History EldritchAbomination / StarWars

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* The Nameless's homeworld, [[LetXBeTheUnknown Planet X]], is more than just an EldritchLocation; it's also implied to be [[GeniusLoci sentient]]. The strange liquid cloud surrounding the planet -- known as "the Veil" -- will actively attack any ships that come into it and, like the Nameless, drive Force-sensitives to insanity. For those who survive the Veil, [[EverythingTryingToKillYou the planet's wildlife will gang up on the intruders they perceive them as a threat]]. The planet also has a richness in the Force comparable to the likes of Mortis or the Wellspring of Life, enough that not only will non-Force-sensitives be learning to use the Force like they've always had it (even causing injuries that would take years to heal to do so in minutes), it will tempt them to stay forever.

* The Nameless, first introduced in ''[[Literature/StarWarsTheRisingStorm The Rising Storm]]'' via a creature known to Marchion Ro and the Nihil as "the Great Leveler". Not only was the Leveler [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away in high security]] by Marchion's ancestors, these [[AnimalisticAbomination supposedly non-sentient creatures]] originating from the equally otherworldly [[EldritchLocation Planet X]] are capable of attacking Jedi through the Force. Their mere [[BrownNoteBeing presence]] can cause [[MindRape fear-heightening hallucinations]] in Jedi (obscuring what the creatures look like to them), can cut Jedi off from the Force, and at best, leave them severely traumatized, or at worst, [[TakenForGranite calcified to death]]. In short, they are one of the few things that can scare [[NervesOfSteel Jedi]]. The Nameless are also the subject of many horror stories InUniverse (even being tied to a prophecy pertaining to the Chosen One), and one name given to the creatures, "Shrii-ka-rai", translates to "Eaters of the Force". And while the hallucinations the Jedi experience are horrifying as is, what little we see of the Nameless's [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nameless actual appearance]] from a non-Force user's perspective in ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsTrailOfShadows Trail of Shadows]]'' isn't any less. It's a twitchy, deathly-looking long-limbed abomination with claws, many sharp teeth, and mouth tentacles. And the bad news is that Marchion has more of the Nameless at his beck and call.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The Son, one of the Force-wielders of Mortis, is the embodiment of the Dark Side given [[HumanoidAbomination humanoid form]]. He is also capable of [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting]] into a gargoyle.

* Abeloth from the ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'' series. The mention of [[CombatTentacles tentacles]] and the associated imagery does ''not'' help... Her home planet is a place in the Maw where plants eat animals, which also happens to be the location of Force purgatory. Useful for something that sustains itself by ''eating force-sensitive souls''. The name, incidentally, is a ShoutOut to the aboleths from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', which are ''also'' examples of this trope.

* The Nameless, first introduced in ''[[Literature/StarWarsTheRisingStorm The Rising Storm]]'' via a creature known to Marchion Ro and the Nihil as "the Great Leveler". Not only was the Leveler [[SealedEvilInACan sealed away in high security]] by Marchion's ancestors, these [[AnimalisticAbomination supposedly non-sentient creatures]] are capable of attacking Jedi through the Force. Their mere [[BrownNoteBeing presence]] can cause [[MindRape fear-heightening hallucinations]] in Jedi (obscuring what the creatures look like to them), can cut Jedi off from the Force, and at best, leave them severely traumatized, or at worst, [[TakenForGranite calcified to death]]. In short, they are one of the few things that can scare [[NervesOfSteel Jedi]]. The Nameless are also the subject of many horror stories InUniverse (even being tied to a prophecy pertaining to the Chosen One), and one name given to the creatures, "Shrii-ka-rai", translates to "Eaters of the Force". And while the hallucinations the Jedi experience are horrifying as is, what little we see of the Nameless's [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Nameless actual appearance]] from a non-Force user's perspective in ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsTrailOfShadows Trail of Shadows]]'' isn't any less. It's a twitchy, deathly-looking long-limbed abomination with claws, many sharp teeth, and mouth tentacles. And the bad news is that Marchion has more of the Nameless at his beck and call.

* Abeloth from the ''Literature/FateOfTheJedi'' series. The mention of [[CombatTentacles tentacles]] and the associated imagery does ''not'' help... Her home planet is a place in the Maw where plants eat animals, which also happens to be the location of Force purgatory. Useful for something that sustains itself by ''eating force-sensitive souls''. The name, incidentally, is a ShoutOut to the aboleths from ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', which are ''also'' examples of this trope.

** Like Darth Nihilus, the Sith Emperor gained immortality by absorbing all of the Force energy of a planet, to the point that the Force ceased to exist in its atmosphere, and plans to do the same [[spoiler:to the entire universe.]]
** The final boss in the Terror from Beyond Operation named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin The Terror From Beyond.]] It is a giant tentacled abomination summoned from a giant hyper-gate by the Dread Masters.

