadow Shades in Tri.
* [[Competitive Balance]]: Each of the weapons fits a role:
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* [[Continuing Is Painful]]: If you die in a mission, your money reward is cut by a third, which is painful if you already spent most of that money on ammunition and supplies. If you die three times, however, all items you used on the mission disappear, you lose a small amount of money, and you have to repeat the mission again. And the worst part? Most missions usually take around 20 minutes to complete.
** This sort of thing could be hard to keep track of. To put it simply, if you complete a quest or fail it by getting knocked out three times, you don't get back anything you used up, but you keep whatever items you found. If you abandon a quest, you get back whatever items you brought and used up, but anything you found is lost.
* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: Averted, in that if you go to a volcano, you'll take continuous damage unless you use a Cool Drink, or have the Heat Resistance skill.
** However, ''everything else'' can walk through lava completely unharmed, including giant rock wyverns, small raptors and cats.
* [[Conservation of Ninjutsu]]: The real difficulty in fights with multiple wyverns is keeping them apart and fighting them seperately. As the quest time and item limits do not change depending on quest type, each of them are notably less threatening and easier to kill in such a quest. This varies depending on wyvern type, however. Nobody wants to fight two Tigrex at the same time.
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** Also, when brought below a certain health threshold, they will try to escape by slowly limping away, practically making them sitting ducks.
** Also when the monsters are below a certain health threshold, they will always try to sleep whenever not engaged in battle. Did I mention that a sleeping monster takes three times the normal damage? Using bombs and the Great Sword, you've basically guaranteed a kill once they've entered this state.
* [[Crazy Prepared]]: Playing this game requires you to equip yourself accordingly to whatever you're going up against. In some cases you simply won't win or get what you want without the right tools. For the record, this means arming yourself with the proper weapon, an armor set that complements this weapon or is useful against the monster, and several items ranging from healing potions to Flash Bombs to traps. Hell, you even have to consider details like keeping your hunter well fed, his or her weapon sharp, look out for the climate of the area you're going to (going into the desert without something cool to drink is generally a bad idea) and even the weather (some tools do not work in rain or snow, others ONLY work there...)
* [[Death of a Thousand Cuts]]: What you have to do to take down most of the monsters.
** [[Marathon Boss]]: Some monsters can take up to 40 minutes to kill. This is mostly for stuff like Fatalis.
* [[Description Porn]]: They manage to do this with some weapons and armors, despite the small text character limit. Just check the descriptions for the various Rathalos sets, for instance.
* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: The highest-ranked Nargacuga greatsword is called the Darkness Darkblade.
* [[Depleted Phlebotinum Shells]]: All elemental weapons to an extent, but special mention goes to Dragon element weapons. It's never specified just what is it, but it sure kills elder dragons fast
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* [[Difficult but Awesome]]: Certain weapons against certain monsters. For example, once you learn the timing, a Great Sword will absolutely ''destroy'' a Tigrex with little effort.
* [[Difficulty Spike]]: The first happens once you start doing high-rank quests; it only takes a few mistakes to get clobbered, and some previously trivial monsters can knock you out with three hits, especially the ones that get new attacks. Once you're doing G-rank quests, all bets are off.
** The first big one is probably when the player fights a Yian Kut-ku for the first time. Before this, missions were simple slaying ''x'' [[Mook
* [[Disc One Nuke]]: Through smart trading with Veggie Elders, one can easily obtain rare materials or materials not normally accessible. Also, the optional Trenya's Boat allows one to get things such as Dragonwoods or Dragonmosses way before you're supposed to.
** In ''Freedom 2'', the Long Sword "Devil Slicer."
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* [[Elite Tweak]]: Mixing and matching armors and gems can result in some potent skill combinations. Add to this that there are several weapons available, each with different playing styles and there are plenty of skills for each weapon.
* [[Endless Game]]: There is no real "end" to the game other than maybe [[One Hundred Percent Completion]].
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything Is Better With Explosions]]: Bombs deal set damage, regardless of the monster's defense, particularly useful for those [[Made of Iron|made of granite]].
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Even Worse
** ...Although owners of the [[Shamu Fu|Sharq Attaq lance]] might beg to differ.
* [[Everything Is Worse With Bears]]: ''Portable 3rd'' introduces [https://web.archive.org/web/20111019061910/http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Aoashira Aoashira], the first bear-like monster throughout the series.
