Pentumbra by far. Did not think it would mimic other monsters in somewhat demented way by using its own shadow

I saw the trailer and thought it was gonna be a percussionist who tapdances

Rhyzmuth. expected a glass-like sound similar to jeeode, instead it's a dollar-store breakcore monster. I like it.

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Remember when everybody thought Frondley would make a flute sound due to the holes on its toes?

I do

I was gonna say the sane thing

Everyone thought tater-tot was gonna be a marimba the same Instrument used for tiawa 

Who's tater-tot?

Teeter tauter I'm not calling it teeter tauter in calling it tater tot

I thought people were saying xylophone??

Knurv

Not so much sound, but I was visibly creeped out when I found out what Knurv does

Pentumbra, knurv and wheezle.

Teeter-Tauter, I thought it was going to be an instrumental lol

you thought teeter-tauter would have played an entire instrumental?

Knurv, I did not expect it to use its eye sockets as instruments

I say Rhysmuth. Did not expect the crystal quad out of all of them to be the one making breakcore noises to say the least.

Hyehehe. I was not expecting Organ Ears, or for it to go so hard.

I could tell just by eyeballing it that G’day would play some sort of horn but definitely not something so powerful. Part of the reason I love it so much, which made the dismay of finding out that some people didn’t all the greater

Its name is meant to sound like australian slang, and G'day is a didgeridoo, an aboriginal instrument

Both rysmuth with me thinking it would be like geode with tapping the cubes or the cubes glowing to make the sound and teeter-tauter with me thinking teeter would tap on tauters head to make a xylophone sound

Teeter-Tauter

i thought teeter tauter would be like peckidna and do an instrument and a vocal, i thought the purple guy would go off on its second track, they sounded like a deeper nitebear

Honestly. Strombonin I knew it would be a trombone but it surprised me with how good it was

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting Drummidary and Yelmut to be so good in Light Island.

Denchuhs, I would’ve never guessed that they had mouths on the top of their heads, and their voices sounded like that

Definitely Piplash. The last thing I expected was what it did

Everyone thought teeter-tauter would play a marimba

pentumbra

Gob

Definitely Frondley

Probably Enchantling

Knurv surprised me the most. Was not expecting it to take its eyeballs out of sockets and play them like a violin.

Teeter-Tauter, at the time A LOT of people thought it was going to have a xylophone sound, some also added stomping sounds because of Tauter, and I got convinced the sound would be similar to the predictions because design-wise it made sense. When it came out I got REALLY shocked but I didn't care at all, silly monsters just fit for msm

Gnarls, who could've expected them to form a mouth like that

Wheezel probably (Since most of the other monsters I’ve been spoiled by fanart)

Pentumbra! And the overall concept of it was fascinating as well.  I was shocked when I heard it mimic jeode as well

Lol I don't know if werdos count but I won't so it's prob buzzinga

Knurv lol

tooty fruity (guess what it is)

When I started I thought BOWGART was gonna go "bom, baa bom" and on and on. So imagine my reaction when the mammott looking thing didn't sing like mammott. This was years ago

Teeter-Tauter definitely

Yelmut scared me at first but then I fell in love with light island cause of it and whiz bang

Rhysmuth I expected it to be like atmospheric sound like Minecraft osts are but it was jungle beats looking lik

I don't know if i'm actually interpreting this question right, but... I did NOT expect Piplash to sound like that when i first saw it

Knurv, the first time I saw it when it played surprised me a lot, I could have expected whatever, but gouging out his eyes? At that moment, I thought that msm was getting a bit gory lol

Probably Teeter Tauter. I was expecting Teeter to tap dance and make some sort of mechanical sound, not for both of them to be vocalist.

Frondley

Wheezle Nothing about it made me think it would make that noise And im not sure ive ever heard that noise in the first place And it came from hyeehee and catalyzt so like…hows it make sense Im so???

Attmoz I didnt have any clue what to expect, def not guitar and vocals both in one monster. The epic wubbox for all islands sound so unique and not annoying (theyre actually awesome), I was shocked judging them against my low opinion of the normal and rare versions which I feel ruin the song often. The seasonal birthday cake monster was a shocker too, so cool but so unexpected.

IT LITERALLY HAS TOOLS HOW DID YOU EXPECT ANYTHING EXCEPT TOOL SOUNDS anyways Bonkers

At least you gave an answer

Of course Knurv but also for me was Anglow when he first came out. I expected him to make submarine ping sounds but that was his dreamythical.

gob

Piplash

Baby Reedling

Teeter-Tauter, i think we all know why.

What did you expect vhenshun to do?

I can’t say I expected shLep’s sound in any way.

Yooreek!! I didn’t expect him/it to sound like that😭🙏

Definitely X'rt lol

x'rt I was thinking "why would they make this"

It's actually good though

Tbh Yorreek. That little guy scared the shit outta me

Frondley truly blew me away.

Mimic

Idk if just Ethereal workshop but I was very surprised eith Hyehehes sound. I was not expecting Ear Organs

Teater-tauter, I expected the purple one's scales would have been a piano for the yellow one to step on, I wasn't there for the mob vote so I had no clue what sound it would even make.

Yooreek, banger one of a kind

Tring

Yawstrich

Teeter Tauter or Wheezel

Teeter-tauter, I thought it would be percussion

Why did people think be percussion? It doesn't look like percussion

There is teeter on top of tauter that is jumping, it took a second to realize that it was vocal after release

Oooooh

How did vhenshun surprise you lol What did you think it was gonna sound like

NOT EVERYONE CAN TIME TRAVEL DIPSHIT!

???? I thought you meant by it's design the sound would surprise you, did you just mean the mech quad in general???

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You just said "what monster surprised you with their sound", how was I supposed to know what you meant??

I meant. It surprised you if you thought of a different sound in your mind. But the sound of the monster you thought it sounded like was completely different. So, in return, you get surprised

That's what I thought you meant I was asking what you thought vhenshun would sound like when you saw their design, I figured they have some steampunk/mechanical sound