History EldritchAbomination / TheDCU

** [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Doctor Simon Hurt]] is ultimately a subversion. Initially he hyped himself as [[CosmicFlaw "the hole in things", "the piece that can never fit"]], [[TimeAbyss "there since]] [[Literature/BookOfGenesis the beginning"]], [[MadeOfEvil "evil incarnate"]] and [[CardCarryingVillain a man opposed to the platonic concept of good itself]], with plenty of evidence to back the fact that he [[AmbiguouslyHuman might be some sort of archetypal form of evil]], to the point [[MindScrew he was speculated in and out of universe to be the actual Devil]] in his first appearances. The Black Glove, the secret group he controls, also seemed to be just as wicked and evil as him, a secret {{Cult}} of untouchable millionaires who wanted to see evil win. His plan in ''ComicBook/BatmanRIP'' consisted of activating a psychic command he implanted inside Batman years ago to render him succeptible to the Black Glove's corruption, something Batman barely survived thanks to being CrazyPrepared enough to have a back-up personality. However, the Black Glove in the end are revealed to be little more than bored millionaires with too much power and Dr. Hurt is a textbook example of BigBadWannabe and SmallNameBigEgo: He is just a rich sociopath [[spoiler: who became immortal through a demonic ritual, which makes him a low-grade HumanoidAbomination ''at best'']], and who underestimates both Batman, who simply [[{{Determinator}} won't give up]]; [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] and [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Damian Wayne]], who are just as capable superheroes as Bruce Wayne; the Joker, who is much more dangerous and difficult to control than Hurt can anticipate and [[spoiler: Talia al-Ghul, who is the one actually controlling the secret super powerful conspiracy he hypes the Black Glove to be]].

* Grant Morrison's 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 following run by Rachel Pollack under the Vertigo imprint didn't come short, introducing such beings as the Master Cleaner, a creature with a fetus for a head obsessed with stripping down the world to nothing in order to "clean" it, or the Teiresiae, a race of fluid fairy-like beings from a pre-language world who serve as the AnthropomorphicPersonification of change itself.

** Another group of eldritch beings, the Empire of Tears, used to rule a large part of the universe until the Guardians overthrew them and [[SealedEvilInACan imprisioned their spirits]] inside [[BodyHorror grotesque bodies]] in the hellish planet Ysmault, eventual base of the ComicBook/RedLanterns. When Abin Sur arrived on Ysmault, Qull of the Inversions tempted him with knowledge of the future, which is hinted to have become a SelfFullfillingProfecy.
* ''ComicBook/KidEternity'': Creator/GrantMorrison [[AdaptationalAbomination reinvented]] [[ComicBook/DoctorFate the Lords of Chaos]] to be this, with their agents, the Shichiriron, also being uncanny in their own right. The following Ann Nocenti run also introduced Doctor Pathos, [[AmbiguouslyHuman who possibly is one too.]]

** A more conventional EldritchAbomination is the Antagon, from Tom Veitch's run, [[SentientCosmicForce the sentient dark side of the morphogenetic field]] that only wishes for the death of animals. Sealed 10000000000 years ago by the Animal Masters, it was then forced into a cocoon which Stone and a recently empowered Buddy tried to destroy, but it was too strong. After reemerging, it first caused A-Man's powers to malfunction and later possessed ex-superhero B'wanna Beast, and began destroying Vermont. It recquired the strength of all the Animal Masters and avatars of the Red to finally thwart it.

*** The Big Bad of [[ComicBook/ActionComicsNew52 Grant Morrison's run on Action Comics]] is [[spoiler:Vyndktvx, a 5th Dimension Imp, like Mr. Mxyzptlk, only a psychotic mass murderer rather than a practical joker]].

*** Some masterfully done ArcWelding between ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' reveals that the demon that Simon Hurt summoned [[DoingInTheWizard was actually the Hyper-Adapter itself]], and that after its defeat it either became the demon Barbatos or turned out to be [[FightingAShadow just an aspect of the demon itself]], which not only [[StableTimeLoop inspired Hurt in doing the ritual in the first place]] but also was the Bat that tormented the Arkhams and was trapped in Gotham by Amadeus' spell. [[ComicBook/BatmanYearOne The bat that crashed through Bruce's window and inspired him to become Batman]] in the first place might have actually been Barbatos meaning that [[MetaphoricallyTrue in a certain way]], Batman really is the latest incarnation of the Bat entity. This also means that Dr. Hurt isn't just possessed by a demon, he has a piece of Darkseid inside him (this was later confirmed when Bruce Wayne mentioned Darkseid [[ResurrectiveImmortality was trying to reincarnate inside the Doctor]]), and considering [[MadeOfEvil what Darkseid really is]] [[SatanicArchetype and what he represents]], this [[DoubleSubversion double subverts]] the Doctor's claims of eldritchness, since Hurt more or less truly is both "evil incarnate" as he claimed and also '''is''' the Devil.

