Eldritch Abomination Check / Sandbox

Checking to see how Eldritch Abomination is used on the site. In particular, check whether examples have the qualifier of "breaking defined in-universe laws" (see SquarePegRoundTrope.E To K). Minimum wicks to check: 150. P.S. Potholes are a pain.

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Done: 150/150
I: 7/150 (4.667%)
II: 18/150 (12%)
III: 11/150 (7.333%)
IV: 34/150 (22.667%)
V: 2/150 (1.333%)
VI: 57/150 (38%)
VII: 19/150 (12.667%)
VIII: 2/150 (1.333%)

I: Refers to a specific Lovecraftian EA / one known in the genre

DarthWiki.A Brave New Century - Eldritch Abomination: Some of Lovecraft's are running around, especially Nyarlathotep. Self explanatory
EnsembleDarkHorse.Literature: In H. P. Lovecraft's Yogg-Sorothy, Cthulhu only had one story about him written by Lovecraft himself. However, his disciple writing more stories led to Cthulhu becoming the poster-squid... thing for the entire Chronology, with the fans dubbing it the Cthulhu Mythos. Refers to Cthulhu.
Fridge.Castle Perilous: Fridge Brilliance: One of the essay questions from the "final exam" in Castle Dreams asks the test taker to explain the significance of "Tekeli-li!", what the author could have had in mind in using it, and what "mind" means in this context. Considering Eldritch Abomination, You Cannot Grasp the True Form and Go Mad from the Revelation apply to Lovecraft's work, asking what kind of mind is meant or if there even is one is entirely apt. References Lovecraft's work.
Main.Not Quite Back To Normal - Child of the Storm has Harry get a white lock in his fringe while being possessed by Chthon, and it stays afterwards, occasionally being remarked upon as rather odd and distinctive. In the sequel, he gets captured, tortured, and his Empty Shell body is reprogrammed by the Red Room as a superpowered assassin in the vein of the Winter Soldier. After that particular Trauma Conga Line, he's left with increased combat skills, fluency in Russian, and a truly horrifying case of PTSD, which months later, he has yet to totally recover from. Refers to Chthon, a canonical EA in Marvel Universe.
Main.Unholy Nuke: Iä Shub-Niggurath is a Super-tier spell described as summoning a black cyclone of death magic that attempts to One-Hit KO everything in its (massive) area of effect, then summons a number of high-level Eldritch Abominations that serve the caster, depending on the number of creatures killed by the initial effect. And yes, it can be enhanced by the above for further devastation. When used in the aptly-named Massacre at Katze Plains, the initial effect killed 70,000 soldiers and raised five level 90-ish Dark Young that slaughtered about 100,000 more, making this spell easily qualify as both an Unholy Nuke and a Fantastic Nuke. Refers to Shub-Niggurath, a canonical EA in Cthulhu Mythos.
UnreliableNarrator.Literature:
1. H. P. Lovecraft's stories are usually narrated from a first-person point of view by said stories' main characters. The unreliability of the narrators may range from becoming increasingly maddened as the narration progresses to seemingly sane persons questioning their own sanity and the quality of their recollections as they recall a horrific experience they lived through. Lovecraft also had a penchant for having some of his stories' narrators narrating from mental asylums. In The Temple, the narrator is a German submarine commander in World War I, who steadfastly refuses to believe in anything supernatural, and instead he's sure that he went insane and became an unreliable narrator. Lovecraft loved (no pun intended) to play the Refuge In Insanity card when his characters faced an Eldritch Abomination or related supernatural phenomenon. One could say that a lot of his stories can be a form of this Aesop: "If you ever see the Truth, run. For it has many tentacles." The one who started it all.
2. "Full Bleed", from Robin Laws's New Tales of the Yellow Sign, is structured as the case notes of a deep-cover special agent tasked with suppressing "The Text", in which role they murder a pretentious young artist who's reworking it into an indie comic book...only to come home and find that their mother has gotten into their secret cache and found a homemade ID card and a badge that's described as a "brass toy". New Tales of the Yellow Sign is, as the name implies, directly based on the horror sections of The King in Yellow, with this one being a direct nod to "The Repairer of Reputations" in structure while many of the other stories are more like sequels to it (dealing with the actualisation of an Eldritch Abomination-backed coup and its eventual overthrow). The King In Yellow is another pioneer.
UsefulNotes.Sarah Palin: In The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) both presidential candidates of 2008 are the Great Old Ones in disguise (Obama is Nyarly (Nyarlathotep), while McCain is Cthulhoo (guess...)). Sarah Palin is a Shoggie (negative-IQ shoggoth Expy) in a wig. Refers to the Great Old Ones, canonical EAs in Cthulhu Mythos.

II: Can be easily replaced with another existing trope

Note: Excludes existing tropes related to folder IV.

Anime.Mobile Fighter G Gundam - Eldritch Abomination: The Devil Gundam itself. It's three abilities make it nigh immortal, capable of extremely fast regenetation and able to spawn Devil Troops by the thousands. Nigh-Invulnerability
CerebusRetcon.The DCU: The Green Lantern's weakness to the color yellow has long been the butt of jokes from comic book readers (and other superheroes) for its perceived silliness, and even Green Lantern fans long dismissed it as an artifact of the Silver Age. But the weakness didn't seem nearly as funny after Geoff Johns finally revealed its origin in Green Lantern: Rebirth: it turns out that the "yellow impurity" in the Central Power Battery that caused the power ring's ineffectiveness against yellow objects was actually a malevolent alien Eldritch Abomination called "Parallax"—the living embodiment of fear, which was imprisoned in the power battery by the Guardians to stop it from enslaving the universe.^note Parallax's mastery of fear was so great that it led to Hal Jordan's corruption and Face–Heel Turn in Emerald Twilight, which culminated in him rebelling against the Green Lantern Corps and successfully draining the Central Power Battery. So, yes...the Green Lantern's weakness to the color yellow brought the largest peacekeeping force in the galaxy crashing down. Anthropomorphic Personification and Sealed Evil in a Can
Characters.Crash Fever - Eldritch Abomination: Implied to be a literal manifestation of the abyss. Genius Loci
Characters.Discovery Freelancer - Eldritch Abomination: They're a telepathic, translucent, space-dwelling Hive Mind with a side of Time Abyss. Ultimately subverted because they were deliberately engineered by Sufficiently Advanced Aliens. Hive Mind
Characters.Pony POV Series Expanded Universe Characters: Anthropomorphic Personification
1. It resembles billions of shadows merged together into a vaguely Alicorn shape. It's also the Anthropomorphic Personification of the Ashland Timeline's twisted, compound Temporal Paradox born nature.
2. Was the living embodiment of the Crystal Ponies' suppressed negative emotions.
ComicBook.Sonic The Hedgehog IDW - Continuity Nod: In Issue #12, Orbot tries to get Mr. Tinker to turn back to normal by offering to find a list of eldritch creatures for him to "resurrect and then lose control over", which Eggman has done countless times across the games. ^note Evil Is Not a Toy
Emotion Eater: The Harvesters in The Deaths of Ian Stone primarily feed on fear, and encourage tales of boogeymen throughout The Multiverse so as to have an easier time harvesting it. Some time back, they discovered that the most delicious fear comes from the instant before death, and became addicted to slaughtering their victims. It turns out they're not Always Chaotic Evil, and if they get into an Interspecies Romance they can also sustain themselves on love. Emotion Eater
Film.The Stuff - Eldritch Abomination: The Stuff is a weird, mind-controlling Blob Monster that came from deep Beneath the Earth and drives people to eat it, turning them into mindless, white-bleeding husks. Blob Monster
Fridge.Kingdom Hearts III: Vanitas in Monstropolis. As a being made of emotions, Vanitas naturally would go to the world where emotions like fear and laughter are capable of creating power in order to power himself up. The irony is that Vanitas looks like a normal person aside from his helmet, but is one of the series biggest Eldritch Abomination. Sulley and Mike, who are literally monsters, are both good people in spite of that and want to make things better without fear. Vanitas is essentially the real monster scaring people, not Mike or Sulley. The Heartless
Headscratchers.Star Wars: Leia killed Jabba because he was stupid enough to chain an Action Girl to his own body. Hutts have very thick skin, a digestive system that can handle most poisons, and can't themselves be digested even by the Sarlacc, a borderline Eldritch Abomination. They can be killed, obviously, but a lot of conventional methods either don't work or take a lot of effort. Sarlacc is a large Antlion Monster but not as powerful as kaiju.
MadeOfIron.Anime And Manga: Berserk. Guts is superhumanly tough, able to survive: getting struck with many arrows, set on fire, being impaled multiple times, carried off several hundred feet into the air, flown at the speed of sound without any protection, stabbed through both cheeks, than falling hundreds of feet and still be able to fight. And given what he has to face, you better believe the guy needs it. Also can't forget the time Guts hacks his own arm off to free himself from the jaws of a monster and attack the Big Bad who was raping his girlfriend at the time. Chained-potholes that can be easily replaced by The Legions of Hell.
Main.Weather Dissonance: To expand on this, it is stated several times across the novels that natural disasters are supernaturally drawn to Wardens. It is implied at times, and outright stated at others, that humanity did ''something'' millenia ago that pissed off Mother Nature so much that she has spent the ensuing time trying to wipe us off the face of the planet. The Wardens spend most of their time staving off these disasters...until things take a turn for the worse, mainly due to a few characters actively trying to destroy the world, open a portal to Hell, and possibly summon up a being older than the universe. Time Abyss
NeverMyFault.Anime And Manga - Paranoia Agent: The plot revolves around this. Japanese society has become so apathetic and uncaring, that everyone just makes excuses for why they couldn't get anything done, like being late for a delivery due to traffic. This creates an urban legend Eldritch Abomination whose concept quickly spreads memetically as a scapegoat to allow everyone to feel better for not owning up responsibility for their own actions. Said abomination eventually grows and causes catastrophic devastation. The kicker? The first victim created the concept to avoid facing the consequences of a puppy dying by her mistake. And only revived it years later as a way to deal with a deadline she couldn't make at work. Everyone else just picked up on it and it became real. Once she finally admits to her responsibility, the abomination goes away for good. Tulpa representing the apathy of Japanese society
TearJerker.The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy: Poor, poor Agrajag. His entire existence is built around dying, reincarnating, and dying again, only having enough time to think; "Oh no, not again" before life is taken from him again. Every time he dies, it's at the hands of Arthur Dent, directly or indirectly (Agrajag was the bowl of petunias that Arthur conjured into existence on accident, and a rabbit that Arthur turned into a purse on prehistoric Earth). Agrajag has eventually come to consider Arthur an Eldritch Abomination, and has devoted his entire existence to hunting down and killing Arthur so he can finally get his rest. Powers That Be
TransformationOfThePossessed.Anime And Manga: Taken to extreme proportions in Fullmetal Alchemist. When Envy is reduced to their parasite form they persuade May to go to the catacombs under central where they are attacked by a hoard of mannequin soldiers. During the chaos Envy manages to possess not one, but all of the monsters and proceeds to assimilate them, turning the mass of mannequin soldiers into their true form and then into their preferred form. The Assimilator
UsefulNotes.Solipsism: Patrick Hocksetter from It is convinced that he is the only real person in the universe, which leads him to become a complete Sociopath, even murdering his own baby brother because his parents were diverting attention away from him, thereby threatening his worldview of being the only real being. This worldview also means that he doesn't truly fear anything as he doesn't believe anything is real, effectively rendering him the perfect Fearless Fool. This causes the titular Shapeshifting Eldritch Abomination problems when it decides to kill and eat Patrick, as Beverly observes it struggling to choose a form that can effectively scare him as it confronts him. It eventually settles on transforming into a pack of flying leeches and literally suck Patrick out of existence, as the feeling of being gradually erased from existence was the only concept that could actually make Patrick uncomfortable. Voluntary Shapeshifting.
WesternAnimation.Sky Commanders - The creatures formed in the High Frontier. One of them is a Man-Eating Plant that gobbles Cutter Kling, until the others save him. Man-Eating Plant. Simply "creatures", aka. Our Monsters Are Weird.
Wrestling.The Undertaker - Humanoid Abomination: Strictly Kayfabe speaking. Let's see, he uses Mindscrew warfare, warps the lines between fantasy and reality, screws with the laws of physics and logic on a regular basis, has unearthly control over lighting, sound weather and visuals, seems to be impervious to pain or immune to conventional physical harm, resides in the Uncanny Valley, can drive people he's feuding with insane or to hallucinate by employing standard Cosmic Horror Story tropes. If The Undertaker isn't an Eldritch Abomination himself, he definitely is in league with one. Master of Illusion + Nigh-Invulnerability

