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* StockDinosaurs: Very clearly based off of pachycephalosaurus.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Rhenoplos, another herbivore that will viciously headbutt anyone who invades its territory. Averted in ''Rise'' however, as both species make an appearance, and in the same map no less.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: For Rhenoplos, another herbivore that will viciously headbutt anyone who invades its territory. Averted in ''Rise'' however, as both species make an appearance, and in the same map no less.
* FiendishFish: They're quite aggressive towards any hunters that get too close, and will happily charge you while you're fighting a monster in or near their territory.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Their ears indicate that they're basically the Lynian equivalent to caracals, which are a bit on the obscure side as far as big cats go.
* BareYourMidriff: Female Kulu-Ya-Ku armor looks like belly dancer garb.
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* NonMaliciousMonster: Kulu-Ya-Ku would rather go on with its business than attack a hunter.
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* NonMaliciousMonster: Kulu-Ya-Ku would rather go on with its business than attack a hunter.hunter, though the ones encountered in ''Rise'' will attack on sight, just like every other monster in the game.
* StockDinosaurs: Aside from the obvious raptor sickle claw, Kulu-Ya-Ku's egg-stealing behavior and bird-like visage bring oviraptor to mind.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: While it can't [[MookMaker pick up and spit Konchu at you]], the Kulu-Ya-Ku is one to the Yian Kut-Ku, being one of the early-game monsters that you must take a little more seriously.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: While it can't [[MookMaker pick up and spit Konchu at you]], the Kulu-Ya-Ku is one to the Yian Kut-Ku, being one of the early-game monsters that you must take a little more seriously.seriously despite its goofy appearance.
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* StockDinosaurs: It has the large sickle claws of velociraptor and deinonychus, but is otherwise heavily evocative of Jurassic Park's interpretation of a frilled dilophosaurus.
* {{Troll}}: They love to jump into fights between hunters and monsters so they can flash and stun both parties before hightailing it out of there, for no real reason other than to mess with them.
* BareYourMidriff: Female Anjanath armor shows off a lot of belly, thanks to its ChainmailBikini status.
* MsFanservice: Female Anjanath armor is more on the skimpy side, being a revealing ChainmailBikini straight out of a pulp fantasy novel.
* {{Gonk}}: It's a close relative of the Uragaan and is every bit as ugly.
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* CatlikeDragons: Their pointed ear-like crests, wide eyes with slitter pupils, and stance as they prowl around give them a bit of feline flair.
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* CatlikeDragons: Their pointed ear-like crests, wide eyes with slitter slitted pupils, and stance as they prowl around give them a bit of feline flair.
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* TheWorfEffect: One of the many monsters Deviljho can use as a bludgeon. Also, [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Behemoth's]] intro shows it getting killed before tossed away like a ragdoll.
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* TheWorfEffect: One of the many monsters Deviljho can use as a bludgeon. Also, [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Behemoth's]] intro shows it getting killed before being tossed away like a ragdoll.
* EliteMook: Downplayed compared to most examples, but Wulgs are a good deal more threatening than ''World's'' other small Fanged Wyverns.
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* SavageWolves: They'll stalk hunters over surprisingly long distances, and will happily sic their entire pack on them when they move in for the kill.
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** Vanilla Anjanath, while by no means a weakling, gets completely trounced in a fight with Rathalos. By contrast, Fulgur Anjanath can fight ''Barioth'', '''Tigrex''', and '''''Diablos''''' to a draw. [[JustifiedTrope This might have something to do with the fact that Fulgur Anjanath uses an element that Tigrex has a pronounced weakness to,]] but it's also much stronger than its nominate species physically.
** Vanilla Anjanath also gets bumped up a few notches in ''Rise'' compared to its ''World'' counterpart. It's now considered to be on the same level as monsters like Zinogre, whereas before its threat level was relatively low, and while it still gets stomped by the Raths in turf wars, it's able to hold its own against the likes of Nargacuga and Diablos. On a gameplay level, Anjanath's flamethrower attack would end his rage mode in ''World'', but this doesn't happen in ''Rise''; you'll be attacked with them until his rage mode ends.
** Vanilla Anjanath also gets bumped up a few notches in ''Rise'' compared to its ''World'' counterpart. It's now considered to be on the same level as monsters like Zinogre, whereas before its threat level was relatively low, and while it still gets stomped by the Raths in turf wars, it's able to hold its own against the likes of Nargacuga and Diablos. On a gameplay level, Anjanath's flamethrower attack would end his rage mode in ''World'', but this doesn't happen in ''Rise''; you'll be attacked with them until his rage mode ends.
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** Vanilla Anjanath, while by no means a weakling, gets completely trounced in a fight with Rathalos. By contrast, Fulgur Anjanath can fight ''Barioth'', '''Tigrex''', and '''''Diablos''''' to a draw. [[JustifiedTrope This might have something to do with the fact that Fulgur Anjanath uses an element that Tigrex has a pronounced weakness to,]] to]], but it's also much stronger than its nominate species physically.
** Vanilla Anjanath also gets bumped up a few notches in ''Rise'' compared to its ''World'' counterpart. It's now considered to be on the same level as monsters like Zinogre, whereas before its threat level was relatively low, and while it still gets stomped by the Raths in turf wars, it's able to hold its own against the likes of Nargacuga and Diablos. On a gameplay level, Anjanath's flamethrower attackwould used to end his its rage mode in ''World'', but this doesn't happen not in ''Rise''; you'll be attacked ''Rise'', where it keeps attacking you with them it until his its rage mode ends.
** Vanilla Anjanath also gets bumped up a few notches in ''Rise'' compared to its ''World'' counterpart. It's now considered to be on the same level as monsters like Zinogre, whereas before its threat level was relatively low, and while it still gets stomped by the Raths in turf wars, it's able to hold its own against the likes of Nargacuga and Diablos. On a gameplay level, Anjanath's flamethrower attack
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** Vanilla Anjanath also gets bumped up a few notches in ''Rise'' compared to its ''World'' counterpart. It's now considered to be on the same level as monsters like Zinogre, whereas before its threat level was relatively low, and while it still gets stomped by the Raths in turf wars, it's able to hold its own against the likes of Nargacuga and Diablos.
* TurnsRed: When enraged, it will flash its nostrils and back fins. It may power itself up even further by setting its mouth on fire, adding Fireblight to its biting attacks. It will return to its normal state by unleashing a powerful [[BreathWeapon flamethrower attack.]]
* TurnsRed: When enraged, it will flash its nostrils and back fins. It may power itself up even further by setting its mouth on fire, adding Fireblight to its biting attacks. It will return to its normal state by unleashing a powerful [[BreathWeapon flamethrower attack.]]
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** Vanilla Anjanath also gets bumped up a few notches in ''Rise'' compared to its ''World'' counterpart. It's now considered to be on the same level as monsters like Zinogre, whereas before its threat level was relatively low, and while it still gets stomped by the Raths in turf wars, it's able to hold its own against the likes of Nargacuga and Diablos.
Diablos. On a gameplay level, Anjanath's flamethrower attack would end his rage mode in ''World'', but this doesn't happen in ''Rise''; you'll be attacked with them until his rage mode ends.
* TurnsRed: When enraged, it will flash its nostrils and back fins. It may power itself up even further by setting its mouth on fire, adding Fireblight to its biting attacks.It In ''World'', it will return to its normal state by unleashing a powerful [[BreathWeapon flamethrower attack.]]attack]].
* TurnsRed: When enraged, it will flash its nostrils and back fins. It may power itself up even further by setting its mouth on fire, adding Fireblight to its biting attacks.
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* DropTheHammer: Whenever they're not hurling javelins at you, they'll whack you with hammers.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: In a ''Rise'' cinematic, one opts to go down fighting against the Magnamalo hunting it once it realizes it can't escape. The haiku accompanying the scene even refers to it as "a hero's death."
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* DefiantToTheEnd: In a ''Rise'' cinematic, [[DoNotGoGentle one opts to go down fighting against the Magnamalo hunting it once it realizes it can't escape. escape.]] The haiku accompanying the scene even refers to it as [[FaceDeathWithDignity "a hero's death.""]]
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!!Safi'jiiva ''(Muffet Jiiva)''
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Its whole body starts off incredibly tough, so hunters have to ''make'' weak points using the Clutch Claw's tenderizing ability in order to do real damage and avoid bouncing without the Minds Eye decoration. During the final phase, its chest becomes a weak point when it enters rage mode.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Its whole body starts off incredibly tough, so hunters have to ''make'' weak points using the Clutch Claw's tenderizing ability in order to do real damage and avoid bouncing without the Minds Eye decoration. Some of its parts are weaker to certain types of damage, too; Blademasters should aim for its forelimbs, Hammers and Hunting Horns should aim for its head, and Gunners should aim for its wings. During the final phase, its chest becomes a weak point when it enters rage mode.
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* CatlikeDragons: Their pointed ear-like crests, wide eyes with slitter pupils, and stance as they prowl around give them a bit of feline flair.
* CoolShades: The goggles you can craft from their parts resemble these.
* CoolShades: The goggles you can craft from their parts resemble these.
* VocalDissonance: They're no less reptilian than their Jagras and Girros cousins, but they make noises that bafflingly sound like the whinnying of a horse.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Its tubby body, friendly face, and gentle nature have won it plenty of admirers both in-and-out of universe. You're even given a mission to hunt one because the other hunters think it's too cute to hurt.
* StoutStrength: It's far from the strongest monster in the Elder's Recess, but this fat lizard's not to be underestimated: those explosive rocks it can spit at you ''hurt''.
* StoutStrength: It's far from the strongest monster in the Elder's Recess, but this fat lizard's not to be underestimated: those explosive rocks it can spit at you ''hurt''.
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* WarmUpBoss: The easiest boss in the Elder's Recesss.
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* WarmUpBoss: The easiest boss in the Elder's Recesss.Recess.
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* AttackAttackAttack: Because Nergigante's wounds heal over time in a way that makes it more dangerous, Hunters are encouraged to be aggressive in attacking to break its white spikes before they harden to create an opening and to continue hammering at it in a DPS race to take it out before it take out the Hunters.
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"It's" and "its" are not interchangeable for possessive. alphafire18, you're accumulating a lot of these notifiers.
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** The Coral Pukei Pukei loses a good half of its moveset if its tail is severed, including most of its more powerful and annoying attacks. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for Pukei-Pukei in ''Rise'', as even after its tail is severed, it will continue to spray poison out of it's tail stump (albeit, far less potently than before).
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** The Coral Pukei Pukei loses a good half of its moveset if its tail is severed, including most of its more powerful and annoying attacks. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for Pukei-Pukei in ''Rise'', as even after its tail is severed, it will continue to spray poison out of it's its tail stump (albeit, far less potently than before).
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** The Coral Pukei Pukei loses a good half of its moveset if its tail is severed, including most of its more powerful and annoying attacks. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for Pukei-Pukei in ''Rise'', as even after its tail is severed, it will continue to spray poison out of it's tail stump.
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** The Coral Pukei Pukei loses a good half of its moveset if its tail is severed, including most of its more powerful and annoying attacks. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for Pukei-Pukei in ''Rise'', as even after its tail is severed, it will continue to spray poison out of it's tail stump.stump (albeit, far less potently than before).
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** The Coral Pukei Pukei loses a good half of its moveset if its tail is severed. This includes most of its more powerful and annoying attacks.
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** The Coral Pukei Pukei loses a good half of its moveset if its tail is severed. This includes severed, including most of its more powerful and annoying attacks.attacks. [[AvertedTrope Averted]] for Pukei-Pukei in ''Rise'', as even after its tail is severed, it will continue to spray poison out of it's tail stump.
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* ItCanThink: Intelligence is probably not its strongest attribute, but the ecological researcher points out that using tools is a rare thing in nature, so Kulu-Ya-Ku's use of rocks as shields or bludgeons is academically significant.
* KillerRabbit: They're not the most physically imposing monsters, and are kind of adorable in a dopey way, but they will ''brain'' you with a rock if you mess with them. This is ''especially'' the case of the crystal thief Kulu-Ya-Ku, who can potentially one shot endgame players.
* KillerRabbit: They're not the most physically imposing monsters, and are kind of adorable in a dopey way, but they will ''brain'' you with a rock if you mess with them. This is ''especially'' the case of the crystal thief Kulu-Ya-Ku, who can potentially one shot endgame players.
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* ItCanThink: ItCanThink:
** Intelligence is probably not its strongest attribute, but the ecological researcher points out that using tools is a rare thing in nature, so Kulu-Ya-Ku's use of rocks as shields or bludgeons is academically significant.
** In its ''Rise'' intro cutscene while stealing eggs, upon being charged at by the parents, Kulu-Ya-Ku's instinctive response to avoiding the first one is to jump up into the air, leading the herbivore to crash into a wall. Then when faced with the other two, Kulu-Ya-Ku charges forward before skillfully weaving through them before making its getaway.
* KillerRabbit: They're not the most physically imposing monsters, and are kind of adorable in a dopey way, but they will ''brain'' you with a rock if you mess with them. This is ''especially'' the case of the crystal thief Kulu-Ya-Ku, who can potentially one shot HR endgame players.
** Intelligence is probably not its strongest attribute, but the ecological researcher points out that using tools is a rare thing in nature, so Kulu-Ya-Ku's use of rocks as shields or bludgeons is academically significant.
** In its ''Rise'' intro cutscene while stealing eggs, upon being charged at by the parents, Kulu-Ya-Ku's instinctive response to avoiding the first one is to jump up into the air, leading the herbivore to crash into a wall. Then when faced with the other two, Kulu-Ya-Ku charges forward before skillfully weaving through them before making its getaway.
* KillerRabbit: They're not the most physically imposing monsters, and are kind of adorable in a dopey way, but they will ''brain'' you with a rock if you mess with them. This is ''especially'' the case of the crystal thief Kulu-Ya-Ku, who can potentially one shot HR endgame players.
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* MightyRoar: In ''Rise'', it's its roar now flinches hunters.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Unlike in ''World'', where Jyuratodus was labeled as an easy and forgetable fight by many, ''Rise''gave Jyuratodus quite the bump in difficulty, having new moves, more damage and [[MightyRoar a roar that can flinch hunters.]] It also requires having made it to High Rank hub quests to fight it as well.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Unlike in ''World'', where Jyuratodus was labeled as an easy and forgetable forgettable fight by many, ''Rise''gave ''Rise'' gave Jyuratodus quite the bump in difficulty, having new moves, more damage and [[MightyRoar a roar that can flinch hunters.]] It also requires having made it to High Rank hub quests to fight it as well.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Unlike in ''World'', where Jyuratodus was labeled as an easy and forgetable fight by many, ''Rise''gave Jyuratodus quite the bump in difficulty, having new moves, more damage and [[MightyRoar a roar that can flinch hunters.]] It also requires having made it to High Rank hub quests to fight it as well.
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* DefiantToTheEnd: In a ''Rise'' cinematic, one opts to go down fighting against the Magnamalo hunting it once it realizes it can't escape. The haiku accompanying the scene even refers to it as "a hero's death."
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Rise''-]
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** Vanilla Anjanath also gets bumped up a few notches in ''Rise'' compared to it's ''World'' counterpart. It's now considered to be on the same level as monsters like Zinogre, whereas before it's threat level was relatively low, and while it still gets stomped by the Raths in turf wars, it's able to hold it's own against the likes of Nargacuga and Diablos.
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** Vanilla Anjanath also gets bumped up a few notches in ''Rise'' compared to it's its ''World'' counterpart. It's now considered to be on the same level as monsters like Zinogre, whereas before it's its threat level was relatively low, and while it still gets stomped by the Raths in turf wars, it's able to hold it's its own against the likes of Nargacuga and Diablos.
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* UnskilledButStrong:
** Anjanath weapons tend to have high raw damage, with a respectable fire elemental damage, and are easier to access early on compared to Rathalos and Lavasioth weapons; the downside is that it comes at the expense of Affinity (it gets a -20% to -30% hit).
** Anjanath weapons tend to have high raw damage, with a respectable fire elemental damage, and are easier to access early on compared to Rathalos and Lavasioth weapons; the downside is that it comes at the expense of Affinity (it gets a -20% to -30% hit).
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* UnskilledButStrong:
**UnskilledButStrong: Anjanath weapons tend to have high raw damage, with a respectable fire elemental damage, and are easier to access early on compared to Rathalos and Lavasioth weapons; the downside is that it comes at the expense of Affinity (it gets a -20% to -30% hit).
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* TookALevelInBadass: Vanilla Anjanath, while by no means a weakling, gets completely trounced in a fight with Rathalos. By contrast, Fulgur Anjanath can fight ''Barioth'', '''Tigrex''', and '''''Diablos''''' to a draw. [[JustifiedTrope This might have something to do with the fact that Fulgur Anjanath uses an element that Tigrex has a pronounced weakness to,]] but it's also much stronger than its nominate species physically.
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* TookALevelInBadass: TookALevelInBadass:
** Vanilla Anjanath, while by no means a weakling, gets completely trounced in a fight with Rathalos. By contrast, Fulgur Anjanath can fight ''Barioth'', '''Tigrex''', and '''''Diablos''''' to a draw. [[JustifiedTrope This might have something to do with the fact that Fulgur Anjanath uses an element that Tigrex has a pronounced weakness to,]] but it's also much stronger than its nominate species physically.
** Vanilla Anjanath also gets bumped up a few notches in ''Rise'' compared to it's ''World'' counterpart. It's now considered to be on the same level as monsters like Zinogre, whereas before it's threat level was relatively low, and while it still gets stomped by the Raths in turf wars, it's able to hold it's own against the likes of Nargacuga and Diablos.
** Vanilla Anjanath, while by no means a weakling, gets completely trounced in a fight with Rathalos. By contrast, Fulgur Anjanath can fight ''Barioth'', '''Tigrex''', and '''''Diablos''''' to a draw. [[JustifiedTrope This might have something to do with the fact that Fulgur Anjanath uses an element that Tigrex has a pronounced weakness to,]] but it's also much stronger than its nominate species physically.
** Vanilla Anjanath also gets bumped up a few notches in ''Rise'' compared to it's ''World'' counterpart. It's now considered to be on the same level as monsters like Zinogre, whereas before it's threat level was relatively low, and while it still gets stomped by the Raths in turf wars, it's able to hold it's own against the likes of Nargacuga and Diablos.
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* CompositeCharacter: Tobi in ''Rise'' is this to its own subspecies from ''Iceborne''. It gains the ability to do Viper's aerial sweep as its [[SuperMove called-out-by-the-hunter attack]], and it can now fling quills at the hunter from a distance like Viper could, save that these quills can Thunderblight when Tobi's charged up rather than poisoning them.
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* CompositeCharacter: Tobi in ''Rise'' is this to its own subspecies from ''Iceborne''. It gains the ability to do Viper's aerial sweep as its [[SuperMove [[FinishingMove called-out-by-the-hunter attack]], and it can now fling quills at the hunter from a distance like Viper could, save that these quills can Thunderblight when Tobi's charged up rather than poisoning them.
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* CompositeCharacter: Tobi in ''Rise'' is this to its own subspecies from ''Iceborne''. It gains the ability to do Viper's aerial sweep as its [[SuperMove called-out-by-the-hunter attack]], and it can now fling quills at the hunter from a distance like Viper could, save that these quills can Thunderblight when Tobi's charged up rather than poisoning them.
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* RememberTheNewGuy: It has apparently been observed in the Old World before, despite its first appearance being in ''World'', which is set in the New World.
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Monsters that premiered ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'' and ''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne'' as part of the fifth generation of games. Japanese names are noted in italics; if the English name is identical to the Japanese or is an accurate translation, the Japanese will not be listed.
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!Herbivores
[[folder:Kestodon]]
!!Kestodon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kestodon.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
''Pachycephalosaurus''-like monsters that thrive in jungles and deserts. Males of the species are bright orange and have large head crests used for head-butting rivals, and females are bronze and lack these head crests.
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Not themselves, but the gauntlets you make from their parts includes what looks like a punch dagger over your hand.
* HerbivoresAreFriendly: Zig-zagged. Females won't directly attack, but they do alert the Males of would-be intruders and staying to close to them will make them turn hostile. That being said, they'll generally leave you alone if you walk past them, and they won't attack you if you're fighting a large monster.
* UseYourHead: Their main method of attack is head-butting foes.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gastodon]]
!!Gastodon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gastodon.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
These monsters are very similar to Kestodon above, but they prefer volcanic environments and have large, round manes growing from their heads.
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* EvilCounterpart: While not evil, they're significantly more aggressive than Kestodon.
* HerbivoresAreFriendly: [[AvertedTrope Definitely not the case.]] They're much more aggressive than Kestodon and will even continue bothering you as a large monster tosses you around.
* RedIsViolent: Colored Red, and very ill-tempered.
* UseYourHead: Like Kestodon, their main tactic is to headbutt anyone who gets too close.
[[/folder]]
!Fish
[[folder:Gajau]]
!!Gajau ''(Garaiba)''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gajau.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''-]
Small, catfish-like monsters who dwell in the mud. They are aggressive and will bite unaware hunters who get too close.
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* GracefulInTheirElement: Powerful swimmers, but clumsy on land.
* {{Retcon}}: Were classified as Fish when they went by the label of Catfish in the Third Generation, before being accidentally labelled Piscine Wyverns in ''World''. As of the version 3 update, it would be reclassified as Fish once again.
[[/folder]]
!Lynians
[[folder:Grimalkyne]]
!!Grimalkyne ''(Tetol)''
[[quoteright:267:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_grimalkyne_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Caracal-like Lynians with a body structure and society similar to Felynes and Melynxes.
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* CatsAreMean: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], as they'd rather flee than cause trouble when approached outside their camp. A group of Grimalkynes do attack you unprovoked in the Coral Highlands, but it turns out to have been a misunderstanding.
* CuteKitten: A little more feral, but still adorable.
* GuestStarPartyMember: When playing offline, you can recruit a friendly Grimalkyne with your Palico for an extra hand. They will only stay around for one Quest though and you can't customise their look or equipment. Their main ability is randomly selected from the clans unlocked up to this point.
* MeaningfulName: ''Grimalkin'' is an archaic term for a cat.
* {{Sidequest}}: Each Grimalkyne Clans have a sidquest that if completed, will grant a Palico Gadget specific to that Clan that your Palico can use, as well as teaching your Palico monster language, allowing your Palico to befriend Jagras, Kestodon, Shamos, Girros and Gastodon.
* TrapMaster: They often set net traps to catch monsters. Hunters can take advantage of this, though Elder Dragons are of course immune. One of the potential followers you can recruit is the Trapper, who can place Shock Traps free of charge.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gajalaka]]
!!Gajalaka
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_gajalaka_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Mask-wearing Lynians highly reminiscent of the Old World Shakalakas. They reside in the Elder Recess and only appear in other zones in High Rank quests, Master Rank quests and expeditions.
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* BackgroundMusicOverride: Actually inverted; their theme gets overriden if a larger monster is around.
* BlingOfWar: Gold Tribe Gajalaka wear gold-colored variants of the standard outfit. Those who steal loot from Kulve Taroth become increasingly blinged out in solid-gold armor.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Their glowing golden eyes, and nothing else, are visible through the large mouths of their masks.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The color of their masks' markings determine what status effects they'll inflict: those with purple markings will inflict Poison, those with yellow markings will inflict Paralysis, and those with blue markings will inflict Sleep.
* CombatPragmatist: Will gladly lay siege on any large monsters that get downed, flinging knives and bombs at them.
* CycleOfHurting: Can inflict numerous status ailments on their target with their weapons and unwary Hunters can easily find themselves getting paralysed, poisoned, put to sleep, or blown up before they have a chance to recover.
* EnemyMine: If a large monster is in front of them, they'll attack the monster before the hunter. All bets are off if the monster leaves, however.
* GlassCannon: Don't have much health compared to other monsters of High Rank, but have the damage output that can easily take out an overconfident Hunter.
* GripingAboutGremlins: [[https://twitter.com/BannedDino/status/987959496294223872 Gajalakas have gremlin-like heads underneath their masks]], and unlike the other clans, they will attack any Hunter that gets too close. Even after befriending one of their senior members, any encountered outside their camp will remain hostile.
* GuestStarPartyMember: After befriending them, a Gajalaka can be recruited much like the Grimalkyne. However this can only be done from their camp or randomly spawned parties in the various maps; the static spawn groups remain hostile.
* HelpfulMook:
** If a Hunter downs a monster near a group of Gajalakas they'll take the opportunity to unload their throwing knives and bombs on the monster. They also sometimes set traps for monsters and will unleash a storm of tiny rockets on any they capture.
** When driven off, either by monsters or Hunter, Gajalakas leave behind supply drops. This includes first aid kits, rations, and the various status effect throwing knives.
* KillerRabbit: Don't underestimate them due to their small size and cuteness; they can down new High Rank Hunters in two or three hits and even well-geared players run the risk of being stuck in a [[CycleOfHurting downed state due to their many debuff abilities]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCbkIIvAOnM "The Savage Gajalaka"]], a fast-paced song consisting of a dueling string instrument and woodwind to the backdrop of drums.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: In High and Master Rank, their throwing knives can shave off the same amoun from a Hunter's health bar as a ''large monster,'' plus they inflict poison, sleep or paralysis depending on the color of their mask. Who knew such tiny creatures could do such serious damage?!
* PokemonSpeak: Their language appears to consist entirely of the syllables "gaja" and "laka".
* RageHelm: Their masks are clearly designed to intimidate.
* ScreamingWarrior: Once they turn hostile, they will shout quite loudly in their native tongue before attacking.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Gajalaka are never actually killed. After taking enough damage from a Hunter or monster, it will run away by burrowing into the ground.
** Gajalaka will burrow temporarily if a Hunter is fighting a monster nearby. They will only emerge once the monster has move away or if it's downed.
** Even in large numbers, they know better than to try to fight a Nergigante, as a cutscene involves them running away from the Elder Dragon.
* StickyFingers: The Golden Tribe in the Caverns of El Dorado will steal drops from the boss and use it to buff themselves.
* StuffBlowingUp:
** They can throw explosive cocktails that are quite slow, but pack a powerful punch.
** After ranking up their relationship, the Gajalaka will rarely set a trap for monsters. If triggered the trapper will hurl a bomb that knocks the monster prone and a horde of Gajalaka will erupt from the ground to unleash a hail of bottle rockets on it.
* TrapMaster: Unlike the Grimalkyne who used nets and require a Hunter to mount the monster near their traps, Gajalaka use explosives on any hostile monster that moves close to their trapper. Because their trap actually knocks a monster prone rather than snaring it, these traps [[UpToEleven work on Elder Dragons]].
* TunnelKing: They have a series of tunnels in the lower parts of the Elder Recess, allowing quick travel between the various regions and their camp. Once befriended, Hunters can use the tunnels as well.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Boaboa]]
!!Boaboa
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_boaboa_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
Mask-wearing Lynians that reside in Hoarfrost Reach.
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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: [[https://i.imgur.com/uM8Ncb2.jpg They resemble little yetis underneath their helmets]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Like their Gajalaka brethren the color of the tips of their horns and the eyes on their masks determine what status effects they'll inflict: those with purple will inflict Poison, those with yellow will inflict Paralysis, and those with blue will inflict Sleep.
* EnemyMine: If a large monster is the vicinity of them, they'll attack the monster before the hunter. Just try not to be between a Boaboa and a Large monster though.
* {{Foil}}: To Gajalaka. Like them, they are a unique Lynian clan and can inflict ailments upon hunters and large monsters.
* GuestStarPartyMember: After befriending them, a Boaboa can be recruited much like the Grimalkyne and Gajalaka before them. However this can only be done from their camp or randomly spawned parties in the various maps; the static spawn groups remain hostile unless you have another Boaboa with you.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: A interesting example; Normally the Boaboa are hostile towards hunters. However by completing their questline[[note]]Available after forging friendships with all the other tribes and getting far enough into Master Rank[[/note]] and having a Boaboa with you as a Tailraider other Boaboa out in the field will not be hostile towards you. All bets are off should you not have a Boaboa with you or you go and attack them.
* JavelinThrower: Their weapon of choice is massive harpoons.
* KillerRabbit: Like the Gajalaka before them you shouldn't underestimate them because of how cute they are; they can down Master Rank Hunters in two or three hits and even well-geared players run the risk of being stuck in a [[CycleOfHurting downed state due to their many debuff abilities]].
%%* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfW5rY5IYcw "The Savage Boaboa"]].
* PokemonSpeak: Much like the Gajalaka, Boaboa language is simply "boa" repeated ad nauseam.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Like the Gajalaka before them Boaboa are never actually killed. After taking enough damage from either a Hunter or monster, they will run away by burrowing into the ground.
** Boaboa will burrow temporarily if a Hunter is fighting a monster nearby. They will only emerge once the monster has move away or if it's downed.
* TrapMaster: Their trap involves them jumping from the ground and tossing spears at the monster.
[[/folder]]
!Wingdrakes
[[folder:Barnos]]
!!Barnos
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barnos.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Small wingdrakes that inhabit the Great Ravine and Elder's Recess. Unlike the others, they are actually fairly aggressive and will attack hunters that linger near them for too long.
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* DamageIncreasingDebuff: They can spit out acid that inflicts the Defense Down ailment.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Well, not EXACTLY dinosaurs, but they are the only wingdrakes with two crests, giving the traditional appearance of a dragon's head.
* HelpfulMook: Useful for getting on the back of [[spoiler:Zorah Magdaros]], but the ones in [[spoiler: Elder's Recess]] will only carry you a short distance around the area they're in before dropping you.
* PteroSoarer: Barnos resemble this version of pterosaurs more closely than other wingdrakes do, complete with fanged beaks paired with ''Pteranodon''-like crests and webbed, batlike wings.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mernos]]
!!Mernos
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mernos.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Small, pterosaur-like wyverns that thrive in forests. Hunters can use them as a means of transportation by using their grappling hooks on their foot. The Research Commission have domesticated several of these wingdrakes and they function as the primary means of transport and travel for Hunters in the New World.
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* HelpfulMook: Hunters can use them to traverse areas by grabbing their foot with their grappling hooks. Domesticated ones serve as the means of fast travel in the game for Hunters and with the use of Farcaster, can even be a BigDamnHeroes, bailing Hunters out of a potentially sticky situation.
* PteroSoarer: While it doesn't fit this archetype as closely as Barnos does, Mernos noticeably resembles a bat-winged, fanged Hollywood pterosaur.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When starting a High Rank Quest, the Mernos that is transporting you may sometimes be spooked by a large monster on the map and drop you in panic in another random area of the map instead of a campsite or [[ThisIsGonnaSuck even in front of said monster.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Noios]]
!!Noios
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/noios.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Small wyverns that inhabit the Wildspire Waste. They can mimic a Diablos's cry, and will do so to attract one to its area if it feels threatened.
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* PteroSoarer: Like the Mernos, it also greatly resembles pterosaurs.
* SummonBiggerFish: When threatened, it can attract a Diablos to its area by mimicking its cry, getting the monster to fight its aggressor for it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Raphinos]]
!!Raphinos
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raphinos.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Raphinos in the Rotten Vale]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raphinosrottenvale.png]][[/labelnote]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Small wyverns that inhabit the Coral Highlands and the Rotten Vale. While normally timid and preyed upon by larger monsters, they become aggressive when exposed to the toxic gases in the Rotten Vale.
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* TheCorruption: Raphinos are docile and often hunted by other monsters as a food source in Coral Highland, but the ones exposed to the effluvium of the Rotten Vale becomes extremely hostile, attacking Hunters on sight and looking possessed.
* HelpfulMook: Hunters can use them to traverse areas by grabbing their foot with their grappling hooks.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Cortos]]
!!Cortos
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cortos.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
Small wyverns that inhabit the Hoarfrost Reach.
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* DamageIncreasingDebuff: They can spit out a ball of saliva that inflicts the elemental resistance down ailment.
* HelpfulMook: As with the other wingdrakes, Hunters can grapple on to them to traverse areas.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To the Remobras. They resemble flying snakes, immediately start eating any monster corpse in their vicinity and tend to stick around when Elder Dragons are in the area.
[[/folder]]
!Bird Wyverns
[[folder:Kulu-Ya-Ku]]
!!Kulu-Ya-Ku
!!!Scratching Bird
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kulu_ya_ku.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''-]
An ''Oviraptor''-like Bird Wyvern with a scaly hide, feathered limbs, and a dodo-like beak. It can pick up and use large rocks to defend itself or attack, and has been known to raid monster nests so it can eat the eggs found within them.
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* AchillesHeel: The Slinger can knock rocks out of its hands, leaving it vulnerable. [[RemovedAchillesHeel The Kulu-Ya-Ku fought in the Special Assignment in the Behemoth update that stole the Aetheryte Crystal is immune to this tactic and will keep holding on to the Crystal until it is slain.]]
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The special crystal thief Kulu-Ya-Ku will continuously grow in size throughout the Behemoth Special Assignment, eventually dwarfing the Anjanath that's on the map with it.
* BedlahBabe: The female armor made from this monsters parts. Even the male armor has a notable Arabic flavor while Palico armor makes it look like a comical depiction of a sultan.
* ContractualBossImmunity: The special crystal thief Kulu-Ya-Ku found in the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' Crossover Update is completely immune to all status effects except Blast and can't be mounted. It will also destroy any traps set like other Elder Dragons.
* DishingOutDirt: It uses rocks to dish out damage and block attacks.
* FeatheredDragons: A flightless, birdlike wyvern with tufts of feathers on its arms and head.
* FeatheredFiend: Its head and part of its arms are covered in feathers.
* FragileSpeedster: It's fast and agile, but not very sturdy.
* ItCanThink: Intelligence is probably not its strongest attribute, but the ecological researcher points out that using tools is a rare thing in nature, so Kulu-Ya-Ku's use of rocks as shields or bludgeons is academically significant.
* KillerRabbit: They're not the most physically imposing monsters, and are kind of adorable in a dopey way, but they will ''brain'' you with a rock if you mess with them. This is ''especially'' the case of the crystal thief Kulu-Ya-Ku, who can potentially one shot endgame players.
* KillItWithWater: Its main weakness is Water.
* LeeroyJenkins: Normally pretty docile unless bothered, it will throw caution to the wind upon picking up a rock and will attack the nearest bigger monsters, like Barroth, Jyuratodus, and even Diablos!
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The rocks it carries act as shields, deflecting attacks that hit them.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Has the body of an ''Oviraptor'', the head [[DumbDodoBird (and overall brains)]] of a dodo bird, and the coloration and head crest of a cockatoo.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Kulu-Ya-Ku would rather go on with its business than attack a hunter.
* RaptorAttack: A raptor with a dodo-esque head, but a raptor nonetheless.
* StuffBlowingUp: In ''Iceborne'', the Master Rank version will occasionally dig up an explosive rock (similar to the one Bomb Beetles roll up) and throw it.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Suffers this when holding a rock, attacking other far bigger and stronger monsters without thought to its own safety
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: While it can't [[MookMaker pick up and spit Konchu at you]], the Kulu-Ya-Ku is one to the Yian Kut-Ku, being one of the early-game monsters that you must take a little more seriously.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Eggs of other monsters.
* WakeUpCallBoss: Normally averted, but the Special Assignment one in the Behemoth update plays it straight, hitting a lot harder and is a great deal more durable than the usual Kulu-Ya-Ku.
* TheWorfEffect: Deviljho can easily grab it and use it as a bludgeon, or just hurl the poor thing away like a ragdoll.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tzitzi-Ya-Ku]]
!!Tzitzi-Ya-Ku
!!!Bright Bird
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_tzitzi_ya_ku_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
A ''Dilophosaurus''-like Bird Wyvern with giant, fan-like frills on its head, which can apparently flash and stun opponents somehow.
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* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Like with other flash users, looking away from its blinding lights won't stop them from stunning you. Slightly downplayed that the flash attack is really telegraphed and you can also see the range of the flash before it is performed, so you can run out of the flash's range, prepare to block it, or get within range to get some free hits (if you're immune to stun and/or close enough). ''Iceborne'' makes the latter slightly more difficult in Master Rank, as Tzitzi-Ya-Ku can now hop in place while preparing the flash animation, allowing it to turn toward anyone trying to sidestep it.
* CripplingOverspecialization: It's not exactly a hard creature to fight against to begin with, but should you negate its stunning capability, then taking it down will become a near-trivial matter.
* DirtyCoward: Unlike Kulu and its bouts of SuicidalOverconfidence, Tzitzi's primary offence to any and every threat--from legitimately threatening wyverns like Legiana, ineffectual threats like the Shamos, and hunters themselves--is "flashbang and run away." Might veer into LovableCoward during the times its flashbang get another monster and ''not'' the hunter.
* EnemyMine: It can occasionally show up when you are fighting another large monster and use its flash attack to blind it before running away, allowing you to get free hits on the stunned large monster. Since Tzitzi-Ya-Ku is the weakest predator monster in the food chain of the Coral Highlands, this behaviour could be it attempting to get rid of the competition by helping you take out its bigger and stronger rivals.
* FragileSpeedster: It's quick to move, but isn't particularly durable.
* HelpfulMook: Tzitzi-Ya-Kus are more a threat to ''other'' monsters than they are to hunters; they're entirely docile toward the player unless provoked, and they're able to use their flashbang to stun larger monsters, often bringing flying ones right out of the sky.
* LightEmUp: Its frills emit bright flashes. [[LogicalWeakness Breaking its frills will quickly disable Tzitzi's ability to perform its flash attack.]]
* {{Ninja}}: Though not to the same extent as the female Odogaron armor, male Tzitzi armor has a notable assassin-like look with a mask and a BadassLongcoat. The dual blade showcase even features the armor.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Like its cousin Kulu, Tzitzi is not an inherently aggressive creature; it doesn't attack a hunter unless provoked first and its initial response to most any threat is usually to simply flashbang and [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere get as far away from dodge as it can]]. Notably, it's one of the perishingly few monsters that doesn't attack the hunter after its introductory cutscene, something even ''other'' otherwise docile monsters (like the Dodogama) indulge in.
* RaptorAttack: It is a raptor with large fins that release blinding lights.
* RuleOfThree: Whenever Tzitzi uses his flash attack, he performs two "warm-up" flashes before the third one that actually blinds.
* SkippableBoss: You're required to find a Tzitzi-Ya-Ku during an expedition to make story progress in Low Rank, but fighting one is optional. However, you need to fight two in a special sidequest to unlock the Grimalkynes of the region.
* StockSoundEffects: The Tzitzi-Ya-Ku's snarls and screeches are around the range of what you'd expect from ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' raptors, but whenever it gets distressed, whether it's by getting stunned or mounted, it uncharacteristically lets out a chicken bawk.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Gypceros, the Bird Wyvern that can produces a bright flash to stun its enemies via an organ on its head that can be broken to prevent it from performing its flash again.
* TheWorfEffect: Is defeated in Turf Wars against Odogaron; it manages to flashes Odogaron who simply then NoSell the flash and counter attack with a claw swipe, knocking it down. Its also one of the many monsters Deviljho uses as a bludgeon.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: If you try to escape it by hitching a hide on a Raphinos, it will repeatedly flash your ride out of the sky.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Pukei-Pukei]]
!!Pukei-Pukei [-(variant: Coral Pukei-Pukei)-]
!!!Poison Bewitching Bird / Water Bewitching Bird (Coral Pukei-Pukei)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_pukei_pukei_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Coral Pukei-Pukei]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_coral_pukei_pukei_render_001.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''\\
'''Coral subspecies:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
A strange Bird Wyvern with frog-like features. It spews poisonous gas which gains additional effects depending on what food it has eaten. An even more brightly-colored subspecies -- with water attacks instead of poison -- lives in the Coral Highlands.
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* AchillesHeel:
** Dropping a Scatternut on it will prevent it from eating nuts, which keeps its poison attacks from gaining additional effects.
** The Coral Pukei Pukei loses a good half of its moveset if its tail is severed. This includes most of its more powerful and annoying attacks.
* AndroclesLion: In the ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Witcher 3]]'' collaboration, if you free one from the [[spoiler:Leshen's roots]], it will appear in the final location to assist Geralt in the fight.
* DirtyCoward: Not around a hunter, but one around other monsters. It picks fights with smaller ones that can't fight back, but flees around bigger ones that would easily trounce it. However, this is not the case with the one who helps Geralt in the collaboration. Averted altogether with the Coral Subspecies, which attacks hunters out of fear.
* {{Fartillery}}: Coral Pukei-Pukei can shoot water out of its tail, giving it this effect.
* FeatheredFiend: Its body is covered in vibrant feathers. Temperament-wise, the nominate species are known to bully smaller monsters despite not competing with them for food or territory.
* ForestRanger: The armor sets crafted from their parts for both male and female, as well as for Palicos, have this as their primary aesthetic.
* {{Gasshole}}: Has a large pucker on the end of its fat tail that spews poisonous gas.
* GlassCannon: Coral Pukei is much more aggressive than the standard species and has noticeably more powerful attacks, but it isn't very durable.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: Coral Pukei-Pukei has various shades of yellow, orange, and red, and is much stronger than the nominate species. Prior to the introduction of [[PurpleIsPowerful Yian Garuga]], is also the strongest Bird Wyvern in ''Iceborne''.
* ItCanThink: During the Witcher crossover mission, if you save the Pukei-Pukei along with the Gajalaka chief (and keep the former alive throughout the fight), said Pukei-Pukei tries to ''thank'' Geralt with a Felyne's help after the Leshen is dead. And to a lesser extent, its Coral subspecies is fairly creative with its water beams, including how to use its tongue to split a front-facing beam into two 45-degree angle ones.
* KaizoTrap: The Coral subspecies has a water cannon attack that it splits into two separate streams, catching hunters who carelessly dodge to one side unawares.
* MakingASplash: The Coral Pukei-Pukei trades its poison for water attacks, even being able to use its tail like a high pressure water cannon.
* MixAndMatchCritters: A reptilian wyvern with a chameleon-like head and a body covered in feathers, with a long frog-like tongue.
* MultipurposeTongue: Its tongue is used for both feeding and attacking.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In spite of being a cowardly bully that runs away from bigger monsters, it goes back to [[spoiler:help Geralt fight the Leshen despite nearly being killed by it if saved]].
* PoisonousPerson: Spits globs of clearly venomous purple saliva and releases poisonous gas from its tail.
* PowerUpFood: Its poison attacks gain additional properties depending on what it has eaten. If it eats a Scatternut, its spit is more likely to stun, if it eats a Sporepuff, its spit becomes giant clouds, and if it eats from a Poisoncup, its poison spit leaves giant pools.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: It will flee if a larger monster is in the same area as it.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Its gimmick of [[PowerUpFood gaining new attacks based on what it eats]] is essentially lifted from Congalala, albeit with nuts instead of mushrooms.
* ShoutOut: Like the Tobi-Kadachi low rank/high rank armor set, the master rank Pukei-Pukei and Coral Pukei-Pukei armor sets are inspired by the Caped Hunter Set from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** The Pukei-Pukei is one of the earliest monsters to be fought in the game and is not that threatening compared to other large monsters like Anjanath and Rathalos. Once you repel [[spoiler:Zorah Magdaros]] for good, a Pukei-Pukei is spotted in the Wildspire Waste, not the usual habitat for one. Unwary Hunters who dismiss this Pukei-Pukei are in for a shock, since this individual is a High Rank version, meaning it has more health and hits harder. Defeating it will allow Hunters to reach High Rank and begin hunting stronger versions of existing monsters.
** Similarly, the Coral Pukei-Pukei subspecies, while not a whole lot stronger, has a wider variety of attacks than the original which are likely to catch hunters off-guard when they first fight it.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: As part of a side quest in the ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Witcher 3]]'' collaboration, [[spoiler:Geralt can save a Pukei-Pukei from some roots controlled by the Leshen. If you do this, it will reappear in the final phase of the battle to help you out of gratitude. If you keep it alive during the fight, you get an Attack boosting decoration.]]
* WakeUpCallBoss: A Pukei-Pukei is the first High Rank monster encountered in ''World''; while [[DownplayedTrope still paling in comparison to stronger monsters]], its greatly increased strength may provide a rude awakening to an unsuspecting hunter.
* TheWorfEffect:
** All but one that are in the map are effortlessly killed by the [[spoiler:Leshen]] in the ''Witcher'' crossover.
** Also, it's defeated easily by Rajang in turf wars.
[[/folder]]
!Flying Wyverns
[[folder:Paolumu]]
!!Paolumu [-(variant: Nightshade Paolumu)-]
!!!Floating Sky Wyvern / Floating Sleep Wyvern (Nightshade Paolumu)
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Nightshade Paolumu]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_nightshade_paolumu_render_001.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Nightshade subspecies:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
This white-furred Flying Wyvern inflates its neck to float around the Coral Highlands and dine on coral eggs. When threatened, it attacks foes with its hard-scaled tail. The black-furred Nightshade subspecies is known to inhabit the Wildspire Waste, and is far more aggressive and has sleep-inducing attacks.
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* AchillesHeel: While not strictly unique to this Flying Wyvern, a Flash Pod will bring it down while puffed. Attacking its inflated neck enough times when it is puffed will knock out its air supply and send it crashing back to the ground.
* BatOutOfHell: Heavily resembles a giant bat, despite being a Wyvern. Not a particularly pleasant one either once angered.
* BlowYouAway: Will periodically suck in air into its neck ruff when fighting and once enough air is collected, its neck will swell up in size and Paolumu can perform aerial attacks. It can also shoot mini-tornadoes that do no damage, but stagger Hunters and leave them wide open for followup attacks.
** The Nightshade Subspecies combines this with ForcedSleep gas, which by usuing its movements in flight to spread it around the battlefield.
* ButtMonkey: Paolumu gets little to no respect from the [=NPC=]s due to its odd appearance, and it gets thrashed around easily by the larger monsters found within the Coral Highlands.
-->'''Third Fleet Master''': ...I'm sorry, I just retched thinking about that monster's face. Seriously, you'll be doing it a favor...
-->'''Chief Ecologist''': This is sort of an odd request, but there is a birthday party coming up this weekend, and we're in desperate need of balloons.
* {{Foil}}: To Khezu and Gigginox from previous generations. Like with those monsters, they have a item drop necessary for upgrading certain drink items, but while the former two are [[BigCreepyCrawlies grotesque, worm-like creatures,]] Paolumu is rather [[KillerRabbit adorable for a monster.]]
* GracefulInTheirElement: The Paolumu is not suited at fighting on land, tripping at the end of a charge and having a limited movesets. However, once it sucks in enough air to inflate its neck ruff and float, it becomes much more mobile, can attack much more frequently, and uses more powerful attacks.
* KillerRabbit: Visually cute, at least compared to the other monsters, but still a large monster that puts up a decent fight once provoked.
* MovesetClone: Shares a skeleton and animations with Pukei-Pukei.
* NonMaliciousMonster: It's incredibly docile and just likely to simply leave hunters alone even if they're within poking distance - moreso than most of the other monsters that occasionally display the same behavior. Even the much scarier looking subspecies will just mind its business provided it isn't provoked.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Compared to the other monsters introduced in this generation, this one is downright adorable! [[GameFace Until a hunter chooses to attack it that is...]]
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Primarily based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduran_white_bat Honduran white bats]] in terms of design.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Contrasting their status as foil, Paolumu armor is aesthetically similar to the Lagombi armor, both resembling thick, white winter coats.
* TailSlap: Its tail is surprisingly hard compared to the rest of its body and is Paolumu's main form of offence once it is floating, slapping Hunters and slamming right onto them with its hard tail.
* TheWorfEffect:
** Is easily defeated in Turf Wars against Legiana and Odogaron.
** The subspecies gets wrecked by Rajang in turf wars.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Legiana]]
!!Legiana ''(Leigiena)'' [-(variant: Shrieking Legiana)-]
!!!Wind Drifting Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_legiana_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Shrieking Legiana]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_shrieking_legiana_render_001_6.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Shrieking variant:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
A monster with enormous wings and large fins on its tail. It continually prowls its territory in the upper strata of the Coral Highlands. ''Iceborne'' introduces the Shrieking Legiana variant, which has more powerful control over ice.
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* AchillesHeel: Shrieking Legiana is one of the most vulnerable monsters when afflicted by poison. But it's ice attacks are also ''completely nullified'' by it, pretty much cutting down it's difficulty by a huge margin.
* BadassCape: The Alpha form armors crafted from the Legiana for both genders feature a slick cape bearing the Legiana's district cross-like marking.
* BigEater: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] To maintain its light frame for flying, Legiana normally only eats once a day. This changes when it's under duress, such as in a battle, wherein it will go chow down on a small monster to restore its stamina.
* BossArenaIdiocy: Both species of Legiana become disoriented and woozy when poisoned, greatly crimping their flying abilities. However, the upper reaches of the Coral Highlands the nominate subspecies likes to frequent has several Poisoncups in it, which can be activated and subsequently clip the Legiana's wings for a time.
* Catch22Dilemma: Legiana was the only monster in vanilla ''World'' that dealt Ice damage, so its armor's ice resistance was of rather limited use. ''Iceborne'''s introduction of numerous ice-elemental monsters, including the flagship Elder Dragon, Velkhana, alleviated the problem.
* {{Foil}}: Invoked by the Smart Biologist when commenting on a captured Legiana, comparing it to Rathalos, although he never goes into detail. Something they do have in common are that both are airborne Flying Wyverns that are the apex predators of their region, albeit with opposite elements ([[FireWaterJuxtaposition Fire in Rathalos' case, Ice in Legiana's]]) and colors (Red and Blue).
* ForceAndFinesse: Legiana's graceful aerial combat contrasts Rathalos' straightforward charges.
* GracefulInTheirElement: In a different way from Paolumu. On land Legiana fights more or less like the majority of Flying Wyverns across the series (Rathalos, Rathian, etc.), but while airborne it gracefully dances around the air delivering its attacks with a certain refinement instead of outright force. This is acknowledged in-game, where the story quest to fight it is titled "Embodiment of Elegance".
* HairTriggerTemper: An extremely territorial monster, standing near one for around 10 seconds is enough to make it hostile and attack you. Upon first entering Coral Highlands, the player Hunter and the Handler are immediately attacked by a Legiana for just stepping into its territory and it is also the monster responsible for stranding the Third Fleet in Coral Highlands, attacking their airship and sending them crashing down and stranded for years.
* AnIcePerson: Is capable of generating ice clouds when fighting enemies and is the only monster in the base game that uses the Ice element. Shrieking Legiana has even more powerful ice attacks, such as the ability to generate bursts of icy spikes on the ground.
* {{Irony}}: Although Legiana beats Paolumu in turf wars, the Iceproof mantle, which can be used to make hunting Legiana easier, is made from Paolumu parts. Paolumu armor also helps when hunting it.
* MixAndMatchCritters: It's your usual draconic ''Monster Hunter'' wyvern with characteristics of a bird and the motifs of a Sea Slug.
* MovesetClone: Downplayed; it has the same skeleton as Rathalos as well most of the same moves while grounded, it gets an almost wholly unique moveset once airborne however.
* NobleBirdOfPrey: It's a Flying Wyvern that somewhat resembles a bird of prey. While just as aggressive as other monsters of its type, it's notably more graceful and beautiful while retaining the majesty of monsters such as Rathalos.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Legiana's appearance and form recall birds and aquatic creatures moreso than draconic ones. Its armor even carries elements more often seen on the series' water based monsters. Considering its habitat being a terrestrial coral reef, this is likely intentional.
* PeekABooCorpse: Dead Legianas occasionally fall into the Rotten Vale (which happens to be located beneath the Coral Highlands). These can be carved for materials or taken away by monsters such as Odogaron.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Its shape and colors are evocative of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus_atlanticus Blue Dragon sea slug]], fitting, considering it's found in the sea-floor like region of the Coral Highlands.
* SpinAttack: Its aerial attacks involve a lot of front-flips.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Recovers stamina by hunting and eating the local Raphinos.
* TheWorfEffect: Is easily defeated in Turf Wars against Deviljho and Rajang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bazelgeuse]]
!!Bazelgeuse [-(variant: Seething Bazelgeuse)-]
!!!Explosive Scale Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/bazelgeuse.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Seething Bazelgeuse]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_seething_bazelgeuse_render_001.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Seething variant:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
An invasive Flying Wyvern. An opportunistic predator, it drops specialized scales located on its ventral side like firebombs so it can eat whatever is caught in the blast. It gains a variant known as the Seething Bazelgeuse, that appears to be an older, more easily enraged Bazelgeuse whose scales seem to be unstable have a much higher volatility and wider blast radius.
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* AnimalMotifs: Its armor set has a distinctive lion motif, alluding to the large number of scales on its bloated neck. This is more pronounced and easily noticed in the male versions of the set as well as the palico armor. Notably, the Seething Bazelgeuse's armor and a number of the species' final weapon forms also feature the word "pride" a word often associated with the lion. Its scales and long tail also significantly resemble pangolins.
* BackgroundMusicOverride: Just like Deviljho, Bazelgeuse's theme will override any and all other songs playing in the background, telling you that it has sighted you and is probably on its way to ruin your day. Though if ''both'' Bazelgeuse and Deviljho show up at once, Deviljho's theme will override.
* BlackKnight: The Seething Bazelgeuse armor set exudes this motif for its aesthetic, though it doesn't completely drop the lion motif of its original version either thanks to an increased use of fur trim.
* BombardierMook: Bazelgeuse hunts by flying over its prey and scattering its explosive scales over the ground below, swooping down afterwards to prey on whatever died in the blast. It prefers to open fights with a bombing run of this sort, often not even landing, but unlike other examples of this trope it's a formidable fighter and just as dangerous up close as when flying overhead.
* CompositeCharacter: Has Deviljho's durability and damage while being as methodical as Seregios in combat. Fittingly, even though it has the body frame of the latter, it's big and bulky like the former.
* CombatPragmatist: They prefer to hunt while their prey are unsuspecting or distracted.
* CoolPlane: It's a draconic B-52 bomber, and its attacks involve ''carpet bombing you''.
* CowardlyLion:
** Depends on how angry it is. When calm, its preferred hunting strategy is to launch a surprise attack against prospective prey that's already engaged in combat. When encountered on its own, Bazelgeuse is likely to flee immediately if it's not aggravated quickly enough. That being said, once it's been riled up, which is surprisingly easy to do, Bazelgeuse will stay and fight it out with some particularly nasty monsters, even once it's lost the element of surprise. These include Diablos, Rathalos, Legiana, and Odogaron, all of which are generally the most powerful monsters of their respective habitats. The trope altogether is [[AvertedTrope averted]] if [[TheRival Deviljho]] is also around.
** The Seething variant on the other hand is consistently aggressive and incredibly easy to get into rage, the key difference between it and its rival the Savage Deviljho being that Seething Bazelgeuse isn't locked into rage once started.
