Ive read the reviews, looked at the trailers, and seen the movie. So WHY cant I figure out what it is ?!?! This topic is a bit late but please somebody tell me what it is! Even ideas of what it is are good just someone tell me something about the damn thing!

To everyone who is not a D&D geek, please do not look past this point.

It's a Tarrasque

I mean, come on! There's only one, it's undefeatable, seems to have a lot of DR and regeneration, wakes up every few dozen millenia and is pissed enough that it kills everything in it's path. It's only logical

I don't know what it is, but it's awesome.

And for future reference, please don't ever make a topic with all caps. It kills kittens. Think of the kittens.

I found a picture of it:

Looks like a whale... with legs... and 8 fins... and arms... and lice...
Just who the hell came up with this thing!

Holly cow! the camera does add 10 pounds!



NO the kitty's! Not the kitty's! I'll have to spend the rest of my life not capitalizing topics to make up for my sins. I'm only happy I was warned before my unwanted killing of kittens went to far .

Also note the "Edit" button for convenient editting of posts. It prevents the double posts.

Oh, and taunting Kay with sarcasm is dangerous. I'd advise against that. I'm more lenient on the subject

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Thats just creepy looking...
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That isn't the clover field monster it is whale gorilla crab!

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sorry but WRONG.
this is just a fan pick or an early sketch design if you want a real picture of the creature go to www.cloverpedia.org ...yes i know but it does exist...for a better picture of the monster

That "Cloverfield Monster" drawing is actually pretty inaccurate. This site: http://cloverfield.despoiler.org/index.php?title=The_Monster has better drawings. (:

We're not really sure what kind of monster it is. Some think it comes from space, but others think it comes from the ocean. There's more proof for the latter (its appearance and roar [whalelike.]) When it comes down to it, there is no other name other than "Cloverfield monster," because it's unlike any other monster.

The Cloverfield monster is an original creation by JJ Abrams, and has no other name currently than "The Cloverfield Monster"

Oh, and it came from space. In the last scene, you can see a splash of water in the backround. It's kinda hard to pick up, though.

*cough*

There are more than one of those things. And it's not pissed, it's afraid because it has lost it's mother. Check the Wiki


That is not the Cloverfield monster.

http://www.hasbrotoyshop.com/ProductsByBra...63&ID=21030 <— Cloverfield monster toys

the monster your link shows is very close to what I saw. the only deferences i can see are that the head is deferent (or at least it is when it inst screaming bloody murder) and it wasn't quite that white. also I think it is an aquatic animal because 1. it came out of the ocean 2. its whale like roar is well... whale like and 3. if it crashed out side new york harbor, the tidal wave it would cause (and it would cause one) would be HUGE! heres a picture of the monster. Now WHAT IS IT!?!?!

In the far left you can see a splash into the water.

is it a splash in or a splash out, or just it sinking something? its hard to tell.

Good question, but if you read the wiki It seems (I think) JJ Abrams meant for it to be a space-monster.

Underwater might also be implied. I haven't read the wiki recently.

im not sure how reliable the wiki is but if what it says is true, and i quote "Although "just a baby," the creature has a high resistance to projectile weaponry, including but not limited to personal firearms, vehicular cannons, air-to-surface missiles, and unguided bombs."

"The creature is covered with parasites which it sheds as part of a 'post-birth ritual.' Abrams described the parasites as "horrifying, dog-sized creatures that just scatter around the city and add to the nightmare of the evening." Reeves added, "The parasites have a voracious, rabid, bounding nature, but they also have a crab-like crawl. They have the viciousness of a dog, but with the ability to climb walls and stick to objects."

"Abrams described the creature as a "baby" who has been underwater for thousands of years that emerges "confused, disoriented, and irritable".

and "It also appears in a four-part manga series [b]Cloverfield/Kishin[/b] by Yoshiki Togawa"
this may be important info in our search to figure out what it is... if any of this is to be believed.

WHAT DOES IT DO TO KITTENS IF THE WHOLE POST IS IN CAPS? I MIGHT MAKE ALL MY TOPICS WITH CAPS....WOOT NO MORE ALLERGIES!!!!!!

Was frustrated with the whole of the movie... if for no other reason than, "Why should someone who LIKED the movie, still have to wonder WTF the monster looked like?"

Also, if Hud ain't dead, he needs to learn how to hold a camera. But dead is better.


and since all else are talking about being mean to kittens, I shouldn't get a pie for derailing. PPPHHHTTTT

My fiancée is obsessed with this movie as such I have seen it three times. I can tell you that the monster is from outer space. During the last cut back scene when the movie is ending, they pan out to the ocean and the statue of liberty, on the far right side of the screen you can see the monster fall into the water from the sky.

hmm... you might be right, thou the wiki says deferent, it isnt all that reliable. do you know were i can find a clip of this seen?

breaking news that might actually help solve this monster case FOR GOOD. it turns out that the manga Kishin/cloverfeild is real! it seems to be the back story to the monster itself and and a man named kishin who is some how connected to it. this is the closest i could get

http://picasaweb.google.com/dennisacevedo/...ishinMangaPart1

if any one can find the rest of it please post it!

