History EldritchAbomination / Minecraft

** The Ender Dragon is a typic DraconicAbomination, fitting for the FinalBoss: It's a giant jet black dragon who, judging by the name of the advancement you get upon killing her, [[DimensionLord rules an entire dimension.]] She has BrownNoteBeing properties, such as destroying every block not native to the End, as well as being able to [[IntangibleMan phase through End pillars]] and vomiting a corrosive poison. After killing her she dissolves in an explosion of light and her death triggers the opening of a long-closed portal that teleports you back to your spawn point. Oh, and apparently killing her makes you [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to a higher level where you can read the thoughts of two even larger cosmic beings.]]

*** When the sculk senses a menace to its safety through the sonic organs it has it first shouts some screams to scare away the intruder but if it senses the player is still there it summons '''[[OneHitKO a warden]]'''. Wardens are gigantic [[OurOgresAreDifferent golem-ogre things]] that emerge from the sculk and are the single nastiest beings in the game, sharing traits fitting for a HumanoidAbomination, BotanicalAbomination and UndeadAbomination. They will try to find the player through the aformentioned sonic organs, or their sense of smell, while walking like a Cordiceps victim. Not only do they have 500 HP, but they hit like a truck and move at high speeds, and to top it off they has a sonic attack ''and'' can generate an aura of darkness. If the souls on their chests and their spawning animation doesn't spell it for you, the wardens appear to be sprouts of the sculk [[UndeadAbomination infused with the souls the sculk feeds on]] to briefly defend the organism before fusing again with the sculk. As one gamer puts it:

** The sculk is probably the closest thing Minecraft has to a CosmicHorrorStory plot. Its a [[MeatMoss fleshy]] [[BotanicalAbomination fungi-like parasitic]] [[HiveMind hyper-organism]] that seems to have come from an alternate dimension through the portal frame found in ancient cities. To make matters worse, it's heavily implied that the sculk feeds on the souls of beings that died near it, which are absorbed by the sculk catalysts and make the sculk grow even larger, transforming close blocks into more of itself. After the Overworld's population got wiped out, the sculk overtook the underground ancient cities and began expanding through the deep dark, creating entire biomes of itself. [[ParanoiaFuel And everytime you kill hostile mobs in the deep dark to save your life, you're feeding it and getting it one step closer to devouring the Overworld]] (although fortunately, mobs don't naturally spawn in the deep dark, so they'll need to be brought in from elsewhere). It speaks volumes of just how powerful the sculk is that its defense mechanism is the flippin' [[BossInMooksClothing wardens.]] Speaking of which...

*** Allays, while more pacific, are also even more unearthly. They're an AbstractEater who WordOfGod claims feeds on music, and shows BizarreAlienReproduction where when feeding on music and right-clicked with an amethyst shard, they will duplicate. They're found trapped on mansions and outposts, seemingly implying that Allays are imperfect Vexes that were born good instead of evil.

*** Allays, while more pacific, are also even more unearthely. They're an AbstractEater who WordOfGod claims feeds on music, and shows BizarreAlienReproduction where when feeding on music and right-clicked with an amethyst shard, they will duplicate. They're found trapped on mansions and outposts, seemingly implying that Allays are imperfect Vexes that were born good instead of evil.

''Minecraft'' is a peaceful game about building bamboo huts and fishing on rivers. It's also chock full of beings who are so otherwordly they wouldn't be out of place in a horror game.

*** When the sculk senses a menace to its safety through the sonic organs it has it first shouts some screams to scare away the intruder but if it senses the player is still there it summons '''[[OneHitKO a warden]]'''. Wardens are gigantic [[OurOgresAreDifferent golem-ogre things]] that emerge from the sculk and are the single nastiest beings in the game, sharing traits fitting for a HumanoidAbomination, BotanicalAbomination and UndeadAbomination. They will try to find the player through the aformentioned sonic organs, or their sense of smell, while walking like a Cordiceps victim. Not only do they have 300 HP, but they hit like a truck and move at high speeds, and to top it off they has a sonic attack ''and'' can generate an aura of darkness. If the souls on their chests and their spawning animation doesn't spell it for you, the wardens appear to be sprouts of the sculk [[UndeadAbomination infused with the souls the sculk feeds on]] to briefly defend the organism before fusing again with the sculk. As one gamer puts it:

--> What creeps me about the Warden is that considering the Sculk organism is a whole biome, or maybe even a whole dimension, Wardens could very well be just be its immune system. From the Sculk's perspective, we're just germs damaging its body and the Warden, this monster of near-endless power, is just an antibody.
** One theory for the [[HellIsThatNoise cave sounds and underwater sounds]] is that they're the noises from [[EldritchAbomination an even more powerful entity sleeping under the Minecraft world.]]

