Movie Monster

## Example Movie Monster

**Movie Monster**s are the focus of this Wiki.

Though they serve to scare and amuse, monsters are used as a way to represent the epitome of fears that people fight internally and externally. In film, humanity finds itself as the victim, the perpetrator, the vessel, and the equivalent to horrifying monstrosities.

This wiki includes classic, modern and fantasy monsters. It does not include human serial killers or demented persons unless they are from unnatural origins. It also includes supernatual, folklore/legend inspired monsters, alien and extraterrestrial monsters, animals acting outside their normal behavior, giant animals, creatures, genetic experiments gone wrong, robots/androids/cyborgs, sentient articles and objects, gods/demons/inivisble entities.

## Appearance

Dictionary.com defines 'Monster' as:

* a legendary animal combining features of animal and human form or having the forms of various animals in combination, as a centaur, griffin, or sphinx.
* any creature so ugly or monstrous as to frighten people.
* any animal or human grotesquely deviating from the normal shape, behavior, or character.
* a person who excites horror by wickedness, cruelty, etc.
* any animal or thing huge in size.

Cambridge Dictionary also includes:

* any imaginary frightening creature, especially one that is large and strange

Merriam-Webster Dictionary includes:

* an animal of strange or terrifying shape
* an animal or plant of abnormal form or structure
* a threatening force
* a person of unnatural or extreme ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty
* one who deviates from normal or acceptable behavior or character

Wikipedia specifies:

* A monster is a type of fictional creature found in horror, fantasy, science fiction, folklore, mythology and religion. Monsters are very often depicted as dangerous and aggressive with a strange, grotesque appearance that causes terror and fear. Monsters usually resemble bizarre, deformed, otherworldly and/or mutated animals or entirely unique creatures of varying sizes, but may also take a human form, such as mutants, ghosts and spirits, zombies or cannibals, among other things. They may or may not have supernatural powers, but are usually capable of killing or causing some form of destruction, threatening the social or moral order of the human world in the process.
* Monsters may also be depicted as misunderstood and friendly creatures who frighten individuals away without wanting to, or may be so large, strong and clumsy that they cause unintentional damage or death. Some monsters in fiction are depicted as mischievous and boisterous but not necessarily threatening (such as a sly goblin), while others may be docile but prone to becoming angry or hungry, thus needing to be tamed and taught to resist savage urges, or killed if they cannot be handled or controlled successfully.

## Powers and Abilities

* Since this is called the *Movie Monster Wiki*, each monster page needs to also have the movie or movies which feature that monster.

## Trivia

* This wiki is specifically titled *Movie Monster Wiki*. It is not for monsters found in Television Shows.
* Feature length TV show Pilots and specials are considered as 'movies' if listed separately on IMDB or TMDB from the shows episodes.
* Made for TV, Straight to Video and Streaming featured films are considered 'Movies' if over 60 minute screen runtime.
* Stand alone short films are considered 'movies'.
* Game cutscene compliations are not considered 'movies' to be featured here.