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{{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
They don't have to be [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|lame]] or have a [[Weaksauce Weakness]]. They just have to be too strange to fit in any of the other categories. In fact, [[Freaky Is Cool|these can be some of the most popular monsters]]. Can be a result of the work in question going for [[Attack of the Killer Whatever]]. Very often a subtrope of [[Surreal Horror]]... or at times, [[Surreal Humor]].
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** Nu is a giant rock covered with eyes.
** The King of Death is a spherical [[Eldritch Abomination]] chained to various surfaces and covered in tree roots made of bone that lead to a skull-shaped structure whose "mouth" contains his actual head... also a skull, but with [[Extra Eyes|three eyes]].
* A lot of the Apostles' true forms in [[Berserk]], especially [https://web.archive.org/web/20111222023607/http://manga.animea.net/berserk-chapter-300-page-7.html Irvine's true form]. Seriously, what apostle has their torso on their monster's half's butt?
** [[wikipedia:Archduke Gorgon|Archduke Gorgon]] of [[Mazinger Z]] was built along the same lines.
** 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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* The hat of ''[[Ushio and Tora]]''.
* Many of the creatures and plants in [[Toriko]]. Especially the ones based on normal foods.
* Pick any [[Monster of the Week|yokai of the week]] in ''[[Inuyasha]]''
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* [[Grant Morrison]]'s tenure for ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' thoroughly exemplifies this trope. For evidence, just take a quick gander at [[Body Horror|John]] [[Implacable Man|Dandy]], [[Complete Monster|The]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|Candlemaker]], or ''any'' member of [[Religion of Evil|The Cult Of The]] [[Cloudcuckoolander|Unwritten Book]]
** Come to think about it, [[Grant Morrison]] is in love with this trope...
== 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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== Films -- Live-Action ==
* ''[[Ghostbusters]]'', in all media. Alhough the trope doesn't really kick in until ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]],'' signs of this still creep through in the original
* The popular consciousness' conception of [[Godzilla|Mothra]] fits. As [[Big Creepy-Crawlies]] go, Butterflies are pretty tame. Then you find out that she's a god or other supernatural being related to protective goodness, things make a whole lot more
** Gabara, however, certainly falls under this. He's an oni-like ([[Youkai|Oni are essentially a Japanese equivalent to ogres]]) monster who basically exists to bully Minya, and it's implied that he's nothing more than the result of some kid's overactive imagination. Also... he looks like a cross between a cat and a toad.
** To an American, King Caesar makes no sense whatsoever. The trick: it's actually "King Shisa", a Shisa; an Okinawan variant of the temple-guarding Chinese Fu-dog. Why it has scales is anyone's guess, though other parts such as the crystal, energy-beam-reflecting eyes hint at its golem-like nature.
** Baragon, who is some sort of ancient reptile...thing with big floppy ears. [[Ugly Cute|Awww.]] Oh, and he's also the smallest monster in the Toho Universe. ''AND'' he's possibly the inspiration for the [[Pokémon|Nidoran line]]! Made even stranger in ''Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All Out Attack'' where he's a freakin' ''god''.
** The Dorats. Cute foot-tall lizard-bat-cat things that are basically genetically engineered...things...created to be the "perfect pet". That is, {{spoiler|Until they are exposed to radiation from the SAME atomic bomb that creates Godzilla}} and become {{spoiler|King Ghidorah}}. It's a case of ''three'' weird-looking small monsters {{spoiler|merging into one HUGE weird monster}}.
** Gigan AKA The [[Cyborg]] [[Fan Nickname|"Space Chicken"]]. With hooks for hands (chainsaws in one film) and a buzzsaw ''on his stomach.''
** Megalon certainly counts. He's a giant bipedal beetle god-monster with <s>[[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Chrysler buildings for arms!]]</s> drills for hands! Not to mention that he spits napalm and shoots beams from his antennae.
** There's [[Godzilla vs. Destoroyah|Destoroyah]] who happens to be a giant demonic-looking creature who's also billions of tiny crab-like monsters merged into one [[Complete Monster|entity of pure evil]]. Its like [[Muck Monster|Hedorah]], but made of little crabs instead of sludge.