III: Just appearance-wise, looks alien and monstrous

Characters.Buffyverse Angel Big Bads - Eldritch Abomination: Jasmine regularly shapeshifts into a luminescent, tentacled form in order to feed. In the moments following her 'birth', this is the first shape we see. However, Jasmine prefers to remain in humanoid form for most of the time, even while engaging in hand-to-hand combat. (Maybe her gooey form lacks mobility.) Emphasis on form.
Characters.Marvel Comics Spiders - Eldritch Abomination: Its astral form is a half-buried vaguely spider-shaped green mass embedded with light-green tentacles. Even Spider-Man - who is not only one of the smartest people in the Marvel Universe, but one of its avatars - couldn't wrap his head around what he was looking at when he accidentally ran into it. It's also manifested in spider-like and humanoid forms. Emphasis on forms / appearance
Characters.Metal Slug Attack Space Army - Eldritch Abomination: Their true selves are not known to the player. Even when Nowan is in the middle of transforming, all the player sees is a purple ball of goo. How they appear to the player.
Characters.Transistor - The Process, Eldritch Abomination: They look pretty alien...And it's just looks. They're just rampaging service robots. Just "they look pretty alien" and nothing else.
Characters.Shin Megami Tensei Forces Of Law:
1. The artwork of his true form, introduced in Shin Megami II, is a hideous mix-match of insectoid, serpentine and draconic features with female breasts added in. Artwork
2. Their designs in Shin Megami Tensei IV are VERY much this. Having warped faces attached to robotic bodies only vaguely look human. Michael in particular is a sight to behold. Design
ComicBook.Scud The Disposable Assassin - Eldritch Abomination: Just about every non-human could qualify do to how downright bizarre they look. But special mention has to go the Horsemen of the Apocalypse whose ranks include the already mentioned Jeff, a Jason Voorhees-esque serial killer who may or may not be human, a giant worm with the head of a dog and multiple breasts, and something that has what can only be described as a city on fire as its main body. Bizarre look only
Funny.The Monument Mythos: NIXON IS GOD ends with a shot of all the main characters drawn as adorable chibis. Yes, including the Crescent King and the Knight (who is wearing the Horned Serpent's skull as a hat). Refers to pre-chibi appearance (looks horrifying or something like that)
Main.Self Fanservice: The most remembered daemons are Slaanesh's Daemonettes. Daemons from the other Gods tend to be drawn in the same way. This breaks canon because:
1. Khorne doesn't give a damn about things like sex and beauty, and is focused entirely on function over form.
2. Nurgles daemons are putrid, disease-ridden piles of flesh, maggots, and other disgusting stuff.
3. Tzeentch daemons tend to look like Eldritch Abominations. Appearance only
NightmareFuel.Super Smash Bros Ultimate: Marx from the Kirby series appears as a boss. Not only is his appearance played up for far more horror than usual with his disturbingly child-like giggles and the wall-eyed, corpse-like stare that goes with his usual Slasher Smile, this time around, he's somehow even more Eldritch Abomination-y than before: Emphasis on appearance.
1. One of his three new attacks: his eyes turn black and drop out of their sockets to the ground — with the new ones slowly regrowing in their place — becoming bouncing shadowy orbs that cause darkness damage on impact.
2. For another, he makes his eyes grow huge and sprout more pupils. And then he shoots lasers from them.
3. And for his third new attack, he moves to the center of the arena as his wings disappear: before they then promptly regrow outward as glowing red blood vessels that snake across the whole screen.
  1. Marx's defeat animation is surprisingly dark as well. With the final hit, he loudly screeches in pain (in a similar manner to his Soul form's death scream) without changing his expression, and rapidly bounces around the arena: his wings shattering to pieces with each hit. Eventually, he lands face-down on the ground, and a purple flame splutters out of his lifeless body for a moment: giving the impression that, instead of the usual Non-Lethal K.O., you've legitimately killed him.
  2. According to Sakurai, Marx was somehow even more terrifying and gruesome in early development to the point that it would have kicked up the age rating, and Sakurai was asked to tone him down so as not to terrify younger gamers. Not that toning it down helped much, apparently.
NightmareFuel.The Heart Trilogy: Smaug's human body's gradual transformation back into a dragon reaches a point where it becomes horribly painful. When Kathryn and Faervel find him in a cave, he has become a hideous mix of a man and a dragon, mentally regressed to a wild animal. Since his body is unable to complete the transformation on its on, he's in the danger of dying. When he tries to sprout flame, he hurts his mouth that is too humanlike to protect itself against fire. Describes appearance as a "hideous mix of a man and a dragon".
Recap.Magia Record Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story Arc 1 Chapter 2 - Eldritch Abomination: Unlike Witches, Uwasa are shown to follow very specific rules, and they never drop Grief Seeds. Nevertheless, most if not all of them are also made out of Alien Geometries and do not hesitate to eliminate Magical Girls who try to attack them. First sentence has unclear context (as someone who has not seen the work before, I have no idea what the "Witches", "specific rules" and "Grief Seeds" are supposed to mean). Second sentence indicates alien / weird / incomprehensible appearance. "Do not hesitate to eliminate attackers" isn't a EA-exclusive trait.

IV: Extraordinarily ancient and/or powerful entities

Note: Any example / pothole that is related to gods, kaiju, entities powerful enough to affect universes / realities etc. will be placed here (see Super Weight for more details). If the entry only refers to a monster / creature (which may be different from kaiju), it doesn't count and will not be placed here.

