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16	->''"The Putty Patrollers will make space dust out of those kids! And the beauty is, if they don't, we can always make more. Now, into the Monster-Matic they go. Ten seconds should do it."''
17	-->-- '''Finster''', ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers''
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19	The Maker of Monsters is a character, usually a villain, who is notable for creating monstrous creatures, whether ''ex nihilo'' or through breeding or mutation of preexisting beings (who likely [[KidnappedForExperimentation weren't willing test subjects]]). These monsters may be unique, one-off beings, but more commonly large numbers of similar creatures will be created together or over time. In either case, the Maker of Monsters will likely shape numerous creations over their career, instead of only making one or two beasts in isolation.
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21	This character's precise motivations for creating monsters can vary. In horror, pulp and science fiction settings, this is typically the province of the MadScientist, who will usually be pushing the limits of science ''a la'' Frankenstein just to see if he can or may be an EvilutionaryBiologist seeking to create "perfect" lifeforms. In fantasy settings, this is often embodied in powerful wizards creating strange creatures through arcane research or dark lords breeding monsters for their armies. When the wizard and the dark lord [[SorcerousOverlord are one and the same]], it's almost a given that they'll be this as well.
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23	Oftentimes, the creatures made by these characters will outlast their creators, breeding on their own and remaining a constant threat and presence in the world [[VillainousLegacy long after their makers' downfall]].
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25	Introducing such a character may serve a number of purposes. If they're active in the story's timeframe, they may serve as a way to keep the bad guy's army monstrous, diverse and [[EvilEvolves constantly adaptive]]. If they're part of a more distant backstory, they may be used as a way to explain where a world's diversity of monsters originates from.
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27	See also MotherOfAThousandYoung, for when a creature literally births lesser horrors, MonsterProgenitor, for when a creature creates a single new species of its own kind through its progeny, TheManBehindTheMonsters, for when an army of inhuman monsters is led by a human or someone more resembling a human, and EvilutionaryBiologist, for when a MadScientist tries to improve upon evolution. Compare with MookMaker, a video game variant where a device continuously spawns enemies for the player to fight until destroyed, which may overlap with this trope if the maker is an NPC. Compare also the {{Necromancer}}, who also specializes in the creation of less-than-presentable beings of a different sort. The products of these characters' work will often be {{Bioweapon Beast}}s. They are also a likely candidate to create a CustomBuiltHost.
28	Compare and contrast RobotMaster.
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34	* Kirk Odd from ''ARG/TheNoedolekcinArchives'' created his underlings, known as wardens. Each warden shares a different aspect of his powers: Gabore shares his hunger for organic beings, Hypsypops has his power of [[DreamWeaver dream weaving]], and the unnamed warden shares his ability to shapeshift.
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38	* Both versions of ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'' have a BigBad who does this:
39	** In [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist the manga]], Father creates the homunculi to make himself perfect and further his goals by having a group of sociopathic, super-powered immortals to carry out his will. Father created them by removing his own sins and personifying them, creating loyal followers, though there are only seven of them. While the majority are humanoid, several count as {{Eldritch Abomination}}s and all take quite a while to get rid of.
40	** In ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'', Dante has been creating homunculi for centuries, and Envy implies that while there have only ever been seven at a time, Dante has created different iterations of the same sin. Unlike Father, Dante makes homunculi as experiments and to have foot soldiers to execute her plans. However, [[spoiler:Dante only created Pride and Greed, as the homunculi are actually the result of failed human transmutations made by others she fed Red Stones to before they could perish]].
41	* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Kyudai Garaki, the doctor associated with the League of Villains. In addition to being [[BigBad All for One]]'s personal physician, he's also in charge of bioengineering the Nomu, monstrous {{Artificial Human}}s with multiple [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals Quirks]] who serve as the villains' attack dogs. Efforts by the heroes uncover a massive lab where he creates them.
42	* ''Manga/{{Servamp}}'': The creator of the Servamps is (at least indirectly) responsible for creating all the world's vampires. While they only created the original eight, these eight all have the power to sire new, less powerful vampires; how exactly they created them has yet to be revealed, though the Servamps are strongly implied to [[WasOnceAMan have once been human]].
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46	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In numerous seasons, Big M. has some kind of device at his disposal to create monsters. In Season 1, he has the Black Jewel, which has the ability to turn objects into monsters; in Season 2, he has the Evil Egg, which creates an object that turns another object into a monster if it touches it; and in Season 5, he has the Planet Gray virus to infect people and turn them into monsters against their will.
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50	* ''AudioPlay/JanTenner'':
51	** Zweistein created many creatures for his evil plans, including a living tree that took over a HiveMind of other living trees, animal-human hybrid mutants and tiny insects that spread a serum he created like a plague.
52	** The Void turns those caught by its creatures into monsters. Some are described as being like jellyfish while others are said to be human-animal hybrids with multiple heads and limbs.
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56	* ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'': Winnowill creates many horrible creatures over the years, to prey on other elves or humans.
