History EldritchAbomination / ComicBooks

** Doomsday is an ancient GeneticAbomination, LivingWeapon, and WalkingWasteland that can come back from the dead and adapt to everything that killed it, becoming stronger after each death. It sees any life form as a threat, so its main directive is to [[OmnicidalManiac end all life]], which it certainly seems capable of. It is most famous for managing to kill Superman in the famous storyline ''The death of Superman'', being the first and by far most famous villain to do so. At its most powerful it even managed to curb-stomp '''DARKSEID'''.

** The Sparkeater, a monster the crew encounters in issue 3. It's a floating, multi-tentacled monstrosity that kills biomechanical lifeforms by making them ''vomit out their own brain'', then rips out their spark and eats it whole (which is comparable to eating human's soul). Legends say that it's attracted to emotional torment and searches for the locations of horrible crimes or tragedies to feast. The most disturbing part is that [[spoiler: [[WasOnceAMan it used to be a normal cybertronion]]; while normal, it was shot with an experimental weapon that basically killed it and then [[CameBackWrong reanimated and mutated its body into the creature it became]].]] What's worse, [[spoiler: [[MadScientist Brainstorm]] created the Sparkeater gun after an encounter with the Sparkeater, then when the crew went back to the past [[StableTimeLoop said gun was used on the Cybertronian who they'd later encounter as the Sparkeater]]. Yeah, it was their fault that the Sparkeater exists in the first place]].

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': The khunds are being whiped out by an alien that is completely out of context for them and which slaughters billions of them easily while they are unable to harm it in return. When Wonder Woman gets a look at the situation she realizes that the khunds are being exterminated by Olympians when she sees ichor.

** The Sparkeater, a monster the crew encounters in issue 3. It's a floating, multi-tentacled monstrosity that kills biomechanical lifeforms by making them ''vomit out their own brain'', than rips out their spark and eats it whole (which is comparable to eating human's soul). Legends say that it's attracted to emotional torment and searches for the locations of horrible crimes or tragedies to feast. The most disturbing part is that [[spoiler: [[WasOnceAMan it used to be a normal cybertronion]]; while normal, it was shot with an experimental weapon that basically killed it and than [[CameBackWrong reanimated and mutated it's body into the creature it became]].]] What's worse, [[spoiler: [[MadScientist Brainstorm]] created the Sparkeater gun after an encounter with the Sparkeater, then when the crew went back to the past [[StableTimeLoop said gun was used on the Cybertronian who they'd later encounter as the Sparkeater]]. Yeah, it was their fault that the Sparkeater exists in the first place]].

** [[GenericDoomsdayVillain Doomsday]] is an ancient GeneticAbomination LivingWeapon GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere and WalkingWasteland that can come back from the dead and adapt to everything that killed it, becoming stronger after each death. It sees any life form as a threat, so its main directive is to [[OmnicidalManiac end all life]], which it certainly seems capable of. He is by far most famous for managing to kill Superman in the famous storyline ''The death of Superman'', being the first and by far most famous villain to do so. At its most powerful it even CurbStompBattle-d '''DARKSEID'''.

** [[AllStarSuperman Solaris,]] [[DCOneMillion the Solar Computer]] is a sentient artificial sun whose mere gravity threatened entire solar systems and later unleashed a cancer plague on Earth. His most famous feat though was poisoning the sun, which required Superman to sacrifice himself to fix it over the course of thousands of years.

* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' has the seven Endless, {{Anthromoporphic Personification}}s of platonic concepts that shapeshift into AFormYouAreComfortableWith and are considered to be the second strongest beings in the DCU, only surpassed by Lucifer. They're wave functions esential for reality functioning, and when Lucifer [[spoiler: created his own universe they cropped there, since it's impossible for a world to exist without them]]. Dream is a RealityWarper that rules the Dreaming, Delirium (Formerly Delight) is able to induce neverending madness at will, Despair lives in a mirrorhouse and stares at misery through the multiverse to SelfHarm to... Ironically enough, Death is by far the most nice and polite of all of them.

