History EldritchAbomination / ComicBooks

-->'''Quasar:''' I'm Protector Of The Universe. But how am I supposed to protect it from spoiler:another universe? Planets, stars, whole galaxies that want to crush us all. I asked what's the worst that could happen. This is my answer.

** The ultimate would be the Anti-Monitor, the Big Bad of Crisis in the Infinite Earths. An EnergyBeing composed of pure anti-matter on the inside, covered by a giant armored shell that serves as an energy collector to gather positive matter from the universes he wiped out. At his strongest point (when he traveled to the beginning of time), a coalition of heroes from many universes and time periods didn't even scratch his armor. He was eventually killed by being magically poisoned, being attacked with the power of a star, attacked by two parallel universe Kryptonians, hit by Darkseid's full power and finally thrown into a star, but that didn't stick. It took a duel with all the Guardians of the Universe and a galaxy-wiping explosion to take him out a second time.

* Many antagonists (especially {{Bigger Bad}}s) from {{2000 AD}}'s ''{{Slaine}}'' fall into this- notably Crom Cruach/Crom Dubh, the patron god of Slough Feg and Medb, as well as Aten (yep, pharaoh Akhenaten's monotheistic sun god), who Fomorian lord [[CompleteMonster Moloch]] attempts to summon to Britain through child sacrifices. Speaking of Fomorians, they are a whole species of {{humanoid abomination}}s (except for their sea-demon cousins led by lord Odacon, who are {{puppeteer parasite}}s who look equal parts deep-sea monstrosities and aborted hell-larvae), as are the Cythrons and the Els. Those races tend to be... [[{{Understatement}} unfriendly]] towards humanity.

** The same series has the Jin-En-Mok and the Silk Man, surviours of what's described as "an earlier, cruder Creation and are so very horrible in their own, special ways.

* The titular memory-eating parasites from VertigoComics' ''Mnemovore'', [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness maybe]].

* In the recent ''Realm Of Kings'' one-shot Quasar visited an AlternateUniverse which apparently was sold to Dark Gods. Not only does everybody in this world carry an EldritchAbomination inside one's body, but also [[spoiler:the whole UNIVERSE is one fricking EldritchAbomination]]. It turns out the whole thing started when [[spoiler:somebody ''killed death'' in this universe, which caused life to grow unfettered... and turn cancerous]].
-->'''Quasar:''' I'm Protector Of The Universe. But how am I supposed to protect it from [[spoiler:another universe? Planets, stars, whole galaxies that want to crush us all.]] I asked what's the worst that could happen. This is my answer.
** ''TheThanosImperative'' event [[spoiler:is about said universe finally flooding into the 616 proper. Just to give you an idea of how terrible this is, not only has Galactus joined the resistance, not only have the freakin' Celestials joined the fight, but the Guardians of the Galaxy are forced to recruit '''[[CompleteMonster THANOS]]''' to have any hope of winning in a universe without death.]]

** It's especially unnerving since this essentially makes [[spoiler: ''Life itself'']] an EldritchAbomination.

* An EldritchAbomination played a major role in [[TeenTitans Cyborg's]] origin in the comics. While visiting his parents at S.T.A.R. Labs, Victor's mother Elinor accidentally activated the experimental dimensional portal device his parents were working on at the time. The... ''thing'' that came through it immediately devoured his mother and mutilated Victor before his father Silas forced it back into its own dimension [[spoiler:but not before the creature gave him a terminal case of radiation sickness]]. Silas barely managed to save his son using cyborg prosthetics of his own design, but Victor resented him for turning him into a "cyborg freak" for years believing that his father wanted to experiment on him [[spoiler:until Silas revealed that he was dying thanks to the radiation. This led to Cyborg getting over his bitterness towards his father, and they spent one last day together as father and son before Silas died]].

* From the ''IncredibleHercules'' event ''Chaos War'' - Amatsu-Mikaboshi, '''[[OmnicidalManiac CHAOS KING]]'''. Like Galactus he comes from a Universe that was before the current MarvelUniverse. No, I take it back. He doesn't come from it. He '''was''' it. He's Anti-Eternity, EvilTwin of Eternity, AnthropomorphicPersonification of the Universe itself, an ultimate force of destruction that will not rest until the Universe is destroyed and nothing aside him remains. And he can squish All-Father level gods like they were flies.
** Go to the EldritchAbomination/MythologyAndReligion page and read about Amatsu-Mikaboshi. That's the same guy.
** The Chaos King's army is composed of deceased gods he murdered and then recreated as his puppets. But one of them is Glory, a gigantic monstrosity composed of thousands of alien pantheons it assimilated into itself. Its nature is so alien and bizarre that even TheMightyThor was scared beyond words during their encounter. It's an EldritchAbomination even to gods. It's also one of the few beings that joined Chaos King willingly, because it enjoys all the destruction he causes.

