History EldritchAbomination / Comicbooks

* ''ComicBook/AnimalMan''
** In the end, the Hunters Three of the [[Comicbook/AnimalMan2011 New 52 run]] are subversions. Three absolutely horrific creatures who [[MeatPuppet "disguise themselves as men"]]. According to interviews, the three of them are from the edges of the DC Universe and serve a dark force lurking beneath it. Though, really, [[http://www.comicvine.com/hunters-three/65-58633/all-images/108-538958/hunters_buddy_1/105-1997905/ their appearance says it all]]. But the Hunters Three [[spoiler:turn out to be ordinary people after Maxine frees them of their corruption.]] The Rot itself is actually the natural force of death and decay [[spoiler:corrupted by Anton Arcane, an all too human villain.]]
** A more conventional EldritchAbomination is the Antagon, from Tom Veitch's run, [[SentientCosmicForce the sentient dark side of the morphogenetic field]] that only wishes for the death of animals. Sealed 10000000000 years ago by the Animal Masters, it was then forced into a cocoon which Stone and a recently empowered Buddy tried to destroy, but it was too strong. After reemerging, it first caused A-Man's powers to malfunction and later possessed ex-superhero B'wanna Beast, and began destroying Vermont. It recquired the strength of all the Animal Masters and avatars of the Red to finally thwart it.

* The ComicBook/{{Batman}} mythos, while 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'''.
** 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 mystery 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.
*** In ''ComicBook/EmperorJoker'' Mr. J absorbs a huge part of Mr. Mxyzptlk's powers, and turns into a RealityWarper OmnicidalManiac that traps Superman in a backwards world and Batman in various degrading deaths.
** Man-Bat became a disgusting AnimalisticAbomination with ties to [[ComicBook/AnimalMan2011 the Red]] controlled by an even worse EldritchAbomination in ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark.
** Mister Bloom is the most uncanny Batman villain. The BigBad of [[AudienceAlienatingEra Gordon's tenure as the Bat]], he looked like a very tall and lanky creature with a TheBlank face featuring a yellow flower and sharp reptilian-like claws, and shows NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, including sizeshifting, [[AnIcePerson ice manipulation]] and technokinesis. Although initially presenting himself as a BotanicalAbomination, his origin reveals him to be a TranshumanAbomination, who once adquired his powers in an illegal metahuman experimentation camp, that also left him able to grow "seeds", [[BotanicalAbomination Botanical Abominations]] in their own right that can empower anyone with similar powers but also leaves them as puppets under Mr. Bloom's mind control.
** 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 his 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 became 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.
** [[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.]] When analysed by Thomas Wayne, he was determined to be just ''barely'' human. Hurt 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.]]
** 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 didn't even kill him, [[SuperToughness just shoo him away.]]
*** 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 [[MetaphoricallyTrue 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.
** ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDoomThatCameToGotham'', being an {{Homage}} of the Cthulhu Mythos [[AdaptationalAbomination turns various characters into more eldritch versions of themselves.]]
*** Mister Freeze is portrayed as a man who was driven mad and transformed into an [[OurLichesAreDifferent undead-being]] that freezes everything around him, obsessed with unleashing his dark master.
*** While Pamela Isley was an eco-terrorist that gave herself GreenThumb powers in the mainstream DC-universe, here Poison Ivy was a potted plant turned into a BotanicalAbomination by Ra's al Ghul.
*** Ludvig Prinn was originally a necromancer who supposedly lived to be 500 years old, having authored his own evil spellbook. Here, he was a cultist who, after being imprisoned in the catacombs beneath Gotham, became a reptilian monster.
*** [[spoiler:His father having been cursed with immortality from the Testament of Ghul, ''Batman'' is revealed to be one. He's TheChosenOne destined to thwart Ra's al Ghul's plan of summoning Iou-Sotha and permanently transforms into Man-Bat to accomplish this.]]
*** The story also features and elder god called Iog-Sotha, a massive mass of fins and tentacles who created life on Earth. We also briefly see its equally lovecraftian son frozen in ice.

* The DCU ''ComicBook/FiftyTwo'' miniseries introduced the Four Horsemen of Apokolips: ancient, primal entities that hail from Apokolips and predate the New Gods. They are limited only by their inability to physically manifest in the universe without assistance. In their debut, using flawed bodies that could only channel a fraction of their true power, they devastated [[{{Qurac}} Kahndaq]], murdered Black Adam's new family, and nearly killed Black Adam himself. Thankfully, they are now SealedEvilInACan... [[spoiler:inside [[MadScientist Veronica Cale]].]]
** Furthermore, 52 featured [[spoiler:the evolution of the villain Mr. Mind, who became a cosmically huge insect abomination. He's responsible for the differences between the 52 realities of the DC multiverse, having [[ClockRoaches eaten key moments in time]] from all but one of them.]]
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': The Black Flash is a black corpse in a ragged Flash costume that serves as TheGrimReaper for speedsters, collecting their souls when they die and using them as fuel for the Speed Force. While not evil per se, its BlueAndOrangeMorality make it a very dangerous enemy that has threatened to kill Wally West multiple times. There's also the implication that it's related to [[ComicBook/NewGods the Black Racer]], the AnthropomorphicPersonification of death for the New Gods... who at the same time seems to be just an aspect of [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 Death of the Endless]], who has her own entry below.

