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[[caption-width:400:[-See those tiny figures in the circle? Those are ''people.''-] ]]

->''Oozing and surging up out of that yawning trap-door in the Cyclopean crypt I had glimpsed such an unbelievable behemothic monstrosity that I could not doubt the power of its original to kill with its mere sight. Even now I cannot begin to suggest it with any words at my command. I might call it gigantic -- tentacled -- proboscidian -- octopus-eyed -- semi-amorphous -- plastic -- partly squamous and partly rugose -- ugh! But nothing I could say could even adumbrate the loathsome, unholy, non-human, extra-galactic horror and hatefulness and unutterable evil of that forbidden spawn of black chaos and illimitable night. As I write these words the associated mental image causes me to lean back faint and nauseated. As I told of the sight to the men around me in the office, I had to fight to preserve the consciousness I had regained.''\\
-- '''HPLovecraft''', "Out of the Aeons"

How to describe these unclean mockeries of natural law? There are no words that can encompass such foulness, not in English or any other human tongue. They are ''other'', [[StarfishAliens alien beyond comprehension]], their very existence an [[BrownNote affront to all rationality]]. I could speak of ichor-dripping tentacles and yonic voids, painfully dissonant cries and colours of no earthly hue, but those are mere superficialities. Monstrous though these stigmata are, they do not define the abominations; they are merely among the more common symptoms of their underlying wrongness.

What all Eldritch Abominations have in common is their defiance of natural law, as humans understand it. They are the things that should not be, the ultimate aliens. It is this that makes them abominable, and it this that [[GoMadFromTheRevelation reduces to gibbering madness]] all but the strongest of those who encounter them.

However, people can get used to anything in time, if they don't die first. If Eldritch Abominations were on every street corner, people's conceptions of natural law would stretch to accommodate them. A lone mile-high soul-consuming monstrosity would be cause for worldwide pandemonium. If there were ten thousand such, descending from the cold stars on umbral wings every new moon to ravage the Earth, then that would just be a fact of life. People wouldn't like the oversized locusts, but they would not be driven to madness by the sight of them.

For this reason, only creatures which people rarely meet, and survive to tell the tale, can qualify as Eldritch Abominations. The creatures may actually outnumber humanity -- trillions may dwell in the Stygian abysses far below the ocean waves, trillions may drift between the stars -- but they prefer wild and lonely places, where people seldom tread. What qualifies can also depend on who is looking. Some things are so strange that even lesser Eldritch Abominations find them abominable.

Physically, Eldritch Abominations range from [[UncannyValley almost]] [[HumanoidAbomination human]], [[StarfishAliens through big ugly monsters]], to the [[MindScrew unimaginably bizarre.]] Generally, the weirder they look the more powerful they are, but this isn't a universal rule. Y'[[spoiler:golonac (you fool! you doomed us all!)]] looks approximately human, but just [[BrownNote reading its name]] condemns you to MindRape (assuming that your puny human tongue can even pronounce it). If you see it in the flesh, it's too late to run. And while we're at it, never, ever, [[SchmuckBait EVER]] say [[SpeakOfTheDevil Hastur]].

The most eldritch of the abominations come from [[EldritchLocation Beyond. Whether they are from beyond the stars, before the dawn of time, or a place incomprehensible to humans,]] they are alien to this universe and its laws. Other than that, they have nothing in common. The mildest Eldritch Abominations are typically the descendants of greater abominations, or the work of mad wizards (not mad scientists, who have trouble mastering the eldritch, certain [=AI=]s notwithstanding). These include some of the rarer varieties of undead, so long as they are rare, and the product of ill-advised breeding programs.

The best known abominations are the big ugly monsters that fit in between these two extremes. Here, the "ugly" in "big, ugly monster" doesn't just mean that it's horrible to look at -- it means that there's something about it, about the way it looks, or the spaces it moves through, that violates every law of reality as you know it. "Big" doesn't just mean that it could use the Empire State Building as a toothpick -- it means that the... thing doing just that is only the barest fraction of the monster's true form, the tiny piece of it that actually exists in a set of dimensions that our brains were built to handle.

This trope has some overlap with StarfishAliens. However, Starfish Aliens aren't necessarily horrific or unnatural; they're alien only because they evolved in a different environment than humanity, and can be helpful or neutral, whereas Eldritch Abominations have a deep ''wrongness'' to them, no matter where you find them. For example, while Starfish Aliens usually care enough to take on a AFormYouAreComfortableWith to avoid breaking your mind, an Eldritch Abomination won't even acknowledge/realize you have one to break. They can [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu still be helpful or neutral]], though most of them are [[AboveGoodAndEvil way beyond]] the whole [[CharacterAlignment alignment system]] and are merely uncaring, treating Earth as at best a colourful plaything, and [[InsignificantLittleBluePlanet at worst...]]

Eldritch Abominations are native to the genre CosmicHorrorStory, but they are not confined to it. Mild examples can be found throughout the horror and {{fantasy}} genres. Greater abominations can occur in almost any type of fiction, so long as enough CosmicHorrorStory tropes are used. Usually they derive, at least in inspiration, from [[{{Mythopoeia}} Lovecraft's work]]; folkloric origins are rare.

Cold be considered a subtrope of OurMonstersAreWeird, in that the monsters are so weird that looking at them breaks your brain.

Occasionally [[MarsNeedsWomen they lust after our women]] (and men), resulting in NaughtyTentacles.

For instances where the abomination's reputation is a bit more solid than the actual monster itself, see DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu.

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* In the ''FullmetalAlchemist'' manga, both Pride and Envy are this, [[OneWingedAngel when they show their ugly sides]], anyways.
** Much more Pride: '''the other homunculi call him a ''monster'''''.
*** Since the Homunculi all come from Father, this would make him one as well.
**** Father originally looked like Pride... well, except for the "human boy" part. He was just a black blob with eyes in a flask labeled "Homunculus". Then he got a copy of Hohenheim's body. He fits the rest of the bill for being an abomination.
**** As of Chapter 97, Father is now revealed to be a full-blown abomination.
**** The Gate of Truth, which is basically a giant floating necronomicon with a giant eye inside, that spews black tentacles that gives eldritch lore in return for sacrificing your limbs or other's souls.
* ''DigimonTamers'', where the final enemy was the D-Reaper, a data-disposal program that got plugged into cosmic power. To fulfill its objective, a null-state for everything, it mutated into more and more alien forms, all inspired by the CthulhuMythos (mixed correspondingly with designs of the Angels from ''[[NeonGenesisEvangelion Evangelion]]''). Unique in that it got ''worse'' when it became aware of humans as entities; it tapped into the agony and pain of ''one little girl'', amplifying and becoming TheHeartless and quite, quite insane by anyone's standard. Also noteworthy in that it is both man-made and technological in origin, which as noted before is extremely rare.
** Apocalymon from ''DigimonAdventure'' probably also counts, being a twisted mutant whose body is attached to an enormous geometric planetoid, and is composed of the data of Digimon who died failing to digivolve. He also seems to reside outside the Digital World proper (coming from beyond the "Wall of Fire") and his very presence in the Digital World warped it, causing its [[YearInsideHourOutside time to flow at a different rate to the Real World]] and also causing the creation of powerful evil Digimon.
* Both the Orechalcos stones in the Doma [[StoryArc arc]] of ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh}}'' and the Light of Ruin that the Society of Light in ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh GX}}'''s second season is built around are Eldritch Abominations that were born from spatial phenomena, and having no purpose but to [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt doom the universe under their whims]]. Even Judai's Neospacians reminded him that the Light of Ruin was a literal danger to all the cosmos.
* And then there are the Earthbound Gods (or Jibakushin) from ''{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}}'', the evil entities sealed into the Nazca Lines, and a serious threat to the protagonists (frequently yielding OhCrap reactions from those about to get creamed).
** Although a couple look a bit silly (eg [[GiantEyeOfDoom googly-eyed]] lizard Ccarayhua -- though those eyes would probably give small children nightmares -- that and the fact it can eat you if you push its owner too far).
** Raphaello from ''BtX'' is a homebrew version of this: Amorphous, constantly growing, NighInvulnerable and assimilating everything in its path.
* The various ''VampirePrincessMiyu'' continuities use Eldritch Abominations as the MonsterOfTheWeek... and the leading DarkMagicalGirl.
* The Kishin from ''SoulEater''. Perhaps one of the only examples where a human can ''become'' an Eldritch Abomination with a little effort.
* In ''{{Berserk}}'', the Godhand, many, many Apostles and some Qliphoth creatures count as Eldritch Abominations, being thoroughly unnatural creatures who are all extremely powerful. However, the more powerful Apostles (Zodd, Grunbeld, Locus, and later Irvine) are not Eldritch Abominations, interestingly. Shiva, the EldritchAbomination form that Emperor Ganishka took during his final battle with Midland.
* The Angels from ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Leliel most of all. [[spoiler:The last, Lilin or humanity, not included. Rei, Kaworu, and the Evas themselves [[YourMileageMayVary may or may not be, depending on whom you ask.]]]]
* ''{{Urotsukidoji}}'', in the NaughtyTentacles sense.
** Also the titular demon beast from ''Demon Beast Invasion'' by the same creator, though its nature and origin is constantly being {{RetCon}}ned (as well as a lot of other important plot points).
* A common [[EpilepticTrees Epileptic Tree]] is that [[JungleWaItsumoHaleNochiGuu Guu]] is one of these. She's rather cute and seemingly benign (if mischievous), but the shadowy, formless ''thing'' which may or may not be her true form bears a rather Lovecraftian air.
* The {{Big Bad}}s of the first three seasons of ''SailorMoon'': Queen Metallia, Death Phantom and Pharoah 90. TheDragon of the fourth season, Zirconia, as well.
** The BigBad from the last arc in the manga would count, wouldn't it? It's [[spoiler: Chaos itself]]. It's also stated that the previous entities are extensions of it.
*''{{Bleach}}'''s Aaroniero Arruruerie's relased form anyone?
** And let's not forget Szayel Aporro Granz. He doesn't just look horrific, [[CompleteMonster he acts it too]].
** And then there's Mayuri...
* The Nightwalker in ''PrincessMononoke'' may be enormous and scary to humans, but it isn't an EldritchAbomination. [[spoiler:Until its head is removed, that is.]]
* The titular character in ''SuzumiyaHaruhi'' could be considered one of these, at least at the very beginning of the series. Just sit back and contemplate the idea of a bored, self-centered {{Jerkass}} of a teenager who both considers humanity dull ''and'' has the power to literally destroy and recreate the Universe at will and in any shape she desires -- but who has no idea that she even ''has'' such power. And then imagine what would happen [[AGodAmI if she became aware of her power...]]
** That concept may even rival H.P. Lovecraft.
*** Haruhi is actually suprisingly similar to Azatoth on some level. Both are incomprehensibly powerful beings who created the universe without being aware they did so, altho Azatoth is unaware of it because he is a primal force of chaos, mindless and senselesss, while Haruhi created an universe where she's thinks she's a normal (for a given value of normal) human and is thus unaweare of her true nature. In eighter case, if they'd gain awareness the universe would be doomed (or atleast be remade into something completely different than it used to be).
** The Data Entity would also fit, being incomprehensible to humans, not possessing language and having no relation to space or time. Luckily, it is ''TrueNeutral'' and mostly does not bother with this plane of existance.
*** Not really. Starfish aliens, maybe. They're somewhat capable of conversation without appearing to have much experience. The real cosmic horror being here is the Sky Canopy domain, who are so bizarre that even the IDE is almost entirely incapable of communicating with them and probably never will be able to. [[spoiler:Their interface unit's most notable line was 'You.......... Have......... Pretty........... Eyes.... That was her idea of fitting in. Maybe. Maybe she also loves Kyon or something.]]
* The Hiruken Emperor from ''XamdLostMemories'' certainly qualifies. Not only does it have an unsettling and unnatural appearance, blots out the sun when it awakens, and causes a rain that turns every living thing it touches to stone, we later find out that [[spoiler:it's the product of artificially bringing a stillborn baby back from the dead using the Hiruko]].
* Tetsuo from ''{{Akira}}'' ends up becoming something similar to this at the end of the film/manga. Hell, Akira himself could probably count.
* The berserk form of the Book of Darkness's defense system in ''MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha.''
* ''RaveMaster'''s Endless is a [[ClockRoaches clock roach]] created by the world's memories, whose purpose is to destroy the world which had been altered by Time Travel.
* Shounen Bat (and to a lesser extent Maromi) in ''ParanoiaAgent''. Subverted because [[spoiler:Shounen Bat (and Maromi) became a cosmic horror because [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve people believed in its existence.]]]]
* [[spoiler:[[AlienGeometries The underground ruins]]]] in ''{{Uzumaki}}'', from which the curse of the spirals emanates.
** And then there's the "lost chapter," which details [[spoiler: an evil, sentient ''galaxy'' that gives the townspeople the ability to communicate via radio waves and drives them to homicidal jealousy over the right to claim first discovery.]]
*** Though the [[spoiler: galaxy was not visible outside the town, likely it simply a trick of the ruins.]]
* Majin Buu from ''DragonBall Z'' is a pretty good example of an eldritch abomination, considering he is very justifiably feared by the gods of the universe. Gods and galaxies alike are nothing to him.
** Janemba is probably the best example from ''DragonBallZ''. He's likely the weirdest villain in the whole series, and is made up of a congealed mass of evil from Hell.
*** Omega Shenron from ''DragonBall GT'' could be considered one, considering he is essentially an eternal manifestation of pure evil, brushing off the most powerful forces in the universe as if they were nothing.
* ''{{Naruto}}'': [[spoiler:Recently, Madara Uchiha has revealed that there was once a Ten-Tailed Beast. It was a being so powerful that the Sage of the Six Paths had to divide its chakra and send its body into the moon. The chakra would then become the other nine Tailed Beasts]].
** [[spoiler:Not to mention the recently-revealed true form of Kisame's special sword Samehada, complete with gibbering tooth-filled mouth. It's basically an EldritchAbomination [[strike:on a stick]] [[MemeticMutation onna]] [[JeffDunham steek]].]]
* Things like this are pretty much a daily event now in the latest chapters of ''Claymore''.
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* [[spoiler:The Monster Behind the Wall]] from {{JohnnyTheHomicidalManiac}}.
**Ain't he cute?
* The ''JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' sometimes faces these.
** Starro, the very first foe they dealt with, has slowly moved in this direction over the years, being a literal [[StarfishAliens Starfish Alien]] that latches onto you and takes away your free will.
*** Subverted in a recent appearance when "Starro" was revealed to be a humanoid alien controlling the giant starfish "Starro" that the Justice League faced in the past. [[spoiler: The humanoid alien has a smaller starfish on his chest. He controls the Starri from ''that.]]
** The SilverAge {{homage}} ''{{Justice League New Frontier}}'' had "The Centre", an ancient and unstoppable monstrosity. It also happens to be a [[GeniusLoci giant island]].
* GrantMorrison especially enjoys these.
** GrantMorrison used another member of Starro's species simply called the Star Conqueror during his run of JLA. It had a different color scheme and was ''much'' bigger -- like Hudson Bay bigger. In it's second and so far final appearance it invaded the dreams of the American populace, putting to sleep and taking control of nearly everyone in the ''entire country''. It took a two front assault on the creature -- some of the remaining JLA members attacked its physical self while ''[[TheSandman the Lord of the Dreaming]]'' aided the other JLA members in attacking it's mental self -- to stop it. It was finally driven off into deep space while it's mental self was [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoned in the Dream Lord's chest]].
** Mageddon, the BigBad of his ''JLA'' run, is a cosmic doomsday weapon that survived the death of the universe of the god-like beings who built it. Its purpose is to initiate universal suicide by psychically prompting all living beings to war with each other to the death. Even when disabled (by the combined forces of the angelic hosts of Heaven, every single human being on Earth endowed with super powers, and a secret weapon that was basically its Kryptonite), it was still in danger of detonating and vaporizing half the galaxy.
** Hexus, the Living Corporation, from ''Marvel Boy'', a sort of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Cosmically Corrupt Executive]].
** The Archons of The Outer Church in ''TheInvisibles'' are typical Eldritch Abominations -- slimy, chitinous and decidedly non-human. In an interesting inversion of Lovecraft's themes, the Archons aren't entities of entropic chaos, but absolute order. When the universe reorients itself in their presence, it's not because it's breaking down, but because it's coming more in line with the Archons' specifications.
** ''Zenith'' in ''2000AD'' features a number of five-dimensional beings, who owe more than just their names to HP Lovecraft.
** And then, of course, there is [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Mandrakk the Dark Monitor]] from ''FinalCrisis'', perhaps the ultimate EldritchAbomination in the entire DC Multiverse.
