Monty

Monty
Japanese name	モンスターじいさん モンじい (Dark Prince)
Romaji	Monsuta Jichan Monji (Dark Prince)
Title	Monster Monitor
Race	Human
Age	60's
Voice actor	Paul Copley Atsuyoshi Miyazaki

Monty is the monster caretaker and a recurring character in the series. He is the monster-themed counterpart to Patty, managing various monster facilities where he watches over any recruited monsters sent his way by the party.

Appearances

Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake

The player first encounters Monty during a cutscene in the Shrine of Promise, where interjects after the party encounters a friendly slime. He instructs players to keep an eye out for friendly monsters and send them his way, keeping them in his stable and encouraging the player to enter them into the various monster arenas found across the world for big prizes.

Monty is also the final opponent in the Damdara monster arena, with his team consisting of a flying flayer, minidemon, and soaring scourger. How the old man is aware of the secret underworld, much less how to freely move between the two worlds, is left to the player's imagination.

Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride

Monty and his bunny-girl assistant Carla are first encountered during the second generation of the game in Fortuna, where he states that the Hero has profoundly sincere eyes and is confident that he will be able to tame monsters. After explaining that the Hero needs to fight with love in his heart to get a monster's attention, he suggests purchasing a wagon from Fortuna's curiosity shop to accommodate the new recruits. Monty maintains additional dens in Lodestar Harbour, Castle Gotha, and even as far as Precaria. Up to 50 monsters can be left in his care in the SNES version, and 80 in subsequent releases. While staying with him, a monster can be released or renamed but they will not gain any experience points.

• The Hero is unable to tame monsters until speaking with Monty in the remade versions of V.

Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past

Monty is the distant descendant of Buddy, the beast-befriending eccentric of Nottagen's past. Inspired by his ancestor, he plans to open up a park where monsters can live in peace--unfortunately, Monty doesn't actually know how to build the park. Fortunately, the party can find enclosure plans to add new areas to Monty's pet project. As Nottagen has no standing mayor or officials, Monty appears as the town representative at the summit meeting in the Cathedral of Light.

Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince

Monty is depicted as a Dwarf in this game, along with every other resident of Rosehill village save for the nun living in the tower. He is sympathetic to Psaro's plight of being cursed, and suggests taking up the art of monster wrangling to stand a chance against his wicked father Randolfo. After gifting Psaro a beginner monster, he was about to teach him the fundamentals of the vocation before being interrupted by Fizzy. The two are old friends, and Monty leaves Psaro's tutelage in the simian sprite's capable hands.

As the game is an alternated telling of Dragon Quest IV, this iteration of Monty is based on the old man who runs the church, item shop, weapon shop, and armour shop. As such he manages the bank, the information center, and Tinkerer's Toolbench from a single storefront in the center of the village. Monty also supervises the Altar of Amalgamation in the basement of Rosehill Tower, using a hidden trapdoor to quickly scurry between the tower and his businesses.

Monty is the final opponent in Category S of the Endor Colosseum tournament. His team consists of a goomulonimbus, great dragon, prism peacock, and ronin raccoon.

Gallery

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  Super Famicom art

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  Monster Den art

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  Monty as he appears in VII, being helped by the Hero and Maribel

Trivia

• Molly from Builders 2 is a female counterpart of Monty, with both of them being elderly npcs that teach the player how to tame monsters.