History EldritchAbomination / Webcomics

* Played with occasionally in Kris Straub's ''{{Chainsawsuit}}''. The designer of ''VideoGame/{{Braid}}'' [[http://chainsawsuit.com/2008/08/20/strip-45/ is one of them]], though quite an approachable one.

* [[Website/{{Bogleech}} The Insidious Bogleech]] uses the idea frequently (albeit buried among many, many examples of simple OurMonstersAreWeird). In {{Mortasheen}} series of monsters, everything under the Unknown section is styled this way, from the Vault (which can go through solid matter like it was nothing and is spawned from AlienGeometries) to the Lobotomask (a horrible face-type thing that eats your mind).

** In the actual webcomic, it is revealed that there are extra-dimensional horrors scary enough to dissuade even {{Mad Scientist}}s as reckless as the ''Heterodynes'' from messing with time. When time is disturbed, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140611 they notice]]. The above picture is of them. The Castle also mentions that's not the first time they show up, though last time they were much smaller and had brought hats. [[spoiler:Which later leads to the revelation that those exact smaller, hat-wearing, tangential-to-time eldritch monsters might be under Wulfenbach employment]].

[[caption-width-right:350:And it makes ''[[GenusLoci Castle Heterodyne]]'' [[HorrifyingTheHorror scream in pure shock]].]]

* [[Website/{{Bogleech}} The Insidious Bogleech]] uses the idea frequently (albeit buried amongst many, many examples of simple OurMonstersAreWeird). In {{Mortasheen}} series of monsters, everything under the Unknown section is styled this way, from the Vault (which can go through solid matter like it was nothing and is spawned from AlienGeometries) to the Lobotomask (a horrible face-type thing that eats your mind).

** In the actual webcomic, it is revealed that there are extra-dimensional horrors scary enough to dissuade even {{Mad Scientist}}s as reckless as the ''Heterodynes'' from messing with time. When time is disturbed, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140611 they notice]]. The above picture is of them.

** Subsequent events have confirmed that Sam may not technically be one but he can play the part extremely well: when [[ItMakesSenseInContext he takes his pants off]], it's revealed that chromatophores in his skin make his tentacles appear to exist in more dimensions than is standard.

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* ''Webcomic/{{Guttersnipe}}'' features H.P. Lovecraft as a sort of 1920s StephenieMeyer, complete with eldritch abominations standing in for sparkly vampires.

* ''Webcomic/AutumnBay'' has one of these show up via falling star in the second strip.

* Cthulhu is included in a list of (otherwise real) horrifying sea creatures in ''MandatoryRollerCoaster''.

* Exris from ''MonsterLands'' is a shadow inside a robe whose only features are his white eyes and jagged teeth, which seem to be floating around inside his body

[[caption-width-right:318:When TimeStandsStill, ''they'' notice.]]

* Though they don't really appear in the comic proper, [[http://missmab.com/Demo/Cubi04.php this tidbit concerning cubi dream surfing]] reveals that these creatures do exist in the world of ''DanAndMabsFurryAdventures''.

* In ''DominicDeegan'', the Beast appears to be this at first - it granted the Infernomancer his {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s and appears as a gigantic eye, with tentacles and many, many teeth, and is effectively invisible to Dominic's Second Sight. Dominic, one of the most powerful seers alive and a master of mental combat, further empowered by Luna's BlackMagic, was barely able to fight off a tiny fragment of the Beast that tried to claim [[spoiler:Celesto Morgan]]'s soul. [[SubvertedTrope However, it was soon revealed to have all-too-comprehensible origins and psychology, and was eventually squashed.]]
* The Cultists in ''[[Webcomic/EightBitTheater 8-bit Theater]]'' worship and summon eldritch abominations on a regular basis: first, there's a nameless creature referred to as an "eye-stalk" which [[MindRape mind rapes]] anyone that makes eye contact with it (in addition to transporting the victim to its own pocket dimension). Then there's major enemy Ur/Jnn'efur, who fits the "fragment of the true being" bill.

%% * And then, there's ''TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom''. [[CatchPhrase Yum Yum!]] ED NOTE: OKAY SERIOUSLY, SOMEONE EXPAND ON THIS

* Invoked {{Freefall}} when Sam starts to explain the correct way to steal; Qwerty observes, "[[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2500/fc02413.htm The tentacled horror from beyond my stars spoke, and von Neumann help me, in my madness I understood its words.]]"

* ''{{Goblins}}'' has the horrifying [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/03252011/ Mr. Fingers]], a creature who crawled out of a young boy's nightmares in a very literal sense. Who just [[http://www.goblinscomic.com/04262011/ got loose again]].

* ''{{Guttersnipe}}'' features H.P. Lovecraft as a sort of 1920s StephenieMeyer, complete with eldritch abominations standing in for sparkly vampires.

* ''NewYorkMagician'': Hello, [[spoiler:Cthulhu]]!

* In ''TheSalvationWar'' setting, according to WordOfGod, whatever lives on the opposite side of the Minos Portal in Hell (the portal through which the human dead arrive in Hell) exists in a reality so different and alien that nothing from either "Universe-One" (Earth) or any of the "Universe-Twos" (Heaven, Hell, and other assorted "higher-level" realities) can exist on it. Nothing either living or mechanical from either set of universes that passes through the portal has ever returned.

* ''{{Shadowgirls}}'' takes direct inspiration from Lovecraft for its portrayal of the occult, most obviously in the character of Mother Hydra.
* Darumatha, the Demon-Dragon of Broken Hours (with a name like ''that''...) in ''TheWaterPhoenixKing.'' It might appear in the form of one of your dead friends, fatal injuries and all, or it might take its ''real'' form of a vast serpentine coil of living metal scales, fangs, and spikes reaching all the way to the outer stars, a manifestation capable of making strong men vomit in terror, or as a charming young woman in an evening dress who prattles cheerfully on about cutting hearts out. Or just go back and forth between all these shapes, apparently at random.

* Webcomic/IncubusTales features recurring antagonists known only as "Abominations", which are said to be anathema to everything that is not them. They have been shown to take a variety of shapes and forms, all of which are appalling and traumatic to everything and everyone around them. One of the most prominent, the Lord of Abominations, was so monstrous it was not shown and may have been incomprehensible.

* ''TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' has its particular CaptainErsatz of Starro:

* ''DMOfTheRings'': [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1168 "never try to scare a Call of Cthulhu player"]]

** In the actual webcomic, it is revealed that there are extra-dimensional horrors scary enough to dissuade even {{Mad Scientist}}s as reckless as the ''Heterodynes'' from messing with time. When time is disturbed, [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20140611 they notice]].

** Feferi, [[OurTrollsAreDifferent one of the trolls]], was raised by one. It provided the image for this page.

** Feferi, [[OurTrollsAreDifferent one of the trolls]], was raised by one. It provides the image for this page.

* EldritchAbomination: The primordials, as per ''Exalted'' canon.