57	* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
58	** Creator/DougMoench's villain Dr. Demonicus creates {{Kaiju}} and HumongousMecha as his shtick. He's best known for getting into fights with [[ComicBook/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters1977 Godzilla]] and the ComicBook/ShogunWarriors.
59	** In ''ComicBook/SpiderManAndTheXMen'' #2, the heroes go up against a villain named Sauron who turned some people into dinosaurs and is planning to repeat the trick on a massive scale.
60	** In ''ComicBook/VenomDonnyCates'', the symbiotes are revealed to have been created by an ancient dark god called Knull.
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64	* ''Fanfic/CobysChoice'': Velo, an OriginalCharacter introduced during the Punk Hazard arc, is a MadScientist who is able to create monsters inspired by Lovecraft. These monsters cause the Punk Hazard incident to be a lot harder for the Straw Hats in spite of their greater numbers and strength.
65	* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': The Mage-Lords of ancient Antlertis often dipped into this, especially in the later days of their civilization as their cultural sense of ethics started to fall by the wayside in favor of performing increasingly complex experiments upon magic and living things. They shaped terrible monsters in their laboratories to use weapons against one another or simply for the sake of seeing if they could, and many of these things endured imprisoned or in stasis long after Antlertis' fall to threaten future civilizations -- the Sirens, Ahuizotl, Tirek, Scorpan and Discord, powerful chimeric villains from the show's canon, are all identified as Antlertean creations.
66	* ''Fanfic/WarbandOfTheForsakenSons'': Jikaerus, former Apothecary of the Alpha Legion, released mutated monsters on a world already plunged into eternal night and manipulated entire bloodlines so that natural selection and careful breeding would create monstrous recruits for his master.
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70	* ''Franchise/LiloAndStitch'': [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch Dr. Jumba Jookiba]] is an alien MadScientist and self-proclaimed EvilGenius who created Experiment 626 specifically to cause destruction and wreak havoc wherever he goes (he freely admits that he has no higher purpose for this). [[WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries The sequel series]] reveals that he had created [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments 625 other such creatures]], each engineered to sow chaos in specific and amusing ways.
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74	* ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'': The movies and ExpandedUniverse heavily imply, if not outright state, that the Engineers created the Xenomorphs as living bioweapons, or at the very least had a hand in their creation via the same hyper-advanced biogenetic technology they used to seed terrestrial life throughout the universe.
75	* ''Franchise/JurassicPark'': Dr. Henry Wu, a senior member of [=InGen=] who worked as the lead scientist at both Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, is responsible for creating three known genetically engineered hybrid dinosaurs, two of which were secretly intended to be [[BioweaponBeast living weapons]] for the military that managed to escape containment and ended up causing massive destruction and killing dozens of humans and dinosaurs (the ''Indominus Rex'' in ''Film/JurassicWorld'', the ''Indoraptor'' in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'', and the ''Scorpius Rex'' in ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'').
76	* ''Film/PoorThings'': Godwin Baxter is a low-key monster-maker, being limited to stitching body parts of different small animals together and performing the occasional human brain transplant.
77	* ''Film/ScoobyDooMonstersUnleashed'': The villain's scheme involves creating real-life versions of the ''fake'' monsters the gang had fought before. They destroy the city and wreak havoc for the gang, who can only defeat the villain by dealing with the monsters.
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81	* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': The Masters of Padmasa along with their servants create many monsters to fight for them.
82	* ''Literature/AChorusOfDragons'': The god-kings often turned their magic to creating entire species of servants, soldiers and monsters, such as the snow giants, the centaurs, the Thriss SnakePeople, and the krakens. Many of these species are extinct or nearly so by the present day, having fared poorly after the god-kings fell, but some have continued to thrive and plague civilization since then.
83	* ''Literature/ChroniclesOfTheEmergedWorld'': Aster the Tyrant is quite proficient at breeding new species of minions and monsters into beings, and makes extensive use of such things in his armies. He has already created the orc-like fammin, the black dragons and fire-breathing birds by the start of the series, and is known to order to kidnapping of immense numbers of humans and gnomes to use as stock to create further monster races. Once the heroes breach his fortress, they are met with pale, hunched and highly aggressive humanoids implied to be the fruit of these experiments.
84	* ''Literature/TheExecutionerAndHerWayOfLife'': Every monster in the world was originally created by Pandaemonium's use of her Pure Concept.
85	* ''Literature/FateApocrypha'': Caster of Black/Avicebron has the Noble Phantasm "Golem Keter Malkuth: Royal Crown, the Light of Wisdom", which allows him to create golems using incredibly rare materials. Darnic has the means to obtain these materials en masse to allow Avicebron to mass produce his golems as an army for the Great Grail War. The "villain" aspect of this trope is downplayed as GreyAndGrayMorality is in play and while a MisanthropeSupreme, Avicebron is a CoolTeacher to his Master, Roche. [[spoiler:[[FauxAffablyEvil Or so it seems]], as he later uses Roche as HumanResources for the creation of the golem Adam as part of his EvilPlan, which even he admits is something Roche should hate him for.]]
