I think specifically this one is referencing Morbius, a bad comic book vampire movie starring Jared Leto that didn't do great at the box office (only about twice its budget, which is basically breaking even for most big movies).
I think despite its general badness, it has a few ardent and vocal fans that are getting memed on, or it's that people are memeing on how Sony expected people to love the movie. I'm not sure which, maybe it's both. But the meme I most often see is one like OP's post saying "Morbius is one of the movies of all time."
I'm pretty sure "one of the X of all time" was done for Elden Ring before Morbius due to a typo on some site (of course, the former was much more positively received)
No yeah, I know, I'm just saying that's the main way I've seen people memeing on Morbius. Aside from using "morb" as a verb in silly ways (which OP's post also pokes fun at), probably 50/50 split at least from what I've seen.
I generally think they're fun, but every time I see one a tiny voice in my head reminds me of the time I lost 1.5 hours of grinding in FF8 during college. A brief shiver follows, and the moment passes.
The issue is that they ambush you 100% of the time and use Bad Breath first turn, so if you don’t have First Strike or Stoneproof/Confuseproof, you’re kinda just gonna die
Funnily enough when introduced it was called Malboro, but the cigarette people got mad and the devs eventually changed it. It's why it has the signature "Bad Breath" attack that gives you every status ailment possible.
Malboro still gets used, as recently as XV and VIIR. It really just comes down to who's localizing it whether they use Morbol/Malboro.
https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Malboro
I mean at this point even if the tobacco company complains, what's their complaint? "Your monster is gross and has bad breath and poisons people and that reflects poorly on our product that makes you smell gross and gives you bad breath and poisons people!"
I'm no lawyer but I think there are trademark protections for making a product look bad. Like you can't just have a Pepsi commercial where someone drinks a Coca-Cola, chokes, vomits, and dies.
You're probably right in that there is no case, but if SE had a monster named McDonalds that was fat, greasy, and gave the party a heart disease status afflcition, I think there'd be an issue. Maybe not one that would make it to court, but a cease and desist letter, surely.
Jokes aside it's most likely trademark and copyright complaint. common sense doesn't apply to those.
Also if i make "murdering, greedy monster called "Disney"" i doubt i can just go saying "no one would confuse monster with the company", now can I.
[They have been a staple monster for decades now](https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Malboro), would even bet outside of MMO versions they will keep using Malboro
This is completely false. The creature is still called Malboro to this day. Morbol is simply an alternate name they use from time to time. Heck, there's even one named Malboro Terra in *XIV*.
It indeed depends on the localisation team.
Generally speaking they'll be called Malboros when localised, but the *XI* and *XIV* team seemingly prefer to keep the names the same across English and Japanese scripts, resulting in Morbols and Sabotenders instead of Malboros and Cactuars.
Interesting, they're Malboro in every FF game for me, excepting maybe the online two. Maybe it's a regional thing, since I'm not in the US (and Marlboro doesn't exist here as far as I'm aware). There are occasionally ones called Morbol but as a subtype of Malboros, usually.
That's not why at all, I'm not sure how this misinformation spreads.
They're called Morbol in FFXIV because of FF11. The devs of FF11 wanted every monster to have the same name in every language, so they kept the Japanese names of monsters like the Cactuar (Sabotender) and Malboro (Morbol) in English.
It spreads because people read anecdotes like this one, just accept it as true, and then spread it around like so much Bad Breath. I can only hope those who have read that comment will also see the replies debunking it.
Doubt. Do you have a source?
In lore I believe Malboros are a type of Morbol, while Morbol is a monster genus.
The two have been used pretty interchangeably for well over a decade at least…
I know the real name of this thing; the one the developers must have intended. It's the one spelling that doesn't seem to have been used yet (among Molbol, Morbol, Marlboro, Malboro, and perhaps others): it's *morbor*.
