Monster High/WMG

Monster High is a parody of Victorious. Or the other way around.

• Tori = Frankie: Both new girls.
• Jade = Cleo: Both mean girls
• Beck = Deuce: Attractive and boyfriend to mean girls
• Cat = Draculaura: Slightly crazy
• Andre =?: This troper does not wish to say Clawdeen as he is afraid that will seem racist since they are both African-American. But it could be Clawdeen because they are both confident and the best friend of the new girl.
  • Ummm, what? New girls and mean girls with attractive boyfriends are common character types in high school scenarios, the plot lines are completely different, and Draculaura's not crazy.
    • Not to mention that like every other monster, there aren't races as defined in the human world. She's not African American. She's just a werewolf.

Draculaura is actually an amnesiac Jade and Monster High is the Bratz world future

• They both have a thing for pink but Draculaura is not as mean as Jade because she's developed an all new personality.
  • And a Race Lift, apparently. Guess being turned into a vampire makes you pink and Eastern European.
  • Clawdeen is Sasha.

Alternatively, Monster High is Bratz done right

• Cloe : Lagoona Blue, both The Ditz but Lagoona is less crazy.
• Yasmin : Frankie Stein, most likeable and down to earth
• Jade : Draculaura, both have a thing for pink and black.
• Sasha: Clawdeen, both Southern Belle types.
• Dylan : Deuce, both have insane Totally Radical accents.
• Cameron : Holt Hyde, one moment in love with Cloe and the next trying to kill the ninth Deuce of Lessex.
• Dana : Ghoulia, both ensemble darkhorses.
• Fiana : Cleo De Nile, both feisty and slightly evil.
  • Alternately, Cleo could be Meredith from The Movie.

Draculaura's mother is a human woman, thus making her a dhampire.

• It's just that Dracula's genes are much more dominant. Also, the reason for Draculaura's pink skin and the streaks on her hair is that her mother lived next to a nuclear plant, thus modifying Draculaura's genes. The mother died during childbirth, so Dracula decided to take Draculaura under his wing and never tell her about her mother.

• Jossed. According to her diary, her father adopted her and turned her into a vampire. She even has her death certificate.

Frankenstein Monsters define days differently from humans.

• Hence why Frankie Stein is still 16 days old.
  • Not really; her School's Out profile alters the day number, so time is passing for her. However, the years are definitely different from regular years. There are at least thirteen months, it can apparently be the 13th and the 31st at the same time, and some undead monsters count their age in "monster years" (implied to be the age they were when they died) while others do not.

Monster High takes place in a modernized society a lot like ours, but in the future

While they live in a modernized time, it never explicitly says that they live in our time and could actually be in the future. Draculaura is 1600 years old and predates Dracula's actual date, not to mention Cleo pre-dating mummification, but only if they were in this year (2010/2011). The diaries also never state a specific year.

Ignoring the book series continuity, it would make everything fit and everyone can be the ages that are claimed.

Draculaura doesn't get along well with her mother or her stepmothers.

Given that Dracula is, in almost every single adaptation, polygamous, it is reasonable to assume that he has the same 3 Brides that he has in his books. Based on the personalities they were given in Van Helsing, it can be assumed that:

Aleera (redhead, stepmother) is hostile to Draculaura because Dracula genuinely cares for her. She is very subtle about it to avoid the Count's ire.

Marishka (blond, stepmother) is not unkind to Draculaura, but is a bit of a bimbo and cannot really relate to her on any meaningful level.

Verona (brunette, mother) is cold and rather distant, unable to give Draculaura much in the way of attention or affection.

Gill from the webisodes is the son of Abe Sapian.

They are both teal-colored Fish People with a slight gargle to their speech. They even look alike.

Lagoona is really the daughter of Cthulhu.

This WMG may be nightmare fuel-rific for a children's toy line, but she was never called the Daughter of the Creature of the Black Lagoon, but rather the daughter of the Sea Monster, what if she only says that so she doesn't scare everyone at Monster High. Holt's diary mentions that her father stays submerged under the water, and according to Lagoona's diary he never leaves the water, if he leaves the water their would be disastrous consequences. And the last nail in the coffin is that her father wants her to stay under the water, possibly because once she is old enough, she develops the ability to drive people insane just by looking at them, unless she wore shades like Deuce.

