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- Almost Nowhere
- The anomalings are Starfish Aliens that require enormous mutual effort to communicate with, have Sufficiently Advanced Technology, perceive physics from a completely different perspective from humanity, and attempt to trap us all inside "crashes" which straddle the line between Prison Dimension and sufficiently advanced virtual reality.
- Bilaterals are bound by a temporal dimension orthogonal to the causality stack used by normal life and several of the most advanced species such as "humans" are capable of insanity inducing thought processes like "generalization" and "analogies" which requires them to be quarantined to crashes for the safety of all normal life.
- Atop the Fourth Wall:
- The Entity, AKA Missingno. For such a campy, silly show about a Manchild who reads comic books, this thing is terrifying. For one thing, it seems to lack physical form. And from there, it all goes downhill. It's so deadly, the guy fighting it became a Multiversal Conqueror feared throughout creation just to stop it. And unlike the majority of cosmic aberrations, this "glitch" can see us.
- The "Machinations of Worms" arc centers around one of the Entity's "cousins", the King of Worms. According to the Absent Grimoire, it can feel fear, which warped its face to the point that anyone who sees it can recognize what it is. As such, it refuses to show its face, preferring to work behind the scenes through its "clockwork soldiers". Its ultimate goal is to master fear and heal its face. Oh, and it's also a lot smarter than the Entity, actively sabotaging Linkara: so far it took control of Linkara's cybermats, used them to infect Harvey Finevoice, Linksano, Ninja-Style Dancer, and the Zeonizer, and directly took control of Jaeris's A.I. Sierra.
- C0DA, written by former The Elder Scrolls series writer/designer Michael Kirkbride, takes place in the far distant future of TES universe. Numidium, the Reality Warping Humongous Mecha of Dwemer construction, presumed destroyed following the events of Daggerfall, returns after having been caught in a time warp. Numidium, crossing over with Mechanical Abomination, is the living embodiment of the Dwemer's concept of refutation, or to have Jubal-lun-Sul put it bluntly:"Let’s face it. You were made to say “fuck it”. That’s not an answer that lasts."
- The Grandmatriarchs from Cookie Clicker. Fail to appease them with sufficient sacrifices of cookies, and they will turn into horrifying blobs of flesh and cookie dough and, according to the "News" scroll at the top of the page, begin to devour the world.
- Being Dimensional Travelers, The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids often encounter such beings, and are extremely blasé about them. After trapping one (a temporal demon known as Thymon), they even set him to work in their post office, as all the tentacles come in handy.
- Critical Role: The campaign's Greater-Scope Villain is Cognouza, a former neighborhood of Aeor that was ejected by its leaders, the Somnovem, into the Astral Sea when the city crashed. This was fine for a little while, but the Somnovem greatly underestimated the dangers of the Astral Sea, and a severe psychic storm resulted in every single soul in the entire city shattering apart. Over time, these splintered minds merged with eachother and with their city, transforming Cognouza into a living city of flesh, with mockeries of people going through the motions of life and only letting out horrible, wailing screams when addressed, led and held together by the equally tortured and insane Somnovem. The city itself has nonsensical architecture, houses that produce saliva or have tongue-like tissue inside, neighborhoods that repeat in endless fractals, vein-like tunnels under the streets, and street signs that just have garbled nonsense or phrases like "help help help help" written on them. When Cognouza finally dies with Lucien, the Mighty Nein hear thousands of voices whisper "Thank you" as the city falls silent.
- The Big Bad of browser game Demon Thesis is one of these, and is responsible for both empowering four college students with Elemental Powers and other spells and creating the monsters they are suddenly forced to defend themselves and others against, all for his own sinister purposes.
- All of the teachers in Don't Hug Me I'm Scared, which are bizarre, reality-warping, malicious objects and creatures that terrorize the innocent students as the antagonists of the show.
- Don't Walk Home Alone After Dark: In The Worm, the titular antagonist is revealed to be this; it's some kind of ancient parasitic entity that can latch itself onto a person who knows of its existence and manipulate their dreams, feeding off their fear and slowly driving them insane. In the nightmares, its true form resembles a giant worm-like creature with five sets of limbs (with two little arms on its mandibles), a long tail with spines, multiple glowing eyes and huge jaws; even then it's not clear if this is its true form or just how its victims perceive it in their dreams.
- Sima Zhao appears to be one in Farce of the Three Kingdoms. He always speaks in Zalgo Text, and tends to utter prophecies in ominous tones. It's also vaguely implied that he has a nonstandard number of eyes. As per usual in Farce, none of the other characters find him particularly alarming.
- A series of 5 images done by a William Burke depict Garfield as some sort of abomination which switches between appearances for each image. In response to these images, Youtuber Lumpy Touch took the images and made 5 short animations called "Garfield Gameboy'd", and the subreddit r/imsorryjon
also emerged.- The first image depicts a large and rather bloated Garfield with elongated arms holding Jon with a single hand and asking for his lasagna.
