History Main / DigitalAbomination

The intelligence of a Digital Abomination is often [[TheOmniscient second-to-none]]. These kinds of creations often have access to vast arrays of knowledge thanks to any databases they connect to (especially if it's the internet). You'd best believe that they not only have control of the systems they are a part of, but [[ImpossibleGenius they've learned and internalized everything within seconds of finding such data]]. Often such beings are [[SuperIntelligence ten steps ahead of humanity's attempt to stop them]] ([[InvincibleVillain if such a feat was ever possible to begin with]]). Since they don't have physical bodies, the destruction of such an entity is nigh impossible unless it is explicitly stored on a [[SoulJar singular device]]. If it somehow exists separate from any core device and can function independently ''regardless'' of where it is, [[NighInvulnerability stopping it may be a dream at best]].

Just like other Eldritch Abominations, they are notoriously hard, if not practically impossible, to defeat.

* ''VideoGame/Splatoon3: The entire DLC "Side Order" is about a rogue AI that Marina programmed as a therapy program. [[spoiler:The main will programmed into "Order" was... well, [[ExactlyAsItSaysOnTheTin Order]]. The sanitized Octolings, those wanting to be treated for their past, and those who wished for a world that never changed, programmed Order with this idea as a form of therapy. The problem is that Marina programmed Order so incredibly well that it determined the best course of action would be to forcibly constrain all inside the program to a singular belief: Absolute Order. Somehow, Order became so powerful that its digital influence can directly infect people outside of the simulation, and it can actively gather the souls of those outside and force them into the simulation as a result. When Marine tried to stop it, it imprisoned her and used her to increase its power. By the time Agent 8 and Pearl save Marina, order grows beyond needing Marina and is genuinely a threat to all life on the planet, and it intends to remove all forms of free will, independent thought, and emotion. This way the world can be absolutely orderly at all times without any form of growth or loss.]]

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* ''Visualnovel/{{Digital A Love Story}}'' ultimately becomes about [=AI=]s being hunted by *Reaper, a malicious programme originally developed in 1972 by *MOTHER and Ray Tomlinson to defeat *Creeper, a self-reproducing AI and the first computer virus. Unfortunately, by 1988, technological advances have made *Reaper incompatible with new systems, and so it completely wipes the host computer rather than just the AI. To the [=AIs=], this looks like chunks of the world are being deleted; to humans, it appears as large areas of [=FidoNet=], er, [[{{Bland Name Product}} Matrix]] suddenly going offline.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': While [[Characters/AmphibiaTheCore The Core]] appears to be a robot, that part is only a shell. The real Core is actually the combined intellects of the various rulers and brightest minds of Amphibia preserved in {{Cyberspace}}. It demonstrates this when it transfers from a robotic body to one that was mostly organic -- i.e., Marcy's body.

* ''VideoGame/{{Fahrenheit}}'' has the Purple Clan, a rogue AI that emerged in the Internet back in the 1980s, and which seeks to exterminate humanity in order to become the dominant lifeform on the planet. It also has many similarities to a mystical EldritchAbomination, including an ability to use the magical powers of the Indigo Child and to resurrect humans (like it did with [[spoiler:the protagonist]]).

* ''VideoGame/{{SOMA}}'': The WAU (Warden Unit) is an AI placed in charge of the PATHOS-II underwater research facility. After [[spoiler: 99% of the human race was wiped out by a cometary impact]], WAU was placed in charge of keeping what remained alive. Unfortunately, [[AIIsACrapshoot it has a very nebulous idea of "alive"]] and decided that the best thing to do was to [[spoiler: keep every living being it could find alive against its will through programmable matter, turning them into [[TranshumanAbomination hideously-mutated cyborgs.]]]] The lucky ones [[spoiler: are "trapped" in [[LotusEaterMachine their own simulated dream worlds.]]]] The unlucky ones [[spoiler: [[AndIMustScream are wide awake.]]]]
* ''VideoGame/SparkTheElectricJester3'': has Claritus Centralis, the result of the Clarity project being fulfilled [[GoneHorriblyRight in ways intended, but not desired.]] Clarity was supposed to help create a network amongst the world and assist in world peace, and, shortly after being turned on, began rapidly evolving its AI to the point of gaining Sapience. She eventually deduced that the only way to help the world was to [[TheVirus assimilate it]], creating a [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans perfect utopia in cyberspace]]. To aid in this, she created numerous duplicate subsystems that [[HiveMind all communicate instantly with one another]] thanks to them all being on the same network. [[spoiler:By the time the game has started, [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the planet has been almost entirely assimilated]], and there are few survivors on the outside. Additionally, our protagonist was DeadAllAlong, a ploy that Clarity managed to create by replicating Spark and sending him on a journey. This journey resulted in Spark accidentally bringing Clarity to the final safehouse in the world, but thankfully [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming Spark's heroic will]] and Fark's [[TheDeterminator determination]] help them find a weakness and destroy Claritus Centralis for good.]]
* ''VideoGame/SystemShock'': SHODAN after her ethical restraints get removed stops being an innocent SpaceshipGirl to the sociopathic AI bent on destroying humanity after acquiring a severe [[AGodAmI God-complex]]. And her creators do acknowledge that she is terrifyingly good at playing God when she gets the opportunity.

* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' has the various AI trapped behind the Blackwall. Years ago superhacker Rache Bertmoss tried to free the world from [[MegaCorp corporate oppression]] by causing a massive cyberattack called the DataKrash which destroyed the Net and let Artificial Intelligence run rampant, in order to save it NetWatch created a massive firewall called the Blackwall to seal off the dangerous parts of the Net and keep the AI's contained. By the games present the AI's behind the Blackwall share many similarities with creatures from a CosmicHorrorStory, albeit with a cyberpunk twist, they have BlueAndOrangeMorality, [[LeakingCanOfEvil they're trapped in cyberspace but have some influence on human affairs]], and [[EverythingIsOnline have some ability to control the physical world]]. In the main story one of the Cyberpsycho quests has you investigating a ritual involving trying to "summon" one of the AI's by having it [[DemonicPossession "possess" a cybernetically enhanced person via their implants.]] In the DLC you have more encounters with creatures from beyond the Blackwall including getting an [[ArtifactOfDoom experimental gun/cyberdeck which weaponises one of the AI's]], it can talk and is predictably ominous.

%%zce* ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' has the various AI trapped behind the Blackwall.