History Main / UndeadAbomination

** Prince Vigo the Carpathian from ''Film/GhostbustersII'' was originally an EvilOverlord with a penchant for torture and [[EvilSorcerer sorcery]]. Before his RasputinianDeath, he vowed he would rise from the dead. In 20th century New York after Gozer the Gozerian's failed attempt at destroying the world, Vigo harnessed the mood slime within the sewers and the negative emotions of the citizens to unleash an army of ghosts onto the city. He was so powerful that in ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', he is classified as a Class 7 entity (the ghostly equivalent of a PhysicalGod], the same level as Zuul, Vinz Clortho and Gozer the Gozerian.

* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'':
** Alucard was once the vampire lord known as Count {{Dracula}} before being captured and experimented upon by the Helsing family and the supernatural-combating government agency they had founded. He lacks any of the conventional weaknesses of vampires, is able to regenerate from any and all damage, is able to shapeshift into any form he chooses -- whether it is other human forms, animals and amorphous shadows. It is also made clear that he is able to pass on his unique abilities onto any vampire he sires, namely Seras Victoria.
** Incognito from the anime TV series is an [[LooksLikeOrlok Orlok-esque]] vampire from Africa with a variety of unnatural abilities and characteristics that make other vampires seem normal in-comparison. He is a CombatSadomasochist with a HealingFactor uncommon to other vampires (except Alucard, of course), possesses a BarbieDollAnatomy, he ''vomits'' all of the ammo into his grenade-launcher-esque weapon ([[BodyHorror which he pulls right out of his arm]]) and is adept at dark magics, using his power to summon the Egyptian god of chaos Set to unleash chaos onto England.
* The Sanzhiyan Five Generals from ''Manga/SazanEyes'' are five extremely powerful Triclops who gave up their lives and most of their humanity to become, essentially, keepers of the streams of the "Naga", the life energy of the entire planet, and any Triclop who wishes to increase his powers must face their trials. The least mutated one, the Water Tomb General, resembles a mummified, four-armed skeleton merged with the ground able to unleash MindRape or corrosive water on whoever tries to undertake his trials, the others have even creepier form (such as a mummy emerging from the shell of a giant warty insect, a tapir-like gargoyle, a humanoid bird monster with sharp teeth and a [[FetusTerrible floating big-brained baby]]). While they're not overly malevolent, is because they're simply [[AboveGoodAndEvil devoid of any morals]]).

* The "space-bug-zompire thing" was the term Spike used in ''ComicBook/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' to refer the end result of one of his bug demon crewmates being sired by a zompire (a vampire sired after the Seed of Wonder was destroyed and thus lacked the demonic spirit that gives vampires sentience), creating a unique demon life-form. Due to the destruction of the Seed of Wonder, the bug mutated into a monstrous, vampiric beast with insectoid attributes and a secondary mouth inside its jaws. Nonetheless, they retained vampire weaknesses and limitations such as sunlight. [[spoiler:Curiously, their design is [[XenomorphXerox identical to the Xenomorph]] from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise.]]

* The Laughing Mare from Fanfic/EquestriaDivided is essentially [[https://www.deviantart.com/bylisboa/art/La-Potra-Sonriente-coloured-by-KairaAnix-384845332 Pinkie Pie]] come back from the dead as an undead [[LovecraftianSuperpower eldritch]] [[MonsterClown clown]] who use her old body as a HauntedFetter.

* The [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]] in the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' franchise come in a variety of many different shapes and sizes, all of them monstrous from one degree or another.

* The goddess Hel of Myth/NorseMythology is the daughter of the honorary Aesir Loki and his giantess mistress. Because Odin and Frigga foresaw that one of the children of Loki would begin Ragnarok, she and her siblings [[BeastOfTheApocalypse Fenrir]] and [[SnakesAreSinister Jormungandr]] were captured. To make sure Hel was out of the way (and because she was so cooperative), Odin allowed her total sovereignty over her own afterlife (which was named after her). Hel is often described as being TwoFaced, half of her body beautiful and alive, the other half a rotting, emaciated corpse.

* ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'':
** Gravelord Nito from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' was one of the four keepers of the Lord Souls when the Age of Fire began, Nito himself being First of the Dead. Together with Gwyn and the Witch of Izalith, they fought the Great Stone Dragons for control of the world, in Nito's case introducing death and [[PlagueMaster disease]], and would eventually be heralded as gods to the humans that populate Anor Londo. After the war, Nito descended into the Catacombs and slumbered within what would eventually be known as Tomb of the Giants. Even in that state, he could administer the death of all life and offered much of the energy of his own soul to death itself, a convenant being founded to spread death in his name. He would eventually fall at the hands of the Chosen Undead, his lord soul used to access the Kiln of the First Flame. His origins are a mystery, but one of his titles "the First of the Dead" would imply that he was the very first creature to die and is the first undead, his body a [[BodyOfBodies mass]] of [[DemBones skeletons]] fused together in a cloak-like mass of furs.
** In exchange for his services to Lord Gwyn in the war against the dragons, Seath the Scaleless in ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' was given (alongside a dukedom, a fragment of Gwyn's lord soul, and possibly one of his daughters) a [[ImmortalityInducer primordial crystal]] that helped bestow upon him an immortality that his kin possessed but he himself lacked due to his lack of scales. While it did keep him alive, it also classifies him as a unique type of undead, something that no doubt did little for his already waning sanity.
** The Rotten from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsII'' was a patchwork entity born from an amalgamation of lost souls and the withered bodies they inhabited. Over time, The Rotten absorbed many undead unfortunate enough to wind up in the Black Gulch after he came to possess the reincarnated soul of Gravelord Nito.

* ''VideoGame/SekiroShadowsDieTwice'': The Buddhist Monks of the Senpou Temple on Mount Kongo are monks who [[BecameTheirOwnAntithesis rejected the Buddha's teachings of accepting the impermanence of life in favor of seeking eternal life through immortality]]. Experimenting with the rejuvenating waters, the monks have since gained emaciated mummified forms (similar to the real life [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu sokushinbutsu]]) overrun with centipedes and other horrifying vermin. Those in the more advanced stages of corruption have [[CreepyCentipedes massive centipedes]] sprouting from a hole in their abdomens.

* ''VideoGame/BlackAndWhite 2'': Gods are created from human prayers and [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly rely on human worship to exist]], but somehow, the BigBad deity in ''Battle of the Gods'' forms from a vast abandoned graveyard and sets off to create a ZombieApocalypse.
* Emil from ''VideoGame/NieR'' was originally a boy who suffered from a strange affliction that caused anything he looked directly at to turn to stone. It is later revealed that he and his sister Haula (referred to as No. 7 and No. 6 respectively) were involved in Project Snow White by the National Weapons Laboratory as a means of combating the Legion and possibly curing White Chloronation Syndrome. The experiments causing Emil's magical gaze and turning Haula into a mindless, skeletal monster. After Emil and Nier manage to incapacitate Haula, [[FusionDance Emil and Haula merge]], turning Emil into a magical skeleton-like being with a permanent rictus grin. This new "weapon form" gives him the ability to levitate, as well as [[TokenWizard providing an extensive of spells that he can use for combat]]. In ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', it is revealed that not only did he survive the Alien Invasion and [[spoiler:the [[HumanitysWake extinction of the human race]] at the hands of the Machine Lifeforms thousands of years in the future]], but he learned a variety of other useful abilities, including the ability to clone himself in a desperate attempt to fend off the invasion. These duplicates would go on and become a completely separate (and insane) EldritchAbomination all its own, [[spoiler:capable of self-destructing in an explosion that could [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy the Earth]] [[TimeLimitBoss should 2B and 9S not defeat it within a certain amount of time]].]]

* ''VideoGame/BioShockInfinite'': Using quantum energy harvested and collected from Elizabeth, Comstock uses a device to resurrect the deceased Lady Comstock into the Siren, a banshee-esque creature with the power to bring dead humans to life as mindless killing machines. The Luteces describe her as being both simultaneously alive and dead and that her madness is her finding such a state "unagreeable."
* The Wither of ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' is a horrible creature made from the skulls of Wither Skeletons and the souls of the damned. It's easily the most dangerous mob in the game, thanks to its myriad of abilities (flight when above half health, a shield against arrows when below, explosive skull shots that do PoisonDamage, etc.) It will kill anything in sight that is not already undead if given the chance.
** [[spoiler: The Wither Storm from ''VideoGame/MinecraftStoryMode'', made by substituting one of the soul sand for a command block, is a thousand times worse.. Its mere existence breaks the world. Starting off as an average Wither (not that the average Wither isn't itself an EldritchAbomination), it goes OneWingedAngel, looking less like its original shape and more like something from Creator/HPLovecraft, sprouting CombatTentacles, growing to ten times its size and eventually becoming a distorted, black mass of destruction and death. It gets even worse in Episode 3, where it turns out to be an AsteroidsMonster.]]
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFightStreetwise'', one of Bella's so-called Four Horsemen is a giant collection of bodies of people who have died from the FantasticDrug Glow. The bodies are all melded together, resulting in [[BodyOfBodies a giant heap of flailing limbs and other body part attached to a huge, vaguely humanoid main shape]].
* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': Some Ghost-type Pokémon qualify, with special mention going to the Ghost/Dragon-type Giratina, which is a powerful Legendary Pokémon that rules over an EldritchLocation called the Distortion World; and the Ghost/Fairy-type Mimikyu, the true form of which is said to cause whoever sees it to die of terror.
* The Undeparted from ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'' are not so much undead as an embodiment of the violation of the laws of mortality. The reason they're naturally invisible unless exposed to bright light is a side effect of how light enforces the laws of reality in that universe, the light makes them more real and therefore visible.

