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To date, there have been six titles in the series:
* ''Dragon Quest Monsters: Terry's Wonderland,'' [[Game Boy]] (with [[Updated Rerelease|Updated Rereleases]] on the [[
* ''Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey'' and ''Tara's Adventure,'' [[Game Boy Color]] (Again, with an [[Updated Rerelease]] on the [[
* ''Dragon Quest Monsters: Caravan Heart,'' [[Game Boy Advance]]
* ''Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker,'' [[Nintendo DS]]
* ''[[Dragon Quest Monsters
** ''Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2 Professional,'' [[Nintendo DS]].
* ''Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road Victory,'' [[Nintendo Wii]] (The series' first original console offering, an Arcade port/spinoff.)
''Dragon Quest: Monster Battle Road Victory'' may be considered a bit of an odd man out -- it is a console port of a Monsters style ''card game'' that had a really innovative arcade system attached to it. The cards had a barcode on the back, you scanned 3 cards in the arcade console to determine your party in the arcade, and you fought various monsters in an arena hosted by the arena master from ''[[
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* [[A God Am I]] - {{spoiler|Dr. Snap}} wants to make a world for monsters by eliminating humans.
* [[Adaptation Expansion]]: The 3DS remakes add a ''lot'' to the plot.
* [[Animated Armor]]
* [[Battle Aura]] - Psyching up in ''Joker'' and ''Joker 2''.
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]] - If you finish ''Joker 2'' in an English mode, US DSi... the credits change to English. (Just in case the big US and EU flags during the part where the Japanese commercials talk about a worldwide tournament weren't a big enough clue.)
* [[But Thou Must!]]
* [[Cap]] - The first two games were pretty much cap-free, with 999 being the only stat limit, and all monsters had it. This changed in ''Joker'' -- individual monsters now have distinct caps. Oddly enough, the monster with the highest total caps? The humble ''Lump Wizard.'' (The second-highest was the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|See Butterfly.]])
** Terry's Wonderland had odd caps for agility (Maxed at 511), and Intel (255), but every other stat could be maxed to 999.
** Lump Wizard being a reference to the ''Dragon Quest'' manga, ''[[Dai no Daibouken]]'', where Dai's adoptive grandfather was a Lump Wizard, and really really powerful due to his age/training/being too stubborn to be weak/etc.
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* [[Dick Dastardly Stops to Cheat]] - A rather interesting case of this being ''meta'': The early online tournaments for ''Joker'' were, of course, teaming with cheaters. Naturally, this means that the tournament scene would be littered with nothing but Gold/Darkonium/King Metal Slimes, (thus making the whole ordeal incredibly painful) right? Nope, you run into teams with three different forms of Incarnus, which absolutely ''sucks'' compared to the metal slimes. One could argue that it's to get their name higher on the tournament list (which is, by the way, horribly skewed), but... come on.
** In the original Japanese release, Incarnus was marked as "guest", meaning he wasn't usable in the online tournament ''at all'' -- and the Japanese tournament servers had better sanity checking code to prevent things like using 3 versions of him at once.
* [[Disc One Nuke]] - Players with knowledge of how Slimes turn into King Slimes<ref>8 Slimes jump together and fuse.</ref> allows for an early game, powerful monster in the first 2 games -- any Slime that is +5 or above, bred with another Slime, results in a King Slime with vastly improved stats and spells. In Joker, this was turned into a "Quad Fusion" -- any monster with 4 grandparents who are Slimes is a King Slime. King Slimes in Joker are Rank C, which means you can jump from Rank F to Rank C in one go, skipping the first 3rd of the game. In addition, King Slime is one of only 2 monsters (the other being a postgame exclusive dragon ''diety'') that receives "Courage" (mistranslated as "Cleric" in the US version) as a skillset. Courage is based off the ''[[
** The King Slime combine was nerfed in ''Joker 2'' due to this specific problem, but a ''pair'' of similar combines were added in it's place -- Great Sabercat (breed 4 Great Sabercat Cubs) and Great Dracky (4 Drackys), both monsters available in the first map. These two monsters have downsides (traits that make them sub-par) but can be bred away to make other rank C monsters that are equally powerful, and still allow you to skip ranks F, E, and D.
