2: bird monster with reversible feathers that are blue on one side and red on the other side. when it's blue, it breathes lightning, when it's red, it breathes fire
7: Just a kilometer-tall walking monster tree that grows fruit that draw monsters to it in a feeding frenzy, then it absorbs nutrients from the bodies of the ones that kill each other
8: A sarlac pit but instead of just waiting around, it can get up and drag itself around with its claws and grab people and throw them into the mouth on its back
I figure if you pitch a monhun creature and my first response is "hey, yeah, that reminds me of this wild shit in real life " you're doing something right
maybe with 4 you could lean into the glowworm thing - like, the ones I'm thinking of in real life use their light as a lure for prey, so you could pretty easily scale that up
5 is remarkably similar to how the nargacuga fight operates minus the smoke and the fact that it is means you're definitely on the same wavelength as the monhun devs
This is Gobul. it likes to bury itself under the silt in bodies of water and pokes its chin hairs up through the mud so they look like a mushroom gathering point
"sike it's actually a cephalopod using its arms covered in bones as decoy heads"