Eldritch Abomination / Other Media

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• Black Diamond has a commercial about their cheese strings that has a woman summon Cthulhu "the World Eater" and through a door, is a gigantic alien eye.

Comic Strips

• The titular terror in the This Modern World strip "The Thing That Ate America's Brain" (and its identically-named sequel) is a tentacled Brain Monster that feeds on the "chaos, anger and turmoil" generated by Donald Trump.

Gamebooks

• Lone Wolf: Several enemies the hero encounters could be considered as such.
  • One of the creepier recurring enemies in the series is the Crypt Spawn. These are essentially swarms of human brains with batwings that, ironically enough, mindlessly attack anything in their path. They always appear in the presence of even greater evils, such as a timeless and bodyless... thing in the Graveyard of the Ancients, two of the Darklords themselves, and the King of the Darkness, Naar himself. The thing in the Graveyard is implied to be Naar.
  • The Akraa'Neonor summoned by Vonotar in Book 3. It even has the Combat Tentacles.
  • The Agtah on the astral plane of Daziarn boast twisted misshappen forms.
  • The master, the horrific Chaos-master. Its appearance is that of a vaguely humanoid giant composed of the many parts of various animals... which keeps moving and changing shape unceasingly.
  • The Kleasa from the World of Lone Wolf series. A Living Shadow from another dimension that eats souls like candy. Worse, the only way you can beat it is by setting it free, to reap evil elsewhere.
• The Big Bad of the Fighting Fantasy gamebook Beneath Nightmare Castle is one of these, a pile of limbs, organs, and tentacles fused into a massive being.

Podcasts

• The Hunger, the Big Bad of The Adventure Zone: Balance. It's best to let Griffin explain this one.
  Griffin: We pan up, and up… and up. Past the sky, past space, past the boundaries of the Prime Material Plane that this story takes place in. And we see more planes now; the Astral Plane, the Plane of Thought, the Elemental Planes, all twelve Planes that make up our Planar System moving in perfect orbit, perfect synchronicity, sustaining each other in a meticulous, demanding dance. And then we pan up, and we see a Thirteenth Plane descend. It is a disc of shimmering, living darkness, crossed with ribbons of blue, red, green, and gold. It is larger than all the other Planes combined, and as it lowers slowly bright white eyes begin to open all along the underside of this Plane — millions of them, burning with malice and hunger, all of them focused inward and down, back down, all the way down to the Bureau of Balance headquarters. And somewhere in that Plane, a smile flashes across someone's face."
• Critical Hit: The main antagonists are The Void, a group of insane Gods who inhabit the world's moon. They are all insane, powerful beyond belief, and have wonderful names such as "She Who Slumbers In Agony."
• The Nameless God from Dark Dice is an ancient being so powerful that it took the combined forces of gods, demons, devils, dwarves, dragons, elves, and giants just to seal it. When it is released at the end of season 1, two party members look at it, each taking damage to their sanity (one almost dying) and are only barely able to comprehend it as a star-filled void surrounded by teeth.
• Ede Valley: The Truth is a formless abomination with the ability to make humans see the nihilistic truth of the world and their place in it.
• In The Hidden Almanac, many of the historical events recorded in the Almanac involve eldritch abominations, often in connection with the weirdness-magnet location of Echo Harbor. There have also been a number plot arcs in which the staff of the Almanac encounter them directly, including the time a cult attempted to summon the demon god Corvus-Wrax in the Almanac Test Garden, and the time the interns were kidnapped by a cult that worshiped a horrible many-mouthed plague god.
• Less is Morgue has Morby. In addition to being The Assimilator, he's a kind of nostalgia parasite that gains his power through invading nostalgic media properties and feeding on people's affections for them. When he becomes sufficiently fed, he enters the physical world and begins absorbing everyone in sight. He's been known to make some pretty grandiose speeches, too.
  Morby: There is no next episode, Evelyn Hooper. Morby is the first and final episode, and every episode in between. I am the vulture who feasts on time. I am the shadow of the turned page. Your innocence is my ambrosia, your lust for simplicity my bread.
• The Magnus Archives has several. Over the course of the series, it becomes clear that virtually all of the statements collected by the titular Magnus Institute are the result of run-ins with these, which are incarnations of humanity's fears, including The Stranger (fear of things that seem human but aren't) to The Buried (fear of being suffocated or drowned) to The Vast (fear of your insignificance against a grand and featureless landscape, be it sea, sky, or space) to The Corruption (fear of disease and insects).. Not only that, but our protagonist works for one, and is slowly being turned into a Humanoid Abomination as a result of serving it.
• Malevolent features many, which is to be expected as it is a Cosmic Horror. Notable examples include The Hound from episode 5 (which even The Entity/John struggles to describe), the creature that hunts Arthur and John in episode 17, and the creature trapped within the mines in season 3.
• The Residue from Pretending to Be People is an amorphous black goo with some level of alien consciousness. Things that interact with it appear to suffer a Fate Worse than Death involving time travel.
• Twilight Histories has featured such beings in a couple episodes. The titular being in “The Pale God” is a massive bloated pale serpent that vaugly resembles the feather serpent from Mesoamerican Mythology. While “The Drowned City” features what is either the Mesopotamian goddess Tiamat, or the creature that inspired her legend.
• The podcast Welcome to Night Vale features plenty of these:
  • Most memorably the Glow Cloud: a giant flashing cloud whose colors change depending on viewer, that rains animal carcasses down on the town and possesses Night Vale citizens. It eventually becomes Chairman of the School Board.
  • And, of course, there's a couple hints that our narrator, Cecil, might be one himself. He's probably friendly, though.
  • Cecil's Station Management, who never leave their office until Cecil encourages the listeners to write in to support his continued employment (and possibly continued existence). He comes to regret this when they emerge.
  • The subway system, which appeared suddenly and mysteriously. This one is more ambiguous, since the Man in the Tan Jacket, who for all his weirdness appears to be a good guy, advocated for its reopening; perhaps it was supposed to do good things, but malfunctioned.
  • Librarians, as hinted in several episodes and detailed in the novel, are incredibly dangerous shapeshifting shadow things with acidic white tentacles, that like to haunt the library and kill anyone who goes inside.
  • The City Council is distinctly inhuman, and not in the detailed mundane sense like literal five-headed dragon Hiram McDaniels.

