History EldritchAbomination / WesternAnimation

** The being known as GOLB that cameo'd in a few episodes also counts, as he appears as a cosmic destroyer that comes around every once in a while, striking fear into even [[RealityWarper Magic Man]]. GOLB appears to have strange geometric shapes floating around him, and those he kills [[spoiler:([[FreudianExcuse Magic Man's wife]] among them) are either unaffected by magic, or erased from existence entirely.]] "Whispers" heavily hints that [[spoiler:he may in fact be the series' GreaterScopeVillain, as [[BigBad the Lich himself]] describes himself as "the last scholar of GOLB"]]. In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler: GOLB becomes the ultimate threat to the Land of Ooo.]]

** Invictus is an ancient, out of nowhere evil that is responsible for the distortion of the Titans.
** Werthrent is a terrifying, serpentine deity from another dimension who was worshiped on Ash's home planet.

* In MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, Discord qualifies. He is an embodiment of chaos with [[MixAndMatchCritter parts from many animals]]. While this may not be enough on its own, it is worth noting that he dwells in an EldritchLocation, and his powers are completely uncontrollable by anyone less chaotic than him. His powers also allow him to, among other things: [[RealityWarper break the laws of reality]], MindRape the protagonists, bring villains back from the dead, and easily NoSell King Sombra's attacks.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' when Sabrina, Harvey and Salem are trapped inside Harvey's comic book world, they encounter an entity known as the Dreaded Dysphilia. It appears as a flying blob of fungus that erases everything in its path forever, and Harvey's negative self-esteem makes it bigger. That's right - a monster that is powered by the negative self-esteem of a ''teenager''. What's more is that it's completely alien to the comic book world -- Harvey didn't even create it.

** He does ''not'' [[PlanetEater eat planets]] for sustenance - he gets ''that'' from [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil hatred and strife]], and will exist so long as these things do. No, he eats planets because he's offended by existence. All of it. So he's trying to eat it. All of it. Every dimension. He's already devoured approximately 20% of all known existence in the TheMultiverse and is eager to continue his binge. When he's done, ''space itself as we know it'' will be ''eaten''. He apparently [[ApocalypseHow once destroyed reality itself]], and the only reason that anything exists at all is because he missed a couple of fragments and fell asleep, allowing them to rebuild.

* ''WesternAnimation/XMen'' has the Spirit Drinker. (It exists in the comics but the animated version fits the bill better.[[note]]The comic version was a BigLippedAlligatorMoment where a guy summoned it to attack Lilandra, who was 'ported away by Nightcrawler, leaving it to accidentally take out another {{Mook}} and then vanish as it can only take one soul per summon. Replace it with one more grunt with a blaster and not much changes. It appears once more in a everyone-sees-their-worst-fears situation; naturally, the summoner's worst fear is his pet turning on him.[[/note]]) Trapped in a spaceship that was then launched into deep space was the only way the Shi'ar could get rid of it, and when the villains of the week tried to get their hands on the mysterious cargo, they, and the X-Men, find themselves up against a terrifying and constantly re-forming EnergyBeing with three tongue-tentacles that will steal your soul (causing the ''lovely'' image of the soul's owner appearing in its shifting not-flesh begging you for either help or to run and save yourself.) When Jean tried to read its mind, what she saw was so horrible that she was left in actual, physical agony because its mind was just ''that'' repellent (you could've taken it as a simple predatory animal until then, but no - ItCanThink, and you don't want to know ''what'' it thinks. Also, it's quite capable of strategizing.) It's as solid as it wants to be, can melt through walls, need only get a brief tongue-hold to [[YourSoulIsMine earn its name]], and gains strength with each new victim - if it had gotten out of the tunnels and into the city proper, it would've been unstoppable. The list of things that scares ''Lady Deathstrike'' is ''very'' short, but this earned a place.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'':
** Lucubra, the main antagonist of the episode "The Creature From Beyond" [[spoiler:and one of the breed of monstrous minions to the BigBad of the season, Diagon]]. This extra-dimensional horror boasts SuperStrength, NighInvulnerability, FrickinLaserBeams, and the power to devour a person's thoughts with MindControl as a bonus.
** Diagon. It's held behind the same seal as Lucubra, but is ''much'' worse (Gwen says compared to Diagon, Lucubra is an ''insect!''). In the next episode, they're actually shown the Diagon, and while the audience doesn't see it ([[TrailersAlwaysSpoil though commercials very clearly show him]]), Gwen and Kevin react to seeing him as if they were ''in pain''. [[http://ben10.wikia.com/wiki/Diagon Just take a look.]] He comes from another dimension, is referred to as an "Old One" by Charmcaster, and has enough power to match and defeat a powered up Way Big (one of Ben's most powerful aliens, if not THE most powerful).
* Franchise/{{DCAU}}:
** ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' had as a one-time threat a HiveMind alien blob thing that called itself "Unity". Using a creepy preacher as its primary avatar, it turned [[spoiler:Smallville]] into a TownWithADarkSecret and nearly absorbed all the townsfolk into itself.
*** In the comics, Ian Karkull is a guy with shadow powers, but in this, it's like the writers didn't know if they wanted Cthulhu or Satan and so ''combined them''. A common hood gets his hand on a tablet and reads it aloud. ''Bad'' idea. He becomes the host to a shadowy tentacled ''something'' that wants to create HellOnEarth and basically overwrites the Daily Planet with his own unreality, everyone caught within, Lois and Jimmy included, becoming possessed and transformed by the demonic creatures that live there. There's a seemingly bottomless pit in the center. In the end, Superman has to chase the dropped tablet (ComicBook/DoctorFate needs the original tablet to undo it all) down this pit, and it turns that if you go far enough, farther than the eye can see from the surface, the pit ''does'' have a bottom. The bottom ''has a mouth.'' The bottom is also '''rising.'''
** In a two part ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' episode "The Terror Beyond", Comicbook/{{Superman}} and Co. go fight [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Ichthultu]]. A giant alien monstrosity not bound by time or space going up against a group of superheroes in a work that sits firmly on the Idealistic side of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism? The [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu beatdown]] was the source of much awesomeness. For extra fun, said Abomination is voiced by Music/RobZombie.