86	* ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'': Dr. Frankenstein is an {{unbuilt\|Trope}} example of this. In the novel, he does not try to create a monster -- he attempted to simply restore a dead body to life, and created a man who was "wrong" in an unspecified way. That his creation went on to murder several people, including himself, is treated as a tragic outcome. However, later adaptations of the story often portray him as much more actively desiring to create an openly monstrous entity.
87	* ''Literature/TheIslandOfDoctorMoreau'': The titular doctor turns animals into beast-men by grafting them human organs and surgically altering their bodies to be bipedal and anthropomorphic. Over the years he's been doing this, he's created enough such creatures for an entire village of half-man beasts to form in the forests of his island.
88	* ''Literature/JoeLedger'': In ''Dragon Factory'', there are [[EvilutionaryBiologist the Jacoby twins]], the owners of the titular Factory, who create fantastic hybrids through genetic engineering. Some they sell to the highest bidder, some are used in hunts for the bored elite (a literal hunt for a unicorn plays an important part in the plot), and some are aimed to be perfect soldiers.
89	* ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'':
90	** Morgoth created multiple species of monsters in mockery of the creation wrought by {{God}} and by the Valar through God's aid and permission. However, [[EvilIsSterile as he could not create anything entirely new himself]] nor anything of beauty, he was limited to twisting and degrading preexisting creatures into monstrous servants. Morgoth's creations include the orcs, created from twisted and debased elves; trolls, made in mockery of the ents; and a variety of beasts made from lesser spirits fallen in his thrall, such as werewolves, vampires and most notably the dragons. All these creatures were bred and perfected over the millennia in Morgoth's fortresses -- the dragons, for instance, began as landbound serpents and were later bred to become winged and fire-breathing -- and remain in the world long after his defeat, scattering into the wilderness and continuing to threaten civilization in the ages to come.
91	** Morgoth's successors such as Sauron and Saruman show traits of this as well, often breeding their orcs like cattle to create specialized breeds for their own use, such as Sauron's Black Uruks, created as a stronger and more vicious fighting breed, and Saruman's Uruk-Hai, bred from orcs and humans to create more disciplined orcs capable of fighting under the sun.
92	* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'': Sith Lords have a historic tendency to use a combination of the Dark Side and advanced biotechnology to create fearsome monsters known as Sithspawn, usually by mutating natural animals or people, which they use as slave soldiers, guardian beasts and terror weapons. These creatures tend to be killed off ''en masse'' in their masters' wars when they aren't one-off creations to begin with, but several strains endure long after the conflicts they were bred for as persistent threats to galactic safety.
93	** Most prominent monster-makers lived long before the movie's time, counting Sith such as Naga Sadow, who created an immense wyrm from a space slug to serve as a guardian for his temple-lair; and Exar Kun, who engineered two-headed battle hydras and the Jedi-hunting terentateks; popular among several Sith were also the biomechanical technobeasts created by infecting living humanoids with an engineered virus.
94	** Sith active much later in the timeline also dabble into this -- Palpatine bred a strain of particularly aggressive rancors to serve as guard animals, while Darth Krayt's Sith servants created a soul-eating Sea Leviathan to use as a terror weapon against the Mon Calamari people.
95	* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':
96	** Dr. Macabre has a Monster Maker device he puts kids in to turn them into monsters such as witches, vampires, and zombies.
97	** The Purple Witch, a.k.a. Pandora, possesses a magic box from which she can conjure monsters to do her bidding.
98	* ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'': Aginor, one of the Forsaken, was skilled and entirely amoral geneticist and is revealed to have been personally responsible for the creation of all of the BigBad's monstrous {{Mooks}}. He created the trollocs, for instance, by performing Mengele-esque experiments on his fellow human beings by the thousandfold in order to create ideal soldiers, although his general removal from combat meant he had little idea what made an ideal soldier beyond strength and aggressiveness -- [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome consequently, trollocs are little beyond savage, undisciplined killers]].
99	* ''Literature/WorldsOfShadow'': Shadow has made a number of monstrous beasts as servants.
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103	* ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}} Metallix'' divides this role between the criminal cartoonist Less Fortunes, who draws the MonsterOfTheWeek and BigBad Nukus, who brings it to the real world with his sword.
104	* Mother Melzard from ''Series/BFighterKabuto'' turns fossils into monsters by absorbing them with her tail and laying an egg which contains the monster.
105	* ''Series/ChouseishinSeries'':
106	** ''Series/GenseishinJustiriser'': Doctor Zora personally creates all of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Cyber Knights]] under her command.
107	** ''Series/ChouseiKantaiSazerX'': After the Descal SpacePirates lose all their {{kaiju}}, it falls on [[EvilGenius Cyclead]] to make more.
108	* Being a franchise focused on monster fights, each season of ''Franchise/KamenRider'' usually has one character or group who creates the monsters:
109	** ''Series/KamenRider'': Shocker are a NebulousEvilOrganisation that splices human test subjects with plant or animal DNA to create an army of [[MonsterOfTheWeek Kaijin]], one of which gets sent out each week to fight our heroes.
