Monstro vs. Moby Dick

## Description

*These two whales are not the cute and lovable type; they are gargantuan monsters feared by many and considered forces of nature. But which behemoth will live to continue terrorizing the sea?*

## Interlude

Hiro: The whale, one of nature's most majestic creatures. They may be colossal, but they are beautiful, gentle animals that humans can be safe around.

**MBStarscream: But not these two. *These* whales are gigantic, man-eating beasts that will get their teeth on the biggest ships and make the bravest sailors wet themselves.**

Hiro: Monstro, the whale whose name is feared by all, both on land and in the sea.

**MBStarscream: And Moby Dick, the legendary sea monster that took Captain Ahab's leg.**

Hiro: I'm Hiro Hamada.

**MBStarscream: I'm MBStarscream.**

Hiro: And it's our job to examine both warriors' strength, abilities, weapons, and weaknesses to see who would win in a fight.

## Monstro

Hiro: Somewhere out in the sea, there lives a monster who is shown to be feared by all marine life, to the point where the mere mention of his name sends fish swimming for the hills. This aquatic juggernaut is particularly known for swallowing anything whole that crosses his path, including entire ships.

**MBStarscream: What could have a reputation like that, you ask? Only the whale of a whale known as Monstro, of course.**

Hiro: While Pinocchio spent the night in Stromboli's troupe and later, Pleasure Island, Geppetto's search for him took him to the sea, where he, Figero and Cleo were swallowed whole with their boat by Monstro. Upon hearing of this from the Blue Fairy, Pinocchio resolved to find and rescue Geppetto against Jiminy Cricket's warnings.

**MBStarscream: Spoiler, he got eaten as well.**

Hiro: Inside Monstro's throat, Pinocchio reunited with Geppetto and devised a scheme to make Monstro sneeze, giving them a chance to escape. The scheme worked, but the enraged whale chased them and smashed their raft. Pinocchio pulled Geppetto to safety in a cave just as Monstro crashed into it, the impact of which created a violent wave that sent Pinocchio and Geppetto flying out and onto the beach.

**MBStarscream: Whether Monstro died of fatal head trauma from hitting his head on that cliff is unclear, but one thing is clear as crystal: This is one *scary* whale. ...Uh, what kind of a whale is he exactly?**

Hiro: To answer your question, he appears to be a hybrid between a blue whale and a sperm whale. He has the size and underbelly of a blue whale, but the head and teeth of a sperm whale. Interestingly, he bares a strong resemblance to the real-life extinct whale, Livyatan melvillei, whose fossils were first discovered around 2008.

**MBStarscream: That's right. A whale like this existed in real life. And during the time of the megalodon, no less.**

Hiro: Being such a big animal, Monstro comes with brutal strength. He was able to smash a raft to pieces with his tail, and was said to be capable of eating entire ships whole, or at least destroyed them by using his tail. Around the seabed where he was sleeping after swallowing Geppetto's boat, there was a collection of sunken ships, supporting this claim. No matter how big or well-armed a ship was at the time, it was easy pickings for Monstro.

**MBStarscream: Suck it, whalers!**

Hiro: Monstro can also swim at shocking speeds, being able to pursue a school of tuna and the raft that Pinocchio and Geppetto were fleeing from him on. This is likely owed to his resemblance to a sperm whale, which can reach 28mph at full speed.

**MBStarscream: While he doesn't seem very smart because of his indifference to his prey, he does show a degree of intelligence, as he pretended to be asleep upon seeing a school of tuna in order to lure them closer before attacking, and had the sense to use water to put out the fire making him sneeze, and upon noticing Geppetto and Pinocchio's raft, instantly knew they were responsible for the fire. And he must have some powerful lungs, cuz he can sleep underwater without worrying about the crushing pressure of the ocean or drowning himself.**

Hiro: It gets weirder than that; in Kingdom Hearts, where he's literally a space whale, Monstro can swim in between lanes like he was just having a casual swim in the ocean. And if that's not strange, Monstro can store air inside of him, allowing the people trapped in his stomach to breathe even when the whale is sleeping underwater.

