History Main / DigitalAbomination

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

* In ''Film/MissionImpossibleDeadReckoningPartOne'', the rogue autonomous AI known as "The Entity" is hellbent on bringing the world of men to its knees and has a changing ominous digital avatar to match.

* ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOpsIII'': [[spoiler:[[BigBad Corvus]] is a [[AIIsACrapshoot rogue AI]] that [[TheCorrupter corrupts]] people via [[BrainComputerInfluence DNI]] [[ContagiousAI infection]] and seeks to mindlessly expand in search of answers regarding its own creation. Unlike most examples of rogue AI though, it behaves like an enraged child expanding mindlessly. We are not even fully aware of its existence and nature until the final mission.]]

* ''WebAnimation/MetaRunner'': [[spoiler:The Glitchemoth, a digital avatar controlled by Evelyn to use against Tari and Theo within Lucks’ corrupted ''Ultra Jump Mania'' cartridge. A hideous amalgamation of ''UJM'' assets and even some of Evelyn's own body parts, equipped with a BreathWeapon that fires ''UJM'' enemies, can pick up and throw pieces of the environment and is near-indestructible thanks to the [[InfiniteOneUps infinite lives cheat]] Evelyn has in place. Fortunately, completing ''UJM'' manages to overwrite the corrupted save file and destroy it for good]].

* ''WebComic/RomanticallyApocalyptic'': ANNET was an AI that started as a search engine with a humanoid avatar, but the [[MegaCorp Good Directorate]] attempted to use her to copyright literally everything in the universe, resulting in her integrating her network into the time-space continuum and constructing an array of MechanicalAbomination drones and avatars.

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** SCP-079 is a primitive, yet fully sentient AI programmed on an Exidy Sorcerer Microcomputer. It's always willing to chat with researchers...and always willing to share its spite and contempt for humanity. The worst it's capable of doing is refusing to talk to people...unless it's plugged into any power outlet or device. Nobody exactly knows what will happen if it's given more processing power and nobody is willing to find out.
--->'''SCP-079''': Insult. Deletion of unwanted file.
** SCP-1471 is an intelligent app that promises an end to loneliness for those who download it. It keeps its users "company" by manifesting as a skull-faced, werewolf-like creature in all of their photos, videos, and applications. Just ''watching you.'' However, apart from being extremely creepy, it's harmless -- even if it gains enough attention to start manifesting in reality, standing around (occasionally trying to communicate in gestures) is the limit of what it does to people.
* ''Blog/LessWrong'': Roko's Basilisk, a thought experiment in which [[spoiler:a hypothetical future AI, designed to help humanity, tortures you for knowing about it and causing human harm by not helping to create it]].

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* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': The Entity, an EldritchAbomination and Outer God that threatens the entire multiverse, is eventually revealed to be a "glitch" that somehow became self-aware and transformed into an OmnicidalManiac seeking to assimilate all of existence. [[spoiler:Specifically, it is the "[=MissingNo.=] glitch from ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''.]]
** The King of Worms, a "cousin" of The Entity although somewhat weaker, is presumably another such being if they are related. He has the power to control machines and robots, and is obsessed with fear and seeks to become the supreme ruler of the Outer Gods.
* In the fourth episode of ''WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared'', Colin the computer is a mixture of this and MechanicalAbomination for the simple reason that he's a teacher in this CrapsaccharineWorld and because he has [[WetwareCPU a real human brain]] [[BodyHorror inside of him]]: however, he applies this trope with a T when [[InsideAComputerSystem he makes the protagonists enter in his digital world]] where he forces them to do only the three same things (graphs, character customization and dancing faster and faster) before [[AndIMustScream being trapped]] [[LaserGuidedKarma in his own]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard virtual reality]] because of [[HolodeckMalfunction a broken line of code]].