- The second image shows Jon hiding behind a wall with a giant Garfield head on the body of a spider. Jon looks very disturbed, and Garfield once again asks for his lasagna, emphasizing the word.
- The third image shows Garfield as barely having any form anymore, being a huge pile of flesh with pincers coming off. Jon is hiding behind the television looking terrified, and Garfield simply says "Jon I can smell you"
- The fourth image shows Jon hiding behind a door. Holding a shotgun, he appears to have shot Garfield in the eye, it oozing out of his head. Garfield, who now has the body of a centipede, simply smiles and says "bullets don't work Jon".
- The final image depicts Garfield as a gigantic entity now towering over Jon, with a bloated body and thin legs. His eye is still blown out from the shotgun, but he slithers a large tongue towards the tiny Jon before him and says "The world is going to end Jon".
- There's now an entire video of it. Enjoy.
- A sixth image was commissioned by Lumpy Touch specifically for a collaborative series called Gorefield Horrorscopes; each of the 12 depictions was made by a different artist, and Burke did the one for Aries. It depicts the torn upper half of a Baphomet-like figure with Garfield's head, with one eye still blown out. The complete Gorefield Horrorscopes can be found here. All of the Gorefields have monstrous appearances evocative of the Western Zodiac, and have equally monstrous abilities to go with it:
- The aforementioned Aries Gorefield can make their Jon fall to sleep, at which point, the Gorefield can manipulate their Jon's dreams.
- Taurus Gorefield can give information to their Jon, but requires knowledge in return, which cannot be relearned. Ever. Oh, and it's the size of a galaxy.
- Gemini Gorefield is able to create a perfect clone of their Jon, who has all of their stats, but amplified.
- Cancer Gorefield can buff all of their Jon's stats, tricking them into thinking they are extremely talented, and at any given moment, dispel those buffs.
- Leo Gorefield looks like the most tame of the bunch (being just a sapient lion statue clutching a dead Nermal's head in one paw), but has the power to resurrect an undead rival from the nearest graveyard, who actively seeks out to ruin their Jon's life
- Virgo Gorefield's tongue can manifest itself as a very attractive individual to their Jon, and if the Jon ever confesses their love to them, they are instantly eaten alive.
- Libra Gorefield will hold trials against their Jon, in which they will be punished if their net karma is positive or negative.
- Scorpio Gorefield can induce visions of death onto their Jon, and the most frequent vision becomes their destiny.
- Sagittarius Gorefield's arrows can make their Jon either extremely lucky or unlucky. It also likes to play games of luck with their Jon while they're unlucky.
- Capricorn Gorefield communicates through television and radio depictions of disturbing content, containing subliminal messages that cause their Jon to become progressively more self-destructive.
- Aquarius Gorefield will stalk Jon around and, in exchange for blood sacrifices, do whatever their Jon asks of them. Otherwise, they'll try to "accidentally" ruin their Jon's life. They can also avoid nearly all detection.
- Pisces Gorefield can create rain at will around their Jon, and if the Jon is completely drenched, they're transported into a cell and drowned.
- There's also a secret 13th Gorefield based on Ophiuchus that outright destroyed their dimension's Earth after seeing the worst in humanity.
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- Gemini Home Entertainment has quite a few of these captured (or, in many cases, barely glimpsed) on-camera:
- The very first episode, "World's Weirdest Creatures", features the Woodcrawlers, probably the most recurring entities in the series. They have yet to be seen in their entirety; all that is shown on camera is four giant spider-like legs. They are known to infiltrate human homes in order to Kill and Replace the people inside, creating so-called "fake people" that look exactly like humans but have decidedly odd behavior.
- The giant entities seen in "Camp Information Video" and "Christmas Eve Party". They too haven't been fully seen on-camera, but what we've seen of their anatomy is... rather bizarre. And to make matters worse, humans can apparently be turned into more of them; just ask Mary Dean.
- "Advanced Mining Vehicle" features spider-like entities with vast glowing eyes, living deep underground in a vast semi-organic underground structure known as "the Garden". They too have no in-series name, but the creator has referred to them as "Gardeners". The Garden itself may also qualify (if it's actually alive), given that it's made entirely of strange, fleshy matter and spawns woodcrawlers from inside itself.
- However, the biggest and baddest of the series has to be the Iris, first seen in "Our Solar System". It's nothing less than a sentient planet, being essentially a gigantic space-borne eye that is both sentient and capable of "infecting" other planets to create entities like the woodcrawlers. It's already done this to Neptune, resulting in the planet becoming "mutated", and it's currently in the process of doing this to Earth. And apparently it's currently making its way to Earth. It becomes even more obvious in "Crusader Probe Mission", where not only does it have a number of equally eldritch moons, but it's also shown to be entirely composed of the same matter that makes up the Garden, as well as featuring features like esophagi, a respiratory system, and a "conscious mind".