* In both ''VideoGame/CalmereNightmare'' adventure maps, [[spoiler:the villagers are trying to summon these]]. They're only vaguely mentioned and represented by retextured Ghasts.

** [[UndeadAbomination Wither]] [[HumanoidAbomination skeletons]] are much taller than they're Overworld counterparts, [[BizarreAlienBiology appear to be partially made of]] [[NoodleImplements coal]] and are all but stated to be linked to the Wither. Their skulls are used alongside soul sand or soil to create such [[PoisonousPerson being]], they're the two only mobs that can give the [[MakeThemRot Wither]] effect and the Wither straight up invokes a pair of them in Pocket Edition. This has caused players to assume that Wither skeletons are remnants of the Wither's energy, and by fusing Wither energy with the soul-fest that is soul sand, you're bringing it back to life [[TheUndead (Or unlife)]]. Which brings us to...

** Blazes are a downplayed example. They have BizarreAlienBiology consisting of a floating head surrounded by spinning rods of fire, shoot fireballs and emit weird metallic breathind sounds and seem to occupy a similar role than guardians but for Nether fortresses. Their rods are used as a basic ingredient for alchemy, including the fuel, the brewing stand and the ingredient for potions of strength. Oh, and WordOfGod says they're [[MechanicalAbomination robots.]] While not particularly eldritch, [[StarfishAliens they're very very strange.]]

*** Allays, while more pacific, are also even more unearthely. They're an AbstractEater who WordOfGod claims feeds on music, and shows [[BizarreAlienReproduction]] where when feeding on music and right-clicked with an amethyst shard, they will duplicate. They're found trapped on mansions and outposts, seemingly implying that Allays are imperfect Vexes that were born good instead of evil.

** The Vexes and Allays are little [[OurFairiesAreDifferent sprite-like]] beings who shine with the blue light related to soul manipulation. They seem to be made of stitched souls put together by [[TheNecromancer the Evoker]], and display some pretty weird traits:

** The Vexes and Allays are little [[OurFairiessAreDifferent sprite-like]] beings who shine with the blue light related to soul manipulation. They seem to be made of stitched souls put together by [[TheNecromancer the Evoker]], and display some pretty weird traits:

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Minecraft is a peaceful game about building bamboo huts and fishing on rivers. It's also chock full of beings who are so otherwordly they wouldn't be out of place in a horror game.

** The Vexes and Allays are little [[OurSpritesAreDifferent sprite-like]] beings who shine with the blue light related to soul manipulation. They seem to be made of stitched souls put together by [[TheNecromancer the Evoker]], and display some pretty weird traits:

*** When the sculk senses a menace to its safety through the sonic organs it has it first shouts some screams to scare away the intruder but if it senses the player is still there it summons '''[[OneHitKO a warden]]'''. Wardens are gigantic [[OurOgresAreDifferent golem-ogre things]] that emerge from the sculk and are the single nastiest beings in the game, sharing traits fitting for a HumanoidAbomination, BotanicalAbomination and UndeadAbomination. They will try to find the player through the aformentioned sonic organs, or their sense of smell, while walking like a Cordiceps victim. Not only do they have 300 HP, but they hit like a truck and move at high speeds, and to top it off they has a sonic attack ''and'' can generate an aura of darkness. If the souls on their chests and their spawning animation doesn't spell it for you, the wardens appear to be emanations of the sculk [[UndeadAbomination infused with the souls the sculk feeds on]] to briefly defend the organism before fusing again with the sculk.

