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The Man Behind the Monsters

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The Man Behind the Monsters	comment	Every horde of monstrous mooks will be led by a powerful and (relatively) human-looking figure. If the mooks are already vaguely human, the leader will be downright gorgeous. There's no stated reason for the use of this trope, but it allows for the heroes to have someone in the enemy camp with whom they can interact, and a slavering monster does not make good drama (fear, revulsion, terror, yes. Drama? Not so much). Otherwise, they're essentially fighting an enemy with all the charisma of a wave of lava. Frequently, the mooks are themselves incapable of organizing into a vast army. Those dirty monsters can't do anything without a proper HUMAN leading them! Subversively, they may turn out to have been Good All Along and bullied or brainwashed by the Big Bad into evil. Beauty Equals Goodness on its ear, as it were. The Pretty Guys Are Stronger is a Sister Trope. The analogue here is that the leader (who is the most powerful) looks the most human, and the weaker the subordinate, the more wild or mindless they become. The Dragon and his lieutenants occupy a curious niche in all this: while they also benefit from this trope and, in fact, tend to look the most human on the villainous side, it's because they aren't so powerful as the leader. Confused? So are we. It does, however, tend to telegraph a Heelâ€“Face Turn, though not always. On the opposite end of the spectrum, evil members of good or neutral species are generally more monstrous than their good counterparts. Contrast Not Even Human, where only the boss is a monster. Also related to the Bishōnen Line.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_151de869	comment	Kamen Rider Revice: Played straight and then inverted: the demonic Deadmans are commanded by the Giftex, humans who can turn into demonic battle forms, but they in turn are subservient to Giff, a demon with no human form.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_17919d8a	comment	The Great Khali tended to be managed by very small note by pro wrestling standards, anyway men, such as Khosrow Daivari or Ranjin Singh. Although Singh was arguably a subversion because he was revealed to be Khali's non-handicapped brother.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_19664ae8	comment	Anton Arcane spends most of Swamp Thing as a handsome older man played by French actor Louis Jordan. This is a case of Adaptational Attractiveness, as he quickly went from gnarled old man to grotesque zombie-like figure in the comics.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_1b35b3a3	comment	In [PROTOTYPE 2] Alex becomes this to the new infection, which he causes.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_1cc09117	comment	Aizen in Bleach, though the hollows aren't much of monsters anymore, as his method of powering them up is to force them to cross the Bishōnen Line.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_1db412d3	comment	Mistborn: Zig-Zagged. The Lord Ruler looks like a normal young man, if you can get past the sheer aura of apathy and despair that he emanates, and his two races of minions are monstrous: Inquisitors look like humans with metal spikes pounded through their eyes, and Koloss are giants with sagging skin that will die from overgrowth. Religion claims that the Lord Ruler is a god rather than a man, but the heroes discover that he's just a man who won the Superpower Lottery. The truth is more complicated: he was a god, but only for a few minutes. In those few minutes, he learned how to break the magic system wide open, which granted him immortality while leaving him technically human. This trope is best shown in the final battle: the Inquisitor Marsh turns on him and tries to exploit the weakness built in all Inquisitors (a metal spike on the back that grants them power), only for him to discover that he doesn't have one.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_20398295	comment	Kantai Collection: While theyâ€™re still creepy cyborg Humanoid Abominations, the higher ranks of the Abyssal Fleet look more human-like than the lower-ranking units, who are more animalistic sea monsters.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_2442edf2	comment	Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn: Subverted. The local army of monsters is composed of Bukken (tunneling goblins), Hunen (hairy giants), and Norns (arctic dark elves), but appears to be acting on the orders of the human King Elias and his advisor, the also-human Pryrates. Except that the army is a loan from the Storm King, an undead specter who was once a humanoid Sitha but is now a borderline-Eldritch Abomination and he always intended to backstab Elias and Pryrates, with his minions being full aware that their "service" to Elias is a temporary indulgence only. Of course, the main characters are all aware that the Storm King is the ultimate string-puller for most of the series — the trick is convincing everybody else that Elias is not, in fact, the Big Bad du jour.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_24aedfb1	comment	Ressha Sentai Toqger: The Big Bad inexplicably looks like a handsome man. He is not a former human and his human form isn't even a disguise, he just has always looked that way. He does have a monster form, but it is a powered-up form rather than his true form. The only other monster in the show who has a human form is implied to be the opposite, a monster who earned a human form by turning good.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_259a6c64	comment	Armando Estrada (another relatively small man) managed "The Samoan Bulldozer" Umaga before embarking on an in-ring career of his own.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_25d10644	comment	All the Zoanoids in Guyver are uniformly bestial in their Game Face forms, but Zoalords are quite a bit more human looking once transformed, with appealing One-Winged Angel/Sculpted Physiques.