- The very first episode, "World's Weirdest Creatures
- Goodbye Strangers: The titular strangers are strange creatures that seem to be invading from a reality very different than ours. Most of them look like brightly colored worm or lizard things with flat eyes and they can't be perceived by most people. They also do not appear to be alive, as they do not contain any functioning internal organs and don't need to eat or breathe and seem to appear through Spontaneous Generation when conditions are right and quickly disappear when they die. While they seem to have emotions they do not appear to actually be sapient or fully sentient. Why they exist at all is a mystery, although it is strongly implied that they are a weird sort of The Heartless as they only appear in populated areas and many of them seem to be themed around different emotions and human concepts. The strangers are not the only eldritch monsters in the setting though. The Alphabetarians are abstract higher dimensional beings that look like Anthropomorphic Typography but are actually vast incorporeal dimensional tunnels that assimilate any soul that they intersect with, rendering victims into Soulless Shells. And the Probotaxazatonians are a race of hedonistic monsters vaguely resembling strangers who also take souls and use them as drugs.
- Magic, Metahumans, Martians and Mushroom Clouds: An Alternate Cold War has whatever the hell Ivan Sanderson’s final expedition encountered in Hudson Bay. It's described as being tendrils that are made of "nothing" (being explicitly called a void), it's able to drive people to madness and cannibalism (according to Word of God, it's the in-universe inspiration for the Wendigo), and is fully aware that it's being psychically viewed from the future.
- THE MONUMENT MYTHOS: Any entity referred to as a "True Force of Mass Destruction" or TFMD is often one of these, as it means it's ill-understood and dangerous to humanity at the national level at the very least. The term is ingrained enough into the world, and so often threatened by them, that there are even flame wars on Twitter about the label being applied to a given entity or not; the Suez Canal Crab did not get the label officially until it accidentally took out a tower full of people by tripping into it. However, a few examples really stand out:
- Alcatraz. It's an island which is essentially a single gigantic bacterium, capable of reproduction and devouring physical matter; after the "radiation therapy" with which the government tried to kill it, it begins replicating at an exponentially faster rate, and by 2020 it's stated that the "Alcatraz Zone" extends to west Texas, whatever that means. ALCATRAZAPOCALYPSE reveals that it's also capable of creating an exact physical replica of the matter it devours, and that in February 2022 it does this to the entirety of America- including its entire population- in the space of a single night, with barely anyone able to notice the difference.
- The Special Trees. Despite the name, it's left ambiguous if they're trees at all; they lack any leaves or other visible tree-like structures other than the trunk, and they're also heavily implied to be sapient. As to their abilities, aside from being almost indestructible, they're also capable of opening portals to other universes and exchanging anyone nearby with their counterpart from that universe. They also open portals into "Wonderland", a dimension that seems to be their home, and which is... weird, to say the least.
- But the best example of all would be the Horned Serpent, also known as the Libertylurker. A gigantic organism sealed beneath the United States (as in, beneath the entirety of the United States), it seems to be the source of many of the anomalous effects seen in the series, seemingly including the Special Trees, which are implied to be its namesake spikes (note that Wonderland is also called "the Horned Serpent Metastructure"). And just to make matters weirder, LIBERTYLURKERS confirms it to be George Washington after having become trapped in Wonderland, causing him to stretch to unimaginable lengths.
- Mystery Flesh Pit National Park: The titular Flesh Pit, formally known as the Permian Basin Superorganism (Immanis colosseus). While Word of God claims that "it's not magical and it's not interdimensional", it still gives off a decidedly Lovecraftian vibe and is implied to be able to psychically enthrall people into worshipping it. The PBSO is also a biome unto itself, playing host to a panoply of freakish species with fun names like "The Amorphous Shame". It gets even better too, since at least one other creature which counts as this trope was confirmed to live deep within the Superorganism, a denizen of the "Blue Tissue" layer measuring about ~500m in diameter, appearing as a horrid mass of tendrils. And then we later learn that there are more.
- In the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Mentally Advanced Abridged Series and Rainbow Dash Present Eldritch Abominations are everywhere.
- One, Thackerzod (Sweetie Bell possessed), is even part of the main cast. Lovecraft was apparently a big inspiration for FiMFlamFilosopher and the team.
- From Rainbow Dash Presents: Haunting Nightmare, we have Smarty Pants, who possesses Twilight Sparkle and plans to be eaten by an even larger eldritch abomination so it can continue its unholy life cycle. It only fails to do so because Thrackerzod has already laid claim to Twilight itself.