* CurbStompCushion: Unlike other large monsters who get swiftly owned to hell and back by Deviljho, the Bazelgeuse is able to deal some considerable damage to the Brute Wyvern despite being clearly physically outmatched.
* DeathFromAbove: One of its attacks involves it flying around the area and dropping explosive scales onto the ground, similar to a bomber aircraft before dive bombing toward its target and exploding all the scales in range. Becomes even more impressive when it is enraged, since the scales will explode instantly upon hitting the ground.
* DemotedToExtra: Seething Bazelgeuse is not an invasive monster, being only found in the Elder's Recess.
* TheDreaded: WordOfGod confirmed that Bazelgeuse is an Elder Dragon-level threat. Also, the Handler's first reaction is to tell you to run once you first encounter this monster, or at least be prepared to take some serious damage. Its nominate variant is attacked by Ruiner Nergigante, but puts up quite the fight itself to show that this wasn't an InformedAttribute.
* DropInNemesis: When Bazelgeuse hears another monster roar, it will fly in and attack whoever it finds.
* DynamicEntry: Loves to make its appearance by making a crash landing right on top of you and whatever you're hunting. The introduction to Seething Bazelgeuse finally gives the species an intro cinematic... in which this is precisely how it starts the fight.
* EarlyBirdBoss: It shows up in High Rank, where players are still using Low Rank weapons and armors and taking it on at this point is unreasonably difficult, with players dealing low damage to it and getting oneshotted by its attacks. Spend some time farming High Rank equipments and the fight is much more manageable.
** Seething Bazelgeuse assumes a similar position in Master Rank, where it's the first monster after Velkhana to be fought; officially bringing hunters into Master Rank Elder Dragon territory.
* EasyLevelTrick: In the quest where you have to fight two tempered Bazelgeuse, it's best to draw the other one out when you located the first one, then hide and let the two kill each other.
* {{Foil}}: To Seregios. Both are Invasive Flying Wyverns, [[FatAndSkinny but Bazelgeuse is large, stocky, and relies on its upper-body's bulk while Seregios was average-sized, slender, and uses its claws much more.]] In fact, it's even implied that Bazelgeuse evolved ''from'' Seregios, or at least one that figured out a way to make its scales explosive.
* GiantFlyer: Bazelgeuse is one of the largest Flying Wyverns (the largest one in ''World'', in fact) and one who's capable of actually flying for extended periods of time, which is made more impressive by the fact that its scales are essentially ''bombs'' and should be weighing it down by a significant amount.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: It can (and will) randomly show up during unstable High Rank hunts in ''World'' to give you a hard time. If it's already in the map, it will make a beeline for hunters when they start fighting large monsters, no matter its respective distance to the hunters in question.
* HairTriggerTemper: Essentially the reason why they mostly avert DirtyCoward; they might prefer hunting down its prey when its distracted, but they will gladly fight even with the lack of element of surprise once angered, which is easy to do. Seething Bazelgeuse takes it a step further by actively engaging its prey as opposed to bombing it, being much more aggressive, and having the regular Bazelgeuse's enraged state as its default state.
* HopelessBossFight: You stand absolutely no chance against it when it makes its first appearance near the very beginning of the High Rank chapter of the game, and you won't for some time until you're able to grind out better gear. Even the Handler will tell you to run when it shows up.
* ItCanThink: Bazelgeuse's first reaction upon being gnawed by an angry Deviljho is to plant bombs in its mouth as retaliation.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRV48bV6T-Y "The Invading Tyrant - Bazelgeuse"]], a bombastic orchestral piece that really feels like a World War II propaganda theme; fitting, considering the thing is often compared to a bomber plane.
* MeaningfulName: Although amusing, it's not a coincidence that its name sounds like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse Betelgeuse]], a massive star, for not only is it rather huge, it's very explosive, both in temperament and in combat. The name takes even greater meaning when you consider the Arabic roots of "Betelgeuse". The word comes from ''Ibt al-Jauza'' or ''Yad al-Jauza'', meaning underarm or hand of ''al-Jauza'', the Arabic name of the constellation Orion (which Betelgeuse is part of). ''Baz'' on the other hand is a word for falcon in Arabic. This means that Bazelgeuse can be read as Falcon of Orion (Baz al-Jauza). Fitting, considering that Orion is a hunter in Greek mythology.
* MightyGlacier: Bazelgeuse isn't particularly fast, but it's highly resilient, and its attacks pack a punch, with its explosive scales capable of oneshotting a Hunter at the beginning of High Rank hunts where it shows up. [[InstantDeathRadius And since it can launch its scales on the ground which explode later, it doesn't even need to be close to a careless Hunter to take them out ...]]
* MightyRoar: It has a ''very'' distinctive roar that sounds very similar to the ''T. rex'' from ''Film/JurassicPark'', and hearing it ''will'' leave you stunned for a very long time if you don't have a sufficient Earplugs skill. Fittingly, one of the skills of its Alpha Armor Set is Earplugs 5 that render the Hunter immune to all roars. Hilariously enough, this also is its weakness during a quest where you have to hunt two of them. The trigger for Bazelgeuse going on the warpath is another monster's roar, so a good tactic is to just get one of them to roar and then take cover and watch as the two continue to fight until one of them is dead and the other one is severely weakened.
* NoPronunciationGuide: Bah-zel? Bay-zel? Gey-use? Goose? It seems like everyone has a different pronunciation of Bazelgeuse's name, and unlike other examples in ''World'', there's no official voice-over confirming which is right. The Arabic roots of its name don't help. Amusingly, the Admiral calls the first Seething Bazelgeuse you and he come across, "Egghead". Its name is written in Japanese as バゼルギウス, pronounced "Bazerugiusu", so "Bah-zel-gee-us" is probably the intended English pronunciation.
* NoSell: While Deviljho can try to toss it around if they get into a turf war, Bazelgeuse can easily just shrug it off, and even give Deviljho a face full of explosive scales for its effort. It's actually the only monster in vanilla ''World'' that can force a draw against Deviljho. In ''Iceborne'' the Seething variant is a similar match for Savage Deviljho, who can force a draw with many ''Elder Dragons''.
** Its armor set has the Earplugs skill, which enables the Hunter wearing it the ability to ignore monster roars.
* NotSoDifferent: Both Bazelgeuse and Deviljho are Elder Dragon-level monsters known for invading maps in search for prey, in addition to not being very graceful, but make up for it with sheer physical strength. They're also both willing to fight and kill any creature that they encounter.
* OrchestralBombing: Its theme is a bombastic piece evocative of old warplane and bombing propaganda videos. Considering [[StuffBlowingUp its main method of attack]], this fits all too well.
* PlayingWithFire: Its explosive scales deal Fire damage. It can also breath fire, though it has a very short range better suited to igniting old scales than being an attack on its own.
* PurpleIsPowerful: When Seething Bazelgeuse is enraged, its scales will pressurize and glow bright purple before causing larger explosions than normal.
* RecurringElement: It's the Fifth Generation's equivalent of the Deviljho and Seregios, as the monster who randomly shows up during High Rank to mess up your hunt. Downplayed with the former due to its eventual introduction to ''World''.
* TheRival: After numerous entries where its presence has gone uncontested, the Bazelgeuse proves capable of facing the infamous '''Deviljho''' and surviving; their Turf War even ends with them dealing roughly the same amount of damage to each other.
* RoarBeforeBeating: The Seething variant has a move where they make a noise similar to an airplane propeller starting up beforehand. If you hear that noise, [[NukeEm it's time to]] '''''[[RunOrDie RUN.]]'''''
* SchmuckBait: Seething Bazelgeuse can scatter a large ring of explosive scales as it takes to the air. While it would seem logical to just stand in the center to avoid them, this is just what the monster is counting on, crashing down a second later and detonating all of its scales like a draconic warhead.
* SignatureMove:
** Bazelgeuse's bombing runs are a distinct tactic. It lifts into the air and does two to three passes over its target, raining down scales as it goes. It then divebombs his target, with the scales detonating when it lands or immediately if enraged.
** Seething Bazelgeuse gets a new special maneuver that's more akin to Teostra's iconic supernova: it launches into the sky while spinning, resulting in it launching explosive scales everywhere in a huge radius, then lets them all explode, before diving back down on its original launch point and detonating every scale on its body all at once for a massive explosion.
* StickyBomb: Seething Bazelgeuse's scales will stick to whatever surface they're flung onto when it's enraged, making keeping track of all of them and Bazelgeuse itself even more challenging.
* StrongAndSkilled: Though it mainly leans towards UnskilledButStrong. While it gets trounced by Deviljho in raw might, Bazelgeuse is no slouch in the physical department either, having a lot of tackles and charging, with an occasional short burst of flame. It makes up for its lower might by being [[ItCanThink smarter]] by planting bombs in Deviljho's mouth while the former is beating the shit out of him.
** Conversely, its weapons have a [[UnskilledButStrong high raw damage and blast damage in exchange for a -10% affinity penalty]].
* StuffBlowingUp: The scales under its neck and tail explode into flames when launched into the ground. Also extends to its weapons, which cause Blastblight.
* TurnsRed:
** Once it is enraged, Bazelgeuse's grenades will turn red hot and its scales will explode instantly upon touching the ground, meaning even less time for Hunters to get out of the range of the exploding scales.
** The Seething Bazelgeuse is constantly at red... instead it goes to ''[[UpToEleven white hot]],'' and the grenades turn unstable, resulting a much wider blast radius and the ability to [[StickyBomb lodge themselves into surfaces before exploding.]].
* TheWorfEffect: Downplayed; it is overpowered physically and pinned to the ground by Deviljho in their Turf War and takes considerable damage, but manages to deal some considerable damage back by igniting its exploding scales right in Deviljho's face, and can go airborne again while Deviljho is recovering from the explosion. Compare this to the other monsters that Deviljho engages in Turf War, with all of them lying on the ground and writhing in pain at the end of the fight.
[[/folder]]
!Piscine Wyverns
[[folder:Jyuratodus]]
!!Jyuratodus
!!!Mud Fish Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jyuratodus.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''-]
A coelacanth-like monster related to the [[Characters/MonsterHunterFrontierMonsters Lavasioth]], who uses mud instead of lava.
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* BarrierChangeBoss: Normally immune to water, but becomes weak to it once covered in mud. In return, its normal weakness to thunder is nullified and is now just resistant to fire rather than being immune.
* DishingOutDirt: It uses mud to attack hunters.
* FireWaterJuxtaposition: The water to Lavasioth's fire. More specifically, they use mud while the latter uses magma.
* GeoEffects: Jyuratodus leaves behind piles of dirt for hunters to walk on when it swims or performs certain attacks.
* GladiatorGames: Its Master Rank armor has this design going for both genders, and to the Palico armor as well.
* MakingASplash: Its mud attacks inflict Water damage.
* MightyGlacier: Isn't particularly fast, but has good power and defenses for its rank.
* MovesetClone: Jyuratodus uses the same skeleton (and thus many of the same animations) as Lavasioth.
* NotSoDifferent: Much like Barroth, they swim in mud as a defensive mechanic.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Lavasioth's red. FireWaterJuxtaposition aside, Jyuratodus don't immediately attack unless provoked while Lavasioth are aggressive and hostile on sight.
* TheRival: They fight Barroth over mud territory.
* TheWorfEffect: Is defeated by Barroth during Turf Wars, though it delivers some damage to it in the process as well.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Beotodus]]
!!Beotodus ''(Brantodus)''
!!!Frozen Fish Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beotodus.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
A Piscine Wyvern resembling a shark that swims through deep snow to catch its prey.
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* CrutchCharacter: Beotodus armor doesn't hold up in the long term due to its low defense value, but its abilites--Health Boost, Aquatic/Snow Mobility, and Earplugs--are very useful as you ease into Master Rank and explore the Hoarfrost Reach.
* AnIcePerson: It can spit ice and hurl snow at the player during combat.
* MightyRoar: The first Piscine Wyvern in the series to have one, in fact! Beotodus’ roar will flinch Hunters, unlike any other member of its class.
* LandShark: ''Snow'' shark, rather, but the properties have the same effect.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** To Zamtrios, as an amphibious shark-like monster that swims through snow and ice.
** Unsurprisingly, it also shares a number of similarities with Jyuratodus and Lavasioth, [[MovesetClone including a few moves]].
* WarmUpBoss: It's your first Master Rank hunt, and while it can take a beating it has fairly simple attack patterns.
* TheWorfEffect: Is defeated by Banbaro during Turf Wars, using the same animation as the Barroth-Jyuratodus war, though it does deal some damage back.
[[/folder]]
!Brute Wyverns
[[folder:Anjanath]]
!!Anjanath ''(Anjanaff)'' [-(variant: Fulgur Anjanath)-]
!!!Fierce Jaw Wyvern / Thunder Jaw Wyvern (Fulgur Anjanath)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_anjanath_render_001.png]]
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https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_fulgur_anjanath_render_001_copy.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise, ''Monster Hunter Stories 2''\\
'''Fulgur subspecies:'''\\
''World: Iceborne-]
One of the first monsters introduced in the game. Anjanath is a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''-like creature with a feathered body, movable wing-like fins near its posterior, an inflatable proboscis that provides it with a strong sense of smell, and the ability to breathe fire. When enraged, it will relentlessly follow hunters into different areas in order to reduce their chances of escaping. ''Iceborne'' introduces the Fulgur Anjanath, a subspecies found in the Hoarfrost Reach that uses electric attacks instead of fire.
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* AchillesHeel: Similar to Glavenus, attacking its throat sac while it's glowing will make it fall over, leaving it vulnerable to attack until it recovers.
* BreathWeapon: A continuous stream of fire, as opposed to most other monsters who breathe out fireballs. It only uses this attack when in rage mode.
* ChainmailBikini: Female Anjanath armor looks like the blacksmith did the helmet and limbs first, then ran out of material when the time came for the torso piece.
* DinosaursAreDragons: It's modeled after an Earth ''T. rex'', and is a fire-breathing Brute Wyvern. When it unfurls its nose horn and "wings", it looks even more draconic.
* EightiesHair: Not the monster itself, but its upgraded Master Rank helmet in ''Iceborne'' is essentially a big bouffant wig, particularly for female Hunters.
* FakeUltimateMook: {{Downplayed|trope}}. Anjanath is presented as a huge threat early in the game, and can be very difficult for beginner or unprepared hunters to take down, which is reinforced by its massive size and resemblance to the King of Dinosaurs. However, while by no means weak, it later turns out to be a mid-tier monster within its food chain (similar to Rathian and Radobaan) and consistently loses turf wars to the ''actual'' apex monster of its biome, [[SeriesMascot Rathalos]]. Averted for Fulgur Anjanath, which is an apex-level monster in its own right.
* HavingABlast: One of the Anjanath armor parts gives the Artillery skill and one weapons made from its parts is the Gunlance.
* HitboxDissonance: Many of its attacks have deceptively large hitboxes. The forward charge is a big offender, as even the Insect Glaive user who has vaulted well above it will still get hit. And that's not counting many of the fire attacks that go straight through the terrain.
* InASingleBound: Don't think for a second that distance will save you. Even if it won't try to roast you alive, it ''can'' still leap an impressive distance in an attempt to GoombaStomp you.
* KillItWithWater: Its primary weakness is Water.
* LightningBruiser: Very fast and resilient despite its size, and taken literally with its ''Fulgur'' subspecies, which is not only much stronger but crackles with electricity when enraged.
* LightningFireJuxtaposition: The Fulgur Subspecies uses lighting rather than the fire from its nominate variant.
* {{Mascot}}: It's essentially the tertiary mascot of ''World'', for reasons opposite to Nergigante: Anjanath is the first giant large monster that most players face, making its role akin to a StarterVillain, and is also Rathalos' designated rival. For a monster encountered this early on, being a badass ''T. rex'' only makes it more encouraging for newcomers to face and conquer.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Its main model is ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', but elements were drawn from the vulture as well: note the bald, pink head and the black fur lining its body from the shoulders down, which is also likely based on the modern understanding of feathered dinosaurs. Its head and arms, as well as the sails on its back and their apparent cooling function, basically make it halfway between a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and a ''Spinosaurus''. The appearance and function of its nostril sac are pretty unique, but it has similarities to that of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded_seal hooded seal]].
* PlayingWithFire: It can breathe fire from its mouth when enraged.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The Fulgur subspecies has more of a purple coloration than the main species, and it's a more powerful monster. Likewise, the armor you craft from it is also purple.
* RealMenWearPink: Both armor sets are pink, regardless of gender. Likewise, the monster itself is pink, but is considered a nasty wall for newcomers.
* RecurringElement: Anjanath is the designated rival for Rathalos. Unlike say, the Astalos from the previous generation, however, Anjanath is at a disadvantage and gets duly wrecked.
* TheRival: A one-sided one against Rathalos in the latter's favor.
* SignatureMove: The Fulgur subspecies has a rushing move while enveloping itself in lighting.
* ShockAndAwe: The Fulgur Subspecies favors lightning damage.
* StockDinosaurs: While mainly based on ''T. rex'', it also has features reminiscent of ''Spinosaurus''. Its elongated head and not-so-tiny arms are about halfway between the rex and ''Spinosaurus'', and its dorsal sails, which it uses to warm up when resting, can be seen as a more stylized take on a ''Spinosaurus'' sail.
* SuperPersistentPredator: When enraged, it will relentlessly chase down hunters, even following them into other areas.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: It's very similar to Glavenus in many areas, being a fire-breathing, jungle-and-desert-dwelling Brute Wyvern whose throat sac acts as an AchillesHeel. Eventually downplayed as the latter would return in ''Iceborne''.
* ThroatLight: The ''Fulgur'' subspecies, once it becomes enraged, literally begins crackling and glowing with electricity in several places. The most prominent are its fins, but the entire inside of the head - including it's throat - visibly shows the power this Brute Wyvern is harnessing.
* TokenMotivationalNemesis: About as close as a monster in the series can be. The first mission is capstoned with its first appearance, and you will spend a good number of quests doing your best to avoid drawing its attention since you lack weapons or armor strong enough for you to be a serious threat to it, all while it trounces pretty much everything that tries to fight it in a turf war. The earlygame wraps up with you finally slaying it though, [[NormalFishInATinyPond only to immediately afterwards encounter monsters that trounce]] ''[[NormalFishInATinyPond it]]'' [[NormalFishInATinyPond in turf wars, or are so far beyond it that there's no point in comparison.]] Averted by the ''Fulgur'' subspecies, as while it's gotten a serious jump in power beyond it's normal self, it's not treated as any kind of nemesis.
* TookALevelInBadass: Vanilla Anjanath, while by no means a weakling, gets completely trounced in a fight with Rathalos. By contrast, Fulgur Anjanath can fight ''Barioth'', '''Tigrex''', and '''''Diablos''''' to a draw. [[JustifiedTrope This might have something to do with the fact that Fulgur Anjanath uses an element that Tigrex has a pronounced weakness to,]] but it's also much stronger than its nominate species physically.
* TurnsRed: When enraged, it will flash its nostrils and back fins. It may power itself up even further by setting its mouth on fire, adding Fireblight to its biting attacks. It will return to its normal state by unleashing a powerful [[BreathWeapon flamethrower attack.]]
* TRexpy: It resembles a monstrous, haggard tyrannosaur, with feathering closely resembling a vulture.
* UnskilledButStrong:
** Anjanath weapons tend to have high raw damage, with a respectable fire elemental damage, and are easier to access early on compared to Rathalos and Lavasioth weapons; the downside is that it comes at the expense of Affinity (it gets a -20% to -30% hit).
* WakeUpCallBoss:
** Anjanath is the first major monster that utilizes both massive physical damage and elemental damage, as well as potentially the first one to have a particularly nasty enraged mode in ''World''. Made worse by the fact that considering the point in the game it almost always has ''something'' that can one shot you. Low armor? Good luck surviving its bigger attacks when it's enraged. Packing heavier armor from Barroth or Jyuratodus? Guess what has a vulnerability to fire? Well now you're good against the physical attacks, but that fire is gonna take its place.
** Its Fulgur subspecies is built to throw off overconfident players who would scoff at a monster they are now accustomed to, as while its moveset isn't too different, it hits much harder and is far more durable.
* TheWorfEffect:
** While it beats both Great Jagras and Tobi-Kadachi, it's easily trounced by Rathalos in a Turf War.
** A member of the nominate species is frozen to death by Velkhana.
** Downplayed with the Fulgur subspecies, which manages to tie against ''three'' notoriously savage Flying Wyverns.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Radobaan]]
!!Radobaan ''(Radobalkin)''
!!!Bone Hammer Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_radobaan_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
A Brute Wyvern closely related to the [[Characters/MonsterHunterThirdGenerationMonsters Uragaan]], but is covered in bones as opposed to rocks. While downed, its back can be mined for bones.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: It runs surprisingly fast for a creature its size.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: An interesting variation as most of its body is fairly soft. You just have to break through the much tougher bones on it first.
* FakeUltimateMook: Despite being bigger, it loses badly to the smaller Odogaron.
* ForceAndFinesse: The Finesse to the Uragaan's Force; while Uragaan is heavily reliant on brute force, utilizing multiple chin slams, body checks, and straightforward rolls, Radobaan is much more acrobatic in comparison, utilizing chin swipes, chin drags followed up with quick rolls, and spinning around like a top.
* FragileSpeedster: It's pretty fast for a creature its size, but its body is soft when unarmoured, its bony armour is fairly easy to knock off, and breaking its parts will reduce its offensive capabilities (for example, breaking the hips may cause it to lose momentum when rolling, and breaking the back will prevent it from flinging bones when it rolls).
* KillItWithIce: It's vulnerable to the Ice element.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Like its close relative Uragaan, it has a massive chin. Unlike Uragaan, it won't deflect attacks.
* MovesetClone: Of Uragaan, fitting as the two species are likely cousins.
* RollingAttack: Uses them frequently, both to attack and to move around.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: It wears bones for protection. It can even refresh them during the fight if allowed to roll around in its nest.
* SpinAttack: One of its attacks involves it laying on its side and spinning in circles.
* StandardStatusEffects: It can release a bluish-white gas though its pores that inflicts Sleep.
* WarmUpBoss: Serves as one to get the player used to fighting in the Rotten Vale. Radobaan prefers to stay in the effluvium-free upper areas and has to be hunted once before the more dangerous lower areas open up.
* TheWorfEffect:
** It's easily defeated by Odogaron in Turf Wars, resulting in much of its bone armor on its head being instantly broken.
** It rolls at full speed into Tigrex in the latter's introduction cutscene, only for Tigrex to catch Radobaan, stop it, wrestle it to ground and kill the Brute Wyvern with one, well-placed bite.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Banbaro]]
!!Banbaro ''(Bafubaro)''
!!!Ferocious Bull Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_banbaro.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
A hulking, herbivorous, moose-like Brute Wyvern that inhabits the Hoarfrost Reach. Its massive antlers are perfect for scooping up snow or fallen trees during charge attacks.
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* BullfightBoss: It uses powerful charging moves, like Barroth.
* DropInNemesis: It’s a roaming invader for... ''some'' reason (perhaps it's [[HornyVikings out raiding for Valhalla?]]), even though it’s hilariously ill-suited to the Wildspire Waste, Elder’s Recess or Rotten Vale.
* GeoEffects: The location of the fight can alter Banbaro's charge attacks. It may pick up fallen trees for a wider hitbox in the Hoarfrost Reach and Ancient Forest, or chunks of heated rock that cause fire damage in the Elder's Recess.
* HairTriggerTemper: Downplayed. It's docile until attacked, but if it so much as comes near another agitated monster, it will ''flip out.''
* {{Hammerspace}}: It can use its great antlers to dig up boulders or a dead tree for both charging and throwing attacks... ''no matter what terrain its fighting on.'' This makes it look silly when digging up an infinite supply of trees in the Arena.
* HerbivoresAreFriendly: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. By itself, it's placid until attacked. Once it runs into another monster, it becomes ill-tempered.
* HimeCut: Not Banbaro itself, but the female version of its helm resembles a wig of this type.
* HornyVikings: The Male armour invokes this aesthetic very much so. And on top of that, it has the Mushroomancer skill, in reference their use of mushrooms to induce the Berserkrgang; though in this case, it allows you to get more potions from mushrooms depending on the level.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In two ways: mechanically to the Jade Barroth, as an arctic Brute Wyvern that uses charging attacks. Visually, it is one to the Duramboros with its similar facial features, unique horns, and general body shape (sans the Duramboros’ hump).
* TruthInTelevision: Moose in real life are gigantic and highly territorial, which be seen in the Banbaro's behavior when provoked.
* TheWorfEffect: It's easily beaten by Barioth during Turf Wars, with Barioth sinking its fangs into Banbaro's neck before tossing it aside.
[[/folder]]
!Fanged Wyverns
[[folder:Jagras / Great Jagras]]
!!Jagras / Great Jagras ''(Dosjagras)''
!!!Thief Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_jagras_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[-Jagras-]]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_great_jagras_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[-Great Jagras-]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''-]
Iguana-like monsters led by a larger alpha male with a ravenous appetite. The Great Jagras is notable for being hungry enough to swallow an Aptonoth whole, and it can use this to its advantage, using the immense weight it gains to crush attackers.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Jagras can be distracted with Raw Meat.
* BackgroundMusicOverride: Normally the Great Jagras' battle theme is overridden by Deviljho's or Bazelgeuse's if either monster makes an appearance, but in the Greatest Jagras event, when Deviljho appears, "Savage of the Ancient Forest" overrides Jho's theme instead!
* BalloonBelly: Their stomachs can elastically stretch to accommodate its prey.
* BigEater: Great Jagras has a huge appetite, and can swallow whole Aptonoth.
* BoringButPractical: Its weapons' base stats are unimpressive, but they possess multiple level 2 or 3 gem slots, hidden elements (this allows the weapon to benefit from non-elemental boost), and a low rarity (which allows for the most augments possible). As a result, they deal some of the most raw damage in the game if set up properly.
* ButtMonkey: They're prone to getting mauled by larger monsters, such as Anjanath, Rathalos, and Deviljho. Even Capcom got in on this with the weapon showcases with the Great Jagras being the punching bag.
* DiscOneNuke: Great Jagras weapons are much easier to complete than other weapons in ''Master Rank'', and can carry the player up till they begin to fight Elder Dragons. Its Master Rank armor also gives Attack Boost and Speed Eating.
* EffectiveKnockoff: Knockoff isn't quite the word, but the Greatest Jagras not considered a tempered monster, yet its strong and big enough to push ''Deviljho'' around.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from being a poor schmuck of a monster to a powerful Elder Dragon threat as the Greatest Jagras. Even the ''Deviljho'' that spawns in that quest usually comes out worse for wear when they clash.
* GiantMook: A giant version appears in an event quest, along with a FunSize variant and a third, normal-sized Great Jagras. The tiny one is the size of a Kelbi, while the big one's around the same size as Anjanath. The latter is played much straighter with the Greatest Jagras, which is comparable in size to the Deviljho roaming the map in the same quest.
* GlassCannon: When Great Jagras's stomach is full, its attacks deal more damage, but it also gains a massive weak point in the form of said stomach, making it easier to take out.
* JackOfAllStats: For an early-game monster, its stats are roughly even, having mediocre speed, power, health, and defenses overall.
* KillItWithFire: They're weak to the Fire element.
* KingMook: The Great Jagras rules over the small monster Jagras.
* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: It's not a particularly hard boss to begin with, but it's vulnerable to every ailment.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Basically the whole point of the Greatest Jagras, which, physically speaking, is no different from the normal Great Jagras aside from it being much bigger, but is a far stronger monster.
* PinataEnemy: The anniversary event Greatest Jagras leaves behind a bunch of feystones (even ''warped feystones'' if you're lucky) whenever it uses its spit attack or you force it to regurgitate its meal. It's not uncommon to finish a hunt with 20 or more decorations, making even a failed quest potentially profitable.
* RecurringElement: They're the Fifth Generation's equivalent of the Velociprey/Jaggi/Maccao lines, being weak, common enemies without any special abilities, with the alpha male being a KingMook. though the Great Jagras does possess a non-elemental spit attack, as well as its StanceSystem.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted with Great Jagras, who will only attack you if you attack it first. Played straight with the regular Jagras, which are aggressive and will also swarm a monster you've incapacitated.
* TheRival: Great Jagras competes with Anjanath for food, and will attack it on sight.
* StanceSystem: Great Jagras has two different phases: one where it's hungry, and one where it's full. When it's hungry, [[JackOfAllStats its stat spread is roughly balanced]], and when it's full, [[GlassCannon its attacks become stronger and have greater range, but its speed and durability decrease]]. It starts out in its hungry phase, but will go into its full phase after eating a smaller monster, and hunters can revert it back into its hungry phase by attacking its inflated stomach, which forces it to regurgitate its meal.
* SwallowedWhole: Great Jagras does this to smaller monsters such as Aptonoth when it's hungry.
* TookALevelInBadass: The normal Great Jagras is considered a WarmUpBoss. Then there's the Greatest Jagras which was added for the Appreciation Fest. This Jagras has health comparable to a tempered Elder Dragon and deals damage that makes Nergigante look tame by comparison. It's even capable of [[CurbStompBattle manhandling]] ''Deviljho''.
* WarmUpBoss: Great Jagras isn't much of a threat to even the most inexperienced hunters.
* WhosLaughingNow: The idea behind The Greatest Jagras quest, which is described as Great Jagras [[TookALevelInBadass buffing up]] and taking revenge for all the abuse it's taken from both hunters and Deviljho.
* TheWorfEffect: Great Jagras is beaten by Anjanath in Turf Wars, while Deviljho can pick up the poor schmuck and [[GrievousHarmWithABody use it as a bludgeon]] against you. This gets inverted with the Greatest Jagras however, where Deviljho ''actively flees'' from it.
* ZombiePukeAttack: When he's full, he can literally projectile vomit his dinner at hunters. Naturally Greatest Jagras' version is not only incredibly powerful, but he chain-vomits a spread of 7 or 8 chunks, each of which leaves behind a decoration gem.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Girros / Great Girros]]
!!Girros / Great Girros ''(Dosgirros)''
!!!Paralyzing Thief Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_girros_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[-Girros-]]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_great_girros_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[-Great Girros-]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Snake-headed Fanged Wyverns making their home at the Rotten Vale who sport paralyzing bites. They are led by a large alpha monster called the Great Girros, who has a much more pronounced cobra hood.
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* FangsAreEvil: They have large fangs that can inflict paralysis. Subverted in that they're not evil (they're animals, after all), just aggressive.
* FragileSpeedster: They move quickly, but can't take much punishment.
* HelpfulMook: You really want to run into Great Girros while fighting the other monsters in the Rotten Vale, as they will attack them on sight and potentially paralyze them, making fights much easier. The only time when you shouldn't be wishing for Great Girros would be against Deviljho, since that's just asking for the Great Girros to be used as a bludgeon against you.
* KillItWithWater: Great Girros is weak to the Water element. Interestingly, its subordinates are immune to it.
* KingMook: The Great Girros is the alpha male.
* MixAndMatchCritter: Monitor lizards with the heads of cobras and the pack-tactics of wolves.
* TheParalyzer: Can inflict paralysis through their bites or the leader's spit.
* PlagueDoctor: Not the monster itself, but the armor set made from it resembles the standard attire and look of one. Fittingly, one of the skills of the armor set is immunity to the health-reducing effluvium of the Rotten Vale.
* SkippableBoss: Like the Tzitzi-Ya-Ku, Great Girros only needs to be spotted during an investigation to make story progress in Low Rank, and can otherwise be ignored.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To the Genprey line, as the lesser carnivores who paralyze with their bites.
* TheWorfEffect:
** Great Girros is one of the many monsters Deviljho can use as a bludgeon.
** The Acidic Glavenus is introduced by swiftly curb-stomping a Great Girros and its pack of smaller Girros.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: One of its moves is a running cannonball senton.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shamos]]
!!Shamos
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shamos.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Lizard-like monsters with a red hide and wide yellow eyes. Unlike the other lesser Fanged Wyverns, they have no alpha leader.
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* BlindedByTheLight: They hate light and will scatter if fire is thrown at them. Due to this, they have a strong dislike for the Tzitzi-Ya-Ku.
* UniformityException: Despite being a gameplay clone (and likely biological, Coral Highlands relative) of the Jagras and Girros, there is no Great Shamos to be seen.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tobi-Kadachi]]
!!Tobi-Kadachi ''(Tobikagachi)'' [-(variant: Viper Tobi-Kadachi)-]
!!!Flying Thunder Wyvern / Flying Poison Wyvern (Viper Tobi-Kadachi)
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Viper Tobi-Kadachi]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_viper_tobi_kadachi_render_001.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''\\
'''Viper subspecies:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
A snake-headed monster that glides on membranes stretching between its limbs, and can build up a powerful electric charge in its fur. ''Iceborne'' introduces the Viper subspecies, which combines a paralyzing bite with venomous spines.
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* CycleOfHurting: A solid hit will knock it off a tree and leave it prone on the ground, and there's a good chance its first action once it gets up will be to get onto the same tree, while the hunter is still standing right under it. This can happen three of four times before Tobi-Kadachi will think to try something else, if it doesn't die from the repeated mauling in the meantime.
* DecompositeCharacter: Inherits Zinogre's lightning element and being a fictional animal with reptilian and mammalian traits, while the canine parts are transferred to Odogaron.
* FragileSpeedster: It doesn't have as much health or hit nearly as hard as the Anjanath or Rathalos it shares a habitat with. It makes up for this by jumping around on the trees and using quick hit-and-run attacks, making actually hitting it more challenging and gradually buffing itself up with static electricity to increases its attack power.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: The viper subspecies is a stronger monster, and has an orangish-gold tint.
* KillItWithWater: It's vulnerable to the Water element.
* LogicalWeakness: Its stronger attacks depend on built up static electricity; if you hit it with Watermoss, its electrical aura will dissipate and it'll go back to simple melee attacks.
* MeaningfulName: Its name is derived from ''tobu'', meaning "to fly," and ''kagachi'', an old-fashioned name for a snake.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Has the head of a snake, the body of a ferret, and the webbing of a flying squirrel.
* NotQuiteFlight: The webbing stretching between its limbs grants it the ability to glide. Viper Tobi-Kadachi takes it a step further, using its gliding to flank and reposition mid-combat.
* PoisonousPerson: Viper Tobi-Kadachi's tail is covered in venomous barbs, letting it inflict deadly poison with tail attacks or by flinging the barbs as a projectile.
* ShockAndAwe: Its fur courses with static electricity that it can use as a weapon when fully charged.
* ShoutOut: Its Armor set looks a lot like a light blue version of the Hunters armor from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''. The helmet on the male version even resembles Retired Hunter Djura's cap.
* SnakesAreSinister: Averted; it doesn't attack a hunter unless provoked.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** Tobi-Kadachi was a minor one to Zinogre, being a reptilian lightning monster: it even shares Zinogre's Fanged Wyvern typing. It's not as strong as Zinogre, however, said strength traits being transferred to Odogaron. Downplayed as the former would return in ''Iceborne''.
** The Viper subspecies is this to Gigginox, being a poisonous cave-climber in a frozen area. A hint of its existence in a magazine article was even mistaken for the latter.
* TailSlap: Uses its large tail for offense, swiping and slamming down on Hunters like Nargacuga.
* WeakButSkilled: Viper Tobi isn't the strongest of the monsters, but its deadly poison and paralysis make up for its lack of physical strength.
* TheWorfEffect: Is defeated by Anjanath during Turf Wars. It's also one of the many monsters Deviljho can use as a bludgeon.
** This once again happens in ''Rise'', courtesy of the Magnamalo.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Odogaron]]
!!Odogaron [-(variant: Ebony Odogaron)-]
!!!Cruel Claw Wyvern / Wicked Claw Wyvern (Ebony Odogaron)
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Ebony Odogaron]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_ebony_odogaron_render_001.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Ebony subspecies'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
A fierce Fanged Wyvern distinguished by its blood-red coloration, protruding fangs, and a second set of claws that protrude from under its feet. It is commonly seen dragging corpses back to its lair. ''Iceborne'' introduces the Ebony Odogaron subspecies, which is even more aggressive and has powerful Dragon-element attacks.
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* AchillesHeel: Like Tigrex and Deviljho before it, Odogaron will eat any meats placed on the ground due to tiring easily.
* AntiMagic: The Ebony variant's Dragon attacks can inflict Dragonblight on the hunter, removing the elemental effects from their weapons. Which is good for the monster, since elemental attacks to its head can knock it out of its frenzy. Similarly, its weapons have a high Elderseal value.
* TheBerserker: Absolutely relentless in its attacks, often stringing at least two together. When enraged it will string up to four attacks giving you very little room to breathe. Even when flinched it falls down only to recover and strike back at you.
* BloodKnight: It is incredibly hostile, attacking any monsters in sight, [[FearlessFool even Vaal Hazak, an Elder Dragon]]. When it spots a Hunter, it will give a warning roar, and will quickly turn hostile if the Hunter get any closer. This thing will win almost every turf war it's involved in, and is by far the most dangerous non-elder-dragon (or Bazelgeuse) threat in the Rotten Vale due to its sheer brutality in combat.
** As a matter of fact, the only turf war it loses for sure is the one against the Vaal Hazak, and that's less due to skill in combat, and more because the Odogaron will jump on the Hazak's back, thereby getting a faceful of highly toxic poison.
** And like every other Fanged Wyvern, it tends to be at a disadvantage whenever it's in a turf war with Deviljho.
* BloodyHorror: It looks like a skinned wolf, with glistening red skin like muscle tissue, and, appropriately enough, it's the one monster in the base game that inflicts Bleed status.
* BodyHorror: It has a second set of claws that protrude on top of its primary set. Its hide also gives the impression of being skinless. It's also notable for lacking eyelids of any sort.
* BoringButPractical: Weapons made from Odogaron parts are a lot easier to build around due to a maxed sharpness meter in a game where the normally mandatory handicraft usually fills up said meter for other weapons. This is also before considering the positive affinity that they have. The only downside is their lower than usual raw power.
* BurningWithAnger: When it goes into [[TheBerserker berserk mode]], it'll start glowing red with rage, and it is naturally strong against the Fire element. Its weapons even has a hidden fire element!
* CompositeCharacter: Has traits of Tigrex, Nargacuga, and Zinogre, as SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute explains.
* CounterAttack: Sometimes, when it would have been flinched or toppled, it fakes the "topple" animation and then bounces back quickly, punishing anyone who was trying to go in for the kill. This also happens when it gets knocked into a wall, a la Rajang.
* CriticalHitClass: Not only does much of the armor made from an Odogaron provide the "Critical Eye" skill, but many of the weapons made from Orogaron parts have high affinity percentages as well, making its equipment this.
* DeathGlare: Has a constant one. Other monsters when not agitated can look docile, even if with a fierce expression. Odogaron's default expression is "DO NOT FUCK WITH ME," even when ''sleeping.'' Perhaps it looks like this because it [[BizarreAlienBiology lacks eyeballs or a nictitating membrane entirely.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: Inherits Zinogre's canine-reptile hybrid structure with a savage fighting style while Tobi-Kadachi takes the elemental aspects in vanilla ''World''.
* DogsAreDumb: Odogaron is a canine monster, and, as shown by its [[TooDumbToLive rather cavalier attitude toward safety]], dumb as a whole forest of posts.
** Its offensive hitboxes are also extremely generous towards the player and it tracks very early on in many of its attacks, leading it to miss alot. A player who knows this can often avoid many of Odogaron's moves by simply walking out of the way.
* DragonsAreDemonic: Like the Stygian Zinogre before it, the Ebony Odogaron is [[DarkIsEvil black]], has a reddish lightning aura around it thanks to its dragon element, and in general is shown as far more aggressive than its nominate species.
* DumbMuscle: Yeah, yeah, [[VisualPun it looks like a muscle and it’s an idiot.]] The point stands; Odogaron is [[TooDumbToLive about as intelligent as a two-week-old bale of spinach]], but it lives in an environment where it doesn’t ''have'' to be smart: just savage, violent and relentless.
* EarlyBirdBoss: Unlike every other monster in low rank, Odogaron can show up outside its normal territory. It will occasionally wander up into the Coral Highlands, quite possibly before the player even knows the Rotten Vale exists...at which point they'll be much too weak to stand a chance.
* EvilIsVisceral: As mentioned before, it looks like an animal with its skin ripped off. Its lair in turn has walls of putrid flesh and tendons that it can tear through. The Master Rank version of its armor even goes for this aesthetic, making the hunter look like a flayed demon.
* FangsAreEvil: Has a pair of protruding canines on its lower and upper jaw. While not actually evil, it is highly aggressive and will readily attack monsters larger than itself. In fact, if it turf wars with Radobaan, it'll jump on Radobaan and start ''tearing chunks of it off with its teeth''.
* FearlessFool: Vicious, but has no grasp of when it's out of its league, attacking the Vale's resident Elder Dragon Vaal Hazak and even Deviljho on sight.
* FragileSpeedster: Odogaron moves quickly to compensate for its lack of defense.
* FunSize: The “Rush of Blood” event quest featured two Odogaron. One was normal size, but the other was only the size of a Jagras. That is a very, VERY tiny muscle puppy.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Ebony Odogaron are actually an invasive species in the same vein as Deviljho, showing up in locations outside of the normal Odogaron's hunting grounds.
* GlassCannon: It hits hard, but its hide isn't particularly tough, and it has a fairly small health pool.
* {{Hellhound}}: It has the look, being a huge, vicious, vaguely-reptilian dog-like creature.
** Ebony Odogaron takes this up another level.
* ItCanThink: While it's not the sharpest set of Dual Blades, it ''does'' seem to have a brain cell or two. It knows that hunters will try to kick it while it's down, so it sometimes fakes being toppled so that it can lunge back at any Hunters who take the bait.
* KillItWithIce: It's vulnerable to the Ice element.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Deviljho swings Odogaron like a chew toy -- the same way the latter does to a good chunk of his own prey. Doubly so since Deviljho is also a mean-tempered carnivore that'll eat anything.
* LogicalWeakness: It attacks relentlessly, but it also tires itself out faster compared to other monsters. And given how filthy the Rotten Vale is, Odogaron will gladly feed on any fresh meat it spots when it's hungry, even drugged meats.
* MovesetClone: Uses the same skeleton and animations as Tobi-Kadachi.
* MsFanservice:
** The female armor made from its parts doesn't look too bad from the front, but it shows quite a bit of [[SexyBacklessOutfit backside]] and [[ShesGotLegs thighs]], on a skin-tight armor set.
** [[HotterAndSexier The Master Rank Alpha armor is even skimpier]], showing more skin.
** Inverted with the beta version, however, [[TamerAndChaster as the chest armor is covered with a poncho]].
* {{Ninja}}: Female armor resembles one with a much slimmer and skin-tight outfit than its male counterpart, which resembles a {{Samurai}} instead, and a mask that either covers the mouth and nose or one that's hanging over the face as well as a silver TomboyishPonytail wig for all its variants.
* NoSell:
** Odogaron is immune to the Dragon element.
** Tzitzi-Ya-Ku, Paolumu, and Radobaan's gimmicks are completely ignored by it while the latter three try to defend themselves. Inverted against Vaal Hazak, however, who no-sells Odogaron's assault instead; it doesn't even have a chance against Deviljho.
** In its introductory cutscene in ''Iceborne'', the Ebony subspecies no-sells a slash to the face from a normal Odogaron, complete with a look afterwards that says "really?"
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Note how Odogaron doesn't immediately attack a Deviljho, and instead is stuck there, trying to scare it off, but has a much higher-than-usual pitched roar. This is the same monster who will willingly mount an '''Elder Dragon''' without hesitation.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Far from small, but it can tear apart the much bigger Radobaan with ease. In addition, the [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic "Rush of Blood"]] event quest features a FunSize Odogaron who hits just as hard as the full-sized specimen. This however, is deconstructed since not only does its smaller size mean it goes down quicker than the other apex monsters, the much bigger Deviljho can just manhandle it with ease.
* PowerUpFood: Odogaron can occasionally be seen carrying a lump of meat in its mouth. If the meat is eaten, it will gain a [[SerialEscalation second form of rage mode]], where it literally TurnRed with red markings appearing on it body and steam rising from its mouth as well.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The Ebony subspecies has a slight purple coloration and has a stronger array of attacks than the nominal species thanks to its Dragon-based breath attacks.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The Ebony version has black skin, blood-red eyes, a crimson aura, and is even more vicious than the regular species.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Ebony subspecies has these, and when you see it coming, you ''should'' take warning.
* RedIsViolent: Color: red. Attitude: bad.
* {{Samurai}}: Not the monster itself, but the male armor set clearly evokes Samurai-esque armor in design, complete with ''hakama'' style pants and ''menpo'' masks designed after Oni. Its set bonus even gives the Punishing Draw skill which enourages [[IaijutsuPractitioner Iaijutsu-like attacks]].
* SavageWolves: The most vicious non-Deviljho monster in the New World is an angry red lizard-wolf.
* SerratedBladeOfPain: A closer look, and its [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/76/f7/b4/76f7b4ca97a06e0812ed75b476875431.jpg concept art]] reveals that its larger claws are ribbed and have two rows of serrated teeth on the bottom going nearly to the tip.
* SinisterScythe: The completed dual blades are a pair of attached kama with chains.
* StandardStatusEffects: Its claws inflict Bleeding.
* SuperSpeed: Odogaron is scary fast, able to cross the entire Vale in moments.
* SuppressedRage: When it has food in its mouth, it won't attack immediately, but it won't hesitate in showing its displeasure at you if you get close.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: This trope was played straight in the vanilla version, but is now downplayed as all three monsters mentioned below would return in ''Iceborne'':
** Much like Tigrex, it's highly aggressive and will attack anything in sight to sate its hunger, going as far as to each drugged meat.
** The armor set is a {{Stripperiffic}} ninja-like set that provides similar critical damage bonuses, similar to the Nargacuga.
** While Tobi-Kadachi has the elemental aspect, Odogaron is very much closer to Zinogre in terms of threat level, and is also a nasty canine monster.
* TailSlap: Its tail is a mass of scales and bone ridges forming a mace it will gladly bludgeon you with.
* ThemeNaming: Four out of five weapons that have Odogaron upgrade trees culminate in rare level 8 weapons with one word titles that represent immorality or the consequences thereof: Sin, Vice, Odium and Karma.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Despite losing its turf war against Vaal Hazak, it has a chance of fighting back and putting the latter in a cycle of stun-locking if it doesn't flee. The same cannot be said if it runs into Deviljho more than once, however.
* TooDumbToLive: The only monster that may not leave when an [[TheDreaded Elder Dragon]] is present. It's also the only one to be [[FearlessFool foolish enough to challenge it.]] Sometimes even twice! Doubly so when it comes to Deviljho, and Jho isn't even an Elder Dragon!
* WolverineClaws: It has ''[[UpToEleven ten]]'' on [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill each foot.]]
* TheWorfEffect:
** Despite being an aggressive predator that [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] many other monsters in its environment, it does not stand a chance in a Turf War against Vaal Hazak, an Elder Dragon that easily retaliates with its effluvium.
** It has even less of a chance against Deviljho; whereas other apex monsters at least try to fight back, Odogaron just gets manhandled and thrown around as if it was Great Jagras. Even the stronger Ebony subspecies can't put up a fight.
** {{Downplayed}} in ''Iceborne'' with Tigrex - while Tigrex is able to manhandle Odogaron just like Deviljho, the Fanged Wyvern puts up quite a fight, and even manages to break free from a pin to try and tear out Tigrex's throat.
** The Ebony Odogaron is introduced by slamming a regular Odogaron down into the earth with a bite to the throat.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: It is the most aggressive monster in the entire game, and if ticked off, it'll hound you until either you or it is dead. The only moment in which it's "docile" is if it has a meal in its mouth, and even then, it'll growl at you menacingly to make you keep your distance if you're too close.
* ZombiePukeAttack: Ebony Odogaron can spit chunks of meat charged with the Dragon element at the player as it jumps around. This gives it a way to counteract its rather significant elemental weaknesses.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dodogama]]
!!Dodogama ''(Dodogamaru)''
!!!Rock Thief Wyvern
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->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
A salamander-like Fanged Wyvern that uses its massive lower jaw to pull rocks out of the ground, which it uses as a food source and a method of fighting off predators. Its saliva is volatile, and when it mixes rocks with it, they will become explosive projectiles.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite its portly appearance, Dodogama is surprisingly capable of quickly charging at hunters.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: It looks positively goofy and isn't very much of a threat compared to the other monsters in its habitat, but getting hit by its explosive spit ''hurts.''
** If Dodogama doesn't flee the fight, its explosive attacks can knock down and stunlock stronger monsters like Bazelgeuse and Raths.
* DishingOutDirt: It mainly attacks by spitting explosive molten rocks at enemies.
* EatDirtCheap: It eats rocks, and can coat them in volatile saliva to make them explosive.
* FangsAreEvil: Has a pair of protruding fangs on its bottom jaw. Subverted in that it's not evil, just aggressive once provoked.
* FatBastard: It's both portly and ill-tempered, at least once attacked either by a hunter or an Uragaan.
* GlassCannon: When Dodogama's mouth is full of rocks, its attacks will deal more damage, but its head and neck become considerably more vulnerable to damage, making it easier to take out. This is taken further when the rocks have completely dissolved, as the damage it gives and takes are considerably increased during this time.
* HavingABlast: The saliva-coated rocks it spits inflict Blastblight.
** Its weapons also have the ability to deal Blastblight, and its armor sets tend to favor a build that focuses on dealing it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: If you attack Dodogama at the right time when it's got a mouthful of rocks, you can detonate the rocks, doing serious damage and briefly stunning the monster. It works with melee attacks, ranged attacks, or even a well-timed shot with a Bomb Pod, Torch Pod, or Crystalburst from your slinger.
* LanternJawOfJustice: It has a massive chin. Subverted in that it's not particularly just (it's an animal, after all).
* MagmaMan: Will spit molten rock at hunters once the rocks in its mouth completely dissolve. It doesn't deal Fire damage, however. Nope, it's [[StuffBlowingUp Blast.]]
* NonMaliciousMonster: It would rather sleep and eat rocks all day than fight, but it will defend itself when approached by a hunter, an Uragaan, or Rathalos.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To the Berserk Tetsucabra, being a monster with a large bottom jaw that uses explosive rocks as weapons.
* WarmUpBoss: The easiest boss in the Elder's Recesss.
* TheWorfEffect: One of the many monsters Deviljho can use as a bludgeon. Also, [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Behemoth's]] intro shows it getting killed before tossed away like a ragdoll.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wulg]]
!!Wulg
!!!Ice Jackal Wolf
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->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
Small, furry Fanged Wyverns who inhabit the Hoarfrost Reach. They are opportunistic predators and attack both hunters and large monsters alike when they get the chance.
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* HelpfulMook: Should a large monster be immobilized with a trap close to a Wulg pack, they'll start attacking it while it's disabled for some small damage. Notably, one of the Wulgs will jump on the monster's back and ride it as it does so.
* MixAndMatchCritters: They look like a cross between a wolf and a badger.[[note]]Many people thought they were fanged beasts before it was revealed in the demo that they drop Tough Claws, materials only dropped by small fanged wyverns.[[/note]] Their front feet are armed with long, raptor-like blue claws.
* PersonalSpaceInvader: Very fond of leaping on Hunters and coiling around them while they’re distracted.
[[/folder]]
!Relicts
[[folder:Leshen]]
!![[Franchise/TheWitcher Leshen]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Ancient Leshen]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_ancient_leshen.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'' ver. 6-, ''World: Iceborne''-]
A powerful and ancient forest spirit from a different universe. It is the source of the strange disturbances in the Ancient Forest.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Breaking its body parts will temporarily depower the Leshen and desummon its flock of Revoltures and pack of Jagras, providing a window of opportunity to attack.
* BattleAura: The Revoltures flocking about the Leshen's body functions akin to Teostra/Lunastra's flame aura or Val Hazaak's effluvia, doing constant tick damage that can really chip away at a Hunter's health if they're not careful. When enough Revoltures accumulate, the Leshen begins to pull out some really dangerous attacks. Breaking a body part or setting it alight will temporarily scatter the birds and render the Leshen helpless for the most part.
* BarrierChangeBoss: Will occasionally create cover using walls of roots that are immune to physical attacks, then snipe at Geralt from long range. Geralt must either wait for the walls to collapse on their own, get around them, or use Igni to burn them down.
* BerserkButton: Destroying its totem will anger it enough to drive it out of hiding to deal with the culprit personally.
* BlindedByTheLight: Flash Pods are guaranteed to stop an Ancient Leshen and its Jagras flunkies in their tracks. The wood spirit recovers very quickly, but this tactic is ''always'' effective against it.
* BotanicalAbomination: A tree monstrosity that sticks out like a sore thumb in both ''Monster Hunter'' and ''The Witcher''.
* BossArenaIdiocy: The Ancient Leshen and its pack of Jagras will always be standing beneath some hanging boulders in the beginning of the hunt. It is considered imperative to drop these rocks on the Leshen before it teleports away to significantly expedite the first stage.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Immune to Traps, Water element and Sleep Status Ailment.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Ancient Leshen sports an absolutely titanic '''67,500HP''', eclipsing even Extreme Behemoth and Fatalis in solo play, though it does not scale up in multiplayer like every other monster does. Even with four endgame Hunters, expect this fight to [[MarathonBoss take a while]].
* DeathByAThousandCuts: None of its attacks hit particularly hard, but between its flock of Revoltures, its bleeding-inducing claws, the pack of Jagras hounding you, and its root attacks, your health will almost constantly be draining with little room to heal. Luckily for Geralt, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal witchers have incredible recovery.]] Averted with Ancient Leshen, which hits like a ton of bricks & has several move that can even [[OneHitKill oneshot]] unwary Hunters on top of the constant damage ticks.
* TheDreaded: The Leshen's ability to manipulate smaller monsters and use the jungle as its weapon makes it treated as an Elder Dragon-level monster.
* FieldPowerEffect: The Leshen is actually even more dangerous in the ''Monster Hunter'' universe than it is in its homeworld, thanks to the Ancient Forest being such a vast wealth of energy and foliage.
* FlunkyBoss:
** The Leshen is protected by a flock of Revoltures that will attack Geralt at close range. It will also summon a pack of Jagras for assistance in later phases of the fight.
** Ancient Leshen spawns ''with'' a pack of Jagras, and when it summons more later on, it can point at a random hunter to 'mark' them and make all the Jagras target that hunter.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Behemoth, the other [[GuestFighter Guest Monster]]. The Behemoth is close enough to the Commission's usual fare that they feel comfortable shoehorning into the "Elder Dragon" classification, while the Leshen has a unique classification. Also, while Behemoth isn't considered an abomination back in ''Final Fantasy XIV'' just so much as it is TheDreaded, the Leshen is very much one back in ''The Witcher''.