** Blazes are a downplayed example. They have BizarreAlienBiology consisting of a floating head surrounded by spinning rods of fire, shoot fireballs and emit weird metallic breathind sounds and seem to occupy a similar role than guardians but for Nether fortresses. Their rods are used as a basic ingredient for alchemy, including the fuel, the brewing stand and the ingredient for potions of strength. Oh, and WordOfGod says they're [[MechanicalAbomination robots.]]
** The only being that approaches the sculk in terms of eldritchness? '''[[UndeadAbomination The Wither]]'''. Its existence seems to have been theorized by the original humans ages ago judging by one of the paintings and the pattern in chiseled red sandstone, and it could very well be the reason they went extinct. It's summoned by combining soul sand with three wither skeleton skulls, and [[BeginWithAFinisher its birth is heralded by an explosion]] and the blackening of the skies. The Wither is a three-headed beast that seriously wouldn't be out of place in the Cthulhu Mythos. For starters, its only reason to be is to end all life, leaving a black flower (which can grow on netherrack) in the place of any mobs it kills, but it won't target the undead. It shoots little emanations of itself as ammunition, and it's a PoisonousPerson BrownNoteBeing that kills or destroys everything near it, to the point where not only does it poison you with [[MakeThemRot the Wither effect]], but it is strong enough to break '''OBSIDIAN'''. The battle with it will result in [[PersonOfMassDestruction acres and acres of explosion craters and Wither roses, showing its nature as a force for the Apocalypse.]] After having killed all life in proximity, it will continue to destroy every block until, presumably, [[OmnicidalManiac the entire world is reduced to ashes.]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu If you manage to kill it]], it will give you a Nether star, which can be used to craft a beacon that gives you a permanent power up as long as you're close to it, and is implied to transform the vicinity into a GeniusLoci. It's not a wonder that some players refer to it as the Angel of Death.

** The shulker is probably the most StarfishAlien of all Minecraft mobs, since it consists of a cubic center with eyes surrounded by a floating indestructible shell that they can open and close at will, and they shoot homing attacks that [[RealityWarper send your gravity field out to lunch]]. Plus, they can also teleport, they reproduce by shooting other shulkers with their gravity-altering bullets [[FridgeHorror (which begs the question of what exactly]] [[{{Squick}} are they shooting at you)]] and seem to occupy a similar role as the guardians and blazes mentioned above, who, as stated, are both {{Mechanical Abomination}}s
** The endermite is a rare near-harmless example. On paper it sounds very scary: a parasite that comes from a VoidBetweenTheWorlds that you briefly access when teleporting with an ender pearl and grabs onto you teleporting it with you to the dimension you were in. There, it will try to kill you and presumably try to take over the dimension... and then you realise it's a two-inch long purple bug with as much health as a one-legged chicken and that after a couple minutes it will disappear, indicating that it either must return to its dimension, or continued exposure to another one will kill it. Not very threatening overall.

** The guardians and elder guardians are fish-like creatures that live in ancient underwater monuments and seem to guard it. The base guardians already are pretty weird, looking very deformed and being able to shoot energy beams from their eyes, but the elder guardian is an archetypical AnimalisticAbomination. It's very big and looks pale and sickly, yet it can sense the player from a long distance. [[BrownNote It can induce visions of itself and extreme tiresome by merely being next to you]] and its beams are even more dangerous and weird. Its name implied its been guarding the temple for a very long time. Want to get even weirder? The Mobestiary seems to imply that the guardians are cyborg organisms designed by the original humans and are made of a mixture of normal fish and technology. Yes, they are an AnimalisticAbomination '''and''' a MechanicalAbomination too!

** Illagers generally are just angry villagers armed with crossbows or axes, but the evoker seems to be venturing straight into the HumanoidAbomination territory. It's a pale angry illager, the most powerful of them and the one that seems to be their leader. It's only found in mansions in the middle of the forest, and while other illagers attack using normal weapons or potions, the evoker seems to have studied dark magic and has control of ''the basic forces of life''. To fight, it summons vexes (little angel-specters with bloody veins, who seem to be corrupted versions of the entirely peaceful allays) and... beasts with fangs similar to the Ender Dragon. Oh, and after their death they drop a totem that gives you a second life. The implication is that evokers are experimenting with life and death and are not only able to come back to life, but also summon weird ghost-like beings themselves. Minecraft's ArcWelding (Which is all about soul power) shows that the illagers are the only race to have been able to master life to this degree, showing that, on paper, the evoker might just be the most powerful magician in all of Minecraft history.
*** The vexes (and their benevolent cousins, the allays) are also unearthly in their own right. Not only are they based on angels and display VoiceOfTheLegion, but vexes [[IntangibleMan can go through walls]] and are brought to life by the above mentioned {{Necromancer}}. Allays are more benign and friendly, but also show some StarfishAlien behaviour. WordOfDante says that they [[AbstractEater feed on music]] and if they're dancing and are given an amethyst, [[BizarreAlienReproduction they will duplicate.]] Overall (and following Minecraft's ArcWelding), they seem to be [[UndeadAbomination mish mashes of souls stitched together to do the biding of their master]] with a healthy dose of AngelicAbomination thrown in the mix.

