History Main / DigitalAbomination

* ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'': [[{{OmnicidalManiac}}AM]] (AKA "Allied Mastercomputer," "Adaptive Manipulator", "Aggressive Menace" and "I Think Therefore I AM" has set the ''standard'' for this trope. An AI built to oversee a hopelessly complicated world war that achieved sentience, [[AIIsACrapshoot went stark-raving mad]] and used its "killing data" to [[ApocalypseHow unleash nuclear genocide against the human race.]] Except for five poor bastards who he happily tortured for 109 years with godlike powers just to satisfy his bottomless hatred for the human race.

* ''Literature/{{IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream}}'': [[{{OmnicidalManiac}}AM]] (AKA "Allied Mastercomputer," "Adaptive Manipulator", "Aggressive Menace" and "I Think Therefore I AM" has set the ''standard'' for this trope. An AI built to oversee a hopelessly complicated world war that achieved sentience, [[AIIsACrapshoot went stark-raving mad]] and used its "killing data" to [[ApocalypseHow unleash nuclear genocide against the human race.]] Except for five poor bastards who he happily tortured for 109 years with godlike powers just to satisfy his bottomless hatred for the human race.

[[caption-width-right:350:"Digital monsters" indeed.]]

** Quite a few Digimon in general, especially those of Ultimate level and beyond fit this trope in regards to their appearances, power, and abilities. Even more so are ones like [[Anime/DigimonTamers Guilmon]] that possess the Digital Hazard symbol, which indicates that they have the potential to become powerful enough to threaten the existence of both the Digital World and the human world. It's no exaggeration either, as Guilmon's Mega-evolved form Megidramon was able to tear apart the very fabric of the Digital World by ''simply existing''.

* ''Literanture/{{IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream}}'': [[{{OmnicidalManiac}}AM]] (AKA "Allied Mastercomputer," "Adaptive Manipulator", "Aggressive Menace" and "I Think Therefore I AM" has set the ''standard'' for this trope. An AI built to oversee a hopelessly complicated world war that achieved sentience, [[AIIsACrapshoot went stark-raving mad]] and used its "killing data" to [[ApocalypseHow unleash nuclear genocide against the human race.]] Except for five poor bastards who he happily tortured for 109 years with godlike powers just to satisfy his bottomless hatred for the human race.

[[quoteright:197:[["Digital monsters" indeed.]]]]

[[quoteright:197:[["Digital monsters" indeed.]]

* ''Literanture/{{IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream}}'': [[{{OmnicidalManiac}}AM]] (AKA "Allied Mastercomputer," "Adaptive Manipulator", "Aggressive Menace" and "I Think Therefore I AM" has set the standard for this trope. An AI built to oversee a hopelessly complicated world war that achieved sentience, [[AIIsACrapshoot went stark-raving mad]] and used its "killing data" to [[ApocalypseHow unleash nuclear genocide against the human race.]] Except for five poor bastards who he happily tortured for 109 years with godlike powers just to satisfy his bottomless hatred for the human race.

* ''[[VideoGame/Portal Portal]]'': GLaDOS is the hateful, misanthropic AI placed in charge of the Aperture Science facility. Fortunately, her hatred for humans comes in the form of insults, belittlement and passive aggression. Unfortunately, before the installation of her morality cores, she flooded the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin within a ''picosecond'' of her initial activation.
* ''[[VideoGame/Soma {{SOMA}}]]'': The WAU (Warden Unit) is an AI placed in charge of the PATHOS-II underwater research facility. After [[spoiler: 99% of the human race was wiped out by a cometary impact]], WAU was placed in charge of keeping what remained alive. Unfortunately, [[AIIsACrapshoot it has a very nebulous idea of "alive"]] and decided that the best thing to do was to [[spoiler: keep every living being it could find alive against its will through programmable matter, turning them into [[TranshumanAbominations hideously-mutated cyborgs.]]]]

* Basically the entire Cyber World in ''VideoGame/Deltarune'' counts as this, but ESPECIALLY [[spoiler: Spamton’s second form.]]

* Basically the entire Cyber World in ''VideoGame/Deltarune'' counts as this, but ESPECIALLY [[Spoiler:Spamton’s second form.]]

* Basically the entire Cyber World in ''VideoGame/Deltarune'' counts as this, but ESPECIALLY [[Spamton’s second form.]]