** Spacegodzilla, a giant alien clone of Godzilla with huge crystals growing out of his shoulders.
* Troma Films is the filmic king of this trope, with the Killer Condom, Zombie Chickens (of ''Poultrygeist'') and Harry Balls the Penis Monster (of ''Tromeo and Juliet'') just three examples of their madness.
* The Freudian Mom Monster at the end of Peter Jackson's ''[[Dead Alive]]'' definitely.
* If you can believe it, there is such thing as a killer piñata movie, called ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20130910224014/http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article89.htm Pinata Survival Island]''. Unfortunately, it does not contain candy, only ''murder.''
* ''[[The Gingerdead Man]]'', who gives a new meaning to [[Just Eat Him]].
* Then there is Tabonga, the s-l-o-w-l-y walking killer tree-stump of ''From Hell It Came''.
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*** Growing out his head? Hell, he's got a huge freakin' knife ''for'' a head!
** Zigra is a giant goblin-shark monster from another planet. Oh, and he's one of the few monsters in the Gamera films that can ''talk''.
* The Silicates from ''[[Island of Terror]]'' are some of the most bizarre monsters of all. Small, starfish-like creatures with mouth on the end of along tube. They are covered in a thick calcium based shell which makes them well armored. They feed on calcium by injecting a dissolving fluid into a victim and sucking up the liquid goo. [[Nightmare Fuel|Leaving behind the flesh and organs untouched]]. Even better? They divide every 6 hours.
* The [[Masters of Horror]] episode "Deer Woman", about a vengeful Native American spirit who seduces men in the guise of a beautiful woman, then tramples them to death with her powerful deer legs.
* ''[[Attack of the Killer Tomatoes]]''.
* The Golgothan from ''[[Dogma]]'', a for real shit elemental. But what's truly weird is that ''they came up with a theologically sound reason for it!''
* ''[[Death Bed: The Bed That Eats]].''
* ''The Green Slime'': Alien monsters with rounded heads, no shoulders. Cyclopean, they have tentacle arms that end in pinchers and 2 feet ending in tridactyle claws. They are [[Psycho Electro]] and eat energy. If cut, their [[Asteroids Monster|blood can grow into new ones]]. Their touch is lethally electric and they can use that energy in their claws to seal any wounds. Strangly, regular fire kills them fine.
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* In Chris Evans ''The Iron Elves'' trilogy among the [[Big Bad]]'s minions are black, blood-sucking trees. In the third book a few of them feed from buried dragon eggs. Some of them learn to walk, grow arms and become explosive when shot. They also can throw fireballs. A pair grow wooden wiings and claws and essentially become tree-dragons. that's right folks, flying trees.
* [[Discworld]] has the occasional one-off joke about some of the weird monsters that have evolved on the Disc, like the shadowing lemma, a two-dimensional creature that eats mathematicians, and the .303 bookworm, which is designed to burrow ''very quickly'' through magical tomes.
* [[Deltora Quest]]. Dear GOD, Deltora Quest. Where to begin? Lilies that eat your flesh, game-playing finger-biting mini-Yetis, [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|giant snakes]], [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|the Kobb]], a giant slug-thing, and worse... [[Eldritch Abomination|far, far]] worse.
== Live-Action TV ==
* A good deal of Tokusatsu monsters fall into this category. Many fit standard tropes, but every now and them something really WEIRD shows up.
** [[Ultraman]] and many other entrants in the [[Ultra Series]] have a good deal of weird ones. The ones that stand out include: Prisma (a giant crystal monster); Buluton/bulton---extra dimensional coral head which warps reality around it with TV antennae and egg-beaters that sprout from its polyps; the parakeet-headed Gutz; Lunatyx the rabbit-headed lizard with a fluffy tail and explosive eyeball launchers; The backwards upright fish alien Metron; and
** I forget which series it was, but one specialized in turning objects into
* A lot of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' monsters probably qualify, but the Kandyman deserves special
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' and ''[[Angel]]'' use this trope more an more as time goes on. It gets to the point where you have demons that make you just want to yell "Why can they do that!?" or "Why do they look like that!?". Clem is a perfect example. Why does he have dog ears? Why the weird skin? What is his true form that we never really see? Does it have any real uses at all? Is there a point to his continued existence? Or, to sum it up, "Why?"