110	** ''Series/KamenRiderDouble'' has a twist on this trope. [[TheSyndicate Museum]] don't directly create the Dopants, but they do make and distribute the [[TransformationTrinket Gaia Memories]], whose holders use them to become Dopants.
111	** All of the Greeed in ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' can turn their cells into parasitic monsters known as Yummies, who feed on human desire. They are usually created by inserting one of their cells into a host human, after which the monster becomes stronger when the host indulges themselves with their desire.
112	** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': Kuroto Dan created each of the characters that appear in Genm Corp's video games, then used the [[InstantAIJustAddWater Bugster virus]] to bring them to life and give them physical forms. While this resulted in a great deal of video game enemies being brought into the real world, it also led to some more benevolent characters being brought to life too, like [[GenkiGirl Poppy]].
113	** ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': [[NebulousEvilOrganisation Faust]] has a very streamlined process for making monsters. They place a test subject in a tube and expose them to Nebula Gas until they're turned into a Smash monster. Other organizations would later get ahold of and improve upon the process to create even stronger monsters to serve them.
114	* 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.
115	* ''Series/MonsterWarriors'': The BigBad Klaus Von Steinhauer is a former B-list monster movie director who now creates real monsters that the protagonists fight in order to protect Capital City.
116	* ''Franchise/PowerRangers'': In certain series, there would be one member of the villains whose role is to create the MonsterOfTheWeek the heroes face.
117	** In the first season of ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'', Finster shapes monsters out of clay, and place the doll-sized figurine into a machine that would turn it into a human-sized monster.
118	** The second season of ''Mighty Morphin'' has the BigBad Lord Zedd being the Monster Maker, as his staff can turn inanimate objects, animals and even humans into monsters.
119	** Mora from ''Series/PowerRangersSPD'' has the ability to turn her drawings into monsters.
120	* ''Series/SevenStarFightingGodGuyferd'': [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Shion]] is the one who developed [[TheSyndicate Crown]]'s process for creating [[MonsterOfTheWeek Mutians]], which involves a human subject being put in a tube and exposed to [[AppliedPhlebotinum Fallah]] until they're transmutated.
121	* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'': Each evil organization usually has one member or device whose purpose is to make a MonsterOfTheWeek each episode.
122	** ''Series/ChoushinseiFlashman'': Having this role in Mess is why [[EvilGenius Keflen]] is NumberTwo to [[BigBad Lah Deus]] instead of TheDragon, Leh Wanda. All of the generals and other monsters of Mess were created by Keflen using the Gene Synthesizer.
123	** ''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'': Each Volt executive is tasked with creating their own Brain Beasts to menace the Livemen. Since Volt is an AcademyOfEvil, how effective the Brain Beasts are is an indicator to [[EvilTeacher Great Professor Bias]] of what level of EvilGenius each of his students is at.
124	** Pleprechaun from ''Series/KyoryuSentaiZyuranger'' is a potter for the Bandora Gang who creates their monsters and {{mooks}} by molding them out of clay.
125	** ''Series/BakuryuuSentaiAbaranger'' has two of them. Mikela uses a magical paintbrush to combine a plant, animal and inanimate object into a Trinoid, a human sized monster. Voffa uses an organ to turn his music into a Giganoid; an already giant monster based on famous classical music pieces.
126	* ''Series/UltramanAce'': Yapool is the first BigBad of the ''Franchise/UltraSeries'' who actively creates enhanced monsters, called "chojus" (a sort of upgraded kaiju), which he unleashes in every episode of the show. More than once in the series, the show gives us a glimpse of Yapool's monster-creation facility in his very own dimension.
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130	* ''TabletopGame/{{Chaotic}}'': Overworld scientist Mommark creates new creatures in his castle from gathered DNA. Unfortunately, his creations are often unpredictable, and while several are his loyal servants, several others [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters turned against him]] and joined the ranks of the Underworld, his faction's mortal enemy.
131	* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
132	** Several {{Demon Lords\|AndArchdevils}} are associated with particular species of monster that plague the realms, and are said to be responsible for their creation. Some of the better known examples:
133	*** Baphomet the Horned King is said to experiment with the creation of new monsters in his personal fortress, the Tower of Science. His most well-known creations are the [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent minotaurs]] and the buffalo-like demons known as goristro. If an orc tribe starts worshipping him and request he grant them a boon, he will corrupt a generation of their unborn children, causing them to be born as half-orc, half-demon monstrosities called tanarukks.
134	*** Demogorgon the Prince of Demons is said to have created the first [[ClassicalChimera chimera]] in response to his cultists summoning him to the Prime Material Plane, as he found most of the lifeforms around him boring and unworthy. He is also indirectly responsible for the existence of the [[MultipleHeadCase two-headed]] ettins (who mutated from [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]] that tried to worship at one of his altars) and the merrows, an evil sub-race of [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent merfolk]] (a tribe of merfolk were driven insane by one of his idols, travelled to the abyss to worship him, and were corrupted by their new environment).