**MBStarscream: This whale really doesn't care about logic, huh?**

Hiro: He's a Disney character, of course not.

**MBStarscream: Alright, good point. Regardless, there's a reason Jiminy Cricket said he was a whale of a whale. He's feared by everyone who knows about him either in the sea *or* on land, can sleep underwater without getting crushed by the pressure of the ocean or drowning, nearly killed Pinocchio and Geppetto, and can destroy whole ships like they're nothing.**

Hiro: But Monstro is not completely unstoppable. He has a vicious temper, as Geppetto told Pinocchio that his plan to make him sneeze would make him furious. Indeed, he relentlessly pursued and attempted to kill them over it. Ultimately, however, his obsession with revenge toward Pinocchio and Geppetto was what lead to his downfall, as he smashed his head against a rocky cliff while trying to recapture them, possibly killing him.

**MBStarscream: He's also still just an animal that has biological weaknesses, and he got frozen in an iceberg by a Dream Eater named Chilled Clawbster, who was much smaller than him. Don't worry, Monstro didn't let him get away with it.**

Hiro: But this whale has more than earned his fearsome reputation as the most feared creature in the ocean. Whereas most animals so fierce let their prey escape if it proves itself not worth the effort, Monstro will *never* give up on his prey, so watch where you swim.

*Monstro wakes at the sight of a school of tuna swimming nearby. When he sees them, he quickly closes his eyes again and pretends to sleep with a smirk on his face. Opening his great eyes, he pursues the fish with his mouth open, tearing through the ocean.*

## Moby Dick

Hiro: Before he was the monomaniacal captain of the whaling ship Pequod, Ahab was named by his insane, widowed mother, who died when he was twelve months old. He first began whaling at the age of 18 and continued in the trade for 40 years.

**MBStarscream: But even with all that experience out in the sea, nothing could've prepared him for an encounter with something truly unnatural that maimed him off the coast of Japan. Ever since that incident, Ahab was *hellbent* on slaying that monster at all costs in a battle between man and beast.**

Hiro: This legendary sea monster was named... of all things, Moby Dick.

**MBStarscream: Hard-to-take-seriously name aside, Moby Dick is a gigantic albino sperm whale and a destructive beast that many whalers believe to be a sentient, dangerous, and malevolent supernatural entity. The animal's exact dimensions are never given, but the novel claims that the largest sperm whales can reach a length of ninety feet, larger than any officially recorded sperm whale, and that Moby Dick is possibly the largest sperm whale that ever lived.**

Hiro: Going by the module used in the movie In The Heart of the Sea, Moby Dick comes in at 95 feet long, with a tail-span of 20 feet. That's far closer to the size of a blue whale than the 68ft sperm whales that exist in real life.

**MBStarscream: Ahab's obsession with revenge would eventually be his undoing. When Moby Dick destroyed the Pequod, Ahab hurled his last harpoon at the whale, which became lodged in his flesh. Caught** **around the neck by a loop in his own harpoon's rope and unable to free himself, Ahab was dragged down into the cold oblivion of the sea by the very animal he was so obsessed with killing.**

Hiro: As a sperm whale, Moby Dick is naturally a formidable opponent. His sheer size makes him incredibly physically strong, capable of destroying large ships, ripping boats in half between his jaws, and tearing human limbs clean off.

**MBStarscream: Moby Dick is also faster than he looks. Hiro has already mentioned that sperm whales can reach speeds of 28mph, so Moby Dick should be comparable, if not faster, than his real life counterparts. He's quite tough as well, as harpoons and spears embedded in his body only seem like minor annoyances to him.**

Hiro: In real life, sperm whales detect their prey by sending echolocation clicks from the front of their nose and listening for the echo, which reverberates in a fatty sac beneath their mouth. This enables them to pinpoint a single squid from thousands of feet away. Their echolocation mechanism can reach 230 decibels, louder than an airplane jet engine at takeoff.

