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[[File:Waxmane Baku 1198.png|link=Magic: The Gathering|frame|I know we like our tropes to have [[Wick]]s, but ''[[Visual Pun|this]]'' is ''ridiculous''.]]
{{quote|''The rabbit is not just sitting there. The rabbit is part of the monster. So you're looking at an evil tree stump that has a cute bunny on the end of its tentacles so that it can lure people or other animals near it. While I understand the parallel to animals in the real world, I'm still stuck here looking at a googly-eyed tree stump with a rabbit glued to its head. Wow.''
|'''[http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article73.htm Head Injury Theater]'''}}
These are the most unusual, insane and bizarre monsters around—but not because they're [[Eldritch Abomination]]s. No, they're just "What the heck is that?" weird.
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** The ogres probably qualify as well: Bulbous torsos, spindly limbs, and a head that looks like a cross between a sperm whale and a vampire bat with creepily human eyes and a mouth that opens to the collarbones...
*** Add the fact that they procreate with human women....
** None of them can hold a candle to [https://web.archive.org/web/20140405143153/http://view.thespectrum.net/series/berserk-volume-01.html?ch=Volume+34&page=167 some of the stuff] created/revealed when {{spoiler|the worlds start to merge with one-another.}}
*** This was based on the works of Hieronymus Bosch (see below under Mythology and Religion).
* ''[[Aratama Tribe]]:'' Most of the Oni (former human spirits who mutated into demons that eat negative emotions and produce even more malice) look like their mythological Japanese counterpart: horned heads, sharp teeth, muscled bodies, the usual. The Oni Otoshi, unlike the typical Oni, looks more human and is a pure blood oni that turns living humans into other Oni. One of those humans happened to be a pair of bullied high school students who, under the power of the Oni Otoshi, fused back to back into a bizarre two headed creature with two pairs of hands and legs: http://www.mangafox.com/manga/aratama_tribe/v01/c002/15.html.
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== Fan
* In ''[[With Strings Attached]]'', Brox develops a spell that turns random bits of inorganic trash into living creatures (which the four dub Nasty Bits). They encounter such delights as a boulder with tentacles, a spidery glass-thing, an animated statue of a god with [[Gag Penis|a penis as long as its leg]] (and using it like a sword), and feet (broken off statues) that hop around, prompting George to mutter “ [[Monty Python]], [[Monty Python]].” Also, Ringo's pair of black opaque glasses comes alive and scuttles out of his beltpouch.
** Paul later learns how to actually make these things himself. He loathes the spell, but it comes in handy once.
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* [[Our Angels Are Different|Angels]]. When they did not appear as ordinary humans they had 4 wings and the faces of a man, a lion, an ox and an eagle (Cherubim); 6 wings and are covered in fire (Seraphim) or are giant glowing wheels covered in eyes (Thrones). Even when human in appearance the first thing someone did upon discovering they were with an angel was to freak out. When they showed up in one of the aforementioned appearances the greeting was usually "fear not".
** Of course, demons could also get pretty weird too. Try looking up Bael, Asmodeus (Not the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons|D&D]]'' version) and Decarabia, who appears as just a floating pentagram.
** Or look at any of [[Hieronymus Bosch]]'s work dealing with demons, such as [https://web.archive.org/web/20130330145025/http://www.leninimports.com/hieronymus_jerome_bosch_sculpture_picture_5.jpg ''The Temptation of St.Anthony''] or the [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6d/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights_by_Bosch_High_Resolution.jpg ''The Garden of Earthly Delights'']. Little red chappies with pitchforks they ain't.
*** Keep in mind that these creatures have no corporeal/earthly forms - what with being beyond the physical world and all - though angels did have the ability to appear in human form in the Bible, and demons had [[Demonic Possession|methods as well]].
* For many westerners, the [[Kappa]] (imp with a hollow space filled with water in its head) fits into this category, if just for the really dumb weakness (if the water falls out, it loses its powers; it bows if you do). Also, Kasa Obake, the one-eyed, long-tongued umbrella spirits.
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* ''[[The Guardian Legend]]'' for NES has some pretty strange enemies, especially for a sci-fi shooter-hybrid. Giant lobsters, eyeballs that shoot sea-weed walls, color changing spiders that multiply exponentially if you don't kill them quick enough, and don't forget the three-eyed final boss!
** Or the [[Extra Eyes|multi-eyed]] [[That One Boss|boss]] who shoots his eyes out at you.
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** Molgera, a giant [[Sand Worm]] with a head that looks like a manta ray, but with a mouth that opens down the middle, that can fly and also brays like a donkey when damaged.
* The [[Legendof Zelda CDI Games]] have Harlequin, an anthromorphic pig gambler; Omfak,a... demon? that shapeshifts heads between a wolf, a fire breathing lion, and a shoop da woop wannabe; Glutko, an obese gluttonous cyclops; Hectad, a blue wizard guy who melts upon death. Oh and don't get me started on their portryal of Ganon' a ghost-demon-ogre-pig-bulldog-wizard thing.
* ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario Bros.]]'' has a few. Okay, [[Depth Deception|the sun's trying to kill you]], but some pretty weird other examples exist in the [[RPG]]s. [[Super Mario RPG|Giant wedding cake of doom?]] [[Paper Mario (franchise)|Giant cloud thing of doom?]] [[Mario & Luigi|Monster made of SODA?]] A few other possible examples:
** Count Down, the killer robot clock.
** Junker, which is a robot made from rubbish bins.
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* The Classic ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'' series certainly seems to have their share of these, even though they are robots (the Mets, for example, are essentially living hard hats). The [[Monster of the Week|Robot Masters]], in particular, tend to be notable in that respect (a robot made out of wood, a robotic centaur, a military camo robot with two heads, a baseball robot (as in, ''shaped like one''), etc). Given that some are made by sane and respected genius inventors, it makes you wonder.
* Numerous, numerous enemies in the ''[[Parasite Eve]]'' series are weird even by JRPG standards. Mostly, in the first game they largely consisted of at least semi-recognizable mutated versions of animals (with exceptions, such as the composite body-part centaur-like creatures in the Hospital) but the sequel took this to new lengths with the ANMC's. Most of those are very animal-like, but with human-like faces and features and studded with visible cybernetic implants. Others, such as Stalkers and Scavengers, one can only guess at the origins. {{spoiler|It turns out they were all once human. Including the Stalkers and Scavengers}}. ''3rd Birthday'' took that step across the line right into [[Eldritch Abomination]] territory with enemies which can only be described as ''impossible''.
* While most of the shades of [[
* ''[[Kid Icarus]]'' is full of these. Flying eyeballs? Check. Flying noses? Check. One-eyed toad things? Check. Eggplant Wizard? Double check.
* ''[[Cry of Fear]]'' has weird monsters. In fact, they just get weirder as you go along. Chicken-things who's heads explode to stab you with knives, scissor-throwing enemies tied to beds that are floating upside down and female ghosts who's bellies explode, so the fetus can take a stab at you. Literally.
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