Not your average school.
Monster School is a Minecraft Web Animation series started by YouTuber Willcraft Animations
and eventually fostered by various other channels.
Welcome to Monster School, Troper!
The series revolves around Minecraft mob students being taught how to be a monster. The teacher is none other than Herobrine himself.
The first episode, Crafting, was uploaded on December 11, 2012, which instantly gained popularity, and gave Willcraft's channel recognition.
However, after Bus Trip, Willcraft has stopped creating Monster School, and it most likely won't return due to him quitting YouTube. Other channels have since created animations inspired by Monster School which use its name, but not the exact characters, such as Stillcraft Animations and Platabush.
Monster School contains examples of:
- A Dog Named "Dog": Spider. Guess what mob he is.
- All-Ghouls School: A school for Minecraft hostile mobs, with the only remotely human characters being the teachers, who are still supernatural entities.
- Anti-Villain: Most of the students are rather chill, unless it's Zupay, Zombieswine, or Multus' right head.
- Bad Santa: Averted with Endie, who gives nice presents to his classmates in a Christmas episode. Played straight in the same episode, when Zupay dresses up as an evil Santa and he gives people murderous presents.
- Badass Adorable: Mucus is Baby Slime size yet he can still pack a punch when he needs to.
- Berserk Button: If Endie looks at someone's eyes, he goes crazy. He regrets it afterwards.
- Don't steal Blaise's work.
- Or ignore Hildegarde
- Or turn up late for Herobrine's class, as Silvester learned...
- Big Eater: It was also specifically stated that Maggie "loves to eat"
- Christmas Episode: There were 2 Christmas specials released. 3 if you count "Cooking" since it was also released on Christmas and even uses Christmas songs.
- Cute Is Evil: Zupay is a Baby Zombie Villager and the most evil student in Herobrine's class, beating Zombieswine and Multus' right head.
- The Cynic: Herobrine is described as the opposite of jolly and upbeat.
- Demanding Their Head: Not so much demanding, but Ghist loves to collect heads.
- Dem Bones: Skellington, Witton and Multus; they are a skeleton, Wither Skeleton, and Wither, respectively (the latter isn't stated to be a skeleton but has a bony appearance).
- Drives Like Crazy: The Bus Driver is this, especially in "Bus Trip", where he drives on a very narrow road and flips a coin to make what seems to be life-or-death decisions.
- Embarrassing First Name: Mucus. Doesn't need an explanation. Strangely, he doesn't seem to mind. note
- Every Episode Ending: The majority of the episodes feature the report card for the lesson at the end. The only episodes that don't do this are "Acrobatics", "Trick or Treat", and "Bus Trip" (while the latter two weren't graded assignments, it's strange that the former, which is a lesson, doesn't have it).
- Halloween Episode: "Trick or Treat!" takes place on Halloween and instead of taking place in class, it follows the students as they attempt to go trick-or-treating.
- Idiot Savant: Zombee, despite being stupid, can apparently mine a huge cave. He got an A for that episode.
- Jerkass: Zombieswine, who is the class bully, likes to torment and mess with the other students.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In Combat #2, when Endie loses it and kills Multus. He cries afterwards.
- Nice Guy: Skellington and Endie are portrayed as this, since they are among the most mild-mannered of the students (except for whenever Endie goes berserk).
- Numbered Sequels: "Combat #2", and many of the other animations.
- Revive Kills Zombie: Skellington creates Instant Health Potions (Water > Nether Wart > Glistering Melon,) then drinks one. It doesn't end well.
- Shorter Means Smarter: Mucus, despite being the smallest student, still got good grades for most of the episodes.
- The Smurfette Principle: Ghist is the only female student, until the new students arrive. Even then, there are still only three girls.
- Stern Teacher: Hildegarde is this, actually punishing Zombieswine for not paying attention. The wiki even says that Herobrine is calmer than her.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Like other Endermen, Endie has an aggressive side that manifests whenever he makes eye contact with a player.
- Supreme Chef: Willcraft states that Skellington is a great chef in the pilot episode. It's ironic, because he can't eat.
- They Killed Kenny Again: In most Monster School animations, all but one of the characters die at the end (in funny ways, of course), however, almost all of the animations operate on Negative Continuity, and, as a result, all characters will usually inexplicably be revived for in the next episode.
GRADES
Troper: A+
