History Main / MookMaker

See also ClownCarGrave, and ExplosiveBreeder. Compare to EnemySummoner, which is like Mook Maker but with the ability to fight on their own too, or SpawnBroodling when mook-making is a form of attack. WeaponizedOffspring may be a subtrope of this.

* One of the few powers, in its myriad forms, that gets you classified as an S-class threat in ''{{Literature/Worm}}''. One particularly famous one, Nilbog, overran a city with his creations before the story began and rules over it as a king.

* In the ''{{X-Wing}}''/''TieFighter'' games, anything bigger than a Corvette is usually one of these. They'd regularly be able to spew fighters well past the 'standard' capacity, such as a Nebulan B Frigate, which can carry one twelve-ship squadron, throwing out an entire wing of 72.

** Technically the assembly line, that was mass [[producing RobotWar]] [[FemBot Bebe-Androids]] could count.

** Technically the assembly line, that was mass producing Bebe-Androids could count.

* In the second SpellSinger Fantasy novel, one arc involves the main characters sailing under a mountain to get to a new country. Meanwhile they end up passing [[EldritchAbomination "The Mother of all nightmares"]] [[spoiler: A massive blob like creature that shakes off it's children like dandruff, that resemble naked (Albeit no genitals) humanoid creatures with pure black eyes, and a mouth that looks like it was made by a single knife cut. Whom try to kill everyone on the boat, or simply stall them until their mother is within touching reach of them to "Nightmare them to death". While humming a somber death song. And the Mother of all Nightmares can create an infinite amount of them, as they are the default form nightmares take, when they aren't inside peoples' dreams.]]

* In the second SpellSinger Fantasy novel, one arc involves the main characters sailing under a mountain to get to a new country. Meanwhile they end up passing [[EldritchAbomination "The Mother of all nightmares"]] [[spoiler: A massive blob like creature that shakes off it's children like dandruff, that resemble naked (Albeit no genitals) humanoid creatures with pure black eyes, and a mouth that looks like it was made by a single knife cut. Whom try to kill everyone on the boat, or simply stall them until their mother is within touching reach of them to "Nightmare them to death". While humming a somber death song. And the Mother of all Nightmares can create an infinite amount of them, as they are the default form nightmares take, when they aren't inside peoples' dreams. Though luckily they are very very easily to kill, but that's not the point here]]

* In the second SpellSinger Fantasy novel, one arc involves the main characters sailing under a mountain to get to a new country. Meanwhile they end up passing [[EldritchAbomination "The Mother of all nightmares"]] [[spoiler: A massive blob like creature that shakes off it's children like dandruff, that resemble naked (Albeit no genitals) humanoid creatures with pure black eyes, and a mouth that looks like it was made by a single knife cut. Whom try to kill everyone on the boat, or simply stall them until their mother is within touching reach of them to "Nightmare them to death". While humming a somber death song. And the Mother of all Nightmares can create an infinite amount of them, as they are the default form nightmares take, when they aren't inside peoples' dreams. Though luckily they are very very easily to kill]]

* In the second SpellSinger Fantasy novel, one arc involves the main characters sailing under a mountain to get to a new country. Meanwhile they end up passing [[EldritchAbomination "The Mother of all nightmares"]] [[spoiler: A massive blob like creature that shakes off it's children like dandruff, that resemble naked (Albeit no genitals) humanoid creatures with pure black eyes, and a mouth that looks like it was made by a single knife cut. Whom try to kill everyone on the boat [[note]] or simply stall them until their mother is within touching reach of them [[/note]] while humming a somber death song. And the Mother of all Nightmares can create an infinite amount of them, as they are the default form nightmares take, when they aren't inside peoples' dreams. Though luckily they are very very easily to kill]]

* In the second SpellSinger Fantasy novel, one arc involves the main characters sailing under a mountain to get to a new country. Meanwhile they end up passing [[EldritchAbomination "The Mother of all nightmares"]] [[spoiler: A massive blob like creature that shakes off it's children like dandruff, that resemble naked (Albeit no genitals) humanoid creatures with pure black eyes, and a mouth that looks like it was made by a single knife cut. Whom try to kill everyone on the boat while humming a somber death song. And the Mother of all Nightmares can create an infinite amount of them, as they are the default form nightmares take, when they aren't inside peoples' dreams. Though luckily they are very very easily to kill]]

* In the second SpellSinger Fantasy novel, one arc involves the main characters sailing under a mountain to get to a new country. Meanwhile they end up passing [[EldritchAbomination "The Mother of all nightmares"]] [[spoiler: A massive blob like creature that shakes off it's children like dandruff, that resemble naked (Albeit no genitals) humanoid creatures that try to kill everyone on the boat while humming a somber death song. And the Mother of all Nightmares can create an infinite amount of them, as they are the default form nightmares take, when they aren't inside peoples' dreams.]]

