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You can smell it from a mile away.
A big, horrific pile of glop. Perhaps it's made of toxic sludge from a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]'s industrial plant, or perhaps it's merely a colossal pile of dung.
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* ''[[Godzilla vs. Hedorah|Godzilla vs. The Smog Monster]]'', villain Hedorah has to be the most famous example of this trope, and it shows why one must never let alien spores come into contact with industrial waste, lest it [[Metamorphosis Monster|mutate]] into a giant tadpole sludge demon that can drop lethal acid as it flies.
** Hedorah comes with a [[Meaningful Name]] with a dash of [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] as the name is derived from ''hedoro'' which is Japanese for "Sludge of Industrial Waste".
* ''The H-Man'' is an earlier iteration of this, but explicitly radioactive (hence the name). It was once a man, and now must eat other humans in order to retain its shape.
* ''[[Dogma]]'' had a demon, the Golgothum, constructed from crap - specifically, the crap of all the prisoners crucified at Golgotha ([[Jesus Christ|yes, including Him]]). He's defeated by deodorant (which "knocks out strong odors").
* Armageddon from ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]'' is a monster formed from a volcano, mostly because of the many inorganic trash contained inside and {{spoiler|activated when Rahu and Ketu's staff went inside of the volcano}}.
* ''MonSturd''. It's like ''[[Jack Frost (1997 film)|Jack Frost 1997]]'', except the [[Serial Killer]] was genetically fused with shit instead of snow.
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* ''[[Wild Arms 2]]'' had the boss "Drawdo," which resembled several dead fish melded together and attacked with every status effect in the game: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gapGzA_fjw
* ''[[Demons Crest]]'' on the SNES has the boss "Crawler," a huge mass of melted-looking flesh that takes on a semi-humanoid form after it swallows some bones. It can spawn zombie-like creatures from its body.
* The smoky Progg from ''[[Pikmin]]'' could count too as it is a horrifying crawling cloud of polllution which instantly kills any pikmin it touches. Not even unpicked ones are safe from its wrath.
* One of the bosses from ''[[
* ''[[Warcraft III]]'' has some sludge-type creeps.
* A recurring enemy in the [[Ratchet and Clank]] series is a kind of slime monster that walks in circles and says "Nein!". When hit, they split into two, half as small slime monsters (except for [[Goddamned Bats|the smallest sort]], which just disappears). The biggest ones will split five times, meaning that you have to kill 63 slimes in total.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
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* One episode of ''[[Goof Troop]]'' featured a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]] who had become a [[Muck Monster]] due to overexposure to all the pollution created by his factory. Goofy returns him back to normal with a jar full of fresh air.
* Hexxus, the Tim Curry-voiced pollution-demon [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Fern Gully]]''.
* On several occasions the [[Applied Phlebotinum|mutagen]] on ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' spawned these creatures; they actually had names like "mud monsters" and "Mutagen Man." Bascially, the theory that that this is what happens when the mutagen produces something that doesn't have the dignity of resembling a particular animal like a turtle. (And of course, the accidental workings of a mutatagen in [[Real Life]] are much more likely to produce a monstrosity like this than an anthropomorphic turtle....)
* In the ''[[Thundercats]]'' episode ''Mandora: The Evil Chaser'', one of Mandora's criminal prisoners is a Muck Monster known as The Living Ooze.
** Defeated with a powerful weapon of the ancients - {{spoiler|SOAP!}}
* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' animated series featured "The Filth," slimy sewer-dwelling creatures with, erm, tapered heads.
** And a variation with a snot-based clone of the Tick himself created by the being from the alternate dimension down the hall (34B, IIRC?). Not exactly a blob of muck, but it was made of snot/mucus and, while shaped like the tick, could squish itself into other shapes and use it's semi-gelatinous consistency to seep through cracks and around attacks and such.
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