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->''But human flesh was too frail, too paltry to hold the terrific essence that was Khosatral Khel. So he stood up in the shape and aspect of a man, but his flesh was not flesh; nor the bone, bone; nor blood, blood. He became a blasphemy against all nature, for he caused to live and think and act a basic substance that before had never known the pulse and stir of animate being.''
-->-- '''Creator/RobertEHoward''', ''[[ConanTheBarbarian The Devil in Iron]]''

It looks human, but it's utterly beyond human understanding. Every once in a while, dark things from beyond the fringes of mankind's consciousness will show up in forms that for all intents and purposes look like good old ''H. sapiens sapiens''. In a few cases [[WasOnceAMan they actually were human until they went beyond the pale]], but most likely, what you're seeing is actually a disguise or misperception for [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm something you're really better off not seeing]], or even the [[HalfHumanHybrid progeny]] or [[ArtificialHuman creation]] of [[EldritchAbomination something even worse]].

Though its appearance is sometimes passable as human, it is still clearly . . . not quite. Even those that are very clever in human terms will have difficulty not setting off [[UncannyValley instinctive alarms in the human subconscious]]. Less subtle abominations will do their job too well and seem [[InhumanlyBeautifulRace impossibly beautiful]], while the even less subtle will distort their human form with twisted limbs or malformed features or other such monstrosities.

Despite its appearance, they will very likely also not think in terms human reason can readily grasp. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality They will often lack anything resembling a recognizable or conventional moral code.]] At best, they will be comparable to TheFairFolk. Nor will they conform to the expected laws of nature - or magic, in such settings - so expect {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s and other unspeakable traits.

Subtrope of EldritchAbomination, and sister trope of AnimalisticAbomination.

Not to be confused with HumansAreCthulhu.

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!!Examples:

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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* In ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', Kuyou Suou / Suou Kuyou (the proper order is purposefully left unknown). While the other [[StarfishAliens Humanoid Interfaces]] are weird, Kuyou is described by the narration as simply ''wrong''. Her ordinary movements like walking seem to defy the laws of physics in inexplicable ways, and her words and motivations are even less comprehensible than the others. Kyon is terrified to simply be in her presence.
* The MadGod Asura from ''Manga/SoulEater'' is still recognizably human in appearance... but [[spoiler:his mere ''[[SealedEvilInACan unsealing]]'']] creates a wave of insanity that critically weakens the good guys while creating new enemies and empowering existing ones.
** As of ch72, this seems to be the case for [[spoiler:Death the Kid being a 'fragment' of one of the Great Old Ones, i.e Shinigami. The Index refers to him as part of the "madness of the rule of law" which [[SuperOCD would fit]]]]. Asura claims that [[spoiler:he is also a 'fragment' of Shinigami, making him Kid's ''older brother''.]]
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** The end result of Medusa's black blood experiments [[spoiler:seems to have been to turn Crona into one capable of eating Asura himself.]]
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils The Godhand]] from ''{{Berserk}}'' and most [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Apostles']] [[OneWingedAngel true forms]] still retain at least some traces of human appearance, some of them (namely, Slan and Femto) more than others; somehow, that just makes it worse.
* [[OurGodsAreDifferent Truth]], guardian of the GateOfTruth in Manga/FullmetalAlchemist, could qualify just as well. It's only an [[TheBlank outline of a human form]], with a [[SlasherSmile creepy sneering grin]] and occasionally the body parts it takes from the people visiting it.
** In the [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist 2003 anime]] version, [[TheSoulless homunculi]] have ''exactly'' the same chemical makeup as a human being, since they are [[GoneHorriblyWrong "successful"]] [[CameBackWrong results of human transmutation]].
* JunjiIto seems to like this trope. {{Tomie}} might just look like an improbably beautiful teenage girl at first glance, but on closer inspection it's in an [[UncannyValley abnormally creepy way]] which [[RedRightHand underscores that she is NOT truly human]]. Unfortunately, by the time men figure ''that'' out, they're usually infatuated/obsessed with her and [[DrivenToMadness well on their way to complete insanity]]. Women who find this out are less affected, but have a hard time convincing anyone, as those not already completely fascinated by the new beauty in town usually ascribe it to mere jealousy. And don't get started on her [[FromASingleCell regeneration]] or how things [[RealityWarper always seem go in her favor even when they possibly couldn't]]; you'd get nightmares.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * [[spoiler:The eponymous character]] from ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' probably counts, as the God of the Internet in a world where the internet is increasingly indistinguishable from the real world.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** Not the only one, either. [[spoiler:Eiri Masami, Lain's creator and the self-styled God of the Wired, fits the part just as well, and in the end he even [[BodyHorror loses the Humanoid part of the description]] when he tries to physically remanifest in the real world]].
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * Some of the stronger foes from ''Manga/SailorMoon'' qualify. Especially in the manga, where it turns out that all of the series' {{Big Bad}}s [[spoiler: are fragments/manifestations of BigBad Chaos itself]].
* The eponymous character of ''Manga/VampirePrincessMiyu'' falls more under this than [[OurVampiresAreDifferent traditional vampire origins.]] She's explicitly of the same breed as the much less humanoid {{Eldritch Abomination}}s she hunts, and is tasked with sending them all back to their original dimension.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?)* A lot of the [[BishonenLine higher-level youkai]] in ''Manga/InuYasha'', but especially Naraku and Mouryoumaru who go between Bishounen (...ish, in Mouryoumaru's case) and gigantic mass of tentacles, insectile legs, razor sharp diamonds, spiritually poisonous acid-gas and void. And in Mouryoumaru's case, he's actually a telepathic FetusTerrible SoulJar who's wearing a Lovecraftian horror as a bulletproof vest.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * In ''ToAruMajutsuNoIndex'', the entity known as [[spoiler:Aiwass]] has been implied to be something like this. The name comes from [[spoiler:[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiwass the writings of Aleister Crowley]]; it's supposedly the being who inspired his writings]]. Insert OhCrap here.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * ''Manga/DGrayMan''
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** [[spoiler:The independent Innocence Apocryphos]]. And like everyone else in the series, it also wants a piece of Allen.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** The Noah [[spoiler:(including the Earl)]], Level 4 Akuma, and [[spoiler:Alma Karma]] have a similar sort of vibe as well. There's a reason so many people find the series to be so freakishly horrifying.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * Tsukune's [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity black]] [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier ghoul]] [[SuperpoweredEvilSide form]] in ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' is about as creepy as it gets, and is implied to have a similar composition to [[EldritchAbomination Alucard]].
* ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'': Rosiel and Sandalphon may qualify. Rosiel has an [[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortal]], [[TheCorruption slowly rotting]] OrganicTechnology body that's made of tentacles and {{Squick}} (said rot has been [[MindRape Mind Raping]] him ''since before his birth'').
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** Sandalphon, on the other hand, is ''definitely'' an abomination. [[EldritchAbomination It's the 'humanoid' part]] [[BodyHorror that's up]] [[StarfishAlien for debate]].
* In ''Manga/ApocalypseNoToride'' (Fortress of The Apocalypse) the four juvenile delinquents escape from prison (which has been overrun with zombies) into the city and encounter a giant mountain of rotting zombies controlled by an androgynous naked man on the top, using the zombies like a grotesque throne. When Maeda catches its attention, said naked man (who was about a half-mile away) uses the zombies to [[TheWormThatWalks move like a hideous organism]] at lightening speed, until it's only a foot in front of the terrified youth. A close-up reveals that it has [[Manga/{{Naruto}} Sharingan]]-like eyes, [[http://mangafox.me/manga/apocalypse_no_toride/v02/c004/24.html with three smaller eyes inhabiting each of its pupils]].
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure'' has the Pillar Men from Part 2, 4 beings that outwardly resemble muscular Mesoamerican men. They're so [[{{Squick}} sickening]] and [[BodyHorror ghastly]] that they manage to make the Nazis look downright pitiful. No seriously, they absorb dozens of Nazi soldiers, and not once are the Nazis presented as the greater evil in the conflict.
* The Evangelion Units from ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' seem like [[YourSizeMayVary approximately 40 meter tall]] HumongousMecha, but are actually cyborgs cloned from a pair of [[EldritchAbomination primordial entities]] capable of wiping out [[spoiler: and creating]] all life on Earth. The armour they wear is meant to restrain their power and keep them in humanoid form, and they were created to prevent their decidedly less-humanoid counterparts, the Angels, from bringing about the end of humanity.
* The Titans from ''Manga/ShingekiNoKyojin'' largely resemble naked humans, except that they're much, much bigger, and they eat regular humans. Their sudden appearance, combined with being extremely difficult to kill, has reduced the remnants of humanity into living in a giant walled city. The walls have kept the Titans out for over a hundred years, but at the start of the story one towering over fifty meters (the height of the city wall) breaches it, allowing the smaller Titans to enter and eat many people.
* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}!'' has [[spoiler:Ronnie Schiatto]], an ancient and incomprehensibly powerful "demon" who decided to take human form and become a gangster [[ItAmusedMe for the lulz]]. While he's usually content to just sit back and be the AllPowerfulBystander, sometimes he likes to switch his Lovecraftian terror aura on while still in human form - it does wonders for negotiations.
-->If he had just been a simple mafioso, those gathered there would not have felt such an alien sense of awe. The aura rolling off of him was that of innumerable things mixed chaotically together... of something that was not human.
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* [[AGodAmI Doctor Manhattan]] of ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' fame shows signs of becoming this throughout the story due to his growing detachment from, well, everything. He ultimately embraces humanity, sort of, but not his own. At best you could say he recognizes the value of humanity. What he actually does is [[spoiler: to go off to a galaxy far, far away to play God.]]
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** As of ''FinalCrisis'' we can probably add {{Darkseid}} to the list.
* [[Comicbook/{{Starman}} The Shade]] looks and acts human enough (though some artists do portray him with a certain pallor), but his [[CastingAShadow powers]] are taken straight from the fabric of a dimension holding a godlike EldritchAbomination and have essentially become one with him, making him ageless and virtually unkillable, not to mention terrifyingly powerful. Thankfully for us, he's generally a fairly nice guy (not a hero by any means, but definitely not an outright villain either) and is perfectly willing to leave you be... that is, unless you [[BerserkButton attempt to attack Opal City]]. In that case, all bets are off.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * According to leaked material from when CrossGen tanked, [[TheVamp Miranda Cross]] from ''{{Ruse}}'' was going to be revealed as a Lawbringer of the Negation.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** To drive the point home, Miranda looks [[http://www.comicvine.com/miranda-cross/29-53693/ like this]], whereas other Lawbringers are more [[http://www.comicvine.com/qztr/29-13217/ like this]].
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) *** Still, as a whole Lawbringers are (grotesquely) humanoid in shape; which is rather fitting since [[TheHeartless they are created from the negative emotions]] of Charon, overall BigBad of the CrossGen multiverse, who rather fits the trope himself - [[WasOnceAMan ex-human]] EnergyBeing [[AGodAmI with a perfectly accurate assessment of his own godhood]] who looks like his body is made from a piece of starry sky, DimensionLord of the Negation universe [[MultiversalConqueror and looking to expand]], ''still'' a completely evil asshole after purging himself of negative emotions by forging them into an elite army of monster demigods...
* [[RealityWarper Mad Jim Jaspers]] of ''CaptainBritain'' crosses into this realm thanks to his abilities being strong enough to make him nigh-omnipotent, with it being heavily implied that he exists partially in a metaphysical realm, as well. He's so powerful that ''his entire continuity'' had to be destroyed to prevent it from becoming infectious and warping reality in other continuities. Earth-616 also has Jaspers, and he's even more powerful. It took an invincible, infinitely adaptable killing machine that the original Jaspers created and that escaped from the destroyed continuity to bring the 616 Jaspers down. It transported him to a reality-free area to deprive him of fuel for his abilities. The resulting toll on the being was so great that he was put down without much difficulty by Captain UK.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * ''{{Spawn}}''. Every Spawn WasOnceAMan, but after dying and being empowered by Hell they aren't anymore -- they're undead beings fuelled by a massive reserve of [[BlackMagic necroplasm]] and with a demonic entity [[TheSymbiote willingly serving as their costume]]. They are basically living supernatural [=WMDs=] that scare the crap out of the forces of Heaven ''and'' Hell whenever they show up. Their Heavenly counterparts, the Anti-Spawn, differ only in the source of their power (Heaven) and are just as feared.
* The Moonchild/Antichrist from ''TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'' is a bald man that can grow into gigantic heights with eyes all over his body. He progressively looks worse as the heroes try to hack him apart, rendering him a fleshy pile that quickly regenerates into his original form. [[spoiler:He also happens to be Harry Potter.]]
* Marvel's Galactus looks like a big man with a CoolHat. In reality, he's a CosmicEntity [[PlanetEater that devours entire worlds]], who happens to be the reincarnation of the survivor of the previous universe. He only looks human because [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm it's how people see him.]]
* [[OmnicidalManiac Abraxas]] looks like a human with green skin who wears a toga, and he makes Galactus seem positively cuddly in comparison. Indeed, one of the reasons Galactus even ''exists'' is to keep Abraxas in check. Abraxas is the opposite of Eternity, who is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of well, ''eternity'', making Abraxas the ultimate embodiment of unfettered destruction in the Marvel multiverse. Abraxas is fully willing and capable of killing entire universes, and the only way to get rid of him other than by reviving Galactus is to destroy all reality.
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[[folder:Fan Fiction]]
* Psyko, the warped EvilCounterpart to [[FanFic/UltimateSleepwalker Sleepwalker]] was originally human before he was exposed to a wave of perverted demonic energy from the Mindscape. It completely fried the brains of every other human in the area, but he simply absorbed it and turned into a humanoid... ''thing'' with bone-white skin, a skull-like face, bone-like spikes growing out of his body, insane glowing eyes, and teeth as long as a man's finger.
* Yuuka Kazami in the ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' fanfiction ''FanFic/ImperfectMetamorphosis'' is horrifically powerful, inspires petrifying dread by her very presence, not even Yukari knows what the hell she is (and notes that [[RealityWarper her powers]] are disturbingly ineffective against her), and even with [[spoiler:the Shadow Youkai]] running around and causing a mess of everything nearly everyone treats her as the bigger threat. Later events reveal [[spoiler:she's actually an Outer God, straight out of Lovecraft.]]
* Joseph Regent, protagonist of ''FanFic/SonOfTheWarp'', is more or less one of these, given that he's the [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human son]] of [[EldritchAbomination Tzeentch]].
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fG9QpllnK5c& This would have you believe that Ronald [=McDonald=] is one.]]
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The Harvesters in ''TheDeathsOfIanStone'' are an odd case. They're [[PhysicalGod essentially the gods of their setting]], and it's stated they made TheMultiverse just to farm humans for their [[EmotionEater tasty, tasty fear]]. Their power over their surroundings is difficult to overstate, and their natures seem incomprehensible to humans--but their ''motivations'' are [[HorrorHunger instantly recognizable to any junkie]], and they can be as petty and flawed as any human. [[spoiler:Two of them prove they can be as noble, too, and even [[InterspeciesRomance as loving]].]]
* While his true morals or intention is open to interpretation, the "Mystery Man" in David Lynch's LostHighway can certainly come off as this to a first time viewer. The extensive make-up that covers his eyebrows and makes him inhumanly pale and the camera's tendency to get uncomfortably close to his face during his scenes certainly doesn't help.
* From the {{Phantasm}} franchise, The Tall Man is perhaps one of the best known examples of this on film. He looks like an old man in a suit, albeit an intimidating one, but is really implied to be some horrible otherdimensional conciousness wearing the form of a man named Jebadaiah Morningstar like a meat suit. He bleeds a milky white fluid when injured and his fingers have been known to turn into hideous bug-things when severed. He is hideously strong, controls an army of deadly silver spheres, and even has some RealityWarper powers. He has a nasty agenda that involves killing people and turning them into twisted dwarfish slaves to use in another dimension.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Creator/HPLovecraft is widely acknowledged as the TropeCodifier.
** Nyarlathotep, the messenger and soul of the Outer Gods in the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. He doesn't seem to have an actual body (being a sentient representation of the will of the Outer Gods), but he can manifest in the physical world using {{Projected Avatar}}s. He seems to prefer manifesting in a form that is indistinguishable from a human. Mainly because he's a {{Chessmaster}} [[ManipulativeBastard who enjoys manipulating people]], and that's rather difficult to do if you manifest as a skyscraper-sized betentacled monstrosity. In his [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep_(short_story) debut title]], Nyarlathotep appears to be a normal human in appearance. It's [[BrownNote his performance that drives people mad]]. It is highly suggested that sometimes he manifests in a form that is so alien to the creature viewing it that it goes insane, and that each one of his forms can do that to some creature. This means that somewhere in the universe there is/are being(s) who see [[HumansAreCthulhu humans as so alien that they cannot view one without going into gibbering madness]].
** Another famous Lovecraft example is [[HalfHumanHybrid Wilbur Whateley]] from ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'', who wanted to bring daddy [[EldritchAbomination Yog-Sothoth]] and his pals [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt to our neck of the woods]].
** Hastur [[SpeakOfTheDevil the Unspeakable]]'s most recognisable avatar, the King in Yellow. His mask? It's NotAMask...
* Helen Vaughan from Creator/ArthurMachen's ''Literature/TheGreatGodPan'' was the inspiration for Lovecraft's [[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Wilbur Whateley]] and may well have been the [[UrExample first]] Humanoid Abomination in modern literature. She is the daughter of an EldritchAbomination who seduces men into partaking of her unknown horrors, driving them to madness and suicide.
-->"Everyone who saw her at the police court said she was at once the most beautiful woman and the most repulsive they had ever set eyes on. I have spoken to a man who saw her, and I assure you he positively shuddered as he tried to describe the woman, but he couldn't tell why."