** [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Doctor Simon Hurt]] is ultimately a subversion. Initially he hyped himself as [[CosmicFlaw "the hole in things", "the piece that can never fit"]], [[TimeAbyss "there since]] [[Literature/TheOldTestament the beginning"]], [[MadeOfEvil "evil incarnate"]] and [[CardCarryingVillain a man opposed to the platonic concept of good itself]], with plenty of evidence to back the fact that he [[AmbiguouslyHuman might be some sort of archetypal form of evil]], to the point [[MindScrew he was speculated in and out of universe to be the actual Devil]] in his first appearances. The Black Glove, the secret group he controls, also seemed to be just as wicked and evil as him, a secret {{Cult}} of untouchable millionaires who wanted to see evil win. His plan in ''ComicBook/BatmanRIP'' consisted of activating a psychic command he implanted inside Batman years ago to render him succeptible to the Black Glove's corruption, something Batman barely survived thanks to being CrazyPrepared enough to have a back-up personality. However, the Black Glove in the end are revealed to be little more than bored millionaires with too much power and Dr. Hurt is a textbook example of BigBadWannabe and SmallNameBigEgo: He is just a rich sociopath [[spoiler: who became immortal through a demonic ritual, which makes him a low-grade HumanoidAbomination ''at best'']], and who underestimates both Batman, who simply [[{{Determinator}} won't give up]]; [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] and [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Damian Wayne]], who are just as capable superheroes as Bruce Wayne; the Joker, who is much more dangerous and difficult to control than Hurt can anticipate and [[spoiler: Talia al-Ghul, who is the one actually controlling the secret super powerful conspiracy he hypes the Black Glove to be]].

** [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Doctor Simon Hurt]] is ultimately a subversion. Initially he hyped himself as [[CosmicFlaw "the hole in things", the piece that can never fit"]], [[MadeOfEvil evil incarnate]] and [[CardCarryingVillain a man opposed to the platonic concept of good itself]], with plenty of evidence to back the fact that he [[AmbiguouslyHuman might be some sort of archetypal form of evil]], to the point [[MindScrew he was speculated in and out of universe to be the actual Devil]] in his first appearances. The Black Glove, the secret group he controls, also seemed to be just as wicked and evil as him, a secret {{Cult}} of untouchable millionaires who wanted to see evil win. His plan in ComicBook/BatmanRIP consisted of activating a psychic command he implanted inside Batman years ago to render him succeptible to the Black Glove's corruption, something Batman barely survived thanks to being CrazyPrepared enough to have a back-up personality. However, the Black Glove in the end are revealed to be little more than bored millionaires with too much power and Dr. Hurt is a textbook example of BigBadWannabe and SmallNameBigEgo: He is just a rich sociopath [[spoiler: who became immortal through a demonic ritual, which makes him a low-grade HumanoidAbomination ''at best'']], and who underestimates both Batman, who simply [[{{Determinator}} won't give up]]; [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] and [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Damian Wayne]], who are just as capable superheroes as Bruce Wayne; the Joker, who is much more dangerous and difficult to control than Hurt can anticipate and [[spoiler: Talia al-Ghul, who is the one actually controlling the secret super powerful conspiracy he hypes the Black Glove to be]].

*** Some masterfully done ArcWelding between ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' reveals that the demon that Simon Hurt summoned [[DoingInTheWizard was actually the Hyper-Adapter itself]], and that after its defeat it either became the demon Barbatos or turned out to be [[FightingAShadow just an aspect of the demon itself]], which not only [[StableTimeLoop inspired Hurt in doing the ritual in the first place]] but also was the Bat that tormented the Arkhams and was trapped in Gotham by Amadeus' spell. [[ComicBook/BatmanYearOne The bat that crashed through Bruce's window and inspired him to become Batman]] in the first place might have actually been Barbatos meaning that [[MetaphoricallyTrue in a certain way]], Batman really is the latest incarnation of the Bat entity. This also means that Dr. Hurt isn't just possessed by a demon, he has a piece of Darkseid inside him (this was later confirmed when Bruce Wayne mentioned Darkseid [[ResurrectiveImmortality was trying to reincarnate inside the Doctor]]), and considering [[MadeOfEvil what Darkseid really is]] [[SatanicArchetype and what he represents]], this [[DoubleSubversion double subverts]] the Doctor's claims of eldritchness, since Hurt more or less truly is both "evil incarnate" as he claimed and '''is''' the Devil.