135	*** Graz'zt the Dark Prince is directly responsible for the existence of lamias, lion-like monsters he creates by transforming his favored cultists, and jackalweres, jackals he mutates into {{Beast M\|an}}en and gives to his lamias as servants. It is also said that the demons known as babaus were born from drops of his blood, shed when the Archdevil Glasya tried to strike him with her sword.
136	*** Lolth, Demon Queen of Spiders, is the patron goddess of the dark elves, and has the power to transform those that displease her into [[SpiderPeople elf/spider hybrids]] called Driders. She also has a race of demons who are exclusively formed within her lair and act as her servants -- the shape-shifting {{Blob Monster}}s known as Yochlol.
137	*** Orcus the Lord of Death is said to have created the first undead entity when he was still a mortal prior to his acsension to Demon Lord status, and all undead throughout the planes ultimately owe their existence to him. He can also reward lesser demons who please him by transforming them into a unique form called a Devourer.
138	*** Yeenoghu the Lord of Savagery is the one who created the [[HeinousHyena gnolls]], and unleashed them on the universe, their ceaseless hunger (which he caused) causing them to rampage around destroying and devouring everything and creating more gnolls from the offal. He exists entirely to destroy civilization, and uses the gnolls to do it. He is also the creator of the leucrottas and shoosuvas (both MixAndMatchCritters that, like gnolls, have hyena-like traits) and is the only Demon Lord to be served by Maw Demons.
139	** The infernal duke Alloces, the Prince of Beasts and the Father of Monsters, was a sadistic torturer who became obsessed with shaping living flesh and became a skilled creator of monstrous beings. He takes no part in the politics of Hell outside of creating monsters for the armies, herds and kennels of the archdevils in exchange for victims and raw materials, although he won't sabotage or interfere with rival devils' beasts. His creations mainly include a variety of patchwork horrors crafted from various mixes of mortal souls, bodies and body parts, as well as improved breeds of {{Hellhound}}. He also taught mortals how to create flesh golems and the reptilian, swarming kruthiks. Interestingly, he claims credit for the creation of monsters which are naturally occurring or were created by other beings, such as nightmares, chimeras, and manticores, to have bred the first cambions and to have infected the first lycanthropes. No scholars believe this, but the rumors persist. He is chiefly worshipped by amoral doctors and wizards, barbarians who revere strength and wild beasts, and some of the more intelligent monsters.
140	** ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'': The [[EldritchAbomination daelkyr]] are each said to be the creators of specific races of monster; Belashyrra, the Lord of Eyes created beholders, Dyrrn the Corruptor created [[{{Cthulhumanoid}} Illithids]] and corrupted the [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblinoid races]] into the Dolgaunts, Dolgrim and Dolgarr, Kyrzin, the Prince of Slime created slimes, gibbering mouthers and mimics, Orlassk, the Lord of Stone created medusas, basilisks and other monsters associated with the TakenForGranite trope, and Avassh, the Twister of Roots created shambling mounds and other forms of mutant plant-life. On a lesser scale, there's [[MadScientist Mordain the Fleshweaver]], who seeks to master the magic of the daelkyr; he specialises in adventure setups like "he'll pay very handsomely for part of a weird, hard-to-kill monster" or "someone teleported a giant mutant into Fairhaven".
141	* ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'':
142	** Lamashtu, the Mother of Monsters, is a deity associated with monstrous things, mutation and deformed births, and creates new and horrific creatures as an end in and of itself. She's believed to be responsible for the creation of numerous monster species, including gnolls, [[ClassicalChimera chimeras]], vavakia demons and the immense sea monsters know as Mothers of Oblivion.
143	** The alghollthus believe that other forms of life exist for them to control for their own benefit, which combined with [[{{Biomanipulation}} their considerable skill in shaping living flesh]] has led to them breeding numerous types of monsters as servants, soldiers and agents. The cloakers and the shapeshifting mimics and faceless stalkers were created as various flavors of infiltrators, spies and saboteurs, the immense deep walkers as guardians and the fishlike skum as expendable slave soldiers. As alghollthu influence receded or individual creations ceased to be of use, many of these creatures were left to their fates and continue to roam the world, acting on ingrained drives to infiltrate and sow discord or reverting to bestiality and barbarism.
144	** Yamasoth, the Polymorph Plague, is a qlippoth lord concerned with vile experiments and mutation, and is obsessed with twisting and mutating captured creatures into new and monstrous shapes. His experiments have birthed countless horrors; many were one-off creations, but others resulted in the creation entire species of qlippoth.
145	** Alaznist, one of the runelords of Thassilon, learned the art of fleshwarping from Yamasoth himself and used it to great effect to create monsters with which to bolster her armies. She was the creator of the sinspawn, humanoid monsters that would go on to become the runelords' favored shock troops, and of other terrors such as the swarming, spider-like shriezyx. Many of these creations lingered long after Thassilon's fall, haunting the ruins of her empire into the present day. She additionally created many other beasts as experiments, and players come across a fair few of these warped creatures in the closing acts of the ''Return of the Runelords'' adventure path.
