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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The Cluster is a horrific forced fusion experiment made up of the shattered fragments of fallen gems incubating inside the Earth. If it were to emerge, its body would be larger than the planet itself, blowing it up from the inside. [[spoiler:Luckily, Steven is able to convince it to bubble itself, since all it wants is to be whole, and it's got plenty of company in itself. However, in "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E23Reunited Reunited]]" and "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E19IAmMyMonster I Am My Monster]]", we see that it can partially take form to help out. It manifests as a giant hand emerging from the ocean floor, appearing to be composed of skinless muscle tissue, indicative of its EldritchAbomination nature.]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The Cluster is a horrific forced fusion experiment made up of the shattered fragments of fallen gems incubating inside the Earth. If it were to emerge, its body would be larger than the planet itself, [[EarthShatteringKaboom blowing it up from the inside.inside]]. [[spoiler:Luckily, Steven is able to convince it to bubble itself, since all it wants is to be whole, and it's got plenty of company in itself. However, in "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E23Reunited Reunited]]" and "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E19IAmMyMonster I Am My Monster]]", we see that it can partially take form to help out. It manifests as a giant hand emerging from the ocean floor, appearing to be composed of skinless muscle tissue, indicative of its EldritchAbomination nature.]]
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* ''Western/Animation/TeenTitans'': Raven at one point opens her hood to reveal a shadowed mass of horrific mass of shadowed tentacles. What the implication of that are are never elaborated on.

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* ''Western/Animation/TeenTitans'': ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Raven at one point opens her hood to reveal a shadowed mass of horrific mass of shadowed tentacles. What the implication of that are are never elaborated on.
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* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The Cluster is a horrific forced fusion experiment made up of the shattered fragments of fallen gems incubating inside the Earth. If it were to emerge, its body would be larger than the planet itself, blowing it up from the inside. [[spoiler:Luckily, Steven is able to convince it to bubble itself, since all it wants is to be whole, and it's got plenty of company in itself. However, in "[[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E23Reunited Reunited]]" and "[[Recap/StevenUniverseFutureS1E19IAmMyMonster I Am My Monster]]", we see that it can partially take form to help out. It manifests as a giant hand emerging from the ocean floor, appearing to be composed of skinless muscle tissue, indicative of its EldritchAbomination nature.]]
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* ''VideoGame/WorldOfHorror'': In the mystery "Curious Case of a Contagious Coma", [[spoiler: the Dream Devourer feeding on the coma patients turns out to be the "finger" of a much larger EldritchAbomination, glimpsed only briefly in the mission's Ending A.]]
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* ''Film/AquamanAndTheLostKingdom'': Black Manta and his crew are attacked by huge tentacles with giant pincers while exploring the Antarctic Seas, with most of Manta's men snatched and dragged off into the darkness before Manta finds the Black Trident. The tentacles' owners turns out to be numerous eldritch-looking monsters which appears in full during the film's climax.
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* ''Film/PeacockKing'' features a disembodied, clawed hand of a monstrous Yokai hiding in a woman's locker, who lunges out trying to grab Peacock and Lucky. Lucky managed to sever it, but then said hand [[HelpingHands continues moving on its own]].
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* ''Western/Animation/TeenTitans'': Raven at one point opens her hood to reveal a shadowed mass of horrific mass of shadowed tentacles. What the implication of that are are never elaborated on.
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* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'': Ghostfreak has a writhing mass of tentacles under his skin, which was implied to contain some kind of eldritch horror. Later he rips off his skin to reveal that the tentacles are just tentacles he has in his chest.
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* ''ComicBook/RatMan'' is a comedy superhero story, but amongst its many parodies it had a moment where a Galactus expy was ensnared and devoured by thousands of tentacles coming from the inside of the Earth. It was never revealed what that entity was, with the vague implication that ''Earth itself'' was an apex predator of sorts.


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* ''VideoGame/GhostlyMatter'' has one of the bosses, the thing at the bottom of the well, clearly based on the Dianoga from ''Star Wars'' mentioned above: tentacles attack the player character and to defeat it we need to shoot its eyestalk. Nothing else of the creature is revealed.