** In both Joker and Joker 2, you can simply breed monsters to get a similar monster of the same rank. In Joker 2, doing this enough times in the same rank will move you up a rank, no matter what -- for example, breeding a Beast monster and continually choosing the Beast monster child will have you go through 1-3 "generic" beast monsters for that rank. Upon reaching the final generic monster of said rank, breeding again with almost anything will cause the resultant child to be a generic monster of the next highest rank, all the way up to Rank A (there are no generic rank S monsters). With enough time and effort, it's entirely possible to have an entire team of Rank A monsters the second you can breed monsters, trivializing the rest of the game.
** The 3DS remake of ''2'' allows chain breeding Pteranodon and any nature monster into a Hell Condor, which can then be paired with a Chimera for a Hawk Blizzard, and a male+female Hawk Blizzard can be made into the A rank Ultra Chimera (which can be made into other A rank monsters you want) as soon as you have access to monster breeding. With even less effort, the "Aquapothecary" skill set contains spells that deal a fixed amount of damage, which is extremely good when enemy HP values are low, is actually a fairly common skillset and has other good abilities (healing and passive MP regeneration) on top of it.
* [[Distaff Counterpart]] - The second game's [[One Game for
** Thought the conk monster gang couldn't get cuter? [http://blog.jp.square-enix.com/dqm-j2/2010/08/post-30.html Now they have their own distaff counterparts in Joker 2.]
* [[Drop the Hammer]] - The Hammerman monster, [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Dub Name Change]] - Pretty much a given. Most notable with ''Caravan Heart'' and the ''Joker'' games.
** Outside of Japan, most of the boss monsters and their new names had an [[Early-Bird Cameo]] because of this (as their respective games had not come out yet overseas).
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*** Perhaps there are four Incarni! And Wulfspade was repowering while you used the others! And that transformed him into Ace Mode!
* [[Funetik Aksent]]
* [[Fusion Dance]] - What "breeding" has been presented as since ''Joker''. Potentially a [[Woolseyism]], as it explains where the "parents" disappear to, averts [[
* [[Global Currency Exception]] - There's an NPC in both of the first two games who will trade you medals for rare monster eggs. Including the [[Big Bad]], once you beat the game. ...Uh. In ''Caravan Heart'', it's medals for rare monster hearts.
* [[Gotta Catch Em All]] - You get bonuses for it. Although some people just pick one or two families until the post-game.
* [[Guide Dang It]] - Breeding most of the boss-type monsters. (Some are based on ''Dragon Quest'' mythos, such as the boss of ''[[
** Try getting {{spoiler|Dr. Snapped}} without a guide. I fucking dare you.
** ''Dragon Quest Monsters 2'' had the Dream Egg system, which would allow you to get any monster in the game, including 3 monsters that were specifically unavailable outside of Dream Eggs -- the divine dragon and giant bird goddess from ''[[
* [[
* [[Inevitable Tournament]]
* [[Infinity-1 Sword]] - The higher rank monsters of the non-??? monster families in the various games, as well as any of the bosses that join you automatically. Most of the series' [[The Dragon|Dragons]] are included in the "higher rank monsters" list, and most of ''those'' are used in the creation of [[Infinity+1 Sword]] monsters.
** ''DQM1'' / ''DQM2'': Any of the bosses that join you automatically (especially early game), any metal slime family monster.