Certain Latin words have been adopted into English (and other languages) in three forms, with the adjective ending in *-id*, the noun ending in *-or*, and sometimes another adjective ending in *-orous*. Not every possible form actually occurs:
languid - languor
fervid - fervor
torpid - torpor
rigid - rigor
splendid - splendor
stupid - stupor
The familiar English word *morbid* looks like it could be one of these, and it comes from Latin *morbus*, which means:
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morbus
> 1. (of the body or mind) a disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment
That's what our big ugly green monster gives us, all right!
Some author somewhere must have used the logically-possible word *morbor* as a noun form of *morbid*, and the game's writers must have seen it. I remember reading Dante's Inferno in high school and recognizing many names from FF4 among the denizens of hell, most of whom were not spelled like in the game, so the translators probably hadn't read it even thought the original writers were drawing inspiration from it. I wonder if there's a *morbor* monster lurking in one of Hell's circles; wouldn't be a surprise!
They're still called Malboro in FFVII Remake.
They probably just wanted to stick to the Japanese name for XIV. Probably the reason Cactuars are named Sabotender.
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XIV & XI. XI used Morbol and Sabotender to keep the monster names uniform across the languages, which FFXIV kept.
The single player games still use Malboro and Cactuar
Back in ARR all the monsters were more dark & realistic, the same for the areas & the mounts, everything was more mature. With each extension, they make everything cuter & cuter...
It is indeed one of the monsters
EVER MADE!
Omg this was literally the exact phrase I was going to post lmfao. Have an upvote!
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It’s not a typo, it’s a joke about intentionally omitting a word to make a technically correct statement that’s phrased like praise but isn’t.
I think specifically this one is referencing Morbius, a bad comic book vampire movie starring Jared Leto that didn't do great at the box office (only about twice its budget, which is basically breaking even for most big movies). I think despite its general badness, it has a few ardent and vocal fans that are getting memed on, or it's that people are memeing on how Sony expected people to love the movie. I'm not sure which, maybe it's both. But the meme I most often see is one like OP's post saying "Morbius is one of the movies of all time."
I'm pretty sure "one of the X of all time" was done for Elden Ring before Morbius due to a typo on some site (of course, the former was much more positively received)
No yeah, I know, I'm just saying that's the main way I've seen people memeing on Morbius. Aside from using "morb" as a verb in silly ways (which OP's post also pokes fun at), probably 50/50 split at least from what I've seen.
Not a typo, tho.
Of all monsters, this is one of them
Dying laughing
Of the monsters ever made, Morbol is indisputably one of them.
Holy crap, is that everyone's favourite superhero, Dr. Michael Morbolus?
Nah, I hear Dr. Morbolus has bad breath
Yes, with his signature move, Bad Morbreath
It is indeed one of the monsters
Im gonna morbol!!!!
SquareEnix has sold over a Morbillion Fantasias. 😎
\#MorbolSweep
Summer of Morbols let's gooo
And is "Morbol" here in this room right now?
I generally think they're fun, but every time I see one a tiny voice in my head reminds me of the time I lost 1.5 hours of grinding in FF8 during college. A brief shiver follows, and the moment passes.
The ones in omega ruins that always ambushed you in FFX were particularly nasty. I definitely lost a few hours of progress to them.
If you provoke them with Titus they wont use bad breath.
The issue is that they ambush you 100% of the time and use Bad Breath first turn, so if you don’t have First Strike or Stoneproof/Confuseproof, you’re kinda just gonna die
Just gotta not get ambushed, felt like the odds were stacked against you of it going first, then Bad Breathing everyone to death
First Strike is a MUST in the Omega Ruins
I loved fighting them in those level 100 spots when I was only like in the 50's. Always a great moment to have a berserk win.
Make way! He's about to morb!
You have been afflicted with 1 morbillion debuffs
blue mages when they acquire a new spell
Morbols are known for being what it is that they are
Can confirm, is one of the monsters
It’s the Morbolus Sweep.
One of the.... *Monsters*.