* Arguably angels in ''HisDarkMaterials'', which are near-EnergyBeings that look like architecture but that humans see as WingedHumanoid in shape.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In ''Discworld/TheLightFantastic'', everyone expects the Things From The Dungeon Dimensions to come storming into our reality with tentacles waving, but all they need is one mind. And when Rincewind looks into [[spoiler: Trymon]]'s eyes, it's every bit as horrific as anything involving tentacles and AlienGeometries.
** ''Discworld/IShallWearMidnight'' introduces the Cunning Man, the shade of a fanatic witch-hunter who was so obsessed he went on even after eventually having no body. He appears as a man in black with empty holes for eyes (no, not empty eye sockets, HOLES, you can see through them) and InvisibleToNormals; to those who can perceive it, he also appears to exude a terrible stench, though rather than an actual physical stench this is their mind's perception of the corruption in his. He can use mirrors, pictures and the like to enter the world, and can possess the bodies of others. To hammer home how utterly ''wrong'' he is, it should be noted that, in Discworld, the eyes always show a person's true nature. Even the gods can change anything about their appearance except their eyes. Now the Cunning Man has ''nothing there'', as in seeing into the front and out the back of his head.
* Randall Flagg, especially in ''TheStand'', and to a lesser extent in the other books by Creator/StephenKing where he is the BigBad or TheDragon. In ''TheStand'' one character claims that Flagg is actually Legion, the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] demon horde that Jesus cast into a herd of pigs.
** The Crimson King ends up looking almost like a human too when he's finally encountered in the end. Well, it's no worse a form than [[NightmareRetardant the big fish]].
** [[{{IT}} Pennywise]] initially appears to be one, but is actually an [[EldritchAbomination extra-dimensional shapeshifting predator]] with a taste for human children.
* The Beast, AKA [[spoiler:Martin Chatwin]] from ''Literature/TheMagicians'' is mistaken for an EldritchAbomination at first, but during the climactic battle, his EvilGloating reveals [[spoiler: that, as a boy, he escaped into the fringes of the Fillory world and accepted the darker magic of its inhabitants wholeheartedly, transforming him into a god-level power.]] The result is [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8f9c4lcXT1qgvf15o1_1280.jpg not pretty]]
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * Johnny Walker from [[HarukiMurakami Kafka on the Shore]] is either a humanoid abomination or just a crazy guy who may or may not be the main character's father. It's rather... [[MindScrew unclear]].
* Cassandra, the antagonist of ''FullTilt'', appears as a young woman with red hair and blue eyes. It's made apparent almost immediately that she's [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld very old]] and [[RealityWarper very powerful]], and that she created the [[EldritchLocation supernatural]] AmusementParkOfDoom in which most of the story is spent. However, she tends to either influence things from a distance, or get involved through use of weaponry rather than magic--her only direct demonstration of her true nature is a StealthHiBye.
* According to Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse, Palpatine was one of these as well before being KilledOffForReal. He had delved so far into Sith lore and power that he became more or less an embodiment of the Dark Side itself. He had to keep cloning himself new bodies since his own dark powers kept consuming them.
** This seems to happen from time to time to Sith who immerse themselves fully in TheDarkSide.
* The Shrike in DanSimmons' ''Literature/HyperionCantos'' is a ten foot tall, four armed razor covered ''thing'' that can manipulate time and indiscriminately kills anyone who gets too near the "Time Tombs" on the titular planet.
* The Clockmaker, from AlastairReynolds' ''Literature/ThePrefect''. Can assume any shape, but its default form resembles a stretched out human form, spindly and quicksilver. Enjoys wanton slaughter and leaving intricately designed clocks and trinkets around... which may or may not be [[BodyHorror Body Horror-inducing]] booby traps.
* [[spoiler:Angleton, AKA the Eater of Souls]] in CharlesStross' ''TheLaundrySeries'' is eventually revealed to be this. Subverted in that he's undeniably one of the good guys, even if he ''lives'' in the UncannyValley and therefore frightens the hell out of his subordinates. [[spoiler:What happened was that he was summoned and bound in the 1930s, taught to pass for human, and eventually HumanityEnsues. Strangely, it's implied that he believes in decency and fairness more than the people around him--he's not averse to pulling a few strings for Bob and Mo's sake.]]
* All over the place in ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles.'' There's the two Faerie Queens, Mab and Titania, who are unfathomable even by fae standards, the Lords of the Outer Night in the Red Court, and Shagnasty the Skinwalker. Then there are the Faerie "mothers", who are an order of ''magnitude'' more powerful than the queens. Some [[EldritchAbomination Outsiders]] can also take humanoid form, such as "Sharkface" in ''Literature/ColdDays''.
* The Myrddraal from the ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' are comparatively minor examples, but they still qualify. Born among the [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Trollocs]], they're a throwback to the Trollocs' human heritage, but warped by the BlackMagic that created them- they resemble eerily pale, graceful humans except that they have [[EyelessFace smooth skin where eyes should be]] and have a number of bizarre abilities that cannot be explained by the series' main magic system. They're also absolutely devoid of emotion except for cold-blooded sadism and are all completely identical in terms of appearance and personality. Even human villains who encounter them are prone to remark on how unnatural they are.
** And there is Shaidar Haran, a Myrddraal that acts as the Dark One's avatar, and later an incubator of sorts.
** And Padan Fain, who starts out as human, but through a convuluted series of misfortunes, becomes the living embodiment of another evil power, possibly as bad as the Dark One.
* Most of the plot in Graeme Penman's Motherland revolves around the villain trying very hard to become a HumanoidAbomination as opposed to the malevolent cloud that he is at the moment.
* [[ThoseTwoBadGuys Mr. Croup and Mr. Vandemar]] from {{Neverwhere}}. They look human but they're impossibly strong, [[FlashStep able to move faster than the human eye can perceive]], don't bleed when you cut them, have ExtremeOmnivore tendencies, [[IAmAHumanitarian which extends to humans]], [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld have been alive for centuries]], and are pure evil. Door even [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this trope when Richard calls them men.
-->"I suppose you could call them men, yes. Two legs, two arms, a head each."
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * ''Literature/ThoseThatWake'' has Man in Suit, who looks like a completely nondescript man in a suit and is [[spoiler: the living form of hopelessness]].
* The [[BigBad Endlords]] from ''SwordOfShadows'' look like tall humans in dark armor, but it's made ''quite'' plain that they are in fact cosmic forces of destruction which have been compressed into this shape, and are utterly inimical to life as we know it.
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[[folder:Live Action TV]]
* ''Series/{{Angel}}'':
** Illyria's original form was a massive tentacled creature; she's an Old One, a shout-out to Creator/HPLovecraft. But since she's stolen Winifred Burkle's body, we mostly see her looking like a blue version of Fred.
** Jasmine. The most we could get from her true form was a shadowed mass of tentacles and is mentioned by her abandoned demon followers as the "Blessed Devourer." Those who are immune to her mind-control charms don't see her as a beautiful woman but a corpse filled with maggots, and her true name cannot be pronounced by human words (Angel needed a stitched up demon follower because it was the only thing capable of saying her name and breaking the spell).
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' had one of these as its Season Five BigBad. Glorificus, aka Glory, was an exiled hellgod that was reduced to using a hapless human host as a timeshare. Whenever Glory takes control of its (male) host, it looks like a [[GenderBender glamorous woman]]. Even in this form Glory is a NighInvulnerable [[SuperStrength superstrong]] menace that can rob people of their sanity and ''eat it''.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
** The [[HumanAliens Time Lords]] at the end of the Second War in Heaven and the Last Great Time War have continued to regenerate into forms that are ideal for waging chronological war - in the first case, war against what [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm can only be approximately described as]] a sapient timeline. Guess what this implies for ''ordinary'' Time Lords?
** Some parts of the DoctorWhoExpandedUniverse (Dave Stone's books, specifically) suggest that the Doctor we know is a guise adopted by an EldritchAbomination. Lawrence Miles' FactionParadox series plays with this idea a lot, too.
** The new series plays with this possibility often. The entire sixth season was based around a conspiracy to kill the Doctor because apparently [[spoiler:simply speaking his True Name]] would ''end the universe''.
** Consider this description of the being the Pandorica was designed to hold: "A nameless, terrible thing, soaked in the blood of a billion galaxies. The most feared being in all the cosmos. And nothing could stop it, or hold it, or reason with it. One day it would just drop out of the sky and tear down your world." [[spoiler:It's the Doctor.]]
** In "The Family of Blood", when "[[HelplessGoodSide John Smith]]", the Doctor's temporarily human persona, is told of his true identity and given a description of what the Doctor is like, it completely scares the hell out of him;
---> '''Tim Latimer''': He's like fire and ice and rage. He's like the night and the storm in the heart of the sun...
---> '''"John Smith"''': *''Quietly''* Stop it.
---> '''Tim Latimer''': He's ancient and forever. He burns at the centre of time and can see the turn of the universe...
---> '''"John Smith"''': *''Panicking''* Stop it, I said stop it!