%%** Dormammu is the ruler of the Dark Dimension, and is the most-powerful of the Faltine -- a species of mystical entites manifested from magic

** Zom is an ancient living weapon with unspeakable power sealed in a magical amphora, that Strange has to let out to have any hope of defeating Umar. It works, scaring Umar (a HumanoidAbomination with near-godlike magical power nearly on par with those of her brother, the aforementionned Dormammu) shitless, and it takes the Goddamn Living Tribunal itself to put him back. Later on, during ComicBook/WorldWarHulk, Strange imbues himself with some of Zom's power and proceeds to beat the shit out of the Hulk before getting distracted.

** The Hyper-Adapter, also from Morrison's run, is a giant StarfishAlien weapon holding a great part of the Omega Effect that Darkseid released out of an Ancient Box sent to track Batman throgh time (He had become a bit of a living paradox after his death in Darkseid's hands) and kill him. He was so unstoppable that the only thing that managed to defeat him was [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill sending him to Vanishing Point (The last moment in time before the end of the universe), having him beaten by the JLA and then sending him back to the past]], and that didnt't even kill him, [[SuperToughness just shoo him away.]]

** Clayface tends to stick out of Bruce's rogues gallery, due to being much more weird than his average villain. He is a shapeshifting gigantic mass of mud without even a skeleton that, while being able to disguise himself as a human, most definetely isn't. The third Clayface is a subdued but still uncanny example, being a semi-liquid man in [[AndIMustScream constant agony]] that [[MakeThemRot liquifies anything]] [[PoisonousPerson organic that he touches.]]

** In ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', the Arkham family was cursed with a demonc [[AnimalisticAbomination Bat entity]] that caused Amadeus Arkham's mother to commit suicide [[spoiler: (Although she was actually [[MercyKill killed by Amadeus]])]], passing the curse onto Amadeus, which manifested in Mad Dog Hawkins raping, murdering and eating his wife and son, which drove him insane and had to be locked in hos own asylum, where he tried to do a ritualistic spell to bind the Bat in the Asylum, cursing it to become an EldritchLocation SealedEvilInACan that on the 1st of April becae a focal point of so much madness it sent ripples through time and [[StableTimeLoop actually cursed the Arkhams in the first place with the Bat]]. The reason Gotham is such a WretchedHive is because of the curse of the Bat. The story implies that either Dr. Cavendish or Batman himself could be the latest incarnation sent to torment Arkham.

** The Joker himself might be [[HumanoidAbomination one of these.]] It's been sugested a few times that the Joker [[AmbiguouslyHuman could not be as human as he appears.]] He's a being of pure chaos and death and not only is his origin and identity a complete mistery to even the most powerful agencies in the DCU, [[JokerImmunity but he has survived things that would have killed normal humans]]. ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar'' implies that he might be Gelos, the Greek God of Laughter (Not the kind of laughter you get out of a funny comedy, but rather the mocking cackle of an insane warrior befre he slaughters his enemy), while ''ComicBook/BatmanEndgame'' left ambiguous if he was a Really700YearsOld unkillable horror that has been tormenting Gotham City since its foundation.

** Hexus, the Living Corporation, from ''Marvel Boy'', a sort of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Cosmically Corrupt Executive]].
** ComicBook/TheInvisibles is particularly full of them, mainly because its GenreMashup includes CosmicHorror:

*** In the [[EldritchLocation Dulce base]] there exists a "mass of living information" of six dimensions, identified as this universe's equivalent of the Roswell Incident. It is described as {{God}} and [[Creator/HPLovecraft Azazoth]] and looks like a shapeshifting blob of mercury. It was brought to our reality after the detonation of atomic bombs in Los Alamos by Oppenheimer [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade (Who was a priest of Azazoth)]] punched a hole in reality.
*** GeniusBonus here. Its design looks like what Morrison described during a spiritual awakening in Kathmandu, in which they saw "pentadimensional mercurual hyper-sprites" that are essentially 5D humans.

* The ComicBook/{{Batman}} mythos, hile being pretty grounded in reality (Safe for some more fantastical villains like Ra's al Ghul) still has shown us a couple beings who are truly '''weird'''.

*** In the [[EldritchLocation Dulce base]] there exists a "mass of living information" of six dimensions, identified as this universe's equivalent of the Roswell Incident. It is describe as {{God}} and [[Creator/HPLovecraft Azazoth]] and looks like a shapeshifting blob of mercury. It was brought to our reality after the detonation of atomic bombs in Los Alamos by Oppenheimer [[HistoricalVillainUpgrade (Who was a priest of Azazoth)]] punched a hole in reality.
*** GeniusBonus here. Its design looks like what Morrison described during a spiritual awakening in Kathmandu, in which they saw "pentadimensional mercurual hyper-sprites" that are essentially 5D humans.