*** Nah, that would be the Anti-Monitor, the Big Bad of Crisis in the Infinite Earths. A energy being composed of pure anti-matter on the inside, covered by a giant armored shell that serves as a energy collector to gather positive matter from the universes he wiped out. At his weakest, Pre-Crisis Supergirl destroyed his first armor before dying, forcing him to retreat to his iconic armor. At his strongest point (when he travelled to the beginning of time), a coalition of heroes from many universes and time periods didn't even scratch his armor. It took the Spectre, God's Spirit of Vengeance, boosted by earth's magicians, to stop his plans by then. The Spectre was sent into a coma after that, the Anti-Monitor was just angry that his plans had been foiled. The Anti-Monitor destroyed numberless universes and killed a incalculable number of living beings with his anti-matter waves so that the Anti-Matter universe would grow and feed him with power. He had a immense army of powerful shadow monsters and Qwardian Thunderers. He was killed by being magically poisoned, being attacked with the power of a star, attacked by two parallel universe Kryptonians, hit by Darkseid's full power and finally thrown into a star. He returned after InfiniteCrisis, as the Guardian of the Sinestro Corps. It took a duel with all the Guardians of the Universe and a galaxy-wiping explosion to take him out.
*** Mandrakk, on the other hand, is a gigantic vampiric Monitor that feeds on reality itself. To quote Zillo Valla: "[[TheAuthority Carriers]], Destroyers, Tankers and Explorers...''vast'' in scale from your perspective, these machines are mere Monitor ''nanotechnology!'' The '''eyes''' of Mandrakk." Or, to quote Mandrakk himself: "'''[[OmnicidalManiac Let me feed and feed until nothing remains but Mandrakk! Bloated and alone beneath a skyful of murdered stars!]]'''" To stop him, the Question and Captain Marvel (of [[AlternateUniverse Earth-5]]) have to bring forth the Supermen of the Multiverse, an entire ''army'' of alternate universe Supermen, and Nix Uotan has to summon CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew, the Angels of the Pax Dei, the Forever People of the 5th World, and finally, the Green Lantern Corps has to ''[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome stake it with a giant energy stake]]''. This, of course, all takes up about the space of three or four pages, but it is an awesome sight to behold.
**** What makes it [[TearJerker even worse]] is that the subtext that implies that Mandrakk is the [[CrisisOnInfiniteEarths original Monitor]] or his reincarnation, who has been corrupted and made into all of creation's greatest threat.
*** Darkseid also becomes this during FinalCrisis; after his reincarnation into Dan Turpin, his presence actually starts to decay time and space. Mandrakk is using Darkseid's attack to hide his own plans (but is stopped before getting too far). How does Darkseid [[RealityWarper break reality]] (one parallel universe actually is destroyed by this)? He sits on his throne, waiting for reality to die ''merely because he exists''. [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Awe. Some.]]
* ''{{Hellboy}}'' is pretty much built on this. Especially the Ogdru Jahad, neither male nor female, sleeping until they bring the downfall of man. They have an army of frog men that have long, clinging tongues capable of sapping the prodigious strength of Hellboy, let alone a human, can take on the appearance of a normal human being, possess GeneticMemory, and have the knowledge of great spells of power not heard on the Earth for millions of years. Also, every single frog man is a [[TheVirus human infected by the Ogdru Jahad]].
** The Conqueror Worm, a servant of the Ogdru Jahad summoned by Von Klempt would also qualify.
* In the MarvelUniverse, there are various 'Elder Gods' that count as Eldritch Abominations. The most notable of these is Chthon.
** Don't forget Shuma-Gorath, who is oddly adowable.
** The serpent-god Set is another Elder God that plays a major role in the MarvelUniverse, thanks in large part to its past continuity links with [[{{Conan}} the Hyborian Age]].
** Arguably Galactus qualifies as well: Older than the universe itself. Eats planets for a purpose unfathomable by men. (When he is put on trial he summons the sentient will of the universe who basically tells them to TakeOurWordForIt) and is incomprehensible by mortals. (It is canon that his hat-wearing humanoid form is simply an image our puny minds superimposes over a reality we cannot truly comprehend, for instance, Beta-Ray Bill sees him as a big starfish.)
*** His purpose isn't actually unfathomable: it's to keep [[OmnicidalManiac Abraxas]] from [[SuicidalCosmicTemperTantrum killing everything everywhere in every parallel universe]].
** Although he's a mechanical example, I'd say Ultimate Gah Lak Tus definitely qualifies. Aside from driving everyone who sees it insane and spreading a flesh eating virus across the planets it consumes, much of the devastation it causes stems from its own gravitational pull... SoYeah.
* The DCU ''[[FiftyTwo 52]]'' miniseries introduced the Four Horsemen of Apokolips: ancient, primal entities that hail from Apokolips and predate the New Gods. They are limited only by their inability to physically manifest in the universe without assistance. In their debut, using flawed bodies that could only channel a fraction of their true power, they devastated Khandaq, murdered Black Adam's new family, and nearly killed Black Adam himself. Thankfully, they are now SealedEvilInACan...[[spoiler: inside [[MadScientist Veronica Cale]]]].
** Furthermore, 52 featured [[spoiler: the evolution of the villain Mr. Mind, who became a cosmically huge insect abomination. He's responsible for the differences between the 52 realities of the DC multiverse, having literally eaten key moments in time from all but one of them.]]
** The 5th Dimensional Imps, of which Comicbook/{{Superman}} villain Mr. Mxyzptlk is the most famous, have become an example of this. They can more or less wear the laws of physics like a funny paper hat, and while they tend to appear as cartoonish characters, those aren't their ''true'' forms. Luckily, most of them aren't interested enough in meddling with our universe, and those that do are permitted only to cause mischief. Of course, sometimes hiccups occur, like the time Mxyzptlk made the well-intentioned mistake of giving his reality-reshaping powers to the Joker.
*** One of Alan Moore's early works is ''Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow?''. It's set in an alternate possible future where Superman is getting ready to retire - up until something moving at super-speed kills everyone he loves! It turns out: [[spoiler:it's Myxy himself, who, as a superdimensional imp older than time, is now bored with being mischevious and wants to "try being evil for a while; maybe after 2000 years or so of that, I'll get to be guilty". When he drops the Goth version of his usual little-guy-in-hat image, he appears as a jagged-edged humanoid tear in space with malevolent eyes and maw, and Lois points out for the benefit of us readers that it hurts her eyes just to try and look at it, like all the angles are wrong. Now THAT begins to approach the idea of a being from the Fifth Dimension.]]
** In one issue, Superman teleports to the Edge of the Universe. Way out there, space becomes white, and after that, there is a MASSIVE, INFINITE WALL of Eldrich Abomination/Body Horror marking the final boundary between our universe and the next one over.
*** What if said wall was [[{{humansarecthulhu}} the reader]]?
** ''JLA: Another Nail'' has the Limbo Cell, a primordial creature that eats existence.
* One Donald Duck issue revealed that a giant octopus called Ar-Finn sleeps beneath the depths in a sunken city. Our reality (or at least Donald's) exists only because Ar-Finn dreams about it. But if he wakes up, the world will start to adapt to his image, with the architecture becoming more and more alien and the people more octopoid in appearance. Also interesting to note is that Ar-Finn's subconscious mind manifests as humans in our world; a good guy who wants the dream to continue and a evil guy who wants the dream to end. It was awfully cynical for a Disney story, especially the ending, where Donald is horrified to find out that [[SchrodingersButterfly our whole existence is just a dream]]. Probably as close to Lovecraftian standards as Disney will come for the foreseeable future.
* In ''{{Watchmen}}'', [[spoiler: Ozymandias has one ''custom made''.]]
* ''[[{{ptitle847h4r8c}} Hack/Slash]]'' has the Neflords, giant masses of tentacles (that [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong double as wing wongs]] [[NoJustNo that can make things explode]]) which possibly lived in the void that existed before God created the universe. Being unable to create life themselves the Neflords [[NaughtyTentacles need virgins taken from Earth to impregnate to create minions]]. Also, their main servant was Elvis. Yes, really.
* An EldritchAbomination played a major role in [[TeenTitans Cyborg's]] origin in the comics. While visiting his parents at S.T.A.R. Labs, Victor's mother Elinor accidentally activated the experimental dimensional portal device his parents were working on at the time. The...''thing'' that came through it immediately devoured his mother and mutilated Victor before his father Silas forced it back into its own dimension [[spoiler: but not before the creature gave him a terminal case of radiation sickness]]. Silas barely managed to save his son using cyborg prosthetics of his own design, but Victor resented him for turning him into a "cyborg freak" for years believing that his father wanted to experiment on him [[spoiler: until Silas revealed that he was dying thanks to the radiation. This led to Cyborg getting over his bitterness towards his father, and they spent one last day together as father and son before Silas died]].
* Looks like the DCU just got a new one: [[spoiler: Nekron, the Guardian of the Black Lantern Corps]]. Must be something in the cosmic water...
** The fun part? [[spoiler: The Black Lanterns are powered by the imprisoned Anti-Monitor.]]
** Lucky for [[spoiler: Nekron]] that the guy who [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punched it out last time]], [[spoiler: Captain Atom]], is too busy with his own problems.
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* ''Cast A Deadly Spell'' climaxes with a cultist trying to awaken a Lovecraftian beastie. Luckily the needed VirginPower turns out to have already been, um, depowered. Yes, yes, IncrediblyLamePun and all that...
* Speculation about J. J. Abrams' movie ''{{Cloverfield}}'' included the possibility that it involved an Eldritch Abomination wreaking havoc on New York City. [[WordOfGod Abrams later definitively]] stated that it ''wasn't''. It was just really big...
* "Mr. Shadow" from the ''TheFifthElement''. Never really explained other than being pure death-bringing evil from deep space.
* The Monster from the Id in ''ForbiddenPlanet'', [[YourMindMakesItReal a manifestation of Dr. Morphius' subconscious]]. While analyzing a footprint cast, the science officer comments that whatever made the print goes counter to all known evolutionary theory, and would be a nightmare in any world.
* Gozer and Zuul from ''{{Ghostbusters}}''.
** Also Mr. Stay Puft: He's really only the manifestation of the greater EldritchAbomination, based on the image Ray thought of.
* The first ''{{Hellboy}}'' film featured the Ogdru Jahad, depicted as a group of ginormous be-tentacled crustaceans inhabiting The Void outside the universe, as well as a tentacled monstrosity (referred to as Behemoth in the supplemental materials, though it was obviously based on the Ogdru Hem from the comicbook) that burst out of Rasputin's body and grew from man-sized to warehouse-sized in minutes.
* The true form of the Tall Man from the ''{{Phantasm}}'' movies is implicated as being some kind of Cosmic Horror that is anchored in another dimension.
* Although none directly appear in the Japanese version of ''TheRing'', it's hinted that Sadako's mother had contact with such beings due to her psychic powers... and that one may have been Sadako's father, rather than the man who was believed to be.
** Well, [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Mr. Towel]] says he's from the ocean, in any case.
* The Hallmark channel version of ''{{Alice in Wonderland}}'' featured "The Crow", which scared Tweedle-Dum and Tweedle-Dee.
* Galactus from the ''FantasticFour'' sequel.
* Stretching the definition of the trope a bit, a ''number'' is treated like one in ''{{Pi}}''. It's a 216 digit number that essentially defines all creation. It even has some religious signficance since it's related to the Torah. As the protagonist gets closer and closer to uncovering the number's existence and meaning, his own grip on reality begins to weaken and he starts getting these awful headaches...[[spoiler: It's heavily implied that his friend Sol suffered a stroke when he got too close to figuring out the number. In the end, Sol figured it out -- and suffered a second stroke which killed him]]. An all powerful entity that drives those who seek it to insanity [[spoiler: and death]]? Definitely an Abomination.
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* One of the creepier recurring enemies in the ''LoneWolf'' series is the Crypt Spawn. These are essentially swarms of human brains with batwings that, ironically enough, mindlessly attack anything in their path. To make matters worse, they always appear in the presence of even greater evils, such as [[spoiler: a timeless and bodiless...''thing'' in the Graveyard of the Ancients, two of the Darklords themselves, and the [[BigBad King of the Darkness Naar]] himself]].
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* The Shrike from the ''[[{{Hyperion}}Hyperion Cantos]]''. Also the sole cause of the series' vast quantities of HighOctaneNightmareFuel.
* The Great Old Ones (most famously Cthulhu) in the writings of HPLovecraft (and the [[CthulhuMythos Mythos]] they spawned).
** Lovecraft's [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] are usually divided into three groups (the distinction is mostly created by later writers, but it is present in Lovecraft's own work to some degree):
*** The Great Old Ones, which are immensely powerful beings made not wholly of flesh and blood but of something that can only be called matter in the most basic sense. They traveled from world to world when stars were right, but now sleep, waiting until the stars are right once more so they may rule again (incidentally, when they wake up, they plunge the world into madness and terror). Cthulhu is one of them.
*** The Outer Gods (Lovecraft referred to them as the Other Gods), which exist outside our universe, and seem to be embodiments of various cosmic principles. They are ''far'' more powerful than even the Great Old Ones, and seem to be responsible for the creation of our universe (as well as other ones), albeit unwittingly. The most famous ones are the mindless leader Azathoth, the "Blind Idiot God" who resides in the center of all infinity, and Yog-Sothoth, who exists simultaneously in every point in space and time. Their soul and messenger is the Crawling Chaos Nyarlathotep.
*** The Elder Gods. Lovecraft only used one of these deities (the rest are created by other authors, namely August Derleth, as is the term "Elder Gods"), namely Nodens, Lord of the Abyss. Nodens appeared in a humanoid form (whether this is his true form or one he took in order to not drive mortals insane is unknown) and was an enemy of Nyarlathotep (and thus somewhat beneficial to humans, who Nyarlathotep wants to wipe out). Derleth made Nodens the head of a pantheon called the Elder Gods, who were mortal enemies of the Great Old Ones (although some stories seem to place them at the same power level as the Outer Gods). In Derleth's works the Elder Gods were good and the Great Old Ones evil, which doesn't really fit with Lovecraft's cosmology. Most other writers who have used them make them somewhat benevolent to humans, but only because they want to keep the Great Old Ones asleep, which is also what most humans want to do (what with them destroying the world when they wake up and all).
**** Lovecraft did use Hypnos, but its nature (or existence) is unclear thank to UnreliableNarrator.
** Towards the end, Herbert West had a vat of reanimated reptilian flesh, which he used to animate body parts, producing minor Eldritch Abominations.
** Lovecraft pretty much codified the language used to describe these things: show me a horror described as "eldritch", "gibbering", or "squamous" (and "rugose", don't forget that one)and I'll show you an author who's been influenced by Lovecraft.
* Proto-example: Robert W. Chambers' book ''The King in Yellow'', which was an influence on Lovecraft himself, and he made references to it that [[OlderThanTheyThink are now better known than the original source]]. Filled with MindScrew and TakeOurWordForIt.
** Another proto-example: William Hope Hodgson's "The Night Land", as well as "The House On The Borderland", have quite a few of these, and his descriptions of the places and times where such ''things'' would exist helped shape the CosmicHorrorStory.
** Arthur Machen, who along with Chambers and Hodgson, was a major influence on Lovecraft, is best-known today for ''The Great God Pan'', where a group of intellectuals manage to create a HalfHumanHybrid by impregnating a woman with the seed of the eponymous greek god. Unfortunately for them, the cosmos is quite different from what they believe, and "Pan" is ''also'' the greek word for "all"... Making this an obvious influence over Lovecraft's ''The Dunwich Horror''.
* JimButcher's ''TheDresdenFiles'' has the Outsiders, beings that exist beyond 'The Outer Gates', or basically the limits of known reality. They can only be summoned by mortal magic, and are considered so dangerous that not only is summoning them forbidden under the Laws of Magic, but a member of the Senior Council (The Gatekeeper) has the full time duty of monitoring any possible incursions.
** Also, Outsiders eat magic and destroy reality just by being present. It takes wizards hundreds of years to learn even how to hold their own against them in battle.
** And there's the [[spoiler:skinwalker]] from ''Turn Coat'', which reduces Harry to a gibbering mess when he sees it with his Sight. It's pretty much a demigod, and is a walking source of very, very nasty dark power.
* ArthurCClarke gives us the Mad Mind, an artificially created disembodied intelligence with near-godlike powers, whose creation goes very wrong. So terrifying is it that humans create another one (and do a better job this time) in order to (hopefully) stop it. Humanity is trapped between Scylla and Charybdis on a grand scale: the conflict between the two might destroy the entirety of creation, but implicit in the decision to create the second being is that what the Mad Mind will do if it makes its way back to inhabited space, or remains unchecked for a sufficient length of time, is ''worse''.
