History Main / HumanoidAbomination

* It's not excatly clear ''what'' [[WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls The Powerpuff Girls]] are. While they got their powers from [[AppliedPhlebotinum Chemical X]], which does whatever the plot says it does, their [[ArtificialHuman unusal birth circumstances]] and [[NonStandardCharacterDesign strange appearances]] raise a few eyebrows. They have stubs instead of arms or legs, no noses, eyes that take up most of their faces, are the only characters to have both colored eyes ''and'' visible pupils, and have (seemingly natural) purple eyelids.

** Elans, a playable race introduced in 3.5th Edition's ''Expanded Psionics Handbook'', are humans who have undergone a psionic ritual to enhance their abilities and redefine their existence. They can use their innate powers to [[TheAgeless maintain their bodies without aging]], [[TheNeedless go without food or drink]], [[TheSleepless forgo sleep]], [[ManaShield and resist harmful effects or damage.]] This means that though they look human (specifially, whatever physical characteristics appealed to the older Elan who recruited them), Elans are functionally Aberrations, and thus immune to spells like ''charm person''. While none of this is necessarily obvious to the uninitiated, other people can instinctively tell there's something ''off'' about Elans, so they take a -2 racial penalty to their Charisma stat.

* [[BigBad Chin-Chin]], an interdimensional GodOfEvil serves as this for the sometimes [[PlayedForLaughs whimsical]] and almost-always [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs bizarre]] world of ''WebVideo/FilthyFrank'', appearing with increasing frequency to torment Frank and his Lycra People friends, [[HostageForMacGuffin often demanding tribute from them]] in exchange for promising to free one of Frank's friends (typically his HeterosexualLifePartner Salamander Man) whom he takes hostage. At his [[CerebusSyndrome darkest]], he invokes {{I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure}} with his RealityWarper powers, and when he's not kidnapping them [[AxCrazy for his twisted pleasure]] he's usually [[EvilGloating taunting]] the main characters with one of his [[UncannyValley heralds]], always managing to [[ParanoiaFuel keep them on their toes]]. It is implied that YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm, and he is a denizen of various {{Eldritch Location}}s throughout the [[CosmicHorrorStory multiverse]]. [[spoiler:Keeping it from getting too disturbing (and thereby draining it of humor) is that his [[PokemonSpeak language]] (disregarding the misleading subtitles) [[BilingualBonus effectively translates from Japanese]] as "I love penis".]]

* ''Fanfic/TheNightUnfurls'': [[spoiler:[[TheProtagonist The Good Hunter]], who achieved the Childhood's Beginning Ending, [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith takes the form]] of a [[LeanAndMean lean]], [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror tired]] man in his twenties]]. [[SubvertedTrope Thankfully]], the "incomprehensible" part only applies to [[spoiler:his [[LovecraftianSuperpower power]] to subject someone unlucky enough to glimpse what's beneath his mask to a FateWorseThanDeath, not his [[AntiHero morality or worldview]][[note]]because if he had BlueAndOrangeMorality, nothing could stop him from going all out, and the world would be doomed[[/note]].]]

[[caption-width-right:300:[[AC:[[ParanoiaFuel Found you.]]]]]]
[--[[caption-width-right:300:Illustration by [[http://alheli-delagarza.deviantart.com/art/Slender-Man-131396834 Alheli de la Garza.]] Used with permission.]]--]

!!Examples:

* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': [[Characters/FinalSpaceCelestialEntities Phil]] is a tall, human-shaped creature in shamanic clothes with completely black skin, red glowing eyes and a pair of goat horns on his head. Also on his pocket are baby hands, so called by him as pocket observers, which help to keep in the pockets, for example, a map. Despite his extreme creepiness, he turns out to be trustworthy.

* In Hekla's Children by James Brogden, Nathan Brookes was a British schoolteacher who had 4 students of his go missing 10 years ago. Turns out students were kidnapped by a Bronze-Age man-made demigod to help him battle the cannibalistic abomination from the dark world of Un, the ''afaugh'' and taken back into prehistory. James discovers a way to go to the distant past and track them down. Alongside one of the students he recovered, James undergoes the mystical HerosJourney only he fails his and ends up dying of starvation in the mountains. James's spirit returns as the ''afaugh'', the [[DemonicPossession possessing monster]] behind the {{Wendigo}} legends which results in the StableTimeLoop of the Bronze Age demigod battling the afaugh into the modern age.

