History EldritchAbomination / LiveActionTV

** On that note, remember the Doctor's line from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]] about the thing the Pandorica was designed to hold: "There was a goblin, or a trickster... or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world."

* ''PowerRangers'' contains a whole stack of them, occurring at a rate of about one per season. There was Lokar, Master Vile, Maligore, Dark Spectre, Queen Bansheera, Master Org, the Master, Onimi, Dai Shi, and probably a few others. But one of the greatest things about the Power Rangers is that the vast majority of these characters share a single thing in common. They got the attention of the Power Rangers, and the Power Rangers [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu killed the shit out of them]].

** The... ''creature'' from "Midnight". [[NothingIsScarier We don't see much of it]], so it's nothing definite. But it [[spoiler:{{Mind Rape}}s ''the Doctor'', and comes closer to killing him than ''anything'' else.]]

** On that note, remember the Doctor's line from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens "The Pandorica Opens"]] about the thing the Pandorica was designed to hold: "There was a goblin, or a trickster... or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world." [[spoiler:It was designed to hold ''him''. A [[NoNameGiven nameless]], [[BewareTheNiceOnes terrible]], [[TheDreaded universally-feared]] [[WalkingDisasterArea menace]] [[TheDrifter from out of nowhere]] indeed...]]

** The Weeping Angels put this ''Beyond The Impossible.'' Infinitely fast statues which you don't know if one is an angel or not, all the while made of stone, able to kill and transport people through time and [[spoiler: exist as pictures??]] Yup.

** There's also [[MotherOfAThousandYoung Eve]], and apparently the other denizens of Purgatory.

** The Weeping Angels put this ''Beyond The Impossible.'' Infinitely fast statues which you don't know if one is an angel or not, all the while made of stone, able to kill and transport people through time and [[Spoiler: exist as pictures??]] Yup.

* Some monsters, usually the BigBad from SuperSentai fit this trope. There's [[HimitsuSentaiGoranger Black Cross Fuhrer]], [[HikariSentaiMaskman Underground Emperor Zeba]] and [[MahouSentaiMagiranger Absolute God N.Ma]].

* Some [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters Of The Week]] from ''UltraSeries'' fit this trope. Notable is ''Ultraman Tiga'', where [[CthulhuMythos Ghatanothoa]] appears as BigBad. However, these are SuperHero shows that [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out Cthulhu]] on a weekly basis.