* {{Alan Dean Foster}}'s ''HumanxCommonwealth'' series has its own UltimateEvil: a galaxy-sized region of total nothingness, where all light and matter are absorbed. Moreover, this nothingness possesses sentience, and is capable of movement. Naturally, our galaxy is [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt in its path]] and only TheChosenOne has any chance of stopping it.
** The same series also gives us the Vom, which while more on the world-devouring scale than the galaxy, fits several of the requisite criteria: inscrutability (it's a huge black... mass), exponential power growth, alien thought process (it lives only to devour all life on the worlds it comes across), strange origin (possibly extragalactic), immunity to conventional weapons, and MindControl / MindRape abilities.
* Peter F. Hamilton's ''NightsDawnTrilogy'' incorporates a positive slew of eldritch abominations: an incident involving a satanic ritual and a passing energy being creates a cross-dimensional link that allows the souls of the dead to come back and possess the living, before secreting entire planets away to their own pocket dimensions. Even worse, the trans-dimensional powers of the possessed, as well as the fact that they have absolutely no idea what they're doing, open the door to a range of other, semi-scientific eldritch horrors, by far the worst being a dimension of almost infinite entropy, which, if linked to our dimension, would suck it dry like a vampire. Things get so hopeless that it pretty much takes a ''literal'' DeusExMachina to sort the whole mess out.
* StephenKing is, as we all know, particularly fond of creepy-ass creatures.
** In ''{{IT}}'', the eponymous monster is perceived as a GiantSpider by the protagonists, because this was the closest analogue that their rational minds could find for Its appearance. Attempting to fight IT can result in one's mind being flung beyond the edge of the universe, then being driven mad by the Deadlights (which IT is merely an appendage of). After the protagonists [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu succeed in killing IT]], they [[LaserGuidedAmnesia magically forget about the entire incident]]; apparently, this was the only way they could have lived a normal life afterward.
** StephenKing and PeterStraub got together to write ''The Talisman'', a horror fantasy novel which is chock full of horrific creatures and mutants, the most disturbing amongst them is probably a mewling tentacle creature that [[AlienBlood bleeds ichor]] filled with biting white worms.
** ''TheMist'' describes what happens when ordinary folk are confronted with what may be an encroaching alternate reality that enshrouds their small town in an unnatural fog filled with predatory Eldritch Abominations. (Although the story's narrator ''explicitly notes'' the creatures aren't really perfect examples of this trope: they are not terribly bright, and when shot, they bleed.)
*** One colossus encountered later in the story probably fits this trope better. The narator describes it as being "so large that it would make a blue whale look like a trout", and says that words fail him in describing how big and horrifying it really is. Its footsteps are so deep that his car could easily fall into them.
** The short story "I Am The Doorway" is about a former astronaut who becomes the conduit for an EldritchAbomination, manifesting in the form of golden eyes on his hands. In an unusual spin on the trope, though, said Abomination ''isn't'' malevolent -- it's terrified and disgusted by our world, which is as alien to it as it is alien to us, lashing out violently at the horrors it's forced to witness.
** In ''From a Buick 8'', the titular car... isn't a car.
*** Possibly his most [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief believably creepy]] work, since the object's origin and purpose remain a mystery [[TheUnreveal to the very end]].
** And of course "He Who Walks Behind The Rows" from ''Children of the Corn''.
** Room ''[[FourteenOhEight 1408]]'' at the Dolphin Hotel is an arguable example, as it's specifically stated in-story that there is NOT A SINGLE GHOST involved. They never quite explain ''why'' it's so evil, or how at some point a random hotel room became sentient and evil. It just is.
*** [[SamuelLJackson "It's an EVIL FUCKING ROOM!"]]
** As well as another short story, "N", told through the journals of a psychiatrist analysing a patient who believes that by keeping objects "in order" obsessive-compulsive style, he is keeping cosmic horrors at bay (which doesn't seem so strange at first, since that's a pretty common reason why obsessive-compulsives do the things they do). [[spoiler: The psychiatrist eventually, following the patient's suicide, takes over his "duty" of keeping things in order, and ends up killing himself as well, due to the stress involved in keeping the cosmic horror CTHUN and the rest of its reality out of ours. It's implied that even if more people continue the duty, the barrier keeping CTHUN at bay will stop working anyway.]]
*** [[http://www.simonsays.com/specials/stephen-king-nishere/?wsref=3&num=605&v_ref=http%3a%2f%2fwww.stephenking.com%2fn%2f In this making-of featurette]], he even cites Arthur Machen's ''The Great God Pan'' as his main inspiration.
** In ''TheDarkTower'' Book Three, Illustrated Edition, a print shown during their trip [[spoiler: aboard Blaine]] shows the part of Roland's world that has yet to even begin to recover from the wars that made it what it is. The bird-things may not reach cosmic-level, but what they indicate about the greater cosmos could snap those old neurons pretty damn fast.
** King gives a direct shoutout to Lovecraft in "Crouch End", where a newlywed American couple honeymooning in London wander into the Cthulhu mythos.
** Lest we forget, there's also [[ClockRoaches the Langoliers]].
* [[{{Nasuverse}} Nasu Kinoko]]'s early work, ''Notes'', has "The Ultimate Ones", aliens who come to destroy the future humanity and reclaim the planet after [[GaiasVengeance Gaia dies]].
** Also, ''Fate/Zero'' has a Caster hero who's basically a guy with the Necronomicon summoning different Eldritch Abominations.
** ORT, the Ultimate Being of planet Mercury, is mentioned in ''{{Tsukihime}}''. Its raw power is considered far greater than that of any [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Dead Apostle]].
** ORT's a funny thing. Infamous in the fandom for being the Strongest Being by WordOfGod, ORT is only here because it responded to the dying message of Gaia ''before Gaia died'' and decided to wait it out here. ORT changes the laws of the universe around it, which isn't all that impressive on its own since mages can learn spells with the same effect, except when mages do it the effect only lasts for a few seconds because reality fights back. In ORT's case, ''reality is losing.'' It also technically holds a position as a Dead Apostle vampire, but only because [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt it instantly obliterated the previous holder]] who wanted to study it (and supposedly has "vampire-like qualities"). Yeah... that's probably a lifetime membership right there.
*** The NasuVerse is almost a CosmicHorrorStory if you delve into the backstory. Gaia herself is almost exactly the same type of being as ORT. The main difference is that the reality she creates happens to be one where humans evolved and can survive in. She has also not yet created her Ultimate Being, Type Earth, and it is not clear that she can, especially considering that her Blue Marble is the only planet to bear life which tries to exerts its own reality against her own. (It would be interesting to see what Type Earth's reality would be like; probably similar to what Arcueid can do on Earth.)
*** The father of all vampires, Type Moon, ''was'' the same type of being as ORT, and could reject reality and substitute his own like ORT, but doesn't exactly fit as an EldritchAbomination since he was quite humanoid and pretty. Also, [[AllTheMyriadWays Zelretch]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulu killed him.]] Apparently by dropping him into a reality where his home (''the fucking Moon'') [[ColonyDrop fell on his head]].
* Oddly enough, the "angels" from CSLewis' TheSpaceTrilogy show some of these traits. They exist on a profoundly different level than us, have [[AlienGeometries strange geometries]] and dealing with them can be terribly unsettling. One of the characters even notes that the fact that they're benevolent makes it worse; no matter how terrible the evil you're facing, there's always the hope that good will swoop in to save you... but what do you do when facing ''good'' turns your brain-inside out?
** The [[GeniusLoci Oyeresu]] themselves, on occasion. In explaining what they mean by "manifesting to humans", they use the analogy of the ways a stone can manifest in human perception. The glorious statue is one possible perception, but so is the sensation you have after it's fallen on your head.
** It's also worth noting that the Oyeresu, who are just as good as the Unman is evil, have to try a few times before they figure out acceptable, vaguely humanoid, manifestations; their first try is a bad acid trip -- eyes, talons, hurtling shapes in a void full of vertigo. This is, presumably, near the hit-in-the-head end of the manifestation spectrum.
** The Un-man in [[TheSpaceTrilogy ''Perelandra'']] is a zombie-like human whose evil is so pure and different from that of any other human that it made the protagonist [[BrownNote pass out when he first saw the expression]] on its face. It is [[DemonicPossession controlled by a being]] who is invisible to us and whose true form is literally indescribable to humans, not fitting into any of our mental categories. It is strong enough to destroy worlds and yet subtle enough to pass through matter and manipulate human minds.
* In TerryPratchett's ''{{Discworld}}'' novels (especially the early ones), a constant danger of the use of magic is that of accidentally opening a rift into the "Dungeon Dimensions", regions with "very little reality", inhabited by nightmarish {{Lovecraft}}ian monstrosities that crave the reality that those in more solid universes take for granted. They tend to try and invade the {{Discworld}}'s universe in the vain hope of becoming more real themselves, "with the same effect as the ocean trying to warm itself around a candle."
** It should be added that the creatures from the Dungeon Dimensions don't actually have form; the reason that they look like an incomprehensible mass of tentacled horrors is because when they ''do'' acquire some substance by coming close to the real world, they're terrible at it. This does not make them any less terrifying.
** It should also be added that [[RunningGag for some reason]], on Discworld, eldritch has the additional meaning of "oblong".
** The Things have not appeared for a long time due to the themes of the Series moving on. However, in ''Discworld/{{Thief of Time}}'' we see statues of them in the History Monks' gardens -- and the Auditors of Reality are said to be the deadliest of all, indicating that despite their unassuming appearance they are of a similar nature to the Things.
** The old dark god Bel-Shamharoth is sometimes presumed to be one of the very few aforementioned creatures that found a way to suvive, sort-of, in the real world.
** DiscworldNoir also introduced Nylonathotep, and makes reference to other dark gods including Drunken Cthubopalulu.
** Let's not forget the CosmicHorror in ''Reaper Man'' that is ''not'' from the Dungeon Dimensions for once, but a result from the Auditors canning the too-amiable Death. [[spoiler:They start off as objects that people would collect and forget about, specifically as snowglobes. These snowglobes would "hatch" into useful, travelling objects (shopping carts), that then collect people into the enormous monster-queen-THING that turns out to be a SHOPPING MALL. It's funny, yeah, but also ''[[NightmareFuel terrifying]]''. Just think of all the shopping malls you've ever been in where you could be anywhere in the world for all the difference it makes, absorbing your time without you realizing it, being herded about like cows. Brr. This troper HATES malls.]]
* ''The Atrocity Archives'' by CharlesStross and its sequels take place in a world where divisions that [=MI6=] and the CIA don't even know they have, battle Eldritch Abominations (and their own bureaucracy) attracted to reality after Alan Turing discovered a theory that allowed the user to warp reality with computers and the [[{{Ghostapo}} Nazis attempted to summon the Great Old Ones using the souls of those slaughtered in the Holocaust]] to win WorldWarII.
* Surprisingly, JRRTolkien had read some of {{Lovecraft}}'s stories, and took a few stabs at this.
** ''{{The Lord of the Rings}}''
--->'''Gandalf:''' Far, far below the deepest delving of the Dwarves, ''the world is gnawed by nameless things''. Even Sauron knows them not. They are older than he. Now I have walked there, but I will [[TakeOurWordForIt bring no report]] to darken the light of day.
*** Now when even Sauron, the guy who makes you crazy just by ''looking'' at him, doesn't know what these things are, that's some serious shit there.
** Ungoliant from ''The Silmarillion''.
--->Then the Unlight of Ungoliant rose up even to the roots of the Trees, and Melkor sprang upon the mound... and their sap poured forth as it were their blood, and was spilled upon the ground. But Ungoliant sucked it up, and going then from Tree to Tree she set her black beak to their wounds, till they were drained; and the poison of Death that was in her went into their tissues and withered them, root, branch, and leaf; and they died. And still she thirsted, and going to the Wells of Varda she drank them dry; but Ungoliant belched forth black vapours as she drank, and swelled to a shape so vast and hideous that Melkor was afraid.
** She later attempts to eat [[PhysicalGod Melkor]]. She would have succeeded, too, if the ''Balrogs'' hadn't pulled a BigDamnHeroes... Yes, really.
*** Please note, we are talking about Melkor, Boss of Sauron, Strongest of the Valar (Powers of the world/god-like beings), and only subservient to Eru (the creator/High-god) himself. Ungoliant was one big bad mama.
**** This would have been a real problem if Melkor hadn't already spent a considerable amount of the strength native to him in making and animating evil things. When he was finally defeated, he was so weak (relatively) that he was thrown on his face by one of the Maiar. A similar thing could be said to have happened here, especially after Ungoliant had consumed so much of the power present in the light of the Two Trees and in the jewels made by Feanor that she and Melkor had just stolen.
*** Thereby proving that not all Eldritch Abominations HAVE to be {{Lovecraft}}ian. {{Tolkien}} based many of his concepts in Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian mythology, and Nidhogg and Jormungandr (of Norse myth) are rather close to the trope all on their own.
** Hell, Morgoth HIMSELF applies to this:
--->...greater than a mountain with its head above the clouds, crowned with smoke and fire, and the light of his eyes drove the lesser Ainur to madness.
*** {{Tolkien}}'s earliest memory was of being bitten by a spider (and the doctor who treated him was the inspiration for Gandalf).
* The [[color:red:Minotaur]] in ''[[color:blue:House]] [[HouseOfLeaves of Leaves]]'', [[UltimateEvil if it exists]].
** Given that the first reference we have to the abovementioned is a long footnote detailing precisely why its existence should not be possible, I think the idea that it doesn't exist can be safely thrown out the window.
*** The [[color:blue:House]] itself. While looking at it isn't immediately maddening, all attempts to understand it or classify it fail, and it moves, reshapes, and exists in manners that should not be possible.
* The Blight, from VernorVinge's ''{{A Fire upon the Deep}}''.
* The Ancient Enemy from DeanKoontz's ''Phantoms'' is massive, lake-size mass of black sludge, older than the dinosaurs, and consumes other life forms as sustenance, and is able to perfectly mimic any creature it consumes. It can create small "probes" or "phantoms," imitating consumed life forms, to go forth and hunt more prey, obeying the orders of its "hive mind." In addition, the creature absorbs the mental capacity and memories of those it consumes, so its mind grows more powerful, intelligent and self-aware over time. Besides being able to mimic real animals and people, the creature can also form phantoms based on mental images from its victims; it takes sadistic delight in creating phantoms in the shape of religious demons and monsters to terrorize its victims before killing. The creature also apparently likes to think of itself as the Devil.
* Inverted in the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_of_Tyshalle#The_Blind_God Blind God]] of ''{{The Acts of Caine}}''. It is as impersonal, awful, powerful, and horrifying as anything from the [[HPLovecraft Lovecraft mythos]]. The inversion is that it's not really alien. Played straight with the Outer Powers worshipped by the Black Knives in ''Caine Black Knife''.
* ''SkulduggeryPleasant'' has the Faceless Ones, so named because they cannot be looked upon in their true forms without driving the observer mad, and can only manifest by possessing humans, [[BodyHorror melting all features from their faces in the process]]. They are the former rulers of this reality, before their slaves, the Ancients (the first mages) managed to find a weapon capable of driving them into another reality. They are described as having been so evil and sadistic that even their own shadows were afraid of them. A creature cobbled together from several monster parts including the torso of a Faceless One's host took a small army of mages to kill. When they finally appear, Valkyrie gets only a passing glance at one, and is temporarily driven into a catatonic state by its impossible geometry and biology. Skulduggery explains that if they successfully return, they will wipe out half of humanity, and then work the other half to death, before destroying the Earth.
* In Anthony Horowitz's book ''Raven's Gate'' (and its sequels) The main antagonists are the Old Ones, godlike creatures clearly inspired by Lovecraft that used to rule Earth before the humans defeated them ten thousand years ago and sealed them in another universe. [[spoiler: The Nazca Lines were created as the seal, and the animal shapes drawn into the Earth were actually representative of each of the Old Ones, the familiar animals being the closest approximation the human mind could come to the Old Ones' horrifying appearance.]]
* Part of the ''DoctorWho'' [[ExpandedUniverse Expanded Whoniverse]] declared {{Lovecraft}}'s creatures canonical, and had their names originally bestowed by Rassilon. As if Cthulhu, Hastur, and the Fendahl weren't enough, a number of characters (most notably the creators of the Land of Fiction, and Compassion, an EU companion who became a TARDIS) have been upgraded to this kind of thing.
