Topic on User talk:Monster Hunter

I'm leaning towards no on this one.

I haven't played any Monster Hunter games but from what I can gather, the creatures seem to be akin to big game animals and pests rather than proper kaiju. They are defeated by relatively simple human methods (handheld weaponry) and are natural species rather than abnormal mutations. So they're more in line with something like dinosaurs co-existing with humans in that sense. The issue with including them on the basis of its country of origin and studio involvement would open up the big can of worms with another monster-focused franchise: Pokemon. It's a Japanese video game series, Toho distributes most of the movies in Japan and they feature large monsters as well but I'm not sure they'd fall under what we cover, despite having those aspects in common with Monster Hunter.

With a film like Rampage, there's at least prior source material for it that is overtly referencing kaiju properties in addition to its marketing. There's an obvious kaiju influence with it. But this film doesn't really seem to be aiming for that aspect, even if the Rathalos is on the larger side than it normally is. I think it was just a case of "make it a little bigger so it's more threatening".

So yeah, gonna say we shouldn't include it because it doesn't really fit the bill of what we cover and would open up way too many loopholes for loosely related stuff to be included down the line.