History WebVideo / MonsterFactory

It can be watched on the Polygon website and [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDrN74SfdT6duuVl_8qxJ5eaaPHRX_ij YouTube channel]], as well as on The [=McElroy=] Family [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6k_GngLDtxbkUlZOq6_h5g YouTube channel]]. As of the Hungry-Faced Gil episodes, all ''Monster Factory'' episodes are only uploaded to The [=McElroy=] Family channel going forward. The series has been on hiatus since January 27th, 2021,[[note]]Justin stated on the podcast Gender Reveal that increasingly realistic video game graphics were making it harder to make monsters that didn't look like actual people with facial deformities[[/note]] although Justin and Griffin have not formally announced the end of the show. The boys returned from hiatus in March 2022 with an ''Elden Ring'' video and a promise for more; episodes are now released on an occasional basis, with the most recent being a video abusing ''Chimeraland'''s character creation engine.

* ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' -- A {{Sitcom}} called "Series/MyTwoDads
" featuring [[Franchise/StarWars Dark Vader]], Cousin Specialagent and their son Daytrader Vader

* ImplausibleDeniability: Trüllbus (and, by extension, the Third Street Saints). Aside from the alleged "teleportation device" and guns that shoot Dippy Bars, he also steals cars that Griffin and Justin are ''pretty sure'' were his, or under the pretense of "borrowing" them with the intent to return them later, or, in the case of a cop car, by virtue of "basically being a cop by now."

* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' -- The Grinch-Hunter

It can be watched on the Polygon website and [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDrN74SfdT6duuVl_8qxJ5eaaPHRX_ij YouTube channel]], as well as on The [=McElroy=] Family [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6k_GngLDtxbkUlZOq6_h5g YouTube channel]]. As of the Hungry-Faced Gil episodes, all ''Monster Factory'' episodes are only uploaded to The [=McElroy=] Family channel going forward. The series has been on hiatus since January 27th, 2021,[[note]]Justin stated on the podcast Gender Reveal that increasingly realistic video game graphics were making it harder to make monsters that didn't look like actual people with facial deformities[[/note]] although Justin and Griffin have not formally announced the end of the show. The boys returned from hiatus in March 2022 with an ''Elden Ring'' video and a promise for more.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' - [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Squirtle]].
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' - [[ComicStrip/{{Garfield}} Cyber-Garfield (G.A.R.F.I.E.L.D.)]].
* ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' - A {{Sitcom}} called "Series/MyTwoDads" featuring [[Franchise/StarWars Dark Vader]], Cousin Specialagent and their son Day Trader Vader.
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' - D-Bomb.
* ''[[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames WWE 2K14]]'' - [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Pebble]] (Christopher Christopher Christopher Christopher).
* ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' - Truck Shepard, created via game state editing rather than the usual sliders.
* ''VideoGame/ARKSurvivalEvolved'' - Dino-[[Series/MurderSheWrote Lansbury]].
* ''VideoGame/SecondLife'' - The Boy-Mayor of ''Second Life'', and his campaign manager Totino's.
* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' - Toucan Dan.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion'' - Chiquita Dave, a "chill-ass banana-man".
* ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 4}}'' - The Final Pam and her husband Trash Hulk.
* ''VideoGame/BlackDesertOnline'' (Beta) - Borth Sampson, who is just like [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Bart]].
* ''VideoGame/DragonsDogma'' - Randyjohnson and her "throwable" pawn Panpan.
* ''VideoGame/BladeAndSoul'' - Succotash and Ratbaby (and her familiar Vape Life).
* A pizza-themed GameMod of ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' created by a witch Griffin met in an Arby's - #NOID.
* ''[[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames WWE 2K16]]'' - Justin Rude Boy Man, an attempt to import Justin's face into the character creator.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' - [[ComicBook/{{Batman}} The Junker]].
* ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburV'' - Mëlissa, a VideoGame/SlyCooper {{Cosplay}}er.
* ''[[VideoGame/PGATour Tiger Woods PGA Tour '08]]'' - Daz, an attempt at importing a photograph of character actor Dennis Farina.
* ''VideoGame/SaintsRowTheThird'' - Trüllbus the Crime-Eater.
* ''VideoGame/{{Spore}}'' - J'aam, "the sequel to dogs", and SHRECK THE MOVIE.
* ''[[UsefulNotes/{{Wii}} Mii Channel]]'', followed by ''VideoGame/WiiSportsResort'' - Turbovicki, [=DickCheney=], Turbosusan and Turbojanet.
* ''VideoGame/ChampionsOnline'' - Knife Dad, saving the world one knife at a time.
* ''VideoGame/ConanExiles'' - Jefferson Tallpipe.
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' - DJ Slime Time.
* ''[[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames WWE 2K17]]'' - [[UltimateShowdownOfUltimateDestiny Monster Mania 2K17]].
* ''VideoGame/TheSims4'' (again) - [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover Monster Factory: Sweeps Week]].
* ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' - Cid Finalfantasy.
* ''[[VideoGame/NBA2K NBA 2K17]]'' - Gordan "Stang" Summers, who is [[SuspiciouslySpecificDenial definitely not]] {{Music/Sting}} in disguise.
* ''Everybody's Golf'' - Garretttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt, sweet small alien boy.
* ''VideoGame/TonyHawksUnderground PRO'' - Tony Hawk?????? and Zeke Teenweed.
* ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarOnline2'' - Adult Cool, a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin cool adult]] with far too many hats.
* ''[[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames WWE 2K18]]'' - R.B. (Arby) "The Meathead" [=McDonald=].
* ''VideoGame/MonsterHunterWorld'' - Halo 666, the daughter of [[Franchise/{{Halo}} Master Chief and Cortana]], and Meowster Chief, her dad transformed into a cat.
* ''VideoGame/SoulCaliburVI'' - Dr. Sexgun.
* ''Don Bradman Cricket 14'' - Jim "Captain Cool" Johnman.
* ''VideoGame/Fallout76'' - Slime Burger, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute as portrayed by]] Freddy "Slimeburger" Jr.
* ''Bless Online'' - Tamitha "Tammy" Radbody.
* ''VideoGame/StarTrekOnline'' - Yoba Skywalker Starwars.
* ''Avakin Life'' - [=NanciBudin73=].
* ''[[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames WWE 2K20]]'' - Snack Braff and Sweet Gene, who bear strong resemblances to [[Creator/ZachBraff Zach Braff]] and Gritty, respectively.
* ''VideoGame/CodeVein'' - Dugls n' Richrd.
* ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'' Extreme Edition (Dark Souls III, but heavily modded by the boys) - Hungry-Faced Gil.
* ''Woodwork Simulator'' - Pismokio.
* ''Pro Gymnast'' - jIM jELLY.
* ''VideoGame/DemonsSouls (2020)'' - Ronnie Faeburger.
* ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsIII'' - Count Beetlejuice-Beetlejuice of Dal, of the House of Beetlejuice
* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' - no name given, but he defends Whoville from the Grinch.

Hosts Justin and Griffin [=McElroy=] pick a video game and abuse its character editor for fun and profit, typically going for the most outlandishly {{gonk}} avatar they can. They then take their monstrosity out for a spin, sometimes utilizing {{Classic Cheat Code}}s to add to the chaos (noclip, GodMode, SequenceBreaking, etc), especially if the character editor is too limited to really abuse. The third part of the show is {{corpsing}}. Justin and Griffin have no idea what they are going to see, and some of their creations have brought the show to a halt for as much as a minute while they pick themselves up from the floor.

* {{Corpsing}}: The whole show is pretty much the Brothers [=McElroy=] cracking up, but some of the bigger laughing fits include:
** ''Dark Souls: Arby's Witch Edition'', when they fall off a cliff and discover the "YOU DIED" message has been modded and replaced with "CASUL".
** ''WWE 2K20'', when Griffin puts John Leguizamo's face on their wrestler's face.

* NonStandardCharacterDesign: After making Justin in ''WWE 2k16'' in the usual extreme {{Gonk}} ''MF'' style, insulting Justin's appearance the whole time, Griffin reveals the character he made of himself, [[HerCodenameWasMarySue and he looks like a normal handsome character]]. (Justin starts corpsing like mad as soon as he sees this.)

* UncannyValley[[invoked]]:

** Griffin does a similar thing in [[VideoGame/WWEVideoGames WWE2K16]].

** Due to the game's unwieldy interface and it simply crashing several times, the brothers abandon several monsters over the course of the ''Spore'' series. Lampshaded when Justin and Griffin are celebrating making an excellent Shrek {{Expy}}, before Griffin suddenly says "Oh, were we supposed to make a dog or something?"

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Truck Shepard's original form is described by Griffin as "human-adjacent" rather than a true monster, as he doesn't feel the character creator gives enough freedom to be a good candidate for Monster creation. Griffin's attempts to make Shepard clearly monstrous leads to him hacking the game to move his face bones, with results he describes as "too upsetting too fast".

* BuffySpeak: "That's not what face do!"

* {{Corpsing}}: Half the fun is listening to the Brothers [=McElroy=] crack up.

* AmbiguouslyHuman: Truck Shepard's original form is described by Griff as "human-adjacent" rather than a true monster, as he doesn't feel the character creator gives enough freedom to be a good candidate for Monster creation. Griff's attempts to make Shepard clearly monstrous leads to him hacking the game to move his face bones, with results he describes as "too upsetting too fast".

** Griff is delighted to discover a party guest in ''Second Life'' who is a poor version of Bart Simpson using the user name "justlikebart".

* CameBackWrong: In Fallout 4, Griff begins to experiment with just how small a body part of an enemy he can console-resurrect, resulting in skinless, headless mole rat corpses being animated. Justin is justifiably freaked out and says this is going too far.

* FlippingTheBird: When editing Borth Sampson's pose, Justin notes the individually-editable finger positions and asks if Griff's going to make him do a lewd gesture. Subverted when Griff says that just flipping the bird is far beneath his ambitions and spends an (apparently long) period of time contorting Borth into a two-handed O-sign 'penetration' gesture.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: When first creating their Warrior in ''Black Desert Online'', Griff insists on giving him muscular legs because "you know what you don't expect in a swordfight? Kicks from big meaty legs." Justin wonders if you can even kick in this game. Much later, the bros learn "Chopping Kick" from an NPC and decide to make Borth a "kick-heavy build", dependent on kicking as sole means of attack ("and locomotion").
* GameMod: Griff receives a version of ''Dark Souls'' from "an Arby's witch". A version where the text is in Comic Sans, the face button graphics are replaced with the Nintendo 64's C Buttons, a Rupee counter is added to the UI, potions are replaced with Mountain Dew, emoji is added to campfire text, and most of the textures are replaced with 'shiny pizza [=JPEGs=]'.

* {{Griefer}}: Invoked in nearly every episode in which Griff and Juice play games with an online multiplayer component. Griff's particular brand of trolling is something special.

* GrossupCloseup: Usually when something sexy or exceptionally horrible happens on the character creator, Griff shoves the camera right in there.

* HoistByHisOwnPetard: In ''Oblivion'', Griff uses a bunch of cheats to give their monster, Chiquita Dave, impossible physical strength and all the magic in the game. He then clones Chiquita Dave fifty times and shoots a fireball at the assembled crowd, and is horrified to discover an entire army of Chiquita Daves blasting him with every powerful spell in the game until Justin explains to him what has happened.

* RepetitiveName: Griff abuses ''WWE 2K14'''s Announcer Name feature to have The Pebble introduced (in a voiced line) as "Christopher Christopher Christopher Christopher".