• Old Gods of Appalachia features many different flavors of this, ranging from Botanical Abomination to Animalistic Abomination, but the one(s) in charge of it all, Those Who Sleep Beneath, are the strongest example. While it's unknown in universe if they're one big Kaiju or a Hive Mind, it IS known that it's malicious and lurking within the mountains of Appalachia. And given what it's Mooks can do... it's safe to say this thing is beyond our comprehension.

Professional Wrestling

• WWE's Bray Wyatt could be considered one of these, albeit assuming a simplistic human forum manifesting in the WWE Universe. He is a self-proclaimed Eater Of Worlds and has suggested that he is possessing the body of Husky Harris (Windham "Bray Wyatt" Rotunda's name as a member of The Nexus).
• Parodied by Lloyd Cthulowitz from InterSpecies Wrestling, who was based on you-know-who, was created by the Mad Scientist "Dr. Gene Spleissing" and has been billed from "Miskatonic University". Oh, and he's a lawyer.

Roleplay

• A dime a dozen in Destroy the Godmodder:
  • Creepy Adrenaline Rush (A case of Author Avatars being turned into a dummy) can qualify due to his attack style: He cries blood and pyschically assaults his victims with nightmares.
  • The Glitch is physical representation of reality itself breaking down, usually as a result of the Hexahedron being broken. So horrible that it warped the posts of the players if they didn't post in the correct font.
  • The Red Dragon aka Brine is also a very good example. It's an ancient embodiment of Chaos originating from the dawn of time that takes the form of a dragon the size of a planet. It was buried under the Nether's bottom-layer Bedrock, and required an eon-long war against the Endermen to seal away. When the Godmodder inevitably freed it as part of DTG2's finale, it was one of the very few entities that were legitimately invincible, and was also responsible for the Incarnate. Also, saying its real name causes your post to glitch out.
  • Godmodder Soul, the direct result of the Godmodder making a Deal with the Devil with the Red Dragon and subsequently dying in DTG2. It was safe to say he Came Back Wrong. At this point a floating torso missing an arm, mostly made of corruption, he was also decisively mad from his newfound immortality, and was effectively invincible beyond assaults on his very-fragile mind.
  • The Conflict, an Anti-Narrative empowering two villainous figures, also counts, on an even more insane scale than the Red Dragon, and was the direct reason why The Employer, Project Binary, and even Binary Prime were so ridiculously dangerous. Those three? They're just fragments of this thing. It was also responsible for a massive cataclysmic war that nearly destroyed existence in the past. Fortunately, it's weaker than the Narrative now, but that's hardly much comfort. Its Agents are all this by extension, which includes the aforementioned Red Dragon.
  • The Great Powers of Fiction in general, really. The Narrative is still an impossibly massive Sentient Cosmic Force with (mild) Blue-and-Orange Morality; the Terminae are quite literally physically attuned to and are in-sync with the Source Code of Reality; and the Unfathomable Ones are your standard H.P. Lovecraft fare, up to and including their strongest members being sentient cosmic forces as well.
  • Hell, even the Godmodders themselves can be considered humanoid abominations, due to their nigh-intangibility and their powers having a subtle but destructive effect on reality due to their creation.
• In Dino Attack RPG, the Maelstrom is depicted as a force of utter destruction the likes of which cannot be comprehended by any ordinary person. It cannot be stopped, only delayed.
• Fire Emblem on Forums:
