# Which movie monster is the most misunderstood?

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

*By YPB Team · Published September 22, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/which-movie-monster-is-the-most-misunderstood*

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## Current results (no votes yet)

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

Tags: movies, horror, villains, monsters