Puppeteer

Dragon Quest monster Puppeteer

Art by Akira Toriyama Japanese パペットこぞう Romaji Papettokozō First appearance Dragon Quest VIII Variants Moppet (infamous monster)
Puppet master
Puppet player

The puppeteer is a recurring monster in the Dragon Quest series. Introduced in Dragon Quest VIII, it is a humanoid monster armed with hand puppets.

Characteristics

Puppeteers wear outfits that completely cover their forms with only their blank eyes being visible through the eye-holes in their masks, much like those worn by stagehands in traditional Japanese theater known as kuroko. This concealing garb is mostly a black color with some blue and green, likely to focus attention towards the more colorful puppets used by the puppeteer, namely a lump mage on their right arms and a slime on their left. It also carries a puppet of a dracky and a golem that it uses when telling different stories. The puppeteer can also envelop its enemies in illusions and uses its slime puppet to perform punches.

Appearances

Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King

Puppeteer (パペットこぞう, Papettokozō ) Defeated Monster List No. : #041

Image Attributes HP MP EXP Gold Attack Defence Agility Evasion 75 12 45 21 41 38 38 1⁄64

Resistances Attack Frizz Sizz Fire Breath Bang Crack Cool Breath Woosh Rock Zap Whack 0% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 25% 0% 25% 15% Army Poison Stun Paralysis Dazzle Sleep Fizzle Fuddle Sap Drain Magic Ban Dance 0% 0% 50% 15% 50% 50% 0% 15% 0% 15% 100%

Additional information Spells Skills Locations Dropped item Dazzle Punches with his slime puppet Performs a Funny Story (attempts to stun entire party for one turn) Performs an Exciting Tale (increases entire party's Tension by one stage) Performs a Lame Story (reduces entire party's Tension level to 0) Kingdom of Ascantha (day only) Silk robe1⁄32 Slime earrings1⁄64 Description A unique monster that delights in telling its opponents stories using hand-puppets. Notable changes in the remake

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Trivia

The design of the puppeteer and the other puppet-carrying monsters is based on Japanese comedy duo Puppet Muppet (パペットマペット, Papetto mapetto), who consist of a frog puppet (Kaeru-kun) and a cow puppet (Ushi-kun) who are manipulated by a puppeteer wearing an obscuring black costume known as Kuroko that they do not acknowledge. Article on Japanese Wikipedia.

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