My personal favorite monsters derive from Silent Hill; the fact that they mirror the darkness within your very heart, twisting and manifesting accordingly, makes them truly memorable.

Ahhh yes, Silent Hill monsters are always fascinating~ I have never physically played a SH game (always wanted to) but I've watched Let's Plays of the first two games and the way the monsters are designed is always so awesome and inspirational to my creepy side. I can't help but like psychological elements thrown in too xD

Although SH is also notoriously gory. So I like to have a monster that I can appreciate without always being grossed out and just plain frightened, especially at 3 in the morning when sleepiness starts taking over and paranoia heightens ahaha :D

I prefer to play them at night, all lights turned off, surround sound headphones in ears. Yeah, takes it to the next level. @_@

You brave, brave soul. ;n; I was watching the LP's at night, barely even midnight even, and it was bad enough and I wasn't even playing! D:

You know, I too instantly thought of Clove when I saw the Muto but was like 'yes! Another of similar build!' Clover's design was really well and I loved the Muto's design! Also love the pic! It would be interesting if Clover and 'Zilla ever faced off XD

Yeeees I don't know why precisely I enjoy the designs. I suppose it's just the super long, strangely shaped nature of the legs. It reminds me of a bat or a pterodactyl or something like that. Not to mention Muto's cute little hook feet (and hooves on its back ones??) and Clover's funky head lungs~ Muto is admittedly a bit sleeker in design and reminds me of some sort of large bug, like a cicada or something. Clover is... kinda ugly really. xD But a cute ugly!

Ugly yes, but still a really fun design that you do not expect! I have always loved monsters and the weirder, creepier they were the grander I saw their design. Too many times do creations tend to take on the look of a human, thus making it dull,bland and boring. It is also sad how so many compare these two creations and get angry for the 'theft' of design. I loved how Muto held a monster feel but was more animal than anything, hell the mating call and bonding the male and female showed really expressed their animal nature. Clover though from what I have gathered in the movie was a creation, a biological weapon from a unknown source; a full on monster. Both may look similar but are no where near the sort, one is going around to find a mate, to breed and pass on the genetic code, while the other was set for full destruction, roaming and spreading the small crawlers all around. It is such a pity really.

Haha, funny enough I just got done watching Cloverfield AND all of its special features again! I just couldn't resist after drawing this picture and talking about it xD But actually something to be known about Clover, behind the scenes at least, is that Clover is in fact not a weapon at all, he (or she) was a baby monster. The origin is still rather in the dark about it, along with how old it is, but in one of the special features they (the creature designer specifically) discuss it being an infant that is scared out of its wits after having been awakened and setting foot in this strange new environment where people are hurting it. If you watch all the evident scenes where Clover is depicted, it is commonly running away or acting defensively. Even the big scene where it devours Hud it looks almost perplexed by him and obviously had no true intent to eat him since it just sort of bit him in half and went on its way. It seemed curious, almost like an animal that goes "oh, what's this?" That's something that made me really fall in love with the monster - because it wasn't just a big baddy that wants to destroy things. It just wants to find it's mother.

Those parasites though... ugh. ;n; Love their designs as well but their noises and movements are freeeeaky!

Haha, I was REALLY into the Cloverfield conspiracies when the film was coming out/came out. I was admittedly obsessed. So I ended up learning a good deal of these fun facts that were never actually stated in the film itself because of the film's off-track filming style. But yeah, even with all this the two monsters are completely different. Different in overall appearance, behavior, motives... even intelligence. The Mutos seemed very aware of its environment and how to adapt to it while still being very instinctively driven.

Ok... that just makes me want to snuggle Clover all the more XD I was not aware it was a child and beyond terrified. Though that makes one scene all the more sense, I remember the scene of where the first time you see the monster fully as the idiots run pretty much beneath it, it screams out but it wasn't a angry sound, it literally sounded lost, anxious and confused the hell out me as to why a monster made a sound that sounded like that. Damn it, now this is making me want to rewatch that movie XD I have only seen it twice now so my knowledge on the film is rather... vague, hence my believing the critter was a bio weapon. It would be interesting though if the creator could release some information on just where this creature came from, and hell, if that was a baby... what does an adult look like?! All the possibilities! Did the special features explain what was the purpose let alone reason of those mini runners/spores that dropped off of Clover's body?

