Missing Link

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The Missing Link is a character from Monsters vs. Aliens and a parody from the Creature from the Black Lagoon.

Monsters vs. Aliens

The Missing Link came into existence about 20,000 years ago, apparently of a humanoid fish species. Others of his kind have never been found. His extended lifespan allowed him to live for 5,000 years before he was frozen during an ice age and lapsed into suspended animation.

In 1961 scientists discovered him buried in a glacier, then carved an ice block around him out of the glacier to transport him to a lab. For unknown reasons, possibly a mistake on the part of the scientists, Missing Link thawed out and attacked the lab. Afterward he escaped and terrorized a beach before being captured by the government.

Once contained in the government prison for monsters, Link found himself sharing the prison with Dr. Cockroach, B.O.B., and his minion Insectosaurus. He forged a friendship with Insecto, being the only one able to understand the colossus's communication. In 2008, the first female monster, a giantess named Susan Murphy (later to be called Ginormica) joined the prison. Link took the opportunity to show off his martial arts skills, but hurt himself in the process.

A massive alien probe crashed into California soon after this, and the President ordered General W. R. Monger, who was also the monsters' warden, to unleash the monsters on the giant robotic probe. Link and Cockroach split ways to distract the robot, Link swimming through the sewers of San Fransisco at high speed. He tried to emerge from a manhole dramatically, but banged his head on the manhole cover. Link then slowly pushed the cover off and continued on his way. He regrouped with Cockroach and B.O.B. in a rocket van made by the mad scientist, which soon lost control and skidded into the sea.

Link and the other monsters regrouped on the Golden Gate Bridge, but Link himself kept getting hurt and actually didn't manage to do anything to the giant robot probe. He awakened, prepared to fight, but Ginormica had already defeated the robot mostly by herself. Link then had a red metal girder fall on his head.

Link and the others were then given their freedom by General Monger, and Ginormica wanted to go to her old home. Link and the others accompanied her, curious to meet her family. After an awkward introduction, Ginormica left her companions with her parents while she went off to find Derek, her old boyfriend. Link immediately made for the pool, but the chlorine made his eyes sting, and Link reacted to this by stumbling half-blind around the yard. The already spooked humans at the house, both Susan's parents and their other guests, all ran off at this point, breaking the fence on their way. Link and the others, with nothing better to do, went off to find Susan. This they did at a gas station. Susan lamented her boyfriend leaving her for selfish reasons, then decided that he didn't matter. She was fine on her own. And she was even better with her new friends. Link warned her not to shortchange herself, but she assured him she wouldn't, ever again.

Right then Susan was abducted by a massive alien ship in the sky, with Link and the others unable to do anything, including Insecto, who was shot with the ship's defense cannon. Link was convinced that Insecto was dead and mourned the loss. He then bolstered the other monsters to find a way into the mothership, find Susan, and rescue her.

Using jetpacks given to them by General Monger, the three, Link, Dr. Cockroach, and B.O.B., were able to fly in through the mothership's docking bay. Noting the army of Gallaxhar clones, B.O.B. suggested the three of them disguise themselves as clones, donning the uniforms that all the clones wore. Link was at first skeptical, but, seeing a clone pushing a now-un-ginormous Susan along, tried to order him to halt. The clone, apparently bored with his current assignment, ordered Dr. Cockroach to continue his task of bringing Susan to the incinerator. The clone also had Dr. Cockroach take Link as well, thinking Link was a defective clone.

Of course Dr. Cockroach did not take the two of them to the incinerator, but did go in that direction, since the ship's control center was right over the cloning machine. The Doctor intended to take out the control center through some technological means, and started relating his plans to the others,, but B.O.B. blew the disguised monsters' cover by firing a previously acquired gun at a clone accidentally. Under orders from Gallaxhar, all the clones then attacked the monsters. Link himself used martial arts moves to take out many of the clones by hand. The group managed to make it into the control core, with Dr. Cockroach hacking into the console Dance-Dance Revolution style. This began a self-destruct sequence, and the monsters then ran for their lives, with only Susan making it out before the cloning room doors shut. The other monsters told Susan to go on without them, and to go back to her old life, since she now could.

A few minutes later, the monsters were beginning to accept their fate, but Susan, transformed once more into Ginormica, broke them out a minute before the ship was going to blow. General Monger then showed up on a newly metamorphosed-into-a-butterfly Insectosuarus to carry all four away before the ship exploded.

Back on the ground, the monsters were hailed as heroes, with the girls swarming over Link, much to his pleasure. General Monger then told the five monsters there was a giant snail slowly rampaging across France. Link piloted Insectosuarus away as the new heroes left to fight another day.

Missing Link approaching Ginormica

Personality

Link is proud of being a monster and likes his monsterness. He likes to freak people out, but also likes to have people that know and understand him. He finds making new friends hard outside of the small monster community, and this seems to irk him a bit. Still, if he can't make friends with somebody, then he can at least still chase them around and get some laughs.

Link also likes to show off his mad skills, particularly to women, like Ginormica.

Powers

Missing Link is a fish-ape hybrid, and thus, he has several abilities that are similar to those of fish and apes.

Link can swim like a fish, literally. He can swim at speeds exceeding any human, and most fish, fir that matter. This ability is boosted by his ability to breathe amphibiously.

Link is also possessed of superhuman strength, which boosts his ape-like climbing ability and humanoid fighting skills. He calls himself a ninja, and does in fact seem to have some martial arts skill.

Trivia

• He has chest hair and a unibrow.
• He looks a bit like a creature one might create on Spore, and bears a resemblance to the Sea Monster from the same game.