* The novella ''[[http://www.starwarstimeline.net/Supernatural_Encounters.htm Supernatural Encounters: The Trial and Transformation of Arhul Hextrophon]]'', which spent over a decade in DevelopmentHell before its release in 2018, works Waru and Abeloth plus Mnngal-Mnngal (in the Tabletop section) into an entire pantheon of horrors: [[spoiler:Abeloth, Mnggal-Mnggal, and Waru are all siblings, along with Typhojem the Left-Handed God (the chief deity on the ancient Sith) and Gorog the Night Spirit (the Endorian GodOfEvil from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ewoks}}'' animated series), and are children of Tilotny and Cold Danda Sine of Alan Moore's Bedlam Spirits (from Marvel's [[ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977 original line]] of ''Star Wars'' comics); many other bizarre beings from throughout the franchise make appearances as well]]. The biggest and baddest of them all is implied to be [[spoiler: a Morgoth-like character called Näkhäsh, Father of Shadows, of whom even this WhamEpisode of a story says little, but who is implied to have, at the very least, corrupted the Bedlams in the first place]]. Fortunately, most of them were already disposed of by their {{Good Counterpart}}s, [[CelestialParagonsAndArchangels the Celestials]], millennia prior to the events of the films.

* ''Film/{{Solo}}'' introduced the Summa-Verminoth, a colossal space cephalopod living in the Akkadese Maelstrom near the Maw, a series of black holes near Kessel that are capable of generating enough electricity to look like it's making a lightning storm in space. However, ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader2020 Darth Vader (2020)]]'' introduced a subspecies of Summa-Verminoth that not only lives in the Red Horror Nebula near [[EldritchLocation Exegol]], it is capable of [[MindRape Mind Raping]] anyone that comes near it.

While the villains of the ''Franchise/StarWars'' films tend to be on the more human side, both the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse'' and ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' have introduced some more [[EldritchAbomination otherworldly horrors]] from within the galaxy and from without.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'': Darth Nihilus [[TranshumanAbomination started out like any other man]], but became more of a force of nature than a sentient being after he was empowered by the massacre of Malachor V. Official databooks list him as Human (dark side aberration). He's effectively nothing but walking void held together with the remnants of his formerly-human mind with no motivation beyond his need to devour all the lifeforce he can to sate eternal hunger. His ship, the ''Ravager'', is also essentially a wreck that is only kept working through his power. His ship's "crew" are only a step up from walking corpses thanks to his all-consuming influence. Many of them are just husks for his will, devoid of independent thought.

* ''Literature/TheNewJediOrder'': The Abominor -- initially only represented by the one-off ''[[WesternAnimation/StarWarsDroids Droids]]'' cartoon villain, the Great Heep -- where retconned into a species of planet-consuming {{Mechanical Abomination}}s who played a hand in the Yuuzhan Vong developing their [[EvilLuddite hatred]] of non-[[OrganicTechnology organic]] technology and droids. It's also suggested that Ronyards, a droid-dominated planet from a one-shot Marvel ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsMarel1977 Star Wars]]'', is actually a ''[[GeniusLoci planet-sized]]'' Abominor.

* The novella ''[[http://www.starwarstimeline.net/Supernatural_Encounters.htm Supernatural Encounters: The Trial and Transformation of Arhul Hextrophon]]'', which spent over a decade in DevelopmentHell before its release in 2018, works the above two plus Mnngal-Mnngal (in the Tabletop section) into an entire pantheon of horrors: [[spoiler:Abeloth, Mnggal-Mnggal, and Waru are all siblings, along with Typhojem the Left-Handed God (the chief deity on the ancient Sith) and Gorog the Night Spirit (the Endorian GodOfEvil from the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ewoks}}'' animated series), and are children of Tilotny and Cold Danda Sine of Alan Moore's Bedlam Spirits (from Marvel's [[ComicBook/StarWarsMarvel1977 original line]] of ''Star Wars'' comics); many other bizarre beings from throughout the franchise make appearances as well]]. The biggest and baddest of them all is implied to be [[spoiler: a Morgoth-like character called Näkhäsh, Father of Shadows, of whom even this WhamEpisode of a story says little, but who is implied to have, at the very least, corrupted the Bedlams in the first place]]. Fortunately, most of them were already disposed of by their {{Good Counterpart}}s, [[CelestialParagonsAndArchangels the Celestials]], millennia prior to the events of the films.

* The 2010 Unknown Regions RPG supplement also added the [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Mnggal-Mnggal Mnggal-Mnggal]] into Star Wars' growing list of [=EAs=]. It's a formless black goo that takes over a host and devours them. It wants to consume all worlds in existence, which would be bad enough... but it delights in tormenting sentient beings even more than it does taking them over. Doesn't sound too bad by the standards of alien horrors in Star Wars... until you learn that the reason the Unknown Regions have been cut off from the rest of the galaxy since time immemorial is that the [[{{Precursors}} Celestials]] thought that the Mnggal-Mnggal was too much for ''them'' to deal with! WordOfGod says it and Waru are the same sort of being.

* ''Film/{{Solo}}'' introduced the Summa-Verminoth, a colossal space cephalopod living in the Akkadese Maelstrom near the Maw, a series of black holes near Kessel that are capable of generating enough electricity to look like it's making a lightning storm in space. However, ''[[ComicBook/StarWarsDarthVader2020 Darth Vader (2020)'' introduced a subspecies of Summa-Verminoth that not only lives in the Red Horror Nebula near [[EldritchLocation Exegol]], it is capable of [[MindRape Mind Raping]] anyone that comes near it.