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Especially in role-playing games, "monster" is a catch-all term for hostile characters that are fought by the player. Sentient fictional races are usually not referred to as monsters. At other times, the term can carry a neutral connotation, such as in the Pokémon franchise, where it is used to refer to cute fictional creatures that resemble ...
A skookum is a variety of mountain giant or monster similar to the Sasquatch or Bigfoot. [3] In the surviving Chinuk-Wawa spoken in Grand Ronde, Oregon, this variant is pronounced differently—skoo-KOOM—but when used in English with this meaning, it is pronounced the same way as the "big and strong" meaning.
Bahamut – Whale monster whose body supports the earth. Word seems far more ancient than Islam and may be origin of the word Behemoth in modern Judeo-Christian lore. Bake-kujira – Ghost whale; Cetus – a monster with the head of a boar or a greyhound, the body of a whale or dolphin, and a divided, fan-like tail
The Grootslang or Grote Slang (Afrikaans and Dutch for "big snake") is a legendary creature that is reputed to dwell in a deep cave in the Richtersveld, South Africa. [4]
Monster versus monster (MvM) battles also take place in some games. [12] A game world might contain hundreds of different kinds of mobs, but if players spend a certain amount of time playing, they might become well aware of the characteristics presented by each kind and its related hazard. This knowledge might dull the game to some extent. [13]
This is one of four monster shaped mini-fountains beneath the statue of Venus dating from the early 17th Century. Penis can be seen at the bottom. Teratophilia refers to the sexual attraction to monsters. The word comes from the Ancient Greek: τέρας, romanized: teras, lit. 'monster' and φιλία, filia, 'love'. [1] [2]
monster André the Giant was a notable monster heel late in his career An extremely powerful, seemingly unbeatable wrestler, either face or heel, who often wins matches in a quick, one-sided manner. mouthpiece A manager who does the promos, or all the talking, for a wrestler possessing poor oration skills. [1] Muta scale
Both Brazilians and Portuguese also have a bogeyman version, which sometimes acquires regional colors where the bogeyman (the shape-shifting Bicho Papão is a monster that is shaped by what the child fears most) is a small owl, murucututu, or other birds of prey that could be on the roof of homes at night (in Brazil) or a mysterious old man ...