History EldritchAbomination / AnimeAndManga

* Manga/HandimanSaitouInAnotherWorld

** [[spoiler: In the SequelSeries, ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', it's revealed that there exists multiple Ten-Tails, and one of them is in possession of Kara. This Ten-Tails is smaller and implied to be much weaker, but will still become a God Tree should it devour either Boruto or Kawaki.]]

** Millenniumon's line is yet another. In particular, his final form, [=ZeedMillenniumon=] is explicitly stated to be an abomination with no desire other than to roam around and destroy ''entire universes''. And whenever it appears anywhere, its intelligence and actual scope of harm may vary, but it's always taken seriously because it doesn't play around when it shows up. Special mentions to its ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' counterpart who killed a woman and proceeds to roleplay [[Film/TheThing the Thing]] inside her corpse, and he's explicitly known to be a catastrophic walking disaster with the sole motive of eradicating everything in the world.

** Quartzmon from ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'' looks less like a Digimon but an Angel from ''Anime/NeoGenesisEvangelion''. He's also one of the very few villains who manage to ''take over the world'' and traps every single human being and Digimon he absorbed alive and in an AndIMustScream state, and at one point he gleefully manifests said humans and Digimon from his many limbs to invoke a HostageSituation against Tagiru (again something that doesn't happen a lot with Digimon villains). To make things worse, there's no clear reason why he's even trying to take over the world, all of which makes a suprisingly dark villain for a light-hearted season and some of the most horrifying things in the series. His ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' counterpart is a WellIntentionedExtremist leading a mass excursion of Baby Digimon, but he's still very disturbing because he drops his clones and masquerades them as food, while said clones outright starve and malnourish their hosts and mutates their mouth and limbs to resemble his a while later. ''And the heroine finds herself becoming one of the victims.''
** Millenniumon's line is yet another. In particular, his final form, [=ZeedMillenniumon=] is explicitly stated to be an abomination with no desire other than to roam around and destroy ''entire universes''. And whenever it appears anywhere, its intelligence and actual scope of harm may vary, but it's always taken seriously because it doesn't play around when it shows up.

** Quartzmon from ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'' looks less like a Digimon but an Angel from ''Anime/NeoGenesisEvangelion''. He's also one of the very few villains who manage to ''take over the world'' and traps every single human being and Digimon he absorbed alive and in an AndIMustScream state, and at one point he gleefully manifests said humans and Digimon from his many limbs to invoke a HostageSituation against Tagiru (again something that doesn't happen a lot with Digimon villains). To make things worse, there's no clear reason why he's even trying to take over the world, all of which makes a suprisingly dark villain for a light-hearted season and some of the most horrifying things in the series.

** In general Sea Kings are the abominations of the Sea and some don't [[AnimalisticAbomination even resemble fish]]; beating just one is mark of a super human. The even bigger Sea Kings deep below the ocean near Fish-Man Island are [[https://wastedfreetime.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/i625-0-13.jpg even more scary]] (even Jimbei had a OhCrap moment). Mermaid Princess Shirahoshi can control them, which makes her ''Poseidon'' one of the Ancient Weapons of legend.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'', the "demon" summoned on the Advena Avis, [[spoiler:Ronnie Schiatto]], is heavily implied to be closer to this than an actual demon. He possesses phenomenal cosmic-scale RealityWarper powers, and his true form is so hideous, any who sees it immediately has their memories of it ''blocked''. [[spoiler: It's also implied that he WasOnceAMan.]]