...I already linked to it.

We can not say for SURE that the monster is from outer space. Until JJ comes out and says it, we can't be positive. There is evidence supporting that it is from the ocean-- the evidence being the ARG. Slusho, for example, was one of the first "clues" we got dealing with the movie, through the teaser trailer. Slusho is a slurpee drink. Later, through the official website for the movie, we find out about Tagruato, which is a deep sea drilling company, and a recipe containing a seabed nectar ingredient. We also find out that they own Slusho and that the Seabed Nectar could be a secret ingredient in it.

There are videos of one of Tagruato's oil rigs collapsing, of Jamie and Teddy sampling Seabed Nectar, and numerous other eate/ocean clues/hints in the ARG, pointing to the monster being from the ocean and NOT from space.

Of course, it could also mean that Tagruato and the Seabed Nectar sideplot was just another victim for the monster, but that's really farfetched when you think about how involved they were.

You misspelled C'Thulhu... That annoys me...




I believe Cloverfield is some sort of Godzilla-ish monster...

Was it spelled chitulhu, or something along those lines? 'Cause if so, it's not a misspell. Chitulhu was a theory for what the Cloverfield monster might be before the movie. Giant monster, tentacles on face, etc.

Cloverfield seems very arachnoid to me.

He spelled it Cuthulhu... It's in the subtitle.

Oh, I hadn't noticed.

It's always striked me as a gigantic Manhattan sized anorexic, anemic kid.

Anyone else?

my bad didnt see it


its really no like any thing i've ever seen in the animal world... its huge but its arms are jointed down instead of up, it has opposable thumbs but is not REALLY humanoid, it does not have flippers or fins (probably the biggest reason so many people think its from space) but appeared to at least get to us through the ocean, it makes whale like sounds bur has no other real whale characteristics, and if it is an alien, it must be here by accident because, despite all the damage it caused, it did not look like it was trying to destroy the city. in fact it looked more like it was just blundering around like a confused cow in the middle of traffic. This creature is quite a conundrum.

Oh my god, you're right! It's actually Mary Kate Olsen!

Does it really matter what the monster "is"?

I mean, it can't just be some monster for the movie to happen around? Like, a monstrous McGuffin?

Two of my favorite things as to what the monster is: http://Taigan.deviantart.com/art/Groverfield-75223604 and http://www.sorethumbsonline.com/d/20080123.html

of course it matters!!! even godizzila has a back story, and he dosnt even have mini monsters. the monster its self can wreck a city and kill people, but in a movie, what really defines a monster is its back story! the who what when where and why. other wise why even bother using a monster? why not random German invaders, or and earth quake? aside from that, this monster is one of the most unique creatures I've ever seen (and thats big when it comes to fictional monsters). it deserves a good back story, and little by little it is producing one.

There is no question that it is from outerspace...you see it fall from the sky. That can only lead to one logical answer, outerspace. It fell from the sky, layed dormant in the ocean for a while ( not sure how long in the movie the timeline was) and then came out and caused destruction and mayham.

just to have an understanding, di you see the movie? well regardless the movie time line is a few hours (like one night and half a mourning) the monster splash that isaw in the edge of the screen could have been a splash in or a splash out. but your theory could be true.

Except that the clip from the movie that that bit was in was from a month earlier, on his fling with that one girl.

He also changes size in pretty near every movie he's in.

It's just a monster. It doesn't detract from the movie that you don't know what it is.

i disagree. leaving a gap that big makes the plot feel half baked. but you are entitled to you opinion. For me plot is the biggest part of a movie (fallowed very closely by acting) if i never find out what the monster is, that makes the plot as intricate as a movie of some guy going to the house next door and shooting the inhabitance. later when questioned why his answer would be "Because i could" and leaving you with that. what? is he crazy, did he get paid to do it, did he hate them or some one they know? nope just cause he could. were does that leave you? if a monster attacks a city i want to know why. just because a monster can is not a proper answer to any movie.

My theory is that it's descended from an ancient race of arachnoid-giants. It's parents launched it into space right before their planet blew up to save the last member of their species. It has organs in it's brain that allow it to pick up radio transmissions and the like. It came to Earth hoping to help our society, but in it's time in the ocean it realized that our society is so screwed up it figured that the only way to fix it was to destroy it. Kind of like the antithesis to Superman, really. But thats just my 0.02 cents

Actually, from what everyone is saying, it would be like a movie about a guy who walked into a house and murdered everyone there and you never found out why.

Leaving you to wonder. It's a common technique.

ya but this isnt just a guy. its a freakin monster. that does not happen every day. besides that, this is a very uniqu creature, its not just the regular big destructive monster. its got mini monsters, reverse joints, it dropped into the ocean from were, space? itd behavior is also uniqu as well. you dont have to want to know more, but i am compelled too.

Hmm. I don't know what it was, grey Hulk mating with Spiderman? Maybe a dash of the Blob.

Oh, and I'm sorry to say, but Cloverfield has got to be one of the most boring movies I have ever seen.
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It seems like a brilliant marketing decision. It inspires discussion of the movie in public, spreading word of mouth, so long as they never confirm or deny anything.