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NOTE: This article is about Monstro from the live-action version. The mainstream version can be found here: Monstro (Disney).
Monstro is one of the main antagonists of the 2022 Disney+ live-action film Pinocchio, a remake of the 1940 traditionally animated classic film of the same name.
He is a gigantic, ferocious, chimeric sea monster who devours anything that crosses his path. At some point after Pinocchio escapes from the Coachman's Pleasure Island, Monstro swallows his creator/father, Geppetto, leading him to go rescue him. He is also based off his original incarnation of the same name.
In contrast to his traditionally animated counterpart, this version of Monstro is more realistic in appearance, but instead of being a sperm whale like in the original film, he is reimagined as a ginormous, chimeric sea monster combining aspects of blue whales, false killer whales, cephalopods, sea snakes, a Mosasaurus, crocodiles, megalodons and moray eels as he is more similar to the Terrible Dogfish from the original book, although it is implied that his appearance is quite similar to that of a kaiju than a sea beast. His appearance bares a strong resemblance to that of a Basilosaurus due to the shape of his skull but appears to be whale-shaped while displaying fish-like fins on his back, squid-like tentacles, bulging eyes, webbed ray fins, scales on the underside of his jaw, gills on the sides of his neck and equipped with razor-sharp teeth. His skin has a darker-blue color while it is shown that he is covered with barnacles, most likely due to him spending long amounts of time underwater.
Personality[]
Just like his animated incarnation from the original film, Monstro is a ruthless, ferocious, wrathful, sadistic, vengeful, aggressive, destructive, vicious, man-eating, and gluttonous sea monster who will devour anything that crosses his path and does not seem to care what he consumes. Compared to his original counterpart, he easily shows his emotions and thinks more like a human, especially when he is shown laughing sadistically as he chases Pinocchio, Geppetto, Figaro, Cleo, and Jiminy Cricket. But even with his personality, he is not considered as an intelligent monster as his attempt to kill Pinocchio, Geppetto, Figaro, Cleo, and Jiminy is what led to his possible demise when he smashes against the cliffs while trying to do so. According to legend, he once pretended to be an island to devour ships while in the original film, he is hollow on the inside.
Biography[]
Pinocchio[]
Monstro is first referred to by Jiminy Cricket after he and Pinocchio escape from the Coachman and his minions at Pleasure Island. Later, when Pinocchio reunites with his adoptive father, Geppetto, after Sofia the Seagull informs him that Geppetto is looking for him at the sea, they both encounter Monstro and get swallowed by him. Unfortunately, he falls asleep. Inside him, Pinocchio and Geppetto take refuge in a giant boat. After seeing the lantern and Figaro sneeze, Pinocchio gets an idea and uses his feet to start a fire to make Monstro sneeze. He opens his mouth (while Jiminy uses his umbrella to sail into there), and they are all sneezed out of his mouth.
Unfortunately, the boat breaks into two, with Pinocchio and the rest in the front, and Geppetto in the back; a huge wave pushes Geppetto into the sea. Pinocchio saves him before he drowns and carries him into the boat, and Jiminy falls from the sky. Suddenly, Monstro emerges from the water and charges very angrily at them due to them tricking him, eventually giving him the intention of killing them, but Pinocchio uses his spinning feet as propellers for the boat to get them away. Monstro rises from the water a few times, trying to either eat them again or kill them, and laughs evilly. Just as it looks like they're about to get eaten again, Pinocchio propels them one last time and they zoom into a nearby tunnel, but Monstro runs into the cliffs and collides headfirst against them. Geppetto does not survive the attack, but Pinocchio brings him back to life with one of his tears. It is unknown what happened to Monstro, but due to swimming at high speed into the cliffs, he presumably is killed. Yet that is unclear just like in the original animated version.
Gallery[]
Monstro emitting smoke from his mouth and blowhole
To make it even more clear that Monstro is evil and not just a feral neutral predator or sea monster like his original animated counterpart seemed to be, as he is gaining on Pinocchio and Geppetto, he laughs maliciously. In the animated film, he is shown smiling sadistically when seeing a school of tuna swimming toward him, but one can dismiss that as him just being happy at finally finding a meal.
Unlike the animated film, this version of Monstro is not a giant sperm whale, which is used in the original, but rather, a giant kaiju-sized sea monster combining aspects of a humpback whale, a blue whale, a kraken, a great white shark, and a Mosasaurus, as well as some features of the Terrible Dogfish from the original book. This is evidenced by tentacles and multiple fins on his back.
Many fans compared Monstro's new design to the hybrid monster called Sharktopus from a The Asylum's mockbuster film and praised the design on account that it pays homage to the book version's gigantic size.
Monstro's appearance closely resembles a Basilosaurus, one of the ancestors of today's whales.
Despite having tentacles, Monstro is never shown using them to attack anyone, but it is implied that he uses them to help him swim faster.
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