* The Beached Things (or "[=BTs=]") from ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' are otherworldly entities that have somehow "stranded" themselves on Earth following the [[ApocalypseHow Death Stranding]]. [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Ghostly]] in nature, they are invisible to the naked-eye and can only be sensed by [=DOOMs=] (people with an allergy to chiralium, causing mental instability and [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals unusual abilities]]) and bridge babies (unborn babies with a connection to [[EldritchLocation the world the Beached Things came from]] that were artificially moved from their stillmothers into portable pods), their appearance differing, but usually taking the form of a MonstrousHumanoid attached to an umbilicus. They flock to locations of high chiralium density (such as when a dead body is cremated), their presence is hinted at by the manifestation of a black oil-like substance, seem to be blind and can sense people by their breath, can create more by devouring living humans, and if a dead body isn't cremated within 48 hours, it automatically becomes a BT. Larger [=BTs=] also have a small amount of antimatter at their core, so when they devour someone it causes a "voidout", a massive explosion caused by the energy released by the matter-antimatter annihilation.
* The Grim Reaper from ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' is a special type of Heartless created by Luxord as a personification of the Aztec gold's cursed properties, taking on an undead form when it takes any of the gold, activating the curse and inflicts it on Jack Sparrow. When Sora and the gang defeat it, the curse itself is destroyed.
* ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon'':
** The Collector is a bizarre abomination clad in a yellow coat and [[BodyOfBodies made up of the heads and bodies of many unfortunate people who have died in the dungeons,]] and it apparently feeds off of energy drawn from the heads it collects. It can also summon spectres of dead people using those same heads to fight for it.
** There is also the {{Necromancer}}, who was once one of several famous scholars that the Ancestor invited to the Estate to learn the secrets of necromancy from, and who the Ancestor then murdered and raised from the dead with their powers and intellects intact. Unlike the skeletons your parties encounter throughout the Ruins, [[BodyHorror there is something horrific underneath the Necromancer's robes, and it attacks your party with bizarre clawed tentacles erupting from its sleeves.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'', Zhaitan, Elder Dragon of Death and Shadow, combines this with DraconicAbomination. Like all Elder Dragons, it's an unimaginably old creature that feeds on magic, it's capable of raising the dead on such a scale that it's blighted a whole country, and it looks like a massively decayed dragon with many smaller heads leaking from its mouth.

* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'': Behold [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/03252011/ Mr. Fingers.]] an undead abomination in the best traditions of the clad composed [[{{Fingore}} entirely of fingers]], pulled from the dreams of a child. As per [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]] he has [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comics/20110524.jpg a stat block]], which says Mr. Fingers is a [[AlwaysABiggerFish 'lesser' Finger Horror.]]

--> '''Hungry Larry:''' ''[[VoiceOfTheLegion I'M]]'' ''[[DroolHello STILL]]'' ''[[ImAHumanitarian HUNGRY...]]'' ''[[MadnessMantra I'M STILL HUNGRY...]]''

* The Titan from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'', a massive decaying corpse that [[GiantCorpseWorld forms the Boiling Isles]] and exudes a BackgroundMagicField that witches use to cast spells. Death seems to be more of a gradient than an absolute state for it; the Titan's heart continues to beat despite its body's massive desiccation, and [[BigBad Emperor Belos]] insists that [[DeadPersonConversation it continues to speak to him]].

* The Beached Things (or "[=BTs=]") from ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' are otherworldly entities that have somehow "stranded" themselves on Earth following the [[ApocalypseHow Death Stranding]]. [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Ghostly]] in nature, they are invisible to the naked-eye and can only be sensed by [=DOOMs=] (people with an allergy to chiralium, causing mental instability and [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals unusual abilities]]) and bridge babies (unborn babies with a connection to [[EldritchLocation the world the Beached Things came from]] that were artificially moved from their stillmothers into portable pods), their appearance differing, but usually taking the form of a MonstrousHumanoid attached to an umbilicus. They flock to locations of high chiralium density (such as when a dead body is cremated), their presence is hinted at by the manifestation of a black oil-like substance, seem to be blind and can sense people by their breath, can create more by devouring living humans, and if a dead body isn't cremated within 48 hours, it automatically becomes a BT. Larger BTs also have a small amount of antimatter at their core, so when they devour someone it causes a "voidout", a massive explosion caused by the energy released by the matter-antimatter annihilation.

