Monstro

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Monstro
Japanese	モンストロ
Romaji	Monsutoro
Games	Kingdom Hearts Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance
Assistants	Riku[KH I]
Origin	Pinocchio (1940)
KH tracks Field theme - A Very Small Wish Battle theme - Monstrous Monstro KHCOM tracks Field theme - A Very Small Wish Battle theme - Monstrous Monstro
Other worlds Introduced in Kingdom Hearts Dive to the Heart | Destiny Islands | Disney Castle Traverse Town | Wonderland | Olympus Coliseum Deep Jungle | Agrabah | Monstro Atlantica | Halloween Town | Neverland 100 Acre Wood | Hollow Bastion End of the World | Realm of Darkness Introduced in Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories Castle Oblivion | Twilight Town Introduced in Kingdom Hearts II Mysterious Tower | Radiant Garden The Land of Dragons | Beast's Castle | Timeless River Port Royal | Pride Lands | Space Paranoids The World That Never Was | End of Sea | Keyblade Graveyard Introduced in Kingdom Hearts coded Datascape Introduced in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Land of Departure | Mirage Arena Dwarf Woodlands | Enchanted Dominion | Castle of Dreams Disney Town | Deep Space Introduced in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance La Cité des Cloches | The Grid | Symphony of Sorcery Country of the Musketeers | Prankster's Paradise Introduced in Kingdom Hearts χ[chi] Daybreak Town Introduced in Kingdom Hearts Union χ[Cross] Game Central Station | Niceland | Cy-Bug Sector | Candy Kingdom Introduced in Kingdom Hearts III The Final World | Secret Forest | Olympus Toy Box | Kingdom of Corona | Monstropolis Arendelle | The Caribbean | San Fransokyo Scala ad Caelum | Quadratum

Monstro is both a character and "world" in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, making him one of the most peculiar characters in the series so far.

Monstro later reappears in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep Final Mix as an optional boss in the Monster of the Deep battle in the Mirage Arena, and in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance with his homeworld, Prankster's Paradise. In the latter, his inside is playable again.

Settings and Areas

Monstro is so enormous that its playable map is bigger than that of some other worlds, such as Wonderland. If one leaves Monstro and tries to go a different direction, then they will be caught by Monstro again and Monstro will appear twice on the map. Sometimes, attempting to return to Monstro will not work, as Monstro will temporarily leave his spot; Goofy will express his relief at this and the party will have to come back later.

Artwork of one of Monstro's many inner chambers.

Monstro has one of the most confusing layouts of any world; it is essentially an interconnecting maze. It takes a lot of patience and a little ingenuity to make your way through. Many openings open into different parts of the same room, allowing for much confusion of anyone trying to work their way through. As the surfaces in each area look the same, the only visual differences in the Chambers are the ledges, the treasures, and the occasional Barrel and debris found in them. In addition, the Chambers are marked only with numbers and are not traveled through in numerical order. Finally, Monstro defies anatomy as it is known, so natural assumptions such as going "down" to reach his stomach, for example, do not hold (you have to climb up his throat).

Artwork of Monstro's mouth.

Sora and his party enter through Mouth, the largest room in the world. Here, among the piles of wood and shipwrecks, the party will come across Geppetto and Pinocchio, as well as the world's Save Point. Troublesome Pinocchio leads the party down the into the whale's innards. Chamber 1 is the arrival point for the party here. The lowest door leads to a dead-end at Chamber 3, marked by a large piece of debris blocking off the other lowest exit. The door on the ledge of Chamber 1 will take the party to Chamber 2, which leads to Chamber 3 going down, and to Chamber 5 going up. Chamber 6, which comes soon after, stands out because it is formed like a set of stairs. Chamber 5 will also send the party to Chamber 4, from which the Bowels and the first battle with the Parasite Cage can be found, as well as another Save Point.

Returning to the Mouth and using High Jump, given by Geppetto, the party can at last reach the Throat, a tall, pink chamber with a series of ledges to ascend. At the top, the party can reach the Stomach and the second boss battle against the Parasite Cage.

In Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories, there are extensions coming out of the floor which can be hit or jumped on to gain items. There are also extensions from the walls which can cause damage to Sora or Riku if approached; these can be hit to gain HP orbs.

In Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, much of Monstro's settings are based directly off the digestive system. The opening area is Mouth, similarly designed to its Kingdom Hearts counterpart however the boat where Geppetto resides on is on the left side of the mouth. Beyond here is the Gullet, a large room with a number of ledges and numerous piles of wood. Following this is Belly, a room with numerous smaller chambers, the largest part of this area has a HP-depleting acidic floor, much like a human stomach would have with hydrochloric acid. After the belly is the Cavity, a large blue-colored room that can be flipped upside down with the numerous uvulas dotting the area, there is also a long-winding path that leads to the Bowels, a rectangular area that is mostly barren with the exception of two uvulas that allow you to flip the room.

Story

Kingdom Hearts

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After finding each other again, Sora and Riku teams up to rescue Pinocchio.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy are flying away from Agrabah to get to their next destination, when they spot something huge flying towards them on the Gummi Route. They quickly realize it is a massive whale, but cannot get out of the way before the beast swallows their ship whole.

Inside Monstro's flooded mouth, the trio finds Pinocchio again and meets his father Geppetto in a broken ship. While speaking with Geppetto, Pinocchio slips off to explore Monstro. Sora and his party quickly run after the puppet into the bowels of Monstro. There, he finds Riku; the two friends exchange some quick words before Riku runs off with Pinocchio, hinting at Riku's newfound darker nature.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy chase the two through the whale, until they eventually finds them in a large circular chamber: the bowels of the beast. Pinocchio is taken captive inside the Parasite Cage Heartless. Sora and Riku team up to take down the Heartless, but are unable to completely destroy it. Riku takes Pinocchio; his words hint to Sora that there is something different about his old friend. Sora tracks the puppet to the Stomach, where Riku and the Heartless attempt to take Pinocchio's heart, but fail. Riku flees as Sora enters the belly of the beast where he defeats the Parasite Cage once and for all and rescues Pinocchio.

From all the commotion in his organs, Monstro spews out the Gummi ship and the trio to prevent any more trouble. Pinocchio and Geppetto also escape and set up a shop in Traverse Town.

Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

Pinocchio reveals that he ran off to help his father find out how to escape.

Sora, Donald, and Goofy visit a recreation of Monstro in Castle Oblivion. There, the events of Sora's first visit to Monstro are re-enacted, minus Riku's involvement in the events that transpired. Both the chase for Pinocchio and the puppet's reunion with Jiminy are very similar. The party again fights the Parasite Cage, though only once this time. Pinocchio is told to be brave, his struggles eventually getting him out of the Heartless's maw-like belly. Sora, Donald, and Goofy also fight with several Shadow Heartless ensues in order to make Monstro spit out Pinocchio and Geppetto, as per the puppet's suggestion that a big enough struggle would cause the whale to sneeze.

Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance

Side: Sora

After being freed from ice, Monstro jumps up and eats the Dream Eater which imprisoned him.

During Sora's time at Prankster's Paradise he learns from the Blue Fairy that Geppetto has been swallowed by Monstro and that Pinnochio and Jiminy ran off to find the whale once being informed, jumping off a cliff into the ocean.

Sora then goes underwater and finds Jiminy and Pinocchio swimming away from Monstro, but the force of the water pulls him into the chaos, and Pinocchio and Jiminy are then swallowed by Monstro. Sora gives chase, but a Dream Eater appears and freezes Monstro in an iceberg that rises the top of the ocean, where Sora follows. Sora then fights Chill Clawbster on the clusters of the frozen Monstro. During the battle, Sora frees Monstro, encasing him in a bubble. Chill Clawbster was then defeated and swallowed by Monstro, while Sora falls into the ocean. Monstro then sneezes, blowing Sora away. Sora wakes up on a beach, assuming that Prankster's Paradise was destroyed not long after Monstro swallowed everyone, and also recalls how they soon escaped and ended up in Traverse Town.

