History EldritchAbomination / Comicbooks

** ''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-NiceHat 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.]]

** He 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 ''[[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 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 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.

** His 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.

** 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, it caused a planetary-level genocide and nearly inspired an interstellar war.

* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** Worldkiller-1, who shows up in the ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' arc, 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/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the "Godship" is a moon-sized world-eating creature called "Ash'ka'phageous".

** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'', Superman teleports 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.

* The new run on ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' by writer Scott Snyder introduces us to 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.

** ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} also becomes this 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 ''merely because he exists''. [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Awe. Some.]]

** 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 '''''[[AGodAmI 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.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'', Superman teleports 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.
*** This 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.
** One particularly obscure example that Franchise/{{Superman}} faced was [[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.
** Once upon a time, 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 DCRebirth, Aethyr is BACK.
* The new run on ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' by writer Scott Snyder introduces us to 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.

%%** In the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers original comic]], the corruption of the [[MacGuffin Creation Matrix]] created an evil spawn, that corrupted other life forms as well. ''Regeneration One'' revealed that [[spoiler: the dark Matrix creature had not been vanquished, and had been manipulating recent events in its favor, to give it the strength to spread across TheMultiverse]].
* ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' has a few examples:

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}''

** One of Creator/AlanMoore's early works is ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''. It's 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-NiceHat 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.]]
** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', Superman teleports 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.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': 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.

** The Big Bad of [[ComicBook/GrantMorrisonsActionComics 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]].

* ComicBook/AtomicRobo had to fight an extradimensional EldritchAbomination once - or four times, more accurately. Not because it kept coming back, but because it existed simultaneously across several points in space-time.

* ''ComicBook/{{Rat-Man}}''

* ''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/TheDoomsdayClock'' 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]].

** There are also [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere 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.

* ''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.

%%* Back in the 1980s, Creator/AlanMoore wrote several stories for Marvel UK's ''[[ComicBook/MarvelStarWars Star Wars]]'' comics which pitted the heroes against weird opponents like [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bedlam_Spirits the Bedlam Spirits]] and [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wutzek Wutzek, the last Force Demon]]. Whether or not these are still canonical is disputed (although the presence of ''Star Wars'' entities on other subpages of the trope may not bode well for [[TheVerse the Galaxy]]).

%%* The Flemish comic book series ''ComicBook/DeRodeRidder'' features an eldritch abomination in the album "De Rode Herberg" ("The Red Inn"). Said creature came to Earth in a meteorite and took up residence in the eponymous inn, feeding on people that spend the night there.

* ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'': 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.
* ''Franchise/{{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]].
** One of Creator/AlanMoore's early works is ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''. It's 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-NiceHat 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.]]
** In ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton'', Superman teleports 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.
*** This 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.
** One particularly obscure example that Franchise/{{Superman}} faced was [[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.
* ''JLA: [[ComicBook/TheNail Another Nail]]'' has the Limbo Cell, a primordial creature that eats existence.
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'':
** Worldkiller-1, who shows up in the ''ComicBook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' arc, 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/{{Bizarrogirl}}'', the "Godship" is a moon-sized world-eating creature called "Ash'ka'phageous".
%%* "Them" from ComicBook/ElEternauta easily come off as this; the best description we are given is that they are the "cosmic hatred".

%%* In ''ComicBook/{{Ghostopolis}}'', any living person who ends up in the titular city has the potential to become this.

* ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'':
%%** Many antagonists from ''ComicBook/{{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 Moloch tries to summon to Britain through [[HumanSacrifice 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); there are also the [[TimeAbyss pre-human]] gods called the Cythrons, and [[TheFairFolk the Els]], who inhabit the various [[AnotherDimension otherworlds]]. Those races tend to be very unfriendly towards humanity.
** ''ComicBook/{{Necronauts}}'': The Sleepers in the Void are shapeless beings from between dimensions who devour human souls. Houdini has angered them many times by traveling to the border between life and death and escaping their grasp every single time, while Lovecraft is inspired to write his stories after his encounter with them.
** ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}'': Ammit the Devourer. From what little we've seen of her, she's a bloated monstrosity that's all tentacles and mouths and feasts on the souls of the damned.
%%* Back in the 1980s, Creator/AlanMoore wrote several stories for Marvel UK's ''[[ComicBook/MarvelStarWars Star Wars]]'' comics which pitted the heroes against weird opponents like [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bedlam_Spirits the Bedlam Spirits]] and [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wutzek Wutzek, the last Force Demon]]. Whether or not these are still canonical is disputed (although the presence of ''Star Wars'' entities on other subpages of the trope may not bode well for [[TheVerse the Galaxy]]).