---> '''Tim Latimer''': And... he's ''[[BigGood wonderful]]''.
** The [[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E7TheCelestialToymaker Celestial Toymaker]], in the original series serial of the same name, resembles a middle-aged Caucasian man dressed in Mandarin robes who engages in silly, over-sized versions of board games and toys. He however controls his own universe and has vast powers over time and space. In one Expanded Universe novel, he is depicted more horribly and is outright stated to be using the powers of the Great Old Ones.
** Also in the Expanded Universe, [[PhysicalGod humanoid TARDISes]]... it's mentioned as being especially creepy when they open to take on passengers.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * BOB from ''TwinPeaks'' is this--Humanoid on the outside, Abomination within.
* ''Series/TrueBlood'':
** Maryann Forrester. Even other supernaturals have no idea what she is, only that she's incredibly powerful, with [[AlienBlood viscous black blood]] that is poisonous to vampires and immunity to all supernatural and conventional forms of attack. She drives her followers to wild, hedonistic behavior, complete with the requisite HumanSacrifice. She is eventually identified as a Maenad, a female follower of Dionysus, but the explanation of what type of creature a Maenad is in this setting is suspiciously vague. One of her followers claims Maryann has been alive as long as there's been an Earth to walk on and was known in ancient times as the demon Lilith and the goddesses Gaia and Isis.
** [[spoiler:The Biblical demon Lilith]] herself, who appears in the form of a young woman made entirely of blood (or alternatively just naked). Her very presence causes all vampires in the immediate vicinity to give into their darker, bestial impulses, even those with the most self-control, she communicates via piercing screeches, and [[spoiler:consuming enough of her blood is enough to transform the drinker into something very much like her, if not her physical avatar on Earth]]. Just ask [[spoiler:Bill.]]
* ''Series/{{LOST}}'' gives us the Man in Black, a post-human entity who takes the appearance of deceased individuals when not being a cloud of black smoke.
* Kenneth in ''Series/ThirtyRock''. Oddly, he combines this with being ThePollyanna. See his first words, said the day he was born.
--> Momma, I am not a person. My body's just a flesh vessel for an immortal being whose name, if you heard it, [[BrownNote you would lose your mind.]]
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* In Luca Turilli's ''Prophet of the Last Eclipse'' this seems to be the case with those touched by the Black Portal. They appear perfectly human, but demons (which can literally never die and may very well be true [[EldritchAbomination abominations]] in their own right) are instinctively terrified of them. [[spoiler: And spilling the blood of one can result in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt]].
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * AphexTwin's videos feature this on several occasions.
* Imaginos, the central figure of the Music/BlueOysterCult album of the same name, is most definitely this. Admittedly, prior to being 'recruited' by [[EldritchAbomination Les Invisibles]] he was more 'humanoid' since he apparently thought of himself as human despite being a psychic shapeshifter, but afterwards he became more of a 'abomination' and is downright gleeful about it.
* MarilynManson's concept album ''Antichrist Superstar'' has, well, the Antichrist Superstar, the reality-destroying result of The Worm becoming fed up with his sycophantic followers. While his appearance was unknown, the finished-but-unreleased video for Antichrist Superstar was leaked almost a decade later, which does show him in this form. If the Grim Reaper had sex with a fallen angel and they somehow had a kid, it would be an apt description.
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* If you look at urban myth, [[http://www.profilingtheunexplained.com/cryptozoology/the_grinning_man.html The Grinning Man]], [[TheMothmanProphecies the Moth Man]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springheeled_Jack Springheeled Jack]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owlman the Cornish Owlman]], [[http://www.miaminewtimes.com/1997-06-05/news/myths-over-miami/ La Llorona]], [[http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2011/04/black-eyed-kids-insidious-threat-or-myth-in-the-making Black-Eyed Kids]], heck, quite a lot of urban myths or cryptid sighting run on this trope. Many of these things might actually be resulted from encounters with [[OwlBeDamned owls]], specially barn owls, which they frequently resemble with the massive eyes and wing-like arms. Owls themselves, much like some other birds, do look vaguely humanoid, being erect bipeds, which is part of why they're frequently considered unnerving.
* Nyx, personification of Night from ClassicalMythology. Usually represented as a beautiful female human, yet a quick look at her children - most of which [[TrulySingleParent she gave birth to by herself alone]] - should tell you what kind of being she really is. If that doesn't convince you yet, the fact that even ''Zeus'' fears her should.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasy_Jaterei Jasy Jaterei]] from Guarani Mythology resembles a child or a young man, but a quick look at his [[EldritchAbomination siblings]] shows he's really not what he looks like.
* Cú Chulainn, the young hero of the Ulster Cycle of CelticMythology, particularly of the ''Literature/TainBoCuailnge''. Though he is portrayed as being as {{Bishonen}} as a teenaged Irish [[FieryRedhead ginger]] can be, he is a descendant from the Fomorians, a monstrous race from the mythic prehistory era of Ireland. Though he is heroic and stalwart, and generally perceived as a good guy, his defining mystical characteristic is his ability to transform into various disfigured superpowered abominations through the use of his warp-spasm. After [[YouWouldntLikeMeWhenImAngry he transforms]], he becomes a [[TheBerserker berserker]] that slaughters anything in his path, friend and foe alike.
* Some of the [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] in Abrahamic religions, such as [[Literature/TheBible Christianity and Judaism]]. It is clear that some angels like Gabriel can appear as humanoid, but their real forms are at best highly confusing and at worst mind-numbingly horrifying. And they're not even alive anyway, as their entry on EldritchAbomination shows. Note that only some bother to appear as humanoid however, as many in Literature/TheBible and the Qu'ran don't even bother to disguise their real forms.
** Daniel saw an angel that was invisible to everyone else, carried with it an aura of fear, and had a glowing face (like lightning) and eyes of flame. Also a body carved from gemstones.
** According to one interpretation, a lot of the angels mentioned early on in the Bible (especially in B'reshit/Genesis) are in essence the will of {{God}} made manifest in temporary human form. So while they're described as men in the text, they really really aren't.
** Satan is described as "appearing in the guise of a young man."
** The angel of the lord itself is described as a man who was "terrifying to look at" by Samson's mother and when Samson's father asked its name he replied "You wouldn't understand if I told you." Despite or perhaps because of this, apocryphal works call him Metatron which basically means "less than four the letter word" (Tetragrammaton, a title for God).
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* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'':
** Atropals from Epic-level [=DnD=], the stillborn fetuses of Gods, also capable of shedding smaller Atropal Scions. Unsurprisingly, they are as terrifying, powerful and hideous as the description suggests.
** [[PsychicPowers Elan]] look (and used to be) human, but their strange creation ceremony... changes them. In game mechanics terms they don't count as Humanoid (Human, elf, goblin etc.) or even Monstrous Humanoid (Minotaurs, medusas), but as Aberrations. In [=DnD=], aberration are ''explicitly'' eldritch horrors. And this can be done to you ''against your will''. As a bonus, this grants them immunity to many common spells that only work on humanoids, such as the famous and powerful Hold Person.
** Like the Elan, humanoid races can also become Aberrations via the Fleshwarper PrestigeClass. They're capable of creating temporary implants for others, as well as permanent traits for themselves, until eventually they become a full Aberration themselves. Incidentally, the class's only restrictions relate to [[OrderVersusChaos Law]] and not morality, and most are [[DarkIsNotEvil simply eccentric]]. The psion prestige class that lets you become more and more like a Mind Flayer, on the other hand, tends to be for amoral assholes only.
** There is also the alienist arcane PrestigeClass, which makes you more and more in tune with [[EldritchLocation the Far Realm]]; by the time you finish the progression the only thing humanoid about you is your body's shape, [[RedRightHand for the most part]].
** Daelkyr from ''TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}'', high-level outsiders from the plane of madness. Notable in that they looked like this when they invaded the main continent ages prior, before humans had ever set foot there. When human explorers did arrive, later, they created a panic among the demihuman populace due to the resemblance. Keith Baker, creator of ''Eberron'', was once asked why daelkyr looked so much like humans. [[WordOfGod His response]] was that the real question is why do ''humans'' look so much like ''daelkyr''...
* ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'':
** ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' has "the Other," the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Astral Aeon]] of the [[CosmicHorrorStory Abyss]], who is said to look simply like an unassuming, shrunken, slightly odd old man, who nevertheless has something indescribably ''off'' with everything about him.
** Similarly, each of the [[TheFairFolk True Fae]] from ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'' has a humanoid Mask that they can wear when they appear on Earth. These masks can be beautiful or hideous, but usually within the realm of human expectation... except for the one element that's just ''[[GlamourFailure wrong]]''.
** Even Changelings can get in on the action; when their Wyrd stat (basic supernatural power) hits 6, they manifest a certain... oddity in their Mask, which humans rationalise away but are still capable of seeing. [[spoiler: Of course, the latter may become the former, given enough Wyrd and [[KarmaMeter not enough Clarity. Turning humans into changelings is how the True Fae ''reproduce''. Have fun with your Doomed Protagonist]].]]