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_2819aebd	comment	This trope is used as an explanation for why advanced robots were outlawed between the Mega Man (Classic) and Mega Man X series in The Prototype. After Dr. Wily's death, King takes control of the remaining robot master armies. The narrator notes that people were more or less okay with being attacked by killer robots because they knew that a human was in control of them, and it was something they could understand. But when a robot is in control, that scares the populace so much that they outlaw advanced robots like the deceased Mega Man and Roll, at least until X is discovered.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_28438266	comment	Captain Syrup in Wario Land 1 and 2 who is the only other human member of the game's cast and the Big Bad. Also possibly The Shake King in Wario Land: Shake It!, who while probably not quite human, looks a heck of a lot more so than any of other enemies in the game.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_29950026	comment	Subverted on Godzilla: The Series: one of the mutations the H.E.A.T team and Godzilla fight are Dragmas, dragon-esque monsters created by Dr. Jonathon Insley, head of the Democratic Resurgence Against Global Mechanized Armageddon project (D.R.A.G.M.A), who believed mankind's overreliance on technology would bring about its extinction, and wanted to use his creations to force mankind to embrace a more simpler time that would ensure humanity's survival. Unfortunately, Insley's creations owed him no more loyalty than they did any other human; the team are shown a grim vision of the future where after killing their creator, the Dragmas got loose and virtually annihilated the entire world.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_2b8d6e40	comment	The Runelords: Raj Ahten's mooks consist of ordinary humans backed up by enhanced humans and monstrous Nomen and Frowth Giants. Ahten himself is an androgynous, incredibly beautiful, and charismatic human. This is because he's taken so many endowments of glamour from his subjects, which force anyone who looks at him to perceive him as beautiful. This effect is so powerful that it still works later in the series when half his face has been burned off.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_2cad7105	comment	In El-Hazard: The Magnificent World, Jinnai discovers that his talent is controlling the insect-like Bugrom. Even if not for him, their queen Diva is far more human-looking than the rest of the species.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_2f3b380a	comment	The Sandman (2022) features Lucifer Morningstar, ruler of Hell, who as in the original comic (see above), appears more or less human and beautiful — and all the other mostly hideous demons of Hell are respectful or deeply scared of their boss.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_2fee008d	comment	In Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann, Lordgenome is the human (albeit a weird-looking one) leader (and creator) of Beastmen.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_32a01588	comment	The Coachman from Pinocchio is actually revealed to have large, ape-like monsters forcing young boys which the Coachman had turned into donkeys into crates headed for either the salt mines or the circus. Of course, it's implied that he may not be entirely human himself.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_343830b9	comment	The Night Unfurls: While the brutish orcs have their chieftains, they are ultimately under the command of Olga Discordia, the Dark Elf Queen. Naturally, she resembles a human, and a downright gorgeous one at that. Later subverted as she gets ousted and replaced by Vault, a hunk-y mercenary leader who intends to lead both his own human mercenaries and non-human hordes to take over the South. Shamuhaza, a human Evil Sorceror, is the source of the mutated, deformed, and mis-matched Elite Mooks in the original version of the story.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_359b115d	comment	Kamen Rider Zero-One puts a slight twist on the concept: the two villainous factions use Magia and Raiders as their rank and file, the latter being a Rider-like suit that more closely resembles a monster. The actual leaders of both factions, however, are proper Riders in their own right.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_35e05f2a	comment	RWBY: The Grimm, mindless monsters of pure destruction, are ruled by Salem, an immortal woman who fell into the pool of their essence.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman's villain Circe is an immortal demigod sorceress whose favorite minions are bestiamorphs, humans that were turned into monstrous animals.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_4142f88e	comment	On the non-villainous side, Monsters Unleashed introduces Kid Kaiju whose ability as an Inhuman is to summon monsters by drawing them. He's even able to use this ability to create new monsters in this way, bringing his own team of heroic kaiju into existence.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_41931bef	comment	Henna in Barbie: Mariposa controls the vicious, dimwitted Skeezites to serve her whim and attack Flutterfield.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_455ede40	comment	Possibly Super Paper Mario: Count Bleck and Dimentio may or may not be human. It's ambiguous, but most others in the setting look far less human. Count Bleck is, in fact, of the Tribe of Darkness (which is implied to be the same species as Merlon or similar). Dimentio isn't clear.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_47a34a01	comment	In the original Kamen Rider, while many of Shocker's operatives were mutant kaijin, its top executives were all humans, with the possible exception of the Great Leader himself.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_4824b3b3	comment	In Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel, the army of Super Mutants is led by someone called Gamorin whom they revere. He turns out to be a renegade Brotherhood paladin.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_49a87cb3	comment	Professor Hojo in Final Fantasy VII created the Big Bad, Sephiroth, both naturally and artificially (Sephiroth was Hojo's birth son, and he was injected with Jenova's cells as an embryo), and was implied to have had some involvement in creating Deepground.