-->"This is but the merest pseudopod of my being! A single follicle protruding from a minor pore! I exist simultaneously in countless forms, stretching out beyond your planetary system into the cold barren emptiness between the stars."

* M'Gubgub from ''[[{{ptitle7hpv9q0i}} Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja]]'' is a galaxy-devouring abomination with a million forms that has to spread his mass out over millions of light-years just to prevent his gravitational field from collapsing on itself. It wants to destroy the Earth in order to eliminate a temporal anomaly there.

-->"This is but the merest pseudopod of my being! A single follicle protruding from a minor pore!"

** The Chaos King's army is composed of deceased gods he murdered and then recreated as his puppets. But one of them is Glory, a gigantic monstrosity composed of thousands of alien pantheons it assimilated into itself. Its nature is so alien and bizarre that even TheMightyThor was scared beyond words during their encounter. It's an EldritchAbomination even to gods. It's also one of the few beings that joined Chaos King willingly, because it enjoys all the destruction he causes.

* ''{{The Umbrella Academy}}'' has this by way of the team's DeadLittleSister, Ben Hargreeves AKA The Horror. He's a nice guy, but the most unholy and terrifying otherworldly monsters crawling under his skin that occasionally explode out of his stomach. IE, tentacles, masses of writhing humanoid arms, bulbous eyeballs...

* ''{{TheUmbrellaAcademy}}'' has this by way of the team's DeadLittleSister, Ben Hargreeves AKA The Horror. He's a nice guy, but the most unholy and terrifying otherworldly monsters crawling under his skin that occasionally explode out of his stomach. IE, tentacles, masses of writhing humanoid arms, bulbous eyeballs...

* From current ''IncredibleHercules'' event, ''Chaos War'' - Amatsu-Mikaboshi, '''[[OmnicidalManiac CHAOS KING]]'''. As Galactus he comes from a Universe that was before current MarvelUniverse. No, I take it back. He doesn't come from it. He '''was''' it. He's Anti-Eternity, EvilTwin of Eternity, AnthropomorphicPersonification of the Universe itself and ultimate force of destruction that will not rest until the Universe is destroyed and nothing aside him remains. And can squish All-Father level gods like they were flies.
** Go to Religion and Mythology folder and read about Amatsu-Mikaboshi. That's the same guy.
** The Chaos King's army is composed of deceased gods he murdered and then recreated as his puppets. But one of them is Glory, a gigantic monstrosity composed of thousands of alien pantheons it assimilated into itself. Its nature is so alien and bizarre that even TheMightyThor was scared beyond words during their encounter. It's an EldritchAbomination even to gods. It's also one of few beings that joined Chaos King willingly, because it enjoys all the destruction he causes.

* GrantMorrison especially enjoys these.
** GrantMorrison used another member of Starro's species simply called the Star Conqueror during his run of JLA. It had a different color scheme and was ''much'' bigger -- like Hudson Bay bigger. In its second and so far final appearance it invaded the dreams of the American populace, putting to sleep and taking control of nearly everyone in the ''entire country''. It took a two front assault on the creature -- some of the remaining JLA members attacked its physical self while ''[[TheSandman the Lord of the Dreaming]]'' aided the other JLA members in attacking its mental self -- to stop it. It was finally driven off into deep space while its mental self was [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned in the Dream Lord's chest]].
** Mageddon, the BigBad of his ''JLA'' run, is a cosmic doomsday weapon that survived the death of the universe of the god-like beings who built it. Its purpose is to initiate universal suicide by psychically prompting all living beings to war with each other to the death. Even when disabled (by the combined forces of the angelic hosts of Heaven, every single human being on Earth endowed with super powers, and a secret weapon that was basically its Kryptonite), it was still in danger of detonating and vaporizing half the galaxy.
** Hexus, the Living Corporation, from ''Marvel Boy'', a sort of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Cosmically Corrupt Executive]].
** The Archons of The Outer Church in ''TheInvisibles'' are typical Eldritch Abominations -- slimy, chitinous and decidedly non-human. In an interesting inversion of Lovecraft's themes, the Archons aren't entities of entropic chaos, but absolute order. When the universe reorients itself in their presence, it's not because it's breaking down, but because it's coming more in line with the Archons' specifications.
** ''Zenith'' in ''2000AD'' features a number of five-dimensional beings, the Lloigor, who owe more than just their names to [=~H.P. Lovecraft~=] (and turn out to be [[spoiler:former superheroes]] GoneHorriblyWrong).