* [[Inverted Trope|You]] [[Everything Trying to Kill You|Trying To Kill]] [[Inverted Trope|Everything]]
** Played straight in that smaller monsters will attack you even if there is a larger, more threatening monster in the area. For example, Agnaktor will feed on Rhenoplos to regain stamina. Instead of fleeing the area or ganging up on the Agnaktor, they will keep attacking you with their charge attack.
* [[Exactly What It Says
** In fact, initially ''Monster Hunter'' was only a [[Working Title]], but the developers liked the simplicity so much they just kept it.
* [[Fartillery]]: Congas and the Congalala are able to release a cloud of noxious fumes from their behinds, and this is actually one of the most insidious attacks in the game, as when you are "soiled," you cannot eat or drink any healing items.
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** "Longswords suck, get a hammer, n00b!"
*** Ironically, players who use either of these two weapons are by far the most annoying due to friendly fire. Longswords have a really long attack range, Hammers will send anyone flying with even just a tap and are the bane of Great Sword users when they are trying to do a charge attack.
* [[Friendly Fireproof]]: Playing this game multiplayer would be ''much'' more difficult if this wasn't the case. When everyone's swinging weapons the sizes of small cars around one area, this is pretty much a necessity. Also demonstrated in the fact that bombs the size of ''people'' do little more than inconveniently send a player flying.
** Not totally fireproof. You take no damage from other players and you take very little damage from your cat comrade's bombs but they still stagger you and send you flying. Longswords and Hammers are especially notorious.
* [[Gang Up
** Only because, for some reason, you never die even when taking a full bite from a set of jaws that's larger than you're entire body. At worst, you just "faint" and once you've fainted, the monster leave you alone instead of finishing you off.
* [[Genki Girl]]: The Guild Sweetheart in Tri.
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* [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]]: Ceadeus in ''Tri''. A gigantic serpent-whale-dragon thing that {{spoiler|was the real cause behind the Moga earthquakes}} and isn't introduced or even confirmed to exist until the final tier of quests, unlike Lagiacrus.
** Though if it's any consolation, the village elder eventually tells you that he had a suspicion all along {{spoiler|that Ceadus was the cause, because he had faced it himself when he was younger}}.
** Quite a few monsters in the series have little or no background
* [[Guide Dang It]]: Want the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Last Gaelic Flame sword]] in ''Unite''? Well, I hope you have a ''Freedom 1'' save handy, otherwise you will never be able to get the greatsword needed to create it.
** Focusing on improving one weapon type at the expense of others can make material gathering a nightmare, as certain materials can only be gathered if a certain part of a monster is destroyed, and many of these parts can ''only'' be destroyed by a ''very'' specific weapon type. This leads to a game of trial and error as you try to figure out which weapon breaks which part of which monster.
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** Emphasis on ''Mostly''. Almost all monster hit boxes while underwater are ridiculous.
* [[Horse of a Different Color]]: ''Portable 3rd'' introduces the Gagua, Bird Wyverns that look like oversized ostriches which not only serve as prey for some of the larger monsters out there, but are also used by the people of Yukumo as livestock and beasts of burden.
* [[Hot
* [[Human Popsicle]]: Like the Mud listing above, Tri gives us the Barioth, which can encase you in Ice. Not a nice place to be when dealing with a [[Lightning Bruiser]] Saber-Toothed Dragon-Cat. Other games also give this abiltiy to one of the Dromes, an Elder Dragon, and an [[Underground Monkey|Tundra variant]] of the abovementioned Barroth.
* [[Hurricane of Puns]]: Almost all of the lines of dialogue in ''Tri'' are puns or other bad jokes. Moga Village is where the puns reach hurricane levels; between Cha-Cha, the Felynes, and the quest descriptions.
* [[Impossibly Cool Clothes]] Too many to list.
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** Also, the Scabbardfish Blade - a longsword that is, quite literally, a fish on a stick. It does additional Water damage.
** And of course, the Ruinous Mushroom, a greatsword that looks like someone cut down a rather thick tree with mushrooms on it and mounted a hilt on one end. How does this thing even ''do'' cutting damage?
** Also, the Nummingbird! It's a giant flower that has the hitting power of a hammer and can paralyze monsters to boot.
* [[Incredibly Lame Pun]]: One of the Moga villagers in Tri is an absolute master of these, and throws at least one in almost every single conversation with the player. She manages to make them even worse by [[Don't Explain the Joke|explaining them all.]]
* [[Instant Sedation]]: Tranquilizer Bombs, or Tranq Bombs. Damage a monster until it starts showing signs that it's almost dead (usually limping), catch it in a trap and chuck Tranq Bombs at it and you'll capture it by putting it to sleep. Bigger monsters will take more Tranq Bombs before they'll fall asleep, but you can also use Tranq Throwing Knives or make Tranq bullets for use with a bowgun.
* [[Instant Win Condition]]: In the
* [[Instrument of Murder]]: Hunting Horns are almost as effective as hammers at breaking body parts.
* [[Item Crafting]]: The only way to get weapons and armor.
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* [[Kaizo Trap]]: If weak enough, it is theoretically possible to die from a monster collapsing on top of you after you catch it.
** Made impossible in normal quests, since after the main quest conditions are fulfilled, the player is invulnerable to any monster attack. In quests with multiple monsters, or quests with monsters that appear but do not need killing, monsters like Congalala that have post-death attacks can potentially harm you.
** However, there are quests which don't end the instant you capture the monster, but a few seconds later. In these cases you can effectively die if the monster you just caught happens to fall on top of your hunter. Fortunately, this only applies to first-gen monsters (Rathalos, Diablos, etc.) in older games.
* [[Lantern Jaw of Justice]]: Uragaan, while not particularly just, has a very formidable chin. Ukanlos as well, with its mighty shovel jaw.
* [[Lethal Lava Land]]: The Volcano.
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* [[Non-Lethal KO]]: You can faint 2 times in a quest, but on the third time you will be taken out of the quest.
** Also, by trapping a monster and throwing tranq bombs at its head you can knock it out and capture it. Some quests require you to do this to win.
* [[Ominous Latin Chanting]] (During the battles against the three varieties of Fatalis, recurring [[Bonus Boss
** Also, the first part of the fight with the Lao-Shan Lung features some Latin.
** The Ceadeus's second battle theme includes a lot of tonal chanting, but it's Indonesian instead of Latin. Ominous Indonesian
* [[Overly-Long Fighting Animation]]: Rathalos has this annoying move where he pointlessly takes to the air, flies one or two rounds around the region, then attacks the Hunter with a dive.
* [[Overwhelming Obsession]]: While there are plenty of characters in the ''[[Monster Hunter]]'' series that love and appreciate the various monsters that populate the setting and want to learn more about them, the Guildmarm from the fourth game takes her obsession just a ''little'' too far. And by a ''little'', it's more like she's literally in love with them. The explosive slime-wielding, brawling wyvern Brachydios is the main target of her affections, and when the Hunter is assigned quests to fight one, she waxes lyrical about how dreamy and attractive she finds them, and at one point admits to being the sole member of a ''Monsterphile Club''. Needless to say, she ''[[Understatement|may]]'' have a few screws loose here and there... [[Ensemble Darkhorse|but that's exactly why the fans love her.]]
** Hinoa from ''[[Monster Hunter Rise]]'' really loves to eat bunny dango. She brings it up a lot in casual conversations, is often snacking on the job, and when you meet the dango maker Yomogi, she sounds as if she's in ''love'' with them before getting a hold of herself.
* [[Palette Swap]]: Used on some monsters in the PSP series (eg. Rathalos: red, blue, and silver), with each different colour variants having very few, if any, noticeable physical differences between them.
** Averted in Frontier, with some of the new monsters. People complained about [http://userdisk.webry.biglobe.ne.jp/013/072/89/N000/000/002/127242620031816424550.jpg Dyuragaua] being just a re-skinned Tigrex pre-release. Well, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffMuuORj1mo They were very wrong.]
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** Played Straight with the Chief's Son in Tri, who had to face a Great Jaggi to save a child.
* [[Poisoned Weapons]]: Status effects on some weapons.
* [[Potent Pheromones]]:
** The Seltas Queen from ''Monster Hunter 4'' onwards can cast pheromones that attract a male Seltas to assist her in battle. These pheromones can also give a Hunter the Soiled ailment, which prevents them from eating food or healing items out of disgust.
** The Insect Glaive weapon also introduced in ''4'' is essentially a spear that allows its wielder to control a special bug called a [[Mon|Kinsect]]. The Hunter can shoot out a pheromone bullet as a "lock-on" for it to attack a monster, and aiming it at specific monster body parts will enable the Kinsect to collect special essences that can boost Hunter's stats.
** Xeno'jiiva from ''[[Monster Hunter World]]'', is {{spoiler|an alien Elder Dragon that is responsible for the Elder Crossing, and lures dying Elder Dragons towards the New World with special pheromones so it can absorb their life essence once they pass.}}
** Stinkminks from ''[[Monster Hunter Rise]]'' are [[Assist Character|endemic life]] that can help you lure monsters to other parts of the map by spraying them with its pheromones. It's a good way to get an edge over your target, since luring a monster to fight another can heavily damage them through either Wyvern Riding or in some cases, a turf war.
* [[Power Equals Rarity]]: Played straight. Although in this case, the rarity-number-and-color-coding works more like a weapon ranking, stronger and better weapons generally have both a higher rarity AND need more difficult-to-attain crafting materials.
** Though since the crafting shops have their services open to anyone in the world, anyone who can A) attain the materials for the weapon and B) pay for the service, can have an [[Infinity-1 Sword]] / [[Infinity+1 Sword]]. Most likely observable in Monster Hunter Frontier (the MMO game in the series), where basically everyone over around HR200 is running around with Rare-12 weapons.
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* [[Randomly Drops]]: To be more specific, randomly carves from dead monster.
* [[Random Number God]]: Experienced hunters can tell you horror stories about their attempts to appease the RNG, which has been outfitted with a "desire sensor" that reduces the drop rate of any monster part you really ''really'' need to make your armor. The only way to increase the chances of getting something is to not want it. Mind, you have to ''actually'' not want it. The Desire Sensor is immune to reverse psychology. Petting the pig may help you, though. ''Maybe''.
* [[Raptor Attack]]: The first aggressive monsters the player always encounters are basically these. The first generation introduces the "Velociprey"
* [[Red Baron]]: Many powerful wyverns almost seem as if people are worshipping their awesomeness, as certain titles and motifs tend to appear over Quest Names, Monster Descriptions and Item Descriptions. For example, Khezu is the "Light in the Dark", Blagonga is "The White Darkness", Yian Garuga is The Lone Wolf, Rathalos is the "King of the Skies"...you'd think with all those wyverns they have by now, it'd get difficult to top the titles they already have.
* [[Regional Bonus]]: ''Tri's'' Western release drops the monthly fees for multiplayer and also allows for voice chat online.
* [[Repeatable Quest]]: Online play consists almost entirely of repeatable hunts, so the quests are naturally repeatable as well. However, the extended preparation required for each task keeps players involved.
* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter]] The fanbase has taken quite a liking to (miniature, or miniaturized) Yian Kut-Ku. Cutesy fanart of miniature kut-kus aren't hard to find on a certain imageboard on 4chan.
** The Felynes are 2-foot tall, anthropomorphic Siamese cats with the cutest meow ever, speak in [[Gratuitous English|gratuitous catspeak]] with words like 'purretty' and 'beclaws,' and do a little dance around you when you hold a torch up! Tri adds a Felyne chef who says things like "meown ami".
** Then there's the Hypnocatrice, which is basically a smaller, cuter version of the Kut-Ku with more birdlike traits and the threat level reduced by a truckload. In a world with many a deadly [[Breath Weapon]], its special attack is... putting its enemies to sleep. You probably are going to feel a bit guilty when whacking on this creature.
* [[RPG Elements]]
* [[Running Gag]]: In Tri, whenever the Guild Sweetheart tries to find helpful information about a new monster or area, she inevitably comes up with nothing, due to either lack of information or a painfully obvious description.
* [[Save Scumming]] Played straight because it's very helpful in manipulating the [[Random Number God|RNG]] into giving you that ''one'' last monster piece with a 2% drop/carve rate. Somewhat subverted in that you can't instant-save/load at any time, unlike with other games.
