List of Monsters vs. Aliens characters

Characters from the movie Monsters vs. Aliens and its spin-offs.

Monsters

Each of the main five characters are modeled after classic movie monsters. ^[1]

• Susan Murphy (voiced by Reese Witherspoon in the film and special, and Riki Lindhome in the TV series), also known in the movie by her monster name Ginormica was once a normal woman. She was later hit by a radioactive meteorite on her wedding day, causing her to grow to the height of 49 feet 11 inches (15.21 m) and into a Giantess. In addition to her size, she is particularly strong, physically impervious, and has a resistance to energy attacks. She serves as the film's central character and appears in the Halloween special Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space . She makes a cameo in a cliffhanger at the beginning of Night of the Living Carrots. She is inspired by the protagonist of Attack of the 50-Foot Woman . ^[1] In the television series, she gained the ability to switch between her giant and normal sizes by growing and shrinking similar to Ultraman in the Ultra Series.
• B.O.B. (Benzoate Ostylezene Bicarbonate) (voiced by Seth Rogen in the film, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers and specials, Dave B. Mitchell in Madagascar Kartz and Eric Edelstein in the TV series) is an indestructible gelatinous mass. He was created when a genetically altered tomato was injected with a chemically altered ranch dessert topping, the resulting goo gained some form of consciousness. Despite being sentient, he literally and figuratively lacks a brain, and is the main comic relief character. His greatest strength lies in his ability to digest any substance. In the video game, B.O.B.'s gameplay does not require his arms, and so he lacks them altogether. It is revealed in "Night of the Living Carrots" that he had a fear of carrots due to being force-fed carrot purée in his youth, and at the end of the short was turned into a giant, zombie carrot. He is inspired by The Blob and The Crawling Eye. ^[1]
• Dr. Cockroach, Ph.D. (voiced by Hugh Laurie in the film, B.O.B.'s Big Break and Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space , James Horan in Night of the Living Carrots and video game and Chris O'Dowd in the TV series) is a brilliant but mad scientist who built a pod-like invention to give humans the survival abilities of a cockroach, experimenting on himself. Now he has a giant cockroach head, the ability to climb up walls, and high resistance to physical damage. He has a tendency to eat garbage and laugh maniacally. He is inspired by The Fly and The Curse of Frankenstein. ^[1]
• The Missing Link (voiced by Will Arnett in the film, video game, B.O.B.'s Big Break, and Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space, David Kaye in Night of the Living Carrots and Diedrich Bader in the TV series) is a 20,000-year-old fish-ape hybrid who was found frozen and thawed out, only to escape and wreak havoc at his old lagoon habitat. He behaves as a macho jock most of the time, but is out of shape. He is an expert martial-artist and leads the team in attacks. According to director Conrad Vernon, although Link bears an obvious resemblance to Creature from the Black Lagoon, “Link really just represents anything prehistoric that comes back to life and terrorizes people". ^[1]
• Insectosaurus (often referred to as "Insecto") is a 1 inch (25 mm) grub that was transformed and mutated by nuclear radiation into a 350 foot (106.7 m) tall monster with the ability to shoot silk out of her nose. She is a giant monster silkworm who cannot speak clearly, and is mesmerized by bright lights (usually used to lead her to other locations). For the longest time, Link thought Insectosaurus was a male, but after her emergence from a cocoon, it was discovered she was actually a female. Link can clearly understand what Insectosaurus is saying. As Butterflyosaurus, she has wings, can fly, and becomes the Monsters' mode of transportation. Her characteristics are similar to the giant creature in The Angry Red Planet , Godzilla, and Mothra .
• An adaptation of Griffin (The Invisible Man), from The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, is mentioned and eventually appears on the apparently empty chair where he died in the film and has a brief cameo in the ending of B.O.B.'s Big Break. He is voiced by Mike Mitchell.
• The Man-Beast is a werewolf that was originally meant to join Team Monster, but was rejected.
• A horde of Zombies were captured during an outbreak, but they never became members of Team Monster.

Aliens

The aliens and alien robots from the movie and TV show are listed here.