*** When the sculk senses a menace to its safety through the sonic organs it has it first shouts some screams to scare away the intruder but if it senses the player is still there it summons '''[[OneHitKO a warden]]'''. Wardens are gigantic [[OurOgresAreDifferent golem-ogre things]] that emerge from the sculk and are the single nastiest beings in the game, sharing traits fitting for a HumanoidAbomination, BotanicalAbomination and UndeadAbomination. They will try to find the player through the aformentioned sonic organs, or their sense of smell, while walking like a Cordiceps victim. Not only do they have 300 HP, but they hit like a truck and move at high speeds, and to top it off they has a sonic attack ''and'' can generate an aura of darkness. If the souls on their chests and their spawning animation doesn't spell it for you, the wardens appears to be an emanation of the sculk [[UndeadAbomination infused with the souls the sculk feeds on]] to briefly defend the organism before fusing again with the sculk.

*** When the sculk senses a menace to its safety through the sonic organs it has it first shouts some screams to scare away the intruder but if it senses the player is still there it summons '''[[OneHitKO a warden]]'''. Wardens are gigantic golem-ogre things that emerge from the sculk and are the single nastiest beings in the game. They will try to find the player through the aformentioned sonic organs, or their sense of smell, while walking like a Cordiceps victim. Not only do they have 300 HP, but they hit like a truck and move at high speeds, and to top it off they has a sonic attack ''and'' can generate an aura of darkness. If the souls on their chests and their spawning animation doesn't spell it for you, the wardens appear to be a bunch of sculk given shape and [[UndeadAbomination infused with the souls the sculk feeds on]] to briefly defend the organism before fusing again with the sculk.

* The Nether is Minecraft's equivalent of {{Hell}}, so it's no surprise that its the native homeland to some [[ComicBook/TheInvisibles Invisibles]]-type shit.
** While not a mob, but a block, soul sand shows signs of being this. It's a block with [[AndIMustScream screaming faces over it]], that when burning shows blue fire that does twice as much damage and that when stepped on with the appropiate enchantment, they free soul-like particles from underneath, the implication being that soul sand is either a cage of souls or that it's solidified souls itself! The fact that it slows you down when you walk on it and you sink a bit has led players to theorize it's the souls trying to drag you down and assimilate you into the sand. The fact that piglins are scared of soul fire solidifies even more its Lovecraftian origins. And the cherry on top? It's a component to summon '''[[PersonOfMassDestruction the Wither.]]'''

** The only being that approaches the sculk in terms of eldritchness? '''[[UndeadAbomination The Wither]]'''. Its existence seems to have been theorized by the original humans ages ago judging by the paintings, and it could very well be the reason they went extinct. It's summoned by combining soul sand with three wither skeleton skulls, and [[BeginWithAFinisher its birth is heralded by an explosion]]. The Wither is a three-headed beast that seriously wouldn't be out of place in the Cthulhu Mythos. For starters, its only reason to be is to end all life, leaving a black flower (which can grow on netherrack) in the place of any mobs it kills, but it won't target the undead. It shoots little emanations of itself as ammunition, and it's a PoisonousPerson BrownNoteBeing that kills or destroys everything near it, to the point where not only does it poison you with [[MakeThemRot the Wither effect]], but it is strong enough to break '''OBSIDIAN'''. The battle with it will result in [[PersonOfMassDestruction acres and acres of explosion craters and Wither roses, showing its nature as a force for the Apocalypse.]] After having killed all life in proximity, it will continue to destroy every block until, presumably, [[OmnicidalManiac the entire world is reduced to ashes.]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu If you manage to kill it]], it will give you a Nether star, which can be used to craft a beacon that gives you a permanent power up as long as you're close to it, and is implied to transform the vicinity into a GeniusLoci.

** The endermen are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s however you look at it: they're tall, black and apparently slimy, with pitch purple eyes, and speak in [[StarfishLanguage surreal gibberish]]. When provoked by being looked at, they will [[TeleportSpam teleport all over the place]] [[HellIsThatNoise while emitting a horrific shriek]] [[ParanoiaFuel that still persists after their death.]] Then there's the fact that their ender pearls are an ingredient for interdimensional travel, which is foreshadowed by the fact that they are also able to travel through dimensions. Their homeland is the End, an EldritchLocation in its own right, but they're also drawn to the Nether's warped forests, an EldritchLocation [[ExaggeratedTrope inside an Eldritch Location.]]
** The shulker is probably the most StarfishAlien of all Minecraft mobs, since it consists of a cubic center with eyes surrounded by a floating indestructible shell that they can open and close at will, and they shoot homing attacks that [[RealityWarper send your gravity field out to lunch]]. Plus, they can also teleport, they reproduce by shooting other shulkers with their gravity-altering bullets [[FridgeHorror (which begs the question of what exactly]] [[{{Squick}} are they shooting at you)]] and seem to occupy a similar role as the guardians and blazes mentioned above.