** ''The ThanosImperative'' event [[spoiler:is about said universe finally flooding into the 616 proper. Just to give you an idea of how terrible this is, not only has Galactus joined the resistance, not only have the freakin' Celestials joined the fight, but the Guardians of the Galaxy are forced to recruit '''[[CompleteMonster THANOS]]''' to have any hope of winning in a universe without death.]]

*** Somehow subverted (or {{hand wave}}d?) in Marvel Zombie, where the zombified superheroes manage to physically devour Galactus' body. The easiest explanation is probably that in such universe Galactus was just some sort of very powerful alien, filled with cosmic powers yet still made of an organic, physical body.

* In the recent ''Realm Of Kings'' one-shot Quasar visited an AlternateUniverse which apparently was sold to the Elder Gods. Not only does everybody in this world carry an EldritchAbomination inside one's body, but also [[spoiler:the whole UNIVERSE is one fricking EldritchAbomination]]. It turns out the whole thing started when [[spoiler:somebody ''killed death'' in this universe, which caused life to grow unfettered... and turn cancerous]].

** ''The Thanos Imperative'' event [[spoiler:is about said universe finally flooding into the 616 proper. Just to give you an idea of how terrible this is, not only has Galactus joined the resistance, not only have the freakin' Celestials joined the fight, but the Guardians of the Galaxy are forced to recruit '''[[CompleteMonster THANOS]]''' to have any hope of winning in a universe without death.]]

** Finally, there's the King of Tears, an extradimensional god who, after Johnny Sorrow is [[HoistByHisOwnPetard sucked into said dimension by a malfunctioning subspace gun]], pieces him back together and contorts his face to the point where it is so hideous that [[BrownNote anything that sees it (barring special circumstances) dies of shock]] and makes him his servant, with his primary goal being to pull the strings required to allow the King to break into our world. The King himself manifests as a hideous crimson blob covered in tentacles and eyes, while Johnny's face is usually obscured by blinding light. On the one time it is fully seen, however, it's a disgusting mass of tentacles and insectoid limbs. While Johnny has managed to get the King out on several occasions, he [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu never stays long]], primarily because something as inimical to reality as the King tends to attract the JSA.
** His run on "[[Doom Patrol]]" was practically made of these. Starting with Orqwith, a city that doesn't exist and sends out Scissormen to literally cut people out of reality as we know it. Red Jack, who lives in a pocket dimension mansion with a floating head that is just a mask and claims to be both God, and Jack the Ripper. The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse Extinction and Oblivion, who lives inside a painting that can 'eat' reality, and is gigantic with no skin. The Decreator, some kind of anti-god that appears as simply a gigantic eye in the sky. The Avatar that lives under the Pentagon appears to be this, although we didn't get to see too much of it's full extent, but required Flex Mentallo, who can warp reality by flexing his muscles, to force the Pentagon into a circle, which caused an immense amount of strain, and the summoning of The Candlemaker, a far worse Eldritch Abomination, to stop it.

* ''{{Hellboy}}'' is pretty much built on this. Especially the Ogdru Jahad, neither male nor female, [[SealedEvilInACan sleeping until]] they bring the downfall of man. They have an army of frog men that have long, clinging tongues capable of sapping the prodigious strength of Hellboy, let alone a human, can take on the appearance of a normal human being, possess GeneticMemory, and have the knowledge of great spells of power not heard on the Earth for millions of years. Also, every single frog man is a [[TheVirus human infected by the Ogdru Jahad]].

** [[RealityWarper Mad Jim Jaspers]] crosses into this realm thanks to his abilities being strong enough to make him nigh-omnipotent, with it being heavily implied that he exists partially in a metaphysical realm, as well. He's so powerful that '' his entire continuity'' had to be destroyed to prevent it from becoming infectious and warping reality in other continuities. [[ItGotWorse Earth-616 also has Jaspers]], and he's even more powerful. It took an invincible, infinitely adaptable killing machine that the original Jaspers created and that escaped from the destroyed continuity to bring the 616 Jaspers down. How? It had to transport him to a reality-free area to deprive him of fuel for his abilities. The resulting toll on the being was so great that he was put down without much difficulty by Captain UK.