Characters.Amphibia Other (The Guardian, but only in their true form):
1. Adorable Abomination: Despite being an Eldritch Abomination beyond human comprehension, their chosen form for talking to Anne is her cute cat Domino.
2. Eldritch Abomination: Their (apparent) true form is seemingly a... mass of incandescent transdimensional energy in the same colours as the Calamity Gems with weird patterns in the center, constantly radiating power and emitting strange incomprehensible noises which cause the very realm they and Anne are in to tremble in its very presence. It's scarier than it looks, since when she gets a glimpse of it, Anne — who was confident she could handle just about anything after all the weird stuff she's seen in Amphibia — instantly has a Freak Out. Appearance and voice that conveys disturbing otherness. Powerful enough to affect realms. Not sure whether it breaks defined in-universe laws, but the example is close to EA. Will be placed in IV, though, because wick check is to find out how the trope is used, not whether examples fit the definition 100%.
Characters.Cradle Series Dreadgods And Cults - Eldritch Abomination: It's a gigantic, bleeding phoenix that intermittently releases parts of itself in the form of Blood Shadows that bond to people. Gigantic phoenix (bird kaiju). The page itself indicates a being of immense power.
Characters.Devil May Cry V - Eldritch Abomination: Just like the original Nightmare, this musclebound blob demon has reality-bending powers in a debatable state of living with the power to destroy the underworld, limited only by V's fragility. Blob Monster / golem with reality-bending powers
Characters.Devil Summoner Raidou Kuzunoha - Eldritch Abomination: After both of the Soulless God's arms are decapitated, revealing a monstrous blob of flesh with a face on his torso. God that looks monstrous. Fits folder IV more than folder III.
Characters.Power Rangers Jungle Fury - Eldritch Abomination: Probably has the most qualities of one out of any Power Rangers villain besides Dark Specter. He's less an entity and more a demonic spirit for most of the series with immense power, even being able to rip open a portal to the afterlife to revive his minions once he regained enough of his true strength, and his true form is a gigantic eight-headed dragon that's not even close to humanoid. In addition, we never find out exactly what he is or where he came from. Kaiju of unknown origin that can revive his minions by ripping open a portal to another dimension. Unsure if he can break defined in-universe laws.
Characters.Super Thursday Night Funkin:
1. A sadistic Eldritch Abomination (heavily implied to be a Missing No) taking the form of a Chansey who came from another dimension to have fun with Rangu and Eric during their playthrough of Pokemon Yellow. She's fought during "Tofu" and "Devil In Pink"
2. Eldritch Abomination: She's actually a shapeshifting reality-breaking Missing No that takes the form of Chansey. "Shapeshifting reality-breaking".
3. Expy: To Xenophanes from Vs Sonic.exe. Being a sadistic Eldritch Abomination taking the form of a videogame character who fights Boyfriend in an extremely long song where she goes into a terrifying One-Winged Angel form and fights with the help of a bunch of characters who are forced into villainy by her.
DarthWiki.ATL Meetup - Divine Ranks: It has tiers, too. From lowest to highest: Related to the divine.
1. The Ephemeral Tier spans Ephemerals and Perpetuals.
2. The Eternal Tier has Low, Medium, and High Eternals.
3. The Super-eternal tier includes the Alien Space Bats and the Old Ones, as well as Michel.
4. However, this pecking order doesn't even end at the super-eternal tier; there's three more categories above it, each of which counts as a tier of its own, namely the Guardians, the Archangel's Vicereine, and finally, the Archangel herself.
Fanfic.The Dark Wars:
1. Eldritch Abomination: the Venati, beings from other universe that take to invade Earths from paralell universes and consume all lives within it. Self-explanatory; nothing about "appearance that convey disturbing otherness"
2. From Bad to Worse: first, the enemy was the Death Eaters. Then, the Death Eaters plus the Terracotta Army. Then, the whole world turns into a battlefield. Then, the Venati appear....
Film.Gods Of Egypt - Eldritch Abomination: Apophis, the demonic force of chaos that wants to eat all of creation. Look closely: Apophis isn't actually a giant worm or serpent, it is a two-dimensional moving gateway to somewhere else and lined with teeth. Is powerful enough to eat all of creation. Kaiju-esque.
Fridge.Who Framed Roger Rabbit: If we assume the backstory about Judge Doom's Start of Darkness being caused by amnesia is canonically true, that means it could presumably happen to any toon. No denying that Doom was despicable and terrifying, but the full extent of his ambition was just to destroy Toontown and replace it with a freeway. Consider for a moment, however, that there are many cartoon villains out there even worse than Doom, all the way up to outright Eldritch Abominations, malevolent Reality Warpers, and Omnicidal Maniacs who would happily destroy everything in existence. Suppose one of them got conked on the head and forgot they were just playing a character... Compared to reality-breaking entities
Headscratchers.Samurai Jack (Not Aku himself, but rather his progenitor who fought Jack's father)
1. Well, they probably think Aku is a human-solvable problem. They were battling what amounted to an Eldritch Abomination of infinite evil and darkness of which Aku is but a small hammy fragment. The Scostman's sword can probably kill Aku, and several of the magical doodads encountered on Jack's journey could harm him as well. Jack himself has already been a hair's breath away from killing him at least a dozen times as well, it's mostly act of plot that no one else (that we know of) has gotten close enough to try.
2. In the opening narration, Aku mentions that he unleashed an "unspeakable evil". It sounds like he's talking about an Eldritch Abomination, but the image is pretty much Aku. So he unleashed himself from a prison?
  1. Aku IS an Eldritch Abomination, so yeah, that's exactly what he did.
3. Maybe because he refers to himself as male? When challenging Jack to a duel, he explicitly says "man to man." Are you going to tell the Eldritch Abomination he can't be male?
4. To be fair, there's nothing saying an Eldritch Abomination can't be male in the first place.
5. In "The Birth of Evil" Ra says the sword possesses the power to "destroy this evil force" (referring to Aku) implying it can indeed kill him. He can probably just take a lot of punishment because he's AKU, THE SHAPE-SHIFTING MASTER OF DARKNESS -even when up against the one thing that can hurt him, he's still a god-tier Eldritch Abomination and is not going to go down easily. As for why Jack's father only managed to seal him away instead of killing him, I don't think there is a clear answer. Maybe he just didn't stab him enough times. "God-tier" indicates folder IV
LetsPlay.Mianite: Gigantic tentacle monster (kaiju)
1. Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: It came back the next day as a gigantic unstoppable Eldritch Abomination with Combat Tentacles that it uses to assault the town and infect its grounds with taint.
2. Eldritch Abomination: The Tainted Statue manifestation that shows up near the town. Although it was human-shaped enough to qualify also as a Humanoid Abomination at first, when it was destroyed by explosives it returns even bigger, sprouting Combat Tentacles to assault the town and dropping the "humanoid" part completely.
Main.Actual Play - Critical Hit: A team of gamers play in a Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition campaign. Some are completely new to D&D, others been playing since 3rd Edition, and one guy has been playing since the AD&D days. The main campaign "Void Saga" follows a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits as they try to stop a group of Insane Gods from invading their plane of existence. The podcast also answers listener questions about D&D or tabletop games in general, features other game systems besides D&D 4e between seasons, and has Game Mastering 101 episodes. Insane Gods
Main.Chivalrous Pervert: Dissidia Final Fantasy reveals that not even gods and Eldritch Abominations are off-limits to him, as his battle quote to the Cloud of Darkness is "You are impressive, in more ways than one", and when Cosmos appears before him he instantly replies "Today's not a good day for a date". Compared to gods.
Main.Fire Forged Friends - Magic: The Gathering: The original four members of the Gatewatch were four planeswalkers with very different personalities who came together to fight the Eldrazi, only to discover that they made a surprisingly good team. Since the Eldrazi are far from the only threat in the multiverse they decided to form The Team. "Threat to the multiverse" suggest folder IV.
Main.Flanderization: In Egyptian Mythology, Set was subject to flanderization before any modern people had the chance to reinterpret him. The oldest stories still have him murder and try to usurp Osiris, but of course, "killing people whom you don't like" isn't exactly uncommon for gods in any belief system; the earliest takes still present his rivalry with Horus as pretty even-handed, with the two more like Friendly Enemies who also have sex one time. As the centuries passed Osiris, Isis and Horus became more important to the Egyptian religion, and as a result, Set became more vilified. It didn't help that one of his jobs is "god of foreigners," which made him a lot less popular when Egypt was temporarily taken over by the Hyksos. He still had a role protecting Ra from Apophis, making him important to the cosmic order, though eventually even that started getting passed on to Thoth (probably because he was the easiest god to replace Set with in carvings). Again, this makes the trope Older Than Dirt. Associated with mythology, gods, and cosmic order.
Main.Good Prosthetic Evil Prosthetic - BlazBlue: Played with by the hero, Ragna the Bloodedge. The man isn't all that heroic at first, merely going against The Empire because one higher-up in its army pissed him off (that, and his master Jubei and benefactor of sorts Rachel guided him). He's got an artificial arm as he lost the original one to his brother back when they were still children. The new arm he gets, called Azure Grimoire, is nasty: it's permanently black-colored, has a few red veins running on it, and it gives him the power to steal people's souls. Oh, and the Azure Grimoire is made from the corpse of an Eldritch Abomination that destroyed civilization almost a century ago. Due to the events of the games (especially comes the third game), however, he slowly and surely becomes a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who finds a new purpose in life. His prosthetic doesn't change any, though. Defined by its power to destroy civilization.
Main.Gorgeous Gorgon: Alludes to mass destructive power.
1. A borderline example happens in Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's: the Book of Darkness is supposed to be a planet-destroying timebomb inhabited by an Eldritch Abomination...and it is, except that it also has a soul, a beautiful sad woman who in no way wants to destroy anyone or anything. And the heroes have to ~~kill~~ seal her.
2. The Cloud of Darkness in Final Fantasy III. It's an avatar of pure destruction out to end existence ...but for some reason, it decides to take the form of a completely nude green woman. Her appearance in Dissidia is pure fanservice◊, though based on her original concept art.◊
Main.Hoist By His Own Petard: If an evil Eldritch Abomination, God of Evil or otherwise supernatural evil entity gets Punched Out by the same powers it gave, you have a Faustian Rebellion in action. The God of Evil and the Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu? potholes.
Main.Large Ham Title: Plenty of examples in Magic: The Gathering, but the three Eldrazi titans stand out, as befit a trio of giant monsters / evil gods at the heart of the Cosmic Horror Story part of the lore. Each can appear as two different cards with different attributes (because Eldrazi) and succinct but evocative titles to go with them. Giant monsters / evil gods
1. Emrakul (the senior of the three going by card power) is the Aeons Torn and the Promised End.
2. Kozilek is the Butcher of Truth and the Great Distortion.
3. Ulamog is the Infinite Gyre and the Ceaseless Hunger.
Main.Phlebotinum Breakdown: Awake in the Night Land has the Earth Current, which can protect the humans from the Eldritch Abominations of the titular Night Land. However the exact date in which it will fail has been calculated for eons, which will eventually culminate in the extinction of mankind. Enough power to make mankind extinct.
Main.Too Many Cooks Spoil The Soup - Used in a surprisingly dark and serious manner in The Order of the Stick. When the gods were first weaving together the world from the fabrics of reality, their bickering and fighting over how they wanted aspects of the world resulted in the fabrics getting tangled together, eventually forming the Snarl. Related to gods and universe creation.
Monster.Grimm Fairy Tales:
1. The eldritch parasite, later known as the Queen, is a monstrous being that possesses Marian Quinn's wife Sam, intending to use her to destroy the world and torturing Sam within her own body. Banished to the furthest reaches of the galaxy, the Queen takes over a new world and subjugates it, killing most inhabitants and forcing Sam to watch. Later spawning numerous new monsters and murdering her children for not living up to her standards, the Queen plans to return to Earth and subject it to the same horrors when she has destroyed the remnants of her current kingdom. Capable of destroying worlds.
2. The Jabberwocky is the ruler of Wonderland. A monstrous being who gleefully serves The Dark One, the Jabberwocky transformed Wonderland into a place of madness and chaos, enslaving and twisting all who are caught there until they are insane, monstrous parodies of themselves who exist only to inflict more madness and suffering on the world. Attempting to gain access to Earth to both destroy it and spread the madness to all its denizens, the Jabberwocky gains a growing enmity with the Liddle family for Alice Liddle once foiling his plans. To this end, the Jabberwocky corrupts her son Johnny into the new Mad Hatter to set him against his sister Callie, having Callie's daughter kidnapped to use to invade Earth. A being of boundless cruelty and sadism, the Jabberwocky exists only to spread the madness that is the core of Wonderland. Powers affect an entire realm.
NightmareFuel.Doom Patrol - The Candlemaker is an Eldritch Abomination bent on ending reality. The last two words.
NightmareFuel.Shaman King - The Spirit of Fire and the other four Grand Elemental Spirits in general. They are the greatest of God class spirits, second in power only to the Great Spirits (God), from which they are created. Like Great Spirits, they are collective of souls, composed of pretty much every Nature Spirit ever, and one Shaman King File claims that they are prototypes of every elemental deity out there. That is scary enough, but becomes even worse when you learn that they can grow even more powerful by eating other spirits. According to Hao, Spirit of Fire can completely annihilate soul though by the end of manga, all souls consumed by Spirit of Fire appear, so it seems that Hao's claim is either untrue or that Great Spirits can recover those souls. Related to gods and deities.
NightmareFuel.Space Runaway Ideon: EVERYTHING about the Ideon. To put it this way, imagine piloting a mech that is more like an Eldritch Abomination than a traditional mech, and it has the capability of leveling an entire universe. Now have it piloted a bunch of not mentally sound children. But that itself is not the creepiest aspect of Ideon: Capable of leveling a universe.
1. As the story goes, it is told that Ide (the main consciousness behind Ideon) is a combination of souls of the past civilizations in the form of a somewhat intelligent battle mech. Sounds kinda majestic, isn't it? Later episodes revealed that Ide only collects "pure and untainted souls", which turns out to be souls of babies who never grew into adults. And the characters eventually realized that Ideon resides as some sort of a guardian god of their universe that utterly despises war between the universe's denizens. Which leads to the next part... Related to gods.
2. Though Ide supposedly keeps on protecting the denizens of Solo Ship, a grim realization appears that all Ide is protecting is Lou and Messiah, the unborn child of Bes and Karala. Because Ide sees them as pure souls that it can preserve as a proof that generation of civilization isn't completely hopeless, it will just leave others to their deaths which results in the anime's infamous Downer Ending. And you'll start to think about how many times Ide has done this before...
3. It also shows why things went as disastrously badly as they did in Be Invoked. Karala and her unborn son's murder at the hands of Harulu, with their father's approval, is what ultimately leads Ide to decide humanity is beyond saving and Invoke their destruction.
SuperWeight.Myths And Religion: Self-explanatory
1. The Bible - Type 5: Behemoth and Leviathan, Horsemen of the Apocalypse and various other apocalyptic manifestations, the False Prophet and the Beast.
2. Classical Mythology - Type 5: (middle) Most Olympians (Poseidon, Demeter, Helios, etc.), Hades, (high) Zeus, Typhon
3. Norse Mythology - Type 6: Ymir, Níðhöggr.
Supernatural.Tropes M To P:
1. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  1. At the end of season six, Castiel absorbs all the souls of Purgatory to get the power to defeat Archangel Raphael, who wanted to restart the Apocalypse. In doing so, he goes insane and unleashes the Leviathans, creatures that God locked away to stop them from eating everything else, who become season seven's Big Bads. "Creatures that God locked away to stop them from eating everything else"
  2. In "The Thing", Sam and Dean in the process of saving a seemingly-innocent victim, are responsible for almost unleashing a galaxy-consuming Eldritch Abomination upon the world. They more than make up for this at the episode's end by not only defeating said Abomination but sending it back to its native Alternate Universe for good. "Galaxy-consuming". Can be replaced with Cosmic Entity.
2. Pyrrhic Victory: And Season 7 opens with Castiel smiting like crazy and losing control of this power so it releases voracious, unkillable monsters from Purgatory on the world. Refers to the two potholes above.
Trivia.Torment Tides Of Numenera - Author Appeal: You know you're in the Spiritual Successor to a Black Isle game when it features immortality, amnesia and recovering submerged memories, resurrection and past lives, spectral spirit guides, constructs, masks, haunted ruins, hunger as an almost elemental force (as well as a means of absorbing the memories of the dead); unspeakable ancient beings of godlike power, more than one of which is (or was) human; past wars, past sins, an unlikely party of lost souls thrust together seemingly by fate; mentor figures whose teachings were wrong, misguided, or evil; complex moral choices with no easy answers, and extensive dialogue trees which serve to turn the listener's entire worldview on its ear and make them question their very sense of self. Potholed to "unspeakable ancient beings of godlike power".
Typecasting.English Voice Actors: Try as you might, it's difficult to find characters in the late and great Tony Jay's filmography that weren't menacing, nefarious villains: From Judge Frollo of Disney's The Hunchback of Notre Dame to Shere Khan in The Jungle Book (1967) sequel as well as House of Mouse and TaleSpin, to ReBoot's Megabyte, to the Lovecraftian reject Elder God from the Legacy of Kain series, and even the beholder Xantam in Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance. "Elder God".
VideoGame.Avernum - Eldritch Abomination: The aptly named Alien Slime from 3, is the thing spawning the Slimes, is enormous, towering and alien-looking compared to anything else you met. Alien-looking kaiju
VideoGame.Digimon World 3 - Eldritch Abomination: It's hinted that if Galacticmon merged with the Earth, the Digimon called Gaiamon would have been created. This would not only have killed all humans but also made the most powerful Digimon to have ever existed. Just think that over a bit. Then again, Galacticmon can itself be considered one, being the merged consciences (for lack of a better world) of Megadeath and Snatchmon combined with a giant Kill Sat and multiple forms with which to kill you. Sufficiently powerful Digimons
VisualNovel.Lands Of Fire - Eldritch Abomination: The Inapertwa from Arrernte lore are depicted as this, as primal shapeless things in the remote past. A god seriously corrupted by Marmoo later shows up as essentially a magical glitch, barely recognisable as what it once was. Related to primal shapeless beings + gods.
WebAnimation.Legendary And Mythical Pokemon Battle Royale - Physical God: Several of the combatants are elemental deities, some are an island's Guardian Deities, some are inspired by gods from real life mythology, one was created to be the World's Best Warrior when the highest were three of the aforementioned elemental deities, two are incarnations of the sun and moon, two control time and space, a couple are Eldritch Abominations, and the final dual ends up being between one of said abominations at its strongest, as well as God. Self-explanatory