** [[GainaxEnding It's often overlooked due to its strangeness]] but the ending poem is the dialogue between two [[CosmicBeing entities]] that are [[TheOmnipotent omniscient]], speak in a StarfishLanguage that appears like glitching text, exist in various dimensions at once, and to cream it, are [[FourthWallObserver aware of the fourth wall and the fact that they're characters in a game]] [[MindScrew (or rather, a dream in the shape of a game that's a reflection of your own Jungian psyche)]]. [[BenevolentAbomination And they love you.]]

** The Guardians and Elder Guardians are fish-like creatures that live in ancient underwater monuments and seem to guard it. The base Guardians already are pretty weird, looking very deformed and being able to shoot energy beams from their eyes, but the Elder Guardian is an archetypical AnimalisticAbomination. It's very big and looks pale and sickly, yet it can sense the player from a long distance. [[BrownNote It can induce visions of itself and extreme tiresome by merely being next to you]] and its beams are even more dangerous and weird. Its name implied its been guarding the temple for a very long time. Want to get even weirder? The Mobestiary seems to imply that the Guardians are cyborg organisms designed by the original humans and are made of a mixture of normal fishes and technology. Yes, they are an AnimalisticAbomination '''and''' a MechanicalAbomination too!
** Illagers generally are just angry villagers armed with crossbows or axes, but the Evoker seems to be venturing straight into the HumanoidAbomination territory. It's a pale angry illager, the most powerful of them and the one that seems to be their leader. It's only found in mansions in the middle of the forest, and while other Illagers attack using normal weapons or potions, the Evoker seems to have studied dark magick and has control of ''the basic forces of life''. To fight, it summons Vexes (Little angel-specters with bloody veins) and... beasts with fangs similar to the Enderdragon. Oh, and after their death they drop a totem that gives you a second life. The implication is that Evokers are experimenting with life and death and are not only able to come back to life, but also summon weird ghost-like beings themselves. Minecraft's ArcWelding (Which is all about soul power) shows that the Illagers are the only race to have been able to master life to this degree, showing that, on paper, the Evoker might just be the most powerful magician in all of Minecraft history.
*** The Vexes (And their benevolent cousins, the Allays) are also unearthly in their own right. Not only are they based on angels and display VoiceOfTheLegion, but Vexes [[IntangibleMan can go through walls]] and are brought to life by the above mentioned {{Necromancer}}. Allays are more benign and friendly, but also show some StarfishAlien behaviour. WordOfDante says that they [[AbstractEater feed on music]] and if they're dancing and are given an amethyst, [[BizarreAlienReproduction they will duplicate.]] Overall (And following Minecraft's ArcWelding), they seem to be [[UndeadAbomination mish mashes of souls stitched together to do the biding of their master]] with a healthy dose of AngelicAbomination thrown in the mix.
** The Phantom resembles a flying manta in decay, and it leaves what seems to be a trail of itself while it flies. It pops into existence when a player hasn't slept for a while, and WordOfGod says it's supposed [[AbstractEater feed on insomnia]]. The fact that its wings are presumably the same material as the elytra, an artifact found on an alternate dimension that allows flight means that Phantoms maybe aren't as earthly as we think. Some players asume that the Phantoms are a hallucination brought by sleep depravation, or a case of MaybeMagicMaybeMundane, but the clues are there to show [[ParanoiaFuel it's very real]]. [[note]] [[FridgeLogic If it wasn't, how would cats be able to bring their membrane? And how would you be able to repair elytra if its wings weren't real?.]][[/note]]
** The Sculk is probably the closest thing Minecraft has to a CosmicHorrorStory plot. Its a [[MeatMoss fleshy]] [[BotanicalAbomination funghi-like parasitic]] [[HiveMind hyper-organism]] that seems to have come from an alternate dimension through the portal frame found on Ancient Cities. To make matters worse, it's heavily implied that the sculk feeds on the souls of beings that died near it, which are absorbed by the Sculk catalysts and make the Sculk grow even larger, transforming close blocks into more of itself. After the Overworld's population got wiped out, the Sculk overtook the underground Ancient Cities and began expanding through the Deep Dark, creating entire biomes of itself. [[ParanoiaFuel And everytime you kill hostile mobs in the Deep Dark to save your life, you're feeding it and getting it one step closer to devouring the Overworld.]] It speaks volumes of just how powerful the Sculk is that its defense mechanism is the flippin' [[BossInMooksClothing Warden.]] Speaking of it...
*** When the Sculk senses a menace to its safety through the sonic organs it has it first shouts some screams to scare away the intruder but if it senses the Plater is still there it invokes '''[[OneHitKO The Warden]]'''. The Warden is a gigantic golem-ogre thing that emerges from the sculk and is the single nastiest being in the game. It will try to find the Player through the aformentioned sonic organs, or its sense of smell, while walking like a Cordiceps victim. Not only does it have 300 HP points, but it hits like a truck and moves at high speeds, and to top it off it has a sonic attack [[BrownNote '''and''' can generate a darkness that dims light]]. If the souls on its chest and its spawning animation doesn't spell it for you, the Warden is a bunch of sculk given shape and [[UndeadAbomination infused with the souls the Sculk feeds on]] to briefly defend the organism before fusing again with the Sculk.