- Another Rainbow Dash Presents, A Star in Yellow, has Yellow Star trying to summon one using Twilight as part of a Funny Background Event. Less funny, Yellow Star and her twin sister were tricked into summoning one, and were apparently fathered by one. On a Pony Abomination level, in light of this episode the parallels between Yellow Star and Celestia seem to imply that Celestia is actually a lot better than she could have been.
- Nightmare Time has its own group of five eldritch beings, called the Lords in Black. They reign over The Black and White, which exists outside space and time, often using the citizens of the town of Hatchetfield as their own playthings in their sadistic games.
- Wiggog Y’wrath, or Wiggly, is “The Lord in Black,” a cthulu-esque being who manipulates the problems that people face in order to convince them to build a portal to bring him to life.
- Blikotep, or Blinky, is “The Watcher with a Thousand Eyes,” a one-eyed creature who takes pleasure in watching the relationships between people fall apart.
- T’noy Karaxis, or Tinky, is “The Bastard of Space and Time,” a goat-like creature who can give people the power to travel through time.
- Nibblenephim, or Nibbly, is “The One Who Feasts in the Dark,” an eyeless being who seeks human sacrifices.
- Pokotho, or Pokey, is “The Singular Voice,” a creature who wears a cracked mask, and induces people into his hivemind, so that he can control everything.
- Orion's Arm:
- The Transapients, and especially the Archailects. The very least of them is as far beyond a baseline human as that human is beyond a non-provolved animal. They are so advanced that their individual thoughts are sentient. Their physical forms vary from "Moon Brains" to entire pocket universes with just a small piece sticking out into reality. And most of those listed are "friendly" to humanity, though there are also entities that turn entire colonies into masses of flesh and metal as "art".
- An extreme example would be the "animin", which are Transapients developed from non-human or human-like minds, their defining characteristic being their thought processes are alien even to human-derived Transapients. They don't interact much with actual civilization as the Terragens understand it and, while just as intelligent as other Transapients, have "non-analytical" minds that seem to function more off of instinct than rational thought. They are considered very unpredictable and dangerous, yet also valuable for the insights into how non-human intelligences may develop past transcension. The rumored "Queen of Pain", a Transapient that likes to collect and indefinitely torture people it perceives as evil, is an example of an animin.
- And then there's the Leviathan, a mysterious and really freaking hugenote object that has made contact with the Triangulum Galaxy and is probably heading to the Milky Way next. Who built it? Unknown. What are its intentions? Unknown. How was it built? Unknown. What even is it? Unknown. Even the Archailects are confused by this thing's existence.
- H-M Brown's Shell introduces us to a strange creature that is difficult to describe and has led those who saw it into madness.
- Spooky Month: The Eyes of the Universe is a gigantic, tentacled, and multi-teethed and eyed abomination residing deep under the Earth, whose eyes are the very stars above. It's worshiped by a local group of cultists, and staring directly into its many eyes instantly sends all who dare to gaze at it into a deep trance. Skid and Pump befriend it in seconds and take it out for candy.
- Symphony of Science portrays Black Holes as these. Cosmic level monsters of darkness born from the undead remains of stars and capable of eating them whole, they're invisible Space Time Eaters with an Eldritch Location in their innards.
- In There Will Be Brawl, we get the multiple Mr. Game And Watches once they use their Final Smash. This is especially surprising because they are seen all over the city earlier, socializing and holding down normal jobs.
- Thrilling Intent has the Tax Goat, a creature that "repossesses" people and takes them to a different dimension. The series also features a shadow monster in the Prison of Lights that is notably the only monster the group never even tries to fight.
- Todd in the Shadows has made a Running Gag out of his belief that Lady Gaga is "a demon from hell".Todd: By the end of next year, she's gonna just be an enormous blob of protoplasm, crushing the world◊.Todd: Part of me resents the idea that she's the pop star that it's safe to like. And I don't mean safe, in that she's less likely to devour you.
- In Shadow of Israphel, the Sentinels are ultimately revealed to be this. While we've not seen their external appearance, Lewis Brindley and Simon Lane have travelled through one. Apparently some sort of Mechanical Monster, they have shown the ability to corrupt individuals, possess beings and drive them mad, including the Sand which used to keep them prisoner, and their "blood" seems to be radioactive.
- In The Wandering Inn, A’ctelios Salash, aka. The Carven City, Tombhome is ultimately revealed to be the corpse of a Seamwalker. An explicit connection to Cthulhu foreshadows this in the 7th book: "Teres thought it sounded a bit like Cthulhu or something, but—it was probably not. Right?"
- The Carnis itself from Vita Carnis is this. It appeared on earth one day and quickly shifted the natural order around itself. It consists of Meat Moss called Crawl, which spawns several kinds of creatures. These creatures range from the creepy-but harmless Trimmings and Meat Snakes, to the extremely dangerous Mimics and Harvesters, to the potentially apocalyptic Monoliths and Singularity.
