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Monster in the Moat
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A fortress' most fundamental purpose is defence, so logically the more defences it has the better. So you've got your towering citadel, your great impenetrable walls stretching around the entire settlement, your mighty army of loyal defenders ready to man the walls, your drawbridge, portcullis and naturally your vast deep moat. What else can you add to be absolutely sure your fortress is impenetrable? Simple — fill the moat with ferocious man-eating beasts. A particular favourite in fiction (though seemingly with no basis in reality) is the idea of a moat that is infested with crocodiles. However, other dangerous aquatic and semi-aquatic predators will easily suffice, so don't be surprised to see examples that feature the likes of sharks, piranhas, eels (meat-eating, electric, or both) or even, in more fantastical settings, Sea Monsters — Nessie lookalikes, water dragons, and Sea Serpents are all known to turn up in this role. After all, what invading army will dare try to cross the waters to storm the walls if there is a danger of them being devoured alive by a gigantic beast? And who would dare risk camping on the banks in a hope to starve you out if they could risk being eaten whilst they slumber? Likewise even if not for defence, having a giant moat full of beasties also provides a nice deterrent for anyone who desires to escape the walls. And it also provides your average tyrant with an epic manner of publicly executing any unwanted dissidents, incompetent minions or pesky heroes. Don't expect anyone to question the logistics of how the arrangement works, or even, as most Medieval castles were built in Europe, where all the animals even came from. Likewise the dangers of the beasts getting into your city or trying to eat the inhabitants never seems to come up despite the natural assumption that it should. But hey, it can't be denied the idea of having a moat filled with man-eating monsters is really cool and makes a great visual spectacle. Needless to say this was not Truth in Television. There is no historical evidence of any castle deliberately putting beasties, especially crocodiles, in their moat as an extra layer of defence (especially as most moats weren't even filled with water due to the difficulties and expense of building artificial waterways at the time). Legends of them doing so seem to date no further back than the 19th century. Compare with Shark Pool, which is a similar idea but designed specifically for execution rather than defense. |
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The Far Side: Parodied. One cartoon features Horny Vikings storming into a castle. As they cross the drawbridge, one soldier in particular looks down to see what's in the moat, and shouts "Ooh! Goldfish, everyone!" | |
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The Black Cauldron: The Horned King's castle is surrounded by a vast moat filled with massive crocodiles. To get past them you have to swim through the moat and then scale the wall. | |
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In The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang, there's a friendly, vaguely-plesiosauroid monster in the moat of Spike's family castle. His name is Sid. | |
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Yippee, Yappee and Yahooey: The short "Black Bart" ends with the King, fed up with the trio's incompetence, throwing them into the moat and siccing his three alligators on them ("There's one for each of you!"). | |
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The Once and Future King: Downplayed. In The Sword in the Stone, the castle moat is ruled by an enormous and quite vicious Pike who upon encountering the young Arthur (whom Merlin transformed into a fish at his request) argues Might Makes Right and that power is the only thing worth respecting before trying to eat him. Merlin intended the experience as a warning to Arthur about the dangers of absolute power and how it leads to tyrants. | |
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Redwall: In Marlfox, Castle Marl is built on an island in the middle of a vast lake whose waters are infested with pike (known locally as the Teeth of the Deeps). The Marlfoxes tend to punish failure in their underlings by throwing them in the lake, and the last Marlfox is Eaten Alive when a slave knocks him off the boat he was escaping in. | |
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The Daevabad Trilogy: Played With in The City of Brass. The djinn's capital city is in the middle of a lake of Murder Water that tears apart anyone who so much as dips a toe in. They use it as a defensive feature (and for executions), but it originated in a Curse against them by the marid, from whom they stole the lake. | |
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Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School has the eponymous location surrounded by a moat inhabited by a two-headed Threatening Shark. | |
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Mortadelo y Filemón: One issue involves the two agents falling into a dry moat and Filemon is relieved because no water means no sharks. Only for Mortadelo to explain to him that it's more practical for a moat to have crocodiles... just like the really big and hungry one he is pointing at. | |