* ''[[{{ptitle847h4r8c}} Hack/Slash]]'' has the Neflords, giant masses of tentacles (that [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong double as wing wongs]] [[NoJustNo that can make things explode]]) which possibly lived in the void that existed before God created the universe. Being unable to create life themselves the Neflords [[MarsNeedsWomen need virgins taken from Earth]] [[NaughtyTentacles to impregnate to create minions]]. Also, their main servant was Elvis. Yes, really.

* TheAuthority once faced "the closest thing to God this Solar System has ever seen". It was so big that Carrier, a city-sized spaceship, could travel its circulatory system like a bacteria travels ours and old enough that his parasites evolved into an entire civilization. This monster was responsible for Earth's creation and lived on it for some time. When he came back he wasn't pleased to find out that his planet had new tenants.

*** The feeding of said parasite caused a lot of problems for its victims, with many people suffering headaches, nausea, irritation, exhaustion, and general misery, with occasional people committing horrible acts or even suicide because of the thing's presence. Did we mention this world was exactly like ours? Commence paranoia now...
* Caged Demonwolf from ''{{Empowered}}'' is an extradimensional EnergyBeing so powerful that, before his sealing, not even the A-list supers could stand up to him.

* From current ''IncredibleHercules'' event, ''Chaos War'' - Amatsu-Mikaboshi, '''[[OmnicidalManiac CHAOS KING]]'''. As Galactus he comes from Universe that was before current MarvelUniverse. No, I take it back. He doesn't come from it. He '''was''' it. He's Anti-Eternity, EvilTwin of Eternity, AnthropomorphicPersonification of the Universe itself and ultimate force of destruction that will not rest until the Universe is destroyed and nothing aside him remains. And can squish All-Father level gods like they were flies.

** Chaos Kings' army is composed of gods and deceased he murdered and then recreated as his puppets. But one of them is Glory, giagantic monstroity composed of thousands of alien pantheons it assimilate into itself. It's nature is so alien and bizarre that even TheMightyThor was scared and beyond of words during their ecounter. It's an EldritchAbomination even to gods. It's also one of few beings that joined Chaos King willingly, because it enjoy all the destruction he causes.

** [[spoiler:In the "Chaos War" event Amatsu-Mikaboshi turns into this after killing several powerful beings including Nightmare, the lord of dreams, Lucifer himself, several alien pantheons, and others. After launching an attack on all the realms of the dead including Hades, he gains enough power to shed his form and become the Chaos King, where he is pitch black, with razor sharp claws, and tendrils sticking out of his head. As a retcon to his origin, he is said to be the chaos and darkness that predated the universe itself making him more akin to how he was in mythology. After transforming he proceeds to destroy the realms of the afterlife, invade the realms of Earth's pantheons and destroying them and killing their respective gods in the process. He then destroys and absorbs almost 99% of the multiverse and rivals even Galactus in size who appears as ant compared to him.]]

** [[spoiler:In the " Chaos War" event Amatsu-Mikaboshi turns into this after killing several powerful beings including Nightmare, the lord of dreams, Lucifer himself, several alien pantheons, and others. After launching an attack on all the realms of the dead including Hades, he gains enough power to shed his form and become the Chaos King, where he is pitch black, with razor sharp claws, and tendrils sticking out of his head. As a retcon to his origin, he is said to be the chaos and darkness that predated the universe itself making him more akin to how he was in mythology. After transforming he proceeds to destroy the realms of the afterlife, invade the realms of Earth's pantheons and destroying them and killing their respective gods in the process. He then destroys and absorbs almost 99% of the multiverse and rivals even Galactus in size who appears as ant compared to him.]]

** Chaos Kings' army is composed of gods and deceased he murdered and then recreated as his puppets. But one of them is Glory, giagantic monstroity composed of thousands of alien pantheons it assimilate into itself. It's nature is so alien and bizarre that even TheMightThor was scared and beyond of words during their ecounter. It's also one of few beings that joined Chaos King willingly, because it enjoy all the destruction he causes.

** Go to Religion and Mythology folder and read about Amatsu-Mikaboshi. That's the same guy.