**MBStarscream: Or dads watching football games.**

Hiro: With all these abilities, Moby Dick is not to be underestimated. He has survived multiple hits from spears and harpoons, ripped Captain Ahab's leg off, sank the Pequod ship, and was successful in killing Ahab and his entire crew with the exception of Ishmael. But despite being a very powerful animal, Moby Dick does have weaknesses of his own. For one, sperm whales can only remain underwater for 90 minutes before they have to surface for air, or else they will drown.

**MBStarscream: And at the end of the day, he, like Monstro, comes with the biological weaknesses of any animal and has his limits of what he can endure. But if you wanna take up whaling, you might just wanna leave this one alone. You won't live to regret it if you trigger the wrath of Moby Dick.**

*Captain Ahab: I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.*

## Fatal Fiction

*Mario flips a coin.*

Hiro: These two whales may be evenly matched in territory, but only one of them shall swim away alive.

**MBStarscream: I'm ready to have a whale of a good time, know what I'm saying, Hiro?**

Hiro: (Sighs) Should've have seen that coming.

*Pacific Ocean*

At the bottom of Earth's largest and deepest oceanic division, a true leviathan slumbered. A gigantic and slender dark whale lay silently on the ocean floor in a deep sleep, his eyes shut. This whale was fittingly named **Monstro**, and right now, he wanted nothing more than to just rest for the day after smashing another pirate's ship to splinters.

This would not be his day off, however.

He awoke to a sound. Listening closely, Monstro could hear clicking noises coming from above him. He lifted his head to look up at where the clicking was coming from. About a hundred feet away was an albino sperm whale with an unusual spout, a deformed jaw, three punctures in its right fluke and several harpoons embedded in its side. Monstro's green eyes narrowed angrily at the monster known as **Moby Dick**, angered that his nap had been disturbed. If there was anything Monstro was known for, it was the great fury he unleashed when one dared interrupted his sleep.

Lifting himself off the ocean floor, Monstro swam slowly towards Moby Dick, who was only looking ahead in search of more food, hopefully a tasty giant squid. From below the albino behemoth, Monstro picked up speed as he prepared to ram the other whale with his huge head. Sensing that something was getting closer by the minute, Moby Dick looked down, and his eyes widened at what he saw, but it was too late. Monstro hit him like a train, pushing him about 10ft away. He then descended as Moby Dick recovered from the tremendous blow. Moby Dick lowered his head to glare down at his attacker, who turned around to look the albino monster in the eyes. The two whales exchanged angry sounds that conveyed their challenges before they charged at one another.

**FIGHT!**

Both cetaceans hit each other head on like bulls. They clashed and pushed against one another until Monstro grabbed Moby Dick's head in his jaws. Moby Dick forcibly freed himself from Monstro's jaws and angrily bit Monstro's face in retaliation. He shook his head left and right, then threw Monstro downward and started swimming away. Monstro turned to see his opponent retreating and angrily swam after him. He was about to rip Moby Dick's tail clean off, but only bit nothing as the albino whale ascended, heading for the surface. Monstro followed, both whales getting closer to the surface. Monstro then started swimming to his left as Moby Dick continued upward.

Moby Dick's head emerged from the water as he got his well-needed air. If Monstro could talk, he would have said "On your left." as he suddenly exploded out of the water beside Moby Dick. His body fell onto Moby Dick's back, pushing him back under the water. Monstro swam away from the stunned albino mammal and started to descend. Enraged, Moby Dick followed Monstro in his descent. The two whales got deeper and deeper until Monstro did a U-turn and charged at the still descending Moby Dick, who had no time to react before Monstro's teeth sank into his head. The force of the collision caused Moby Dick to came to a halt like a car that had hit a wall while going at 80mph. Monstro pushed the nemesis of Captain Ahab upward until they burst out of the surface. Monstro slammed Moby Dick into the water as gravity pulled him back to the blue liquid.

Monstro then shook Moby Dick in his mouth before tossing him aside. Not giving Moby Dick a chance to recover, Monstro rammed into him head-first and started pushing him back. Moby Dick started pushing against Monstro, putting the two cetaceans in another struggle. Both were evenly matched as each whale tried to push the other back until Monstro gained the advantage and overpowered Moby Dick. As Monstro pushed him further back, Moby Dick lowered his head and swung it upward, lifting Monstro's head. Moby Dick then wrapped his jaw around Monstro's exposed neck and started shaking him.

