The spitnik is recurring monster in the Dragon Quest series, first appearing in Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King. It has the appearance of a sun with a trailing satellite orbiting around it, both displaying wide smiles.
The sputnik is a large, spherical orange monster that resembles an anthropomorphic sun or star. It has a perpetually grinning face, along with a squat nose and beady eyes, and the back of its body is covered with sharp spikes, meant to evoke the image of a star's corona. It also has a smaller satellite with a grinning face orbiting its body that looks like a comet with a long, trailing tail. The spitnik attacks by swallowing its satellite and spitting it at enemies, after which it returns to the spitnik.
 Spitnik ( シャイニング, Shainingu )
Defeated Monster List No. : #096 |
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Skills
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Locations
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Dropped item
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Dazzleflash
Flame Breath
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Baccarat Region
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Boomerang1⁄32
Moon's mercy1⁄64
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The dazzling bodies of these monsters burn as fiercely as the surface of the sun. They spew fire at their enemies.
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Reappearing from 4.1 onwards, it is big just like in its appearances from Joker 3 onwards.
 Spitnik ( シャイニング, Shainingu )
Monster Library No.: #028 |
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| Description
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Small, sentient suns circled by similar, somewhat smaller satellites.
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Swords, Hammers, Claws, Staves
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Xeroph Isle
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| Breeding chart
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Frostburn x Firespirit
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 Spitnik ( シャイニング, Shainingu )
Monster Library No.: #032 |
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 X 
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Spitnik's name is a reference to Sputnik 1, the first artificial Earth satellite that was launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957.
Spitnik (シャイニング, ) 