  • Final Hour: Chaos, the Final Boss of the game and the Big Bad who set the entire game in motion attempting to break out of the Waygate. His arrival on the battlefield includes him killing every single enemy that had been there prior, possessing Mason and proceeding to lay waste to the heroes almost singlehandedly.
  • Chains of Horai: The God of Curses, a 'foreign god' that the Gods of the Land barely defeat with a Heroic Sacrifice on the part of the God of Life and his friends. Unlike the mostly human appearances of the Gods of the Land, the God of Curses looks almost plant-like, pulsing with blood and roots, and clearly inhuman as they are sealed away. It's heavily implied that the Shiryo, demonic monsters that roam the land and eat people, are its progeny.
• Any Glitch Pokemon in We Are All Pokémon Trainers.
  • One (Missingno.) was a failed prototype of the Mewtwo cloning project, fused with a Reality Warping supercomputer that could have made AM proud. Its brother was a Cipher experiment Gone Horribly Right, which was prone to kidnapping innocent newborns and converting them into soldiers for its army.
  • ♀ was a formless mass that emitted a song that caused any being to go near it to be driven into homicidal insanity.
• Apotheosis: Aedificatoris In Absentia has numerous gods that look eldritch, but the Crawling Chaos takes the cake. It has a thousand eyes, millions of claws, and jaws the size of worlds. When an old man summoned it in an accident, his eyes and organs were liquefied.
• Infinite Justice, being a crossover between Dragon Ball Z, Marvel Comics, and DC Comics, has numerous creatures from the canon comics, as well as the Leth'hao, the Voidlords. Creatures the size of continents that eat stars and live in black holes, seven of them fought a war against The Starkindlers that nearly destroyed reality, until The Source banished them to the edge of the universe. Word of God says that normal humans that try to see their true forms will have their mind destroyed, unless they're the goddamn Batman.

Theatre

• The Boyg from Peer Gynt. "Not dead, not living, slimy, foggy" is the only description given in-play. You Can Not Grasp The True Form, and it is nigh invincible, because it always dodges you. According to the play Peer Gynt gets mind raped, and starts to act and think like it, ending up as a quite incoherent and fractured soul at the end of the play. Avoiding this entity would seem to be a good idea - but as the creature wins through avoiding, you end up playing its game.

Theme Parks

• The Nemesis roller coaster at Alton Towers amusement park in the UK (being the titular Nemesis).
  • Nemesis comes from another dimension, a dimension beyond our imagination. There are theories, and then there is the legend... Beneath the ground at Alton Towers, something strange and horrible lurked: a creature put on the Earth 2 million years ago. The creature was disturbed during maintenance work on one of the other rides in Forbidden Valley. The creature, angry at being discovered, caused havoc, ripping up trees and buildings, sending them hurtling skyward. A security silence fell over Alton Towers as historians, archaeologists, and the Ministry of Defence nervously began some serious investigations. What they discovered was Nemesis. It had to be controlled — 250 tonnes of steel and 200 men pinned down Nemesis. The steel holding down the monster was twisted and bent into unusual shapes — the steel was the roller coaster track thrill seekers ride today — Nemesis. In a promotional comic released to advertise the ride, said creature had its own cult with its own Tome of Eldritch Lore.
  • Nemesis: Sub-terra. All we know is that it explores beneath the foundations of Nemesis... and many tentacles are in evidence...

