History EldritchAbomination / LiveActionTV

** Most of the First Ones on the show qualify, and the Shadows in particular. Their ships basically look like giant pitch-black spiders from hell, and their accompanying banshee scream doesn't improve matters. The first time they are seen in any considerable number is in Londo's dream of Shadow vessels blackening the sky of his homeworld, and his terrified reaction to it says a lot when he is so nonchalant about his other recurring dream, which is a vision of his death by strangulation.

** The MadeForTVMovie ''[[Recap/BabylonFiveFilm02Thirdspace Thirdspace]]'' features a race of ancient aliens that are a kind of EldritchAbomination, inhabiting a different type of space (neither normal, nor hyperspace) and waiting for a very, very long time until someone finds the ArtifactOfDoom and activates it, allowing them to be released. Oh, and they have tentacles and extremely strong telepathy, and they cause insanity. Even in the Vorlons. According to the RPG, they move like locusts from reality to reality, devouring and using up each in turn before moving from the ruins of the last to their next prey; the mere psychic shadow of their ancient depredations INSPIRED Lovecraft and analogous authors, not to mention several varieties of cultists, in other intelligent races.

*** The Crystaline Entity is a large, amoral being that the crew can't understand or communicate with, and it destroys every living thing it encounters, feeding on all life on a planet, leaving nothing organic, not even bacteria. (Picard suggests that it might not be evil, but simply a predator which can't comprehend that its victims are sentient, but this view is not widely believed.) It does seem to be able to communicate with Data's [[EvilTwin brother Lore]] somehow, who helps it by helping it find victims.

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In "Monster", a rampaging energy creature is created as an unfortunate side effect of experiments being conducted with people possessing telekinetic powers.

* {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} appears in the last season of ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' and he's possibly even more of an EldritchAbomination in the show than in the comics. Rather than being a physical being, Smallville's Darkseid is a living cloud of hate, capable of [[DemonicPossession possessing]] and/or [[BrainwashedAndCrazy corrupting]] anyone who isn't "pure of spirit". He's even capable of [[spoiler: bringing the dead Lex Luthor back to life]]. He's also the [[{{Satan}} Beast of Revelations]].

** One of the best descriptions of how incomprehensible the First Ones are comes from the first-season episode "Mind War", after G'Kar saves Catherine Sakai when she goes investigating a planet that G'Kar knows to be dangerous. It turns out it's dangerous because it's the home of a group of First Ones [[note]]Though that part is only made clear in hindsight when it's seen again three seasons later as one of the First Ones the Alliance calls upon for help.[[/note]], and when Catherine asks G'Kar about what she saw, he makes the following analogy about an ant:
--->I have just picked it up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again, and it asks another ant, 'What was that?', how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They're vast, timeless, and if they're aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants, and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know, we've tried, and we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on.
** The MadeForTVMovie ''Thirdspace'' featured a race of ancient aliens that were a kind of EldritchAbomination, inhabiting a different type of space (neither normal, nor hyperspace) and waiting for a very, very long time until someone finds the ArtifactOfDoom and activates it, allowing them to be released. Oh, and they have tentacles and extremely strong telepathy, and they cause insanity. Even in the Vorlons. According to the RPG, they move like locusts from reality to reality, devouring and using up each in turn before moving from the ruins of the last to their next prey; the mere psychic shadow of their ancient depredations INSPIRED Lovecraft and analogous authors, not to mention several varieties of cultists, in other intelligent races.

** ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' has the Doomsday Machine, of the episode of the same name. A bizarre ship appears from outside the known Galaxy that is irregularly shaped, looking something like a giant cone irregularly carved out of granite, with an abominable eye at its center looking suspiciously like a gateway to hell. It's virtually indestructible and is capable of destroying and consuming whole worlds. Consider also Commodore Decker's response to it: after it destroys his ship and kills his crew, this man, previously an atheist, describes it as the devil and coming straight out of hell and suffers a complete HeroicBSOD. Later, recovering only slightly, his only response is to mindlessly try to attack and destroy it no matter the cost. Failing utterly at this, he is still 'round the bend and steals a shuttle specifically to fly into it and kill himself.
*** Retjac from "Wolf in the Fold", a formless creature that feeds off pain and suffering. When it possesses the ship's computer, the view screens show a bizarre multicolored, constantly shifting chaos that Kirk speculates is where it comes from.
*** The Guardian of Forever from "City on the Edge of Forever", a sentient PortalToThePast which was physically present for everything that has ever happened. When Kirk asks if it is a machine or a living organism, the Guardian replies "I am both and neither". Apparently, this is the clearest explanation that human understanding makes possible.
-->'''Spock''': For this to do what it does is impossible by any science I understand.
** The Crystaline Entity from ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''. It's a large, amoral being that they can't understand or communicate with, and it destroys every living thing it encounters, feeding on all life on a planet, leaving nothing organic, not even bacteria. (Picard suggested that it might not have been evil, but simply a predator who couldn't comprehend that its victims were sentient, but this view was not widely believed.)
*** It did seem to be able to communicate with Data's [[EvilTwin brother Lore]] somehow, who was helping it by helping it find victims.
** The sentient white blob that takes over the cargo bay in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise''.

