History YMMV / MonsterHunterInternational

* SpiritualAdaptation: For fans of ''Film/{{Tremors}}'', this series may be the best literary adaptation of its blend of action-horror, GunPorn, and wisecracking heroes, though unlike ''Tremors''[='=] Graboids (which are purely biological animals), the monsters here are explicitly supernatural.

* SpiritualAdaptation: For fans of ''Franchise/{{Tremors}}'', this series may be the best literary adaptation of its blend of action-horror, GunPorn, and wisecracking heroes, though unlike ''Tremors''[='=] Graboids (which are purely biological animals), the monsters here are explicitly supernatural.

* CrazyAwesome:

* HolyShitQuotient:

* AuthorTract: While not as hamhanded as it could be, don't expect any character who is both sympathetic and competent have anything nice to say about the government, ever. On the flip side, government characters tend to be inept, deceptive bullies. The last is part of the MCB agent operating procedure, however, to prevent widespread belief in the supernatural [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve strengthening the forces of Evil.]]\\
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This gets more nuanced as the series goes on, particularly in ''Nemesis''. Franks's perspective gives the reader more insight into the motivations of the government characters. After the events of ''Nemesis'', Grant Jefferson looks a lot more competent and Myers and Franks look a lot more sympathetic, although this comes in part from [[spoiler: Myers getting a heroic death]].

This gets more nuanced as the series goes on, particularly in ''Nemesis''. Franks's perspective gives the reader more insight into the motivations of the government characters. After the events of ''Nemesis'', Grant Jefferson looks a lot more competent and Myers and Franks look a lot more sympathetic, although this comes in part from [[spoiler: Myers getting a heroic death]].\\
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Additionally, in ''Grunge'', Chad Gardenier, the narrator, criticizes the Shacklefords' hard-line stance against having anything to do with the government. He even talks about lobbying a congressman and testifying before (secret, naturally) congressional committees to improve the situation for Hunters.

This gets more nuanced as the series goes on, particularly in ''Nemesis''. Franks's perspective gives the reader more insight into the motivations of the government characters. After the events of ''Nemesis'', Grant Jefferson looks a lot more competent and Myers and Franks look a lot more sympathetic, although this comes in part from [[spoiler: Myers getting a heroic death]].

* HolyShitQuotient: In Monster Hunter Nemesis, when it is revealed the identity of who was interrogating Franks since the early chapters of the book and why. [[spoiler:It is Archangel Michael and Franks was DeadAllAlong]].
** The back-cover blurb for the upcoming Monster Hunter: Siege. "GO BIG OR GO HOME. When Owen Zastava Pitt was given a tip about some hunters who had gone missing in action, he didn’t realize their rescue mission would snowball into the single biggest operation in Monster Hunter International’s history. Their men are being held prisoner in a horrific nightmare dimension, and the only way to reach them is through the radioactive ruins of a monster infested war zone. Except it’s also the home base of the powerful creature behind the attacks on the Last Dragon and Copper Lake. It turns out ancient gods of chaos really hate trespassers, but he picked a fight with the wrong crew, and now MHI wants payback. Calling on their allies, a massive expedition is formed, and with the odds stacked against them, a legion of hunters goes to war. It’s D-Day at the City of Monsters."

** The back-cover blurb for the upcoming Monster Hunter: Siege. "GO BIG OR GO HOME. When Owen Zastava Pitt was given a tip about some hunters who had gone missing in action, he didn’t realize their rescue mission would snowball into the single biggest operation in Monster Hunter International’s history. Their men are being held prisoner in a horrific nightmare dimension, and the only way to reach them is through the radioactive ruins of a monster infested war zone. Except it’s also the home base of the powerful creature behind the attacks on the Last Dragon and Copper Lake. It turns out ancient gods of chaos really hate trespassers, but he picked a fight with the wrong crew, and now MHI wants payback. Calling on their allies, a massive expedition is formed, and with the odds stacked against them, a legion of hunters goes to war.
It’s D-Day at the City of Monsters."

** The back-cover blurb for the upcoming Monster Hunter: Siege. "GO BIG OR GO HOME. When Owen Zastava Pitt was given a tip about some hunters who had gone missing in action, he didn’t realize their rescue mission would snowball into the single biggest operation in Monster Hunter International’s history. Their men are being held prisoner in a horrific nightmare dimension, and the only way to reach them is through the radioactive ruins of a monster infested war zone.
Except it’s also the home base of the powerful creature behind the attacks on the Last Dragon and Copper Lake. It turns out ancient gods of chaos really hate trespassers, but he picked a fight with the wrong crew, and now MHI wants payback. Calling on their allies, a massive expedition is formed, and with the odds stacked against them, a legion of hunters goes to war.

** The back-cover blurb for the upcoming Monster Hunter: Siege. "GO BIG OR GO HOME.
When Owen Zastava Pitt was given a tip about some hunters who had gone missing in action, he didn’t realize their rescue mission would snowball into the single biggest operation in Monster Hunter International’s history. Their men are being held prisoner in a horrific nightmare dimension, and the only way to reach them is through the radioactive ruins of a monster infested war zone.

* AuthorTract: While not as hamhanded as it could be, don't expect any character who is both sympathetic and competent have anything nice to say about the government, ever. On the flip side, government characters tend to be inept, deceptive bullies. The last is part of the MCB agent operating procedure, however, to prevent widespread belief in the supernatural [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve strengthening the forces of Evil.]]
** This gets more nuanced as the series goes on, particularly in ''Nemesis''. Franks's perspective gives the reader more insight into the motivations of the government characters. After the events of ''Nemesis'', Grant Jefferson looks a lot more competent and Myers and Franks look a lot more sympathetic, although this comes in part from [[spoiler: Myers getting a heroic death]].

** Very much subverted in ''Nemesis''. The perspective of Franks helps show a lot of reasons why the government does what they do. [[spoiler: Myers]] even gets a heroic death.

* AuthorTract: While not as hamhanded as it could be, don't expect any character who is both sympathetic and competent have anything nice to say about the government, ever. On the flip side, expect all government characters to be inept, deceptive bullies.
** There are hints that in some cases, at least, this is because the government knows more than it's willing to admit--if they're right about the reason they think the {{Masquerade}} is necessary, though, that is one thing they really need to find some way to share with the non-governmental Hunters...

* AuthorTract: While not as hamhanded as it could be, don't expect any character who is both sympathetic and competent have anything nice to say about the government, ever. On the flip side, expect all government characters to be inept, deceptive bullies. The plot for the second book even exists because the Monster Control Bureau was willing to nuke American soil ''and'' messed up doing it.

* CrazyAwesome: Milo. He's affectionately referred to as MHI's mad scientist, and his job is to come up with the gear the Hunters use. He's not exactly crazy per se, but Milo does view the world differently from most folks...