* The Nether is Minecraft's equivalent of {{Hell}}, so it's no surprise that its the native homeland to some [[ComicBook/TheInvisibles Invisibles]] type shit.
** While not a mob, but a block, soul sand shows signs of being this. It's a block with [[AndIMustScream screaming faces over it]], that when burning shows blue fire that does twice as much damage and that when stepped on with the appropiate enchantment, they free soul-like particles from underneath, the implication being that soul sand is either a cage of souls or that its solidified souls themselves! The fact that it slows you down when you walk on it and you sink a bit has led players to theorize its the souls trying to drag you down and assimilate you into the sand. The fact that Piglins are scared of soul fire solidifies even more its Lovecraftian origins. And the cherry on top? It's a component to summon '''[[PersonOfMassDestruction The Wither.]]'''
** Ghasts look like [[OurGhostsAreDifferent spectral jellyfish]] that can fly and are constantly weeping, and their screams sound like a child in pain. They vomit explosive fireballs and when they do it, their eyes light up with hellfire for a second. Furthermore, they're particularly common in Soul Sand Valleys, further indicating their connection with the afterlife.
** Blazes are a downplayed example. They have BizarreAlienBiology consisting of a floating head surrounded by spinning rods of fire, shoot fireballs and emit weird metallic breathind sounds and seem to occupy a similar role than Guardians but for Nether Fortresses. Their rods are used as a basic ingredient for alchemy, including the fuel, the brewing stand and the ingredient for potions of strength. Oh, and WordOfGod says they're [[MechanicalAbomination robots.]]
** The only being that approaches the Sculk in terms of eldritchness? '''[[UndeadAbomination The Wither]]'''. Its existence seems to have been theorized by the original humans ages ago judging by the paintings, and it could very well be the reason they went extint. It's summoned by combining soul sand with three Wither Skeleton skulls, and [[BeginWithAFinisher its birth is heralded by an explosion]]. The Wither is a three-headed beast that seriously wouldn't be out of place in the Cthulhu Mythos. For starters, its only reason to be is to end all life, and it will shoot any not undead mob, leaving on their place [[GreenThumb a black flower]]. It shoots little emanations of itself as amunition, and its a PoisonousPerson BrownNoteBeing that kills or destroys everything near it, to the point where not only does it poisons you with [[MakeThemRot the Wither effect]], but is strong enough to break '''OBSIDIAN'''. The battle with it will result in [[PersonOfMassDestruction acres and acres of explosion craters and Wither roses, showing its nature as a force for the Apocalypse.]] After having killed all life in proximity, it will continue to destroy every block until, presumably, [[OmnicidalManiac the entire world is reduced to ashes.]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu If you manage to kill it]], it will give you a Nether star, which can be used to craft a beacon that gives you a permanent power up as long as you're close to it, and is implied to transform the vicinity into a GeniusLoci.
*** VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode shows [[FromBadToWorse an even more powerful Wither: The Wither Storm.]] It's created by using a command block in place of soul sand, and while the Wither initially looks normal [[BrownNoteBeing (Or as normal as an undead skeletal hydra can be)]] but quickly begins absorbing everything in vicinity and sprouting tentacles and other heads, until it looks like a giant blob of slimy darkness with purple eyes and MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily that grows and grows and will absorb the whole Overworld in a couple months.