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_4ab17360	comment	In Inuyasha, Naraku reassigns Kagura to command his army of flying worms.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_4edff9aa	comment	Andross from Star Fox, although technically not human, was the closest to a human compared to the other characters, genetically speaking, and he was either directly responsible for the events of the series or manipulated the enemy into doing his bidding. In Star Fox: Farewell Beloved Falco, Andross was resurrected via cloning by a rogue Cornerian officer. In Star Fox Adventures, due to his hijacking the plot, he was implied to have manipulated Scales and the rest of the Sharpclaw army into doing his bidding. In Star Fox Command, it was implied that he was the one who created the main threat of the game, the Anglar Race. In fact, the only main villainous group never affiliated with Andross at all was the Aparoids.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_51455a02	comment	Claymore reveals that the yoma are actually created by the Organization which also controls the Claymore. The entire continent is just a testing ground for them.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_5254313d	comment	Kamen Rider Agito has the Overlord of Darkness. While the Lords all had monstrous forms, the Overlord took the form of a human.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_5268a4ed	comment	Kamen Rider Build: The Smash are monsters created from unwilling human test subjects by the Faust organization, which is staffed by normal humans. While initially their only purpose was as a side effect of harvesting Fullbottles, they eventually graduate to being employed for military use by the divided governments of the setting and the Arms Dealer backing Faust. It becomes inverted in the second half though, when all of the human villains are revealed to be pawns of the true Big Bad, the Planet Eater Evolt, who is revealed to have a very monstrous true form.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_5270cb82	comment	In Galaxia Chronicles, HE is a noticeably ordinary-looking person (at least, what we see of HIM) compared to the biomechanical Siris, who he is collaborating with as part of HIS Evil Plan. At one point, HE and Maxx draw blood simultaneously after White Shell attacks the latter, implying that they share some kind of connection to each other, or that HE is possibly a future version of Maxx. The game never elaborates on it.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_52837809	comment	Kamen Rider Drive: While the Roidmudes have no human commanding them, their leaders all usually take human forms outside battle. And later on it's revealed that the Roidmudes' evil is ultimately the result of their creator, Professor Tenjuro Banno.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_5293b208	comment	Kamen Rider Ex-Aid has the Bugsters, monsters based on enemies from video games created by the human Kuroto Dan. Their leader Parado also takes the form of a normal human and doesn't have any monster form.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_52e7a4e4	comment	In Kamen Rider Kuuga, the Gurongi all took the form of humans outside battle.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_534c1b6b	comment	In Kamen Rider Ryuki, each of the Riders in the Rider War had a contract monster under their control. And all of the Mirror Monsters were ultimately created by the human Shiro Kanzaki.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_53f9ae8a	comment	I Woke Up As a Dungeon, Now What?: Warlocks are humans who have made a pact with a dungeon, providing the dungeon with corpses and other things it wants in exchange for immortality, unlimited magic reserves, and the dungeon's minions to lead as an army. The prospect of a dungeon's monsters under the command of something with human intelligence is terrifying, to the point where "Though shalt not suffer a warlock to live" is the closest thing we've yet seen to a religious law.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_587830b1	comment	Corum: Prince Gaynor the Damned plays this role. In the first trilogy, he leads an army of Half-Human Hybrids. The evil army in the second trilogy is even more unintelligent on its own and in need of intelligent human leadership, so it has both Prince Gaynor and the Evil Sorcerer Calatin.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_5a353ac3	comment	The Vagans somehow got a hold of the Vajra Queen in Super Robot Wars BX and, thus, are behind most of the Vajra attacks in the game.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_5bd0554b	comment	Warcraft: The Horde, for the most part, averts this: The Old Horde, featured in Warcraft I and II, was able to take fight to humanity, and even bring it to its knees in the first part, without any human help whatsoever. While demons were working behind the scenes manipulating the Horde (more on the Burning Legion below), they did not rule it directly, and for the most part, the Old Horde was corrupted, but otherwise independent. The trope was invoked in between II and III with the actions of the human lord Aedelas Blackmoore, who sought to train the now-enslaved orcs to serve as his personal army. However, his plans backfired, resulting in the orc rebellion and the formation of the modern, protagonist New Horde. The Dark Horde (a remnant of the Old Horde), one of the antagonists of vanilla World of Warcraft, subverts this trope. At first, it appears that it is led by the human Lord Victor Nefarius; however, eventually Nefarius is revealed to be a dragon in disguise. Kairozdormu, another dragon in disguise, attempted to take control of the Iron Horde, another remnant of the Old Horde created using time travel, but he was killed before he could do so. The New Horde plays with this trope a little. Its first Warchief, Thrall, has a unique model which is slightly more humanoid than the normal orc one, with eyebrows and teeth that are flat rather than sharp. He would downplay this trope if he were a bad guy. His successor, Garrosh Hellscream, was a bad guy, but he was even monstrous than the other orcs, thus averting this trope. After him came Vol'jin, who was neither a bad guy nor humanlike. The fourth Warchief, Sylvanas Windrunner, was the first, and so far only, Horde leader to actually play this trope straight, being a very, very, ''very'' evil sexy high elf. The Lich King might count, as he looks pretty much as he did in life, except all pale and dead, while the common soldiers of the Scourge are skeletons, barely humanoid ghouls, and abominations stitched up from corpses. In fact, most of high-ranking Scourge (except the liches, who look like floating ghostly skeletons, and crypt lords, who are giant undead insects) look more human than their underlings, as the dark magic that sustains them also helps to preserve their bodies.