* In ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'', the tentacled monstrosity underneath the Hellmouth. The Old Ones that used to inhabit the Buffyverse aren't seen, with the exception of Olivikan and a picture of Illyria.
** Illyria is seen in true form in ''Angel: After the Fall''. In the Season 8 comics we also see Sephrillian. And ''Fray'' gives us Neauth, Boluz and Vrill. And the EU Dark Horse comics showed Ky-laag and Azogg-Mon.
** Don't forget Glorificus, better known as Glory of season five. Sure, we saw her as a HumanoidAbomination, but that's just because she was SealedEvilInACan. She's a ''hellgod''. She was so horrific that other similar gods sealed her and banished her from their dimension. Even in this form, she's an unkillable monstrosity that sucks the sanity out of people unfortunate enough to run into her.
** Jasmine's true, massively tentacled form, covered in blinding, colorful light also qualifies.
* In ''Series/DoctorWho'', everyone who saw the Fendahl died of fright, and that was only a crippled ghost of its true self, 12 million years dead. In the ExpandedUniverse, the Time Lords deliberately created the Fendahl Predator, a malign void which could reach across time and space to feed on the stuff of thought and hungered to [[OmnicidalManiac devour all eternity]], from the Big Bang to the end of time. Those who looked at it saw an endless procession of grotesque images, as their mind struggled to comprehend the incomprehensible. [[TooDumbToLive And then the Time Lords released it to use for warfare.]]
** The Beast from "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" certainly qualifies as well, so much so that ''the Doctor refuses to understand it''. It's very much implied to be the ''literal Devil''.
*** In ''{{Torchwood}}'', we meet its son, Abaddon, who also counts.
*** Interestingly, the Beast claims that "Abaddon" is one of its names.
** The eponymous BigBad in "The Curse of Fenric" could definitely count as an EldritchAbomination, albeit [[spoiler:one without a body of its own, instead possessing others' bodies]].
*** Indeed, one of the spinoff novels actually identifies Fenric as [[spoiler:Hastur the Unspeakable from the Cthulhu mythos.]]
** The DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse also says the TARDIS itself is an Eldritch Abomination, which considerately disguises itself to avoid reducing the passengers to gibbering wrecks. As a living shape-shifting creature, at home in extra-dimensional spaces, with a mind even the Doctor deems unfathomably alien, it's certainly a good candidate.
*** A minor story comments on the TARDIS' mind as completely and utterly [[spoiler: '''pandimensional''']].
*** Seeing as how, as mentioned below, the Doctor himself is basically an {{adorkable}}, {{woobie}}ish avatar of Nyarlahotep, it only makes sense that [[CoolShip his ride]] would be of a similar nature.
** How about the [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel creature from Midnight]]? [[NothingIsScarier We don't see much of it]], so it's nothing definite. But it [[spoiler:{{Mind Rape}}s ''the Doctor'']]. I think that alone qualifies it for ''something''.
** There's a good candidate in ''The Waters of Mars'': [[spoiler: The Time Lord Victorious]]. Remember this line from back in ''Family of Blood'':
--->"He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe."
:::Then compare and contrast this...:
---> "But there are laws. There are laws of time. Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. Do you know who that leaves? Me! It's taken me all these years to realise the laws of time are mine! '''And they will obey me!'''"
*** Terrifyingly, this makes him exactly like [[TheMaster someone else we know]], down to that last line of dialogue. Hell, you could say their entire race counts, seeing that they can frickin' ''create'' Eldritch Abominations.
*** Can move through time and space with little to no effort, known to change shape, well-dressed[[hottip:*:[[RummageSaleReject Well, sometimes.]]]], mysterious, charming, fond of {{Xanatos Gambit}}s... The Doctor, particularly [[spoiler:towards the end of Waters of Mars]], [[HumanoidAbomination is really not a million miles away from being Nyarlathotep]]. TheMaster even moreso.
*** In addition to that, this is a being (and a race!) who, in every waking moment, has the Time Vortex roaring in their head. They see the ebb and flow of history, and know instinctively which points are fixed in time, how much can be changed without effecting the outcome, and what ''must'' be changed to ensure everything remains on its course. The Doctor's mind has got to be a very, very scary place...
** On that note, remember the Doctor's line from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]] about the thing the Pandorica was designed to hold: "There was a goblin, or a trickster... or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world." [[spoiler:It was designed to hold ''him''. A [[NoNameGiven nameless]], [[BewareTheNiceOnes terrible]], [[TheDreaded universally-feared]] [[WalkingDisasterArea menace]] [[TheDrifter from out of nowhere]] indeed...]]
** An assortment of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s apparently rose from the midst of the Last Great Time War, such as the Skaro Degradations, the Nightmare Child, and the Couldhavebeen King with his armies of Meanwhiles and Never-weres. [[spoiler:The Time Lock around the War is there, in part, to stop these things from ever getting out.]]
*** The Nightmare Child in particular is mentioned as the monstrosity that killed Davros in the first year of the Time War by [[spoiler:SWALLOWING HIS FLAGSHIP WHOLE.]]
*** Indeed, the fact that these creatures [[spoiler: will be returning through the Time Lock in "The End of Time" terrifies the Doctor more than the Master, the return of the Time Lords AND the return of the planet Gallifrey.]]
** How about the voice ''from fucking nowhere'' that can control the TARDIS, out-[[XanatosGambit Xanatos]] the Doctor and ''all'' of his enemies, and wishes to bring "silence" down on the entire Universe (and ''almost'' did, once)? The fact that we have ''no'' idea what it might be [[NothingIsScarier only makes it scarier]].
** Zagreus from the BigFinish audios would qualify:
---> [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Zagreus seeks the hero's ship]]\\
[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Zagreus needs the web to rip]]\\
[[HighOctaneNightmareFuel Zagreus sups time at a drip]]\\
[[NightmareFuel And life aside, he's sweeping.]]
** ''Series/DoctorWho'' also has the Eternals, beings that live outside of time [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in eternity]], they are immortal and use the imagination of people from our universe (They call us [[{{Muggles}} Ephemerals]]) to form realities. They can take ''anyone'' they want from any point in time and force them to do whatever they wish. They are not invincible though, if somehow trapped in our reality they are mortal and vulnerable. Next there are the [[HPLovecraft Ancient Old Ones]], beings from [[FishOutOfTemporalWater the previous universe]] that follow different physics, this allows them vast reality warping abilities; this can be inverted with beings from the ''next'' universe that have similar powers.
** The monsters imprisoned in the titular [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Axis of Insanity]], a collection of [[EldritchLocation doomed, collapsing, timelines]].
** There is also the Nestene Consciousness, a formerly squid-like, later molten energy being that can control plastic, which is, according to the ExpandedUniverse, one of the thousand children on [[CthulhuMythos Shub-Niggurath]].
** The spinoff series TheSarahJaneAdventures has had a few as well. One group were intelligent stars, who existed as {{Hive Queen}}s to at least part of the universe that existed before the Big Bang. Another was [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Abomination]]. In this case a BrownNote painting, and not a flesh and blood being. [[spoiler: Unfortunately it was painted with psychically active ink, which was capable of [[ArtInitiatesLife bringing the creature depicted]] to life. [[GoneHorriblyRight Oops]].]]
** TheSarahJaneAdventures also brings us the Trickster, part of a Pantheon, whose point is to cause chaos in the universe at large.

