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Which movie monster is the most misunderstood?

by YPB Team

Hunted, caged, rejected or simply lonely. These creatures got the torch and pitchfork treatment, and some of them earned our sympathy.

  1. The Amphibian Man — ranked #11
    The Amphibian Man
    The river god of Guillermo del Toro's The Shape of Water, held captive in a government lab.
    1000pts
  2. Frankenstein's Monster — ranked #22
    Frankenstein's Monster
    The abandoned creature who only turns violent after his maker and everyone else reject him.
    999pts
  3. King Kong — ranked #33
    King Kong
    The giant ape dragged from Skull Island to New York and shot down from the Empire State Building.
    709pts
  4. Shrek — ranked #44
    Shrek
    The ogre who just wants his swamp back in DreamWorks' 2001 hit.
    709pts
  5. Carrie — ranked #55
    Carrie
    The bullied teenager with telekinesis in Brian De Palma's 1976 adaptation of Stephen King.
    709pts
  6. The Creature from the Black Lagoon — ranked #66
    The Creature from the Black Lagoon
    The Gill-man hunted in his own Amazon lagoon by the expedition that found him.
    600pts
  7. The Iron Giant — ranked #77
    The Iron Giant
    The alien robot who chooses not to be a weapon in Brad Bird's 1999 film.
    466pts
  8. Godzilla — ranked #88
    Godzilla
    Toho's radioactive kaiju, born of nuclear testing, often cast as Earth's defender.
    466pts
  9. The Fly — ranked #99
    The Fly
    Seth Brundle, the scientist whose teleporter slowly turns him into an insect.
    466pts
  10. Edward Scissorhands — ranked #1010
    Edward Scissorhands
    Tim Burton's unfinished artificial man with blades for hands, shunned by a suburb.
    0pts
  11. The Elephant Man — ranked #1111
    The Elephant Man
    John Merrick, exhibited as a freak in Victorian London in David Lynch's 1980 film.
    0pts
  12. The Phantom of the Opera — ranked #1212
    The Phantom of the Opera
    The masked, disfigured genius who haunts the Paris Opera out of love.
    0pts
  13. The Wolf Man — ranked #1313
    The Wolf Man
    Larry Talbot, a decent man cursed after being bitten by a werewolf.
    0pts

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