Toys

• BIONICLE
  • Tren Krom exists as a Shout-Out 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, who contains the entire Matoran world in his body, was activated. Notable also that in a world of Ambiguous Robots, he's one of the only characters explicitly stated to be 100% organic meaning that his previous role was that of a Wetware CPU for the robot.
  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
  • Makuta was described like this as first - a kicking, screaming, lashing thing of pure malevolence. As a Makuta he has the ability to shape shift into any form and can create Rahkshi from his own flesh, which are considered as his sons. Then he got retconned into a Magnificent Bastard Chessmaster more akin to The Devil than anything Lovecraftian, and Greg Farshtey himself has stated that he prefers Makuta this way.
  • The web serial "The Kingdom" takes place in a parallel universe where, because of Matoro hesitating at a critical moment, the Great Spirit Mata Nui died and the majority of the Matoran universe had to be evacuated. In the climax of the story, our Takanuva and a group of heroes from this universe confront Makuta Teridax^note the original Makuta of the story, given a name after it was revealed that "Makuta" was the name of his species, who has survived inside the wreckage of the universe for 10,000 years; he is now a proper example of this trope once more. He is described as a horrific 20-foot-tall amalgamation of the other Makuta he assimilated in order to keep himself alive; we don't get much of a description of him beyond that, which is probably for the best.
  • Annona, which has been described as a small, star-like thing with tentacles and a room-chilling aura. It eats dreams.
  • The first Rahi were tentacled monstrosities and other madness-inducing sea beasts. Akin to Tren Krom, they are actually naturally occurring in the Matoran world, but they are still unspeakably ancient and strange.
  • The Energized Protodermis Entity was through excessive backstory rewrites and extensions turned from a one shot bad guy made of Sentient Phlebotinum into this, when it was revealed to have been a mysterious cosmic being that resided in the core of Spherus Magna, and was in fact the engine that set the entire story into motion through the Core War. It can take on many shapes, but its natural form is a silvery liquid.
• There are Cthulhu dolls. D'aww. Great, ancient evil.◊
• Figma:
  • Nyaruko, noted that she is Nyarlaphotep.
  • Kyubey ^note Incubator, you can find him in School Uniform Madoka or Akuma Homura set as accessory.
• Mattel had the Inhumanoids line were the villains and the non-human good guys were disgusting abominations hidden in our planet. Check out Inhumanoids and this trope's category Western Animation for more detail about the Inhumanoids.
• Transformers
  • Unicron, the Great Devourer, the Chaos Bringer, the Planet Eater. His total goal is the reduction of all existence in every reality to nothing. He empowers his Heralds, gifting them with fleets of vehicles, vast armies, supernatural powers, and powerful insanity. Amongst his Heralds:
  • Megatronus Prime, one of the Original Thirteen, a warrior of Primus charged with overseeing all Entropy in the multiverse who Unicron corrupted into betraying his brothers. Henceforth, his name would forever be "The Fallen".
  • If Unicron counts, then so does Primus aka Cybertron itself. In some versions of the backstory they are even brothers. A rare example of a benevolent Eldritch Abomination.
• Funko Pop Cthulhu, it may qualify as Adorable Abomination.

