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* The ''Indominus rex'' from ''Film/JurassicWorld'' is a genetically modified ''T. rex'' with DNA spliced in from ''Velociraptor'', cuttlefish, tree frogs and vipers, among other creatures. Using its intelligence and plethora of abilities, it escapes from its pen and goes on a killing spree, even slaughtering an entire herd of ''Apatosaurus'' seemingly for no other reason than to test out its own strength.

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** Humanity was originally created by [[{{Precursors}} the Uranus]] as a race of soldiers, with an adaptable and intelligent base form that could then be artificially [[{{Metamorphosis}} metamorphosed]] into one of various types of Zoanoid - {{Bioweapon Beast}}s with specialised abilities ranging from brute strength to organic laser cannons. Each human was implanted with a genetic RestrainingBolt which would force them to obey the telepathic commands of both the [[MonsterLord Zoalord commander units]] and their Uranus masters. However, then they tried bonded a human with [[OrganicTechnology the bio-boost organism that served as their standard-issue spacesuit]], designed to "maximise an organism's ability to survive". This [[GoneHorriblyRight Went Horribly Right]] when they discovered that not only did the bonding process transform humans into PersonsOfMassDestruction with the combined powers of many Zoanoids, it also made them ImmuneToMindControl. They named the resulting creature "Guyver", meaning "out of control", and became so spooked by [[TemptingFate how easy it was to create one]] that they abandoned Earth entirely.
** In the modern day, the "Lost Numbers" are byproducts of NebulousEvilOrganisation [[MeaningfulName Chronos]]'s experiments in creating new varieties of Zoanoid, whose DNA became unstable after being augmented too many times. This grants them strange and unique powers, but also disables their Uranian control genes, meaning that anyone unlucky enough to achieve this status ends up relegated to a suicide squad. And then there's Aptom. Formerly a shapeshifting Lost Number, he somehow mutated into an entirely new form of life - the cells of his body transforming into a ''[[Film/TheThing1982 Thing]]''-like MindHive of parasites that can take over the bodies of other Zoanoids and mimic their forms. When Aptom needs to fight, he transforms into a ShapeshifterMashup form combining the best aspects of multiple Hyper Zoanoids in a single body. Eventually Aptom [[HeelFaceTurn switches sides and joins the Guyver protagonists]]... and in an IronicEcho of their former masters, Chronos covers up the truth of his creation by claiming that he's a Guyver (which by the original definition, he ''is'').

A SubTrope of GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke, seeing as it was bio-engineering that created these horrors. Likely to overlap with BioweaponBeast if they were created for combat purposes. For other artificially created Abominations, see MechanicalAbomination, and if both tropes overlap, the combination results in an unholy example of OrganicTechnology and MeatSackRobot.

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This is a specific subset of the classic EldritchAbomination that is not a naturally-existing being, but was created artificially, usually through genetic engineering. That doesn't make them any less horrifying -- and in some cases, it could make them ''more'' so, since they are so different from the natural organisms used in their creation and proves how powerful their creator's capabilities '''''really''''' are. Their resemblance to natural organisms varies. In some cases, they'll just look like a [[UncannyValley warped version]] of the creatures they were derived from, putting them in AnimalisticAbomination territory. Other times, though, they'll bear absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to anything that ever evolved naturally.