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Scooby-Doo! Classic Creep Capers: The Ghoul King, despite being another guy in a costume in the end, has a castle full of horrors that are very elaborate for fakes. One such horror are two giant tentacles that emerge from the moat around his castle that attack anyone not authorized to pass by. | |
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Xanth: The moat at Castle Roogna contains moat-monsters which generally sound like sea-serpents or something similar. Good Magician Humfrey's castle sometimes has a moat-monster, but not always, and what kind of monster it is changes frequently. |
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Rusty and Co.: The vampires in Level 6 have recruited lots of monstrous minions to guard their castle, including a Kraken in the moat. However, it's intelligent and unhappy to be stuck there, so it decides to let the heroes in. | |
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Jitsu Squad: The stage in Castle Hellstorm has a moat filled with skeletons and a Stock Ness Monster chilling out in the background as you make your way across the drawbridge fighting assorted enemies, but the monster is just part of some Monstrous Scenery that doesn't interact with your characters. Maybe it's already full from eating too many unknown adventurers arriving before you... | |
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The Wizard, The Witch, and Two Girls from Jersey: The Fragile Hag's tower is guarded by the Moat Beast, a huge apelike creature who feeds on the garbage thrown into the moat. He's chained up, but the chains break when the Fragile Hag dies, freeing the Moat Beast. | |
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King's Quest I: Quest For The Crown: In the original version, Castle Daventry has a crocodile-filled moat. In the remake, instead they have the serpentine "moat monsters" who fulfil the same role. | |
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The Swan Princess: There are crocodiles in the moat of Rothbart's castle, which Lt. Puffin, Speed the turtle, and Jean-Bob the frog have to evade in order to rescue Odette. | |
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The Ren & Stimpy Show: In "Robin Hoek", Stimpy's story has Robin Hoek (Ren) storming the Sheriff of Dodge City's castle and swimming through a moat that's filled with man-eating monks. | |
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Steven Universe: Discussed in "Full Disclosure". When the Crystal Gems are discussing ways to keep people off the beach, Amethyst proposes building a moat, with herself shapeshifted into a crocodile. The others shoot that idea down — apparently they've tried it multiple times in the past, but Amethyst never commits to it. | |
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The Sword in the Stone: The moat of Sir Ector's castle is inhabited by an enormous and very aggressive pike. Merlin, having transformed himself and Arthur into small fish to explore the moat, initially uses it to teach Arthur a lesson on out-thinking his opponents, but when the pike doesn't take the hint, Arthur ends up having to be plucked out of the water entirely by Archimedes the owl. It's a downplayed example, though, since the pike is only dangerous to Arthur in his fish form. | |
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World of Tiers: A castle in the Dracheland tier is described as having a river dragon living in its moat. | |
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Metal Slug Code J: In the inner sanctum of the pyramids, after getting pass the Sphinx boss, the next area is a moat guarded by Apep, a giant serpent boss, where the player has to cross the moat's surface on rock platforms while avoiding Apep's attacks from below and battling Apep. Once Apep's health is depleted it then swims away, never to be seen again. | |
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The Cleveland Show: In "Escape From Goochland", the fight between Cleveland and Chet Butler leads to the bridge over Stoolbend's riverway, that in addition to being severely polluted, as Goochland's propaganda says, also houses a giant tentacled fish-like monster that eats Chet when he tries to kill Cleveland Jr. Cleveland offhandedly mentions that nobody knows what said monster even is. | |
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Toy Academy: Evil Toy Academy has windup toy alligators in its moat. Since all the characters are Living Toys, this is more threatening than it would be if the characters were human. | |
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The Pink Panther: In "Pink Plasma", Little Man Dracula spends most of the episode trying to attack Pink, but invariably falls in the moat and is persecuted by a shark that breathes out of the water and runs with its tail-fin. In the end, the vampire sneaks into the room where Pink is (apparently) sleeping, but the panther pulls down a curtain with the sun painted on it, making Dracula run back to his coffin in panic... only to find the shark waiting for him. They disappear when the sun rises, along with Dracula's castle and the monster that decided to run after Pink For the Evulz. | |
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Learning How to Be a Princess: Discussed. After finding his castle in ruins at the end of Chapter 14, Emperor Belos humours the idea of replacing the spiked-moat with a water-moat. When Camila mentions that most witches being able to fly would make such a thing pointless, he remarks that it wouldn't if he had a Sea Serpent swimming in it. | |