* There's an arguable case in the ''StarWars'' ExpandedUniverse, [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Waru Waru]]. "Hethrir's scientists breached the walls between dimensions and brought into existence a massive slab of meat covered with shining golden scales. Though this entity, Waru, lacked discernible sensory organs, it was highly intelligent and could communicate in a deep resonating voice." The scales were variable in size and a syrupy ichor oozed from between them. The ichor could be breathed by humans, and it was BiggerOnTheInside. It was promised a way home by the man who summoned it, and it worked with him and healed the sick, was worshipped, and ate people to replenish its healing energy. It was always lonely and ended up [[EvilIsNotAToy eating the guy who summoned it]] before collapsing in on itself.
** In the Expanded ''Star Wars'' universe... The Sarlaac. Seriously. ''Star Wars'' scientists can't decide if it's an animal or a plant. Its physiology is textbook Lovecraft. It colonizes alien planets with spores launched into outer space. The Tatooine one is a titanic sessile predator that manages to survive the sparse ecosystem of a desert environment by digesting prey unbelievably slowly. And while we're on the topic of eating, it keeps its swallowed prey on messy biological life-support while it digests them, so it can literally feed upon their pyschic and physical torment and pick out the choicest neurological morsels to absorb into its consciousness, which it generates from the collective minds of its captive nourishment. Essentially, the Sarlaac has a Nightmare digestive system that rather neatly encapsulates the concept of Hell as a living organism.
*** ''The Wildlife of StarWars'' classifies it as an arthropod... SoYeah.
** While in the ''Star Wars'' EU, the newly-introduced [[spoiler: Abeloth]] from the ''Fate of the Jedi'' series most definitely qualifies.
* In BarbaraHambly's ''The Ladies of Mandrigyn''... [[spoiler: Altiokis's power source. [[KarmicDeath It gets him in the end]].]]
* The passageway between the worlds in ''{{Coraline}}''. At first seeming to be a relatively normal, if strangely unsettling hallway, by the end it's a furry... '''''thing''''' that's very much alive, and incomprehensibly vast and ancient. It makes The Other Mother look trivial, and she's a particularly nasty [[TheFairFolk fairy]].
* The never-seen—and only [[TakeOurWordForIt very obliquely described]]—Todal in JamesThurber's ''The13Clocks''.
* China Mieville's ''{{Perdido Street Station}}'' has the slake-moths - monstrous, insectoid creatures that devour minds. Not literally, what the creatures feed on is the very sentience of their prey itself, leaving their victims utterly mindless shells. How terrible are these abominations? At one point, the government of New Crobuzon attempts to strike a deal with Hell to get them to intervene and stop the threat, and the ''demons are too frightened to get involved.''
** And then you have the Weaver, who the New Crobuzon government turns to when the demons turn them down. It's a gigantic spider that exists ''between'' dimensions and is capable of traversing them as easily as we could walk down the street. It is also ''batshit crazy'', speaking in the "flight of ideas" style most often seen in unmedicated schizophrenics and capable of doing anything to anyone, friend or foe, merely because it seems "fitting". During the brief time that the heroes are in its presence, the Weaver cuts off one of the character's ears, simply because it's more aestheticly pleasing this way.
** And then there is the ''Torque'', described by one character as a tumour that aborted itself from the womb that produced the forces of Birth and Death. Whilst not evil per-se, it is a natural force that is almost totally uncontrollable which warps and mutates matter and biology into horrifying things. Merely trying to research it can turn you into an Eldritch Abomination. It was once used as a weapon; the results of the Torque Bomb were so awful even after a generous application of {{Magitek}} versions of nuclear weapons there's a country sized region of the world which isn't going to be inhabitable by anything but abominations ever again.
** Oh, and in the middle of a city there are The Ribs, the partially exposed skeleton of some enormous creature that has been dead for a very, very long time. Attempts to build over it resulted in seemingly structurally sound houses that just fell apart and tools that break long before they should, and attempts to excavate the whole skeleton tended to result in the workers suffering horrifying nightmares, or disappearing suspiciously. It was decided that whatever it is is best left buried and uninvestigated.
* {{Simon R Green}}'s ''Forest Kingdom'' books contain several types of Eldritch Abominations in addition to the regular [[OurDemonsAreDifferent evil demons]]. In ''Blue Moon Rising'' there is a giant worm thing that devoured and entire mining town, in ''Down Among The Dead Men'' the BigBad is explicitly named as an evil from beyond the dawn of time, ''Blood and Honour'' has an entire castle slowly turning into one (an entire room [[NightmareFuelUnleaded digests it's occupants]] at one stage, and [[BodyHorror a person is turned into a living doorway]] to a dimension full of eldritch abominations). Amongst several others.
* In {{Ursula K Le Guin}}'s ''Earthsea'' series, the "Nameless" are entities that the wizards refer to as the dark powers of the Earth, which are the focus of the oldest religion of the Kargad lands in ''The Tombs of Atuan''. And in a later book, the main antagonist turns out to be some crazy wizard who tried to achieve immortality -- by creating a hole which nearly sucked the entire world inside it.
* The ''FinalDestination'' spin-off book ''Dead Reckoning'' has the main character Jess enter what appears to be Death's realm in a dream. There she encounters what is presumably Death's true form - vaguely humanoid Death is gigantic, composed of constantly shifting, crumbling and regenerating bones from seemingly "every creature that ever lived" and is covered in what could be loosely described as robes made from what appears to be still living flesh that twitches and squirms. From afar it just looks like a dark mass and its constantly emitting a noise that sounds like static and "thousands of birds all taking flight at the same time" while its eyes are completely blank, dark voids. Also, anything in proximity of it ages rapidly.
*Arguably the "rough beast" from Yeats' [[http://www.potw.org/archive/potw351.html "The Second Coming,"]] although it's hard to say for sure. The vision the narrator relates doesn't sound that bad compared to some of the other things described on this page, but the effects of its coming suggest otherwise.
*In the Bionicle series by Greg Farshtey, there is a character clled Tren Krom who was so horrifying it would literally drive you insane to look at it. It is a crimson blob with hooked tentacles.
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* In ''{{Buffy the Vampire Slayer}}'', the tentacled monstrosity underneath the Hellmouth. The Old Ones that used to inhabit the Buffyverse aren't seen, with the exception of Olivikan and a picture of Illyria.
* In ''DoctorWho'', everyone who saw the Fendahl died of fright, and that was only a crippled ghost of its true self, 12 million years dead. In the ExpandedUniverse, the Time Lords deliberately created the Fendahl-eater, a malign void which could reach across time and space to feed on the stuff of thought and hungered to [[OmnicidalManiac devour all eternity]], from the Big Bang to the end of time.
** The Beast from "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" certainly qualifies as well.
*** so much so that ''the Doctor refuses to understand it''. It's very much implied to be the ''literal Devil''
*** In ''{{Torchwood}}'', we meet its son, Abaddon, who also counts.
** The titular BigBad in "The Curse of Fenric" could definitely count as an EldritchAbomination, albeit [[spoiler: one without a body of its own, instead possessing others' bodies]].
*** Indeed, one of the spinoff novels actually identifies Fenric as [[spoiler: Hastur the Unspeakable from the Cthulhu mythos.]]
** How about the [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel creature from Midnight]]? [[NothingIsScarier We don't see much of it]], so its nothing definite. But it [[spoiler:{{Mind Rape}}s ''the Doctor'']]. I think that alone qualifies it for ''something''.
** Yet another [[NothingIsScarier unseen abomination]] rises up in [[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E16TheWatersOfMars The Waters of Mars]]. Unlike some of these other abominations in ''Who,'' however, this one had a knack for unleashing a parasite that converted the infected into [[OurZombiesAredifferent water-spewing, lizardy zombie things]]. That very nearly unleashed their master hidden in the ice of Mars with their unholy screaming.
* Several in ''PowerRangers'', such as Onimi from ''PowerRangersSPD'' and The Master from ''PowerRangersMysticForce''. They tend to be [[DegradedBoss more defeatable]] than most, of course.
* Admittedly, this may be special pleading, but the original ''Star Trek'' may have had one, in the form of the Doomsday Machine, of the episode of the same name. Think about it: a bizarre ship appears from outside the known Galaxy that is irregularly shaped, looking something like a giant cone irregularly carved out of granite, with an abominable eye at its center looking suspiciously like a gateway to hell. It's virtually indestructible and is capable of destroying and consuming whole worlds. Consider also Commodore Decker's response to it: after it destroys his ship and kills his crew, this man, previously an atheist, describes it as the devil and coming straight out of hell, and suffers a complete Heroic BSOD. Later, recovering only slightly, his only response is to mindlessly try to attack and destroy it no matter the cost. Failing utterly at this, he surrenders himself to its power, and steals a shuttle specially to fly into it and kill himself. brr, man.
** A stronger case can be made for Redjack from "Wolf In The Fold", a formless creature that feeds off pain and suffering. When it possesses the ships computer, the viewscreens show a bizaare multicolered, constantly shifting chaos that Kirk speculates is where it comes from.
* ''[[BabylonFive Babylon 5]]'' featured a race of ancient aliens that were a kind of EldritchAbomination in the TV-movie 'Thirdspace', inhabiting a different type of space (neither normal, nor hyperspace) and waiting for a very, very long time until someone finds the ArtifactOfDoom and activates it, allowing them to be released. Oh, and they have tentacles and extremely strong telepathy, and they cause insanity.
* Already touched upon in the Literature section, by the made-for-TV film adaptation of ''The Langoliers'' is pretty traumatizing if you had the misfortune of seeing it as a child as this troper did. Pure NightmareFuel.
* ''{{Charmed}}'' had "The Nothing", a creature imprisoned inside another dimension (located in an ice cream truck). It's been put to good use by devouring demon children.
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* "The Width of a Circle" features DavidBowie "[[IfYouKnowWhatIMean encountering]]" an Eldritch Abomination. Consensually, no less. (TheSeventies were a ''weird'' time.)
* "The Thing That Should Not Be" by Metallica is about such a creature, and, quite obviously, is directly inspired by Lovecraft.
** Also "The Call Of Ktulu".
** In Guitar Hero: Metallica's "Metallifacts" video for "The Thing That Should Not Be," it also lists "All Nightmare Long" and "Ride The Lightning" as being inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's stories, specifically, "Shadow Over Innsmouth."
* Anything by The Darkest Of The Hillside Thickets, who were inspired by most of Lovecraft's work.
* Much of Current 93's and David Tibet's work is has heavy eldritch-apocalypse overtones. Blask Ships Ate The Sky & The Innmost Light Trilogy in particular.
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* [[ClassicalMythology Khaos]], the Ancient Greek God of the Air (and one of the Progenoi, who aren't just older than the Olympians, they are older than even the Titans!) is described by Ovid as "rather a crude and indigested mass, a lifeless lump, unfashioned and unframed, of jarring seeds and justly Chaos named." A lumpy, crude, unframed mass? Throw some tentacles on it and call it Azathoth!
** Typhon, the youngest and most powerful of Gaia's offspring. Lower half consisting of serpent coils, a human upper half that reaches the stars, arms that spanned the East and the West covered with live dragon heads, a body covered in mighty wings, and eyes that shot forth flames. When it first appeared, ''all of the Greek gods'' except Zeus ''ran like hell''. And even Zeus, the most powerful god of them all wielding his mighty thunderbolts in battle, lost the first round against Typhon (by Typhon STEALING ZEUS'S SINEWS and HIDING THEM), and barely managed to [[SealedEvilInACan seal it away]] under Mount Aetna in round two. Before it was sealed away, Typhon also fathered most of the monsters present in GreekMythology, such as Cerberus, the Sphinx, Orthus, the Nemean Lion, the Hydra, Ladon, and the Chimera (their mother Echidna might also fit the bill). And how did Gaia give birth to this beast? By sleeping with Tartarus, a.k.a. the Greek Underworld. The Earth ''slept with ancient Greek hell'' to give birth to a monster that frightened the gods themselves.
** The Earth produced another one when she slept with her own grandson Poseidon. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charybdis Charybdis]] was apparently once a beautiful naiad but was transformed by Zeus into a horrible and utterly inhuman monster. According to TheOtherWiki, in some versions she is a ''huge bladder of a creature whose face was all mouth and whose arms and legs were flippers'' that belches out whirlpools while in others she ''is'' a giant whirlpool. When forced to choose between Scylla and Charybdis, Odysseus quickly chose Scylla for good reason.
* [[NorseMythology Nidhoggr]]. Sweet [[strike: Jesus]] Baldur, Nidhoggr. It chews the roots of Yggdrasil and has human corpses as snacks... It is said to even be able to survive Ragnarok.
** As mentioned above, Jormungandr the Midgard Serpent might qualify as well. One of the monstrous offspring of Loki and a giantess (his siblings being the queen of the underworld Hel Half-rotted and the gigantic wolf Fenrir who are also pretty Eldritch themselves), he started out big and grew so large that he ''encircles the world''. He sleeps at the bottom of the ocean depths and waits for Ragnarok -- not unlike Cthulhu.
* TheBible: Angels, oddly enough, would likely count as such. For instance, cherubs are described as 4-faced, 4-winged, eye covered beings that can move without turning their bodies. The very first thing any angel says to any human they appear to is "Fear not!" Think about it.
** [[ItGotWorse It gets worse]]. The Book of Revelation implies that there are angels ''so powerful and evil'', that God [[SealedEvilInACan locked them up in a bottomless pit]] because He didn't want to bother with them. A bottomless pit; that means a pit with a definable end would not be enough to contain these monstrosities. And they're going [[OhCrap to be let out one day]].
*** All angels? Or just the fallen angels? Or do they all fall? If so, LightIsNotGood indeed...
** Depending on what you believe, they could have been aliens.
*** Just like Cthulhu is an alien; it's not mutually exclusive...
*** It's good that angels are mostly appear as [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu good]].
*** With (depending on the interpretation) [[{{Satan}} one very unfortunate exception]].
** There are also some schools of thought that portray them more as golems.
** Behemoth and Leviathan are also worthy of mention. It is to the world's great benefit that these two great beasts are mortal enemies, since it is said that their offspring would be the end of the world.
*** Primus forgive me for thinking about it, but there ''is'' such a thing as rape...
*** Sorry to burst any bubbles, but Behemoth and Leviathan have been recognized as being referring to the hippo and crocodile respectively, not some monstrous abomination.
**** "Recognized" here having the meaning of "we don't actually know what they were referring to, so [[CallASmeerpARabbit here are the closest biological equivalents we know of]]." (To cite the most obvious problems, most crocodiles don't breath fire, and the tail of hippo - and both ends of an elephant, the other common explanation - compares unfavorably to the trunk of a Cedar of Lebanon.)
*** This doesn't necessarily disqualify them. Plenty of the abominations on this list are based on the squid. Behemoth and Leviathan were probably based on the hippo and crocodile because those animals are incredibly dangerous to humans.
*** The hebrew texts also mention the [[GiantFlyer Ziz]], which probably qualifies better because it is a monstrous bird, without a real base on a specific RL creature.
*** Except in addition to sharing a universal flood myth in many of their religions and histories, the Middle East also has the Roc, a titanic bird that hunted elephants as standard prey. So, y'know...
**** Hell, the middle east is teaming with giant bird-like monsters. In the persian mythology there's the Simurgh, a deity like beast with the body of a peacock, the head of a dog and the paws of a lion
** Thomist philosophy's angels aren't weird-looking—because they have no appearance, being pure ideas. But they definitely fit the "weird psychology" part, even the good ones. They have no need to reason or learn, because they know everything that they even ''can'' know, simply as a function of their self-awareness. They're not bound by time, and have no feelings; though they have enormous power to influence the world, it isn't by "action", as humans understand it, except in the way the concept of blue-ness "acts" on a blue object. Also, the most powerful of all angels, the supreme created entity, second only to God Himself? {{Satan}}.
* Japanese Mythology mention [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amatsu-Mikaboshi Amatsu-Mikaboshi]] ''August Star of Heaven''. It's rarely mention, but those little description claim it's a ''dark Force that existed before the universe, reigning alone in absolute darkness''. Unlike other deities, Amatsu-Mikaboshi does not appear as physical being but a [[EnergyBeings formless force]] (it does has humanoid avatar though). It was destroyed when the primordial darkness shatterred and become chaos -- life and time. Yet the Mikaboshi still remain and corrupt everything such as turning love to obsession and jealousy, as well as give birth to demonic beings. On top of this, Japanese scholars note that the name ''Mika'' might be a distortion of ''Iga'' -- squid. It never look good when you have referrence to both tentacle and star in name.
** Mikaboshi, for very good reason, is the BigBad of the sample chronicles included with the first two ''{{Scion}}'' books. He is the primary avatar of Sobe-no-Kumi, the Titan of Darkness.
* Tiamat and (possibly) Apsu from Sumerian myth, especially the Enuma Elish, seem to fit the bill pretty well (the multi-headed dragon shtick is probably an invention of [[DungeonsAndDragons Gygax and Arneson]]).