* In ''WesternAnimation/SabrinaTheAnimatedSeries'' when Sabrina, Harvey and Salem are trapped inside Harvey's comic book world, they encounter an entity known as the Dreaded Dysphilia. It appears as a flying blob of fungus that erases everything in its path forever, and Harvey's negative self-esteem makes it bigger. That's right - a monster that is powered by the negative self-esteem of a ''teenager''. What's more is that it's completely alien to the comic book world - Harvey didn't even create it.

* An episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheWildThornberrys'' set in Africa had Eliza and Darwin venture into a forbidden patch of the jungle where a demon, monster, or something even worse supposedly dwelled. The seemingly supernatural events that occur throughout the episode ''could'' be regarded as Eliza simply hallucinating from panic and fear... [[RealAfterAll until the very end]].

* The BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/Epic1984'', the Spirit of Evil is this; even when its physical form is defeated its disembodied spirit rises to the sky in the form of an angry face, from where it continues to harass the heroes.

* In MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, Discord qualifies. He is an embodiment of chaos with [[MixAndMatchCritter parts from many animals]]. While this may not be enough on its own, it is worth noting that he dwells in an EldritchLocation, and his powers are completely uncontrollable by anyone less chaotic than him. His powers also allow him to, among other things: [[RealityWarper break the laws of reality]], MindRape the protagonists, bring villains back from the dead, and easily NoSell King Sombra's attacks.

** The Preeminent, the DimensionLord ([[GeniusLoci and actual dimension]]) of the Cursed Realm whose goal is to curse all realms, is a tentacled {{Oculorthorax}} who [[spoiler:appears as a {{Kaiju}} in the finale and uses ghost-ified houses and buildings to enhance her physical form, giving herself limbs.]]

* In MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, Discord qualifies. He is an embodiment of chaos with [[MixAndMatchCritter parts from many animals]]. While this may not be enough on its own, it is worth noting that he dwells in an EldritchLocation, and his powers are completely uncontrollable by anyone less chaotic than him. His powers also allow him to, among other things: [[RealityWarper break the laws of reality]], MindRape the protagonists, [[Main/Necromancer bring villains back from the dead]], and easily NoSell King Sombra's attacks.

* In MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, Discord qualifies. He is an embodiment of chaos with [[MixAndMatchCritter parts from many animals]]. While this may not be enough on its own, it is worth noting that he dwells in an EldritchLocation, and his powers are completely uncontrollable by anyone less chaotic than him. His powers also allow him to, among other things: [[RealityWarper break the laws of reality]], MindRape the protagonists, [[Necromancer bring villains back from the dead]], and easily NoSell King Sombra's attacks.