** In ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', the Arkham family was cursed with a demonic [[AnimalisticAbomination Bat entity]] that caused Amadeus Arkham's mother to commit suicide [[spoiler: (Although she was actually [[MercyKill killed by Amadeus]])]], passing the curse onto Amadeus, which manifested in Mad Dog Hawkins raping, murdering and eating his wife and son, which drove him insane and had to be locked in his own asylum, where he tried to do a ritualistic spell to bind the Bat in the Asylum, cursing it to become an EldritchLocation SealedEvilInACan that on the 1st of April became a focal point of so much madness it sent ripples through time and [[StableTimeLoop actually cursed the Arkhams in the first place with the Bat]]. The reason Gotham is such a WretchedHive is because of the curse of the Bat. The story implies that either Dr. Cavendish or Batman himself could be the latest incarnation sent to torment Arkham.
** [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Dr. Simon Hurt]] is ultimately a subversion. Initially he hypes himself to be [[CosmicFlaw "the hole in things", the piece that can never fit"]], [[MadeOfEvil evil incarnate]] and [[CardCarryingVillain a man opposed to the platonic concept of good itself]], to the point that [[MindScrew he was implied to actually be the Devil]] in his first appearances. The Black Glove, the secret group he controls, also seemed to be just as wicked and evil as him, a secret cabal of untouchable millionaires who wanted to see evil win. His plan in ComicBook/BatmanRIP consisted of activating a psychic command he implanted inside Batman years ago to render him succeptible to the Black Glove's corruption, something Batman barely survived thanks to being CrazyPrepared enough to have a back-up personality. However, the Black Glove in the end are revealed to be little more than bored millionaires with too much power and Dr. Hurt is a textbook example of BigBadWannabe and SmallNameBigEgo: He is just a rich sociopath [[spoiler: who became immortal through a demonic ritual, which makes him a low-grade HumanoidAbomination ''at best'']], and who underestimates both Batman, who simply [[{{Determinator}} won't give up]]; [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] and [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Damian Wayne]], who are just as capable superheroes as Bruce Wayne; the Joker, who is much more dangerous and difficult to control than Hurt can anticipate and [[spoiler: Talia al-Ghul, who is the one actually controlling the secret super powerful conspiracy he hypes the Black Glove to be.]]

*** Some masterfully done ArcWelding between ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' reveals that the demon that Simon Hurt summoned was actually the Hyper-Adapter itself, and that after its defeat it became the demon Barbatos, which not only [[StableTimeLoop inspired Hurt in doing the ritual in the first place]] but also was the Bat that tormented the Arkhams and was trapped in Gotham by Amadeus' spell. [[ComicBook/BatmanYearOne The bat that crashed through Bruce's window and inspired him to become Batman]] in the first place was actually Barbatos meaning that [[MetaphoricallyTrue in a certain way]], Batman really is the latest incarnation of the Bat entity. This also means that Dr. Hurt isn't just possessed by a demon, he has a piece of Darkseid inside him (this was later confirmed when Bruce Wayne mentioned Darkseid [[ResurrectiveImmortality was trying to reincarnate inside the Doctor]]), and considering [[MadeOfEvil what Darkseid really is]] [[SatanicArchetype and what he represents]], this double subverts the Doctor's claims of eldritchness, since in a certain sense Hurt is both "evil incarnate" as he claimed but also '''is''' the Devil.

* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': The Black Flash is a black corpse in a ragged Flash costume that serves as TheGrimReaper for speedsters, collecting their souls when they die and using them as fuel for the Speed Force. While not evil per se, its BlueAndOrangeMorality make it a very dangerous enemy that has threatened to kill Wally West multiple times. There's also the implication that it's related to [[ComicBook/NewGods the Black Racer]], the AnthropomorphicPersonification of death for the New Gods... who at the same time seems to be just an aspect of [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 Death of the Endless]], who has her own entry below.

** Another Abomination is the [[MindScrew baffling]] entity known as the Overmonitor or Overvoid. It's a sentient void, inside which ''the entire DC Multiverse'' exists. It created the Monitors, and it's heavily implied that both the Monitor and Anti-Monitor were born from a probe it sent to investigate: meaning it's responsible for two eldritch abominations already. And, even [[MindScrew weirder]], it's described as being the embodiment of the very concept of the narrative.

** [[{{God}} The Source]]. Way out there, space becomes white, and after that, there is a MASSIVE, INFINITE MULTIDIMENSIONAL WALL of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s / {{Body Horror}}s marking the final boundary between our multiverse 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. Over time, it has been made up of the bodies of would-be conquerors and curiosity seekers from all across the universe, most notably Darkseid's father, one of the most feared beings in the history of the universe. This is the Source Wall, and it lies on the edge of the known universe, in the Promethean Galaxy. Beyond the wall lies what is known as the Source, an endless pool of infinite cosmic energy that is the "source" of all that exists, including [[Franchise/{{TheFlash}} the Speed Force]], [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom the Quantum Field]] and [[Franchise/GreenLantern the Emotional Spectrum]], and has been heavily implied to be tied to [[ComicBook/{{Lucifer}} the Presence]] itself. The wall is theoretically passable, however, but all those who try have been inevitably trapped in it, save for a few, like ComicBook/{{Superman}} and [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]], who saw AFormYouAreComfortableWith; ComicBook/TheFlash, who forgot what he saw, [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow and even nervously admitted he preferred it that way]]; ComicBook/TheSpectre (Who himself is a HumanoidAbomination in service of the Presence and one of the most powerful beings in existence) who almost went [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mad from seeing it]] and [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]], who somehow emerged unscathed with the Life Equation inside his head.

** Swamp Thing himself, since is a massive monster made of mud and organic matter that serves as the elemental embodiment of the Green, an interdimensional mystical force that connects all plant life. As such, Swampy has total control of the vegetation on the universe, including being able to regenerate from nothing, creating new bodies or teleporting through entire galaxies merely by transfering his consciousness to vegetation light years away. Upon meeting him, ComicBook/BlackOrchid straight up thought of him as {{God}}.