* Apep, or Apophis, from EgyptianMythology was a gigantic serpent-demon that embodied chaos and darkness. Every night it tried to eat Ra as he passed through the underworld, and every night Ra killed it- but it always came back. Sometimes it was strong enough during the day to temporarily consume Ra before his attendants cut him free again (this was the Egyptian explanation for solar eclipses). Prior to the demonization of Set, Apep was the canonical ulitmate evil of EgyptianMythology, and there's no solid evidence that it was ''ever'' worshipped as a positive force.
* Ananta Shesha, lord of all nagas from HinduMythology, is gigantic serpent with thousand heads. So huge that it can hold all the planets on the hoods. Not only it can spew venom but also breathing fire. It's also one of few beings that will remain after the destruction of universe. It's good thing that Shesha [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu prefer to sing and praise the glories of Vishnu, who sleep on its back]], rather than play this trope straight.
* Legends from Islam and Arabia have fun beings like Kujata, an immense bull with all sorts of [[BodyHorror reduplicative organs]], [[EyesDoNotBelongThere especially eyes]], that [[LoadBearingBoss carries the world on its back]]. ''It'' stands on the back of Bahamut, [[AlwaysABiggerFish an even larger fish]] with many of the same properties.
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* ''[[DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]]'' has whole races of Eldritch Abominations; from 3rd edition onwards, they have been increasingly linked with the Far Realm, an impossibly vast, incomprehensible place far beyond the cosmology of most ''D&D'' settings. A 3.5 sourcebook, ''Lords of Madness'', gave greater detail to the "aberration" creature type, which is mainly used for such creatures.
** The subterranean illithids (also known as mind flayers) are inhumanly dispassionate, squid-headed alien creatures with vast psychic powers who raise human cattle to feed on their brains. They prefer "wild" game, though, as unlike muscles, brains apparently taste better when they've been getting proper exercise. They, at least, are more humanly understandable than most Eldritch Abominations, though their physical form is ''definitely'' inspired by Cthulhu.
** Several kinds of demons in the game invite comparisons to Lovecraftian beasties as well, especially the various Obyrith subspecies: they've existed since before the dawn of time, often have incomprehensible biologies, and just glancing at one is enough to induce new phobias or temporary insanity. One of the oldest horrifies ''reality itself'' and can ''kill'' if you get a glance at its true form.
** The Epic Level handbook for 3rd edition brought us the Abominations; malformed offspring of deities which desired to destroy all reality. Among the most horrific of them are the Atropal, which are the undead remains of stillborn godlings, as well as the Dream Larvae, who transform into something so scary that it can kill you with fear instantly the first time you look at it.
*** Also in the Epic Level handbook are the pseudonatural creatures. Horrifying, tentacled, soul draining creatures from the far realms the lesser of which can take on greater demons such as balors. Did I mention they're immune to spells? If you come across a paragon (paragon creatures are the perfect forms of such creatures) pseudonatural creature suicide is your best bet.
** Perhaps closest to the Lovecraftian mold are the aboleths, giant psychic fishlike aberrations that dwell in the deepest, darkest parts of the world in unspeakable aquatic cities and have racial memories stretching back to before the births of many gods. They can enslave people by sliming them; the slime turns skin transparent. Ironically, these monsters are terrified of the illithids, who they, despite their long memories, have no recollection of.
*** [[spoiler:That's because illithids are from the future, refugees from the destruction of their vast empire.]]
** Another subterranean race culled from Lovecraft are the kuo-toa, amphibian humanoids consciously modeled on the Deep Ones.
** Don't forget the [[{{Eberron}} Daelkyr]]. Extradimensional invaders who mess with the fabric of reality for shits and giggles. They also like to mess with mortal biology like a kid plays with Play-Doh.
*** Speaking of Eberron, there's also the Quori, horrifying monstrosities from the plane of dreams with very strong PsychicPowers (usually of the MindControl or MindRape varieties) and the ability to possess mortals; they've already conquered/subverted almost an entire continent, and would really like to take over the rest...
*** Don't forget the Daelkyr's unique minions and mutants. As well as the 'standard' Dolgrim, Dolgaunt and Dolgarr, Dragon Magazine also gives them Akleu, Dolgrue, Kyra, Opabinia, Xenostelid and Xorbeast, each of which is its own flavor of ghastly.
** Recently, Wizards has released a book called "Elder Evils", which features a guide of how to create your ''own'' CosmicHorror, as well as several examples of BigBad Eldritch Abominations, including Ragnorra, the MookMaker SpaceWhale with an EvilutionaryBiologist streak; Pandorym, the living ForgottenSuperweapon with a personality you don't want ''anywhere near'' a ForgottenSuperweapon; Atropus the [[OmnicidalNeutral undead planetoid]] (who is the quasi-sentient remains of the thing that birthed the universe); Kyuss, TheWormThatWalks (that's his ''actual title''); and of course, [[AlienInvasion the Hulks of Zoretha]].
*** Since most of said world-threatening Elder Evils described in the book are acually beatable (in some cases ''killable'') by non-epic (i.e. non-godlike) characters, quite a few cases of DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu can result. On the flipside, many of these cases are either fighting the monster before they've fully awoken/recovered from crash impacts, facing down a cult that was about to flood reality with beings like the one that just almost killed the party, or taking down an alien weapon designed to soften us up for invasion.
** 3.5 Edition also included the Alienist class. The class features made all your Summoning spells summon creatures from the aforementioned Far Realm, which took the forms of creatures you could normally summon, but took on a template that gave them more hit points, resistances, tentacles or other deformities, and the ability to shift into their "true(r) form" which scared everything like crazy. Further, your familiar became one of these creatures. Basically, you're calling tiny C'thuloid monsters. In addition to that, the caster who takes the class eventually starts ''becoming'' like one of these creatures, goes more then a little insane, and (with the timeless body feat) and is taken to the Far Realms by the unspeakable Eldritch Horrors when they would normally die of old age, specifically ''never seen again'' by people on the prime material plane. If you manage to reach the maximum level, you can cheat dying of age altogether, gain the "Outsider" trait and become an Eldritch Abomination. Your character grows a tentacle or two at this point.
** 4th Edition introduces an Origin classification for Eldritch Abominations called "aberrants". Naturally, any aberrant creature is almost guaranteed to have numerous tentacles or mind and reality-warping abilities -- usually both.
*** 4E also has the Primordials -- a primeval race of elementals who ''created the universe'', and are powerful enough to ''destroy gods''. They would like nothing more then to destroy said creation, since as their nature as elementals dictate, they wish to continue an endless cycle of death and rebirth. Most mortals are perfectly fine with the world as it is now, especically since said death and rebirth would include them.
*** Also 4E gives Warlocks the Star Pact power source, which basically involves beseeching strange otherworldly creatures that lurk behind specific stars for power. A lot of fluff text suggests that they become a little unhinged. Furthermore, a Dragon Magazine supplement includes an Epic Destiny where you become one of these strange otherworldly entities. It also describes the aforementioned stars, and notes their "unnatural" qualities, particularly one that you're better off not looking at for long.
*** ''The stars themselves'' are Eldritch Abominations in 4th edition. And some of them have the ability to create avatars of their powers.
*** Why has no one mentioned the Beholder Ultimate Tyrant? It has somethimg like [[{{Extra Eyes}} ten eyes]], ''one'' of which can easily stun you, and it floats. Oh, and the eyes shoot [[{{Eye Beams}} lasers.]] Which can burn you, freeze you, disentegrate you, and [[{{Taken For Granite}} turn you to stone]], among other things.
** While it mostly deals with Gothic horror, the ''{{Ravenloft}}'' campaign setting features an eldritch abomination in the form of [[spoiler:Gwydion the Shadow-Fiend, Darklord of the Shadow Rift. He became trapped between realities when a planar gate collapsed on him, and really, really wants out. His full appearance is unknown, but what has been seen causes even TheFairFolk to go mad.]]
*** The Dark Powers, the force(s) that created Ravenloft itself, could also apply, since both their methods and motives are entirely unfathomable. As well, the Nightmare Court could qualify.
*** Regular old fiends (demons, etc.) were described pretty much in cosmic horror or eldritch abomination terms in ''Van Richten's Guide to Fiends'' for this setting. It didn't seem inappropriate. Horrifying creatures of great power and alien minds from other realities...
** Aboleths are too arrogant to worship anything, but they ''respect'' beings they call the Five Elder Evils. These are [[{{Expy}} thematically based on]] HPLovecraft horrors, and include flames surrounding a body that will [[GoMadFromTheRevelation drive you mad if you see it]] (if it does not kill you outright), a ball of sentient goo the size of a planet, and a drilling subterranean squid / centerpede thing that appears to be eating its way very, very slowly through the crust of the planet. [[{{BrownNote}} Whose feces will make your head go wonky if you get too close to it.]]
** Cthulhu ''himself'' has an entry in the 1st edition Deities & Demigods supplement -- and the way 1st edition rules worked, a high enough leveled player character could, in fact, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch him to death.]]
** Also the Gibbering Mouther (and its 4E relatives, the Gibbering Abomination and the Gibbering Orb). The name alone is obviously inspired by Lovecraft.
* Naturally, Chaosium's ''{{The Call of Cthulhu}}'' game is just ''full'' of them. One of the basic stats of PCs, along with the normal STR, DEX, WIS, INT and CHR is SAN. That's ''Sanity''. It's arguably the most important single stat unless you ''want'' to keep rolling up new characters.
** There's also a board game based on Call of Cthulhu called ''Arkham Horror'' which has tokens for hit points, knowledge of other worlds, and (you guessed it) sanity. Every turn, there's a high chance of a gate opening to another universe, and as more gates open, more monsters come flooding through ... and as the game progresses, the Doom Count slowly rises. If it gets high enough, the Old One (Cthulhu or one of his cousins) appears and the players have to battle it. (Each EldritchAbomination has special powers -- Azathoth's power is "if summoned, the game is over. Azathoth destroys the world.")
* In the world of ''EarthDawn'', the cyclical ebb and flow of magic periodically allows Horrors to slip from their own dimension into the world and devour anything that moves. If you're lucky, they will devour your body before they start on the good stuff.
** ''{{Shadowrun}}'' is more or less on the opposite end of the scale from ''EarthDawn,'' with ''Shadowrun'' a world where magic is on the increase and the Horrors not terribly far behind. While there's at least one group working to speed the process, there's also [[OurPresidentsAreDifferent others]] working to delay things, with the hope that this new-fangled technology thing can prevent TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* In White Wolf's original ''{{World of Darkness}}'', Cosmic Horror is not the central part of the game, but the authors love to incorporate Eldritch Abominations from beyond time and space into the setting, whose presence corrupts souls, drives people insane or warps reality. Included in this list are the Wyrm and its servants from ''Werewolf: the Apocalypse'', the Nephandi and their patrons from ''Mage: the Ascension'', the Fomorians from ''Changeling: the Dreaming'', the Onceborn and Neverborn from ''Wraith: the Oblivion'' (and Grandmother from ''Orpheus''), and the Earthbound from ''Demon: the Fallen''. ''Vampire: The Masquerade'' had a lot less of this... except when the Tzimisce and Gangrel antediluvians were mentioned. One was pure Lovecraftian fleshy horror; the other had ''merged with the planet'', sinking to the core to be rocked back and forth in slumber as though it were a child in its cradle. And then there's the ''new'' World of Darkness, published as Lovecraft's works are getting more influential...
** Abyssal entities from ''[[MageTheAwakening Mage: the Awakening]]'' come from what could best be described as an "anti-universe," a world that lives by rules wholly antithetical to those of Earth. An Abyssal entity that's been known to sell a lot of prospective players on the setting is the Prince of 100,000 Leaves, a demon made of living anti-history whose first summoning [[RetGone rewrote history]] and spawned a cannibal cult that ''literally'' eats its victims out of history in an attempt to bring the world in line with the Prince's native timeline.
*** Truly, however, the most horrifying thing about Abyssal entities is that the idea that beings of the Abyss always take such predictable - horrifying and maddening, but predictable - forms as "monstrous, unclean abomination" is actually a comfortable lie that Mages tell themselves to hide from the fact that the Abyss is, in fact, in no way as banal and quantifiable as that.
** There's also the Nemesis Continuum. It's the [[MadScientist scientific]] CosmicHorror to the Prince's [[MadArtist perversion of the humanities]]. It's an altered set of the laws of physics. Bits of the material world it contaminates are twisted; what if anything green was suddenly boiling hot, and the speed of light was slower than the speed of sound? [[ItGotWorse It gets worse.]] The Nemesis Continuum is summoned by intelligent scientists "accidentally" (the book says that most proofs are found through indirect interference by [[EldritchAbomination acamoth]]) finding a proof for it, which then becomes true. And they become obsessed with finding more proofs.
*** The best part? The Nemesis Continuum is apparently [[HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace the physical laws of the Abyss itself]], so to fight it on its own level, ''[[ZeroSumGame you probably need to infect yourself with them]]''. By the way, [[TheVirus it's also easier for a scientist to explain and thus prove a proof once he understands it...]]
** The {{Sourcebook}} ''Summoners'' includes some other examples, such as the chthonians of the Underworld (known as the "neverborn" since they exist in the realm of the dead, but cannot be reliably said to have ever been alive) and certain Supernal beings.
*** Said Supernal beings include the [[GodInHumanForm Ochema]], avatars of the [[BigBad Exarchs]] in ''Seers Of The Throne''. [[HumanoidAbomination Sure, they look]] [[{{Pride}} (and act)]] [[HumanoidAbomination like people]], [[StarfishAliens but look at them with Mage Sight]]...Unlike many examples, this is actually because they're ''less'' corrupted then everything else: [[CrapsackWorld The Fallen World]] simply [[DivideByZero can't handle]] [[{{Heaven}} Supernal]] beings like them...Although they stay significantly longer and don't cause unintentional damage then Abyssal creatures, since they're ''supposed'' to be a part of reality.
** In White Wolf's ''{{Exalted}}'', there are several vast armies of insane, unreal things positively ''itching'' to roll up reality like a carpet and devour the souls of the living. Since this is ''Exalted'', it's the player characters' job to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch every last one of them in the face with the power of their undiluted, shiny awesomeness.]]
*** Not only are the above creatures the setting's [[TheFairFolk elves]], the Primordials ''made'' the universe, and all its gods to take care of it, so that they had time to [[MemeticMutation smoke crack.]]
** In addition to the Wyrm, the Weaver and Wyld deserve mention. All three are incomprehensibly vast primal forces, arguably the prime movers of creation, and their conflicts with each other are all that stop any of them from bringing about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. If each were given its way, the Wyrm would destroy everything, the Weaver would freeze everything in eternal stasis, and the Wyld would dissolve everything into perpetual chaos.
** In addition to mentioning the above Cthonians, ''GeistTheSinEaters'' features Kerberoi -- wholly alien in mindset, bizarre in appearance, and nearly unstoppable, they exist solely to enforce the Old Laws of the Dead Domains. Geists can also border on this -- although some are only slightly less human than a normal ghost, others are twisted monsters with mindsets all but completely incomprehensible to humans.
** The [[FairFolk True Fae]] of ''ChangelingTheLost'' deserve at least an honorary mention. Now, they're more recognisable than their stablemates above, capable of great pride, vanity and twisted creativity, but they are ultimately alien, incredibly powerful and terrifying beings with [[EvilCannotComprehendGood no concept of empathy, kindness or selflessness]], capable of rending souls and striking pacts with aspects of reality itself, and within their [[RealityIsOutToLunch home dimension]] they are capable of [[RealityWarper just about anything]], and can twist their kidnapped human subjects to meet their needs. That they happen to have inspired fairy tales perhaps only makes them ''more'' frightening. [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel And do you wanna know how they're born?]]
* In the TabletopGames ''Monsters and Other Childish Things'', one of the types of monsters used in its dark and twisted take on {{Mons}} are Eldritch Abominations. The non-statted sample monster Dewdrop is an Eldritch Abomination take on a unicorn, while one of the statted sample monsters is a Lovecraftian monstrosity merged with a teddy bear named [[ShoutOut Yog-So`Soft]]. Both these and the more "normal" monsters tend to cause bouts of panic and madness in people who see them as well, further adding to it.
* In ''The Whispering Vault'', the player characters are all minor Eldritch Abominations who act as a "police force" that apprehends and retrieves other abominations who have illicitly made their way to Earth.
* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** A small list: The four Chaos Gods (obviously) representing Rage, Lust, Change and Decay, and their assorted nightmarish hordes of daemons, the C'tan and their nightmarish hordes of awakening Necrons and the nightmarish hordes of Tyranids implied to have devoured entire galaxies. Oh, and the Emperor himself ''possibly'' qualifies.
** Depending on which side of the fluff you stand by, the Emperor is either a corpse on a throne or the most powerful being in existence waiting to be reborn.
