History EldritchAbomination / VideoGames

** Distinguished from the above two: [[OutsideContextProblem entities who are neither humans who can affect the essence of reality, nor demons who are formed from said essence, but affect reality nonetheless]]. A lot less prominent category, entities of this type are usually [[StarfishAlien aliens]] (''Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. The Lone Marebito'', ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'') or primordial [[CosmicEntity cosmic entities]] (''VideoGame/LastBible'', ''VideoGame/DevilChildren'', ''VideoGame/Persona3''). Some games seem to imply certain incarnations of YHVH are also this (particularly those which are believed to have created humans, like ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Nocturne]]'' and ''Strange Journey''), assuming they are not referring to [[AboveTheGods the Great Will]] (which is also this trope as PowersThatBe).

** Similar yet distinct from the above is the reverse: [[NatureSpirit naturally formed living phenomenons]]. In some games humans don't seem to shape the essence of reality into demons (at least not actively), yet the processes which give rise to demons ''still happen anyway'' [[note]]which can happen due to a variety of reasons; in some games like ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney Strange Journey]]'' the world seems inherently structured such that [[FisherKing sentient life living on Earth at all influences the essence which made demons]], whereas in other games like ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' there are forces ''other'' than humanity which had influenced reality first[[/note]]. These demons are a fair bit different from the above type in a number of ways. While they have similar traits and can harness power from humans, they are closer to being true lifeforms: though the ''genesis'' of these demons [[NiceJobBreakingItHero could be affected or catalyzed by humans]], their ''continued existence'' [[OntologicalInertia are not]]. Thus, these demons are ''very'' prone to KillAllHumans. On the other hand, individual demons of this type can be killed and won't come back naturally -- though new demons of similar natures might still spawn. It is also possible for demons of the above category to become this one. In ''Persona'', demons and gods who possess and incarnate within a human would not disappear even if humans are no more to create cognition; [[spoiler:the Malevolent Entity of ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'' tries to do exactly that]]. ''IV'' and ''Apocalypse'' also have the Divine Powers planning to use human souls to essentially become an axiom in reality, while [[spoiler:Vishnu-Flynn]] and [[spoiler:Satan]] use FusionDance with powerful humans to ''wield'' Observation to their advantage.
** Distinguished from the above two: [[OutsideContextProblem entities who are neither humans who can affect the essence of reality, nor demons who are formed from said essence, but nevertheless warp reality]]. A lot less prominent category, entities of this type are usually [[StarfishAlien aliens]] (''Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. The Lone Marebito'', ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'') or primordial [[CosmicEntity cosmic entities]] (''VideoGame/DevilChildren'', ''VideoGame/LastBible'', ''VideoGame/Persona3''). Some games seem to imply certain incarnations of YHVH are also this (particularly those which are believed to have created humans, like ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Nocturne]]'' and ''Strange Journey''), assuming they are not referring to [[AboveTheGods the Great Will]] (which is also this trope as PowersThatBe).

* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei: Though the franchise uses "demon" as an umbrella term for all supernatural entities, they are supernatural because ''they are violations to reality as humans comprehend it''. Generally, demons (and other supernatural entities not classified as one) come in 3 different categories, each hitting points of this trope in different ways:

