Monsters in Martin Mystery
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These are the monsters and other such creatures found in the Martin Mystery animated series.
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[edit] Boogeyman
A giant, vaguely humanoid being apparently composed of plant-matter and maggots the Boogeyman was featured as the main villain of the episode "It Came From the Bog". It is revealed in the episode that the Boogeyman had terrorized and abducted the children of France centuries ago, until it was sealed within a storybook. In modern times the book was found by a child who opened it, unknowingly releasing the Boogeyman, who set about kidnapping "naughty" children.
Attempting to trap the Boogeyman, Martin, Diana and Java used several mal-behaved children to lure the Boogeyman to an abandoned hospital. Unfortunately this plan backfired when the Boogeyman overpowered the trio and transported them to its own swamp-like dimension. Abandoning Martin, Diana, Java and several children to be devoured by maggots the Boogeyman left for Earth once again to continue its kidnappings.
Fortunatly the trio and children managed to escape the Boogeyman's world and arrived back on Earth just in time to find an angry mob trying to attack the Boogeyman. After an unsuccessful attack at the Boogeyman, Martin managed to lure the creature into the bookstore where it was released. Enraged at Martin and Java's constant harassment of it the Boogeyman morphed into a spectral version of its self and tried to dive bomb Martin. Just as the Boogeyman was about to hit him Martin held up the nearby Boogeyman storybook, which the Boogeyman rammed into head-first, resealing itself. The book was later placed in storage at the center.
In a later episode entitled "Germs from Beyond" the Boogeyman manages to escape the confines of its book and began to travel through the air vent system of the Center to avoid detection while it searched for the ones who trapped it. Eventually coming across Martin, Diana and Java the Boogeyman stalked them through an air duct until the trio fell through the ceiling. Regardless, the Boogeyman followed them and tried to attack, before it could though it was attacked by Center security personnel and shrunken down to miniature size by an alien weapon. The Boogeyman was last seen being transported to another cell in the center.
[edit] Monster Insects
A species of unnamed, extraterrestrial, scorpion-esque insects encountered in the Alberta, Badlands in the episode "Terror from the Sky". During prehistoric times a large amount of these insects somehow managed to reach Earth, here the insects apparently went extinct and became fossilized. These insect fossils ended being brought to life in modern times when a radioactive meteorite from the Andromeda Galaxy ended up crashing in a rocky field near an abandoned mine where a large concentration of the insect fossils were located.
Immediately the insects and they're queen established a nest in the mine, after this the insects began to abduct any nearby humans, presumably for food. After Diana had been abducted by the insects, Martin and company managed to track the insects back to they're nest. Freeing several people Martin, Diana and Java, along with seeing how the insects were revived, ended up encountering the insect queen.
Escaping the mine by flooding it, the trio saw that the queen had followed them. Realizing that the insects gained they're power and abnormal size from the aforementioned meteorite, Martin managed to trick the insect queen into destroying the meteorite by having her spit a large amount of acid on it. With the meteorite destroyed the insects ended up regressing to they're normal size, the surviving insects were later collected and transported to the Center.
[edit] Black Spirit
A large slime monster created from a combination of oil and several bizarre magnetic gem stones, the Black Spirit was used by the shaman of a tropical village in an attempt to sabotage a nearby off-shore oil well in the episode "The Creeping Slime". Unfortunately the shaman eventually lost control of the Black Spirit, which subsequently went on a rampage and began to devour any nearby people it could find. Martin eventually destroyed the Black Spirit by flinging a gem stone into the gem core of the Black Spirit. The collision of the gems ended up shattering both gems, the destruction of its core caused the Black Spirit to melt.
[edit] Leviathan
A gigantic sea monster resembling a cross between a whale and a reptile, the Leviathan is encountered by Martin, Diana and Java in the episode "Curse Of The Deep". The Leviathan is revealed to have been the guardian of a sunken ship filled with vast amounts of treasure, after the ship sank the Leviathan went into hibernation while guarding it.
Centuries later the Leviathan was disturbed from its slumber by two divers who wished to salvage the treasure on the ship. Attacking the divers, Leviathan succeeded in devouring one, the other however escaped with the treasure. In an attempt to reclaim its lost treasure, Leviathan continually attacked a nearby resort searching out its treasure.
Attempting to track down the Leviathan and to figure out why it was continually attacking Martin, Diana and Java began an underwater search for the underwater behemoth. Unfortunately the trio were eaten by the beast. Once inside the gang and the diver who had been devoured earlier, after fending off Leviathan's digestive system managed to formulate a plan to escape Leviathan.