• Gallaxhar (voiced by Rainn Wilson) is an evil alien overlord who hopes to take over Earth.
• Gallaxhar's Computer (voiced by Amy Poehler) is a user-friendly computer that follows his orders.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Artificially intelligent robots onboard Gallaxhar's ship sent to Earth after the quantoinum was detected.^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Mutant Pumpkins are the antagonists of Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space. They were created by an unknown alien that saturated Farmer Jeb's pumpkin patch with a green mutagenic substance.^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Zombie Carrots are the antagonists of Night of the Living Carrots. Created when Link absentmindedly scares a surviving pumpkin that was standing over a carrot patch in the garden of Ginormica's parents' home, causing a carrot to absorb the same green goo that mutated the pumpkins and turn into a zombie carrot.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Sqweep's Teacher is a minor character seen on a few episodes.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Pip is Sqweep's financial planner, working for Epsilon-11 Allowance Management. He is the same species as Sqweep in dark blue. He came to Earth to collect payment after the monsters and Coverton spent a large amount of money from Sqweep's piggy bank account.^{[ citation needed ]}
• An aggressive plushy that appears in "The Toy from Another World".^{[ citation needed ]}
• Leprechaun is a small luck granting indestructible alien known as a Leprechonian that has anger-management issues. It was originally believed by Monger, Coverton, and the other monsters to be classified as a monster which Link uses to gain good luck.^{[ citation needed ]}
• The Internet is an alien who is literally the Internet.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Coverton (voiced by Jeff Bennett) is a psychokinetic alien who is the main antagonist of the TV series that uses a floating chair for transportation. He is the team leader of Team Alien.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Coverlord (or Grand Coverlord) is the true main antagonist of the television series, who wishes to take over Earth. He sends Coverton to Earth. Coverlord is seen as a mute, faceless, green cloud.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Sqweep (voiced by Haley Tju) is an adorable, intelligent alien child who has come to Earth to write a report on Earth's dominant species for school.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Sta'abi (voiced by Gillian Jacobs) is a hotheaded female alien from a warrior/hunting culture and Link's love interest. Highly aggressive and quick to take matters into her own hands, she is offended by apologies and answers best to aggression.^{[ citation needed ]} She also fails to understand certain Earth customs, such as emotions.^{[ citation needed ]}
• A rambunctious semi-sentient alien, Vornicarn hatched on Earth and briefly incubated inside Link's nose before emerging, rampaging around Area Fifty-Something until Sta'abi captured and tamed him to be her loyal hunting companion.^{[ citation needed ]}

Space Monsters and the unidentifiable

• When the monsters are watching a horror film called Attack of the Zombie Moon Ape, Sqweep watches it in secret to gain extra credit. Becoming sleep-deprived because of it, Sqweep invents a memory extractor to extract the memory of the Moon Ape, which escapes into reality where it terrorizes Area fifty-Something.^{[ citation needed ]}
• A smartphone Dr. Cockroach brings to life and adopts as his own son.^{[ citation needed ]}

Robots

Robot characters Aero Tank and Unstoppabot appear in some episodes.^{[ citation needed ]}

Humans

• General Warren R. Monger (voiced by Kiefer Sutherland in the film, Fred Tatasciore in the video game and Kevin Michael Richardson in the TV series) is a military leader who runs a top secret facility where monsters are kept. He plans to fight the invading aliens with the imprisoned monsters.^{[ citation needed ]}
• President Hathaway (voiced by Stephen Colbert in the film and James Patrick Stuart in the TV series) is the impulsive and dimwitted President of the United States. He doesn't appear in Monsters vs. Aliens: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space , but is seen on a picture frame holding an astronaut helmet.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Derek Dietl (voiced by Paul Rudd in the film and Nolan North in the TV series) is a local weatherman and Susan's ex-fiancé. He jumps at whatever opportunity he has to boost his career.^{[ citation needed ]}
• Carl Murphy (voiced by Jeffrey Tambor) is Susan's father.
• Wendy Murphy (voiced by Julie White) is Susan's mother.

References

1. Barnes, Brooks. "The Monsters That Inspired 'Monsters vs. Aliens". The New York Times . Retrieved 2009-03-19.