Top Ten Ridiculous/Sexiest/Bad Ass Monsters
published June 24, 2009
Dungeons and Dragons was a game where the dorkiest of nerds could convene together and use their hyperactive imagination to create wondrous worlds and have intense adventures. After Regular Dungeons and Dragons, came Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. That's right, Advanced, 2nd Edition. With it, came a wondrous compendium of monsters, called "Monstrous Manual." This is one of the awesomest books around, whether you played Dungeons or Dragons or not. Even if you simply loved monsters, this book was fantastic. From this compendium of fantastic creatures, I've created three Top Ten Lists. The 10 most ridiculous, the 10 sexiest, and the 10 most bad ass monsters of the Monstrous Manual. Enjoy.
TOP 10 MOST RIDICULOUS MONSTERS
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#10 - Guardian Yugoloth Stephen Colbert's greatest nightmare. A bear with demon wings, ram horns, and huge nasty claws. Pretty scary -and ridiculous- combo |
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#9 - Intellect Devourer This monster is essentially a human brain, with 4 nasty legs with claws. It's goal: to kill with it's claws, and then take over your body and control it. |
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#8 - Grippli Here we have a 3 foot tall frog, that can hold weapons and cast spells. I'd think with the way frogs breed, an intelligent frog that can hold swords would quickly overpopulate the world. |
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#7 - Sea Lion Forget about the adorable sea lions we know and love, this is sea lion taken to the extreme literal sense. A golden fish with a lion's torso! Needless to say there's quite a few things wrong with this pairing, like gills and the lack of sea antelopes. |
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#6 - Thought Eater Wow. Essentially we have a levitating duck-billed platypus skeleton, that feeds on your thoughts. Ridiculous. |
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#5 - Crab Man There's a ton of animals in the animal kingdom that would make decent humanoid monsters. The crab is not one of them. I'm sure after killing this one, the adventurers would have one of the finest meals ever! |
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#4 - Broken One So much ridiculousness about this monster. It's like Frankenstein's monster, made by someone with Down Syndrome. |
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#3 - Giff Okay guys, we need one more monster. I got it, how about a hippo man! With a gun! Not only can the hippoman shoot you in the face, but he can crush you with his weight if he misses! |
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#2 - Shedu This monster is essentially a gay centaur with no human torso, and wings. There so many ridiculous things about this creature, like how does he maintain that perfect beard, and how did he get that forehead crown on. |
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#1 - Sea Wolf Finally, we have the ridiculous Sea Wolf. This creature is a Wereseal. So picture a werewolf, but instead of turning into a wolfman, it turns into an evil monster that is part seal, part wolf. Its flippers have sharp claws that will infect you and turn you into one as well! |
Honorable Mentions: Mold (exactly what it sounds like), Tako (Land octopus with holds weapons in each tentacle)
TOP 10 SEXIEST MONSTERS
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#10 - Drow Elf These humanoids come from a matron based society where females are far superior than the males. In a sexist twist, they are also a vile, petty, evil, conspiring, slave owning race. Perfect for #10 on the sexiest monsters list! |
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#9 - Dryad These are the hippie, nature loving, prius driving creatures of the monster world. Their main attack is to charm sexy men and turn them into their personal manservants, a fate that is not too terrible. |
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#8 - Aquatic Elves Once you get past the webbed hands and feet, these sea elves are quite sexy. I can see the scenario now, you're underwater, drowning, and the Aquatic Elf has to give you mouth to mouth to give you air. |
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#7 - Jungle Giant At 18 feet tall, you can imagine the good times you could have with a jungle giant, provided they don't crush you or rip your head off. This is a George Costanza dream come true. |
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#6 - Human Yes, these ferocious monster are included in the Monstrous Manual. Most people agree, there's definitely some sexy humans roaming about. Dressing them up as pirates just magnifies the sexiness. |
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#5 - Swanmay Swanmays are sexy blonde ladies that can turn into swans. How monstrous! |
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#4 - Nymph Nymphs are so beautiful, they apparently blind or kill men when gazed upon. They also inhabit the lovliest caverns and ocean grottoes, enhancing the sexiness. Not to mention they're called "Nymphs." |
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#3 - Mermaid A requirement to be a mermaid is to have huge lucious breasts barely covered up by seashells or scales and long flowing hair. Enough to make a man drown on purpose. Hopefully the Sea Lion doesn't get to him first. |
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#2 - Sirine Basically these monsters are hot babes with blue skin and green hair that long for human interaction. The good ones will sex you up, the evil ones will sex you up and then kill you. Not too shabby. |
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#1 - Genie (Marid) If the hot body, the lack of clothing, the blue skin and the jewelry weren't enough, these ladies are powerful . With enough power to destroy continents, they'll still grant you wishes if you free them. I think I know one of my wishes! candy! |
Honorable mentions: Lamia (Babe torso on a lion body, a bit too weird), Sylph (a tall fairy), Nereid (watery woman)
TOP 10 MOST BAD ASS MONSTERS
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#10 - Invisible Stalker I had to put this monster in somewhere just for the picture. Yes this is the actual picture. You can just use your imagination to picture how bad ass it is (provided you threw powder on him or could see invisibility). ! |
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#9 - Pit Fiend This monster is just an intensely bad ass demon, with a big ol' gut. They don't really die, they just go to hell and plot revenge on whomever 'killed' them. |
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#8 - Ankheg Similar to the huge bugs in "Starship Troopers," they come out of the ground and shoot acid from their mouths. It has a fondness for fresh meat, and that includes your newborn baby. |
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#7 - Dracolich Dragons are bad ass. Zombies are bad ass. A zombie skeleton dragon is just ridiculously bad ass. They basically cannot be killed, unless you find the source of what's keeping them alive. Perfect as an end boss! |
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#6 - Owlbear Not necessarily the most powerful on this list, they are still quite bad ass. Taking two bad ass animals and creating something even more badass is difficult, but this is it. Come to the owl for advice, and promptly get mauled while receiving the advice. |
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#5 - Manticore Sometimes mixing too many things is disastrous. This monster is the perfect concoction for bad ass. A lion torso, demonic bat wings, a bad ass old man's head, and poisonous spikes that it throws at you at will - that's pretty bad ass! |
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#4 - Beholder One of the signature monsters of D&D (besides the dragon of course), these are floating eyestalkers with eyeball tentacles. They also shoot lasers from their eyes and then they can eat you. |
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#3 - Bulette Don't let the frenchie sounding name fool you. Also known as the 'landshark,' it moves underground as a shark moves through water. Think 'Tremors' with no tentacles, a rocklike fin, a big ass mouth for eating you, and the temperament of a wolverine. |
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#2 - Tarrasque This monster is so bad ass, there's supposed to be only one in existence. It's 50 feet tall, has nearly impenetrable skin, and is immune to almost everything. Every decade it goes on a rampage destroying everything in it's path and eating everything, until it gets tired again. It is my belief that the Cloverfield Monster is based on the Tarrasque. |
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#1 - Zaratan Oh man. The Zaratan is a sea turtle as big as an island, with a whole ecosystem on it's back. Some have been known to be mobile bases for corsairs and pirates. It really doesn't get any more bad ass than that. |
Honorable mentions: Grell (floating brain with a beak and like 20 tenacles), Hooked Horror (a huge monster with sharp limbs and an exoskeleton), Mind Flayer (bad ass psychic monster with pink skin and tentacles on its mouth that it uses to suck out people's brains)
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