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Monsters exist all over folklore. Dragons, vampires, werewolves, etc. And usually, they start out as Always Chaotic Evil as they come, or even just mindless beasts who destroy because they don't know any better. Except, as a particular monster gets more popular, it has a tendency to get less... monstrous. Dragons (which at least in Western mythology were once giant, winged, fire-breathing lizards that burned villages and were slain by knights) first got more intelligent, then more likely to be a "not really a monster" subversion, until, in the modern era, stuff like Dragonheart and Pete's Dragon are nothing to bat an eye at. Similarly, orcs - who were invented for The Lord of the Rings to be bred evil (and mostly stupid) often appear as "noble savages" after just eighty years. There are also cases where said monster is modified in order to appeal to younger demographics (and otakus) by making him (or her) more cute, huggable, and so forth. In short, this trope is Villain Decay on the species level - what happens when Our Monsters Are Different turns the exception into the rule. Criticism of the Always Chaotic Evil trope may also play a role. See also Adorable Abomination, Cute Monster Girl, You Sexy Beast, Lovecraft Lite, Disneyfication. Friendly Neighbourhood Vampire is a subtrope of this. Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu? can lead to this effect if done often enough. Not to Be Confused with the plot of Despicable Me. |
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There are Cthulhu plushie dolls (as shown in the page image). Not to mention Hounds of Tindalos, gugs, Mi-Go. Moreover, recent fiction is much more likely to play these guys for laughs rather than straight. In a sense, it was bound to happen: H. P. Lovecraft's works played heavily on the fear of the alien and unknown. His works becoming Household Names, meaning that now everyone knows about them, ironically defused their entire point. | |
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In their original appearance in the Disney Ducks Comic Universe, the Terra-Firmians were sociopathic subterranean savages who cared not a whit about the massive destruction and loss of life their rolling competitions caused on the surface. Their appearance in DuckTales (1987) was much softer, with the Terra-Firmians being much less monolithic in their self-absorption. Then comes DuckTales (2017), where they're practically cuddly — they're just plain folks who live underground, look like rocks, and occasionally come up toward the surface to explore. | |
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Pacific Rim provides an in-universe depiction. Kaiju, once as deadly as natural disasters, are kept in check thanks to the Jaeger program. For most people, kaiju go from a terrifying threat to a distant annoyance, and humanity acclimates to their presence. A quick montage depicts kaiju re-branded as mascots, spiritual icons and kid-friendly cartoons (much as they have been in Real Life). | |
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Godzilla began as a horrible monster and nuclear bomb metaphor. Later on he became a protector from other monsters, to the point of being unambiguously heroic during The '60s and The '70s, before being re-tooled as a different kind of nuclear bomb metaphor: still a defender, but one you don't want to have to use. As of the mid-2010s, however, two very disparate depictions of Godzilla popped up in modern culture: the American Godzilla (2014) that portrays him as a noble anti-hero who represents nature's order, and Japan's Shin Godzilla that portrays him as a horrific abomination against nature that man unleashed onto themselves. Strangely, either depiction isn't really unfaithful to the "returning to the darker roots" concept that both films advertised. |
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In Prince Caspian, Bacchus and the Maenads undergo this treatment. The original Greco-Roman myths depict Bacchus as a fearsome god of alcohol and madness, and the Maenads as frenzied cultists who partake in orgies of ecstasy and gruesome violence akin to The Wild Hunt. In Prince Caspian, on the other hand, Bacchus is almost like the Disney version of Peter Pan, and the Maenads are the female equivalents of the Lost Boys. To someone versed in Classical Mythology, this comes off like a kiddie cartoon called "Mola Ram and Friends." This is somewhat justified in-story by the implication that they're changed by Aslan's presence, losing the aspects of their character associated with corruption and becoming representatives of harmless joy and high spirits. Susan even comments that "I wouldn't have felt very safe with Bacchus and all his wild girls if we'd met them without Aslan." It's a clear reference to the Christian "baptism" of pagan symbolism (e.g., the use of pre-Christian Germanic traditions at Christmas). Upon reading an early draft of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis' good friend J. R. R. Tolkien apparently felt this way about Mr. Tumnus, commenting to a third party that a myth-accurate satyr would have done more to Lucy than give her tea. |
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Over the course of the franchise the Velociraptors in the Jurassic Park movies got this treatment. They were outright villains in the first two movies, but got a slight Anti-Villain treatment the third. By the time Jurassic World came out, they were treated more as anti-heroes, and one, named Blue, was a straight-up hero. Rexy the Tyrannosaurus rex has also been hit with this. In the original novel, she was very much an antagonist, relentlessly hunting down Alan Grant and the children to the point of leaving behind a dinosaur she'd just killed when she noticed they were nearby. She got a similar treatment in the first movie, and the fact that she saves them from the raptors is treated more as a lucky coincidence than anything else. Come Jurassic World, she's deliberately used to defeat the Indominus Rex, and in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom she once again returns to eat the human villain, while leaving the heroes alone. |
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Untaming the grue is very much in mind with drow in Pathfinder. The drow of that setting are fleshwarping, demon-loving complete monsters who tried to crash an asteroid into the surface in order to bring about a second age of darkness and destroy any resistance to enslaving the surface dwellers. They would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for those damn player characters. | |
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As of the mid-2010s, however, two very disparate depictions of Godzilla popped up in modern culture: the American Godzilla (2014) that portrays him as a noble anti-hero who represents nature's order, and Japan's Shin Godzilla that portrays him as a horrific abomination against nature that man unleashed onto themselves. Strangely, either depiction isn't really unfaithful to the "returning to the darker roots" concept that both films advertised. | |
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Rexy the Tyrannosaurus rex has also been hit with this. In the original novel, she was very much an antagonist, relentlessly hunting down Alan Grant and the children to the point of leaving behind a dinosaur she'd just killed when she noticed they were nearby. She got a similar treatment in the first movie, and the fact that she saves them from the raptors is treated more as a lucky coincidence than anything else. Come Jurassic World, she's deliberately used to defeat the Indominus Rex, and in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom she once again returns to eat the human villain, while leaving the heroes alone. | |
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In-universe example for Sam & Max: The Devil's Playhouse. Turns out that back near the beginning of our planet's existence, molemen were powerful, destructive creatures who could successfully fend off Eldritch Abominations. They didn't evolve well. | |
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Upon reading an early draft of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Lewis' good friend J. R. R. Tolkien apparently felt this way about Mr. Tumnus, commenting to a third party that a myth-accurate satyr would have done more to Lucy than give her tea. | |
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