CU,
To clarify One way to achieve such the gentler gotcha may be to have Monster seen acting as foolish as Listener/dunce/society.<"i> first delete "such."

I meant, show Monster making the same dumb assumptions about another monster as the world at large makes dumb assumptions about monster.

Can you say more about what's behind "monsters are on the rise," clarify what you mean by that? What are the images you have when you say that? I wondered which of: rise in population per capita or absolute numbers; on the rise as uprising; on the rise like the sun becoming visible. Among other things that line evokes the portent, "I see a bad moon on the rise."

Gotta go do a bunch of stuff, may not get back till tomorrow.