Kaiju King the Flesh God

Well if it wasn’t actually made of crude oil then it probably wouldn’t be extremely flammable, but it definitely can form the basis of an ecosystem. Plenty of bacteria and fungi can easily consume petroleum and hydrocarbons, so it might be that instead of plants forming the basis of the ecosystem in the oilwell basin, bacteria and fungi are the primary producers.

The long claw is definitely good for digging around in wood and crevasses for bugs, but the beak and long tongue are too.

Their ancestors probably lived like alvarezsaurs or woodpeckers, poking through wood and shoving their beak into the opening to slurp up entire insect colonies. It might have even used its poison gas to knock out its food first. But eventually they came to the oilwell basin and started preying on creatures stuck in the oil like the petroleum fly.

We got tool use in the cuttlefish nakarkos so I’m wondering if we’ll get something similar here too. Maybe it’ll throw around other large monsters at us.

I mean… the average American already wishes for the eradication of any animal that doesn’t directly benefit them or conventionally look cute.

So it’s not much of a stretch to assume that most people would want to kill an animal that can accidentally destroy your home and ruin your life even if it’s not their intention.

I mean just saying “make anything you want” would kinda put me on the spot. They’d need to present certain guidelines for what they want, and I’m always the most innovative under restrictions.

That said if I did get free reign then here’s three

One would be an endemic life flagship that’s basically my hypothesized parave flying wyvern ancestor or even bird and flying wyvern ancestor.

Another would be a very high tier herbivore monster, like elder dragon level danger.

I’m stumped for what I’d do for a third one but maybe a macroraptorial sperm whale? Whales exist in monhun and they’re referred to as arluq.

In all honesty though I’d probably just make endemic life.

I’d also strangle whoever is designing the wings of birds in these games

That would be pretty cool, and world did a sort of similar thing where a lot of the bird Wyvern niches were filled by fanged wyverns.

But certain monsters will show up just because they have a worldwide distribution.

Raths will most likely nest there and assert themselves as an apex predator, Bazelgeuse might use it as a resting zone during its overseas flights and assert itself as the top scavenger, Deviljho will show up somehow, etc…

But other than that yeah the possibilities are pretty vast. But keep in mind island dwarfism and gigantism, so maybe this hypothetical island has a species of dwarf Aptonoth and something else takes up the niche of large herbivore.

That’s probably pretty likely, and I think UHC probably thinks the same

A lot of sexually dimorphic monsters probably face this.

They might actually be worse off as they seem more inbred than old world ones.

Their hyperdontia is so severe it’s basically overblown and malformed their maxilla into “lobes” that take up near 50% of their craniums and have squished back their nasal passages like a brachycephalic dog.

And if they’re doing that bad on the outside, then they’re probably barely functioning on the inside.

Yeah ice age seems likely considering the old and new world monster species and the fact that some apex predators are implied to have had predators, or were designed with adaptations that make more sense if there were once bigger monsters to fear.

Akantor’s spikes are canonically anti-predator defenses.

And there’s even remnants of monsters that don’t exist anymore like the giant tyrannosaur skull in the Jurassic frontier.

However monsters could potentially also travel between places using tunnels and cave systems subterranean monsters like shara, Giasmagorm, and Kulve dug out.

That honestly makes the most sense but it also makes me sad.

I may prefer diablos, but monoblos is more important to the series since it was the final challenge of the story in the first game. To prove yourself worthy of the title of a Kokoto village hunter, to prove you’re worthy of being the successor of the Hero of Kokoto who was a legendary hunter who was part of the incident of the five, monoblos was the rite of passage.

Diablos was extra content.

I honestly wouldn’t bat an eye if diablos sat an entire generation out so monoblos could finally get his limelight back.