User blog comment:Mckrongs/Monster Hunter 4 for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-21371438-20130920092409/@comment-4212769-20130920154943

@T.rex2999: Well, these are the exceptions I was talking about.

Let's keep Frontier out of this discussion as the Frontier team doesn't always take realism very seriously, and the best example is Unknown Rathian. She shouldn't even be able to see... she doesn't have pupils.

The summoning thunder may be possible to explain. It could be the Kirin that has a great charge and provocates strikes with that. But that's just a very vague and probably not plausible thing especially if you think about the lightning strike hitting it and it doesn't care...

Alatreon is just a bad concept of a monster (isn't looking bad but that's all...) just making a mix from older Elder Dragons and giving the result some "cool" abilities.

For Dire Miralis there were many explanation attempts in the Theory Blog, if you're searching you'll find something.

Some of the rest are just the stupid exceptions. Most shocking example: Jhen Mohran swimming without any effort... and doing that even sidewards!

But I wouldn't call it magic though. Just some unrealistic ideas... well, that can't be avoided. There're always realism sacrificed for coolness in games. MH isn't an exception but on the best way.

@HellWolf and Dax: I didn't say Goa isn't an Elder Dragon but it's possible that Capcom is playing a bad joke on this one.

One example for a second scenario: They get a new class and put Goa AND Shagaru Magara in this class.

And even if it's the most obvious and senseful thing in the world... you'll never know with Capcom...