* In the second SpellSinger Fantasy novel, one arc involves the main characters sailing under a mountain to get to a new country. Meanwhile they end up passing [[EldritchAbomination "The Mother of all nightmares"]] [[spoiler: A massive blob like creature that shakes off it's children like dandruff, that resemble naked (Albeit no genitals) humanoid creatures that try to kill everyone on the boat while humming a somber death song. And there literally unlimited amounts of them, as they are the default form nightmares take, when they aren't inside peoples' dreams.]]

* The monsters in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon: RuneFactory'' are summoned by machines that the character must destroy to reach the boss of the cave.

** The Skaven have an incredibly powerful spell called the Dreaded Thirteenth Spell that converts a sizable chunk of enemies into Clanrats, their [[{{Mooks}} standard Core choice]]. Despite its [[AwesomeButImpractical 25+ casting difficulty]], with good rolls you can cast this spell as many times as you like, which means your amount of mooks is only limited by the number of enemy mooks.
* The Convergence of Cyriss [[{{HumongousMecha}} colossal]] in ''TabletopGame/{{Warmachine}}'' can spawn one servitor (a small flying robot with different abilities depending on the type, from repairing friendly units to exploding in the enemy's face) every turn. Iron Mother Diretcrix, a Convergece warcaster, can also spawn special servitors, though she can't have more than two active at a time. Her theme list allows even the colossal to spawn three servitors during the first turn of the game.

* Part 4 of JoJosBizarreAdventure features a [[spoiler: pair of]] mystical bow and arrows used to create most of the stand users in Part 3, and passed on through different characters (Keicho Nijimura, Akira Otoishi and Yoshihiro Kira) in Part 4 as they create more stand users to hassle the protagonists and further their own ends.

* ''WorldOfWarcraft'' has Spirit Traps, added in the ''Landfall'' patch, inside the Ruins of Ogudei. When engaged, they don't attack the player directly, instead they release a Howling Spirit every few seconds. Players without sufficient DPS can get quickly overwhelmed, though ranged characters can try to stay out of the aggro range of the Howling Spirits, or hide in deep water where the spirits will not go.

* ''WarCraft 3'' has Necromancers, which can summon 2 [[DemBones Skeletons]] from a nearby corpse. Combined with a Graveyard, Meat Wagon, or a progressing battle to provide corpses, and perhaps an Obsidian Statue to provide extra mana, they can summon a veritable army in a very short time. However, Priests, Spirit Walkers, Wisps and Destroyers can easily counter this threat with their area-dispel abilities, which deal enough damage to summoned enemies to instantly kill the skeletons.

** Of course, Necromancers also show up in ''WorldOfWarcraft'', where classes with strong area damage spells (such as mages) are the best way to deal with them.

** ''WorldOfWarcraft'' also features other MookMaker enemies. Some enemies can create portals from which more enemies will come through unless they're killed (and often these enemies are as strong or stronger than the ones doing the summoning), and some keep spawning weak enemies (the Necromancers fall to the later group). In addition, many bosses can summon mooks to help them.

** ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3|AbsenceOfJustice}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 4|APromiseUnforgotten}}'' have enemy base panels from which a certain number of additional units will emerge as turns pass.

* One of the few powers, in its myriad forms, that gets you classified as an S-class threat in ''[[Literature/Worm]]''. One particularly famous one, Nilbog, overran a city with his creations before the story began and rules over it as a king.

* Throughout the ''[[VideoGame/WorldOfMana Mana series]]'', a lot of enemies can spawn smaller {{mooks}}.

* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'': Boxed Phalanxes]] are not only Mook Makers, they're also ''Mook Empowerers''. Leave them long enough, and they'll put so many buffs on their Mooks they almost reach BossInMookClothing territory.