YMMV / Aboriginal Australian Myths

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Wungurr (a deity from the aptly named "Wandjina-Wungurr" culture complex in Kimberley) is normally depicted as a Sentient Cosmic Force of sorts, impersonal and hard to describe. Then in one story it ate a woman during a flood. The whiplash is real.
• Complete Monster:
• Marmoo, the Arch-Enemy of Baiame the Sky-Father, growing jealous of how his adversary instead of himself created the world, swore to destroy everything that exists. Marmoo created the insects, arachnids, and worms to lay waste to the land, covering the sky in darkness, spreading plagues and devouring the innocent animals and plants. Even after being thwarted by the mother goddess Nungeena and her birds, Marmoo attempts to corrupt them, succeeding with the cuckoos, who on his orders invade other birds' nests and replace their eggs with their own. Feared by the Gamilaaray tribe as a malevolent god, Marmoo is hellbent on the annihilation of the world to spite Baiame and his creations.
  • Bila, the Adnyamathanha sun goddess, was a cannibal who sent dogs to fetch her victims to roast over her fireplace, the origin of sunlight. She caused the extinction of an entire people, an act that shocked the heroic Kudnu ("Goanna Man") and Muda ("Gecko Man"). Losing the battle against them, Bila opted to flee, leaving the world to die in darkness and cold.
• Ho Yay: The two Adnyamathanha and Ngadjuri cultural heroes, Kudnu and Muda, are pretty much always together and don't seem to marry. This could be due to stories where they do being missing/not given permission to share by the elders, but pre-colonial attitudes to sexuality were pretty relaxed.
• Narm: Bila, the cannibal sun goddess and great enemy of Kudnu's story in Adnyamathanha and Ngadjuri traditions... is defeated by being looped in a boomerang across the earth. 'tis a bit silly.
• Nightmare Retardant: The Garkain from Yolngu lore is a terrifying bat or bird like creature that leaves souls to wander aimlessly forever. The problem is that its chosen method of execution is enveloping people in its wings so they suffocate in its bad smell. Admittedly a bit of Values Dissonance, since Toilet Humor is probably not what the stories are aiming for.
• The Woobie: Gnowee, the Wotjobaluk sun goddess, was once a mother who lived in an age where the world was dark. Having gone to fetch yams, when she returned she found her child was gone. She then lit a torch and now desperately searches for her missing child every day.