History PlayingWith / EldritchAbomination

** "'This being was what the mind conjures up when one hears the word "monster"; too many eyes, too many limbs, too many mouths, and dripping concentrated malevolence from every pore. All who met it's gaze died of horror, and their death was so utter as to became life again. What it couldn't control, it destroyed. What it couldn't destroy, it corrupted. What it couldn't corrupt, it sealed away.' yep, Eldritch Abomination alright."

** Instead of going mad from the revelation upon encountering them, scientists treat them as more of a discovery than a monstrosity, and thus want to learn ''even more'' about them.

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** When the Abomination appears, [[GoMadFromTheRevelation instantaneous madness and loud shrieking ensues everywhere]].

'''Basic Trope''': A creature that combines the scariness of a monster with the mysteriousness of a god and the ugliness of the blobfish (and sometimes with the vastness of the cosmos and the [[MindScrew incomprehensibility]] [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible of True Art]]).

* '''Deconstructed''': As it turns out, much of the monstrousness and all of the inexplicableness of this world's eldritch abominations exist only in the mind. There ARE ways to work with them, learn about the, get used to them and be fascinated by them.

* '''Deconstructed''': As it turns out, much of the monstrousness and all of the inexplicableness of this world's eldritch abominations exist only in the mind. There ARE ways to work with them.

'''Basic Trope''': A creature that combines the scariness of a monster with the mysteriousness of a god and the ugliness of the blobfish.

* '''Deconstructed''': As it turns out, much of the monstrousness and all of the inexplicableness of this world's eldritch abominations exists only in the minds. There ARE ways to work with them.
** Just as the Eldritch Abomination unsettles, terrifies and drives humanity mad, the Abomination is itself terrified and driven insane by humanity.

** "'This being was what the mind conjures up when one hears the word "monster"; too many eyes, too many legs, too many mouths, and dripping concentrated malevolence from every pore. All who met it's gaze slew themselves in an instant. What it couldn't control, it destroyed. What it couldn't destroy, it corrupted. What it couldn't corrupt, it sealed away.' yep, Eldritch Abomination alright."

** The observer is a stupid coward.

** "'This being was what the mind conjures up when one hears the word "monster"; too many eyes, too many legs, too many mouths, and dripping concentrated malevolence from every pore. All who met it's gaze slew themselves in an instant...' yep, Eldritch Abomination alright."

* '''Parodied''': A romantic comedy between a human and an abomination set on a cruise ship called the "Love Craft".

** This is what the mind conjures up when one hears the word "monster"; too many eyes, too many legs, too many mouths...

*** Or humans break the creatures' minds instead.

* '''Exaggerated''': A whole living planet that attracts astronauts with distress calls, then feeds on their sanity.

*** Or human's break there minds instead.

*** Or [[NeonGenesisEvangelion Angels]].
**** OR [[DoctorWho Angels]].

** [[GhastlysGhastlyComic The sorcerer summons an infant with Cholic, and it's parents inform him they "pay $4.50 an Eon."]]

* '''Subverted''': An alien makes humans think he's an eldritch abomination, but his motive is benevolent

**[[GhastlyGhastlyWebcomic The sorcerer summons an infant with Cholic, and it's parents inform him they "pay $4.50 an Eon."]]