** ''Caravan Heart'': Reincarnated human party members.
** ''Joker'': King Slime (VERY easily available, gets an overpowered skilltree based on the ''[[
** ''Joker 2'': Swarm, Conklave (Swarm gets 5-6 hits a turn and can equip anti-[[Metal Slime]] weapons, Conklave gets 4 hits per attack, attacks 1-2 times a turn, and can equip anti-[[Metal Slime]] weapons). ''Joker 2'' also added specific [[Infinity-1 Sword]] monsters, in the form of X (Rank C) and XY (Rank S) versions of iconic Rank F monsters (Slime, Green Dragon, Conklave, etc). [[Guide Dang It|You get these]] by breeding 2 of the normal monsters together when they're level 20, or in the case of XY, by breeding 2 Xs at level 50.
** ''Joker 2 [[Expansion Pack|Professional]]'': ''Any'' monster can now do the X/XY system, meaning that with work, you can turn any monster in the game into a Rank S IMOS. (This also means there are over 800 monsters in the game. But hey, nobody argued with ''Battle Road Victory''.)
* [[Infinity+1 Sword]] - The ???? family of monsters in all games but ''Caravan Heart''. They are all exclusively based on the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]] and [[Bonus Boss|Bonus Bosses]] of previous [[
* [[Just Add Water]] - Any pair of monsters will create viable offspring. A very large number of monsters are never seen in game outside of breeding.
* [[Leaked Experience]] - Monsters on your farm who aren't sleeping will slowly gain experience, at the cost of becoming much more wild.
* [[Level Grinding]] - It's a ''[[
** Part of the [[Level Grinding]] will come naturally, as you attempt, for the Four Hundred Billionth Time, to get a certain monster you need for a combination to join you.
* [[Lost Forever]] - Averted. Every monster can be bred later (with some ''very'' specific exceptions -- {{spoiler|Watabou / Warubou, for example}}), and most of the games have randomization for items, meaning that the Sirloin you just wasted is replaceable. Even the spoilered monsters are available using the Dream Egg system in ''Dragon Quest Monsters 2'', although, well [[Guide Dang It|good]] [[Luck-Based Mission|luck]].
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** An example is the humble Slime. The first monster you get in every game except ''Joker''/''Joker 2'' (where it's the first monster you ''catch''), Slimes can learn Madante (Magic burst), the most powerful magic spell in the game. Or at least, could, if they could ever hope to get their stats that high.
** [[Metal Slime]] monsters tend to be this. At the start, they only have a decent defense and speed stat, and their unique immunity to magic -- but defense scales oddly, meaning their single digit hit points won't save them. They also level up slower than anything else in the game. However, give them a few levels, and perhaps a few healing or support abilities, and they become some of the most game breaking monsters you can use.
* [[Mascot Mook]] - The iconic Slime is usually the first monster you get or capture, and in each game the Slimes make up an entire evolution tree on their own, with a few of them being designed specifically for the [[Mons]] games.
* [[Metal Slime]] - And Liquid Metal Slime, and Metal King Slime, and Metal Kaiser Slime, and Gold Slime... Somewhat difficult to catch, but makes incredible monsters as when they are a part of your team, they retain the outrageous agility, defense, and immunity to negative status and all magic... But gain more than single digit hit points and actually get good spells.
** Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in ''Joker 2 Professional'' -- Liquid Metal ''King'' Slime, which is a giant flying Liquid Metal Slime. Why? Why not!?
* [[Mons]] - Of course. Amusingly, the game isn't a (total) ripoff of ''[[Pokémon]]'' -- the monster system is much more in depth, and the main series has had monster catching all the way back in ''[[
** Not to mention the first ''[[Mega Ten]]'', which had mons before either series, though utilized differently.
* [[Missing Secret]] - Robbin' Hood in ''Joker''. It can't be found in-game, synthesized, OR won online. The only way to get one in-game was to complete both the Monster and Skill libraries... [[Shaped Like Itself|Which would've required a Robbin' Hood in the first place]]. Leopold, Empyrea and Trode became these once the wi-fi tournaments for ''Joker'' stopped. Empyrea and Trode required ALL monsters (including them) and Leopold required a complete skill library (and had a unique skillset).
