Think up a cool monster

[Coppernerves]

Comments on posted monsters eg constructive criticism, implications of them, similarities to other works, jokes and puns about them etc. are very welcome.

I'll start.

Flesh eating spiders,hairy, about the size of a mans palm legs included, lots of 'em, with ripping/fleshburrowing fangs, and lots of web/silk.

But that's not all...

Together they telepathically connect, forming a superintelligent, psychic hive mind, which can read humans minds, telekinetically bend it's own web and silk, set up devious tricks and traps to silence those who might discover it, and consume their juicy flesh.

 

[Playful Pony]

It's a worm, similar in looks to a standard earth worm but like 3 meters long and much thicker! It hides in it's burrow, and when some poor person passes by it shoots out and bites them, injecting powerful toxin that numbs the muscles. The victim will collapse, but still be concious as the worm does that snake-thing where it basically absorbs the entire body of the pray into itself. Then it slowly shuffles into some bushes and digest for ages, injecting more toxin should it's pray start to stir.

Idk, I'm not good at making up things like this XD. I tried!

 

[SlaveNumber23]

Snakes with wings. And I don't mean those real life gliding snakes either, I mean snakes that can take off and fly up into your face, nothing could be scarier.

 

[DugMachine]

Humanoid spider/wasps. They first grab you, inject you with paralytic poison. Doesn't stop here though. Much like the wasps who zombify roaches for their eggs, you're alive the entire time while they lay their eggs in you and about a month later BOOM they burst out your stomach and feast on you.

 

[Rawne1980]

Spider Kittens.

At first you think "awww look at the cute little kitten" then you go over to pet it and BAM it's a cute faced spindley legged creature of doom and it's eating your arm.

FEAR IT.

 

[Coppernerves]

The first thing I did was try to think of a way to make owls scary (my favorite animal) but then I realized that would just be silly. Owls can't be improved!

So I guess... The Urthlyk! (which I totally just made up!)

The Urthlyk is a form of rapidly growing amoeba. It lives in the forest where it latches on to tree trunks. There it can sit for weeks, slowly adapting the texture and colour of the bark of the tree. Any insects or animals it comes into contact with are stuck, and slowly digested by osmosis. The Urthlyk is capable of engulfing entire trees, and will, if left alone for long enough, form a nervous system like that of more advanced life forms. It's nerve endings will seep into the trichoma of the leaves, which allows it to feel when prey are nearby. At this point, it becomes more aware of it's surroundings and can rapidly extend parts of it's body in a singular spasm towards prey to suck it in. While the Urthlyk can at this point digest an animal the size of a deer in mere days, bones will stay for weeks. Thus, trees that are cursed with a healthy Urthlyk of age end up looking like grisly totems of death.

That is an awesome way for trees to become killer trees! perhaps if it could work its' way to the sap and hormone channels it could keep the tree nice and supple, direct its' growth etc.

It seems when people are asked for creepy they love to go for the paralysed,"I have no mouth and I must scream" thing.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

A rodent with opposable thumbs and an obsession for semi automatic handguns.

None shall escape from the Mouse with a Mauser!

 

[busterkeatonrules]

Spider Kittens.

At first you think "awww look at the cute little kitten" then you go over to pet it and BAM it's a cute faced spindley legged creature of doom and it's eating your arm.

FEAR IT.

If THAT thing wants a cheeseburger, I say it can damn well have one!

On topic: How about a sentient and super-intelligent computer virus? Basically an international terrorist, but existing only in digital form.

A thousand times smarter than any human opponent, faster than any computer, capable of transporting itself around the world and back in a matter of seconds, completely impervious to Norton Antivirus and able to possess any device which relies on electronic circuitry, from iPods to nuclear submarines!

All video cameras in the world would serve as its eyes. Every hard drive and silicone chip would be part of its brain. All information that has ever been stored digitally would be available to it. It would be present everywhere, yet nowhere to be found.

Such a creature could destroy any part of human civilization any time it wanted to - the world economy (deleting everybody's bank accounts at once), infrastructure (sabotaging traffic lights, flight schedules, railroad signals etc), communications (jam satellites, block phone signals, shut down the Internet), political relations (starting several nuclear wars at once) - you name it.

