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Monkey Island
Monkey Island: comedic point-and-click pirate adventure series begun by Lucasfilm Games in 1990, created by Ron Gilbert, Tim Schafer, and Dave Grossman; known for SCUMM, insult sword fighting, Guybrush Threepwood, no-death design, and Return to Monkey Island (2022).
Monkey King
Monkey King (孙悟空, Sun Wukong) is the stone-born monkey hero of the 16th-century Chinese novel Journey to the West: rebel against Heaven, wielder of a 13,500-pound cudgel, disciple of the monk Tripitaka, and finally a Buddha.
Monkey King: Hero Is Back (西游记之大圣归来)
Monkey King: Hero Is Back (西游记之大圣归来) is a 2015 Chinese 3D animated film by Tian Xiaopeng, adapted from Journey to the West; it earned 956 million yuan, then a record for domestic animation, and spurred China's mythology-animation wave.
Monkey Kingdom
Monkey Kingdom is a 2015 Disneynature documentary, also called a True Life Adventure, directed by Mark Linfield and Alastair Fothergill and narrated by Tina Fey. It follows toque macaque Maya and her son Kip at Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka; not related to the Monkey King films.
Monkey Man
Monkey Man is a 2024 action thriller, Dev Patel's directorial debut, starring Patel as Kid, an underground fighter avenging his mother's murder. Inspired by Hanuman, saved by Jordan Peele after Netflix dropped it, released by Universal April 5, 2024.
Monkey Mountain (China)
Monkey Mountain (猴山, monkey hill) is a sunken Chinese zoo enclosure built around artificial rock hills for monkeys; Beijing Zoo's, built in 1942, is the best known.
Monkey Park Iwatayama
Monkey Park Iwatayama (Arashiyama Monkey Park Iwatayama, 嵐山モンキーパークいわたやま) is a Kyoto park on Mount Iwata, opened 1957, where about 120 wild Japanese macaques roam free and are fed through a hut's wire fence.
Monkey Quest (film)
Monkey Quest (film) is an animated science fiction action-adventure film, a 2027 Japan–U.S. co-production blending 2D and 3D animation, loosely inspired by Journey to the West.
Monkey selfie copyright dispute
Monkey selfie copyright dispute: 2011 photos taken by Celebes crested macaques with David Slater's camera in Sulawesi, Indonesia; Wikimedia deemed them public domain and PETA's Naruto v. Slater suit failed.
Monkey wrench
A monkey wrench is an adjustable wrench with one fixed jaw and one sliding jaw set by a screw, used to grip nuts and bolt heads of various sizes.
Monkey-man of Delhi
Monkey-man of Delhi, or kaala bandar (black monkey), a nonexistent monkey-like creature blamed for nocturnal attacks in New Delhi and Ghaziabad in April-June 2001; about 350 sightings, 397 police calls, roughly 75 injuries, at least two deaths, and a police conclusion of mass hysteria with no animal involved.
Monkeybone
Monkeybone is a 2001 American live-action and stop-motion animated fantasy comedy directed by Henry Selick, starring Brendan Fraser and Bridget Fonda, released by 20th Century Fox.
Monkeypaw Productions
Monkeypaw Productions: Jordan Peele's Los Angeles production company, founded 2012, named after Jacobs's 1902 story; behind Get Out, Us, Nope, BlacKkKlansman, Lovecraft Country, and a Universal deal.
Monkeypox virus
Monkeypox virus (MPXV), agent of mpox, an orthopoxvirus found in 1958 in monkeys, first human case 1970 in DRC; clades I and II, clade IIb caused the 2022 global outbreak, clade Ib the 2024 emergency.
Monkeys (pass del Rio y reserva animal)
Monkeys (pass del Rio y reserva animal), Spanish "Moons", is the monkey enclosure of the Paseo del Río animal reserve in Orizaba, Veracruz, Mexico: a free riverside zoo attraction near the Cocodrilario and Teleférico.
Monkeys and apes in space
Monkeys and apes in space were nonhuman primates launched mostly by the United States and Soviet Union between 1948 and 1997 to test spaceflight survival before humans flew.
Monkeys in Japanese culture
Monkeys in Japanese culture: the Japanese macaque (ニホンザル), worshiped as the Sannō shrine messenger at Hiyoshi Taisha, stable guardian from Chinese horse belief, sarumawashi performing art, kōshin charm, and modern crop pest.
Monkodonja
Monkodonja (Moncodogno), Bronze Age hillfort near Rovinj, Istria, Croatia, occupied about 1800-1200 BC; three concentric dry-stone walls, ~1 km outer rampart, acropolis, ~1,000 inhabitants; excavated 1997-2008 by Mihovilić, Hänsel, Teržan.
Monks of Scourmont Abbey
The Monks of Scourmont Abbey are the Trappist community near Chimay, Belgium, founded in 1850, who began the Chimay Brewery and brewed its first beer in 1862.
Monkstown, Dublin
Monkstown (historically Carrickbrennan), a southside Dublin suburb in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown, 9–10 km from the city centre on the DART, known for Georgian and Victorian terraces, an 1834 railway history, and a 40-hectare Architectural Conservation Area with 269 protected structures.
Monmouth Castle
Monmouth Castle: ruined 11th-century Norman castle in Monmouth, Wales, founded by William Fitz Osbern (1067–1071) and birthplace of Henry V; survives as Great Tower and Hall ruins, a Cadw scheduled monument.
Monmouth County, New Jersey
Monmouth County, New Jersey: county founded March 7, 1683 as one of East Jersey's four original counties; seat Freehold; 53 municipalities; about 651,000 residents on the Jersey Shore near New York City.
Monmouth Rebellion
The Monmouth Rebellion, June–July 1685: James Scott, Duke of Monmouth, illegitimate Protestant son of Charles II, tried to seize the English throne from Catholic James II, landing at Lyme with 80 men before defeat at Sedgemoor and the Bloody Assizes.
Monmouth University
Monmouth University is a private university in West Long Branch, New Jersey, founded in 1933 as Monmouth Junior College, renamed Monmouth College in 1956, and granted university status in 1995; NCAA Division I Hawks.
Monnè, Outrages and Challenges
Monnè, Outrages and Challenges (Monnè, outrages et défis) is a 1990 French-language novel by the Ivorian writer Ahmadou Kourouma, recounting colonization through the fictional Malinké kingdom of Soba.
Monnet Plan
The Monnet Plan was France's postwar program of indicative economic planning, drawn up under Jean Monnet and executed from 1947 to rebuild and exceed prewar production.
Mono (manga)
Mono is a Japanese four-panel slice-of-life manga by Afro (creator of Laid-Back Camp), serialized in Houbunsha's Manga Time Kirara Carat about the Cinephoto Club girls in Kofu, Yamanashi; five volumes, a Yen Press English release, and an April 2025 TV anime by Soigne; on hiatus since July 2026.
MONO (musician)
MONO is the stage name of Nguyễn Việt Hoàng, a Vietnamese singer-songwriter and the younger brother of Sơn Tùng M-TP, whose 2022 hit "Waiting For You" topped Billboard Vietnam for 13 weeks.
Mono (software)
Mono is an open-source implementation of Microsoft's .NET Framework for cross-platform applications, launched in 2001 and used in the Unity game engine and Xamarin mobile apps.
Mono Biosphere Reserve
Mono Biosphere Reserve, Benin (Réserve de biosphère du Mono): UNESCO MAB site designated 14 June 2017 in the Mono River delta on the Benin–Togo border; 142,498 ha of mangroves, savannah, lagoons and sacred forests; part of the 346,285 ha Mono Transboundary Biosphere Reserve.