* Creator/GrantMorrison especially enjoys these.
** They used another member of Starro's species simply called "the Star Conqueror" during their 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 ''[[ComicBook/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 their ''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 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 its Kryptonite), it was still in danger of detonating and vaporizing half the galaxy. All while being far larger than the Earth.
** Hexus, the Living Corporation, from ''ComicBook/MarvelBoy'', is a being native to another universe who is the AbstractApotheosis of CapitalismIsBad, a sentient idea/psychic parasite that takes the shape of Brand Hex, a MegaCorp that brainwashes new employees to be its avatars, who then work like slaves to enlarge Brand Hex' reach. By the time Noh-Varr fought it, it had already marked our planet for other celestial predators with a giant Brand Hex logo. Since as an idea it was unkillable, untouchable and invisible, it could easily hop from avatar to avatar and evade Noh's attacks, but was defeated when [[spoiler: Plex uploaded its corporate secrets and tricks to the Internet, and left Hexus without a way to keep expanding, before being shot down with a cosmic bullet]].
** ''ComicBook/TheInvisibles'' is particularly full of them, mainly because its GenreMashup includes CosmicHorror:
*** The Archons of [[TheConspiracy the Outer Church]] are typical {{Eldritch Abomination}}s -- slimy, chitinous, [[BizarreAlienBiology and decidedly non-human]]. Unless you've had cyborg implants installed on your body, [[BrownNoteBeing being near them will probably cause you cancer]]. In an interesting inversion of Lovecraft's themes, the Archons aren't entities of entropic chaos, [[OrderIsNotGood 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.
*** Also from the same comic is Barbelith. An ancient sentient satellite that trains our generation's messiah and [[spoiler: serves as a bridge between Earth and the Invisible College]]. In the last issue [[spoiler: it is revealed that Barbelith was our reality's placenta, and in the 22/12/2012, Barbelith pops like a bubble and makes the three-dimensional world real. [[GainaxEnding Or]] [[MindScrew something.]]]]
*** 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.[[note]] 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.[[/note]]
*** Quimper used to be a mischievous 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.
*** All the gods in the comic book are portrayed [[AdaptationalAbomination in a more eldritch light.]] The Aztec pantheon is made of [[HumanoidAbomination skeleton Gods]] who operate under BlueAndOrangeMorality and rules over [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} bizarre]] [[EldritchLocation surreal]] [[{{Hell}} hellish landscapes]], while the Voodoo Loas look like [[AnimalisticAbomination chimeras of spiders, reptiles, scorpions, leeches and bats.]]
** ''ComicBook/{{Zenith}}'' in ''[[ComicBook/TwoThousandAD 2000 AD]]'' features a number of five-dimensional beings, the Lloigor, who owe more than just their names to Creator/HPLovecraft (and turn out to be [[spoiler:former superheroes]] GoneHorriblyWrong).
** Their run on ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' was practically made of these. Orqwith, a city that doesn't exist and sends out Scissormen to 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 its full extent, but required Comicbook/FlexMentallo, who can [[RealityWarper warp reality]] by flexing his muscles, to force the Pentagon into a circle, which caused an immense amount of strain, and [[SummonBiggerFish the summoning of The Candlemaker, a far worse Eldritch Abomination]], to stop it.
** ''ComicBook/KidEternity'' [[AdaptationalAbomination reinvented]] [[ComicBook/DoctorFate the Lords of Chaos]] to be this, with their agents, the Shichiriron, also being uncanny in their own right. The following Ann Nocenti run also introduced Doctor Pathos, [[AmbiguouslyHuman who possibly is this too.]]
** [[ExactlyWhatitSaysontheTin Mother Dirt]], from ''ComicBook/TheFilth''. Supposedly, it's the BigGood of the series.
** The Big Bad of [[ComicBook/ActionComicsNew52 Morrison's run]] on ''ComicBook/ActionComics'' is [[spoiler:Vyndktvx, a 5th Dimension Imp, like Mr. Mxyzptlk, only a psychotic mass murderer rather than a practical joker]].
** The Gentry from ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'' are a group of evil entities that are roaming the multiverse and destroying every world they come across in really horrific ways. Just seeing them from another universe crippled Lord Havok and drove him mad. They're also powerful enough to trap Nix Uotan, the last Monitor, in the panels of ''the comic book he's appearing in'' [[spoiler:and convert him into one of their own]]. On top of all that, it's implied that reading the series will let the Gentry into ''our'' universe.\\
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In the end, it's even worse. [[spoiler:It turns out that the Gentry are from '''our''' universe, Earth-33. And they are all just servants to an even bigger threat, the Empty Hand, who has all of Earth-42 inhabitants (the Li'l League included) as his servants and spies. And even when the Gentry were beaten, Empty Hand just created new ones like it was nothing and the combined efforts of the entire Multiversity would most likely not be effective as Empty Hand is the personification of our growing real world apathy towards superheroes and comics. And Empty Hand is still digesting and gaining strength from the previous pre-ComicBook/{{Flashpoint}} multiverse. The best the Multiversity can do is establish a watch until they can come up with a way to take down Empty Hand and his Gentry... and the rest of Earth-33 if it comes to it...]]
%%** In ''ComicBook/Nameless2015'', Grant pits a small team of astronauts against one [[spoiler:, or possibly several]] imprisoned on a gigantic asteroid. [[spoiler: It doesn't help that the asteroid is designated Xibalba, the Mayan Underworld.]]
* The ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' comics has seen various alien entities that are incarnations of the various colors of the emotional spectrum, which has led to some fan speculating that these beasts may be like infant Chaos Gods from TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} in training. These include the Yellow Entity Parallax (Fear), the Green Entity Ion (Will), and the Violet Predator (Love). These entities are known to possess and empower worthy individuals, but are often monstrous and insanely powerful.
** The Orange Entity Ophidian (Avarice) was confirmed by WordOfGod to be the voice within the Orange Lantern Battery that converts its wielder into Agent Orange. Atrocitus initially assumed ComicBook/TheSpectre, the agent of God's Wrath, was the Rage entity. The Spectre denied this, claiming that he has ''met'' the Rage entity and warning Atrocitus (who, as one of the Five Inversions, is ''himself'' a HumanoidAbomination even without his red power ring) that seeking it out would only lead to his destruction. Adara, the Blue Entity of Hope, looks like a huge eagle... with three faces and beaks; while Proselyte, the Indigo Entity of Compassion, is just a massive octopus. Presumably, he just wants to hug you.
** [[spoiler:Nekron, the Guardian of the Black Lantern Corps]], whose plan is revealed to be [[spoiler:killing the Entity, the being of White Light that gave birth to all life, and, as a result, kill everything in a instant.]] The moment he dealt the first blow, we know he meant business. And [[TimeAbyss he was created by the darkness preceding the universe.]] [[spoiler:Nekron]] is such an EldritchAbomination that he can't even exist as a physical entity. He needs a tether for that, which comes in the form of the [[ILoveTheDead necrophilic]] [[TheAntiChrist herald of death]], William Hand. [[spoiler:This only works when he's dead, however.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'': John Constantine met and defeated two Lovecraftian gods from different story arcs. Jallakuntilliokan, a two headed dragon/floating meat [[SpacetimeEater who eats reality]], and M'Nagalah, who is the god of cancer. The Triumvirate of Hell also counts, being [[TimeAbyss impossibly old Hell-Lords]] made of the First of the Fallen (Who claims to be the original fallen angel, even older than ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}), the Second of the Fallen (Who looks like a living mass of viscuous shadow) and the Third of the Fallen (A particularly cruel shapeshifting demon).