Letting loose all the remaining oxygen in they're tanks Martin and company managed to give Leviathan a "monster version" of the hiccups. The creature shot Martin, Diana, Java and the diver to the surface; there they encountered the second diver who had plundered the ship. Forcing the diver aside the gang managed to hurl the Leviathan's treasure back into the ocean. Having reclaimed its treasure the Leviathan stopped its relentless assault on the surface world.
The Leviathan was last seen having been captured by the Center, who planned to transport the creature to an empty part of the ocean, where it could guard its treasure in peace.
Within him live the antibodies: bizarre, small, tentacled creatures found within the stomach of Leviathan, these antibodies are used to attack and destroy any perceived threat. Despite the antibodies being weak singularly, they can be a large threat in groups, they are also, oddly, attracted to bright objects.
[edit] Werewolves
The episode "Mark Of The Shapeshifter" featured an appearance by a Werewolf. When land developers attempted to build on sacred ground a nearby native protester decided to take matters into his own hands to drive them off. Using an ancient necklace the native was able to transform into a werewolf by allowing himself to be possessed by a wolf spirit. Unlike a normal werewolf whose bite simply infected others with Lycanthropy this werewolf had a special ability, it could transport those it bit to another, werewolf infested dimension.
This werewold ended up being defeated when Martin destroyed the project the developers were building, with the threat to the land destroyed the wolf spirit left the body of its host and went back to its own dimension. Though the wolf spirits encountered in the episode were vulnerable to silver, once they infested a host this weakness was eliminated.
[edit] Zook
A legendary Babylonian dragon Zook existed in another dimension which was, oddly, sealed in a bio-dome. It seems there was a weak point between Earth and Zook's world located in Montreal, which in modern times had a subway system built over it. It seems every several years Zook needed to feed off the lifeforce of others to survive, when he needed sustenance Zook would transport any unwary person into his realm. In order to aid him in capturing victims, Zook employed the Appleby family, who Zook gave immortality.
In the episode "Mystery Of The Vanishing", while investigating the disappearance of a conducter named Joe Green who had vanished in the Montreal subway, Martin, Diana and Java were transported to Zook's dimension. Here they met the Applebys, who had feigned kindness to the trio. Drugging Martin, Diana and Java, the Applebys had planned on feeding them to Zook, but first they had planned on feeding the captured Joe Green to him.
Following the Applebys the trio were ambushed and captured. The Applebys then tied Martin, Diana, Java and Joe Green up and left them to be eaten by Zook. Fortunately Martin managed to destroy Zook by distracting the dragon until its alloted feeding time ran out. With its time up and without lifeforce Zook exploded.
[edit] Chaos Beast
A large, fleshy being with one, giant red-eye, the Chaos Beast was the result of an Arabian shaman attempting to rid the world of chaos by trapping it in a small puzzle box. The Chaos Beast possesses an extreme amount of power, capable of transforming other creatures, controlling the weather and apparently possessing telekinesis. The Chaos Beast can also alter its form from solid to liquid to gas, it presumably also has a solidus and an energy form as well.
Centuries after its creation, the Chaos Beast was released from its box prison accidentally by an unsuspecting boy named Wilber in the episode "It Came From Inside the Box". Once freed, the Chaos Beast began to rain chaos down on an isolated town, causing freak weather strikes and transforming all the towns’ inhabitants into humanoid animals. The Chaos Beast was eventually resealed within its recently repaired box prison by Martin using the same spell as the Shaman had centuries ago. The box holding the Chaos Beast was later given to M.O.M. to be held in the center.
A being resembling the Chaos Beast makes a brief appearance as a creature held in a Center containment cell in the episode "Beast From Within".
[edit] Sandman
A being who exists within the realm of dreams, the Sandman resembles a humanoid being created out of semi-solid sand. The Sandman possesses various abilities, such as summoning sandstorms and manipulating lightning. The Sandman's most prominent ability though, is its ability to secrete sand, which can trap creatures in eternal nightmares. How the Sandman came into existence is unknown, but it seems to be a being essential part to the universe, as it causes creatures to experience nightmares.
In the episode "Attack Of The Sandman", the Sandman was accidentally released into the real world by a professor doing experiments on dreams. Once released, the Sandman proceeded to run amok at a nearby university, trapping people within nightmares.
Eventually, Martin, Diana and Java, after venturing into the Sandman's realm, managed to neutralize the Sandman by trapping it between the dream world and the real world. The Sandman was last seen struggling to escape from the computer it had tried to use as portal to bring its physical form to the real world.
[edit] Siren
A large, bird-like humanoid, the Siren, along with having the ability to fly, can also scream loud enough to cause buildings to collapse. The Siren, like the mythological creature it is based, can also, using the power of its voice, put men into a dazed, near vegetative state. The Siren could also assume a human-form.