** '''Q'''. Sure, he [[HumanoidAbomination seems human enough]], but few things ever encountered in the franchise come close to the level of power his kind possess.
*** On the occasions when humans and similar beings are taken to the home of the Q, the Q Continuum, they are explicitly told that [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm what they perceive is not the reality of the Continuum]], but merely a convenient metaphor for something nothing on their level could begin to comprehend.
** "The Immunity Syndrome" featured an 11,000 mile long space amoeba that 400 Vulcans (and their computer) could not fathom, drained the life force of every living creature (presumably - and ironically - down to microorganisms) in an entire solar system, and was surrounded by a moving zone of space in which the laws of physics were fundamentally altered.
** The Medusans from "Is There in Truth No Beauty" are so hideously bizarre-looking that to merely glimpse them causes insanity. However, they are completely and unmistakenly benevolent, as we see when Ambassador Kollos temporarily borrows Spock's body. The [[AnAesop Aesop]] of that episode, naturally, was about inner vs outer beauty.

*** [[TheVirus The Borg]] can be considered one to an extent, regardless of being a technological example, having assimilated countless races and technologies in the Delta Quadrant over the course of centuries, stripping them of all individuality and adding them to [[HiveMind their collective]], travelling in [[SinisterGeometry giant cube-shaped ships]] that are nigh-invulnerable to conventional weapons. And it wants to do this to all races in means of obtaining perfection. Due to their collective nature, killing individual Borg drones is about as meaningful as killing individual skin cells, and even destroying one of their most powerful ships doesn't even qualify as an annoyance. Due to their ability to rapidly adapt to virtually any weapon that's been used against them and render it powerless, they dismiss any opposition as "irrelevant". And they are completely relentless in pursuit of their goal.

* ''Series/TheXFiles'' has an episode involving a series of disabled teenage girls turning up dead... from apparent electrocution through the tops of their skulls. They turn out to be Nephilim (the offspring of Angels and humans) and they were killed by a Cherubim sent to bring them back to Heaven. He did this by dropping the illusion he created to protect mortals. His true form is so horrifically ''beautiful'' that to see it is for one's soul to be taken directly to heaven.
** The humor episode "X-COPS" includes one: a strange entity which changes form into whatever its victim fears the most. It's one of the few monsters in the show to not be drawn from some sort of mythology or urban legend, and is described as more a ''force'' by Mulder rather than an actual creature.

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** The Medusans in "Is There in Truth No Beauty" are so hideously ugly that to look upon them causes insanity. However, they are completely and unmistakenly benevolent and we get a glimpse of Ambassador Kollos' personality when he temporarily borrows Spock's body. The [[AnAesop Aesop]] of that episode, naturally, was about inner vs outer beauty.

* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' Has more than a few, such as the Undead who, despite being called such, are not really given an origin so it is not clear exactly what they are beyond monsters who attack humans and aim to win the Battle Fight. Or the case of Evolt from Build, who is an alien lifeform that regularly consumes entire planets to grow in strength and normally does malevolent things [[ForTheEvulz just for the fun of it.]] We see his true form by the end of the show, but it is not known if that is the form he started out in. Then there's the Overlord from Agito. A.K.A The Mysterious Youth, he leads the Unknowns, [[AngelicAbomination who may or may not be angels]], and is the creator of humankind.

* ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' has these pop up from time to time.
** Sentai's baddest is from ''Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman.'' Star King Bazoo ''looks'' like a human head and torso, with mechanical parts and exposed organs, larger than the villains' base. His true form is [[spoiler: a living planet that [[PlanetEater eats other planets]] to grow stronger]].
** ''Series/NinpuuSentaiHurricaneger'' has [[spoiler:the Evil Will, also known as "It", a shapeless, timeless being of pure darkness with the power to destroy the entire universe if released. It's the end goal of the villains, the Jakanja, to release it so they can use its power to create a new universe InTheirOwnImage.]]
** ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' has Deboss, an evil deity known as the "planetary illness" who roams the universe annihilating any species he comes across. He's able to produce monsters from his cells to serve him and has no true form, instead adapting his physiology to suit whatever species he's exterminating.

* In ''Series/{{LOST}}'', you have the [[spoiler:Man In Black, who is a pillar of black smoke]].

* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' Has more than a few. Such as the
Undead who, despite being called such, are not really given an origin so it is not clear exactly what they are beyond monsters who attack humans and aim to win the Battle Fight. Or the case of Evolt from Build, who is an alien lifeform that regularly consumes entire planets to grow in strength and normally does malevolent things [[ForTheEvulz just for the fun of it.]] We see his true form by the end of the show but it is not known if that is the form he started out in. Then there's the Overlord from Agito. A.K.A The Mysterious Youth, he leads the Unknowns, [[AngelicAbomination who may or may not be angels]], and is the creator of humankind.

** Names from Franchise/SuperSentai originals that inspired Franchise/PowerRangers: there's [[Series/HimitsuSentaiGoranger Black Cross Fuhrer]], [[Series/HikariSentaiMaskman Underground Emperor Zeba]], and [[Series/MahouSentaiMagiranger Absolute God N.Ma]] (who is actually based on Cthulhu.)
** Sentai's baddest is from ''Series/DengekiSentaiChangeman.'' Star King Bazoo ''looks'' like a human head and torso, with mechanical parts and exposed organs, larger than the villains' base. His true form is [[spoiler: a living planet]]. He's also one of the worst in sentai history (yes, it gets worse than Long.)

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Space1999}}'', Moonbase Alpha passes through a DerelictGraveyard which proves to be infested with one of these.

** One of the best descriptions of how incomprehensible the First Ones are comes from the first-season episode "Mind War", after G'Kar saves Catherine Sakai when she goes investigating a planet that G'Kar knows to be dangerous. It turns out it's dangerous because it's the home of a group of First Ones (though that part is only made clear in hindsight when it's seen again three seasons later as one of the First Ones the Alliance calls upon for help), and when Catherine asks G'Kar about what she saw, he makes the following analogy about an ant: