Monsters vs. Aliens/Headscratchers

The fact that Susan is 49-and-a-half feet tall and lives in an extremely enclosed space with the other monsters opens up all sorts of uncomfortable possibilities. Does she ever roll over in her sleep and crush the Missing Link? (I assume both BOB and Dr. Cockroach are immune to extreme pressure). How is the government able to provide enough food for her? Going back to the "enclosed space" thing, how in the world are the other monsters able to put up with her farts? Really! How is her, ahem, "business" disposed of? Shall we move on to 49-and-a-half-foot periods, or shall we start overthinking about Insectosaurus?
- Rule #1 of giantess stories: those questions should never be asked, unless the author can use them for his story.
- The same way they solved those problems for Insectosaurus. And if you ask how they solved her problems, money and an insane ammount of high end engineering. Where did they get the money? They opened a highly lucrative fertilizer/methane combustion power plant business that funds a good chunk of their expenses. ("When it rains lemons, make lemonade" and all that.)
- Um. Each monster has its own living quarters. Susan has her own room, as big for her as a dorm room would be for you and I. Each of the other monsters has a proportionally sized room, and even the big room they have communally isn't "extremely enclosed", as it's, well, really big. Didn't you pay attention to her whole introduction to the facility?
- They at least lampshade Insectosaurus' waste when Susan upsets him. Link immediately tries to calm him down lest the inevitable flood occurs.

I can't possibly be the first person to notice that Insectosaurus looks more like a giant HAMSTER from the advertisements than an insect. What gives?
- Maybe if he looked too much like an insect, it'd be easy to figure out that he's Mothra?
- You're definitely not alone in thinking that, and this is from the person who added the Wing Pull entry. I figured suddenly growing wings to be just as unlikely for that very reason, having missed out on it being called Insectosaurus.
  - This troper assumed that the reason it looks like a hamster is because certain insects are covering with hairs thus the giant insect may look very furry.
  - It looks like a hamster because a 350 tall bug that looked like an actual insect would have been horrifying.
  - Why it does "normal" eyes, rather than insect eyes? And also, how did the army knew what it was before it was transformed?
  - Huge, wobbly mammal/reptile/amphibian eyes, buck teeth, a mammal- or (at most) reptile-like nose, a mandible that moves vertically to open? That's not just a red herring, it's a whole freaking herring hatchery that they pulled a Mothra-fish out of.
- He's a giant caterpillar. He looks so round partly because he's actually far more round than a real caterpillar. He's far more round maybe because he's overfed, maybe because he's a freakish, mutant, monster caterpillar. Who knows? And in addition to his girth, he also looks round because we only ever see him from one single perspective: the front, and usually below him. Anyone would look round under those conditions. If we had got more aerial shots of him it would have been apparent that he was a caterpillar, but we wouldn't have been able to make out anyone or anything else in those shots.

Why do they call this movie "Monsters vs. Aliens"? There's only one alien, and an army of his (incredibly stupid) clones. Everything else is either a robot or a supercomputer ripped-off from Dexter and Plankton. Obviously it should have been "Monsters vs. Alien".
- Rule # 2 of giantess stories: giantess stories have completely random titles.
- Because it sounds better this way.
  - Honestly YMMV I think that the cloned army is more than enough to justify the final "s" in aliens. If it makes you feel better, the robots are alien robots, from a alien ship.
- Because Monsters vs. Alien would have been confusing.

Anyone else realize that if Susan hadn't tried to run away from the meteor, she would've been perfectly okay?
- Rule #3 of giantess stories: all decisions/actions that lead to the woman growing MUST be made, no matter how ridiculous/nonsensical they may be.
- You try thinking rationally when a goddamned meteor is headed straight at you.
  - That's rather my point, actually. The meteor wasn't headed straight at her; it would have overshot her by a considerable distance if she hadn't moved. Point taken, though.
    - Indeed it would have. Of course, Susan's only thought would have been "giant flaming rock, run!"
      - Or "Oh, shi-", and her legs (well, lower consciousness, the bit that sets up the fight-or-flight response, you know what I mean) did the running.
- If she had stood still or run in the opposite direction, she still would have been the closest person to the meteor. We don't know how the phlebotinum works; maybe it would have made the closest person grow whether she's under it or 50 yards away. Either way, though, that bugs you?
- Have you realized that if she had done that we wouldn't have a movie? Also, who knows what the phlebotinum would have done if she had not been there to absorb it.

It kind of bugs me that Dr. Cockroach eats garbage like the other monsters. Even if he can eat trash, he was originally human; you'd think that old habits would have made him turn up his nose at piles full of garbage and ask for regular food so he'd never even have a chance to realize newspaper or whatever else is suddenly tasty to him. And I can't imagine that Monger would have denied him it, when he's a decent guy and knows that Dr. Cockroach was originally human (just like he gave Susan massive amounts of pasta instead of trying to make her chow down on banana peels and coffee grounds).
- That wasn't "massive amounts of pasta" that she was served in the beginning, it appeared to be just a big pile of sludge.
- In Kafka's Metamorphosis, after turning into a giant vermin, Gregor Samsa suddenly finds that he no longer likes his favorite human foods, and prefers old rotten stuff instead. Perhaps it's the same here.
- I don't remember whether it was stated in film or in the art book, but he turned himself into a cockroach because of their hardiness. So of course he would start eating trash, that's pretty much why he turned into one to begin with.