* This is also what most mages think of [[TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression geniuses]] -- that they are bizarre cosmic intelligences of unknown motivation and origins who simply ''look'' human. In the case of the Illuminated, they may well be right. The "inverted Geniuses" known as Clockstoppers may also be examples -- one of the most powerful is described as being more a force of nature than a man.
* ''TabletopGame/OldWorldOfDarkness'' has the Onceborn of ''TabletopGame/WraithTheOblivion'', effectively dead gods in service of the necrotic force known as Oblivion. Unlike their cohorts, the [[EldritchAbomination Neverborn]], they were human at one point... but they were such bastards in life, they plummeted right into becoming [[TheHeartless Spectres]] upon death, and then ascended to the ranks of horrible divinity.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'':
** The [[EldritchAbomination Yozis]] and their [[DemonLordsAndArchdevils various]] [[OurSoulsAreDifferent souls]] can appear in any number of bizarre, logic-defying forms, including [[BloodyBowelsOfHell entire living worlds]]... or they can appear as inhumanly attractive humanoid beings with a few thematic characteristics here and there. They can also do both at the same time -- all demons above the First Circle have the ability to manifest in multiple locations at once. The Primordials Gaia and Autochthon are just as eldritch, except they haven't been mutilated and imprisoned in Hell. Gaia's most familiar form is a beautiful humanoid goddess who hangs out in Heaven.
** TheFairFolk qualify, being even more monstrous and alien in this setting than is standard for that trope -- they come from what is essentially an alien universe characterized by having ''no'' laws of physics, they have no actual personalities or motives, and they can only exist in Creation by eating human souls. Yet, as far as appearance goes, many of the Raksha nobles are inhuman only in their extreme beauty. It helps attract prey, you see.
** According to [[WordOfGod Word of Sol]], the Green Sun Princes qualify to a degree, having taken the Yozi nature into their once-human souls, and are gradually evolving into Yozi-like beings.
** In a way, ''all of the Exalted'' are this. Human beings were never meant to receive power in the manner of the Exalted, and elder Exalts tend to have viewpoints that are [[BlueAndOrangeMorality rather skewed]] for one reason or another. They can also easily be [[TheBeautifulElite impossibly beautiful.]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** The Immortal God Emperor of Mankind. Long ago, all of Earth's mages, psykers, and mystics decided that humanity needed a champion to lead them. They committed mass suicide and all of them were reincarnated as one being: the Emperor. Anyone who had the misfortune to make psychic contact with him and got a glimpse of what lay beneath the surface, such as John Grammaticus (a powerful psyker in his own right), would be left in a state of total awe and terror -- mostly terror. The making of Astropaths even uses this deliberately, the aspiring Astropath making contact with the (severely weakened, maybe dead) Emperor for a brief instant, with the delightful effect of being able to transmit signals across the galaxy as well as ''having their eyes burned from their sockets''.
** Horus became one of these at the end of the Horus Heresy, with '''all four''' of [[UltimateEvil the Chaos gods]] using him as a vessel of their power at once. The battle between him and the Emperor left him dead and the Emperor mortally wounded.
* Aberrant-bloodline sorcerers in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' eventually become these. Then there are the incredibly creepy [[LightIsNotGood Shining Children of Thassilon]].
* The Excrucians in ''TabletopGame/{{Nobilis}}'' generally manifest as creepily pretty humans as part of their [[InhumanlyBeautifulRace "always beautiful"]] shtick. ''[[OmnicidalManiac This does not make them good]]'', and no matter how [[AffablyEvil human]] an Excrucian seems, they are still invaders from the PrimordialChaos outside reality. To be fair, they do have one bit of GlamourFailure - [[BlackEyesOfEvil their eyes appear as the night sky]], and the [[GlowingEyesOfDoom stars]] are falling.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* The final stage of ''RType Delta'' features human fetuses floating around inside of crystalline structures, giant killer sperm, giant strands of DNA, and giant fertilized eggs, all floating around in a starry void populated with floating Earth buildings and other memories of mankind's achievements and all trying to murder you dead. The "true" final stage of ''RType Final'' seems to feature silhouettes of a male and female human in coitus in the background. ''RType'' is quite literally fucked up.
* Most ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' {{Big Bad}}s pass through this at ''some'' stage of their life cycle. They almost all pass ''out'' of it later when powering up, advancing to more conventional abominations, of course, but the intermediate stages still qualify.
** The [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIII Cloud Of Darkness]], despite being, well, a cloud of darkness, manifests as a sexy woman with CombatTentacles in Dissidia. In the original game it manifests as a sexy woman with green skin and a CombatTentacles.
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Exdeath]] is actually an aggregate of evil souls trapped in a tree, but spends most of the game as a humanoid suit of armor. How he managed to fit a classic EldritchAbomination appearance like his into a suit of armor small and human enough to deceive people isn't known, but he ''is'' [[AWizardDidIt a wizard]].
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Jenova]] is a [[EldritchAbomination planet-eating alien parasite]] with the in-series nickname "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Calamity from the Skies]]", but in all of its appearances barring boss fights it takes the form of either a naked female humanoid with blue skin and a whole lot of BodyHorror or that of the [[BigBad main antagonist]] Sephiroth, who himself was [[HalfHumanHybrid infused with Jenova's cells as a fetus]] and later [[HijackingCthulhu merges with it]] and [[AGodIAm attempts to become its successor]].
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Ultimecia]] managed to ''destroy time itself'' but still exists quite comfortably and is a Sorceress, something not quite human but looking the same, until the final boss fight; she loses the "humanoid" part when she shifts from "break the universe" mode into "break the skulls of the impudent mortals before me" mode.
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyX Yu Yevon]] was once human, but turned into a jellyfish-summon-disease-''thing'' using the only powers available to him ''as'' a human and instead simply wears an actual EldritchAbomination as a suit of armour. He counted back in the day when he made the first Sin, though, and might have counted longer depending. We don't really know the how or why of his current blobby appearance, so it might have been a gradual thing.
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXI Blue Mages]] also become these after accepting [[DealWithTheDevil a shady offer of power]] - it is implied they become even moreso as they devour monsters' magic, and those who don't control themselves can cross the line into a [[EldritchAbomination Soul Flayer]].
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII Vayne Solidor]] started out as an ordinary Hume, [[IKnowKarate albeit one who knew kung fu]]. Then the godlike Occuria Venat, out of gratitude for Vayne's help in fulfilling her EvilPlan, merged with him so that he would not face death alone. This fusion became The Undying, a humanoid monstrosity with pieces of Vayne's sky fortress attached to it that gave it the appearance of a mecha-angel.
** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII Galenth Dysley]] looks like a harmless-but-evil-looking old man for most of the game. Then he turns into a giant NightmareFace and you discover he's actually a [[JerkAssGods Fal'Cie]].
** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'', the final boss is an inscrutable genie-thing that preys off of insecurities... and spends most of the game looking like the dead mother of one of the characters.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?)** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyI Garland]] qualifies in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'', being more or less a manifestation of Chaos' will, but looking like a knight. He doesn't qualify in his original game, though, because there he's ''very'' human when he looks such; his promotion to abomination goes straight to the monstrous variety.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?)** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyIV Zemus]] was a Lunarian wizard who looked perfectly human, but whose soul was so literally warped and monstrous that he transformed into a more classically EldritchAbomination-looking personification of hatred upon death.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?)** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] started off as a human and became a god-killing abomination that absorbed the powers of the gods he killed, but the most inhuman in appearance he got was angel wings and demon wings.
%% (ZCE) *** Yunalesca, meanwhile, became an EldritchAbomination in her own right, but sticks to her old human shape unless pressed by the necessity of combat, mostly because otherwise summoners would kill first ask questions later instead of making the Sacred DealWithTheDevil.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyTactics The Lucavi]] spend most of their time wearing the skins of the poor souls they've come to possess in a combined GrandTheftMe[=/=]AFormYouAreComfortableWith situation. In their human forms they possess all their phenomenal demonic powers and are as inhumanly sociopathic as ever, but once they need to start kicking some serious ass they put their {{Game Face}}s on and let the {{Eldritch Abomination}}s out for all to see.
* Organization XIII from ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII''. Like the rest of their [[TheSoulless Nobody]] brethren, their semi-existence is so unnatural, so deeply ''wrong'' that even [[TheDarkSide the darkness]] rejects them. ''Unlike'' the others, however, they look exactly like humans with odd powers.
** On that note, most Nobodies resemble humans in shape. All they are in reality are stretchy rag dolls who apparently have taken combat lessons from [[SoulSeries Voldo]].
** Special mention goes to [[spoiler:Xion]] for not actually being a Nobody. That's right, even the Nobodies rejected [[spoiler:her.]]
** ''KingdomHearts'' like these; the first game features Ansem, [[spoiler:or rather, Xehanort's Heartless, who is a humanoid Heartless]] and the prequel [[spoiler:has Vanitas, a being made from another character's Darkness and is the original Unversed and origin of every Unversed you fight in the game]].