V: Sufficient context that doesn't fall into I-IV

Characters.Bloodborne Great Ones: The great ones are directly inspired by Lovecraft literature and its concepts, meaning they encapsulate practically everything about the trope, especially the "defy established in-universe laws" part. As such, the wick will be placed in folder V despite significant overlap with I + III + IV + VI.
1. Eldritch Abomination: All known Great Ones are grotesque alien beings who command strange powers based on truths beyond the physical universe.
2. Oedon
  1. Eldritch Abomination: He is one of the Great Ones, and is implied to be the source of the Healing Church's Blood Magic, seeing how it is referred to as his "essence". He lacks a physical body, existing only as a voice or a presence. He is also the only Great One to completely avert Lovecraft Lite, as he is never defeated, fought, or even perceived at all — even for the standards of the Great Ones, Oedon is particularly alien and detached from common human sense.
  2. Expy: Of Yog Sothoth, being an all-powerful but unseen Eldritch Abomination who meddles in the affairs of mortals by impregnating human women with his half-Great One offspring, with apocalyptic consequences.
3. Mergo
  1. Eldritch Abomination: One of the Great Ones mentioned in the game's lore.
  2. Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: In as much as you could call a possibly infant Eldritch Abomination "bad", but you can periodically hear it cry as you attack Queen Yharnam in the Chalice Dungeons, and it will implicitly try to protect her by binding you in place if you do it too much.
4. Kos
  1. Eldritch Abomination: In the same vein as the rest of the Great Ones, but a benign one. The DLC reveals she resembled a white nudibranch with human arms and a bizarrely humanoid lower face. She apparently had compassion for the Fishing Hamlet residents who worshiped her, and they loved her in turn, but for some reason her presence caused them to transform into horrific Fish People.
  2. Expy: Likely one to Mother Hydra of Lovecraft myth, an eldritch being associated with the ocean that was worshipped by a fishing village of fish-human hybrids.
5. Rom - Eldritch Abomination: Rom is a legitimate Great One according to the trophy you earn for killing her, but she also drops a Kin Coldblood as loot, implying she was also a Kin, likely one of the first ones you will encounter aside from a few stray Celestial Mobs. Although her moniker contains the word "spider", Rom more resembles a pillbug with a silverfish-like tail, and has a head resembling a chunk of pumice with eyes in the holes. Her spawn resemble actual spiders, but have the same sort of head she does.
6. Amygdala - Eldritch Abomination: One of the Great Ones of course, the cosmic horrors who preside over Yharnam.
7. Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos
  1. Divine Assistance: She's willing to lend a helping hand... err... tentacle to those who possess an Augur of Ebrietas, which enables the wielder to partially summon her by opening a portal in front of their hand. Interestingly, even killing her doesn't stop the Hunter or any other enemy from using this tool, which helps emphasize her Eldritch Abomination vibes.
  2. Eldritch Abomination: She is one of the Great Ones who oversees the chaos of Yharnam and bestowed eldritch knowledge to the Healing Church, currently serving as the Choir's patron "deity".
8. Arianna's child - Child by Rape: While no physical sex was involved, Arianna certainly didn't consent to getting impregnated by an Eldritch Abomination.
9. Brain of Mensis
  1. Anti-Villain: It's a dangerous, hideous Eldritch Abomination, but also the victim of cruel experiments from the School of Mensis, and it ceases to be hostile after you free it from its chains, potentially even rewarding you a rune if you demonstrate reverence to it via the Make Contact gesture.
  2. Eldritch Abomination: It's actually a Great One, and resembles a giant, misshapen brain lined with large eyes and a few beastly limbs sprouting out.
10. Mergo's Wet Nurse - Eldritch Abomination: Less apparent due to her invisibility, but the twisted shape of her arms and her very nature as a Great One would imply this.
11. The True Final Boss
  1. Eldritch Abomination:
    1. It's strongly implied to be the entity responsible for the Hunter's Dream. Surprisingly, its trophy doesn't refer to it as a Great One, leaving exactly what it is an unanswered question. The enigmatic note in the upper floor of the Lecture Hall mentions the "nameless moon presence" and then says "Paleblood", indicating it is "paleblood" you were looking for.
    2. The Japanese translation is is a bit less ambiguous, as it is referred to as the Moon Demon. This only raises more questions, since if its name is taken at face value, it is the only demon in Bloodborne, and we have no idea where it came from at all other than deep underneath Yharnam.^note
  2. Fluffy the Terrible: The horrifying Eldritch Abomination responsible for the nightmare the entire game has been set within is implied to have the decidedly non-threatening name Flora.
  3. Gone Horribly Right: The Moon Presence created the Hunter's Dream in order to give Hunters a fighting chance against the curse. The Childhood's Beginning ending has this come back to bite it hard: one of the Hunters it empowered goes Off the Rails and ends up killing is and its emissary Gehrman, before usurping its power and potentially becoming a greater nightmare than Mergo ever was.
Characters.Edge Of Tomorrow - Eldritch Abomination: It's utterly incomprehensible and alien (even the expert can't truly explain just what it is), its motives and reasoning are Blue-and-Orange Morality at best, and it can control time. "Incomprehensibility" is defined as "hard to explain just how it works and what it is" and Blue-and-Orange Morality (needs elaboration). Unknown whether the ability to control time defies established in-universe laws (but likely). Does not fit in the above folders.

VI: Zero-context examples, contextless potholes or otherwise unclear context

Note: A contextless pothole means example contains a EA pothole, but the surrounding text gives zero indication on whether the character / entity in question has EA traits.

