The single most defining quality of a legendary monster is corrupt humanity.

I do appreciate your argument as it had many good points. However, it is not the Horror movie genre that this debate is about. This debate is about what the MOST defining quality of a monster is. whether it is a monster from a book, a movie, or anything else that tells the story of a monster. You mentioned many monsters without human characteristics that you say are legendary. You call them legendary because a Hollywood reporter called them legendary, but as I said before this debate is not just about movies. It can be taken into account that the books that have been written about monsters is vast, and the books who's popularity lasted decades and even centuries are the ones that highlight monsters with human characteristics the most. While these old movies are rarely watched these days. The following are famous monster books and when they were published. Dracula - 1897 (1) Frankenstein - 1818 (2) The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - 1886 (3) Salem's Lot - 1975 (4) Yes, it is true that corrupt humanity is not the only thing that makes a legendary monster. Someone cannot just come up with a monster with human characteristics and call it legendary. However, it is the most defining characteristic. It is a horrifying idea that monsters could reside among us. Monsters that we are not aware of such as vampires or were wolfs. I asked some people what kind of monsters they find legendary. Some mentioned ones like Bigfoot or the Lockness monster while others said Frankenstein or the boogie man. I asked those who mentioned monsters like Lockness and Bigfoot what they thought about Dracula and Frankenstein, and they said, "I didn't know we were talking about like people monsters". I then asked them who they thought was scarier, and they answered Dracula and Frankenstein. "People monster" are scarier not because they make you jump or scream at the look of their face, but because they make your skin crawl. These monsters reside at the back of the mind. They are remembered by all and feared by all because they are a reminder of what humanity really is. They remind people that they are steps away from being monsters themselves and that anyone they meet could already be one. The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is an example of exactly this. Dr. Jekyll spends his time doing the good things that make him feel good, like giving to charities (5). While Mr. Hyde is in fact doing the exact apposite. They are the same person, and it is Dr. Jekyll himself, the least likely person, who is the monster. One of the main characters best friends. This idea of the fact that anyone could be a monster is one of the things that keeps the story about a monster around and makes it legendary. Also, since my author noted a resource about the top monster movies I will note one about the top monster books of which the top eight include many of my own examples (6). In my opponents resource the top eight also were of monsters with human characteristics. 1. http://en.wikipedia.org... 2. http://en.wikipedia.org... 3. http://en.wikipedia.org... 4. http://en.wikipedia.org...'Salem's_Lot (May have to type Salem's Lot in the search bar, because this link messes up.) 5. Shelly, Mary W.. Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. 6. http://www.goodreads.com...