** Similar yet distinct from the above is the reverse: [[NatureSpirit entities which are naturally born as living phenomenons]]. In some games humans don't seem to shape the essence of reality into demons (at least not actively), yet the processes which give rise to demons ''still happen anyway'' [[note]]which can happen due to a variety of reasons; in some games like ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney Strange Journey]]'' the world seems inherently structured such that [[FisherKing sentient life living on Earth at all influences the essence which made demons]], whereas in other games like ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' there are forces ''other'' than humanity which had influenced reality first[[/note]]. These demons are a fair bit different from the above type in a number of ways. While they have similar traits and can harness power from humans, they are closer to being true lifeforms: though the ''genesis'' of these demons [[NiceJobBreakingItHero might be affected or catalyzed by humans]], their ''continued existence'' [[OntologicalInertia are not]]. Thus, these demons are ''very'' prone to KillAllHumans. On the other hand, demons of this type can be killed and it won't come back naturally -- though new demons of similar natures might still spawn. It is also possible for demons of the above category to become this one. In ''Persona'', demons and gods who possess and incarnate within a human would not disappear even if humans are no more to create cognition; [[spoiler:the Malevolent Entity of ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'' tries to do exactly that]]. ''IV'' and ''Apocalypse'' also have the Divine Powers planning to use human souls to essentially become an axiom in reality, while [[spoiler:Vishnu-Flynn]] and [[spoiler:Satan]] use FusionDance with powerful humans to ''wield'' Observation to their advantage.
** Distinguished from the above two: [[OutsideContextProblem entities who are neither humans who can affect the essence of reality, nor demons who are formed from said essence, but nevertheless warp reality]]. A lot less prominent category, entities of this type are usually [[StarfishAlien aliens]] (''Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. The Lone Marebito'', ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'') or primordial [[CosmicEntity cosmic entities]] (''VideoGame/DevilChildren'', ''VideoGame/LastBible'', ''VideoGame/Persona3''). Certain games also have demons as naturally occurring entities unrelated to humans, which is far less eldritch (''Last Bible'', ''Devil Children''). Some games seem to imply certain incarnations of YHVH are also this (particularly those which are believed to have created humans, like ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Nocturne]]'' and ''Strange Journey''), assuming they are not referring to [[AboveTheGods the Great Will]] (which is also this trope as PowersThatBe).

** [[DeityOfMortalCreation Entities created as a side effect of humankind's ability to change and warp reality]]. This is the most prominent type of demon category in the series: these demons are usually lifeforms composed of Magnetite (sometimes called Aether), the substance which permeates reality itself and exist in all of its phenomenons, which are normally undetectable to normal lifeforms but react to their psyche: will, thought, perception, instinct, emotion. What these demons have in common is how they are given identity and form by humans as living clusters of Magnetites, which are supposed to be formless as part of the fabric of reality, though the specifics vary [[note]]in some games like ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' humans don't innately affect the formless essence of reality and gained the ability through specific circumstances -- which can vary in scale such as to humans as a species, or only to specific individuals such as [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI Stephen]]; in others like ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse Apocalypse]]'' humans possess it as an inherent trait[[/note]]. In other words, they are literally ''sentient droplets of reality itself'', to varying degrees of power and scale, with the capacity to twist and warp natural phenomenons in accordance to their natures and how much aspect of reality they embody. Thus, as long as humans continue to exist and shape reality in such a way which permits the existence of demons, they will never be truly gone.
** Similar yet distinct from the above is the reverse: [[NatureSpirit entities which are seemingly born]] ''[[NatureSpirit as]]'' [[NatureSpirit living, natural phenomenons of reality]]. In some games humans don't seem to shape the essence of reality into demons (at least not actively), yet the processes which give rise to demons ''still happen anyway'' [[note]]which can happen due to a variety of reasons; in some games like ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney Strange Journey]]'' the world seems inherently structured such that [[FisherKing sentient life living on Earth at all influences the essence which made demons]], whereas in other games like ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' there are forces ''other'' than humanity which had influenced reality first[[/note]]. These demons are a fair bit different from the above type in a number of ways. While they have similar powers and can harness power from humans, they are closer to being true lifeforms: though the ''genesis'' of these demons [[NiceJobBreakingItHero might be affected or catalyzed by humans]], their ''continued existence'' [[OntologicalInertia are not]]. Thus, these demons are ''very'' prone to KillAllHumans. On the other hand, demons of this type can be killed and it won't come back naturally -- though new demons of similar natures might still spawn. It is also possible for demons of the above category to become this one: in ''Persona'', demons and gods of the collective consciousness who manage to possess and incarnate within a human vessel are immune to cognitive changes imposed by the collective consciousness, and would not disappear even if they kill all humans: [[spoiler:the Malevolent Entity of ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'' tries to do exactly that]].