** To virtually every other monster in the entire series. The beasts of ''Monster Hunter'', even the enigmatic Elder Dragons, can at least be expected to make full use of their intelligence and physiology, whether that means flexing their powerful muscles, swinging their tails, belching fire and thunder, calling its pack for backup, navigating the environment, and etc. In other words, the monsters are effective combatants thanks to a combination of tactics and individual prowess. Even the series' [[FlunkyBoss Flunky Bosses]] can be reasonably dangerous by themselves. Meanwhile, the Leshen is an otherwise slow and mediocre fighter, so it prefers to enthrall the flora and fauna to do most of the work while it teleports around.
* FourIsDeath: Just like Behemoth and Kulve Taroth, its fight is divided into four stages. The final stage is noted by many players to be the most dangerous because that's when the Leshen decides to jack the difficulty up to near-unreasonable levels.
* GetBackHereBoss: The Leshen's slow movement speed at both attacking and moving means it doesn't present a great threat at close range, but it can cover this weakness by rapidly teleporting around the arena and using long-range attacks.
* GreenThumb: Its main form of offense, Leshen can summon giant roots to attack or to act as barriers. They're strong enough to restrain and strangle a Pukei-Pukei to death or simply launch Geralt into the air.
* GuestFighter: The second monster that hails from a different series, after Behemoth.
* HairTriggerTemper: Highly territorial, it will deal with any intruders in its territory violently, as several Pukei-Pukei and the Chief Botanist find out the hard way.
* HumanoidAbomination: Already one of these in its home series, it's even moreso here--it's the first humanoid large monster since King Shakalaka, and its powers, behavior, and appearance are out-of-place in the ''Monster Hunter'' universe.
* ItCanThink: It is smart enough to cover for its slow movement speed by teleporting around, denying Geralt opportunities to attack and sniping at him from a distance away. As the fight progresses, it will summon a pack of Jagras to both attack and distract Geralt as it uses its slower, but more powerful attacks. The Ancient Leshen, being an older and stronger specimen, is even smarter to the point of marking a specific Hunter, unleashing the pack of Jagras it summoned to hound the Hunter down while it also aim for that particular Hunter with several powerful attacks, including its root pin attack. Without the support of other Hunters, that Hunter is as good as dead and one step closer to the Quest falling.
* {{Knockback}}: The key to winning a fight against both variants of Leshen is taking advantage of a hunter's standard-issue slinger; the Leshen is ''incredibly'' susceptible to flinching from virtually all types of slinger ammo, though the best results come from lobbing Dragon Pods, Flash Pods, and Bomb Pods at it. A well-timed shot can stagger the Leshen out of whatever it's doing and provide an opening for attack.
* {{Leitmotif}}:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5qyrFTJ9WA "The Trail"]], from ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'', plays during its fight.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuEKUtxhP08 "The Hunt Begins"]], from the same game, plays during the fight against the Ancient Leshen.
* LimitBreak: In the latter half of the fight, the Ancient Leshen begins to accumulate Revoltures before releasing them into a massive swarm, similar to Teostra's supernova. The birds do enough damage to drop the health of a Vitality 3 hunter down to nil, scatter towards every hunter in the vicinity, and have ''homing'' capabilities on top of that. Either superman dive or fire a Flash Pod at it if you don't want a TotalPartyKill.
* LongRangeFighter: The Leshen prefers to fight at a distance, summoning a flock of Revoltures or giant roots to attack. Should Geralt get close enough for melee attacks, it can swipe at him with its claws but it prefers to just teleport away to attack again from a distance.
* MarathonBoss: At the final stage, the battle becomes less of a hunt and more of a grueling endurance test where you have to deal with the Ancient Leshen's now-perpetual TeleportSpam and hyper-aggressive attacks. Players risk depleting their supplies and making small mistakes that snowball into whole cock-up cascades as the clock keeps ticking.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Rather than quickly kill Geralt, it opts to slowly whittle down his health with the revoltures as a means to goad him to charging, then countering by throwing out a powerful hit with roots.
* MightyGlacier: The Leshen moves and attacks very slowly, but it is durable and its attacks will hurt if they connect.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Not that the Leshen is considered weak back in its homeworld, but it was enough of a threat that it escalated to being an upper-tier Elder Dragon hunt in the same vein as Gogmazios and Athal-Ka. Geralt notes that the massive amounts of life and nutrients in the ancient forest have made it much stronger than it would normally be back in his world.
* NoSell: It's immune to the Water element and to Sleep. And while it's not an Elder Dragon, it's completely immune to traps, meaning it can't be captured.
* OneHitKill: The Ancient Leshen have two of these attacks. First is the root pin atttack, where it attempt to ensnare a careless hunter within a tangle of roots. The victim is completely helpless and unable to free themselves if caught, which means they must rely on their partners to either stun the monster or burn the roots to free them. If they don't, then the Leshen is free to sic a flock of Revoltures on the hunter, rapidly chipping their health down before creating a vine explosion to finish them off. Second is the bird explosion that it only uses in the last two phases. The Leshen takes a moment to gather a massive flock of Revoltures to its body before unleashing them in a massive explosion that scatters them away toward the Hunters. It can easily one shot a Hunter with Vitality 3 on and it cannot be guarded, even with the Guard Up skill, and can easily result in a TotalPartyKill, falling the Quest instantly.
* OutsideContextProblem: It's a supernatural entity that hails from a different franchise. This is why the Research Commission decides to let Geralt handle the task on his lonesome while they make sure to provide all the support he needs.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Far smaller than most monsters its threat level, but dangerous enough that the Commission hires Geralt to deal with it.
* {{Sadist}}: It is very defensive of its territory--not too out-of-place in a series about fantasy animal ecology--but instead of simply chasing off intruders, it subjects them to rather cruel deaths. It causes Revoltures to chase the local Aptonoth until they collapse from exhaustion and blood loss, and it uses roots to strangle several Pukei-Pukei to death.
* StrongerWithAge: The Ancient Leshen, as its name implies, is an older and more powerful variant of the creature. It hits harder than an ordinary Leshen and has more attacks at its disposal while being much more resistant to Igni.
* TeleportSpam: Leshen is fond of warping all over the place.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: Ancient Leshen only appears in an Event Quest, so it sporadically disappears from the questboard for weeks at a time.
* TookALevelInBadass: As mentioned above, Geralt notes that the Leshen has gained a massive boost in power by drawing on the life and nutrients of the Ancient Forest.
* TurnRed: Once it reaches the final phase, the Leshen will power up with a distinct roar animation and is surrounded by a massive flock of Revoltures around its body, with Geralt even noting that it's angry now. The Leshen now attack much faster and more aggressively while teleporting constantly, chaining right into an attack as soon as it teleport in and instead of teleporting away to attack, it will sometimes teleport right in front or back of Geralt to hit him with a double claw attack that is guaranteed to inflict Bleeding. The Ancient Leshen will also power up for its final phase, which is considered by many to be the hardest phase since it will now teleport almost constantly, attacking with attacks that have massive range as soon as it reappears, all while the Hunters is hounded by massive numbers of Jagras that do considerable damage while also staggering Hunters. To top it off, it will unleash its powerful bird explosion attack much more often which can easily lead to the Quest falling if the Hunters are distracted and unable to stop or dodge the attack.
* WeakToFire: The Igni sign will remove the roots Leshen creates and set it on fire for a short while which staggers it for a moment. Repeated casting of Igni will eventually weaken the Leshen enough for it to lose its balance and dispel its flock of Revoltures. In the case of the Ancient Leshen however, staggering and weakening it with Igni will require multiple castings.
* WhenTreesAttack: It's a wood spirit that summons vines to ensnare and choke out hapless victims.
* WrongContextMagic: Just like its [[GuestFighter fellow invader Behemoth]], one of the Leshen's distinguishing qualities is its downright supernatural nature. It bewitches the local wildlife into serving as its attack dogs, and its ability to invoke tree roots with explosive force has the Chief Botanist calling foul.
[[/folder]]
!Elder Dragons
[[folder:Nergigante]]
!!Nergigante [-(variant: Ruiner Nergigante)-]
!!!Extinction Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Ruiner Nergigante]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_ruiner_nergigante_render_001_2.png]][[/labelnote]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Ruiner Variant:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
An Elder Dragon and the flagship monster of ''World''. It is notable for its massive horns and the many spikes that line its body, which will multiply with its injuries and give it a power boost if they are allowed to harden. The player first encounters this monster during a mission to capture Zorah Magdaros, and more senior members of the expedition reveal that Nergigante has been sighted before, but only during the Elder Crossing.\\
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''Iceborne'' introduces a battle-hardened variant called Ruiner Nergigante, armed with even tougher metallic spikes in addition to the ones found on the nominate species. It becomes a pivotal character in the closing chapters of the expansion's main storyline as well as the start of the endgame content.
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* AchillesHeel: If Nergigante's white spikes are allowed to harden, it will gain a boost in attack power and hits much harder. However, this strength is also a weakness. Attacking and breaking the white spikes before they harden has a chance to stagger and knock down Nergigante and leave it exposed for Hunters to deal considerable damage to it or to break its other white spikes before they harden. Not the case with [[spoiler:Ruiner]] Nergigante, though, as its spikes cannot be broken like base Nergigante's and can only be destroyed via parts break.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: It shows up when you're trying to capture Zorah Magdaros, and it's considered a more active threat. Hilarious in that Zorah is actually [[{{Kaiju}} a great deal larger]].
* AnAxToGrind: Switch axes and charge blades notwithstanding, several weapons made from Nergigante parts take the form of some kind of axe.
* AnimalMotifs: Porcupines. Much like the real life animal with its quills, Nergigante thorns grow back, and its the main part of it physically.
* AntiMagic: Weapons made from Nergigante parts have very high Elderseal values, allowing them to seal off an Elder Dragon's more dangerous abilities for a time. A very useful power to have when your diet primarily consists of Elder Dragons.
* AttackAttackAttack: Because Nergigante's wounds heal over time in a way that makes it more dangerous, Hunters are encouraged to be aggressive in attacking to break its white spikes before they harden to create an opening and to continue hammering at it in a DPS race to take it out before it take out the Hunters.
* BackgroundMusicOverride: If Nergigante invades a hunt, expect its theme to override whichever other Elder Dragon you were fighting.
%%Do not add BadassNormal as an example, please.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: When [[spoiler:Shara Ishvalda]] gets up after seemingly being slain, [[spoiler:Ruiner Nergigante]] flies in to finish the job, finally allowing [[spoiler:the "Eater of Elders"]] to live up to its title [[spoiler:and kill another Elder Dragon.]]
** [[spoiler: It's also discussed in the ending cutscene that the Nergigante may be a balancing force in the ecosystem, killing off Elder Dragons that cause too much damage.]]
** [[spoiler: As the Hunter and Handler travel to Guiding Lands for the first time, it comes in to save them from Bazelgeuse.]]
* BarbarianHero: Female Nergigante armor is quite revealing, but the hunter herself would look more at home in a Conan-inspired story rather than at a club.
* TheBerserker: Is so ferocious in attacking that it can actually break its own body parts when attacking. This is not a good thing, though, since its HealingFactor means [[FromBadToWorse it has the potential to become stronger.]] The Ruiner variant is strong enough to force good ol' Savage Jho to lift it up with is jaw just to put up a fight.
* BlackKnight: Nergigante fits many of the trope's characteristics even as a monster. It's a violent Elder Dragon clad in spikes that eventually become jet-black, and it's known to be a [[TheDreaded fearsome]] [[HunterOfTheirOwnKind Elder Dragon hunter]]. It shows up out of nowhere to prey on Zorah Magdaros, thwarting the Commission's efforts to stop Zorah, and its reason for doing so is not made clear until the Commission investigates the exodus of additional Elder Dragons, deducing that whatever phenomenon is attracting Elder Dragons to Elder's Recess makes for a great buffet in Nergigante's eyes. Even the armor crafted from its parts completely covers a male hunter in black armor.
* ChainmailBikini: Base female Nergigante armor instead does this, giving female Kirin armor a run for its money in this department.
* ChekhovsGunman: In both the base game and ''Iceborne'', Nergigante spines are discovered and speculated on early in the story. There are a few other signs throughout, and a few proper appearances in the base game. Eventually their nature is finally revealed in High Rank (base game) or at the end of the story (''Iceborne'').
* CurbstompCushion: Bests Teostra, Lunastra, and Kushala Daora in turf wars, but receives some damage itself in the process. Its Ruiner variant ties with Savage Deviljho, with both slamming each other to the ground and dealing roughly the same damage. It also ties with Rajang, though it's made clear that Rajang has to fully power itself up just to score a spectacular {{shoryuken}} on Ruiner Nergigante, only for the latter to [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom unceremoniously slap Rajang aside]] and instantly bring it out of its powered mode.
* DarkIsEvil: Has a shade of black, and is very aggressive. In gameplay, if the thorns are black and massive, '''time to run'''.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The gamma armor is visually the alpha variant with the horns and spikes in full black, similar to the Elder Dragon when it reaches its limit. ''Iceborne'' reveals that despite its penchant for destruction, Nergigante isn't really evil and more about maintaining balance in the ecosystem seeing as [[spoiler:Ruiner]] Nergigante hunted down [[spoiler:Shara Ishvalda]] due to the threat the latter poses to everything in general.
* DeathFromAbove: Its most powerful attack: when Nergigante is sufficiently covered in black spikes, it will take to the air and recklessly smash its body into the ground hard enough to break off all those spikes [[spoiler:except for the Ruiner variant's spikes]]. Needless to say, being hit by such large, heavy, ''sharp'' objects moving at speed is an [[OneHitKill instant kill]] to most Hunters.
* DesperationAttack: When low on health, Nergigante will start using its airborne divebombs as part of its regular attacks (which turns its headbutt into a OneHitKill if it has black spikes), spray spikes much more often, and intentionally plow through the walls of its nest to wound its entire body and start growing spikes everywhere at once.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Normally the Cthulhu in question, its Turf War with Rajang involves it bitch-slapping the Fanged Beast into a wall and depowering it; Rajang is known to take on several ''other'' species of Elder Dragons in a Turf War and ''win.''
* DragonsAreDemonic: It has a dark hide, an aggressive disposition, and looks literally like a demon.
* TheDreaded: Everyone's immediate reaction is an "Oh Shit!" look once it invades the first Zorah Magdaros mission. In the assigned quest to slay him, there is a scene where Gajalakas are swarming out of a cave in the opposite direction to escape his ire. After it is slain for the first time, three more Elder Dragons can be unlocked specifically because his presence forced them into hiding.
* EarlyBirdBoss: Nergigante's quest becomes available after a brief expedition following the Pink Rathian special investigation, but taking it on at that point is unreasonably difficult. Fortunately, the newly-opened Elder's Recess contains many of the checkpoint materials needed to make better weapons and armor to level the field.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Has a very low and throaty roar. Ruiner's roar is even deeper and more menacing.
* FakingTheDead: During the climax of ''Iceborne''[='=]s assigned questline, you travel to Origin Isle in order to find the true source of the disturbance in the ecosystem, only to find a Ruiner Nergigante who immediately attacks you. [[spoiler:You seemingly get to slay it, but Shara Ishvalda soon shows up, burying Nergigante's motionless body beneath the rubble and engaging you as the expansion's FinalBoss. Once Shara is defeated, it tries to get back up to fight the Commission once more, but then Ruiner Nergigante emerges from the rubble alive and well, and proceeds to kill Shara Ishvalda for good. What's more impressive is that the game actually fools you into thinking you slayed Ruiner Nergigante before the fight with Shara, victory fanfare and ability to carve the corpse included; the only real clue that lets you know that Nergigante isn't truly dead is that your carves do not net actual Nergigante parts.]]
* FightsLikeANormal: Is capable of fighting other Elder Dragons like Teostra, Lunastra, and Kushala Daora and winning through brute strength despite not having any obvious elemental abilities. Nergigante’s fighting style against other monsters is reminiscent of [[ShownTheirWork real-world predators]]; it grapples its prey, bullies it to the ground with superior strength, and [[NoNonsenseNemesis immediately goes for the killing blow.]]
* FinalBossPreview: It’s not the final boss, but he does show up during both of Zorah Magdaros' missions, ''much'' earlier than when you meet it in a straight fight. [[spoiler: Ruiner Nergigante shows up just before Shara, but its not treated as slain once defeated.]]
* {{Foil}}: To fellow invader Deviljho; Deviljho is a Brute Wyvern with Elder Dragon traits, such as Dragon Damage, while Nergigante is an Elder Dragon that fights more like an non-elemental Brute Wyvern/Flying Wyvern. Coincidentally, they share the same elemental weakness to Dragon and Thunder. That said, they differ in the effect they have on nature. While Deviljho is considered to be a living environmental hazard that threatens to wipe out most if not all animals in an ecosystem, Nergigante serves as more of a force of balance, hunting down and killing Elder Dragons that are causing excessive destruction in the natural world.
* ForceAndFinesse: The force to Velkhana's finesse when it comes to their weapon lines. Velkhana weapons look elegant and sleek, even normally crude weapons like the Great Sword and Hammer. While their base damage is lower than Nergigante's, all of its weapons have access to purple sharpness, even in their penultimate R11 forms. Nergigante weapons on the other hand look as unsubtle and brutal as the elder dragon itself, with high base damage but limited to blue sharpness for its R8 weapons and white for its R12 weapons.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Although considered an invader monster in the same vein as Seregios, Nergigante does not invade maps in gameplay, only doing so in certain event quests. Averted as of ''Iceborne'' with the Ruiner variant showing up in other maps and can get in turf wars against Deviljho and Rajang, the other invasive monsters.
* GlassCannon: Nergigante can be slain faster than most other Elder Dragons, but it can triple cart you just as easily. For reference, Nergigante has the second lowest health pool of all the Elder Dragons, only Kirin has less. Ruiner Nergigante slightly closes the gap by about 4,000 HP less than the average Elder Dragon (which isn't that much of a difference in Master Rank, unlike High Rank), but it's still prone to stunning and starving, making it full of openings that other Elder Dragons don't readily offer.
* GradualGrinder: Ruiner Nergigante is this, at least in comparison to its nominant species. While the regular Nergigante opts to beat its enemies to death using powerful attacks, with its Divebomb in particular serving as a OneHitKill, the Ruiner variant prefers to inflict the hunters with the Bleed effect, killing them as they move or forcing them to stand still long enough for the dragon to beat them up some more.
* HarderThanHard: Arch-Tempered Nergigante is this. Take the fact that the normal and tempered versions are already fast and hits hard. Arch-Tempered Nergigante takes it to new extremes by having almost ''four times'' the health of the normal version and does ''eight times the damage''.
* HealingFactor: Is able to grow soft, white spikes on fresh wounds, and if given enough time to heal, the spikes will harden to black and Nergigante will gain a boost in attack power. It however, can't regenerate its horns and tail if they are broken and chopped off respectively.
* HitboxDissonance: Some of its attacks, such as its [[DeathFromAbove spike-breaking dive]], have deceptively large hitboxes because they include any shrapnel created by the attack.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When it retreats to his nest, it can make the stalactites on the ceiling fall on you. However, these can damage and possibly kill it as well.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Its favorite prey is ''other Elder Dragons''. Finally seen in ''Iceborne'' where [[spoiler:Ruiner]] Nergigante [[spoiler:kills Shara Ishvalda by ripping its throat out then slamming its head on the ground]].
* ImmuneToFlinching: Whereas most monsters flinch upon being hit with certain slinger ammo - Slinger Bomb, Piercing Pod, etc - Ruiner Nergigante does not.
* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler:Ruiner]] Nergigante. After being beaten to the point it was presumed dead, dragged off a cliff [[spoiler:by Shara Ishvalda]] and buried under solid rock, it bursts out with still enough stamina to kill [[spoiler:Ishvalda, which had similarly just recovered from seeming death. However, it opts to leave after landing the killing strike, rather than try to get in a rematch with the hunters]].
* InASingleBound: Don't think Nergigante lacking a ranged attack means you are safe at a distance. It can close the distance surprisingly quick with its jumping claw smash attack.
* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: As Nergigante's spikes harden, its attack power increases, and so do the chances of it taking out a Hunter with a single powerful attack.
* ItCanThink: The ending ''Iceborne'' shows that Nergigante is intelligent enough to form what appear to be ''rudimentary plans''. [[spoiler:Its main target at the end of the game is Shara Ishvalda, as it is the elder dragon causing chaos across the New World with its song. Nergigante even arrives at its den before the Fifth Fleet, but is unable to do anything with Ishvalda not only covered in its rock armor, but able to stay underground at its leisure. So it puts on a show of fighting the newly-arrived Sapphire Star, then plays dead to trick Ishvalda out of hiding - despite it's body presumably being ''carved'', then later being buried under a ton of rocks - and let's the Sapphire Star not only deal with his prey's armor, but allow it to exhaust itself fighting the Sapphire Star. Nearly the exact moment after the heavily-wounded-but-alive Ishvalda starts getting back up, Nergigante bursts from the rubble before tackling its vulnerable prey to the ground, ripping out it's throat, and ending the crisis in one fell swoop. Moreover, it stares down the Research Commission for a moment before choosing to fly off, knowing it wouldn't be smart to take on a dozen of these foes alone, period.]]
* JackOfAllTrades: Nergigante itself is a LightningBruiser, but its weapons, besides a high raw value and high Elderseal, don't particularly stand out. While they don't have the highest rank sharpness and cannot obtain it due to the sharpness meter being full, it instead has a very healthy amount of blue sharpness (or white in Master Rank), so-so elemental damage, and no negative affinity penalties.
* KaizoTrap: When most monsters retreat to their nest, finishing the hunt is mostly a formality. Nergigante gains several new tricks that put its potential damage through to roof.
* KillSteal: [[spoiler: Ruiner Nergigante kills Shara Ishvalda just as the player prepares to fight it after it [[NotQuiteDead gets back up from its initial defeat]]]].
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Nergigante as a species is very good at threat assessment, and on multiple occasions is shown choosing the better part of valor when faced with something above its pay grade.
** In one of the Lunastra special assignments, a Nergigante trails Teostra to the special arena and attacks him for an easy meal. However, Lunastra [[BigDamnHeroes swoops in]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend to save her mate]]. Even Nergigante can’t face ''[[BattleCouple two]]'' Elder Dragons simultaneously, and it flees rather than fight a one-sided battle.
** Similarly, after [[spoiler: Ruiner finishes off Shara Ishvalda, it stares down the Commission before taking off into the sky; it [[ItCanThink knows]] the Sapphire Star is not to be lightly trifled with if they can grievously wound the Elder Dragon Ruiner could not slay on its own, and moreover has ''friends'' now. Better to retreat than continue a battle you’ve already won.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhEgBvdM_Ew "Even Elder Dragons Tremble"]], which runs at a fever pitch and relentlessly bombards you with oppressive trumpets. Nergigante's appearances in cutcenes are notably always accompanied by a bombastic brass strike that's quickly followed by five more notes. The Arch-Tempered version has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHHwwhpsvus "World's End"]], which has a more triumphant tone to it and is reused when [[spoiler:Ruiner Nergigante emerges from the rubble to kill Shara Ishvalda]].
* LightningBruiser: For a creature its size, it's deceptively fast, and it hits like a freight train. It gets much worse with Arch-Tempered Nergigante who has the highest health pool out of all the Arch-Tempered Elder Dragons outside of Zorah Magdaros on top of being exceptionally powerful.
* LimitBreak: Its divebomb attack functions as one. It's powerful enough to potentially cart a hunter with a direct hit, but can only be used when most of its body has hardened spikes, and shatters all those spikes on use.
* {{Mascot}}: Of ''World''. Appropriately enough, it's the last Elder Dragon to receive its Arch-Tempered quest which comes with numerous changes compared to the previous AT quests. both on the Elder Dragon and the quest itself.
* MeaningfulName: Its name appears to be a combination of "Nergal", a [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Mesopotamian god of war and death]] [[HijackedByJesus better known today as a demon]], and "''gigante''", "giant" in Latin and some Romance languages.
** Its name, when rearranged, spells out regen giant. Given its HealingFactor and size when compared to the playable hunters this name works incredibly well.
** In [[BilingualBonus Italian and other Latin languages]], his name could also be read as a portmanteau of Nero, meaning black, and Gigante, meaning giant. Thus: Black Giant. Makes sense, considering its main color scheme is purple and black.
* MsFanservice: Not the monster itself, but the female armor set leaves very little to the imagination. Averted for the Ruiner armor, which covers more.
* NoBiologicalSex: While most monsters aren't designated as a male or a female because there's little difference between the two sexes in the species, Nergigante is a special case; it lacks genitals (and therefore a sex) ''whatsoever''. This is because it reproduces mitotically, through special spikes that it implants in the corpses of its quarry, which absorb its bioenergy and then eventually grow into a genetically identical Nergigante specimen.
* NonElemental: Nergigante is an oddity among Elder Dragons in that it uses no elemental attacks whatsoever, instead using brute force to pummel its foes into submission. The Monster Field Guide does provide it a three-star weakness to Thunder and a two-star one to Dragon, but the elemental hitzone values are so terrible that it's better to simply attack Nergigante with raw-focused weapons.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Like [[ShownTheirWork real-world predators]], Nergigante isn’t flashy when it hunts. It gets its prey into a killing blow position as quickly as it possibly can, and immediately goes for the throat when it’s vulnerable. It becomes a literal example of "going for the throat" in ''Iceborne'' due to [[spoiler:how its Ruiner variant ends up killing Shara Ishvalda]].
* NoSell: Once its spikes are hardened, melee attacks against them are deflected and only Mind's Eye skill and similar attacks can hit them without deflecting.
* NotSoDifferent: Nergigante's ecological niche is hunting down and killing other powerful Elder Dragons due to the threat they pose to the ecosystem, not unlike how you and other hunters are hunting down and killing powerful monsters due to the threat ''they'' pose to the ecosystem due to overpopulation.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: A bog-standard European dragon, with its main divergent characteristics being its outlandishly oversized horns, its spiked wings and its lack of a BreathWeapon.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Ruiner Nergigante inflicts this against ''Rajang'' of all monsters.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Most of Nergigante's body is of a dark purple hue, and it is as powerful as you could expect an Elder Dragon to be.
* RecurringElement:
** Much like Lagiacrus in ''Tri'', it was misblamed for a much bigger event caused by a stronger being.
** And much like Seregios in ''4U'', its first scene is invading a map and causing you to fail to capture another monster. Fittingly, it's also an invader type monster, though Nergigante does not actually invade a map. With Ruiner Nergigante being able to cause the bleed status, its comparison to Seregios is much more obvious.
* RedBaron: It's called "The Eater of Elders" by some of the Research Commission members as well as certain quests. The Ruiner Variant from ''Iceborne'' has another two more titles: ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast King of the Monsters]]'' and ''[[TheDreaded World Destroying Extinction Dragon]]''.
* RoarBeforeBeating: Nergigante will stand on its hind legs and let off a powerful roar before taking to the sky to perform its spikes breaking dive bomb attack. This is also the reason why its dive bomb is ThatOneAttack, most Hunters that didn't invest in Earplugs skill or is guarding against the roar is stuck in place and unable to dodge the incoming dive bomb.
* SignatureAttack: The Divebomb, an infamous example of ThatOneAttack.
* SlasherSmile: Its jaws and teeth are configured in a way that make it look like it's ''always'' smiling maliciously at you.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Absolutely covered in bristling spikes, most prominently on its wings, and it's defined by its ridiculously ''gigantic'' devil-horns. Becomes even more impressive as its spikes harden, as they increase in size and make Nergigante considerably deadlier to fight. Make armor out of it, and you and your palico will get this look too.
* SpikeShooter: Once it begins to grows white spikes on its body parts, most of its attacks gains the ability to launch spikes at a distance. Once the spikes hardens, they becomes much stronger and hits much harder. This is much more prominent with the Ruiner variant, who throws spikes much more often which inflict the Bleed status effect. It also has ''way more of them.''
* StatusBuff: Nergigante gets a temporary buff to its speed whenever it roars, and the boosts are potentially capable of stacking.
* TakesOneToKillOne: It's a natural predator of other Elder Dragons. On the other hand, its AchillesHeel is Dragon element weapons just like them, and it's even affected by Elderseal (which delays its spikes from hardening), meaning weapons made from Nergigante parts are ideal for hunting it.
* TamerAndChaster: Ruiner Nergigante armor covers more skin than its nominate version did.
* TookALevelInBadass: Very much so considering how easy it can be taken down despite its mascot status. Arch-Tempered Nergigante has ''3.7 times'' the health of the normal variant, its spikes are now harder to break, it can perform a short-ranged dive bomb in ''one second'' and it can even spam it, and another Arch-Tempered Elder Dragon comes in [[{{Jobber}} only to job to it and leave]]. Even its battle theme gets a dose of this trope, to compliment all of the changes. Likewise, Ruinter Nergigante has various ranged attacks in the form of spikes that cause bleeding.
* TurnsRed: Once it gets near death, Nergigante will enter a unique rage mode which is signified by the camera panning out, Nergigante spreading its wings, and unleashing a mighty roar. Nergigante now attack much more recklessly, breaking its own body parts with every attacks to grow spikes of its own volition and use its dive-bomb much more consistently, with the spikes growing back much faster if they are broken.
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[[folder:Zorah Magdaros]]
!!Zorah Magdaros
!!!Scorching Mountain Dragon
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->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
A massive Elder Dragon with a rocky hide and an active volcano on its back. Zorah Magdaros is migrating to the New World in a mysterious phenomenon that occurs every ten years known as the Elder Crossing. This is the first monster the player encounters in the New World when its advance accidentally capsizes part of the Fifth Fleet, and studying the Elder Crossing and Zorah in particular remain key driving forces of ''World''[='s=] Low Rank storyline.
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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Like Lao-Shan Lung before it, Zorah does little except slowly walk toward the barrier, and it’s going to ''keep'' walking there until either you repel it or (if it’s [[TookALevelInBadass Arch Zorah]]) it walks ''through'' the barrier.
* AnimalMotifs: A turtle. Moves very slowly, but very few things can actually hurt it. Its mouth and front legs resemble an alligator snapping turtle's, and the mountain-like shell on its back covers its head when it goes down to walk on all four legs.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Its "shell" has magma cores which are weak spots that can be attacked to damage it.
* ChargedAttack: During the barrier defense phase, Zorah can charge a breath attack which can take off half of the barrier's health in one hit. The ballista binder shot or Dragonator can interrupt the charge while destroying all of Zorah's magma cores prevents the ability being used at all.
* ColossusClimb: The Player Hunter and the Handler are seen running on and climbing on its body during the opening tutorial of the game. In the quest to capture it, the Player Hunter and other Hunters are sent to climb on its body to damage and weaken it further for capture.
* CrutchCharacter: One of the armor sets you can start off with in High Rank can be farmed off this monster. It's actually quite good and can carry you to the Elder's Recess in the story with a high Fire resistance.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The second battle against him is treated with an enormous sense of finality. The stakes are high, all life in the New World is held in the balance, the hunters throw everything they have at the beast, and when it's all done, everyone thinks it's only a matter of time before they get recalled back to the Old World. Then new problems arise and the game keeps going.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Had ''World'' used the old threat rating from ''Generations'', Zorah would likely have been an 8-star monster, but it's the first Elder Dragon you face. [[note]]In ''Generations'' and before, there was a star rating to gauge how dangerous a monster was. 6 stars was when it was recognized as an elder dragon-level threat, with 5 and under being normal monsters. 8 was the maximum and a clear signal of just how dangerous it is, as monsters like Narkarkos, Ahtal-Ka, and Alatreon were much stronger than the likes of Rajang, Teostra, and Akantor[[/note]] Ultimately justified in that you actually don't really fight it but rather on it, and that you're not so much as to kill but to capture/redirect it.
* GiantCorpseWorld: ''Iceborne'' introduces an endgame area called the Guiding Lands, and it's heavily implied that the entire island is formed from the corpse of a Zorah Magdaros, as explained in PosthumousCharacter below.
* GodzillaThreshold: Once Zorah Magdaros true purpose is known, the Research Commission is forced to throw everything at it in the second battle to repel it for good; cannons, ballistae, stalactites and the powerful Dragonator.
* HavingABlast: Weapons made from Zorah Magdaros parts deal Blast damage.
* HoldTheLine: 2 barriers are built to slow Zorah Magdaros down while Hunters are damaging it to weaken it enough for capture, with the first barrier using cannons and ballistae and then restraining it with binders, and Hunters climbing on its back for the second barrier and another try with the binders. [[spoiler: It works, but the sudden appearance of Nergigante ruined the capture attempt.]] The second battle with Zorah Magdaros is reversed, with the player Hunters going on Zorah's back first to weaken it and [[spoiler: repel Nergigante]], before flying back to the only wall to both defend the barrier and repel Zorah Magdaros.
%%* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ_xVAzI3Ds "Beast with Fire Upon Its Back"]].
* KillItWithWater: Its main weakness is Water.
* LevelInBossClothing: Justified due to its massive size, but you're mostly on the monster rather than in front of it during the "destroy the magma core" process.
* MagmaMan: It's essentially a walking volcano.
* MightyGlacier: Befitting its gigantic size, Zorah Magdaros move at a snail's pace, but can smash through obstacles with ease, and has massive amounts of health.
* MonsterClown: The Palico armor made from Zorah resembles a jester.
* NothingIsScarier: Its Info in the ingame handbook is just "RESEARCHING" during the first half.
* NonMaliciousMonster: It doesn't intentionally harm anyone over the course of the game, and it isn't interested in destroying anything at all. It just wants to find a place to die peacefully.
* NonStandardGameOver: Just like with Jhen Moran and The Lao-Shan-Lung, Zorah’s attack’s [[RealityEnsues damage the wall you fight it from]], and if the wall is destroyed, the quest is failed. [[AntiFrustrationFeatures This time, though, you can actually see the wall’s health.]]
* NotZilla: It has the size and stance of the classic {{Kaiju}}.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Zorah Magdaros came to the New World [[spoiler:to die]], like the other Elder Dragons. But because it is so massive, [[spoiler:the sheer amount of bioenergy it'll release upon death would have cataclysmic consequences if it dies in the wrong place]]. The final confrontation during the story involves forcing Zorah to divert from its path towards [[spoiler: the Everstream, since Zorah dying within it would cause the whole continent to basically explode]], with the end goal being to make it return to the ocean where the aforementioned bioenergy can kickstart a new ecosystem in a few centuries.
* PinataEnemy: Zorah is an easy fight which can reward a lot of resources if you're willing to put in a little extra effort. His shell is studded with ore deposits which contain High Rank ore and will refresh after a while; the first three magma cores can each drop one or more shiny; and cannon attacks can cause him to shed shinies during the final stage.
* PosthumousCharacter: Implied; the Guiding Lands is theorized to be a dead Zorah Magadros. Farming parts from the Guiding Lands, such as the bone piles and mines, can net you armor pieces for Master Rank Zorah Magdaros gear, and the Rotten Vale area has a Zorah head overhead.
* PurpleIsPowerful:
** Subverted with its armor set due to it [[CrutchCharacter eventually falling off]], but its one of the best armor sets once you start High Rank.
** The gamma armor set plays this straight, while the Helm and Chest pieces aren’t considered top tier they do have utility with windproof and tremor resistance respectively. The Arms, Waist and Legs have useful skills like earplugs, bombardier[[note]] increased damage with barrel bombs[[/note]], blast attack[[note]]Increase in blast build up[[/note]], and critical eye[[note]]Increase criticalhit [[/note]]. The latter two work great in conjunction with the armors SetBonus.
** Also played straight with its Master Rank set for Gunlances, Charge Blades, and Bowguns using sticky ammo due to the set giving a massive boost in the artillery skill, which is considered the main damage skill for said weapons.
* StealthyColossus: You wouldn't think so, being a massive volcano on legs, but much of the game is spent tracking it down and trying to predict where it's going.
* StoneWall: Zorah Magdaros has come to the New World [[spoiler:to die of old age, and reaching this age is understandable]]. Zorah is not really a killable creature in any sense, simply due to its sheer size and the fact that its body is like 50% cooled magma. The old man’s offensive options, however, are rather limited; basically, it’s just movement and the occasional blast of fire from its mouth.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Very similar to Lao-Shan Lung from the original game; an absolutely colossal, quadrupedal dragon that [[AdvancingBossOfDoom slowly advances toward a stronghold]] and [[HoldTheLine has to be stopped]], occasionally rearing up onto its hind legs to show off its [[{{Kaiju}} immense size]].
* TimedMission: All the missions are timed in Monster Hunter, but in this case the trope is in effect because after repelling it for good, Zorah Magdaros cannot simply be accessed through the quest log under most circumstances. It appears randomly and only stays available for the duration of any two quests before it vanishes giving hunters a very limited window in which you can battle it.
* TookALevelInBadass: Arch-Tempered Zorah Magdaros is a much more intense experience than normal Zorah. The [[TimedMission time limit]] is much tighter, it has greatly increased health, it can [[NonStandardGameOver destroy the barrier]] with three solid hits (necessitating the use of One-Shot Binders and the Dragonator to cancel its attacks), and [[DropInNemesis Nergigante]] actually does need to be actively repelled, rather than being on a timer. While normal Zorah is a definite BreatherBoss, Arch Zorah is a tense and desperate race against the clock.
* TurtlePower: It resembles a huge, volcanic version of Film/{{Gamera}}.
* UnskilledButStrong:
** While not as bad as Anjanath in this regard, Zorah Magdaros weapons still have a -10% to -20% penalty to Affinity, so you won't be doing as much critical damage with them; that said, they're still pretty powerful with a higher Blast damage.
** Zorah Magdaros, itself, also counts, since it's a walking volcano that just walks forward.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Although a considerable amount of damage is done to it, the New World hunters only prove capable of annoying it enough to drive it off. Granted this is by design as attempting to kill it where it was would've been disastrous for everyone, if that was even possible (an idea that isn't discussed in game).
* VolcanicVeins: Seems to have lava flowing within its body. Its magma cores will spill out lava from time to time as they are attacked.
* WalkingSpoiler: The purpose of this Elder Dragon remains unknown until it's revealed that it came to the new world [[spoiler:to die]], which would be catastrophic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vaal Hazak]]
!!Vaal Hazak [-(variant: Blackveil Vaal Hazak)-]
!!!Corpse Coat Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vaal_hazak.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Blackveil Vaal Hazak]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blackveil_vaal_hazak.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Blackveil Variant:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
An Elder Dragon who has the ability to suck the life force out of other creatures. It wears a layer of rotten flesh over its body and breathes out a blast of gray miasma which eats away at its enemies' health; in a hunter's case, temporarily taking out part of their health bar.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: To show just how much stronger an Elder Dragon is compared to a normal monster, the normally fearsome Odogaron gets absolutely trounced by it when it tries to leap on it and bite it, much like it does on Radobaan.
* AntiMagic: Not to the level of Deviljho and Nergigante, weapons made from Vaal Hazak's parts are the only ones to naturally sport an Average Elderseal rating.
* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: It starts out resting ''under'' a mountain of skeletons. Then it wakes up and comes out standing on top of them.
* BattleBallgown: A darker variant on female A and Y armor sets; the "flesh" is used to look like a skirt over a metal armor. The Master Rank armor set looks like a [[FairytaleWeddingDress wedding dress]].
* BodyHorror: Blackveil Vaal Hazak looks like it's not well at all with all the sores covering its body and spewing effluvium everywhere. And even when said sores are destroyed, they just keep coming back at an alarmingly fast rate.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Not Vaal Hazak itself, but rather it has the ability to inflict this on smaller monsters infected with the effluvium. Its symbiosis with the effluvium is such that it has the power to take control over creatures afflicted by it, putting them under its control in this manner (and [[FlunkyBoss siccing them at you]] during the fight).
* BlindSeer: Downplayed with Blackveil Vaal. At first it has a layer of spores covering its head, rendering it immune to flash pods, yet it's still able to determine your location throughout the battle. Once its head is broken, you can tell that it can in fact see (and be blinded by flash pods now), but being able to fight while effectively blinded is still impressive.
* BrightIsNotGood: The Black Veil variant is whitish-grey, and is far stronger than the nominant version back in High Rank.
* CherryTapping: Due to the presence of its miasma cloud and the area's hazards, there is a solid possibility to cart because you survived being hit only to get finished off by the tick damage.
* TheComputerIsALyingBastard: A half-truth variant. The Hunter's notes will state Vaal Hazak has a three star weakness to Dragon element. While this is true, it does not clarify that the weakness only applies to parts of the body that are broken.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite its horrific appearance and abilities, it acts more like an animal than an evil necromancer. The Blackveil variant is no different in this regard, even though it's an invasive species that's wrecking havoc on the environment.
* DeadlyGas: Its breath takes the form of a huge blast of effluvium.
* {{Dracolich}}: Not actually undead, but certainly invokes the impression of one.
* DraconicAbomination: While not as out-worldly as Xeno'jiiva or [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV Behemoth]], it still gives the impression of being something that doesn't belong in a semi-realistic game about hunting dangerous animals, such as (apparent) necromancy and being able to weaponize some very horrifying and deadly gases.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Its first action in the game is to kill all the Girros that were about to mob your hapless Hunter.
* FlunkyBoss: In later stages of the fight, it may summon effluvium-infected Girros and Rahpinos and set them against you.
* TheGrimReaper: Thematically. It's a dragon with a heavy death motif, who wears a cloak which hides most of its body, and is covered in spikes in the shape of [[SinisterScythe scythes]]. The male armor set you can craft from the Blackveil variant even comes with a skull-like helmet.
* HatePlague: The Effluvium drives small monsters mad, making them much more aggressive.
* {{Irony}}:
** Despite curbstomping Odogaron effortlessly, Odogaron weapons have a hidden fire element, which Vaal Hazak is weak to.
** Further even though it wins the turf war against Odogaron without suffering damage, Odo's sheer speed and utterly relentless nature means it completely dominates the fight afterwards if it doeesn't flee. Poor Vaal's just too slow to get any hits in most of the time which results it in suffering StunLock via flinch animations.
** Blackveil Vaal Hazak is mostly white.
* ItCanThink: It has a weakness to Dragon, but it seemingly accounted for it as it wears a skin that protects it from Dragon damage until broken. Its Arch-Tempered version is also savvy enough to nest in acid to prevent trespassers from safely attacking it.
* KillItWithFire: The nominate species vulnerable to the Fire element.
%%* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU4R1WM-Gkk "Keeper of Hades"]].
* LightningBruiser: While its breath attacks take some time to come out, it is deceptively agile, being able to cover up ground very quickly in its charges.
* MaximumHPReduction: Can inflict this with its effluvium attacks, causing the player to have their max HP reduced for a temporary amount of time.
* MeaningfulName: Its name may refer to Valhalla, Myth/NorseMythology's [[WarriorHeaven afterlife for warriors]], and Baal, a Semitic god [[HijackedByJesus better known as the demon]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub Beelzebub]].
* MightyGlacier: They move fairly slow and their attacks generally have long windups, but they hit pretty hard and are quite resilient.
* MixAndMatchCritters: It's a dragon with the NestedMouths of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoplight_loosejaw stoplight loosejaw.]]
* {{Necromancer}}: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. It looks like it has the ability resurrect small monsters from the dead, but rather it has the ability to take control of the effluvium infecting them, putting them under its control.
* NemeanSkinning: It wears a coat of rotten flesh over its body, hiding most of its silvery scales and protecting it from the Dragon element until it's broken.
* NestedMouths: In keeping with the Rotten Vale's deep sea theme, it takes influence from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoplight_loosejaw stoplight loosejaw]]: it has a second lower jaw nested within the larger one serving as the "floor" of its mouth.
* NonIndicativeName: Blackveil Vaal Hazak is mostly white/grey.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Apart from the story quest, it won't immediately attack a hunter unless provoked.
* NoSell:
** Thanks to evolving a symbiotic relationship with the effluvium, Vaal Hazak is immune to its harmful properties. While the Girros and Raphinos become violently aggressive, the Elder Dragon is unaffected. Additionally, parts of its body that aren't broken are immune to the Dragon element and is capable of stepping into the acid pools of the Vale without risk.
** Blackveil Vaal is initially immune to flash pods, owing to the fact that its eyes are covered by a layer of spores the whole time, though you can remove this immunity by breaking its head.
* PoisonousPerson: Its main form of attack comes from the effluvial miasma that it emits, which causes slight damage over time in the short term, and halve your health in the long term. In-universe, it's speculated it may even be responsible for the effluvial miasma found throughout the Rotten Vale.
* RecurringElement: Replaces Chameleos as the designated "Poison Dragon", but also an Elder Dragon with a unique status ailment, similar to the Gore/Shagaru Magala.
* RegeneratingHealth: Not the monster itself, thankfully, but its armor set heavily promotes this, allowing Hunters to regenerate red-health very quickly. The set-bonus takes it a step further by allowing them to also slowly regenerate black-health too. A Hunter with Vaal Hazak armor doesn't need potions to heal if they're careful enough.
* SicklyGreenGlow: Blackveil Vaal is so noxious that the entire locale it's in will have this, similar to Velkhana tinting everything blue when they appear.
* SignatureMove:
** Well, Signature Status, rather. The effluvium effect will cut your maximum life down to at most half depending on your resistance to the ailment. The Resident Evil event version of Blackveil has a Zombification status.
** That being said, it does have a pair of signature attacks: its breath beam where it draws in a deep breath, absorbing effluvium, then spews out a concentrated beam (which is often, though not always, lethal on contact); as well as an effluvium release where it draws in breath and then unleashes a heavily concentrated cloud around it that rapidly spreads out from around it (which if not avoided does much more chip damage than the normal effluvium it surrounds itself in and is highly likely to cut health down within seconds of contact). The Blackveil variant has a move where they spit out the effluvium beam ''down'', creating a wave of effluvium that crawls along the ground.
** Blackveil Vaal has a supernova attack similar to Teostra, Lunastra, and Seething Bazelgeuse.
* SquishyWizard: Zigzagged; Vaal's weak spots are easy to hit, and Vaal itself isn't too durable, but its effluvium will damage you in the process, making safe approaching harder.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** It's similar to Nakarkos, as an Elder Dragon with undead and deep-sea motifs that wears monster corpses as armor (hell, Nakarkos is the "Corpse Dragon", while Vaal Hazak is the "Corpse Coat Dragon"). A key difference is that while Nakarkos is a cephalopod that disguises itself as a hydra, Vaal Hazak is clearly a more traditional dragon from the get-go.
** One to Chameleos, introduced at the same point as Kushala Daora and Teostra (Chameleos's counterparts in the 2nd and 4th gen games), which relies not on a conventional element but a debilitating mist, be it poison or effluvium, to do its dirty work.
** Also to the Magala lines, being an Elder Dragon who utilizes a microbe-induced status effect. And Chameleos, the Magalas, and Vaal are all weak to fire with dragon being their secondary weakness.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** While Vaal Hazak is considered the easiest Elder to hunt in ''World'' (even in its Tempered form), its Arch-Tempered form is one of the most challenging AT fights. Not only does it hit harder, but it now tends to stay in areas with heavy effluvium forcing hunters to have to deal with that as well.
** Blackveil Vaal isn't just more aggressive, it has a lot more miasma at higher volumes and knows better how to utilize it. It's also more resistant to Fire and Dragon element, as well as Blast damage.
* WalkingWasteland: The Blackveil Vaal Hazak is covered in spores that constantly spew effluvial miasma, making its mere existence a major threat to the ecosystem. The Blackveil wandering in the Ancient Forest is even introduced as simply wandering around while the effluvial fumes from its spores drive every nearby monster crazy until they die.
* WaveMotionGun: Has a charged breath attack that shoots a potent stream of effluvium capable of reaching the other half of the room.
* WingsDoNothing: Unlike its fellow winged Elder Dragons, Vaal always fights on the ground. The only time it flies is when it gets mounted by a hunter. This is rather justified by the fact that it lives primarily in confined underground caves. The Blackveil variant does fly for a bit for a supernova-style attack.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Xeno'jiiva]]
!!Xeno'jiiva
!!!Dark Light Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_xenojiva.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
A species of Elder Dragon previously unknown to the Guild. The mysterious force luring Elder Dragons away from the Rotten Vale to the Elderstream was actually this creature, feeding on the bioenergy of those dying elders as it secretly incubated inside an enormous crystal.
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%% There’s no explicit confirmation that Xeno’jiiva is actually an alien. Please refrain from edits that assume this to be canon.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Attacking its glowing chest enough times when it is fully powered will stagger it and knock it down the ground for a good 10 seconds.
* BackgroundMusicOverride: When Xeno'jiiva appears in the post game and its quest becomes available as a result the normal town theme is overridden by more dark and sinister piece giving an in-story sense of urgency that it needs to be taken out as soon as possible.
* BigBad: It's the very reason the Elder Dragons are migrating to the New World, attracting them so they may die and allow it to absorb the released bioenergy.
* BossArenaUrgency: Downplayed. At the start of phase two there are multiple rocks that can be used to shelter from more dangerous attacks, such as the sweeping beam, but Xeno'jiiva will gradually destroy these as the fight progresses. It will also rarely use its beam attack while airborne and carve off an edge of the platform.
* BreathWeapon: It can shoots blue fireballs from its mouth but as the battle progress and it begins to build up power, the fireballs turns to laser shots before turning into a continuous laser beam.
* BrightIsNotGood: Xeno'jiiva is very bright and glows, but is clearly a dangerous and outworldly threat. [[spoiler: Given its adult form is compared to a SatanicArchetype, it might actually be LightIsNotGood instead.]]
* CombatStilettos: The female Xeno'jiiva armors have this.
* ContractualBossImmunity: It can't be mounted and is immune to Flash Pods and Sleep ailment. It also can't be forcefully turned or flinch shot into the wall using the Cluth Claw if ''Iceborne'' is installed.
* DamageSpongeBoss: It's as durable as it is large.
* DeathFromAbove: Xeno'jiiva can use both its fireball and beam attacks while airborne and will also divebomb, which triggers a Dragon element explosion in its wake.
* DraconicAbomination: While it’s still dragon-shaped, the EldritchAbomination trope is invoked by its alien appearance, such as its three pairs of false eyes, glowing body parts, and blue flames. Even by this generation's nightmare-inducing standards, this beast is '''UNHOLY'''.
* DragonsAreDemonic: Its demonic traits are its incredible power, [[WildMassGuessing speculated alien origins]], and its otherworldly appearance.
* DragonsAreDivine: At the same time, though, said otherworldly appearance is ethereal and graceful, and a gentle blue radiance emanates from its entire body.
* EnergyWeapon: Its BreathWeapon takes the form of massive searing lasers, hot enough that they cause the ground under them to turn molten, inflicting Fireblight if the player steps on it. The airborne version can actually carve off the edges of the platform.
* EnfanteTerrible: As ''Iceborne's'' second free title update reveals, Xeno'jiiva is in fact a baby - or at least a youth - when you run into it. If they're allowed to grow up, they soon turn into the far more deadly [[spoiler:Safi'jiiva, who's capable of absorbing energy from entire biomes and reshaping them as it pleases]].
* ExtraEyes: {{Subverted|trope}}. It has two eyes, and has three pairs of red-orange gems or markings above them that make it look like an eight-eyed alien, although they don't glow or blink like its actual eyes. When you break its head, some of them become cracked.
** As it turns out, they ''are'' in fact sensory organs ([[BizarreAlienSenses just not eyes]]), directing the monster to new sources of energy to feed on. [[spoiler: As it matures into Safi'jiiva, these organs atrophy and become vestigial, though they are still present.]]
* FinalBoss: Of the base version of ''World''. As with most examples, it is the BigBad of the story, and must be stopped before it becomes a more significant threat.
* {{Foil}}: To Gogmazios from ''4U''. Both are massive Elder Dragons closer to being [[EldritchAbomination terrifying abominations from hell than normal dragons]], [[TheSpook on top of being previously unheard of from both of their respective guilds in their games]]. However, there are key contrasts between the two of them.
** [[StrongerWithAge Gogmazios has lived for a long time,]] while [[EnfantTerrible the Xeno'jiiva you fight in the story is implied to be an infant.]] [[spoiler:Which is confirmed in ''Iceborne'', as Safi'jiiva is the adult form of Xeno'jiiva]].
** [[DarkIsEvil Gogmazios is pitch black]] while [[BrightIsNotGood Xeno'jiiva is very bright]].
** Gogmazios is associated with oil, tar, and gunpowder, while Xeno'jiiva is associated with gems, crystals and bio-energy.
** The area where you fight Gog is full of thing to help you fight it (cannons, dragonator, demolisher etc.), while with Xeno, it's only you and the Elder Dragon.
** [[spoiler: Gogmazios was ironically disqualified for a "Forbidden Beast" status due to having a known diet, while Xeno'jiiva's adult form, Safi'jiiva, might be one as per little to nothing being known about it.]]
* GemTissue: It was born from a crystal, and its very body appears to be made of some kind of translucent, crystal-like material.
* GiantFlyer: Don't let its size fool you; it can fly, and [[DeathFromAbove it'll use it against you]], diving down to strike you with its claws or bombarding you with fireballs and lasers from the air.
* InterfaceSpoiler: You can accidentally learn of its existence and name long before meeting it if any of its event quests happen to be in rotation when checking the quest board.
* {{Irony}}: Although it does fit the Western mold (see OurDragonsAreDifferent), it's one of the most alien-looking monsters in ''World'', both from an in-lore and from a design standpoint. And yet, [[spoiler:when it grows up, it loses the alien-looking aspects and looks very much like a traditional Western dragon as Safi'jiiva; ([[DraconicAbomination at least, on the outside]].)]]
* JackOfAllTrades: Like Nergigante, it's a monster that had every weapon class based on it prior to major updates. Whereas Nergigante weapons focus on raw damage, the Xeno'jiiva weapons excel in customization. They have considerably weak base damage, little Dragon element, and low Elderseal but they compensate them by having two Level 3 decoration slots, white sharpness, and a positive affinity. The monster's LBG and HBG are also the only bowguns to have all five elemental ammo. Furthermore, its armors had the highest defense stat and most decoration slots before major updates came in.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA_d8u-bcFw "Guiding Lamp to the Otherworld"]], which only plays a few notes of ''World''[='=]s theme in an uncertain tone before the oppressive brass imposes Xeno'jiiva's motif of unholiness. and Once Xeno'jiiva switches areas, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZWG2b7sHmw "How Life Springs Anew"]] plays, with the swelling orchestra incorporating "Stars At Our Backs" as if to tell you to press forward with renewed courage. [[spoiler:The main phrase of Xeno'jiiva's theme would end up be used in Safi'jiiva's theme as a verse sung in ''Monster Hunter''[='=]s fictional language, praising the Red Dragon as [[UltimateLifeForm the perfect being]].]]