* SingleIssueWonk: As Rat Baby, Griff takes a familiar called "Vape Life" and then gets 'squelched' for spamming puerile gibberish about vaping in ''Blade and Soul'''s chat. After this he holds "a protest against Big Analog", demanding the statistics on the health benefits of vaping as opposed to conventional cigarettes, getting him squelched again.

* WildTeenParty: The Boy-Mayor rents property on a server to hold a party, against the wishes of the landlords (not even {{Kayfabe}}). In order to get away with this Griff constructs a 'pizza dungeon' in the sky above the house with a teleport pad in the kennel, without telling the hosts. The hosts actually return while the party is happening, and tell him off for not just having the 'family party' permitted, so Griff gets them all to teleport to 'Music/DuranDuran World' by deleting the floor.

* GameMod: Griff receives a version of ''Dark Souls'' from "an Arby's witch". A version where the text is in Comic Sans, the face buttons are replaced with a Gamecube D-Pad, a Rupee counter is added to the UI, potions are replaced with Mountain Dew, emoji is added to campfire text, and most of the textures are replaced with 'shiny pizza [=JPEGs=]'.

* BiggusDickus: Jefferson Tallpipe's entire personality.

It can be watched on the Polygon website and [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDrN74SfdT6duuVl_8qxJ5eaaPHRX_ij YouTube channel]], as well as on The [=McElroy=] Family [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6k_GngLDtxbkUlZOq6_h5g YouTube channel]]. As of the Hungry-Faced Gil episodes, all ''Monster Factory'' episodes are only uploaded to The [=McElroy=] Family channel going forward. The series has been on hiatus since January 27th, 2021,[[note]]Justin stated on the podcast Gender Reveal that increasingly realistic video game graphics were making it harder to make monsters that didn't look like actual people with facial deformities[[/note]] although Justin and Griffin have not formally announced the end of the show.

It can be watched on the Polygon website and [[https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaDrN74SfdT6duuVl_8qxJ5eaaPHRX_ij YouTube channel]], as well as on The [=McElroy=] Family [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6k_GngLDtxbkUlZOq6_h5g YouTube channel]]. As of the Hungry-Faced Gil episodes, all ''Monster Factory'' episodes are only uploaded to The [=McElroy=] Family channel going forward.

->''"This is not a mean-spirited show — it's about creating things that are initially horrifying and then finding the beauty within, as we can all do for ourselves and those around us- what is going on with the fucking eyes though, [[Creator/ToddHoward Todd]]!?"''

* TheCasanova: ZigZagged by Truck Shepard, who is initially described as being a 'kissboy' and practices by pouting out his lips in the Character Creator in his initial "human-adjacent" form (while Griffin provides sound effects). By the time he reaches his "perfect warrior" form, the boys decide he is [[{{Asexuality}} uninterested in romance]] as "he still needs to figure out how his face works".

** Justin does a sort of LetsPlay {{Walkthrough}} narrator character in numerous videos who introduces himself by a stupid username (usually "ButtMan" followed by a random number) and has a muffled British accent. At one point, Griffin criticises Justin for always playing 'speedrunners' as British.

* TheGrotesque: The monsters. The bros repeatedly state that the show isn't a [[invoked:TooBleakStoppedCaring cruel, pessimistic show]], it's intended to be a life-affirming show about creating horrible-looking things and finding a reason to love them despite their flaws.

* InformedDeformity: Mëllissa, Cid Finalfantasy, and Dugls. Any time the boys use a character editor that only allows one to pick a face without the ability to edit it, while they'll pick the one the deem the oddest and proceed to give the character as strange and bad of an outfit, makeup, and hair as possible, they will always still turn out comparatively normal. The boys never seem to doubt their monster credentials, though.

** Justin does a sort of LetsPlay {{Walkthrough}} narrator character in numerous videos who introduces himself by a stupid username and has a muffled British accent. At one point, Griffin criticises Justin for always playing 'speedrunners' as British.
** Creator/WillWright has a Cockney accent, which as Griff points out doesn't make any sense since he's pretty sure Will isn't British. Griffin later gives Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto a Cockney accent, which makes Justin corpse.