Visual Novels

• Many of the Cthulhu Mythos' deities appear in Demonbane. Although the Great Old Ones are treated as just powerful monsters, the Outer Gods still play it straight.
  • To elaborate, unlike in the mythos, most Outer Gods are sealed in compact universes inside the Shining Trapezohedron. But Azathoth still generates countless universes from inside, making it the center of the multiverse (and the destruction of the Shining Trapezohedron will doom everything, for Azathoth will turn the whole multiverse into an Eldritch Location once it's free). At least two Outer Gods are free, for neither of them can be sealed. One is Yog-Sothoth (being the embodiment of all time and space) and the other is Nyarlathotep (being the will of the Outer Gods, and since the multiverses come from the thoughts of Azathoth, sealing Nyarlathotep will simply drive it from your universe for a while, then it will re-emerge with another mask in an alternate universe. One of the latter's forms, Clockwork Phantom, is an elaborate version of the Tik-Tok Man in the mythos, being a mechanic abomination that assimilated whole universes into itself.
  • Then there's the War God Demonbane, the hidden, second form of the titular mecha. Its sheer size destroys the universe it appears in, and collides with the multiverse. It can also manipulate and weaponize universes. However, that is nothing compared to Elder God Demonbane, the third and final form, who can create an infinite amount of the aforementioned universe-destroying, multiverse-colliding abominations.
• Would you believe that Hatoful Boyfriend has one? The sequel, Holiday Star, has The King, once an unstable and betrayed button quail named Nanaki Kazuaki, now a monstrous Hive Mind that sprouts multicolored extra heads when angry, who kidnaps our heroine and her birdy beaus to his Fisher Kingdom, and tries to absorb any souls he encounters, living or dead, out of desire for friendship without betrayal.
• In ClockUp's Maggot Baits, we have the titular Demonic Maggots:
  Monstrous lumps of meat that infest the city. Maggots featuring human limbs, eyes, and mouths, theirs is an unsettling, viscerally repulsive appearance.
  Gifted with strong regenerative abilities against physical damage, they secrete a bodily fluid with entrancing aphrodisiac properties.
  They induce a powerful instinctive feeling of dread in Witches, though the reason is unknown.
  They hunt human women and Witches for reproductive and predatory purposes.
• May I Take Your Order: Talaiporia is implied to be some sort of pain-consuming god from The Void. Which is a really perfect choice for a Romantic Comedy heroine.
• Nasuverse:
  • To begin with, the planets of Solar system themselves are living entities. It is stated celestial bodies which can support life on its body would eventually give birth to a soul within its core through the Force of Causality. The planet's soul grows as life on it evolves, and they possess immense powers over reality; as a general rule, they literally alter the laws of reality on the planet in accordance to their perception of the cosmos. To illustrate this, Gaia manages a "Tree of Time" which consists of a number of parallel worlds created from fluctuations of possibilities, overseeing possible events which could unfold on its body as different timelines. It is often suggested other planets are much the same.
  • The Ultimate Lifeform of a planet's biosphere, known as an Ultimate One or a TYPE, is the chosen representative to carry out the planet's will, and fittingly each one is unique for every planet. In general, they hit nearly every point of this trope; enormous, unkillable^note Most of the time, alter the fundamental nature of reality in their vicinity just by existing, and have thought processes incomprehensible to humans. Oh, and the reason the Types came to Earth during Angel Notes is to wipe out humanity as revenge for outliving Gaia, who died at some point in a possible future of the franchise's chronology.
  • Conversely, from the perspective of Gaia, humanity itself is this trope. At some point after humans were born in Earth's biosphere, they somehow gained independence from the planet's will and even developed their own collective force of will, known as Alayashiki. This results in planet Earth having two entities managing its Tree of Time, and likewise Alaya also alters reality in accordance to humanity's understanding of the cosmos, a concept known as Human Order. As such, humans are generally seen as cancerous existences by agents of the Earth (which is not inaccurate given the events of Notes), with Gaia and Alaya coming into conflict in various different manners depending on the timeline.
  • Related to the above, due to Gaia's understanding of the cosmos literally shaping the laws of reality on Earth and Alaya mostly following the same laws, aliens (any lifeform which originates from outside Earth) naturally do not follow many of the laws which apply to just about everything else on the planet. Consequently, alien entities powerful enough to subvert the defense systems placed by Gaia and Alaya are generally viewed as this trope. The most notable example is Sefar, who killed about 70% of life on Earth (including gods born from Gaia and Alaya's laws), bringing an end to the Age of Gods.
  • Most entities included among the 27 Dead Apostle Ancestors, which are ranked on how much threat they pose to humanity. As almost all of them are vampires (which originated from Crimson Moon Brunestud, Type Moon), it makes sense. Special mention however, goes to the top 10: especially Forest Of Einnashe (Rank 7, a living, dimension-hopping forest who became alive after the corpse of a powerful vampire was disposed of there), ORT (who is actually a TYPE, and hailed as the strongest entity on Earth before the times of Notes, but is listed in rank 5 since it annihilated the previous holder for disturbing its sleep), Type Moon himself (who is ironically only Rank 3) and Primate Murder (Rank 1, a mysterious lifeform created by Gaia, who despite being weaker than a TYPE is still capable of killing humans even faster than Type Moon can, to the point it is stated its only rival in this regard is ORT).