146	* ''TabletopGame/PrincessTheHopeful'': While most Darkspawn are created from those who crossed (or were pushed across) the MoralEventHorizon, one of the more terrifying powers of the [[FallenHero Dethroned]] is the ability to create new Darkspawn ''ex nihilo''. It's mentioned that often one of the first clues to the presence of a Dethroned is a heretofore unknown specie of Darkspawn popping up.
147	* ''Franchise/{{Warhammer}}'':
148	** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' and ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': The Skaven of Clan Moulder specialize in the creation of horrific rat monsters through the use of selective breeding, alchemical and magical mutagens and Frankensteinian surgeries, coupled with weapon implants provided by the {{magitek}} engineers of Clan Skyre. These can range from "regular" RodentsOfUnusualSize and hulking Rat Ogres to immense and bloated Brood Horrors or the horrific, writhing behemoths known as Hell Pit Abominations. All of these monstrous creations are then sold to other Skaven clans for hefty prices to be used as war animals and living siege engines.
149	** ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The Haemonculi of the [[TheFairFolk Drukhari]] habitually create horrific monstrosities through arcane and nightmarish processes designed to be as painful as possible. Their most common creations include Grotesques, hulking Frankensteinian horrors created from those that have crossed a Haemonculus; and the floating, biomechanical horrors known as the Engines of Pain that harvest raw materials for their creators.
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153	* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': The Makuta species was originally tasked with creating the ecosystem of the Matoran Universe, populating it with all sorts of fantastical animals. Several political upheavals later, Makuta Chirox and Mutran continue the work as a hobby, only they've turned to one-upping each other in the field of incredibly violent and destructive monsters. Many of the most dangerous beasts of the Matoran Universe can be attributed to them, such as the [[GiantSpider Visorak]], the [[OurHydrasAreDifferent Doom Viper]], and the [[ParasitesAreEvil Shadow Leech]]. (Chirox notably only made violent and destructive monsters even before the Makuta went rogue.)
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157	* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateDarkAlliance II'': Luvia Bloodmire is an insane alchemist who has developed surgical techniques for transferring limbs and organs from one creature to another. Most of her FleshGolem creations are fought in the Bloodmire Manor level, and another villain, Lady Arogazia, sometimes contracts her to make custom monsters to further her plans.
158	* ''VideoGame/Borderlands1'': In ''The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned'', the titular doctor's experiments are responsible for the zombies and few wereskags (alien weredogs) of Jakob's Cove, which he uses to defend his lab.
159	* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaCurseOfDarkness'': The Devil Forgemasters Hector and Isaac were once part of [[BigBad Dracula]]'s army, using their talents to create monsters. In fact, it's hinted throughout the lore that Hector and Isaac (along with any heretofore unseen Forgemasters) were responsible for the ''entirety'' of the enemies that the player faces throughout the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series, save for unique ones like bosses. Their method for doing so here is described as creating creatures out of "pure darkness", with the creatures forged being completely loyal to the Forgemaster.
160	* In ''Franchise/DragonAge'', the elven goddess Ghilan'nain is usually only considered the creator of [[TheMarvelousDeer the halla]] in modern stories, but older myths describe her as a creator of monsters in general, which were then hunted by Andruil, the Goddess of the Hunt because they were so violent. At Andruil's behest, Ghilan'nain undid all of her creations with the exception of a few flying monsters that she presented to Andruil as a gift, an unidentified sea creature that she considered too well-made to destroy, and the halla because she valued their grace. She was rewarded with ascension to godhood.
161	* ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'': Necromancers can create [[https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Experiment Experiments]] out of sapients and livestock, with successful experiments being vertebrates and failed one being blobs.
162	* ''VideoGame/{{Extrapower}}'': Mensouma, one of the CoDragons of Dark Force, specializes in breeding and creating creatures for use as in combat.
163	* ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'': The strangest of the Tracklayer factions during the Great Hellbound Railway storyline is composed of bizarre visionaries with expertise in [[BioManipulation Shapeling Arts]] who call themselves the Prehistoricists. Rather than the anarchic and aggressive Liberationists and the simply unionized Emancipationists, they believe in the system, ''all'' of the system down to [[spoiler:the Great Chain of Being]], and are simply convinced it's missing given parts to it. Namely, that while humans shouldn't be subjected to the dangerous and exhausting working conditions of having to lay railroad track in the Neath (among other such dangerous jobs), ''something'' should take that role instead, and are more than willing to whip up monstrosities to be that "something" since [[spoiler:the Chain]] sure didn't provide any. The giant track-laying mammoth with railway iron instead of tusks (their leader Cornelius calls it a Ferrocephalus) is but one example.
164	* ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'':
165	** ''VideoGame/Fallout1'': The Master is responsible for several of the Wasteland's more dangerous monsters, which he created as soldiers for his armies. The most notable examples are the Super Mutants, created by forcefully turning captured humans into dim-witted, violent {{Super Soldier}}s, but he also made the centaurs by fusing multiple humans and animals into monstrous wholes, created the floaters from flatworms and further experimented on and perfected the deathclaws.
166	** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': Dr. Borous, a scientist employed by the pre-War government, was very fond of genetically altering creatures into large, dangerous forms. He's directly responsible for the creation of both the giant wasps known as cazadores and the coyote/rattlesnake hybrid nightstalkers, the latter of which he apparently created on a dare.