** What do you get when you fuse all the Clayfaces? '''Ultimate Clayface''', a bloating hideous blob that can take any shape or form and has MakeThemRot powers so strong that they were [[PowerIncontinence too much for Basil to handle]], and they eventually began [[AcidAttack dissolving the ground itself]] until he sunk into the core of the Earth.

** [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Dr. Hurt]] is [[CosmicFlaw the hole in things, the piece that can never fit.]] He's actually an ancestor of Bruce Wayne in one of the early settlements that would become Gotham, but in a satanic ritual he was possessed by a very powerful demon, and he became [[Really700YearsOld immortal.]] Hurt then became a sinister CardCarryingVillain who was hell-bent on the destruction of good as an ideology, and specially the destruction of Batman, so for years he [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys funded and organised a part of Batman's rogues gallery]], and actually implanted a hypnotic switch inside Batman during his early years. The only reason Batman managed to survive his attack in ''Batman RIP'' was because he was CrazyPrepared enough to build a back-up personality just in case of a psychic attack. [[MindScrew He also might be the Devil himself.]]

** What do you get when you fuse all the Clayfaces? '''Ultimate Clayface''', a bloating hideous blob that can take any shape or form and has MakeThemRot powers so strong that they were [[PowerIncontinence too mch for Basil to handle]], and they eventually began [[AcidAttack dissolving the ground itself]] until he sunk into the core of the Earth.

*** Hell, every Elemental Realm could be considered an EldritchAbomination. They're billion year old mystic forces of almost endless power that expand through the multiverse and serve as the AnthropomorphicPersonification of various elements, and often need an avatar as their servant to work properly. The Green is the representation of plant life, while the Red serves as one for animal life and is ruled by MixAndMatchCritters [[AnimalisticAbomination Animalistic Abominations]]. The Grey represents fungal life, while the Divided represents bacteria, and both look even more like a BotanicalAbomination than the Green. From here, they get a bit more abstract: The Clear, the White, the Melt and the Ember represent water, air, earth and fire respectively (Red Tornado used to be a servant of the White, and Firestorm of the Ember), while the Rithm is technology. Finally and most creepy of them all, the Rot/The Black represents death and deccay, and have a tendency of creating hideous [[UndeadAbomination Undead Abominations]] that tend to overstep their rules and try to end all organic life.

*** Some masterfully done CanonWelding between ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' reveals that the demon that Simon Hurt summoned was actually the Hyper-Adapter itself, and that after its defeat it became the demon Barbatos, which not only [[StableTimeLoop inspired Hurt in doing the ritual in the first place]] but also was the Bat that tormented the Arkhams and was trapped in Gotham by Amadeus' spell. [[ComicBook/BatmanYearOne The bat that crashed through Bruce's window and inspired him to become Batman]] in the first place was actually Barbatos meaning that [[MetaphoricalTruth in a certain way]], Batman really is the latest incarnation of the Bat entity. This also means that Dr. Hurt isn't just possessed by a demon, he has a piece of Darkseid inside him (this was later confirmed when Hurt mentioned Darkseid [[ResurrectiveImmortality was trying to reincarnate inside him]]), and considering [[AnthropomorphicPersonification what Darkseid really is]] [[SatanicArchetype and what he represents]], Hurt is both "evil incarnate" as he claimed but also '''is''' the Devil.

*** Quimper used to be a mischeavous metaphysical imp that fell on Earth while paddling at the edges of dreams, and became a [[BodyHorror deformed]] [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent goblin]] monster that works as a MindVirus that infects traumas and makes them overtake the memory's owners.

** Eldritch Abominations are just a part of the neighborhood for the Shadow Hill district. The residents' daily routines includes refreshing the wards protecting their homes while ignoring the tentacled horrors retreating from daylight. The people who live there get by because they've gotten used to the vampires, the things that terrify the vampires, the Hanged Man [[JustForPun hanging about,]] and all of the other unsettling weirdness that comes with the place.