* Some creatures appearing on ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' qualify, like [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r395r7V7hjo&feature=related these dancing U-shaped thingies].
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** Incidentally, the massive scrotums are an exaggeration of a property of actual tanuki.
* [[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
** 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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** Al-mir'aj, a harmless-looking gold bunny with a unicorn horn... that [[Killer Rabbit|kills and eats cattle.]] [[I Am a Humanitarian|And cowherds.]]
*** And suddenly [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Anya's]] fear of bunnies makes perfect sense.
* In the [[Hindu Mythology|Hindu epic]] ''[[Ramayana]]'', one of the level
* The Jersey Devil. It's a type of kangaroo... bat... horse... cow... human... demon... thing... it's kind of hard to describe, as you can see.
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== New Media ==
* [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen] takes this trope and it runs with it for pretty much every monster in there.
* The quasi-[[Eldritch Abomination]] and meme [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/zalgo Zalgo].
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dungeons
** The flumph is infamous in ''Dungeons & Dragons'' circles.
** The 1988 module ''Castle Greyhawk'' had the Plane of Silly and Unused Monsters, a dimension filled with all of the bizarre and stupid monsters that TSR had created up to that point. It included the flumphs and modrons already mentioned, and many more.
** The duckbunny. Its original Monster Manual explains that ''if'' you are going to be an evil wizard that makes bizarre hybrid monsters, you had best start out with something that is utterly harmless, lest it turn on you.
** Speaking of ''[[Dungeons
** And don't forget about the Acosmoid, a gigantic fungal ball covered in holes that attacks by ramming you.
** ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' has its share of weirdoes, and not just dwarven druids with dyslexia and [[Drizzt Syndrome|randomly nice drow]]: how you'd like ''lichling'' ([[Immune to Bullets]] undead ''skull-headed cockroach'')?
** Also, we hit 4e and standard monsters are suddenly breaking their own rules, like Dryads not having that tree dependency thing any more. Also, redesign [[media:
** Then, there are Lava Children from 1E who were "immune" to metal (it just went right through them), sported chimpanzee-length arms with scything claws, and sported a [[Slasher Smile|permanent cheerful grin]].
** Nearly the entire monstrous cast of the classic "Expedition to the Barrier Peaks" adventure was Gygax deliberately messing around with this trope. For an example, see the quote at the top of this page.
** [http://www.wizards.com/dnd/images/ToMagic_Gallery/96075.jpg "Well, we've got five lion legs and two lion heads left... how about we make them into a wheel with a head on either side?"]
* Then there's ''[[
** Even their version of the [[Five Races]] is weird: elves are a type of plant, dwarves are machine-like, trolls are an ancient and dying culture, and some humans are non-sapient and hunted for food by the tapir-like Morokanth.
* The "monster the DM made up himself" from ''[[Munchkin (game)|Munchkin]]''. It gets + 2 on a Saturday, among others.
* In ''[[Low Life]]'', most of the monsters fit into this category, but a special note goes to the Cremefillians who are basically ''freaking Twinkie-men'' brought to life by the pollution from the Apocalypse and bitter towards the long-dead hyoomanrace for eating them back when they were non-sentient. And the best part? ''They're a PC race!''
* ''[[Mage: The Awakening]]'' applies this tendency to [[Eldritch Abomination|creatures of the Abyss]], on the general principle that if you think "monsters from outside reality" are just "squamous things with too many tentacles," you're not thinking big enough. A formula that represents the physical laws of hell and rewrites reality around it! A contagious form of aphasia that takes the hallucinatory form of an angel! An alternate history aborted by reality itself that has twisted inward and turned cannibalistic!
