History PlayingWith / EldritchAbomination

** [[PowerBornOfMadness The monster has no effect on those who are already insane.]]

** Even ''LOOKING'' in it's general direction causes the viewer's brain to explode trying to comprehend it.

** Even the monster or can't comprehend itself.

** Even the monster can't comprehend itself.

* '''Reconstructed''': Monster only appears incomprehensible because it chooses to.

%%* '''Implied''': There are many tales of the incomprehensible monster, and solid evidence to support it's existence, but the heroes haven't encountered it and word of mouth can't agree on a description - or describe the monster at all.

%%* '''Implied''': ???

* '''Zig Zagged''': Incomprehensible monster was [[ScoobyDooHoax just a trick]]... by an even more incomprehensible monster. No wait, [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness I'm just insane]]... [[Twist Ending Or am I?]]

* '''Zig Zagged''': Incomprehensible monster was [[ScoobyDooHoax just a trick]]... by an even more incomprehensible monster. No wait, [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness I'm just insane]]. Or am I?

* '''Zig Zagged''': Incomprehensible monster was [[ScoobyDooHoax just a trick]]... by an even more incomprehensible monster. No wait, [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness I'm just insane]].

** Since monster is incomprehensible, humans perceive it as silly or inane things. (Taco that poops ice cream, etc.)

* '''Justified''':
** Monster is only using some ability or trick to ''appear'' incomprehensible.
** The monster is from another dimension.

** Incomprehensible Monster is in such defiance of our universes rules that it [[TorturedAbomination can't function properly in our universe.]]

* '''Exaggerated''': Monster portrayed entirely through incomprehensible NonSequitur.

* '''Justified''': Monster is only using some ability or trick to ''appear'' incomprehensible.

-->'''Bob''': "Is the monster really that incomprehensible? We're seeing it right now, and I don't feel like my sanity is slipping-off nor anything like that."\\
'''Alice''': "The true horror behind it seems to stem from a metaphysical property that would be nigh impossible to convey with conventional media... And lets hope it stays that way, because the character's reactions to it are actually horrifying"

* '''Parodied''': Incomprehensible monster turns out to have harmless or ridiculous goals for the sake of absurdism.

%%* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Lampshaded''':
** "They say that the well is haunted by an eldritch abomination. 'They' think anything that doesn't fit their preconceived notions of what a monster should look like is an eldritch abomination."
** "'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 [[ZombieApocalypse so utter as to became life again]]. What it couldn't control, it [[OmnicidalManiac destroyed]]. What it couldn't destroy, it [[TheCorruption corrupted]]. What it couldn't corrupt, it [[SealedGoodInACan sealed away]].' Yep, Eldritch Abomination alright."

* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Played For Laughs:'''

%%* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Invoked''': Character tries to create an incomprehensible monster.
* '''Exploited''': Character creates an incomprehensible monster to benefit themselves.

%%* '''Conversed''':

** Just perceiving incomprehensible monster drives other characters insane.

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%% Optional items, added after Conversed, at your discretion:
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%%* '''Implied''': ???
%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Conversed''': "Realistically, most aliens should be expected to be different from humans in both body and mind and be rather hard to deal with. True monsters aren't all that's out there."

* '''Justified''': "Monster" is only using some ability or trick to ''appear'' incomprehensible.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Incomprehensible monster was [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness just a trick]]... by an even more incomprehensible monster. No wait, [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness I'm just insane]].