* ''MagicTheGathering'' has the "Horror" and "Nightmare" creature types. Not all of them fall under this trope, but a fair number do. For example, the [[http://www.wizards.com/mtg/images/tcg/products/alarareborn/oz5ev5t1ru_EN.jpg Nemesis of Reason]]. As well, there's Marit Lage, an ancient, betentacled SealedEvilInACan. The card [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=121155 Dark Depths]] allows you to ''unseal'' her.
** For those who don't play MtG, a brief explanation: The deck, generally consisting of 60 cards, represents the player's spell reserve and memory remaining. So, effectively, everytime the Nemesis of Reason even ''looks'' at you funny, you ''lose one sixth of your mind''. No questions. And Marit Lage? She is 20 times as strong and resistant as one of the heroes who defeated the ''Empress of Fae'' in one of the more recent sets, gameplay wise.
** Of course, there was the original [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=2093 Cosmic Horror]] if you go WAAAAAY back to the ''Legends'' expansion. The art says it all.
* The Lords of Cthul from ''{{Monsterpocalypse}}'' are the Cthulhu-esque, Godzilla-sized avatars of powerful extradimensional monsters.
** Who get [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu bodyslammed]] regularly.
* The Greater Titans of ''{{Scion}}'' are beyond mortal ken. They're beyond ''divine'' ken. They are so divorced from reality that they had to divide their power among Avatars just to have a clue what they were doing. Each one is its own internal world.
** Worst of the lot, though, is Hundan, the Titan of Chaos. It alone of the Titans couldn't be bound, for doing so requires definition - and Hundan ''cannot be defined''. An easy way to enter Hundan is to have a God become the Void, the living embodiment of all things chaotic... and then jump in.
* The Unspeakable One from the Freedom City ''MutantsAndMasterminds'' setting. (It also provides Golden Age stats for an eldritch entity, although that barely qualifies - it may ''look'' like Cthulhu, but it doesn't drive you mad simply from looking at it.)
* ''{{GURPS}}: Fantasy'' treats Tiamut as this, giving stats for a minor avatar of hers that while not particularly odd looking (it's an enormous dragon with four eyes) can still cause terror from just looking at it. Said avatar also happens to be ''invincible''. To kill it permanently you'd have to track down the real Tiamut... who is half the size of the universe so good luck with that. There's even a Lovecraft quote after the stat block.
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* Tren Krom from ''{{Bionicle}}'' exists as a ShoutOut to Lovecraft. However, he actually ''isn't'' an alien or ''other''; he was created by the Great Beings just like everything else in the Matoran world. Despite this, he's got the looks -- tentacles and all -- and causes insanity in those who look upon him. He was also one of the first things to exist in the Matoran world, managing it before Mata-Nui, [[spoiler:who contains the entire Matoran world in his ''body'']], was activated.
-->'''Tren Krom:''' You think me an alien... an "other"... But I am of the substance of this universe, and I walked here long before you or even Mata Nui himself.\\
-- Federation of Fear
* There are Cthulhu dolls.
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Typically, Eldritch Abominations in Video Games [[DegradedBoss aren't]] depicted as omnipotent and implacable. But if they were, [[IncrediblyLamePun one of their attacks would take out ALL of your]] [[HpLovecraft H.P]].
* No self-respecting fantasy RPG seems to do without one or more (except some of the Evil Witchking villain variety, and even then, not always).
* Lavos from ''ChronoTrigger'' and especially its sequel, ''ChronoCross'' -- a horror from space that descended to Earth when it was young, and slept and ate until it was awakened to destroy it in 1999. It was supposedly destroyed via TimeTravel, but in the sequel, it was revealed that it had gained the power to jump across dimensions into {{Alternate Universe}}s. So anytime it was killed in one dimension, it would simply come back from an AlternateUniverse where it hadn't been destroyed; or even from the Darkness at the end of Time where [[{{The Time Travellers Dilemma}} cancelled timelines go.]] Suck it, causality!
** Lavos is explicitly compared to Cthulhu in the Japanese version of ''ChronoTrigger''; a chapter of the game is titled "Lavos no Yobigoe". "The Call of Cthulhu" is called "Cthulhu no Yobigoe" in Japan.
** We see the Time Devourer in its full hideous glory in the bonus dungeon of the DS remake, there known as "Dream Devourer". After you "win," TheBattleDidntCount since it just absorbs a self from another reality where it doesn't die. [[spoiler:Schala uses the last of her power to rescue you]] and the new ending implies the beginning of the massive XanatosRoulette that is ''ChronoCross''.
* The Primagen in ''Turok 2'', who threatens to [[SealedEvilInACan break out of his prison]] and [[EarthShatteringKaboom unravel the fabric of the universe]]. There's also Oblivion, another Abomination who is the BigBad of the third game.
* The Androsynth disappeared before the beginning of ''StarControl II'', and their region of space is now occupied by the Orz. Trying to put together an accurate assessment of what happened on their homeworld results in the scientist who read about the Androsynth's IDF research going insane and being attacked by invisible creatures. It's not exactly clear ''what'' went down, but the Arilou put it best: "You do not wish to be seen. The Androsynth were seen. There are no more Androsynth anymore. Only Orz." This is an especially subtle example, because, early on, the Orz seem comical, with their round, bird-beaked bodies, their nearly-untranslatable speech, and their silly voices.
** But if you ask the Orz about the Androsynth, they attack and take no prisoners.
** ItGotWorse. According to developpers (http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Orz ), Orz as the captain seen are actually a *fingers* projection of some higher-dimensional being.
** Note that "going insane and being attacked by invisible creatures" is a good description of what happened to Abdul Al-Hazred, writer of the Necronomicon in HP Lovecraft's works.
* In [[EarthboundZero the first]] ''[[EarthboundZero Mother]]'' [[EarthboundZero game]], Giygas was just an alien. A very angry [[TheGreys Grey]] alien who tried being human for a while, but was upset when humanity took advantage of his knowledge. In the ''second'' ''Mother'' game, though, called ''{{Earthbound}}'', Giygas has become something far more horrible. Mindless, he exists in the future and the past, and has no physical form. In case you haven't realized, [[{{Expy}} he's practically Azathoth, with less tentacles]].
* ''Shadow of the Comet'', ''Prisoner of Ice'' and the better-known ''AloneInTheDark'', by Infogrames, are all in the same Cthulhu Mythos-haunted world, with several direct Lovecraftian references, including [[TomeOfEldritchLore the Necronomicon and De Vermis Mysteriis]]. The name of the mansion from the first ''Alone In The Dark'', Derceto, is revealed in-game to be an alias of Shub-Niggurath, the Mythos' equivalent of a fertility deity...
* ''{{Persona 3}}'' has Nyx, an AnthropomorphicPersonification of Death, as its Big Bad. It even subverts the traditional DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu ending for video games featuring them; when the SEES team finally beats it, it shrugs it off as though nothing happens and continues to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Ultimately, this fate is only averted when [[spoiler: the Main Character receives an EleventhHourSuperpower courtesy of ThePowerOfFriendship, and even then he only manages to [[SealedEvilInACan seal it away]]]].
** For an extra dash of NightmareFuel... [[spoiler:Nyx's true body is the moon, and that surface is just a shell.]]
** Of course, in the new chapter in ''Persona 3: FES'', the team discovers Erebus, Nyx's husband and brother in Greek myth. Aigis and company learn that [[spoiler:their grief over the hero's death]] not only manifested the Abyss of Time, but also helped fuel Erebus, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of nihilism and sorrow in human hearts. This "nihilism avatar" was the real problem, not Nyx -- Nyx existed long before humanity ever awoke, and by itself wasn't a force of good nor evil -- it was only when the self-destructive thoughts in Humanity hit a critical threshold that they coalesced into the decidedly unfriendly Erebus, who seeks to absorb Nyx's power and bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. [[spoiler: The hero wasn't sealing Nyx away, but instead keeping Erebus away from Nyx.]] The party fights Erebus in a final battle, and learns that [[spoiler: the protagonist can never return to them, because [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil so long as there is the desire for destruction in human hearts, Erebus will live on]]. However, a stated goal of the presumably immortal RobotGirl Aigis is to work to improve humanity to the point that Erebus ''can'' be defeated -- someday]].
*** In ''{{Persona 4}}'', Elizabeth is going for a "quicker" solution to help the hero; Margaret does comment that "time is loose for Residents such as herself and Elizabeth" and that it could take eons.
** It should be noted that Lovecraftian deity Nyarlathotep ''was'' the villain in ''Persona2''. Unfortunately, [[AdolfHitler the form he took to interact with our world]] meant [[BadExportForYou half the game]] [[NoExportForYou was never released outside Japan]].
* Dark Matter from ''{{Kirby}}'' has a definite Eldritch Abomination vibe to it, not to mention it's still fully awake. It's an immensely powerful, formless being of evil that corrupts all it touches and is completely invincible, except to special weapons. Further, judging by how often it's reappeared, it appears to be impossible to permanently destroy, and can only be temporarily defeated. It basically seems to be the closest thing you can get to an Eldritch Abomination in a SugarBowl setting. Thankfully, it's also far more ''defeatable'' than most major abominations.
** 02 (Zero Two) from the N64 game is the "heart" of Dark Matter, and essentially a giant bloody eyeball with creepy wings and a halo. It's bizarre for an otherwise cutesy series.
*** Indeed, most Kirby final bosses are at least somewhat Eldritch. Nightmare is the manifestation of everyone's bad dreams, Dark Mind from ''The Amazing Mirror'' is an evil mirror demon, and Dark Nebula from ''Squeak Squad'' is [[SealedEvilInACan a sleeping Eldritch Abomination]].
** Kirby's proposed origin in the anime series is actually more or less that he himself is actually an EldritchAbomination that went good. This explains a lot. Gooey, his sidekick from ''Dreamland 3'', is a piece of good Dark Matter, too.
* Chzo from the titular ''ChzoMythos'' is definitely an EldritchAbomination. A MagnificentBastard Eldritch Abomination. A pain elemental who absorbed all its rivals, to the point where Chzo become a literal mountain of flesh that took over a sizable portion of the Ethereal Realm. A whole lot of events (that it could plan out ahead of time, thanks to it being in every possible time) and manipulations later, Chzo had a ReligionOfEvil on his side, a practically invincible right-hand-man, and [[spoiler:had all but succeeded in creating the bridge between our realm and the Ethereal Realm...]] Of course, we'd be all boned, had everyone not been [[spoiler:fooled to the point where they hadn't realized that Chzo would actually die if he crossed over to Earth. He wasn't intending to cross over, anyway -- he was actually trying to get a New Prince. And he succeeded. After all the deaths, trauma and general misery, nobody was expecting Chzo to actually win in the end.]]
* The universe of ''ShadowHearts'' is filled with these things. The FinalBoss of the first game, Meta-God, [[spoiler:is a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien with a moderate resemblance to Cthulhu crossbred with a horse, and is beyond human reasoning.]] ''Covenant'' sets up Amon, one of Yuri's strongest Fusions from the first game ([[spoiler:second to Seraphic Radiance]]), as part of a triumvirate of eldritch horrors, opposed and matched by Asmodeus and Astaroth.
* The SurvivalHorror game ''EternalDarkness'' (cheerfully subtitled "Sanity's Requiem") for the Gamecube. This one takes one of the most interesting twists, as [[spoiler:the most powerful Ancient, Mantorok the Corpse God, is actually mildly fond of humanity, even serving as a fertility god in a small village in Cambodia. He's ultimately responsible for the main character's destruction of the "evil" Ancients, and he's probably the only abomination even close to being good. ''Ever''.]]
** [[spoiler: Except that Mantorok was using the Roivas family to kill three of the other Ancients in three separate timelines, and then merged those timelines together.]] To what end will probably be unknown until Eternal Darkness 2 comes out.
** Also, there ''may'' be a fifth one, judging from some enemies that are yellow. It could also just be enemies with no alignment however.
*** Denis Dyack, who founded Silicon Knights, the company behind ''EternalDarkness'', [[http://www.escapistmagazine.com/articles/view/issues/issue_60/356-Theres-a-Lot-More-to-Tell.3 confirmed in an interview]] that yellow is definitely the colour of a fifth Ancient, supposedly [[spoiler: the equal-but-opposite of Mantorok.]]
* In ''{{Drakengard}}'', TheWorldIsAlwaysDoomed because the gods are [[GodIsEvil not just evil]], but also composed entirely of Eldritch Abomination}. There are not slithering masses of tentacles that cause insanity by their very sight, but [[HumanoidAbomination something very morbid]].
* ''{{Warcraft}} 3'' introduced a faction of vaguely Lovecraftian entities, the Faceless, presided over by a stock EldritchAbomination called the Forgotten One. They were pretty [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu easy to kill]], though.
** The Warcraft universe also features the Old Gods, which are basically {{Shout Out}}s to Lovecraftian entities. The number of Old Gods is stated to be five in the third game manual, although their exact location is a bit of a debate. At least three are said to be locked in the earth, and a large corpse in the game is implied to be the body of one.
*** The Old Gods are behind some of the truly nastier fellows who originated in Azeroth, such as corrupting Neltharion into Deathwing along with his entire dragonflight; corrupting Queen Azshara, the most powerful Night Elf sorceress; and creating the Naga, the silithid, the qiraji, and the nerubians. They're also the (partial) creators of Humans, Vrykul, some Giants, Dwarves, Gnomes and Troggs by use of their parasitic weapon, the Curse of Flesh, designed to make its targets more like them and less like the metallic [[{{Precursors}} Titans]].
*** One Old God, C'thun, has, however, been killed by mortals (he was a raid boss). However, he had gotten his ass kicked by the godlike Titans so badly that they thought he was dead, so the players face him with only a fraction of his full power. Apparently, the remaining Old Gods pulled the fun trick of tying their existence to Azeroth, meaning that if they die, they take Azeroth down with them.
** The Faceless return in ''WorldOfWarcraft: Wrath of the Lich King'' in the form of ''three'' Forgotten Ones and Herald Volazj, who are ''very'' Lovecraftian in appearance. The Herald periodically causes the player characters to go insane and fight one another. The power behind the Faceless, not to mention all sorts of other weirdness in Northrend, seems to be an Old God named Yogg Saron (not to be confused with Yog'Sothoth, of course).
***Yogg-Saron was featured in a recent content patch. True to trope, he is able to drive characters insane and make the entire raid hallucinate about past events. Despite this, within twenty four hours he'd met [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu the fate of all raid bosses.]]
* The Elder God of ''{{Legacy of Kain}}'' fame claims to be an omnipotent demigod, existing beyond any casual interpretations of time and space as "The Engine Of Life" that turns "The Wheel Of Fate", and physically manifests himself as an enormous mass of eyeballs and tentacles. It is eventually speculated by the protagonists that he is [[spoiler:little more than a parasite who feeds on the souls of the dead, masquerading as an omnipotent god to strike fear into the hearts of his servants.]] Oh, and he's voiced by the late [[LargeHam Tony Jay]].
* The {{Roguelike}} ''[[http://www.incursion-roguelike.net/ Incursion]]'' has among its pantheon [[http://www.incursion-roguelike.org/man/Pantheon.html#KY Kysul]], the Watcher Beneath the Waves, an unspeakably ancient and foreign being from a long-dead world, keeper of eldritch [[GoMadFromTheRevelation mind-shattering secrets]], whose mere form is so alien that [[BrownNote it can cause insanity in the unprepared]]. It is also, in a spectacular [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] of the expected attitudes of such a creature, strongly LawfulGood.
* Jenova from ''FinalFantasyVII'', who is basically an {{Expy}} of Lavos from the ''ChronoTrigger'' example above. By extension, Sephiroth is half-human, half-EldritchAbomination.
** [[GaiasVengeance WEAPON]]: Its first appearance is a creepy bigass eye that almost inconspicuously opens and closes behind a crystal rock face. Then it erupts out of the solid ground as a giant monster, and "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" Though its mechanical {{Godzilla}}-like appearance lends it some momentary {{Narm}}, it manages to be scary yet again when one of them crawls out of the sea and attacks Junon like it was Cthulhu rising from R'lyeh.
*** The WEAPONs are actually Antieldritch Unabominations. [[AllThereInTheManual In the backstory of the game]], these creatures are the all-natural guardians of the Planet. Unfortunately, humanity has [[HumansAreBastards proven itself dangerous]] to the Planet, so they went aggro on human cities.
* In ''FinalFantasyIX'', Necron fits this to a T, with the effect being accentuated by HighOctaneNightmareFuel [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62MkCz0f83s scenery and music]]. SoYeah.
** Also, there's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HM7kgvbr2E Ozma]]. Like Necron, it happens to be a GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere.