Awesome.Symphogear: "Symphogear is a sci-fi series about Magical Girl Warriors who use Power Armor fueled by The Power of Rock to battle Eldritch Abominations." Contextless pothole
BecauseYouCanCope.Literature: In The Unexplored Summon://Blood-Sign, this trope is one of the reasons that Kyousuke and Mary aren't together anymore. Logically, he knew that she was just reacting to the shitty stuff his family did to her...but emotionally, he needed some sort of scapegoat for all his negative feelings about Operation March Hare, and he will always side with humans over her because they're weak and his species and he believes that being good means supporting the "underdog" in any situation regardless of their actual choices. Contextless pothole
BewareTheNiceOnes.Webcomics: Feferi Peixes is a cute, pink-themed princess who likes to take care of her many pets. She is also strong enough to pull whales through the ocean and acts as a diplomat between trolls and Eldritch Abomination's. Contextless pothole
CharacterDerailment.Literature: Sam Vimes, previously a simple (or so he would like you to believe) man who is thrown out of his depth and succeeds through sheer grit and determination (and not a small amount of luck) is very quick to start throwing around his station and the fact that he knows all sorts of big important people, where previously he would only do so if he were pushed to it, who wins because he's Sam Goddamn Vimes who has the power of an Eldritch Abomination at his back. Contextless pothole
Characters.Ages Of Shadow:
1. Jade, Eldritch Abomination: Essentially evolves into one by the time of the Second Age. ZCE
2. Johann Brenner, Corrupt Corporate Executive: It doesn't come much more corrupt than helping an Eldritch Abomination take over the world. Contextless pothole
Characters.Call Of Duty Zombies Victis And Other Playable Characters - The Generic Guy: A first for the series since the Marines from Verrückt. While every character from the Campaign and Multiplayer/Warzone lore (plus Samantha Maxis, obviously) has a personality, in Zombies, not much of that shines through. They make very tame quips and speak in military lingo (taken further in a patch around Season 3 which occasionally has them use quotes from Multiplayer), and have no unique dialogue for picking up power-ups, drinking Perk-a-Colas, or any of the lore. Exaggerated in the cinematics, particularly the ending cutscene of Firebase Z in which they have absolutely nothing to say about Maxis' appearance nor the gigantic Eldritch Abomination coming to kill them, coming across like GTA/Red Dead Online characters. To be fair, an effort was made to improve Zombies specific dialogue with later characters, to the point some of the later ones have genuinely amusing and even personality-driven lines. Contextless pothole
Characters.Fallout Equestria - 0% Approval Rating: Not in Equestria, but in the zebra nation. The zebras believe the stars in the sky are monsters, and when a meteorite fell from the sky, its evil influence turned Luna into Nightmare Moon and became her armour. Horrified that "Nightmare Moon" now ruled Equestria, the zebras saw no choice but to wage war... and to fight to the bitter end. Just "monsters". Contextless pothole.
Characters.Fate Stay Night Gilgamesh - Admiring the Abomination: He expresses admiration towards Aŋra Mainiiu, wanting to unleash it so that it will purge the world of those unworthy of his reign. Contextless pothole
Characters.Justice Society Of America - Deus ex Machina: The Thunderbolt is so powerful that Jakeem can end Eldritch Abomination-level threats by himself if he says the right thing. Writers have had so much trouble with a character this powerful that he's been forced onto the sidelines for arcs at a time, or been KO'd straight away by the savvy villains. Contextless pothole
Characters.Kamen Rider Zi O Another Riders - History Repeats: In Missing Ace, Amane becomes the human sacrifice of a Rider/Undead to become an Eldritch Abomination. In Zi-O she becomes a mixture of both. Contextless pothole
Characters.Little Witch Academia Other Characters - Eldritch Abomination: It quickly veers into this territory by the finale. ZCE
Characters.My Gym Partners A Monkey - Transformation Horror: When he transformed into a Three Eyed Crab Alien at the end of the episode. Contextless pothole
Characters.Nioh Enemies And Bosses - Humanoid Abomination: An Eldritch Abomination with a rough human shape, given it still stands on two legs. Example itself is a ZCE that contains a EA contextless pothole.
Characters.Old Man Henderson - Eldritch Abomination: WHM's phrasing implies that he didn't so much create Henderson as summon him from some unguessable realm with the Backstory Of Doom, and there are multiple details that hint that he may exist independently of WHM's mind. He is a flawless expy of The Dude from The Big Lebowski, despite the fact that WHM had never seen that movie. Portions of his backstory are written in fluent German, which WHM does not speak a word of. And that's not to mention that even WHM doesn't know whether "Henderson" is his first or last name (and for that matter, not even Henderson himself knows). Unclear context other than "the entity is summoned". Reliance on other works. No indication of breaking defined in-universe laws.
Characters.Reading Rainbowverse - Eldritch Abomination: Apparently the Shadowbolts, whose posts are only seen by Lightning Dust and out-of-universe characters. They're...not actually all that intimidating, though. ZCE
Characters.Super Robot Wars Compact 2: Contextless potholes
1. Excellen Browning - Throughout Impact and Original Generation 2, Excellen is hounded by Einst Alfimi, a human-Einst clone of her who wants to bring her to the Einst, leading to a situation where she does get kidnapped by the Eldritch Abominations and Brainwashed as their servant. Fortunately, Kyosuke and his allies break her free from their control.
2. Einst Alfimi - Created exclusively for Impact, when the Einst declare humanity needs a reboot via their own "Adam and Eve" to make the planet grow again after they destroy it, the Einst create a clone out of Excellen, but instead of being a Manic Pixie Dream Girl Hard-Drinking Party Girl, Einst Alfimi is an Emotionless Girl. For much of Impact and Original Generation 2, Alfimi attempts to persuade Kyosuke (the Einst's chosen "Adam") to join her and the Einst, but his consistent refusal forces her to capture Excellen instead, hoping this will be the way to goad him to agree with her. After Kyosuke and his allies free Excellen from the Einst's Brainwashing, they pull their own persuasion for Alfimi to break out on her own from her Einst creators. Not only does it work, but she helps them defeat the Einst. Unfortunately, as Alfimi's existence is tied down to the Einst, destroying the Eldritch Abominations inevitably destroys her as well. Alfimi fades away, dying she is thankful she has made friends.
Characters.The Ring 2002 - Half-Human Hybrid: Half human, half something else, according to her birth mother. Contextless pothole
Characters.What Remains Of Edith Finch - "Groundhog Day" Loop: He enforces one, living out every day in the bunker in the same routine as he's terrorized by a mysterious shaking, which he fears is the dark entity that killed his siblings. It's actually the rumblings of the train tunnel right next to the bunker, which he ends up breaking into. Just "entity". Contextless pothole.
Characters.Yokai Watch Brave Tribe To Charming Tribe - Buchinyan, Eldritch Abomination: When they fused in Recap Time for episode 94, their fusion a unseen abomination. It was so bad it was censored in Japan. ZCE
ComicBook.Tomorrow Stories - Eldritch Abomination: The Lure. ZCE
DinoAttackRPG.Tropes A To F - Eldritch Abomination: The Maelstrom as some have interpreted in the RPG has swung in this direction a few times, particularly with Atton Rand's posts. ZCE
DeconstructedTrope.Worm - Disposable Superhero Maker: Cauldron exhibits how much effort would go into creating any halfway reliable superhuman formula. For every successful Super Serum vial, they first have to literally harvest the flesh from an Eldritch Abomination. After creating their sample formulas, they conduct tests on mortally injured or terminally ill people, many of whom are abducted. Around 60% of these guinea pigs end up dying in the process. Most of the remainder are horribly mutated. Once the specifics of the underlying process comes to light, Cauldron’s customers end up despised by a large percentage of cape society for their role in it. Contextless pothole
Fanfic.Day Of The Barney Trilogy
1. Dark Fic: Lord yes. This story involves the mascot of a sappy children's show turning out to be an Eldritch Abomination bent on conquering humanity and murdering everyone who opposes him. Contextless pothole — you can replace that EA pothole with Mad Scientist or Evil Overlord and the context will remain the same.
2. Too Dumb to Live: Thorton Marshall still thought Barney was to be trusted after all the horrible things he did in broad daylight.
  1. Also a few children have a few moments of this. Going back to the Ax-Crazy Barney isn't such a good idea....
  2. They may not have had a choice. Barney seemed to have them brainwashed. Even if they wanted to leave, and I suspect most of them really did, they couldn't because they were under the control of an evil Eldritch Abomination vaguely resembling a prehistoric animal. It does seem, however, that when Barney asks the kids to do something truly awful, the Great Act of Ax-Crazy (sorry, I mean Great Act of Love) aside, they can at least partially resist it. Can mind control people, but that's it. Contextless pothole.
Creator.Elephant Games: Girl in the Tower: Rapunzel, in Cursed Fables: Twisted Tower, is one of these just like in her original fairy tale. She's not in need of rescue this time, though. She's a soul-draining Eldritch Abomination who needs to be defeated. As the game progresses, the player learns that she was originally placed in the tower by her Good Parents to protect her, but then things went very badly. Contextless pothole
Fanfic.Incompatible System - Humans Are Cthulhu: When the Citadel races discover someone had been stealing Mass Relays, they certainly get the feeling the ones responsible must be some Eldritch Abomination. Contextless pothole.
1. The Geth meanwhile immediately prepare to poke said abomination.
Fridge.War Groove: Nuru is incredulous when she sees Requiem for the first time, but squares up immediately when told "It is a bringer of ruin". It seems like a jarring quick turnaround until you remember Nuru is from Starbound and "Ruin" is a VERY loaded term for her. "Ruin" is too vague. Contextless pothole.
Funny.Monster In The Twilight: Whenever a ferocious predator, and at one time even an Eldritch Abomination, promptly ceases with any plan to make the CMC into their food, because they happen to be accompanied by Monster, and they very much appreciate not being a smear on the ground. Only property mentioned is "predator". Contextless pothole.
GoneHorriblyRight.Live Action TV: At the end of Supernaturals Season 6, Castiel's actions throughout the season — working with Crowley, betraying and killing friends, and breaking Sam's mind as a distraction all so he can gain the power from purgatory's souls — , does give him the power to prevent the apocalypse from being restarted. In Season 7, it turns out this power leads him to declare himself the new god, smite all angels who sided against him and humans he disapproves of, and has the side effect of unleashing unkillable monsters on the world. Need more context other than "unkillable monsters".'
Haiku.Cult Of The Lamb: Once he was a lamb. Now he's a Dark Messiah. for The One Who Waits. Contextless pothole
Headscratchers.Bad Lip Reading: Why is a dark threat in the oasis giving Miley Cyrus encouragement? And why the hell is it calling her "Shorty"? Contextless pothole
1. Considering how her career has gone, it was probably cheering on the Start of Darkness.
2. Given what happens later in the song, it could always be Snoop and she's just trying to hype him up.