  • The Servants. Souls pulled out from the cycle of death and rebirth, because they're remembered in Alaya's consciousness as "heroes". When resurrected as familiar spirits, they are completely immune to anything that is incapable of harming their spiritual bodies, and can consume human souls to empower themselves. This trope is especially true for the more powerful Servants, who can warp reality with their Noble Phantasms (A Servant's signature, most distinctive weapons or skills). To emphasise their incomprehensible nature, when a human tries to use a severed Servant's arm as a transplanted organ (since his own arm was severed), not only can said human access the memories of the Servant, the memories begin to completely destroy his mind.
  • Fate/stay night has Angra Mainyu, residing inside the Grail. In the Third Holy Grail War, the Einzberns tried to game the summoning system to get an extra-class Servant in place of the Berserker slot from the seven main classes, and they got the Avenger class. Unfortunately, he was nothing more than a normal nameless man, who was in life horribly tortured by his fellow villagers from birth to death, "to be the scapegoat for all the world's evil". Upon his defeat though, he can have his wish granted, since the Grail treats him as a human rather than a spirit. Naturally, he wishes for something to take his place, something to shoulder all the world's evil. He got exactly what he asked for, a being made of every evil mankind ever has, ever will, and ever could commit. It consumes Avenger, and both of them are trapped inside the Grail, corrupting it as Angra Mainyu. Immersed within it, Avenger was corrupted and hates all mankind with a passion. If it is ever released from its shell, it would bring forth about 7 billion curses towards the world in the form of a huge, organic tower that spills black mud that corrupts and burns everything in its path.
  • Fate/Grand Order has the 72 Demons of the Ars Goetia. They are part of a spiritual Hive Mind created by the Lesser Key of Solomon, a magecraft ritual given will and life. Each of them is a physics-defying entity of spirit and magic, and when all of them combine their power they can perform the "Ars Almadel Salomonis" which creates billions of destructive light to burn all living beings on the surface of the planet as well as their entire history and convert them into magical energy for further magical rituals. Further, the kanji used for their name can be either read "Demon Gods" or "Demon Pillars", and fittingly when manifesting physically, a single demon appears as a giant pillar of putrid black flesh, encircled at intervals by glowing red eyes. Even without any apparent mouth, they are able to vocalize with a distorted, inhuman shriek. Further, they can corrupt and possess living beings and turn them into a physical avatar of their Hive Mind.
  • From the same game, there are also the Evils of Humanity, also known as Beast-class Servants or Beasts of Calamity. Each of them is born from the accumulated karma resulting from a specific weakness of human nature (as such, the name of "Evil" is actually a bit misleading), such as Pity ^note the sheer arrogance of looking down on others for being different, Regression, Desire, Comparison, Regret, etc. To be specific, whenever a specific entity gains a nature which embodies one of said Evils, they will grow to become a Beast in much the same manner Servants become what they are; the only difference being this process is involuntary on Alaya's part, with the Beasts being compared to "humanity's cancers" in much the same way humans are to Gaia. The aforementioned Goetia demons is in fact part of Beast I, representing Pity, who is the Demon God King Goetia, and the aforementioned Primate Murder is actually a potential version of Beast IV, representing Comparison. Each Beast has their own unique way of instilling The Corruption upon all life. Their worst trait, however, is that none of them naturally has a concept of death as humans understand them. Whenever any one of them manifests, the Godzilla Threshold has to be passed just for a chance of victory.
  • Outer Gods exist in higher dimensions, worlds beyond even the parallel worlds which Gaia and Alaya manage, and even outside the universe itself. By extension, the Foreigner class Servants - individuals who have a connection to the Outer Gods, tapping into their powers. That's right, it is one type of Eldritch Abomination drawing on the powers of even worse ones. It doesn't matter whether a given Foreigner is a vessel for the Outer Gods or managed to survive the experience of refusing them with their sanity intact - with few exceptions, Foreigners are Beast-level threats. And the Outer Gods themselves? They are every bit as incomprehensible here as they are in their source material; while everything in the franchise originates from a metaphysical place called the "Root of Creation" (which also records the past, present, and future), Fate Grand Order has a character observe how at the very end of time, everything returns to nothingness and becomes one with the Root - everything except the Outer Gods, and it's not even clear if they are actually native to the franchise's reality.
• Though we never see the entire true form, Saya from Saya no Uta is implied to be a Starfish Aliens / Tentacle Monster-type alien. She also turns Yoh into one of these as her pet. Hell, in the "good" end, the one who ends up killing her ends up traumatized and having nightmares.
• Not only is Shikkoku no Sharnoth full of these in the form of the <<Metacreatures>>, but M, the protagonist's cryptic guide, benefactor, and possible love interest, is later revealed to be Nyarlathotep.
• The uncle from The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo, who is implied to be some kind of all-powerful digital being.
• In We Know the Devil, Venus, Neptune, and Jupiter when the devil takes them. They become monstrosities with symbolism based off their anxieties.