• So Cthulhu is Australian?
  • Thats the one flaw in my theory, maybe he moved to Austrlia and fell in love with some local sea monster and they settled down together and eventually Lagoona was born.

Lagoona is related to a Deep One

This one is related to the one above, but it isn't about Cthulhu as much as just a random Deep One. The reason Mattel just said "Sea Monster" was a way to avoid the "Viewers are Morons" trope or they couldn't figure out how to make that less scary and more kid friendly (or it could have been copyright issues). (On a more cynical note, maybe they just didn't want kids to stumble on to Lovecraft's work and be exposed to the "n" word).

• Originally, these are supposed to be children of famous movie monsters and Lagoona's was the Creature from the Black Lagoon. Mattel couldn't get the rights to refer to her father as such. If they wanted to refer her as one of Lovecraft's monsters, they legally could have. Cthulu monsters have appeared in Monster High known as scargoyles.

Draculaura will never possess the supernatural abilities common to vampires.

In the webisode The Good, the Bat, and the Fabulous, Draculaura's inability to change shape is explained by her not being old enough, but I think it's due to the fact that she's a Vegetarian Vampire. Vampires feed on blood because they are the undead, and blood is the source of life, held by many world mythologies to be a substance of great power. Draculaura's consumption of fruits and veggies with iron supplements may provide her with the nutrition she needs to survive, but they lack blood's mystical properties, thus they cannot fuel her inborn powers. This explains why Draculaura is unable to fly, change shape, hypnotize people, etc.

Jackson Jekyll is a Trans-man

He is voiced by a woman(this is more obvious in his Holt Hyde persona) and he does appear slightly more feminine than the other males in the cast. It would make sense given that he is a new kid at the school( hoping to pass without awkward conversations with people who knew him as a 'she' and all that). Holt Hyde then is either the drag king persona he developed when he was younger and just beginning to explore his identity or more like the original Jekyll/Hyde the man he simultaneously wants to be but is also afraid of being.

Draculaura was one of the female vampires who almost attacked Johnathan Harker.

In Bram Stoker's novel, Harker was molested by three female vampires (one blond, two brunettes). While they are generally believed to be Dracula's brides, their conversation among themselves makes it equally likely that only the blond is his wife and the brunettes are his daughters. And since Draculaura mentions in her diary that she refuses to return to traditional vampire ways . . .

Draculaura's mother became permanently beyond undead in an incident involving blood and some sort of mistake on Draclaura's part. Draculaura blamed herself for this and resolved to be a Vegetarian Vampire as atonement for her perceived mistake.

Her diary seems to imply that the disappearance of her mother had something to do with her acting like a traditional vampire. Given her Nice Girl persona, even if the incident causing her mother's disappearance wasn't her fault, Draculaura might blame herself anyway and became a Vegetarian Vampire because she believed that consuming blood caused the loss of her mother.

Spectra Vondergeist and Ghoulia Yelps are the same person.

How is that may you ask? You see Spectra is a teenage ghost, meaning she died young and Ghoulia is a teenage zombie, meaning she also had died young. What if Ghoulia died when she was a normie and became Spectra the ghost and whatever creates zombies in the Monster High universe had got to her corpse and it became Ghoulia the zombie, call me crazy but this is just a WMG.

• Alternatly, she could be a part of Frankie.
• And In Spectra's Dairy, Ghoulia revealed the truth about her family. How did Ghoulia know about that?

Ghoulia is the daughter of Solomon Grundy.

Because . . . well, he's the only real candidate. Monster High is specifically noted as being attended by the children of FAMOUS monsters, and Grundy is the only really "famous" zombie. Virtually every zombie movie ever made has them occuring strictly in packs with no real identities. I mean, there's also that one Marvel character, but compared to Grundy, he's almost unknown.

