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Muck Monster
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You can smell it from a mile away. A big, horrific pile of glop. Perhaps it's made of toxic sludge from a Corrupt Corporate Executive's industrial plant, or perhaps it's merely a colossal pile of dung. But it's alive. The Muck Monster is a living embodiment of filth and slop, and the Green Aesop tends to be his stomping grounds. Nothing hammers an anti-pollution message home like a colossal, animate pile of (sometimes literal) crap. Plants die from this beastie's approach; sometimes animals and even people bite the dust from being in mere proximity to this abomination. Usually, these kinds of monsters are considered destructively evil, especially to the environment, making these kinds of monsters overlap with Ecocidal Antagonist when portrayed as such. Compare Blob Monster, which is more transparent and tends to keep itself in one defined and consistent mass rather than constantly oozing and leaving parts of itself in its wake (and is generally less smelly), and Talking Poo. For other living piles of Animate Inanimate Matter, see Living Lava, Rock Monster, and Sentient Sands. A variant of the trope overlaps with Swamp Monster, creating a creature of living vegetation and/or mud (usually emphasizing the vegetation); this variant is often called a muck monster, but lacks the typical association with pollution and toxicity. They instead tend to have physical powers based on their inhuman bodily composition, such as Super-Strength, Super-Toughness, and a Healing Factor, elemental plant-manipulating powers, or both. See also Toxic Waste Can Do Anything, which is sometimes used as the origin for these creatures. |
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Aladdin: The Series: In several episodes, the heroes run afoul of the Al-Muddies, elemental spirits which are made of living mud, live underground, and are carnivores known to prey on humans. Normal ones are feral, dimwitted, and brutish creatures who tend to attack in mobs; their Sultan, however, stands out because of his titanic size and his incredible cunning and intelligence (not to mention being able to talk), and a fondness for cooking victims (even going so far as to call himself "a gourmet"). | |
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Samurai Jack: A group of mud people come to offer Aku a tribute for being allowed to live on Earth (an equally muddy statue of Aku). All Aku really cares about is that they are dripping mud all over his floor. | |
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Digimon has Raremon, a crawling, blubbery pile of rotten flesh entangled with random cybernetics. It smells like dead fish and vomits as an attack. Raremon is one of several "garbage" type Digimon, monster who basically failed their evolution. Others include Sukamon, a living pile of feces, the slug-like Numemon, and Garbagemon, which even lives in a trash can. | |
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Wild ARMs 2 has the boss "Drawdo", which resembles several dead fish melded together and attacks with every status effect in the game. | |
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During the lifeforce crisis in Reaper Man, one of the Unseen University's compost heaps comes to life. It attacks the gardener and dissolves its way through the main door before the wizards blow it up with a bottle of Wow-Wow sauce. | |
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Seigi No Symbol Condorman: All the members of the Monster Clan were created from pollution bringing life to inanimate objects. Of particular note is Gomigon, a monster made up of trash littered on the ground, Smogton, a smoking-addicted monster formed from air pollution, and Hedoronger, a monster whose body is comprised of toxic sludge. | |
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The title creature in Slime (1988) is a living lake of toxic waste that eats people and animals. | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987): On several occasions, the mutagen spawns these creatures; they have names like "mud monsters" and "Mutagen Man". Basically, the theory is that this is what happens when the mutagen produces something that doesn't have the dignity of resembling a particular animal like a turtle. (Of course, the accidental workings of a mutagen in Real Life are much more likely to produce a monstrosity like this than an anthropomorphic turtle....) | |
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ANNO: Mutationem: The Mother Grub is an enormous blob-like creature composed of highly acidic mucus that'll emit as gas. It can extend it's body to make itself fly and harden itself to perform a Rolling Attack while spawning multiple larvae to attack. | |
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Hedorah from Godzilla vs. Hedorah (a.k.a. Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster) has to be the most famous example of this trope, and it shows why one must never let alien organisms from a nebula where chemicals that are pollutants on Earth are its food arrive on Earth, lest it grow into a giant tadpole sludge demon that can drop lethal acid as it flies. Hedorah comes with a Meaningful Name with a dash of Exactly What It Says on the Tin as the name is derived from hedoro which is Japanese for "Sludge". In all of its forms, Hedorah is comprised primarily of the mineral substance Hedrium, which is also the source of its incredible strength, amorphous body and nigh-unstoppable abilities, including his Hedrium Ray, capable of burning Godzilla's flesh, and his ability to generate vast quantities of chemical ooze without it visibly affecting his size, even using it in an attempt to drown Godzilla at one point in the final battle. It takes a combination of the JSDF using gigantic electrodes and Godzilla powering them with his Atomic Breath to finally bring Hedorah down for good. | |
