I always thought this was one of the most clever ideas for a monster in this series based on mechanics alone. It's a monster that sharpens its OWN weapon to use on YOU!

My favorite detail about Glavenus is how its skull is used by Rustrazor Ceanataur to sharpen it's own claws for combat. It's a nice little way to show how adaptable some of the monsters are, and how one monsters adaptations can affect others.

I actually really like Glavenus's theme.
I also like how they designed a monster that bites its own tail so hard it sparks from the friction. Really give Glavenus a primal aggressive vibe.

The reason Glavenus' tail feels like it takes so long to break is because while you can damage it whenever, you can only break it when it's actually red hot which really doesn't help with how high up it is 😂

"They're likely momma's boys."
There's something wholesome about a massive monster being a mush for their mom

I love the aesthetic of our blade-tailed carnotaurus. Haven't fought him yet, but I love his design.

My guess about why the tail looks blue is the oxidizing of a layer of steel on top; the cracked gaps look black because it's probably more like cast iron, but the layer on top is constantly ground down and heated by the teeth and throat, so leftover eaten minerals might be mixed into the tail to turn it to steel.

Several things:

1.)When you were talking about the toxic compounds that Glavenus deal with in their volcanic environments, it made me wonder if it recycles then into its tail to give it its incendiary properties, similar to a match head.

2.)I wonder how Glavenus deals with other volcanic ore-eaters like Gravios, Uragaan, and especially Teostra? Teostra is especially important since it hordes ore deposits for the same reason as a male Glavenus does.

3.)Lastly, when you mentioned that Glavenus may have to learn to use their tails instead of instinctually knowing how to use it, it made me think of a Glavenus chick spinning its tail in the air like a baby elephant will sometimes do with its trunk since elephants must also gradually learn how to use their signature appendage.

I suspect that the reason Glavenus isn't as hated as Deviljho might have something to do with its method of conflict resolution. Both Glavenus and the Hunter recognize that a broken blade means defeat, and given the monster's stated high intelligence, it's possible that human-Glavenus clashes have an abnormally high rate of non-lethal resolution.

Giving glavenus an abelisaurid type head is honestly a really nice design addition when you consider their jaws were designed for gripping rather than slicing

I can imagine rich people in the monster Hunter world raising glavenus and feeding them really expensive ore as some sort of status symbol because you could tell the quality of its diet based on the color of the tail.

Saddest truths in Monster Hunter:
Deviljho dont eat their own tails.
Lagiacrus has not been in a mainline game since 3U.
AND WORST OF ALL... Glavenus dosent have a turf war with Rathian ;-;

I really appreciate how smart Glavenus is shown to be. Instead of another big, dumb brute, it really seems like each individual puts a lot of thought into each decision.

I like how the concept art makes the tail of Glavenus look like an actuial glaive as opposed to a sword, though I worry if they turned it into an actual monster, they would try to give it parallels to the Insect Glaive like normal Glavenus has to the Great Sword.
Everyone gangster till the Brute Wyvern screams 'Je suis monté!'.

It's interesting that juvenile glavenus learn tail skills from their mothers.  This means that the females have pretty significant tail mineralization too.  I'd imagine their heat stacks are much smaller, since they don't help with display as much, and perhaps for gameplay purposes their tails might be more spear-like in shape and usage if they ever appeared in a future game

This channel inspired me to play MH again after losing my 3U and 4U saves. Thanks for the awesome videos.

I think one thing you left out is you barely mentioned it's intellect, whereas in generations, it's specifically noted that the Glavenus stalks and sets an Ambush for the Hunter. I don't think the Glavenus sees Hunter's as "Just Gnats" and instead looks to them as a challenge.

I like to imagine that Glavenus hatchlings ride on the mother's backs in that big gap between the spikes while they’re small.

I just realized, the on Glav's tail might be inspired by tempering. The jurassic frontier shows marks of where a glavenus rubbed its tail on the wall, and the marks are blue, although the fact that glavenus's tail heats up when rubbed in the Gen cinematic means it could just be that glavenus is also tempering the ore as it rubs it onto his tail.

the tail also heats up really easily and a lot so it's definitely not identical to any real iron ores so the blue could also/instead be from these impurities.

Please consider perhaps a one off pikmin game ecology for a future video. Its a series that goes to some lengths to explain its weird cartoony creatures.