I'm sorry, but you can not get a Ph.D. in dance.
- Yes you can. NYU, Temple, and Ohio State have them, and that's just the places my cousin is applying to. I'm sure there's more.
  - (original poster) ... Holy ####, you CAN? Color me jealous!
- Maybe you can't. Dr. Cockroach is simply that awesome.

We have a 300-foot insect monster and a 300-foot alien robot. The laws of film state, nay, demand that when two such entities are within several miles of each other, they must roar and punch and slash and wrestle and generally cause chaos and madness. In the movie, Insectosaurus and the Probe just stare at each other with the Golden Gate Bridge between them, Insectosaurus sneezes into the Probe's eye, and then the Probe hypnotizes Insectosaurus. He. Did. NOTHING. To help in that fight. I know it was to let Susan accomplish something and feel better about herself and all, but she could have done that just as easily after the Probe defeated Insectosaurus in battle; heck, she'd feel even more empowered to have beaten something that beat their Big Guy. They could have at least locked limbs together and push-fought each other while Susan and the others did their thing.
- But Insectosaurus has the mind of a bug, and while he seems to be the Big Damn Hero at first, he is mesmerised by the lighting eye of the robot (that's how all of the other characters move him around too). As for the robot, he isn't interested in Insectosaurus at all, he's only programmed to get Ginormica/Susan because she absorbed the Quantonium.
- Not only that, but Insectosaurus came in from the worst possible angle. There was a bridge full of evacuating civilians between them, with Susan as an intermediary, and they are later joined by their fellow monsters. Apart from B.O.B., Insectosaurus was the only other monster who actually helped Susan in any way (by moving her away from the robot's jaws; B.O.B. helped by removing the dividers, allowing the evacuees to escape from the danger zone and get out of their way).

I doubt Susan's life as a giant will be as fulfilling as she expects it to be. Yes, you saved the world from an alien invasion, and while I'm sure that was a lot of fun, how often does that happen? Earthly monster attacks don't seem to be all that frequent either. So the vast majority of her time will be spent in the government facility, doing absolutely nothing, unable to interact without human society without destroying it. A "Five years later" epilogue would have made the ending pretty depressing.
- After Susan and the other monsters take down Gallaxhar, they are free from the confinement facility; they can do whatever they choose. In the Halloween special, they seem to share some sort of base and fight off crime whenever there's trouble.
- Alternatively, 1950's Hollywood Radiation from the nukes causes a massive outbreak of monsters (less sane than they) that they have to keep in check.
  - That too, I'd imagine they could easily make that Brick Joke into a retroactive Sequel Hook.

Why does the Phlebotinum, stated to be the most powerful substance in the universe, not make Susan nearly as large as tiny creatures mutated by regular old earth radiation?
- You'll note that Susan is as strong as a robot that is as big as said tiny creature turned huge. Though the Phlebotinium doesn't make her as big as those creatures, it does make her stronger.

Okay, so besides a bunch of misunderstandings why are the monsters locked up? Could go for a Humans Are the Real Monsters aim but General Monger's a great guy! Besides Derek, Susan's family was just happy to get her back, though they were freaked out by the other monsters. Still...
- To be fair, apparently most of the monsters have, upon their initial emergence, gone on a rampage. Insectosaurus ate part of Tokyo, B.O.B. ate a bunch of stuff, the Missing Link started kidnapping hot babes on his favourite beach (and fought off a few branches of the military) and Susan (accidentally) nearly crushed her fiance and a number of others to death. Dr. Cockroach is perhaps exempt, but then again, he is a self-described mad scientist, and is shown at one point attempting to construct a nuclear missile out of building blocks. They're probably too dangerous to let out without training or heavy supervision, except in situations where they are supposed to break things.
- And the Missing Link is emphatically unrepentant about what he did; he's not only proud but he can't wait to do it again.
- Part of it is the monster's utter dependence on one another not to cause rampant chaos. Insectosaurus is essentially a massive puppy with about the same impulse control, BOB literally lacks a brain, and nearly kills a few people on several different occasions due to it. And Dr. Cockroach...well, he was insane before, and he can only be more insane now.
- Monger's explanation was pretty much the reason Agent K gives as to why the presence of aliens is covered up in his movie - the public just doesn't want to know and aren't ready to. Also, while Monger was shown to be pretty cool towards the monsters, there's the good chance that it wasn't his decision to keep them locked up.
For those who saw the short "Night of the Living Carrots", a direct sequel to the mutant pumpkin special (and only available currently on the 3DS video service)...where the hell was Susan during the zombie-carrot invasion?
One thing that's bugged me is how people keep insisting that Insectosaurus is female just because of how he looks (IE: big eyelashes, lips, busty body when he's a butterfly). Insects in general don't follow the conventional means of male/female differences the way humans do. Likewise, it's possible for someone/something to look female but still be male (Which is why the term Dude Looks Like a Lady exists) since gender and sex are not the same thing (Hence why some people view themselves as of the female/male gender, but are of the male/female biological sex). Not to mention that gender/sex means nothing to insects since many species are able to change their sex when necessary.
- Insectosaurus is a cartoony insect rather than a realistic one. And in cartoon animals, Tertiary Sexual Characteristics normally indicate their sex.

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