Murdoch

32.3 / 106 feet (Millennium)

155 tons (Millennium)

**💪Strength:** 80

**💎Weight:** 81

**🛡Armor:** 78

**💫Agility:** 30

**💥Firepower:** 56

**🕳Stealth:** 22

**💀Toxicity:** 0

**🎯Range:** Long

**🗡Offense:** 201

**🔰Defense:** 211

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**Murdoch** is an orange, adult male steam locomotive dinosaur and a recurring character in *Sodor Monsterverse*. He is commonly paired with Arthur, and a notable ally of the Steam Team monsters. He is a second-in-command figure of the group known as the "B-team."

## General information

### **Design**

Murdoch is a large heavyweight monster who is almost outrageously muscular, especially around the lower body. His neck is guarded at both sides by a pair of plates with that rest at the shoulders, and ends at the front with a pair of defined horns. His orange scales range from angular to rounded in various areas. His spines are thick and dark grayish-brown, with dull green webbing. The lower portion of his tail is rather rugged while the tip is clubbed with blunt-shaped spikes, reminiscent to his horns. His eyes are often depicted with a green or hazel color.

### **Abilities**

#### **Physical capabilities**

Murdoch's build naturally allows him to to deal massive damage upon other monsters and destroy human infrastructure with ease. His scales are durable to enough to take numerous hits from weapons, as well as certain blows from other monsters. Lasers in fact, cannot penetrate him at all. Murdoch's top speed is clocked at around over 95 miles per hour. The likely reason he's able to keep it up is due to his inherent ability to charge and hunt with little pauses in between.

Murdoch's most prominent natural weapons are the horns jutting from his smoke-box area. They are resilient enough to break through barriers such as brick walls or steel fences easily upon impact. He is also able to use his tail as a means to block or deliver heavy blows, akin to a traditional bludgeon. In addition, other modes of defense include his claws, head and teeth (for scratching, bashing and biting respectively).

#### **Energy capabilities**

##### **Smoke flame**

His breath weapon is a flame engulfed with smoke, much akin to Toby’s fire type.

##### **Seismic shock-wave**

Like Arthur, Murdoch also demonstrates being able to generate powerful earthquakes via slamming, stomping and/or punching.

### **Weaknesses**

Being an earthly monster who is heavily associated with a mostly grounded fighting style, Murdoch (unsurprisingly) isn’t too agile and is also extremely vulnerable to aerial attacks. He also tends to be very clumsy when in bodies of water. Despite their immense strength and hardness, his horns are not completely shatterproof. If one or both become destroyed, his ramming ability could become drastically less effective. Due to the mere fact of how massive of a target he is, it is easy for Murdoch to get pressured around repeatedly by smaller and lighter opponents.

### **Personality**

Murdoch is preferably a very quiet and peaceful beast, despite that his massive build and stature can be a major source of intimidation for many. He takes great pride in his natural raw power and strength, much akin to the likes of many large and powerful monsters. Although, Murdoch doesn’t usually have the audacity to taunt or belittle others whose strength may not match the extent of his own. He is noted to be very close friends with Arthur (and later Ryan as well). He is looked up to as one of Stanley’s most trusted comrades, especially when the “B-team” dinosaurs need not only sheer strength but emotional support as well.

Murdoch tends to be hypocritical. It isn’t uncommon for him to demand peace and quiet when he himself ironically might actually be the noisiest one in a group.