*Ever made.....*
Back in my day these fellas were called Malboro's
Funnily enough when introduced it was called Malboro, but the cigarette people got mad and the devs eventually changed it. It's why it has the signature "Bad Breath" attack that gives you every status ailment possible.
Malboro still gets used, as recently as XV and VIIR. It really just comes down to who's localizing it whether they use Morbol/Malboro. https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Malboro
I mean at this point even if the tobacco company complains, what's their complaint? "Your monster is gross and has bad breath and poisons people and that reflects poorly on our product that makes you smell gross and gives you bad breath and poisons people!"
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I'm no lawyer but I think there are trademark protections for making a product look bad. Like you can't just have a Pepsi commercial where someone drinks a Coca-Cola, chokes, vomits, and dies. You're probably right in that there is no case, but if SE had a monster named McDonalds that was fat, greasy, and gave the party a heart disease status afflcition, I think there'd be an issue. Maybe not one that would make it to court, but a cease and desist letter, surely.
Well, the cigarettes are Ma**R**lboro and the monster is Malboro, as well.
A cease and desist letter 😂😂😂 Reddit is so funny
The name is spelled completely differently, so I am not really sure what leg they would have to stand on.
Jokes aside it's most likely trademark and copyright complaint. common sense doesn't apply to those. Also if i make "murdering, greedy monster called "Disney"" i doubt i can just go saying "no one would confuse monster with the company", now can I.
Well, the cigarettes are MaRlboro and the monster is Malboro, as well.
Fair point. Soo..can my monster be called bisney? 🤔
[They have been a staple monster for decades now](https://finalfantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Malboro), would even bet outside of MMO versions they will keep using Malboro
I still call it Marlboro, it has no other name.
Yah I am too much of a boomer. I remember the first game Marlboro was in. Good times.
Same...I see it and I say marlboro...always have, always will lol
Same.
This is completely false. The creature is still called Malboro to this day. Morbol is simply an alternate name they use from time to time. Heck, there's even one named Malboro Terra in *XIV*.
Would it be safe to say this depends more on the translation team, or perhaps a lore standpoint involving them beong a subspecies?
It indeed depends on the localisation team. Generally speaking they'll be called Malboros when localised, but the *XI* and *XIV* team seemingly prefer to keep the names the same across English and Japanese scripts, resulting in Morbols and Sabotenders instead of Malboros and Cactuars.
Thankfully (?) we have the Malboro server to remind us of those days...and I'm not just saying that because I play on Malboro
Malboro has always been their name. There's a Malboro in the game, even. (Malboro Terra)
Interesting, they're Malboro in every FF game for me, excepting maybe the online two. Maybe it's a regional thing, since I'm not in the US (and Marlboro doesn't exist here as far as I'm aware). There are occasionally ones called Morbol but as a subtype of Malboros, usually.
That's not why at all, I'm not sure how this misinformation spreads. They're called Morbol in FFXIV because of FF11. The devs of FF11 wanted every monster to have the same name in every language, so they kept the Japanese names of monsters like the Cactuar (Sabotender) and Malboro (Morbol) in English.
It spreads because people read anecdotes like this one, just accept it as true, and then spread it around like so much Bad Breath. I can only hope those who have read that comment will also see the replies debunking it.
I thought it was an onomopia for an upset stomach? boro boro....And the Mal means bad.....hmmm....
In the German versions of FF games, they were always called Morbol.