** Scott Snyder's run introduces the horrifying Sethe, a horrific diseased demonic skeleton beast that spreads pestilence. Not only is its very appearance NauseaFuel, but it's implied that [[PlagueMaster it was responsible for not just]] TheBlackDeath, but ''[[OmnicidalManiac every single pestilence to afflict humanity]]''. It's implied that Sethe and abovementioned The Hunters Three serve the same dark forces.

** [[spoiler: ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' also features a [[GeneticAbomination human-made abomination]] in the form of the Psychic Squid, a deformed and [[Creator/LewisLovhaug slimy]] giant mollusk-like thing created using the brain of a psychic and deliberately designed to look as repulsive as possible. On the second of November, the squid is teleported on New York, killing three million in a psychic attack and giving nightmares to people from around the world. It's so horrifying that it ends the Cold War because the world governments believe it's the first of a series of attacks from interdimensional aliens.]]

* Regular ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' villain Trigon is an immortal gigantic demon from another dimension that has existed since the beginning of the universe as cosmic energy until the dimension of [[EldritchAbomination Azarath]] gave it a shape. It's a MadeOfEvil entity with RealityWarper powers so massive that in its homeland of Azarath, it can even rival fellow abomination Mr. Mxyzptlk, and has enslaved and destroyed whole ''universes''. It's so powerful that it requires an avatar to manifest properly into our world (In this case, his daughter Raven, a borderline HumanoidAbomination herself).

* Regular ''ComicBook/TeenTitans'' villain Trigon is an immortal gigantic demon from another dimension that has existed since the beginning of the universe as cosmic energy until the dimension of [[EldritchAbomination Azarath]] gave it a shape. It's a MadeOfEvil entity with RealityWarper powers so massive that in its homeland of Azarath, it can even rival fellow abomination Mr. Mxyzptlk, and has enslaved and destroyes whole ''universes''. It's so powerfu that it requires an avatar to manifest properly into our world (In this case, his daughter Raven, a borderline HumanoidAbomination herself).

** [[{{God}} The Source]]. Way out there, space becomes white, and after that, there is a MASSIVE, INFINITE MULTIDIMENSIONAL WALL of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s / {{Body Horror}}s marking the final boundary between our multiverse 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. Over time, it has been made up of the bodies of would-be conquerors and curiosity seekers from all across the universe, most notably Darkseid's father, one of the most feared beings in the history of the universe. This is the Source Wall, and it lies on the edge of the known universe, in the Promethean Galaxy. Beyond the wall lies what is known as the Source, an endless pool of infinite cosmic energy that is the "source" of all that exists, including [[Franchise/{{TheFlash}} the Speed Force]], [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom the Quantum Field]] and [[Franchise/GreenLantern the Emotional Spectrum]], and has been heavily implied to be tied to [[ComicBook/{{Lucifer}} the Presence]] itself. The wall is theoretically passable, however, but all those who try have been inevitably trapped in it, save for a few, like ComicBook/{{Superman}} and [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]], who saw AFormYouAReComfortableWith; ComicBook/TheFlash, who forgot what he saw, [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow and even nervously admitted he prefered it that way]]; ComicBook/TheSpectre (Who himself is a HumanoidAbomination in service of the Presence and one of the most powerful beings in existence) who almost went [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mad from seeing it]] and [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]], who somehow emerged unscathed with the Life Equation inside his head.

** The Orange Entity Ophidian (Avarice) was confirmed by WordOfGod to be the voice within the Orange Lantern Battery that converts its wielder into Agent Orange. Atrocitus initially assumed ComicBook/TheSpectre, the agent of God's Wrath, was the Rage entity. The Spectre denied this, claiming that he has ''met'' the Rage entity and warning Atrocitus (who, as one of the Five Inversions, is ''himself'' a HumanoidAbomination even without his red power ring) that seeking it out would only lead to his destruction. Adara, the Blue Entity of Hope, looks like a huge eagle... with three faces and beaks; while Proselyte, the Indigo Entity of Compassion, is just a massive octopus. Presumably, he just wants to hug you.
** [[spoiler:Nekron, the Guardian of the Black Lantern Corps]], whose plan is revealed to be [[spoiler:killing the Entity, the being of White Light that gave birth to all life, and, as a result, kill everything in a instant.]] The moment he dealt the first blow, we know he meant business. And [[TimeAbyss he was created by the darkness preceding the universe.]] [[spoiler:Nekron]] is such an EldritchAbomination that he can't even exist as a physical entity. He needs a tether for that, which comes in the form of the [[ILoveTheDead necrophilic]] [[TheAntiChrist herald of death]], William Hand. [[spoiler:This only works when he's dead, however.]]

*** The story also features and elder god called Iog-Sotha, a massive mass of fins and tentacles who created life on Earth. We also briefly see its equally lovecraftian son frozen in ice.