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Shantae: The Mud Bog areas are filled with Mud Bog creatures made out of the stinky, sludgy mess that the area is filled with. They either jump around in a blobby mass or pop out of the swampy floors and ceilings. | |
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One episode of Captain Planet and the Planeteers has one of these. In this case, it's an artificial organism that's supposed to eat garbage, but of course, when Sly Sludge uses it, it goes horribly wrong and turns into a Grey Goo that threatens to turn the entire planet into one big pile of living garbage. | |
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The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: In "Cleanliness Is Next to Impossible", Crud is a creature made from the filth under Christopher Robin's bed. A bar of soap acts like kryptonite to him and he is defeated by being sucked into a vacuum cleaner. | |
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Armageddon from The Return of Hanuman is a monster formed from a volcano, mostly because of the many inorganic trash contained inside and activated when Rahu and Ketu's staff went inside of the volcano. | |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series: Experiment 505, Ploot, is designed to collect and absorb pollution and turn it into a toxic sludge to flood cities with. The more he collects, the bigger and grimier he gets. | |
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The Binding of Isaac has a lot of poo-themed enemies, including Dips, Squirts, and Dingas (each progressively larger and which split into their smaller kin when killed), and bosses Dingle, Dangle, the Turdlings, and Brownie. | |
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EarthBound (1994): Master Belch (later upgraded as Master Barf) is a giant, sentient pile of vomit. There are also the smaller monsters like "Pile of Puke" and "Stink Spirit". | |
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Land of Oz: In the first story by Ruth Plumly Thompson, The Royal Book of Oz, the Scarecrow briefly encounters Middlings, man-like creatures made of mud. | |
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Atomic Puppet: Mudman is a minor member of the Rogues Gallery able to possess other beings, shapeshift, and regenerate From a Single Cell. | |
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One of the bosses from Conker's Bad Fur Day is the Great Mighty Poo, a literal living enormous pile of poop. | |
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The Owl House: Abominations are large, purple sludge monsters that serve as muscle for those who summon them. More skilled summoners can also use them as a Morph Weapon. | |
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Pathfinder has the Kaiju Vorgozen, a huge acidic sludge monster created by magical experimentation Gone Horribly Wrong (or possibly Gone Horribly Right — the aftermath of Vorgozen's creation left few clues as to the original intent of the wizards responsible). She warps magic in a wide area around her and can "infuse" herself into the terrain to travel quickly or escape in the unlikely event she finds herself threatened. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons has a number of these, such as the grey ooze and the demon prince Juiblex. A swamp that's tainted by magical pollution can create mudmen, which are Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Not very intelligent, they try to drown anything that enters their swamp out of an instinctual urge, often destroying themselves in kamikaze attacks as they try to smother their foes. Forgotten Realms: Moander, a minor evil god, manifests in the form of a gargantuan crawling heap of rotting vegetation. Pathfinder has the Kaiju Vorgozen, a huge acidic sludge monster created by magical experimentation Gone Horribly Wrong (or possibly Gone Horribly Right — the aftermath of Vorgozen's creation left few clues as to the original intent of the wizards responsible). She warps magic in a wide area around her and can "infuse" herself into the terrain to travel quickly or escape in the unlikely event she finds herself threatened. Ravenloft: The Darklord Malus Scleris rules a domain that is the horror of unlimited pollution made real, and it is filled with these kinds of monsters. Scleris is a pre-industrial version of a Corrupt Corporate Executive; his Freudian Excuse is that his father, a druid, only cared about his work, not about his son, so in return, he hates Nature for taking his father away from him. His MO is control of horrible and disgusting diseases. |
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Lord of Gun has mudmen enemies (replacing the game's usual human mooks) in the swamps area, where they rise out of the marsh to attack. Shooting them enough turns them back into muck. | |
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Call of Cthulhu has a version of Clark Ashton Smith's Abhoth (see above). | |
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Forgotten Realms: Moander, a minor evil god, manifests in the form of a gargantuan crawling heap of rotting vegetation. | |
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Monster Warriors: In "Revenge of the Mud Maniac", a giant mud monster is on the attack in Capital City. | |
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Batman: All eight iterations of Clayface fit the trope in some way, although some are more humanoid than others. The worst part is, all of them were once human, except for the fifth one, who is a child of Clayface III and Clayface IV born after they each gained their powers. | |
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Eva Mudlark of The Aquabats! Super Show! has made several of these out of anger from being treated as a lowly garbage collector. | |