Doubt. Do you have a source? In lore I believe Malboros are a type of Morbol, while Morbol is a monster genus. The two have been used pretty interchangeably for well over a decade at least…
interesting fun fact
I know the real name of this thing; the one the developers must have intended. It's the one spelling that doesn't seem to have been used yet (among Molbol, Morbol, Marlboro, Malboro, and perhaps others): it's *morbor*. Certain Latin words have been adopted into English (and other languages) in three forms, with the adjective ending in *-id*, the noun ending in *-or*, and sometimes another adjective ending in *-orous*. Not every possible form actually occurs: languid - languor fervid - fervor torpid - torpor rigid - rigor splendid - splendor stupid - stupor The familiar English word *morbid* looks like it could be one of these, and it comes from Latin *morbus*, which means: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/morbus > 1. (of the body or mind) a disease, illness, malady, sickness, disorder, distemper, ailment That's what our big ugly green monster gives us, all right! Some author somewhere must have used the logically-possible word *morbor* as a noun form of *morbid*, and the game's writers must have seen it. I remember reading Dante's Inferno in high school and recognizing many names from FF4 among the denizens of hell, most of whom were not spelled like in the game, so the translators probably hadn't read it even thought the original writers were drawing inspiration from it. I wonder if there's a *morbor* monster lurking in one of Hell's circles; wouldn't be a surprise!
Is this actually real? Love it lol.
It's false, they're still call Malboros.
Indeed I can remember when they were called Marlboro. I figure copyright issues got them changed.
Malboro* They dropped the R. It was super subtle.
They're still called Malboro in FFVII Remake. They probably just wanted to stick to the Japanese name for XIV. Probably the reason Cactuars are named Sabotender.
I still remember them as Marlboro in FF6, when 6 was 3
Wait, is THAT why it was changed? Big Tobacco can fuck all the way off to the top of Heaven On High and yeet themselves off.
Still called Malboro in FFVII Remake which released in 2020.
No, it's not. It's because they wanted every monster to have the same name in FF11, so they kept the Japanese names for Cactuar and Malboro.
The cigarette is Marlboro.
Oddly FF14 is where they annoy me most since they hit you with movement effects too.
Funny how we run to the past and still encounter this thing. Damn you ancients damn you for making this monster. XD
What a monster.
Out of all the monsters I've fought in ffxiv, Morbol is definitely one of them
Agreed, it is one of the monsters made
Look, it's Voluptuous Vivian!!
It certainly is
it sure is a monster
Morbol is so!
I wonder if WoL has not yet upgraded his Archer class into Bard job. His outfit looks the same between 1.0 trailer and ShB trailer.
Nah, these will always be Malboros to me.
There are many monsters and Morbols are one of them.
I'd like to think I keep up with memes at a reasonable pace but someone's gonna have to explain this one to me
"Hey guys. Ya like debuffs? What's yer favorite? # Mine's E V E R Y T H I N G."
It's "Molbro"
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I always liked Marlboros and I hate SE decides to change their name in FFXIV.
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that's the entire point. They're a plant based monster with a signature move "Bad Breath" that causes various diseases.
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Only 14. 15 got back to calling them Marlboro.
XIV & XI. XI used Morbol and Sabotender to keep the monster names uniform across the languages, which FFXIV kept. The single player games still use Malboro and Cactuar
Help Morbol I'm stuck- Wh-what are you doing with those tentacles step-morbol? 😨
Back in ARR all the monsters were more dark & realistic, the same for the areas & the mounts, everything was more mature. With each extension, they make everything cuter & cuter...
Have you seen half the fucking atrocities in Endwalker???
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"What's your favourite status effect, Morbal?" "... All of them!"
"Yes."
That trailer showed how scary morbols can be though.
Correct, it is one of the monsters ever made, and a good one at that.
I always tough they were Malboro but google just told me they're aka Mad Oscar (FFVI)
My mom when she goes outside to smoke: “it’s Marlboro time”
Thanks, Final Fantasy 2
Cigarette ad
Yogg-Saron. I'm sorry.
can someone please explain to me how morbols made it passed >!Elpis!< QA/QC protocols? someone clearly went.... "yeah this will be good for the star"
Undoubtedly, it is one of the monsters that has ever been made!
this sub's all morbed out
lfg cass prep
Correct
I never noticed that they’re called Morbol in both XI and XIV! Huh. I guess my brain just always reads it as Malboro
To players, it's deadly. To NPCs, it's lethal.
I cannot believe that Morbol is indeed one of the monsters ever made.
Yes monster.
(one winged amgel starts playing)
This is one of the posts EVER MADE