167	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
168	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV'': Dr. Lugae, whose experiments of turning people into monsters disgusted even Rubicante, [[spoiler:as shown after Rubicante finds out that the good Doctor turned Edge's parents, the King and Queen of Eblan, into monsters]].
169	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Experiments of Hojo, a scientist of Shinra, resulted in many monsters that the player fights throughout the game.
170	* ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'': The last portrait ghost Luigi encounters, named Vincent van Gore (based on the famous painter Creator/VincentVanGogh), is revealed to be the one responsible for creating the mook ghosts that inhabit the Mansion, despite not being the BigBad (that honor goes to King Boo). He dedicates the rest of his afterlife into making his creations, and the fight against him revolves around fighting wave after wave of ghosts that spawn from his paintings.
171	* ''VideoGame/{{Majesty}}'' has a few VillainousLegacy-style examples, where the creators are long dead but their monsters are still roaming free to cause problems – the sorcerer Andravus created the Minotaurs to be his shock troops, and the Grisnot Goblin Tribe bred the first Giant Spiders to use as guard animals. The most prolific and successful was an infamous dark wizard named Pyrog the Shadowed. He started with [[PlantMooks Flowering Strangleweeds]], moved on to [[OurMonstersAreWeird Rustspitters]], then [[{{Oculothorax}} Evil Oculi]], and died under mysterious circumstances while creating something even more powerful and dangerous (hinted to be [[EldritchAbomination the Abomination]]).
172	* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'': The Umbrella Corporation is responsible for creating Bio-Organic Weapons (or B.O.W.s for short), animals and humans transformed into monstrous beasts. Some of their products include Cerberus, highly aggressive mutated dogs; the Hunters, hulking reptilian humanoids; and human-derived monsters such as the Lickers and the Tyrant, in addition to manufacturing different viruses such as the T and G strains which are used to create the monsters.
173	* ''VideoGame/TheSecretWorld'': Over the course of her career, Lilith created vampires, werewolves, the Deathless, and countless other monstrous races through the blending of magic and science, and later went on to create her own special trio of assassins by extracting a troubled young woman's multiple personalities and giving them bodies of their own.
174	* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'': Just as Dr. Eggman specializes in [[RobotMaster building robots]], his grandfather, Prof. Gerald Robotnik, specialized in creating organic lifeforms for war. He created the Biolizard, Shadow the Hedgehog, and a small army of Artificial Chaos; and everything Eggman himself knows about making living creatures, he learned from reverse-engineering Gerald's technology.
175	* ''Franchise/SpyroTheDragon'':
176	** ''VideoGame/SpyroTheDragon1998'': It's mentioned in the intro cutscene that the Gnorcs that Spyro faces on his journey (and possibly other enemies as well) were created by Gnasty Gnorc from the treasure hoard he stole from the dragons prior to the start of the game to build his own army. This explains why they drop gems upon defeat.
177	** ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'': The first boss, Buzz, is created by Bianca, one of the villains, turning a rabbit into said monster with sorcery. The next 2 bosses, Spike and Scorch, are created by the BigBad Sorceress by transforming two of her Rhynoc subjects, again using sorcery.
178	* ''VideoGame/StringTyrant'': Pygmalie made all of the dolls and traps in the manor. Most of the sequences where Mary is defeated involves a visit to Pygmalie to finish the transformation.
179	* Alhazad from ''VideoGame/WildArms1'' is notorious for this. [[spoiler:Horribly mutilating unfortunate humans until they are nothing more than a mindless monster is his idea of entertainment. He makes enough monsters to overrun Saint Centaur and, later on, attempts to do the same thing to [[OrphanageOfLove Court Seim]].]]
180	* ''VideoGame/WitchHunterIzana'': The vampire Verand unleashed a transformative curse that is rapidly converting the inhabitants of the local island into monsters. Beyond that she will directly transform party members in her boss battle. She also transformed [[spoiler:Nocha and Rosemary into vampires, and made Elvira the doll.]]
181	* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft: Shadowlands'', the Necrolords of Maldraxxus are adept at turning leftover bodies from allies and enemies alike into {{Flesh Golem}}s to be inhabited by a new Maldraxxi soul. The House of Constructs are specialists in this art with scientists like Stitchflesh leading the efforts. None are more skilled at reshaping flesh than Margrave Gharmal. His talent is so great that [[spoiler:after his death, his heart is given to the Kyrian of Bastion to use as a power source to create better Ascended]].
182	* ''VideoGame/XCOM2'': The "Alien Hunters" DLC reveals that Dr Vahlen becomes one of these after finding an abandoned genetics laboratory at some point after the events of ''VideoGame/XCOMEnemyUnknown''. She finds three cryogenically frozen aliens within the lab and begins to perform unethical gene-splicing experiments on them, eventually mutating them into KingMook versions of some of the game's regular enemies: the Viper King, Berserker Queen and Archon King.