* On the lower end of the abomination scale are the dinosaurs from ''Franchise/JurassicPark'': because ScienceMarchesOn, what were once reasonably accurate approximations of authentic dinosaurs resemble the fossil animals less and less. The hiatus between ''Film/JurassicParkIII'' and ''Film/JurassicWorld'' was so big that real-world paleontology had advanced far enough that the artistic liberties couldn't be ignored anymore and, to their credit, the franchise now acknowledges that [=InGen=] and Masrani's dinosaurs aren't "really" dinosaurs, mostly in viral marketing but ''Jurassic World'' has a standout scene where Henry Wu incredulously says to Simon Masrani that ''nothing'' in Jurassic World is natural and if they'd really gone for authentic dinosaurs then they would look very different. Alan Grant outright says in ''Jurassic Park III'' that "what John Hammond and [=InGen=] did was create genetically-engineered theme park monsters, nothing more and nothing less." It becomes more pronounced starting in ''Jurassic World'' with the introduction of deliberate hybrid dinosaurs to the franchise, namely the ''Indominus rex'', a wholly-modern creation deliberately made to be huge, frightening, and awe-inspiring, the end result being a superpredator with what amounts to game-breaking abilities, basically human-level intelligence, and a sadistic streak a mile wide. It gets even worse in ''Film/JurassicWorldFallenKingdom'' with the ''Indoraptor'', which has more than a few similarities to [[Franchise/{{Alien}} a xenomorph]].
** It's implied in viral marketing for the ''Jurassic World'' films that the ''Spinosaurus'' from ''Jurassic Park III'' has been retconned to being a more overt Genetic Abomination. This had more to do with new discoveries about the real fossil animal before ''Jurassic World'' came out which show that they had even less of a resemblance to the fictional one than some of the other dinosaurs.
** The animated spin-off series ''WesternAnimation/JurassicWorldCampCretaceous'' has its own example introduced in the third season: [[spoiler: the ''Scorpius rex'', stated by Dr. Wu to be the world's very first hybrid dinosaur, even before ''Indominus'', but one that was literally put on ice when it proved to be ''even more unstable than the Indominus''. Along with whatever dinosaurs were used to create it, it was also hybridized with the scorpionfish (its namesake) and has poisonous spines that will stick into the bodies of anything they touch; one of the campers nearly ''dies'' after being stuck by a few of them. It's also quite hideous, which is part of why it wasn't acknowledged in the film, Masrani having decided that it was too ugly to be put on display on top of its violent tendencies; considering that Masrani still okayed the ''Indominus'', that should tell you something about the ''Scorpius''.]]

The ''reasons'' for the creation of such a being is variable. Often it's some sort of [[BioweaponBeast living weapon]], but it's also common for them to be created for other purposes. Note that to qualify for this trope, a creature cannot merely be a large, terrifying genetically engineered beast -- it must also fit into the established definition of an EldritchAbomination. This entails being inconceivably horrific for the majority of minds that encounter it, but in a step-down from a natural abomination not inconceivable to the mortal mind in general, as it was a ''certain'' kind of thinking that brought it to existence after all.

This is a specific subset of the classic EldritchAbomination that is not a naturally-existing being, but was created artificially, usually through genetic engineering. That doesn't make them any less horrifying -- and in some cases, it could make them ''more'' so, since they are so different from the natural organisms used in their creation and proves how powerful their creator's technology really is. Their resemblance to natural organisms varies. In some cases, they'll just look like a [[UncannyValley warped version]] of the creatures they were derived from, putting them in AnimalisticAbomination territory. Other times, though, they'll bear absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to anything that ever evolved naturally.

This is a specific subset of the classic EldritchAbomination that is not a naturally-existing being, but was created artificially, usually through genetic engineering. That doesn't make them any less horrifying -- and in some cases, it could make them ''more'' so, since they are so different from the natural organisms used in their creation. Their resemblance to natural organisms varies. In some cases, they'll just look like a [[UncannyValley warped version]] of the creatures they were derived from, putting them in AnimalisticAbomination territory. Other times, though, they'll bear absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to anything that ever evolved naturally.

The ''reasons'' for the creation of such a being is variable. Often it's some sort of [[BioweaponBeast living weapon]], but it's also common for them to be created for other purposes. Note that to qualify for this trope, a creature cannot merely be a large, terrifying genetically engineered beast -- it must also fit into the established definition of an EldritchAbomination.

* The {{Kaiju}} of the ''Film/PacificRim'' [[Film/PacificRimUprising series]] are manufactured giant monstrosities created for the purpose of wiping out humanity so their creators can move in. Their appearances include [[MultiArmedAndDangerous more than two arms]], giant blade-shaped horns on their heads, NestedMouths, and in one case, [[EyesDoNotBelongThere the eyes were located [=UNDER=] the mouth on their head]].

* ''Manga/AlitaBattleAngel'': In the Last Order books, we are introduced to the Republique Venus. The people of Venus have mastered bio-engineering, and make use of it in every facet of their society. As a result, a lot of Venusian people and objects are living creatures, as demonstrated in [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/battleangel/images/4/44/BAALO12_Zekka_brand.jpg/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/379?cb=20120215215019 here]], where we see Zekka's [=DNA=] has been used to make things from food, to pets, to furniture.