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_5fa33285	comment	The Goblin King from Labyrinth is played by David Bowie; his subjects are played by Ugly Cute muppets.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_630755ab	comment	Codex Alera: Vord come in a wide variety of monstrous forms, but the queens are humanoid in shape and capable of speech.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_694ab80	comment	Subverted in the Batman Beyond episode "Splicers" by Abel Cuvier, who runs a gang of aggressive teenage hoodlums who have been "spliced" (mutated with DNA from various dangerous animals). Cuvier is spliced himself and looks only slightly less grotesque than his young charges. An even greater subversion occurs at the episode's climax when he takes an enormous dose of DNA and fights Batman as a gigantic amoeba-like thing.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_69e47d85	comment	The Architect from Dragon Age: Origins â€“ Awakening, the "creator" and leader of the "awakened" darkspawn.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_6e1d5f36	comment	Farscape: The human-looking Peacekeepers are considered the worst threat in the galaxy, with the exception of the Scarrans. Subverted by the fact that Scorpius is the only inhuman-looking Peacekeeper.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_6e7bc6cc	comment	The Vader Clan from Denshi Sentai Denziman are Human Aliens. The monsters that they send to attack earth are hideous things that each look like two halves of different creatures stuck together.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_701f0ece	comment	Griffith after his reincarnation in Berserk. A beautiful knight in white shining armor, leading an army of Apostles. He still has all the power of his Godhand incarnation as Femto, and can even take on Femto's sinister bat-winged form if he feels the need.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Jem'Hadar are the somewhat reptilian genetically engineered soldiers of the Dominion. Their superiors are the much more human-looking Vorta, who also serve as the "public face" for the Dominion. The Vorta themselves report to the Founders, who in their natural state are shapeshifting blobs of orange liquid, though they do have a regular humanoid form they use for interacting with "solids", and they can impersonate humans exactly if they wish; so your mileage may vary on whether this counts as a subversion or not.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_747d9a6f	comment	In [PROTOTYPE], Elizabeth Greene is the organizing force behind the infection; most of the monstrosities infecting Manhattan are under her direct command. She looks normal enough but is essentially "burned out", with Greene being less of an independent personality than a personification of The Virus. Alex Mercer suggests he could take control of the infection after Greene's death, but he's more focused on killing them than leading them. In [PROTOTYPE 2] Alex becomes this to the new infection, which he causes.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_74f7210c	comment	Ganondorf from The Legend of Zelda, but only when he's Ganondorf rather than Ganon. The other villains flip between doubly monstrous Eldritch Abominations and humanoid/Ambiguously Human demons or sorcerers who tend to transform into monsters at some point. Ganondorf is also an example of the inversion, as he and Twinrova, by far the most evil members of the race, have inhuman green skin in contrast to the dark skin of all other Gerudo.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_76bb4695	comment	In the original Shadow Warrior (1997) You fight a bunch of monsters and demons, but Zilla is just a Corrupt Corporate Executive who made some kind of pact to summon said creatures from the spirit world. The same is mostly true in the remake, although in the sequel (where the material and spirit worlds have collided and monsters are as common as wild animals) he mainly uses robots and humans with Powered Armor.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_7988cb68	comment	Although Saren from Mass Effect isn't exactly a human, his species is generally treated as equivalent to human by the game. The geth that serve him are not. Eventually subverted, as it's revealed that there's a Giant Cthulhu Spaceship Behind The Turian.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_79dfce5	comment	Subverted, but later played straight in Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters. The human-looking Enter is first subservient to Messiah, a floating skull comprised of data. When Messiah is defeated halfway through the series, Enter plans to take his place, playing this trope straight.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_7ef6cd68	comment	Paul Bearer may have been ghoulish-looking, but at least he wasn't a seven-foot-tall undead giant like The Undertaker.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_81692f99	comment	In Star Trek, the Borg, being a Hive Mind collective, didn't have a leader... until some writer decided to create the Borg Queen, who fits this trope.