** [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Dr. Simon Hurt]] is ultimately a subversion. Initially he hypes himself to be [[CosmicFlaw "the hole in things", the piece that can never fit"]], [[MadeOfEvil evil incarnate]] and [[CardCarryingEvil a man opposed to the platonic concept of good itself]], to the point that [[MindScrew he was implied to actually be the Devil]] in his first appearances. The Black Glove, the secret group he controls, also seemed to be just as wicked and evil as him, a secret cabal of untouchable millionaires who wanted to see evil win. His plan in ComicBook/BatmanRIP consisted of activating a psychic command he implanted inside Batman years ago to render him succeptible to the Black Glove's corruption, something Batman barely survived thanks to being CrazyPrepared enough to have a back-up personality. However, the Black Glove in the end are revealed to be little more than bored millionaires with too much power and Dr. Hurt is a textbook example of BigBadWannabe and SmallNameBigEgo: He is just a rich sociopath [[spoiler: who became immortal through a demonic ritual, which makes him a low-grade HumanoidAbomination ''at best'']], and who underestimates both Batman, who simply [[{{Determinator}} won't give up]]; [[ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} Dick Grayson]] and [[ComicBook/{{Robin}} Damian Wayne]], who are just as capable superheroes as Bruce Wayne; the Joker, who is much more dangerous and difficult to control than Hurt can anticipate and [[spoiler: Talia al-Ghul, who is the one actually controlling the secret super powerful conspiracy he hypes the Black Glove to be.]]
** The Hyper-Adapter, also from Morrison's run, is a giant StarfishAlien weapon holding a great part of the Omega Effect that Darkseid released out of an Ancient Box, sent to track Batman throgh time (He had become a bit of a living paradox after his death in Darkseid's hands) and kill him. He was so unstoppable that the only thing that managed to defeat him was [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill sending him to Vanishing Point (The last moment in time before the end of the universe), having him beaten by the JLA and then sending him back to the past]], and that didn't even kill him, [[SuperToughness just shoo him away.]]

** [[{{God}} The Source]]. Way out there, space becomes white, and after that, there is a MASSIVE, INFINITE MULTIDIMENSIONAL WALL of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s / {{Body Horror}}s marking the final boundary between our multiverse 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. Over time, it has been made up of the bodies of would-be conquerors and curiosity seekers from all across the universe, most notably Darkseid's father, one of the most feared beings in the history of the universe. This is the Source Wall, and it lies on the edge of the known universe, in the Promethean Galaxy. Beyond the wall lies what is known as the Source, an endless pool of infinite cosmic energy that is the "source" of all that exists, including [[Franchise/{{TheFlash}} the Speed Force]], [[ComicBook/CaptainAtom the Quantum Field]] and [[Franchise/GreenLantern the Emotional Spectrum]], and has been heavily implied to be tied to [[ComicBook/{{Lucifer}} the Presence]] itself. The wall is theoretically passable, however, but all those who try have been inevitably trapped in it, save for a few, like [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} and [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]], who saw AFormYoureComfortableWith; ComicBook/TheFlash, who forgot what he saw, [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow and even nervously admitted he prefered it that way]]; ComicBook/TheSpectre (Who himself is a HumanoidAbomination in service of the Presence and one of the most powerful beings in existence) who almost went [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mad from seeing it]] and [[ComicBook/GreenLantern Kyle Rayner]], who somehow emerged unscathed with the Life Equation inside his head.

-> Now hear a strange and terrible truth: What this powerful creative power entered, [[ShadowArchetype it's shadow also appeared]], a darkness on the mirror of the universe. It was the Enemy of everything we do... Some call it the Despoiler, others call it Expugner, Anti-creator, Annihilator... Even Anti-Christ. It's true name is Antagon.

* ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'': One ''Brave and the Bold'' story showed an ancient Lovecraftian god who lives at the bottom of the sea and once a year tries to kill all life on Earth. Aquaman and Etrigan tend to team up to send it back to its home dimension. [[DidYouJustPunchCthulhu Yes, Aquaman not only punches out Cthulhu, he beats the ever loving crap out of him on an annual basis.]]

** The Joker himself [[AmbiguouslyHuman might be]] [[HumanoidAbomination one of these.]] It's been sugested a few times that the Joker [[AmbiguouslyHuman could not be as human as he appears.]] He's a being of pure chaos and death and not only is his origin and identity a complete mystery to even the most powerful agencies in the DCU, [[JokerImmunity but he has survived things that would have killed normal humans]]. ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar'' implies that he might be Gelos, the Greek God of Laughter (Not the kind of laughter you get out of a funny comedy, but rather the mocking cackle of an insane warrior befre he slaughters his enemy), while ''ComicBook/BatmanEndgame'' left ambiguous if he was a Really700YearsOld unkillable horror that has been tormenting Gotham City since its foundation.