* In its planning stages, ''Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' originally had VainSorceress Yzma summon a force of darkness, called Supai, to [[TheNightThatNeverEnds blot out the sun and plunge the entire world into eternal night]].

* In the backstory of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', the gods, Odin, Vishnu and Ra, hunted and defeated Evil itself, a black mass of pure ''nothing''. A single fragment survived and fell to Earth and eventually becoming [[BigBad Aku]]. However, Aku mostly avoids this trope. He has an understandable nature, sapience and humanoid form, since evil is completely understandable to humans.

* In the backstory of ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack'', the gods, Odin, Vishnu and Ra, hunted and defeated Evil itself, a black mass of pure ''nothing''. A single fragment survived and fell to Earth and eventually becoming [[BigBad Aku]]. However, Aku avoids this trope. He has an understandable nature, sapience and humanoid form, since evil is completely understandable to humans.

* Crud from ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh'' episode "Cleanliness is Next to Impossible" is a massive MuckMonster made of the filth from under Christopher Robin's bed, and his empire is built from the toys Tigger threw under there. Granted, Crud is a fairly light villain by the standards of most cartoons, but [[VileVillainSaccharineShow he makes for a truly frightening villain in the ''Winnie the Pooh'' universe]].

* The prime antagonist of ''WesternAnimation/ShadowRaiders'' is the Beast Planet, a PlanetEater the size of a gas giant that [[ImplacableMan never stops, tires, or negotiates]], [[WeHaveReserves produces an unlimited supply]] of scary-looking {{Mooks}}, and '''is completely NighInvulnerable'''. They only defeat it by [[spoiler:teleporting it away, and it then just starts eating other planets and may well have absorbed the teleporter technology...]]

** The monster in "Dee-Dimensional" is an enormous, tentacled, multi-eyed heap of slime.

* The spirits Raava and Vaatu from ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' are the manifestations of peace and chaos respectively. Every 10,000 years the two battle for control of the universe, and although neither one can be killed by the other (they'd just re-emerge in time for the next round), if Vaatu wins he'll cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Before he became the first Avatar, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Wan accidentally released Vaatu and started a massive war between humans and spirits]], but Vaatu shot himself in the metaphorical foot [[NiceJobFixingItVillain by letting Wan live, allowing him to become the first Avatar and imprison Vaatu in the Spirit World]].