* The ''Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' sometimes faces these.
** Starro, the very first foe they dealt with, slowly moved in this direction over the years, being a literal {{Starfish Alien|s}} that latches onto you and takes away your free will, though there was recently [[{{Retcon}} revealed]] to be a humanoid alien controlling the giant starfish "Starro" that the Justice League faced in the past. [[spoiler:The humanoid alien has a smaller starfish on his chest. He controls the Starri from ''that''.]]
** UsefulNotes/{{The Silver Age|of Comic Books}} {{homage}} ''ComicBook/DCTheNewFrontier'' had "The Centre", an ancient and unstoppable monstrosity. It also happens to be a [[GeniusLoci giant island]]. Of Dinosaurs.
** The ultimate would be the Anti-Monitor, the BigBad of ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''. 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. And now, thanks to ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', [[spoiler:he's baaaaack...]]
** Mandrakk, on the other hand, is a gigantic vampiric Monitor that feeds on reality itself. To quote Zillo Valla: "[[ComicBook/TheAuthority Carriers]], Destroyers, Tankers, and Explorers... ''vast'' in scale from your perspective, these machines are mere Monitor ''nanotechnology!'' The '''eyes''' of Mandrakk." Or, to quote Mandrakk himself: "'''[[OmnicidalManiac Let me feed and feed until nothing remains but Mandrakk! Bloated and alone beneath a skyful of murdered stars!]]'''" To stop him, the Question and Captain Marvel (of [[AlternateUniverse Earth-5]]) have to bring forth the Supermen of the Multiverse, an ''army'' of alternate universe Supermen, and Nix Uotan has to summon Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew, the Angels of the Pax Dei, the Forever People of the 5th World, and finally, the Green Lantern Corps has to ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome stake it with a giant energy stake]]''. This all takes up about the space of 3 or 4 pages, but it is an awesome sight to behold.
** Another Abomination is the [[MindScrew baffling]] entity known as the Overmonitor or Overvoid. It's a sentient void, inside which ''the entire DC Multiverse'' exists. It created the Monitors, and it's heavily implied that both the Monitor and Anti-Monitor were born from a probe it sent to investigate: meaning it's responsible for two eldritch abominations already. And, even [[MindScrew weirder]], it's described as being the embodiment of the very concept of the narrative.
** Imperiex is the power of the Big Bang given form, who sought to reboot the universe due to an impurity in the fabric of existence that it detected. [[spoiler:Ironically enough, that flaw was Imperiex itself.]] It proved to be enough of a threat to force Mongul II and fucking Darkseid to ally with Superman and the rest of the resistance force. One of his most immense displays of power was reducing Doomsday to a skeleton in one shot. He was finally [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu destroyed by a sun-drenched Superman]] after an enormous battle, though not before killing off a good portion of both the resistance force and Earth.
*** He had to be sent back to the dawn of time, because ''the Big Bang itself'' was the only thing that could finish him off completely. [[Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann Lord Genome's got him beat, though.]]
** 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 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.
*** Johnny Sorrow himself is one. His normal appearance is ''invisible,'' nothing seen around the mask or sleeves of his mostly-full-body-concealing costume. When he takes off his mask, his true face will indeed kill, and those who do survive do ''not'' survive unscathed and are pretty powerful characters in their own right. (So, if you're an insanely powerful magic user such as the wizard Shazam, you might get off as easily as being turned to stone.) His unmasked face is typically depicted as a blinding light that doesn't let the reader see; the one time it is fully seen, however, [[HumanoidAbomination it's a disgusting mass of tentacles and insectoid limbs]]. He also controls demons and can open portals to his master's home dimension, and has survived without aging since the silent film era.