** [[ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison Dr. Hurt]] is [[CosmicFlaw the hole in things, the piece that can never fit.]] He's actually an ancestor of Bruce Wayne in one of the early settlements that would become Gotham, but in a satanic ritual he was possessed by a very powerful demon, and he became [[Really700YearsOld immortal.]] When analysed by Thomas Wayne, he was determined to be just ''barely'' human. Hurt became a sinister CardCarryingVillain who was hell-bent on the destruction of good as an ideology, and specially the destruction of Batman, so for years he [[WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys funded and organised a part of Batman's rogues gallery]], and actually implanted a hypnotic switch inside Batman during his early years. The only reason Batman managed to survive his attack in ''Batman RIP'' was because he was CrazyPrepared enough to build a back-up personality just in case of a psychic attack. [[MindScrew He also might be the Devil himself.]]
** The Hyper-Adapter, also from Morrison's run, is a giant StarfishAlien weapon holding a great part of the Omega Effect that Darkseid released out of an Ancient Box sent to track Batman throgh time (He had become a bit of a living paradox after his death in Darkseid's hands) and kill him. He was so unstoppable that the only thing that managed to defeat him was [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill sending him to Vanishing Point (The last moment in time before the end of the universe), having him beaten by the JLA and then sending him back to the past]], and that didn't even kill him, [[SuperToughness just shoo him away.]]
*** Some masterfully done ArcWelding between ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' reveals that the demon that Simon Hurt summoned was actually the Hyper-Adapter itself, and that after its defeat it became the demon Barbatos, which not only [[StableTimeLoop inspired Hurt in doing the ritual in the first place]] but also was the Bat that tormented the Arkhams and was trapped in Gotham by Amadeus' spell. [[ComicBook/BatmanYearOne The bat that crashed through Bruce's window and inspired him to become Batman]] in the first place was actually Barbatos meaning that [[MetaphoricallyTrue in a certain way]], Batman really is the latest incarnation of the Bat entity. This also means that Dr. Hurt isn't just possessed by a demon, he has a piece of Darkseid inside him (this was later confirmed when Hurt mentioned Darkseid [[ResurrectiveImmortality was trying to reincarnate inside him]]), and considering [[AnthropomorphicPersonification what Darkseid really is]] [[SatanicArchetype and what he represents]], Hurt is both "evil incarnate" as he claimed but also '''is''' the Devil.

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

* ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'': Wizor [[WasOnceAMan used to be a megalomaniacal scientist from the planet Meta]] who travelled with a defective Madness-Vest to Earth and absorbed a dark aspect of the Spirit of America and combined it with a warped and condensed version of American pop culture. This turned him into the American Scream, a RealityWarper who looks like a rotting pale cadaver dressed in Uncle Sam's clothes that infected various parts of America with "the madness", turning them into {{Eldritch Location}}s, with the objective of eventually controlling "what makes sense and what doesn't" and rule the USA. Further depictions of the character in ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' imply that the American Scream might be a separate, much stronger entity as old as the country itself, representing the dark side of the USA, and serving as the ShadowArchetype of [[ComicBook/FreedomFighters Uncle Sam of the Freedom Fighters]].

** Furthermore, 52 featured [[spoiler:the evolution of the villain Mr. Mind, who became a cosmically huge insect abomination. He's responsible for the differences between the 52 realities of the DC multiverse, having [[ClockRoaches eaten key moments in time]] from all but one of them.]]

** In the end, the Hunters Three of the [[Comicbook/AnimalMan2011 New 52 run]] are subversions. Three absolutely horrific creatures who [[MeatPuppet "disguise themselves as men"]]. According to interviews, the three of them are from the edges of the DC Universe and serve a dark force lurking beneath it. Though, really, [[http://www.comicvine.com/hunters-three/65-58633/all-images/108-538958/hunters_buddy_1/105-1997905/ their appearance says it all]]. But the Hunters Three [[spoiler:turn out to be ordinary people after Maxine frees them of their corruption.]] The Rot itself is actually the natural force of death and decay [[spoiler:corrupted by Anton Arcane, an all too human villain.]]

** The Joker himself might be [[HumanoidAbomination one of these.]] It's been sugested a few times that the Joker [[AmbiguouslyHuman could not be as human as he appears.]] He's a being of pure chaos and death and not only is his origin and identity a complete mystery to even the most powerful agencies in the DCU, [[JokerImmunity but he has survived things that would have killed normal humans]]. ''ComicBook/DarkseidWar'' implies that he might be Gelos, the Greek God of Laughter (Not the kind of laughter you get out of a funny comedy, but rather the mocking cackle of an insane warrior befre he slaughters his enemy), while ''ComicBook/BatmanEndgame'' left ambiguous if he was a Really700YearsOld unkillable horror that has been tormenting Gotham City since its foundation.

* 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.

* ''ComicBook/ShadeTheChangingMan'': Wizor [[WasOnceAMan used to be a megalomaniacal scientist from the planet Meta]] who travelled with a defective Madness-Vest to Earth and absorbed a dark aspect of the Spirit of America and combined it with a warped and condensed version of American pop culture. This turned him into the American Scream, a RealityWarper who looks like a rotting pale cadaver dressed in Uncle Sam's clothes that infected various parts of America with "the madness", turning them into {{Eldritch Location}}s, with the objective of eventually controlling "what makes sense and what doesn't" and rule the USA. Further depictions of the character in ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' imply that the American Scream might be a separate, much stronger entity as old as the country itself, and the ShadowArchetype of [[ComicBook/FreedomFighters Uncle Sam of the Freedom Fighters]].
* ''ComicBook/TheSandman'' has the seven Endless, {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of platonic concepts that shapeshift into AFormYouAreComfortableWith and are considered to be the second strongest beings in the DCU, only surpassed by Lucifer. They're wave functions esential for reality functioning, and when Lucifer [[spoiler: created his own universe they cropped there, since it's impossible for a world to exist without them]]. Dream is a RealityWarper that rules the Dreaming, Delirium (Formerly Delight) is able to induce neverending madness at will, Despair lives in a mirrorhouse and stares at misery through the multiverse to SelfHarm to... Ironically enough, Death is by far the most nice and polite of all of them.