* [[Monster Clown]]
* [[Mythology Gag]] - Every single dungeon in the first [[
* [[No Kill Like Overkill]] - ''Battle Road Victory''''s [[Limit Break|Coup de Graces]]. Not in terms of damage, but in execution. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGU7lQlKals Here's] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKNPDDal4es what] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpob9xPq1sU some of them] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjP-cZzj7aY look] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83JvZswjSu4 like].
* [[Olympus Mons]] - Most of the bosses from the main series, and all of the ones from the game itself, are recruitable, mostly through breeding, with [[Mythology Gag]] after [[Mythology Gag]] included in the process. For example, to get the true last boss of ''[[
** In the original ''2'' for the Gameboy Color, they added ''[[Olympus Mons]] [[Infinity+1 Sword|Plus 1]]'' -- upgraded and evolved versions of the other [[Olympus Mons]], such as a [[Dragon Quest III
* [[One Game for
** The almost immediate re-release of ''Joker 2'' as ''Joker 2 Professional'' may be seen as this as well. A persistent rumor is that they discovered a game breaking multiplayer glitch and had to patch it, and used the modifications to the game to justify forcing people to upgrade.
* [[One-Gender Race]]: In at least the 3DS remakes, a few types of monster will always be male or female if not forced to be other through breeding with the ♂ Staff or ♀ Staff (which makes all off-spring match the staff), or making all random encounters male/female via the appropriate books. This is generally reserved for monsters with obvious physical features (such as Crone, which is a witch), or those who were unique characters in their native game (such as the final bosses one can obtain late game).
* [[Palette Swap]] - A staple of the ''[[
* [[Peninsula of Power Leveling]]: A rare official one occurs in the remake of ''II'', where winning a relatively early tournament will give you the Metal Menagerie key. This world has nothing but Metal Slimes, Liquid Metal Slimes, and (for whatever reason) a small number of Hunter Mechs. The catch is that once used and a certain number of monsters are defeated, it can't be used again for six real world hours.
* [[Plot Hole]] - Terry and Milayou in Dragon Quest VI are a badass swordsman and a Distressed Damsel but in these games? Incredible monster tamers/breeders. Especially bad since as revered champions in the Kingdoms they fight for in the local tourneys you would think someone would go look for them especially since Milayou was last seen dating the prince of one of those kingdoms. Or that they would use a warpwing to get back or use a warp tile like in [[DQM 1]] or doors in [[DQM 2]]. While it is possible for them to have lost all their keys and items that allowed interdimensional travel its never explained what happened to their monsters or why Terry is now a swordsman or you get the picture at this point.
* [[Power Nullifier]] - Mute status effects for spellcasters, surround status effects for melee, "trip" and other "waste a turn" effects for ''everyone''.
* [[Prequel]] - ''Caravan Heart'' to ''[[
** The original game is a prequel to ''{{spoiler|[[
* [[Regional Bonus]]: The overseas release of ''Joker 2'' fixed some bugs. As well, the formerly nigh-unscoutable meddle slime (which is an early game [[Metal Slime]]) could be scouted as a regular [[Metal Slime]], which is a boon because, being a different enemy, the lowered scout rate from scouting an already scouted monster does not apply. Of course, all bug fixes were also fixed in ''Professional'', and the decision to translate the original over that [[Updated ReRelease]] proved a [[Franchise Killer]] in the west.
* [[Samus Is a Girl]] - {{spoiler|The "Mystery Trainer" in the original whom everyone speaks of in fearful terms. But not only is she a girl, she's your ''sister.'' You know, the one you THOUGHT you were "rescuing?"}}
* [[Shout-Out]] - In the first game, the main character's default name is Terry, and his kidnapped sister's name is [[Spell My Name
** As an aside, Terry and Milayou in ''[[
*** To clarify, [[The Beast Master]] class also recruited monsters in the original version, but some monsters in particular require them, one being Drango/Lizzie, an [[Our Dragons Are Different|axe-wielding Battle Rex/Hackasaurus]] [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons|who breathes fire]] and [[All Amazons Want Hercules|admires Terry's ability to best her]].