** In fact, when the [[New World of Darkness]] wants to do wandering monsters, it does this a fair amount of the time. Some good examples include [[Changeling: The Lost|the things lurking in the Hedge]] (one piece of fiction has a changeling pursued by a ventriloquist's dummy with a few human parts, armed with a camping hatchet) and [[Geist: The Sin Eaters|the entities of the Underworld]] (it says a lot that the Geist core book makes mention of one of the ''few'' Kerberoi that have anything approaching a humanoid shape, and even ''then'' it looks like something out of ''[[Hellraiser]]'').
* ''[[Gamma World]]'' has this trope nailed for most of its monsters, like the winged mandibled lion who has laser eyes and eats fabric, or the bunny-men who turn stuff to rubber. And let's not forget about the Pineto, AKA ''the cactus horse!''
* [[Magic: The Gathering]] has ''many'' strange creatures, but [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=145800 the] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=152716 elementals] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=152887 of Lorwyn] [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=146173 are probably the most bizarre.]
* ''Reign'' has giant fleas made of earthen materials with hot mud for blood, that can destroy entire cities by landing on them, suck minerals out of the ground, and are full of precious metals, gems, and
* ''[[Genius: The Transgression]]'': leaving aside the ones you can grow in vats, the things a moderately inquisitive Genius can find include stuff like culturally Hispanic goblins made out of paper, and pixies spawned from failed equations. Then things get weirder
* ''[[The Splinter]]'': Monster in The Splinter are one part traditional fantasy creatures put through a weirdness filter (Living Avalanches instead of Earth Elementals), one part creatures that would make sense in other genres but are shockingly strange in a fantasy dungeon crawl ([[H.P. Lovecraft|Cats of Ulthar]], Robotic [[Attack Drones]]), and one part truly bizarre (humanoid, chitin-covered bio-weapons that can integrate found technology directly with their bodies; clockwork, parasitic hummingbirds.)
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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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** What is Sableye supposed to be anyway? A ghost that lives underground and... eats rocks. Because its eyes are made of diamonds and it wishes them to remain so. Also, it has no weaknesses.
** Also, Deoxys. It has tentacles and it shapeshifts. And is a space virus mutated by cosmic rays. And its three original formes (Defense, Normal, Attack) anagram to DNA.
** ''Pokémon'' includes a walking tree with multiple psychic heads
** And with the new Generation V Pokémon, it just gets even weirder. Like the ice cream cone Pokémon,<ref>Vanillite, Vanillish, and Vanilluxe</ref>
*** And that's not even getting into the countless Fakemon thought up by fans essentially on a daily basis.
* ''[[Wario Land]]'' has a few of these, although the King Bubble thing from ''[[Wario Land]] 2'' (which is a giant, evil water bubble) and Cuckoo Condor somewhat come to mind here.
** And ''[[Wario World]]'' has some really, ''really'' weird bosses. How about a clown that tosses his detachable heads at you, and whose real face is on his stomach? Or what about a giant-headed ice spirit-child thing that breathes ice? Or a giant chess piece? Or the giant green dinosaur that wears a bikini, lipstick and jewelry, as well as having long, blond, wavy hair?
** Well really, most of the Mario series is pretty bizarre. Goombas are evil mushrooms; there are turtle-goblin ninjas that throw hammers, and at one point a giant toad that burps bubbles, defeated by force-feeding him vegetables.
* ''[[
** Then there's Giygas, a red, swirly, skull-fetus... [[Buffy-Speak|thingy...]]
* [[JRPG
** You will be finding a hidden monster that was a watermelon elemental, fighting a giant block, and being attacked by a sentient pair of gigantic scissors in ''[[Tales of Legendia]]''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCCroxYdzvI This YouTube link] shows an example of some of those crazy monsters.
** The final boss of ''[[Persona (video game)|Persona]] 2: Innocent Sin''. It is literally a tentacle monster made from the fathers of the protagonists in bondage gear.
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* ''[[Yume Nikki]]''. Justified (as far as this can be justified) in that it's a dream, [[Real Dreams Are Weirder|so of course it's weird.]]