* [[Schizo
* [[Scratch Damage]]: Played straight on both the monsters and on the player: any weapon can do damage no matter how insignificant, and most monsters can inflict this upon players who get in the way when the monster is repositioning itself - no, not actively charging, as in, stepping sideways to rotate themselves. Becomes irritating in the latter case as it often leaves you vunerable from the resulting flinch animation.
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|Screw the rules, I have more money than the Guild]]: An NPC in Loc Lac city says this practically word-for-word.
* [[Serial Escalation]]: The weapon sizes by themselves could fit this trope, but weapon ''power'' is a whole different story.[http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/Ukanlos_Trampler The Ukanlos Trampler] has a raw damage rating of ''1820'', the highest of any weapon (at least in Freedom Unite), and that's before applying any attack bonuses. To put in perspective, the only [http://monsterhunter.wikia.com/wiki/MHF2_and_MHFU:_Hammer_and_Hunting_Horn_Tree hammer] to come close is the [[Lethal Joke Item|Enormous Ham G]] at 1612, but even then it's missing the Ice Element damage and the Defense bonus (though it does have a better affinity).
* [[Shamu Fu]]: In Tri, you can get the Sharq Attack lance. Basically? The lance is a [[Xtreme Kool Letterz|Sharq]]. An ''entire'' Sharq. [[Rule of Funny|And it comes with a "no swimming" sign to be used as a shield]].
* [[She Fu]]: In a very bizarre example, Rathian's special attack is a draconic air-backflip.
* [[Shoulders of Doom]]: The Diablos armor makes good use of the monster's horns. The Gunner version of this set is ''slightly'' more subdued.
* [[Short
** The "Wyvernfire" is also alot like a shotgun - get up close and unleash a massive burst of fire and gunpowder right into a monster's face!
* [[Shout
** Monster Hunter Tri brings you Godzilla shrunk down in the form of Deviljho. He has a destructive breath attack, will attack and kill other monsters, and this game did originally come from Japan, where Godzilla is revered.
*** Doesn't help that people are referring the new version of Deviljo (as seen in the trailer clip of Tri G) as Deviljo [[Street Fighter|of the Awakened Murderous Intent]].
** Also, the Master's Replica looks like a different sort of [[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time|Master Sword...]]
** The starting Great Sword in MHF2 is called the [[Final Fantasy VII|Buster Sword]].
** Some of the armor sets (ex. [[Digimon Adventure|Obituary]]) can be taken this way
** From Monster Hunter Tri:
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** During his first talk with you in the online mode, the Uppity Instructor says the following. Maybe a coincidence, but quite possibly a reference to ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!:
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*** {{spoiler|and after he is broke after clearing the 3rd urgent quest: "Screw the rules, What do I care? I'm flat broke!"}}
** Sadly in the Japanese version there was an event that allowed you to actually wield Tessaiga, the weapon used exclusively by the half demon Inuyasha.
** "[[Elite Beat Agents|Hunter is GO!]]"
** One of the dairy products available in the meal menu is "[[Pulp Fiction|Royale Cheese]]".
** "You will [[Conan the Barbarian|drive your prey before you and hear the lamentations of their mates.]]"
** In ''Unite'' there is a quest that takes place in the Volcano area where you have to kill a certain number of large monsters. The name of the quest? "Hotter than Hell itself." [[Ace Attorney|Coffee, anyone?]]
** In ''Portable 3rd'', [http://www.animenewsnetwork.
** A Shout Out in translation: The Male and Female Blademaster and Gunner sets for Jhen Mohran are all supposed to be named after Japanese Battleships or Aircraft Carriers. One doesn't have to wonder what the translator was thinking of when the Female Blademaster armor, supposed to be named after the Battleship ''[[
* [[Sinister Scythe]]: A few longswords are visibly scythes, but this is mostly aesthetic. [[Impossibly Cool Weapon|Some are capable of literally slicing small wyverns in half,]] something that most other weapons in the game cannot claim to do.
** The switch axe named "sinister saints" the axe part looks like death, and the blade of the weapon is death's scythe. making it one in name as well.
* [[Situational Sword]]: Though often just an easter egg/visual gimmick, it's played straight with a lot of Long Swords, Hammers, and Great Swords once their [[Charged Attack]] is used.