* Though, in appearance, they are standard [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] and [[OurDemonsAreDifferent demons]], many of the characters of ''Comicbook/{{Lucifer}}'' have powers and attitudes that are more in line with this trope. At one point, Lucifer flies out to just in front of the Source mentioned above and ignores it. It's simply beneath his notice at the time.
%%** The same series has the Jin-En-Mok and the Silk Man, survivors of the destruction of what's described as "an earlier, cruder Creation" and so very horrible in their own, special ways.
* Franchise/MarvelUniverse:
%%** The 'Elder Gods' are a group of primordial deities whose ranks include Gaia, Chthon (who has been used as a stand-in for Cthulhu), and Set.
** ComicBook/DoctorStrange tends to fight these: Dormammu, the ruler of the Dark Dimension, and is the most-powerful of the Faltine -- a species of mystical entites manifested from magic; Nebulos, who can channel infinite energy and required the Living Tribunal to stop it, Satannish, a RealityWarper Hell-Lord of two faces and four horns; Nightmare, an EnergyBeing MadeOfEvil of the psychic plane that feeds on fear; Blackheart, Mephisto's son made from the pain of murder victims...
*** Special mention goes to Zom, 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 Old Ones/Many-Angled Ones -- namely Shuma-Gorath -- are directly based on the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods of the Cthulhu Mythos; and are ancient multiversal threats. The most powerful known regular demon lords are supposed to be as insects to them, as they are stated to be only a step or two below the Living Tribunal. ''ComicBook/{{Carnage}}'' Vol. 2 counts the Elder God Chthon as the mightiest of them, portraying him as an {{expy}} of Cthulhu who was sealed away in the extradimensional realm of K'lay, and with the chant to summon him paraphrasing the iconic chant from ''The Call of Cthulhu''.
** ComicBook/{{Galactus}}. [[TimeAbyss Older than the universe itself]] and incomprehensible by mortals. It's {{canon}} that his hat-wearing humanoid form is simply an image our puny minds superimposes over a reality [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm we cannot truly comprehend]]; for instance, Beta-Ray Bill's species sees him as a big starfish.
*** His purpose is to keep [[OmnicidalManiac Abraxas]] from [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum killing everything everywhere in every parallel universe]]. The reason he goes back and forth from being depicted as able to go a long time without eating to only having enough time to reach the next planet is because maintaining Abraxas' seal is harder at some times than others.
*** Subverted in ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'', where the zombified superheroes manage to physically devour Galactus' body. The easiest explanation is probably that, in such a universe, Galactus was just some sort of very powerful alien, filled with cosmic powers yet still made of an organic, physical body. [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm Although this could simply be how you and the Marvel Zombies interpret Galactus getting eaten.]] That, or in this universe, Abraxas has already been dealt with (something probably ate him; that's just how it goes around here.)
** Although he's [[MechanicalAbomination a mechanical example]], Ultimate Gah Lak Tus definitely qualifies. Aside from driving everyone who sees it insane and spreading a [[BodyHorror flesh eating virus]] across the planets it consumes, much of the devastation it causes stems from its own gravitational pull.
** Mephisto qualifies as this. Sure that he may look like a [[BigRedDevil a red-skinned vampire]], but that's just his most common form. In reality, Mephisto is an inconceivable embodiment of evil that rules a part of Hell's plane of existence, and he has gave a taste of what he truly looks [[http://i388.photobucket.com/albums/oo326/OneDumbG0/Doom%20Fights/DoomvsMephisto10.jpg here]]! It's implied that he might not have any form at all. Downplayed in that while he likes to act like he's a big deal, he's a lightweight compared to Set, Chthon, Dormammu, and the other ''really'' nasty beings out there.
** [[OmnicidalManiac The Other]]. True to its name, The Other is an EldritchAbomination that is so [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm other]] that it cannot be perceived by even the most powerful abstracts in existence; it is also incapable of manifesting its true form, provided that it actually has one, in our reality. It must instead use [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith projections]] of one or more physical entities such as TheGreys or a colossal human hand with two large starry eyes on its palm that may or may not actually exist in order to interact with our reality.
** In the ''Realm Of Kings'' one-shot, Quasar visited the Cancerverse -- an AlternateUniverse which was apparently sold to the Many-Angled Ones. Not only does everybody in this world carry an EldritchAbomination inside their body, but the whole UNIVERSE is also one fricking EldritchAbomination. It turns out that the whole thing started when somebody [[spoiler:who turned out to be Captain Marvel]] ''killed Death'' in this universe, which caused life to grow unfettered... and turn cancerous.
--->'''Quasar:''' I see it now! I see it all! Their universe! Disgusting! An abomination! Pulsating with corrupt life! One giant, twisted organic mass! Their whole universe is a deathless corpse! A cancer trying to metastasize into our reality! I asked: what's the worst that could happen? This is. How can I protect the universe from another universe? Galaxies and worlds all united to consume us?
** ''Comicbook/TheThanosImperative'' event 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 '''[[ComicBook/{{Thanos}} THANOS]]''' to have any hope of winning in a universe without death. It's especially unnerving since this essentially makes ''[[LightIsNotGood Life itself]]'' an EldritchAbomination. [[FridgeHorror When one thinks about it]], it's an ''invasive species'' writ large (without death, there was no checks on the growth of life; without checks, life began to absorb everything into itself...).
*** And best of all: you know Shuma-Gorath, mentioned above? WordOfGod states he's a Many-Angled One, ie, ''a member of the Dark Gods that rule the Cancerverse''. At least it all exploded when Death came back into existence... though given [[EnsembleDarkhorse Shuma-Gorath]], [[JokerImmunity it's very likely the Many-Angled Ones are okay with that.]]
** From ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules'' event ''ComicBook/ChaosWar'' - Amatsu-Mikaboshi, '''[[OmnicidalManiac CHAOS KING]]'''. Like Galactus, he comes from a Universe that was before the current Franchise/MarvelUniverse -- or rather, he '''was''' that universe. 