* In ''FinalFantasyX'', Sin is a giant monster that is reborn from the very person who gave their life to kill it last. He also comes with a variety of nifty little Sinspawn.
* The Esper Famfrit in ''FinalFantasyXII'', who was apparently a cloudlike being before the gods shoved him into a suit of armor with spikes inside.
** The world of Ivalice in ''FinalFantasyXII'' is so heavily populated with Eldritch's, it's a wonder anyone is still scared at this point.
* Chaos from the original ''[[FinalFantasyI Final Fantasy]]'' is an Eldritch created by an endless time loop.
* Cloud of Darkness from ''FinalFantasyIII''.
* Zeromus in ''FinalFantasyIV''.
* Exdeath in ''FinalFantasyV''.
** Not to mention those nameless... ''things'' that lurk below the ocean floor. And I ain't talking about dwarves.
* ''{{The Elder Scrolls}}'' has several, the most noticeable being House Dagoth in ''Morrowind'', but for the true position, Sithis takes the cake. Recent games have attempted to pass him off as a more traditional god of death, but the game's backstory reveals that he is actually a great void, the undying soul of a dead primordial force.
* WildMassGuessing goes that the glitch ''{{Pokemon}}'' Missingno. is actually a RealityWarper Eldritch Abomination, explaining its effects upon the games. The Unown are also a possibility; see the third movie.
** Not to mention the AlienGeometries of the [[http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Torn_World Torn World]].
** [[OlympusMons Legendary Pokemon]] have been steadily edging from PhysicalGod status to this. Dialga and Palkia almost ''destroy reality'' in one of the latest movies over a pointless fight.
** In the Jirachi Wishmaker movie, the villain Butler attempts to create a Groudon using Jirachi's wish granting powers. The result is a bizarre demon that ''looks'' like Groudon, but it's pretty easy to tell it's ''not''.
*In the VisualNovel ''[[SayaNoUta Saya no Uta]]'', the protagonist is saved from dying by experimental brain surgery that, while successful, rewires his perceptions such that he's now living in a world of AlienGeometries made of rotting flesh and blood gelatin. So he's overjoyed to meet Saya, who looks to him like a lovely girl in a white sundress. (What she looks like to normal people is never shown, but [[spoiler: slime and tentacles]] are mentioned.) [[spoiler: Her favorite food is human flesh, and her hobbies include modifying human brains, bodies, and genomes.]]
* The [[spoiler:nameless evil]] in ''JadeEmpire''.
* The spirit eater curse in ''NeverwinterNights2: Mask of the Betrayer'' probably counts. [[spoiler:You become one in one ending]].
* Although they are never explicitly described, it is heavily implied that the W'rkncacnter from Bungie's ''{{Marathon}}'' trilogy belong to this breed. Whatever they are, they're powerful enough to survive inside suns and black holes, and dangerous enough to warrant [[{{Precursors}} the Jjaro]] building elaborate machines to keep them there. The plot of ''Marathon Infinity'' is jump-started when the resident evil aliens blow up Lh'owons sun, releasing the W'rkncacnter trapped inside. [[spoiler: As there's absolutely nothing that can be done to stop it once it's been released, the protagonist is forced to ''abandon the universe'' and find an alternate timeline where the W'rkncacnter's release can be prevented]]. See the [[Quotes/EldritchAbomination Quotes page]] for Durandal's description of them.
** Note also that [[spoiler: the ''way'' you "abandon the universe" is that the W'rkncacnter creates such pure chaos around it that merely being in its vicinity hurls you through dimensions.]]
* Bungie's early game ''PathwaysIntoDarkness'' involves a [[RealityWarper Reality-Warping]] Eldritch Abomination that sleeps beneath a ruin on Earth and is beginning to wake. Under instructions from the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Jjaro]], the humans are supposed to put it back to sleep long enough for the Jjaro to deal with it permenantly. With a nuclear bomb detonated in its lair. It's sometimes believed that ''Pathways Into Darkness'' actually takes place in the same universe as ''Marathon'', due to some parallels and particularly interesting and subtle ShoutOuts, in which case, the Eldritch Abomination is an unusually weak W'rkncacnter.
** To be clear, the ruins in question (and their inhabitants) are the result of said abomination's ''dreams''. If it wakes up, “you hardly even remember dying.”
* The aftermath of the ''KingdomOfLoathing'' 2008 Crimbo event resulted in [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Crimbomination the Crimbomination]]. Just ''look'' at that thing. It's also about as unbeatable as a typical EldritchAbomination, no [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punching out Cthulhu here]]. To hammer in the Lovecraftian overtones, [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Ho-ho-ho-hee-hee-hee-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! it's made clear that the guard that was assigned to the factory has been driven completely insane just from looking at it]].
** This is also a rare case where the EldritchAbomination was created by [[strike:human hands]] [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguin flippers]]. The Crimbo factory was taken over forcefully by the Penguin Mafia, and the Crimbo Elves were forced to work in a factory powered by [[GreenRocks grimicite]], which is highly radioactive and caused the elves to mutate. After curing a lot of elves of their mutation, the remaining mutated elves [[BiologicalMashup fused together]] to create the Crimbomination. The Kingdom's adventurers were able to weaken it to the point where the penguins could [[SealedEvilInACan seal it in a gigantic crate.]]
* In one fan-made campaign for ''FreeSpace 2'', ''Transcend'', the BigBad is a being known only as "the Transcendant", who distorts the laws of reality itself just by being there, and unconsciously evokes human souls to play out particular roles. It turns out that [[spoiler:the Transcendant was originally human, and was somehow expelled from the physical universe, growing into an EldritchAbomination, then attempting to return home only to very nearly ''break the universe'' in the process. He did none of this on purpose either, being pretty well insane by the time he attempts to re-enter reality. All you hear from him directly is his static-broken voice over your radio begging for help... and thanking you when you finally kill him.]]
* ''CityOfHeroes'' has Rularuu, a PlanetEater who was only defeated by [[SealedEvilInACan banishment]] to the Shadow Shard, a weird, twisty dimension. His minions are things like giant eyeballs with teeth and giants made of crystal, he commands reflections of the inhabitants of the worlds he's devoured, and you never face him directly -- just fragments of his personality, which in and of themselves are ridiculously powerful archvillains (except for the heroic fragment who helps you).
** In the Cathedral of Pain trial, taken offline a few days after being released due to massive exploits, Rularuu himself (or possibly just an Aspect that wasn't a personality fragment) was the final boss. This allowed the participation of three teams instead of one, however.
**Hamidon, a giant single cell monster that is the largest Giant Monster in the game, and leader of the Devouring Earth faction may count. Though it is implied that he was once a person that became what he is through a combination of science and magic, there are some people that will swear (rightly so), that he is a god.
*** He was actually referred to as 'a dark god' in a press release, though the writer later admitted they DidNotDoTheResearch.
* Recent (but equally horrifying) example: the ''[[DeadSpace Necromorphs]]''.
* The Reapers in ''MassEffect'' are [[spoiler:massive mechanical beings from beyond the edges of the galaxy. Whenever galactic civilization becomes advanced enough, they wake and wipe it out. Just ''one'' of them is able to wipe out nearly the entire Citadel fleet. It's only defeated because Shepard is able to distract it.]]
* In {{Eversion}}, a major character is one. in the bad ending, [[spoiler:she eats you]]. In the ''good'' ending, [[spoiler:[[YouAreTheDemons you're one, too.]]]].
* The Waterwraith boss from ''{{Pikmin}} 2''. Its even mentioned as being anchored in another dimension and being capable of causing fear to the point of insanity.
** And The Smoky Progg in the first Pikmin, a horrific cloud of evil, that trails black death smoke behind it, and when you kill it, it bursts into flames and sinks into the Eath without a trace.
* Played for laughs in Japanese Super Mario World hack VIP MIX2. The final boss is supposedly the creator of the game himself, who appears as a cluster of 2ch memes.
* In [[http://www.addictinggames.com/monsterevolution.html this flash game]], you get to play as one.
** In [[http://www.kongregate.com/games/GregoryWeir/the-majesty-of-colors this one too]], though unusually, [[spoiler:[[DarkIsNotEvil you can be a NICE tenntacled three-eyed abomination]]]].
* ''CustomRobo'' on the Gamecube has Rahu, the BigBad. Originally an intangible force of destruction that annihilated anything it came across, and very nearly caused TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, it for some reason merged itself with a children's toy (the titular Robo). That turned out to be a very stupid move: while Rahu is still pretty powerful, it is also ''defeatable'' in that form.
* The Dark One from ''QuestForGlory 4'' is one of these, and an obvious Cthulhu reference.
* The titular town of ''SilentHill'' may be considered one.
** And the God the cult is trying to raise.
* Several entities in ''SuperRobotWars'' fit this category. Such as Einst, the inter-dimensional race that claims to have watched humanity from the beginning. Now they wish to "reset" humanity by choosing a new Adam and Eve. They also appear in ''EndlessFrontier'', and claim to be the ones who created the titular world, by creating the Crossgate dimensional portal and turning the world into several mini-dimensions separated by a dimensional wall. It turn out that Einst's goal is to return to the original world, "the world of silence". One thing that makes them very strange is they appear to be made of some kind of material that's both organic and metallic.
** ''[[SuperRobotWarsDestiny Super Robot Wars D]]'' has Perfectio, king of the Ruina EnergyBeings from another dimension. Since Perfectio feeds on despair, the Ruina try to turn Earth into his cattle farm by sealing Earth in another dimension. While it's possible to destroy the Ruina, Perfectio is immortal and can only be stopped by sealing the gate to its home dimension.
** ''SuperRobotWarsK'' has Lu Kobol, an evil being defeated by [[{{Precursors}} Crusians]] long ago. The Crusians even [[SealedEvilInACan hid Lu Kobol's fragments in planets across the galaxy]] to ensure it won't return easily. Yet Lu Kobol resurrects as EnergyBeings and seeks to reform itself by [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroying every planet that hides its fragments]].
** ''SuperRobotWarsZ'' mentions ''Taichi'' as the entity that ''controls the fate of all universes'' by manipulating the Origin Law. It is also the one that created twelve Spheres that grant their holder immense power and limited access to the Origin Law. However, the holder will slowly lose his or her humanity in exchange for said power.
*** Small note is that ''Taichi'' is from Taoism with some MindScrew-level properties. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiji here]] for full details.
* [[OmnicidalManiac Darth]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Nihilus]] in ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic II: The Sith Lords'' is a "human (dark side aberration)" according to the ''StarWars Saga Edition'' KOTOR supplement. When translated into plain English, this is "horrific, incomprehensible monster spawned from pure evil that wipes out entire planetary populations because he's [[strike: hungry]] Hunger." An EldritchAbomination by any other name...
** The developers of KOTORII have said [[spoiler: that Darth Nihilus was originally written to be the [[EvilTwin dark side]] opposite of The Exile, a vision of what she ''could'' have been. Originally, the Mass Shadow Generator was so catastrophically damaging that it "split" the Exile; One half continuing as normal, the other being consumed by the Force Bonds it created, sucking life from everything around it and giving in to such power. It was cut due to Time Restraints. Pity, really; it fit the game perfectly, in this troper's opinion...]]
** The Jedi Council consider ''The Exile'' to be one of these. The real reason she was exiled in the first place was because they were terrified of her nature as a ''[[spoiler: Force black hole]]''.
* In ''{{Xenogears}}'', [[GodIsEvil Deus]] strongly exemplifies this, even looking irreconcilably bizarre to boot.
** Incidentally, Deus is located aboard an interstellar spaceship named ''Eldridge''.
** Deus is also one of the few Eldritch Abominations that is [[spoiler:man-made]].
* Ragu O Ragula, a monster of practically unimaginable power of destruction, appears in pretty much every ''WildArms'' game. Almost always a SuperBoss sealed safely out of human reach (and out of its reach of humanity). Unseal it at your own terror. Well, might be scarier if it weren't a constantly recurring theme in the series.
** In ''WildArms2'', Ragu O Ragula can be defeated using ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu only Brad]]''. What does that make the titular Hero of Slayheim?
* In ''WildArms2'', [[spoiler:the PlanetEater "Encroaching Parallel Universe" Kuiper Belt does this trope in a decisively terrifying way, complete with music that perfectly captures "too terrible to exist in my universe".]]
* TheHeartless of the ''KingdomHearts'' series qualify while still being cute as a button. Their ultimate goal is to devour the hearts of people and enitre worlds and turn them into beings like themselves, and they can never be truly defeated because [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil they come from the darkness in people's hearts.]] In a minor subversion, it's quite possible that the Heartless were only a minor threat until Ansem's research turned them into a veritable army of darkness.
** Their counterparts the [[EmptyShell Nobodies]] fit just as well, being the remnants of a powerful being absorbed by the Heartless, they are beings that stand the exact edge of existence itself. They are essentially human-shaped voids, but unlike their dark cousins, retain their human memories and intellect to properly use their new power.
** We don't quite know just what an Unversed ''is'' yet, but it probably still fits.
* From the ''[[DotHack .hack//]]'' series: Cubia. Okay, sure, he's a computer program, but within the realm of The World, he very much qualifies. For one thing, he's a mass of purple tree-root-looking things with a very creepy skull for a head that can materialize anywhere he chooses, and he's even referred to as "The Anti-Existance" once or twice. All of the other AI's running about seem to have some purpose that they're trying to accomplish, but Cubia pops up out of ''nowhere'', and even with a somewhat vague explanation of what he is, no one in the series seems to be able to explain what his goal or purpose is, nor how he was created. Oh, and he's unkillable, save for one very specific method, one the heroes are understandably reluctant to use.
* The creatures unleashed in the Black Mesa Research Facility from the ''Half-Life'' series by Valve fit this trope as they are hideous and weird, from another dimension, and capable of destroying this universe if not stopped by the heroes.
** Does the G-man count as one?
* [[{{Halo}} The Flood]], a hive-minded parasitic entity of such ancient, alien power that even the near god-like [[{{Precursors}} Forerunners]] were ultimately forced to sterilize an entire galaxy to put them down....and even then, they eventually rose up again, with the Gravemind calmly pointing out the second time it is being destroyed that this victory will simply delay the inevitable.
** Heck, the Gravemind on its own; a vast, immortal, reincarnating intelligence. It's physical form is a vast Flood hive full of tentacles and Flood combat forms. And even if this body is destroyed it can rebuild itself if but one Flood Spore survives, it doesn't even have to be from that hive specifically. Any Flood under its control will do. And if that neigh invincibility isn't enough the Gravemind also has telepathic abilities which it can project across ''interstellar'' distances. Factor in its love of iambic pentameter and morbid metaphors and you have one creepy abomination.
* Dark Gaia, the most recent SealedEvilInACan [[SonicTheHedgehog Eggman]] has released, is a ''sentient force of nature'' who ''helped create the universe'' (by destroying the old one, but meh). [[spoiler: Since the "stars ''aren't'' right" this time around though, the BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil causes his [[EvilCounterpart Good Counterpart]] to be released as well, and he helps Sonic seal Gaia up again.]]
* Sanity Aiken's Artifact has individuals given psychic abilities. The psychic abilities, however, cause individuals to become insane if they are overused, and these abilities [[spoiler:were given through an artifact that was planted by a Sanity Devourer, who will harvest a planet once psychic abilities becomes commonplace enough for easy eating.]]
* In ''ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlrevis'', [[spoiler:the ''main character's'' wish-granting powers, given "physical form"]] comes close. It was given a BonusBoss PaletteSwap, [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast called "Pain"]], described this way:
-->''The strongest, worst thing in the world. A concentrated mass of power, this being hints that the end of the world is near...''
* A rare example of a ''man-made'' one can be found in ''{{Prototype}}'': The Blacklight Virus. A sentient virus that [[ImAHumanitarian consumes biomass]], can shapeshift, absorbs peoples' memories, singlehandedly demolishes entire armies, and is NighInvulnerable [[spoiler: even a ''nuke'' couldn't kill it in the end]]. Even ''other'' viral monsters end up on its menu in the end. [[spoiler: And it's the ''protagonist''.]]
* A lot of things in ''YumeNikki''.
* Zelos the PlanetEater in ''Salamander''/''Life Force'', and Bacterian in the ''{{Gradius}}'' series.
* The {{Castlevania}} itself, descripted by Alucard in ''Symphony'' as ''Creature of Chaos''. Explaining why [[ChaosArchitecture the castle never looks the same]]. In ''Aria of Sorow'', it turn out that the castle spawnd from the Chaotic Realm in response to the dark lord.
* ''{{Fable}}'s'' Jack of Blades [[spoiler: and the rest of the Court]] may well count, given their origins lie in a realm referred to as The Void and his form seems entirely dependent on [[spoiler: his host body]].