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has plenty of giant scary monsters in it, but few are more eldritch-like than the [[EmotionEater Windigos]]; horrifying, [[EvilIsDeathlyCold icy]], ghostlike [[HellishHorse horses]] that create blizzards wherever they go and feed on hatred and anger. They greatly resemble Ithaqua, a beast that came from the mind of Creator/HPLovecraft himself, and they like to freeze everyone who has negative feelings and entomb them in ice, presumably to [[AndIMustScream feed on their anger and hatred forever]]. [[spoiler:Thank [[OhMyGods Celestia]] that the founders of Equestria were able to oust them with ThePowerOfFriendship]]. It's subtly implied that they manipulate ponies' emotions to make them more hateful, and that they're ''still around'' and will always exist [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil as long as ponies continue to have conflicts]].
** Discord himself fit this trope to a tee, [[VillainDecay at first]]. His origins are unknown, he's so powerful that the show's typical laws of magic don't apply to him, and only the Elements of Harmony were able to overpower him at first. Later episodes mitigated this by showing Princess Celestia could craft wards against him, and he had a few other weaknesses, including disease and [[spoiler: a sufficiently powerful ManaDrain]]. He's also [[MixAndMatchCritters bizarre-looking]] and can [[VoluntaryShapeshifting change his appearance at will]], he laughs at others attempts to [[BlueAndOrangeMorality make sense of him]], and can open gateways to another [[EldritchLocation bizarre dimension]].
--->"Make sense? Aww, what fun is there in making sense?"
** King Sombra, albeit of the WasOnceAMan variety. He has a SatanicArchetype-looking NonstandardCharacterDesign, he has WrongContextMagic so far removed from any other Unicorn's (and arguably even any Alicorn's -- as Celestia, Luna, and Cadance can attest to), he eventually becomes what's practically a sentient WorldWreckingWave, and WordOfGod has confirmed that he's an intended {{Expy}} of [[Literature/TheLordOfTheRings Sauron]]. [[spoiler:And the LooseCanon comics have revealed that he's actually TheDragon of an entire race of similar beings, themselves currently imprisoned in a PocketDimension and waiting to be released.]]
** The Tatzlwurm is a SandWorm-esque creature that lives in a hill at the edge of Equestria. It certainly looks the part, but appearance alone does not make an EldritchAbomination. However, even Discord has no idea what it is, and when it sneezed on him [[spoiler: he got sick. Discord, the near-omnipotent chaos god who knows things he never had the opportunity to learn, ''got sick from it'' and is completely shocked by it.]]
** The Smooze downplays this trope. It's a [[NonMaliciousMonster benevolent but still dangerous]] BlobMonster that consumes everything in its path and is [[NoSell impervious]] to [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia's]] magic, or ''any'' magic. If it consumes valuables, it expands, able to go from large pony size to filling a whole building, and anything it sticks to cannot be unstuck. There's really nothing stopping it from becoming the kind of threat to the whole world that the G1 edition was other than it not being interested in doing so.
** The Tantibus lives in dreams, turning them into nightmares. Anything it touches becomes a monster, turning a pleasant dream into EverythingTryingToKillYou. It can even surf from mind to mind; if you dream of another person, that can act as a door to that person's mind. The more minds it infects, the more power it has, and it will eventually gain the ability to enter reality, and become as all-powerful there as it is in dreams. Worst case scenario: Picture Discord's worst if he really, ''really'' wanted to KillEmAll. It eventually grew beyond the ability of Princess Luna to contain it on her own, then beyond Luna ''and'' the Mane Six's combined might, leading to an epic battle in a shared dream - once they realized they could do anything in a dream, ALL OF PONYVILLE using various one-off powers and OneWingedAngel forms made a BadassArmy to take this creature on... and still couldn't beat it. Turns out the key is [[spoiler: Luna's own guilt over her crimes as Nightmare Moon, which made it stronger. ''She created it to punish herself'' and it was only supposed to attack ''her.'']]
*** That tells you who else belongs on this list. The alicorns may not look as monstrous but their proportions are very 'off' compared to other ponies and their powers are insane. What would you do if you met a ''human'' who was almost double the normal size, legs too long, neck ''way'' too long, head too small... and, oh, could turn day into night or vice versa, had the weather change with her mood, and was capable of ''creating apocalypse-grade mind parasites at will?'' Yeah, we'd run too.

%%** Cartman becomes one in "Trapper Keeper" when he is assimilated.
* The Cluster from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is a grotesque geo-weapon commissioned by the Diamond Authority both as super-weapon and as a means of finally obliterating Earth [[spoiler:as revenge for Pink Diamond's shattering]]. It is a massive Gem formed from the shards of millions of shattered Gems stuck together. Its gemstone is nearly the size of the moon, and according to Peridot, it will be much, ''much'' bigger than the Earth itself once it forms. [[spoiler:Steven manages to telepathically communicate and befriend it as it tries to form before he manages to bubble it. When the Diamonds try to wake it up, it forms a massive, skinless arm as big as the Diamond's arm-ships, and proceeds to fight back against them.]]

* Morgana from ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}''. Also known as "Lady Pale, Baba Yaga and Eldritch Queen". A mysterious, female eldritch entity on an island on the Black Sea who bestows great magical power onto Angor Rot, but only after imprisoning his soul in the Inferna Copula and declaring that he shall bring death to "Merlin's Champions" (Trollhunters).

[[caption-width-right:350:Maybe it's best that we didn't see this thing in its entirety...]]