* LightningBruiser: Partially due to its large size, it can cover a significant area very quickly, even though some of its attacks have long windups.
* LimitBreak: Can unleash a powerful attack once it is fully charged where it rears up and proceed to sweep the entire area with its laser beam but the sheer force of this attack will break the ground it is standing on and make it stumbles into the ground and leaving it vulnerable. Once it climbs back out, it will have reverted back to its normal state. The Arch-Tempered version only does this once its massive health is low.
* MeaningfulName: "''Xenos''" is Greek for "stranger" or "foreigner" and appears in words like "xenophobia" and "[[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]]". "''Jīva''" is a living being filled with life force in Hinduism and Jainism. Quite fitting for an otherworldly dragon filled with the bioenergy of Elder Dragons.
* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: When first encountered, the HUD names it "???". Carved parts are described as coming from an "unknown monster".
* MysteriousVeil: The female armor gives off this impression with the bridal veil that hides the hunter's eyes.
* NoSell: Immune To flash bombs. Not to slinger ammo, however.
* NothingIsScarier: Even after you defeat it, in-game information is left blank during the duration of the game, although unlike older monster that were on similar rank from previous games, it has an icon this time.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: It's an ethereal monstrosity with an otherworldly appearance, but otherwise fits the Western mold very well, to the point that it's one of the few monsters that deals both Fire and Dragon elemental damage. [[spoiler:Its adult form, Safi'jiiva, ditches the alien look completely for a far more traditional look, yet it's power to absorb energy from entire biomes still suggests that it's far more than it appears.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Its abilities deal a lot of Fire damage, and it can cover the ground with Fireblight.
* PowerGlows: Most of its body glows blue, with a red glow from some kind of core also spreading from within its torso. Its light becomes more radiant as the fight goes on.
* RiddleForTheAges: In vanilla ''World'', we knew virtually ''nothing'' about this monster, which invited much speculation. It was only until the second free title update of ''Iceborne'' that reveals this thing [[EnfanteTerrible truly is a baby]], and that it [[spoiler:has an adult form: Safi'jiiva]]. Yet beyond that, there's still relatively little information to go on about where it came from, or how it can do what it does.
* ShockwaveStomp: It can manipulate the earth's energy to create chains of explosions.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: The Palico armor crafted from its parts features skull-shaped cutouts in the fabric.
* TheSpook: Xeno'jiiva has never been seen, or even ''heard'' from before, to the point it doesn't even have a name in-universe until ''after'' the player slays it. Even the field guide initially remains blank, outside of gameplay information of course. It was eventually updated with information that is known.
* TimedMission: Just like Zorah Magadaros, after Xeno'jiiva is defeated, you cannot fight it through the quest log under most circumstances. It appears randomly and only stays available for the duration of any two quests before it vanishes, giving hunters a very limited window in which they can battle it.
* TechnicolorFire: Its fire attacks are blue.
* TookALevelInBadass: Much like Zorah, Arch-Tempered Xeno is a force to be reckoned with. It’s apparently learned from its [[UnskilledButStrong previous battle with you]], and [[ItCanThink is a much more competent adversary]] this time around. The battle ''starts'' in the last phase, and Xeno immediately destroys the crystal spires, preventing mount attempts. It doesn’t make the same clumsy mistakes it did in its first fight, slinger ammo doesn't make it flinch, and actually gains several new moves and variations on existing ones.
* TurnsRed: It gathers energy during the fight, and upon accumulating enough, it adds molten ground and additional explosions to many of its attacks, putting several moves into [[OneHitKill one-hit-cart]] territory. Staggering it during one of its longest moves removes it from this state.
* UnskilledButStrong: Xeno'jiiva is a youth when you encounter it; it makes mistakes during the fight that other Elder Dragons wouldn't, such as pounding the ground and causing it to collapse, giving the player a huge opening. However, the bioenergy of deceased elder dragons allowed it to be born in the first place, so Xeno'jiiva's mere existence is a possible extinction-level threat. This is subverted in its Arch-Tempered incarnation; [[ItCanThink it’s learned from its first battle with you]] and is a much more [[StrongAndSkilled competent]] and [[TookALevelInBadass dangerous]] adversary.
* VocalDissonance: For a dragon as humongous as Xeno'jiiva, it lets out a lot of cries that resemble a baby or a squished plushie, which makes sense once you learn that it's a juvenile monster.
* WalkingSpoiler: There are implications something is going on throughout the story, but you only actually meet this monster (or learn a monster is even behind everything) right before you have to kill it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kulve Taroth]]
!!Kulve Taroth ''(Mamu Taroth)''
!!!Mother Goddess of Gold / Glorious Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kulve_taroth.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'' ver. 3-, ''World: Iceborne''-]
An Elder Dragon added in the April 2018 title update. She is the target of ''World''[='s=] first Siege Quest, where 16 Hunters can join the fray. First discovered when the Research Commission landed in the New World, she escaped due to a lack of resources to properly study her. With her recent return, the Commission makes plans to do what it was unable to decades ago and launch an exhaustive investigation into the creature. She inhabits the Caverns of El Dorado, a volcanic cave system full of precious ores, where she has grown a thick coat of gold and relic weapons to protect herself.
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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: The completion reward can randomly generate Bushi Tickets that can be used to buy two sets of cosmetic armor sets.
* AnimalMotif: Resembles a nanny, a female goat, with its horns. She also likes to thrash about by ramming a lot.
* AssKicksYou: Most of her infamous RollingAttack's hitbox is located on her butt.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Completely encouraged to successfully repel her and increase the final rewards.
* BlingBlingBang: Natrually, all the gear you can craft/loot from this fight is covered in gold.
* BlingOfWar: The armor crafted from Kulve Taroth's parts is some of the most ostentatious in the entire series, and also comes packed with several highly sought-after skills.
* BossArenaIdiocy: In Area 1, you have access to several cannons to whittle down her armour, and you can drop a couple of rock formations on top of her head, leaving her stunned for several seconds. Area 3 has a conspicuous stalactite that can be dropped on top of her, and you can use Area 4's central pillar to jump on her, potentially leading to a mount.
* BreathWeapon: A unique take in that, rather than launching torrents of fire, her attacks seem to be ''pure heat'', burning the air and turning the ore in her lair into a storm of molten metal.
* BurningWithAnger: Once she is sufficiently riled up, her body temperature increases to the point that she begin to melt her own gold mantle, making her take more damage and is the key to breaking and releasing her from her protective mantle.
* CombatHandFan: Her parts can be crafted into a bladed fan for the Palico.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Downplayed. While initially immune to the Clutch Claw's effect of forcefully turning and sent to the wall, upon getting a Master Rank version, she can now be forcefully turned and Flinch shot into the wall although like Shara Ishvalda, she merely staggers as opposed to getting knocked out.
* DeathFromAbove: In the final phase of the hunt, the heat she gives off causes the gold in the cave ceiling to melt and fall down randomly. The Master Rank version causes it intentionally by blasting the ceiling with her heat beam, which causes a ''much'' larger quantity of molten gold to rain down.
* DragonHoard: An Elder Dragon who lives in, and is covered in gold. Ironically, this sets her apart from the other elder dragons, who are mostly valuable for the materials their bodies possess.
* DragonsAreDivine: Kulve Taroth is downright ''beautiful'', and everything she does is a visual spectacle that leaves you awestruck.
* ExtraOreDinary: Downplayed; she can melt gold into a suit of armour for herself, but otherwise uses heat as her main weapon.
* FeedItABomb: At least with Master Rank Kulve, shooting her mouth with a Slinger Bomb while she's using her BreathWeapon will cause a knockdown.
* FourIsDeath: Four phases, the last of which is most likely to get players carted due to [[ShedArmorGainSpeed shedding her mantle]] and [[TurnsRed going full ham.]]
* TheGhost: Was one to the Research Commission. Originally documented by the First Fleet forty years ago, they lacked the resources and manpower to properly study Kulve Taroth, allowing her to escape and largely fade into obscurity. The massive amounts of bioenergy released by Zorah Magdaros and Xeno'jiiva finally drew her back out into the open.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: This Elder Dragon is golden and is a unique threat, considering how many Hunters are needed to effectively fight her. The gold-filigreed relic weapons she drops are also better versions of whatever they were based on.
* HoldTheLine: In her map, she must be repelled in the same vein as other larger-than-life Elder Dragons such as Zorah Magdaros.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Kjarr weapons dropped by Arch-Tempered Kulve feature massively increased stats over their base weapon counterparts, often for very little to no trade-off. In addition, they all come with either the Critical Element or Critical Status skill built in, granting endgame builds access to two powerful skills that were previously locked away as set bonuses on two mediocre armor sets (Rathalos and Zorah Magdaros, respectively).
* InstantWinCondition: Breaking her horns in the final phase instantly ends the siege. It takes effort to get to that point, but in the end, the horns are the only thing that matters. ''Iceborne'' version 13.50, however, adds a Master Rank quest that assigns you to outright slay her while giving very little priority to breakable parts.
* ItCanThink: Smart enough to create and wear a protective mantle of gold that is immune to Ice element to cover for her natural weakness to Ice. Although the gold mantle is weak to Thunder element, she got it covered since she herself is naturally immune to Thunder. In the final phase of the fight when she is enraged, she will deliberately uses her BreathWeapon to melt the ores above her in order to melt them down and create environmental hazards of falling molten lava for the Hunters fighting her.
* KillItWithFire: Kulve Taroth's thick gold mantle has to be heated up before before it can be broken apart. Fire elemental weapons, lava eruptions and her own body heat when she is enraged can do the trick. However, her mantle is primarily weak to Thunder element instead of Fire.
* KillItWithIce: Once her protective mantle is shattered, Kulve Taroth becomes weak to Ice element weapons.
%%* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Mu6hiD6vA "The Brilliance that Rules the Everstream: Confrontation"]] for her first phase, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cCUXYQQTBI "The Brilliance that Rules the Everstream: Transformation"]] for her second phase, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY0Bx5A2nxM "The Brilliance that Rules the Everstream: Tremor"]] for her final phase.
* LightningBruiser: After her mantle has been shattered, she becomes ''way'' faster while keeping all of her power.
* MarathonBoss: Hunting Kulve Taroth requires several teams of Hunters working together over multiple quests, whittling her down until she's finally weak enough to break her horns. It ''is'' possible to solo her, but it will take several hours and at least a dozen attempts.
* MightyGlacier: Before she sheds her golden armor, Kulve Taroth is fairly slow, and the fight's main threat is her massive size and reach.
* MovesetClone: Shares many animations and attacks with Great Jagras, Great Girros, and Dodogama.
* MythicalMotifs: Between the goat horns and the fur-like gold armour, it's a clear reference to the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Golden Fleece]]. Of course, even Jason would have trouble taking ''this'' fleece.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Kulve Taroth will almost entirely ignore Hunters in the first phase of the fight, attacking extremely rarely and only when provoked. Only after she has been sufficiently damaged to reach the second phase will she actually begin fighting back.
* PimpedOutDress: Not on her, but the female versions of her armor set give of this feeling. Complete with the following:
** SexyBacklessOutfit: The chestpiece, Kulve Taroth's Ire, displays this.
** ShowgirlSkirt: The waist piece, Kulve Taroth's Malice.
* PinataEnemy: Compared to normal monsters, Kulve Taroth drops an enormous amount of loot. Attacks are far more likely to spawn shiny drops than normal monsters, with an average player likely to loot more than ''thirty'' in a good run. Breaking her horn armor spawns a carve worth ''three'' pieces of loot and each of her two horns are worth two carves. And all of that's before the completion awards which can reward up to ''eighteen'' items.
* PrettyInMink: Both male and female versions of her armor give of this vibe, except that they're somehow using gold covered fur.
* RandomlyGeneratedLoot: Downplayed. The gimmick behind Kulve Taroth's drops is that she has the potential to drop [[UndergroundMonkey reskinned versions of the weapons of other monsters with unique stat distributions.]] Each weapon she drops can drop as one of three tiers, and same weapons of the same tier have fixed stats.
* RapunzelHair: The alpha version of her Master Rank armor gives both male and female hunters this.
* RollingAttack: Her most frequently used attack is to simply roll over any Hunters in her path, be it straight forward or sideways. Given her sheer size and weight, it cover a wide range and can outright OneHitKill a Hunter with low physical defense.
* SequentialBoss: The fight has four distinct phases, each taking place in a different area and with different mechanics. [[spoiler: Her hunting quest in ''Iceborne'' starts in Phase 2 right off the bat.]]
* ShedArmorGainSpeed: The first few phases of her encounter involve melting and chipping away at her heavy, golden mantle. Once it's finally broken off for the final phase, Kulve Taroth goes from awkwardly rolling around to flatten you to sprinting around, violently swiping, tail-whipping, and ramming nearby Hunters.
* TheSpook: Much like Xeno'jiiva, it is very poorly understood by the Research Commission and has evaded their notice for most of the expedition's life.
* SubsystemDamage: Kulve Taroth's armor has eight parts[[labelnote:*]]right and left chest, foreleg, hindleg, and tail[[/labelnote]] that can broken, plus the gold plating on her horns. It's possible to break her armor just with general damage and each part of the armor that breaks increases the end rewards. Once the gold mantle entirely comes off, the only breakable parts left are her tail end and giant horns, the latter of which will end the siege once broken.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** Her weapons feature gold filigree reminiscent of the weapons made from the Ahtal-Ka of ''Generations Ultimate''.
** The mechanic of getting the weapons from random drops (instead of crafting them) on the other hand make them reminiscent of the Relic Weapons from ''4U''.
** The volcanic region and her golden, heat-vulnerable armor also make her an Elder Dragon-level equivalent of Agnaktor.
** Once her mantle is broken, she resembles Akantor, being a massive quadrupedal volcano monster.
* SingleSpecimenSpecies: There's no indication that there's more than one Kulve Taroth in existance, and considering hunters can't kill her, and only break her horns, it's likely there's only one Kulve Taroth exists in the New World.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: Kulve Taroth only appears during certain times, a first for the franchise. Her regular version was retired once her Arch-Tempered version was released. With the addition of Safi'jiiva, Kulve Taroth's siege, as well as her Master Rank quest, alternates every two weeks with the Red Dragon.
* TimedMission: The available time for the siege depends on the Pursuit level -- the higher the Pursuit level, the more time is available to fight her. Breaking Kulve Taroth's armor and reaching the fourth phase of the fight extends the time limit. The Master Rank version of her quest removes the Pursuit mechanic, but she'll still run away unless the Hunters can break her golden armor.
* TookALevelInBadass: The Master Rank version gains a number of powerful new attacks including a sweeping breath attack, a claw slam and a flying frog splash that both cause lava eruptions, and in her final phase she has a powerful new move where she coils around the central pillar and heats up the ceiling so much that a giant mass of molten gold rains down on all but the far edges of the arena.
* UnstoppableRage: Once her gold mantle is broken, Kulve Taroth will fight back much more aggressively against the Hunters in the final phase of the fight by ramming, charging, thrashing and attempting to burn them alive with her BreathWeapon. Each piece of her armor set is also named after an expression of anger, being Fury, Ire, Rage, Malice and Wrath.
* VariableMix: Has a three-part theme, ''The Brilliance that Rules the Everstream'', which starts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfgFq7dUz4w light in Area 1]], becomes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUyPQMMFoP4 more intense in Area 2 and 3]], and climaxes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a18phdQffug in Area 4]]. Her Arch-Tempered version remixes all three parts, complete with OminousLatinChanting that plays once hunters earn her ire in stage 4.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Is neither killed nor captured; she just rushes away after her horns are broken off. She also does this at the end of each area, melting through the wall to do so. If a siege mission fails due to the time limit, a cinematic of her leaving the area plays. As of ''Iceborne'' version 13.50, Kulve Taroth is able to be slain in a normal Master Rank event hunt, finally subverting this trope.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Behemoth]]
!![[Franchise/FinalFantasy Behemoth]]
!!!Demon Beast
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_behemoth_5.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'' ver. 5-, ''World: Iceborne''-]
A monster from a different universe, drawn to the New World by the mysterious appearance of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV aetheryte]].
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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Beating the Extreme Behemoth will allow you to get the Drachen layered armor.
* AnimalisticAbomination: By ''Monster Hunter'' standards at least. Being [[GuestFighter a monster from another universe]], Behemoth is completely unlike anything else in ''Monster Hunter''. It's an incredibly magical creature from a HighFantasy setting, invading a nonmagical LowFantasy setting, and this makes it stick out.
* BareYourMidriff: For fanservice play, the female Drachen armor has a hole that shows the hunter's belly, right down to the navel. It also shows her collarbones.
* BraggingRightsReward: Defeating Extreme Behemoth is this. It has no new weapon or armor, and all the materials to craft it drop from normal Behemoth. All that beating Extreme Behemoth nets you is a Layered Armor, a title, and a background for your Guild Card.
* ClassicVideoGameScrewYous: Failing the DPS check for Extreme Behemoth will cause him to cast Ecliptic Meteor...when there isn't any comets to hide behind.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Is immune to traps and certain status conditions in the same vein as other Elder Dragons. Additionally, it's also immune to the Clutch Claw's effect of forefully turning or being flinch shot into a wall.
* {{Crossover}}: With ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', with Rathalos also being a boss in that game.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Behemoth boasts a health pool surpassing even Xeno'jiiva on top of his aggression, having 35,000 compared to the later's (solo) 16,000. Extreme Behemoth takes it UpToEleven with ''over 50,000HP.'' [[note]]For reference, Kulve Taroth, an actual raid boss, has only 41,000HP.[[/note]]
* DeathFromAbove: It's introduced crashing down on a meteor and killing Dodogama, and several attacks involve blasting Hunters with lightning or meteors.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: The final stage of Extreme Behemoth has three castings of Ecliptic Meteor to contend with, with only one comet for each one. However, the comets are triggered by health percentages, so if too much damage is dealt all at once (such as with a mount or sleep bombing) he will cast Comet twice before using Ecliptic Meteor, leaving your party with no cover for the next one.
* DrawAggro: Dealing enough damage to its head causes its attacker to gain its enmity, marked by a red line connected to them, and it will target them exclusively for a short time while changing its attack patterns.
* TheDreaded: There's a reason the Moogle tells you not to fight it solo on your repel quest; the Serious Handler and the Excitable A-Lister heed that warning REAL quick when you go hunt it for real.
* ElementalPowers: Has a few.
** BlowYouAway: It frequently casts Charybdis, which creates damaging tornadoes that will stick around for a while, reducing the area you have to fight in. It can be interrupted by flinching it or with a Flash Pod.
** PlayingWithFire: Meteor, and an unnamed attack that causes volcanic explosions in front of it.
** ShockAndAwe: It can cast Thunderbolt.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Drops in from a meteor and kills a Dodogama.
* FourIsDeath: Four phases, just like Kulve Taroth. Unlike Kulve, however, it's an immediate threat even in phase one.
* GuestFighter: This is the first time in the main series that a crossover features an actual monster from another franchise as opposed to approximating one with an existing ''Monster Hunter'' monster.
* HealingFactor: If all hunters leave the area it is in after the battle begins, it will begin regenerating health (with a game message informing you of this), a mechanic taken from its native franchise.
* KaizoTrap: Behemoth will always cast Ecliptic Meteor as it dies, as per ''Final Fantasy'' tradition.
%%* {{Leitmotif}}: Two tracks from ''XIV'' play during the Behemoth boss. The first half of the fight is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyfTDbc57E0 "Thunderer"]] and the second half is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJSM4tAeEAA "Torn from the Heavens"]].
* LimitBreak: In true ''Final Fantasy'' fashion, Behemoth has one in its 'Ecliptic Meteor' attack, a '''zone-wide, unblockable, unavoidable OneHitKill meteor strike.'''
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Behemoth functions less like a creature and more like a raid boss, and it's this that its difficulty draws from. Several examples:
** Behemoth will focus its attacks on a Hunter if they quickly deal sufficient damage to its head, encouraging a "Tank, DPS, Healer" composition akin to [[RolePlayingGame traditional RPGs]].
** Its Ecliptic Meteor is a OneHitKill. '''Period.''' [[note]]Skills like Guts, Guard Up on shields, Lance's empowered guard, Temporal Mantle, and superman diving are ignored by the attack. It also disables Farcasters until it finishes.[[/note]] The only way to avoid the move is to hide behind the smaller meteors on the ground or flee the area.
*** As a ShoutOut to the ''Final Fantasy'' series, the new 'Jump' emote can also be used to avoid the attack if timed correctly.
*** Another [[GoodBadBugs trick]] players have figured out, is that sitting at the canteen in camp makes you immune to it.
** Extreme Behemoth carries the dubious honor of being the first monster in the series to have DPS checks: If a party cannot do enough damage past a certain threshold by the end of Phase 3, it will cast Ecliptic Meteor ''[[OhCrap without dropping a Comet first.]]'' Hilariously (frustratingly), it works the concept ''in reverse'' during the final phase; see DoWellButNotPerfect above.
* MightyGlacier: Subverted. It hits like a ton of bricks and its attacks can cover a large area, but it's not particularly agile. However, the main trouble is when it starts casting spells in between physical attacks, giving you little room to breathe.
* MovesetClone: Downplayed; its shares some of its physical moves with Nergigante.
* MusclesAreMeaningful: Its ridiculously ripped upper body and front legs aren't just for show; Behemoth delivers some of the most powerful and brutal physical attacks in the game akin to Nergigante, easily oneshotting most Hunters in High Rank gear. Its pin animation also showcases just how easily it can toy around with an unlucky Hunter it grabbed, repeatedly slamming them into the ground and inflicting Bleed status on them.
* NonIndicativeName: If it wasn't obvious enough that the "Elder Dragon" tag is meant to represent unusually powerful monsters rather than ''just'' dragons, the Behemoth is not a winged reptile, but an unusual canine/bovine hybrid.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Behemoths are considered middle/upper-middle tier in terms of strength back in ''Final Fantasy'', so they're obviously not weak there. However, they're considered to be closer towards the likes of Fatalis and Alatreon here due to the lack of magic in the ''Monster Hunter'' universe.
* OutsideContextProblem: It's from an entirely different ''franchise.''
* PurpleIsPowerful: Much like in its home series, the Behemoth is purple and a serious threat.
* SchmuckBait: The game advises you to not fight it solo, and [[NintendoHard they're not joking]]. With the health bar of a full-multiplayer hunt no matter what, even those in top-tier Master Rank gear from ''Iceborne'' who try to solo regular Behemoth will find it difficult to finish him off in just 35 minutes.
* TakingYouWithMe: Behemoth will try to cast Ecliptic Meteor one last time just before it dies in an attempt to wipe your team out.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: Averted with normal Behemoth, whose quest becomes a permanent Optional after completing the Special Assignment. Played straight with the extreme variant, which is an equivalent of an Arch-Tempered Monster and often disappears from the questboard, only to pop up again during festivals.
* TurnsRed: Behemoth's entire body glows burning red once someone gains its enmity.
* VideoGameTutorial: The first time players fight it is an {{Antepiece}} that tasks them only to repel the Behemoth. Allowing them to familiarize themselves with the fight's unique mechanics. The players are even allowed 9 faints so as to keep them from failing, even if the entire party wipes from the eventual Ecliptic Meteor it casts to end the encounter.
* WakeUpCallBoss: Behemoth is outright designed to punish players who think they can just brute-force their way to victory without a strategy, on top of forcing solo players to look for coordinated help. The extreme variant also tells players that if they can't utilize the jump emote in the situation that they fail the DPS test, they're doomed.
* WeNeedADistraction: Encouraged by one player taking the tank role to gain its enmity so as to prevent the Behemoth from casting Charybdis all over the place.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Velkhana]]
!!Velkhana ''(Ivelkhana)''
!!!Ice Dragon, The Iceborne Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/velkhana.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
The flagship monster of ''Iceborne'', Velkhana is an elegant Elder Dragon with power over ice. Largely unknown to the Guild, its sudden appearance following the Elder Crossing project leads the Research Commission to discover a second island, the Hinterlands, kickstarting the events of ''Iceborne''.
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* AntagonistTitle: Appropriate that Velkhana, one of the iconic monsters of ''Iceborne'', was nicknamed the Iceborne Wyvern InUniverse.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Arch-Tempered Velkhana's bite attack will knock down any hunters that clutched onto its head to prevent an easy force-shot to the wall for a free stun. This attack even bypasses any protective mantles such as Rocksteady and Temporal; the former does not prevent the hunter from getting knocked away while the latter will instantly drain all Temporal charges before getting knocked down from the attack.
* BewareMyStingerTail: Velkhana will use the tip of its tail as a lance to jab at hunters from various angles.
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: When the icepick-like tail is severed, it lands with the tip embedded in the ground.
* BlingOfWar: In contrast to the gold-plated glory of Kulve Taroth, Velkhana's armor layers a lot of silver & white over deep blue robes, blending both elegant curves and dangerous spikes into the design. It give the sense of an elegant warrior king/queen with regalia either fused with or outright made from ice, topped with an icy, crown-shaped helmet.
* BreathWeapon: In a similar manner to Kulve Taroth, Velkhana doesn't breathe ice ''per se'', but rather a super-chilled air that causes stalagmites of ice to erupt from the ground or icicles to crash down in mid-air.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: At least physically, Velkhana is the first flagship elder dragon to use the slimmer elder dragon skeleton in awhile. Previous flagship elder dragons such as Nergigante, Valstrax, and Gore Magala all used the bigger, more buff skeleton from the latter.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Velkhana relies on tail stabs and its ice breath to attack. Its head is left defenseless while doing either of them, so you can use the Clutch Claw to score some free hits or topple it with a Flinch Shot.
* CriticalHitClass: Its armor specializes in critical hits--draw attacks are guaranteed crits, crits are more likely when hitting weak or damaged areas on the monster, and elemental damage is buffed on crits.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: For much of the ''Iceborne'' campaign, Velkhana is treated as though it's the BigBad. It's regarded as an extremely dangerous creature that could end all life in the New World, its very presence puts the whole Research Commission on edge to the point where the Commander even considers evacuation, you clash with the beast multiple times, it grows tougher with every encounter, and the penultimate battle is even a siege mission where you have to keep the dragon from destroying Seliana. It's only after you slay Velkhana when it becomes clear there's something more sinister at work.
* DismembermentIsCheap: If you cut off their tail, they will make a prosthetic of it out of ice and continue the fight, though it only applies said prosthetic when using its tail attacks.
* DragonsAreDivine: Velkhana just exudes an air of regality that few other Elder Dragons can match. It uses the slimmer, more elegant Elder Dragon frame, fights you in locales covered in in glistening ice crystals, and the ice armor it forms on its head has spires reminiscent of a crown.
* ForceAndFinesse: The finesse to Nergigante's force when it comes to their weapon lines. Nergigante weapons look as unsubtle and brutal as the elder dragon itself, with high base damage but limited to blue sharpness for its R8 weapons and white for its R12 weapons. Velkhana weapons on the other hand look elegant and sleek, even normally crude weapons like the Great Sword and Hammer. While their base damage is lower than Nergigante's, all of its weapons have access to purple sharpness even in their penultimate R11 forms.
* GeoEffects: Velkhana will create pockets of chilled air as it moves and fights which, when struck with its BreathWeapon, will erupt into walls or blocks of ice. The blcoks of ice behave like ledges which savvy hunters can make use of.
* TheGhost: Even moreso than Kulve Taroth. No offical records exist for it in either the Old Wolrd or the New, and what little information ''does'' exist is from unverified civilian testimonies. The only real evidence of it comes from journal scraps found on a pre-Research Commission shipwreck linking it to the Legiana and their 'song'.
* IaijutsuPractitioner: Likely in reference to the actual monster's quick [[BewareMyStingerTail scorpion stabs]], Velkhana armor comes with skills that encourage iaijutsu combat. Quick Sheath [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin allows you to put away your weapon faster]], Critical Draw guarantees a critical hit on draw attacks, and its unique set bonus Frostcraft gives you a buff to attack which degrades with each hit and regenerates while sheathed.
* AnIcePerson: Velkhana controls ice in various ways via supercooling the air around itself:
** Its ice armor is made by condensing and cooling water vapor, as opposed to Zamtrios secreting a fluid that freezes on contact with the air.
** It creates pockets of chilled air that can be triggered by its breath attack. On the ground they erupt into walls of ice, dealing damage and inflicting Iceblight when they do, and in the airthey'll cause icicles to form and crash down.
** While wearing its ice armor, several of its breath attacks are powerful enough to cause stalagmites of ice to grow wherever it hits
** By freezing patches of the ground it can create traps that slow Hunters walking on it, eventually freezing them in place if they can't escape in time.
* InstantArmor: It can condense the water vapor in the air into a layer of armor that would make Zamtrios jealous.
* ItCanThink: If a hunter has a tailraider (an assistant small monster like Jagras, Girros, Kestodon etc.) with them to DrawAggro, Velkhana will pause fighting the hunter and look for the tailraider before freezing them alive, in order to prevent the player from having an extra meatshield.
* {{Leitmotif}}: During your first two fights against Velkhana, you only get a glimpse of the monster's full theme, instead contenting yourself with bits of brass here and there in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdkKjW3TZM "Behold, the Ruler of the Frost"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0UaXhEay-I "The Defense of Seliana"]]. It's only during your third and final encounter that Velkhana deploys the full force of its leitmotif, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFWaUiYhAC8 "Splendiferous Silver Sovereign"]], which incorporates an even more energetic brass movement than the first two themes as well as a beautiful, but aggressive piano performance, resulting in a noble and bewitching concerto. Velkhana's sumptuous theme was admittedly composed with the idea that if its {{foil}} Nergigante (who has a very brutal leitmotif with a feverish tempo) is a "king", then Velkhana is the "queen", further cementing the contrast between the two flagship monsters. Finally, Arch-Tempered Velkhana, much like AT Nergigante before it, has its own theme in the form of [[https://youtu.be/VJFbT91mVdE "Iceborne's End"]].
* LightningBruiser: Don't let Velkhana's graceful appearance fool you; despite having the second lowest health pool of the Master Rank Elder Dragons (less than [[GlassCannon Ruiner Nergigante]], even), it's just as durable as the average ones due to its very low elemental hitzone values (meaning that raw damage is still preferred over even its three-star fire weakness), and possesses a nasty plethora of powerful ice attacks that it tends to execute with very little windup. Arch-Tempered Velkhana ups the ante by having over twice the health of a normal Velkhana (putting it squarely between Alatreon and Fatalis for sponginess that's adjusted with multiplayer), and most of its attacks are capable of carting Hunters with maxed out MR gear with just two hits.
* {{Mascot}}: It is the flagship monster of ''Iceborne''.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Outside of the one you are required to slay in the storyline, Velkhana won't attack unless you provoke it, being more interested in chilling around the Hoarfrost Reach than picking a fight with the Hunter. Only Arch-Tempered Velkhana and the USJ Arena one are hostile on sight, with the former immediately coating itself in ice as soon as the fight starts.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: It's a highly stereotypical Western dragon with powers over ice. Ice-based powers are very common for Western dragons in fiction, perhaps second only to PlayingWithFire.
* RecurringElement: Like Nergigante in the base game, Velkhana is thought to be responsible for ''Iceborne''[='=]s unusual changes until the Commission realizes something more powerful and sinister is causing them.
* RedBaron: Its nickname, in the game, is the [[AntagonistTitle Iceborne]] Wyvern.
* TurnsRed: Or blue, in this case. When Velkhana enrages it immediately reapplies its ice armor if it wasn't already wearing it, creates a large number of cold patches in its area, and the lighting shifts towards more blue tones.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Namielle]]
!!Namielle ''(Neromielle)''
!!!Abyssal Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_namielle_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
An Elder Dragon that coats its skin in a layer of low-viscosity mucus, which it can drop onto the ground to create [[GeoEffects localized riptides to stagger opponents]] or [[MakingASplash wash them away with waves]]. [[TheGhost It is only known through vague reports by First Wyverians]], which mention [[GeoEffects exploding water]] and [[ShockAndAwe bright lights.]]
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* BioluminescenceIsCool: Namielle has rows of red lights across various parts of its body akin to real-life deep sea fish.
* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: Male armor gives this vibe.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: An interesting subversion. Standard ''Monster Hunter'' logic is that you fight a [[MakingASplash Water-based]] monster with [[ShockAndAwe Thunder damage weapons]]. But apparently, one of the sea creatures Namielle shares traits with is '''electric eels''': it can electrify itself and use the pools of mucus it leaves on the battlefield to conduct its Thunder-based attacks, so Thunder-based weapons are not recommended. [[KillItWithFire Its highest actual elemental weakness is Fire]].
* GeoEffects: Namielle leaves pools of watery mucus on the ground as it fights, which can be used to create waves to moves hunters, cause geysers when struck by a water attack, or to conduct electricity and explode into steam when struck by a thunder attack.
* GracefulInTheirElement: While dehydrated and with no body of water nearby, Namielle moves rather slowly with its stubby limbs and cape-like wings. Once there's a lot of water lying on the floor, however, it can move around in a very slippery manner, slithering along the ground to reposition itself. When hydrated and charged with electricity, Namielle can also fly very gracefully while also zapping Hunters on the ground with its wingtips, something which is reminiscent of a vampire squid catching its prey.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvoAzmPOULU "Morning Star of the Dark Tide"]], which features a cello legato that's reminiscent of ''Film/{{Jaws}}''[='=]s famous theme, with the orchestra wavering back and forth to give the impression of an incoming tide.
* LimitBreak: Once enough damage has been dealt to it, Namielle will quickly spew a lot of water into the ground then immediately leap into the air, before slamming the ground in its electrified form, vaporizing every body of water in the vicinity and inflicting heavy damage to hapless Hunters caught in the [=AoE=] (can even become a OneHitKill if your defense is low enough or you're fighting Arch-Tempered Namielle). This is easily identified by Namielle letting out a high pitched noise before executing the attack.
* MakingASplash: It is a water-themed Elder Dragon, and can create floods and tidal waves only using the water it leaves behind.
* MeaningfulName: ''Nami'' is Japanese for "wave", and it's a deep-sea themed Elder Dragon that utilizes waves of water to push players around, and "-elle" is the feminine form of the suffix "-el" commonly found in names (for example: Daniel - Danielle) which means "god" in Hebrew, so in a roundabout way, Namielle could mean "Goddess of Waves".
* MixAndMatchCritter: It has stocky, webbed forelimbs like a salamander, catfish-like whiskers, and a head like a hammerhead shark. Its wings form one large membrane resembling a vampire squid's webbed arms, with the inner surface featuring bright rainbow-colored strips similar to a comb jelly's cilia. Areas of its skin also feature a recessed grid pattern resembling a seahorse's bony armor.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Outside of its introductory cutscene, it's not aggressive at all, and won't attack the hunter unless they strike first. Even in the introductory cutscene, all Namielle does is use its water to drive the hunter away.
* RoarBeforeBeating: When enraged, it'll sometimes do a roar that sounds like a squeaky inhale. If you hear that noise, you'd do well to get away from any of the puddles in the area, or you're in for a [[ElectrifiedBathtub shocking surprise;]] doubly so if it's the [[OneHitKill Arch-Tempered variant.]] Fortunately, that noise also means you can go in for the kill if you survive, since it gets [[VillainousRROD drained of all its mucus and turns a dried out brown]] after using the attack.
* ShockAndAwe: Is able to charge its melee attacks with thunder.
* ShoutOut: The headgear and hair styles of the female armors are this to ''{{VideoGame/Splatoon}}''. Also, the Namielle resembles Cloudjumper, Valka's dragon from the ''[[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon How to Train Your Dragon]]'' franchise.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: It is effectively an Elder Dragon version of Lagiacrus, being a sea creature that also has electricity.
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[[folder:Shara Ishvalda]]
!!Shara Ishvalda ''(An Ishvalda)''
!!!Earth Singing Dragon, Old Everwyrm
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->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
The mysterious "Old Everwyrm" mentioned in the old writings discovered by the Handler and the Tracker. This ancient Elder Dragon can manipulate the earth itself, and is the cause of the seismic activity, strange song-like calls, and ecological changes that the Research Commission investigates throughout ''Iceborne''.
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* AxCrazy: While an animal, and a mysterious one at that, in its final phase Shara Ishvalda looks ''deranged'', with its staring eyes and constant twitching.
* BigBad: of ''Iceborne'', being the source of all the seismic activity, songs, and ecological changes that cause all the problems in the expansion's story.
* BossArenaIdiocy: The first phase's arena is home to a large rock formation that you can fling Shara Ishvalda into twice, making the boulders fall on its head and take off a huge amount of its health, on top of stunning it and leaving it wide open for you to wail on it longer than you would against other toppled monsters. The second phase has three similar rock formations with a similar mechanic, but Shara Ishvalda's frontal sonic blast can obliterate them before you can even use them against it.
* BotanicalAbomination: Uniquely among all canonical monsters, Shara actually seems to be ''part plant'', with a bark-like hide and wingarms that resemble knotted wooden branches. In fact, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen at one point in development it]] ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen was]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen a plant.]]
* ContractualBossImmunity: Downplayed. While it can be forcefully turned and ran into a wall using a flinch shot, it will merely stagger it unless it's sent to a falling boulder. It can also be mounted although successfully doing so is incredibly difficult.
* CreepyLongFingers: Its wings look more like this rather than actual wings, and they're almost constantly twitching when at rest, in a way that's nearly reminiscent of a spider's legs.
* DishingOutDirt: Those veiny wingtips aren't just for squick. They can cause vibrations that can manipulate rock and soil, from creating a suit of armor for itself to changing solid ground into exploding quicksand.
* DraconicAbomination: Much like Xeno'jiiva before it, Shara Ishvalda may be dragon-shaped, but its general appearance, abilities to alter both monster behavior and biomes across a whole continent, and lack of explanation for its true nature or origin, all mark it as an '''UNHOLY''' creature.
* DragonsAreDemonic: Shara looks like an unnatural combination of plant and dragon, with bizarre abilities and freakish features topped off by its [[NightmareFace insane]], [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou fourth-wall-breaking]] DeathGlare.
* EnergyWeapon: Can fire multiple "beams" from its wingtips. These are actually the visible manifestations of the vibrations it uses to control rocks. It can also do one [[WaveMotionGun massive beam]] by putting all its wingtips together.
* EyeAwaken: Even after shedding its rock armour (which corresponds with the end of the first third of its total health bar), Shara Ishvalda does not open its eyes until the last third of the fight, and when it opens them, they track ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou your screen]]''. [[spoiler:Later, the Field Commander orders everyone to pack up and head home, only for the downed Shara to open its eyes, stand up and challenge the Commission once more, which prompts Ruiner Nergigante, also revealed to be NotQuiteDead, to emerge and swiftly kill Shara.]]
* FinalBoss: Of ''Iceborne'''s Storyline, following in Xeno'jiiva's footsteps before it, being the main cause of all the new abnormalities.
* FinalExamBoss: While the player is not required to use it, the ''Iceborne''-exclusive Clutch Claw is essential to beating it quicker by throwing it into nearby boulders for massive damage. Additionally, if they have not mastered diving by the time they fight it, they are likely to get one-hit killed by its gigantic sphere. Fortunately, they can use Farcaster to escape from this attack.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: If Ishvalda is brought to its final phase, it opens its eyes up, and stares directly at you. As in, the eyes will always track to your ''camera'', not the hunter.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Most elder dragons are described as being comparable to walking natural disasters, but Shara Ishvalda is the first to back up that claim - when fought, it outright ''destroys the area around the arena'', with more and more of the background sinking into the ocean as the fight goes on.
* GeoEffects: Can turn parts of the stage into soft quicksand that slows the player down. These patches will also explode when struck by its sonic attacks, dealing significant damage and launching hunters.
* GiantHandsOfDoom: Especially in it's armored state, but even without them, its membrane-less wings move like a pair of hands that shoot sonic lasers at the hunters.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: It's not especially obvious unless you're close by to it's head, but Shara Isvalda's red pupils give off a low-level glow. It's best seen either when it's in it's armored state, or during the hunt's [[spoiler:ending cutscene where it's getting back up, before Ruiner Nergigante shows up]].
* {{Gonk}}: Unlike more feral-looking Elder Dragons like Nergigante or Kushala Daora, Shara Ishvalda's true appearance is deliberately hideous and freakish, with its distorted body sporting an unusually bright color palette and a face resembling a snarling Hindu demon's instead of a dragon's.
* HandBlast: They can fire beams of vibrated air from the fingertips of their hands/repurposed wings.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c57nQaxRAz8 "From the Rumblings Come a Song"]] for its first phase and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYhY0KUoHNk "A Single Bloom in an Eternity"]] once it's stripped of its rock plating. Both themes make heavy use of a wooden flute playing out a plaintive melody, mimicking the vocals of a Hindu hymn, which is in line with Shara Ishvalda's religious inspiration. The second theme goes out in full force with the percussions and the orchestra, demonstrating the solemnity of the Old Everwyrm's supreme power.
* LightIsNotGood: Unlike Xeno'jiiva, [[BrightIsNotGood which was brightly colored, but not as obviously holy-based,]] Shara draws on Hindu, Buddhist, and even ancient Sumerian religious imagery. Its strange wings call to mind multi-armed deities. The bony structures on its head resemble a ''mukuta'' crown, and in combination with the pale pink coloration and other ridges along its back resemble a lotus. At the same time, it's one of the series' more unsettling monsters and like other elder dragons is capable of destroying entire ecosystems.
* MadEye: Atypically for this trope, when Shara is pushed to the brink, ''both'' of its eyes become this. And only adding to the effect is that throughout the fight, while its eyes can close - as after shedding the rocks, it starts with them shut - it seemingly doesn't have eyelids and so cannot blink.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Its roar is notable in that, like Tigrex’s, it bypasses the Earplug skill by way of being an ''actual attack'' powerful enough to deal damage and send hunters flying.
* MeaningfulName: "Shara" comes from the name of a Sumerian god of war of the same name, who is the son of Innana. The Japanese name instead uses "An," the Sumerian supreme god, and father of Innana. "Ishvalda" on the other hand derives from "Ishvara" which is a Hindu concept of a higher power and itself holds various meanings, particularly "Supreme Being" or "God".
** The Japanese name for its armor is "Angaruda" which draws from "Angalta Kigalshe," or "the Great Above, and the Great Below." This is the story of Innana's descent into the underworld where she's stripped of her lavish garments until she's naked and vulnerable wherein she's killed by her sister. This mirrors the lavish designs of the actual armors, and the fact that Shara Ishvalda's own rock armor must be stripped from it before it can be slayed.
* MightyGlacier: As expected from a walking pile of rocks, Shara Ishvalda is one of the tankiest monsters in the game, requiring you to make use of your Clutch Claw to slam it into falling boulders and significantly speed up the first phase of the fight; its moves are also unsurprisingly telegraphed, but hit as hard as a mountain falling on top of you. Even when its rock plating is entirely removed, its true form is still relatively slow, but its attacks are incredibly powerful and far-reaching.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Its striking yellow eyes and CreepyLongFingers make it resemble a scaly [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye aye-aye]].
* MovesetClone: Downplayed, as Shara Ishvalda's true form shares the same lithe skeleton, posture and walking animation as [[Characters/MonsterHunterFourthGenerationMonsters Valstrax]], but otherwise uses its wings differently and is significantly slower.
* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: Much like Xeno'jiiva, when first encountered the HUD name is "???", and carved parts are described as coming from an "unknown monster".
* MythicalMotifs: Of [[Myth/HinduMythology Hindu]] and [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Sumerian]] mythology. From its name, appearance, battle theme, and the gears that come from it, the thing has a chock full of references to Hinduism.
* NightmareFace: Its almost human-like face in its second form is ''unholy'', giving Xeno'jiiva's appearance a run for its money. The ''deranged'' look in its eyes, combined with the TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou element, seriously adds to the creepiness as well.
* NotQuiteDead: After being beaten, it gets back up, [[spoiler:only to get killed by Ruiner Nergigante.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: This thing is basically a living earthquake, demolishing entire ecosystems by triggering tremors along the Everstream and creating vibrations strong enough to shatter mountains.
* RedBaron: "The Old Everwyrm"
* RedEyesTakeWarning: It's deranged, fourth-wall-breaking NightmareFace wouldn't be complete without these.
* ShedArmorGainSpeed: Like Kulve Taroth before it, Shara Ishvalda has a very athletic body that's encumbered by an extremely heavy layer of armour--or a mountain's worth of rocks in this case. The first phase has Shara covered in rock armor, making its moves predictable, if highly damaging. When the second phase comes around, Shara sheds all the boulderplates and becomes significantly faster than its first form. While it still executes its attacks fairly slowly, their sheer scale and range are enough to make Hunters think twice about tanking them.
* SphereOfDestruction: Shara Ishvalda's ultimate attack creates a massive sphere of sonic energy that it then throws at the player, causing an enormous explosion and detonating the sand traps over a wide area.
* TheSpook: Even more so than Kulve Taroth and Velkhana--only one person, [[spoiler: the Tracker's master (who came to the New World before the Research Commission)]], had any inkling of its existence.
* StoneWall: The first phase starts off with it being covered in rocks which hunters have to get rid of. The armors made from it offer defensive skills such as Health Boost and Defense Boost.
* StrongAndSkilled: Its weapons have good raw damage, neutral affinity, and can obtain a decent amount of purple sharpness if given maximum handicraft. It can also benefit from the Non-Elemental Boost skill on top of having high elderseal, or reasonable dragon damage if its element is awakened instead.
* SuperArmor: The armors set bonus gives any mantle you put on Tremor Resistance, Windproof, Flinch Free, and Earplugs skills, effectively turning it into a near replication of Rocksteady Mantle. The caveat is that you need to have at least four pieces of the armor to activate it.
* WalkingSpoiler: Whatever is going on during the events of ''Iceborne'', we know nothing of it up until the showdown, being the true perpetrator of the events.
* WaveMotionGun: By bringing its wingtips together, Shara Ishvalda can fire a massive sonic blast in a manner similar to Akantor that is strong enough to pulverize the mountains around its arena.
* WingsDoNothing: Subverted. Its wings lack webbings and are too thin to allow it to fly, but their true purpose is to create sonic vibrations at the wingtips, granting Shara Ishvalda a scary repertoire of environmental-changing abilities.
* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler: It's eventually killed by Ruiner Nergigante, but it was weakened earlier by the hunter.]]
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[[folder:Safi'jiiva '''(unmarked spoilers)''']]
!!Safi'jiiva ''(Mufeto Jiiva)''
!!!Red Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_safijiiva_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
The fully mature form of Xeno'jiiva, Safi'jiiva is a dragon who absorbs all the bioenergy within an area, changing it to suit its needs. In game, it represents ''World'''s second siege quest after Kulve Taroth's. Safi'jiiva first appeared in a surprise recon mission that was part of the update that added Stygian Zinogre. After repelling it, it eventually returns in a later update, allowing hunters to fight it for real.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Its moveset takes cues from several monsters throughout the game, including Xeno'jiiva's large BreathWeapon beam and ground burst, Namielle's laser beam with ground eruptions, and Behemoth's aggro mechanic and instant death attack. Customization on its weapons indicates that it can also harvest the essence and special abilities of nearly every monster in ''World'', with the exceptions being monsters that were introduced in later title updates like Raging Brachydios/Furious Rajang, Alatreon, and Fatalis.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Its whole body starts off incredibly tough, so hunters have to ''make'' weak points using the Clutch Claw's tenderizing ability in order to do real damage and avoid bouncing without the Minds Eye decoration. During the final phase, its chest becomes a weak point when it enters rage mode.
* BattleBallgown: The female armor made from it features a ''collapsible'' one, no less! It starts [[PowerGlows glowing red or blue]] when it's powering the Hunter up or healing them.
* BossArenaIdiocy: Downplayed; the three floors you fight Safi'jiiva in each have unique elements that can accelerate the process of making the dragon retreat to the lowest level.
** On the top floor, there are two boulders that you can lure Safi'jiiva towards and make them fall on it, knocking it down and draining a significant amount of energy on the floor. There is also a spot where the ground is decayed, trapping Safi'jiiva in vines if it steps on it for too long.
** On the middle floor, the terrain is mostly open, but there are a couple of uneven indentations that allow for slides and small jumps, making it easier to mount the dragon. There are also indestructible crags to help you hide from the 'Sapphire of the Emperor', as this is the floor where Safi'jiiva starts using its ultimate attack.
** On the bottom floor, there are gas deposits that you can lure Safi'jiiva towards, dealing 1000 damage each time it blows up near the dragon and potentially knocking it down. Unlike the second floor, the crags that allow you to survive the 'Sapphire of the Emperor' get destroyed after a single blast, but Safi'jiiva regularly refreshes them by accident (unless said move is interrupted, in which case you're screwed).
** The second and bottom floors both have ledges on them, allowing hunters to try and mount the monster. Dual Blades in particular benefit from this the most, since their Dance of Heavenly Blades attack deals a lot of damage due to Safi'jiiva's length.
* CastFromHitPoints: The awakened skill in its armor set gives you a number of powerful buffs (up to a 40% boost in affinity and a flat boost of 150 to elemental power,) but at the cost of sapping up to 8 health with every attack you make, depending on the weapon. That said, if you're able to land a number of continuous attacks successfully without sheathing your weapon, then you'll get some free healing that will more than make up for the damage you previously took. Alternatively, if your playstyle doesn't allow you to regularly do this - such as a Draw-focused Greatsword build - the healing augment can still heal some/all of this damage.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Besides the standard Elder Dragon immunity to traps, Safi'jiiva is immune to the Clutch Claw's ability to both forcefully turn and flinch shot it to the wall. Using the flinch shot instead will cause it to switch target to whoever the hunter uses it on when enraged.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Double subverted. Even with a full party, Safi'jiiva's health clocks exactly at 40,000 HP (which is fairly middling for bosses of this difficulty), but on top of its massive damage resistances, it will heal itself when you knock its health down to a certain threshold. The only way to prevent it from healing itself is to deplete its stored energy on each floor until it can no longer drain energy from the ground, and even then, most sieges don't usually kill Safi'jiiva in a single hunt unless you are skilled enough to quickly deplete the energy in the two upper floors, then dish out your highest DPS on the bottom floor.
* DraconicAbomination: It's the most normal-looking dragon in ''Monster Hunter World'', but the way that it feeds by drawing energy from the land implies it's no ordinary lifeform, and may only be a dragon in appearance. The fact that it's what the far more otherworldly Xeno'jiiva matures into only goes to further show how ''wrong'' this thing is.
* DragonsAreDemonic: Its hellish red scales, long black horns and spiky body make it look far more like a demon than most other monsters in the franchise.
* DrawAggro: From the second phase onwards, it adopts something similar to Behemoth's MMORPG-style aggro mechanic, singling out the Hunter who did the most damage to it and aggressively targeting them. The aggro'd Hunter has to keep up the damage or risk letting Safi'jiiva enter a powered-up state; aggro can also be drawn by using the Flinch Shot attack on its head.
* EnergyAbsorption: It absorbs the energy from the land itself to heal, moving to deeper locations after it's completely drained an area.
* GiantFlyer: Safi'jiiva is the second largest flight-capable monster in the main series after [[Characters/MonsterHunterFourthGenerationMonsters Gogmazios]], so it becomes something of a shocker to see just how quickly it transitions from one area to another with a single flying leap. Though it doesn't really fly for long during gameplay due to a preference in absorbing the ground's energy, its flight pattern is nonetheless very graceful when initiating the 'Sapphire of the Emperor' or putting the finishing touch in its pin attack.
* GlassCannon: Its armor set bonus gives a significant boost in affinity, elemental, and ailment damage, but at the cost of health being drained. [[DifficultButAwesome It even punishes you for missing an attack, but rewards each successful hit by healing back all the damage done.]]
* {{Irony}}: The closest thing to a traditional Western dragon introduced in ''World'' is the adult form of Xeno'Jiiva, a translucent dragon that has gemstones for pseudo-eyes, shoots blue lasers, hatched from a cocoon literally moments before it's fought, and is heavily implied to be an extraterrestrial lifeform.
* ItCanThink: Implied by way of being a heavily-older Xeno'jiiva, but its improved moveset and general behavior all make it a very smart adversary.
** If you're some distance away from it, it'll stay away and keep trying to blast you with its beams. One of them includes a period where it'll stare at you, building a mouth charge, but it tracks you as you move... not just where you're standing, but your speed ''and'' direction, so that if you don't change these things at the last possible second (or get behind cover/underneath its mouth), it ''will'' hit you.
** Like certain other monsters, it has a move where it can grab you with its mouth. Rather than simply flinging you around for a bit though, Safi'jiiva ''blasts you point-black with its energy beam'' until the force finally expels you from its grip.
** Unlike most monsters, Safi'jiiva can feel your presence through [[PaperThinDisguise the Ghillie Mantle]] and will try to sweep the area around with its laser beam, even though it doesn't know where you exactly are.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The Admiral notes that Safi'jiiva is a creature that doesn't play well with other species, given that reshaping entire ecosystems to meet its own needs and draining energy from the land for its own preservation can benefit no one but itself. As such, to prevent such a monster from propagating outside of the New World, the Research Commission orders its slaying. After fully completing the siege for the first time, the Seeker muses that Safi'jiiva's behaviour of reshaping its surroundings so it can reap the benefits is [[NotSoDifferent oddly similar to humans in that respect]].
* KaizoTrap:
** Similar to Behemoth, Safi'jiiva will unleash the "Sapphire Star of the Emperor", an area wide attack that can one-shot players, right before it's repelled.
** Its armor skill increases the elemental power of attacks [[CastFromHitPoints at the cost of around 2-8 HP per attack.]] Unlike most examples of similar skills, it doesn't stop your HP from going past 1, so if you're not careful, you ''will'' bleed yourself dry.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSodIJyhO1U "The Emperor Emerges From Under the Veil"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlO3-VzvbuQ "For the Emperor’s Amusement"]], a pair of epic orchestral songs with the distinction of being two of the few themes in the franchise to have vocals, and satanic ones at that. The first theme is a DarkReprise of Xeno'jiiva's own leitmotif with a much more frantic tempo, while the second theme slips in the franchise's tried-and-true "Proof of a Hero" as Safi'jiiva is backed into a corner. Both themes also have the distinction of becoming distorted with all sorts of psychedelic synths, bass and trumpets if you attract Safi'jiiva's DrawAggro, and both themes briefly collapse into a HeartbeatSoundtrack once the 'Sapphire of the Emperor' drops to the floor in order to emphasize the explosion's impact.
* LightningBruiser: Much like Xeno'jiiva, Safi'jiiva's attacks cover a lot of distance by being one of the largest monsters in the game. ''Unlike'' the former, Safi'jiiva can chain multiple, frighteningly accurate attacks in quick succession, and its tough hide means that you really need to use the Clutch Claw's tenderizing ability to create temporary weak spots.