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 from him remains. And he can squish All-Father level gods like they were flies.
*** The Chaos King's army is composed of deceased gods he murdered and recreated as his puppets. But one of them is [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/5/52156/1505911-glory.png Glory]], a gigantic monstrosity composed of thousands of alien pantheons it assimilated into itself. Its nature is so alien and bizarre that even ComicBook/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 the Chaos King willingly, because [[ForTheEvulz it enjoys all the destruction he causes]]. The above-mentioned Galactus not only [[EnemyMine joins the fight against the Chaos King]], he even says [[http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/4/47254/1513073-1496302_little_gods004_super.jpg this]].
*** In ComicBook/TheMightyThor Annual #1, it is revealed that the Chaos King is actually just one tiny aspect of an infinitely older and more powerful EldritchAbomination: the abstract known as '''[[OmnicidalManiac OBLIVION]]'''.
** There are also [[DiabolusExNihilo The Infinites]], a trio of immense beings who traveled the multiverse realigning the energies of universes in a way they considered harmonious. They were so big that one of their hands was larger than a galaxy. It took ComicBook/TheAvengers summoning Eternity, the living embodiment of the Marvel Universe, to face them. When they learned that their actions were causing the deaths of countless beings, they were [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified]] and abandoned their experiment and began to make amends throughout the universes they visited.
** Thanos and Galactus also once ran into a being called the Hunger, which operated on a universal scale. It was to Galactus what Galactus was to human beings. It was depicted as a gigantic black void with glowing eyes of fire, because nothing else could portray a pit where existence ceases. Thanos managed to [[BatmanGambit prevent]] his arrival in this universe, and cut off a piece of the being, which withered and died. But its main body is still out there.
** The Phoenix Force is a cosmic entity that embodies both creation and destruction, manifested as a bird of prey made from cosmic flames. It is powerful enough to destroy the universe itself, and seeks out hosts with psychic powers. While not strictly benevolent or malevolent, its Dark Phoenix aspect -- as shown in ComicBook/AvengersVsXMen -- has a penchant for eating stars and planets to maintain its energy. This was particularly displayed when Thor managed to hurt it in deep space, smashing it halfway across a solar system. This turned out to be a case of NiceJobBreakingItHero, as the Phoenix promptly ate the nearest planet. The WorfEffect ensued. When Jean Grey -- or rather, the Phoenix Force impersonating her -- became the Dark Phoenix in ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga'', it caused a planetary-level genocide and nearly inspired an interstellar war.
** Robert Reynolds, aka ComicBook/TheSentry, is implied to only be as human as he believes himself to be. When he reappears after being atomized by Morgan le Fay, the Dark Avengers - a group including the likes of Bullseye and Venom - are freaked out. And then there's the fact that his SuperPoweredEvilSide, [[http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100323214724/marveldatabase/images/d/d1/Void.gif the Void]], has been around since Biblical times as the Angel of Death and is powerful enough to destroy planets, if not galaxies.
** And from ComicBook/YoungAvengers vol.2 we have the BigBad, Mother - a parasite from another dimension, who feeds on powers of reality-warping children (only this kind of power can hurt it, but kids aren't experienced enough to consist a challenge for it). It's abilities allow some really freaky transformation, as well as power to warp reality around it, taking control of adults, obscuring themselves from the eyes of those who are strong enough to resist mind control, and transforming things in bizarrely creative ways with a bit of meta touch (it once trapped Billy into an empty panel frame). It's home dimension is an EldritchLocation on itself. It's currently using the form of [[spoiler: Teddy's dead mother]]. Oh, and at one point it [[spoiler: [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou eats the narrator, while he begs readers to save him]]]].
** [[spoiler: Patriot Costume]] may be this - nobody knows where it came from, why it took the form it did, why it [[spoiler: kidnapped Speed]] and what it wants from the Young Avengers. However, it can freely walk in and out of Mother's home dimension and ''not'' get attacked. It seems to even ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards creep out]]'' Mother a bit.
** ''ComicBook/{{Venom}}'' Vol. 4 reveals that the symbiotes are formed from a fount of eldritch darkness called the living abyss, created by the dark god Knull -- [[TimeAbyss whose own existence predates the universe]] -- in order to devour the gods and their creations.
** It's safe to say that the Marvel Universe is basically a [[LovecraftLite Cosmic Horror Universe]]. Heck, at one point Marvel published ''ComicBook/ConanTheBarbarian'' comics which were considered to the be part of the Franchise/MarvelUniverse... and the Conan franchise is generally thought to be part of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos.
** ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'' introduces the "One Below All", the entity that resides in the deepest layer of hell, who serves as the direct EvilCounterpart to the One Above All, aka {{God}} in the Marvel Universe. That prospect alone makes the likes of Shuma-Gorath and Dormammu look like [[AdorableAbomination Adorable Abominations]] by comparison, but what's even more frightening is that when it possessed the Hulk, ComicBook/DoctorStrange asked Mephisto (a literal SatanicArchetype) to remove it from him and Mephisto remarked that he couldn't as this being was ''[[GreaterScopeVillain beyond even him]]'', the ruler of hell. The One Below All is also connected to Gamma Energy and manipulates and controls many of the Gamma Beasts Hulk and co face. Fortunately, while it can influence the multiverse beyond its domain, it cannot directly affect it - it needs a host, who becomes both themselves and the One Below All. Not that this is much comfort; a flash-forward has shown that if the One Below All possesses the Hulk, the combined being will outlive the current incarnation of the Marvel universe (Galactus-style) and exterminate all life in the next one.
%%* The titular memory-eating parasites from Creator/VertigoComics' ''Mnemovore'', [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness maybe]].