And, being a monster, it probably WOULD want to.

 

[DoPo]

Flesh eating spiders,hairy, about the size of a mans palm legs included, lots of 'em, with ripping/fleshburrowing fangs, and lots of web/silk.

But that's not all...

Together they telepathically connect, forming a superintelligent, psychic hive mind, which can read humans minds, telekinetically bend it's own web and silk, set up devious tricks and traps to silence those who might discover it, and consume their juicy flesh.

So, you just took normal spiders and removed some of their abilities to make them less scary? jk

Snakes with wings. And I don't mean those real life gliding snakes either, I mean snakes that can take off and fly up into your face, nothing could be scarier.

OT: I've been toying with the idea of a singing spider for a while. Something that can conceivably exist in Australia, I suppose, but I haven't checked yet. Basically, it's a breed of spiders that imitate the sounds of other animals, in order to lure them in a trap - mostly birds, but you can see how that can be disturbing.

 

[ChupathingyX]

OT: I've been toying with the idea of a singing spider for a while. Something that can conceivably exist in Australia, I suppose, but I haven't checked yet. Basically, it's a breed of spiders that imitate the sounds of other animals, in order to lure them in a trap - mostly birds, but you can see how that can be disturbing.

Well it doesn't imitate other animal noises but there is a spider in Australia that can make noises.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistling_spider

 

[thiosk]

BEWARE!

The forgotten beast Iden has come!
A towering salamander with lidless eyes! It has a pair of squat antennae and it is slavering. Its dark peach skin is warty. Beware its noxious secretions!

 

[RJ 17]

Apparently ther's a lot of arachniphobics around here, as most of these seem to revolve around spiders.

I'll go for something simple...take the beast from the movie The Relic, and make it into a Lava Elemental. That is, it's entire body is composed of lava. At its will, it can take it's beastial form or turn into a wave of lava, making damaging it nearly impossible. If you try to cool it down to solidify it, it just becomes a beast made of stone, becoming even stronger.

 

[cojo965]

Okay why is it that when I made a thread about making creatures that fell into classic monster families not a single response and this person makes a similar thread and got 13 responses? Oh fate you are crule. Alright I might as well throw this vampire out there:

The lecher, a creature with the torso and hind legs of a cat, a pair of fore limbs that end in two knuckle walking clawed fingers, and the head of a worm that houses a circular arrangement of large teeth that you would think is its mouth but in reality those teeth are for combat. Its actual mouth is on a flexible proboscus that ends in a cookie-cutter shark-like mouth. The creature's saliva is a combination of sleep agent and pain-killer.

 

[DoomyMcDoom]

Think about a cross between fruitflies, bedbugs, and sidney funnel web spiders, tiny deadly neurotoxin that kills you in arguably the most painful fassion a creature can, tons of them, and they make their homes in your bedding. Nobody is safe, due to their small size once discovered people would live in terror of them until they wiped out our race.

 

[AngloDoom]

Snakes with wings. And I don't mean those real life gliding snakes either, I mean snakes that can take off and fly up into your face, nothing could be scarier.

You know what would be scarier?

Giant snakes with wings.

 

[Zhukov]

"All we know is that when my kind entered The Between we counted ourselves in the millions. Within a heartbeat we were dying by the hundreds. In desperation, the survivors began to weave the flesh of their unborn young, reshaping their small bodies while still in the womb. They stood to form keening walls of living meat to shield those first precious infants from the feasting hordes. Those first born into the abyss were my true ancestors. With each generation of brutally altered offspring we became ever less like our hapless progenitors. For every poison, we changed to resist. For every armour, we grew a blade. I am the result; a living, misshapen weapon of muscle and fat and bone. If you think me a horror, it is only because I hail from a place horrible beyond your comprehension."

Tah-da!

 

[Fasckira]

A giant catepillar that has spikes for legs and can climb/stick to any surface, moving at lightning speed. It cries out, "EH MER GHEWD!" repeatedly when it gets the scent of fresh meat and when it finds its prey it tap-dances all over it till its a mushy paste.