MISC. MONSTERS (FF1/2)
Those monsters from Final Fantasy I and II which just don't fit anywhere else...
Big Horn -- Bodyguard -- Borgan -- Brain -- Changer -- Crawler -- Hectoeyes -- Mega Parasite -- Parasite -- Snowman -- Tusk Rhino -- Zombie Borgan
Well, judging by the latter's name, these monsters are rhinos. Rather odd looking ones (off-colour skin, extra spikes and really, erm, big horns). Oh, and rhinos don't have tusks - tusks are teeth, the tusk rhino actually has a horn. A HORN. Stinking liar.
IMAGE: A rhino
He's a bodyguard. He guards your body. *nods*
Borgan is a real surname - there doesn't seem to be any reference here. For more on Borgan's zombified form, see zombie.
The idea of a brain functioning outside the body is a sci-fi cliche that we all take for granted but, writing this entry, I began to wonder where it originated. The earliest reference that I know of is the 1953 movie They Saved Hitler's Brain - granted, it's not just his brain, it's his entire head, but as the title shows, the basic idea's there. Other notable brains include Mother Brain from the NES game Metroid (she went on to appear alongside Astos in the cartoon series Captain N the Game Master) and the future Lister from Red Dwarf.
Brains bounced their way into paranormal lore in the early 70's, when two witness in a car saw brain-like entities the size of basketballs lying on a road. The driver (referred to as "John Hodges" by an investigator) took the other witness home before heading on to his own destination - a journey that the driver, at the time that he saw the brains, expected to take 10 minutes. But when he got home, two and a half hours had passed. This kind of time loss is often connected to reports of alien abductions.
Under regressive hypnosis (an unreliable technique), Hodges recalled being taken into a room containing grey, humanoid creatures, where he was able to talk telepathically with one of the brains. They told him that Earth's usage of atomic power was dangerous, and a translation device was implanted into his own brain. He later recalled that the humanoids were giving him the messages, the brains beign interpretors.
Over time, Hodges claimed to recieve telepathic messages. These included predictions of a nuclear war between the Middle East and Europe around 1983, and the aliens landing again in 1987 to implant translation devices in the brains of thousands of other people. Needless to say, the predictions prove false.
Oh, and if you're wondering about the changer's name, it's called a changer because it changes your stats around.
IMAGE: A brain
Oh, man. Erm, well, it's called a crawler because it crawls, right? I don't know WHAT kind of animal it's supposed to be, if any. Looks like some kind of fat, purple leech. Are those stubby things legs? Maybe not, then. Leeches don't have legs. Read my webcomics!
"Hecto" is a metric prefix meaning "100".
A parasite any organism that feeds off another, benefiting only itself. So, a mega parasite must be a MEGA organism that feeds off another, MEGA benefiting only its-MEGA-self. As you can see, I'm pretty bored at the time of writing.
From "abominable snowman", the legendary creature of the Himalays, also known as the yeti. Both names are corrupted forms of local phrases used to describe the monster - "abominable snowman" is from "meteh-kangmi", meaning "man-creature, snow-creature" (the phrase became garbled by the time it reched a translator, who replaced what was originally "meteh" with "metch", an expression of disgust), while "yeti" is from "yehteh", thea smaller meteh-kangmi.
The first Westerner to mention the "snowman" was B.H. Hodson, who was in Napel in 1832. He claimed to have seen the snowman, and said that it "moved erectly" and "was covered in long, dark hair and had no tail". Snowman reports agree on the dark hair, although, in popular imagination, the monster has white hair.
Tibetans view the creature as mystical, and even claim to have snowman relics, such as headgear made from the monster's scalp.
IMAGES: Wooldridge's photo of the abominable snowman -- Alleged yeti scalp
Back to...BIG HORN, TUSK RHINO
BODYGUARD
Yes, this is another pointless entry that I've only included for the sake of completism.
BORGAN, ZOMBIE BORGAN
BRAIN, CHANGER
But then, I was born in 1987, and sometimes I feel that I'm just too amazing to be human...CRAWLER
HECTOEYES
I know I can only see one side of this monster, but it seems unlikely to have as many eyes as it claims. Stinking liar.
MEGA PARASITE, PARASITE
SNOWMAN
As time went on, large footprints - attributed to the snowman - were reported in the Himalayas, and actually photographed in 1937 and 1951. A sighting of the creature itself occured in 1970, when Don Williams claimed to have seen an ape-like creature - he noted that the footprints were the size of an average man's, but argued that it could have been a young snowman. The creature was apparently photographed in 1986 by Anthony Wooldridge, who was running in the Himalayas for charity.
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