* LimitBreak: 'Sapphire of the Emperor', wherein Safi'jiiva flies up and coats the area with its breath, before releasing a conspicuously small orb of energy that, when dropped to the ground, detonates into a nuke-like explosion. It's always used when Safi'jiiva's health drops below the threshold needed for it to try and regenerate itself, but it's also used with reckless abandon when Safi'jiiva is almost dead on the bottom floor.
* MeaningfulName: Safi means "clear" or "pure" in a number of Mediterranean languages (Greek, Arabic), owning to its relation to Xeno'jiiva. Safi can also be a corruption of "sapphire", as in "Sapphire Star", the central motif in the New World's {{Creation Myth}} hich is implied to have been the meteor which brought Xeno'jiiva to the New World as well as the imagery evoked by its ultimate attack.
* NoRangeLikePointBlankRange: If Safi'jiiva catches a hunter in its jaws, rather than slinging them around like a rag doll as other monsters do, it'll chew on them for a bit, before blasting them with its mouth beam. This attack does an incredible amount of damage, and can easily cart a hunter if their defense isn't high enough (or they don't have Felyne Moxie to keep them at 1 HP).
* OminousLatinChanting: Safi'jiiva sports a {{leitmotif}} that rivals other top tier Elder Dragons like [[Characters/MonsterHunterFirstGenerationMonsters Fatalis]] and [[Characters/MonsterHunterThirdGenerationMonsters Dire Miralis]] due to incorporating vocals made in ''Monster Hunter''[='=]s [[ConLang fictional language]]. In this instance, the main verse praises the Red Dragon's perfection, describing it as "that which is the king of all things, the perfect being".
* PersonOfMassDestruction: It can somehow drain the energy of its surroundings to the point that it can reshape ecosystems to its liking, and is thus considered an immense threat to the New World that has to be slain. Its 'Sapphire of the Emperor' is also a OneHitKill that the Admiral speculates that nothing could survive.
* PowerGlows: Both the armor and the monster it's made from. The Safi'jiiva armor glows red when it's powering up attacks [[CastFromHitPoints at the cost at some of your health,]] and it glows blue when it's absorbing the energy of the target to heal you; meanwhile, Safi'jiiva itself glows when absorbing energy and entering [[TurnsRed Supercritical Mode.]]
* RecurringElement: Safi'jiiva's design hearkens back to some of the previous generations' monsters;
** Borrows a major trait from ''4/4U's'' Gore Magala/Shagaru Magala, being a juvenile Elder Dragon that eventually molts to a far stronger adult form.
** It is also quite similar to Fatalis; a mysterious Elder Dragon with a title describing only its color (Black/Red Dragon), whose mundanely draconic appearance belies [[DraconicAbomination an insane, almost supernatural power]].
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Primarily red with some shades of black, and is very much an aggressive monster.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Its eyes glow red when it starts focusing on a hunter. This means that hunter needs to be very careful, as it will relentlessly chase them down.
* SatanicArchetype: The closest thing to a classic demonic dragon in ''World''. Not only does it look the part, its ability to absorb the lifeforce of living beings and the earth itself gives it the impression of having [[YourSoulIsMine soul-stealing powers.]] It can also be considered, symbolically, a 'fallen' angel, being a former being of light, Xeno'jiiva, that, over time, transformed into something far more dark and demonic.
* ShockwaveStomp: Like its juvenile form, it can manipulate the energy of the earth to create chains of explosions. However, these attacks are far more potent, since Safi'jiiva can perform radial, linear, or spread versions of them, as opposed to the solely-linear explosions of Xeno'jiiva.
* ShoutOut: On top of its face strongly resembling King Ghidorah's from ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', [[spoiler:its original implied origin as an extraterrestrial and apparent instinctive goal to terraform and propagate the world are also identical to that film's plot.]] Amusingly, in the pre-hunt cutscene, the Admiral will suggest that the mysterious new monster is a three-headed dragon that breathes lightning, which is exactly what King Ghidorah is. It also has a passing resemblance to two other demonic red dragons in fiction, [[Literature/TheHobbit Smaug]] and [[VideoGame/DragonsDogma Grigori]].
* TheSpook: Unbeknownst to the Commission, there was a ''second'' Xeno'jiiva living in the New World, and while the Hunters slew the one in Elder's Recess, this one was allowed to molt countless times and eventually become Safi'jiiva; it's only after repelling it that the Commission puts the pieces together and concludes that it's Xeno'jiiva's fully mature form. On a meta level, Capcom seem to be treating it in the same manner as the so-called "Forbidden Monsters" (or Black Dragons, after the original, Fatalis's, RedBaron), not mentioning it at all in their promotional material save for a single teaser.
* StrongAndSkilled:
** Powerful enough to shoot a laser beam capable of one-hit killing anyone and cause explosions just by slamming its limbs into the floor, and smart and skilled enough to utilize its limbs, tail and wings in close combat.
** Customization makes it weapons this as well, thanks to already having a decent starting raw damage value, but can be increased significantly while still having reasonable base elemental/ailment damage and will never decrease in affinity, while sitting at 5%, and having one level 4 decoration slot.
* SubsystemDamage: Rivaling fellow siege monster Kulve Taroth, Safi'jiiva has a grand total of 11 breakable parts [[note]]Four legs, two wings, the chest (vulnerable in Supercritical state), the back, the tail, and the head twice[[/note]], and breaking them all is required to gain maximum rewards during a siege. However, you are ''very'' unlikely to break them all in a single hunt and kill Safi'jiiva at the same time due to how its energy drain system works, as well as the hard time limit of 20 minutes. Subsequent runs in the same siege will notify you with a "Part broken" message, but won't reward you with additional points if you or a different group in the same siege already destroyed the part in a previous hunt.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: Safi'jiiva is available for hunt every two weeks or so, with its siege alternating with Kulve Taroth's.
* TimedMission: Unlike Kulve Taroth, the Safi'jiiva hunt has a hard time limit of 20 minutes. The first two phases are essentially just delaying actions; in order to maximize the amount of time you have in the final phase (where it can actually be killed) you have to deplete the energy levels in the first two arenas, which will shorten the duration of the first two phases in subsequent hunts.
* TookALevelInBadass: Its juvenile form, Xeno'jiiva, was defeated the first time the Commission encountered it; . Safi'jiiva can only be repelled at first during the scouting mission, after which the fight proper is a siege event. Not only that, it will fully heal itself once past a certain health threshold on any given floor, granting Safi'jiiva significantly more health than its supposed maximum, whether during a siege or in solo play (as a later update made possible). And that's before taking into account the improved plethora of attacks from its juvenile form, making it one of the fiercest fights in the entire franchise.
* TurnsRed: After enough damage has been dealt to it on the bottom floor, Safi'jiiva will enter Supercritical State, with its entire body glowing and most of its parts becoming vulnerable to critical hits even without the need to tenderize them. While this makes it more susceptible to damage, Safi'jiiva becomes significantly more aggressive, spamming its ground slams and beam attacks with reckless abandon, before taking flight and nuking the arena with the 'Sapphire of the Emperor'. It only exits Supercritical State after its ultimate attack is done, but will perpetually remain in that state when near death.
* UltimateLifeForm: Or at least as close as you can get to a creature that has limitless growth potential if left unchecked. The main verse of its two themes is translated from ''Monster Hunter''[='=]s fictional language as "that which is the king of all things, the perfect being". As an implied extraterrestrial lifeform with the power to reshape ecosystems to its own liking and absorb the land's energy at will, there is reason to believe that Safi'jiiva would end up dominating the series' setting if it were to propagate itself beyond the New World, and would likely be considered a Dangerous First-Class Monster had ''World'' kept the classification from previous games.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Unless you kill it within the alloted 20 minutes, Safi'jiiva will fly away and you'll have to reinitiate the hunt, though it's a normal occurence in this particular siege given the need to fulfill specific objectives to gain maximum rewards, and Safi'jiiva will usually flee to the lower levels earlier in subsequent hunts.
* VocalDissonance: Retains several of Xeno'jiiva's cries, particularly when agitated or stunned. The only times when Safi'jiiva ''does'' sound like an adult dragon are when it starts firing its breath attacks, which are punctuated by very deep roars that sharply contrast with its usual pitch.
* WalkingSpoiler: Knowledge from the base version of ''World'' makes this monster ultimately much more unsettling.
* WalkingWasteland: The eventual result of Safi'jiiva absorbing the land's energy for its own gain is a barren place devoid of life much like the Secluded Valley it resides in. Indeed, Safi'jiiva's impact on the environment can go unnoticed by other monsters until it's too late.
[[/folder]]
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[[foldercontrol]]
!Herbivores
[[folder:Kestodon]]
!!Kestodon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kestodon.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
''Pachycephalosaurus''-like monsters that thrive in jungles and deserts. Males of the species are bright orange and have large head crests used for head-butting rivals, and females are bronze and lack these head crests.
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* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Not themselves, but the gauntlets you make from their parts includes what looks like a punch dagger over your hand.
* HerbivoresAreFriendly: Zig-zagged. Females won't directly attack, but they do alert the Males of would-be intruders and staying to close to them will make them turn hostile. That being said, they'll generally leave you alone if you walk past them, and they won't attack you if you're fighting a large monster.
* UseYourHead: Their main method of attack is head-butting foes.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gastodon]]
!!Gastodon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gastodon.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
These monsters are very similar to Kestodon above, but they prefer volcanic environments and have large, round manes growing from their heads.
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* EvilCounterpart: While not evil, they're significantly more aggressive than Kestodon.
* HerbivoresAreFriendly: [[AvertedTrope Definitely not the case.]] They're much more aggressive than Kestodon and will even continue bothering you as a large monster tosses you around.
* RedIsViolent: Colored Red, and very ill-tempered.
* UseYourHead: Like Kestodon, their main tactic is to headbutt anyone who gets too close.
[[/folder]]
!Fish
[[folder:Gajau]]
!!Gajau ''(Garaiba)''
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/gajau.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''-]
Small, catfish-like monsters who dwell in the mud. They are aggressive and will bite unaware hunters who get too close.
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* GracefulInTheirElement: Powerful swimmers, but clumsy on land.
* {{Retcon}}: Were classified as Fish when they went by the label of Catfish in the Third Generation, before being accidentally labelled Piscine Wyverns in ''World''. As of the version 3 update, it would be reclassified as Fish once again.
[[/folder]]
!Lynians
[[folder:Grimalkyne]]
!!Grimalkyne ''(Tetol)''
[[quoteright:267:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_grimalkyne_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Caracal-like Lynians with a body structure and society similar to Felynes and Melynxes.
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* CatsAreMean: [[AvertedTrope Averted]], as they'd rather flee than cause trouble when approached outside their camp. A group of Grimalkynes do attack you unprovoked in the Coral Highlands, but it turns out to have been a misunderstanding.
* CuteKitten: A little more feral, but still adorable.
* GuestStarPartyMember: When playing offline, you can recruit a friendly Grimalkyne with your Palico for an extra hand. They will only stay around for one Quest though and you can't customise their look or equipment. Their main ability is randomly selected from the clans unlocked up to this point.
* MeaningfulName: ''Grimalkin'' is an archaic term for a cat.
* {{Sidequest}}: Each Grimalkyne Clans have a sidquest that if completed, will grant a Palico Gadget specific to that Clan that your Palico can use, as well as teaching your Palico monster language, allowing your Palico to befriend Jagras, Kestodon, Shamos, Girros and Gastodon.
* TrapMaster: They often set net traps to catch monsters. Hunters can take advantage of this, though Elder Dragons are of course immune. One of the potential followers you can recruit is the Trapper, who can place Shock Traps free of charge.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Gajalaka]]
!!Gajalaka
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_gajalaka_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Mask-wearing Lynians highly reminiscent of the Old World Shakalakas. They reside in the Elder Recess and only appear in other zones in High Rank quests, Master Rank quests and expeditions.
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* BackgroundMusicOverride: Actually inverted; their theme gets overriden if a larger monster is around.
* BlingOfWar: Gold Tribe Gajalaka wear gold-colored variants of the standard outfit. Those who steal loot from Kulve Taroth become increasingly blinged out in solid-gold armor.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Their glowing golden eyes, and nothing else, are visible through the large mouths of their masks.
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The color of their masks' markings determine what status effects they'll inflict: those with purple markings will inflict Poison, those with yellow markings will inflict Paralysis, and those with blue markings will inflict Sleep.
* CombatPragmatist: Will gladly lay siege on any large monsters that get downed, flinging knives and bombs at them.
* CycleOfHurting: Can inflict numerous status ailments on their target with their weapons and unwary Hunters can easily find themselves getting paralysed, poisoned, put to sleep, or blown up before they have a chance to recover.
* EnemyMine: If a large monster is in front of them, they'll attack the monster before the hunter. All bets are off if the monster leaves, however.
* GlassCannon: Don't have much health compared to other monsters of High Rank, but have the damage output that can easily take out an overconfident Hunter.
* GripingAboutGremlins: [[https://twitter.com/BannedDino/status/987959496294223872 Gajalakas have gremlin-like heads underneath their masks]], and unlike the other clans, they will attack any Hunter that gets too close. Even after befriending one of their senior members, any encountered outside their camp will remain hostile.
* GuestStarPartyMember: After befriending them, a Gajalaka can be recruited much like the Grimalkyne. However this can only be done from their camp or randomly spawned parties in the various maps; the static spawn groups remain hostile.
* HelpfulMook:
** If a Hunter downs a monster near a group of Gajalakas they'll take the opportunity to unload their throwing knives and bombs on the monster. They also sometimes set traps for monsters and will unleash a storm of tiny rockets on any they capture.
** When driven off, either by monsters or Hunter, Gajalakas leave behind supply drops. This includes first aid kits, rations, and the various status effect throwing knives.
* KillerRabbit: Don't underestimate them due to their small size and cuteness; they can down new High Rank Hunters in two or three hits and even well-geared players run the risk of being stuck in a [[CycleOfHurting downed state due to their many debuff abilities]].
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCbkIIvAOnM "The Savage Gajalaka"]], a fast-paced song consisting of a dueling string instrument and woodwind to the backdrop of drums.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: In High and Master Rank, their throwing knives can shave off the same amoun from a Hunter's health bar as a ''large monster,'' plus they inflict poison, sleep or paralysis depending on the color of their mask. Who knew such tiny creatures could do such serious damage?!
* PokemonSpeak: Their language appears to consist entirely of the syllables "gaja" and "laka".
* RageHelm: Their masks are clearly designed to intimidate.
* ScreamingWarrior: Once they turn hostile, they will shout quite loudly in their native tongue before attacking.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Gajalaka are never actually killed. After taking enough damage from a Hunter or monster, it will run away by burrowing into the ground.
** Gajalaka will burrow temporarily if a Hunter is fighting a monster nearby. They will only emerge once the monster has move away or if it's downed.
** Even in large numbers, they know better than to try to fight a Nergigante, as a cutscene involves them running away from the Elder Dragon.
* StickyFingers: The Golden Tribe in the Caverns of El Dorado will steal drops from the boss and use it to buff themselves.
* StuffBlowingUp:
** They can throw explosive cocktails that are quite slow, but pack a powerful punch.
** After ranking up their relationship, the Gajalaka will rarely set a trap for monsters. If triggered the trapper will hurl a bomb that knocks the monster prone and a horde of Gajalaka will erupt from the ground to unleash a hail of bottle rockets on it.
* TrapMaster: Unlike the Grimalkyne who used nets and require a Hunter to mount the monster near their traps, Gajalaka use explosives on any hostile monster that moves close to their trapper. Because their trap actually knocks a monster prone rather than snaring it, these traps [[UpToEleven work on Elder Dragons]].
* TunnelKing: They have a series of tunnels in the lower parts of the Elder Recess, allowing quick travel between the various regions and their camp. Once befriended, Hunters can use the tunnels as well.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Boaboa]]
!!Boaboa
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_boaboa_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
Mask-wearing Lynians that reside in Hoarfrost Reach.
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* BigfootSasquatchAndYeti: [[https://i.imgur.com/uM8Ncb2.jpg They resemble little yetis underneath their helmets]]
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: Like their Gajalaka brethren the color of the tips of their horns and the eyes on their masks determine what status effects they'll inflict: those with purple will inflict Poison, those with yellow will inflict Paralysis, and those with blue will inflict Sleep.
* EnemyMine: If a large monster is the vicinity of them, they'll attack the monster before the hunter. Just try not to be between a Boaboa and a Large monster though.
* {{Foil}}: To Gajalaka. Like them, they are a unique Lynian clan and can inflict ailments upon hunters and large monsters.
* GuestStarPartyMember: After befriending them, a Boaboa can be recruited much like the Grimalkyne and Gajalaka before them. However this can only be done from their camp or randomly spawned parties in the various maps; the static spawn groups remain hostile unless you have another Boaboa with you.
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: A interesting example; Normally the Boaboa are hostile towards hunters. However by completing their questline[[note]]Available after forging friendships with all the other tribes and getting far enough into Master Rank[[/note]] and having a Boaboa with you as a Tailraider other Boaboa out in the field will not be hostile towards you. All bets are off should you not have a Boaboa with you or you go and attack them.
* JavelinThrower: Their weapon of choice is massive harpoons.
* KillerRabbit: Like the Gajalaka before them you shouldn't underestimate them because of how cute they are; they can down Master Rank Hunters in two or three hits and even well-geared players run the risk of being stuck in a [[CycleOfHurting downed state due to their many debuff abilities]].
%%* {{Leitmotif}}: ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfW5rY5IYcw "The Savage Boaboa"]].
* PokemonSpeak: Much like the Gajalaka, Boaboa language is simply "boa" repeated ad nauseam.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere:
** Like the Gajalaka before them Boaboa are never actually killed. After taking enough damage from either a Hunter or monster, they will run away by burrowing into the ground.
** Boaboa will burrow temporarily if a Hunter is fighting a monster nearby. They will only emerge once the monster has move away or if it's downed.
* TrapMaster: Their trap involves them jumping from the ground and tossing spears at the monster.
[[/folder]]
!Wingdrakes
[[folder:Barnos]]
!!Barnos
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/barnos.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Small wingdrakes that inhabit the Great Ravine and Elder's Recess. Unlike the others, they are actually fairly aggressive and will attack hunters that linger near them for too long.
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* DamageIncreasingDebuff: They can spit out acid that inflicts the Defense Down ailment.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Well, not EXACTLY dinosaurs, but they are the only wingdrakes with two crests, giving the traditional appearance of a dragon's head.
* HelpfulMook: Useful for getting on the back of [[spoiler:Zorah Magdaros]], but the ones in [[spoiler: Elder's Recess]] will only carry you a short distance around the area they're in before dropping you.
* PteroSoarer: Barnos resemble this version of pterosaurs more closely than other wingdrakes do, complete with fanged beaks paired with ''Pteranodon''-like crests and webbed, batlike wings.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Mernos]]
!!Mernos
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mernos.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Small, pterosaur-like wyverns that thrive in forests. Hunters can use them as a means of transportation by using their grappling hooks on their foot. The Research Commission have domesticated several of these wingdrakes and they function as the primary means of transport and travel for Hunters in the New World.
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* HelpfulMook: Hunters can use them to traverse areas by grabbing their foot with their grappling hooks. Domesticated ones serve as the means of fast travel in the game for Hunters and with the use of Farcaster, can even be a BigDamnHeroes, bailing Hunters out of a potentially sticky situation.
* PteroSoarer: While it doesn't fit this archetype as closely as Barnos does, Mernos noticeably resembles a bat-winged, fanged Hollywood pterosaur.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: When starting a High Rank Quest, the Mernos that is transporting you may sometimes be spooked by a large monster on the map and drop you in panic in another random area of the map instead of a campsite or [[ThisIsGonnaSuck even in front of said monster.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Noios]]
!!Noios
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/noios.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Small wyverns that inhabit the Wildspire Waste. They can mimic a Diablos's cry, and will do so to attract one to its area if it feels threatened.
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* PteroSoarer: Like the Mernos, it also greatly resembles pterosaurs.
* SummonBiggerFish: When threatened, it can attract a Diablos to its area by mimicking its cry, getting the monster to fight its aggressor for it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Raphinos]]
!!Raphinos
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raphinos.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Click here to see Raphinos in the Rotten Vale]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/raphinosrottenvale.png]][[/labelnote]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Small wyverns that inhabit the Coral Highlands and the Rotten Vale. While normally timid and preyed upon by larger monsters, they become aggressive when exposed to the toxic gases in the Rotten Vale.
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* TheCorruption: Raphinos are docile and often hunted by other monsters as a food source in Coral Highland, but the ones exposed to the effluvium of the Rotten Vale becomes extremely hostile, attacking Hunters on sight and looking possessed.
* HelpfulMook: Hunters can use them to traverse areas by grabbing their foot with their grappling hooks.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Cortos]]
!!Cortos
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/cortos.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
Small wyverns that inhabit the Hoarfrost Reach.
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* DamageIncreasingDebuff: They can spit out a ball of saliva that inflicts the elemental resistance down ailment.
* HelpfulMook: As with the other wingdrakes, Hunters can grapple on to them to traverse areas.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To the Remobras. They resemble flying snakes, immediately start eating any monster corpse in their vicinity and tend to stick around when Elder Dragons are in the area.
[[/folder]]
!Bird Wyverns
[[folder:Kulu-Ya-Ku]]
!!Kulu-Ya-Ku
!!!Scratching Bird
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kulu_ya_ku.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''-]
An ''Oviraptor''-like Bird Wyvern with a scaly hide, feathered limbs, and a dodo-like beak. It can pick up and use large rocks to defend itself or attack, and has been known to raid monster nests so it can eat the eggs found within them.
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* AchillesHeel: The Slinger can knock rocks out of its hands, leaving it vulnerable. [[RemovedAchillesHeel The Kulu-Ya-Ku fought in the Special Assignment in the Behemoth update that stole the Aetheryte Crystal is immune to this tactic and will keep holding on to the Crystal until it is slain.]]
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: The special crystal thief Kulu-Ya-Ku will continuously grow in size throughout the Behemoth Special Assignment, eventually dwarfing the Anjanath that's on the map with it.
* BedlahBabe: The female armor made from this monsters parts. Even the male armor has a notable Arabic flavor while Palico armor makes it look like a comical depiction of a sultan.
* ContractualBossImmunity: The special crystal thief Kulu-Ya-Ku found in the ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' Crossover Update is completely immune to all status effects except Blast and can't be mounted. It will also destroy any traps set like other Elder Dragons.
* DishingOutDirt: It uses rocks to dish out damage and block attacks.
* FeatheredDragons: A flightless, birdlike wyvern with tufts of feathers on its arms and head.
* FeatheredFiend: Its head and part of its arms are covered in feathers.
* FragileSpeedster: It's fast and agile, but not very sturdy.
* ItCanThink: Intelligence is probably not its strongest attribute, but the ecological researcher points out that using tools is a rare thing in nature, so Kulu-Ya-Ku's use of rocks as shields or bludgeons is academically significant.
* KillerRabbit: They're not the most physically imposing monsters, and are kind of adorable in a dopey way, but they will ''brain'' you with a rock if you mess with them. This is ''especially'' the case of the crystal thief Kulu-Ya-Ku, who can potentially one shot endgame players.
* KillItWithWater: Its main weakness is Water.
* LeeroyJenkins: Normally pretty docile unless bothered, it will throw caution to the wind upon picking up a rock and will attack the nearest bigger monsters, like Barroth, Jyuratodus, and even Diablos!
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The rocks it carries act as shields, deflecting attacks that hit them.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Has the body of an ''Oviraptor'', the head [[DumbDodoBird (and overall brains)]] of a dodo bird, and the coloration and head crest of a cockatoo.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Kulu-Ya-Ku would rather go on with its business than attack a hunter.
* RaptorAttack: A raptor with a dodo-esque head, but a raptor nonetheless.
* StuffBlowingUp: In ''Iceborne'', the Master Rank version will occasionally dig up an explosive rock (similar to the one Bomb Beetles roll up) and throw it.
* SuicidalOverconfidence: Suffers this when holding a rock, attacking other far bigger and stronger monsters without thought to its own safety
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: While it can't [[MookMaker pick up and spit Konchu at you]], the Kulu-Ya-Ku is one to the Yian Kut-Ku, being one of the early-game monsters that you must take a little more seriously.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Eggs of other monsters.
* WakeUpCallBoss: Normally averted, but the Special Assignment one in the Behemoth update plays it straight, hitting a lot harder and is a great deal more durable than the usual Kulu-Ya-Ku.
* TheWorfEffect: Deviljho can easily grab it and use it as a bludgeon, or just hurl the poor thing away like a ragdoll.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tzitzi-Ya-Ku]]
!!Tzitzi-Ya-Ku
!!!Bright Bird
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_tzitzi_ya_ku_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
A ''Dilophosaurus''-like Bird Wyvern with giant, fan-like frills on its head, which can apparently flash and stun opponents somehow.
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* TheComputerIsACheatingBastard: Like with other flash users, looking away from its blinding lights won't stop them from stunning you. Slightly downplayed that the flash attack is really telegraphed and you can also see the range of the flash before it is performed, so you can run out of the flash's range, prepare to block it, or get within range to get some free hits (if you're immune to stun and/or close enough). ''Iceborne'' makes the latter slightly more difficult in Master Rank, as Tzitzi-Ya-Ku can now hop in place while preparing the flash animation, allowing it to turn toward anyone trying to sidestep it.
* CripplingOverspecialization: It's not exactly a hard creature to fight against to begin with, but should you negate its stunning capability, then taking it down will become a near-trivial matter.
* DirtyCoward: Unlike Kulu and its bouts of SuicidalOverconfidence, Tzitzi's primary offence to any and every threat--from legitimately threatening wyverns like Legiana, ineffectual threats like the Shamos, and hunters themselves--is "flashbang and run away." Might veer into LovableCoward during the times its flashbang get another monster and ''not'' the hunter.
* EnemyMine: It can occasionally show up when you are fighting another large monster and use its flash attack to blind it before running away, allowing you to get free hits on the stunned large monster. Since Tzitzi-Ya-Ku is the weakest predator monster in the food chain of the Coral Highlands, this behaviour could be it attempting to get rid of the competition by helping you take out its bigger and stronger rivals.
* FragileSpeedster: It's quick to move, but isn't particularly durable.
* HelpfulMook: Tzitzi-Ya-Kus are more a threat to ''other'' monsters than they are to hunters; they're entirely docile toward the player unless provoked, and they're able to use their flashbang to stun larger monsters, often bringing flying ones right out of the sky.
* LightEmUp: Its frills emit bright flashes. [[LogicalWeakness Breaking its frills will quickly disable Tzitzi's ability to perform its flash attack.]]
* {{Ninja}}: Though not to the same extent as the female Odogaron armor, male Tzitzi armor has a notable assassin-like look with a mask and a BadassLongcoat. The dual blade showcase even features the armor.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Like its cousin Kulu, Tzitzi is not an inherently aggressive creature; it doesn't attack a hunter unless provoked first and its initial response to most any threat is usually to simply flashbang and [[ScrewThisImOutOfHere get as far away from dodge as it can]]. Notably, it's one of the perishingly few monsters that doesn't attack the hunter after its introductory cutscene, something even ''other'' otherwise docile monsters (like the Dodogama) indulge in.
* RaptorAttack: It is a raptor with large fins that release blinding lights.
* RuleOfThree: Whenever Tzitzi uses his flash attack, he performs two "warm-up" flashes before the third one that actually blinds.
* SkippableBoss: You're required to find a Tzitzi-Ya-Ku during an expedition to make story progress in Low Rank, but fighting one is optional. However, you need to fight two in a special sidequest to unlock the Grimalkynes of the region.
* StockSoundEffects: The Tzitzi-Ya-Ku's snarls and screeches are around the range of what you'd expect from ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' raptors, but whenever it gets distressed, whether it's by getting stunned or mounted, it uncharacteristically lets out a chicken bawk.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To Gypceros, the Bird Wyvern that can produces a bright flash to stun its enemies via an organ on its head that can be broken to prevent it from performing its flash again.
* TheWorfEffect: Is defeated in Turf Wars against Odogaron; it manages to flashes Odogaron who simply then NoSell the flash and counter attack with a claw swipe, knocking it down. Its also one of the many monsters Deviljho uses as a bludgeon.
* YouWillNotEvadeMe: If you try to escape it by hitching a hide on a Raphinos, it will repeatedly flash your ride out of the sky.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Pukei-Pukei]]
!!Pukei-Pukei [-(variant: Coral Pukei-Pukei)-]
!!!Poison Bewitching Bird / Water Bewitching Bird (Coral Pukei-Pukei)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_pukei_pukei_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Coral Pukei-Pukei]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_coral_pukei_pukei_render_001.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''\\
'''Coral subspecies:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
A strange Bird Wyvern with frog-like features. It spews poisonous gas which gains additional effects depending on what food it has eaten. An even more brightly-colored subspecies -- with water attacks instead of poison -- lives in the Coral Highlands.
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* AchillesHeel:
** Dropping a Scatternut on it will prevent it from eating nuts, which keeps its poison attacks from gaining additional effects.
** The Coral Pukei Pukei loses a good half of its moveset if its tail is severed. This includes most of its more powerful and annoying attacks.
* AndroclesLion: In the ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Witcher 3]]'' collaboration, if you free one from the [[spoiler:Leshen's roots]], it will appear in the final location to assist Geralt in the fight.
* DirtyCoward: Not around a hunter, but one around other monsters. It picks fights with smaller ones that can't fight back, but flees around bigger ones that would easily trounce it. However, this is not the case with the one who helps Geralt in the collaboration. Averted altogether with the Coral Subspecies, which attacks hunters out of fear.
* {{Fartillery}}: Coral Pukei-Pukei can shoot water out of its tail, giving it this effect.
* FeatheredFiend: Its body is covered in vibrant feathers. Temperament-wise, the nominate species are known to bully smaller monsters despite not competing with them for food or territory.
* ForestRanger: The armor sets crafted from their parts for both male and female, as well as for Palicos, have this as their primary aesthetic.
* {{Gasshole}}: Has a large pucker on the end of its fat tail that spews poisonous gas.
* GlassCannon: Coral Pukei is much more aggressive than the standard species and has noticeably more powerful attacks, but it isn't very durable.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: Coral Pukei-Pukei has various shades of yellow, orange, and red, and is much stronger than the nominate species. Prior to the introduction of [[PurpleIsPowerful Yian Garuga]], is also the strongest Bird Wyvern in ''Iceborne''.
* ItCanThink: During the Witcher crossover mission, if you save the Pukei-Pukei along with the Gajalaka chief (and keep the former alive throughout the fight), said Pukei-Pukei tries to ''thank'' Geralt with a Felyne's help after the Leshen is dead. And to a lesser extent, its Coral subspecies is fairly creative with its water beams, including how to use its tongue to split a front-facing beam into two 45-degree angle ones.
* KaizoTrap: The Coral subspecies has a water cannon attack that it splits into two separate streams, catching hunters who carelessly dodge to one side unawares.
* MakingASplash: The Coral Pukei-Pukei trades its poison for water attacks, even being able to use its tail like a high pressure water cannon.
* MixAndMatchCritters: A reptilian wyvern with a chameleon-like head and a body covered in feathers, with a long frog-like tongue.
* MultipurposeTongue: Its tongue is used for both feeding and attacking.
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: In spite of being a cowardly bully that runs away from bigger monsters, it goes back to [[spoiler:help Geralt fight the Leshen despite nearly being killed by it if saved]].
* PoisonousPerson: Spits globs of clearly venomous purple saliva and releases poisonous gas from its tail.
* PowerUpFood: Its poison attacks gain additional properties depending on what it has eaten. If it eats a Scatternut, its spit is more likely to stun, if it eats a Sporepuff, its spit becomes giant clouds, and if it eats from a Poisoncup, its poison spit leaves giant pools.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: It will flee if a larger monster is in the same area as it.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Its gimmick of [[PowerUpFood gaining new attacks based on what it eats]] is essentially lifted from Congalala, albeit with nuts instead of mushrooms.
* ShoutOut: Like the Tobi-Kadachi low rank/high rank armor set, the master rank Pukei-Pukei and Coral Pukei-Pukei armor sets are inspired by the Caped Hunter Set from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** The Pukei-Pukei is one of the earliest monsters to be fought in the game and is not that threatening compared to other large monsters like Anjanath and Rathalos. Once you repel [[spoiler:Zorah Magdaros]] for good, a Pukei-Pukei is spotted in the Wildspire Waste, not the usual habitat for one. Unwary Hunters who dismiss this Pukei-Pukei are in for a shock, since this individual is a High Rank version, meaning it has more health and hits harder. Defeating it will allow Hunters to reach High Rank and begin hunting stronger versions of existing monsters.
** Similarly, the Coral Pukei-Pukei subspecies, while not a whole lot stronger, has a wider variety of attacks than the original which are likely to catch hunters off-guard when they first fight it.
* VideoGameCaringPotential: As part of a side quest in the ''[[VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt Witcher 3]]'' collaboration, [[spoiler:Geralt can save a Pukei-Pukei from some roots controlled by the Leshen. If you do this, it will reappear in the final phase of the battle to help you out of gratitude. If you keep it alive during the fight, you get an Attack boosting decoration.]]
* WakeUpCallBoss: A Pukei-Pukei is the first High Rank monster encountered in ''World''; while [[DownplayedTrope still paling in comparison to stronger monsters]], its greatly increased strength may provide a rude awakening to an unsuspecting hunter.
* TheWorfEffect:
** All but one that are in the map are effortlessly killed by the [[spoiler:Leshen]] in the ''Witcher'' crossover.
** Also, it's defeated easily by Rajang in turf wars.
[[/folder]]
!Flying Wyverns
[[folder:Paolumu]]
!!Paolumu [-(variant: Nightshade Paolumu)-]
!!!Floating Sky Wyvern / Floating Sleep Wyvern (Nightshade Paolumu)
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->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Nightshade subspecies:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
This white-furred Flying Wyvern inflates its neck to float around the Coral Highlands and dine on coral eggs. When threatened, it attacks foes with its hard-scaled tail. The black-furred Nightshade subspecies is known to inhabit the Wildspire Waste, and is far more aggressive and has sleep-inducing attacks.
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* AchillesHeel: While not strictly unique to this Flying Wyvern, a Flash Pod will bring it down while puffed. Attacking its inflated neck enough times when it is puffed will knock out its air supply and send it crashing back to the ground.
* BatOutOfHell: Heavily resembles a giant bat, despite being a Wyvern. Not a particularly pleasant one either once angered.
* BlowYouAway: Will periodically suck in air into its neck ruff when fighting and once enough air is collected, its neck will swell up in size and Paolumu can perform aerial attacks. It can also shoot mini-tornadoes that do no damage, but stagger Hunters and leave them wide open for followup attacks.
** The Nightshade Subspecies combines this with ForcedSleep gas, which by usuing its movements in flight to spread it around the battlefield.
* ButtMonkey: Paolumu gets little to no respect from the [=NPC=]s due to its odd appearance, and it gets thrashed around easily by the larger monsters found within the Coral Highlands.
-->'''Third Fleet Master''': ...I'm sorry, I just retched thinking about that monster's face. Seriously, you'll be doing it a favor...
-->'''Chief Ecologist''': This is sort of an odd request, but there is a birthday party coming up this weekend, and we're in desperate need of balloons.
* {{Foil}}: To Khezu and Gigginox from previous generations. Like with those monsters, they have a item drop necessary for upgrading certain drink items, but while the former two are [[BigCreepyCrawlies grotesque, worm-like creatures,]] Paolumu is rather [[KillerRabbit adorable for a monster.]]
* GracefulInTheirElement: The Paolumu is not suited at fighting on land, tripping at the end of a charge and having a limited movesets. However, once it sucks in enough air to inflate its neck ruff and float, it becomes much more mobile, can attack much more frequently, and uses more powerful attacks.
* KillerRabbit: Visually cute, at least compared to the other monsters, but still a large monster that puts up a decent fight once provoked.
* MovesetClone: Shares a skeleton and animations with Pukei-Pukei.
* NonMaliciousMonster: It's incredibly docile and just likely to simply leave hunters alone even if they're within poking distance - moreso than most of the other monsters that occasionally display the same behavior. Even the much scarier looking subspecies will just mind its business provided it isn't provoked.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Compared to the other monsters introduced in this generation, this one is downright adorable! [[GameFace Until a hunter chooses to attack it that is...]]
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Primarily based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honduran_white_bat Honduran white bats]] in terms of design.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Contrasting their status as foil, Paolumu armor is aesthetically similar to the Lagombi armor, both resembling thick, white winter coats.
* TailSlap: Its tail is surprisingly hard compared to the rest of its body and is Paolumu's main form of offence once it is floating, slapping Hunters and slamming right onto them with its hard tail.
* TheWorfEffect:
** Is easily defeated in Turf Wars against Legiana and Odogaron.
** The subspecies gets wrecked by Rajang in turf wars.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Legiana]]
!!Legiana ''(Leigiena)'' [-(variant: Shrieking Legiana)-]
!!!Wind Drifting Wyvern
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Shrieking Legiana]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_shrieking_legiana_render_001_6.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Shrieking variant:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
A monster with enormous wings and large fins on its tail. It continually prowls its territory in the upper strata of the Coral Highlands. ''Iceborne'' introduces the Shrieking Legiana variant, which has more powerful control over ice.
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* AchillesHeel: Shrieking Legiana is one of the most vulnerable monsters when afflicted by poison. But it's ice attacks are also ''completely nullified'' by it, pretty much cutting down it's difficulty by a huge margin.
* BadassCape: The Alpha form armors crafted from the Legiana for both genders feature a slick cape bearing the Legiana's district cross-like marking.
* BigEater: [[InvertedTrope Inverted.]] To maintain its light frame for flying, Legiana normally only eats once a day. This changes when it's under duress, such as in a battle, wherein it will go chow down on a small monster to restore its stamina.
* BossArenaIdiocy: Both species of Legiana become disoriented and woozy when poisoned, greatly crimping their flying abilities. However, the upper reaches of the Coral Highlands the nominate subspecies likes to frequent has several Poisoncups in it, which can be activated and subsequently clip the Legiana's wings for a time.
* Catch22Dilemma: Legiana was the only monster in vanilla ''World'' that dealt Ice damage, so its armor's ice resistance was of rather limited use. ''Iceborne'''s introduction of numerous ice-elemental monsters, including the flagship Elder Dragon, Velkhana, alleviated the problem.
* {{Foil}}: Invoked by the Smart Biologist when commenting on a captured Legiana, comparing it to Rathalos, although he never goes into detail. Something they do have in common are that both are airborne Flying Wyverns that are the apex predators of their region, albeit with opposite elements ([[FireWaterJuxtaposition Fire in Rathalos' case, Ice in Legiana's]]) and colors (Red and Blue).
* ForceAndFinesse: Legiana's graceful aerial combat contrasts Rathalos' straightforward charges.
* GracefulInTheirElement: In a different way from Paolumu. On land Legiana fights more or less like the majority of Flying Wyverns across the series (Rathalos, Rathian, etc.), but while airborne it gracefully dances around the air delivering its attacks with a certain refinement instead of outright force. This is acknowledged in-game, where the story quest to fight it is titled "Embodiment of Elegance".
* HairTriggerTemper: An extremely territorial monster, standing near one for around 10 seconds is enough to make it hostile and attack you. Upon first entering Coral Highlands, the player Hunter and the Handler are immediately attacked by a Legiana for just stepping into its territory and it is also the monster responsible for stranding the Third Fleet in Coral Highlands, attacking their airship and sending them crashing down and stranded for years.
* AnIcePerson: Is capable of generating ice clouds when fighting enemies and is the only monster in the base game that uses the Ice element. Shrieking Legiana has even more powerful ice attacks, such as the ability to generate bursts of icy spikes on the ground.
* {{Irony}}: Although Legiana beats Paolumu in turf wars, the Iceproof mantle, which can be used to make hunting Legiana easier, is made from Paolumu parts. Paolumu armor also helps when hunting it.
* MixAndMatchCritters: It's your usual draconic ''Monster Hunter'' wyvern with characteristics of a bird and the motifs of a Sea Slug.
* MovesetClone: Downplayed; it has the same skeleton as Rathalos as well most of the same moves while grounded, it gets an almost wholly unique moveset once airborne however.
* NobleBirdOfPrey: It's a Flying Wyvern that somewhat resembles a bird of prey. While just as aggressive as other monsters of its type, it's notably more graceful and beautiful while retaining the majesty of monsters such as Rathalos.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Legiana's appearance and form recall birds and aquatic creatures moreso than draconic ones. Its armor even carries elements more often seen on the series' water based monsters. Considering its habitat being a terrestrial coral reef, this is likely intentional.
* PeekABooCorpse: Dead Legianas occasionally fall into the Rotten Vale (which happens to be located beneath the Coral Highlands). These can be carved for materials or taken away by monsters such as Odogaron.
* SeldomSeenSpecies: Its shape and colors are evocative of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaucus_atlanticus Blue Dragon sea slug]], fitting, considering it's found in the sea-floor like region of the Coral Highlands.
* SpinAttack: Its aerial attacks involve a lot of front-flips.
* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Recovers stamina by hunting and eating the local Raphinos.
* TheWorfEffect: Is easily defeated in Turf Wars against Deviljho and Rajang.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Bazelgeuse]]
!!Bazelgeuse [-(variant: Seething Bazelgeuse)-]
!!!Explosive Scale Wyvern
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->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Seething variant:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
An invasive Flying Wyvern. An opportunistic predator, it drops specialized scales located on its ventral side like firebombs so it can eat whatever is caught in the blast. It gains a variant known as the Seething Bazelgeuse, that appears to be an older, more easily enraged Bazelgeuse whose scales seem to be unstable have a much higher volatility and wider blast radius.
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* AnimalMotifs: Its armor set has a distinctive lion motif, alluding to the large number of scales on its bloated neck. This is more pronounced and easily noticed in the male versions of the set as well as the palico armor. Notably, the Seething Bazelgeuse's armor and a number of the species' final weapon forms also feature the word "pride" a word often associated with the lion. Its scales and long tail also significantly resemble pangolins.
* BackgroundMusicOverride: Just like Deviljho, Bazelgeuse's theme will override any and all other songs playing in the background, telling you that it has sighted you and is probably on its way to ruin your day. Though if ''both'' Bazelgeuse and Deviljho show up at once, Deviljho's theme will override.
* BlackKnight: The Seething Bazelgeuse armor set exudes this motif for its aesthetic, though it doesn't completely drop the lion motif of its original version either thanks to an increased use of fur trim.
* BombardierMook: Bazelgeuse hunts by flying over its prey and scattering its explosive scales over the ground below, swooping down afterwards to prey on whatever died in the blast. It prefers to open fights with a bombing run of this sort, often not even landing, but unlike other examples of this trope it's a formidable fighter and just as dangerous up close as when flying overhead.
* CompositeCharacter: Has Deviljho's durability and damage while being as methodical as Seregios in combat. Fittingly, even though it has the body frame of the latter, it's big and bulky like the former.
* CombatPragmatist: They prefer to hunt while their prey are unsuspecting or distracted.
* CoolPlane: It's a draconic B-52 bomber, and its attacks involve ''carpet bombing you''.
* CowardlyLion:
** Depends on how angry it is. When calm, its preferred hunting strategy is to launch a surprise attack against prospective prey that's already engaged in combat. When encountered on its own, Bazelgeuse is likely to flee immediately if it's not aggravated quickly enough. That being said, once it's been riled up, which is surprisingly easy to do, Bazelgeuse will stay and fight it out with some particularly nasty monsters, even once it's lost the element of surprise. These include Diablos, Rathalos, Legiana, and Odogaron, all of which are generally the most powerful monsters of their respective habitats. The trope altogether is [[AvertedTrope averted]] if [[TheRival Deviljho]] is also around.
** The Seething variant on the other hand is consistently aggressive and incredibly easy to get into rage, the key difference between it and its rival the Savage Deviljho being that Seething Bazelgeuse isn't locked into rage once started.
* CurbStompCushion: Unlike other large monsters who get swiftly owned to hell and back by Deviljho, the Bazelgeuse is able to deal some considerable damage to the Brute Wyvern despite being clearly physically outmatched.
* DeathFromAbove: One of its attacks involves it flying around the area and dropping explosive scales onto the ground, similar to a bomber aircraft before dive bombing toward its target and exploding all the scales in range. Becomes even more impressive when it is enraged, since the scales will explode instantly upon hitting the ground.
* DemotedToExtra: Seething Bazelgeuse is not an invasive monster, being only found in the Elder's Recess.
* TheDreaded: WordOfGod confirmed that Bazelgeuse is an Elder Dragon-level threat. Also, the Handler's first reaction is to tell you to run once you first encounter this monster, or at least be prepared to take some serious damage. Its nominate variant is attacked by Ruiner Nergigante, but puts up quite the fight itself to show that this wasn't an InformedAttribute.
* DropInNemesis: When Bazelgeuse hears another monster roar, it will fly in and attack whoever it finds.
* DynamicEntry: Loves to make its appearance by making a crash landing right on top of you and whatever you're hunting. The introduction to Seething Bazelgeuse finally gives the species an intro cinematic... in which this is precisely how it starts the fight.
* EarlyBirdBoss: It shows up in High Rank, where players are still using Low Rank weapons and armors and taking it on at this point is unreasonably difficult, with players dealing low damage to it and getting oneshotted by its attacks. Spend some time farming High Rank equipments and the fight is much more manageable.
** Seething Bazelgeuse assumes a similar position in Master Rank, where it's the first monster after Velkhana to be fought; officially bringing hunters into Master Rank Elder Dragon territory.
* EasyLevelTrick: In the quest where you have to fight two tempered Bazelgeuse, it's best to draw the other one out when you located the first one, then hide and let the two kill each other.
* {{Foil}}: To Seregios. Both are Invasive Flying Wyverns, [[FatAndSkinny but Bazelgeuse is large, stocky, and relies on its upper-body's bulk while Seregios was average-sized, slender, and uses its claws much more.]] In fact, it's even implied that Bazelgeuse evolved ''from'' Seregios, or at least one that figured out a way to make its scales explosive.
* GiantFlyer: Bazelgeuse is one of the largest Flying Wyverns (the largest one in ''World'', in fact) and one who's capable of actually flying for extended periods of time, which is made more impressive by the fact that its scales are essentially ''bombs'' and should be weighing it down by a significant amount.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: It can (and will) randomly show up during unstable High Rank hunts in ''World'' to give you a hard time. If it's already in the map, it will make a beeline for hunters when they start fighting large monsters, no matter its respective distance to the hunters in question.
* HairTriggerTemper: Essentially the reason why they mostly avert DirtyCoward; they might prefer hunting down its prey when its distracted, but they will gladly fight even with the lack of element of surprise once angered, which is easy to do. Seething Bazelgeuse takes it a step further by actively engaging its prey as opposed to bombing it, being much more aggressive, and having the regular Bazelgeuse's enraged state as its default state.
* HopelessBossFight: You stand absolutely no chance against it when it makes its first appearance near the very beginning of the High Rank chapter of the game, and you won't for some time until you're able to grind out better gear. Even the Handler will tell you to run when it shows up.
* ItCanThink: Bazelgeuse's first reaction upon being gnawed by an angry Deviljho is to plant bombs in its mouth as retaliation.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRV48bV6T-Y "The Invading Tyrant - Bazelgeuse"]], a bombastic orchestral piece that really feels like a World War II propaganda theme; fitting, considering the thing is often compared to a bomber plane.
* MeaningfulName: Although amusing, it's not a coincidence that its name sounds like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse Betelgeuse]], a massive star, for not only is it rather huge, it's very explosive, both in temperament and in combat. The name takes even greater meaning when you consider the Arabic roots of "Betelgeuse". The word comes from ''Ibt al-Jauza'' or ''Yad al-Jauza'', meaning underarm or hand of ''al-Jauza'', the Arabic name of the constellation Orion (which Betelgeuse is part of). ''Baz'' on the other hand is a word for falcon in Arabic. This means that Bazelgeuse can be read as Falcon of Orion (Baz al-Jauza). Fitting, considering that Orion is a hunter in Greek mythology.
* MightyGlacier: Bazelgeuse isn't particularly fast, but it's highly resilient, and its attacks pack a punch, with its explosive scales capable of oneshotting a Hunter at the beginning of High Rank hunts where it shows up. [[InstantDeathRadius And since it can launch its scales on the ground which explode later, it doesn't even need to be close to a careless Hunter to take them out ...]]
* MightyRoar: It has a ''very'' distinctive roar that sounds very similar to the ''T. rex'' from ''Film/JurassicPark'', and hearing it ''will'' leave you stunned for a very long time if you don't have a sufficient Earplugs skill. Fittingly, one of the skills of its Alpha Armor Set is Earplugs 5 that render the Hunter immune to all roars. Hilariously enough, this also is its weakness during a quest where you have to hunt two of them. The trigger for Bazelgeuse going on the warpath is another monster's roar, so a good tactic is to just get one of them to roar and then take cover and watch as the two continue to fight until one of them is dead and the other one is severely weakened.
* NoPronunciationGuide: Bah-zel? Bay-zel? Gey-use? Goose? It seems like everyone has a different pronunciation of Bazelgeuse's name, and unlike other examples in ''World'', there's no official voice-over confirming which is right. The Arabic roots of its name don't help. Amusingly, the Admiral calls the first Seething Bazelgeuse you and he come across, "Egghead". Its name is written in Japanese as バゼルギウス, pronounced "Bazerugiusu", so "Bah-zel-gee-us" is probably the intended English pronunciation.
* NoSell: While Deviljho can try to toss it around if they get into a turf war, Bazelgeuse can easily just shrug it off, and even give Deviljho a face full of explosive scales for its effort. It's actually the only monster in vanilla ''World'' that can force a draw against Deviljho. In ''Iceborne'' the Seething variant is a similar match for Savage Deviljho, who can force a draw with many ''Elder Dragons''.
** Its armor set has the Earplugs skill, which enables the Hunter wearing it the ability to ignore monster roars.
* NotSoDifferent: Both Bazelgeuse and Deviljho are Elder Dragon-level monsters known for invading maps in search for prey, in addition to not being very graceful, but make up for it with sheer physical strength. They're also both willing to fight and kill any creature that they encounter.
* OrchestralBombing: Its theme is a bombastic piece evocative of old warplane and bombing propaganda videos. Considering [[StuffBlowingUp its main method of attack]], this fits all too well.
* PlayingWithFire: Its explosive scales deal Fire damage. It can also breath fire, though it has a very short range better suited to igniting old scales than being an attack on its own.
* PurpleIsPowerful: When Seething Bazelgeuse is enraged, its scales will pressurize and glow bright purple before causing larger explosions than normal.
* RecurringElement: It's the Fifth Generation's equivalent of the Deviljho and Seregios, as the monster who randomly shows up during High Rank to mess up your hunt. Downplayed with the former due to its eventual introduction to ''World''.
* TheRival: After numerous entries where its presence has gone uncontested, the Bazelgeuse proves capable of facing the infamous '''Deviljho''' and surviving; their Turf War even ends with them dealing roughly the same amount of damage to each other.
* RoarBeforeBeating: The Seething variant has a move where they make a noise similar to an airplane propeller starting up beforehand. If you hear that noise, [[NukeEm it's time to]] '''''[[RunOrDie RUN.]]'''''
* SchmuckBait: Seething Bazelgeuse can scatter a large ring of explosive scales as it takes to the air. While it would seem logical to just stand in the center to avoid them, this is just what the monster is counting on, crashing down a second later and detonating all of its scales like a draconic warhead.
* SignatureMove:
** Bazelgeuse's bombing runs are a distinct tactic. It lifts into the air and does two to three passes over its target, raining down scales as it goes. It then divebombs his target, with the scales detonating when it lands or immediately if enraged.
** Seething Bazelgeuse gets a new special maneuver that's more akin to Teostra's iconic supernova: it launches into the sky while spinning, resulting in it launching explosive scales everywhere in a huge radius, then lets them all explode, before diving back down on its original launch point and detonating every scale on its body all at once for a massive explosion.
* StickyBomb: Seething Bazelgeuse's scales will stick to whatever surface they're flung onto when it's enraged, making keeping track of all of them and Bazelgeuse itself even more challenging.
* StrongAndSkilled: Though it mainly leans towards UnskilledButStrong. While it gets trounced by Deviljho in raw might, Bazelgeuse is no slouch in the physical department either, having a lot of tackles and charging, with an occasional short burst of flame. It makes up for its lower might by being [[ItCanThink smarter]] by planting bombs in Deviljho's mouth while the former is beating the shit out of him.
** Conversely, its weapons have a [[UnskilledButStrong high raw damage and blast damage in exchange for a -10% affinity penalty]].
* StuffBlowingUp: The scales under its neck and tail explode into flames when launched into the ground. Also extends to its weapons, which cause Blastblight.
* TurnsRed:
** Once it is enraged, Bazelgeuse's grenades will turn red hot and its scales will explode instantly upon touching the ground, meaning even less time for Hunters to get out of the range of the exploding scales.
** The Seething Bazelgeuse is constantly at red... instead it goes to ''[[UpToEleven white hot]],'' and the grenades turn unstable, resulting a much wider blast radius and the ability to [[StickyBomb lodge themselves into surfaces before exploding.]].
* TheWorfEffect: Downplayed; it is overpowered physically and pinned to the ground by Deviljho in their Turf War and takes considerable damage, but manages to deal some considerable damage back by igniting its exploding scales right in Deviljho's face, and can go airborne again while Deviljho is recovering from the explosion. Compare this to the other monsters that Deviljho engages in Turf War, with all of them lying on the ground and writhing in pain at the end of the fight.
[[/folder]]
!Piscine Wyverns
[[folder:Jyuratodus]]
!!Jyuratodus
!!!Mud Fish Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/jyuratodus.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''-]
A coelacanth-like monster related to the [[Characters/MonsterHunterFrontierMonsters Lavasioth]], who uses mud instead of lava.
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* BarrierChangeBoss: Normally immune to water, but becomes weak to it once covered in mud. In return, its normal weakness to thunder is nullified and is now just resistant to fire rather than being immune.
* DishingOutDirt: It uses mud to attack hunters.
* FireWaterJuxtaposition: The water to Lavasioth's fire. More specifically, they use mud while the latter uses magma.
* GeoEffects: Jyuratodus leaves behind piles of dirt for hunters to walk on when it swims or performs certain attacks.
* GladiatorGames: Its Master Rank armor has this design going for both genders, and to the Palico armor as well.
* MakingASplash: Its mud attacks inflict Water damage.
* MightyGlacier: Isn't particularly fast, but has good power and defenses for its rank.
* MovesetClone: Jyuratodus uses the same skeleton (and thus many of the same animations) as Lavasioth.