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** The series, [[FantasyKitchenSink being full of mythical creatures]] [[AllMythsAreTrue as it is]], meaning most {{Eldritch Abomination}}s in myths and religion exist here, and so far, they are accurate, if not more so. The [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Archangels]], for example, can destroy the entire Earth, manipulate all the stars in the universe with Astro in Hand and cause [[RealityWarper reality-warping disasters]] merely by trying to go back to heaven. Makes you think what {{God}} himself would be...
** "The Invisible Thing" [[SealedEvilInACan sealed inside]] [[spoiler:Touma's right hand, which means woe to all who cut it off]]. It is so powerful, to the point that a [[RealityWarper conceptual being]] stronger than ''{{God}}'' is terrified of it, and nobody in the world has any understanding of what it is, except for a select few of individuals and ''divine'' entities.
** The EnigmaticEmpoweringEntity contracted to Aleister Crowley, a top-secret existence codenamed DRAGON by the Academy City directors, a transcendent entity who calls itself Aiwass. Everything from the how it presents itself to how individuals perceive it emphasise how ''otherworldly'' it actually is. It nearly checks all the points of the trope:
*** When it shows up to confront Accelerator's group who are trying to investigate it, it instantly knocks them all out unconscious except for Accelerator himself, because it finds him 'interesting'. It proceeds to describe itself as an incorporeal existence which requires ''very'' careful applications of diffused [[RealityWarper AIM]] [[ForceField fields]] similar to the ones projected by Espers to manifest as [[FightingAShadow an avatar of corporeal energy]] which requires further programming on Aleister's part to be shaped into [[HumanoidAbomination a humanoid, tangible form with a prismatic core inside]]. The slightest miscalculation or interference on its programming would prevent it from interacting with the world, though it also says even if it is destroyed, [[TimeAbyss it would return after 10,000 or perhaps 100,000 years]], since it is not of this world to begin with. As it speaks, it occasionally speaks in gibberish as the human language ''[[StarfishLanguage cannot keep up]]'' with what it was trying to convey, which forces it to describe itself in a roundabout way. It also clarifies that calling it a '[[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragon]]' or an '[[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]]' are some of the more accurate terms to describe it, even though both are not quite correct to describe its nature either.
*** It then displays how [[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien its thought processes are]] by goading Accelerator to try and kill it, purely out of interest in how it would derail Aleister's plans. Unfortunately for Aiwass and Accelerator, its avatar is programmed with automatic defenses, which manifests as [[AngelicAbomination platinum white angelic wings]] which [[CurbStompBattle instantly impales Accelerator]] [[NoSell through his vector redirection]] (which is capable of calculating the vectors of Dark Matter, objects which don't follow laws of physics) further emphasising [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm its otherworldly quality]]. When Accelerator manifests his black angelic wings in turn, Aiwass simply says [[AlwaysABiggerFish those are 'outdated']] and further states [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelema things from the 'Aeon of Osiris' cannot possibly harm it, a being from the 'Aeon of Horus']] before its wings dispel Accelerator's and slash him across the chest. As a last ditch effort, Accelerator shuts down [[WeaksauceWeakness the network controlling the AIM fields which support its avatar]], something which Aiwass itself applauds, allowing Accelerator to gun down the core within Aiwass and make it disappear... [[HopeSpot for a moment]]. Aiwass appears again shortly after, complaining about the self-defense programming within its vessel before finally telling Accelerator what he needs to know and where he needs to go if he wants to protect those he cares about. It's later implied by Aleister that he installs so many defense programs and anti-suicide mechanisms into Aiwass' avatar because it apparently gets bored easily, and might actually kill itself out of boredom if left unchecked.
*** In its next appearances Aiwass also displays [[TheOmniscient shades of omniscience]], as it knows about events happening thousands of miles away outside the AIM fields it dwells. [[spoiler:In ''New Testament'', Aiwass also displays the ability to exploit the theories people make surrounding its existence to manifest. As people theorise Aiwass is a type of 'extra-terrestrial life form' it allows him to partially manifest its avatar in outer space even without the AIM fields around to support it. It is also explained that Aiwass is essentially a life form from the deepest expanse of the world, beneath all the Phases which compose reality, close to the expanse untouched by magic which is why it's called 'the Pure World'. It has been summoned through Thelema designations as 'Holy Guardian Angel' and will play a vital role in Aleister's plan to destroy all Phases in existence to erase magic as humanity knows it.]]
** Then, there are the Magic Gods, the highest position a user of magic could possibly attain, by turning oneself into a being capable of encompassing all 'possibilities' within the world. Othinus, the weakest known magic god, can instantly destroy the universe with a thought (or to be specific, she creates and destroys 'Phases' - the myriad of layers which make up reality, each can be considered universes on sheer scale) and instantly conjure a magic bow larger than Earth. True Gremlin, composed of the other magic gods, need to divise their powers trillion of times before they can go outside their Pocket dimension because their powers can wreck entire Phases simply by moving their arms.
** The later parts of New Testament introduces more entities from the Aeon of Horus, which can all be considered {{Eldritch Abomination}}s from the perspectives of ordinary people (Aeon of Osiris). Any one of these entities can take on Magic Gods one-on-one and expect to win: through summoning them from their planes of existence is extraordinarily difficult and exceptionally risky. One such entity was summoned by [[spoiler:Aleister's former colleague Samuel Mathers through the Thelema designation 'Great Demon Coronzon', whom he had bound to a contract to torment and destroy Aleister's life. Despite being a Thelemic demonic entity, it doesn't reside in the Qliphoth as with all other demons but instead in the Sephiroth, [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abyss_(Thelema) in the Abyss of Da'ath]], and its function is to govern over those who go up and down the cosmic tree (material and spiritual planes). Its nature is 'dispersion' which means its ultimate goal is to bring upon the natural dispersion and destruction of the elements which made up the surface world. To carry its purpose, Coronzon requires an avatar just like Aiwass: though the demon has prepared several humans across the world to possess as secondary avatars in addition to its primary one, Lola Stuart.]]

