Golem

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For the monster class in Dragon Quest VII, see Golem (Class).

The golem is a recurring material monster in the Dragon Quest series. Introduced in the first game as a boss, it has since appeared in several other installments of the series, primarily as a normal enemy.

Characteristics

Golems are hulking man-shaped monsters made of clay bricks. This sums up most of their appearances with their face being the only other detail: a slit-like opening with two eyes glowing from the darkness.

Since the appearance of the first golem the species has solidified itself as a hefty force of physical might but one that lacks in resistance to spells. One of the most notable vulnerabilities of the golem is that of sleep-inducing abilities, an Achilles' heel that made the first golem easy to defeat and has since, for the most part, stuck with the monster as one of its more unfortunate qualities.

Appearances

Main series

Dragon Quest

The Golem guards the town of Mercado and must be defeated before that town may be entered. It can be put to sleep with a fairy flute to make the battle easier.


Golem
DQ1-NES-GOLEM.png
HP MP Experience Gold
70 0 5 10
Attack Defense Speed
120 60 39
Locations Mercado
Game Dragon Quest
Console NES


Golem
Golemsnes.gif
HP MP Experience Gold
155 0 2000 10
Attack Defense Speed
120 60 39
Locations Mercado
Game Dragon Quest
Console SNES


Golem
Golem GBC.png
HP MP Experience Gold
155 0 2000 10
Attack Defense Speed
120 60 39
Locations Mercado
Game Dragon Quest
Console GBC

Dragon Quest V

The first reappearance of the golem since it was introduced in the original game. Though they possess no notability in the game's story, they are among the easiest monsters to recruit and far and away one of the most powerful as well.


Golem
File:Golem.gif
HP MP Experience Gold
190 0 330 90
Attack Defense Speed
160 150 51
Dropped Item Seed of Strength
Capture Rate 1/4
Game Dragon Quest V
Console SNES


Golem
File:Dq7golem.gif
HP MP Experience Gold
190 0 330 90
Attack Defense Speed
160 150 51
Dropped Item Seed of Strength
Capture Rate 1/4
Game Dragon Quest V
Console DS

Dragon Quest VII

Golem
File:Golem.gif1
HP MP Experience Gold
280 0 60 70
Attack Defense Speed
Dropped Item Wind Shard
Locations Rexwood
Family Material family
Game Dragon Quest VII
Console PSX

The Golem is a boss fought in the Rexwood Tower.

Dragon Quest VIII

#156 - Golem
File:Golem.png
HP MP Experience Gold
225 0 237 50
Attack Defense Speed
177 153 80
Dropped Item Rennet Powder (Common)
Titan Belt (Rare)
Locations Arcadia Region
Bestiary # 156
Game Dragon Quest VIII
Console PS2

While normal golems do not appear until later on in the story, the player can find a wandering one in the Maella Region that they can recruit for their monster team.

Dragon Quest IX

#161 - Golem
Nopic.png
HP MP Experience Gold
300 0 1700 174
Attack Defense Speed
175 210 99
Dropped Item Flintstone (common, 1/16)
Mythril ore (rare, 1/128)
Locations Lonely Coast
Wyrmwing
Wyrmneck
Wyrmsmaw
Grotto
Skills Psych Up
Critical strike
Bestiary # 161
Game Dragon Quest IX
Console DS
Description Though weak against wind, these stony souls will weather a storm of blows before unleashing a cataclysmic critical attack.

If you ask them which monster has the most mates, they won't hesitate to suggest their own big-headed, bricky selves.

