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But this Monstro, I've heard of him! He's a whale of a whale! Why, he swallows whole ships alive!
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~ Jiminy Cricket explaining Pinocchio about Monstro.
Monstro is one of the three main antagonists (alongside Stromboli and The Coachman) of Disney's 2nd full-length animated feature film Pinocchio.
He is a gigantic, ferocious, man-eating whale who is particularly known for swallowing anything whole that crosses his path (including entire ships) and is feared by all marine life of the ocean upon mentioning his name.
His vocal sound effects were provided by the late Thurl Ravenscroft.
Monstro is a gigantic whale who appears to have the size and underbelly of a blue whale, but with the head and sharp teeth of a sperm whale.
Personality[]
Monstro is shown to be very ferocious and vengeful. He is a sadistic, wrathful, and destructive whale who attacks anything that he feels is a disturbance or hindrance to him. He does have a degree of intelligence though, as he pretended to be asleep upon seeing a school of tuna in order to lure them closer before attacking and had the sense to use water to put out the fire that made him sneeze, and upon noticing Geppetto and Pinocchio's raft, instantly knew they were responsible for it. He also shows to be treacherous and cunning during the final chase as he uses surprise attacks in order to kill Pinocchio and Geppetto.
He also has a vicious temper, as Geppetto warned Pinocchio that his plan to make him sneeze would make him furious. Indeed, he relentlessly pursued and attempted to kill them over it in addition to eating them again. He is also shown to be extremely obstreperous and aggressive, as he will stop at nothing to kill anyone who dares anger him, even if they simply make him sneeze.
Ultimately, however, his obsession with revenge toward Pinocchio and Geppetto was the cause of his downfall, as he smashes his head against a rocky cliff while trying to kill them.
Biography[]
Pinocchio[]
Monstro is first mentioned in the film when Pinocchio and Jiminy Cricket, after escaping from Pleasure Island and the Coachman, receive a message from the Blue Fairy who is in the shape of a dove that he has swallowed Geppetto, Figaro, and Cleo when Geppetto took to the sea to search for Pinocchio on Pleasure Island. They are still alive, inside his belly. Against Jiminy's warnings, Pinocchio resolves to find and rescue them. Though Jiminy tries to dissuade him, warning that Monstro is "a whale of a whale...he swallows all the ships alive!", he does not hesitate to join him in his search at the bottom of the sea. They search for Monstro; mentioning of his name causes the sea creatures to flee in terror. Meanwhile, in his belly, Geppetto and Figaro are trying to catch fish to eat. Geppetto tells Figaro that he fears that they will starve in there.
Monstro wakes at the sight of a school of tuna swimming nearby. Opening his great eyes, he pursues them with his mouth open, tearing through the ocean. When Pinocchio sees him approaching, he flees for his life, pushing past the tuna, even though he is nevertheless consumed by Monstro. The sprightly Jiminy escapes his jaws, but on the discovery that Pinocchio has been swallowed, he tries to enter Monstro's now closed mouth, but he won't open it. Inside his belly, Pinocchio, now reunited with Geppetto, Figaro, and Cleo, proposes that they escape in a raft constructed by Geppetto when Monstro opens his mouth. When told that "everything comes in...nothing goes out" of his mouth, Pinocchio suggests that they start a fire to make him sneeze. Geppetto agrees to it but warns Pinocchio that will make Monstro mad.
Monstro once again opens his eyes, this time to find smoke rising from his blowhole. He begins taking deep breaths; while his mouth is open, Pinocchio, Geppetto, Figaro, and Cleo try to escape and Jiminy tries to follow them; they succeed when Monstro finally sneezes, sending them flying out onto the sea. After another powerful sneeze, Monstro drinks lots of water to put out the fire. Enraged, he then pursues the raft while Pinocchio and Geppetto row for their lives. He dives underwater and emerges underneath the raft. Pinocchio and Geppetto row away in time, but when Monstro leaps after them, they are forced to jump into the sea. He smashes the raft to pieces with his tail. Pinocchio saves Geppetto from drowning and pulls him to shore, with Monstro in hot pursuit. As he builds up speed, the waves drifting from the cliffs of the shore hinder Pinocchio. Monstro leaps into the air, aiming to kill him and Geppetto. Finally, paddling madly, Pinocchio swims through the hole in the cliffs just as Monstro smashes into them, the impact of which sends Pinocchio and Geppetto flying onto the beach. As Geppetto came to, Jiminy, Figaro, and Cleo are also washed onto the shore, having been separated from Pinocchio and Geppetto during the escape. However, Pinocchio did not survive the blow. He is later revived, however, and turned into a real boy by the Blue Fairy.