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* The Wampa in ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack''. In both versions of the film, it's glimpsed first as a suddenly appearing, roaring face with a mouth full of teeth, and then a big ol' arm that attacks Luke and then his Tauntaun. We later do see the full creature very briefly. The Special Edition shows more of the Wampa in its cave, as opposed to one decent glimpse the original version gave.

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In both versions of the film, it's glimpsed first as a suddenly appearing, roaring face with a mouth full of teeth, and then a big ol' arm that attacks Luke and then his Tauntaun. We later do see the full creature very briefly. The Special Edition shows more of the Wampa in its cave, as opposed to one decent glimpse the original version gave.
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* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian2011'' has said barbarian fighting the tentacles of an unseen EldritchAbomination.

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* ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian2011'' has said barbarian fighting the tentacles of an unseen EldritchAbomination.TentacledTerror called the Dweller.
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* The 2008 [[Creator/TheAsylum Asylum]] film, which rips off ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' from the same year, is a found-footage movie depicting a giant squid-like monster attacking Tokyo, with the two protagonists (a pair of American tourists) caught in the mess. For its entire screentime, the audience only sees grainy footage of the monster's tentacles smashing into buildings. To quote a review from IMDB, if ''Cloverfield'' is "Blair Witch Godzilla", ''Monster'' would be "Blair Witch Calamari".

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* The ''Monster'', a 2008 [[Creator/TheAsylum Asylum]] film, which rips off ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' from the same year, is a found-footage movie depicting a giant squid-like monster beast attacking Tokyo, with the two protagonists (a pair of American tourists) caught in the mess. For its entire screentime, the audience only sees grainy footage of the monster's tentacles smashing into buildings. To quote a review from IMDB, if ''Cloverfield'' is "Blair Witch Godzilla", ''Monster'' would be "Blair Witch Calamari".
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* The 2008 [[Creator/TheAsylum Asylum]] film, which rips off ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' from the same year, is a found-footage movie depicting a giant squid-like monster attacking Tokyo, with the two protagonists (a pair of American tourists) caught in the mess. For its entire screentime, the audience only sees grainy footage of the monster's tentacles smashing into buildings. To quote a review from IMDB, if ''Cloverfield'' is "Blair Witch Godzilla", ''Monster'' would be "Blair Witch Calamari".
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* Both ''VideoGame/{{PAGUI}}'' games:
** The Demon King boss of the first periodically summons gigantic, deformed hands from underground and within walls to lunge at you. They can only be avoided while you take aim at the Demon King with the dragon fireworks.
** In the second game, you're trapped in a haunted corridor by the ghost hag, who sends gigantic demon hands periodically smashing through windows trying to snatch you.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Skully}}'' has various areas in pools and lakes containing long, black tentacles trying to drag you underwater, but they're attached to fixed locations and can be evaded by running past.
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* Sluggoth from ''VideoGame/WildcatGunMachine'' is a boss who's fought as a giant slug-like head sticking from underground. And can periodically send its tentacles out of floors and walls as an attack.

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* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheMist'': Some of the men decide to go outside to try to fix the generator. As soon as the door opens, a very much one-sided fight ensues with several tentacles before they snatch their prey and sink back into the mist. Also at the end of the book the survivors encounter a giant animal so big that only his legs are visible in the mist.
* In Creator/StephenKing's short story "The Moving Finger", the protagonist is confronted and attacked by a [[CreepyLongFingers bizarre, multijointed finger]] poking out of the drain in his apartment's bathroom sink. After cutting it of, he starts thinking about the creature to which it must have been attached. Eventually, the police arrive and something starts lifting the toilet lid. The officer goes to the toilet to investigate and the story ends.

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* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheMist'': Some of the men decide to go outside to try to fix the generator. As soon as the door opens, a very much one-sided fight ensues with several tentacles before they snatch their prey and sink back into the mist. Also Also, at the end of the book book, the survivors encounter a giant animal so big that only his legs are visible in the mist.
* In Creator/StephenKing's short story "The Moving Finger", the protagonist is confronted and attacked by a [[CreepyLongFingers bizarre, multijointed finger]] poking out of the drain in his apartment's bathroom sink. After cutting it of, he starts thinking about the creature to which it must have been attached. Eventually, the police arrive and something starts lifting the toilet lid. The officer goes to the toilet to investigate and the story ends.
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* The Swamp Monster from ''[[Literature/{{Shannara}} The Sword of Shannara]]''. Unlike other examples what seems to be his body does surface, but we never get a good look or description.