* In Hekla's Children by James Brogden, Nathan Brookes was a British schoolteacher who had 4 students of his go missing 10 years ago. Turns out students were kidnapped by a Bronze-Age man-made demigod to help him battle the cannibalistic abomination from the dark world of Un, the ''afaugh'' and taken back into prehistory. James discovers a way to go to the distant past and track them down. Alongside one of the students he recovered, James undergoes the mystical HerosJourney only he fails his and ends up dying of starvation in the mountains. James's spirit returns as the ''afaugh'', the monster behind the {{Wendigo}} legends which results in the StableTimeLoop of the Bronze Age demigod battling the afaugh into the modern age.

** [[spoiler:Angleton, AKA the Teapot, AKA the Eater of Souls]] is eventually revealed to be this. Subverted in that he's undeniably one of the good guys, even if he ''lives'' in the UncannyValley and therefore frightens his subordinates. Adding to the joke is that the middle name of the real James Angleton, longtime head of counterintelligence for the CIA, was "Jesus." [[spoiler:What happened was that he was summoned and bound in the 1930s, taught to pass for human, and eventually HumanityEnsues. Strangely, it's implied that he believes in decency and fairness more than the people around him -- he's not averse to pulling a few strings for Bob and Mo's sake. What is Angleton? During the 1920s, the henchman to a notorious occultist/warlord for Russia's White Army died and so the warlord's Mongolian shamans resurrected the henchman by binding a unique "hungry ghost" known as the Eater of Souls into the corpse. After investigating the tale of this warlord, the Laundry's founder Fuller had the Eater of Souls bound into the corpse of an executed British criminal. The resultant entity was then sent to work as an English schoolmaster to teach the abomination how to mimic humanity. This would be James Angleton]]

** [[spoiler:Angleton, AKA the Eater of Souls]] is eventually revealed to be this. Subverted in that he's undeniably one of the good guys, even if he ''lives'' in the UncannyValley and therefore frightens his subordinates. Adding to the joke is that the middle name of the real James Angleton, longtime head of counterintelligence for the CIA, was "Jesus." [[spoiler:What happened was that he was summoned and bound in the 1930s, taught to pass for human, and eventually HumanityEnsues. Strangely, it's implied that he believes in decency and fairness more than the people around him -- he's not averse to pulling a few strings for Bob and Mo's sake.]]

** The Auditors, who appear in such books as ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'', ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' and ''Literature/ReaperMan''. It's quite telling that they mostly appear in DEATH centered books, on account of them seeking to end nearly most of the universe in order to maintain its "order". They appear as humanoid figures, draped in cloaks, and speak in an unnerving tone, but they've disguised themselves as humans in the past.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'':
** [[BigBad The Spot]] qualifies as one [[spoiler:and by the end, is bordering on being an EldritchAbomination]]. When the Spider-Gang destroyed the Super-Collider in the previous film, he became merged with the unstable dark matter, leaving him with the appearance of a stark-white, featureless humanoid with black wormholes all over his body, although he can still see, hear and speak normally. [[spoiler:After absorbing more dark matter from several Super-Colliders in other universes, he embraces his status as a CosmicFlaw and inverts his appearance into a... ''thing'' with midnight-black skin "spotted" by white swirls, speaking in a VoiceOfTheLegion.]]

* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'', the shadowy power broker [[BigBad Mr. Salacia]] looks simply like a very tall old man, but he's actually an ancient [[TheDreaded dreaded]] being implied to have connections with, at the very least, the Sumerian civilization. We get a glimpse of his true nature toward the end of the fourth season: his hair turns into a writhing mass of tentacles, his teeth grow into sharp fangs, his jaw unhinges, he grows to {{kaiju}} size and his very presence causes weaker-willed people's [[YourHeadAsplode heads to explode]].

** Then there’s Salem, the BigBad herself. A mysterious witch constantly cloaked in darkness and looks almost undead in appearance. [[spoiler: She’s actually a living fragment of the old world who started out as a princess that fell in love with Ozma, Ozpin’s original self. After losing Ozma to illness, she begged both the gods of light and darkness to bring him back. She defied them so punished her by giving her immortality and destroying the world. She couldn’t take being so alone in the new world so she tried killing herself. And when that didn’t work she thought maybe diving into the God of Darkness’ pool could do the trick. Instead it made her something part Grimm, part human and with complete control over them.]]

** The Lady of Pain from the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' setting. Beyond her vaguely humanoid appearance (a ten foot floating humanoid in a robe with no visible feet and a frozen female face surrounded by a crown of blades), nobody knows anything about what or who she is, save that anyone who disrupts Sigil's day-to-day life or directly interacts with her in any way tend to get FlayedAlive on the spot. Inside of Sigil she is essentially omnipotent and not even gods can set foot there if she doesn't want them there. [[spoiler: It's hinted in 3rd edition that she's an overdeity, just like Ao and the mysterious Serpent.]]