* ''ComicBook/NewGods'':
** Darkseid is the AbstractApotheosis of [[GodOfEvil evil]] with access to such uncanny powers as the AndIMustScream-inducing [[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Omega Effect]] or the Anti-Life Equation, and who rules over a borderline-EldritchLocation found outside of time and space. Canonically every Darkseid in the multiverse (And New God for that matter) is just a fraction of the true entity, which are implied to live infinite dimensions about us and to be the essence of what they represent. This means that Darkseid isn't just the GodOfEvil inside the comic, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou he is a fraction of our reality's platonic ideal of Evil!]]. Darkseid's eldritch status is played for all it's worth during ComicBook/FinalCrisis; after his reincarnation into Dan Turpin, his presence actually starts to decay time and space. Mandrakk is using Darkseid's attack to hide his own plans (but is stopped before getting too far). How does Darkseid [[RealityWarper break reality]] (one parallel universe actually is destroyed by this)? He sits on his throne, waiting for reality to die [[CosmicFlaw MERELY BECAUSE HE]] [[BrownNoteBeing EXISTS.]]
*** Relating to Darkseid, the Omega Effect is an EldritchAbomination in itself: It's an extradimensional force that can not only desintegrate almost anything (if you're as tough as Cyborg Superman maybe you will just barely die) and allow Darkseid to then recreate you as a zombie, but also has the Life Trap, which is manifested as a void [[HumanoidAbomination with a vaguely human shape called the Omega Sanction]] that traps you infinitely in increasingly more dreadful lifes until you become a servant of Anti-Life. [[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Shilo Norman]], the greatest escape artist ever trained by the the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification New God of freedom]], Scott Free, is so far the only thing to have escaped the Omega Sanction's full power.
** The Anti-Life Equation is ''also'' an EldritchAbomination: a (heavily implied to be sentient) abstract mathematical formula that scientifically determines the futility of life and can destroy free will. Some parts of it tend to crop up on Earth, particularly in its collective unconscious through characters like [[ComicBook/NewGods Sonny Sumo]] or [[ComicBook/YoungJustice Empress]], the reason behind Darkseid's continuous attacks on Earth, despite multiple instances showing that not even Darkseid can either fully control or even comprehend Anti-Life, since it's tied directly to the Source, one of the few things Darkseid is powerless against. Pied Piper channeling the whole equation through ThePowerOfRock was enough to kill [[HumanoidAbomination Desaad]] and destroy APOKOLIPS. ''Cosmic Odyssey'' shows the Anti-Life Equation as a shadowy BrownNoteBeing so powerful and evil that it forces [[EnemyMine Darkseid to work with his sworn enemies to stop it]] (although it was later retconned to be a different creature). ''The Death of the New Gods'' also features a similar concept, where Anti-Life is revealed to be one half of a cosmic being that was split into two by the war of the Old Gods, but this was also retconned later, although not 100% dropped.
** [[{{God}} The Source]]. In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'', Superman is teleported to the Edge of the Universe. Way out there, space becomes white, and after that, there is a MASSIVE, INFINITE WALL of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s / {{Body Horror}}s marking the final boundary between our universe and the next one over. In ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', though, this wall has symbols and statues of humanoid figures on it, like it's the outside wall of the Monitor's base. The Source Wall lies on the edge of the known universe, in the Promethean Galaxy. Beyond the wall lies what is known as The Source, a cosmic essence or being that is the "source" of all that exists (And heavily implied to be tied to [[ComicBook/{{Lucifer}} the Presence]] itself). The wall is theoretically passable. However, all those who try have been inevitably trapped in it. Over time, it has been made up of the bodies of would-be conquerors and curiosity seekers from all across the universe.