Web Video

• In Aurora Borealis, a music video for a Lemon Demon song, otherwordly creatures are visible from almost the very first second, and serve as a backdrop throughout the whole video, with the two main characters as nearly the only humans seen. Although, it turns out they're monsters, as well.
• Boxer Hockey: In this cartoon Rittz appears to be tormented by one of these. Don't worry, it's funnier than it sounds.
• The Aeon Worm from Bravest Warriors is a powerful, giant creature from the "see-through zone". It is never shown in full on screen, but its true appearance◊ is very alien.
• Dreamscape: Its Keedran's favorite form to take! She looks like a Creepy Centipede with Creepy Long Arms, one of which is a snake and the other that looks like a bear's.
• In The Fear Hole, the horrible thing that Antagonizer fights in Episode 7. It's never seen, but it's described with terms like "It's like a sewer had an abortion" and "It's like if cancer had leprosy", so you know it's bad.
  • The thing in Episode 4 who looks like Cthulhu and has the personality of a small, fairly innocent child, but in the end turns out to be nasty.
• The Garnet and Gure animated short, "Monsters are Dwelling" introduces us to the mythos of the "Horrible Gods", as described by a surprisingly charming green, eight-armed naked lady who is apparently going door to door to spread the Word of Kar-Goom.
• The Kaskade Region, a Pokémon fan-game idea, has just as many otherworldly creatures as the canon series:
  • There's the Mechanical Abomination Ωrogon, Amaze-All's artificial Legendary to replicate the power of Kaskade's creator entity known only as the Great Thunderbird. Its robotic avian body looks uncanny enough with elements of Porygon and Rotom spliced in, but when it's empowered with the Relic Key and grows its wings of lightning, it becomes downright terrifying, especially when it starts mind-controlling the four seasonal Legendaries.
  • Then the post-game has invaders that are Ultra Beasts in all but name:
    • For almost the whole game's plot line, Orbtholods were just uncommon but not-unknown Pokémon that were owned by almost every important or strong trainer in the region, even if their invertebrate bodies did have a bit of a Starfish Alien vibe to it. Then it's revealed that they are mind-controllers that are just minions to an otherworldly force, intent on brainwashing the region's populace and using their souls to open the gates to their vanguard.
    • The Cataclysm Quartet, Pestilation, Revylon, Leoseace and Lamentu are incredibly otherworldly, with too many eyes and too many mouths between them. For some of them, even their tails have jaws!
    • But the one that absolutely takes the cake is their boss, Endram-Odai, a nightmarish, cosmic-bodied Space Whale, with way too many eyes. Just looking at the thing gives you a head-splitting migraine, making it incredibly difficult to even remember what your Pokémon are and what they can do (i.e. glitching out your menu text and sprites). And then you find out that it itself is being controlled by a Puppeteer Parasite on its face!
• Youtuber Lumpy Touch took 5 images of Garfield drawn by William Burke as an eldritch abomination and made a series of horror shorts based them called "Garfield Gameboy'd". While some are out of order, the shorts are still well made and feature 8-bit artwork. Music in the background is from games such as Clock Tower and EarthBound (1994). The shorts depict a terrified Jon, hiding from a monstrous Garfield who appears to be hunting and attacking Jon while demanding lasagna. By the end of the final short, Jon has apparently lost one of his arms and his whole house, but Garfield survives and an air-raid siren plays in the background. Animations are added to almost every image including an animation of Jon shooting Garfield in the eye and a scene of Garfield's spider-body walking along the ceiling while Jon hides. Additionally, the animations feature a HUD including "Scent" "HP" and "Detection" to play into the idea that it is a videogame adaptation. You can view the first one here.
• The old gods from pilot Song in the Sky—the main threat of the episode is a screeching giant elk skull...thing, and more are lurking in the shadows.
• SMG4 has Ztar, a black star who eats other stars and has a suffocating aura not unlike that of the Dark Star. There's also Zero, who appears to be a glowing red eye shrouded in darkness with an insanely long blue arm. They are both Omnicidal Maniacs, the latter of which wants to destroy all universes one by one.
• Zero Punctuation, as shown in his reviews of SimCity and The Sims 4, tends to paint EA as an evil amorphous black mass of tentacles and goo. Rather fittingly, in a wordplay way.

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