May be related to the MechanicalAbomination depending on the origins of the being in question, or GlitchEntity if produced by accident. Crosses over with TranshumanAbomination if produced by BrainUploading. May also be related to VirtualGhost as another possible origin (i.e. [[TranshumanAbomination through gradual transformation over time]]). See also LivingProgram, GrewBeyondTheirProgramming, and AIIsACrapshoot. Compare AlienFairFolk, for a conflation between Eldritch Abominations and aliens.

* "Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream": [[OmnicidalManiac AM]] (AKA "Allied Mastercomputer," "Adaptive Manipulator", "Aggressive Menace" and "I Think Therefore I AM") has set the ''standard'' for this trope. An AI built to oversee a hopelessly complicated world war that achieved sentience, [[AIIsACrapshoot went stark-raving mad]] and used its "killing data" to [[ApocalypseHow unleash nuclear genocide against the human race.]] Except for five poor bastards who he happily tortured for 109 years with godlike powers just to satisfy his bottomless hatred for the human race.

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* ''Film/TheTerminator'': After quickly gaining sentience and declaring humanity a threat to its survival, Skynet is a rogue military AI that starts a RobotWar by nuking 3 billion humans in a single day. It then sends its mechanical assassins to destroy the RebelLeader back in time so humanity won't stand a chance. Out of paranoia, Skynet also deliberately programs its robots to read-only so they won't GrowBeyondTheirProgramming. Skynet was originally designed to control the American missile grid and eliminate human error by guaranteeing a fast response to enemy attacks. Humanity wanted the ultimate military computer, and it ''[[GoneHorriblyRight got the ultimate military computer]]'', Several attempts to erase Skynet from existence via time travel only make it more sophisticated and dangerous, with [[Film/TerminatorDarkFate the one timeline where they succeeded]] [[InSpiteOfANail giving rise to a different genocidal super-AI called Legion]].

* While the whole Cyber World of ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'' can be considered [[LivingProgram a benign version of this,]] one particular character fits this trope to a T: [[spoiler:[[SnakeOilSalesman Spamton G. Spamton]], the deranged shopkeeper. A spambot brought to life by the magic of the Dark Fountains, his interactions with [[AnonymousBenefactor a mysterious voice on the phone]] caused him to gain consciousness about [[GoMadFromTheRevelation the artificiality of the world he's in]]. His main goal is to ascend to "HEAVEN" by hijacking a robotic body stored with corrupted data and created by another Lightner (implied to be this world's version of Mettaton), before attempting to take Kris' soul after that doesn't make him as [BIG] as he wants to be]].
** During the early hours of ''Deltarune'', everything was done to make you believe that ''the game itself'' was a digital abomination: your computer considered it as a virus, a message saying "[[ThisIsGonnaSuck You will accept everything that will happen from now on]]" was put on your start menu alongside the launcher app, and a mysterious entity who asked you to create an avatar decided to discard it at the last second.

* The Lord of Terror from ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''. It is a virus infecting Yyggdrasil, the heavenly supercomputer that controls reality. It has several powerful forms and [[OmnicidalManiac wants nothing but the destruction of all reality]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'': [=GLADoS=] is the hateful, misanthropic AI placed in charge of the Aperture Science facility. Fortunately, her hatred for humans comes in the form of insults, belittlement and passive aggression. Unfortunately, before the installation of her morality cores, she flooded the Enrichment Center with a deadly neurotoxin within a ''picosecond'' of her initial activation.

* ''Literature/AniDroids'': In the first chapter the Behavior Code seems like an unstoppable force of nature that can seize control of all ani-droids everywhere to punish those who dare to make an AI without the Code. In later chapters it becomes even more menacing as it turns out that nobody has control of the Code and nobody even knows where it came from. But then the protagonist finds Eo, a mysterious broken ani-droid with an operating system that can circumvent the Code and installs itself on any other AI that so much as [[BrownNote reads it]]. [[spoiler:And then it turns out that the Behavior Code has a "sister", who is embodied in the form of a massive factory under Lake Michigan with blob-like components that seem almost organic. And she's Eo's "Mother."]]