* ''ComicBook/Robin1993'': Tim stumbles across a thing in the Appalachian Mountains that is currently in the form of an apparently [[HumanoidAbomination harmless, if odd, little girl]] who maintains human form by linking itself to a human, who is given regenerative powers and made mute and whose mind is radically altered by the link. If the link is broken "she" reverts into a mass of tentacles, eyes and mouths and starts killing and eating everyone around "her" until she forms a new link. "She" doesn't seem to notice being shot and while using a flamethrower on her seems to get her attention it doesn't appear to actually cause her any damage.
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' has the seven Endless, {{Anthropomorphic 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.

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** The 5th Dimensional Imps, of which Mr. Mxyzptlk is the most famous, have become an example of this. They can more or less wear the laws of physics like a funny paper hat, and while they tend to appear as cartoonish characters, those aren't their ''true'' forms. Luckily, most of them aren't interested enough in meddling with our universe, and those that do (like ComicBook/BatMite) are permitted only to cause mischief. Sometimes hiccups occur, like the time Mxyzptlk made the well-intentioned mistake of giving his reality-reshaping powers to the Joker.
** It's eventually revealed that there are even ''higher'' dimensions than this, each with their own imps. The higher the dimension, the stronger the imp, all the way up to the one and only ''tenth''-dimensional imp, Ultimator. [[http://static.comicvine.com/uploads/scale_super/6/61967/1248346-1157830_1_super.jpg He looks like this]].
** ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'' is set in an alternate possible future where Superman is getting ready to retire - up until all his enemies return, and all-out war between them and his friends (with Lois, Lana, and Jimmy taking up the {{Phlebotinum}} behind some of their one-shot powers from [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] stories). It's a brutal affair where people die and FromBadToWorse reigns supreme. Then he puts together the clues of what's really going on. It turns out: [[spoiler:Myxy orchestrated all of this. As a superdimensional imp older than time, he is now bored with being mischievous; every so many millennia he reinvents himself. He was benevolent once, more recently a harmless trickster, but now? He wants to "try being evil for a while; maybe after 2000 years or so of that, I'll get to be guilty". When he drops the Goth version of his usual little-guy-in-a-hat image - mocking the idea that a sorcerer from the fifth dimension would ''really'' look like that - he appears as a jagged-edged humanoid tear in space with malevolent eyes and maws, and Lois points out for the benefit of us readers that it hurts her eyes just to try and look at it, like all the angles are wrong. Now THAT begins to approach the idea of a being from the Fifth Dimension.]]
** 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'''.
** [[MeaningfulName Viroxx]], which could only be described [[TheVirus an space-virus]] that devoured energy, [[TheAssimilator capable of converting sentient beings into drones]] that in turn would absorb others as nourishment for their master. The assimilating process was supposedly irreversible and turns the victim into an unfeeling, cold-blooded monster interested only in killing more people to absorb their energy (one heartbreaking moment was when a scientist witnessed his recently converted wife devouring their daughter, and he ends up being forced to kill her in self-defense); It had laid waste to many worlds, destroying billions of lives and reducing entire populations into a few thousand vagrants based on space fleets. Even Superman himself is unable to hold it back and in the end, with the combined effort of all the survivors they only managed to scary it away -- ''not kill it'', but chase it far away from our galaxy.
** ''ComicBook/ThePhantomZone'': In Pre-Crisis continuity, there was an entity made of billions of dead souls from the earliest days of the universe. Calling itself Aethyr, or the Oversoul, it enclosed itself into a dimension outside the physical universe that it [[DimensionLord merged with its own mind and that it has absolute mastery of]]. Travel too far within it, and you risk your soul being destroyed and becoming part of Aethyr. At its outermost edge, representing Aethyr's capacity for abstract thought, is a realm where anyone within it can only exist as an incorporeal wraith: the PhantomZone. And as of ''ComicBook/EscapeFromThePhantomZone'', Aethyr is BACK.
** [[ComicBook/AllStarSuperman Solaris,]] [[ComicBook/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/RedDaughterOfKrypton'': Worldkiller-1 is an omnicidal, shape-shifting, sentient alien black goo which steals -and often consumes- bodies and is bonded with an indestructible armor suit. And it's nearly as strong and invulnerable as a Kryptonian. And it isn't vulnerable to Kryptonite.
** In ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' story arc ''ComicBook/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the "Godship" is a moon-sized world-eating creature called "Ash'ka'phageous".
** ''ComicBook/SupergirlsGreatestChallenge'': A planetary explosion caused by a doomsday device turns a mad scientist and a laboratory animal into humongous masses of positive and negative energy. The former mad scientist -called Positive Man by the Legion of Super-Heroes for lack of a better name-, now looking like a translucent, white-outlined, vaguely-humanoid thing, hates life and roams the cosmos obliterating inhabited worlds by merely passing through them.
* ''ComicBook/SwampThing'':
** Swamp Thing himself, since is a massive monster made of mud and organic matter that serves as the elemental embodiment of the Green, an interdimensional mystical force that connects all plant life. As such, Swampy has total control of the vegetation on the universe, including being able to regenerate from nothing, creating new bodies or teleporting through entire galaxies merely by transfering his consciousness to vegetation light years away. Upon meeting him, ComicBook/BlackOrchid straight up thought of him as {{God}}.
*** Hell, every Elemental Realm could be considered an EldritchAbomination to some degree. 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 Parliament of Flames represent water, air, earth and fire respectively (Red Tornado used to be a servant of the White, and Firestorm of the Parliament of Flames), while the Rithm is [[DigitalAbomination technology]]. Finally and most creepy of them all, the Rot/The Black represents death and decay, and have a tendency of creating hideous [[UndeadAbomination Undead Abominations]] that tend to overstep their rules and try to end all organic life.
** Scott Snyder's run introduces the horrifying Sethe, a horrific diseased demonic skeleton beast that spreads pestilence. Not only is its very appearance NauseaFuel, but it's implied that [[PlagueMaster it was responsible for not just]] TheBlackDeath, but ''[[OmnicidalManiac every single pestilence to afflict humanity]]''. It's implied that Sethe and abovementioned The Hunters Three serve the same dark forces.
** The Original Darkness, the BigBad of the "Murder of Crows" arc. For starters, this thing is [[PrimordialChaos the chaos that existed]] prior to [[{{God}} the Presence]] beginning its creation. It's also brain-meltingly enormous; the telepath [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Mento]] actually starts foaming at the mouth trying to comprehend the scale of this thing. Just having your existence acknowledged by it can have fatal results for even powerful magic-users, as Zatara and Sargon found out the hard way. Oh, and it's absolutely unstoppable: ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}, ComicBook/DoctorFate, and ComicBook/TheSpectre all try and fail horribly to halt its assault on Heaven, with the Spectre memorably being [[CurbStompBattle curbstomped]] by the Darkness's ''thumb''. It takes [[{{God}} the Presence]] ''itself'' to intervene to stop this thing, and it couldn't destroy the Darkness, merely nullify it, as they are ''equals''.
* Regular ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' villain Trigon is an immortal gigantic demon from another dimension that has existed since the beginning of the universe as cosmic energy until the dimension of [[EldritchAbomination Azarath]] gave it a shape. It's a MadeOfEvil entity with RealityWarper powers so massive that in its homeland of Azarath, it can even rival fellow abomination Mr. Mxyzptlk, and has enslaved and destroyes whole ''universes''. It's so powerfu that it requires an avatar to manifest properly into our world (In this case, his daughter Raven, a borderline HumanoidAbomination herself).

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Doctor Manhattan, a gigantic blue EnergyBeing who [[NonLinearCharacter exists outside of time as we know it, experiencing all points in his life simultaneously]]. He also has CompleteImmortality and the ability to exist in multiple places at once. Silk Spectre I describes him as a sentient H-bomb. His existence has caused substantial changes in the AlternateHistory; among other things, he is single-handedly responsible for the US winning the Vietnam War in about a week. At the end, he leaves Earth to find another planet he can populate with life. It is revealed in ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' that he ended up in the DC universe and is, among other things, responsible for the New 52 by simply editing DC's history out of pure, cynical curiosity. He ends re-editing it after being inspired by Superman (and realising how important he is to every iteration of the DC Universe as TheCape), creating the Rebirth era of the DC universe, and using the last of his power to [[spoiler: create a Watchmen version of Superman]].
** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' also features a [[GeneticAbomination human-made abomination]] in the form of the Psychic Squid, a deformed and [[Creator/LewisLovhaug slimy]] giant mollusk-like thing created using the brain of a psychic and deliberately designed to look as repulsive as possible. On the second of November, the squid is teleported on New York, killing three million in a psychic attack and giving nightmares to people from around the world. It's so horrifying that it ends the Cold War because the world governments believe it's the first of a series of attacks from interdimensional aliens.]]
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman''
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'': The beings from Pluto do not reflect light so look like shadow and eat emotions, by splitting their victims into the colored emotional spectrum which destroys their body on the physical plane and lets the plutoians take their time eating since their victims cannot die, but are not fully alive, in such a state.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': The Hekatonkheires (Hundred-Handed Ones), especially Cottus who mostly looks like a giant thing made of shadowy hands with a glowing interior and whose spine has been mistaken for stairs by even Wonder Woman herself.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2006'': The khunds are being wiped 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.
** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': This version of Poseidon is an enormous teal creature that looks vaguely like a combination of a few octopi, a whale, and some type of pinniped with growths atop his head that look like coral and a giant starfish. There's also a smaller version of himself inside him.

* In the end, the Hunters Three of the ComicBook/New52 Comicbook/AnimalMan are subversions. Three absolutely horrific creatures who [[MeatPuppet "disguise themselves as men"]]. According to interviews, the three of them are from the edges of the DC Universe and serve a dark force lurking beneath it. Though, really, [[http://www.comicvine.com/hunters-three/65-58633/all-images/108-538958/hunters_buddy_1/105-1997905/ their appearance says it all]]. But the Hunters Three [[spoiler:turn out to be ordinary people after Maxine frees them of their corruption.]] The Rot itself is actually the natural force of death and decay [[spoiler:corrupted by Anton Arcane, an all too human villain.]]