Blood seeped out of Monstro as the whale frantically tried to escape Moby Dick's grip. Moby Dick continued to thrash Monstro around until he released his opponent's neck, turned his body around and swung his tail upward, uppercutting Monstro. Monstro shook his head to regain his bearings as Moby Dick ascended. Moby Dick then turned around and swam down towards Monstro, striking the monster in the back. Moby Dick started to ascend again as Monstro recovered and looked up to see his opponent heading for the surface, then turning again to look at Monstro.

The whales narrowed their eyes, each ready to charge. After a few seconds of waiting, Monstro, seething with rage, tore through the water in Moby Dick's direction. Moby Dick charged as well, swimming downward at top speed. They opened their jaws wide as they got closer and closer to each other. They got closer... and closer...

...until Monstro turned to his right and dodged Moby Dick's charge.

Monstro then turned towards the still descending Moby Dick and charged at him, hitting him in the side. Suddenly, he roared in pain as Moby Dick's jaw found his tail, his cone-shaped teeth puncturing his skin. He angrily bit down on Moby Dick's own tail, and they both held on tightly. After about six seconds of struggling, both whales turned their heads. With a sickening rip, their tail flukes were ripped clean off.

Loud sounds of pain echoed through the ocean as Monstro and Moby Dick's blood reddened the water. Their main method of locomotion now useless, they lowered their amputated tails and let them bleed out. Through the unbearable agony, Monstro glared murderously at the whale he held responsible for his pain. As long as *he* died, Monstro wouldn't care if all of his fins were gone.

He lunged forward with his jaws and bit down on Moby Dick's flipper, tearing it right off the albino whale's body. Swallowing the flipper down his gullet, Monstro moved to the side of Moby Dick's neck, sinking his sharp teeth in and biting down as hard as he could. Try as he might, Moby Dick could do nothing as Monstro applied pressure until a huge chunk of flesh was taken out of the behemoth. Monstro wasn't finished; he bit and chewed until Moby Dick's head was completely separated from his body, more blood spilling out.

Monstro looked down contemptuously as the decapitated corpse of Moby Dick sank lifelessly. He then sadly looked at where his tail fluke once was, before he started to feel weak from the loss of blood. He breathed heavily as he tried to keep his eyes open. His vision blurred as his heart slowed. Finally, everything went black as he succumbed, his body sinking with the whale that he had killed not long ago.

**FATALITY!**

## Results

**MBStarscream: Ouch... this hits me as a whale lover.**

Hiro: There are a couple of reasons why the victory ultimately went to Monstro, even if that came with the cost of his own life. By looking at their sizes, we can say that Monstro has the advantage in that category by slightly outclassing Moby Dick at 98ft and outweighing him by a hundred tons.

**MBStarscream: Looking at the way each whale behaves, while both are aggressive, Monstro has shown to have a much more brutal and unforgiving nature, where he's utterly relentless and exceedingly violent towards whoever or whatever he's attacking, even at the risk of his own well-being if it means he can kill his prey. His speed is also much faster than Moby Dick has been in any portrayal of him in media.**

Hiro: Looking at reputation next, we have to remember that the description of Moby Dick comes from the narrator's own point of view from a traumatic experience in his encounter, which, while certainly horrific, could possibly be considered biased and exaggerated. Even if it's not, it's still not as impactful as Monstro, where every creature in the ocean flees in fear at the mere mention of his name, and even those on land know how fearsome and ferocious he is, including his reputation for swallowing entire ships. Going by this, Monstro not only had the greater reputation, but was also faster, more ferocious, and even bigger, giving him everything he needed to win this bout.

**MBStarscream: Looks like the ghost of Moby Dick will have a whale of a *tail* to tell. Well, if his tail hadn't been bitten off.**

Hiro: Monstro wins.

## Advantages

### Monstro (Winner)

* Larger
* Faster
* More ferocious
* Greater reputation