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ThunderCats (1985): In "Mandora: The Evil Chaser", one of the villains is a Muck Monster known as The Living Ooze. Defeated with a powerful weapon of the ancients — soap. | |
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Deathless Hyperion has a humanoid-shaped, giant green slime monster as an enemy late in the game, and killing them will carpet half the stage in green ooze. | |
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FernGully: The Last Rainforest: Hexxus, the Tim Curry-voiced pollution-demon villain, although he was the primordial spirit of destruction before he latched on to human inventions. His forms varied from a sludge-based blob monster to an exhaust fume-based ghost to a giant burning angel skeleton made of tar. | |
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Pokémon Red and Blue has two Muck Monsters in Grimer and its evolved form, Muk. In Pokémon: The Original Series, Ash's Muk was (initially) so smelly that it stank even after it had been captured in a Poké Ball. When he teleported it to Professor Oak's, it proceeded to engulf half the lab and reduced Professor Oak to ranting. Of course, said Muk really just wants a hug. | |
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The Gargoyle's Quest game Demon's Crest has the boss "Crawler", a huge mass of melted-looking flesh that takes on a semi-humanoid form after it swallows some bones. It can spawn zombie-like creatures from its body. | |
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Goof Troop: One episode features a Corrupt Corporate Executive who had become a Muck Monster due to overexposure to all the pollution created by his factory. Goofy returns him back to normal with a jar full of fresh air. | |
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Pokémon Black and White has the garbage Pokémon Trubbish and Garbodor. Their bodies pick up trash as they go, so they're ironically useful in keeping places clean. | |
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Swamp Thing is a Spiritual Successor to The Heap, being a human scientist transformed into a sapient mass of moss, algae, roots, and mud after an explosion in his lab soaked him in burning chemicals before he plunged into a nearby swamp in an attempt to extinguish the flames. This triggered a reaction that transformed him into a creature made of the slimy substance of the swamp. This was until the 1980s, when Alan Moore instead retconned the Swamp Thing into purely a Plant Person, and the Elemental Embodiment of the plant kingdom at that; Swamp Thing had merely absorbed the memories of the human scientist who died, which was part of a ritual needed to spawn such an elemental as himself. | |
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The Heap is formed from the decaying vegetation of the swamp, wrapped around Baron Eric Von Emmelman's skeleton, and motivated by his indomitable will to live. Being made of animate vegetation makes the Heap extremely strong and resistant to physical damage. It also feeds by siphoning blood from living creatures and can drain it with its touch. | |
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The Amoeboids in the Ratchet & Clank series are a kind of slime monster that walks in circles and says "Nein!". When hit, they split into two, half as small slime monsters (except for the smallest sort, which just disappears). The biggest ones will split five times, meaning that you have to kill sixty-three slimes in total. | |
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| Muck Monster / int_9f89a5f0 | type |
Muck Monster | |
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Pokémon: This is a recurring archetype for Poison-type Pokémon: Pokémon Red and Blue has two Muck Monsters in Grimer and its evolved form, Muk. In Pokémon: The Original Series, Ash's Muk was (initially) so smelly that it stank even after it had been captured in a Poké Ball. When he teleported it to Professor Oak's, it proceeded to engulf half the lab and reduced Professor Oak to ranting. Of course, said Muk really just wants a hug. Koffing and Weezing are based on pollution, but they're more inspired by smog than slime, although they do possess the ability to spit globs of slime. Pokémon Black and White has the garbage Pokémon Trubbish and Garbodor. Their bodies pick up trash as they go, so they're ironically useful in keeping places clean. |
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Muck Monster | |
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Ravenloft: The Darklord Malus Scleris rules a domain that is the horror of unlimited pollution made real, and it is filled with these kinds of monsters. Scleris is a pre-industrial version of a Corrupt Corporate Executive; his Freudian Excuse is that his father, a druid, only cared about his work, not about his son, so in return, he hates Nature for taking his father away from him. His MO is control of horrible and disgusting diseases. | |
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| Muck Monster / int_aabf6d1d | type |
Muck Monster | |
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Darkest Dungeon has one in the Flesh, a mucky shapeshifting mass of wasted pig meat from the Ancestor's failed summonings. It's been so distorted by the magics used that, unlike the Human/Beast-typed Swine pigmen that patrol the Warrens, the Flesh is straight up Eldritch-type. | |
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| Muck Monster / int_b00aafbe | type |
Muck Monster | |
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Sludge from The Ultraverse. Frank Hoag was a Dirty Cop who was killed and covered in chemicals by an explosion before his body was dumped in a sewer. The chemicals had regenerative properties and tried to heal Hoag, but combined the sewer substances with his body, transforming him into a huge mass of living slime. | |