In the episode "Shriek From Beyond", the Siren, after accidentally being released from her prison in an iceberg, began to attack a Northern European village, searching for the man who had spurned her affection and sealed her in the iceberg in the first place.
After causing untold destruction, the Siren was eventually captured by Martin using a harpoon-gun equipped with a net. The creature was then handed-over to the center.
[edit] Christmas Demons of the Snow Globe
Monstrous creatures created as a result of a man named Clifford's wish for a perfect Christmas. In the episode "Eternal Christmas", Martin, Diana, Java and Billy, after becoming trapped in a live-sized snow globe village, were continually attacked by these beings, which included troll-like creatures capable creating sonic blasts, roaring reindeer capable of flight and giant, fanged-snowman capable of regurgitating a quick-drying cement-like snow.
Utilizing a tornado, Diana was able to reseal the snow globe demons back into the enchanted snow globe, which had spawned them.
[edit] Dark Druid
[edit] Prindella Griswalda Doray
[edit] Nazca Aliens
A slimy alien spieces. It was in a coma in a spacecraft placed underground. They needed a gem to awaken the others. After falling asleep again, the Center took them to the Block.
[edit] The Black Spirit
[edit] Blackwater Ghost
[edit] Carlyn
The queen of the Underworld for a few months during and after Halloween, Carlyn was a malevolent spirit who broke free into the mortal world through a Celtic necklace, and possessed the woman wearing it. Determined to create an eternal Halloween in the mortal world so that she could rule it forever, she kidnapped and turned a shopkeeper named O'Brien into a leprechaun and concocted an enchanted blackberry mixture which would transform her victims into their Halloween costumes personas. Not only did Caryln has the power to possess people, but she could also shapeshift into a raven as seen when she tried to kidnap O' Brien.
Carlyn was defeated when she, possessing a baby Martin, is fed with her own blackberry chocolate. Her plan to rule the mortal world was backfired when she was banished back to the Underworld by her own concoction.
[edit] Icetopus
[edit] Gastramo
Gastramo is a slug-like monster the can find if it finds a host that has eaten lots of iron (Martin did when he had a craving for hamburgers and ate non-stop). Once Gastramo finds it's host in jumps in side host's body turning him/her into a zombie-slug monster. They killed Gastramo (and freed Java, Martin, and M.O.M. who had been "Slug-ified" as Java calls it) by dumping them in to M.O.M.'s salt water fish tank (by lifting them with magnet from all the iron they all ate) which freed them and killed Gastramo.
[edit] The Doppelganger
A "doppleganger" refers to a clone. The show takes on a Jungian approach to the theme by suggesting that a doppelganger works much like Carl Jung's interpretation of The Shadow, a part of the mind that represents all negative aspects of the human psyche. The Doppelganger was expelled by a prosecutor and went around, stealing the faces of anyone who looked like her, including Diana.
[edit] Prehistoric Creatures
[edit] Mothman
The Mothman was a French student who was turned into a hideous creature through experimentation. The teachers combined his DNA with that of the White Cedar Moth in an illegal experiment. Once the creature was stopped, the Center apprehended the teachers for their dangerous experiments.
[edit] Saros
[edit] Ratman
[edit] Synth Family
[edit] Amazon Vapor
A bacteria that was hidden underground. It had begun a new species after collecting DNA chunks. It feeds on oxygen and grows to a large size, consuming all the air around it. When there is no more oxygen, it goes into a dormant state. Since The Center deemed the creature too dangerous to move, they barracaded it in a cave in Central America with a warning sign that broadcasted a threat in every language.
[edit] Living Statues
[edit] Alien Soldiers of Ganthar
[edit] Fungus Alien
[edit] Simone de Bastien
A soul sucking vampire, Simone and her husband ruled a clan of vampires in France. She was defeated but came back, it was later revealed that Martin was a distant relative of her late husband and he possessed a gene that would revive her clan and establish her as Queen of the Vampires. She was ultimately defeated and all her victims turned back to normal.
[edit] Dark Djini
This monster resembles a genie that grants wishes to anyone it sees. Though grants wishes, they always backfire for instance a burglar broke in the museum and found the lamp and wish to be a great thief, but instead he turned into a monster. Then the museum owner wished he had the greatest masterpiece for his museum, but then the djini turned him to stone and said you are the greatest master piece. When a person ties to not grant whishes it changes into a small cloud and goes into the person's mind and makes them blurt out a wish. Martin defeated her when he found and opened the lamp and the Djini was sucked back in and everyone went back to normal.
