Big one
Monster
Monster noun - A strange or horrible and often frightening creature.
Nearby Words: monstrous, monstrously
Both terms in one sentence
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Some Zoom outs, and we see the "big monster" is just a bug (albeit a big one, it seems).
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Monster Mash Monstrous Humanoid: The "hounds of Xitalu", minor EldritchAbominations that herald the arrival of the big one, possess human bodies, and transform them into these.
Source: Comic Book / iZombie -
Several riffs on Mystery Science Theater 3000 used this: The film du jour would have a Spinning Paper, and someone would react to one of the small filler headlines instead of the big one about the monster/criminal/etc.
Source: Proportional Article Importance
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