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| Muck Monster / int_b848381c | type |
Muck Monster | |
| Muck Monster / int_b848381c | comment |
The Tarr in Slime Rancher are this, being ravenous blob monsters born from when a largo slime eats a plort that it normally doesn't make. They probably have some kind of oil in them to make that rainbow sheen on their surface. Luckily for ranchers and slimes alike, Tarr are easily killed with a splash or two of fresh water. | |
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| Muck Monster / int_b9cc7496 | type |
Muck Monster | |
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Dogma has a demon, the Golgothum, constructed from crap — specifically, the crap of all the prisoners crucified at Golgotha (yes, including Him). He's defeated by deodorant (which "knocks out strong odors"). | |
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| Muck Monster / int_bcb32dc6 | type |
Muck Monster | |
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Shadowrun: City spirits usually manifest as piles of ordinary litter, unsightly but not all that icky. Toxic nature spirits manifest as contaminated water, smog, or really foul rubbish. | |
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| Muck Monster / int_c43df4d8 | type |
Muck Monster | |
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Doctor Who: In "Gridlock", the Macra live at the bottom of the Motorway and feed on the gas fumes created by the huge numbers of Flying Cars stuck in the universe's worst traffic jam. | |
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Muck Monster | |
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In The Non-Adventures of Wonderella, Dana tries to brew her own beer and creates one of these. | |
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| Muck Monster / int_c84a9c92 | type |
Muck Monster | |
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Pikmin (2001): The Smoky Progg is a horrifying crawling cloud of pollution that instantly kills any Pikmin it touches. Not even unpicked ones are safe from its wrath. | |
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| Muck Monster / int_cdde9090 | type |
Muck Monster | |
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Bulb Boy has a Puzzle Boss based on this concept. After the protagonist eats the cooked corpse of an evil zombie chicken the resulting bowel movement creates a large worm-like turd monster that must be flushed down the toilet before it eats Bulb Boy. | |
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| Muck Monster / int_e3a1067 | type |
Muck Monster | |
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Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt: The very first ghost fought by the eponymous angels is the Big Brown. It's the ghost of a plumber killed by the stench of a clogged joint that became a gargantuan shit beast bent on drowning everybody in crap. | |
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Muck Monster | |
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Dragon's Lair has mudmen, which unlike the other monsters cannot be killed, only avoided. | |
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Muck Monster | |
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Ginta uses Babbo: Alice to dispel this curse off "Gramps" in episode 97 of MÄR. | |
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Muck Monster | |
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Creepshow 2 has a large, flat monster which inhabits a lake, resembles an oil slick, and dissolves any flesh it touches. | |
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Muck Monster | |
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Spirited Away has the Stink God, who is literally just a moving pile of sludge with eyes. His smell is so bad that it makes everyone's eyes water and makes all of the food around him rot. He turns out to actually be a River Spirit, and his filthy state was due to pollution in the river he inhabits. | |
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Muck Monster | |
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The Tick: The Filth is a slimy sewer-dwelling creature with, erm, tapered heads. A variation with a snot-based clone of the Tick himself created by the being from the alternate dimension down the hall. Not exactly a blob of muck, but it was made of snot/mucus and, while shaped like the tick, could squish itself into other shapes and use its semi-gelatinous consistency to seep through cracks and around attacks and such. |
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Muck Monster | |
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In Femforce, Fungi was an Expy of The Heap who worked for Those Wacky Nazis. | |
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Muck Monster | |
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Man-Thing is basically a composite of The Heap and Swamp Thing, with the former's characterization and appearance and the latter's origin. A scientist working on a Super Serum injects his prototype formula into himself whilst trying to escape from some thugs, only to be shot and crash into a swamp; the formula, combined with mystic energies bound up in the swamp itself, transforms the scientist into a non-sapient mass of plant matter and mud. One aspect of Man-Thing that is closer to the conventional Muck Monster is that it has the ability to secrete a highly corrosive, possibly incendiary acid as a weapon in combat. | |
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City of Heroes: The Slag Golems enemy group from City of Villains are terrifying monstrosities of living cast-off metal, shambling figures composed of crudely sentient dross and detritus, eager to pound anyone who crosses them into compost for the island. | |
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