Headscratchers.Deus Ex Invisible War: This is probably more Fridge than Headscratcher but why, for the other three endings, would killing JC ...actually work? By the endgame it's clearly established that rebuilding his body is nothing to him, that he totally outclasses the Illuminati in the field when he shows up in person (dropping their aircraft out of the sky), and most importantly the manifestation in New York is just an avatar for the real thing: destroying the UC only prevents his ability to appear locally, and there's still the full-on Eldritch Abomination form waiting for them in Antarctica complete with unlimited UC capability and a newly-found ability to go wherever it wants thanks to control over weather patterns. Even if the Illuminati manage to gain control of the Aquinas node... they're only going to keep control of it for a few hours at best until the man himself turns up to take it back with extreme prejudice. (The Templar ending makes a touch more sense if you assume JC isn't going to take some kind of countermeasures when he hears that the wave is heading for Antarctica.) Contextless pothole
1. JC himself will say he's no longer immortal once he's separated from Helios.
Heartwarming.Las Paridas De La Guarida: Shao Kahn might be the only non-happy ending of the cast, as he's back to Outworld, banned from all other realities, and alone. Similar to his Mortal Kombat Armageddon ending, canon before MK's retcon, except for the fact that Eldritch Abomination Tentaculín stays with him. Contextless pothole
HiddenDepths.Video Games: Claims to involve characters transformed into EAs, but no traits pertaining to a EA. Contextless potholes.
1. BlazBlue:
  1. Litchi Faye-Ling, a buxom, kind-hearted doctor dead set/obsessed in killing/saving her friend-turned-into-Eldritch Abomination, suffers extreme Guilt Complex, is actually dying from the same corruption that granted her power and turned that friend into Eldritch Abomination. She eventually joins NOL to save him, and this has Hidden Depths: On the surface, it looks like she's blinded by obsession and becomes a Horrible Judge of Character, trusting someone Obviously Evil, but in truth, she's Forced into Evil thanks to the corruption getting very close to turn her into abomination, and she doesn't trust those evil men.
  2. Arakune, said 'friend-turned-into-Eldritch Abomination' above, only obsessed in eating Kaka kittens and hunting down Ragna's Azure Grimoire to be consumed, Was Once a Man named Lotte Carmine, whom Litchi loved... but he himself ignores her and is a glory-hound and suffers massive inferiority complex, always trying to one-up Kokonoe and constantly failing, eventually leading him to that experiment that turns him into Arakune.
2. Tales of Symphonia:
  1. He also had to kill Anna, the only woman he ever loved, after Cruxis (who he abandoned to protect Anna) turns her into an Eldritch Abomination and she nearly kills their infant son (Lloyd). Then Lloyd tumbles off a cliff in her arms, leading Kratos to believe everyone he cared about is dead, completely demoralizing him. While Anna had turned him into somewhat of an optimist, this cemented his cynicism.
Laconic.A Sorrow Fierce And Falling: The conclusion of the war against the Ancients. Contextless pothole
LighterAndSofter.Anime And Manga: Then again the TV series did manage to make some arcs even darker compared to the manga. Like the anime 22rd Tenkaichi Budokai arc where Crane Hermit tries to assassinate Goku in the dead of night or the anime Piccolo Daimao arc where Goku and Yajirobe have to travel through a terrifying cave and get the Ultra Divine Water from a Eldritch Abomination, neither of which happened in the manga. Z did it too with the Hyperbolic Time Chamber being turned into a Eldritch Location that screws with people’s minds rather than just a useful training Pocket Dimension. The Goku vs Vegeta fight in Buu Saga was also darker than the manga with Vegeta trapping Goku to a rock and torturing him, whilst in the manga Vegeta just wanted to fight Goku. Contextless pothole
Literature.Ghost Story
1. Eldritch Abomination: Readers finally get the scoop on He Who Walks Behind. Lovecraft would have been impressed. ZCE
2. Flat "What": He Who Walks Behind's answer to Harry's mocking. Contextless pothole
Literature.Its Just A Scratch - Eldritch Abomination: The angel ZCE
Main.Eternal Hero: Discworld:
1. Also perhaps Sam Vimes since Thud!: his possession by the Summoning Dark and his resulting special abilities seem to be turning him into an eternal policeman, which can be seen in Snuff. Contextless pothole
Main.Government Agency Of Fiction: The Laundry Files has the Laundry, the UK's Eldritch Abomination response team — supposedly the last surviving section of the defunct real-world Special Operations Executive. There's also their American counterparts, the Black Chamber (for history nerds: the original version of the NSA). In The Apocalypse Codex, they're jokingly referred to as the Nazgûl, and perhaps officially known as the Operational Phenomenology Agency. Their German counterparts are the Geheime Sicherheit Abteilung (Secret Security Department, also known as the "Faust Force"). Contextless pothole
Literature.The Fionavar Tapestry - Villain Ball: When you're an Eldritch Abomination with Complete Immortality because your "name isn't written into the tapestry", and siring a child will serve to write your name into the tapestry, the one crime you shouldn't commit is rape. Contextless pothole
Main.Do Androids Dream: In the first game, the geth are uniformly your enemies, even though you can argue about the initial rebellion with Tali. In the sequels, you get a "true geth" teammate, Legion, who explains that the geth working for the Reapers are a separate geth faction, the "heretics"; normal geth just want to be left alone. In game dialogue with Legion, this trope comes up quite a few times as well. Contextless pothole
Main.Genocide Dilemma: Warcraft:
1. Not just once. The orcs are tricked by Kil'jaeden into killing the majority of the Draenei. Several of them are clearly torn, as they know some of the Draenei personally and have a hard time believing them to be the monsters Kil'jaeden claims they are. Contextless pothole
Main.Heroic Fantasy: Tales of Alethrion
1. The series is set in a magical and weird world where people travel and discover for the sake of it, where strange monsters are fought by heroes for glory and where high-tech cities coincide with tribal hovels. Though later shorts expanded on the setting, it can't be said to have been made more solid for it - if anything, it's just been expanded with more characters and more places for them to travel to.
2. Only a single story has been about saving the world, and it that case, it was still more concerned with the relation between the evil creature and Alethrion himself who accidentally created it from his own rampant greed. "Evil creature" is not sufficient.
Main.Hope Springs Eternal: In at least some versions of Norse Mythology, Ragnarök ends with the death of the Gods, the destruction of Ásgarðr, and the reduction of Miðgarðr (the mortal world) to a barren wasteland. But one mortal couple survives to repopulate the world.
1. Also Baldr comes back form the dead. And a handful of young gods also survive to help him.
2. Of course, the inverse of this trope is in full force as well; Níðhöggr also survives Ragnarök. Contextless pothole
Main.Jitter Cam: Contextless potholes.
1. Black Snow (Half-Life 2) 's intro features this somewhat heavily - you are technically viewing a recording of your character's headcam as he's running away from the Eldritch Abomination that ate his teammates - but then stabilizes after you take control of the character proper - until you're assaulted by the monster itself. Just "monster that eats people" and nothing else.
2. Once the Eldritch Abomination begins invading Pibby's world in the trailer for Pibby, the framing begins to emulate a jittery handheld camera (including losing focus intermittently), contrasting with the more controlled blocking used during the previous scene and driving home just how alien the threat is to their child-friendly setting. Other than invading a world, how "alien" is that threat?
Main.The Imp: While the dapper little triangle-demon Bill Cipher Gravity Falls is a major threat in his own right in canon, his cute appearance and humorous personality lend themselves to imp treatment in Lighter and Softer fanworks, such as these fancomics. Contextless pothole, other than "major threat".
MemeticBadass.Film - The Lord of the Rings: Who not only fought, but wounded Shelob? The world's most badass gardener, Samwise Gamgee. Then he killed a bunch of orcs singlehandedly. Also, you know that One Ring that seduces every single person who so much as looks at it? He gives it up with barely a struggle. Contextless pothole
Music.Bal Sagoth - Eldritch Abomination: Everything that comes from the Black Galaxy falls under this trope, including the Black Galaxy itself. ZCE
NightmareFuel.Homeworld: Let's just say that the Beast IS Nightmare Fuel and Cosmic Horror Story in a convenient package. The quote has many contextless potholes, including the EA one. You can substitute "the Beast" with any other "scary monster" and the meaning won't change much.
1. Speaking of the Bentusi, when you are sent to aid one in the middle of being attacked by a Beast convoy, you arrive basically too late. Once an infected Heavy Cruiser attacks the Tradeship, the Bentusi is scared shitless of it, especially when it fires its Infection Beam and corrupts his ship.
  Bentusi: There is something wrong here. A presence... we sense its hunger. Not infant race. Not Unbound. Something other. Something older... Something from Outside!
NightmareFuel.Infinity Crisis: Chapter 12 features characters from Gravity Falls while also stated to be in the same world as Star vs. the Forces of Evil, Amphibia and The Owl House. As if the implications given by Hekapoo about the coming of King Andrias and Emperor Belos isn't enough, a coded message below the notes confirms that Bill Cipher is still out there. Oh, Crap! would be selling the possibility of the three meeting up short. Contextless pothole
NightmareFuel.The Uncle Who Works For Nintendo - The Uncle. We never see its body. We're only told he doesn't have hands, and that's it. His voice has a low, screechy quality to it, and not to mention his child-eating tendencies... Contextless pothole
Recap.Trollhunters S 2 E 6 Hiss Hiss Bang Bang - Good Feels Good: After spending two weeks in a dimension devoid of simple comforts (like indoor plumbing, alarm clocks and even homework) and fending for his life against Eldritch Abominations and trolls that want nothing more than to torture and kill him, Jim is not going to be taking his first day back in Arcadia for granted. Contextless pothole
ShootTheShaggyDog.Anime And Manga: Vegeta gets hit with this a second time during the Buu Saga, where he becomes so obsessed with finally surpassing Goku that he sells his soul to Babidi so he can reclaim his place as the strongest of all Saiyans. As it turns out, Goku had unlocked Super Saiyan 3 during the seven-year Time Skip and had been holding back against Majin Vegeta the whole time, so Vegeta sold out his family and friends, forsook his own convictions, and helped unleash Majin Buu upon the world for nothing. When he tries to atone for his selfishness by taking on Buu himself, he's completely outmatched; even blowing himself up does nothing more than slow Buu down for a few minutes, making his sacrifice utterly pointless. Contextless pothole
VideoGame.Dungeons And Dragons Chronicles Of Mystara - Eldritch Abomination: Synn's ultimate plan is to summon a monstrosity known only as "The Fiend." Thankfully (or not), you never get to fight the Fiend, as the Glantri Air Force comes in and blasts the creature back into the pit it spawned from. Just "monstrosity". ZCE
Webcomic.Elijah And Azuu
1. Eldritch Abomination: More or less describes half of the cast, though even Eldritchier abominations show up occasionally. ZCE
2. Morality Pet: Quite literally with Orzo: Devourer of Souls... which is Azuu's perfectly normal pet kitten. He treats Orzo relatively lovingly, though insists that he's some kind of Eldritch Abomination that just happens to look and act exactly like an adorable white Kitten. Contextless pothole
WesternAnimation.Mad - Take That!: Given that it's MAD...
1. One skit in the Wall-E-Nator episode involved a Take That! to Nickelodeon awards shows; after the hostess gets Covered in Gunge, she turns into an Eldritch Abomination. Contextless pothole
WesternAnimation.Walking With Dinosaurs - Eldritch Abomination: If the exchange in The Dreaded above is to be believed, this is basically what the dinosaurs view fire as. Not without reason, mind you. Why?