* The entire setting of ''Prey'', albeit being techno-organic alien in nature. Big enough to host every level save for the introduction and ending, and never seen in its entirety. Reality-violating ugly as in portals, spatial anomalies and multi-directional gravity. Happens upon the Earth on one night without any warning. The hero even meets survivors who demonstrate knowledge to survive and assist him.
* The Hunter Ing from ''MetroidPrime 2''. Elite denizens of a dimension that isn't even supposed to exist, who can "render their bodies intangible", according to their Logbook scan, and can generate tentacles to attack you. Thank the Luminoth for the Light Beam...
** The Emperor Ing, as well as Metroid Prime (and Dark Samus by association) and the ''sentient planet'' Phaaze. The X may count, too.
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* ''GunnerkriggCourt'': Judging by [[BrainBleach Kat's reaction]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=336 upon seeing him]], the insect-[[TheGrimReaper Guide]] Ketrak [[TakeOurWordForIt apparently]] ''looks'' like something from Lovecraft's nightmares. But [[DarkIsNotEvil he's quite friendly once you get to know him]].
* The [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030528 Mind Wedgier]] from ''SluggyFreelance''. "To a Mind Wedgier, our flesh is a crunchy candy shell to the nougat center of our spirit."
* In ''DominicDeegan'', [[http://dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-11-09 it's revealed]] that [[spoiler: the Infernomancer]] has become one...
** ... but is nothing compared to his master, dubbed the Beast. Appearing as a gigantic eye, tentacles, and many, many teeth, its nature is so ''alien'' that it is effectively invisible to Dominic's Second Sight. Dominic, one of the most powerful seers alive and a master of mental combat, further empowered by Luna's BlackMagic, was barely able to fight off a tiny fragment of the Beast that tried to claim [[spoiler: Celesto Morgan's]] soul.
* ''{{The Order of the Stick}}'': [[spoiler:The Snarl is an incomprehensible being born from deific rage and strife, kept in check from destroying the world and the gods only by five measly gates. He's also depicted as something a five year old would draw.]]
** Although recent revelations [[spoiler: indicate this may either not be the case anymore, or even never was]].
*** [[spoiler: Maybe. Just because we saw the planet, [[EpilepticTrees doesn't mean that's the only thing in there.]] ]]
** "Dude, don't taunt the [[spoiler: god-killing]] abomination."
* The Cultists in ''[[EightBitTheater 8-bit Theater]]'' worship and summon eldritch abominations on a regular basis: First there's a nameless creature referred to as an "eye-stalk" which [[MindRape mind rapes]] anyone that makes eye contact with it (in addition to transporting the victim to its own pocket dimension). Then there's major enemy Ur/Jnn'efur, who fits the "fragment of the true being" bill. ([[spoiler: As does the BigBad Chaos.]])
** Early in the series, it's revealed that the reason Black Mage must wear a hat that conceals his face is that he is a human nexus of dark energy and seeing his visage for only a moment would… well, [[http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/06/18/episode-044-what-the-hell-just-happened-in-survivor-8-bit-style-part-9/ do this.]] The few times he drops the IdiotBall are downright scary, and it's implied he could potentially destroy the universe.
** Sarda may also qualify, having a non-linear view of time and being older than the universe.
* And then, there's ''{{The Unspeakable Vault}} (Of [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]])''. Yum Yum!
* ''[[http://www.shadowgirlscomic.com/ Shadowgirls]]'' is ''set'' in Innsmouth, straight from Lovecraft's tales. In fact, the description that comes with the page title is "HP Lovecraft meets Gilmore Girls." .....OK, maybe that doesn't sound all that cool, but the story and the art is awesome.......with a bit of fanservice here and there. But the examples for EldritchAbomination would have to be Mother Hydra and her sleeping "husband."
* The first radio play in ''GirlGenius'' mentions extradimensional abominations coming out of a well, leading directly to low rents.
* Though they don't really appear in the comic proper, [[http://missmab.com/Demo/Cubi04.php this tidbit concerning cubi dream surfing]] reveals that these creatures do exist in the world of ''{{Dan and Mabs Furry Adventures}}''.
--->'''Fa'lina:''' Cubi aren't the only creatures who can lurk into dreams...
* ''GrimTalesFromDownBelow'', being a fan-comic based mostly on ''TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', have some as well.
* ''[[http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20010715.html Ghastly's Ghastly Comic]]'' plays with this trope, just like it does every other one. Cthulhu is a baby. One of the main characters gets stuck babysitting when he tries to summon him. (Note: the linked page is Safe For Work. The comic as a whole is very much NSFW.)
* Gravehouse of ''[[http://www.necessarymonsters.com Necessary Monsters]]'' turns out to be much more tentacle-monstery than the human he looks like. ([[spoiler:"I crawled into his body and ate him up from the inside out. Until all that was left was skin and memory. Tell me... would you like to meet the real me?]]")
* ''{{DM of the Rings}}'': [[http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1168 "never try to scare a Call of Cthulhu player"]]
* Played with in [[http://www.chainsawsuit.com/20080402.shtml this strip]] of Kris Straub's ''Chainsawsuit''.
* Sam Starfall from ''FreeFall'' is heavily implied, under his nauseatingly cute spacesuit, to be one of these.
-->'''Helix:''' Remember to keep your helmet on when you're photographed. They had to take your picture down in the post office because it gave seeing-eye dogs heart attacks.
* ''TheNonAdventuresOfWonderella'' has one. The "heroine" herself explains him best:
-->'''Wonderella:''' Meet [[http://nonadventures.com/2007/02/03/victorian-secret/ Spirral.]] Duder's a 300-story ''thingy'' who travels the galaxy, mind-controlling millions with his Spirral Spores.
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* In ''{{Tales of MU}}'', the goblinoid girls, after seeing a human goddess on television, mention that their gods are "lumpier" and have "lots more eyes, or sometimes none" and that they "don't pray to them so much as pray they don't wake up." Goblin Oru later names two of them as "The Bleak Black Voice Beneath The Stones" and "The Burrower Under The Bog".
* In the ''WhateleyUniverse'', Lovecraft is CANON. As in, [[OhCrap he was right]]. Sara Waite, a main character, has the misfortune to be one of these. She's pretty nice though. She just EATS SOULS. (Of hamsters.)
** And dogs. And one of her cultists tried to sacrifice a kitten for her once. She got it back only to have the owner think she was going to eat the poor kitten's soul.
* [[http://grimreviews.blogspot.com/2008/12/zalgo-comic-chronicles.html Zalgo]]. Possibly.
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* ''RubyQuest''. Let's see: [[spoiler:hearing voices in dreams led Red to find a room buried under the sea floor. Said room contains: a red biological growth that cures anything (even death) at the cost of insanity and horrible mutation, a Cthulhu-like idol, and a dummy. With glowing red eyes. And that's just the start...]]
* ''[[http://forum.blpublishing.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10343 The Shape of the Nightmare to Come]]''. This fan-created postulate of what might happen ten-thousand years after regular Warhammer 40k features all the usual suspects (the Four Chaos Gods, the C'tan, etc) and adds a few. Most notable; the Ophilim Kiasoz, the New Devourer, the Star Father and his Angyls, Valchocht the Maker, and [[strike:possibly]] [[UltimateEvil the Nex]].
* Humorously addressed in an advertisement for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWT07iRvI9M Elder Sign]].
* The SCPFoundation deals with these things on a regular basis.
* In the Creepypasta [[http://www.ichorfalls.com/2009/03/15/candle-cove/ Candle Cove]], The titular show itself is implied to maybe be one.
* In ''TheSalvationWar'' setting, according to WordOfGod, whatever lives on the opposite side of the Minos Portal in Hell (the portal through which the human dead arrive in Hell) exists in a reality so different and alien that nothing from either "Universe-One" (Earth) or any of the "Universe-Twos" (Heaven, Hell, and other assorted "higher-level" realities) can exist on it. Nothing either living or mechanical from either set of universes that passes through the portal has ever returned.
* The WorldBuilding/{{Deepspawn}}. Especially this passage "eventually undergo a radical mutation, growing and hardening into a vaguely serpentine, coiling behemoth best described as a horrific combination of squid and serpent. Mottled exo-skeletal plates and supple, strong muscle extend along a long, ridged, coiling body, ending in a fierce head with an expanding four-pronged beak or maw. Several clusters of ferocious barbed tentacles serve as limbs, each glowing with fell energies, and especially ancient specimens’ fins expand to the size of vast wings. The many eyes of the abhorrent head are portals into a soulless -- but dreadfully aware -- abyss."
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* Recent {{Retcon}}s to the ''{{Transformers}}'' backstory have turned the [[PlanetEater planet-eating]] Unicron into an EldritchAbomination, not only giving him the power to move between dimensions, but also insinuating that a piece of his dark soul inhabits all of the Transformers since the beginning, meaning that any one of them could turn into a servant to his apocalyptic hunger.
** It has also been revealed that he does ''not'' [[PlanetEater eat planets]] for sustenance- he gets ''that'' from [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil hatred and strife]]. No, he eats planets because he's offended by existence. All of it. So he's trying to eat it. All of it. Every dimension.
** The Swarm in ''{{Transformers}}: Generation 2'' could also be considered an Eldritch Abomination, being born from a long-lost ritual of Transformer reproduction that their god Primus never intended them to retain, and obsessed with destroying all mechanical life in the known universe.
* In a two part ''JusticeLeague'' episode "The Terror Beyond", Comicbook/{{Superman}} and Co. go fight [[strike:Cthulhu]] [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Ichthultu]]. A giant alien monstrosity not bound by time or space going up against a group of superheroes in a work that sits firmly on the Idealistic side of the SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism? The [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu beatdown]] was the source of much [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Awesomeness]].
** Note that, while Cthulhu is in the public domain, the [[WordOfGod creators of this episode]] stated that they were under the false impression he was under copyright when they made the episode.
*** In the pilot episode, something called "Imperium" appeared. A big night loving blob with tentacles.
* One of these bought the galaxy in an eBay auction during a ''{{Futurama}}'' episode.
** Another one [[spoiler:attempts to date and have sex with the entire universe]] in the second movie.
*** "So, Elzar, what are you preparing for Morbo to devour with his mighty jaws?" "Morbo, I'm whipping up a nice unnameable horror from beyond. With mango chutney!" It's not made clear how good it will actually taste, but it appears to emit truly terrifying amounts of some sort of radiation. Probably very hygienic.
*** The dish sounds mind-breakingly horrible...''mango chutney''? NoJustNo.
* ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003) featured one of these in the episode "The Darkness Within", who arrived centuries ago in the form of a meteor and sucks the life energy of its victims as they visualize their worst nightmares. However, its most henious feat may have been its subconscious influence on the greedy, which caused them to gravitate to Manhattan, and was therefore indirectly responsible for the existence of Wall Street.
* ''{{The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy}}'' had a cameo by Yog-Sothoth in one episode, Cthulhu in another, and a brain-eating one-eyed abomination from space who has a very catchy theme song.
** That last one is actually a parody of Audrey II of the Little Shop of Horrors.
** The Nergals also have obvious traits of this.
* The prime antagonist of ''ShadowRaiders'' (also known as ''WarPlanets'') is the Beast Planet- a PlanetEater [[SciFiWritersHaveNoSenseOfScale the size of a star]] that [[ImplacableMan never stops, tires or negotiates]], [[WeHaveReserves produces an unlimited supply]] of scary-looking {{Mooks}} and '''is completely NighInvulnerable'''. They only defeat it by [[spoiler: teleporting it away, and it then just starts eating other planets, and may well have absorbed the teleporter technology...]]
* ''{{Superman the Animated Series}}'' had as a one-shot threat the HiveMind NightmareFuel alien blob thing that called itself "Unity". Using a creepy preacher as its primary avatar it turned [[spoiler: Smallville]] into a TownWithADarkSecret that nearly absorbed all the townsfolk into itself.
* In ''{{Chaotic}}'', the M'arrillian Tribe is hostile sea food at the lower-rungs, but at higher rungs, like Chieftains and Aa'une himself, are mostly eyes and slimy tentacles ''that don't look like anything''. [[spoiler: Aa'une's OneWingedAngel form with multiple mouths and a dozen tentacles now makes him by far the ugliest creature in the entire series]].
* ''{{Samurai Jack}}'' has [[BigBad Aku]]. At first, he seems like little more than an EvilOverlord with [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] and [[RealityWarper limited reality warping]] powers, but the episode The Birth of Evil, which explains his existence, makes him out to be much more of an abomination. He was a part of a [[EldritchAbomination planet-sized formless evil]] that was split from the rest of the evil when the gods fought and destroyed the giant evil. The portion of the giant evil fell to earth (and [[PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs caused the extinction of the dinosaurs]]), where it became a giant pit of bubbling black liquid that grew and spread (or perhaps moved) across the Earth, seemingly with the intent to [[OmnicidalManiac kill as many things as possible]]. In an attempt to destroy it with a magic arrow, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Jack's father gave the evil sentience and a more specific and much more powerful form]].
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* Common problem in advanced mathematics. Ever heard of the death of an expert in non-euclidean geometry? Never. They ''disappear''.
** Non-euclidean geometry is nothing. Modern set theory messes a lot with infinite objects and hierarchies of progressively more unfathomable degrees of infinity, and has driven more researchers mad than any other discipline. One of the main reference books on this topic is even nicknamed "The King in Yellow", at least in ThisTroper's department...
* While not a EldritchAbomination by virtue of a person (probably) not going insane after seeing it (although so few have seen it alive and in person we can't be completely sure), we would not be doing our job without mentioning [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_squid The Giant Motherfrakking Squid]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Squid the Colossal Motherfrakking Squid]], which many believe were the inspiration for the Kraken of lore. Guess what poem by Tennyson was a major inspiration for Lovecraft? Hint: It wasn't "Charge of the Light Brigade".
* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloop Bloop]] still manages to conjure lovecraftian NightmareFuel in those with active imaginations. Considering its extremely remote location (some of the remotest Pacific Ocean at a deep depth) and its great size (larger than any living thing ever known to have existed), it's made even more scary if you listen to the audio clip at its original speed or even ''twice'' its speed ("smaller"). It scared this troper shitless.
** It does not help that the Bloop's coordinates are frighteningly similar to those of R'lyeh in the original "Call of Cthulhu" short story.
** There's also the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Down_(unidentified_sound) "Slow Down"]] from an area north-ish of the Bloop.
** Ah, you guys should relax. It's probably just a kraken.
* Black holes.
** [[http://www.cracked.com/article_16817_5-cosmic-events-that-could-kill-you-before-lunch.html Which is only number 5 on Cracked's list.]]
* It's theorized that we don't see any aliens because they all become this after the singularity.
* This troper humbly submits that the laws of physics ''themselves'' qualify. The more we learn about quantum mechanics and the specifics of how our universe actually works, the less sense it makes. It's just that nobody's yet uncovered enough to actually go insane.
** You sure about that? Take a closer look at some of the more well-known eggheads. Hawking is confined to a wheelchair, Einstein was... Einstein, and some of the modern ones are... not quite right in the head.
*** Hey, This Troper takes offense. There is no correlation between physics and insanity; just because Einstein was a little quirky, an entire profession gets debased constantly. Furthermore, the laws of physics are not a good example of this trope; the more you try to understand them, the less threatening they are. As time goes on, our understanding of physics only gets better. They are neither complicated (at least, not conceptually; mathematically they can get pretty hairy in some respects) nor are they frightening, no more than a brick is complicated because you can build complicated structures out of it, no more than a brick is frightening because someone could hit you over the head with it.
*Nighttime, when you think about it. When you are camping, if you have enough imagination EVERYTHING outside the border of your campsite can feel like an EldritchAbomination. Sometimes it's fun to imagine that, just a little bit. Of course if you have to much imagination it's no longer any fun...
**Peasants must have felt that way about the space outside their villiages. How do you think the stories got started?
***ThisTroper gets the impression that some of the Russians almost thought Finns to be an EldritchAbomination the way they stalked around their campsites.
*** This all just proves that the human mind is a good example of this trope. When left to its own devices, it comes up with some crazy shit.
** Cavemen didn't ''have'' to imagine it. Huddling around their primitve fires for warmth and safety, they ''knew'' that the vast darkness surrounding them concealed baying horrors; dire beasts that cast flickering shadows in firelight, watching and ''waiting''. Any of their number unlucky enough or foolish enough to be caught out in the open, alone, would never be seen again, save perhaps for a pile of bloody bones discovered with the morn. Is it any wonder that fear of the dark is such a common PrimalFear?
* Supposedly Lovecraft's own inspiration was contemporary discoveries in astronomy that there really are things out there so enormous and so powerful that our entire world is meaninglessly small in comparison. All told humanity ended up handling it pretty well, mainly by not thinking about it.
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