Side: Riku

Pinocchio talks to Riku about how Jiminy has been there for him to help him see right from wrong.

During Riku's exam to awaken the sleeping worlds, Riku finds himself inside Monstro. He spots Geppetto looking for Pinocchio and offers to help search for the puppet. Jiminy overhear Riku offering his help and inform that he wandered of with a man in a black coat. Jiminy jumps up on Riku's shoulder and they both wander further into the stomach of Monstro. They eventually catches up with Pinocchio and the unknown in the black coat. Pinocchio apologizes to Jiminy for just wandering off. Jiminy states that him starting to become aware of his own mistakes his starting to learn what it takes to be a real boy. The Unknown removes his hood and reveals himself to be Riku as he then walks away into a corridor of darkness. Jiminy questions want in the world he just witness as Riku explains that he gave into the darkness once and it has come back to haunt him over and over again ever since. Pinocchio and Jiminy proceeds to ask if he's got any friends which he can rely on when times get tough. He smiles and says that he has one in particular which he couldn't do without. They then hear a massive roar shaking the inner areas of Monstro. Riku goes to further investigate and orders Jiminy and Pinocchio to head back to Geppetto.

He finds the Char Clawbster Dream Eater and destroys it. Afterwards Riku watches as Pinocchio and Geppetto is happily reunited. He ponders on the fact to why this world was trapped in a past version of itself and remembers Yen Sid's words of wisdom. That just because the world was freed of darkness it still has yet to awaken from it. The Keyhole then reveals itself and Riku unlocks it.

Characters

• Pinocchio (Puppet) KH3D.png

  Pinocchio
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  Geppetto
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  Jiminy Cricket
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  Cleo
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Cameos

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  Geppetto's cat, Figaro, appears inside Monstro in the Kingdom Hearts manga

Enemies

Heartless

Note: After rescuing Kairi from Hollow Bastion, Monstro will begin collecting sets of Heartless from every world except Atlantica, Hollow Bastion, and End of the World. Each time Monstro is entered at this point, it will have its normal set of Heartless, as well as the Heartless set of a different world. The auxiliary set will change each time Monstro is re-entered.

Treasures

Kingdom Hearts

Type	Items Found	Locations	Notes
Regular	Cottage x 2	Mouth, Chamber 2
	Megalixir x 2	Chamber 2, Chamber 6
	Mega-Ether x 2	Chamber 3, Chamber 5
Gummis	Dispel-G x 2	Chamber 5, Chamber 6
	Tornado-G x 2	Mouth, Chamber 3
Synthesis	Mythril x 2	Chamber 5, Chamber 6
Special	Watergleam	Mouth	On the tallest rock in the Mouth; near entrance
	High Jump	Mouth	On Geppetto's ship after first Parasite Cage battle.
	Torn Page	Chamber 6

Boss	Location	Reward
Parasite Cage	Bowels	Cheer
Parasite Cage	Stomach	Stop

Dalmatians

• 55, 56, & 57 - Chamber 3 on one of the mid-level ledges.
• 73, 74, & 75 - Mouth, on the tall pile of wreckage next to Gepetto's ship.
• 76, 77, & 78 - Chamber 3 on the highest ledge in the room.
• 79, 80, & 81 - Chamber 5, on the high ledge.

Trinities

Type	Location	Notes	Reward
Blue	Mouth	On the platform on top of the tall rock in the center of the Mouth.	Potion x 2, Cottage and Munny
	Chamber 5	On the ground right in front of the lower entrance from Chamber 6.	Cottage and Munny
	Throat	In the center of the floor of the room.	Mythril Shard and Munny
Green	Mouth	On the roof of Gepetto's ship; requires High Jump.	Mythril Shard
White	Chamber 6	In the low-lying area behind the tallest "step".	Thundaga-G