Moshi Monsters, which unfortunately has been shut down but the universe still exists via apps, the movie, etc, is home to a variety of different species.
Adoptable monsters
Poppets
- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: They wear only boots usually.
- Cuddle Bug: They're described as "huggalicious" and some of their dialogue involves cuddling.
- Dancing with Myself: They like to dance in private.
- The Fashionista: Downplayed. Liking clothes (especially shoes) is a trait for their species, but not to the extent of Katsumas.
- Hypocrite: They hate it when other people shout, but occasionally shout themselves. Downplayed, though, as the emphasis is on "occasionally".
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: They're deliberately written as cute.
- Shrinking Violet: They are said to be extremely timid.
Katsumas
- Action Girl: The player can choose the gender of their monster and the females are just as dynamic as the males.
- Cat Folk: Downplayed. They are agile like cats and they sometimes make meow-type noises, but they aren't that catlike.
- Drink-Based Characterization: They like to drink energy drinks, which ties into their feisty, high-energy personalities.
- The Fashionista: They love shopping for clothes.
- It's All About Me: Most, but by no means all, of them have big egos.
- Jump Scare: If they want attention, they sometimes stare intensely at the screen in a way that makes their head fill the whole screen.
- Real Men Wear Pink: The males are ninja-like and also fashion conscious.
- Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Just like the males, the females are into karate but also fashion conscious.
- Trademark Favorite Food: They all like a cereal called Katsuma Krunch.
Furis
- Big Eater: They love to eat. In fact, they usually only smile when near food.
- Perpetual Frowner: They frown nearly all the time, even when happy.
- Smelly Feet Gag: A running gag is that their feet always smell.
Luvlis
- Anthropomorphic Food: They resemble cherries.
- The Fashionista: Like Katsumas, they're pretty fashion conscious.
- Flight: Thanks to their wings, they can fly.
- It's All About Me: Like Katsumas, they can be arrogant.
- Mind over Matter: Telekinesis is one of their powers.
- Neologism: Their magic is described as "hokery-pokery".
- Pungeon Master: They tend to make puns about their species name sounding like "lovely".
Diavlos
- Dark Is Not Evil: They have devils' tails and are fiery, but are actually sweet.
- Flight: Like Luvlis, they can fly.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: They anger pretty easily.
- Hot-Blooded: They are very cheerful but also anger easily.
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Are known to disappear from the screen when annoyed.
Zommers
- An Arm and a Leg: Their limbs are removable, so they can invoke this trope by taking them off.
- Big Eater: They get hungry the most easily out of all the species.
- Body Horror: They were sewn together, their body parts fall off, and part of their rib cage is visible. Softened a bit by the facts that they were apparently born that way and it doesn't hurt.
- Cyclops: Downplayed. They have one eye and one empty eye socket.
- Dark Is Not Evil: They look like Frankenstein's monster but are actually very friendly.
- Drool Deluge: They all salivate a lot.
- Eye Scream: Their eye is removable.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Downplayed. They anger kind of easily, but not to the extent of Diavlos.
- Prone to Vomiting: Their babies are said to barf a lot.
Other species
Moshlings
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A Psycho Gingerboy, a Funny Bunny, a Snoring Hickopotamus, a Pixel-Munching Snaffler, a Snuggly Tiger Cub, and a Princess Pony[[/labelnote]][[Labelnote:Fourth row]]A Pluff, a Silly Sea Star, a Warrior Wombat, a Magical Mule, a Whinger Cat, and a Performing Flappasaurus[[/labelnote]][[Labelnote:Penultimate row]]A Magical Sparklepop, a Wheelie Yumyum, a Dinky Dreamcloud, a Disco Duckie, a Rummaging Plotamus, and a Fancy Banshee.[[/labelnote]][[Labelnote:Bottom row]]A Woolly Blue Hoodoo, a Batty Bubblefish, a Fiery Frazzledragon, a Valley Mermaid, a Cheeky Chimp, and a Baby Tumteedum[[/labelnote]].]]Moshlings are creatures kept by the Moshi Monsterrs. They are sapient, but they choose to live as pets; so they must be either attracted with flowers or earned in missions. They come in "sets" (Arties, Beasties, Birdies, etc). The study of them is "Moshlingoloy". There are 288 species (290 individual Moshlings you can get, but some of them are the same species as others; for instance Mr. and Mrs. Snoodle are both Silly Snufflers) share a species Remember; this section is for Moshlings in general or a specific species of Moshling (e.g. Silly Snufflers). Tropes about individual Moshlings go in their section on Characters.Moshi Monsters- Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Some wear accessories, such as the Whinger Cats' hats and the Oochie Poochies' heart clips.
- Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Some, such as the Owls of Wiseness (sic, purple owls) and the Silly Snufflers (yellow elephants) resemble Earth animals but different colours.
