Badboon

Dragon Quest monster
Badboon
	; Art by Akira Toriyama
Japanese	マンドリル
Romaji	Mandoriru
Translation	Mandrill
First appearance	Dragon Quest II
Dragon Warrior naming	Baboon
Variants	Big badboon
	Brainy badboon

The Badboon is a recurring monster in the Dragon Quest series, first appearing in Dragon Quest II. The large brown-furred primate and its cousins are among the earliest examples of the Beast family of monsters.

Characteristics

Badboons are based on mandrills, Old World monkeys that are native to western Africa in the real world. They are large, brown bulky primates with colourful faces and posteriors. Bulkier than real life mandrills, their stature resembles orangutans and gorillas. The primates made a reappearance in the series in IX after a 22 year absence.

Appearances

Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line

Badboon (マンドリル Mandoriru)

Sprite	Attributes								Resistances
	HP	MP	EXP	Gold	Attack	Defence	Agility	Evasion	Fizzle	Snooze	Dazzle	Thwack	Kasap	Spell
	40	0	18	45	48	12	20	¹⁄₃₂	⁷⁄₇	²⁄₇	²⁄₇	²⁄₇	²⁄₇	⁰⁄₇

Additional information
Spells	Locations	Dropped item
Flee	Moonahan region Outside of Moonbrooke Dragon's Horn	Oaken club (¹⁄₁₆)

Badboon (マンドリル Mandoriru)

Sprites	Attributes								Resistances
	HP	MP	EXP	Gold	Attack	Defence	Agility	Evasion	Fizzle	Snooze	Dazzle	Thwack	Kasap	Spell
	35	0	33	45	40	12	18	¹⁄₃₂	⁷⁄₇	²⁄₇	²⁄₇	²⁄₇	²⁄₇	⁰⁄₇

Additional information
Spells	Locations	Dropped item
Flee	Moonahan region Outside of Moonbrooke Dragon's Horn	Oaken club (¹⁄₁₆)

Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies

Badboon (マンドリル, Mandoriru)
Defeated Monster List No. : #050

Image	Attributes
	Family	HP	MP	EXP	Gold	Attack	Defence	Agility
	Beast	90	6	171	69	80	64	40

Resistances
Fire	Ice	Wind	Blast	Earth	Dark	Light	Drain Magic	Whack	Dazzle	Fizzle
0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	-25%	-25%	0%	25%	25%	100%
Confusion	Paralysis	Sleep	Poison	Stun	Blunt	Deceleratle	Sap	Spooky Aura	Charm
25%	50%	25%	0%	25%	25%	50%	0%	0%	25%

Additional information
Spells	Skills	Locations	Dropped items
None	Completely loses it and starts on character (125% damage) Psyche Up War Cry	Newid Isle Tower of Trades	Magic beast hide¹⁄₁₆ Strong medicine¹⁄₃₂
Description	Giant apes and lords of the jungle who store up their anger, then attack with full, explosive force. The one with the loudest War Cry wins the leadership, so every spring the forest comes alive with their cacophonous cries.

Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai

A badboon makes an appearance at the beginning of the story as one of the friendly monsters living alongside Dai and Brass on Dermline Island. However, in the 2020 anime series, it is nowhere to be found.

Dragon Quest Monsters 2: Iru and Luca's Marvelous Mysterious Key

Making its first appearance in a Monsters game, Badboon appears as a D-rank monster of the Beast family exclusive to the smartphone version.

Dragon Quest Builders 2

Badboons first appear on the island of Furrowfield, where three of them are shown attacking Rosie. They spawn naturally in the Furrowfield Forests, giving 10 exp each and having a chance of dropping bark, a medicinal leaf or heartwood (only after the Builder has obtained it in the story).

Dragon Quest Treasures

A statue of a badboon is Treasure No. 515 in the Monster Statues category. Its base value is 180,000 gold.

In Other Languages

Language	Translation	Meaning
Español	Malandril	From the Spanish mal and mandrill.
Français	Babourin	Derived from "babouin", the French word for baboon.
Deutsch	Gibbonze	From the German Gibbon and Bonze
Italiano	Scimpanzer	From the Italian scimpanzé and the German Panzer.