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_81f5d35d	comment	It's common in Kamen Rider for the Monster of the Week to be commanded by a normal human. In the original Kamen Rider, while many of Shocker's operatives were mutant kaijin, its top executives were all humans, with the possible exception of the Great Leader himself. In Kamen Rider Kuuga, the Gurongi all took the form of humans outside battle. Kamen Rider Agito has the Overlord of Darkness. While the Lords all had monstrous forms, the Overlord took the form of a human. In Kamen Rider Ryuki, each of the Riders in the Rider War had a contract monster under their control. And all of the Mirror Monsters were ultimately created by the human Shiro Kanzaki. The Fangire in Kamen Rider Kiva all have monstrous forms, but their top brass, the Checkmate Four all have normal human forms which they use outside battle. Kamen Rider Gaim has the Overlord Inves, a group of Human Aliens who managed to gain transcendent power from eating Helheim Forest's fruit and thus gain the ability to command its mindless Inves monsters. Towards the end, Kouta and Kaito become Overlords as well and thus gain the ability to summon massive armies of Inves. Kamen Rider Drive: While the Roidmudes have no human commanding them, their leaders all usually take human forms outside battle. And later on it's revealed that the Roidmudes' evil is ultimately the result of their creator, Professor Tenjuro Banno. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid has the Bugsters, monsters based on enemies from video games created by the human Kuroto Dan. Their leader Parado also takes the form of a normal human and doesn't have any monster form. Kamen Rider Build: The Smash are monsters created from unwilling human test subjects by the Faust organization, which is staffed by normal humans. While initially their only purpose was as a side effect of harvesting Fullbottles, they eventually graduate to being employed for military use by the divided governments of the setting and the Arms Dealer backing Faust. It becomes inverted in the second half though, when all of the human villains are revealed to be pawns of the true Big Bad, the Planet Eater Evolt, who is revealed to have a very monstrous true form. Kamen Rider Zero-One puts a slight twist on the concept: the two villainous factions use Magia and Raiders as their rank and file, the latter being a Rider-like suit that more closely resembles a monster. The actual leaders of both factions, however, are proper Riders in their own right. Kamen Rider Saber: The purely monstrous Mamono are led by the three Megid, former humans who became monsters for power and can still take on human form. Kamen Rider Revice: Played straight and then inverted: the demonic Deadmans are commanded by the Giftex, humans who can turn into demonic battle forms, but they in turn are subservient to Giff, a demon with no human form.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_8251f9f4	comment	In World Embryo, the Coffin Princesses who direct the Kanshu (humans transformed into hideous monstrosities due to infected electromagnetic waves such as cell phone signals) look like cute young girls with the second pair of ear-like extensions on the top of their heads. One of the Princesses, Neene, who looked like the protagonist's beloved deceased aunt Amane, had manipulated said protagonist into protecting her until she matured into a Queen Bee and planned to destroy the entire world by absorbing the memories of the entire populace, nearly putting him through the Despair Event Horizon.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_8258e260	comment	Super Mario Bros.: A heroic example, the dominant species of the Mushroom Kingdom are the Toads, but Princess Peach Toadstool is a human. Possibly Super Paper Mario: Count Bleck and Dimentio may or may not be human. It's ambiguous, but most others in the setting look far less human. Count Bleck is, in fact, of the Tribe of Darkness (which is implied to be the same species as Merlon or similar). Dimentio isn't clear.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_82a3b84e	comment	Ein in PokÃ©mon Colosseum, The Evil Genius of the Cipher syndicate who created the Shadow PokÃ©mon used by Cipher. He's the last and most powerful of the admins.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_86c3beca	comment	A number of the Sparks from Girl Genius have turned themselves into this due to being just as willing to experiment on themselves as they are other people and animals.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_88383ee7	comment	Dante of Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) is the woman behind the creation of most of the Homunculi and led them with the promise of them finally being able to be human thanks to the Philosopher's Stone. In reality, she wants the stone for herself alone.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_8b4e057	comment	The Bandora Gang from Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger are led by the eponymous Witch Bandora, a human witch. The same goes for their counterparts in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers who are led by the human-looking Rita Repulsa.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_90f42a9b	comment	The Wheel of Time: The Trollocs are an Always Chaotic Evil horde of beast-men. Their superiors are the Myrddraal, who look like pale-skinned, eerily graceful humans except for the fact that they have smooth skin where eyes should be. Their commanders are the Forsaken, who are a group of actual humans (albeit very, very powerful channelers). Subverted in that the level above the Forsaken is occupied by the Dark One himself, who isn't remotely human and is somewhere in the general neighborhood of God of Evil, Eldritch Abomination, and Sentient Cosmic Force.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_914ba844	comment	The Wicked Witch of the West and her Flying Monkeys from The Wizard of Oz. Notable in that the monkeys were the first to cheer when the witch died, as they weren't serving her willingly. Subverted by the Winkies, who had the same green skin and long noses as the Witch herself; however, they were foreigners (with the witch even turning to the audience in the stage adaptation and explaining that "Oh-Ee-Oh" is one of their native folk songs).
