History Main / MookMaker

* Discussed in ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''. Morgoth created the Orcs be enslaving and twisting Elves from Beleriand into an EvilCounterpartRace. After his defeat, Sauron made sure they still multiplied in great numbers.

** The Pain Elementals, flying Cacodemon-like gasbag monsters that spit out flying skulls called Lost Souls, and could do so forever until you killed them, at which point they released three more Lost Souls upon death just to spite you. They have a deliberate limitation implemented to stop them from flooding the map with Lost Souls and slowing everything down to a crawl (we are talking about a game from 1994 being played on even older machines, after all). The universal map limit is 21 Lost Souls, a number which is achievable on any stock map that includes Pain Elementals. Some [=PWADs=] actually go so far as to take advantage of this feature, booby-trapping special items with crushers that kill out-of-area Lost Souls, allowing the present Pain Elementals to start ruining your day.
** A second example is the FinalBoss, (The Icon of Sin) which spits out cubes that turn into demons upon landing ([[{{Telefrag}} and can kill you even in god mode if you happen to be where a cube landed]]). To defeat it, you launch rockets into its exposed brain and hit the head of Creator/JohnRomero behind it with SplashDamage.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fishgun}}'' have plant-pits that spawns the common PlantMooks you encounter in the game, though the pits themselves can be destroyed. The last boss is notably a building-sized strawberry with a face who keeps growing extra minions and releasing them from it's mouth.

** The series doesn't have too many of these, but the Remnants in the second game have a variant ability: they can puppet corpses in the surrounding area and have them fight you. You can gun the corpses down, but there's not much preventing the Remnant from just picking them back up, except killing it (or [[LudicrousGibs Gibbing]] the corpses with shotguns).

* ''VideoGame/Sonic3AndKnuckles'' haa Launch Base Zone, in which passing in-between a pair of motion detectors will spawn those diving mooks. Parking yourself in a specific one and doing a spindash was [[InfiniteOneUps an easy way to rack up 200+ lives]].

** ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' rival Kamen Rider Diend's main power is the ability to create copies of other Kamen Riders, which then do what he tells them to. Normally these summons are solo, but his most-used card creates three [[Series/KamenRiderFaiz Riotroopers]], more in line with this trope. During a crossover, a MonsterOfTheWeek steals the Diendriver, and with it, summons a [[Series/KamenRiderKiva Fangire]] and [[Series/KamenRiderBlade Undead]] to fight the ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger''.

* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''

* ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'' has Dee Dee. If selected, she will appears once during the night, and either increase the difficulty of an already-present enemy, add a random new one, or (very rarely) do nothing. In the former two cases, there's no indication of what character she buffed or added. [[spoiler:There's also the slight chance that she'll instead summon one of 6 characters that aren't selectable in the menu]]. However, if you're playing on 50/20 Mode, you'll be already fighting all the animatronics at the highest difficulty... [[spoiler:Enter XOR, Dee Dee's "shadow" version who can rarely replace her (''always'' replaces Dee Dee on 50/20 Mode), and who summons all 6 of the aforementioned secret animatronics, one after the other]].

* ''Website/{{Cracked}}'' Photoplasty advertises it in [[http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_273_26-ads-products-that-must-exist-in-video-games_p26/#19 Ads for Products That Must Exist in Video Games]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}'' this is Hector’s and Isaac’s main job as Forgemasters in Dracula’s army; to turn corpses of humans into demons for their masters fight against humanity.

* Noah from ''Manga/SoulEater''. While not creating the mooks himself, he's a collectionist who store all his collections within the [[GreatBigBookOfEverything Book of]] [[TomeOfEldritchLore Eibon]], so, when it comes to fight, he uses the book to summon a vast number of powerful creatures he had captured over the time. [[spoiler:Then it turns out that Noah is a mook created by the book's Table of Contents by making Noahs on the Seven Deadly Sins and it maid another Noah based on Wrath as the first was Greed.]] Asura also the true mook maker as he can produce an army of Clowns thanks to his madness.

* The Hell Greed in ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' acts like this, spawning enemies of three varieties (Hell Prides, Lusts, and Sloths). Interesting side effect: the spot where they spawn Sloths (the ones with most HitPoints) has more combo videos than all other places combined.

* With the macrovirus from ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', the unconscious hosts are Mook Makers for the monsters that transmit the virus.

* ''{{VideoGame/Strife}}'' inverts this. You can acquire teleporter beacons that spawn in Front troops to help you. While they aren't of much use, generally a brief distraction or some post-casualty ammo, they don't set off alarms like you do and can thin out guards without calling in enemy reinforcements.

* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife1'' one of the bosses is the Gonarch, the "mother" of all headcrabs and will spew out infant headcrabs until it explodes dying.
* The beach areas of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' will constantly produce antlions if you walk on the sand. In ''Episode One'', the same antlions constantly climb out of burrows, which you can block by shoving cars on top. Some areas also constantly spawn headcrabs out of dark dead ends or air vents.

** Flood combat forms are often repeatedly (not indefinitely) generated from ventilation ducts or other points of emergence in the walls, such as in ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved''[='s=] "The Library". One section of ''VideoGame/{{Halo 2}}''[='s=] The Oracle involves a [[ElevatorActionSequence giant elevator]] with two smaller shafts that groups of Combat Forms will jump out of in random numbers, in addition to Infection Form-harboring canisters. On top of that, the elevator rotates to screw up your aim. If a large-enough group spawns at a time, you can be overwhelmed and screwed over big time, especially with their ability to insta-kill you with their melee attacks, and the ability for Infection Forms to resurrect corpses, hence this area is quite a LuckBasedMission.