It is unclear what exactly happened to Monstro. He either knocked himself out with the blow, only to be regain consciousness later, or he flat-out killed himself while trying to kill his prey.
The Whalers[]
Monstro appears in this short as the main antagonist. Here, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy are about to catch him, but with Goofy's stupidity and Donald's prone-to-frustration, he gets the better of them and they fail, however.
Merbabies[]
In this Silly Symphony short, when the merbabies are conducting a circus underwater, a sea slug accidentally awakes Monstro and makes him sneeze, blowing the babies and other sea creatures away.
Bonkers[]
Monstro had a guest star appearance in a Bonkers comic story titled "Whale of a Tale", published in the December 1994 issue of Disney Adventures. In it, he is not villainous, but rather a very polite (albeit destructive due to his size) actor who was simply playing a villainous role in Pinocchio and had not found work in the movies since then. He is duped by a gang of crooks, posing as a movie company, into breaking into banks for them to rob, and upon finding out the truth, helps Bonkers catch the criminals.
House of Mouse[]
Monstro made various cameo appearances on the show.
In "Clarabelle's Christmas List", Donald reels in Monstro when trying to reel in Santa's Naughty and Nice list.
In "Max's New Car", Monstro brings Geppetto and Pinocchio to the club from within his mouth. Max jokingly refers to him as a "Monstro truck".
In "Ask Von Drake", Monstro is seen during Ludwig Von Drake's headcount of all of the Disney character guests.
"Mickey and Minnie's Big Vacation" ends with an advertisement for "Monstro Cruise Lines".
Once Upon a Time[]
Monstro is seen in Fairy Tale Land chasing Pinocchio and Geppetto. He attacks the raft and leaves.
Kingdom Hearts series[]
Monstro appears as both a character and world from Kingdom Hearts. Like many of the worlds from the original game, it appears in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories as well. He is an immense space whale that swims the Lanes Between, so large that its innards are a world to themselves, similar to Deep Space, and have also appeared as an arena for the Mirage Arena matches in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix. However, despite its monstrous size, it is actually fought as a boss in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix, in an oceanic arena seemingly based upon Pinocchio's world. Although Monstro is considered a world, it lacks a Keyhole, and its mobile nature means that Sora and his friends cannot always reach it whenever they try.
Monstro is one of the few worlds in Kingdom Hearts that do not need to be cleared to beat the game, but Geppetto and Pinocchio will not appear in Traverse Town until it is completed. Furthermore, if the player waits until they have cleared Hollow Bastion to venture through Monstro, Riku will not appear in any of the world's cutscenes or battles.
Monstro appears in Kingdom Hearts as a supporting world, where Pinocchio and Geppetto temporarily live until being rescued. Within Monstro dwell many Heartless, including one called the Parasite Cage, which eats Pinocchio, trapping him within its cage-like stomach, and delivers the puppet to Riku, who wishes to use Pinocchio's heart to rescue Kairi. After Kingdom Hearts is sealed, Monstro presumably returns to his world.
Monstro later reappears in Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, as a figment of Sora and Riku's memories. Monstro himself is not physically seen, but card rooms resembling his bowels are explored.
Monstro appears in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix as a new boss in the Mirage Arena.
In Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance and it's HD remake, Monstro appears in his world Prankster's Paradise before it was consumed by darkness. Jiminy and Pinocchio are swimming away from him, but the force of the water pulls them along with Sora into the chaos. Eventually, Pinocchio and Jiminy are then swallowed by him, Sora gives chase on him, but a Dream Eater appears and freezes him in an iceberg that rises the top of the ocean, where Sora follows. He then fights Chill Clawbster on the clusters of the frozen Monstro. During the battle, he frees him, encasing him in a water bubble. Chill Clawbster is soon defeated and swallowed by him, while Sora falls into the ocean. Eventually, Monstro then sneezes, blowing him away.