** Every single dungeon in the original ''Dragon Quest Monsters'' ends with your character entering an iconic room from a different ''[[
* [[Spell My Name
* [[Spin-Off]] - The entire series to ''[[
** ''Dragon Quest Monsters Battle Road'' is a spin off to this spin off.
* [[Rank Inflation]] - Classes of monsters in ''Joker'' go from F to A, then S (for Japanese "shin", aka "perfect"), then X. In ''Joker 2'', they renamed X as "SS".
* [[The Rival]] - In the original, Terry is constantly compared to a "Mystery Trainer" from the kingdom of Great Log, who is allegedly not only ''really good,'' but one of the scariest damn people you'll ever met. [[Unknown Rival|You don't actually get to meet this rival of yours until the final tournament, though.]]
** That's because {{spoiler|Your sister that you were supposed to be "rescuing" is the "Mystery Trainer."}}
* [[Randomly Generated Levels]] - ''DQM 1'' had nothing but a [[City of Adventure]] and dungeons that were completely randomly generated, making it a very simplistic [[Roguelike]]. ''DQM 2'' added some more static areas, but also random ''worlds'' (including random towns, random bosses, and 1-10 random dungeons each). ''Caravan Heart'' had a very static world map (it was the map from ''[[
* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]] - In the second game, the king of the Desert World actually goes out to address the concerns of his people instead of just sitting on his throne like every other member of royalty in the series.
* [[Tastes Like Friendship]] - In the first two games, you can woo monsters to your side by feeding them quality meat.
* [[Theme Naming]] - Everyone in ''Joker'' is named after a [[Card Game]] term.
* [[Treachery Cover-Up]] - In ''Joker'', {{spoiler|Snap's villainy is given this treatment in the post game, as the truth would probably cause a panic.}}
* [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny]] - A very weird [[In-Universe]] version of this. Ever wanted to see if [[Dragon Quest III
* [[Updated Rerelease]] - ''DQM 1+2 PSX'', a Playstation remake of ''Dragon Quest Monsters 1 and 2'', with improved graphics and the ability to do various things cross generations (breed between a ''DQM'' and ''DQM2'' save, for example). Currently being fan translated.
** ''Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 Professional'', an [[Updated Rerelease]]... of a game that was out less than 6 months. 100 new monsters, new maps (possibly including the grotto system from ''[[
** The 3DS remakes of the original two games were later released on Android and iOS with even more content.
* [[Useless Useful Spell]] - Subverted. The status effect spells are actually pretty useful, especially against other Tamers. This is a common theme amongst the [[Mons]] series and ''[[
* [[Villain
* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]] - In ''Joker'', {{spoiler|Snap ''thinks'' he's one, but he's much closer to a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] with a god complex.}}
** {{spoiler|Your dad and his "evil" orgainsation might actually be one, since they seek to wipe out all the monsters. You know the ones that constantly attack and kill humans, and those demons who keep trying to destroy the world.}}
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** {{spoiler|'''Incarnus''': Come, [[Hello, Insert Name Here|Player]], attack! This... THING has ceased to be human... It no longer deserves our mercy!}}
*** {{spoiler|The fact that he's an [[Eldritch Abomination]] may help things. Plus One Winged Angels generally pose more threat.}}
* [[World Tree]] - Lots of kingdoms in the ''DQM'' world live inside of enormous trees.
* [[X Meets Y]] - ''Battle Road Victory'': ''Dragon Quest Monsters'' meets ''[[Pokémon Stadium]]'' meets ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' meets ''[[Magic:
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