*** ''ComicBook/WhateverHappenedToTheManOfTomorrow'' is set in an alternate possible future where Superman is getting ready to retire - up until all his enemies return, and all-out war between them and his friends (with Lois, Lana, and Jimmy taking up the {{Phlebotinum}} behind some of their one-shot powers from [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] stories). It's a brutal affair where people die and FromBadToWorse reigns supreme. Then he puts together the clues of what's really going on. It turns out: [[spoiler:Myxy orchestrated all of this. As a superdimensional imp older than time, he is now bored with being mischievous; every so many millennia he reinvents himself. He was benevolent once, more recently a harmless trickster, but now? He wants to "try being evil for a while; maybe after 2000 years or so of that, I'll get to be guilty". When he drops the Goth version of his usual little-guy-in-a-hat image - mocking the idea that a sorcerer from the fifth dimension would ''really'' look like that - he appears as a jagged-edged humanoid tear in space with malevolent eyes and maws, and Lois points out for the benefit of us readers that it hurts her eyes just to try and look at it, like all the angles are wrong. Now THAT begins to approach the idea of a being from the Fifth Dimension.]]

** [[MeaningfulName Viroxx]], which could only be described [[TheVirus an space-virus]] that devoured energy, [[TheAssimilator capable of converting sentient beings into drones]] that in turn would absorb others as nourishment for their master. The assimilating process was supposedly irreversible and turns the victim into an unfeeling, cold-blooded monster interested only in killing more people to absorb their energy (one heartbreaking moment was when a scientist witnessed his recently converted wife devouring their daughter, and he ends up being forced to kill her in self-defense); It had laid waste to many worlds, destroying billions of lives and reducing entire populations into a few thousand vagrants based on space fleets. Even Superman himself is unable to hold it back and in the end, with the combined effort of all the survivors they only managed to scary it away -- ''not kill it'', but chase it far away from our galaxy.

* 'ComicBook/'ShadeTheChangingMan'': Wizor [[WasOnceAMan used to be a megalomaniacal scientist from the planet Meta]] who travelled with a defective Madness-Vest to Earth and absorbed a dark aspect of the Spirit of America and combined it with a warped and condensed version of American pop culture. This turned him into the American Scream, a RealityWarper who looks like a rotting pale cadaver dressed in Uncle Sam's clothes that infected various parts of America with "the madness", turning them into {{Eldritch Location}}s, with the objective of eventually controlling "what makes sense and what doesn't" and rule the USA. Further depictions of the character in ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' imply that the American Scream might be a separate, much stronger entity as old as the country itself, and the ShadowArchetype of [[ComicBook/FreedomFighters Uncle Sam of the Freedom Fighters]].

* ''ShadeTheChangingMan'': Wizor [[WasOnceAMan used to be a megalomaniacal scientist from the planet Meta]] who travelled with a defective Madness-Vest to Earth and absorbed a dark aspect of the Spirit of America and combined it with a warped and condensed version of American pop culture. This turned him into the American Scream, a RealityWarper who looks like a rotting pale cadaver dressed in Uncle Sam's clothes that infected various parts of America with "the madness", turning them into {{Eldritch Location}}s, with the objective of eventually controlling "what makes sense and what doesn't" and rule the USA. Further depictions of the character in ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' imply that the American Scream might be a separate, much stronger entity as old as the country itself, and the ShadowArchetype of [[ComicBook/FreedomFighters Uncle Sam of the Freedom Fighters]].

* ''ShadeTheChangingMan'': Wizor [[WasOnceAMan used to be a megalomaniacal scientist from the planet Meta]] who travelled with a defective Madness-Vest to Earth and absorbed a dark aspect of the Spirit of America and combined it with a warped and condensed version of American pop culture. This turned him into the American Scream, a RealityWarper who looks like a rotting pale cadaver dressed in Uncle Sam's clothes that infected various parts of America with "the madness", turning them into {{Eldritch Location}}s, with the objective of eventually controlling "what makes sense and what doesn't" and rule the USA. Further depictions of the character in ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' imply that the American Scream might be a separate, much stronger entity as old as the country itself, and the ShadowArchetype of [[ComicBook/FreedomFighers Uncle Sam of the Freedom Fighters]].