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* In the short story "The Moving Finger" from ''Literature/NightmaresAndDreamscapes'', the protagonist is confronted and attacked by a [[CreepyLongFingers bizarre, multijointed finger]] poking out of the drain in his apartment's bathroom sink. After cutting it off, he starts thinking about the creature to which it must have been attached. Eventually, the police arrive, and something starts lifting the toilet lid. The officer goes to the toilet to investigate, and the story ends.
* The Swamp Monster from ''[[Literature/{{Shannara}} The Sword of Shannara]]''. ''Literature/TheSwordOfShannaraTrilogy''. Unlike other examples examples, what seems to be his body does surface, but we never get a good look or description.
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* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''': The SeaSerpent that lives in the waters of the sundering Sea is never fully shown when it attacks the people he shipwrecked. At best only his dorsal plates and several strategic shots of its body are shown.
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* ''VIdeoGame/{{Kileak}}'' has those worm-like tentacles popping in and out of holes on the ground and walls, and after having their tips exploded they then slinks back forever.

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* ''VIdeoGame/{{Kileak}}'' ''VideoGame/{{Kileak}}'' has those worm-like tentacles popping in and out of holes on the ground and walls, and after having their tips exploded they then slinks back forever.
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* ''VIdeoGame/{{Kileak}}'' has those worm-like tentacles popping in and out of holes on the ground and walls, and after having their tips exploded they then slinks back forever.
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* ''VideoGame/BloodWest'' have fleshy tentacles sticking from the desert ground or the floors of an abandoned cabin in a few areas. You never know if they're worms or limbs of some unseen tentacled monster.
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* ''VideoGame/GoingIntoTheUnknown'' have you coming across dead humans from the viral infection, and sometimes long, fleshy tentacles from some unknown creature will shoot out from the corpses to attack you. The tentacles are too thin for your firearms to hit, but shooting the corpses they're spawned from will make them retract to the bodies.
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* ''Literature/TheRiddlingReaver'' have gigantic tentacles attacking the players in the second and third act, firstly one belonging to a GiantSquid who tries snatching the players off their ship, and later a [[VineTentacles gigantic green vine]] in the Allansian Forests who tries dragging one of the players into a pit, where a gigantic ManEatingPlant resides.
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* The 2005 adaptation of ''Film/KingKong2005'' has a gigantic crustacean claw sticking out a hole and grabbing an unfortunate sailor during the recreation of the original film's Spider-pit sequence. Audiences doesn't see what kind of monster said claw is attached to, but there's a tie-in artbook called ''[[AllThereInTheManual The World of Kong: A Natural History of Skull Island]]'' where turns out said claw belongs to a GiantCrab called a [[https://kingkong.fandom.com/wiki/Deplector Deplector]].
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* ''VideoGame/{{Paranoiascape}}'' has one of the areas in hell where gigantic, disembodied human limbs will assault you, either from above the skies or from underground. The hands will claw at you, while legs will attempt a GiantFootOfStomping.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Debris}}'', being set entirely underwater, have a section in some caverns where you get assaulted by gigantic heads of Bobbitt worms sticking from underground. The most you see of them is their heads and upper bodies, with plenty of talons, and you're definitely ''not'' staying behind to see what the rest of those monsters looks like.
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* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'', Planet Oozla has a boss fight against a pair of large tentacles that emerge from the swamp. Once you get the Grave Boots, you can return to the planet and fight the whole monster as a BonusBoss.

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* In ''VideoGame/RatchetAndClankGoingCommando'', Planet Oozla has a boss fight against a pair of large tentacles that emerge from the swamp. Once you get the Grave Boots, you can return to the planet and fight the whole monster as a BonusBoss.an OptionalBoss.
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* The first ''VideoGame/{{Isoland}}'' ends with a cutscene of your ship breaking through the domed city and over the seas outside, just as numerous gigantic tentacles from a krakken - each larger than your ship - sticks out the surface and makes a lunge at you.
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* ''VideoGame/HiddenDeep'', where you explore an isolated underwater facility, have giant tentacles sticking out through walls and ceilings as enemies. Shooting them dead makes them fall and hang limply from whichever hole they emerged from, but you don't see the monsters they're attached to.

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