* Several Evil Gods from ''LightNovel/TheDeathMageWhoDoesntWantAFourthTime'' are downright alien to look at, like a giant hand whose fingers were replaced by one-eyed snakes, a bundle of tentacles arranged to look like a woman, a genderless arachnid made of AlienGeometries and so on. Many of them went through a HeelFaceTurn several thousand years ago and now are allies of the protagonist.

* ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'':
** The Celestials are giant glowing blue manifestations of Haruhi's frustrations with the world. They appear only in her "closed space", and serve no other purpose than to destroy everything in the surrounding area. If left unchecked, the closed space expands, and could [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroy the universe]].
** Heck, even Haruhi [[spoiler:and Sasaki]] herself could be an example. An omnipotent god in the form of a childish young girl that doesn't realize she is omnipotent? Eldritch enough. Overlaps with HumanoidAbomination.
** The Data Integration Thought Entity, Yuki's boss, is a non-physical data lifeform that exists outside of normal space-time. It lacks the ability to communicate with language, so it created Humanoid Interfaces to interact with humanity on its behalf. Its goals and motivations are unclear, despite Yuki's attempts to explain, only that it is interested in Haruhi Suzumiya. Yuki also mentions that any human who sees it would [[BrownNote die of information overload]].
** Then you've got the Cloud Canopy Domain, a data lifeform similar to Yuki's boss, but completely alien and unknowable even to them. Their first attempt at a conversation involved trapping the Brigade in a pocket dimension, and they eventually create a truly alien Humanoid Interface, Kuyo Suou, who makes [[TheStoic Yuki]] look like a perfectly normal girl. At least the Data Overmind's interfaces can pass for human most of the time; Suou is [[HumanoidAbomination so profoundly inhuman]] that normal people simply ''[[WeirdnessCensor will not]]'' acknowledge her existence unless forced to.

* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', a RomanticComedy parody of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos with [[MoeAnthropomorphism moe]] versions of the Old Ones. The opening theme for the second season even has "Cosmic Horror" (in GratuitousEnglish) in the lyrics. Of course, the main characters usually only [[HumanoidAbomination take human forms]]; this is [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] when the human lead Mahiro says he [[ExpectingSomeoneTaller expected Nyarlathotep to look more horrific and less like a cute girl]]. She offers to show him her more monstrous forms, but warns that it'll probably destroy his sanity, so he declines.

%%* ''Literature/RestaurantToAnotherWorld'': In the backstory of the other world, the six elemental dragons battled against an eldritch horror in the distant past.

* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'' features the Mazoku, a race of AlwaysChaoticEvil [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]] serving the DarkLord Shabranigdu, The Lord of Nightmares, who even the mazoku find incomprehensible and alien. Just to top things off, a semi-regular member of the group is Mazoku himself.

* ''Literature/WorldEndWhatDoYouDoAtTheEndOfTheWorldAreYouBusyWillYouSaveUs'': The 17 Beasts wiped out all life on the surface within a year of their first appearance, driving the survivors to floating islands just barely out of reach. Each subtype of Beast differs drastically in form from the others, but they’re all united in their burning hatred for all other life forms. While they’re all Eldritch Abominations, Shiantor the Lamenting First Beast is by far the most alien. Its powerful RealityWarper abilities and weird AlienGeometries, make it disturbingly similar to a [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Witch]]. No one has ever survived an encounter with this monster, so running is the only option if it’s in the area.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': The Shinigami King; in ''Death Note 13: How to Read'', all his statistics are given as inapplicable, unknown, or immeasurable, and his portrait is replaced by a text saying "Incomprehensible." However, a brief flashback in the manga does show him looking [[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080430212320/deathnote/images/b/bd/King_of_Death.jpg quite eldritch]]. In the artist interview in ''How to Read'', Takeshi Obata says he was too scared to think of designing his appearance.