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Despicable Me: Vector, Gru's nemesis, keeps what appears to be a very large, toothy, man-eating shark in the moat around his enormous home/headquarters. The shark viciously mauls Gru during one of his many failed attempts to to break in. Subverted in the climax when it jumps up to attack Gru when he tries again, where now running on full Papa Wolf mode he punches it out with one fist while not even looking at it. | |
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The Emperor's New Groove: The entrance to Yzma's secret lab, located inside the royal palace, has a lever that activates a trapdoor, sending the person on the trapdoor into some sort of body of water with alligators. We don't see where exactly Yzma and Kuzco go when this happens to them, only that they walk back in with an alligator biting their clothes. This gag was occasionally brought back during the series despite the change of location to Kuzco Academy. | |
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Scooby-Doo: Scooby-Doo and the Ghoul School has the eponymous location surrounded by a moat inhabited by a two-headed Threatening Shark. Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf: Dracula's castle moat has at least one crocodile. It proceeds to foil Shaggy and Scooby's attempt to escape the castle with a Bedsheet Ladder, although Scooby doesn't notice until he's already climbed down into its mouth without knowing it was there. |
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Magic: The Gathering: "Moat Piranhas depicts a school of flesh-eating fish implicitly living in a defensive moat. They have the Defender rule, meaning that, moat-bound as they are, they can't go out looking for prey — they need to wait for victims to come to them. | |
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Scooby-Doo! and the Reluctant Werewolf: Dracula's castle moat has at least one crocodile. It proceeds to foil Shaggy and Scooby's attempt to escape the castle with a Bedsheet Ladder, although Scooby doesn't notice until he's already climbed down into its mouth without knowing it was there. | |
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Courage the Cowardly Dog: Played for Laughs in "The Magic Tree of Nowhere". Courage tries to protect the eponymous tree from being chopped down by Eustace by building a defensive fortress around it, which includes digging a moat and filling it with water. He then pours a bag of "Instant Eel" powder into the water, which creates a big, green, ferocious eel monster. The Instant Eel is twice shown stopping to sing a few lyrics from the classic Irish folk song "Danny Boy" (even joining with Eustace for a duet at one point), before he resumes acting as a ferocious guard beast (and mauling Eustace again). | |
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The New Scooby-Doo Movies: Invoked in "The Haunted Horseman of Hagglethorn Hall". In addition to the eponymous horseman, there was a giant frog-like creature in the moat, aptly referred to as The Moat Monster. Naturally, it's all part of a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax. | |
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The Wizard of Id: The strip features a moat around the castle which is filled with Stock Ness Monsters. The King has at various times either regarded them as pets, or presented the moat itself as a Fantastic Nature Reserve. One strip showed a sign next to the moat reading "beware of frogs" and two kids laughing at it, until a giant frog's tongue shot out and snapped up one of the kids. |
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Goblins in the Castle: Early on, William's narration reveals that his nurse fell in the moat of Toad-in-a-Cage Castle and got eaten by "something-or-other" when he was five. Exactly what the something-or-other is has never been specified. It gets brought up again in Goblins on the Prowl when Fauna recalls William telling her about the incident, and looks down to see large, dark shapes with enormous eyes swimming in the moat. | |
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Drakkhen will add a shark to the moat of one of the dragon princes after enough time has passed. If your characters walk on the drawbridge at the wrong time, the shark will leap out of the moat to bite them, and it's a One-Hit Kill on that character. It also shows that the dragon prince is far more paranoid about your presence than he lets on, which foreshadows his eventual Face–Heel Turn. | |
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The Looney Tunes Show: In The Stinger of "Gossamer is Awesomer", Speedy attempts to expand his restaurant business by opening one that is designed to look like a medieval castle in Cincinnati, Ohio. His grand opening fails due to Porky Pig (his hired designer) having real crocodiles placed in the moat for historical authenticity, unbeknownst to him. The crocodiles proceed to attack his would-be customers, driving everyone away. | |
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Dragon's Lair: In the first level, Dirk falls through the drawbridge of Scorch's castle and is almost captured by a bizarre tentacled creature in the moat. | |
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