History Main / CreepyAsymmetry

* Disfigurements or defects (which ''can'' point to UnfortunateImplications)

* ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'': Several Beasts are asymmetrical through disturbing, inhuman characteristics. The standard mobs you fight for example have one arm that's [[CreepilyLongArms longer than the other]] (and covered in beast fur), the Cleric Beast has a disproportionately [[RightHandOfDoom massive left hand]], half of Ludwig's body is disfigured into a freakish horse, including an extra mouth and multiple legs; and the One Reborn is an uneven abomination [[BodyOfBodies made from corpses]].

* ''VideoGame/EldenRing'': The Omens are ogre-like beings born with gnarled horns that grow unevenly across their body, highlighting their unnatural nature. It's downplayed with Margit [[spoiler:aka Morgot]] who retains an air of dignity and experience despite the deformities afflicting his body.

* All of the Vader monsters from ''Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman'' are asymmetrical, with many of them looking like two vertically split halves from different creatures struck together, and appropriately, many of them are [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe killed by being vertically split in half]]. Queen Hedrian, ruler of the Vader Clan, is extremely vain and wants to destroy all beautiful things, so it makes sense that she would only create ugly monsters. The Dustlers, which are the Vader's {{Mook}}s, are also asymmetrical, as they have half of a skull for a face and half of a rib cage on their chest.

* All of the Vader monsters from ''Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman'' are asymmetrical, with many of them looking like two halves from different creatures struck together, and appropriately, many of them are [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe killed by being vertically split in half]]. Queen Hedrian, ruler of the Vader Clan, is extremely vain and wants to destroy all beautiful things, so it makes sense that she would only create ugly monsters. The Dustlers, which are the Vader's {{Mook}}s, are also asymmetrical, as they have half of a skull for a face and half of a rib cage on their chest.

* All of the Vader monsters from ''Series/DenshiSentaiDenziman'' are asymmetrical, with many of them looking like two halves from different creatures struck together, and appropriately, many of them are killed by being split it half. The ruler of the Vader Clan is a vain queen who wants to destroy all beautiful things, so it makes sense that she would only create ugly monsters.

* ''Franchise/LeagueOfLegends'': Fiddlesticks is a demon that's constructed a crude [[ScaryScarecrows scarecrow-like]] form for itself from farm equipment, and it clearly doesn't understand what humans look like. One arm is clawed and drags along the ground, its face is made with an off-kilter bear trap for a mouth, and its torso is hunched over from all the uneven weight distribution. It's inhuman, [[MarionetteMotion doll-like]] movements accentuate it's unnatural appearance further.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': ''Literature/{{Eisenhorn}}'': The Saruthi are a StarfishAlien species deeply corrupted by Chaos; as a result they are not symmetrical along any axis, with even their many limbs all having different proportions. It's suggested this extends to having biological AlienGeometries that makes it hard to understand how they move or to count how many fingers they have per hand. The first time Eisenhorn sees the Saruthi up close, their asymmetry leaves him incredibly unnerved.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'': Many of the setting's monsters are somewhat lopsided, reflecting their origins as the results of mad science or unpredictable mutations. These range from the basic [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/coccyx Coccyx]] to the formidable [[https://bogleech.com/mortasheen/hestermoan Hestermoan]], an enormous {{Nuckelavee}} with one oversized clawed hand and taloned foot.

* ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries:'' The first TITAN enemy has disproportionate limbs; with a his right arm and left leg thinner than the other. Later TITANs in Arkham Asylum are proportionate, however the TITANs that appeared in Arkham City possess similarly disproportionate limbs.

** Half of the the Plague's body is rotted and deformed from a pathogen that ravished her body in life, including a face that appears melted on one side.

* ''Literature/MaledictionTrilogy'': Trolls used to be eerily beautiful but troll imprisoned under the mountain are usually disfigured, due to inbreeding and toxic influence of [[ColdIron iron]]. Count Marc has a very handsome face -- but only if you look from a certain angle, since if you look at him straight on, it looks as if it was split in half and then moved a bit. The result is described as highly disturbing.

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BlobMonster can be considered a sub-trope, as creatures that fall under the trope are naturally asymmetrical (examples should be directed there).

Overlapping tropes include RedRightHand (if the character is also evil).

Contrast with FashionableAsymmetry in which a character deliberately dons asymmetrical elements for the sake of style.

!!Examples

* ''VideoGame/VermintideII'': Chaos Spawn are tumor-like monsters with mismatched legs and a mass of CombatTentacles erupting from one side of their body. They're created when a human [[TerminalTransformation succumbs]] to the mutating power of Chaos, leaving them a mindless LivingWeapon.

-->'''WebVideo/TBSkyen''', "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBbKHGRkexE&t=696s "What's the Deal with Fiddlesticks?"]]"

* One of Wayne Barlowe's design considerations for ''Film/{{Hellboy 2004}}'' was that every [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Hell creature]] has an asymmetrical element to mark them as having an otherworldly origin. Behemoth and the Ogdru Jahad both wrap their bodies in lopsided masses of [[TentacledTerror tentacles]], and in the latter's case crustacean claws. Sammael has two small eyes on one side of its face and a single large one on the other. And Hellboy himself has TheRightHandOfDoom.

* ''VideoGame/BioShock'': Splicers are violent, mutated humans with asymmetrical features due to their mutations forming tumors in random locations on their body, without regard for symmetry, along with bearing wounds from fights that spring up in Rapture.

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* ''Literature/CthulhuMythos'': Shoggoth, an artificial lifeform created by the Great Old Ones as a servile race, are described as protoplasmic orbs capable of generating any organic tissue for any function they might need, including prehensile appendages, multiple eyes, and mouths with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily. Typically, when a shoggoth appears, it is as a mishmesh of misshapen body parts that bears no resemblance to any actual organism and is utterly asymmetrical.

Contrast FashionableAssymetry, where clothing that isn't symmetrical looks '''good''' instead of horrifying.

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* In some surviving texts about Norse mythology, Hel, an entity linked to the realm of the dead, is described as her body being half flesh-colored and half dark.