UPDATE AND DISCLAMER (JANUARY 15, 2026): Looking back at this I was probably a bit too harsh on Mysterious Werdo, as I did listen to it's song and it was actually very good and I can tell CG5 did a very awesome job at voicing him and had fun doing so. However, note that this is NOT to offend anyone or anyone who like's Mysterious Werdo, nor am I attacking CG5. However, as some other people stated in the community off-site, I do have constructive criticism about Mysterious Werdo.
It's very obvious that you can tell that I am a big Werdo fan. From making fan-art of the Werdos to making fan-made Werdo designs, I'm a pretty hardcore fan of the Werdos, and I have been wishing for the Werdos to have a return for months now, as they have only been used in promo art and gotten new costumes, and Tawkerr was the star of the Monster Summer Camp thing last year, but BBB rarely used them for big things.....Until today....
Yes, today, BBB finally decided to bring a new Werdo in almost 7 years, but instead, this Werdo is based on CG5 rather than a Monster-Handler, and this Werdo was apparently revealed by CG5 himself yesterday, but I didn't find out until the last few hours when MSM uploaded a trailer due to me being at school. Said Werdo is on Fire Haven, which people have been making predictions about for years. They also plan to put another Werdo on Fire Haven in the future, and it's possible that Werdos might be going to Fire Oasis as well (and maybe the other island's when we're act it).
At first, I was absolutely shocked when I saw this, as the Werdos have been ignored by the Monster-Handlers for a long time now, so I was surprised to see them finally being brought back. However, as I looked into the community's thoughts off-site, I became more divided on them. Am I glad that the Werdos are back after a long time? Yes! But the way they did Mysterious Werdo was pretty mid. It's not horrible, but there's some things I want to say here.
First off, rather than being a Monster-Handler that has never received a Werdo counterpart, this is instead based off CG5, which is odd as Werdos are usually supposed to be for people that work in BBB. Also, this feels very sudden, considering that we already had a collaboration with bbno last month and BBB has been promoting him like crazy via YT Shorts for a while now with no breaks.
Secondly, Mysterious Werdo's design is very odd, and not even. It's one of the worst Werdo designs imo. It's design just flat-out looks like it's promoting CG5 rather than being a genuine effort. When drawing this, I noticed that the symbols spell CG5's name and the random add-on of the hair resembling CG5's really shows that. Additionally, the adding of the hair is very off-putting, especially when compared to past Werdos, and makes Mysterious Werdo looks less like a Werdo and the bunch of highlights on the hair makes it look so odd. Also, Mysterious Werdo and Tawkerr has the same/similar body build but different arms and features when you compare the official artwork since I drew them differently here. Overall, this design feels so random, unless CG5 made it himself, but it's still off. And apparently, this year is the Year of the Legendary, but I really don't like how their just seeming to use the Werdos as a marketing gimmick now, even more so since they are my favorite Monster Class, and I don't want to see all future Werdos just be based on some random collab. So overall, it makes me very hard to like this new Werdo with how drastic and promotional their design is.
With the mention of marketing, I swear they better not make over 20+ shorts with Mysterious Werdo just like they did with bbli$zard with constantly making shorts based on him for weeks to the point where it's just nonstop Mysterious Werdo videos, and it got very annoying and excessive when they did it bbli$zard. They better not do that again because I am very tired with them shoving bbli$zard in my face. It should had lasted only a few days and that's that. But no, it lasted over 10 days and over 3 weeks.
Third and lastly, I don't get why the CG5 Werdo does not have a name compared to the older ones. This is because they want community engagement, but they already done that so many times, so why did they not let CG5 choose a name for his Werdo? It just feels so lazy, especially with the name "Mysterious Werdo". This makes me wonder if this Werdo was rushed or something because certainty they would had figured a name for it beforehand like with past Werdos. Also I generally feel like they just chose a Werdo so that the newer players can experience a new Werdo for the first time since MSM got popular in 2022, but this was a pretty divided way to do so. Additionally, them partnering with an outside source once again has made me worried that any future Werdos are just going to be collaborations with random people rather than being based on Monster-Handlers, which also annoys me as there are current Monster-Handlers that do a good job at singing and deserve Werdos, and yet they are thrown aside by these constant collaborations that just seem to be made to increase playership and revenue on the main game.
Now about the drawing, Mysterious Werdo is more harder to draw, even more so than the original 4. Idk if it's just me, but the horns and hair were a challenge to draw. But then again this is a new Werdo at all, but this is probably going to be the only time I'm drawing Mysterious Werdo. And yes, as I stated before Tawkerr and Mysterious Werdo share the same body build and they did use Tawkerr somewhat for the new Werdo, so I have Tawkerr here looking at his new Werdo in confusion. But still, I'm going to get Mysterious Werdo on Fire Haven anyway, just because I am a Werdo fan and I want to focus on collecting more Monsters when I can, but Mysterious Werdo won't be becoming my favorite Werdo.