* NotSoDifferent: Much like Barroth, they swim in mud as a defensive mechanic.
* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Lavasioth's red. FireWaterJuxtaposition aside, Jyuratodus don't immediately attack unless provoked while Lavasioth are aggressive and hostile on sight.
* TheRival: They fight Barroth over mud territory.
* TheWorfEffect: Is defeated by Barroth during Turf Wars, though it delivers some damage to it in the process as well.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Beotodus]]
!!Beotodus ''(Brantodus)''
!!!Frozen Fish Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/beotodus.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
A Piscine Wyvern resembling a shark that swims through deep snow to catch its prey.
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* CrutchCharacter: Beotodus armor doesn't hold up in the long term due to its low defense value, but its abilites--Health Boost, Aquatic/Snow Mobility, and Earplugs--are very useful as you ease into Master Rank and explore the Hoarfrost Reach.
* AnIcePerson: It can spit ice and hurl snow at the player during combat.
* MightyRoar: The first Piscine Wyvern in the series to have one, in fact! Beotodus’ roar will flinch Hunters, unlike any other member of its class.
* LandShark: ''Snow'' shark, rather, but the properties have the same effect.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** To Zamtrios, as an amphibious shark-like monster that swims through snow and ice.
** Unsurprisingly, it also shares a number of similarities with Jyuratodus and Lavasioth, [[MovesetClone including a few moves]].
* WarmUpBoss: It's your first Master Rank hunt, and while it can take a beating it has fairly simple attack patterns.
* TheWorfEffect: Is defeated by Banbaro during Turf Wars, using the same animation as the Barroth-Jyuratodus war, though it does deal some damage back.
[[/folder]]
!Brute Wyverns
[[folder:Anjanath]]
!!Anjanath ''(Anjanaff)'' [-(variant: Fulgur Anjanath)-]
!!!Fierce Jaw Wyvern / Thunder Jaw Wyvern (Fulgur Anjanath)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_anjanath_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Fulgur Anjanath]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_fulgur_anjanath_render_001_copy.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise, ''Monster Hunter Stories 2''\\
'''Fulgur subspecies:'''\\
''World: Iceborne-]
One of the first monsters introduced in the game. Anjanath is a ''Tyrannosaurus rex''-like creature with a feathered body, movable wing-like fins near its posterior, an inflatable proboscis that provides it with a strong sense of smell, and the ability to breathe fire. When enraged, it will relentlessly follow hunters into different areas in order to reduce their chances of escaping. ''Iceborne'' introduces the Fulgur Anjanath, a subspecies found in the Hoarfrost Reach that uses electric attacks instead of fire.
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* AchillesHeel: Similar to Glavenus, attacking its throat sac while it's glowing will make it fall over, leaving it vulnerable to attack until it recovers.
* BreathWeapon: A continuous stream of fire, as opposed to most other monsters who breathe out fireballs. It only uses this attack when in rage mode.
* ChainmailBikini: Female Anjanath armor looks like the blacksmith did the helmet and limbs first, then ran out of material when the time came for the torso piece.
* DinosaursAreDragons: It's modeled after an Earth ''T. rex'', and is a fire-breathing Brute Wyvern. When it unfurls its nose horn and "wings", it looks even more draconic.
* EightiesHair: Not the monster itself, but its upgraded Master Rank helmet in ''Iceborne'' is essentially a big bouffant wig, particularly for female Hunters.
* FakeUltimateMook: {{Downplayed|trope}}. Anjanath is presented as a huge threat early in the game, and can be very difficult for beginner or unprepared hunters to take down, which is reinforced by its massive size and resemblance to the King of Dinosaurs. However, while by no means weak, it later turns out to be a mid-tier monster within its food chain (similar to Rathian and Radobaan) and consistently loses turf wars to the ''actual'' apex monster of its biome, [[SeriesMascot Rathalos]]. Averted for Fulgur Anjanath, which is an apex-level monster in its own right.
* HavingABlast: One of the Anjanath armor parts gives the Artillery skill and one weapons made from its parts is the Gunlance.
* HitboxDissonance: Many of its attacks have deceptively large hitboxes. The forward charge is a big offender, as even the Insect Glaive user who has vaulted well above it will still get hit. And that's not counting many of the fire attacks that go straight through the terrain.
* InASingleBound: Don't think for a second that distance will save you. Even if it won't try to roast you alive, it ''can'' still leap an impressive distance in an attempt to GoombaStomp you.
* KillItWithWater: Its primary weakness is Water.
* LightningBruiser: Very fast and resilient despite its size, and taken literally with its ''Fulgur'' subspecies, which is not only much stronger but crackles with electricity when enraged.
* LightningFireJuxtaposition: The Fulgur Subspecies uses lighting rather than the fire from its nominate variant.
* {{Mascot}}: It's essentially the tertiary mascot of ''World'', for reasons opposite to Nergigante: Anjanath is the first giant large monster that most players face, making its role akin to a StarterVillain, and is also Rathalos' designated rival. For a monster encountered this early on, being a badass ''T. rex'' only makes it more encouraging for newcomers to face and conquer.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Its main model is ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', but elements were drawn from the vulture as well: note the bald, pink head and the black fur lining its body from the shoulders down, which is also likely based on the modern understanding of feathered dinosaurs. Its head and arms, as well as the sails on its back and their apparent cooling function, basically make it halfway between a ''Tyrannosaurus'' and a ''Spinosaurus''. The appearance and function of its nostril sac are pretty unique, but it has similarities to that of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooded_seal hooded seal]].
* PlayingWithFire: It can breathe fire from its mouth when enraged.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The Fulgur subspecies has more of a purple coloration than the main species, and it's a more powerful monster. Likewise, the armor you craft from it is also purple.
* RealMenWearPink: Both armor sets are pink, regardless of gender. Likewise, the monster itself is pink, but is considered a nasty wall for newcomers.
* RecurringElement: Anjanath is the designated rival for Rathalos. Unlike say, the Astalos from the previous generation, however, Anjanath is at a disadvantage and gets duly wrecked.
* TheRival: A one-sided one against Rathalos in the latter's favor.
* SignatureMove: The Fulgur subspecies has a rushing move while enveloping itself in lighting.
* ShockAndAwe: The Fulgur Subspecies favors lightning damage.
* StockDinosaurs: While mainly based on ''T. rex'', it also has features reminiscent of ''Spinosaurus''. Its elongated head and not-so-tiny arms are about halfway between the rex and ''Spinosaurus'', and its dorsal sails, which it uses to warm up when resting, can be seen as a more stylized take on a ''Spinosaurus'' sail.
* SuperPersistentPredator: When enraged, it will relentlessly chase down hunters, even following them into other areas.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: It's very similar to Glavenus in many areas, being a fire-breathing, jungle-and-desert-dwelling Brute Wyvern whose throat sac acts as an AchillesHeel. Eventually downplayed as the latter would return in ''Iceborne''.
* ThroatLight: The ''Fulgur'' subspecies, once it becomes enraged, literally begins crackling and glowing with electricity in several places. The most prominent are its fins, but the entire inside of the head - including it's throat - visibly shows the power this Brute Wyvern is harnessing.
* TokenMotivationalNemesis: About as close as a monster in the series can be. The first mission is capstoned with its first appearance, and you will spend a good number of quests doing your best to avoid drawing its attention since you lack weapons or armor strong enough for you to be a serious threat to it, all while it trounces pretty much everything that tries to fight it in a turf war. The earlygame wraps up with you finally slaying it though, [[NormalFishInATinyPond only to immediately afterwards encounter monsters that trounce]] ''[[NormalFishInATinyPond it]]'' [[NormalFishInATinyPond in turf wars, or are so far beyond it that there's no point in comparison.]] Averted by the ''Fulgur'' subspecies, as while it's gotten a serious jump in power beyond it's normal self, it's not treated as any kind of nemesis.
* TookALevelInBadass: Vanilla Anjanath, while by no means a weakling, gets completely trounced in a fight with Rathalos. By contrast, Fulgur Anjanath can fight ''Barioth'', '''Tigrex''', and '''''Diablos''''' to a draw. [[JustifiedTrope This might have something to do with the fact that Fulgur Anjanath uses an element that Tigrex has a pronounced weakness to,]] but it's also much stronger than its nominate species physically.
* TurnsRed: When enraged, it will flash its nostrils and back fins. It may power itself up even further by setting its mouth on fire, adding Fireblight to its biting attacks. It will return to its normal state by unleashing a powerful [[BreathWeapon flamethrower attack.]]
* TRexpy: It resembles a monstrous, haggard tyrannosaur, with feathering closely resembling a vulture.
* UnskilledButStrong:
** Anjanath weapons tend to have high raw damage, with a respectable fire elemental damage, and are easier to access early on compared to Rathalos and Lavasioth weapons; the downside is that it comes at the expense of Affinity (it gets a -20% to -30% hit).
* WakeUpCallBoss:
** Anjanath is the first major monster that utilizes both massive physical damage and elemental damage, as well as potentially the first one to have a particularly nasty enraged mode in ''World''. Made worse by the fact that considering the point in the game it almost always has ''something'' that can one shot you. Low armor? Good luck surviving its bigger attacks when it's enraged. Packing heavier armor from Barroth or Jyuratodus? Guess what has a vulnerability to fire? Well now you're good against the physical attacks, but that fire is gonna take its place.
** Its Fulgur subspecies is built to throw off overconfident players who would scoff at a monster they are now accustomed to, as while its moveset isn't too different, it hits much harder and is far more durable.
* TheWorfEffect:
** While it beats both Great Jagras and Tobi-Kadachi, it's easily trounced by Rathalos in a Turf War.
** A member of the nominate species is frozen to death by Velkhana.
** Downplayed with the Fulgur subspecies, which manages to tie against ''three'' notoriously savage Flying Wyverns.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Radobaan]]
!!Radobaan ''(Radobalkin)''
!!!Bone Hammer Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_radobaan_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
A Brute Wyvern closely related to the [[Characters/MonsterHunterThirdGenerationMonsters Uragaan]], but is covered in bones as opposed to rocks. While downed, its back can be mined for bones.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: It runs surprisingly fast for a creature its size.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: An interesting variation as most of its body is fairly soft. You just have to break through the much tougher bones on it first.
* FakeUltimateMook: Despite being bigger, it loses badly to the smaller Odogaron.
* ForceAndFinesse: The Finesse to the Uragaan's Force; while Uragaan is heavily reliant on brute force, utilizing multiple chin slams, body checks, and straightforward rolls, Radobaan is much more acrobatic in comparison, utilizing chin swipes, chin drags followed up with quick rolls, and spinning around like a top.
* FragileSpeedster: It's pretty fast for a creature its size, but its body is soft when unarmoured, its bony armour is fairly easy to knock off, and breaking its parts will reduce its offensive capabilities (for example, breaking the hips may cause it to lose momentum when rolling, and breaking the back will prevent it from flinging bones when it rolls).
* KillItWithIce: It's vulnerable to the Ice element.
* LanternJawOfJustice: Like its close relative Uragaan, it has a massive chin. Unlike Uragaan, it won't deflect attacks.
* MovesetClone: Of Uragaan, fitting as the two species are likely cousins.
* RollingAttack: Uses them frequently, both to attack and to move around.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: It wears bones for protection. It can even refresh them during the fight if allowed to roll around in its nest.
* SpinAttack: One of its attacks involves it laying on its side and spinning in circles.
* StandardStatusEffects: It can release a bluish-white gas though its pores that inflicts Sleep.
* WarmUpBoss: Serves as one to get the player used to fighting in the Rotten Vale. Radobaan prefers to stay in the effluvium-free upper areas and has to be hunted once before the more dangerous lower areas open up.
* TheWorfEffect:
** It's easily defeated by Odogaron in Turf Wars, resulting in much of its bone armor on its head being instantly broken.
** It rolls at full speed into Tigrex in the latter's introduction cutscene, only for Tigrex to catch Radobaan, stop it, wrestle it to ground and kill the Brute Wyvern with one, well-placed bite.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Banbaro]]
!!Banbaro ''(Bafubaro)''
!!!Ferocious Bull Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_banbaro.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
A hulking, herbivorous, moose-like Brute Wyvern that inhabits the Hoarfrost Reach. Its massive antlers are perfect for scooping up snow or fallen trees during charge attacks.
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* BullfightBoss: It uses powerful charging moves, like Barroth.
* DropInNemesis: It’s a roaming invader for... ''some'' reason (perhaps it's [[HornyVikings out raiding for Valhalla?]]), even though it’s hilariously ill-suited to the Wildspire Waste, Elder’s Recess or Rotten Vale.
* GeoEffects: The location of the fight can alter Banbaro's charge attacks. It may pick up fallen trees for a wider hitbox in the Hoarfrost Reach and Ancient Forest, or chunks of heated rock that cause fire damage in the Elder's Recess.
* HairTriggerTemper: Downplayed. It's docile until attacked, but if it so much as comes near another agitated monster, it will ''flip out.''
* {{Hammerspace}}: It can use its great antlers to dig up boulders or a dead tree for both charging and throwing attacks... ''no matter what terrain its fighting on.'' This makes it look silly when digging up an infinite supply of trees in the Arena.
* HerbivoresAreFriendly: [[ZigzaggedTrope Zigzagged]]. By itself, it's placid until attacked. Once it runs into another monster, it becomes ill-tempered.
* HimeCut: Not Banbaro itself, but the female version of its helm resembles a wig of this type.
* HornyVikings: The Male armour invokes this aesthetic very much so. And on top of that, it has the Mushroomancer skill, in reference their use of mushrooms to induce the Berserkrgang; though in this case, it allows you to get more potions from mushrooms depending on the level.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: In two ways: mechanically to the Jade Barroth, as an arctic Brute Wyvern that uses charging attacks. Visually, it is one to the Duramboros with its similar facial features, unique horns, and general body shape (sans the Duramboros’ hump).
* TruthInTelevision: Moose in real life are gigantic and highly territorial, which be seen in the Banbaro's behavior when provoked.
* TheWorfEffect: It's easily beaten by Barioth during Turf Wars, with Barioth sinking its fangs into Banbaro's neck before tossing it aside.
[[/folder]]
!Fanged Wyverns
[[folder:Jagras / Great Jagras]]
!!Jagras / Great Jagras ''(Dosjagras)''
!!!Thief Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_jagras_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[-Jagras-]]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_great_jagras_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[-Great Jagras-]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''-]
Iguana-like monsters led by a larger alpha male with a ravenous appetite. The Great Jagras is notable for being hungry enough to swallow an Aptonoth whole, and it can use this to its advantage, using the immense weight it gains to crush attackers.
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* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Jagras can be distracted with Raw Meat.
* BackgroundMusicOverride: Normally the Great Jagras' battle theme is overridden by Deviljho's or Bazelgeuse's if either monster makes an appearance, but in the Greatest Jagras event, when Deviljho appears, "Savage of the Ancient Forest" overrides Jho's theme instead!
* BalloonBelly: Their stomachs can elastically stretch to accommodate its prey.
* BigEater: Great Jagras has a huge appetite, and can swallow whole Aptonoth.
* BoringButPractical: Its weapons' base stats are unimpressive, but they possess multiple level 2 or 3 gem slots, hidden elements (this allows the weapon to benefit from non-elemental boost), and a low rarity (which allows for the most augments possible). As a result, they deal some of the most raw damage in the game if set up properly.
* ButtMonkey: They're prone to getting mauled by larger monsters, such as Anjanath, Rathalos, and Deviljho. Even Capcom got in on this with the weapon showcases with the Great Jagras being the punching bag.
* DiscOneNuke: Great Jagras weapons are much easier to complete than other weapons in ''Master Rank'', and can carry the player up till they begin to fight Elder Dragons. Its Master Rank armor also gives Attack Boost and Speed Eating.
* EffectiveKnockoff: Knockoff isn't quite the word, but the Greatest Jagras not considered a tempered monster, yet its strong and big enough to push ''Deviljho'' around.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: Goes from being a poor schmuck of a monster to a powerful Elder Dragon threat as the Greatest Jagras. Even the ''Deviljho'' that spawns in that quest usually comes out worse for wear when they clash.
* GiantMook: A giant version appears in an event quest, along with a FunSize variant and a third, normal-sized Great Jagras. The tiny one is the size of a Kelbi, while the big one's around the same size as Anjanath. The latter is played much straighter with the Greatest Jagras, which is comparable in size to the Deviljho roaming the map in the same quest.
* GlassCannon: When Great Jagras's stomach is full, its attacks deal more damage, but it also gains a massive weak point in the form of said stomach, making it easier to take out.
* JackOfAllStats: For an early-game monster, its stats are roughly even, having mediocre speed, power, health, and defenses overall.
* KillItWithFire: They're weak to the Fire element.
* KingMook: The Great Jagras rules over the small monster Jagras.
* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: It's not a particularly hard boss to begin with, but it's vulnerable to every ailment.
* LethalJokeCharacter: Basically the whole point of the Greatest Jagras, which, physically speaking, is no different from the normal Great Jagras aside from it being much bigger, but is a far stronger monster.
* PinataEnemy: The anniversary event Greatest Jagras leaves behind a bunch of feystones (even ''warped feystones'' if you're lucky) whenever it uses its spit attack or you force it to regurgitate its meal. It's not uncommon to finish a hunt with 20 or more decorations, making even a failed quest potentially profitable.
* RecurringElement: They're the Fifth Generation's equivalent of the Velociprey/Jaggi/Maccao lines, being weak, common enemies without any special abilities, with the alpha male being a KingMook. though the Great Jagras does possess a non-elemental spit attack, as well as its StanceSystem.
* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted with Great Jagras, who will only attack you if you attack it first. Played straight with the regular Jagras, which are aggressive and will also swarm a monster you've incapacitated.
* TheRival: Great Jagras competes with Anjanath for food, and will attack it on sight.
* StanceSystem: Great Jagras has two different phases: one where it's hungry, and one where it's full. When it's hungry, [[JackOfAllStats its stat spread is roughly balanced]], and when it's full, [[GlassCannon its attacks become stronger and have greater range, but its speed and durability decrease]]. It starts out in its hungry phase, but will go into its full phase after eating a smaller monster, and hunters can revert it back into its hungry phase by attacking its inflated stomach, which forces it to regurgitate its meal.
* SwallowedWhole: Great Jagras does this to smaller monsters such as Aptonoth when it's hungry.
* TookALevelInBadass: The normal Great Jagras is considered a WarmUpBoss. Then there's the Greatest Jagras which was added for the Appreciation Fest. This Jagras has health comparable to a tempered Elder Dragon and deals damage that makes Nergigante look tame by comparison. It's even capable of [[CurbStompBattle manhandling]] ''Deviljho''.
* WarmUpBoss: Great Jagras isn't much of a threat to even the most inexperienced hunters.
* WhosLaughingNow: The idea behind The Greatest Jagras quest, which is described as Great Jagras [[TookALevelInBadass buffing up]] and taking revenge for all the abuse it's taken from both hunters and Deviljho.
* TheWorfEffect: Great Jagras is beaten by Anjanath in Turf Wars, while Deviljho can pick up the poor schmuck and [[GrievousHarmWithABody use it as a bludgeon]] against you. This gets inverted with the Greatest Jagras however, where Deviljho ''actively flees'' from it.
* ZombiePukeAttack: When he's full, he can literally projectile vomit his dinner at hunters. Naturally Greatest Jagras' version is not only incredibly powerful, but he chain-vomits a spread of 7 or 8 chunks, each of which leaves behind a decoration gem.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Girros / Great Girros]]
!!Girros / Great Girros ''(Dosgirros)''
!!!Paralyzing Thief Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_girros_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[-Girros-]]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_great_girros_render_001.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[-Great Girros-]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Snake-headed Fanged Wyverns making their home at the Rotten Vale who sport paralyzing bites. They are led by a large alpha monster called the Great Girros, who has a much more pronounced cobra hood.
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* FangsAreEvil: They have large fangs that can inflict paralysis. Subverted in that they're not evil (they're animals, after all), just aggressive.
* FragileSpeedster: They move quickly, but can't take much punishment.
* HelpfulMook: You really want to run into Great Girros while fighting the other monsters in the Rotten Vale, as they will attack them on sight and potentially paralyze them, making fights much easier. The only time when you shouldn't be wishing for Great Girros would be against Deviljho, since that's just asking for the Great Girros to be used as a bludgeon against you.
* KillItWithWater: Great Girros is weak to the Water element. Interestingly, its subordinates are immune to it.
* KingMook: The Great Girros is the alpha male.
* MixAndMatchCritter: Monitor lizards with the heads of cobras and the pack-tactics of wolves.
* TheParalyzer: Can inflict paralysis through their bites or the leader's spit.
* PlagueDoctor: Not the monster itself, but the armor set made from it resembles the standard attire and look of one. Fittingly, one of the skills of the armor set is immunity to the health-reducing effluvium of the Rotten Vale.
* SkippableBoss: Like the Tzitzi-Ya-Ku, Great Girros only needs to be spotted during an investigation to make story progress in Low Rank, and can otherwise be ignored.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To the Genprey line, as the lesser carnivores who paralyze with their bites.
* TheWorfEffect:
** Great Girros is one of the many monsters Deviljho can use as a bludgeon.
** The Acidic Glavenus is introduced by swiftly curb-stomping a Great Girros and its pack of smaller Girros.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: One of its moves is a running cannonball senton.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Shamos]]
!!Shamos
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/shamos.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
Lizard-like monsters with a red hide and wide yellow eyes. Unlike the other lesser Fanged Wyverns, they have no alpha leader.
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* BlindedByTheLight: They hate light and will scatter if fire is thrown at them. Due to this, they have a strong dislike for the Tzitzi-Ya-Ku.
* UniformityException: Despite being a gameplay clone (and likely biological, Coral Highlands relative) of the Jagras and Girros, there is no Great Shamos to be seen.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tobi-Kadachi]]
!!Tobi-Kadachi ''(Tobikagachi)'' [-(variant: Viper Tobi-Kadachi)-]
!!!Flying Thunder Wyvern / Flying Poison Wyvern (Viper Tobi-Kadachi)
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Viper Tobi-Kadachi]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_viper_tobi_kadachi_render_001.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne'', ''Rise''\\
'''Viper subspecies:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
A snake-headed monster that glides on membranes stretching between its limbs, and can build up a powerful electric charge in its fur. ''Iceborne'' introduces the Viper subspecies, which combines a paralyzing bite with venomous spines.
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* CycleOfHurting: A solid hit will knock it off a tree and leave it prone on the ground, and there's a good chance its first action once it gets up will be to get onto the same tree, while the hunter is still standing right under it. This can happen three of four times before Tobi-Kadachi will think to try something else, if it doesn't die from the repeated mauling in the meantime.
* DecompositeCharacter: Inherits Zinogre's lightning element and being a fictional animal with reptilian and mammalian traits, while the canine parts are transferred to Odogaron.
* FragileSpeedster: It doesn't have as much health or hit nearly as hard as the Anjanath or Rathalos it shares a habitat with. It makes up for this by jumping around on the trees and using quick hit-and-run attacks, making actually hitting it more challenging and gradually buffing itself up with static electricity to increases its attack power.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: The viper subspecies is a stronger monster, and has an orangish-gold tint.
* KillItWithWater: It's vulnerable to the Water element.
* LogicalWeakness: Its stronger attacks depend on built up static electricity; if you hit it with Watermoss, its electrical aura will dissipate and it'll go back to simple melee attacks.
* MeaningfulName: Its name is derived from ''tobu'', meaning "to fly," and ''kagachi'', an old-fashioned name for a snake.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Has the head of a snake, the body of a ferret, and the webbing of a flying squirrel.
* NotQuiteFlight: The webbing stretching between its limbs grants it the ability to glide. Viper Tobi-Kadachi takes it a step further, using its gliding to flank and reposition mid-combat.
* PoisonousPerson: Viper Tobi-Kadachi's tail is covered in venomous barbs, letting it inflict deadly poison with tail attacks or by flinging the barbs as a projectile.
* ShockAndAwe: Its fur courses with static electricity that it can use as a weapon when fully charged.
* ShoutOut: Its Armor set looks a lot like a light blue version of the Hunters armor from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}''. The helmet on the male version even resembles Retired Hunter Djura's cap.
* SnakesAreSinister: Averted; it doesn't attack a hunter unless provoked.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** Tobi-Kadachi was a minor one to Zinogre, being a reptilian lightning monster: it even shares Zinogre's Fanged Wyvern typing. It's not as strong as Zinogre, however, said strength traits being transferred to Odogaron. Downplayed as the former would return in ''Iceborne''.
** The Viper subspecies is this to Gigginox, being a poisonous cave-climber in a frozen area. A hint of its existence in a magazine article was even mistaken for the latter.
* TailSlap: Uses its large tail for offense, swiping and slamming down on Hunters like Nargacuga.
* WeakButSkilled: Viper Tobi isn't the strongest of the monsters, but its deadly poison and paralysis make up for its lack of physical strength.
* TheWorfEffect: Is defeated by Anjanath during Turf Wars. It's also one of the many monsters Deviljho can use as a bludgeon.
** This once again happens in ''Rise'', courtesy of the Magnamalo.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Odogaron]]
!!Odogaron [-(variant: Ebony Odogaron)-]
!!!Cruel Claw Wyvern / Wicked Claw Wyvern (Ebony Odogaron)
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mh_odo.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Ebony Odogaron]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_ebony_odogaron_render_001.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Ebony subspecies'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
A fierce Fanged Wyvern distinguished by its blood-red coloration, protruding fangs, and a second set of claws that protrude from under its feet. It is commonly seen dragging corpses back to its lair. ''Iceborne'' introduces the Ebony Odogaron subspecies, which is even more aggressive and has powerful Dragon-element attacks.
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* AchillesHeel: Like Tigrex and Deviljho before it, Odogaron will eat any meats placed on the ground due to tiring easily.
* AntiMagic: The Ebony variant's Dragon attacks can inflict Dragonblight on the hunter, removing the elemental effects from their weapons. Which is good for the monster, since elemental attacks to its head can knock it out of its frenzy. Similarly, its weapons have a high Elderseal value.
* TheBerserker: Absolutely relentless in its attacks, often stringing at least two together. When enraged it will string up to four attacks giving you very little room to breathe. Even when flinched it falls down only to recover and strike back at you.
* BloodKnight: It is incredibly hostile, attacking any monsters in sight, [[FearlessFool even Vaal Hazak, an Elder Dragon]]. When it spots a Hunter, it will give a warning roar, and will quickly turn hostile if the Hunter get any closer. This thing will win almost every turf war it's involved in, and is by far the most dangerous non-elder-dragon (or Bazelgeuse) threat in the Rotten Vale due to its sheer brutality in combat.
** As a matter of fact, the only turf war it loses for sure is the one against the Vaal Hazak, and that's less due to skill in combat, and more because the Odogaron will jump on the Hazak's back, thereby getting a faceful of highly toxic poison.
** And like every other Fanged Wyvern, it tends to be at a disadvantage whenever it's in a turf war with Deviljho.
* BloodyHorror: It looks like a skinned wolf, with glistening red skin like muscle tissue, and, appropriately enough, it's the one monster in the base game that inflicts Bleed status.
* BodyHorror: It has a second set of claws that protrude on top of its primary set. Its hide also gives the impression of being skinless. It's also notable for lacking eyelids of any sort.
* BoringButPractical: Weapons made from Odogaron parts are a lot easier to build around due to a maxed sharpness meter in a game where the normally mandatory handicraft usually fills up said meter for other weapons. This is also before considering the positive affinity that they have. The only downside is their lower than usual raw power.
* BurningWithAnger: When it goes into [[TheBerserker berserk mode]], it'll start glowing red with rage, and it is naturally strong against the Fire element. Its weapons even has a hidden fire element!
* CompositeCharacter: Has traits of Tigrex, Nargacuga, and Zinogre, as SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute explains.
* CounterAttack: Sometimes, when it would have been flinched or toppled, it fakes the "topple" animation and then bounces back quickly, punishing anyone who was trying to go in for the kill. This also happens when it gets knocked into a wall, a la Rajang.
* CriticalHitClass: Not only does much of the armor made from an Odogaron provide the "Critical Eye" skill, but many of the weapons made from Orogaron parts have high affinity percentages as well, making its equipment this.
* DeathGlare: Has a constant one. Other monsters when not agitated can look docile, even if with a fierce expression. Odogaron's default expression is "DO NOT FUCK WITH ME," even when ''sleeping.'' Perhaps it looks like this because it [[BizarreAlienBiology lacks eyeballs or a nictitating membrane entirely.]]
* DecompositeCharacter: Inherits Zinogre's canine-reptile hybrid structure with a savage fighting style while Tobi-Kadachi takes the elemental aspects in vanilla ''World''.
* DogsAreDumb: Odogaron is a canine monster, and, as shown by its [[TooDumbToLive rather cavalier attitude toward safety]], dumb as a whole forest of posts.
** Its offensive hitboxes are also extremely generous towards the player and it tracks very early on in many of its attacks, leading it to miss alot. A player who knows this can often avoid many of Odogaron's moves by simply walking out of the way.
* DragonsAreDemonic: Like the Stygian Zinogre before it, the Ebony Odogaron is [[DarkIsEvil black]], has a reddish lightning aura around it thanks to its dragon element, and in general is shown as far more aggressive than its nominate species.
* DumbMuscle: Yeah, yeah, [[VisualPun it looks like a muscle and it’s an idiot.]] The point stands; Odogaron is [[TooDumbToLive about as intelligent as a two-week-old bale of spinach]], but it lives in an environment where it doesn’t ''have'' to be smart: just savage, violent and relentless.
* EarlyBirdBoss: Unlike every other monster in low rank, Odogaron can show up outside its normal territory. It will occasionally wander up into the Coral Highlands, quite possibly before the player even knows the Rotten Vale exists...at which point they'll be much too weak to stand a chance.
* EvilIsVisceral: As mentioned before, it looks like an animal with its skin ripped off. Its lair in turn has walls of putrid flesh and tendons that it can tear through. The Master Rank version of its armor even goes for this aesthetic, making the hunter look like a flayed demon.
* FangsAreEvil: Has a pair of protruding canines on its lower and upper jaw. While not actually evil, it is highly aggressive and will readily attack monsters larger than itself. In fact, if it turf wars with Radobaan, it'll jump on Radobaan and start ''tearing chunks of it off with its teeth''.
* FearlessFool: Vicious, but has no grasp of when it's out of its league, attacking the Vale's resident Elder Dragon Vaal Hazak and even Deviljho on sight.
* FragileSpeedster: Odogaron moves quickly to compensate for its lack of defense.
* FunSize: The “Rush of Blood” event quest featured two Odogaron. One was normal size, but the other was only the size of a Jagras. That is a very, VERY tiny muscle puppy.
* GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere: Ebony Odogaron are actually an invasive species in the same vein as Deviljho, showing up in locations outside of the normal Odogaron's hunting grounds.
* GlassCannon: It hits hard, but its hide isn't particularly tough, and it has a fairly small health pool.
* {{Hellhound}}: It has the look, being a huge, vicious, vaguely-reptilian dog-like creature.
** Ebony Odogaron takes this up another level.
* ItCanThink: While it's not the sharpest set of Dual Blades, it ''does'' seem to have a brain cell or two. It knows that hunters will try to kick it while it's down, so it sometimes fakes being toppled so that it can lunge back at any Hunters who take the bait.
* KillItWithIce: It's vulnerable to the Ice element.
* LaserGuidedKarma: Deviljho swings Odogaron like a chew toy -- the same way the latter does to a good chunk of his own prey. Doubly so since Deviljho is also a mean-tempered carnivore that'll eat anything.
* LogicalWeakness: It attacks relentlessly, but it also tires itself out faster compared to other monsters. And given how filthy the Rotten Vale is, Odogaron will gladly feed on any fresh meat it spots when it's hungry, even drugged meats.
* MovesetClone: Uses the same skeleton and animations as Tobi-Kadachi.
* MsFanservice:
** The female armor made from its parts doesn't look too bad from the front, but it shows quite a bit of [[SexyBacklessOutfit backside]] and [[ShesGotLegs thighs]], on a skin-tight armor set.
** [[HotterAndSexier The Master Rank Alpha armor is even skimpier]], showing more skin.
** Inverted with the beta version, however, [[TamerAndChaster as the chest armor is covered with a poncho]].
* {{Ninja}}: Female armor resembles one with a much slimmer and skin-tight outfit than its male counterpart, which resembles a {{Samurai}} instead, and a mask that either covers the mouth and nose or one that's hanging over the face as well as a silver TomboyishPonytail wig for all its variants.
* NoSell:
** Odogaron is immune to the Dragon element.
** Tzitzi-Ya-Ku, Paolumu, and Radobaan's gimmicks are completely ignored by it while the latter three try to defend themselves. Inverted against Vaal Hazak, however, who no-sells Odogaron's assault instead; it doesn't even have a chance against Deviljho.
** In its introductory cutscene in ''Iceborne'', the Ebony subspecies no-sells a slash to the face from a normal Odogaron, complete with a look afterwards that says "really?"
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Note how Odogaron doesn't immediately attack a Deviljho, and instead is stuck there, trying to scare it off, but has a much higher-than-usual pitched roar. This is the same monster who will willingly mount an '''Elder Dragon''' without hesitation.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Far from small, but it can tear apart the much bigger Radobaan with ease. In addition, the [[VideoGame/MegaManClassic "Rush of Blood"]] event quest features a FunSize Odogaron who hits just as hard as the full-sized specimen. This however, is deconstructed since not only does its smaller size mean it goes down quicker than the other apex monsters, the much bigger Deviljho can just manhandle it with ease.
* PowerUpFood: Odogaron can occasionally be seen carrying a lump of meat in its mouth. If the meat is eaten, it will gain a [[SerialEscalation second form of rage mode]], where it literally TurnRed with red markings appearing on it body and steam rising from its mouth as well.
* PurpleIsPowerful: The Ebony subspecies has a slight purple coloration and has a stronger array of attacks than the nominal species thanks to its Dragon-based breath attacks.
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: The Ebony version has black skin, blood-red eyes, a crimson aura, and is even more vicious than the regular species.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: The Ebony subspecies has these, and when you see it coming, you ''should'' take warning.
* RedIsViolent: Color: red. Attitude: bad.
* {{Samurai}}: Not the monster itself, but the male armor set clearly evokes Samurai-esque armor in design, complete with ''hakama'' style pants and ''menpo'' masks designed after Oni. Its set bonus even gives the Punishing Draw skill which enourages [[IaijutsuPractitioner Iaijutsu-like attacks]].
* SavageWolves: The most vicious non-Deviljho monster in the New World is an angry red lizard-wolf.
* SerratedBladeOfPain: A closer look, and its [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/76/f7/b4/76f7b4ca97a06e0812ed75b476875431.jpg concept art]] reveals that its larger claws are ribbed and have two rows of serrated teeth on the bottom going nearly to the tip.
* SinisterScythe: The completed dual blades are a pair of attached kama with chains.
* StandardStatusEffects: Its claws inflict Bleeding.
* SuperSpeed: Odogaron is scary fast, able to cross the entire Vale in moments.
* SuppressedRage: When it has food in its mouth, it won't attack immediately, but it won't hesitate in showing its displeasure at you if you get close.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: This trope was played straight in the vanilla version, but is now downplayed as all three monsters mentioned below would return in ''Iceborne'':
** Much like Tigrex, it's highly aggressive and will attack anything in sight to sate its hunger, going as far as to each drugged meat.
** The armor set is a {{Stripperiffic}} ninja-like set that provides similar critical damage bonuses, similar to the Nargacuga.
** While Tobi-Kadachi has the elemental aspect, Odogaron is very much closer to Zinogre in terms of threat level, and is also a nasty canine monster.
* TailSlap: Its tail is a mass of scales and bone ridges forming a mace it will gladly bludgeon you with.
* ThemeNaming: Four out of five weapons that have Odogaron upgrade trees culminate in rare level 8 weapons with one word titles that represent immorality or the consequences thereof: Sin, Vice, Odium and Karma.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Despite losing its turf war against Vaal Hazak, it has a chance of fighting back and putting the latter in a cycle of stun-locking if it doesn't flee. The same cannot be said if it runs into Deviljho more than once, however.
* TooDumbToLive: The only monster that may not leave when an [[TheDreaded Elder Dragon]] is present. It's also the only one to be [[FearlessFool foolish enough to challenge it.]] Sometimes even twice! Doubly so when it comes to Deviljho, and Jho isn't even an Elder Dragon!
* WolverineClaws: It has ''[[UpToEleven ten]]'' on [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill each foot.]]
* TheWorfEffect:
** Despite being an aggressive predator that [[CurbStompBattle curb-stomps]] many other monsters in its environment, it does not stand a chance in a Turf War against Vaal Hazak, an Elder Dragon that easily retaliates with its effluvium.
** It has even less of a chance against Deviljho; whereas other apex monsters at least try to fight back, Odogaron just gets manhandled and thrown around as if it was Great Jagras. Even the stronger Ebony subspecies can't put up a fight.
** {{Downplayed}} in ''Iceborne'' with Tigrex - while Tigrex is able to manhandle Odogaron just like Deviljho, the Fanged Wyvern puts up quite a fight, and even manages to break free from a pin to try and tear out Tigrex's throat.
** The Ebony Odogaron is introduced by slamming a regular Odogaron down into the earth with a bite to the throat.
* YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry: It is the most aggressive monster in the entire game, and if ticked off, it'll hound you until either you or it is dead. The only moment in which it's "docile" is if it has a meal in its mouth, and even then, it'll growl at you menacingly to make you keep your distance if you're too close.
* ZombiePukeAttack: Ebony Odogaron can spit chunks of meat charged with the Dragon element at the player as it jumps around. This gives it a way to counteract its rather significant elemental weaknesses.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Dodogama]]
!!Dodogama ''(Dodogamaru)''
!!!Rock Thief Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dodogama.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
A salamander-like Fanged Wyvern that uses its massive lower jaw to pull rocks out of the ground, which it uses as a food source and a method of fighting off predators. Its saliva is volatile, and when it mixes rocks with it, they will become explosive projectiles.
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* {{Acrofatic}}: Despite its portly appearance, Dodogama is surprisingly capable of quickly charging at hunters.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: It looks positively goofy and isn't very much of a threat compared to the other monsters in its habitat, but getting hit by its explosive spit ''hurts.''
** If Dodogama doesn't flee the fight, its explosive attacks can knock down and stunlock stronger monsters like Bazelgeuse and Raths.
* DishingOutDirt: It mainly attacks by spitting explosive molten rocks at enemies.
* EatDirtCheap: It eats rocks, and can coat them in volatile saliva to make them explosive.
* FangsAreEvil: Has a pair of protruding fangs on its bottom jaw. Subverted in that it's not evil, just aggressive once provoked.
* FatBastard: It's both portly and ill-tempered, at least once attacked either by a hunter or an Uragaan.
* GlassCannon: When Dodogama's mouth is full of rocks, its attacks will deal more damage, but its head and neck become considerably more vulnerable to damage, making it easier to take out. This is taken further when the rocks have completely dissolved, as the damage it gives and takes are considerably increased during this time.
* HavingABlast: The saliva-coated rocks it spits inflict Blastblight.
** Its weapons also have the ability to deal Blastblight, and its armor sets tend to favor a build that focuses on dealing it.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: If you attack Dodogama at the right time when it's got a mouthful of rocks, you can detonate the rocks, doing serious damage and briefly stunning the monster. It works with melee attacks, ranged attacks, or even a well-timed shot with a Bomb Pod, Torch Pod, or Crystalburst from your slinger.
* LanternJawOfJustice: It has a massive chin. Subverted in that it's not particularly just (it's an animal, after all).
* MagmaMan: Will spit molten rock at hunters once the rocks in its mouth completely dissolve. It doesn't deal Fire damage, however. Nope, it's [[StuffBlowingUp Blast.]]
* NonMaliciousMonster: It would rather sleep and eat rocks all day than fight, but it will defend itself when approached by a hunter, an Uragaan, or Rathalos.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: To the Berserk Tetsucabra, being a monster with a large bottom jaw that uses explosive rocks as weapons.
* WarmUpBoss: The easiest boss in the Elder's Recesss.
* TheWorfEffect: One of the many monsters Deviljho can use as a bludgeon. Also, [[Franchise/FinalFantasy Behemoth's]] intro shows it getting killed before tossed away like a ragdoll.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Wulg]]
!!Wulg
!!!Ice Jackal Wolf
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_wulg_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
Small, furry Fanged Wyverns who inhabit the Hoarfrost Reach. They are opportunistic predators and attack both hunters and large monsters alike when they get the chance.
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* HelpfulMook: Should a large monster be immobilized with a trap close to a Wulg pack, they'll start attacking it while it's disabled for some small damage. Notably, one of the Wulgs will jump on the monster's back and ride it as it does so.
* MixAndMatchCritters: They look like a cross between a wolf and a badger.[[note]]Many people thought they were fanged beasts before it was revealed in the demo that they drop Tough Claws, materials only dropped by small fanged wyverns.[[/note]] Their front feet are armed with long, raptor-like blue claws.
* PersonalSpaceInvader: Very fond of leaping on Hunters and coiling around them while they’re distracted.
[[/folder]]
!Relicts
[[folder:Leshen]]
!![[Franchise/TheWitcher Leshen]]
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_leshen.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Ancient Leshen]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_ancient_leshen.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'' ver. 6-, ''World: Iceborne''-]
A powerful and ancient forest spirit from a different universe. It is the source of the strange disturbances in the Ancient Forest.
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* AttackItsWeakPoint: Breaking its body parts will temporarily depower the Leshen and desummon its flock of Revoltures and pack of Jagras, providing a window of opportunity to attack.
* BattleAura: The Revoltures flocking about the Leshen's body functions akin to Teostra/Lunastra's flame aura or Val Hazaak's effluvia, doing constant tick damage that can really chip away at a Hunter's health if they're not careful. When enough Revoltures accumulate, the Leshen begins to pull out some really dangerous attacks. Breaking a body part or setting it alight will temporarily scatter the birds and render the Leshen helpless for the most part.
* BarrierChangeBoss: Will occasionally create cover using walls of roots that are immune to physical attacks, then snipe at Geralt from long range. Geralt must either wait for the walls to collapse on their own, get around them, or use Igni to burn them down.
* BerserkButton: Destroying its totem will anger it enough to drive it out of hiding to deal with the culprit personally.
* BlindedByTheLight: Flash Pods are guaranteed to stop an Ancient Leshen and its Jagras flunkies in their tracks. The wood spirit recovers very quickly, but this tactic is ''always'' effective against it.
* BotanicalAbomination: A tree monstrosity that sticks out like a sore thumb in both ''Monster Hunter'' and ''The Witcher''.
* BossArenaIdiocy: The Ancient Leshen and its pack of Jagras will always be standing beneath some hanging boulders in the beginning of the hunt. It is considered imperative to drop these rocks on the Leshen before it teleports away to significantly expedite the first stage.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Immune to Traps, Water element and Sleep Status Ailment.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Ancient Leshen sports an absolutely titanic '''67,500HP''', eclipsing even Extreme Behemoth and Fatalis in solo play, though it does not scale up in multiplayer like every other monster does. Even with four endgame Hunters, expect this fight to [[MarathonBoss take a while]].
* DeathByAThousandCuts: None of its attacks hit particularly hard, but between its flock of Revoltures, its bleeding-inducing claws, the pack of Jagras hounding you, and its root attacks, your health will almost constantly be draining with little room to heal. Luckily for Geralt, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal witchers have incredible recovery.]] Averted with Ancient Leshen, which hits like a ton of bricks & has several move that can even [[OneHitKill oneshot]] unwary Hunters on top of the constant damage ticks.
* TheDreaded: The Leshen's ability to manipulate smaller monsters and use the jungle as its weapon makes it treated as an Elder Dragon-level monster.
* FieldPowerEffect: The Leshen is actually even more dangerous in the ''Monster Hunter'' universe than it is in its homeworld, thanks to the Ancient Forest being such a vast wealth of energy and foliage.
* FlunkyBoss:
** The Leshen is protected by a flock of Revoltures that will attack Geralt at close range. It will also summon a pack of Jagras for assistance in later phases of the fight.
** Ancient Leshen spawns ''with'' a pack of Jagras, and when it summons more later on, it can point at a random hunter to 'mark' them and make all the Jagras target that hunter.
* {{Foil}}:
** To Behemoth, the other [[GuestFighter Guest Monster]]. The Behemoth is close enough to the Commission's usual fare that they feel comfortable shoehorning into the "Elder Dragon" classification, while the Leshen has a unique classification. Also, while Behemoth isn't considered an abomination back in ''Final Fantasy XIV'' just so much as it is TheDreaded, the Leshen is very much one back in ''The Witcher''.
** To virtually every other monster in the entire series. The beasts of ''Monster Hunter'', even the enigmatic Elder Dragons, can at least be expected to make full use of their intelligence and physiology, whether that means flexing their powerful muscles, swinging their tails, belching fire and thunder, calling its pack for backup, navigating the environment, and etc. In other words, the monsters are effective combatants thanks to a combination of tactics and individual prowess. Even the series' [[FlunkyBoss Flunky Bosses]] can be reasonably dangerous by themselves. Meanwhile, the Leshen is an otherwise slow and mediocre fighter, so it prefers to enthrall the flora and fauna to do most of the work while it teleports around.
* FourIsDeath: Just like Behemoth and Kulve Taroth, its fight is divided into four stages. The final stage is noted by many players to be the most dangerous because that's when the Leshen decides to jack the difficulty up to near-unreasonable levels.
* GetBackHereBoss: The Leshen's slow movement speed at both attacking and moving means it doesn't present a great threat at close range, but it can cover this weakness by rapidly teleporting around the arena and using long-range attacks.
* GreenThumb: Its main form of offense, Leshen can summon giant roots to attack or to act as barriers. They're strong enough to restrain and strangle a Pukei-Pukei to death or simply launch Geralt into the air.
* GuestFighter: The second monster that hails from a different series, after Behemoth.
* HairTriggerTemper: Highly territorial, it will deal with any intruders in its territory violently, as several Pukei-Pukei and the Chief Botanist find out the hard way.
* HumanoidAbomination: Already one of these in its home series, it's even moreso here--it's the first humanoid large monster since King Shakalaka, and its powers, behavior, and appearance are out-of-place in the ''Monster Hunter'' universe.
* ItCanThink: It is smart enough to cover for its slow movement speed by teleporting around, denying Geralt opportunities to attack and sniping at him from a distance away. As the fight progresses, it will summon a pack of Jagras to both attack and distract Geralt as it uses its slower, but more powerful attacks. The Ancient Leshen, being an older and stronger specimen, is even smarter to the point of marking a specific Hunter, unleashing the pack of Jagras it summoned to hound the Hunter down while it also aim for that particular Hunter with several powerful attacks, including its root pin attack. Without the support of other Hunters, that Hunter is as good as dead and one step closer to the Quest falling.
* {{Knockback}}: The key to winning a fight against both variants of Leshen is taking advantage of a hunter's standard-issue slinger; the Leshen is ''incredibly'' susceptible to flinching from virtually all types of slinger ammo, though the best results come from lobbing Dragon Pods, Flash Pods, and Bomb Pods at it. A well-timed shot can stagger the Leshen out of whatever it's doing and provide an opening for attack.
* {{Leitmotif}}:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5qyrFTJ9WA "The Trail"]], from ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt'', plays during its fight.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuEKUtxhP08 "The Hunt Begins"]], from the same game, plays during the fight against the Ancient Leshen.
* LimitBreak: In the latter half of the fight, the Ancient Leshen begins to accumulate Revoltures before releasing them into a massive swarm, similar to Teostra's supernova. The birds do enough damage to drop the health of a Vitality 3 hunter down to nil, scatter towards every hunter in the vicinity, and have ''homing'' capabilities on top of that. Either superman dive or fire a Flash Pod at it if you don't want a TotalPartyKill.
* LongRangeFighter: The Leshen prefers to fight at a distance, summoning a flock of Revoltures or giant roots to attack. Should Geralt get close enough for melee attacks, it can swipe at him with its claws but it prefers to just teleport away to attack again from a distance.
* MarathonBoss: At the final stage, the battle becomes less of a hunt and more of a grueling endurance test where you have to deal with the Ancient Leshen's now-perpetual TeleportSpam and hyper-aggressive attacks. Players risk depleting their supplies and making small mistakes that snowball into whole cock-up cascades as the clock keeps ticking.
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Rather than quickly kill Geralt, it opts to slowly whittle down his health with the revoltures as a means to goad him to charging, then countering by throwing out a powerful hit with roots.
* MightyGlacier: The Leshen moves and attacks very slowly, but it is durable and its attacks will hurt if they connect.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Not that the Leshen is considered weak back in its homeworld, but it was enough of a threat that it escalated to being an upper-tier Elder Dragon hunt in the same vein as Gogmazios and Athal-Ka. Geralt notes that the massive amounts of life and nutrients in the ancient forest have made it much stronger than it would normally be back in his world.
* NoSell: It's immune to the Water element and to Sleep. And while it's not an Elder Dragon, it's completely immune to traps, meaning it can't be captured.
* OneHitKill: The Ancient Leshen have two of these attacks. First is the root pin atttack, where it attempt to ensnare a careless hunter within a tangle of roots. The victim is completely helpless and unable to free themselves if caught, which means they must rely on their partners to either stun the monster or burn the roots to free them. If they don't, then the Leshen is free to sic a flock of Revoltures on the hunter, rapidly chipping their health down before creating a vine explosion to finish them off. Second is the bird explosion that it only uses in the last two phases. The Leshen takes a moment to gather a massive flock of Revoltures to its body before unleashing them in a massive explosion that scatters them away toward the Hunters. It can easily one shot a Hunter with Vitality 3 on and it cannot be guarded, even with the Guard Up skill, and can easily result in a TotalPartyKill, falling the Quest instantly.
* OutsideContextProblem: It's a supernatural entity that hails from a different franchise. This is why the Research Commission decides to let Geralt handle the task on his lonesome while they make sure to provide all the support he needs.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: Far smaller than most monsters its threat level, but dangerous enough that the Commission hires Geralt to deal with it.
* {{Sadist}}: It is very defensive of its territory--not too out-of-place in a series about fantasy animal ecology--but instead of simply chasing off intruders, it subjects them to rather cruel deaths. It causes Revoltures to chase the local Aptonoth until they collapse from exhaustion and blood loss, and it uses roots to strangle several Pukei-Pukei to death.
* StrongerWithAge: The Ancient Leshen, as its name implies, is an older and more powerful variant of the creature. It hits harder than an ordinary Leshen and has more attacks at its disposal while being much more resistant to Igni.
* TeleportSpam: Leshen is fond of warping all over the place.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: Ancient Leshen only appears in an Event Quest, so it sporadically disappears from the questboard for weeks at a time.
* TookALevelInBadass: As mentioned above, Geralt notes that the Leshen has gained a massive boost in power by drawing on the life and nutrients of the Ancient Forest.
* TurnRed: Once it reaches the final phase, the Leshen will power up with a distinct roar animation and is surrounded by a massive flock of Revoltures around its body, with Geralt even noting that it's angry now. The Leshen now attack much faster and more aggressively while teleporting constantly, chaining right into an attack as soon as it teleport in and instead of teleporting away to attack, it will sometimes teleport right in front or back of Geralt to hit him with a double claw attack that is guaranteed to inflict Bleeding. The Ancient Leshen will also power up for its final phase, which is considered by many to be the hardest phase since it will now teleport almost constantly, attacking with attacks that have massive range as soon as it reappears, all while the Hunters is hounded by massive numbers of Jagras that do considerable damage while also staggering Hunters. To top it off, it will unleash its powerful bird explosion attack much more often which can easily lead to the Quest falling if the Hunters are distracted and unable to stop or dodge the attack.
* WeakToFire: The Igni sign will remove the roots Leshen creates and set it on fire for a short while which staggers it for a moment. Repeated casting of Igni will eventually weaken the Leshen enough for it to lose its balance and dispel its flock of Revoltures. In the case of the Ancient Leshen however, staggering and weakening it with Igni will require multiple castings.
* WhenTreesAttack: It's a wood spirit that summons vines to ensnare and choke out hapless victims.
* WrongContextMagic: Just like its [[GuestFighter fellow invader Behemoth]], one of the Leshen's distinguishing qualities is its downright supernatural nature. It bewitches the local wildlife into serving as its attack dogs, and its ability to invoke tree roots with explosive force has the Chief Botanist calling foul.
[[/folder]]
!Elder Dragons
[[folder:Nergigante]]
!!Nergigante [-(variant: Ruiner Nergigante)-]
!!!Extinction Dragon
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[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Ruiner Nergigante]]\\
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->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Ruiner Variant:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
An Elder Dragon and the flagship monster of ''World''. It is notable for its massive horns and the many spikes that line its body, which will multiply with its injuries and give it a power boost if they are allowed to harden. The player first encounters this monster during a mission to capture Zorah Magdaros, and more senior members of the expedition reveal that Nergigante has been sighted before, but only during the Elder Crossing.\\
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''Iceborne'' introduces a battle-hardened variant called Ruiner Nergigante, armed with even tougher metallic spikes in addition to the ones found on the nominate species. It becomes a pivotal character in the closing chapters of the expansion's main storyline as well as the start of the endgame content.
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* AchillesHeel: If Nergigante's white spikes are allowed to harden, it will gain a boost in attack power and hits much harder. However, this strength is also a weakness. Attacking and breaking the white spikes before they harden has a chance to stagger and knock down Nergigante and leave it exposed for Hunters to deal considerable damage to it or to break its other white spikes before they harden. Not the case with [[spoiler:Ruiner]] Nergigante, though, as its spikes cannot be broken like base Nergigante's and can only be destroyed via parts break.
* AlwaysABiggerFish: It shows up when you're trying to capture Zorah Magdaros, and it's considered a more active threat. Hilarious in that Zorah is actually [[{{Kaiju}} a great deal larger]].
* AnAxToGrind: Switch axes and charge blades notwithstanding, several weapons made from Nergigante parts take the form of some kind of axe.
* AnimalMotifs: Porcupines. Much like the real life animal with its quills, Nergigante thorns grow back, and its the main part of it physically.
* AntiMagic: Weapons made from Nergigante parts have very high Elderseal values, allowing them to seal off an Elder Dragon's more dangerous abilities for a time. A very useful power to have when your diet primarily consists of Elder Dragons.
* AttackAttackAttack: Because Nergigante's wounds heal over time in a way that makes it more dangerous, Hunters are encouraged to be aggressive in attacking to break its white spikes before they harden to create an opening and to continue hammering at it in a DPS race to take it out before it take out the Hunters.
* BackgroundMusicOverride: If Nergigante invades a hunt, expect its theme to override whichever other Elder Dragon you were fighting.