* Several Evil Gods from ''LightNovel/TheDeathMageWhoDoesntWantAFourthTime'' are downright alien to look at, like a giant hand whose fingers were replaced by one-eyed snakes, a bundle of tentacles arranged to look like a woman, a genderless arachnid made of AlienGeometries and so on. Many of them went through a HeelFaceTurn several thousand years ago and now are allies of the protagonist.

* ''Manga/DeathNote'': The Shinigami King; in ''Death Note 13: How to Read'', all his statistics are given as inapplicable, unknown, or immeasurable, and his portrait is replaced by a text saying "Incomprehensible." However, a brief flashback in the manga reveals he looks like ''[[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080430212320/deathnote/images/b/bd/King_of_Death.jpg this]]''. In the artist interview in ''How to Read'', Takeshi Obata says he was too scared to think of designing his appearance.

* The Shinigami King from ''Manga/DeathNote'' was never seen in the anime. But a brief flashback in the manga reveals he looks like ''[[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080430212320/deathnote/images/b/bd/King_of_Death.jpg this]]''. In ''Death Note 13: How to Read'', all his statistics are given as inapplicable, unknown, or immeasurable, and his portrait is replaced by a text saying "Incomprehensible." In the artist interview, Takeshi Obata says he was too scared to think of designing his appearance.

* The Shinigami King from ''Manga/DeathNote'' was never seen in the anime. But a brief flashback in the manga reveals he looks like ''[[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080430212320/deathnote/images/b/bd/King_of_Death.jpg this]]''. In ''Death Note 13: How to Read'', all his statistics are given as inapplicable, unknown, or immeasurable, and his protrait is replaced by a text saying "Incomprehensible." In the artist interview, Takeshi Obata says he was too scared to think of designing his appearance.

* The Shinigami King from ''Manga/DeathNote'' was never seen in the anime. But a brief flashback in the manga reveals he looks like ''[[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080430212320/deathnote/images/b/bd/King_of_Death.jpg this]]''. In ''Death Note 13: How to Read'', all hsi statistics are given as inapplicable, unknown, or immeasurable, and his protrait is replaced by a text saying "Incomprehensible." In the artist interview, Takeshi Obata says he was too scared to think of designing his appearance.

* The Shinigami King from ''Manga/DeathNote'' was never seen in the anime. But a brief flashback in the manga reveals he looks like ''[[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080430212320/deathnote/images/b/bd/King_of_Death.jpg this]]''.

%%* The Shinigami King from ''Manga/DeathNote'' was never seen in the anime. But a brief flashback in the manga reveals he looks like ''[[http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080430212320/deathnote/images/b/bd/King_of_Death.jpg this]]''.

** [[spoiler: In the SequelSeries, ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', it's revealed that there exists multiple Ten-Tails, and one of them is in possession of Kara. This Ten-Tails is smaller and is implied to be weaker, but will still become a God Tree should it devour either Boruto or Kawaki.]]

* {{God}} in ''Manga/{{Devilman}}''. We don't see what he/she/it really looks like, but its chosen form is apparently [[LightIsNotGood a huge sphere of light]] [[BrownNote that kills any demon in its reach]] and [[MythologyGag turns any human who gets too close to it into salt]]. Plus [[spoiler: {{Satan}} suffering a breakdown just from looking at it on TV]]. Which is understandable, since the reason why the ''Devilman''-[[TheVerse verse]] in all its incarnations is [[CrapsackWorld such a Happy Fun Place]] is because [[spoiler:God has total control over the cycle of death and rebirth of the universe [[GodIsEvil and uses it for the sole purpose of torturing Satan by crushing and ruining all he cares about over and over and over]]]].

%%* The Faceless warriors in ''Manga/SaintSeiyaEpisodeGA''.

* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': The titans would better fall under HumanoidAbomination, but the nature of the power behind them--regeneration, nimbleness despite their gargantuan sizes, and the ability to manifest flesh, bone, and sinew from seemingly nothing, among other things -- are extremely alien, making it nearly impossible for our heroes to understand and combat them. However, one titan truly embodies this trope: [[spoiler:Eren Yeager's fully-realized Founding Titan dwarfs the Colossal Titan and even Rod Reiss' unusually large titan form in size, is made up almost entirely of bones, and doesn't look anywhere close to a human, instead more resembling a dinosaur or a caterpillar with how it walks with its ribs. His abilities in this form are also eldritch: he can flatten an entire continent in a few days with his control over ''thousands'' of Colossal Titans; summon an army of intelligent titans from the past; and finally has complete control over all Subjects of Ymir, being able to send them to an ethereal plane of existence, and can mind control, memory wipe, or even sterilize them.]]