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_934f7972	comment	In Master Detective Archives: Rain Code, Makoto Kagutsuchi, a perfect homunculus who doesn't lapse into violence when subjected to sunlight or turn into a zombie upon revival, and the CEO of Amaterasu Corporation, provides for the needs of a populus of defective homunculi, which are essentially a zombie horde that lapses into violence when subjected to sunlight of which default to the identity of false humans, by kidnapping criminals for their food supply, blocking out the sunlight, lying to them about their humanity, and isolating Kanai Ward.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_93e1a7e	comment	Blade II: The Reapers are clearly portrayed as feral animals who do little more than snarl and roar after being changed. Nomak is the only Reaper shown to have enough control of himself to make plans and talk, to the extent that he spares Whistler's life so that the human can deliver a message, where any other Reaper would have just torn Whistler's throat out the moment it had the chance.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10: Doctor Animo is a human Mad Scientist who relies on mutated animals as his minions.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_9d788ab1	comment	Invoked in The Legend of Sun Knight, where the Demon King commands hordes of undead, but isn't permitted to be undead himself. Demon Kings are a kind of Barrier Maiden; all the world's dark energy is sealed inside of them for them to consume, lest it blight the earth. But since dark magic induces insanity, the Demon King winds up wreaking havoc. The Cathedral of the Shadow God regards this as a necessary evil, and tries to contain the damage by selecting the least bad candidates. The undead candidate Roland is the only one they don't support because the Demon King has to die after expending all of their dark magic; if an unkillable Demon King emerged, the world's suffering would never end. Naturally, he becomes the Demon King anyways.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_a36f037	comment	The main villain of J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai, Iron Claw, is a human, although with some mechanical parts, and the monsters he sends out are robots. In the early episodes the robots would act as the muscle for Iron Claw's normal human crime bosses.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_a8150af4	comment	Downplayed example in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The orcs are led by Adar, who appears to be a very dishevelled-looking elf. It's later revealed that he's actually a prototype orc, and his army are implied to be his progeny.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering's Phyrexians zig-zag this, since they were originally led by Yawgmoth, a human physician often described as handsome and charismatic. He did eventually transform into a giant demonic entity as he became Phyrexia's god, but after his death, the rise of New Phyrexia was led by Elesh Norn, which also stands out as being the most humanlike of all Phyrexian Praetors.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_aabf6d1d	comment	The Ancestor from Darkest Dungeon is directly responsible for almost every enemy you face, and the rest are probably his indirect fault as well. Brainwashing fishmen, demonic swinefolk, undead legions, parasitic fungus and vampirized aristocrat ex-pals were all created and/or summoned by his hand, and when the villagers complained, he hired a group of bandits to keep them in line and gave the witnesses to the creatures he had created. The reason behind all this is he was bored and wanted eldritch power for a laugh. This being a Cosmic Horror Story, it all went wrong quite quickly. Unusually he is (maybe) not the Big Bad, as he killed himself after realizing what he had done and supports you via narration as you clean up his mess. In the sequel, The Scholar who acts as mission control became The Ancestor's unwitting understudy in monster-making; The Ancestor lured them to his manor, and then subjected them to eldritch experimentation and cosmic knowledge before casually discarding their body. But instead of dying, The Scholar was renewed with the same toxic ambition as The Ancestor, building up their own cult based on an ancient artifact they studied in university, until they managed to ascend to eldritch godhood. This act unleashed a horde of monsters on half of humanity while driving the other half monstrously insane. Ascension ripped The Scholar's soul apart, and one of the soul shards with humanity remaining become horrified at what they had done. After some convincing from the ghosts of their human sacrifices, they decided to fix their mistake.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_aacd24cb	comment	StarCraft has Kerrigan, the (human with shoulder-mounted extensible claws) leader of the insectoid Zerg after the Overmind's fall. Before she arrives, however, the trope was averted: the Overmind couldn't look less like a humanoid.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_ab515a31	comment	The first two House of the Dead games feature Dr. Curien and Caleb Goldman, respectively, are the ones behind the zombie outbreaks. Thornheart seems to be this for Scarlet Dawn. Averted in III and IV, where there are no human antagonists (unless you count Goldman filling the Big Bad role in IV posthumously), and even Curien, while he returns, is now one of the boss monsters in III.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_ad6a095e	comment	Princess: The Hopeful: While the bulk of the Darkness's armies tend to consist of the clearly inhuman Darkspawn, they will often be led by a Mnemosyne or Cataphract, who possess mostly-human bodies and minds and as such are capable of strategic planning and long-term thinking.