** [[DeityOfMortalCreation Entities created as a side effect of humankind's ability to change and warp reality]]. This is the most prominent type of demon category in the series: these demons are usually lifeforms composed of Magnetite (sometimes called Aether), the substance which permeates reality itself and exist in all of its phenomenons, which are normally undetectable to normal lifeforms but react to their psyche: will, thought, perception, instinct, emotion. What these demons have in common is how they are given identity and form by humans as living clusters of Magnetites, which are supposed to be formless as part of the fabric of reality, though the specifics vary [[note]]in some games like ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse Apocalypse]]'' humans possess an inherent ability to affect the formless primordial essence of reality, in others like ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' humans don't naturally possess it and gained the ability through different circumstances -- which in turn could happen to humans as a species, or only to specific individuals such as [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI Stephen]][[/note]]. In other words, they are literally ''sentient droplets of reality itself'', to varying degrees of power and scale, with the capacity to twist and warp natural phenomenons in accordance to their natures and how much aspect of reality they embody. Thus, as long as humans continue to exist and shape reality in such a way which permits the existence of demons, they will never be truly gone.
** Similar yet distinct from the above is the reverse: [[NatureSpirit entities which are seemingly born]] ''[[NatureSpirit as]]'' [[NatureSpirit living, natural phenomenons of reality]]. In some games humans don't seem to shape the essence of reality into demons (at least not actively), yet the phenomenons and processes which give rise to demons ''still happen anyway'' [[note]]which can happen due to a variety of reasons; in some games like ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney Strange Journey]]'' the world seems inherently structured such that [[FisherKing sentient life living on Earth at all influences the essence which made demons]], whereas in other games like ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' there are forces ''other'' than humanity which had influenced reality first[[/note]]. These demons are a fair bit different from the above type in a number of ways. While they have similar powers and can harness power from humans, they are closer to being true lifeforms: though the ''genesis'' of these demons [[NiceJobBreakingItHero might be affected or catalyzed by humans]], their ''continued existence'' [[OntologicalInertia are not]]. Thus, these demons are ''very'' prone to KillAllHumans. On the other hand, demons of this type can be killed and it won't come back naturally -- though new demons of similar natures might still spawn. It is also possible for demons of the above category to become this one: in ''Persona'', demons and gods of the collective consciousness who manage to possess and incarnate within a human vessel are immune to cognitive changes imposed by the collective consciousness, and would not disappear even if they kill all humans: [[spoiler:the Malevolent Entity of ''VideoGame/Persona4ArenaUltimax'' tries to do exactly that]].
** Distinguished from the above two: [[OutsideContextProblem entities who are neither humans who can affect the essence of reality, nor demons who are formed from said essence, but nevertheless affect and warp reality]]. A lot less prominent category, entities of this type are usually [[StarfishAlien aliens]] (''Raidou Kuzunoha Vs. The Lone Marebito'' ''VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'', ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'') or primordial [[CosmicEntity cosmic entities]] (''VideoGame/DevilChildren'', ''VideoGame/LastBible'', ''VideoGame/Persona3''). Certain games also have demons as naturally occurring entities unrelated to humans, which is far less eldritch (''Last Bible'', ''Devil Children''). Some games seem to imply certain incarnations of YHVH are also this (particularly those which are believed to have created humans, like ''[[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne Nocturne]]'' and ''Strange Journey''), assuming they are not referring to [[AboveTheGods the Great Will]] (which is also this trope as PowersThatBe).

* In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney'', ''all'' demons [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm appear as shapeless balls of static when you first encounter them]], only revealing their form once you kill one. The only exceptions are bosses and demons that actually ''want'' you to see them. [[spoiler:The FinalBoss of two routes, [[GaiasVengeance Mem Aleph]], also appears as an Unknown until [[TouchedByVorlons an outside force]] grants you the ability to see her.]]
** ''Every'' demon is technically this, even those that resemble humans. They're masses of energy given thought and shape by belief (whether it comes from humans or otherwise, even other demons, really doesn't matter), from the lowliest Slime, to the highest deities of every pantheon.

