Clovis had been confident that Oba would become lost and the swamp would swallow him, if the monsters supposedly guarding Althea's back didn't snare him first.

The end of Hercules (1958) has a monster guarding the golden fleece that emits Godzilla's roar.

As they came to the front of the palace, they saw, dimly, the form of the two-headed monster guarding the magic muffin tree.

Adol proceeds to the quarry and defeats the monster guarding the third statue.

But it won't be safe; I understand that the Wizard has monsters and things guarding his premises.

The three-headed monster guarding the Hell's Gate.

The series's first book served primarily as an introduction, though its intrigue involved a three-headed monster guarding the Sorcerer's Stone of the title.