It seems very small a detail to apply, so I'm not sure if it's a valid idea. Plus it's not like elders behave under physics when flying sometimes (see shagaru star pose and sapphire of the emperor).

But it does tie neatly with Primordial's aerial reposition (especially noticeable in his turf war with velkhana) and with the teleport both malzenos have. Hell there's even a revving up of wind and a wind blast when the move is performed (and the teleports are stated and shown to be blasts of qurio energy).

Plus, magnamalo also has this detail. As does arguably kushala.

Edit: also not forgetting the gigantic wind effects he has in his intro cutscene and the cutscene with Fiorayne in the forest.

This scene alone shows that Cecil's supplies of the stuff are out. GDA HQ is destroyed by an alternate Mark, and Donald directly tells Cecil that they can't make more noisemakers because the engineering wing is gone. And there is definitely nowhere near enough time between this and Conquest's appearance to suggest the base gets up and running before then.

Comic spoiler:

>!Hell considering this weakness ceases to exist in the comics up until robot's uprising (which he persumably only knows due to blocking the frequency back when Cecil and Mark were fighting), it seems that Cecil straight up loses his initial recording of that frequency.!<

It would be a bigger criticism of Cecil to state that he had no countermeasures at all against Conquest when trapping him. But really, what would he even do? The hammer was the most powerful and expensive weapon the GDA had, and it couldn't stop a weaker Viltrumite in Nolan. Remember, early in s1 Cecil couldn't even damage Mark's blood.

Edit: i guess people's favourite discussion to this topic is insulting anyone who disagrees with them.

Edit 2: no one is mentioning also that a shitton of resources are probably going to rebuilding the entire world that just got attacked by Mark variants, likely billions of dollars in damages that Cecil is prioritising.

Not a criticism, just an observation.

Old kush's wings were structured quite a bit differently; there's three phalanges (or limbs depending on your view) stretching directly from the body to hold the membrane.

This is contrasted by new-gen kush, whose wings are structured like a bat's or a wyvern's, with the set of limbs and extended fingers holding the membrane.

I'd assume this was done to be more consistent with other dragons (since basically every dragon has the second wing design, even odd ones like valstrax and shara), though it could also be a discrepancy, since many redesigns are outsourced*. But it does give more context as to where the stranger frontier elders like rukodiora, rebidiora and harudomerugu got their similarly structured wing design, since they use 2nd gen kushala's rig.

*someone source this if possible, I can't seem to find direct statements on it.

Oceaniz's crimson diablos video showed up on my feed yesterday, so I figured taking a peek into this mighty goliath to see how it could be explained in-universe. This is a fan-ecology thought experiment more than anything, so feel free to join in.

Fair warning

This isn't intended to be canon. Crimson diablos existed as a piece of concept art in MH Illustrations 1. This same book contains a lot of other concept art for things that either never made it to the franchise, or got heavily reworked (eg the crypt hydra and EDW). Thus I wouldn't be surprised if this concept either became black diablos, or fused with the one horned tyrant to make bloodbath. Again, it's just a thought experiment with a shitton of conjecture.

Description

Simply put, it is a giant crimson diablos. Thankfully this is the easy part. Behaviour wise it isn't noted to do anything special, the notable aspects are its size and its colour.

Comeuppance

There are two ways we can treat this diablos. Either

- It is a different subspecies

- It is a variant

The former is the easy option, simply put it could be a new subspecies that is much rarer.

The latter is a little harder. We'd need to explain both physiological differences in some way for this to work.

Size

Being big is hard. Sure, you have no predation (not like diablos had much in the first place), but you also burn a boatload of calories. Thus, this diablos would need to find a bounty to feed on to reach this size.

It's also worth noting that diablos don't get too much bigger, at least from what I can find. NPC dialogue only suggests that their horns grow longer.

One option we can consider is the molten tigrex option. According to Principles of Creativity 2, it's theorized that molten's larger size is caused by the surrounding primal forest, whose conditions cause the tigrex to mutate a gene that leads them to grow to primordial sizes. While no such statement is made for diablos, it could be a decent idea thanks to diablos' equally primal appearance.

We also have precedent for this, thanks to the giant diablos skulls found by plum Daimyo Hermitaur. I can't find a source on why the skulls are so ginormous, their existence at least tells us that giant diablos at the very least existed.

Colour

Why red? Well one way we can source this is to look at regular diablos to see if there are any hints.

Which, there are. Diablos parts often describe their tempering and mighty strength to be caused by the diablos' life in the deserts, as the swirling sands shape it and harden it over time. This isn't anomalous either, as multiple monsters shape their carapace through their environment (eg barroth, lao shan lung, brute tigrex, akantor etc).

So then that begs the question, where would a crimson diablos get a crimson colour like that at all? That's an oddly deep colour to be in a mostly brown or beige desert.

Red sand is in fact a thing, usually due to mineral composition. While we never see a red desert in this franchise, these diablos could simply burrow deep enough to reach layers of minerals that posses this red colour. It isn't the only monster to do this either, as Dahren Moran gets a similar colour scheme in similar ways.

The other option is hormonal. Black diablos also change colour through this, but their reason is to absorb heat. Red here doesn't serve as much of a purpose, but I figure it is worth mentioning.

Behaviour

This diablos would probably be a big ecological nuisance. Every time it surfaces it will launch small sandstorms, and its territory to keep cacti must eclipse all other diablos species. I wouldn't even be surprised if it changes diet to something deeper into the earth or if it migrates often to high bioenergy areas.

Obviously not much would challenge it. This thing would probably pick a fight with elder dragons if it meant it had more cacti around the area.

If anyone has any extra ideas to add to this, feel free to do so. Whole lotta conjecture here, for something we probably won't ever see or fight in a game, but it's a fun thought experiment so all suggestions are welcome.

It's kinda nuts to me that all of the monsters get their own short animated section just for the hunter notes. Even the radiant monsters get their own.

I'm aware the flack outlander content gets on this sub, I just liked this animation a lot.