* The Veratu in the miniseries ''ComicBook/RainbowInTheDark''. They are a swarm of ghostly looking entities with human flesh masks over their faces. Their one and only goal is to keep humanity locked in a colorless, monotonous LotusEaterMachine for all time.
%%* They're some of the most common foes of ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' as she deals with Chaos, demon lords, alien gods, and more on a regular basis.
* ''ComicBook/{{Monstress}}'': The Old Gods are a race of giant, many-eyed, dark-skinned monstrous beings who are exiled from another dimension. They all drain life-force at a touch and have great supernatural power even in death. The one god that died, an island spontaneously formed from his/her bones as did undead guardians to defend it.
* In ''ComicBook/LockeAndKey'', this is what's behind the Black Door, a dimension of multi-eyed, mobile black tentacles. Fortunately, they can't cross beyond the threshold of the door without dying and petrifying into [[AppliedPhlebotinum Whispering Iron]] (the apparently self-aware material the series' magical keys are made of)... unless, of course, they manage to possess a person by latching onto their soul, which [[TheCorruption corrupts them]], leaving them sociopathically violent and with an urge to free more of them. [[spoiler: This, as it turns out, is what happened to [[BigBad Dodge]], making these beings the collective GreaterScopeVillain of the series.]]
%%* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'': In #5, Indy has to prevent a group of Nazi's from using an AncientArtifact to perform a ritual at Stonehenge WhenThePlanetsAlign that will release a trio of Eldritch Abominations that they hope to control and use to conquer the Earth. Indy is able to banish the abominations by destroying the artifact before the summoning is complete.

* The Lord of Locusts from ''ComicBook/{{Bone}}'', an ancient nightmare spirit without shape or form that cannot exist in the mortal world without inhabiting a mortal host. He obsessively desires to escape [[DreamLand the Dreaming]] and experience real life, not caring that his mere presence in the waking world causes a RealityBreakingParadox that creates Ghost Circles, pockets of pure void that trap the spirits of living beings in eternal agony. Nobody knows why he does anything he does; his personality and motivations are simply beyond human understanding, and he isn't treated like a character so much as a ''thing'' that just ''exists'' without explanation.

** ''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.

** 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. ''Carnage'' Vol. 2 counts Chthon as the mightiest of them, portraying him as an {{expy}} of Cthulhu.

*** 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 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 as 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.

** In the ''Realm Of Kings'' one-shot, Quasar visited an AlternateUniverse which was apparently sold to Dark Gods. Not only does everybody in this world carry an EldritchAbomination inside one's 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.

* ''ComicBook/TheAutumnlandsToothAndClaw:'' Dusty and Learoyd encounter a mutated blob at the conclusion of Issue #10 which appears to be composed of a dozen or more creatures gruesomely melded together.
* The super-organism in Webcomic/BioApocalypse has a habit of spawning these and might even qualify as one itself.
* One played a major role in ComicBook/{{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]].
* The ''ComicBook/DarkwingDuck'' comic had an arc called [[ShoutOut "The Call of Duckthulu"]]. No points for guessing what it was about.
* The Flemish comic book series ''ComicBook/DeRodeRidder'' features an eldritch abomination in the album "De Rode Herberg" ("The Red Inn"). Said creature came to Earth in a meteorite and took up residence in the eponymous inn, feeding on people that spend the night there.

** One of Creator/AlanMoore's early works is ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow''. It's 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, 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-NiceHat 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.]]

** One particularly obscure example that Franchise/{{Superman}} faced was [[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 a 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 devours 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.

* "Them" from ComicBook/ElEternauta easily come off as this; the best description we are given is that they are the "cosmic hatred".

** A short story in the ''Empowered Unchained'' volume has a vast LivingShip (and its baby) who are shown to have [[BiggerOnTheInside entire worlds inside them]] and are able to suffer from infection by parasites that are intelligent and human-sized in their own right.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Ghostopolis}}'', any living person who ends up in the titular city has the potential to become this.

** Hexus, the Living Corporation, from ''Marvel Boy'', a sort of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Cosmically Corrupt Executive]].

** ''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).

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

** Batman faces one of these in the form of the Hyper-Adapter, a time-travelling cephalopod. It's heavily implied that the Hyper-Adapter was the cause of all the events in the Wayne history that led to Bruce Wayne becoming Batman.
** The Gentry from ''ComicBook/TheMultiversity'' are a group of evil entities that are roaming the multiverse and destroying every world they come across in [[RealityWarper 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.\\

** In ''ComicBook/{{Nameless}}'', 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.]]

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

** The Ogdru Jahad's most powerful servants are the Ogdru Hem, 369 lesser abominations, each incredibly powerful in their own right. These include Sadu-Hem, the Conqueror Worm [[{{Ghostapo}} summoned by Von Klempt]], and the discorporated entity that [[DemonicPossession possesses]] the ectoplasmic medium Mr. Tod when he goes off "fishing in the deep-end".
** Additional Ogdru Hem show up in ''ComicBook/{{BPRD}}''--Katha-Hem, who ravages the central United States, and the unnamed creature in the Salton Sea, breathing the upgraded form of [[TheVirus the Frogman Plague]] into the atmosphere.

** Ain't he cute?

** Imperiex could also be considered one, given that it was 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 '''''[[AGodAmI 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.

* 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.

** 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.
** 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, while not a true EldritchAbomination in the sense that he was created, still arguably qualifies. He's 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.

*** Somehow subverted (or {{hand wave}}d?) 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.)

** Mephisto qualifies as this. Sure that he may look as 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 actually implied that he might not have any form at all. Also, he's a semi-subversion 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.

** 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 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]].

** The entity Sublime, introduced as Dr. John Sublime in Grant Morrison's run on X-Men. The last storyline of that run was ''Here Comes Tomorrow'', replete with imagery straight from the Book of Revelation in The Bible. Sublime isn't John Sublime, he (it?) is a three-BILLION-year-old sentient strain of bacteria that wants to stop evolution, or else control it, so life that it can't infect and possess can't survive long. Sublime loathes mutants because they're intelligent enough to fight it and naturally immune to possession except through work-arounds like the super-steroid Kick. Its influence (personal hypothesis here) may very well be a major reason why the X-Men can't ever catch a prolonged break. In ''Here Comes Tomorrow'', Sublime (its core cells possessing Dr. Henry [=McCoy=]) seeks to wrap its flagella and pseudopods around the full power of the Phoenix Force, so it can "remake God in [its] own image." That timeline ended up getting BURNT OUT OF EXISTENCE by Jean Grey as The [Messianic] White Phoenix of the Crown. Revelations in various other titles indicate that Sublime was responsible for Weapon X (if not the ENTIRE Super-Soldier program), and after John Sublime died, Sublime was still the BigBad the events of Phoenix: War Song, its minions oversaw the creation of the Predator-Xs, and various other nasty schemes. Oh, and note how Sublime's core cells got in possession of John Sublime--it infected a Wolverine from another alternate future (Weapon X: Days of Future Now) while his mind was being projected back by Rachel Summers into his past self to alternativize that ''Days of Future Past'' retread.
** Creator/BrianWood's X-Men series has Sublime joining forces with X-Men against Arkea - another sapient strain of bacteria that Sublime kicked out of the planet billions of years ago. It evolved in space, gaining power to infect machines like Sublime does organic beings and wants two things - revenge and infecting everything on Earth. It's more powerful and advanced, but also more primal, lacking her brother's subtlety, it just destroys. Wanna know how bad Arkea is? She made Sublime ''run'' and ''surrender'' to the X-Men.
** 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 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, it caused a planetary-level genocide and nearly inspired an interstellar war.

** 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 themself from he eyes of those who are strong enough to resist mind control, and transforming things into bizarrely creative way with a bit of meta touch (it once trapped Billy into an empy 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]]]].

* The titular memory-eating parasites from Creator/VertigoComics' ''Mnemovore'', [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness maybe]].
* The unfinished miniseries ''[[Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet A Nightmare on Elm Street: The Beginning]]'' would have revealed that the Dream Demons, the masters of Freddy Krueger and the ones who gave him his powers, were examples of this, far more horrific than they appeared in ''Film/FreddysDeadTheFinalNightmare'', and led by an unbelievably repulsive sounding HiveQueen. For those interested, the script for the issue that explored their origin is available to read [[http://www.andymangels.com/Beginning_3.pdf here]].

** Many antagonists from ''ComicBook/{{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 Moloch tries to summon to Britain through [[HumanSacrifice 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); there are also the [[TimeAbyss pre-human]] gods called the Cythrons, and [[TheFairFolk the Els]], who inhabit the various [[AnotherDimension otherworlds]]. Those races tend to be very unfriendly towards humanity.

* Back in the 1980s, Creator/AlanMoore wrote several stories for Marvel UK's ''[[ComicBook/MarvelStarWars Star Wars]]'' comics which pitted the heroes against weird opponents like [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Bedlam_Spirits the Bedlam Spirits]] and [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Wutzek Wutzek, the last Force Demon]]. Whether or not these are still canonical is disputed (although the presence of ''Star Wars'' entities on other subpages of the trope may not bode well for [[TheVerse the Galaxy]]).

* The new run on ''Comicbook/SwampThing'' by writer Scott Snyder introduces us to 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.

** It turned out [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Dead_Universe the Dead Universe]] was embodied by a being called D-Void, which manifested as [[http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/f/fe/HoD2_Feed_D-Void.jpg things]] [[http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/5/5d/HoD4_D-Void_takes_over.jpg like]] [[http://tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/0/0f/Deceptigod_Chaos_part3_Kings.jpg these]].
** Unicron ''himself''. His portrayal as such originated in the comics; he's covered more extensively in the [[EldritchAbomination/WesternAnimation Western Animation]] page.
*** There's at least one FanFiction out there, written like a Lovecraft story, which treats Unicron as an awakened Cthulu.
** In the [[ComicBook/TheTransformers original comic]], the corruption of the [[MacGuffin Creation Matrix]] created an evil spawn, that corrupted other life forms as well. ''Regeneration One'' revealed that [[spoiler: the dark Matrix creature had not been vanquished, and had been manipulating recent events in its favor, to give it the strength to spread across TheMultiverse]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'':
** [[spoiler:Ozymandias creates a genetically modified monstrosity designed to look like one of these.]] It looks like the Sarlacc if Sigmund Freud was in charge of Star Wars.
** 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.

** The Shadow, a mysterious entity usually acting through envoys of identical looks, names and eldritch powers but that incarnates in a host (the son of the previous one) every thirty years, has caused the extinction of the dinosaurs and now is gunning for mankind. Only superheroes can defeat it, but, between the last host killing most of them and [[spoiler: Mr. Mouse]] causing people to mistrust them, the only one remaining is [[WhatAnIdiot that idiot]] Rat-Man himself. Oh, and what about the new chosen host, who, at the moment of this post, is trying to avoid being dragged off and forced in the role? It's [[spoiler: Rat-Man himself]]

* They're some of the most common foes of ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'' as she deals with Chaos, demon lords, alien gods, and more on a regular basis.
* Creator/AlanMoore discusses the concept in [[https://www.goodreads.com/questions/572575-what-do-you-think-makes-a-person-or this]] Q&A.

* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'': In #5, Indy has to prevent a group of Nazi's from using an AncientArtifact to perform a ritual at Stonehenge WhenThePlanetsAlign that will release a trio of Eldritch Abominations that they hope to control and use to conquer the Earth. Indy is able to banish the abominations by destroying the artifact before the summoning is complete.

* In the chilean comic ''Zombies en la Moneda'', in the last volume it is discovered that the ZombieApocalypse that Chile suffers is the responsibility of a powerful, ancient and evil entity ([[BlueAndOrangeMorality At least, his actions seem to be evil]]), which uses the vital energy of celebrities and politicians to feed itself and has converted [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Moneda_Palace La Moneda]] in a place [[EldritchLocation full of abominations and walls made of living flesh.]] In ''Mision Valparaiso'', its sequel, it is discovered that [[spoiler: he is actually UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet resurrected in the form of a zombie, or perhaps an EldritchAbomination that occupies his body.]] It's a little confusing.

* In the chilean comic ''Zombies en la Moneda'', in the last volume it is discovered that the ZombieApocalypse that Chile suffers is the responsibility of a powerful, ancient and evil entity ([[BlueAndOrangeMorality At least, his actions seem to be evil]]), which uses the vital energy of celebrities and politicians to feed itself and has converted [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Moneda_Palace La Moneda]] in a place [[EldritchLocation full of abominations and walls made of living flesh.]] In Misión Valparaíso, its sequel, it is discovered that [[spoiler: he is actually UsefulNotes/AugustoPinochet resurrected in the form of a zombie, or perhaps an EldritchAbomination that occupies his body.]] It's a little confusing.

** 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...]]

*** What makes it [[TearJerker even worse]] is that the subtext that implies that Mandrakk is the [[ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths original Monitor]] or his reincarnation, who has been corrupted and made into all of creation's greatest threat. This [[HumanoidAbomination means that the original Monitor belongs here.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdeventuresOfIndianaJones'': In #5, Indy has to prevent a group of Nazi's from using an AncientArtifact to perform a ritual at Stonehenge WheThePlanetsAlign that will release a trio of Eldritch Abominations that they hope to control and use to conquer the Earth. Indy is able to banish the abominations by destroying the artifact before the summoning is complete.