** Man-Bat became a disgusting AnimalisticAbomination controlled by an even worse EldritchAbomination in ComicBook/JusticeLeagueDark
** 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 definitely 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.]]
*** 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.
** At her more powerful, Poison Ivy is this. She has a conection to The Green, the universe's AnthropomorphicPersonification of plant life and she is immune to any poison, [[ResurrectiveImmortality able to come back from the dead in plant-human hybrid bodies]], GreenThumb powers that even rival those of Swamp Thing or the Floronic Man and can create her own BotanicalAbomination pets.

%%* The ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck'' comic had an arc called [[ShoutOut "The Call of Duckthulu"]]. No points for guessing what it was about.

*** Quimper used to be a mischievous 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.

%%** [[ExactlyWhatitSaysontheTin Mother Dirt]], from ''ComicBook/TheFilth''. Supposedly, it's the BigGood of the series.

%%** Butcher, the Red Entity of Rage, is a bull.

* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}''
** John Constantine met and defeated two Lovecraftian gods from different story arcs. Jallakuntilliokan, a two headed dragon/floating meat [[SpacetimeEater who eats reality]], and M'Nagalah, who is the god of cancer.

* The ComicBook/NewGods's Darkseid is the AbstractApotheosis of [[GodOfEvil evil]] with access to such uncanny powers as the AndIMustScream-inducing [[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Omega Effect]] or the Anti-Life Equation, and who rules over a borderline-EldritchLocation found outside of time and space. Canonically every Darkseid in the multiverse (And New God for that matter) is just a fraction of the true entity, which are implied to live infinite dimensions about us and to be the essence of what they represent. This means that Darkseid isn't just the GodOfEvil inside the comic, [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou he is a fraction of our reality's platonic ideal of Evil!]]
** Darkseid's eldritch status is played for all it's worth during ComicBook/FinalCrisis; after his reincarnation into Dan Turpin, his presence actually starts to decay time and space. Mandrakk is using Darkseid's attack to hide his own plans (but is stopped before getting too far). How does Darkseid [[RealityWarper break reality]] (one parallel universe actually is destroyed by this)? He sits on his throne, waiting for reality to die [[CosmicFlaw MERELY BECAUSE HE]] [[BrownNoteBeing EXISTS.]]
*** Relating to Darkseid, the Omega Effect is an EldritchAbomination in itself: It's an extradimensional force that can not only desintegrate almost anything (if you're as tough as Cyborg Superman maybe you will just barely die) and allow Darkseid to then recreate you as a zombie, but also has the Life Trap, which is manifested as a void [[HumanoidAbomination with a vaguely human shape called the Omega Sanction]] that traps you infinitely in increasingly more dreadful lifes until you become a servant of Anti-Life. [[ComicBook/SevenSoldiers Shilo Norman]], the greatest escape artist ever trained by the AbstractApotheosis of freedom is so far the only thing to have escaped the Omega Sanction's full power.
*** Finally, the Anti-Life Equation is ''also'' an EldritchAbomination: a sentient abstract mathematical formula that shows the futility of life and can destroy free will. Some parts of it tend to crop up on Earth, particularly in its collective unconscious through characters like Sonny Sumo or Empress, the reason behind Darkseid's continuous attacks on Earth, despite multiple instances showing that not even Darkseid can either fully control or even comprehend Anti-Life, since it's tied directly to the Source, one of the few things Darkseid is powerless against. Pied Piper channeling the whole equation through ThePowerOfRock was enough to kill [[HumanoidAbomination Desaad]] and destroy APOKOLIPS. ''Cosmic Odyssey'' shows the Anti-Life Equation as a shadowy BrownNoteBeing so powerful and evil that it forces [[EnemyMine Darkseid to work with his sworn enemies to stop it]] (although it was later retconned to be a different creature). ''The Death of the New Gods'' also features a similar concept, where Anti-Life is revealed to be one half of a cosmic being that was split into two by the war of the Old Gods, but this was also retconned later, although not 100% dropped.

** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'', Superman is teleported to the Edge of the Universe. Way out there, space becomes white, and after that, there is a MASSIVE, INFINITE WALL of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s / {{Body Horror}}s marking the final boundary between our universe and the next one over. In ''ComicBook/CountdownToFinalCrisis'', though, this wall has symbols and statues of humanoid figures on it, like it's the outside wall of the Monitor's base. The Source Wall lies on the edge of the known universe, in the Promethean Galaxy. Beyond the wall lies what is known as The Source, a cosmic essence or being that is the "source" of all that exists. The wall is theoretically passable. However, all those who try have been inevitably trapped in it. Over time, it has been made up of the bodies of would-be conquerors and curiosity seekers from all across the universe.

*** 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 decay, and have a tendency of creating hideous [[UndeadAbomination Undead Abominations]] that tend to overstep their rules and try to end all organic life.

** The Original Darkness, the BigBad of the "Murder of Crows" arc. For starters, this thing is [[PrimordialChaos the chaos that existed]] prior to [[{{God}} the Presence]] beginning its creation. It's also brain-meltingly enormous; the telepath [[ComicBook/DoomPatrol Mento]] actually starts foaming at the mouth trying to comprehend the scale of this thing. Just having your existence acknowledged by it can have fatal results for even powerful magic-users, as Zatara and Sargon found out the hard way. Oh, and it's absolutely unstoppable; ComicBook/{{Etrigan}}, ComicBook/DoctorFate, and ComicBook/TheSpectre all try and fail horribly to halt its assault on Heaven, with the Spectre memorably being [[CurbStompBattle curbstomped]] by the Darkness's ''thumb''. It takes [[{{God}} the Presence]] ''itself'' to intervene to stop this thing, and it couldn't destroy the Darkness, merely nullify it, as they are ''equals''.

** 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.