* The ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' series has some (intentionally) silly (but still dangerous) creatures, including ''shish-kebob'' monsters!
* The eponymous [[Metroid
** Other enemies in the games are often weird, weird things. From super-fast sea serpents to walking tree monsters that can [[Sonic the Hedgehog|Spindash]] to plants that shoot plasma and who-knows what else.
* ''[[La-Mulana]]'' has not only "Catball" (a cat balancing on a rolling ball), but a [[Mini Boss]] which resembles a ball with lots of holes in it with snakes coming out, and a monster which keeps throwing its innumerable eyeballs at you and appears to be made of nothing else.
* The new version of ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' has randomly generated titans. A titan generated during testing had the body of a giant shrimp, covered in bright purple fur, with a long elephantine trunk. Another was a giant lime-green crow with huge mandibles and three eyes. Once the version was released, it just got weirder from there. They can even have features of animals that don't currently ''exist'' in any other capacity of the game.
** The weirdness is increased by the way the game announces the monster's full physical description to you when it appears. You get a box appearing in the middle of the screen to tell you, for example,
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* [[Angband]] and other roguelikes, given that they don't depict creatures visually, are free to have all kinds of bizarre monstrosities. Browsing through the monster files of those can be quite an experience for someone with a vivid imagination.
* ''[[Castlevania]]'' got into this territory after it moved into [[Metroidvania]] games. A lot of the monsters are very accurately modeled after demons from the Lesser Key of Solomon... which, as noted above, means they're going to be odd by default. But that doesn't quite justify the bird-riding fleamen, [[Ninja Maid]] squads, or '''''skeletons with Kamehamehas'''''.
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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
** Count Down, the killer robot clock.
** Junker, which is a robot made from rubbish bins.
** Sea Pipe Statue, which is a killer water fountain (mechanized by Fawful).
** Bogmire from ''[[Luigi's Mansion|Luigis Mansion]]''. Enough said.
** Six Face Sal from ''[[
** How are we forgetting the ''main [[Mooks]]'' of the game? Freaking WALKING MUSHROOMS and turtles who are really hermit crabs.
** The Smorg, a borderline-[[Eldritch Abomination]] made up of buzzing balls of black lint.
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** The Pigarithim from [[Super Paper Mario]] is a giant piggy bank that shrinks when it takes damage and starts moving faster.
* Everything in ''[[Banjo-Kazooie]]''. ''Everything''. No exceptions.
** For specifics, let's take a look at the weirder bosses of the second game, Banjo Tooie. They are as follows: A murderous dart-shooting [[Anachronism Stew|Aztec totem-pole]], a murderous giant made out of coal that works very similarly to the Black Knight in ''[[Monty Python and
*** Keep in mind that the above troper said weird''er''. Discounting
* The Nihilanth, the [[Final Boss]] of the first ''[[Half-Life]]''. A giant bio-mechanical psychic fetus with [[Energy Ball]] attacks and an exposed brain that has to be hit [[For Massive Damage]]. Uh...
* ''[[Rayman]]''. One of the earlier monsters you meet is a tall yellow blob with lips, [[Mook Maker|that spits out other monsters]].
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* [[Dragon Age 2]] features the Profane, also referred to as rock wraiths. They appear as floating "skeletons" composed of glowing energy and surrounded by chunks of solid stone.
* [[Albion]]'s wildlife is teeming with strange creatures. The least weird being the Skrinn (carnivorous horned kangaroos), and the Krondir (bipedal lions). Then we get the Varniaks (a cross between a dragonfly and a scorpion), the Rinrii (giant grasshoppers with four eyes) or the Brogg (horned pigs with an arm instead of a tail), and that's not even mentioning the various demons.
* With monsters like the [http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0/815/466748-raao0010_super.jpg Paramite]{{Dead link}}, [http://oddworldlibrary.net/toe/thumbs/Fleech.jpg Fleech] and [http://www.gamechronicles.com/guides/exoddus/scrab3.jpg Scrab], it's pretty obvious why the games are called ''[[Oddworld]]''.