%%Do not add BadassNormal as an example, please.
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: When [[spoiler:Shara Ishvalda]] gets up after seemingly being slain, [[spoiler:Ruiner Nergigante]] flies in to finish the job, finally allowing [[spoiler:the "Eater of Elders"]] to live up to its title [[spoiler:and kill another Elder Dragon.]]
** [[spoiler: It's also discussed in the ending cutscene that the Nergigante may be a balancing force in the ecosystem, killing off Elder Dragons that cause too much damage.]]
** [[spoiler: As the Hunter and Handler travel to Guiding Lands for the first time, it comes in to save them from Bazelgeuse.]]
* BarbarianHero: Female Nergigante armor is quite revealing, but the hunter herself would look more at home in a Conan-inspired story rather than at a club.
* TheBerserker: Is so ferocious in attacking that it can actually break its own body parts when attacking. This is not a good thing, though, since its HealingFactor means [[FromBadToWorse it has the potential to become stronger.]] The Ruiner variant is strong enough to force good ol' Savage Jho to lift it up with is jaw just to put up a fight.
* BlackKnight: Nergigante fits many of the trope's characteristics even as a monster. It's a violent Elder Dragon clad in spikes that eventually become jet-black, and it's known to be a [[TheDreaded fearsome]] [[HunterOfTheirOwnKind Elder Dragon hunter]]. It shows up out of nowhere to prey on Zorah Magdaros, thwarting the Commission's efforts to stop Zorah, and its reason for doing so is not made clear until the Commission investigates the exodus of additional Elder Dragons, deducing that whatever phenomenon is attracting Elder Dragons to Elder's Recess makes for a great buffet in Nergigante's eyes. Even the armor crafted from its parts completely covers a male hunter in black armor.
* ChainmailBikini: Base female Nergigante armor instead does this, giving female Kirin armor a run for its money in this department.
* ChekhovsGunman: In both the base game and ''Iceborne'', Nergigante spines are discovered and speculated on early in the story. There are a few other signs throughout, and a few proper appearances in the base game. Eventually their nature is finally revealed in High Rank (base game) or at the end of the story (''Iceborne'').
* CurbstompCushion: Bests Teostra, Lunastra, and Kushala Daora in turf wars, but receives some damage itself in the process. Its Ruiner variant ties with Savage Deviljho, with both slamming each other to the ground and dealing roughly the same damage. It also ties with Rajang, though it's made clear that Rajang has to fully power itself up just to score a spectacular {{shoryuken}} on Ruiner Nergigante, only for the latter to [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom unceremoniously slap Rajang aside]] and instantly bring it out of its powered mode.
* DarkIsEvil: Has a shade of black, and is very aggressive. In gameplay, if the thorns are black and massive, '''time to run'''.
* DarkIsNotEvil: The gamma armor is visually the alpha variant with the horns and spikes in full black, similar to the Elder Dragon when it reaches its limit. ''Iceborne'' reveals that despite its penchant for destruction, Nergigante isn't really evil and more about maintaining balance in the ecosystem seeing as [[spoiler:Ruiner]] Nergigante hunted down [[spoiler:Shara Ishvalda]] due to the threat the latter poses to everything in general.
* DeathFromAbove: Its most powerful attack: when Nergigante is sufficiently covered in black spikes, it will take to the air and recklessly smash its body into the ground hard enough to break off all those spikes [[spoiler:except for the Ruiner variant's spikes]]. Needless to say, being hit by such large, heavy, ''sharp'' objects moving at speed is an [[OneHitKill instant kill]] to most Hunters.
* DesperationAttack: When low on health, Nergigante will start using its airborne divebombs as part of its regular attacks (which turns its headbutt into a OneHitKill if it has black spikes), spray spikes much more often, and intentionally plow through the walls of its nest to wound its entire body and start growing spikes everywhere at once.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: Normally the Cthulhu in question, its Turf War with Rajang involves it bitch-slapping the Fanged Beast into a wall and depowering it; Rajang is known to take on several ''other'' species of Elder Dragons in a Turf War and ''win.''
* DragonsAreDemonic: It has a dark hide, an aggressive disposition, and looks literally like a demon.
* TheDreaded: Everyone's immediate reaction is an "Oh Shit!" look once it invades the first Zorah Magdaros mission. In the assigned quest to slay him, there is a scene where Gajalakas are swarming out of a cave in the opposite direction to escape his ire. After it is slain for the first time, three more Elder Dragons can be unlocked specifically because his presence forced them into hiding.
* EarlyBirdBoss: Nergigante's quest becomes available after a brief expedition following the Pink Rathian special investigation, but taking it on at that point is unreasonably difficult. Fortunately, the newly-opened Elder's Recess contains many of the checkpoint materials needed to make better weapons and armor to level the field.
* EvilSoundsDeep: Has a very low and throaty roar. Ruiner's roar is even deeper and more menacing.
* FakingTheDead: During the climax of ''Iceborne''[='=]s assigned questline, you travel to Origin Isle in order to find the true source of the disturbance in the ecosystem, only to find a Ruiner Nergigante who immediately attacks you. [[spoiler:You seemingly get to slay it, but Shara Ishvalda soon shows up, burying Nergigante's motionless body beneath the rubble and engaging you as the expansion's FinalBoss. Once Shara is defeated, it tries to get back up to fight the Commission once more, but then Ruiner Nergigante emerges from the rubble alive and well, and proceeds to kill Shara Ishvalda for good. What's more impressive is that the game actually fools you into thinking you slayed Ruiner Nergigante before the fight with Shara, victory fanfare and ability to carve the corpse included; the only real clue that lets you know that Nergigante isn't truly dead is that your carves do not net actual Nergigante parts.]]
* FightsLikeANormal: Is capable of fighting other Elder Dragons like Teostra, Lunastra, and Kushala Daora and winning through brute strength despite not having any obvious elemental abilities. Nergigante’s fighting style against other monsters is reminiscent of [[ShownTheirWork real-world predators]]; it grapples its prey, bullies it to the ground with superior strength, and [[NoNonsenseNemesis immediately goes for the killing blow.]]
* FinalBossPreview: It’s not the final boss, but he does show up during both of Zorah Magdaros' missions, ''much'' earlier than when you meet it in a straight fight. [[spoiler: Ruiner Nergigante shows up just before Shara, but its not treated as slain once defeated.]]
* {{Foil}}: To fellow invader Deviljho; Deviljho is a Brute Wyvern with Elder Dragon traits, such as Dragon Damage, while Nergigante is an Elder Dragon that fights more like an non-elemental Brute Wyvern/Flying Wyvern. Coincidentally, they share the same elemental weakness to Dragon and Thunder. That said, they differ in the effect they have on nature. While Deviljho is considered to be a living environmental hazard that threatens to wipe out most if not all animals in an ecosystem, Nergigante serves as more of a force of balance, hunting down and killing Elder Dragons that are causing excessive destruction in the natural world.
* ForceAndFinesse: The force to Velkhana's finesse when it comes to their weapon lines. Velkhana weapons look elegant and sleek, even normally crude weapons like the Great Sword and Hammer. While their base damage is lower than Nergigante's, all of its weapons have access to purple sharpness, even in their penultimate R11 forms. Nergigante weapons on the other hand look as unsubtle and brutal as the elder dragon itself, with high base damage but limited to blue sharpness for its R8 weapons and white for its R12 weapons.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Although considered an invader monster in the same vein as Seregios, Nergigante does not invade maps in gameplay, only doing so in certain event quests. Averted as of ''Iceborne'' with the Ruiner variant showing up in other maps and can get in turf wars against Deviljho and Rajang, the other invasive monsters.
* GlassCannon: Nergigante can be slain faster than most other Elder Dragons, but it can triple cart you just as easily. For reference, Nergigante has the second lowest health pool of all the Elder Dragons, only Kirin has less. Ruiner Nergigante slightly closes the gap by about 4,000 HP less than the average Elder Dragon (which isn't that much of a difference in Master Rank, unlike High Rank), but it's still prone to stunning and starving, making it full of openings that other Elder Dragons don't readily offer.
* GradualGrinder: Ruiner Nergigante is this, at least in comparison to its nominant species. While the regular Nergigante opts to beat its enemies to death using powerful attacks, with its Divebomb in particular serving as a OneHitKill, the Ruiner variant prefers to inflict the hunters with the Bleed effect, killing them as they move or forcing them to stand still long enough for the dragon to beat them up some more.
* HarderThanHard: Arch-Tempered Nergigante is this. Take the fact that the normal and tempered versions are already fast and hits hard. Arch-Tempered Nergigante takes it to new extremes by having almost ''four times'' the health of the normal version and does ''eight times the damage''.
* HealingFactor: Is able to grow soft, white spikes on fresh wounds, and if given enough time to heal, the spikes will harden to black and Nergigante will gain a boost in attack power. It however, can't regenerate its horns and tail if they are broken and chopped off respectively.
* HitboxDissonance: Some of its attacks, such as its [[DeathFromAbove spike-breaking dive]], have deceptively large hitboxes because they include any shrapnel created by the attack.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: When it retreats to his nest, it can make the stalactites on the ceiling fall on you. However, these can damage and possibly kill it as well.
* HunterOfHisOwnKind: Its favorite prey is ''other Elder Dragons''. Finally seen in ''Iceborne'' where [[spoiler:Ruiner]] Nergigante [[spoiler:kills Shara Ishvalda by ripping its throat out then slamming its head on the ground]].
* ImmuneToFlinching: Whereas most monsters flinch upon being hit with certain slinger ammo - Slinger Bomb, Piercing Pod, etc - Ruiner Nergigante does not.
* ImplacableMan: [[spoiler:Ruiner]] Nergigante. After being beaten to the point it was presumed dead, dragged off a cliff [[spoiler:by Shara Ishvalda]] and buried under solid rock, it bursts out with still enough stamina to kill [[spoiler:Ishvalda, which had similarly just recovered from seeming death. However, it opts to leave after landing the killing strike, rather than try to get in a rematch with the hunters]].
* InASingleBound: Don't think Nergigante lacking a ranged attack means you are safe at a distance. It can close the distance surprisingly quick with its jumping claw smash attack.
* IncreasinglyLethalEnemy: As Nergigante's spikes harden, its attack power increases, and so do the chances of it taking out a Hunter with a single powerful attack.
* ItCanThink: The ending ''Iceborne'' shows that Nergigante is intelligent enough to form what appear to be ''rudimentary plans''. [[spoiler:Its main target at the end of the game is Shara Ishvalda, as it is the elder dragon causing chaos across the New World with its song. Nergigante even arrives at its den before the Fifth Fleet, but is unable to do anything with Ishvalda not only covered in its rock armor, but able to stay underground at its leisure. So it puts on a show of fighting the newly-arrived Sapphire Star, then plays dead to trick Ishvalda out of hiding - despite it's body presumably being ''carved'', then later being buried under a ton of rocks - and let's the Sapphire Star not only deal with his prey's armor, but allow it to exhaust itself fighting the Sapphire Star. Nearly the exact moment after the heavily-wounded-but-alive Ishvalda starts getting back up, Nergigante bursts from the rubble before tackling its vulnerable prey to the ground, ripping out it's throat, and ending the crisis in one fell swoop. Moreover, it stares down the Research Commission for a moment before choosing to fly off, knowing it wouldn't be smart to take on a dozen of these foes alone, period.]]
* JackOfAllTrades: Nergigante itself is a LightningBruiser, but its weapons, besides a high raw value and high Elderseal, don't particularly stand out. While they don't have the highest rank sharpness and cannot obtain it due to the sharpness meter being full, it instead has a very healthy amount of blue sharpness (or white in Master Rank), so-so elemental damage, and no negative affinity penalties.
* KaizoTrap: When most monsters retreat to their nest, finishing the hunt is mostly a formality. Nergigante gains several new tricks that put its potential damage through to roof.
* KillSteal: [[spoiler: Ruiner Nergigante kills Shara Ishvalda just as the player prepares to fight it after it [[NotQuiteDead gets back up from its initial defeat]]]].
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: Nergigante as a species is very good at threat assessment, and on multiple occasions is shown choosing the better part of valor when faced with something above its pay grade.
** In one of the Lunastra special assignments, a Nergigante trails Teostra to the special arena and attacks him for an easy meal. However, Lunastra [[BigDamnHeroes swoops in]] [[ViolentlyProtectiveGirlfriend to save her mate]]. Even Nergigante can’t face ''[[BattleCouple two]]'' Elder Dragons simultaneously, and it flees rather than fight a one-sided battle.
** Similarly, after [[spoiler: Ruiner finishes off Shara Ishvalda, it stares down the Commission before taking off into the sky; it [[ItCanThink knows]] the Sapphire Star is not to be lightly trifled with if they can grievously wound the Elder Dragon Ruiner could not slay on its own, and moreover has ''friends'' now. Better to retreat than continue a battle you’ve already won.]]
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhEgBvdM_Ew "Even Elder Dragons Tremble"]], which runs at a fever pitch and relentlessly bombards you with oppressive trumpets. Nergigante's appearances in cutcenes are notably always accompanied by a bombastic brass strike that's quickly followed by five more notes. The Arch-Tempered version has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHHwwhpsvus "World's End"]], which has a more triumphant tone to it and is reused when [[spoiler:Ruiner Nergigante emerges from the rubble to kill Shara Ishvalda]].
* LightningBruiser: For a creature its size, it's deceptively fast, and it hits like a freight train. It gets much worse with Arch-Tempered Nergigante who has the highest health pool out of all the Arch-Tempered Elder Dragons outside of Zorah Magdaros on top of being exceptionally powerful.
* LimitBreak: Its divebomb attack functions as one. It's powerful enough to potentially cart a hunter with a direct hit, but can only be used when most of its body has hardened spikes, and shatters all those spikes on use.
* {{Mascot}}: Of ''World''. Appropriately enough, it's the last Elder Dragon to receive its Arch-Tempered quest which comes with numerous changes compared to the previous AT quests. both on the Elder Dragon and the quest itself.
* MeaningfulName: Its name appears to be a combination of "Nergal", a [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Mesopotamian god of war and death]] [[HijackedByJesus better known today as a demon]], and "''gigante''", "giant" in Latin and some Romance languages.
** Its name, when rearranged, spells out regen giant. Given its HealingFactor and size when compared to the playable hunters this name works incredibly well.
** In [[BilingualBonus Italian and other Latin languages]], his name could also be read as a portmanteau of Nero, meaning black, and Gigante, meaning giant. Thus: Black Giant. Makes sense, considering its main color scheme is purple and black.
* MsFanservice: Not the monster itself, but the female armor set leaves very little to the imagination. Averted for the Ruiner armor, which covers more.
* NoBiologicalSex: While most monsters aren't designated as a male or a female because there's little difference between the two sexes in the species, Nergigante is a special case; it lacks genitals (and therefore a sex) ''whatsoever''. This is because it reproduces mitotically, through special spikes that it implants in the corpses of its quarry, which absorb its bioenergy and then eventually grow into a genetically identical Nergigante specimen.
* NonElemental: Nergigante is an oddity among Elder Dragons in that it uses no elemental attacks whatsoever, instead using brute force to pummel its foes into submission. The Monster Field Guide does provide it a three-star weakness to Thunder and a two-star one to Dragon, but the elemental hitzone values are so terrible that it's better to simply attack Nergigante with raw-focused weapons.
* NoNonsenseNemesis: Like [[ShownTheirWork real-world predators]], Nergigante isn’t flashy when it hunts. It gets its prey into a killing blow position as quickly as it possibly can, and immediately goes for the throat when it’s vulnerable. It becomes a literal example of "going for the throat" in ''Iceborne'' due to [[spoiler:how its Ruiner variant ends up killing Shara Ishvalda]].
* NoSell: Once its spikes are hardened, melee attacks against them are deflected and only Mind's Eye skill and similar attacks can hit them without deflecting.
* NotSoDifferent: Nergigante's ecological niche is hunting down and killing other powerful Elder Dragons due to the threat they pose to the ecosystem, not unlike how you and other hunters are hunting down and killing powerful monsters due to the threat ''they'' pose to the ecosystem due to overpopulation.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: A bog-standard European dragon, with its main divergent characteristics being its outlandishly oversized horns, its spiked wings and its lack of a BreathWeapon.
* PunchedAcrossTheRoom: Ruiner Nergigante inflicts this against ''Rajang'' of all monsters.
* PurpleIsPowerful: Most of Nergigante's body is of a dark purple hue, and it is as powerful as you could expect an Elder Dragon to be.
* RecurringElement:
** Much like Lagiacrus in ''Tri'', it was misblamed for a much bigger event caused by a stronger being.
** And much like Seregios in ''4U'', its first scene is invading a map and causing you to fail to capture another monster. Fittingly, it's also an invader type monster, though Nergigante does not actually invade a map. With Ruiner Nergigante being able to cause the bleed status, its comparison to Seregios is much more obvious.
* RedBaron: It's called "The Eater of Elders" by some of the Research Commission members as well as certain quests. The Ruiner Variant from ''Iceborne'' has another two more titles: ''[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast King of the Monsters]]'' and ''[[TheDreaded World Destroying Extinction Dragon]]''.
* RoarBeforeBeating: Nergigante will stand on its hind legs and let off a powerful roar before taking to the sky to perform its spikes breaking dive bomb attack. This is also the reason why its dive bomb is ThatOneAttack, most Hunters that didn't invest in Earplugs skill or is guarding against the roar is stuck in place and unable to dodge the incoming dive bomb.
* SignatureAttack: The Divebomb, an infamous example of ThatOneAttack.
* SlasherSmile: Its jaws and teeth are configured in a way that make it look like it's ''always'' smiling maliciously at you.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Absolutely covered in bristling spikes, most prominently on its wings, and it's defined by its ridiculously ''gigantic'' devil-horns. Becomes even more impressive as its spikes harden, as they increase in size and make Nergigante considerably deadlier to fight. Make armor out of it, and you and your palico will get this look too.
* SpikeShooter: Once it begins to grows white spikes on its body parts, most of its attacks gains the ability to launch spikes at a distance. Once the spikes hardens, they becomes much stronger and hits much harder. This is much more prominent with the Ruiner variant, who throws spikes much more often which inflict the Bleed status effect. It also has ''way more of them.''
* StatusBuff: Nergigante gets a temporary buff to its speed whenever it roars, and the boosts are potentially capable of stacking.
* TakesOneToKillOne: It's a natural predator of other Elder Dragons. On the other hand, its AchillesHeel is Dragon element weapons just like them, and it's even affected by Elderseal (which delays its spikes from hardening), meaning weapons made from Nergigante parts are ideal for hunting it.
* TamerAndChaster: Ruiner Nergigante armor covers more skin than its nominate version did.
* TookALevelInBadass: Very much so considering how easy it can be taken down despite its mascot status. Arch-Tempered Nergigante has ''3.7 times'' the health of the normal variant, its spikes are now harder to break, it can perform a short-ranged dive bomb in ''one second'' and it can even spam it, and another Arch-Tempered Elder Dragon comes in [[{{Jobber}} only to job to it and leave]]. Even its battle theme gets a dose of this trope, to compliment all of the changes. Likewise, Ruinter Nergigante has various ranged attacks in the form of spikes that cause bleeding.
* TurnsRed: Once it gets near death, Nergigante will enter a unique rage mode which is signified by the camera panning out, Nergigante spreading its wings, and unleashing a mighty roar. Nergigante now attack much more recklessly, breaking its own body parts with every attacks to grow spikes of its own volition and use its dive-bomb much more consistently, with the spikes growing back much faster if they are broken.
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[[folder:Zorah Magdaros]]
!!Zorah Magdaros
!!!Scorching Mountain Dragon
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->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
A massive Elder Dragon with a rocky hide and an active volcano on its back. Zorah Magdaros is migrating to the New World in a mysterious phenomenon that occurs every ten years known as the Elder Crossing. This is the first monster the player encounters in the New World when its advance accidentally capsizes part of the Fifth Fleet, and studying the Elder Crossing and Zorah in particular remain key driving forces of ''World''[='s=] Low Rank storyline.
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* AdvancingBossOfDoom: Like Lao-Shan Lung before it, Zorah does little except slowly walk toward the barrier, and it’s going to ''keep'' walking there until either you repel it or (if it’s [[TookALevelInBadass Arch Zorah]]) it walks ''through'' the barrier.
* AnimalMotifs: A turtle. Moves very slowly, but very few things can actually hurt it. Its mouth and front legs resemble an alligator snapping turtle's, and the mountain-like shell on its back covers its head when it goes down to walk on all four legs.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Its "shell" has magma cores which are weak spots that can be attacked to damage it.
* ChargedAttack: During the barrier defense phase, Zorah can charge a breath attack which can take off half of the barrier's health in one hit. The ballista binder shot or Dragonator can interrupt the charge while destroying all of Zorah's magma cores prevents the ability being used at all.
* ColossusClimb: The Player Hunter and the Handler are seen running on and climbing on its body during the opening tutorial of the game. In the quest to capture it, the Player Hunter and other Hunters are sent to climb on its body to damage and weaken it further for capture.
* CrutchCharacter: One of the armor sets you can start off with in High Rank can be farmed off this monster. It's actually quite good and can carry you to the Elder's Recess in the story with a high Fire resistance.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: The second battle against him is treated with an enormous sense of finality. The stakes are high, all life in the New World is held in the balance, the hunters throw everything they have at the beast, and when it's all done, everyone thinks it's only a matter of time before they get recalled back to the Old World. Then new problems arise and the game keeps going.
* GameplayAndStorySegregation: Had ''World'' used the old threat rating from ''Generations'', Zorah would likely have been an 8-star monster, but it's the first Elder Dragon you face. [[note]]In ''Generations'' and before, there was a star rating to gauge how dangerous a monster was. 6 stars was when it was recognized as an elder dragon-level threat, with 5 and under being normal monsters. 8 was the maximum and a clear signal of just how dangerous it is, as monsters like Narkarkos, Ahtal-Ka, and Alatreon were much stronger than the likes of Rajang, Teostra, and Akantor[[/note]] Ultimately justified in that you actually don't really fight it but rather on it, and that you're not so much as to kill but to capture/redirect it.
* GiantCorpseWorld: ''Iceborne'' introduces an endgame area called the Guiding Lands, and it's heavily implied that the entire island is formed from the corpse of a Zorah Magdaros, as explained in PosthumousCharacter below.
* GodzillaThreshold: Once Zorah Magdaros true purpose is known, the Research Commission is forced to throw everything at it in the second battle to repel it for good; cannons, ballistae, stalactites and the powerful Dragonator.
* HavingABlast: Weapons made from Zorah Magdaros parts deal Blast damage.
* HoldTheLine: 2 barriers are built to slow Zorah Magdaros down while Hunters are damaging it to weaken it enough for capture, with the first barrier using cannons and ballistae and then restraining it with binders, and Hunters climbing on its back for the second barrier and another try with the binders. [[spoiler: It works, but the sudden appearance of Nergigante ruined the capture attempt.]] The second battle with Zorah Magdaros is reversed, with the player Hunters going on Zorah's back first to weaken it and [[spoiler: repel Nergigante]], before flying back to the only wall to both defend the barrier and repel Zorah Magdaros.
%%* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ_xVAzI3Ds "Beast with Fire Upon Its Back"]].
* KillItWithWater: Its main weakness is Water.
* LevelInBossClothing: Justified due to its massive size, but you're mostly on the monster rather than in front of it during the "destroy the magma core" process.
* MagmaMan: It's essentially a walking volcano.
* MightyGlacier: Befitting its gigantic size, Zorah Magdaros move at a snail's pace, but can smash through obstacles with ease, and has massive amounts of health.
* MonsterClown: The Palico armor made from Zorah resembles a jester.
* NothingIsScarier: Its Info in the ingame handbook is just "RESEARCHING" during the first half.
* NonMaliciousMonster: It doesn't intentionally harm anyone over the course of the game, and it isn't interested in destroying anything at all. It just wants to find a place to die peacefully.
* NonStandardGameOver: Just like with Jhen Moran and The Lao-Shan-Lung, Zorah’s attack’s [[RealityEnsues damage the wall you fight it from]], and if the wall is destroyed, the quest is failed. [[AntiFrustrationFeatures This time, though, you can actually see the wall’s health.]]
* NotZilla: It has the size and stance of the classic {{Kaiju}}.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: Zorah Magdaros came to the New World [[spoiler:to die]], like the other Elder Dragons. But because it is so massive, [[spoiler:the sheer amount of bioenergy it'll release upon death would have cataclysmic consequences if it dies in the wrong place]]. The final confrontation during the story involves forcing Zorah to divert from its path towards [[spoiler: the Everstream, since Zorah dying within it would cause the whole continent to basically explode]], with the end goal being to make it return to the ocean where the aforementioned bioenergy can kickstart a new ecosystem in a few centuries.
* PinataEnemy: Zorah is an easy fight which can reward a lot of resources if you're willing to put in a little extra effort. His shell is studded with ore deposits which contain High Rank ore and will refresh after a while; the first three magma cores can each drop one or more shiny; and cannon attacks can cause him to shed shinies during the final stage.
* PosthumousCharacter: Implied; the Guiding Lands is theorized to be a dead Zorah Magadros. Farming parts from the Guiding Lands, such as the bone piles and mines, can net you armor pieces for Master Rank Zorah Magdaros gear, and the Rotten Vale area has a Zorah head overhead.
* PurpleIsPowerful:
** Subverted with its armor set due to it [[CrutchCharacter eventually falling off]], but its one of the best armor sets once you start High Rank.
** The gamma armor set plays this straight, while the Helm and Chest pieces aren’t considered top tier they do have utility with windproof and tremor resistance respectively. The Arms, Waist and Legs have useful skills like earplugs, bombardier[[note]] increased damage with barrel bombs[[/note]], blast attack[[note]]Increase in blast build up[[/note]], and critical eye[[note]]Increase criticalhit [[/note]]. The latter two work great in conjunction with the armors SetBonus.
** Also played straight with its Master Rank set for Gunlances, Charge Blades, and Bowguns using sticky ammo due to the set giving a massive boost in the artillery skill, which is considered the main damage skill for said weapons.
* StealthyColossus: You wouldn't think so, being a massive volcano on legs, but much of the game is spent tracking it down and trying to predict where it's going.
* StoneWall: Zorah Magdaros has come to the New World [[spoiler:to die of old age, and reaching this age is understandable]]. Zorah is not really a killable creature in any sense, simply due to its sheer size and the fact that its body is like 50% cooled magma. The old man’s offensive options, however, are rather limited; basically, it’s just movement and the occasional blast of fire from its mouth.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Very similar to Lao-Shan Lung from the original game; an absolutely colossal, quadrupedal dragon that [[AdvancingBossOfDoom slowly advances toward a stronghold]] and [[HoldTheLine has to be stopped]], occasionally rearing up onto its hind legs to show off its [[{{Kaiju}} immense size]].
* TimedMission: All the missions are timed in Monster Hunter, but in this case the trope is in effect because after repelling it for good, Zorah Magdaros cannot simply be accessed through the quest log under most circumstances. It appears randomly and only stays available for the duration of any two quests before it vanishes giving hunters a very limited window in which you can battle it.
* TookALevelInBadass: Arch-Tempered Zorah Magdaros is a much more intense experience than normal Zorah. The [[TimedMission time limit]] is much tighter, it has greatly increased health, it can [[NonStandardGameOver destroy the barrier]] with three solid hits (necessitating the use of One-Shot Binders and the Dragonator to cancel its attacks), and [[DropInNemesis Nergigante]] actually does need to be actively repelled, rather than being on a timer. While normal Zorah is a definite BreatherBoss, Arch Zorah is a tense and desperate race against the clock.
* TurtlePower: It resembles a huge, volcanic version of Film/{{Gamera}}.
* UnskilledButStrong:
** While not as bad as Anjanath in this regard, Zorah Magdaros weapons still have a -10% to -20% penalty to Affinity, so you won't be doing as much critical damage with them; that said, they're still pretty powerful with a higher Blast damage.
** Zorah Magdaros, itself, also counts, since it's a walking volcano that just walks forward.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Although a considerable amount of damage is done to it, the New World hunters only prove capable of annoying it enough to drive it off. Granted this is by design as attempting to kill it where it was would've been disastrous for everyone, if that was even possible (an idea that isn't discussed in game).
* VolcanicVeins: Seems to have lava flowing within its body. Its magma cores will spill out lava from time to time as they are attacked.
* WalkingSpoiler: The purpose of this Elder Dragon remains unknown until it's revealed that it came to the new world [[spoiler:to die]], which would be catastrophic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Vaal Hazak]]
!!Vaal Hazak [-(variant: Blackveil Vaal Hazak)-]
!!!Corpse Coat Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/vaal_hazak.png]]
[[caption-width-right:350:[[labelnote:Blackveil Vaal Hazak]]\\
https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/blackveil_vaal_hazak.png[[/labelnote]]]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
'''Nominate subspecies:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''\\
'''Blackveil Variant:'''\\
''World: Iceborne''-]
An Elder Dragon who has the ability to suck the life force out of other creatures. It wears a layer of rotten flesh over its body and breathes out a blast of gray miasma which eats away at its enemies' health; in a hunter's case, temporarily taking out part of their health bar.
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* AlwaysABiggerFish: To show just how much stronger an Elder Dragon is compared to a normal monster, the normally fearsome Odogaron gets absolutely trounced by it when it tries to leap on it and bite it, much like it does on Radobaan.
* AntiMagic: Not to the level of Deviljho and Nergigante, weapons made from Vaal Hazak's parts are the only ones to naturally sport an Average Elderseal rating.
* AtopAMountainOfCorpses: It starts out resting ''under'' a mountain of skeletons. Then it wakes up and comes out standing on top of them.
* BattleBallgown: A darker variant on female A and Y armor sets; the "flesh" is used to look like a skirt over a metal armor. The Master Rank armor set looks like a [[FairytaleWeddingDress wedding dress]].
* BodyHorror: Blackveil Vaal Hazak looks like it's not well at all with all the sores covering its body and spewing effluvium everywhere. And even when said sores are destroyed, they just keep coming back at an alarmingly fast rate.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Not Vaal Hazak itself, but rather it has the ability to inflict this on smaller monsters infected with the effluvium. Its symbiosis with the effluvium is such that it has the power to take control over creatures afflicted by it, putting them under its control in this manner (and [[FlunkyBoss siccing them at you]] during the fight).
* BlindSeer: Downplayed with Blackveil Vaal. At first it has a layer of spores covering its head, rendering it immune to flash pods, yet it's still able to determine your location throughout the battle. Once its head is broken, you can tell that it can in fact see (and be blinded by flash pods now), but being able to fight while effectively blinded is still impressive.
* BrightIsNotGood: The Black Veil variant is whitish-grey, and is far stronger than the nominant version back in High Rank.
* CherryTapping: Due to the presence of its miasma cloud and the area's hazards, there is a solid possibility to cart because you survived being hit only to get finished off by the tick damage.
* TheComputerIsALyingBastard: A half-truth variant. The Hunter's notes will state Vaal Hazak has a three star weakness to Dragon element. While this is true, it does not clarify that the weakness only applies to parts of the body that are broken.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Despite its horrific appearance and abilities, it acts more like an animal than an evil necromancer. The Blackveil variant is no different in this regard, even though it's an invasive species that's wrecking havoc on the environment.
* DeadlyGas: Its breath takes the form of a huge blast of effluvium.
* {{Dracolich}}: Not actually undead, but certainly invokes the impression of one.
* DraconicAbomination: While not as out-worldly as Xeno'jiiva or [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV Behemoth]], it still gives the impression of being something that doesn't belong in a semi-realistic game about hunting dangerous animals, such as (apparent) necromancy and being able to weaponize some very horrifying and deadly gases.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Its first action in the game is to kill all the Girros that were about to mob your hapless Hunter.
* FlunkyBoss: In later stages of the fight, it may summon effluvium-infected Girros and Rahpinos and set them against you.
* TheGrimReaper: Thematically. It's a dragon with a heavy death motif, who wears a cloak which hides most of its body, and is covered in spikes in the shape of [[SinisterScythe scythes]]. The male armor set you can craft from the Blackveil variant even comes with a skull-like helmet.
* HatePlague: The Effluvium drives small monsters mad, making them much more aggressive.
* {{Irony}}:
** Despite curbstomping Odogaron effortlessly, Odogaron weapons have a hidden fire element, which Vaal Hazak is weak to.
** Further even though it wins the turf war against Odogaron without suffering damage, Odo's sheer speed and utterly relentless nature means it completely dominates the fight afterwards if it doeesn't flee. Poor Vaal's just too slow to get any hits in most of the time which results it in suffering StunLock via flinch animations.
** Blackveil Vaal Hazak is mostly white.
* ItCanThink: It has a weakness to Dragon, but it seemingly accounted for it as it wears a skin that protects it from Dragon damage until broken. Its Arch-Tempered version is also savvy enough to nest in acid to prevent trespassers from safely attacking it.
* KillItWithFire: The nominate species vulnerable to the Fire element.
%%* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HU4R1WM-Gkk "Keeper of Hades"]].
* LightningBruiser: While its breath attacks take some time to come out, it is deceptively agile, being able to cover up ground very quickly in its charges.
* MaximumHPReduction: Can inflict this with its effluvium attacks, causing the player to have their max HP reduced for a temporary amount of time.
* MeaningfulName: Its name may refer to Valhalla, Myth/NorseMythology's [[WarriorHeaven afterlife for warriors]], and Baal, a Semitic god [[HijackedByJesus better known as the demon]] [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beelzebub Beelzebub]].
* MightyGlacier: They move fairly slow and their attacks generally have long windups, but they hit pretty hard and are quite resilient.
* MixAndMatchCritters: It's a dragon with the NestedMouths of a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoplight_loosejaw stoplight loosejaw.]]
* {{Necromancer}}: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. It looks like it has the ability resurrect small monsters from the dead, but rather it has the ability to take control of the effluvium infecting them, putting them under its control.
* NemeanSkinning: It wears a coat of rotten flesh over its body, hiding most of its silvery scales and protecting it from the Dragon element until it's broken.
* NestedMouths: In keeping with the Rotten Vale's deep sea theme, it takes influence from the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoplight_loosejaw stoplight loosejaw]]: it has a second lower jaw nested within the larger one serving as the "floor" of its mouth.
* NonIndicativeName: Blackveil Vaal Hazak is mostly white/grey.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Apart from the story quest, it won't immediately attack a hunter unless provoked.
* NoSell:
** Thanks to evolving a symbiotic relationship with the effluvium, Vaal Hazak is immune to its harmful properties. While the Girros and Raphinos become violently aggressive, the Elder Dragon is unaffected. Additionally, parts of its body that aren't broken are immune to the Dragon element and is capable of stepping into the acid pools of the Vale without risk.
** Blackveil Vaal is initially immune to flash pods, owing to the fact that its eyes are covered by a layer of spores the whole time, though you can remove this immunity by breaking its head.
* PoisonousPerson: Its main form of attack comes from the effluvial miasma that it emits, which causes slight damage over time in the short term, and halve your health in the long term. In-universe, it's speculated it may even be responsible for the effluvial miasma found throughout the Rotten Vale.
* RecurringElement: Replaces Chameleos as the designated "Poison Dragon", but also an Elder Dragon with a unique status ailment, similar to the Gore/Shagaru Magala.
* RegeneratingHealth: Not the monster itself, thankfully, but its armor set heavily promotes this, allowing Hunters to regenerate red-health very quickly. The set-bonus takes it a step further by allowing them to also slowly regenerate black-health too. A Hunter with Vaal Hazak armor doesn't need potions to heal if they're careful enough.
* SicklyGreenGlow: Blackveil Vaal is so noxious that the entire locale it's in will have this, similar to Velkhana tinting everything blue when they appear.
* SignatureMove:
** Well, Signature Status, rather. The effluvium effect will cut your maximum life down to at most half depending on your resistance to the ailment. The Resident Evil event version of Blackveil has a Zombification status.
** That being said, it does have a pair of signature attacks: its breath beam where it draws in a deep breath, absorbing effluvium, then spews out a concentrated beam (which is often, though not always, lethal on contact); as well as an effluvium release where it draws in breath and then unleashes a heavily concentrated cloud around it that rapidly spreads out from around it (which if not avoided does much more chip damage than the normal effluvium it surrounds itself in and is highly likely to cut health down within seconds of contact). The Blackveil variant has a move where they spit out the effluvium beam ''down'', creating a wave of effluvium that crawls along the ground.
** Blackveil Vaal has a supernova attack similar to Teostra, Lunastra, and Seething Bazelgeuse.
* SquishyWizard: Zigzagged; Vaal's weak spots are easy to hit, and Vaal itself isn't too durable, but its effluvium will damage you in the process, making safe approaching harder.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** It's similar to Nakarkos, as an Elder Dragon with undead and deep-sea motifs that wears monster corpses as armor (hell, Nakarkos is the "Corpse Dragon", while Vaal Hazak is the "Corpse Coat Dragon"). A key difference is that while Nakarkos is a cephalopod that disguises itself as a hydra, Vaal Hazak is clearly a more traditional dragon from the get-go.
** One to Chameleos, introduced at the same point as Kushala Daora and Teostra (Chameleos's counterparts in the 2nd and 4th gen games), which relies not on a conventional element but a debilitating mist, be it poison or effluvium, to do its dirty work.
** Also to the Magala lines, being an Elder Dragon who utilizes a microbe-induced status effect. And Chameleos, the Magalas, and Vaal are all weak to fire with dragon being their secondary weakness.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** While Vaal Hazak is considered the easiest Elder to hunt in ''World'' (even in its Tempered form), its Arch-Tempered form is one of the most challenging AT fights. Not only does it hit harder, but it now tends to stay in areas with heavy effluvium forcing hunters to have to deal with that as well.
** Blackveil Vaal isn't just more aggressive, it has a lot more miasma at higher volumes and knows better how to utilize it. It's also more resistant to Fire and Dragon element, as well as Blast damage.
* WalkingWasteland: The Blackveil Vaal Hazak is covered in spores that constantly spew effluvial miasma, making its mere existence a major threat to the ecosystem. The Blackveil wandering in the Ancient Forest is even introduced as simply wandering around while the effluvial fumes from its spores drive every nearby monster crazy until they die.
* WaveMotionGun: Has a charged breath attack that shoots a potent stream of effluvium capable of reaching the other half of the room.
* WingsDoNothing: Unlike its fellow winged Elder Dragons, Vaal always fights on the ground. The only time it flies is when it gets mounted by a hunter. This is rather justified by the fact that it lives primarily in confined underground caves. The Blackveil variant does fly for a bit for a supernova-style attack.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Xeno'jiiva]]
!!Xeno'jiiva
!!!Dark Light Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_xenojiva.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'', ''World: Iceborne''-]
A species of Elder Dragon previously unknown to the Guild. The mysterious force luring Elder Dragons away from the Rotten Vale to the Elderstream was actually this creature, feeding on the bioenergy of those dying elders as it secretly incubated inside an enormous crystal.
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%% There’s no explicit confirmation that Xeno’jiiva is actually an alien. Please refrain from edits that assume this to be canon.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Attacking its glowing chest enough times when it is fully powered will stagger it and knock it down the ground for a good 10 seconds.
* BackgroundMusicOverride: When Xeno'jiiva appears in the post game and its quest becomes available as a result the normal town theme is overridden by more dark and sinister piece giving an in-story sense of urgency that it needs to be taken out as soon as possible.
* BigBad: It's the very reason the Elder Dragons are migrating to the New World, attracting them so they may die and allow it to absorb the released bioenergy.
* BossArenaUrgency: Downplayed. At the start of phase two there are multiple rocks that can be used to shelter from more dangerous attacks, such as the sweeping beam, but Xeno'jiiva will gradually destroy these as the fight progresses. It will also rarely use its beam attack while airborne and carve off an edge of the platform.
* BreathWeapon: It can shoots blue fireballs from its mouth but as the battle progress and it begins to build up power, the fireballs turns to laser shots before turning into a continuous laser beam.
* BrightIsNotGood: Xeno'jiiva is very bright and glows, but is clearly a dangerous and outworldly threat. [[spoiler: Given its adult form is compared to a SatanicArchetype, it might actually be LightIsNotGood instead.]]
* CombatStilettos: The female Xeno'jiiva armors have this.
* ContractualBossImmunity: It can't be mounted and is immune to Flash Pods and Sleep ailment. It also can't be forcefully turned or flinch shot into the wall using the Cluth Claw if ''Iceborne'' is installed.
* DamageSpongeBoss: It's as durable as it is large.
* DeathFromAbove: Xeno'jiiva can use both its fireball and beam attacks while airborne and will also divebomb, which triggers a Dragon element explosion in its wake.
* DraconicAbomination: While it’s still dragon-shaped, the EldritchAbomination trope is invoked by its alien appearance, such as its three pairs of false eyes, glowing body parts, and blue flames. Even by this generation's nightmare-inducing standards, this beast is '''UNHOLY'''.
* DragonsAreDemonic: Its demonic traits are its incredible power, [[WildMassGuessing speculated alien origins]], and its otherworldly appearance.
* DragonsAreDivine: At the same time, though, said otherworldly appearance is ethereal and graceful, and a gentle blue radiance emanates from its entire body.
* EnergyWeapon: Its BreathWeapon takes the form of massive searing lasers, hot enough that they cause the ground under them to turn molten, inflicting Fireblight if the player steps on it. The airborne version can actually carve off the edges of the platform.
* EnfanteTerrible: As ''Iceborne's'' second free title update reveals, Xeno'jiiva is in fact a baby - or at least a youth - when you run into it. If they're allowed to grow up, they soon turn into the far more deadly [[spoiler:Safi'jiiva, who's capable of absorbing energy from entire biomes and reshaping them as it pleases]].
* ExtraEyes: {{Subverted|trope}}. It has two eyes, and has three pairs of red-orange gems or markings above them that make it look like an eight-eyed alien, although they don't glow or blink like its actual eyes. When you break its head, some of them become cracked.
** As it turns out, they ''are'' in fact sensory organs ([[BizarreAlienSenses just not eyes]]), directing the monster to new sources of energy to feed on. [[spoiler: As it matures into Safi'jiiva, these organs atrophy and become vestigial, though they are still present.]]
* FinalBoss: Of the base version of ''World''. As with most examples, it is the BigBad of the story, and must be stopped before it becomes a more significant threat.
* {{Foil}}: To Gogmazios from ''4U''. Both are massive Elder Dragons closer to being [[EldritchAbomination terrifying abominations from hell than normal dragons]], [[TheSpook on top of being previously unheard of from both of their respective guilds in their games]]. However, there are key contrasts between the two of them.
** [[StrongerWithAge Gogmazios has lived for a long time,]] while [[EnfantTerrible the Xeno'jiiva you fight in the story is implied to be an infant.]] [[spoiler:Which is confirmed in ''Iceborne'', as Safi'jiiva is the adult form of Xeno'jiiva]].
** [[DarkIsEvil Gogmazios is pitch black]] while [[BrightIsNotGood Xeno'jiiva is very bright]].
** Gogmazios is associated with oil, tar, and gunpowder, while Xeno'jiiva is associated with gems, crystals and bio-energy.
** The area where you fight Gog is full of thing to help you fight it (cannons, dragonator, demolisher etc.), while with Xeno, it's only you and the Elder Dragon.
** [[spoiler: Gogmazios was ironically disqualified for a "Forbidden Beast" status due to having a known diet, while Xeno'jiiva's adult form, Safi'jiiva, might be one as per little to nothing being known about it.]]
* GemTissue: It was born from a crystal, and its very body appears to be made of some kind of translucent, crystal-like material.
* GiantFlyer: Don't let its size fool you; it can fly, and [[DeathFromAbove it'll use it against you]], diving down to strike you with its claws or bombarding you with fireballs and lasers from the air.
* InterfaceSpoiler: You can accidentally learn of its existence and name long before meeting it if any of its event quests happen to be in rotation when checking the quest board.
* {{Irony}}: Although it does fit the Western mold (see OurDragonsAreDifferent), it's one of the most alien-looking monsters in ''World'', both from an in-lore and from a design standpoint. And yet, [[spoiler:when it grows up, it loses the alien-looking aspects and looks very much like a traditional Western dragon as Safi'jiiva; ([[DraconicAbomination at least, on the outside]].)]]
* JackOfAllTrades: Like Nergigante, it's a monster that had every weapon class based on it prior to major updates. Whereas Nergigante weapons focus on raw damage, the Xeno'jiiva weapons excel in customization. They have considerably weak base damage, little Dragon element, and low Elderseal but they compensate them by having two Level 3 decoration slots, white sharpness, and a positive affinity. The monster's LBG and HBG are also the only bowguns to have all five elemental ammo. Furthermore, its armors had the highest defense stat and most decoration slots before major updates came in.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA_d8u-bcFw "Guiding Lamp to the Otherworld"]], which only plays a few notes of ''World''[='=]s theme in an uncertain tone before the oppressive brass imposes Xeno'jiiva's motif of unholiness. and Once Xeno'jiiva switches areas, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZWG2b7sHmw "How Life Springs Anew"]] plays, with the swelling orchestra incorporating "Stars At Our Backs" as if to tell you to press forward with renewed courage. [[spoiler:The main phrase of Xeno'jiiva's theme would end up be used in Safi'jiiva's theme as a verse sung in ''Monster Hunter''[='=]s fictional language, praising the Red Dragon as [[UltimateLifeForm the perfect being]].]]
* LightningBruiser: Partially due to its large size, it can cover a significant area very quickly, even though some of its attacks have long windups.
* LimitBreak: Can unleash a powerful attack once it is fully charged where it rears up and proceed to sweep the entire area with its laser beam but the sheer force of this attack will break the ground it is standing on and make it stumbles into the ground and leaving it vulnerable. Once it climbs back out, it will have reverted back to its normal state. The Arch-Tempered version only does this once its massive health is low.
* MeaningfulName: "''Xenos''" is Greek for "stranger" or "foreigner" and appears in words like "xenophobia" and "[[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]]". "''Jīva''" is a living being filled with life force in Hinduism and Jainism. Quite fitting for an otherworldly dragon filled with the bioenergy of Elder Dragons.
* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: When first encountered, the HUD names it "???". Carved parts are described as coming from an "unknown monster".
* MysteriousVeil: The female armor gives off this impression with the bridal veil that hides the hunter's eyes.
* NoSell: Immune To flash bombs. Not to slinger ammo, however.
* NothingIsScarier: Even after you defeat it, in-game information is left blank during the duration of the game, although unlike older monster that were on similar rank from previous games, it has an icon this time.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: It's an ethereal monstrosity with an otherworldly appearance, but otherwise fits the Western mold very well, to the point that it's one of the few monsters that deals both Fire and Dragon elemental damage. [[spoiler:Its adult form, Safi'jiiva, ditches the alien look completely for a far more traditional look, yet it's power to absorb energy from entire biomes still suggests that it's far more than it appears.]]
* PlayingWithFire: Its abilities deal a lot of Fire damage, and it can cover the ground with Fireblight.
* PowerGlows: Most of its body glows blue, with a red glow from some kind of core also spreading from within its torso. Its light becomes more radiant as the fight goes on.
* RiddleForTheAges: In vanilla ''World'', we knew virtually ''nothing'' about this monster, which invited much speculation. It was only until the second free title update of ''Iceborne'' that reveals this thing [[EnfanteTerrible truly is a baby]], and that it [[spoiler:has an adult form: Safi'jiiva]]. Yet beyond that, there's still relatively little information to go on about where it came from, or how it can do what it does.
* ShockwaveStomp: It can manipulate the earth's energy to create chains of explosions.
* SkeletonsInTheCoatCloset: The Palico armor crafted from its parts features skull-shaped cutouts in the fabric.
* TheSpook: Xeno'jiiva has never been seen, or even ''heard'' from before, to the point it doesn't even have a name in-universe until ''after'' the player slays it. Even the field guide initially remains blank, outside of gameplay information of course. It was eventually updated with information that is known.
* TimedMission: Just like Zorah Magadaros, after Xeno'jiiva is defeated, you cannot fight it through the quest log under most circumstances. It appears randomly and only stays available for the duration of any two quests before it vanishes, giving hunters a very limited window in which they can battle it.
* TechnicolorFire: Its fire attacks are blue.
* TookALevelInBadass: Much like Zorah, Arch-Tempered Xeno is a force to be reckoned with. It’s apparently learned from its [[UnskilledButStrong previous battle with you]], and [[ItCanThink is a much more competent adversary]] this time around. The battle ''starts'' in the last phase, and Xeno immediately destroys the crystal spires, preventing mount attempts. It doesn’t make the same clumsy mistakes it did in its first fight, slinger ammo doesn't make it flinch, and actually gains several new moves and variations on existing ones.
* TurnsRed: It gathers energy during the fight, and upon accumulating enough, it adds molten ground and additional explosions to many of its attacks, putting several moves into [[OneHitKill one-hit-cart]] territory. Staggering it during one of its longest moves removes it from this state.
* UnskilledButStrong: Xeno'jiiva is a youth when you encounter it; it makes mistakes during the fight that other Elder Dragons wouldn't, such as pounding the ground and causing it to collapse, giving the player a huge opening. However, the bioenergy of deceased elder dragons allowed it to be born in the first place, so Xeno'jiiva's mere existence is a possible extinction-level threat. This is subverted in its Arch-Tempered incarnation; [[ItCanThink it’s learned from its first battle with you]] and is a much more [[StrongAndSkilled competent]] and [[TookALevelInBadass dangerous]] adversary.
* VocalDissonance: For a dragon as humongous as Xeno'jiiva, it lets out a lot of cries that resemble a baby or a squished plushie, which makes sense once you learn that it's a juvenile monster.
* WalkingSpoiler: There are implications something is going on throughout the story, but you only actually meet this monster (or learn a monster is even behind everything) right before you have to kill it.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Kulve Taroth]]
!!Kulve Taroth ''(Mamu Taroth)''
!!!Mother Goddess of Gold / Glorious Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/kulve_taroth.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'' ver. 3-, ''World: Iceborne''-]
An Elder Dragon added in the April 2018 title update. She is the target of ''World''[='s=] first Siege Quest, where 16 Hunters can join the fray. First discovered when the Research Commission landed in the New World, she escaped due to a lack of resources to properly study her. With her recent return, the Commission makes plans to do what it was unable to decades ago and launch an exhaustive investigation into the creature. She inhabits the Caverns of El Dorado, a volcanic cave system full of precious ores, where she has grown a thick coat of gold and relic weapons to protect herself.
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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: The completion reward can randomly generate Bushi Tickets that can be used to buy two sets of cosmetic armor sets.
* AnimalMotif: Resembles a nanny, a female goat, with its horns. She also likes to thrash about by ramming a lot.
* AssKicksYou: Most of her infamous RollingAttack's hitbox is located on her butt.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Completely encouraged to successfully repel her and increase the final rewards.
* BlingBlingBang: Natrually, all the gear you can craft/loot from this fight is covered in gold.
* BlingOfWar: The armor crafted from Kulve Taroth's parts is some of the most ostentatious in the entire series, and also comes packed with several highly sought-after skills.
* BossArenaIdiocy: In Area 1, you have access to several cannons to whittle down her armour, and you can drop a couple of rock formations on top of her head, leaving her stunned for several seconds. Area 3 has a conspicuous stalactite that can be dropped on top of her, and you can use Area 4's central pillar to jump on her, potentially leading to a mount.
* BreathWeapon: A unique take in that, rather than launching torrents of fire, her attacks seem to be ''pure heat'', burning the air and turning the ore in her lair into a storm of molten metal.
* BurningWithAnger: Once she is sufficiently riled up, her body temperature increases to the point that she begin to melt her own gold mantle, making her take more damage and is the key to breaking and releasing her from her protective mantle.
* CombatHandFan: Her parts can be crafted into a bladed fan for the Palico.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Downplayed. While initially immune to the Clutch Claw's effect of forcefully turning and sent to the wall, upon getting a Master Rank version, she can now be forcefully turned and Flinch shot into the wall although like Shara Ishvalda, she merely staggers as opposed to getting knocked out.
* DeathFromAbove: In the final phase of the hunt, the heat she gives off causes the gold in the cave ceiling to melt and fall down randomly. The Master Rank version causes it intentionally by blasting the ceiling with her heat beam, which causes a ''much'' larger quantity of molten gold to rain down.
* DragonHoard: An Elder Dragon who lives in, and is covered in gold. Ironically, this sets her apart from the other elder dragons, who are mostly valuable for the materials their bodies possess.
* DragonsAreDivine: Kulve Taroth is downright ''beautiful'', and everything she does is a visual spectacle that leaves you awestruck.
* ExtraOreDinary: Downplayed; she can melt gold into a suit of armour for herself, but otherwise uses heat as her main weapon.
* FeedItABomb: At least with Master Rank Kulve, shooting her mouth with a Slinger Bomb while she's using her BreathWeapon will cause a knockdown.
* FourIsDeath: Four phases, the last of which is most likely to get players carted due to [[ShedArmorGainSpeed shedding her mantle]] and [[TurnsRed going full ham.]]
* TheGhost: Was one to the Research Commission. Originally documented by the First Fleet forty years ago, they lacked the resources and manpower to properly study Kulve Taroth, allowing her to escape and largely fade into obscurity. The massive amounts of bioenergy released by Zorah Magdaros and Xeno'jiiva finally drew her back out into the open.
* GoldColoredSuperiority: This Elder Dragon is golden and is a unique threat, considering how many Hunters are needed to effectively fight her. The gold-filigreed relic weapons she drops are also better versions of whatever they were based on.
* HoldTheLine: In her map, she must be repelled in the same vein as other larger-than-life Elder Dragons such as Zorah Magdaros.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: The Kjarr weapons dropped by Arch-Tempered Kulve feature massively increased stats over their base weapon counterparts, often for very little to no trade-off. In addition, they all come with either the Critical Element or Critical Status skill built in, granting endgame builds access to two powerful skills that were previously locked away as set bonuses on two mediocre armor sets (Rathalos and Zorah Magdaros, respectively).
* InstantWinCondition: Breaking her horns in the final phase instantly ends the siege. It takes effort to get to that point, but in the end, the horns are the only thing that matters. ''Iceborne'' version 13.50, however, adds a Master Rank quest that assigns you to outright slay her while giving very little priority to breakable parts.
* ItCanThink: Smart enough to create and wear a protective mantle of gold that is immune to Ice element to cover for her natural weakness to Ice. Although the gold mantle is weak to Thunder element, she got it covered since she herself is naturally immune to Thunder. In the final phase of the fight when she is enraged, she will deliberately uses her BreathWeapon to melt the ores above her in order to melt them down and create environmental hazards of falling molten lava for the Hunters fighting her.
* KillItWithFire: Kulve Taroth's thick gold mantle has to be heated up before before it can be broken apart. Fire elemental weapons, lava eruptions and her own body heat when she is enraged can do the trick. However, her mantle is primarily weak to Thunder element instead of Fire.