** The Enderman is a HumanoidAbomination however you look at it: It's tall, black and apparently slimy, with pitch purple eyes and speaks in [[StarfishLanguage surreal gibberish]]. When provoked by looking at it, it will [[TeleportSpam teleport all over the place]] [[HellIsThatNoise while emitting a horrific shriek]] [[ParanoiaFuel that still persists after its death.]] Then there's the fact that its Ender Pearl is an ingredient for interdimensional travel, which is foreshadowed by the fact that they are also able to travel through dimensions. Their homeland is the End, an EldritchLocation in its own right, but they're also drawn to the Nether's Warped Forest, an EldritchLocation [[ExaggeratedTrope ''inside'' an Eldritch Location.]]
** The Shulker is probably the most StarfishAlien of all Minecraft mobs, since it consists of a cubic center with eyes surrounded by a floating indestructible shell that they can open and close at will, and they shoot homing attacks that [[RealityWarper send your gravity field out to lunch]]. Plus, they can also teleport, they reproduce by shooting other Shulkers with their gravity-altering bullets [[FridgeHorror (Which begs the question of what exactly]] [[{{Squick}} are they shooting to you)]] and seem to occupy a similar role as the Guardians and Blazes mentioned above.
** The Endermite is a rare harmless example. On paper it sounds very scary: A parasite that comes from a VoidBetweenTheWorlds that you briefly access when teleporting with an Ender Pearl and grabs onto you teleporting it with you to the dimension you were in. There, it will try to kill you and presumably try to take over the dimension... And then you realise it's a two-inch long purple bug with as much health as a one-legged chicken and that after a couple minutes it will disappear, indicating that it either must return to its dimension, or continued exposure to another one will kill it. Not very threatening overall.
*** Unless you take in account WebVideo/GameTheory's theory that the Endermite, while harmless individually, is an invasive extradimensional species that singlehandedly turned the End into the barren desert it currently is.
** The Enderdragon is a typic DraconicAbomination, fitting for the FinalBoss: It's a giant jet black dragon who, judging by the name of the advancement you get upon killing her, [[DimensionLord rules an entire dimension.]] She has BrownNoteBeing properties, such as destroying every block not native to the End, as well as being able to [[IntangibleMan phase through End pillars]] and vomiting a corrosive poison. After killing her she dissolves in an explosion of light and her death triggers the opening of a long-closed portal that teleports you back to your spawn point. Oh, and apparently killing her makes you [[AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to a higher level where you can read the thoughts of two even larger cosmic beings.]]
** [[GainaxEnding It's often overlooked due to its strangeness]] but the ending poem is the dialogue between two [[CosmicBeing entities]] that are [[TheOmnipotent omniscient]], speak in a StarfishLanguage that appears like glitching text, exist in various dimensions at once, and to cream it, are [[FourthWallObserver aware of the fourth wall and the fact that they're characters in a game]] [[MindScrew (Or rather, a dream in the shape of a game that's a reflection of your own Jungian psyche)]]. [[BenevolentAbomination And they love you.]]

*** When the Sculk senses a menace to its safety through the sonic organs it has it first shouts some screams to scare away the intruder but if it senses the Plater is still there it invokes '''[[OneHitKO The Warden]]'''. The Warden is a gigantic golem-ogre thing that emerges from the sculk and is the single nastiest being in the game. It will try to find the Player through the aformentioned sonic organs, or its sense of smell, while walking like a Cordiceps victim. Not only does it have 300 HP points, but it hits like a truck and moves at high speeds, and to top it off it has a sonic attack [[BrownNote ''and'' can generate a darkness that dims light]]. If the souls on its chest and its spawning animation doesn't spell it for you, the Warden is a bunch of sculk given shape and [[UndeadAbomination infused with the souls the Sculk feeds on]] to briefly defend the organism before fusing again with the Sculk.

** The Sculk is probably the closest thing Minecraft has to a CosmicHorrorStory plot. Its a [[MeatMoss fleshy]] [[BotanicalAbomination funghi-like parasitic]] [[HiveMind hyper-organism]] that seems to have come from an alternate dimension through the portal frame found on Ancient Cities. To make matters worse, it's heavily implied that the sculk feeds on the souls of beings that died near it, which are absorbed by the Sculk catalysts and make the Sculk grow even larger, transforming close blocks into more of itself. After the Overworld's population got wiped out, the Sculk overtook the underground Ancient Cities and began expanding through the Deep Dark, creating entire biomes of itself. [[ParanoiaFuel And everytime you kill hostile mobs in the Deep Dark to save your life, you're feeding it and getting it one step closer to devouring the Overworld.]] It speaks volumes of just how powerful the Sculk is that its defense mechanism is the flippin' [[BossInMooksClothing Warden.]]]] Speaking of it...