* Creepers from [[Minecraft]]. Most of the other monsters are relatively normal, but creepers are just wrong. It's said that they came about from a failed attempt to make pigs.
** There are also [[Demonic Spiders|Ghasts]], giant floating jellyfish-like creatures that spit fireballs.
* All of the monsters in [[The Void]] probably qualify.
* The monsters of ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'' that don't come straight from the books (and naturally even many of those) are utterly bizzare by default: black ooze with mechanical components and broken doll parts sticking out of them, flies made out of iron bolts or ink, predatory fish that live inside ice, wasps in full Samurai gear, crabs that smoke cigars with cannon in place of a claw, doll-heads that fly with four legs attached to them like a propeller that vomit on the played, called 'B---- Babies', etc. etc.
* 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.
* [[Dofus]], a MMORPG... Half the jokes and puns revolved around making bizarro version of common animals and traditional monsters. E.g., the [http://dofuswiki.wikia.com/wiki/Mopy_King Mopy King] is the king of all mop-related monsters... Other examples include the Dragon Pig, the samurai-like Fungi Master, the martial artist known as the Tanukoui-san who needs stilts not to walk on his huge scrotum, strawberry- and mint-flavored jellies, etc..
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* Speaking of old ''[[Dungeons
** After meeting an owlbear, Vaarsuvius mocks this trope in [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0322.html this strip] by postulating the bunnywolf, the ducksnake, and the dreaded penguilion—all of which show up as actual monsters in the first expansion to the OOTS board game.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' is proud to present [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20070824 the Gworg]. And [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/20070825 the dancing Gworg].
* [[Mountain Time]] is ''full'' of this, from ninja onions who only care about killing condors to [https://web.archive.org/web/20140405133857/http://mountaincomics.com/2010/04/05/somewhere-theres-a-jark/ Karzizar] (who is Jesus Christ plus 3 extra heads containing 2 giant eyes and a huge mouth), [https://web.archive.org/web/20140405133846/http://mountaincomics.com/2010/03/04/phrase-anvil/ wasps as big as your head that recite muffin recipes], the [https://web.archive.org/web/20140405133925/http://mountaincomics.com/2009/11/02/rainy-melody/ pelican cello] (who is [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]] plus superpowers), and most of the things the astronauts run into.
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* ''[[The Secret Saturdays]]'' - The [http://secretsaturdays.wikia.com/wiki/Rakshasha Rakshasa], a giant, purple feline-like cryptid that is able to copy its head and arms on its back to fend off enemies that try to get on top of it..
* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' is full of monsters that would not be out of place in the furthest corners of a [[Dungeons
* ''[[Aaahh Real Monsters]]'' had plenty of these. For the main [[Power Trio]] alone, you had:
** A small, red, long-eared [[Ugly Cute]] [[Killer Rabbit]] who could [[Size Shifting|balloon to horrifying heights]] as a sort of [[One-Winged Angel]] mode.
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* [http://www.waynebarlowe.com/ Wayne Barlowe] is an artist who specializes in drawing the weirdest monsters possible.
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** There is a proverb from somewhere in Africa that goes "When God had created all the animals, he took the leftovers and made the Gnu." The Gnu is better known in the west as the Wildebeest.
** The naked mole rat. Hairless, wrinkled, pink as a five-year-old-girl's bike, nearly blind, move as fast backward as they can forward and weirdest of all, are one of only two mammals that are considered eusocial. In fact, the idea of mammals being lead by a queen with "drones" is so weird that zoologists [[Broken Base|still argue about it]].
* [[wikipedia:Cambrian explosion|The Cambrian Explosion]]. You can show people images of these and they will assume they are something from science fiction. But rest assured, they're real. Even the one with 5 eyes and a trunk.
** One of them is ''named'' "''Hallucigenia''". I wonder why...
*** Its name means "unreal". For quite a while, our reconstructions of the creature had it upside-down, and we ''still'' don't know which end was the front.
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