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186	* ''WebAnimation/MonsterLab2021'': Katz and Uno are a rare non-villainous example. The monsters they make are mostly just a ServantRace that help around the house and give them company. Well, ''[[ZigZaggedTrope mostly]]'' -- any monsters that don't fit this mold go evil [[GoneHorriblyWrong by accident]].
187	* In ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'', [[Characters/RWBYSalem Salem]] is the once-human ruler of the [[AnimalisticAbomination Creatures of Grimm]], which are drawn to negative emotions. Salem commands them in her campaign to destroy what humanity has built, and while she didn't create them herself- that would be the GodOfDarkness- she has experimented with them to create several new breeds, such as winged [[KillerGorilla Beringels]] or the [[ItCanThink Hound]].
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191	* ''Webcomic/ChampionsOfFaraus'': Mr.X [[FusionDance spirit melds]] spirits, objects, [[spoiler:creatures, and ''people'']] to create his "experiments". Karla initially notes that such combinations should be ''impossible'' to pull off, but Mr.X is [[spoiler:one part of an unreasonably powerful ancient summoning staff turned sentient]], and is so far, the only one known to be able to pull off such a feat.
192	* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'': Most Sparks (i.e. {{Mad Scientist}}s) end up transforming wildlife and/or people into monsters with which to terrorize the local populace, unless they spend their time making terrible machines instead. The most talented do ''both''. Of all Sparks specializing in the creation of monsters, [[TheSocialDarwinist Dmitri Vapnoople]] was perhaps the most dangerous in the modern era, to the point even the otherwise unflappable Albia of England feared him.
193	* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'': Dr. Genus is an EvilutionaryBiologist with a [[AGodAmI god complex]] who creates all kinds of monsters, making powerful {{Bioweapon Beast}}s that can easily destroy an entire city. He could probably have been able to TakeOverTheWorld easily if [[ComicallyInvincibleHero Saitama]] hadn't crossed his way.
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197	* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'': In "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE14Critters Critters]]", the city is attacked by a villain who has mutated farm animals and common mantises into monstrous beasts.
198	* ''WesternAnimation/Castlevania2017'': Like in the games, Hector and Isaac are Devil Forgemasters who join (and lead) Dracula's war against humanity, creating the vast army of creatures that Dracula requires for the effort. Unlike in the games, however, their methods are more fleshed-out and distinct here: Hector is seen using surgical tools to bring once-living things back to life with full memories and personality intact, while Isaac is shown using a magical dagger to tear the souls of the damned out of Hell itself to occupy the body of someone or something that was once alive -- immediately mutating them into twisted abominations. These methods double as PersonalityPowers: Hector is the nicer and meeker of the two, and wants to use his abilities to give those who died a second chance at life, while Isaac is a devout Muslim who took UsefulNotes/{{the prophet Muhammad}}'s teachings that "one day there will be no human beings left in Hell" literally and believes his abilities to be the key to fulfilling that prophecy while also punishing the wickedness of mankind on Earth.
199	* ''WesternAnimation/CreepyCrawlers'': This is the MO of Professor Googengrim. He uses the Magic Maker to create the Crime-Grimes that help him in his schemes, usually using a recipe held by his assistant to get the type of monster he needs. Notable in that the same machine was also responsible for the creation of the heroic Goop-Mandos, but Googengrime stole it from the hero.
200	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Cybersix}}'': [[EvilutionaryBiologist Von Riktor's]] bio-engineered forces pose a regular danger to Meridianna. In addition to his normal {{Mooks}}, the Fixed Ideas and the Technos, Von Riktor also makes hyper-sonic gargoyles, a deadly werewolf, a living wave of mud, and other monstrosities to take out the heroine. In fact, Cyber Six herself and her ally Data Seven are also creations if Von Riktor's that went rogue.
201	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': [=DNAmy=] was a geneticist who loved "Cuddle Buddies", a "Beanie Baby"-like set of collectible toys that featured mixes of animals. She loved them so much that she spliced animal DNA to make her own live Cuddle Buddies.
202	* ''WesternAnimation/MakingFiends'': Vendetta is a wicked young girl who creates monsters, called "fiends", by literally baking them into existence from a recipe book (pictured above), and uses them to control the town of Clamburg and turn it into [[CrapsackWorld a bleak and forbidding place]]. The premise of the show is that a new girl named Charlotte comes to the town and is oblivious to all of this, leading Vendetta to make more and more fiends to try and kill Charlotte, only to fail over and over.
203	* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Grogar is referred to as the Father of Monsters, and states that during his reign he gave life to foul, monstrous creatures and set them loose upon the world.
204	* Abomination magic in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is primarily used to create {{Muck Monster}}s to follow the caster's commands, though more skilled witches can directly manipulate the abomination goo as a MorphWeapon. It's also a rare non-malicious example, as it is treated as being no better or worse than any of the other forms of magic. [[spoiler:In fact, almost every named abomination witch in the show goes on to be one of Luz's major allies.]]
205	* ''WesternAnimation/Patrol03'': Each episode, Professor Molo creates a new monster to aid in Pamela's latest plan to TakeOverTheCity.
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