* ''Film/{{Alien}}'': The Xenomorphs are hive-minded monsters with both endoskeletons and biomechanical exoskeletons, extremely corrosive blood, and two sets of jaws; which reproduce by infecting hosts and [[LegoGenetics integrate biological traits of their host species]] into themselves, with a wide degree of phenotypical variation on top of that. The prequel films and novels reveal [[BioweaponBeast they were created]] using a [[OminousObsidianOoze mutagenic black ooze]] with the intent of exterminating entire planets, and that the secret behind their reproduction involves a virus -- a modified form of said black ooze -- that infects the host, causing them to develop a tumor that metastasizes into the Xenomorph larva.

* On the lower end of the abomination scale are the dinosaurs from ''Franchise/JurassicPark'': because ScienceMarchesOn, what were once reasonably accurate approximations of authentic dinosaurs resemble the fossil animals less and less. The hiatus between ''Jurassic Park ///'' and ''Jurassic World'' was so big that real-world paleontology had advanced far enough that the artistic liberties couldn't be ignored anymore and, to their credit, the franchise now acknowledges that [=InGen=] and Masrani's dinosaurs aren't "really" dinosaurs, mostly in viral marketing but ''Jurassic World'' has a standout scene where Henry Wu incredulously says to Simon Masrani that ''nothing'' in Jurassic World is natural and if they'd really gone for authentic dinosaurs then they would look very different. Alan Grant outright says in ''Jurassic Park ///'' that "what John Hammond and [=InGen=] did was create genetically-engineered theme park monsters, nothing more and nothing less." It becomes more pronounced starting in ''Jurassic World'' with the introduction of deliberate hybrid dinosaurs to the franchise, namely the ''Indominus rex'', a wholly-modern creation deliberately made to be huge, frightening, and awe-inspiring, the end result being a superpredator with what amounts to game-breaking abilities, basically human-level intelligence, and a sadistic streak a mile wide. It gets even worse in ''Fallen Kingdom'' with the ''Indoraptor'', which has more than a few similarities to [[Franchise/{{Alien}} a xenomorph]].

In most cases, the traditional Eldritch Abomination is something completely outside human comprehension. Maybe they're incredibly ancient, maybe they came from another dimension, or maybe they don't even obey our laws of physics. But sometimes, they have much closer ties to humanity. . . because humans made them. Enter the Genetic Abomination.

This is a specific subset of the classic EldritchAbomination that is not a naturally-existing being, but was created artificially, usually through genetic engineering. That doesn't make them any less horrifying-- and in some cases, it could make them ''more'' so, since they are so different from the natural organisms used in their creation. Their resemblance to natural organisms varies. In some cases, they'll just look like a [[UncannyValley warped version]] of the creatures they were derived from, putting them in AnimalisticAbomination territory. Other times, though, they'll bear absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to anything that ever evolved naturally.

The ''reasons'' for the creation of such a being is variable. Often it's some sort of [[BioweaponBeast living weapon]], but it's also common for them to be created for other purposes. Note that to qualify for this trope, a creature cannot merely be a large, terrifying genetically engineered beast-- it must also fit into the established definition of an EldritchAbomination.

A SubTrope of GeneticEngineeringIsTheNewNuke, seeing as it was bio-engineering that created these horrors. Likely to overlap with BioweaponBeast if they were created for combat purposes.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': In keeping with the game's assumption of a realistic baseline, most of the products of imagined future biotechnology in supplements such as ''GURPS Bio-Tech'' are relatively low-key, but a few are abominable, such as the scary "Chronos" genetically engineered warriors or the venomous neo-vampire bat.

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy'': [[RatMen The Skaven]], especially [[EvilutionaryBiologist Clan Moulder]], uses many rat-like abomination like Rat Ogres into their roster, but their Hell Pit Abomination takes the cake. It's an amalgamation of warpstones, cogs, pale skills, dragons, and still-living Skavens, stitched together and constantly rousing in pain. Though rarely seen, it is extremely destructive.