History Main / CthulHumanoid

* ''Film/{{Dagon}}'': All the Dagon cultists in the village are various types of FishPeople. Xuia's father has a face that resembles an octopus.

** ''Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger'' / ''Series/PowerRangersMysticForce'' has N Ma / the Master. He starts out as a Lovecraft-esque squid monster, then takes a more humanoid form (with plenty of tentacles) after possessing someone.

* ''WesternAnimation/WanderOverYonder'' episode “The Good Bad Guy” has Major Threat AKA Jeff, Lord Hater’s former idol that got him into evil, before preforming a HeelFaceTurn. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen Concept art]] reveals that he was planned to be even more Cthulhu-like, with actual Tentacles, and a more octopus-like head.

* ''Series/Archive81'': [[spoiler:Kaelego]]. For whatever reason, its statue the splash image for the series on the Netflix interface.

%%* The Grel from the ''Franchise/BerniceSummerfield'' series.

** One of Demoman's cosmetics, [[https://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Cap%27n_Calamari Cap'n Calamari]], gives him an octopus-head as an allusion to [[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Davy Jones]].

* ''VideoGame/BendyAndTheInkMachine'' gives us [[spoiler: the Lost Ones: humanoid, skeletal ink beings with strands of ink dangling from their faces, sort of looking like tentacles. [[DarkIsNotEvil They're completely harmless]], thankfully, however it's implied they're actually [[TragicMonster former studio]] [[WasHumanOnce employees]].]]

* Davy Jones from ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' is certainly not the first example, but due to the popularity of the films, he might very well be the [[TropeCodifier most well-known example]]. He has facial tentacles, a crab pincer for a hand, and one of his legs resembles that of a crab. Designed to resemble a [[WeirdBeard beard]], [[DressedToPlunder hook and peg leg]], of course.

* ''VideoGame/BountyOfOne'': Illithids are squid-faced late-game enemies that attack by using their hands to fire ''[[PainfullySlowProjectile painfully slow]]'' energy balls, allowing them to clog the screen with projectiles. Some of their variants lack legs and are more akin to SnakePeople.

** A gag in one episode shows a Cthulhu-like alien buying the Milky Way Galaxy off Website/{{eBay}}.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'' has a uniquely avian take on this trope with the tentacle birds. They were originally descended from a small platypus-like water bird known as the snuffle that had a soft bill with fleshy tendrils to help them locate prey, these birds were able to survive a mass extinction which allowed them to greatly diversify with their most prominent feature being mobile facial appendages derived from these tendrils, legs set further back on the body which gives them a more upright human-like stance and a [[ArmlessBiped complete lack of wings]]. They eventually left the water and split into two main groups: the gloves and the mittens.

* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': The Galangian species, who are aliens native to Galang-22 are shown to be humanoid cephalopods whose culture is very similar to that of Europe during the medieval and renaissance periods. Ironically in a Lordy of octopus intelligence, most galangians including its queen are shown to be idiotic and dumb.

* ''Videogame/Wizard101'' has a being known as "The Old One" who is said to be "the secret author of history, always watching, always nudging." He looks like Cthulhu and dresses like AbrahamLincoln.

* ''VideoGame/TwistedWonderland'': Azul Ashengrotto, being based on [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid Ursula the Sea Witch]], is a part-octopus merperson.

* Tabula Smaragdina, one of the 41 Supreme Beings in ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' has an octopus-shaped head. He is an alchemist, noted as the creator of Albedo, Nigredo and Rubedo, the latter of which is said to be the strongest being in Nazarick (which is saying something, considering how powerful the rest of the Guardians are).

* The proto-Prawns from Niell Blomkamp's short film ''Alive In Jo'burg'', which inspired ''Film/DistrictNine'', look like this instead of the insectoid appearance of the big budget adaptation.

** A huge, unholy, tentacle-faced monstrosity from the deep: [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=247542 Wrexial, the Risen Deep.]]

A monster with a face of tentacles resembling everyone's favorite EldritchAbomination, Franchise/{{Cthulhu|Mythos}}. Using the official pronunciation of "Cthulhu" given by Creator/HPLovecraft, the [[StarfishLanguage closest thing to the correct pronunciation]] [[BlackSpeech the human vocal apparatus can manage is]] "Khlulhloominoid."[[note]]Cu thoo loo om in oid, in case you ''actually'' wanted to try![[/note]] Now [[TongueTwister say that five times fast]].

%%* ''VideoGame/EnterTheGungeon'' has a ShoutOut to ''D&D''[='s=] Illithids with the Mine Flayer boss.