** The Nephilim can be included in this list. Sons and daughters of the unions of [[AngelicAbomination angels]] and humans, they are described as being powerful giants, taller than many men and sometimes with horns or other inhuman characteristics or powers. As the Bible said they were "the heroes of old, the men of renown", it's possible that they were powerful enough for being confused with gods by other humans.

* The seven original vampires in ''Literature/TheStrain'' are revealed to have been fragments of the Archangel Azrael, who went rogue after developing a taste of blood. They appear vaguely human at first glance, but their bodies are composed of capillary worms that transmit vampirism.

* In Liliana Bodoc's ''Saga of the Borderlands'', The Death takes the form of an old woman with long gray hair, who looks fragile and harmless enough, however, to travel from one continent to another she takes the form of a LivingFigurehead (and when a poor sailor gets too close to her, she terrifies him to death). She is also the mother of [[GodOfEvil Misaianes, The Eternal Hatred,]] the BigBad of the entire saga (in her favor, The Death never thought that her son would end up being evil)

* In ''Literature/BloodMeridian'' the Judge is {{implied|Trope}} to be more than he seems, but exactly ''what'' is something ManWasNotMeantToKnow. He's an almost ''[[TheJuggernaut seven-foot-tall]]'' hairless [[AlbinosAreFreaks albino]] ImplacableMan who never sleeps, [[TheAgeless never ages]], proclaims [[GodIsEvil war itself to be God]], wants nothing less than absolute power over the Earth and all life upon it, and upon finding him waiting for them in the desert, every member of the Glanton gang believes they have met him before. The novel is VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory, meaning there's a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judge_Holden slight chance]] [[HeWasRightThereAllAlong he may have actually existed]]. Albeit, [[HistoricalUglinessUpdate in a less exaggerated form]]. Hopefully.

** [[BigBad Eris]], goddess of Chaos and Discord. She looks like an extremely beautiful woman, but her home, [[EldritchLocation Tartarus]], and her habilities to casually [[RealityWarper warp reality the way she wants]] tell a different story. The way she's animated certainly helps; her form is constantly moving and shifting, and she seems to be physically more 3-dimensional than the other characters, making her look generally otherworldly.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Characters that have seen the [[{{God}} Soul King]] speak in terms of "it" rather than "him". At [[UncannyValley first glance]], he appears to be humanoid. However, his eyes are in-human, the eyes either being in the shape of a saltire cross or possessing four pupils in a diamond pattern that leaves the white of the eye forming a saltire cross between the pupils. At second glance, he also appears to be missing both arms and legs. As the story progresses, characters begin meeting his limbs, each of which are so large they dwarf even the tallest characters. Each limb has its own consciousness and its own motivations. The Right Arm of the Soul King opposes Yhwach and protects the Shinigami against him. The Left Arm of the Soul King and the Heart of the Soul King both side with Yhwach against the Shinigami; the Left Arm of the Soul King is absolutely incensed by the way the Shinigami have historically treated the Quincies, and indicates both the ability to shapeshift as well as weaponise ''prehensile nerve endings'' in battle. Yhwach seeks to kill the Soul King, implying that the Soul King's state is an enforced humiliation by the Shinigami. The truth is not confirmed, and it is a mystery -- even to the characters themselves -- as to why the different limbs and organs of the Soul King are aligned on opposite sides of the Shinigami-Quincy war. The identity and fate of the Legs of the Soul King are never revealed, and the truth about the Soul King is left a mystery -- to the readers, as well as the characters.

* The protagonist of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndzln1UEyf0 music video]] for Music/FosterThePeople's " Music/BestFriend" [[AmbiguouslyHuman seems to be one of these]] -- she [[ImAHumanitarian eats women]] she envies to [[CannibalismSuperpower absorb their physical traits]], and ends up distorting her body horrifically to the point of looking inhuman, before vomiting on the stage at a runway show and seemingly [[spoiler:dying painfully]].

** [[BigBad The Spot]] is bordering on {{Eldritch Abomination}}. His accident left him as a completely featureless individual with completely bleached white skin, black wormholes on his body and no face anymore although can still see, hear and speak normally. [[spoiler:Fully embraces this after honing his powers further as a CosmicFlaw and becoming a full-on horror for the entire multiverse.]]

** In the manga the Sailor Senshi themselves have shades of this. They may look like normal girls or women, but in their final forms they are just as powerful as the avatars of Chaos, and at least one (Sailor Venus) warps minds with her mere presence (people who may have some feelings for each other are suddenly drawn together when they befriend her), and not only is she ''unable to shut it off'' (and in fact is irritated by the sheer number of possible boyfriends she lost this way), she ''doesn't know'' she's doing it.