* [[Slice
* [[Smashing Survival]]: How to escape when a large monster has you pinned. Or you could just [[Toilet Humor|detonate a Dung Bomb in it's face]].
* [[Socketed Equipment]]: Weapons and Armor can have from zero to three "slots" in which to put gems. Said gems then count towards skill points needed to activate certain skills.
* [[Soft Water]]: Played very weirdly in ''Tri''. As always, your character can fall from any height onto anything without
* [[Sorting Algorithm of Weapon Effectiveness]]: Applied to all items in the games, not just weapons. When looking at any item, you see its Rarity, a number indicating how early or late in the game you're supposed to be able to get it. As of ''Unite'', the Rarity levels go up to 10 (and in Frontier, 12). Everything up to Rarity 5 is the items obtainable with materials from low-rank quests, Rarity 6-8 is items from high-rank quests, and Rarity 9-10 is items from G-rank quests.
** However, effectiveness is subverted occasionally with some weapons. For example, Siegmund in ''Freedom 2'' is widely considered to be among the best Great Swords despite being Rank 7.
* [[Spam Attack]]: The entire point to the [[Dual-Wielding|Dual Swords]] weapon class.
* [[Standard Status Effects]]: Poison, Paralysis, Sleep, and Frozen in later games. You can inflict and be inflicted with them.
* [[Sticks to
* [[Stripperiffic]]: Female armor sets have a 20-40% chance of being this, but there are also a lot of [[Battle Ballgown
* [[Super
** Technically, with the practice of Persistence Hunting, the Hunters themselves.
* [[Tactical Suicide Boss]]: The Agnaktor is covered in an armor of rapidly cooling lava. After enough time, it hardens enough that nothing short of explosions can harm him. However, when he burrows underground, or uses his heat beam, or wades into lava, it softens enough for him to be attacked again. He'd be close to invincible if he stuck to just his hip attacks and charges, rather than burrowing and using heat beams.
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* [[The Slow Walk]]: Done by some wyverns. Sometimes, they will just decide to screw using their breath attacks or charges and simply walk towards you slowly, then use a bite or hip check. It's actually not dangerous at all and a good chance to get in a few hits, but in a game where you're used to having an intervall between enemy attacks of maybe 2 seconds, such a long silence can be oddly terrifying as the monster approaches you, especially if it's a [[That One Boss|Green]] [[Fake Difficulty|Plesioth...]]
* [[The Medic]]: If you have the Wide Range skill or Lifepowders, you can heal your whole team if they are in the same area, that also includes status ailments; even Blights!
* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: In those missions where you're fighting a giant-class monster around the fortress, the BGM will switch from that monster's rather threatening battle theme to a more heroic one once it reaches the final area of the battlefield, since that's where the outcome of the battle is decided.
* [[Third
* [[This Is a Drill]] A couple of the lances in Unite
** Also the Dragonator at the Castle Schrade is a drill, a very large, spiky drill...
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** Also the Grief Lance/Fiendish Tower
** The Spiral Heat lance also starts spinning while charging.
* [[Throw a Barrel At It]]: The bombs in this game always come in barrels. Hence the names [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Tranquillizer Dart]]: Used frequently, with Tranq Bombs, Tranq S bowgun ammo, and even Tranq Throwing Knives, required for monster capture quests. It's not [[Instant Sedation]] though, the monster has to be near-dead for it to work.
* [[Turns Red]]: Nearly every monster gets angry when you damage it enough, and gains some combination of power, speed, and new moves while enraged. Usually they'll calm down after a while, but the less health a monster has, the less damage it takes to make them angry again. On the plus side, you can get a rough idea of how close a monster is to dying based on how quickly they get mad.
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* [[Useless Useful Spell]]: Averted. Most monsters can suffer from practically any status effect, and may be particularly vulnerable to one or two.
* [[Virtual Paper Doll]]: With the wide variety of armour you can make, you can mix sets together for skills and looks.
* [["Wake
** Yian Kut-ku was the wake-up call in earlier installments.
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: All of the series has characters eating MASSIVE chunks of dinosaur meat straight off the bone. They also eat it like they're starving to death or are dogs. Oh, and they rarely even fill you up, so you have to eat more than one.
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