** Well, except Lokar, who fled, never to be seen again, Master Vile, who they only drove back to the M51 galaxy, and Dark Spectre, who was killed by TheStarscream with a ''planetbuster missile''. Queen Bansheera's ultimate vital status is up for debate, since she ends up SealedEvilInACan, where the "can" is ''hell itself''. They ''did'' kill Master Org, Maligore, the Master, Onimi, Dai Shi, and a whole bunch of minor ones.
*** Bansheera was dropped into monster hell and ripped apart by a pack of demons. I think we can put on a toe-tag without too much angst, there.
*** Special mention should go to The Master, who... well... just look at his [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091003051736/powerrangers/images/2/25/Octomus.jpg first form]].
** In sentai, Lokar's name is [[{{Satan}} Dai Satan]]. Dai Shi also translates as "great death".

'''Dean:''' Alright, alright, quit bragging.

* In ''DoctorWho'', everyone who saw the Fendahl died of fright, and that was only a crippled ghost of its true self, 12 million years dead. In the ExpandedUniverse, the Time Lords deliberately created the Fendahl Predator, a malign void which could reach across time and space to feed on the stuff of thought and hungered to [[OmnicidalManiac devour all eternity]], from the Big Bang to the end of time. Those who looked at it saw an endless procession of grotesque images, as their mind struggled to comprehend the incomprehensible. [[TooDumbToLive And then the Time Lords released it to use for warfare.]]

** ''DoctorWho'' also has the Eternals, beings that live outside of time [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in eternity]], they are immortal and use the imagination of people from our universe (They call us [[{{Muggles}} Ephemerals]]) to form realities. They can take ''anyone'' they want from any point in time and force them to do whatever they wish. They are not invincible though, if somehow trapped in our reality they are mortal and vulnerable. Next there are the [[HPLovecraft Ancient Old Ones]], beings from [[FishOutOfTemporalWater the previous universe]] that follow different physics, this allows them vast reality warping abilities; this can be inverted with beings from the ''next'' universe that have similar powers.

** The monsters imprisoned in the titular [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Axis of Insanity]].

*** A minor story comments on the TARDIS' mind as complete and utterly [[spoiler: '''pandimensional''']].

** There's another candidate in that episode as well: [[spoiler: The Time Lord Victorious]]. Remember this line from back in ''Family of Blood'':

** The Spinoff series TheSarahJaneAdventures has had a few as well. One group were intelligent stars, who existed as {{Hive Queen}}s to at least part of the universe that existed before the Big Bang. Another was [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Abomination]]. In this case a BrownNote painting, and not a flesh and blood being. [[spoiler: Unfortunately it was painted with psychically active ink, which was capable of [[ArtInitiatesLife bringing the creature depicted]] to life. [[GoneHorriblyRight Oops]].]]

** Yet another [[NothingIsScarier unseen abomination]] rises up in [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]. Unlike some of these other abominations in ''Who,'' however, this one had a knack for unleashing a parasite that converted the infected into [[OurZombiesAreDifferent water-spewing, lizardy zombie things]], that very nearly unleashed the infection hidden in the ice of Mars with their unholy screaming.

** Illyria is seen in true form in ''Angel: After the Fall''. In the Season 8 we also see Sephrillian. And ''Fray'' gives us Neauth, Boluz and Vrill. And the EU Dark Horse comics showed Ky-laag and Azogg-Mon.

* In ''DoctorWho'', everyone who saw the Fendahl died of fright, and that was only a crippled ghost of its true self, 12 million years dead. In the ExpandedUniverse, the Time Lords deliberately created the Fendahl Predator, a malign void which could reach across time and space to feed on the stuff of thought and hungered to [[OmnicidalManiac devour all eternity]], from the Big Bang to the end of time. Those who looked at it saw an endless procession of grotesque images, as their mind struggled to comprehend the incomprehensible. [[TooDumbToLive And then they released it to use for warfare.]]