[edit] Montgomery Stokes
Though not a monster, Stokes was a creepy, cold man who was running for mayor for a small town in Louisiana in the episode "You Do Voodoo". Being the great-great-great-great grandson of a legendary shaman, he believed that by tapping into the power of his ancestor's talisman, he could secure his position. A practitioner in voodoo magic, he created illusions and a wide variety of other sorcery to scare away the competition. Once he was voted as mayor, he trapped Martin, Diana and Java by using voodoo dolls and pinning them to the wall. He then went underneath his office, where the remains of his ancestor lie, and with it, the talisman.
He was defeated when Martin replaced his voodoo doll with Stokes's image, and telekinetically beat him up before he was handed over to the Center, along with the talisman.
[edit] Hexan
Martin, Diana, and Java are sent to investigate a series of disappearances on a island resort. They are suspicious of the hotel manager and their suspicions are confirmed by a new employee to the resort, Olivia. She explains to them that guests have been disappearing and those that do not disappear lose the will to do anything. Before she is called away she tells them to check out Yellow Tide Beach. Night falls and the gang proceeds to Yellow Tide Beach. They chance upon zombie looking creatures that resemble the hotel staff. They follow the employees and find the hotel manager completing some sort of ceremony. The Yellow Tide comes in and Hexan is revealed. He is an ancient monster of the sea, who stays alive by feeding off of humans. Martin and Java send a rock tumbling down releasing tons of fresh water on Hexan. The Yellow Tide is washed away and Hexan turns to dust. His remains are collected and locked away in the center.
[edit] Alpha Omega
[edit] The Parasite
The parasite was a creature that was encountered by Martin, Java and Diana in the Antarctic. The creature is a nod to The Thing in that it can infiltrate a host body and remain in a dormant, concealed state, due to it's need to consume a key ingredient on warm blood (possibly plasma). However, it is extremely photosensitive and cannot survive long when exposed to the bitter cold. When the Parasite invades a human body, that body mutates into a feral, alien form and goes on a violent rampage. Once it abandons a host body, however, the host body reverts back to normal.
[edit] Beasts of the Perigee
[edit] The Third Eye
The Seers were a clan of soothsayers who could see the future. They were blind and worshipped a Third Eye, which afforded them clairvoyance and limited telekinetic abilities. However, the Eye caused them to become increasingly irrational and violent, even driving them to the brink of insanity. thus making them extremely dangerous. The power was invoked by a girl at a renowned school for the blind. She used the power of the Eye in an attempt to kill anyone she percieved as a threat. Martin, Diana and the newly-inducted Marvin managed to destroy the amulet which gave the Eye it's power, even when they themselves were blinded.
[edit] Creatures of the Gateway
These hideous monsters or demons were creatures painted inside the Tibetan monastery/cave that held the reflecting Pool and the gateway to the underworld. When M.O.M. was possessed she had the ability to summon these creatures to life and attacked Martin and the gang on their quest to save M.O.M. Some of them were released to literally bring hell on earth, and then assembled themselves to become an army for the Gatekeeper and M.O.M. They were banished back to the Underworld when M.O.M. closed the gateway.
[edit] The Gatekeeper
A levitating, mummy-like being introduced in "They Came From The Gateway". It gave Martin a riddle to be able to pass inside the Tibetan Sanctuary that held the gateway to the underworld. It is later revealed to be the one manipulating M.O.M. during her possession. He was supposedly defeated by Martin, banished back to the underworld when the "key" was destroyed but an ending scene showed him re-appearing taking interest in Martin's U-Watch.
[edit] M.A.G.A.R
The M.A.G.A.R. is a computer-like creature that resembles a trapper keeper. A college student made it so it can combine with any electronical device but then found out it can also combine with a living being. The student made it also to hold and take away files from computers. When he was discovered by Martin, the M.A.G.A.R. spewed out tentacles and attached to Martin and became a giant blob and went on a rampage through the town and sucked up everything. It was defeated when the student went up a pipe and destroyed the beast by ripping out the cords and its chips.
[edit] Gonron
This ghoul like creature was made by dark magic 300 years ago. It resembles a burned up cheetah with yellow eyes and sharp teeth. Local people are suddenly disappearing one by one and Martin battles the creature and bonks it on the head with a shovel and gives Martin time to escape. Later, they meet each other again. They battle until Martin breaks his arm; the monster corners him, but before it can kill Martin, a townsperson turns on a pipe of cement, which covers the gonron and turns it into a statue. The people of the town turn it into a tourist attraction.
[edit] Laorunce the troll
This troll was a monster haunting the old town of Gennigberg in 1843, but a wizard named Henry Kennigs cast a spell on the troll and turned it to stone. In 2006, a lightning storm hits the statue thus bringing it back to life. The troll terrorised the townspeople; Martin confronted the troll and they go head to head. The mayor throws the troll on the rug and Martin rolls him up and the gang throws salt on his head and Laorance turns to stone again.