** Hunson Abadeer, an unkillable, hideous monstrosity who rules [[EldritchLocation the Nightosphere]] in a perpetual state of chaos and pain, has a OneWingedAngel form Lovecraft would have been proud of, and whose first order of business when he managed to escape was to [[YourSoulIsMine suck up the souls]] of everyone in Ooo. According to [[ComicBook/AdventureTime the comics]] he became ruler of the Nightosphere by deposing some even nastier abominations.
** The Lich, the closest thing the show has to a BigBad. He's a monstrous necromancer/''thing'' that looks like a rotting, horned corpse in it's natural state and can possess mortals, wearing their corpses like suits. [[TimeAbyss He's existed for about a thousand years and doesn't appear to age in any manner]]. He is also an OmnicidalManiac who claims to be the personification of death and cannot feel empathy, seeking to destroy all life. What's most unsettling is that it's stongly implied that [[spoiler: he WasOnceAMan. Specifically he was apparently a semi-normal person or creature who was hit by a magically enhanced warhead from the Great Mushroom War, which transformed him into the Lich.]]
*** The Lich may very well have existed before even nothingness... but even if he didn't, he can provide some images of some horrible, horrific abominations from that not-time.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** The Wall-Mart store chain, which exists [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil As Long As There Is Capitalism]].
** In "Coon 2: Hindsight" and "Mysterion Rises", DP (formerly BP) drill into another dimension and release Cthulhu.
** Cartman becomes one in "Trapper Keeper" when he is assimilated.
* The Cluster from ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is a grotesque geo-weapon commissioned by the Diamond Authority both as super-weapon as well as a means of finally obliterating Earth [[spoiler:as revenge for (allegedly) being the place of Pink Diamond's shattering.]] It is a massive gem formed from the shards of millions of shattered gems stuck together. Its gem is nearly the size of the moon, and according to Peridot, it will be much, ''much'' bigger than the Earth itself once it forms. [[spoiler:Steven manages to telepathically communicate and befriend it as it tries to form before he manages to bubble it. When the Diamonds try to wake it up, it forms a massive arm as big as the Diamond's arm-ships and proceeds to fight back against them.]]

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* Argante from ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}''. Also known as "Lady Pale, Baba Yaga and Eldritch Queen". A mysterious, female eldritch entity on an island on the Black Sea who bestows great magical power onto Angor Rot, but only after imprisoning his soul in the Inferna Copula and declaring that he shall bring death to "Merlin's Champions" (Trollhunters).

** The being known as Golb that cameo'd in a few episodes also counts, as he appears as a cosmic destroyer that comes around every once in a while, striking fear into even [[RealityWarper Magic Man]]. Golb appears to have strange geometric shapes floating around him, and those he kills [[spoiler:([[FreudianExcuse Magic Man's wife]] among them) are either unaffected by magic, or erased from existence entirely.]] [[spoiler:"Whispers"]] heavily hints that [[spoiler:he may in fact be the series' GreaterScopeVillain, as [[BigBad the Lich himself]] describes himself as "the last scholar of Golb"]].

** The monster in "Dee-Dimensional".

* The BigBad of ''WesternAnimation/Epic1984'', the Spirit of Evil is this; even when it's physical form is defeated its disembodied spirit rises to the sky in the form of an angry face, from when it continues to harass the heroes.

* Short-lived (only 13 episodes long) 80's {{Hasbro}} series ''{{WesternAnimation/Inhumanoids}}'' revolved around the heroic "Earth Corps" fighting against ancient, {{kaiju}}-like horrors from the center of the Earth. The three main antagonists were Metlar (giant mineral-based demon who throws globs of molten rock/iron at his foes), D'Compose (rotting zombie dinosaur who could revive the dead and turn the living into decaying zombie slaves with a touch) and Tendril (Cthulhu-like [[WhenTreesAttack plant-monster]]). Others appeared in several episodes, like Gagoyle and Ssslither, whilst recurring foe Nightcrawler was a HumanoidAbomination created by D'Compose from the corpse of a human enemy.

* In Episode 102 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', [[CatsAreMean Mr. Cat]] and [[AntiHero Stumpy]] fuse Quack Quack with a bunch of random objects and creatures and turn him into one of these. [[ResetButton Thankfully, he's fine by the next episode.]]

*** We later get to meet Bill's friends, who are also Eldritch Abominations: 8-Ball, Kryptos, [[SpeakOfTheDevil The Being Whose Name Must Never Be Said]][[note]]Aww, what the heck? It's Xanthar.[[/note]], Teeth, Keyhole, Hectorgon, Amorphous Shape, Pyronica, Pacifier, and the eye bats.

** The being known as Golb that cameo'd in a few episodes also counts, as he appears as a cosmic destroyer that comes around every once in a while, striking fear into even [[RealityWarper Magic Man]]. Golb appears to have strange geometric shapes floating around him, and those he kills [[spoiler:([[FreudianExcuse Magic Man's wife]] among them) are either unaffected by magic, or erased from existence entirely.]] [[spoiler:"Whispers"]] heavily hints that [[spoiler:he may in fact be the series' UltimateEvil, as [[BigBad the Lich himself]] describes himself as "the last scholar of Golb"]].