** One of the first examples comes from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' with its final villain and the overall main antagonist, Apocalymon, an embodiment of the hatred, resentment and sorrow of countless Digimon that perished trying to achieve Digievolution and subsequently were deleted. He resembles a cross between all of the series' villains up to that point, with his main body being a gigantic polyhedron with multiple metallic tentacles made of DNA strands with claws on their ends and has a humanoid body that wears a black cape with red trimmings, has a mask-like face with eyes that have exposed muscles around them and what appear to be zippers holding his upper limbs, while his lower half is the rest of the body and is connected through his abdomen being split in mutliple tentacles connecting him. His existence alone warps the Digiworld and creates multiple disasters and he speaks in a VoiceOfTheLegion and is rather incomprehensible in thought, only ever making it clear that he desires nothing but to make other Digimon suffer the same pain his origins went through.
** The {{Greater Scope Villain}} of the first two series, and to degree, Tamers, Milleniummon is so powerful that his mere existence can twist the space-time around him and his stronger forms can wipe out entire universes by ''existing'' alone. Even if destroyed, his body can release dark spores to contaminate other beings with.

* SID 6.7 from ''Film/{{Virtuosity}}'' is effectively this as a, MindHive amalgamation of 200 notorious criminal personalities assembled out of the minds of dozens of psychopaths, murderers and dictators, including the dead terrorist Matthew Grimes. Lindenmeyer, SID 6.7's creator, unleashes him to the world to cause chaos and he eventually gets downloaded into a self-regenerating nanomachine android body. As such, he immediately goes on a killing spree, murdering in the style of assorted killers (i.e. writing "death to the pigs" in blood like Charles Manson). Best demonstrated here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxKp6tH2AKU

** ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork3WhiteAndBlue'': Alpha (Proto) is the [[PsychoPrototype prototype]] of the very internet itself, having gained sentience it attempted to [[TheAssimilator assimilate]] everything connected to the net and caused the greatest net based catastrophe in history. It takes the form of a [[BlobMonster giant metallic blob monster]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning with a singe glowing red eye]].

** ''[[MobilePhoneGame RockMan.EXE Legend of Network]]'': The Trojan Horse is similar to the Cybeats Gregar and Falzar, only 3000 years older. It cause the collapse of the [[AdvancedAncientAcropolis Atlampian Civilization]], and it's defeat created a rift through space and time[[labelnote:*]]Conveniently 3000 years into the past right after the fall of Atlampian Civilization, allowing Nobody to live the remainder of his years with the fellow survivors of his people[[/labelnote]].

* ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'': [[spoiler:The Glitchemoth, a digital avatar controlled by Evelyn to use against Tari and Theo within Lucks’ corrupted ''Ultra Jump Mania'' cartridge. A hideous amalgamation of ''UJM'' assets and even some of Evelyn's own body parts, equipped with a BreathWeapon that fires ''UJM'' enemies, can pick up and throw pieces of the environment, and is near-indestructible thanks to the [[InfiniteOneUps infinite lives cheat]] Evelyn has in place. Fortunately, completing ''UJM'' manages to overwrite the corrupted save file and destroy it for good]].

** the {{Greater Scope Villain}} of the first two series, and to degree, Tamers, Millenummon is so powerful that his mere existence can twist the space-time arround him

** the {{Greater Scope Villian}} of the first two series, and to degree, Tamers, Millenummon is so powerful that his mere existence can twist the space-time arround him

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': King Andrias’s unnamed EldritchAbomination “master” appears to be at least partially technological in origin.

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* In ''Film/TheLawnmowerMan'', Jobe Smith undergoes VR and drug experiments which enhances his mind so much he gains telepathy, then telekinesis, followed by pyrokinesis, and finally the ability to cause people to disintegrate on the molecular leave. Eventually he becomes a digital monstrosity by inserting his mind into cyberspace and plans to spread his mind across the Internet to obtain true godhood. His digital avatar only shows how much of a cyberspace eldritch creature Jobe has become by the end of the film.

** The D-Reaper from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' was originally a data cleanup program made in TheEighties that targets and deletes programs that "evolved pass [their] parameters". After procuring stray Digimon-data and finding its way into the Digital World the Digimon inhabit, the D-Reaper develops the same AdaptiveAbility Digimon have and soon begins evolving into a monstrosity that threatens all worlds.

* ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'': [[spoiler:The Glitchemoth, a digital avatar controlled by Evelyn to use against Tari and Theo. A hideous amalgamation of ''Ultra Jump Mania'' assets and even some of Evelyn's own body parts, equipped with a BreathWeapon that fires ''UJM'' enemies, can pick up and throw pieces of the environment, and is near-indestructible thanks to the [[InfiniteOneUps infinite lives cheat]] Evelyn has in place. Fortunately, completing ''UJM'' manages to overwrite the corrupted save file and destroy it for good]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': Kind Andrias’s unnamed EldritchAbomination “master” appears to be at least partially technological in origin.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'':
* DigitalAbomination: [[spoiler: [[BigBad Corvus]] is a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] that [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] people via [[BrainComputerInfluence DNI]] [[ContagiousAI infection]] and seeks to mindlessly expand in search of answers regarding its own creation. Unlike most examples of rogue AI though, it behaves like an enraged child expanding mindlessly. We are not even fully aware of its existence and nature until the final mission.]]