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_af6a4464	comment	The Secret World has a few examples: In the Hell Dimensions, the main enemy demons (which look appropriately demonic and largely inhuman) are led by Eblis, a fallen angel shaped like a smooth, whitish humanlike being. In a less villainous version, your incursions into hell are to support a demonic rebellion led by a human called Wicker. In the first section of the game (On Solomon Island), you fight a number of zombies, giant bugs, ghosts, and such, but the main villain is the human-looking Beaumont.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_afb7052	comment	Poison Ivy and Bane in Batman & Robin might or might not be a subversion, depending on whether outward appearance matters. Both have been mutated by Venom, but Ivy still looks like a normal (and sexy!) human woman while Bane is a green-skinned, apelike monster.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_b0e228be	comment	Generator Rex: Van Kleiss is the leader of Abyssus, a realm populated with EVOs, the series' local mutants. All EVOs under his commands look more or less monstrous (the only one to have relatively human appearance are Breach and Circe, and even then the former looks a bit deformed while the latter eventually had High-Heelâ€“Face Turn). Van Kleiss himself, on the other hand, looks perfectly human, his only deformation being his hand. Doesn't prevent him from being a sicker bastard than all his minions put together.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_b0ec0986	comment	The Unversed are also under the control of Vanitas, as they are incarnations of his feelings. Vanitas himself is under Xehanort's control as he is his master, although the exact degree of control he is under is debatable.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_b3a3fa47	comment	Subverted somewhat with Babylon 5. The Shadows and the Vorlons are very much not humanoid, but they have much more normal-looking agents that can move freely amongst the younger races, Mr Morden being the most famous example.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_b8e7bb8	comment	Some of the evil factions in Super Sentai and Power Rangers are led by human-looking figures, commanding hideous monsters. The main villain of J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai, Iron Claw, is a human, although with some mechanical parts, and the monsters he sends out are robots. In the early episodes the robots would act as the muscle for Iron Claw's normal human crime bosses. The Vader Clan from Denshi Sentai Denziman are Human Aliens. The monsters that they send to attack earth are hideous things that each look like two halves of different creatures stuck together. The Bandora Gang from Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger are led by the eponymous Witch Bandora, a human witch. The same goes for their counterparts in Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers who are led by the human-looking Rita Repulsa. The Gorma Tribe from Gosei Sentai Dairanger all possess human forms, but the top-ranked members never take on monstrous forms in battle. Their battle forms just give them metal masks. Their leader, the Gorma Emperor, doesn't even have a battle form and just appears as a three-eyed man with unnaturally white skin. Subverted, but later played straight in Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters. The human-looking Enter is first subservient to Messiah, a floating skull comprised of data. When Messiah is defeated halfway through the series, Enter plans to take his place, playing this trope straight. Ressha Sentai Toqger: The Big Bad inexplicably looks like a handsome man. He is not a former human and his human form isn't even a disguise, he just has always looked that way. He does have a monster form, but it is a powered-up form rather than his true form. The only other monster in the show who has a human form is implied to be the opposite, a monster who earned a human form by turning good.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_ba491f18	comment	Black Moon Chronicles: Most of the demons of hell are of the Big Red Devil type, but the Prince of Darkness himself looks like a Tall, Dark, and Handsome man in ornate robes.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Averted in Warhammer 40,000 with Genestealer cults. The genestealers start off looking human, then the next generation gets a few extra limbs or extending jaws, and so on, until purestrain genestealers, who look like beefy xenomorphs. They're led by a Magus, who looks like a human with a huge, veined cranium, and a Patriach, a disgustingly obese, multilimbed monstrosity.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_c0c57462	comment	Magus from Chrono Trigger, leading the Mystics/Fiends.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_c1c6431b	comment	In Hellboy (2019), though aided by some human cultists, Nimue has an army of monsters at her beck and call to unleash havoc upon the world.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_c2463c46	comment	Many old RPGs use this. Some examples include Garland from Final Fantasy and The Dragonlord from Dragon Quest. Oftentimes, they'll eventually turn into monsters themselves.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Davros and the Daleks. He only barely qualifies as "human", but at least you can have a conversation with him. Among other minor examples, the new-series episode "School Reunion" features Anthony Head as the leader of a group of bat-like, flying aliens — he says he keeps a human-like body as a "personal preference".
