History Main / ManiacMonkeys

* ''WesternAnimation/Primal2019'': The eponymous ape-men of the episode "Rage of the Ape-Men" are a tribe of savages with a violent culture, holding some kind of fighting tournament in an arena and having a [[PsychoSerum magical serum that enhances size, strength and aggression]]. Their champions are [[KillerGorilla gorilla-like brutes]], but the commoners are smaller monkey-men (somewhat resembling Japanese macaques or Barbary apes) who ZergRush their opponents.

[[caption-width-right:350:You cannot esc-[[{{Pun}} Ape]]!]]

* ''VideoGame/StarFox''

** His grandson Dash Bowman appears to be a subversion of this trope, as he joins the Star Fox team to clear his family name and right Andross's wrongs, but two of the possible endings of ''VideoGame/StarFoxCommand'' have him [[FaceHeelTurn follow in his grandfather's footsteps to become another galactic overlord]]. So far, there hasn't been a single ape or monkey in VideoGame/StarFox who hasn't turned evil in some form.

--->'''Pilot''': [[ISurrenderSuckers I am no match for you. I admit defeat.]]\\
'''Falco''': Are you gonna listen to that monkey?

* ''WebAnimation/GamingAllStars'': [[VideoGame/ApeEscape Specter]] and his army, [[spoiler: as well as [[VideoGame/StarFox Andross]]]] in ''The Ultimate Crossover'' and ''Remastered'', are all villainous simians. The former also appears in ''2'', this time aided by Pipotrons Yellow, Blue, and Red. And that's not counting KillerGorilla characters like [[VideoGame/{{Rampage}} George]] and [[VideoGame/ApeEscape Pipotron G]].

--> The letter M: Dib's screaming like a Maniac... monkey.

* In the “Bolero” sequence from WesternAnimation/AllegroNonTroppo there is an ape going around being a {{Jerkass}} to the marching dinosaurs.

** Chimpanzees are especially dangerous because the common comical and cute portrayal they get in media has led to a mass underestimation of just how violent they can be. People get them as pets for their "cuteness" and have been mauled to death. Seriously, they've been known to torture other chimps, and other animals, to death in the wild. Males fight for and enforce dominance with brutal fights and aggression. They also have been known, as Jane Goodall can tell you, to go to "war", where two troops stay in conflict for a extended period of time until one is entirely wiped out. They also have been caught killing and cannibalizing other chimps, including infant chimps.

*** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znzfebSV6gM Bruno]] was a chimp who was born during the Sierra Leone Civil War in the 1990s. after his family were murdered by hunters who claimed his habitat for the war effort and Bruno was exposed to the horrors of war and greatly mistreated, he was sold on the black market as a pet, when a kindly couple bought him for a measly $30. Despite this act of kindness, Bruno's experiences left him with a deep-seated hatred for humans and when he was eventually transferred to the Tacaguma Chimpanzee Sanctuary, he grew into a dangerous and violent chimp quite a bit larger than the other chimps, even becoming the alpha male very quickly. One day in 2006, he and thirty-one followers escaped the sanctuary and they relentlessly attacked a group of four men in a taxi driven by Issa Kanu, who was brutally mauled to death and the three survivors were left greatly injured and mutilated. Bruno was never captured or found. While Bruno is admittedly a [[TragicVillain more tragic example]] of this trope, he is still a prime example of just how dangerous chimpanzees can be.
* ''Human'' primates are sometimes considered [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters the most dangerous]] [[HumansAreBastards animals]] [[HumansAreCthulhu on Earth]].[[note]]While people tend to throw a hissy fit and say that "humans aren't monkeys, they're apes!", based on cladistics, [[https://paoloviscardi.com/2011/04/21/apes-are-monkeys-deal-with-it/ apes are monkeys]] (apes are more closely related to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_World_monkey some monkeys]] than they are to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_World_monkey others]]). This means that, technically, humans ''are'' monkeys.[[/note]] Which makes sense, considering we're the only ones with guns and [[AtomicHate nukes]].

** Gorillas were in contrast seen as peaceful weirdos best left alone. In the legends they were used as GiantMooks/SlaveMooks for different tribes.