History Main / MonsterTown

* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'' takes place in Monstropolis, a city in the Monster World. It's just like a human city, with the monsters just going about their day. The titular company collects children's screams from the Human World to run Monstropolis, [[spoiler:until it's discovered that laughter is ten times as powerful.]]

* Medieval European legends about the mystical "Prester John", a Christian King from a far-off pagan land called the island of Pentexoire, establish him as the human MonsterLord of various fanastical HumanSubspecies and LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces of MonsterMash out of Myth/ClassicalMythology, which makes his capital, variously called "Cosan", "Nyse", "Hulna", or "Great Orionde, depending on the source, an example of this trope.

* Medieval European legends about the mystical "Prester John", a Christian King from a far-off pagan land called the island Pentexoire, establish him as the human MonsterLord of various fanastical HumanSubspecies and LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces of MonsterMash out of Myth/ClassicalMythology, which makes his capital, either called "Cosan" or "Nyse" depending on the source, an example of this trope.

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* Medieval European legends about the mystical "Prester John", a Christian King from a far-off pagan land called the island Pentexoire, establish him as the human MonsterLord of various fanastical HumanSubspecies and LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces of MonsterMash out of Myth/ClassicalMythology, which makes his capital, either called "Cosan" or "Nyse" depending on the source, an example of this trope.
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* Medieval European legends about the mystical "Prester John", a Christian King from a far-off pagan land called the island Pentexoire, establish him as the human MonsterLord of various fanastical HumanSubspecies and LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces of MonsterMash out of Myth/ClassicalMythology, which makes his capital, either called "Cosan" or "Nyse/Nisa" depending on the source, an example of this trope.

** ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG: Legend of the Seven Stars'' contained Monstro Town, home of "reformed" monsters or plain fed up minions, including some of Bowser's henchmen from the beginning of the game. It's also the home of both [[BonusBoss Jinx and Culex]].

* Tempest from ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'' started as a goblin village then Rimuru built it up and added orcs, ogres, dryad, Lizardmen and various other monsters.

* One ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD'' novel features the town of the Barberois, a town of HalfHumanHybrids who are all part-monster (of many different monster types) and who can act as deadly mercenaries for the right conditions.

When people think of monsters, it's as solitary creatures or gangs of creeps. If they're part of a greater group it's because TheManBehindTheMonsters is using them as part of his schemes, not any normally occurring social impulse. Imagine the surprise characters will have when they discover the Monster Town. Rather than spend all their time [[AlwaysChaoticEvil eating orphans]], these "monsters" have built a settlement and formed a society with its own culture. Usually it's very different from human culture, complete with bizarre and dangerous customs, or [[{{Magitek}} amusingly identical.]] They may be TheFairFolk or a [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt strength]] [[AssKickingEqualsAuthority based]] [[AuthorityEqualsAssKicking society]], or have customs we can't fathom because they communicate through scent.

* ''VideoGame/SuperLesbianAnimalRPG'' has the town of Mumford, a desert settlement populated almost entirely by the undead and sentient robots living side by side. As it turns out, both of them run on mana to "live".

* ''VideoGame/SuperLesbianAnimalRPG'' has the town of Mumford, a desert settlement populated almost entirely by undead and sentient robots.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'': Kakariko Village is replaced with the Village of Thieves in the Dark World. It's filled with monsters that do indeed attack you, though there are fox-like monsters who you can play gambling games with.

%%* ''Film/{{Halloweentown}}'' takes place in a cheerful HalloweenTown setting -- at least until the lights go out.%%Meaning?
%%* ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'': The BazaarOfTheBizarre.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'': Monster Isle. Every so often, one of the locals goes out to fight the girls, and hopefully win. Whoever gets his ass kicked and then comes back to tell them how [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy awesome fighting them was]] is considered a hero.

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone2985'': In "Red Snow", several residents of the PenalColony are vampires who are, due to CommonalityConnection feelings about how they're all exiles, given sanctuary by the human residents in exchange for defending them from threats.

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%%* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'': The monster world.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Halloweentown.
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* ''WebVideo/WaywardGuideForTheUntrainedEye'': Downplayed with Connor Creek, which has quite a bit of folklore around werewolves in its town history, [[spoiler: and is later revealed to have been ''founded'' by werewolves, who can use the unique silver deposits from the mines to control their transformations and pass for human. Since the humans outnumber the werewolves, however, the Connor pack is afraid of being found out once they are scapegoated for the murders that occur in the series.]]