- Animals Not to Scale: All species are about the same size, from the elephants to the bugs.
- Animate Inanimate Object: A lot of them are living objects.
- Anthropomorphic Food: A few, such as the Sweet Ringy Thingies and the Wheelie Yumyums, are living foodstuffs.
- Big Eater: The main thing with Pixel-Munching Snafflers is their enormous appetites.
- Brainy Baby: Glitzy Boohoos are babies who can sing.
- Brought to You by the Letter "S": Whinger Cats wear an "M" on their hats.
- Cat Ninja: Caped Assassins are ninja cats.
- Cats Are Lazy: Whinger Cats tend to lay around all day.
- Cats Are Magic:
- Kittens of Good Fortune are said to bring good luck.
- Caped Assassins have invisibility powers.
- Civilised Animal: The animal-type ones act sort of like humans and sort of like animals.
- Crying Critters: They can all cry, even the animal-type ones.
- Cursed with Awesome: Gone-wrong Blobs are scientists whose experiments went wrong, but it gives them the ability to go under doors.
- Dark Is Not Evil: As a whole, Moshlings are all friendly creatures, including the spookier-looking ones in the "Spookies" and "Screamies" sets.
- Does Not Like Spam: Batty Bubblefish hate fish fingers, and will squirt you with ink if you give them some.
- Dog Stereotype:
- Musky Huskies pull sleighs.
- Oochie Poochies resemble poodles and are prissy and highbrow.
- The Eeyore: Wistful Snowtots are just as gloomy as the name suggests.
- Extreme Omnivore: Owls of Wiseness eat books.
- Filthy Fun: They often play in the mud, causing them to need cleaning.
- Flight: Quite a few can fly.
- Forgetful Jones: Batty Bubblefish have such terrible memories that they often don't remember what they forgot.
- Friendly Ghost: Baby Ghosts and Fancy Banshees are benevolent ghosts.
- Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Some, like the Moptop Tweenybops and the Jollywood Singalings, wear full suits of clothes.
- The Klutz: Slapstick Tortoises are incredibly clumsy, often falling over and crashing into things, yet they try to be ninjas.
- Lazy Bum: Whinger Cats spend all day lounging around.
- Merlin Sickness: Baby Tumteedums age backwards.
- Mr Fix It: Rumour has it that Whinger Cats can fix things.
- Nature Lover: The majority of them are attracted to plants.
- Nice Guy: Pudgy Fubbles' main trait is their charitability and kindness.
- Not Allowed to Grow Up: Glitzy Boo-hoos remain babies their whole lives. It's unknown how they lay eggs.
- One-Gender Race: Implied for the Uppity Croc Monsieurs, Princess Ponies, and Psycho Gingerboys. Who knows how they reproduce.
- Power Incontinence:
- Wonky Wizards can never control what they do when they use magic.
- Caped Assassins have invisibility powers but can't control them.
- The Prankster: Cheeky Chimps like to pull pranks.
- Professor Guinea Pig: Gone-wrong Blobs are scientists whose experiments on themselves went awry.
- Sapient Eat Sapient:
- Apparently, Dearly Departed Nibblies eat other Moshlings.
- Sweet Ringy Thingies are often on the run from hungry monsters.
- Sleepyhead: Snoring Hickopotomi sometimes sleep for forty hours at a time!
- Snowlems: Whistful Snowtots are living snowmen.
- Sticky Fingers: Sneaky Tealeaves and Pilfering Toucans like to steal, although Sneaky Tealeaves always bring things back.
- Super Not-Drowning Skills: The aquatic ones can breathe on both land and underwater.
- Swiss-Army Tears: Blue Snuggly Tiger Cubsnote cry tears that, when used with oobla-doobla and frosted Rainbow Rox, can hatch eggs.
- Whale Egg: They all lay eggs, even the mammals and the objects.
- Winged Unicorn: Skyponies are unicorns with wings.
Glumps
- Always Chaotic Evil: They're all bad guys.
- Bad People Abuse Animals: In addition to being the result of animal abuse themselves, they're often mean to Moshlings.
- Bright Is Not Good: They're brightly-coloured, but still evil.
- The Ditz: They're all pretty stupid.
- Evil Is Petty: They're prone to pranks and petty theft as well as proper evil.
- Evil Smells Bad: They apparently smell of rotten fish.
- Extreme Omnivore: They eat trash.
- The Guards Must Be Crazy: Due to their stupidity, they are often incompetent guards.
- The Klutz: They're known for being clumsy.
- Light Is Not Good: They're brightly-coloured, but still evil.
- One-Gender Race: They're all guys.
- The Prankster: They like to play tricks on monsters.
- Servant Race: Were created to serve CLONC.
- Threatening Shark: One variant are the Glump Sharks, which are just as evil as regular Glumps.