Monsters series

Golem
File:Golem.png1
HP MP Experience Gold
3/5 3/5
Attack Defense Speed
3/5 2/5 2/5
Spells Level 13 - PsycheUp
Level 15 - ChargeUp
Level 15 - Strong D
Family Material family
Game Dragon Quest Monsters
Console GBC


Golem
File:Golem.png1
HP MP Experience Gold
6/10 3/10
Attack Defense Speed
7/10 6/10 3/10
Locations Breed a MudDoll with another MudDoll
Spells ChargeUp, Meditate, RockThrow
Family Material family
Game Dragon Quest Monsters 2
Console GBC

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker

Golems are rank A members of the material family, but not the top A monster of that group. A golem acts as the sentinel of the Xeroph Isle shrine and must be defeated in order to help the Incarnus reach its goal.}}

Dragon Quest Heroes: Rocket Slime

Golems do not appear until near the end of the game, acting as mechs piloted by platypunk members of the Plob within the Flying Clawtress and can also be piloted by the player once unmanned. They are potent monsters, capable of delivering charging punches and hitting their fists together to ward off opponents that are too close for comfort. If one is already being manned by a platypunk, it must be struck with three Elasto Blasts before the pilot will be forced to disembark. These 'liberated' golems, and ones left unattended, can only suffer another three attacks before they go inoperable and explode, regardless of whether the player is piloting them or they are unmanned. Since they are too big and heavy to be knocked into the air and carried around, a chimaera wing must be thrown at them in order to send them back to town.

Golems can also be used in tank battles, though they act the same way as they do outside of these battles, meaning they do nothing more than stand idle until the player jumps in to command one, being somewhat disadvantageous since only two other crew members will be left free and even more disadvantageous if these remaining crew members are poor at handling the cannons. This aside, golems can be incredibly useful when it comes to sabotaging an enemy tank since their fist-clapping move can quickly break open the entryway of an enemy tank, and their charging punches can wreck a whole wall of machinery when positioned right and easily enable one to reach the enemy's engine when the time arrives, but they can still only deal with three attacks before being defeated. An exploding golem can damage the player both inside and outside of tank battles, so it is recommended to gain some distance when a golem has taken as much as it can.

Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors

A golem named Briquet is the boss of Galantyne Glades.

Dragon Quest Builders

Like in the original Dragon Quest, the Golem is the first boss fought in the game. At the end of Chapter 1, the Golem attacks the player's town.


Variants

Gold Golem

The gold golem is summed up by its name: it is a golem made out of gold bricks. Typically the go-to monster for amassing quick cash, the creature is usually the weakest out of the golem family.

Dragon Quest

Gold Golem
Goldgolem DQ NES.gif
HP MP Experience Gold
50 6 200
Attack Defense Speed
48 40 26
Game Dragon Quest
Console NES


Gold Golem
File:Goldmansnes.gif
HP MP Experience Gold
99 0 6 650
Attack Defense Speed
48 30 26
Game Dragon Quest
Console SNES, GBC

Dragon Quest VII

#138 - Gold Golem
File:Goldman.gif1
HP MP Experience Gold
255 0 80 80
Attack Defense Speed
130 120 54
Dropped Item Gold Bracelet
Locations Deja
Skills Brutal Hit
Charge Up
Family Material
Capture Rate Very Hard
Bestiary # 138
Game Dragon Quest VII
Console PSX

Dragon Quest VIII

#110 - Gold Golem
File:Gold golem.png
HP MP Experience Gold
120 0 54 726
Attack Defense Speed
152 98 60
Locations Holy Isle of Neos
Skills Desperate attack
Family Material family
Bestiary # 110
Game Dragon Quest VIII
Console PS2
Description Golden creatures that have taken it upon themselves to protect the Holy Isle of Neos and the Goddess statue erected there.

Dragon Quest IX

#96 - Gold Golem
File:Dq9goldman.png
HP MP Experience Gold
250 0 414 505
Attack Defense Speed
136 130 77
Dropped Item Gold ring (common, 1/32)
Gleeban gold piece (rare, 1/256)
Locations Djust Desert
Grotto
Family Material
Bestiary # 96
Game Dragon Quest IX
Console DS
Description Heavyweights who save up their strength, then hit hard. Beat them, though, and you just might break the bank.

Some say that the storied city of gold said to stand somewhere in the Djust Desert is only a gold golem seen through a heat haze.

Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker

Gold golems appear as rank D members of the material family and can be scouted within Palaish Isle's shrine where they can be found on the second floor in the room with a coat-of-arms hanging on the far-wall, though their appearances are relatively rare.

In Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2, the gold golem is a Rank D material monster in Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker 2. One can be synthesized by mixing a metal slime and a gasbagon.


#70 - Gold golem
File:Material-goldgolem.jpg
HP MP Experience Gold
??? ??? ??? ???
Attack Defense Speed
??? ??? ???
Dropped Item ???
Locations Palaish Isle Shrine
Skills ???
Spells ???
Family ???
Bestiary # 70
Game Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker
Console DS
Description Glittery golems who have the Midas touch -- and an explosive punch.

Stone Golem

The stone golem (originally Stoneman and Rock Golem) is a golem constructed of stone blocks instead of clay bricks.

While some games have had stone golems as being superior to their normal brethren, other titles have shown the stone golem as being weaker, though they still boast the strength and stamina of their relatives. They are especially prone to charging up power for increased strength to their already crushing blows.


Stone Golem
Stonegolem DQ NES.gifRockgolemsnes.gif
HP MP Experience Gold
160 65 (NES)
155 (GBC) 		140 (NES)
148 (GBC)
Attack Defense Speed
100 40 40
Locations Charlock Castle
Game Dragon Quest
Console NES, SNES, GBC, Mobile


#102 - Stone Golem
File:Stoneman.gif1File:Dq5stonegolemds.png
HP MP Experience Gold
120 176 195 (SNES)
65 (DS)
Attack Defense Speed
125 (SNES)
130 (DS) 		110 33
Dropped Item Rebirth stone
Locations Gotha area
Skills Focus Strength
Bestiary # 102
Game Dragon Quest V
Console SNES, DS


#64 - RockGolem
Rockgolem.gif
HP MP Experience Gold
115 45 35
Attack Defense Speed
85 84 56
Dropped Item LifeRock
Locations Hamelia
Skills Brutal Hit
Charge Up
Bestiary # 64
Game Dragon Quest VII
Console PSX

The RockGolem can be found in the Avon Tunnel and the Mountain Tower before and during the flood and in the present.


#177 - Stone golem
File:Stone golem.png
HP MP Experience Gold
278 0 340 38
Attack Defense Speed
223 113 78
Dropped Item Strong Medicine (common)
Rockbomb Shard (rare)
Locations Isolated Plateau
Bestiary # 177
Game Dragon Quest VIII
Console PS2


#078 - Stone golem
HP MP Experience Gold
156 0 400 126
Attack Defense Speed
104 130 55
Dropped Item Flintstone (common, 1/16)
Resurrock (rare, 1/128)
Locations Heights of Loneliness
Bloomingdale (lighthouse)
Grotto
Skills Forbearance
Family Material
Bestiary # 078
Game Dragon Quest IX
Console DS
Description They protect their pals with their bulky bodies, and brush off bog-standard blows with ease. Hit them hard or not at all.

The rock blocks of a ruined temple absorbed an evil aura and assembled to form the first stone golem.

Etymology

Golems are beings from Jewish folklore, often portrayed as servants animated from clay that obediently carry out orders but often to warped or far too literal extents.

Gallery

  • The Hero battling the Golem

  • Golem battle in Dragon Warrior (NES)

  • Golem in Dragon Warrior (NES)

  • Golemator tank in Rocket Slime

  • DQ Trading Card Game card

  • Dragon Quest Heroes: The World Tree's Woe and the Blight Below

  • A golem from the Sofubi Monster merchandise series.

  • 1439392388-dq-11-3ds-2.jpg

    Battling a Golem in Dragon Quest XI

  • Golem battle in Dragon Quest Builders

  • GoldGolemArt.png

  • NES screenshot

  • Dragon Quest

  • Goldmansnes.gif

    Dragon Warrior (SNES)

  • Dragon Warrior I (GBC)

  • Slime MoriMori Dragon Quest

  • Gold golem from the Sofubi Monster merchandise series.

  • DQ Stone Golem.png

  • Dragon Warrior (NES)

  • Dragon Quest (SNES)

  • DW1NES Stoneman.png

  • Slime MoriMori Dragon Quest

Related Monsters

References

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