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_c74f2d3c	comment	Diablo subverts this trope with the Seven Great Evils: despite leading the Legions of Hell, the Prime Evils and Lesser Evils don't look humanoid in any way themselves; it says something that the only one who looks vaguely humanoid, Andariel, is a giant woman with claws and Spider Limbs.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_cb6abef3	comment	The Avengers (2012) film has Loki and his alien army. Played with in that the army is a loan. Although Thanos is still more humanoid-looking than the rank-and-file Chitauri grunts.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_d11e211f	comment	Kamen Rider Gaim has the Overlord Inves, a group of Human Aliens who managed to gain transcendent power from eating Helheim Forest's fruit and thus gain the ability to command its mindless Inves monsters. Towards the end, Kouta and Kaito become Overlords as well and thus gain the ability to summon massive armies of Inves.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_dab32e3	comment	Sigma from the Mega Man X series tends to have animaloid Mavericks as his minions.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_db96ded4	comment	In Book 2 of The Legend of Korra, Unalaq can turn spirits dark and command them, although he himself is working for a Vaatu, who is an Animalistic Abomination. Eventually, they merge together.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_e293455a	comment	Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Angelus, the Mayor, Glory and the First (usually) all looked more human than many of their servants. Also throw in Spike and Drucilla, Faith and Caleb as human-looking dragons. And while Adam definitely didn't look human, he had a woman behind him, his creator Maggie Walsh.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_e9169644	comment	One of the most common enemies in Illbleed are animate crash-test-dummies. Their leader, Dummyman, is not a dummy himself but rather a man in a costume, as can be glimpsed in the Killerman stage. He also doesn't fall apart when defeated like they do.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_e9cb2780	comment	Gears of War: Queen Myrrah is a human woman and is the Hive Queen of the Locust horde. Though, she is human in appearance and is just as much of a mutant as every other locust, the first of which were created from Myrrah's DNA. Baird and Cole even lampshade this when they first encounter her in Gears of War 2.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: Once she joined forces with the Kazon, Seska would qualify (technically she looked Bajoran/Cardassian, but she still looked and behaved more human than the Kazon).
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_f037be0c	comment	The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: Although the White Witch is distinctly NOT human in terms of species (Mr. Beaver says she is half jinn and half giantess), she is certainly more human-looking - and more beautiful - than her army of followers; they mostly consist of humanoid creatures mixed with animal/plant elements, or twisted into evil forms.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_f06707a7	comment	The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: Lord Foul's minions include a wide variety of monstrous beings, but in his true form (or at least, the form he reverts to after Covenant's Wild Magic injures and weakens him), Foul himself resembles a dignified, elderly human note In the default form Foul assumes when he's at full power, he looks more like a Living Shadow than anything, but still has a more generally humanoid appearance than most of his minions.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_f349915b	comment	The Dragonlance setting for Dungeons & Dragons. Each dragon army was made up of an assortment of monsters and led by a human(oid) Dragon Highlord.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_f6a54e75	comment	Kingdom Hearts: This is the case in most games. The hordes of monstrous Heartless and Nobodies eventually turn out to be under the control of a being (or collective of beings) who look and act entirely human — but looks can be deceiving. The Unversed are also under the control of Vanitas, as they are incarnations of his feelings. Vanitas himself is under Xehanort's control as he is his master, although the exact degree of control he is under is debatable.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_fbaae8b9	comment	The Gorma Tribe from Gosei Sentai Dairanger all possess human forms, but the top-ranked members never take on monstrous forms in battle. Their battle forms just give them metal masks. Their leader, the Gorma Emperor, doesn't even have a battle form and just appears as a three-eyed man with unnaturally white skin.
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The Man Behind the Monsters / int_fc83a067	comment	The Evil Masked Figure, the villain of Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed, is a man in a mask who leads an army of living monster suits (or more accurately, monster suits turned into living monsters).
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