** Mister Bloom is the most uncanny Batman villain. The BigBad of [[ComicBook/DCYou Gordon's tenure as the Bat]], he looked like a very tall and lanky creature with a TheBlank face featuring a yellow flower and sharp reptilian-like claws, and shows NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, including sizeshifting, [[AnIcePerson ice manipulation]] and technokinesis. Although initially presenting himself as a BotanicalAbomination, his origin reveals him to be a TranshumanAbomination, who once adquired his powers in an illegal metahuman experimentation camp, that also left him able to grow "seeds", [[BotanicalAbomination Botanical Abominations]] in their own right that can empower anyone with similar powers but also leaves them as puppets under Mr. Bloom's mind control.
** In ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', the Arkham family was cursed with a demonc [[AnimalisticAbomination Bat entity]] that caused Amadeus Arkham's mother to commit suicide [[spoiler: (Although she was actually [[MercyKill killed by Amadeus]])]], passing the curse onto Amadeus, which manifested in Mad Dog Hawkins raping, murdering and eating his wife and son, which drove him insane and had to be locked in his own asylum, where he tried to do a ritualistic spell to bind the Bat in the Asylum, cursing it to become an EldritchLocation SealedEvilInACan that on the 1st of April became a focal point of so much madness it sent ripples through time and [[StableTimeLoop actually cursed the Arkhams in the first place with the Bat]]. The reason Gotham is such a WretchedHive is because of the curse of the Bat. The story implies that either Dr. Cavendish or Batman himself could be the latest incarnation sent to torment Arkham.

*** Some masterfully done CanonWelding between ''ComicBook/ArkhamAsylumASeriousHouseOnSeriousEarth'', ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' and ''ComicBook/BatmanGrantMorrison'' reveals that the demon that Simon Hurt summoned was actually the Hyper-Adapter itself, and that after its defeat it became the demon Barbatos, which not only [[StableTimeLoop inspired Hurt in doing the ritual in the first place]] but also was the Bat that tormented the Arkhams and was trapped in Gotham by Amadeus' spell. [[ComicBook/BatmanYearOne The bat that crashed through Bruce's window and inspired him to become Batman]] in the first place was actually Barbatos meaning that [[MetaphoricallyTrue in a certain way]], Batman really is the latest incarnation of the Bat entity. This also means that Dr. Hurt isn't just possessed by a demon, he has a piece of Darkseid inside him (this was later confirmed when Hurt mentioned Darkseid [[ResurrectiveImmortality was trying to reincarnate inside him]]), and considering [[AnthropomorphicPersonification what Darkseid really is]] [[SatanicArchetype and what he represents]], Hurt is both "evil incarnate" as he claimed but also '''is''' the Devil.

* ''ComicBook/KidEternity'': Creator/GrantMorrison [[AdaptationalAbomination reinvented]] [[ComicBook/DoctorFate the Lords of Chaos]] to be this, with their agents, the Shichiriron, also being uncanny in their own right. The following Ann Nocenti run also introduced Doctor Pathos, [[AmbiguouslyHuman who possibly is this too.]]
* ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'': John Constantine met and defeated two Lovecraftian gods from different story arcs. Jallakuntilliokan, a two headed dragon/floating meat [[SpacetimeEater who eats reality]], and M'Nagalah, who is the god of cancer. The Triumvirate of Hell also counts, being [[TimeAbyss impossibly old Hell-Lords]] made of the First of the Fallen (Who claims to be the original fallen angel, even older than ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}), the Second of the Fallen (Who looks like a living mass of viscuous shadow) and the Third of the Fallen (A particularly cruel shapeshifting demon).

* ''ShadeTheChangingMan'': Wizor [[WasOnceAMan used to be a megalomaniacal scientist from the planet Meta]] who travelled with a defective Madness-Vest to Earth and absorbed a dark aspect of the Spirit of America and combined it with a warped and condensed version of American pop culture. This turned him into the American Scream, a RealityWarper who looks like a rotting pale cadaver dressed in Uncle Sam's clothes that infected various parts of America with "the madness", turning them into {{Eldritch Location}}s, with the objective of eventually controlling "what makes sense and what doesn't" and rule the USA.

** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': This version of Poseidon is an enormous teal creature that looks vaguely like a combination of a few octopi, a whale, and some type of pinniped with growths atop his head that look like coral and a giant starfish. There's also a smaller version of himself inside him.

** Mister Bloom is the most uncanny Batman villain. The BigBad of [[AudienceAlienatingEra Gordon's tenure as the Bat]], he looked like a very tall and lanky creature with a TheBlank face featuring a yellow flower and sharp reptilian-like claws, and shows NewPowersAsThePlotDemands, including sizeshifting, [[AnIcePerson ice manipulation]] and technokinesis. Although initially presenting himself as a BotanicalAbomination, his origin reveals him to be a TranshumanAbomination, who once adquired his powers in an illegal metahuman experimentation camp, that also left him able to grow "seeds", [[BotanicalAbomination Botanical Abominations]] in their own right that can empower anyone with similar powers but also leaves them as puppets under Mr. Bloom's mind control.

* Grant Morrison's 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 following run by Rachel Pollack under the Vertigo imprint didn't come short, introducing such beings as the Master Cleaner (A fetus-looking creature obsessed with stripping down the world to nothing in order to "clean" it or the Teiresiae, a race of fluid fairy-like beings from a world pre-language who serve as the AnthropomorphicPersonification of change itself).

** ''ComicBook/KidEternity'' [[AdaptationalAbomination reinvented]] [[ComicBook/DoctorFate the Lords of Chaos]] to be this, with their agents, the Shichiriron, also being uncanny in their own right. The following Ann Nocenti run also introduced Doctor Pathos, [[AmbiguouslyHuman who possibly is this too.]]