In conjunction, during his adventure, Riku finds himself inside Monstro and spots Geppetto looking for Pinocchio. Riku offers to help find him and also encounter Jiminy, who reveals that Pinocchio ran off with somebody with a black coat. They spot him walking with that person, revealed to be another Riku as he enters a corridor of darkness without a word. Pinocchio and Jiminy ask if there is anyone that will always be there for Riku. He explains that there is. Suddenly, a thunderous vibration happens. Riku orders Pinnochio and Jiminy to head back while he takes a look around, finding the Char Clawbster Dream Eater and destroying it. As Geppetto and Pinocchio are reunited, Riku recalls Yen Sid's words of wisdom and unlocking the world's keyhole. Monstro also appears in Kingdom Hearts and acts as a world of sorts via swallowing the gummi-ship - trapping the heroes in his Heartless infested stomach. While there they also come across Geppetto and Pinocchio, who are still stuck in his belly.
Kinect Disneyland Adventures[]
Like in the actual park, Monstro is a part of the Storybook Land Canal Boats. At one point in the game, he eats Pinocchio's school books. In order to recover them, the player must gather some pepper pots to make him sneeze. The powerful sneeze releases them.
Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion[]
Monstro can be seen in promotional artwork for the Atlantica level. He does not, however, appear in the final game.
Disney Parks[]
Monstro has a spell card known as "Monstro's Water Spout" in the attraction Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom.
Pinocchio's Daring Journey[]
Monstro makes a brief appearance at the ride's climax. Just after escaping from Pleasure Island, the riders are warned by Jiminy that Monstro is approaching. Suddenly, he bursts out of the ocean and lunges at them, accompanied by thunder and lightning. They veer away just in time.
Fantasmic![]
Monstro appears in both versions of the show as a lead-in to Mickey falling into the whirlpool and the stormy ship scene, ending the Dancing Bubbles sequence in Disney's Hollywood Studios' version and coming after the I've Got No Strings scene in Disneyland's version.
Storybook Land Canal Boats[]
Monstro's biggest appearance is at Disneyland's version of the Storybook Land Canal Boats. Guests ride boats through his mouth, which serves as a tunnel to a land of miniature buildings based on various Disney films.
The guides on the boats state that Pinocchio blew a hole in Monstro's back to free himself and the others, explaining why he has a hole where his fluke should be. This is far from the events shown in the movies.
Monstro appears in the 2022 live-action remake of the 1940 animated classic, playing a similar role. Unlike the original, he is depicted not as a sperm whale, but rather a whale-like sea monster-hybrid that is a cross between a humpback whale, a blue whale, a kraken, a great white shark, and a Mosasaurus from Jurassic World Trilogy, as well as some features of the Terrible Dogfish from the original book. This is evidenced by tentacles and multiple fins on his back.
The name "Monstro" means "monster" in Italian. It also sounds similar to "Monstruo", which is "monster" in Spanish.
Monstro's voice artist, the late Thurl Ravenscroft, is best known for as the original voice of Tony the Tiger in the Kellogg's Frosted Flakes commercials for more than 5 decades. He also voiced the title character in the 1958 Disney animated short Paul Bunyan.
In the original Italian story of Pinocchio, instead of Monstro, it was a dogfish known as the Terrible Dogfish (Il Terribile Pescecane in Italian), that swallows Geppetto, and then Pinocchio.
At the time Carlo Collodi told this dogfish story, many Italian mothers would tell their children not to swim too far out to sea, or else this terrible and dangerous phantom shark would swim up and swallow them.
In Collodi's story, the dogfish is described as being larger than a five-story building, a kilometer-long (excluding his tail) and sporting three rows of teeth in his mouth which can easily accommodate a train. So fearsome is his reputation that in chapter XXXIV, it is revealed that he is nicknamed "The Attila of Fish and Fishermen" (L'Attila dei Pesci e Dei Pescatori in Italian).
Monstro has the body shape and teeth of a sperm whale and the size, skin color, and underbelly of a blue whale.
Monstro is very similar to the now-extinct Livyatan, a predatory whale that was on par with the Megalodon.
Monstro is the only antagonist in Pinocchio, although even in his case his ultimate fate is left unclear, who gets any sort of final comeuppance onscreen.
Honest John Worthington Foulfellow and Gideon conned Pinocchio and were never seen again afterward, though they were taken into police custody by the law enforcement in a deleted scene and it is implied that it likely happened offscreen due to Geppetto having learned Pinocchio's presence on Pleasure Island from them, who feared about the law.
Stromboli left the town with his caravan, though it is implied that his new show was ruined as Pinocchio escaped or at least he reacted in anger and desperation for discovering it too late.
The Coachman was last seen locking up the boys-turned-donkeys on Pleasure Island to sell them into slavery, getting off scot-free with his crimes.
In Descendants, the third film reveals that Monstro resides on the Isle of the Lost and has his own restaurant called Monstro's Basking Buffet.
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