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'''s [[TheManBehindTheMan Woman Behind the Man]] Lt. Cmdr. [[EnigmaticMinion Miang Hawwa]]. At first it looks like she's nothing more than the levelheaded assistant to the fiery [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy towheaded]] BigBadWannabe Kahran Ramsus. The second half of the game reveals, however,[[spoiler:that she's actually [[UnusualUserInterface Human Interface]] for--[[AFormYouAreComfortableWith and personification of]]--the game's EldritchAbomination antagonist Deus]].
%% (ZCE) * [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7aOqHCP8es This]] ''VideoGame/{{Fraxy}}'' boss.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * In ''MortalKombat'', Ermac is a fusion of thousands of souls bound into one human-like form.
* ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' has the Grotesqueries, gigantic, sharp-toothed babies capable of taking on godlike dragons and who enjoy the taste of flesh, who fall down from the sky on wings of lightning when you kill the BigBad. In the sequel, [[spoiler:you learn that those are [[GodIsEvil literally that world's GODS]], the same ones who controlled said Big Bad]]. That kind of octane factor's for premium fuel only.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** In spinoff-sequel ''VideoGame/NieR'', we have the Shades. [[spoiler: And the Replicants, which were designed to be bodies for the disembodied humans that became the Shades. And [[MsFanservice Kainé]], a Replicant/Shade hybrid. And whatever Emil is...]]
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) *** Hell, let's just say [[spoiler: ''the entire cast'', minus the Twins. Who are robots.]]
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * The ''VideoGame/DragonAge'' series:
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** One way to drastically slow down the poisonous and lethal effects of darkspawn blood is to subject the body to a massive dose by drinking it. This creates the [[spoiler:Grey Wardens]] and gives them the ability to connect to their HiveMind without being controlled by it. But on the outside they look just like normal people.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** A single known case of an Abomination among the Abominations: [[spoiler:Flemeth]] was possessed by a demon a long time ago, but unlike any other case of possession, the demon did not consume the soul, but instead was absorbed into it, leaving the original human mind intact, resulting in a human mage who consumes demons.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * Darth Nihilus from ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic 2''. Aside from having been rendered insane by his HorrorHunger to consume life, Visas speculates that he would eventually destroy all life in the galaxy if not stopped.
* ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' villains love this:
** Nyarlatothep from ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'' takes on the form of Jun's father in ''Innocent Sin'', and of Tatsuya himself in ''Eternal Punishment''.
** [[spoiler:[[TheGrimReaper Nyx Avatar]]]] does this twice in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}'', first as [[spoiler:CreepyChild Pharos in the Protagonist's mind]], and then as [[spoiler:transfer student Ryoji Mochizuki once the Greater Shadows have fused with him]].
** ''VideoGame/{{Persona 4}}'' features [[spoiler:[[JapaneseMythology Izanami]]]], who shows up as a [[spoiler:gas station attendant]] for most of the game.
*** ''[[UpdatedRerelease Persona 4: The Golden]]'' adds [[spoiler:Marie]], an avatar of [[spoiler:Izanami]] who gets IdentityAmnesia and [[spoiler:ends up becoming friends with the Protagonist.]]
** The various residents of the Velvet Room are implied to be this as well. Fortunately, they're on your side.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * The Demi-Fiend from ''ShinMegamiTenseiNocturne''. It begins with a demon parasite/symbiote clawing its way into your skull when you are a human, causing you to mutate into a demon with only spiritual links to the human you used to be. And if you choose [[ApocalypseHow one]] [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt certain]] [[MultipleEndings ending]], then [[LouisCypher your new patron]] gives you extra power, and even that tiny part is blown to hell.
* ''[[VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery ADOM]]'' has several.
** Certainly there's Nuurag-Vaarn, the Chaos Archmage, who is the penultimate BossFight for the normal ending. He appears as a withered old man whose eyes are holes radiating such unbearable light of power you can barely catch a glimpse of the tentacles writhing in them. (Well, actually he appears as a "@" but this is what the description says.)
** There's also the BigBad, who's so incomprehensible that the game bluntly says he's beyond description.
* ''VideoGame/{{Heretic}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Hexen}}'':
** ''Heretic'': Aside from the fact that [[TheFaceless we never see his face]], or body for that matter, there's nothing visibly inhuman about D'Sparil's appearance, even though he's a demon that slipped in through a hole in the walls of the cosmos from the outside. He makes up for this by riding a humanoid serpent with an appropriately eldritch appearance.
** The Heresiarch from ''Hexen'', a near-unique boss creature, is an immensely powerful magic-using humanoid creature of some sort. Most of its appearance is hidden inside its robes, like D'Sparil's, but claws and a tail can be seen at the bottom. It's a leader of the cult of the Serpent Riders, but there isn't really much of an indication what it actually is, aside from something eldritch and unnatural.
** D'Sparil's older brother Eidolon from ''Hexen II'' is a humanoid, though a demonic-looking one.
* Lavos from ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. At its core, beyond all its protective layers, it resembles nothing more than a (comparatively) small humanoid alien astronaut. It is also [[BishonenLine its most hideously powerful form]], whose mere presences distorts time and space. [[spoiler:And it's not even Lavos's real body anyways.]]
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * The ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess''' Shadow Beasts. Brutishly large black monsters with featureless shield-shaped masks instead of faces and tentacle-like hair, these creatures also make [[HellIsThatNoise ghastly screams]] in order to revive other Shadow Beasts which you have killed. It turns out that [[spoiler:they are actually Twili cursed by Zant to form part of his army. Then again, regular Twili may also count as friendly Humanoid Abominations to a certain extent.]]
* ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'':
** Alma, as she grows in power, may be evolving from StringyHairedGhostGirl to full-blown world-threatening abomination, yet so far seems to have kept her somewhat human looks.
** There's also the Creep in the third game: though humanoid, it is far more monstrous and aggressive than Alma. It eventually turns out that [[spoiler: it is an amalgam of the worst memories Fettel, the Point Man, and Alma have of Harlan Wade, given life by Alma's psychic powers.]]
* The Tall Man from the ''VideoGame/ChzoMythos'', Prince and servant of the pain elemental Chzo. Very prominent in the midquel game Trilby's Notes, where he manifests in the shifted world as a bone white androgynous figure with unnaturally long limbs and a black longcoat. Though this is probably because [[spoiler:he used to be human until Chzo took over him.]]
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' contains a few of these:
** Xerath, a mage of an ancient culture who ascended to a higher plane of existence; Fiddlesticks, an extradimensional being trapped in a scarecrow; Brand, an apocalyptic spirit of fire possessing a man; and Nautilus, an abyssal, deep-sea entity inhabiting a man and the dive-suit he wears.
** Of special note are also Kassadin and Malzahar, both of whom have been touched by the Void, an extradimensional space where Lovecraftian creatures lurk. Both wield Void magics, but with very different goals. Whether anything human actually remains of them is debatable.
* In ''VideoGame/VagrantStory'', anyone who bears the Blood-Sin Tattoo [[spoiler:which grants its bearer access to the power and knowledge of the Gran Grimoire, the ultimate codex of magic that takes the form of an entire ''city'',]] becomes a fearsome immortal magical being while still looking like a normal human. Though [[spoiler:Romeo Guildenstern]] is somewhat mutated when he eventually acquires it and does eventually go OneWingedAngel.
* The [=GMan=] of ''VideoGame/{{Half-Life}}''... [[EpilepticTrees Maybe]]. To be certain, he's dead center in the [[UncannyValley unnerving category]], has scarily thorough, though unknown amounts of knowledge of the protagonist and events, and displays powers that are magnitudes beyond anything else in the series (it required the ''entire Vortigaunt race'' working together just to stall him, and even that didn't last long). And he says he reports to a higher power. There's a good reason a lot of fans compare him to Nyarlathotep.
%% (ZCE) * The Maker goes [[SequentialBoss back and forth]] across the BishounenLine in ''VideoGame/{{Aquaria}}'' as Naija beats him to a pulp.
* [[spoiler:Duran]] from ''VideoGame/{{Starcraft}}'' is revealed to be thousands of years old, [[IHaveManyNames to have had many names]], and to be serving a mysterious "higher power."
* ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}''
** [[spoiler:True]] Zenon from ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 2|Cursed Memories}}'' also qualifies, as does series BonusBoss Baal. Both of them, while shaped like people usually, are utterly inhuman mentally even compared to other demons, are strong enough to slaughter overlords by the hundreds, and even go [[BodySurf Body Surfing]] when the need arises, almost always to another deceptively human vessel. Almost being the key word; Baal, having had to surf more often, has worn a few [[LethalJokeCharacter low-level mooks]] in his time.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** ''VideoGame/{{Disgaea 3|Absence of Justice}}'' has this when [[spoiler:Mao]] uses his true form. We can safely say that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. [[spoiler:His father is a [[EldritchAbomination gigantic monster.]]]] But, this being ''Disgaea''...