VII: Mixed (a page has multiple wicks with different usage)

AwesomeBosses.Other Games A To M:
1. Any fight with Wiseman, be it the first fight where he sics a dragon on you, or the second one where he possesses Verus' body and turns into a full-fledged Eldritch Abomination. Contextless pothole
2. As difficult as the previous fights are, the DLC's Final Boss is an absolute killer, quite possibly the hardest fight From has designed: at the end of the Fishing Hamlet, you fight the Orphan of Kos on a rain-swept beach, right next to the corpse of Kos itself. It's one of the fastest Lightning Bruisers in the game, and easily the most aggressive, constantly slashing its huge weapon around you with few warnings and breaks. That's hard enough, but then it Turns Red and gains a speed upgrade, a damage boost, and a whole host of new attacks and effects. As the de facto True Final Boss of the Bloodborne experience, it's the ultimate test of your skills. Duplicate of the Bloodborne wick in folder V
3. The So Okay, It's Average game DICE based on the same anime is completely based on mindless repetitive action and nonsense plot. The Shell, main phlebotinum, is simply equal to solarbenite, so you can have an idea, the game was simply panned by critics. Everything is just stupid until the secret last mission, when you fight the true last boss: the Shell created an Eldritch Abomination and it's up to you to impede him to destroy the universe (yes, the universe), with your Transforming Mecha, with everything, since the bare hands to the main cannon. It's truly the only Moment of Awesome of the entire game, you just have to earn much patience. Powerful enough to destroy the universe (folder IV).
4. EarthBound: Many people consider Giygas one of the greatest final bosses in videogame history, and not for just being by far the most nightmarish part of a generally lighthearted game and arguably the single scariest Nintendo villain of them all (which really says something considering their track record). In its third and final form, your party cannot defeat it on their own. In an interesting twist on breaking the fourth wall, you, the player, kill Giygas with the final attack. To elaborate: Paula has already reached out to everyone the party met on Earth, but Giygas hasn't been defeated. She prays again, but she doesn't know who else to reach out to. Her call is absorbed by the darkness because you're fighting Giygas, the embodiment of evil itself, in a dimension of absolute darkness. Paula prays one last time for someone to help them; the player, yes, you, the person playing the game, begins to pray for them and destroys Giygas. Made of Evil (folder II).
5. Just about every damn boss in Kid Icarus: Uprising counts.
  1. Highlights include a reaper two stories tall, a Humongous Mecha, Hades himself... and the Chaos Kin. The latter technically takes up two boss fights - the first time it was possessing Palutena and the second time was a straight-up KILLKILLKILL fight. Contextless pothole
6. Monster Hunter: Rise: Sounds like kaiju (folder IV)
  1. Thunder Serpent Narwa is an Eldritch Abomination who moves in very weird patterns. Platforms repeatedly rise and fall throughout the fight, some with ballistas; when they show up, it's time to open fire. Midway through the fight, a Magnamalo shows up (replaced by a Malzeno during the Sunbreak encounter). You then have to ride that trademark monster into the boss to deal massive damage for an amazing Catharsis Factor, since they were That One Boss. And then Narwa will literally send a whirlwind of dragonators against you.
  2. The Final Boss of Sunbreak, Gaismagorm, is a huge and unnatural Eldritch Abomination. You end up shooting against the Qurio bugs to weaken it, and it gives some clearly telegraphed tells when you should get the heck out. It's also a two-phase battle, giving you the feeling that you've damaged it hard.
BigBad.Pokemon:
1. Pokémon Sun and Moon:
  1. In the main game, Guzma is the leader of Team Skull who uses them to carry out various criminal activities and aims to spread his destruction all throughout Alola. However, Lusamine, president of the Aether Foundation, is the real villain using Guzma to unleash the Ultra Beasts on the world. See below
  2. In the post-game, the Ultra Beasts as a whole are the main threat to the world who must be captured by the player before they destroy everything. Contextless pothole. What does "destroy everything" mean? Destroy a facility? A city? A planet? idk
2. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Gates to Infinity: Hydreigon is the one who is chasing Munna and trying to destroy the world. Except he is trying to save the world- the real antagonist is the Bittercold, an entity made of the negative feelings of Pokémon that Munna and Kyurem serve. The Heartless (folder II).
3. Pokémon Super Mystery Dungeon: Entei is the one turning Pokémon around the world to stone, including Legendary Pokémon. Except he was trying to stop the force turning everyone to stone. That force is revealed to be Dark Matter, a sentient Eldritch Abomination formed from the collective negative emotions of the world's Pokémon. It acts through its brainwashed servants, Nuzleaf (the player's guardian), the 3 Beheeyem that attacked the player at the beginning, and Yveltal. The Heartless (folder II).
Characters.Homestuck Kids:
1. Classical Elements Ensemble: Rose's element is water. Her planet is the Land of Light and Rain, but her former house was based off Fallingwater and the day of her introduction was in a torrential downpour of rain. Her mom has a drinking problem, as her main feature are her lips. Rose's artefact is a bottle — usually made from glass, which comes from sand at the beach. Bottles are also used for christening new vessels such as a boat. Her denizen is Cetus, the water monster, and her meteor killed off all water life. Her cat, Jaspers, tends to hate water. Her color resembles the deep sea, and her interests are of the Eldritch Abomination kind, who were revered to rest in the deepest sea. Contextless pothole
2. Dark Is Not Evil: On one hand, she's a Black Magician Girl who consults Eldritch Abominations... but she's mostly doing it to try and save her and her friends' lives. On the other, she's the 'Seer of Light' in the Kid's SBURB session, and there's evidence to suggest she's not really following her quest pathline, as she mainly spends time ripping the game apart with dark magic wands, communing with horrorterrors and Doc Scratch, and generally trying to see the game achieve victory by any means necessary. Contextless pothole. Magnificent Bastard potholes are not allowed.
3. Genre Blind: You'd think she'd know better than to ask the infallibly accurate information-gathering device for a glimpse into the psychology of Eldritch Abominations, considering her choice of light reading material. Contextless pothole
4. Improvised Weapon: Just after she begins the session with John, she notices that she'll have to set her Strife Specibus. She considers setting it to an encyclopedia of horrorterrors but decides not to, for obvious reasons. She instead opts for her knitting needles, reasoning that she'd be more comfortable with them. The fact that she kills several imps and an ogre without any effort before using them to channel the power of dark gods borders Achievements in Ignorance. Contextless pothole
5. Lady of Black Magic: Becomes this after upgrading her weapons with magic, and has reserve and quiet intelligence. Doing so eventually bites her in the ass. She's since abandoned using Horrorterror-related magic, and relies on alternative forms of sorcery instead. Sink Hole.
6. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: At least according to Aradia, Rose's actions of deliberately tearing apart Sburb and listening to the dark gods beyond the Veil has (or will have) some huge consequences. It also turns out that her plan to destroy the Green Sun in fact created it. "Dark gods" seem like folder IV.
7. Nightmare Fetishist: Her love of the Zoologically Dubious. She's also seen making abominations in the snow. Contextless pothole
8. Punny Name: The innuendo of her chumhandle is never mentioned in the comic. It gains a new level of significance when you consider her "love of the Zoologically dubious" and her tendency to "dabble in PSYCHOANALYSIS." Contextless pothole other than "tentacles = eldritch".
9. Break the Cutie: Averted. The death of her dreamself, the explosion of her dreambot, and her nightmare visions of Eldritch Abominations put a dent in her chipper demeanor for a little while, but she's soon back in full genki mode. She later yells at Jadesprite for focusing on the sad when everything else is so damn important. Contextless pothole. Aversions of Break the Cutie are not allowed.
Characters.Persona 4 Antagonists: The Mastermind
1. Doppelgänger: As seen from her Character Portrait, her goddess form looks disturbingly like the Protagonist, at least from his point of view. This also serves a bit of a Continuity Nod to Persona 2, where Philemon's own Unwitting Pawn Tatsuya punches him in the face, only to find that behind Philemon's mask...is Tatsuya's own face. Nyarlathotep similarly shows up with Tatsuya's face, after the hero's actions make him Nyarlathotep's unwitting pawn in Eternal Punishment. Contextless pothole. One sentence involves canon EA from Cthulhu Mythos (folder I)
2. Eldritch Abomination: Her degraded appearance was so legendarily hideous this is the best description for it. Only appearance (folder III)
3. A Form You Are Comfortable With: In both her goddess and true forms. Doesn't last when she gets serious. Same as above
Characters.Sonic The Hedgehog Modern Era Antagonists 1:
1. Chaos - Eldritch Abomination: Compared to a canonical kaiju (Godzilla); folder IV
  1. His final form. It looks very much like Biollante, but with fewer tentacles, and being made of water instead of plant-materia. Its screams and roars are also rather Godzilla-esque.
  2. Chaos is supposedly a Chao that was mutated eons ago. If that is the case, he has always been an Eldritch Abomination by that point.
2. Tropes Relating to All Three (Solaris) - Eldritch Abomination: Continuing the trend of Lovecraftian enemies within the series. Commented out ZCE
3. Mephiles the Dark - Eldritch Abomination: He is a spirit that embodies the mind and will of a god, but beyond this there is no real telling what he is. He doesn't even seem to have a true material form, the closest one being a primordial shadow (which already breaks our laws of physics). He reveals a crystalline form in Shadow's story, but nobody can seem to determine if this is truly what Mephiles looks like or if he simply absorbed the properties of the rocks around him at the time. There's also the fact that, when he's in his proper body, he's actually a god that can feast on time itself. Related to a god (folder IV); law-breaking abilities.
4. Iblis - Eldritch Abomination: Both as himself and as part of Solaris. ZCE
5. Solaris - Eldritch Abomination: It is a godlike monstrosity that can destroy timelines and dimensions at a whim. God-like monstrosity (folder IV).
6. Void - Eldritch Abomination: Void's monster form. Its head is its chest, and it has multiple eyes poking out of it. Weird-looking monster. Nothing about "incomprehensibility" or "extraordinary power.
7. Erazor Djinn - Eldritch Abomination: In his true form. Commented out ZCE.
Characters.The Elder Scrolls Other Deities:
1. Eldritch Abomination: They are immortal beings of pure energy who, in the rare instances they do take form, take the form of giant soul gems. Energy Beings (folder II) + appearance (folder III)
2. Eldritch Abomination: Sithis "Is Not", and is referred to as a "great void". Unlike the many other personified deities in the series, Sithis is most commonly described as a "force" representing chaos and change. He is said to be an equal but opposing force to "the soul of all things". Deity (folder IV)
3. Berserk Button: In Skyrim, he is much more hostile towards you if you introduce yourself as either a Nightingale or the Listener. He has a good reason, of course, since you're admitting to being in the service of either a Daedric Prince or Sithis, in addition to neither profession being exactly compatible with honorable combat. In both cases, he ends his response with "your errand I will not hinder, if my wrath you can withstand." See above
Characters.Warhammer 40000 Chaos Gods:
1. Eldritch Abomination: All of the Chaos Gods are disembodied malicious beings of unlimited power that exist beyond time and space, yet are still connnected to each mortal soul. Folder IV
2. Eldritch Abomination: All daemons qualify, but Tzeentch's are noteworthy for being abstract and formless compared to those of his brother gods. Folder III
3. Beware the Nice Ones: He's the more caring and fatherly out of the bunch. He's also a Chaos God who thinks that infecting living things with the worst diseases imaginable is how to best show his kindness. Folder IV
EldritchLocation.Fan Works:
1. Children of an Elder God: The city of R'lyeh was a kind of multi-dimensional dreamworld "forced into reality", forged by an Eldritch Abomination, where real world laws of physics were nothing but mere suggestions. Same as Folder I (R'lyeh). Includes "disregard for laws of universe" part.
  R'yleh was nothing more than a dream forced into reality, a memory of a place long destroyed - reduced to dust by the dream's creator, in his arrogance and power. And now the dream was over and reality surged in, and the laws of Earth asserted themselves.
  Buildings which twisted through five dimensions suddenly were confined to three, and fell in chunks or crumbled to dust or toppled over because the supports in the fifth dimension were no more.
  The very ground below it evaporated or inverted or became one-dimensional threads which snapped under the weight.
2. The Emiya Clan basement is the equivalent of an epic dungeon crawler. It's basically where they throw all the junk they accumulate that is too dangerous or unstable to use. It's also where they lock any Eldritch Abomination that is too hard to destroy. Put two and two together and you get something along the lines of Moria. Contextless pothole
3. The Night Unfurls: The Malys Estate. The rumours of it being haunted by ghosts or spirits turn out to be false, but that doesn't make it any less wrong. There's Alien Geometries, there's vile, overgrown vegetation, and for some reason, there is a great lake that houses an insectoid Eldritch Abomination that is the source of the "eldritch" stuff happening in this fanfic. Goes on to show that otherworldly voids, dimensions and universes are not a prerequisite for a mind-screwy location — even an unassuming estate building is enough. Not specific enough but likely given context
4. Robb Returns has Hopemourne, the furthest North location in Westeros. When the Children of the Forest first emerged in Westeros, these ancient ruins were already there, inhabited by something (speculated to be the Great Other), which repelled the Children and later created the Others in a mockery of them. And ever since their defeat in the Long Night, the it has been where the Others have lived, gathering their power and preparing for Round 2. Contextless pothole
5. The Black Moon in Thousand Shinji. During Third Impact, that was the place where the energies of an alternate dimension poured through a crack in the fabric of reality as several Eldritch Abominations came into being. Concepts such like space, time or laws of physics worked in erratic ways. Includes "disregard for laws of universe" part, but nothing about "alien / monstrous / incomprehensible appearance".
  Deep within the Black Moon, the Egg of Lilith, the Warp bled out into reality, creating the perfect gestation grounds for the beings within. In this seething cauldron of unreality, things had many layers, and viewing things from different angles could have a profound effect on what was seen.
6. The Seventh Magniverse in the fanfic Ultraman Moedari, where the Great Names are sealed by the power of the Pillars and The Keystone. Contextless pothole
Film.The Cabin In The Woods:
1. Eldritch Abomination: The Ancient Ones, a bunch of sadistic god-like beings who want the humans being sacrificed to die in fascinating, troperiffic ways to be appeased. Just like a horror-movie viewer. Fittingly, they're human-shaped. Folder IV
2. Monster Mash:
  1. Other monsters seemingly not mentioned on the whiteboard, but spotted throughout the film, include a man-sized tarantula, some manner of giant cephalopod, a medieval torturer, a scorpion-like automaton with buzzsaws for stingers, The Suffocators, a Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl, a dead King Kong-esque Kaiju seen on a monitor, a Creepy Child whom a guard tries to escape by dragging himself along the floor, a Boomer, a Hunter, a Witch and a Tank, and three Ku Klux Klan members. And finally, there's The Ancient Ones. See above
  2. There are even more monsters not glimpsed in the film or named on the whiteboard, but who show up in behind-the-scenes features on the DVD. These include a Cyclops, the "Man in Transparent Tarp", a spook who peels his own face away, someone with a jellyfish-like head, a giant centipede, a Blob Monster, a Giantess to go with the whiteboard's Giant, vicious dogs, and a killer garden gnome played hilariously by an angry-looking little kid. Oh yes, and a Flying Face which is actually the CGI-disembodied head of makeup effects artist David Leroy Anderson. A comment on one of the "making of" features reveals that there were about a hundred monsters involved, not even counting the hordes of zombies and such (another seventy). Folder III
3. Sealed Evil in a Can: Played Straight, then exaggerated, then subverted. It's made clear early on that the facility has a stockpile of Nightmare Fuel. Eventually, it is revealed that their stockpile is a well organized collection of every type of horror movie monster one can think of, including a few one would never have expected (e.g. unicorns, mermen, trees^note). But it's then revealed that even this encyclopedia of terror is just a part of a bigger can that holds back even bigger evils. Likely refers to "The Ancient Ones".
Literature.Goat Dance:
1. I Have Many Names: The Goat Dance entity has gone by a variety of epithets throughout the centuries. Eater Of Souls, Mother Of Nightmares, and Goatman are the most popular. According to Virginia Houston, (speaking through Teddy Amory,) its true name is unpronounceable to humans. Entity existed for centuries and has an unpronounceable name (akin to Black Speech), but no context on whether it breaks defined in-universe laws and has an appearance that represent disturbing otherness.
2. Our Zombies Are Different: Like most zombies, they give off toxic odors, display rot, mortal wounds, and worse, and live only to relentlessly feed upon the flesh of the living. But they can also use a form of glamour to appear intact, shapeshift into other deceased individuals or even monsters, and make up a Hive Mind that is either created by or comprises an Eldritch Abomination. Contextless pothole
Main.Evil Versus Evil:
1. The Shape of the Nightmare to Come has Abaddon's Chaos Imperium fighting against the Perturabo-Angron alliance (Abaddon wins with the aid of Typhus), and later on Huron Blackheart's Eastern Chaos Imperium and the Void Dragon's Necron forces. Even worse, a key element of the fic's setting is the removal of two factions engaged in a massive Evil Versus Evil war - The Tyranid Hive Fleet Leviathan and the Ork Empire of Octarius inadvertently gave birth to the New Devourer, Ork/Tyranid hybrid lifeforms, who then proceeded to eat 1/3 of the galaxy. Contextless pothole
2. Sonic X: Dark Chaos has the Metarex versus Tsali, Maledict versus the Metarex, and Dark Tails against everyone. The overarching conflict between Maledict and Allysion can be seen as this too, Maledict is the biblical Satan and all-around Manipulative Bastard, while Allysion is a crazed psychopath who wants to watch the universe burn and torture everything For the Evulz. While setting seems to include universe-level beings (folder IV), there is no context on how Dark Tails fits the definition of a EA aside from "being against everyone".
3. This happens a lot in The Bridge, arguably even more often than traditional Hero/Heroine vs. Villain(ess) duels. Most times its between two villains who are on different levels of Black-and-Gray Morality, with the more Gray moral characters going up against those closer to Black moral ones; or it can occur between two villains that have conflicting interests, such as the fight between the Big Bad Bagan and Outside-Context Problem Shadow of Red. One story arc in the human realm relies on Monster X and the Sirens being the realm's best defense against Enjin. Kaizer Ghidorah makes it clear that although he hates Grand King Ghidorah and wants to kill him, he's not a good guy either as he hates everybody else and will kill them for being there. Queen Chrysalis theorizes this will be the case with her Evil Mentor Grogar and Bagan should she succeed in fully restoring him, supporting Grogar. Legion's reaction to Grogar's power implies Grogar is one of the few capable of taking on Bagan one on one and thus having any chance of doing so. Flurry Heart's Bad Future implies the end result of this would be devastating for everyone. Not enough context on whether Enjin fits a EA. While the setting has extraordinarily powerful entities (folder IV), including a canonical kaiju (Ghidorah), it is unclear whether they break defined in-universe laws and have appearances that represent disturbing otherness.
4. The "Midnight Crew" Intermission in Homestuck pits the eponymous Midnight Crew against The Felt. The Midnight Crew is a small yet dangerous gang that effectively rules their city and turn out to be Alternia's versions of the Big Bad and his cohorts though they aren't nearly as evil. The Felt is a rival gang whose members possess time related powers and take orders from an Eldritch Abomination called "Lord English". Contextless pothole
Main.Hero Antagonist:
1. In Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain, Generic Girl and Miss A are the only ones that come after the Inscrutable Machine on their own initiative — Generic Girl genuinely wants to stop crime (even their relatively harmless crimes), but Miss A is just a Jerkass. Mech, Ifrit and Marvelous all show up at different points to disrupt their supervillainy activities as well, but that's more secondary. Mech showed up to stop the Eldritch Abomination they unleashed, Ifrit got dragged in by Miss A and later Marvelous, and Marvelous was actually trying to steal the same thing they were at one point. Contextless pothole
2. In A Study in Emerald, the murderer the detective is seeking is murdering members of the "royal families" of Europe with intentions of overthrowing them, but the reader is expected to sympathize with his goals even if the detective and the narrator do not. Especially given that the detective is Moriarty and the narrator Moran, and the murderers themselves none other than Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Contextless pothole
3. In the Whateley Universe, the Reverend Darren England, protector of the planet from demonic threats for decades. He's willing to deal with The Syndicate if it means the death of The Kellith, the descendant of a Great Old One, before The Kellith can destroy all life on earth. The only problem is that The Kellith is Carmilla, who is an Anti-Hero protagonist and is trying to go straight. Great Old One (similar name from Cthulhu Mythos; folder I) who can destroy life on earth (folder IV)
Main.Just Here For Godzilla:
1. Exalted Second Edition had a notable example of this. The Infernals, who get their power from the Yozis (the defeated and imprisoned creators of the world), were themed as demonic, warped heroes. However, a supplementary book noted that, at high Power Levels, Infernals could break away from their masters and write their own power sets. Many players began creating Infernals and playing them exclusively for this last bit - only to be disappointed when most campaigns never reached the levels where it opened up (in part due to player dissatisfaction at having to play a demonic, warped hero in the meantime). (To put this in perspective: most Exalted character start at Essence 2. Reaching Essence 5 is relatively easy if you have a long enough campaign, but hurdles beyond 5 mean that very few campaigns reach Essence 6, the minimum needed to start the breakaway.) This got bad enough that the series developers took note and corrected it for Exalted Third Edition: Infernals remain demonic and warped, but then there is this new thing called Exigents who define their custom power sets from the start. "Creators of the world" indicate folder IV
2. Dwarf Fortress features weather simulation, realistic geology and climates, elaborate history simulation and genetically-controlled character appearances. People play it to slaughter horrible monsters, find the most gruesome ways to execute goblins and flood the world in boiling magma. Just "horrible monsters". Contextless pothole.
Main.Monster Is A Mommy:
1. A rather... uncommon example of this trope is in Parasite Eve, where Aya points her gun at Eve, then smiles and points it away once Eve points out she's pregnant. A twisted Eldritch Abomination-to-be with the game's Final Boss inside her, but still a mama. Needs more context other than "twisted".
2. The My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic episode "Boast Busters" inverts the trope: That big, scary star-bear is really just a very young cub in need of a bottle of milk and a nap. We see Mama only in an Answer Cut; it's a good thing she didn't show up. Folder III
Main.Threesome Subtext:
1. In Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!, after Cuko warms up to Mahiro, she begins campaigning for a three-way relationship: "I bear Nyarko's child, the boy bears mine." Nyarko opposes this because she's straight and doesn't want to share Mahiro; Mahiro opposes it for obvious reasons (not the least of which is his fear that she could make it happen). Nyarko refers to a canonical EA from Cthulhu Mythos (folder I)
2. In Empowered, this is implied between the three main characters, Emp + Thug Boy + Ninjette. Emp and Thug Boy are in a very happy relationship with Ninjette as Emp's best friend. But not only are Thug Boy and Ninjette attracted to each other (he even accidently felt her up when the three of them were sharing a bed after Ninjette underwent a traumatic experience), but it's implied that Ninjette is attracted to Emp, and Emp has described herself as a "three drink bisexual." The possibility is even acknowledged during a conversation between Ninjette and The Caged Demonwolf, though Ninjette refuses to divulge her fantasies. Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's incredibly unsubtle. Contextless pothole
Myth.Romani Mythology: Folder III + Our Demons Are Different (folder II)
1. Child by Rape: The Keshali Ana was raped by the King of the Loçolici (humans cursed by Satan) many times, resulting in demonic entities that represent every disease known to man. In this case, the rape seems to illustrate their abhorrence rather than give them sympathy, and the oldest of the children, Melalo, even goaded his father into raping her more often.
2. Eldritch Abomination: Some fleshy critters easily rival H. P. Lovecraft in terms of hideousness, from vagina beetles to spindly hagfish to dog/kitty headed things responsible for The Black Death. Almost all of them are the children of the king of the Loçolici (humans cursed by Satan) and Ana, the queen of the Keshali; he raped her multiple times, sometimes goaded by his son, the Feathered Fiend Melalo, resulting in all of these abominations that still are breeding incestually with their siblings under the earth, producing generation upon generation of disease demons.
3. The Fair Folk: The Keshali are nature spirits just as likely to bless as they are to curse. Interestingly, they're treated sympathetically due to the abuses of the Loçolici and demons. Their queen, Ana, was raped by the king of the Loçolici many times, bearing aberrations that represent every plague known to man.
NightmareFuel.Creepypasta:
1. While The Chosen Journals is more lighthearted than other Creepypasta, it still has its share of disturbing aspects. The story is full of Paranoia Fuel with the mere concept that pretty much anything can be an Eldritch Abomination in disguise just waiting to tear its victims limb from limb. Contextless pothole
  1. One entry centers around one of the Ancients taking the form of a chair. The narrator's refusal to reveal what the "seat" is regarding the chair's anatomy speaks volumes. Especially when he/she says they feel sorry for anyone who tried to sit in it. Nothing Is Scarier (folder II)
  2. Thac. Not only can he assume more than one form (Human and toy dragon), but it's also implied he may not be an Ancient but something far more powerful and dangerous. The narrator, despite admitting he/she is glad Thac is (possibly) on their side, even explicitly states against summoning Thac for help. Seems to fit folder IV, but more context needed
2. Dogscape: Imagine, if you will, everything becoming dogs. Literally everything. The story is told in multiple logs that unveil the Body Horror that what's left of humanity has to go through, one soldier breaking into the Eldritch Abomination that started it all only to be assimilated into it, and a man tying a woman to a tree and raping her presented as a good thing in context. Contextless pothole
3. Psychosis: Contextless potholes
  1. It is about a man who slowly comes to believe that everyone but him has disappeared and been replaced by some Eldritch Abomination, is an extremely scary story likely to induce serious Paranoia Fuel in you. Particularly effective is the Wham Line at the end.
    "After all, a sane man would have fallen for the deception long ago."
  2. Although the man is technically wrong. Nobody has been replaced by an Eldritch Abomination. The Eldritch Abominations are Puppeteer Parasites controlling everyone, and the people are all fully aware of everything going on but unable to do anything about it.
4. The Quiet Sky begins with the premise that the Arecibo message gets a response. The response comes in two parts, the first of which is an unintelligible radio signal coming from the direction of Messier 13. The second is a telepathic voice asking "Where are you?", for which the entity is named the Voice. Then the dead start screaming, and not just the human dead either. Every dead thing on Earth that once had a voice is screaming. The mysterious entity's response is "I hear you. I am coming." This causes humanity to go into a mass panic and things just get worse from there. Folder IV due to the ability to trigger a Brown Note unto humanity. Is formless.
5. How to access the "Forbidden Wiki"- this provides both a series of instructions that allows one to access The Other Wiki pages from other universes. While this may not sound particularly scary or dangerous, the narrator encourages anyone who considers the idea to bring a weapon and/or a bodyguard, and not to spend too long lingering on the pages. The Forbidden Wiki is a vast archive of Things Man Was Not Meant to Know and spending too long there will bring anyone who reads in contact with other beings, be it the "Lurkers"- creatures speculated to be interdimensional hitmen who hunt down anyone who seeks out the Forbidden Wiki- or the mysterious keepers of the site only referred to as "Them." And then there's contents of the pages themselves, ranging from bizarre figures and historical events that don't exist in our world to laconic and disturbing ones such as "The Man Inside Your Head" and "The Corner In Your Basement." And while it might be mostly disconnected from our world, the things on there can still find ways to reach out, as the narrator discovered firsthand... Contextless pothole.
6. I Stopped Urban Exploring After We Visited a Ghost Town. Kilmoure's residents made a Deal with the Devil with an Eldritch Abomination to gift them immortality. The Eldritch Abomination granted their wish by trapping them as faceless entities mindlessly reliving their lives. Forever. Deal with the Devil (folder II)
Stellaris.Tropes I To Z:
1. Lovecraft Lite: Hyperspace beings invading our universe to feed on the Life Energy of its inhabitants? Eldritch Abominations wreaking havoc on entire solar systems? Ancient alien races who show up one day out of the blue and sterilize one of your colonies because you accidentally "contaminated" one of their holy worlds? The Stellaris universe can be a pretty scary place. Good thing you've got Frickin' Laser Beams to fight them off. Folder IV
2. Martial Pacifist: Nations with the Pacifist or Fanatic Pacifist ethos cannot declare wars of aggression. They can only declare war to retake lost colonies, to contain Fanatic Purifiers and other Absolute Xenophobes who are too insane and unreasonable for any diplomacy to work, to stop the rampage of an Awakened Ascendancy, or (for non-Fanatic Pacifists) to create client states of a similar ethos. The galaxy is just too dangerous to go without a military, though. Space Pirates, spaceborne lifeforms, conquest-hungry neighbours and far worse things render self-defence a necessary investment. Likely refers to the one above.
3. Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Bringing about the End of the Cycle is definitely this, and everyone else will hate you for it. (-1000 Reaction) Contextless pothole
4. Telepathic Spacemen: One of the end-game ascensions is the option to turn some and then all of your citizens into psychics, which make them better at researching, fighting, piloting, and give them the abilities to see the future, project the most powerful shields in the game, and teleport faster and farther than any other FTL drive in the game. A sufficiently powerful group of them can commune with an alternate plane of reality called the Shroud, where you can make deals with the incomprehensible entities that reside there. Likely refers to the ones at the Lovecraft Lite entry.
VideoGame.Dragons Crown:
1. Eldritch Abomination: The Ancient Dragon, stated to be as old as the gods and was sealed away in the Illusionary Lands as a fossil to keep it away from the world, and when it awakens it will have power over all magic and be unstoppable. Even not fully awakened, you need to weaken it with the nine talismans to stand a chance against it. Folder IV
2. Oculothorax: The Gazer boss, based off of D&D's Beholders. It not only has a single giant eye that can fire Eye Beams, it also has multiple eye stalks that protrude from its body and the rest of its body is covered in eyes. Folder III. Can be easily replaced by the trope Oculothorax (folder II).
3. Wake-Up Call Boss: The Gazer, fought before the game's mid-way point and is necessary to open the ability to play online (along with the more difficult "B" routes for each dungeon), is much more difficult than the previous boss fights in-game when you first encounter it, especially for players that just mash through most bosses, which is a tactic this one actively tries to prevent. Most of the Gazer's attacks hit a wide area around it^note, which is especially bad news since the area you fight it in is relatively small. Moreover, it hardly enters a stunned state, teleports around the room, and locks out your ability to use magic if it's looking in your direction, meaning solo mages will have a harder time dealing with it. If you're used to using your NPC party members to sponge the bosses, expect to see them die multiple times.

VIII: Unclassified

Note: The following do not count, either because of duplicating another entry (common in cross-wicking), or because it is in an index.

Main.Steampunk Index - Objects And Inventions: Eldritch Abomination In an index.
NiceJobBreakingItHero.Live Action TV: Duplicate with Supernatural.Tropes M To P.
1. At the end of season six, Castiel absorbs all the souls of Purgatory to get the power to defeat Archangel Raphael, who wanted to restart the Apocalypse. In doing so, he goes insane and unleashes the Leviathans, creatures that God locked away to stop them from eating everything else, who become season seven's Big Bads.
2. In "The Thing", Sam and Dean in the process of saving a seemingly-innocent victim, are responsible for almost unleashing a galaxy-consuming Eldritch Abomination upon the world. They more than make up for this at the episode's end by not only defeating said Abomination but sending it back to its native Alternate Universe for good.

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