* KillItWithIce: Once her protective mantle is shattered, Kulve Taroth becomes weak to Ice element weapons.
%%* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7Mu6hiD6vA "The Brilliance that Rules the Everstream: Confrontation"]] for her first phase, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cCUXYQQTBI "The Brilliance that Rules the Everstream: Transformation"]] for her second phase, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hY0Bx5A2nxM "The Brilliance that Rules the Everstream: Tremor"]] for her final phase.
* LightningBruiser: After her mantle has been shattered, she becomes ''way'' faster while keeping all of her power.
* MarathonBoss: Hunting Kulve Taroth requires several teams of Hunters working together over multiple quests, whittling her down until she's finally weak enough to break her horns. It ''is'' possible to solo her, but it will take several hours and at least a dozen attempts.
* MightyGlacier: Before she sheds her golden armor, Kulve Taroth is fairly slow, and the fight's main threat is her massive size and reach.
* MovesetClone: Shares many animations and attacks with Great Jagras, Great Girros, and Dodogama.
* MythicalMotifs: Between the goat horns and the fur-like gold armour, it's a clear reference to the [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Golden Fleece]]. Of course, even Jason would have trouble taking ''this'' fleece.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Kulve Taroth will almost entirely ignore Hunters in the first phase of the fight, attacking extremely rarely and only when provoked. Only after she has been sufficiently damaged to reach the second phase will she actually begin fighting back.
* PimpedOutDress: Not on her, but the female versions of her armor set give of this feeling. Complete with the following:
** SexyBacklessOutfit: The chestpiece, Kulve Taroth's Ire, displays this.
** ShowgirlSkirt: The waist piece, Kulve Taroth's Malice.
* PinataEnemy: Compared to normal monsters, Kulve Taroth drops an enormous amount of loot. Attacks are far more likely to spawn shiny drops than normal monsters, with an average player likely to loot more than ''thirty'' in a good run. Breaking her horn armor spawns a carve worth ''three'' pieces of loot and each of her two horns are worth two carves. And all of that's before the completion awards which can reward up to ''eighteen'' items.
* PrettyInMink: Both male and female versions of her armor give of this vibe, except that they're somehow using gold covered fur.
* RandomlyGeneratedLoot: Downplayed. The gimmick behind Kulve Taroth's drops is that she has the potential to drop [[UndergroundMonkey reskinned versions of the weapons of other monsters with unique stat distributions.]] Each weapon she drops can drop as one of three tiers, and same weapons of the same tier have fixed stats.
* RapunzelHair: The alpha version of her Master Rank armor gives both male and female hunters this.
* RollingAttack: Her most frequently used attack is to simply roll over any Hunters in her path, be it straight forward or sideways. Given her sheer size and weight, it cover a wide range and can outright OneHitKill a Hunter with low physical defense.
* SequentialBoss: The fight has four distinct phases, each taking place in a different area and with different mechanics. [[spoiler: Her hunting quest in ''Iceborne'' starts in Phase 2 right off the bat.]]
* ShedArmorGainSpeed: The first few phases of her encounter involve melting and chipping away at her heavy, golden mantle. Once it's finally broken off for the final phase, Kulve Taroth goes from awkwardly rolling around to flatten you to sprinting around, violently swiping, tail-whipping, and ramming nearby Hunters.
* TheSpook: Much like Xeno'jiiva, it is very poorly understood by the Research Commission and has evaded their notice for most of the expedition's life.
* SubsystemDamage: Kulve Taroth's armor has eight parts[[labelnote:*]]right and left chest, foreleg, hindleg, and tail[[/labelnote]] that can broken, plus the gold plating on her horns. It's possible to break her armor just with general damage and each part of the armor that breaks increases the end rewards. Once the gold mantle entirely comes off, the only breakable parts left are her tail end and giant horns, the latter of which will end the siege once broken.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute:
** Her weapons feature gold filigree reminiscent of the weapons made from the Ahtal-Ka of ''Generations Ultimate''.
** The mechanic of getting the weapons from random drops (instead of crafting them) on the other hand make them reminiscent of the Relic Weapons from ''4U''.
** The volcanic region and her golden, heat-vulnerable armor also make her an Elder Dragon-level equivalent of Agnaktor.
** Once her mantle is broken, she resembles Akantor, being a massive quadrupedal volcano monster.
* SingleSpecimenSpecies: There's no indication that there's more than one Kulve Taroth in existance, and considering hunters can't kill her, and only break her horns, it's likely there's only one Kulve Taroth exists in the New World.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: Kulve Taroth only appears during certain times, a first for the franchise. Her regular version was retired once her Arch-Tempered version was released. With the addition of Safi'jiiva, Kulve Taroth's siege, as well as her Master Rank quest, alternates every two weeks with the Red Dragon.
* TimedMission: The available time for the siege depends on the Pursuit level -- the higher the Pursuit level, the more time is available to fight her. Breaking Kulve Taroth's armor and reaching the fourth phase of the fight extends the time limit. The Master Rank version of her quest removes the Pursuit mechanic, but she'll still run away unless the Hunters can break her golden armor.
* TookALevelInBadass: The Master Rank version gains a number of powerful new attacks including a sweeping breath attack, a claw slam and a flying frog splash that both cause lava eruptions, and in her final phase she has a powerful new move where she coils around the central pillar and heats up the ceiling so much that a giant mass of molten gold rains down on all but the far edges of the arena.
* UnstoppableRage: Once her gold mantle is broken, Kulve Taroth will fight back much more aggressively against the Hunters in the final phase of the fight by ramming, charging, thrashing and attempting to burn them alive with her BreathWeapon. Each piece of her armor set is also named after an expression of anger, being Fury, Ire, Rage, Malice and Wrath.
* VariableMix: Has a three-part theme, ''The Brilliance that Rules the Everstream'', which starts [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfgFq7dUz4w light in Area 1]], becomes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUyPQMMFoP4 more intense in Area 2 and 3]], and climaxes [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a18phdQffug in Area 4]]. Her Arch-Tempered version remixes all three parts, complete with OminousLatinChanting that plays once hunters earn her ire in stage 4.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Is neither killed nor captured; she just rushes away after her horns are broken off. She also does this at the end of each area, melting through the wall to do so. If a siege mission fails due to the time limit, a cinematic of her leaving the area plays. As of ''Iceborne'' version 13.50, Kulve Taroth is able to be slain in a normal Master Rank event hunt, finally subverting this trope.
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[[folder:Behemoth]]
!![[Franchise/FinalFantasy Behemoth]]
!!!Demon Beast
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhw_behemoth_5.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter: World'' ver. 5-, ''World: Iceborne''-]
A monster from a different universe, drawn to the New World by the mysterious appearance of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV aetheryte]].
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* AndYourRewardIsClothes: Beating the Extreme Behemoth will allow you to get the Drachen layered armor.
* AnimalisticAbomination: By ''Monster Hunter'' standards at least. Being [[GuestFighter a monster from another universe]], Behemoth is completely unlike anything else in ''Monster Hunter''. It's an incredibly magical creature from a HighFantasy setting, invading a nonmagical LowFantasy setting, and this makes it stick out.
* BareYourMidriff: For fanservice play, the female Drachen armor has a hole that shows the hunter's belly, right down to the navel. It also shows her collarbones.
* BraggingRightsReward: Defeating Extreme Behemoth is this. It has no new weapon or armor, and all the materials to craft it drop from normal Behemoth. All that beating Extreme Behemoth nets you is a Layered Armor, a title, and a background for your Guild Card.
* ClassicVideoGameScrewYous: Failing the DPS check for Extreme Behemoth will cause him to cast Ecliptic Meteor...when there isn't any comets to hide behind.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Is immune to traps and certain status conditions in the same vein as other Elder Dragons. Additionally, it's also immune to the Clutch Claw's effect of forefully turning or being flinch shot into a wall.
* {{Crossover}}: With ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', with Rathalos also being a boss in that game.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Behemoth boasts a health pool surpassing even Xeno'jiiva on top of his aggression, having 35,000 compared to the later's (solo) 16,000. Extreme Behemoth takes it UpToEleven with ''over 50,000HP.'' [[note]]For reference, Kulve Taroth, an actual raid boss, has only 41,000HP.[[/note]]
* DeathFromAbove: It's introduced crashing down on a meteor and killing Dodogama, and several attacks involve blasting Hunters with lightning or meteors.
* DoWellButNotPerfect: The final stage of Extreme Behemoth has three castings of Ecliptic Meteor to contend with, with only one comet for each one. However, the comets are triggered by health percentages, so if too much damage is dealt all at once (such as with a mount or sleep bombing) he will cast Comet twice before using Ecliptic Meteor, leaving your party with no cover for the next one.
* DrawAggro: Dealing enough damage to its head causes its attacker to gain its enmity, marked by a red line connected to them, and it will target them exclusively for a short time while changing its attack patterns.
* TheDreaded: There's a reason the Moogle tells you not to fight it solo on your repel quest; the Serious Handler and the Excitable A-Lister heed that warning REAL quick when you go hunt it for real.
* ElementalPowers: Has a few.
** BlowYouAway: It frequently casts Charybdis, which creates damaging tornadoes that will stick around for a while, reducing the area you have to fight in. It can be interrupted by flinching it or with a Flash Pod.
** PlayingWithFire: Meteor, and an unnamed attack that causes volcanic explosions in front of it.
** ShockAndAwe: It can cast Thunderbolt.
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Drops in from a meteor and kills a Dodogama.
* FourIsDeath: Four phases, just like Kulve Taroth. Unlike Kulve, however, it's an immediate threat even in phase one.
* GuestFighter: This is the first time in the main series that a crossover features an actual monster from another franchise as opposed to approximating one with an existing ''Monster Hunter'' monster.
* HealingFactor: If all hunters leave the area it is in after the battle begins, it will begin regenerating health (with a game message informing you of this), a mechanic taken from its native franchise.
* KaizoTrap: Behemoth will always cast Ecliptic Meteor as it dies, as per ''Final Fantasy'' tradition.
%%* {{Leitmotif}}: Two tracks from ''XIV'' play during the Behemoth boss. The first half of the fight is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyfTDbc57E0 "Thunderer"]] and the second half is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJSM4tAeEAA "Torn from the Heavens"]].
* LimitBreak: In true ''Final Fantasy'' fashion, Behemoth has one in its 'Ecliptic Meteor' attack, a '''zone-wide, unblockable, unavoidable OneHitKill meteor strike.'''
* MechanicallyUnusualFighter: Behemoth functions less like a creature and more like a raid boss, and it's this that its difficulty draws from. Several examples:
** Behemoth will focus its attacks on a Hunter if they quickly deal sufficient damage to its head, encouraging a "Tank, DPS, Healer" composition akin to [[RolePlayingGame traditional RPGs]].
** Its Ecliptic Meteor is a OneHitKill. '''Period.''' [[note]]Skills like Guts, Guard Up on shields, Lance's empowered guard, Temporal Mantle, and superman diving are ignored by the attack. It also disables Farcasters until it finishes.[[/note]] The only way to avoid the move is to hide behind the smaller meteors on the ground or flee the area.
*** As a ShoutOut to the ''Final Fantasy'' series, the new 'Jump' emote can also be used to avoid the attack if timed correctly.
*** Another [[GoodBadBugs trick]] players have figured out, is that sitting at the canteen in camp makes you immune to it.
** Extreme Behemoth carries the dubious honor of being the first monster in the series to have DPS checks: If a party cannot do enough damage past a certain threshold by the end of Phase 3, it will cast Ecliptic Meteor ''[[OhCrap without dropping a Comet first.]]'' Hilariously (frustratingly), it works the concept ''in reverse'' during the final phase; see DoWellButNotPerfect above.
* MightyGlacier: Subverted. It hits like a ton of bricks and its attacks can cover a large area, but it's not particularly agile. However, the main trouble is when it starts casting spells in between physical attacks, giving you little room to breathe.
* MovesetClone: Downplayed; its shares some of its physical moves with Nergigante.
* MusclesAreMeaningful: Its ridiculously ripped upper body and front legs aren't just for show; Behemoth delivers some of the most powerful and brutal physical attacks in the game akin to Nergigante, easily oneshotting most Hunters in High Rank gear. Its pin animation also showcases just how easily it can toy around with an unlucky Hunter it grabbed, repeatedly slamming them into the ground and inflicting Bleed status on them.
* NonIndicativeName: If it wasn't obvious enough that the "Elder Dragon" tag is meant to represent unusually powerful monsters rather than ''just'' dragons, the Behemoth is not a winged reptile, but an unusual canine/bovine hybrid.
* NormalFishInATinyPond: Behemoths are considered middle/upper-middle tier in terms of strength back in ''Final Fantasy'', so they're obviously not weak there. However, they're considered to be closer towards the likes of Fatalis and Alatreon here due to the lack of magic in the ''Monster Hunter'' universe.
* OutsideContextProblem: It's from an entirely different ''franchise.''
* PurpleIsPowerful: Much like in its home series, the Behemoth is purple and a serious threat.
* SchmuckBait: The game advises you to not fight it solo, and [[NintendoHard they're not joking]]. With the health bar of a full-multiplayer hunt no matter what, even those in top-tier Master Rank gear from ''Iceborne'' who try to solo regular Behemoth will find it difficult to finish him off in just 35 minutes.
* TakingYouWithMe: Behemoth will try to cast Ecliptic Meteor one last time just before it dies in an attempt to wipe your team out.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: Averted with normal Behemoth, whose quest becomes a permanent Optional after completing the Special Assignment. Played straight with the extreme variant, which is an equivalent of an Arch-Tempered Monster and often disappears from the questboard, only to pop up again during festivals.
* TurnsRed: Behemoth's entire body glows burning red once someone gains its enmity.
* VideoGameTutorial: The first time players fight it is an {{Antepiece}} that tasks them only to repel the Behemoth. Allowing them to familiarize themselves with the fight's unique mechanics. The players are even allowed 9 faints so as to keep them from failing, even if the entire party wipes from the eventual Ecliptic Meteor it casts to end the encounter.
* WakeUpCallBoss: Behemoth is outright designed to punish players who think they can just brute-force their way to victory without a strategy, on top of forcing solo players to look for coordinated help. The extreme variant also tells players that if they can't utilize the jump emote in the situation that they fail the DPS test, they're doomed.
* WeNeedADistraction: Encouraged by one player taking the tank role to gain its enmity so as to prevent the Behemoth from casting Charybdis all over the place.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Velkhana]]
!!Velkhana ''(Ivelkhana)''
!!!Ice Dragon, The Iceborne Wyvern
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/velkhana.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
The flagship monster of ''Iceborne'', Velkhana is an elegant Elder Dragon with power over ice. Largely unknown to the Guild, its sudden appearance following the Elder Crossing project leads the Research Commission to discover a second island, the Hinterlands, kickstarting the events of ''Iceborne''.
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* AntagonistTitle: Appropriate that Velkhana, one of the iconic monsters of ''Iceborne'', was nicknamed the Iceborne Wyvern InUniverse.
* ArmorPiercingAttack: Arch-Tempered Velkhana's bite attack will knock down any hunters that clutched onto its head to prevent an easy force-shot to the wall for a free stun. This attack even bypasses any protective mantles such as Rocksteady and Temporal; the former does not prevent the hunter from getting knocked away while the latter will instantly drain all Temporal charges before getting knocked down from the attack.
* BewareMyStingerTail: Velkhana will use the tip of its tail as a lance to jab at hunters from various angles.
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: When the icepick-like tail is severed, it lands with the tip embedded in the ground.
* BlingOfWar: In contrast to the gold-plated glory of Kulve Taroth, Velkhana's armor layers a lot of silver & white over deep blue robes, blending both elegant curves and dangerous spikes into the design. It give the sense of an elegant warrior king/queen with regalia either fused with or outright made from ice, topped with an icy, crown-shaped helmet.
* BreathWeapon: In a similar manner to Kulve Taroth, Velkhana doesn't breathe ice ''per se'', but rather a super-chilled air that causes stalagmites of ice to erupt from the ground or icicles to crash down in mid-air.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: At least physically, Velkhana is the first flagship elder dragon to use the slimmer elder dragon skeleton in awhile. Previous flagship elder dragons such as Nergigante, Valstrax, and Gore Magala all used the bigger, more buff skeleton from the latter.
* CripplingOverspecialization: Velkhana relies on tail stabs and its ice breath to attack. Its head is left defenseless while doing either of them, so you can use the Clutch Claw to score some free hits or topple it with a Flinch Shot.
* CriticalHitClass: Its armor specializes in critical hits--draw attacks are guaranteed crits, crits are more likely when hitting weak or damaged areas on the monster, and elemental damage is buffed on crits.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: For much of the ''Iceborne'' campaign, Velkhana is treated as though it's the BigBad. It's regarded as an extremely dangerous creature that could end all life in the New World, its very presence puts the whole Research Commission on edge to the point where the Commander even considers evacuation, you clash with the beast multiple times, it grows tougher with every encounter, and the penultimate battle is even a siege mission where you have to keep the dragon from destroying Seliana. It's only after you slay Velkhana when it becomes clear there's something more sinister at work.
* DismembermentIsCheap: If you cut off their tail, they will make a prosthetic of it out of ice and continue the fight, though it only applies said prosthetic when using its tail attacks.
* DragonsAreDivine: Velkhana just exudes an air of regality that few other Elder Dragons can match. It uses the slimmer, more elegant Elder Dragon frame, fights you in locales covered in in glistening ice crystals, and the ice armor it forms on its head has spires reminiscent of a crown.
* ForceAndFinesse: The finesse to Nergigante's force when it comes to their weapon lines. Nergigante weapons look as unsubtle and brutal as the elder dragon itself, with high base damage but limited to blue sharpness for its R8 weapons and white for its R12 weapons. Velkhana weapons on the other hand look elegant and sleek, even normally crude weapons like the Great Sword and Hammer. While their base damage is lower than Nergigante's, all of its weapons have access to purple sharpness even in their penultimate R11 forms.
* GeoEffects: Velkhana will create pockets of chilled air as it moves and fights which, when struck with its BreathWeapon, will erupt into walls or blocks of ice. The blcoks of ice behave like ledges which savvy hunters can make use of.
* TheGhost: Even moreso than Kulve Taroth. No offical records exist for it in either the Old Wolrd or the New, and what little information ''does'' exist is from unverified civilian testimonies. The only real evidence of it comes from journal scraps found on a pre-Research Commission shipwreck linking it to the Legiana and their 'song'.
* IaijutsuPractitioner: Likely in reference to the actual monster's quick [[BewareMyStingerTail scorpion stabs]], Velkhana armor comes with skills that encourage iaijutsu combat. Quick Sheath [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin allows you to put away your weapon faster]], Critical Draw guarantees a critical hit on draw attacks, and its unique set bonus Frostcraft gives you a buff to attack which degrades with each hit and regenerates while sheathed.
* AnIcePerson: Velkhana controls ice in various ways via supercooling the air around itself:
** Its ice armor is made by condensing and cooling water vapor, as opposed to Zamtrios secreting a fluid that freezes on contact with the air.
** It creates pockets of chilled air that can be triggered by its breath attack. On the ground they erupt into walls of ice, dealing damage and inflicting Iceblight when they do, and in the airthey'll cause icicles to form and crash down.
** While wearing its ice armor, several of its breath attacks are powerful enough to cause stalagmites of ice to grow wherever it hits
** By freezing patches of the ground it can create traps that slow Hunters walking on it, eventually freezing them in place if they can't escape in time.
* InstantArmor: It can condense the water vapor in the air into a layer of armor that would make Zamtrios jealous.
* ItCanThink: If a hunter has a tailraider (an assistant small monster like Jagras, Girros, Kestodon etc.) with them to DrawAggro, Velkhana will pause fighting the hunter and look for the tailraider before freezing them alive, in order to prevent the player from having an extra meatshield.
* {{Leitmotif}}: During your first two fights against Velkhana, you only get a glimpse of the monster's full theme, instead contenting yourself with bits of brass here and there in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOdkKjW3TZM "Behold, the Ruler of the Frost"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0UaXhEay-I "The Defense of Seliana"]]. It's only during your third and final encounter that Velkhana deploys the full force of its leitmotif, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFWaUiYhAC8 "Splendiferous Silver Sovereign"]], which incorporates an even more energetic brass movement than the first two themes as well as a beautiful, but aggressive piano performance, resulting in a noble and bewitching concerto. Velkhana's sumptuous theme was admittedly composed with the idea that if its {{foil}} Nergigante (who has a very brutal leitmotif with a feverish tempo) is a "king", then Velkhana is the "queen", further cementing the contrast between the two flagship monsters. Finally, Arch-Tempered Velkhana, much like AT Nergigante before it, has its own theme in the form of [[https://youtu.be/VJFbT91mVdE "Iceborne's End"]].
* LightningBruiser: Don't let Velkhana's graceful appearance fool you; despite having the second lowest health pool of the Master Rank Elder Dragons (less than [[GlassCannon Ruiner Nergigante]], even), it's just as durable as the average ones due to its very low elemental hitzone values (meaning that raw damage is still preferred over even its three-star fire weakness), and possesses a nasty plethora of powerful ice attacks that it tends to execute with very little windup. Arch-Tempered Velkhana ups the ante by having over twice the health of a normal Velkhana (putting it squarely between Alatreon and Fatalis for sponginess that's adjusted with multiplayer), and most of its attacks are capable of carting Hunters with maxed out MR gear with just two hits.
* {{Mascot}}: It is the flagship monster of ''Iceborne''.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Outside of the one you are required to slay in the storyline, Velkhana won't attack unless you provoke it, being more interested in chilling around the Hoarfrost Reach than picking a fight with the Hunter. Only Arch-Tempered Velkhana and the USJ Arena one are hostile on sight, with the former immediately coating itself in ice as soon as the fight starts.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: It's a highly stereotypical Western dragon with powers over ice. Ice-based powers are very common for Western dragons in fiction, perhaps second only to PlayingWithFire.
* RecurringElement: Like Nergigante in the base game, Velkhana is thought to be responsible for ''Iceborne''[='=]s unusual changes until the Commission realizes something more powerful and sinister is causing them.
* RedBaron: Its nickname, in the game, is the [[AntagonistTitle Iceborne]] Wyvern.
* TurnsRed: Or blue, in this case. When Velkhana enrages it immediately reapplies its ice armor if it wasn't already wearing it, creates a large number of cold patches in its area, and the lighting shifts towards more blue tones.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Namielle]]
!!Namielle ''(Neromielle)''
!!!Abyssal Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_namielle_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
An Elder Dragon that coats its skin in a layer of low-viscosity mucus, which it can drop onto the ground to create [[GeoEffects localized riptides to stagger opponents]] or [[MakingASplash wash them away with waves]]. [[TheGhost It is only known through vague reports by First Wyverians]], which mention [[GeoEffects exploding water]] and [[ShockAndAwe bright lights.]]
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* BioluminescenceIsCool: Namielle has rows of red lights across various parts of its body akin to real-life deep sea fish.
* {{Cthulhumanoid}}: Male armor gives this vibe.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: An interesting subversion. Standard ''Monster Hunter'' logic is that you fight a [[MakingASplash Water-based]] monster with [[ShockAndAwe Thunder damage weapons]]. But apparently, one of the sea creatures Namielle shares traits with is '''electric eels''': it can electrify itself and use the pools of mucus it leaves on the battlefield to conduct its Thunder-based attacks, so Thunder-based weapons are not recommended. [[KillItWithFire Its highest actual elemental weakness is Fire]].
* GeoEffects: Namielle leaves pools of watery mucus on the ground as it fights, which can be used to create waves to moves hunters, cause geysers when struck by a water attack, or to conduct electricity and explode into steam when struck by a thunder attack.
* GracefulInTheirElement: While dehydrated and with no body of water nearby, Namielle moves rather slowly with its stubby limbs and cape-like wings. Once there's a lot of water lying on the floor, however, it can move around in a very slippery manner, slithering along the ground to reposition itself. When hydrated and charged with electricity, Namielle can also fly very gracefully while also zapping Hunters on the ground with its wingtips, something which is reminiscent of a vampire squid catching its prey.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvoAzmPOULU "Morning Star of the Dark Tide"]], which features a cello legato that's reminiscent of ''Film/{{Jaws}}''[='=]s famous theme, with the orchestra wavering back and forth to give the impression of an incoming tide.
* LimitBreak: Once enough damage has been dealt to it, Namielle will quickly spew a lot of water into the ground then immediately leap into the air, before slamming the ground in its electrified form, vaporizing every body of water in the vicinity and inflicting heavy damage to hapless Hunters caught in the [=AoE=] (can even become a OneHitKill if your defense is low enough or you're fighting Arch-Tempered Namielle). This is easily identified by Namielle letting out a high pitched noise before executing the attack.
* MakingASplash: It is a water-themed Elder Dragon, and can create floods and tidal waves only using the water it leaves behind.
* MeaningfulName: ''Nami'' is Japanese for "wave", and it's a deep-sea themed Elder Dragon that utilizes waves of water to push players around, and "-elle" is the feminine form of the suffix "-el" commonly found in names (for example: Daniel - Danielle) which means "god" in Hebrew, so in a roundabout way, Namielle could mean "Goddess of Waves".
* MixAndMatchCritter: It has stocky, webbed forelimbs like a salamander, catfish-like whiskers, and a head like a hammerhead shark. Its wings form one large membrane resembling a vampire squid's webbed arms, with the inner surface featuring bright rainbow-colored strips similar to a comb jelly's cilia. Areas of its skin also feature a recessed grid pattern resembling a seahorse's bony armor.
* NonMaliciousMonster: Outside of its introductory cutscene, it's not aggressive at all, and won't attack the hunter unless they strike first. Even in the introductory cutscene, all Namielle does is use its water to drive the hunter away.
* RoarBeforeBeating: When enraged, it'll sometimes do a roar that sounds like a squeaky inhale. If you hear that noise, you'd do well to get away from any of the puddles in the area, or you're in for a [[ElectrifiedBathtub shocking surprise;]] doubly so if it's the [[OneHitKill Arch-Tempered variant.]] Fortunately, that noise also means you can go in for the kill if you survive, since it gets [[VillainousRROD drained of all its mucus and turns a dried out brown]] after using the attack.
* ShockAndAwe: Is able to charge its melee attacks with thunder.
* ShoutOut: The headgear and hair styles of the female armors are this to ''{{VideoGame/Splatoon}}''. Also, the Namielle resembles Cloudjumper, Valka's dragon from the ''[[WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon How to Train Your Dragon]]'' franchise.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: It is effectively an Elder Dragon version of Lagiacrus, being a sea creature that also has electricity.
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[[folder:Shara Ishvalda]]
!!Shara Ishvalda ''(An Ishvalda)''
!!!Earth Singing Dragon, Old Everwyrm
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->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
The mysterious "Old Everwyrm" mentioned in the old writings discovered by the Handler and the Tracker. This ancient Elder Dragon can manipulate the earth itself, and is the cause of the seismic activity, strange song-like calls, and ecological changes that the Research Commission investigates throughout ''Iceborne''.
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* AxCrazy: While an animal, and a mysterious one at that, in its final phase Shara Ishvalda looks ''deranged'', with its staring eyes and constant twitching.
* BigBad: of ''Iceborne'', being the source of all the seismic activity, songs, and ecological changes that cause all the problems in the expansion's story.
* BossArenaIdiocy: The first phase's arena is home to a large rock formation that you can fling Shara Ishvalda into twice, making the boulders fall on its head and take off a huge amount of its health, on top of stunning it and leaving it wide open for you to wail on it longer than you would against other toppled monsters. The second phase has three similar rock formations with a similar mechanic, but Shara Ishvalda's frontal sonic blast can obliterate them before you can even use them against it.
* BotanicalAbomination: Uniquely among all canonical monsters, Shara actually seems to be ''part plant'', with a bark-like hide and wingarms that resemble knotted wooden branches. In fact, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen at one point in development it]] ''[[WhatCouldHaveBeen was]]'' [[WhatCouldHaveBeen a plant.]]
* ContractualBossImmunity: Downplayed. While it can be forcefully turned and ran into a wall using a flinch shot, it will merely stagger it unless it's sent to a falling boulder. It can also be mounted although successfully doing so is incredibly difficult.
* CreepyLongFingers: Its wings look more like this rather than actual wings, and they're almost constantly twitching when at rest, in a way that's nearly reminiscent of a spider's legs.
* DishingOutDirt: Those veiny wingtips aren't just for squick. They can cause vibrations that can manipulate rock and soil, from creating a suit of armor for itself to changing solid ground into exploding quicksand.
* DraconicAbomination: Much like Xeno'jiiva before it, Shara Ishvalda may be dragon-shaped, but its general appearance, abilities to alter both monster behavior and biomes across a whole continent, and lack of explanation for its true nature or origin, all mark it as an '''UNHOLY''' creature.
* DragonsAreDemonic: Shara looks like an unnatural combination of plant and dragon, with bizarre abilities and freakish features topped off by its [[NightmareFace insane]], [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou fourth-wall-breaking]] DeathGlare.
* EnergyWeapon: Can fire multiple "beams" from its wingtips. These are actually the visible manifestations of the vibrations it uses to control rocks. It can also do one [[WaveMotionGun massive beam]] by putting all its wingtips together.
* EyeAwaken: Even after shedding its rock armour (which corresponds with the end of the first third of its total health bar), Shara Ishvalda does not open its eyes until the last third of the fight, and when it opens them, they track ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou your screen]]''. [[spoiler:Later, the Field Commander orders everyone to pack up and head home, only for the downed Shara to open its eyes, stand up and challenge the Commission once more, which prompts Ruiner Nergigante, also revealed to be NotQuiteDead, to emerge and swiftly kill Shara.]]
* FinalBoss: Of ''Iceborne'''s Storyline, following in Xeno'jiiva's footsteps before it, being the main cause of all the new abnormalities.
* FinalExamBoss: While the player is not required to use it, the ''Iceborne''-exclusive Clutch Claw is essential to beating it quicker by throwing it into nearby boulders for massive damage. Additionally, if they have not mastered diving by the time they fight it, they are likely to get one-hit killed by its gigantic sphere. Fortunately, they can use Farcaster to escape from this attack.
* TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou: If Ishvalda is brought to its final phase, it opens its eyes up, and stares directly at you. As in, the eyes will always track to your ''camera'', not the hunter.
* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: Most elder dragons are described as being comparable to walking natural disasters, but Shara Ishvalda is the first to back up that claim - when fought, it outright ''destroys the area around the arena'', with more and more of the background sinking into the ocean as the fight goes on.
* GeoEffects: Can turn parts of the stage into soft quicksand that slows the player down. These patches will also explode when struck by its sonic attacks, dealing significant damage and launching hunters.
* GiantHandsOfDoom: Especially in it's armored state, but even without them, its membrane-less wings move like a pair of hands that shoot sonic lasers at the hunters.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: It's not especially obvious unless you're close by to it's head, but Shara Isvalda's red pupils give off a low-level glow. It's best seen either when it's in it's armored state, or during the hunt's [[spoiler:ending cutscene where it's getting back up, before Ruiner Nergigante shows up]].
* {{Gonk}}: Unlike more feral-looking Elder Dragons like Nergigante or Kushala Daora, Shara Ishvalda's true appearance is deliberately hideous and freakish, with its distorted body sporting an unusually bright color palette and a face resembling a snarling Hindu demon's instead of a dragon's.
* HandBlast: They can fire beams of vibrated air from the fingertips of their hands/repurposed wings.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c57nQaxRAz8 "From the Rumblings Come a Song"]] for its first phase and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYhY0KUoHNk "A Single Bloom in an Eternity"]] once it's stripped of its rock plating. Both themes make heavy use of a wooden flute playing out a plaintive melody, mimicking the vocals of a Hindu hymn, which is in line with Shara Ishvalda's religious inspiration. The second theme goes out in full force with the percussions and the orchestra, demonstrating the solemnity of the Old Everwyrm's supreme power.
* LightIsNotGood: Unlike Xeno'jiiva, [[BrightIsNotGood which was brightly colored, but not as obviously holy-based,]] Shara draws on Hindu, Buddhist, and even ancient Sumerian religious imagery. Its strange wings call to mind multi-armed deities. The bony structures on its head resemble a ''mukuta'' crown, and in combination with the pale pink coloration and other ridges along its back resemble a lotus. At the same time, it's one of the series' more unsettling monsters and like other elder dragons is capable of destroying entire ecosystems.
* MadEye: Atypically for this trope, when Shara is pushed to the brink, ''both'' of its eyes become this. And only adding to the effect is that throughout the fight, while its eyes can close - as after shedding the rocks, it starts with them shut - it seemingly doesn't have eyelids and so cannot blink.
* MakeMeWannaShout: Its roar is notable in that, like Tigrex’s, it bypasses the Earplug skill by way of being an ''actual attack'' powerful enough to deal damage and send hunters flying.
* MeaningfulName: "Shara" comes from the name of a Sumerian god of war of the same name, who is the son of Innana. The Japanese name instead uses "An," the Sumerian supreme god, and father of Innana. "Ishvalda" on the other hand derives from "Ishvara" which is a Hindu concept of a higher power and itself holds various meanings, particularly "Supreme Being" or "God".
** The Japanese name for its armor is "Angaruda" which draws from "Angalta Kigalshe," or "the Great Above, and the Great Below." This is the story of Innana's descent into the underworld where she's stripped of her lavish garments until she's naked and vulnerable wherein she's killed by her sister. This mirrors the lavish designs of the actual armors, and the fact that Shara Ishvalda's own rock armor must be stripped from it before it can be slayed.
* MightyGlacier: As expected from a walking pile of rocks, Shara Ishvalda is one of the tankiest monsters in the game, requiring you to make use of your Clutch Claw to slam it into falling boulders and significantly speed up the first phase of the fight; its moves are also unsurprisingly telegraphed, but hit as hard as a mountain falling on top of you. Even when its rock plating is entirely removed, its true form is still relatively slow, but its attacks are incredibly powerful and far-reaching.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Its striking yellow eyes and CreepyLongFingers make it resemble a scaly [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aye-aye aye-aye]].
* MovesetClone: Downplayed, as Shara Ishvalda's true form shares the same lithe skeleton, posture and walking animation as [[Characters/MonsterHunterFourthGenerationMonsters Valstrax]], but otherwise uses its wings differently and is significantly slower.
* MyNameIsQuestionMarks: Much like Xeno'jiiva, when first encountered the HUD name is "???", and carved parts are described as coming from an "unknown monster".
* MythicalMotifs: Of [[Myth/HinduMythology Hindu]] and [[Myth/MesopotamianMythology Sumerian]] mythology. From its name, appearance, battle theme, and the gears that come from it, the thing has a chock full of references to Hinduism.
* NightmareFace: Its almost human-like face in its second form is ''unholy'', giving Xeno'jiiva's appearance a run for its money. The ''deranged'' look in its eyes, combined with the TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou element, seriously adds to the creepiness as well.
* NotQuiteDead: After being beaten, it gets back up, [[spoiler:only to get killed by Ruiner Nergigante.]]
* PersonOfMassDestruction: This thing is basically a living earthquake, demolishing entire ecosystems by triggering tremors along the Everstream and creating vibrations strong enough to shatter mountains.
* RedBaron: "The Old Everwyrm"
* RedEyesTakeWarning: It's deranged, fourth-wall-breaking NightmareFace wouldn't be complete without these.
* ShedArmorGainSpeed: Like Kulve Taroth before it, Shara Ishvalda has a very athletic body that's encumbered by an extremely heavy layer of armour--or a mountain's worth of rocks in this case. The first phase has Shara covered in rock armor, making its moves predictable, if highly damaging. When the second phase comes around, Shara sheds all the boulderplates and becomes significantly faster than its first form. While it still executes its attacks fairly slowly, their sheer scale and range are enough to make Hunters think twice about tanking them.
* SphereOfDestruction: Shara Ishvalda's ultimate attack creates a massive sphere of sonic energy that it then throws at the player, causing an enormous explosion and detonating the sand traps over a wide area.
* TheSpook: Even more so than Kulve Taroth and Velkhana--only one person, [[spoiler: the Tracker's master (who came to the New World before the Research Commission)]], had any inkling of its existence.
* StoneWall: The first phase starts off with it being covered in rocks which hunters have to get rid of. The armors made from it offer defensive skills such as Health Boost and Defense Boost.
* StrongAndSkilled: Its weapons have good raw damage, neutral affinity, and can obtain a decent amount of purple sharpness if given maximum handicraft. It can also benefit from the Non-Elemental Boost skill on top of having high elderseal, or reasonable dragon damage if its element is awakened instead.
* SuperArmor: The armors set bonus gives any mantle you put on Tremor Resistance, Windproof, Flinch Free, and Earplugs skills, effectively turning it into a near replication of Rocksteady Mantle. The caveat is that you need to have at least four pieces of the armor to activate it.
* WalkingSpoiler: Whatever is going on during the events of ''Iceborne'', we know nothing of it up until the showdown, being the true perpetrator of the events.
* WaveMotionGun: By bringing its wingtips together, Shara Ishvalda can fire a massive sonic blast in a manner similar to Akantor that is strong enough to pulverize the mountains around its arena.
* WingsDoNothing: Subverted. Its wings lack webbings and are too thin to allow it to fly, but their true purpose is to create sonic vibrations at the wingtips, granting Shara Ishvalda a scary repertoire of environmental-changing abilities.
* WorfHadTheFlu: [[spoiler: It's eventually killed by Ruiner Nergigante, but it was weakened earlier by the hunter.]]
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[[folder:Safi'jiiva '''(unmarked spoilers)''']]
!!Safi'jiiva ''(Mufeto Jiiva)''
!!!Red Dragon
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mhwi_safijiiva_render_001.png]]
->[-'''Appearances:'''\\
''Monster Hunter World: Iceborne''-]
The fully mature form of Xeno'jiiva, Safi'jiiva is a dragon who absorbs all the bioenergy within an area, changing it to suit its needs. In game, it represents ''World'''s second siege quest after Kulve Taroth's. Safi'jiiva first appeared in a surprise recon mission that was part of the update that added Stygian Zinogre. After repelling it, it eventually returns in a later update, allowing hunters to fight it for real.
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* AllYourPowersCombined: Its moveset takes cues from several monsters throughout the game, including Xeno'jiiva's large BreathWeapon beam and ground burst, Namielle's laser beam with ground eruptions, and Behemoth's aggro mechanic and instant death attack. Customization on its weapons indicates that it can also harvest the essence and special abilities of nearly every monster in ''World'', with the exceptions being monsters that were introduced in later title updates like Raging Brachydios/Furious Rajang, Alatreon, and Fatalis.
* AttackItsWeakPoint: Its whole body starts off incredibly tough, so hunters have to ''make'' weak points using the Clutch Claw's tenderizing ability in order to do real damage and avoid bouncing without the Minds Eye decoration. During the final phase, its chest becomes a weak point when it enters rage mode.
* BattleBallgown: The female armor made from it features a ''collapsible'' one, no less! It starts [[PowerGlows glowing red or blue]] when it's powering the Hunter up or healing them.
* BossArenaIdiocy: Downplayed; the three floors you fight Safi'jiiva in each have unique elements that can accelerate the process of making the dragon retreat to the lowest level.
** On the top floor, there are two boulders that you can lure Safi'jiiva towards and make them fall on it, knocking it down and draining a significant amount of energy on the floor. There is also a spot where the ground is decayed, trapping Safi'jiiva in vines if it steps on it for too long.
** On the middle floor, the terrain is mostly open, but there are a couple of uneven indentations that allow for slides and small jumps, making it easier to mount the dragon. There are also indestructible crags to help you hide from the 'Sapphire of the Emperor', as this is the floor where Safi'jiiva starts using its ultimate attack.
** On the bottom floor, there are gas deposits that you can lure Safi'jiiva towards, dealing 1000 damage each time it blows up near the dragon and potentially knocking it down. Unlike the second floor, the crags that allow you to survive the 'Sapphire of the Emperor' get destroyed after a single blast, but Safi'jiiva regularly refreshes them by accident (unless said move is interrupted, in which case you're screwed).
** The second and bottom floors both have ledges on them, allowing hunters to try and mount the monster. Dual Blades in particular benefit from this the most, since their Dance of Heavenly Blades attack deals a lot of damage due to Safi'jiiva's length.
* CastFromHitPoints: The awakened skill in its armor set gives you a number of powerful buffs (up to a 40% boost in affinity and a flat boost of 150 to elemental power,) but at the cost of sapping up to 8 health with every attack you make, depending on the weapon. That said, if you're able to land a number of continuous attacks successfully without sheathing your weapon, then you'll get some free healing that will more than make up for the damage you previously took. Alternatively, if your playstyle doesn't allow you to regularly do this - such as a Draw-focused Greatsword build - the healing augment can still heal some/all of this damage.
* ContractualBossImmunity: Besides the standard Elder Dragon immunity to traps, Safi'jiiva is immune to the Clutch Claw's ability to both forcefully turn and flinch shot it to the wall. Using the flinch shot instead will cause it to switch target to whoever the hunter uses it on when enraged.
* DamageSpongeBoss: Double subverted. Even with a full party, Safi'jiiva's health clocks exactly at 40,000 HP (which is fairly middling for bosses of this difficulty), but on top of its massive damage resistances, it will heal itself when you knock its health down to a certain threshold. The only way to prevent it from healing itself is to deplete its stored energy on each floor until it can no longer drain energy from the ground, and even then, most sieges don't usually kill Safi'jiiva in a single hunt unless you are skilled enough to quickly deplete the energy in the two upper floors, then dish out your highest DPS on the bottom floor.
* DraconicAbomination: It's the most normal-looking dragon in ''Monster Hunter World'', but the way that it feeds by drawing energy from the land implies it's no ordinary lifeform, and may only be a dragon in appearance. The fact that it's what the far more otherworldly Xeno'jiiva matures into only goes to further show how ''wrong'' this thing is.
* DragonsAreDemonic: Its hellish red scales, long black horns and spiky body make it look far more like a demon than most other monsters in the franchise.
* DrawAggro: From the second phase onwards, it adopts something similar to Behemoth's MMORPG-style aggro mechanic, singling out the Hunter who did the most damage to it and aggressively targeting them. The aggro'd Hunter has to keep up the damage or risk letting Safi'jiiva enter a powered-up state; aggro can also be drawn by using the Flinch Shot attack on its head.
* EnergyAbsorption: It absorbs the energy from the land itself to heal, moving to deeper locations after it's completely drained an area.
* GiantFlyer: Safi'jiiva is the second largest flight-capable monster in the main series after [[Characters/MonsterHunterFourthGenerationMonsters Gogmazios]], so it becomes something of a shocker to see just how quickly it transitions from one area to another with a single flying leap. Though it doesn't really fly for long during gameplay due to a preference in absorbing the ground's energy, its flight pattern is nonetheless very graceful when initiating the 'Sapphire of the Emperor' or putting the finishing touch in its pin attack.
* GlassCannon: Its armor set bonus gives a significant boost in affinity, elemental, and ailment damage, but at the cost of health being drained. [[DifficultButAwesome It even punishes you for missing an attack, but rewards each successful hit by healing back all the damage done.]]
* {{Irony}}: The closest thing to a traditional Western dragon introduced in ''World'' is the adult form of Xeno'Jiiva, a translucent dragon that has gemstones for pseudo-eyes, shoots blue lasers, hatched from a cocoon literally moments before it's fought, and is heavily implied to be an extraterrestrial lifeform.
* ItCanThink: Implied by way of being a heavily-older Xeno'jiiva, but its improved moveset and general behavior all make it a very smart adversary.
** If you're some distance away from it, it'll stay away and keep trying to blast you with its beams. One of them includes a period where it'll stare at you, building a mouth charge, but it tracks you as you move... not just where you're standing, but your speed ''and'' direction, so that if you don't change these things at the last possible second (or get behind cover/underneath its mouth), it ''will'' hit you.
** Like certain other monsters, it has a move where it can grab you with its mouth. Rather than simply flinging you around for a bit though, Safi'jiiva ''blasts you point-black with its energy beam'' until the force finally expels you from its grip.
** Unlike most monsters, Safi'jiiva can feel your presence through [[PaperThinDisguise the Ghillie Mantle]] and will try to sweep the area around with its laser beam, even though it doesn't know where you exactly are.
* ItsAllAboutMe: The Admiral notes that Safi'jiiva is a creature that doesn't play well with other species, given that reshaping entire ecosystems to meet its own needs and draining energy from the land for its own preservation can benefit no one but itself. As such, to prevent such a monster from propagating outside of the New World, the Research Commission orders its slaying. After fully completing the siege for the first time, the Seeker muses that Safi'jiiva's behaviour of reshaping its surroundings so it can reap the benefits is [[NotSoDifferent oddly similar to humans in that respect]].
* KaizoTrap:
** Similar to Behemoth, Safi'jiiva will unleash the "Sapphire Star of the Emperor", an area wide attack that can one-shot players, right before it's repelled.
** Its armor skill increases the elemental power of attacks [[CastFromHitPoints at the cost of around 2-8 HP per attack.]] Unlike most examples of similar skills, it doesn't stop your HP from going past 1, so if you're not careful, you ''will'' bleed yourself dry.
* {{Leitmotif}}: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSodIJyhO1U "The Emperor Emerges From Under the Veil"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlO3-VzvbuQ "For the Emperor’s Amusement"]], a pair of epic orchestral songs with the distinction of being two of the few themes in the franchise to have vocals, and satanic ones at that. The first theme is a DarkReprise of Xeno'jiiva's own leitmotif with a much more frantic tempo, while the second theme slips in the franchise's tried-and-true "Proof of a Hero" as Safi'jiiva is backed into a corner. Both themes also have the distinction of becoming distorted with all sorts of psychedelic synths, bass and trumpets if you attract Safi'jiiva's DrawAggro, and both themes briefly collapse into a HeartbeatSoundtrack once the 'Sapphire of the Emperor' drops to the floor in order to emphasize the explosion's impact.
* LightningBruiser: Much like Xeno'jiiva, Safi'jiiva's attacks cover a lot of distance by being one of the largest monsters in the game. ''Unlike'' the former, Safi'jiiva can chain multiple, frighteningly accurate attacks in quick succession, and its tough hide means that you really need to use the Clutch Claw's tenderizing ability to create temporary weak spots.
* LimitBreak: 'Sapphire of the Emperor', wherein Safi'jiiva flies up and coats the area with its breath, before releasing a conspicuously small orb of energy that, when dropped to the ground, detonates into a nuke-like explosion. It's always used when Safi'jiiva's health drops below the threshold needed for it to try and regenerate itself, but it's also used with reckless abandon when Safi'jiiva is almost dead on the bottom floor.
* MeaningfulName: Safi means "clear" or "pure" in a number of Mediterranean languages (Greek, Arabic), owning to its relation to Xeno'jiiva. Safi can also be a corruption of "sapphire", as in "Sapphire Star", the central motif in the New World's {{Creation Myth}} hich is implied to have been the meteor which brought Xeno'jiiva to the New World as well as the imagery evoked by its ultimate attack.
* NoRangeLikePointBlankRange: If Safi'jiiva catches a hunter in its jaws, rather than slinging them around like a rag doll as other monsters do, it'll chew on them for a bit, before blasting them with its mouth beam. This attack does an incredible amount of damage, and can easily cart a hunter if their defense isn't high enough (or they don't have Felyne Moxie to keep them at 1 HP).
* OminousLatinChanting: Safi'jiiva sports a {{leitmotif}} that rivals other top tier Elder Dragons like [[Characters/MonsterHunterFirstGenerationMonsters Fatalis]] and [[Characters/MonsterHunterThirdGenerationMonsters Dire Miralis]] due to incorporating vocals made in ''Monster Hunter''[='=]s [[ConLang fictional language]]. In this instance, the main verse praises the Red Dragon's perfection, describing it as "that which is the king of all things, the perfect being".
* PersonOfMassDestruction: It can somehow drain the energy of its surroundings to the point that it can reshape ecosystems to its liking, and is thus considered an immense threat to the New World that has to be slain. Its 'Sapphire of the Emperor' is also a OneHitKill that the Admiral speculates that nothing could survive.
* PowerGlows: Both the armor and the monster it's made from. The Safi'jiiva armor glows red when it's powering up attacks [[CastFromHitPoints at the cost at some of your health,]] and it glows blue when it's absorbing the energy of the target to heal you; meanwhile, Safi'jiiva itself glows when absorbing energy and entering [[TurnsRed Supercritical Mode.]]
* RecurringElement: Safi'jiiva's design hearkens back to some of the previous generations' monsters;
** Borrows a major trait from ''4/4U's'' Gore Magala/Shagaru Magala, being a juvenile Elder Dragon that eventually molts to a far stronger adult form.
** It is also quite similar to Fatalis; a mysterious Elder Dragon with a title describing only its color (Black/Red Dragon), whose mundanely draconic appearance belies [[DraconicAbomination an insane, almost supernatural power]].
* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Primarily red with some shades of black, and is very much an aggressive monster.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Its eyes glow red when it starts focusing on a hunter. This means that hunter needs to be very careful, as it will relentlessly chase them down.
* SatanicArchetype: The closest thing to a classic demonic dragon in ''World''. Not only does it look the part, its ability to absorb the lifeforce of living beings and the earth itself gives it the impression of having [[YourSoulIsMine soul-stealing powers.]] It can also be considered, symbolically, a 'fallen' angel, being a former being of light, Xeno'jiiva, that, over time, transformed into something far more dark and demonic.
* ShockwaveStomp: Like its juvenile form, it can manipulate the energy of the earth to create chains of explosions. However, these attacks are far more potent, since Safi'jiiva can perform radial, linear, or spread versions of them, as opposed to the solely-linear explosions of Xeno'jiiva.
* ShoutOut: On top of its face strongly resembling King Ghidorah's from ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', [[spoiler:its original implied origin as an extraterrestrial and apparent instinctive goal to terraform and propagate the world are also identical to that film's plot.]] Amusingly, in the pre-hunt cutscene, the Admiral will suggest that the mysterious new monster is a three-headed dragon that breathes lightning, which is exactly what King Ghidorah is. It also has a passing resemblance to two other demonic red dragons in fiction, [[Literature/TheHobbit Smaug]] and [[VideoGame/DragonsDogma Grigori]].
* TheSpook: Unbeknownst to the Commission, there was a ''second'' Xeno'jiiva living in the New World, and while the Hunters slew the one in Elder's Recess, this one was allowed to molt countless times and eventually become Safi'jiiva; it's only after repelling it that the Commission puts the pieces together and concludes that it's Xeno'jiiva's fully mature form. On a meta level, Capcom seem to be treating it in the same manner as the so-called "Forbidden Monsters" (or Black Dragons, after the original, Fatalis's, RedBaron), not mentioning it at all in their promotional material save for a single teaser.
* StrongAndSkilled:
** Powerful enough to shoot a laser beam capable of one-hit killing anyone and cause explosions just by slamming its limbs into the floor, and smart and skilled enough to utilize its limbs, tail and wings in close combat.
** Customization makes it weapons this as well, thanks to already having a decent starting raw damage value, but can be increased significantly while still having reasonable base elemental/ailment damage and will never decrease in affinity, while sitting at 5%, and having one level 4 decoration slot.
* SubsystemDamage: Rivaling fellow siege monster Kulve Taroth, Safi'jiiva has a grand total of 11 breakable parts [[note]]Four legs, two wings, the chest (vulnerable in Supercritical state), the back, the tail, and the head twice[[/note]], and breaking them all is required to gain maximum rewards during a siege. However, you are ''very'' unlikely to break them all in a single hunt and kill Safi'jiiva at the same time due to how its energy drain system works, as well as the hard time limit of 20 minutes. Subsequent runs in the same siege will notify you with a "Part broken" message, but won't reward you with additional points if you or a different group in the same siege already destroyed the part in a previous hunt.
* TemporaryOnlineContent: Safi'jiiva is available for hunt every two weeks or so, with its siege alternating with Kulve Taroth's.
* TimedMission: Unlike Kulve Taroth, the Safi'jiiva hunt has a hard time limit of 20 minutes. The first two phases are essentially just delaying actions; in order to maximize the amount of time you have in the final phase (where it can actually be killed) you have to deplete the energy levels in the first two arenas, which will shorten the duration of the first two phases in subsequent hunts.
* TookALevelInBadass: Its juvenile form, Xeno'jiiva, was defeated the first time the Commission encountered it; . Safi'jiiva can only be repelled at first during the scouting mission, after which the fight proper is a siege event. Not only that, it will fully heal itself once past a certain health threshold on any given floor, granting Safi'jiiva significantly more health than its supposed maximum, whether during a siege or in solo play (as a later update made possible). And that's before taking into account the improved plethora of attacks from its juvenile form, making it one of the fiercest fights in the entire franchise.
* TurnsRed: After enough damage has been dealt to it on the bottom floor, Safi'jiiva will enter Supercritical State, with its entire body glowing and most of its parts becoming vulnerable to critical hits even without the need to tenderize them. While this makes it more susceptible to damage, Safi'jiiva becomes significantly more aggressive, spamming its ground slams and beam attacks with reckless abandon, before taking flight and nuking the arena with the 'Sapphire of the Emperor'. It only exits Supercritical State after its ultimate attack is done, but will perpetually remain in that state when near death.
* UltimateLifeForm: Or at least as close as you can get to a creature that has limitless growth potential if left unchecked. The main verse of its two themes is translated from ''Monster Hunter''[='=]s fictional language as "that which is the king of all things, the perfect being". As an implied extraterrestrial lifeform with the power to reshape ecosystems to its own liking and absorb the land's energy at will, there is reason to believe that Safi'jiiva would end up dominating the series' setting if it were to propagate itself beyond the New World, and would likely be considered a Dangerous First-Class Monster had ''World'' kept the classification from previous games.
* VillainExitStageLeft: Unless you kill it within the alloted 20 minutes, Safi'jiiva will fly away and you'll have to reinitiate the hunt, though it's a normal occurence in this particular siege given the need to fulfill specific objectives to gain maximum rewards, and Safi'jiiva will usually flee to the lower levels earlier in subsequent hunts.
* VocalDissonance: Retains several of Xeno'jiiva's cries, particularly when agitated or stunned. The only times when Safi'jiiva ''does'' sound like an adult dragon are when it starts firing its breath attacks, which are punctuated by very deep roars that sharply contrast with its usual pitch.
* WalkingSpoiler: Knowledge from the base version of ''World'' makes this monster ultimately much more unsettling.
* WalkingWasteland: The eventual result of Safi'jiiva absorbing the land's energy for its own gain is a barren place devoid of life much like the Secluded Valley it resides in. Indeed, Safi'jiiva's impact on the environment can go unnoticed by other monsters until it's too late.
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