* As of ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara 3'', Oichi is, if not one outright, at least on her way to becoming one. She's been robbed of the last shred of her sanity, seeing the world through a bizarre, alien dream logic, and is simultaneously the master and puppet of the dark powers she showed in the previous game. [[spoiler:She gets better in some of her endings.]]
* ''VideoGame/DeadlyPremonition'' has [[spoiler:[[TheManBehindTheMan Forrest Kaysen]]]], who he is revealed to be a dimension-warping abomination. He certainly isn't as indestructible as the average Humanoid Abomination though, as [[spoiler:Francis Zach Morgan is able to dismissively murder the son of a bitch with a well placed bullet to the brain.]]
** According to WordOfGod [[spoiler:Willie]] is [[spoiler:Kaysen's]] overseer, delivering his instructions from the Red World.
* ''ShadowOfTheColossus'' has almost no exposition and very little dialog, and as all characters already know why they have come to the place, they don't talk about it and leave the player almost completely in the dark as to what's really going on. Dormin is actually quite nice when [[HiveMind they]] talk to Wander, but the fact that they have been sealed in the temple and the way [[spoiler:the pursuers in the last quarter of the game]] react to the place make it quite apparent that they are regarded as a kind of eldritch abomination by the people.
* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaLordsOfShadow'':
** The final boss, [[spoiler:Satan himself]], appears simply as a tall man with long black hair and shining, amber eyes. He appears nude, but there's a veil of shadow clouding his waist.
** The Lords of Shadow also qualify before going OneWingedAngel. The three Lords of Shadow are actually [[spoiler:the bodies of the founders of the Order]] that are animated by [[spoiler:the evil that they left behind when they ascended to Heaven]] instead of souls. Cornell and Carmilla have some inhuman characteristics but still look fairly human. [[spoiler:Zobek]] on the other hand looks completely human before transforming.
** From the main series, we have {{Dracula}} himself. Far more than just a vampire, he is revealed in ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Dawn of Sorrow]]'' to be a ''fundamental force of the universe'' necessary for maintaining the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil, and his role is literally to be the opposite of '''{{God}}'''.
* In ''VideoGame/AlanWake'' there is [[spoiler:Jagger]], who appears to be human, but as the manuscript says is completely alien in all ways besides appearance. [[spoiler:And even then, it's a full EldritchAbomination [[LivingBodysuit using a human body as a disguise]].]]
* The Outer Space Beings from the ''VideoGame/SinAndPunishment'' series are from outside the universe as we know it, have strange and immense powers, have blood that can grant people special powers, are implied to be the source of many of the bizarre lifeforms found in the series... and ''can'' look perfectly human. The [[AllThereInTheManual fluff]] reveals they can look like anything they want. And [[spoiler:Achi]], BigBad of the first game, shapeshifts into a ''planet'' for the final boss fight.
* Some of the Daedric Princes in ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' manifest themselves as humanoids, some more normal looking than others. Perhaps the most normal-looking is, bizarrely enough, Sheogorath, the Prince of Madness. At first glance he looks less like the physical avatar of insanity and more like a grandfatherly banker you'd trust right away. This is, of course, ''entirely'' the point.
* ''VideoGame/DeadSpace2'' has Nicole. While she is just a hallucination, [[spoiler: she's still a monstrous personification of Issac's guilt over failing to save the real Nicole, and a projection of the gigantic ArtifactOfDoom Isaac inadvertently helped build.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' has the "Enderman" mob, which is based off of [[TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]]. They're three-meter-tall, completely black humanoids with glowing eyes. They wander around at night, and unlike other monsters that actively search for you, endermen ignore you as long as you ignore them. However, if you look directly at them, they turn to stare at you, then attack as soon as you break your gaze. They can teleport to get closer to you, and to dodge arrows. They run quickly at you when you can't see them. When you look back at them, they stop moving and stare at you, with their mouths opening and shaking violently. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking They're the only mob able to pick up blocks]]. In a recent update, they've gained a few extra sounds they can make, including a long, rising, unearthly growl that seems to come from nowhere in particular. It was eventually revealed that they're aliens from another dimension called The End, and you need to travel to their homeworld to beat the game (insofar as you can ever "win" a WideOpenSandbox with [[NoPlotNoProblem no plot]]).
* Pyron from ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' is an ageless energy being who exists solely to [[PlanetEater drain planets like a vampire]]. ''Hideously'' powerful, he spared Earth millions of years ago solely because he wanted to wait until it got tastier. His preferred form is a flaming humanoid, though he demonstrates complete control over his form. The scary part? Pyron isn't a standalone monstrosity. He's just another member of his race. There's an ''entire planet'' of these things. He does get his ass kicked by the other Darkstalkers, many of whom could qualify for this trope in their own right.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * ''VideoGame/BatenKaitos Origins'' gives us the horrifying Wiseman. Its wings look like helicopter blades, it talks in the RoyalWe all the time, it eats souls, and it's capable of giving humans magical powers through their hearts. In battle, it has attacks like 'Cast Off Your Carnal Robes', and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVwmR8J_y-Y this]] is its battle theme.
* Several characters in ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}''. Any woman lacking a [[IncorruptiblePurePureness pure heart]] who tries to make a wish on the [[ArtifactOfDoom Skull Heart]] is transformed into one. Double, one of the Skullgirl's henchmen, is a [[NunsAreSpooky creepy nun]] in public whose true form is a BodyHorror shapeshifter who [[spoiler:apparently reports to the god of the ChurchOfEvil]].
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'': Tabuu looks like a blue semitransparent human. He's ''not''. He's actually an ''extremely'' powerful DimensionLord.
* ''{{Videogame/Dishonored}}'' has the Outsider, an...''entity'' that seems to have existed throughout the whole of recorded history - and before. You'd mistake him for a handsome young man in plain clothing were it not for his totally black eyeballs, his tendency to be wreathed in shadow, and that he seems to enjoy hovering a foot or so off the ground. His hobbies include speaking with polite bemusement about mortal affairs, entering people's dreams to inspire bizarre inventions, branding those he deems "interesting" with his mark to grant them really weird powers, being alternately worshipped as a god and vilified as a Satanic figure, and hanging out in a realm called The Void which may or may not be slowly consuming reality as its inhabitants know it. Anecdotal evidence suggests that he may be using AFormYouAreComfortableWith, and he's actually a SpaceWhale...which in the Dishonored universe, means he's pretty Lovecraftian in his appearance (though far from GoMadFromTheRevelation levels).
* Nightmare from the ''SoulSeries'', specifically his incarnation in ''Soul Calibur III'' and ''Soul Calibur IV'', in which he is an [[AnimatedArmor empty suit of armour]] animated by the will of a [[{{BFS}} BFS]]-turned-EldritchAbomination called [[EvilWeapon Soul Edge]], which seeks to devour all life in existence - and is described in ''IV'' as having become an extension of the sword itself. His other appearances are a result of [[TransformationOfThePossessed Soul Edge possessing and corrupting the humans who pick it up]].
* VideoGame/{{OFF}} ''will'' catch you by surprise with one of these, depending on the AlternateEnding you pick. It helps that the thing's on the very edge between this and a full-blown [[EldritchAbomination eldritch]] in appearance, and that from your perspective, it had you fooled the entire time.
* [[EvilKnockoff Dark Samus]], the main antagonist of the MetroidPrime trilogy, resembles a black, biomechanical version of Samus Aran. "[[NoBiologicalSex She]]" began as the titular Metroid Prime, a Metroid mutated by prolonged exposure to [[ToxicPhlebotinum Phazon]] and prophesied by the Chozo as [[PlanetEater the Worm]]. Following Metroid Prime's defeat at the hands of Samus, it merged with her Phazon Suit and came back as a twisted doppelganger bent on [[TheVirus spreading Phazon throughout the universe]] and even other dimensions, and was unkillable as long as Phazon existed.
* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'': The BigBad, Baron Alexander von Brennenburg, is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a being from another universe that got exiled into our own. He takes a human form to fit in with our society, but as the game goes on it's clear he is something else. Looking at a portrait of him while low on sanity transforms his face into a horrific corpse-like visage, which is believed by some to be a glimpse at his true form.]]
* Subtly implied with Gardevoir in the {{Pokemon}} series. Despite looking, well, hunan-like, it's not in the "hunam-like" breeding group. It is in fact in the "Amorphous" group, which means it can breed with things like Weezing, Muk, most Ghost types and ''a giant electric lamprey.'' It's also the ''only'' thing in its egg group that ''really'' looks like it doesn't belong there. All that Rule34 suddenly got a whole lot [[{{Squick}} Squickier.]]
* Abyss from ''{{Marvel vs Capcom 2}}''.
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* [[spoiler:M and Baron]] in ''VisualNovel/ShikkokuNoSharnoth''. When seen from the perspective of Bram Stoker, his silhouette is that of a normal human, but only the silhouette.
* There are quite a few of these in the {{Nasuverse}}:
** ''VisualNovel/{{Tsukihime}}'' has Nero Chaos, who has a body composed of hundreds of animals that can detach from him to attack and feed. Even his mind is a gestalt, and his original personality is slowly being subsumed into the collective consciousness.
** ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' gives us Matou Zouken, who is somewhere between TheWormThatWalks and this trope, and a number of the Servants as well. True Assassin [[spoiler:[[TheBlank has no face beneath his mask]]]] and is summoned by ''eating his way out of the false Assassin's chest''.
** The backstory also contains several, most notably Crimson Moon, who is the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the moon, and by extension the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent True Ancestors]] as well, as they were created in his image.
** Also, {{Melty Blood}}'s Tatari usually takes the form of a resident of the city it is in, but it's actually a phenomenon made up of rumours that randomly appears to suck the blood out of entire towns.
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* Webcomic/LovecraftIsMissing, naturally. Dr. Kartophilus' freaky butler, [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=397 Heeg]], is the [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=920 most obvious]], though most likely he's [[spoiler:"only" a [[ShapeShifter shoggoth]] in human form]].
** There's also [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=5262 Young Tom Malone]], who raised [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=5386 all sorts]] of [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=5672 questions]] which, probably for the best, are [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=5674 likely to go unanswered]].
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * Icky from ''Webcomic/InstaDinner''. For the most part, he's very humanoid, barring his teeth and eyes. He can also pull food ingredients from his body, and spawn tentacles whenever he needs to. [[DarkIsNotEvil He's also enthusiastically friendly towards humans]].
* Rithuly from ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'', a vaguely defined "dark god" with strong EldritchAbomination vibes: his "true form is of a great flying Stygian dragon" but he "usually appears man-sized, either as a wispy tentacle-headed dark ghost or a charming handsome man in a white robe adorned with jewelry."
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'':
** Zimmy ''seems'' to be one of these at first (and Reynardine calls her a demon and refuses to go near her) but she's apparently just a normal girl with an unnatural affinity for the ether. [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Which human minds are not designed for, giving her nightmarish visions which can spill over into reality, and making her incapable of sleep]].
** A look into her past reveals that [[spoiler:Jones]] qualifies. Her existence predates ''life on Earth'' by at least a few ''billion'' years, but she has always looked the same. [[TimeAbyss She has a perfect memory for every instant of her entire history]], scratches diamonds, and is impenetrable to x-rays. She claims to lack emotions or imagination; though Antimony has her doubts on this matter, it might just be projection on her (and the readership's) part. Oh, and [[spoiler:she has no idea what she is, either. [[MemeticMutation MYSTERY SOLVED]]!]]
* ''Webcomic/OwMySanity'' has tons of these, many of which are female. The kicker? They're the protagonist's UnwantedHarem, which has strange implications for just how much more of a {{Deconstruction}} the series is going to become.
* ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''
** Doc Scratch. He has a ''[[TheBlank cueball]]'' for a ''head''.
** Jack Noir has become this as well after he prototyped with Bec. Even Doc Scratch says he's stronger than him now.
** And after [[GoMadFromTheRevelation learning the answer to a certain question]], Rose at least partially turns into one too. She's got grey skin, is surrounded by black magic, and can only speak in BlackSpeech. She's also gone a little crazy. However, she still seems to have the same personality and care about her friends. She later returns to normal after she dies and is revived as her dreamself.
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* Franchise/{{The Slender Man|Mythos}}, pictured above. You can just about mistake him for a human being at a distance (unless he's in full-on CombatTentacles mode), but come any closer and you start to... [[TheBlank notice]] [[NoodlePeople things]]. ''WebVideo/MarbleHornets'', one of the most famous Slendy stories, is an excellent portrayal of this trope. The Slender Man distorts reality just by existing, driving some characters into homicidal madness. He ''seems'' to have a goal of some sort, but whatever it is, it's utterly inscrutable.
* Another well-known creepypasta creation, [[http://www.creepypasta.com/the-rake/ The Rake]], also counts. A freakish hairless [[BeastMan dog-man]] who seems to have similar stalking habits to Slenderman, albeit being more direct with his victims[[hottip:*:Slendy watches from a distance; the Rake likes to sit on your bed. While you're in it]]. Has even showed up in EverymanHYBRID, integrating it into the above mythos.
* The Slender Man and the Rake are joined by a number of other Humanoid Abominations in ''TheFearMythos'', including [[TheAdjectivalMan the Cold Boy, the Wooden Girl, and the Blind Man]].
* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has absolutely every type of abomination, and these are no exception. There's some ''creepy'' {{Reality Warper}}s hanging around there.
** Dr. Clef claims to be one himself: he discovered what he was at an early age when an idle thought caused [[{{NASA}} the Challenger disaster]]. He then devoted his life to putting the kibosh on those more selfishly inclined than he. This is still [[MultipleChoicePast Clef]], though, so take it with a mine of salt.
** CreepyChild SCP-053 looks and acts like an ordinary three year old girl. She's not. Let's put it this way: SCP-682, an alien reptillian OmnicidalManiac that hates everything in this universe on principle, likes SCP-053, and the feeling is mutual -- once SCP-053 got past her initial fear of the giant terrifying reptiloid. (It's kind of adorable, actually.)
** Along the lines of the [[TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]], [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-582 SCP-582]] appears and acts out his part in any stories written about him.
* WhateleyUniverse:
** Sara Waite, codename Carmilla. She looks like a goddess of lust. Her father's mother is actually Shub-Niggurath. Her mother's ancestry is even creepier.
** Tennyo is somehow related to some EldritchAbomination that was created to eat/destroy the EldritchAbominations of the Cthulu Mythos, something that would look at Cthulu and think 'ooh, an appetizer!'.
%% (ZCE) * The Blacktrons of LegoQuest are heavily implied to be this. Only one character in the quest has ever seen the face of a Blacktron, and he's not telling what he saw.
* This is essentially how {{Mary Sue}}s are portrayed in ''ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'': inhumanly beautiful and malevolent mind-controllers that [[RealityWarper degrade the story's reality simply by existing]].
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) * Several characters from ''DeucalionChronicles'' probably qualify, but Asmodeus in particular fits this trope - despite being good-natured, his presence is frightening enough that normal humans refuse to even acknowledge him. And anyone with gifts that let them see his true form probably stop thinking of them as gifts.
* Ace in ''Roleplay/RubyQuest'', a silent, masked ImplacableMan who appears to be central to the mysteries surrounding the facility and [[spoiler:may or may not be TheWormThatWalks]]. Additionally, [[spoiler:all of the normal people in the facility are either on their way here or ''past'' it and heading towards pure, concentrated BodyHorror]].
* WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall: [[spoiler: The Entity/Missingno can apparently only manifest itself in the physical realm by taking the form of another]].
%% (ZCE) * [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6BJuNeps_I&context=C3db9437ADOEgsToPDskK1qs26tSfoMRZGfvlyjOY_ This]] video {{Creepypasta}} [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation presents]] the [[http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Observe_and_Absolve Observe and Absolve]] man as one.
* ''TheOnion'' spoofed this in the 2005 article "[[http://www.theonion.com/articles/neverland-ranch-investigators-discover-corpse-of-r,1303/ Neverland Ranch Investigators Discover Corpse of Real Michael Jackson]]". According to it, MichaelJackson died sometime in 1985-1987 at the hands of one of these, and that abomination replaced it and went on to physically decay into the realm of BodyHorror and prey upon children. (At the time, in RealLife, Jackson was being tried on child molestation charges.)
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* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'':
** [[BigBad Van Kleiss]] looks like a man with [[RedRightHand a mechanical hand]], but in truth while he WasOnceAMan the seat of his consciousness now is the nanites that fill his body - and [[FisherKing the area around his stronghold]], meaning that in a sense the entire country of Abysus ''is'' [[GeniusLoci him]], and answers to his commands.
** As of episode 21, instead of a GeniusLoci, he can now [[spoiler:induce BodyHorror with a touch.]]
** Breach qualifies. She's a CreepyChild with extra arms, one set oversized, and creates portals. She keeps people as playthings in her pocket dimension.
%% (NOT AN EXAMPLE?) ** For that matter, any and all characters who've manifested as [=EVOs=] but retain a largely human appearance might qualify (and are often [[FantasticRacism treated as such]]) - this includes not only Van Kliess but [[TheHero Rex himself]] and [[DatingCatwoman his love interest]] Circe.
* Miss Bitters from ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim''. Nobody is exactly sure ''what'' she is, but human is not on the list of options. She is implied to be older than the Skool (they couldn't make her move so they built it around her and [[CrapsackWorld made her a teacher]]) and has taught at least two generations worth of students. The official website mentions rumors state that she is [[HalfHumanHybrid the spawn of]] an English teacher and a really big snake. Her flashbacks in the series indicate she [[BreakTheCutie was once much happier]]...
* Wall-Mart in the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode "Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes". Wall-Mart is actually portrayed as a complete Eldritch Abomination in the episode, being an abstract entity from beyond that exists [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil as long as there is consumerism]] and poisons every town in which it manifests itself. Near the end of the episode however, it temporarily [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith takes on human form]] so it can talk to Stan and Kyle.
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