** The only being that approaches the Sculk in terms of eldritchness? '''[[UndeadAbomination The Wither]]'''. Its existence seems to have been theorized by the original humans ages ago judging by the paintings, and it could very well be the reason they went extint. It's summoned by combining soul sand with three Wither Skeleton skulls, and [[BeginWithAFinisher its birth is heralded by an explosion]]. The Wither is a three-headed beast that seriously wouldn't be out of place in the Cthulhu Mythos. For starters, its only reason to be is to end all life, and it will shoot any not undead mob, leaving on their place [[GreenThumb a black flower]]. It shoots little emanations of itself as amunition, and its a PoisonousPerson BrownNoteBeing that kills or destroys everything near it, to the point where not only does it poisons you with [[MakeThemRot the Wither effect]], but is strong enough to break '''OBSIDIAN'''. The battle with it will result in [[PersonOfMassDestruction acres and acres of explosion craters and Wither roses, showing its nature as a force for the Apocalypse.]] After having killed all life in proximity, it will continue to destroy every block until, presumably, the entire world is reduced to ashes. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu If you manage to kill it]], it will give you a Nether star, which can be used to craft a beacon that gives you a permanent power up as long as you're close to it, and is implied to transform the vicinity into a GeniusLoci.

** The Enderman is a HumanoidAbomination however you look at it: It's tall, black and apparently slimy, with pitch purple eyes and speaks in [[StarfishLanguage surreal gibberish]]. When provoked by looking at it, it will [[TeleportSpam teleport all over the place]] [[HellIsThatNoise while emitting a horrific shriek]] [[ParanoiaFuel that still persists after its death.]] Then there's the fact that its Ender Pearl is an ingredient for interdimensional travel, which is foreshadowed by the fact that they are also able to travel through dimensions. Their homeland is the End, an EldritchLocation in its own right, but they're also drawn to the Nether's Warped Forest, an EldritchLocation [[ExaggeratedTrope **inside** an EldritchLocation.]]

** Illagers generally are just angry viillagers armed with crossbows or axes, but the Evoker seems to be venturing straight into the HumanoidAbomination territory. It's a pale angry illager, the most powerful of them and the one that seems to be their leader. It's only found in mansions in the middle of the forest, and while other Illagers attack using normal weapons or potions, the Evoker seems to have studied dark magick and has control of ''the basic forces of life''. To fight, it summons Vexes (Little angel-specters with bloody veins) and... beasts with fangs similar to the Enderdragon. Oh, and after their death they drop a totem that gives you a second life. The implication is that Evokers are experimenting with life and death and are not only able to come back to life, but also summon weird ghost-like beings themselves.

** VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode shows [[FromBadToWorse an even more powerful Wither: The Wither Storm.]] It's created by using a command block in place of soul sand, and while the Wither initially looks normal [[BrownNoteBeing (Or as normal as an undead skeletal hydra can be)]] but quickly begins absorbing everything in vicinity and sprouting tentacles and other heads, until it looks like a giant blob of slimy darkness with purple eyes and MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily that grows and grows and will absorb the whole Overworld in a couple months.

** The Endermite is a rare harmless example. On paper it sounds very scary: A parasite that comes from the VoidBetweenTheWorlds, a dimension of poisonous particles that you briefly access when teleporting with an Ender Pearl. Apparently, your brief stance there is enough for it to grab onto you and be teleported to the same dimension as you, where it will try to kill you and presumably try to take over the dimension... And then you realise it's a two-inch long purple bug with as much health as a one-legged chicken and that after a couple minutes it will disappear, indicating that it either must return to its dimension, or continued exposure to another one will kill it. Not very threatening overall.

** The Sculk is probably the closest thing Minecraft has to a CosmicHorrorStory plot. Its a [[MeatMoss fleshy]] [[BotanicalAbomination funghi-like parasitic]] [[HiveMind hyper-organism]] that seems to have come from an alternate dimension through the portal frame found on Ancient Cities. To make matters worse, it's heavily implied that the sculk feeds on the souls of beings that died near it, which are absorbed by the Sculk catalysts and make the Sculk grow even larger, transforming close blocks into more of itself. After the Overworld's population got wiped out, the Sculk overtook the underground Ancient Cities and began expanding through the Deep Dark, creating entire biomes of itself. [[ParanoiaFuel And everytime you kill hostile mobs in the Deep Dark to save your life, you're feeding it and getting it one step closer to devouring the Overworld. It speaks volumes of just how powerful the Sculk is that its defense mechanism is the flippin' [[BossInMooksClothing Warden.]]]] Speaking of it...