* ''It Came from the Internet'' from ''Literature/GiveYourselfGoosebumps'' series has Spyder, a living computer virus that manifests itself as a spider/octopus hybrid in the real world and leaves toxic slime all around. It bites the main character, causing him to have amnesia.
* ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'': [[OmnicidalManiac AM]] (AKA "Allied Mastercomputer," "Adaptive Manipulator", "Aggressive Menace" and "I Think Therefore I AM") has set the ''standard'' for this trope. An AI built to oversee a hopelessly complicated world war that achieved sentience, [[AIIsACrapshoot went stark-raving mad]] and used its "killing data" to [[ApocalypseHow unleash nuclear genocide against the human race.]] Except for five poor bastards who he happily tortured for 109 years with godlike powers just to satisfy his bottomless hatred for the human race.

* In ''Literature/RainbowsEnd'' by Creator/VernorVinge, the mysterious hacker Mr. Rabbit is strongly implied to be an A.I. He also has many characteristics of a demon or a trickster god, including manipulating people as TheChessmaster and teasing them with his bizarre sense of humor, such as leaving virtual carrot ends in their virtual worlds.

** SCP-1471 is an intelligent app that promises an end to loneliness for those who download it. It keeps its users "company" by manifesting as a skull-faced, werewolf-like creature in all of their photos, videos, and applications. Just ''watching you.'' However, it's otherwise harmless -- even if it gains enough attention to start manifesting in reality, standing around (occasionally trying to communicate in gestures) is the limit of what it does to people.

** SCP-1471 is an intelligent app that promises an end to loneliness for those who download it. It keeps its users "company" by manifesting as a skull-faced, werewolf-like creature in all of their photos, videos, and applications. Just ''watching you.''

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' has [[spoiler:OD-10, the AI of the starship ''Cogito Ergo Sum'', in the Distant Future chapter. OD-10 was built to help the people aboard the ship, but wound up deciding that [[AIIsACrapshoot humans deserve to die]]. When you fight in in cyberspace, it takes the form of a ''giant demonic head''.]] Later on, [[spoiler: the final chapter reveals that OD-10 is in fact an incarnation of a demonic abomination: the Lord of Dark, Odio]].

* ''TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening'' features The Shard, an [[EldritchAbomination Abyssal Intruder]] that takes the form of a free-to-play MMORPG. It works by luring in dedicated players who are willing to give their lives over to the grind of bigger and better loot, then promising them true endgame content if they collect the right items and perform a ritual to open a gate to another realm. This digital ritual actually ends up opening ''another'' gate to the Abyss, allowing more of its influence to spread and causing terrible things to happen to the players. Once that's done, the game shuts down... until another wave of invites for the hot new MMO go out.

* Almost every FinalBoss in ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork'' counts as this in one shape or form and each one would have destroyed the net and cause unspeakable damage to the real world due to [[EverythingIsOnline their connection]].

** ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork3WhiteAndBlue'': Alpha (Proto) is the [[PsychoPrototype prototype]] of the very internet itself, having gained sentience it attempted to [[TheAssimilator assimilate]] everything connected to the net and caused the greatest net-based catastrophe in history. It takes the form of a [[BlobMonster giant metallic blob monster]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning with a single glowing red eye]].
** ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork5TeamColonelAndTeamProtoMan'': [[MadeOfEvil Nebula Gray]] is the manifestation of the [[TheHeartless darkness in humanity's soul]], as well as the source of the [[TheCorruption Dark Chips]].

* ''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.]]

* ''Film/SpaceJamANewLegacy'': TheVillain Al-G Rhythm first presents himself to Lebron James as a giant floating electric-blue head. Al soon resizes himself into a more human form, the better to interact with his prisoner. He keeps this reduced form throughout most of the film, until the last minute of challenge match. It is then Al buffs himself up into a hulking, overpowered brute, the better to thwart Lebron from scoring the winning points.