*** In the UpdatedRerelease, ''Persona 3 FES'', reveals an abomination more similar to the ones from precious games. The heroes learn the existence of Erebus, an entity embodying humanity's instinctive and conscious desire for death. This thing is the real problem of the story; its very existence causes Nyx to try and end humanity, as it is implied it was influencing the events of the main game from behind the scenes. [[spoiler:The protagonist is revealed to have become a Great Seal, barring Erebus from reaching Nyx within the collective conscious.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'', the BigBad is an [[OutsideContextProblem eldritch creature]] [[spoiler:created by [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve distortions in the Digital World caused by mankind's waning belief]]]] referred to only as TheMaster. [[spoiler:It controlled the FogOfDoom plaguing the Digital World and sought to use it to KillAllHumans [[EvilVersusOblivion to preserve the Digimon]].]]

** In ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', the game’s BigBad [[spoiler:THE END, is an ancient malevolent entity that once fought the Ancients in the past before getting sealed away by its opponents. When Sonic arrives on the Starfall Islands in the present day, it tricks him into defeating the Titans so it can resume its multiversal conquest, starting with his own universe.]]

** ''VideoGame/MarioPlusRabbidsSparksOfHope'' has Cursa, an entity that wants to consume Sparks and spread matter known as Darkmess across the galaxy, which it uses to drain the Sparks of their power. [[spoiler:It turned out that Cursa is the reincarnation of the MegaBug, having absorbed many stellar debris, thus gaining sentience which takes possession of Rosalina's body.]]

* In ''VideoGame/{{MOTHER|1}}'', Giygas was just an alien. A very angry [[TheGreys Grey]] alien who tried being human for a while, but was upset when humanity took advantage of his knowledge and he was forced to try and stop it. In ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', Giygas has become something far more horrible. Mindless, he exists in the future and the past and has no physical form. [[{{Expy}} He's practically Azathoth with less tentacles]], and became the {{Trope Namer|s}} for one of the main characteristics of Eldritch Abominations, YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm.

** The 2008 Crimbo event resulted in [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Crimbomination the Crimbomination]]. It's also about as unbeatable as a typical EldritchAbomination, no [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punching out Cthulhu here]]. [[http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Ho-ho-ho-hee-hee-hee-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! Even the guard that was assigned to the factory has been driven completely insane just from looking at it]]. It was created by human hands, or at least by [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins penguin flippers]]. The Crimbo factory was taken over forcefully by the Penguin Mafia, and the Crimbo Elves were forced to work in a factory powered by [[GreenRocks grimicite]], which is highly radioactive and caused the elves to mutate. After curing a lot of elves of their mutation, the remaining mutated elves [[FusionDance fused together]] to create the Crimbomination. The Kingdom's adventurers were able to weaken it to the point where the penguins could [[SealedEvilInACan seal it in a gigantic crate.]]

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'' implies the rift that Odin has become obsessed with over the eons is one (or at least contains one). Odin states that when he peered into the rift with his left eye, something was looking back, and whatever it was blinded him because even ''he'' couldn't comprehend it. [[ConsummatelLiar However, this is assuming he's not lying, which the game implies he is.]] The rift ''does'' still have elements of this, though.

* The [=GMan=] of ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' is many magnitudes more powerful than anything else in the series, casually freezing or warping time and stepping into scenes as if through the fourth wall, and required the ''entire Vortigaunt race'' working together to even stall him (which didn't last long). He at least [[HumanoidAbomination appears human]], but is neck deep in the UncannyValley (such as being the only character whose face is perfectly symmetrical) and generally behaves as if he studied human speech and mannerisms without having any idea how they actually work.

** In ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', the game’s BigBad [[spoiler:The End, is an ancient malevolent entity that once fought the Ancients in the past before getting sealed away by its opponents. When Sonic arrives on the Starfall Islands in the present day, it tricks him into defeating the Titans so it can resume its multiversal conquest, starting with his own universe.]]

{{Eldritch Abomination}}s in VideoGames.

* ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' has... [[SurpriseCreepy an alarming number]] of these:

* The ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepulbic'' GameMod ''[[FanGame Knights of the Old Republic III]]: VideoGame/TheJediMasters'' has the [[GreaterScopeVillain D'arth Syyth]], a formless, sentient manifestation of the DarkSide [[MonsterProgenitor worshipped by the True Sith]] that requires hosts to survive, and those that manage to absorb it without being outright driven insane become {{Omnicidal Maniac}}s. It primarily communicates using BlackSpeech consisting of screams and whispers, which is [[BrownNote weaponized]] by its HumanoidAbomination shock troops called Screamers ([[WasOnceAMan the result of failed attempts to control it]]).

** [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsBToC Cho'Gath]], [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsK Kog'Maw, Kha'Zix]], [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsVToW Vel'koz]], and [[Characters/LeagueOfLegendsPToR Rek'Sai]] are all extradimensional horrors from the [[EldritchLocation Void]], which is ''crawling'' with them, while Kassadin and Malzahar are humans who fell into the void and took power from it. One was irreparably changed by it and managed to keep his free will (and now fights against it), while the other became a willing slave to it, and Kai'sa is a human merged with a Void symbiote.

* ''VideoGame/TheSinkingCity: Being a game directly inspired by Creator/HPLovecraft's work, it's no surprise it features quite a bunch of these.

* A major character and main antagonist of the VisualNovel ''VisualNovel/SayaNoUta'', Saya herself, ends up in a relationship with the main character Fuminori Sakisaka. Following an accident, Fuminori sees everything in the world as guts, gore, bones, etc, but for an unknown reason he can see Saya herself as a beautiful blue-haired woman in a bright white dress. Over the course of the novel, it becomes increasingly clear that Saya is not only not human, but she's barely humanoid at all, and may be a mass of flesh and tentacles. She is part of a species sent to Earth to forcibly mutate the population into more of her own kind. The relationship with Fuminori only works because Saya latches onto him over time as her mentality tries to acclimate to humanity in order to better devour it, and Fuminori is repulsed by everything around him except Saya due to his brain damage. It also becomes clear that Saya's logic, while slowly understanding human thinking, still sees humans as little more than toys to experiment with or simple objects to eat (with the sole exception of Fuminori).

** In ''VideoGame/SonicFrontiers'', the game’s BigBad [[spoiler:The End, is an ancient malevolent entity that once fought the Ancients in the past before getting sealed away by its opponents. When Sonic arrives on the Starfall Islands in the present day, it tricks him into defeating the Titans so it can resume its conquest of worlds, including his own.]]

** [[spoiler:Fecto Forgo]], the BigBad of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand'', is [[spoiler:a bizarre embryo-like creature with immense PsychicPowers. Although they have little energy of their own and spends much of the game locked inside the [[DarkLordOnLifeSupport Eternal Capsule]], they still manage to [[TheChessmaster influence the plot]] by [[{{Brainwashed}} brainwashing]] King Leongar and [[ThinkingUpPortals summoning up dimensional vortices]], all so they can gain [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil Waddle Dee slave labor]] and reunite with their "other half". They can [[TheAssimilator assimilate]] any creature they want into their body, transforming them into an absolutely horrifying gelatinous amalgamation of animal faces that wouldn't look at all out of place in a ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'' game. However, it turns out they can actually [[WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody survive without their body entirely]] as long as their soul remains intact. The Beast Pack even refers to them as "the Great One", which calls to mind Lovecraft's [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Great Old Ones]].]]

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Series with their own sub-pages:

* ''EldritchAbomination/{{Metroid}}''
* ''EldritchAbomination/{{Pokemon}}''

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** [[spoiler:Morganna]] is called [[TheOldGods "Old God"]] in-universe. Before Aura's birth she was the core of The World itself, and is never actually seen in the games in a form of her own, which gives her that NothingIsScarier and UltimateEvil effect. When she actually does take action, it's through the Phases, which qualify as lesser Abominations themselves.