** How about the voice ''from fucking nowhere'' that can control the TARDIS, out-[[XanatosGambit Xanatos]] the Doctor and ''all'' of his enemies, and wishes to bring :silence" down on the entire Universe (and ''almost'' did, once)? The fact that we have ''no'' idea what it might be [[NothingIsScarier only makes it scarier]].
** Zagreus from the [[BigFinish Big Finish]] audios would qualify:

** ''DoctorWho'' has the Eternals, beings that live outside of time [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin in eternity]], they are immortal and use the imagination of people from our universe (They call us [[{{Muggles}} Ephemerals]]) to form realities. They can take ''anyone'' they want from any point in time and force them to do whatever they wish. They are not invincible though, if somehow trapped in our reality they are mortal and vulnerable. Next there are the [[HPLovecraft Ancient Old Ones]], beings from [[FishOutOfTemporalWater the previous universe]] that follow different physics, this allows them vast reality warping abilities; this can be inverted with beings from the ''next'' universe that have similar powers.

* ''PowerRangers'' contains a whole stack of them, occurring at a rate of about one per season. There was Lokar, Master Vile, Maligore, Dark Spectre, Queen Bansheera, Master Org, the Master, Onimi, Dai Shi, and probably a few others. But one of the greatest things about the Power Rangers is that, the vast majority of these characters share a single thing in common. They got the attention of the Power Rangers, and the Power Rangers [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu killed the shit out of them]].

** Hell, what about '''Q'''. Sure, he shows up as human, but it's made clear that he could show up as Cthulu if he so wanted.

** In the Season One episode 'Mind War', Catherine Sakai is investigating a planet while looking for a rare ore, and her ship's engines are overwhelmed by the mere presence of an unknown alien ship. She is only saved because G'Kar suspected what would happen, as that planet was known to be dangerous, and sent two fighter ships to rescue her. When she asks G'Kar what she saw out there, he make an analogy using an nearby ant that's listed in the quote page.

* Already touched upon in the Literature section, by the made-for-TV film adaptation of ''TheLangoliers'' is [[NightmareFuel pretty traumatizing if you had the misfortune of seeing it as a child]].

-->'''Castiel:''' My true form is approximately the size of your Chrysler building.\\
'''Dean:''' Stop bragging.

* In ''DoctorWho'', everyone who saw the Fendahl died of fright, and that was only a crippled ghost of its true self, 12 million years dead. In the ExpandedUniverse, the Time Lords deliberately created the Fendahl Predator, a malign void which could reach across time and space to feed on the stuff of thought and hungered to [[OmnicidalManiac devour all eternity]], from the Big Bang to the end of time. Those who looked at it saw an endless procession of grotesque images, as their mind struggled to comprehend the incomprehensible. [[TooDumbToLive And then they released it to use on warfare.]]

*** The DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse also says the TARDIS itself is an Eldritch Abomination, which considerately disguises itself to avoid reducing the passengers to gibbering wrecks. As a living shape-shifting creature, at home in extra-dimensional spaces, with a mind even the Doctor deems unfathomably alien, it's certainly a good candidate.
**** A minor story comments on the TARDIS' mind as complete and utterly [[spoiler: '''pandimensional''']].

*** There's another candidate in that episode as well. [[spoiler: The Time Lord Victorious]]. Remember this line from back in ''Family of Blood''. "He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night, and the storm in the heart of the sun. He's ancient and forever. He burns at the center of time and he can see the turn of the universe." Then contrast this with [[spoiler: coming from the person just described]]. "But there are laws. There are laws of time. Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws, but they died. They all died. Do you know who that leaves? Me! It's taken me all these years to realise the laws of time are mine! '''And they will obey me!'''"

*** On that note, remember the Doctor's line from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E12ThePandoricaOpens The Pandorica Opens]] about the thing the Pandorica was designed to hold: There was a goblin, or a trickster... Or a warrior... A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world. Now, remember what happens in the cliffhanger: [[spoiler:it was designed to hold him.]]
*** He can move through time and space with little to no effort, known to change shape, well-dressed, mysterious, charming, fond of {{Xanatos Gambit}}s . . . The Doctor, (and for that matter, the Master), [[spoiler: particularly towards the end of Waters of Mars]] is really not a million miles away from being Nyarlathotep.
**** HumanoidAbomination, then.

** How about the "Voice ''From Fucking Nowhere''" that can control the TARDIS, out-[[XanatosGambit Xanatos]] the Doctor and ''all'' of his enemies, and wishes to bring ''The Silence'' down on the entire Universe (and ''almost'' did, once)? The fact that we have ''no'' idea what it might be [[NothingIsScarier only makes it scarier]].

[[NightmareFuel And life aside, he's sweeping.]]