* Some of ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'''s later levels have "unholy altars" that constantly spawn high-level enemies until they are "defiled" (destroyed). The FinalBoss, Shub-Niggurath, was also of this kind, continually spawning enemies with her pod but not contributing in any other way to the battle. The only way you could kill her was to enter the portal at the end of the stage when the pod went into her body in order to {{Telefrag}} her.

* ''VideoGame/TheGameOfLife'' has glider guns, which periodically spit out gliders. The most famous of these is the "Gosper glider gun", which produces a single glider every 30 generations.

* ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/DoomII'', the Pain Elementals, flying Cacodemon-like gasbag monsters that spit out flying skulls called Lost Souls, and could do so forever until you killed them, at which point they released three more Lost Souls upon death just to spite you. They had a deliberate limitation implemented to stop them from flooding the map with Lost Souls and slowing everything down to a crawl (we are talking about a game from 1994 being played on even older machines, after all). The universal map limit is 21 Lost Souls, a number which is achievable on any stock map that includes Pain Elementals. Some [=PWADs=] actually go so far as to take advantage of this feature, booby-trapping special items with crushers that kill out-of-area Lost Souls, allowing the present Pain Elementals to start ruining your day.
** A second example is the ''final boss'' of ''Doom II'', (The Icon of Sin) which spat out cubes that turned into demons upon landing ([[{{Telefrag}} and would kill you even in god mode if you happened be where a cube landed]]). To defeat it, you launch rockets into its exposed brain and hit the head of Creator/JohnRomero behind it with SplashDamage.

* In ''VideoGame/TheAdventuresOfLomax'', in the second world there are coffins that sometimes pop out of the ground and start spitting out zombies. They keep doing that until they run out of zombies or until you destroy them.
* The time-bending game ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' contains cannons that produce Goomba mooks, which are often necessary to complete puzzles, and makes a very unique use of them: In the last world, time is perpetually running backwards for everything but the player, and one level consists of mooks that float up from the bottom of the screen, un-die when they reach a pit of spikes, and jump back into the Mook Maker. The puzzle's solution involves [[spoiler:jumping on the mooks as they're floating upwards, which causes them to un-die on the spot. Since they didn't un-die in the spikes, you've altered the past/future so that they must have come from the ''other'' Mook Maker in the level, which it will now walk backwards into]].

* ''VideoGame/AssaultRetribution'': The mutant eggs, which are as tall as the human players, can spawn endless amount of mutants (in their facehugger-like infant form) until they're destroyed. What's even worse is that they can respawn as quickly as they're obliterated...

* Part 4 of ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' features a [[spoiler: pair of]] mystical bow and arrows that can induce stands in people, 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.

* ''VideoGame/EtrianOdyssey'' has the Queen Ant, which lays egg sacs from which ant enemies can be hatched. If thesde sacs are left unchecked by the time the Queen is fought, the ants will eventually join the fray and make the fight much harder.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'': [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-354 SCP-354]]. It's a pool of blood in the north Canadian wilderness that continually spawns lethal monsters, including (but not limited to) a giant bat, a bear-sized echidna, a 4 meter tall reptilian humanoid that shrugged off gunfire, and a Franchise/{{Terminator}}-like machine with a cloaking device. The Foundation has had to erect a defensive reinforced-concrete wall around the pool that is continually staffed with armed guards and has [[OneManArmy SCP-076 "Able"]] on standby to prevent these dangerous entities from escaping out into the world.

** ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' rival Kamen Rider Diend's main power is the ability to create copies of other Kamen Riders, which then do what he tells them to. Normally these summons are solo, but his most-used card creates three [[Series/KamenRiderFaiz Riotroopers]], more in line with this trope. During a crossover, a MonsterOfTheWeek steals the Diendriver, and with it, summons a Fangire and Undead to fight the ''Series/SamuraiSentaiShinkenger''.

** Circe has a disturbing habit of turning huge groups of people, sometimes entire towns but usually just men, into her loyal [[BalefulPolymorph Beastiamorphs]].

* In ''VideoGame/RealmOfTheMadGod'' almost ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Every. Single. Boss.]]'' summons some kind of {{Mook|s}}. However, the [[{{Pun}} god]] of this trope is the event boss called the Cube God. You see, the Cube God spawns Orange Cubes, [[UpToEleven these Orange Cubes spawn Yellow Cubes, and the Yellow Cubes spawn Blue Cubes]]. There is a very good reason why this guy is considered to be one of the hardest bosses outside of dungeons, as the shots those cubes fill the screen with ''hurt.''

* ''VideoGame/UltimateCustomNight'' has Dee Dee. If selected, she will appears once during the night, and either increase the difficulty of an already-present enemy, add a random new one, or (very rarely) do nothing. In the former two cases, there's no indication of what character she buffed or added. [[spoiler:There's also the slight chance that she'll instead summon one of 6 characters that aren't selectable in the menu]]. However, if you're playing on 50/20 Mode, you'll be already fighting all the animatronics at the highest difficulty... [[spoiler:Enter XOR, Dee Dee's "shadow" version who can rarely replace her (''always'' replaces Dee Dee on 50/20 Mode), and who [[UptoEleven summons all 6 of the aforementioned secret animatronics, one after the other]]]].