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'':

** Then you've got the Cloud Canopy Domain, a data lifeform similar to Yuki's boss, but completely alien and unknowable even to them. Their first attempt at a conversation involved trapping the Brigade in a pocket dimension, and they eventually create a truly alien Humanoid Interface that makes [[TheStoic Yuki]] look like a perfectly normal GenkiGirl. At least the Data Overmind's interfaces can pass for human most of the time; [[spoiler:Kuyou Suou]] is [[HumanoidAbomination so profoundly inhuman]] that normal people simply ''[[WeirdnessCensor will not]]'' acknowledge her existence unless forced to.

%%* ''LightNovel/RestaurantToAnotherWorld'': In the backstory of the other world, the six elemental dragons battled against an eldritch horror in the distant past.

* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' features the Mazoku, a race of AlwaysChaoticEvil [[OmnicidalManiac Omnicidal Maniacs]] serving the DarkLord Shabranigdu, The Lord of Nightmares, who even the mazoku find incomprehensible and alien. Just to top things off, a semi-regular member of the group is Mazoku himself.

* ''LightNovel/WorldEndWhatDoYouDoAtTheEndOfTheWorldAreYouBusyWillYouSaveUs'': The 17 Beasts wiped out all life on the surface within a year of their first appearance, driving the survivors to floating islands just barely out of reach. Each subtype of Beast differs drastically in form from the others, but they’re all united in their burning hatred for all other life forms. While they’re all Eldritch Abominations, Shiantor the Lamenting First Beast is by far the most alien. Its powerful RealityWarper abilities and weird AlienGeometries, make it disturbingly similar to a [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Witch]]. No one has ever survived an encounter with this monster, so running is the only option if it’s in the area.

** [[spoiler: In the SequelSeries, ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', it's revealed that there exists multiple Ten-Tails, and one of them is in possession of Kara. This Ten-Tails is implied to be weaker, but will become a God Tree should it devour either Boruto or Kawaki.]]

** In the SequelSeries, ''Manga/{{Boruto}}'', it's revealed that there exists multiple Ten-Tails, and one of them is in possession of Kara, and later [[spoiler:Code]]. This Ten-Tails will become a God Tree should it devour either Boruto or Kawaki.

** ''Manga/DragonBall'': The anime-only [[https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dragonball/images/a/a1/Yami2.png/revision/latest?cb=20101020124053 Darkness]] is one of the most mysterious and disturbing beings in the early series. Residing in a deep dark maze-like cave in snowy mountain, Korin doesn't explain what the Darkess is and only says it's guarding the Ultra Divine Water so that only the worthy can drink from it. Darkness has no clear form and even has the power to send to demonic snowmen to attack Goku and Yajirobi on the Moutain's surface and even more creepily Darkness can create illusions of Goku's friends and Kami House to try convince to remain in the cave ''forever''. The simple minded Goku is fooled briefly and doesn't question why his friends are speaking in horrifying echoes voices, or why Kami House is sitting inside a dark cave. Goku escapes from the illusions and proves his worth by saving Yajirobi, this causes the Darkness to allow Goku to drink the Ultra Divine Water when offers it to him waking up Goku's latent power and gives him the strength to fight King Piccolo. The creepy part is the Darkness still lurks in below in the Dragon Ball World. On a side note, it appears the based on the Umibōzu of Japanese folklore.

** In the sequel series ''Anime/Boruto'', it's revealed that there exists multiple Ten-Tails, and one of them is in possession of Kara, and later >!Code!<. This Ten-Tails will become a God Tree should it devour either Boruto or Kawaki.

*** Kriemhild Gretchen, [[spoiler:the witch form of Kaname Madoka]] appears like [[LivingShadow a tower made of shadows]] with its top forming [[HumanoidAbomination the shadows of a girl]]. With time, it will [[AssimilationPlot absorb all of humanity into its barrier]]. Since it grows stronger [[spoiler:every time Homura resets time]], by the time of the series, it is explicitly the most powerful witch ''ever'', [[spoiler:born from the magical girl that one-shotted Walpurgisnacht]] and its size had grown to the point it reaches the far sky, and would assimilate the planet in 10 days.