Potential Rift Between the Worlds

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#1

According to an extra on the bonus DVD that came with Monsters, Inc., the Mons were created because they ate

strange foods that changed their appearence. The humans then treated them as outcasts and somehow banished them

to another world, the Monster World. Obviously, there would always be some Mons that were resentful of this, and

they would feel that scaring young humans, as well as being a source of clean, effective energy, would also act

as a sort of pay-back to their mistreatment.

So, now laughter is used as the source of energy, the humans

aren’t recieving any punishments for their previous actions, so to speak. Instead, their young are being made to

laugh- a positive rather than a negative.

Coming to the whole point of this post, what I’m trying to ask

is, does that mean that there would be Mons in their world that feel as though the humans should be punished, and

would therefore invasion of the Human World be imminent?

Also, before, when the children were being

scared, as we all know, children telling their parents of monsters in their closets and the like is usually just

a figment of their imagination, and is something that has been experienced by most for generation. Now, suddenly,

the children will be telling their parents of these monsters that make them laugh and perform funny tricks.

Wouldn’t this arise suspicion amongst parents who are all being told this by their children, all at the same

time? Is there therefore a possibility that a human might catch on to what’s going on, and might try to find out

and potentially invade the Monster World?

#2

All I can

say is, who knows? Yea, there’s always gonna be someone who thinks otherwise of any change, good or bad. As far

as parents taking action, prolly could happen, but at the same time, parents can go a whole nother way with this

too. Being told that their kids were getting scared at the same time could’ve got some attention to but they

made excuses for it. They’ll prolly do the same thing here. It being real monsters would be their last

suspicion. :wink: :mrgreen:

#3

I thought that in that extra, “History of the Monster World”, that the

Mons ate the things that further altered their DNA, and therefore their appearance, AFTER they arrived on

“the island”, after being banished from the Human World. They were sent there because the Mans already

thought that they looked too strange, and you know how we are if something is “different”. After

banishment, they somehow wound up on this “island”(another dimension?)where the rules of science were a

bit different, and when they ate something, that something’s genetic material, rather than just being broken

down and digested, wound up being incorporated into the Mons’ genes.

As for children now waking up their

parents with laughter in the middle of the night, as opposed to screams, and then claiming that a monster(or

perhaps even giving the very-ordinary name of the one who made them laugh)was making jokes and whatnot, parents

would probably chalk that up the usual source of childhood mischief-imaginary friends(NOT the Craig McCracken,

flesh-and-blood variety). They would have certainly been awakened by children screaming in the past, and blamed

nightmares for that, so that without actual physical evidence of anything being in the child’s room, parents

would still tend to use adult logic to explain their child’s behavior. That’s why I’ve stated that Scream

Extractor was never intended to actually harm children; it’s one thing for a child to wake up his/her parents

either screaming or laughing, and blame some monster that the parent never sees, but if kids had routinely

started disappearing forever in the dead of night from their beds, in large numbers too significant to ignore, or

turning up in bed either dead or physically traumatized, THEN you’d see parents and authorities start to get

very suspicious and take those childhood claims of monsters seriously, to the point that it would only be a short

matter of time before a monster got caught taking a child or entering with a portable version of the SE, and the

entrance to the Monster World was revealed. We know what generally happens whenever one group of humans

discovers another isolated group of humans, and given our history, I don’t think that the Monster World would

fare so well once humans find a way in.

pitbulllady

#4

I’m a

little doubtful of the first one, specially now that it seems it has been millions of years (both man and mons

were primitive beings) since the humans refused the mons’ friendship and chased them off. How many monsters

would care enough to rekindle that resentment when scaring has been turned into their 9 to 5 jobs? It’s just a

routine part of their lives now; they would probably have to stop and think back for a second about why monsters

even scare, much in the same way we sometimes have to stop and think about why humans hold certain customs and

norms. I’m wondering if monster children have this part of their history taught to them in school…

Replacing scream with laughter throws off the whole concept of why the

monsters even started scaring humans in the first place. Seems they’re now more preoccupied with modernization

and advacement than they were with revenge many years ago. :3

Like I said, I don’t think monsters regard humans with that same contempt. They just

don’t know much about us.

How the heck DID they actually come believe that human children were toxic?

Assuming that the origin of the Monster world is covered in school history courses, how did present-day monsters

never wonder how they were able to maintain proximity (without dying) with the primitive human species many years

ago?

I’m hoping I make sense. My mind has suddenly become a jumbled mess of thoughts…

#5

I think you’re

right about the contempt sort of having faded over the years…The scream shortage must have been very worrying

for them, so to have an even better source of energy would be on the top of their priorities, as opposed to

revenge.

Since pitbulllady’s remembrance of the ‘history of the monster world’ is probably a lot more

accurate than mine, then the reason why the Mons weren’t affected by the humans when they were together was

because they weren’t fully formed as monsters yet, so to speak. After they were banished, they ate fruit and

things like that that ended up changing them even further, and probably therefore made the humans toxic to them,

supposedly.

After being separated for so long, the toxic thing probably started out as a rumour or myth,

and then grew to be, according to the Mons, fact.

#6

As a species, Homo sapiens, ie human beings, are NOT

“millions” of years old! The earliest known HOMINID, or human-like ape, fossils, are just over 3

million years old, and they were not really any more advanced than a Chimp, and may not have actually contributed

any to our own genes at all. Our own species, or any that can be recognizable as humans, is only about 35,000

years old, which is a drop in the bucket, so far as time goes.

As for how the monsters could have come to

think of human children as “toxic”, we need only take a look at the countless misconceptions WE have

about other animals, or even different races of HUMANS! Any time there is a gap in knowledge about something,

our minds tend to fill in those gaps with suppositions, which get distorted and exaggerated as they are repeated

over the generations, until they are totally inaccurate, yet are still accepted as the truth. Take our

misconceptions about snakes, for example; I know many, many people, who, in spite of the efforts of people like

the late Stever Irwin, still believe that a snake’s BREATH is “poisonous”, that certain snakes can

beat a person to death with their tails, that snakes are “slimy”, that snakes can hypnotize people,

that snakes are “evil” in the Biblical sense, ad infinitum. They will argue with you non-stop and will

refuse to believe anything different, even with proof! I can certainly see that the monsters, who DO share a

common ancestry with us, would be just as likely to form such ridiculous notions about things THEY know little

about, and just as obstinate about letting go of those same beliefs.

pitbulllady

#7

Ah…a topic I can sink my sword

into.

Monster/Human relationships have always been a combat of negotiation and diplomatic ventures.
The

Human World does know about the Monster World. Or, more to the point, a small group at best. The mere concept of

connections to the world through doors every half of every day, there is little to no evidence to support that

Humans had not ventured in before.

Scare Co., company heading the Scare Industry, shares intricate

relationships with ambassadors from the Human World. Although these actions are frowned upon on the

public.

To prove my seemingly “cannon” sayings, I combat with a fact.
The "Toxic

Card" is known to be a public security. Without this card, monsters could wander into the Human world

whenever they wanted.

The use of the Toxic Card was to, as Scare Co.'s officials state to one another,

“to protect the people and the interests of our company”.
However, with the loss of this card,

countermeasures will be taken.

#8

Humans

threw the first punch at not wanting relationships. Their foolish and arrogant ancestor’s mistakes are still

counted on.
I would not be surprised if those who still know how the Monster World came to be, would want to

throw the retaliation punch.