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* In the world of ''Franchise/TheWitcher'', Geralt is this to the various things that go bump in the night. It's best encapsulated in the song used in the trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-l29HlKkXU "A Night to Remember"]] for ''VideoGame/TheWitcher3WildHunt''. It's essentially an IronicNurseryTune sung by monstrous parents to their children about the big bad Witcher.

*** Furthermore, if you complete a Genocide run, reset the game, and do another Genocide run, [[spoiler: the Fallen Child]] will express extreme disturb at your actions and request that you do not do it again.

* ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'': "The Unknown" is a grotesque, horrifying, and disconcertingly malicious {{Tulpa}}, the manifestation of various {{creepypasta}}-style urban legends that has racked itself quite the body count before it was inducted in [[GreaterScopeVillain The Entity]]'s game. Unlike nearly every other Killer, The Unknown did so completely involuntarily, and was actually taken ''during the middle of one of its hauntings'', initially [[VoiceChangeling mimicking a human voice calling for help]] in order to taunt its prospective victim, only to ''[[VillainousBreakdown actually]]'' [[VillainousBreakdown start screaming for help]] as it found itself [[AlwaysABiggerFish being dragged kicking and screaming into The Entity's realm]].

* ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'': "The Unknown" is a grotesque, horrifying, and disconcertingly malicious {{Tulpa}}, the manifestation of various {{creepypasta}}-style urban legends that has racked itself quite the body count before it was inducted in [[GreaterScopeVillain The Entity]]'s game. Unlike nearly every other Killer, The Unknown did so completely involuntarily, and was actually taken ''during the middle of one of its hauntings'', going from [[VoiceChangeling replicating the voice of its prospective victim's friends]], calling out for help just to taunt them, only to ''[[VillainousBreakdown actually]]'' [[VillainousBreakdown start screaming for help]] as it found itself [[AlwaysABiggerFish being dragged kicking and screaming into The Entity's realm]].

* The BigBad of ''VideoGame/DeadByDaylight'' is an EldritchAbomination known as the Entity, which feels on terror and suffering and can entrap people in an eternity of being chased, killed, and brought back. It draws killers and madmen into its realm to serve as hunters of the innocents it ensnares. [[Franchise/{{Halloween}} Michael Myers]] is implied to ''scare the shit out of the Entity'', such that it lets him hunt in its realm to keep him ''appeased'' instead of giving him orders.
** There's also [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]], who is in a league of his own and ''joined'' the Entity's game for his own purposes. The entity also has to keep him appeased - or suffer the wrath of a being who can summon half of ''Hell'' to the Entity's doorstep.

* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'': The epilogue of Chapter 1 makes it quite clear that Kris is a CreepyChild when you're not playing as them. Chapter 2 has an obscure "Weird Route" that substantially changes the story by [[spoiler:having Kris emotionally abuse Noelle, during her brief time as a GuestStarPartyMember, into using her ice magic to kill -- not just defeat, but ''kill'' -- as many enemies as possible for the sake of "becoming stronger", eventually culminating in killing Berdly with a OneHitKill spell]]. Afterward, Ralsei and Susie, who were absent during these events, note that Kris looks seriously freaked out, suggesting that, despite their behavior at the end of the previous chapter, they do have a line and ''[[PlayerAndProtagonistIntegration you]]'' just crossed it.

* The Courier in ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' is easily this by the end of the ''Lonesome Road'' DLC. [[spoiler:As they leave the Divide, the various horrors -- [[BodyHorror Marked]] [[ThePowerOfHate Men]] and [[TunnelKing Tunnelers]], the latter of which easily took down ''Deathclaws'' on introduction -- ''left them alone''.]] [[spoiler:The same is said for when an Evil Courier sides with House; he's terrified of you, and tries to do his best to appease you.]]

* Dragons in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' are winged beasts of death and fire whose very speech is volatile magic and who cannot truly die like mortals can. As such, concepts such as "mortal", "temporary", and "finite" are quite alien to them. Then the Dovahkiin--the protagonist, who can absorb and ''consume'' a dragon's soul, thus destroying them forever--shows up. The first dragon you fight (not the one at the beginning) will actually cry out in ''terror'' when he's about to die and realizes what EldritchAbomination has arrived to end his existence: "Dovahkiin? No!!" For bonus points: the theme that sometimes plays when a dragon attacks is called "The One They Fear". No guesses who "they" are in this context.
** Even better, the Dragonborn can weaponize this weakness with the "Dragonrend" shout, composed of the words Joor, Zah, and Frul, meaning "mortal", "temporary", and "finite", respectively. Mechanically, all it really does is [[ClipItsWings force a dragon to land]], robbing it of its mobility and making it much easier to hit. The in-story reason for this is that the Shout forces the dragon to understand the concept of mortality, so incomprehensible to the immortal mind that they become too disoriented to fly.
** To drive home how unnatural and horrifying being targeted by Dragonrend is for a dragon, in the vision you learn it from it Alduin, the incarnation of the Apocalypse, reacts with utter disbelief when the three ancient Dragonborn hit him with the shout:
--> '''Alduin:''' "Nivahriin joorre[cowardly mortals]! What have you done? What twisted words have you created!? Tahrodiis[treacherous] Paarthurnax! My teeth to his neck!"

* A humorous example in VideoGame/MortalKombat1; [[LizardFolk Reptile/Syzoth]] is a very capable fighter whose true form is that of a hulking, acid-spitting lizard monster. He can swallow people whole, tear them apart with his sheer strength or just inflict horrible injuries with his acid breath, to say nothing of the fact that he can ''turn invisible'' to catch his prey off-guard. [[BadPowersGoodPeople He's one of the good guys]], though, and quite {{Adorkable}} at that. So why does he qualify for this trope ? Because after witnessing his ability to turn invisible, Johnny Cage compared him to [[Film/{{Predator}} the Predator]] and, after the events of the main story, invited Syzoth to his place for a movie night to show him said movie. [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments It scared Syzoth shitless]].