• • Famous zombies? Well, there is Tarman from Return Of The Living Dead as well, which is the very series that began the "zombies eat brains" idea.

Van Helscream was right

Thanks a lot ghouls. You've doomed us all.

A Season 3 webisode will focus on Hoo-Dude seeking vengeance against Frankie.

As the webisode that introduced Spectra Vondergeist showed, Frankie brushed off Hoo-Dude with uncharacteristic coldness, much like Victor Frankenstein did to her father in the eponymous novel. And we all know how that turned out.

A witch character will eventually be introduced to the main cast.

Heck, it's weird that they haven't already; it seems like an obvious choice.

• I actually came here because I wanted to add a hypothesis about a Cute Witch character being introduced. This is because a witch is one few monsters that doesn't have a character, and because I thought to myself that if a Magical Girl character was added, then Monster High would combination of all my favorite things.
• Isn't Scary Murphy technically a witch character?
  • Yes, but she's not part of the main cast.

The future "witch" character will be male.

It makes sense to me, because the "Medusa" (a monster that is typically female) character is male.

The "A" in C.A. Cupid's name stands for "Aphrodite".

Draculaura is somehow related to Jillian Venters, author of Gothic Charm School.

• Just look at those two! If not her mother, Venters is almost certainly an aunt or cousin.

An alien character will be introduced.

A dragon character will eventually appear.

Possibly male, but hard to say for sure.

Monster High will start introduced characters based off more obscure monsters.

They've already run through well-known monsters like Frankenstein's monster, mummies, and werewolves. It's unlikely that they'd want to repeat a monster several times, so they'll start going through lesser known myths for character monster inspiration.

• • You may be right because in their next line their will be a Gargoyle girl, a Plant Monster girl, and a Steampunk Robot girl.

A Bigger Bad was behind the events of Fright On! and Kind: The Shockumentary.

• This unknown Ultimate Evil manipulated both Van Helscream and Nefera de Nile.

The fake "upstart" Dracula mentioned in Draculaura's past is really Mathias Cronqvist from Castlevania

This makes sense considering that Mathias only took the name "Dracula" for himself after he became a vampire, and presumably impersonated Vlad Tepes to give himself some credibility. As for the "upstart" being defeated... Castlevania canon says that Dracula was finally defeated for good in 1999. Monster High takes place after that, and furthermore, we know basically nothing about the 1999 final battle. Draculaura's adoptive father, the "real" Dracula, may have helped in some way. As for his eventual rebirth as Soma Cruz... right now it's irrelevant.

• This is at least partially supported by BOTH series and how they handle the Bram Stoker novel. Konami tied the novel into their own game canon, and according to Monster High, the "Dracula" depicted in Stoker's book was the fake.

There will be an Invisibilly doll coming out.

It's just not finished yet.

• • Or we haven't SEEN it yet!

in addition to a theory above Ghoulia's mother is Emily somehow

• the ending of the movie was meant to make us think she went where she is supposed to go but in reality. She was transported to the Monster High universe.

As for how Solomon Grundy + Emily = Ghulia makes sense. I have no idea

In "Escape from Skull Shores", the reason Frankie looked so much like that scientist is because her head is the scientist's head.

She was made from parts of different people, right? Maybe that scientist was one of them.

Ghoulia's father is "Thriller" Michael Jackson

This may make the most sense of any guess, when you take into account the intent was to the the children of famous monsters. Romero's films mostly had generic shambling zombies, and while Day Of The Dead had a couple named members, that film never got ingrained into pop culture the way Romero's past zombie films did. And while Tarman from return Of The Living Dead is semi-famous, he may not be all that well known.

But remember, Ghoulia dresses mostly in red, her doll comes with a purse that looks like a cassette tape and she has 80s hair. In terms of famous zombies, Michael Jackson from the Thriller music video is probably going to top many lists. And if not for MJ's death, we may have seen some possible reference to this somehow(worth noting that the Thriller zombie MJ parody that was in Plants VS Zombies was actually edited out of the game after his death, so it's not a big stretch to think of companies not wanting to trivialize the situation).