I know right?! xD

I thought the same in that scene! And it's quite true too. I think what disappointed me really about Clover was just his overall "roar" sound effect. It seemed ripped from generic old monster audio, because I have a Jurassic Park figurine, can't remember which (I think it's a Trex) that has audio capabilities when you press buttons on it, but it doesn't have the same TRex roar from the JP film - but has the EXACT SAME roar as Clover. Which sounds like the distorted cry of an elephant. The figurine came first, back when JP3 came out, so I wonder about the validity of Clover's roar. Aside from his terrified screams, which sound pretty original and fitting, his miscellaneous roars just sound so generic that it's sad for the originality of its design.

But anyway, the special features I watched didn't explain the Parasites, unless I somehow missed it. I remember hearing a lot of fan-made theories on it, but nothing that entirely sticks out. If I had to make a theory of my own I'd say they were parasites that cling onto Clover while in the ocean depths so they have better access to prey animals Clover may be hunting and can scavenge off of them. That or they stick to him in order to clean him of any invading alternative parasites like a lot of fish do to sharks. Free ride, free meal, helpful to the host. But I have nooo clue on canon-reason. xD

I wish we could figure out this questions for sure, but I doubt there will be any sequels :C I suppose they left it open for the fans to evaluate and come to conclusions on our own.

I saw Cloverfield a while ago, but I don't think I got the whole story. See, there were apparently fake MySpace accounts and such for the characters in the movie and things like that. That said, I need to see the new Godzilla movie. I /really/ do. Thing is, I've heard claims like, "This is a Godzilla movie, just sans Godzilla." That is, some people say that Godzilla 2014 has more focus on people than the monsters. Apparently.

But with all that out of the way, I like this little scene. It gives me some good "What if" ideas and the similarities between MUTO and Clover are quite striking. And you say that Clover is just a baby? =o I suddenly find myself imagining what its adult form looks like~

All in all, very nice scenario you set up, I entirely approve. =3

Yup! I actually remember allll the hype around Cloverfield because they did stuff like the Myspaces. They had this entire campaign going on around it that I got sucked into. I probably wouldn't like the movie as much had I not been into that and the whole "What does the monster look like??" thing. Reminded me of when I kept Federico's colors from everyone pfff.

And as for the Godzilla claim, that's pretty much accurate. It was the largest complaint from viewers that there wasn't enough Godzilla. I personally have conflicts on it. They were trying to do the thing where they follow the idea of Cloverfield or Jaws where they don't show the monster in its entirety until the end. The only problem - they showed him in his entirely maybe an hour in. Then he disappears... then reappears. Then disappears... until the big epic battle at the end. So they did not do it right if that's what they were going for. BUT that aside, I personally thought the movie had very good build up in all. The people character were kinda "eh", similarly to the people in Cloverfield (which was super cheesey), and they were very predictable. But they weren't intolerable. For myself, I was content with the movie based entirely on these MUTOs. I loved them so much that any scene with them made me happy whiiiiich was almost the entire movie. So I think the movie should have been called MUTOs vs GODZILLA or some junk like that because for a movie named GODZILLA there wasn't much GODZILLA. I heard someone say that the old Godzilla films did the same thing, though, where they barely showed him until the climax. I can't say though because I never got into Godzilla to watch much.

And yeees I wonder what a momma Clover looks like. But am afraid at the same time. 8'I But likely we will never know as I doubt they will make a sequel after this long.

Thank yooou <3

To be fair, though, that was how it was in the original 1954(?) Godzilla: King of the Monsters (known in Japan as Gojira). That is, they barely showed the monster until about 1/3 of the way through, and even after that there was only a total of ~20-30 minutes of Big G destroying stuff. The rest of the film was Japanese people preparing for his attacks and planning on how to stop him. Now the sequels are an entirely different story all together; they pretty much had him in every other scene.

(And this all makes me want to play my Godzilla video game for the PS2... ="D)

I’m routin go MUTO

I’m routin for MUTO