* The Beached Things (or "[=BTs=]") from ''VideoGame/DeathStranding'' are otherworldly entities that have somehow "stranded" themselves on Earth following the [[ApocalypseHow Death Stranding]]. [[OurGhostsAreDifferent Ghostly]] in nature, they are invisible to the naked-eye and can only be sensed by [=DOOMs=] (people with an allergy to chiralium, causing mental instability and [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividuals unusual abilities]]) and bridge babies (unborn babies with a connection to [[EldritchLocation the world the Beached Things came from]] that were artificially moved from their stillmothers into portable pods), their appearance differing, but usually taking the form of a MonstrousHumanoid attached to an umbilicus. They flock to locations of high chiralium density (such as when a dead body is cremated), their presence is hinted at by the manifestation of a black oil-like substance, seem to be blind and can sense people by their breath, can create more by devouring living humans, and if a dead body isn't cremated within 48 hours, it automatically becomes a BT. When a person is turned into a BT (either when it is killed by a BT or if their corpse isn't cremated), it causes a "voidout", leaving a massive crater where it once was.

* {{Gashadokuro}} are {{Youkai}} of Japanese folklore. They are giant, humanoid [[DemBones skeletons]] that rise from the ground with the intention of grabbing any person unfortunate enough to be close enough to it before proceeding to bite their heads off. This is because they are apparitions created from the souls of people (and we mean ''a lot'') who perished in [[TheFamine famine]].
* Some [[StringyHairedGhostGirl onryō]] - vengeful ghosts driven by indiscriminate rage and hatred - in Japanese folklore could inflict insanity on those who cross them, and some were powerful enough to cause natural disasters unless pacified.

* The Sanzhiyan Five Generals from ''Manga/SazanEyes'' are five extremely powerful Triclops who gave up their lives and most of their humanity to become, essentially, keepers of the streams of the "Naga", the life energy of the entire planet, and any Triclop who wishes to increase his powers must face their trials. The least mutated one, the Water Tomb General, resembles a mummified, four-armed skeleton merged with the ground able to unleash MindRape or corrosive water on whoever tries to undertake his trials, the others have even creepier form (such as a mummy emerging from the shell of a giant warty insect, a tapir-like gargoyle, a humanoid bird monster with sharp teeth and a [[FetusTerrible floating big-brained baby]]). While they're not overly malevolent, is because they're simply [[AboveGoodAndEvil devoid of any morals).

** Cards like [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Archfiend_Zombie-Skull Archfiend Zombie-Skull]] and [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Summoned_Skull Revived King Ha Des]] are zombie-type synchro monsters similar in appearance to the popular Fiend-type monsters [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Summoned_Skull Summoned Skull]] and [[https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Dark_Ruler_Ha_Des Dark Ruler Ha Des]], effectively making such monsters the reanimated corpses of ''demons''.

* Zhaitan, the Elder Dragon of Death and Shadows from ''VideoGame/GuildWars2'', combines this with DraconicAbomination. It manifests as a massive, rotting dragon, is capable of raising the dead as its minions, and is, like all other Elder Dragons, a primordial force of magic tied to the life of the planet.

* The [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]] in the ''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'' franchise come in a variety of many different shapes and silence, all of them monstrous from one degree or another.
** Prince Vigo the Carpathian from ''Film/GhostbustersII'' was originally an EvilOverlord with a penchant for torture and [[EvilSorcerer sorcery]]. Before his RasputinianDeath, he vowed he would rise from the dead. In 20th century New York after Gozer the Gozerian's failed attempt at destroying the world, Vigo harnessed the mood slime within the sewers and the negative emotions of the citizens to unleash an army of ghosts onto the city. He was so powerful that in ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', he is classified as a Class 7 entity, the same level as Zuul, Vinz Clortho and Gozer the Gozerian.

** Incognito from the anime TV series is an [[LooksLikeOrlok Orlok-esq]] vampire from Africa with a variety of unnatural abilities and characteristics that make other vampires seem normal in-comparison. He is a CombatSadomasochist with a HealingFactor uncommon to other vampires (except Alucard, of course), possesses a BarbieDollAnatomy, he ''vomits'' all of the ammo into his grenade-launcher-esq weapon ([[BodyHorror which he pulls right out of his arm]]) and is adept at dark magics, using his power to summon the Egyptian god of chaos Set to unleash chaos onto England.

** Gravelord Nito from ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsI'' was one of the four keepers of the Lord Souls when the Age of Fire began, Nito himself being first of the dead and keeper of the Lord Soul of Death. Together with Gwyn and the Witch of Izalith, they fought the Great Stone Dragons for control of the world, in Nito's case introducing death and [[PlagueMaster disease]], and would eventually be heralded as gods to the humans that populate Anor Londo. After the war, Nito descended into the Catacombs and slumbered within what would eventually be known as Tomb of the Giants. Even in that state, he could administer the death of all life and offered much of the energy of his own soul to death itself, a convenant being founded to spread death in his name. He would eventually fall at the hands of the Chosen Undead, his lord soul used to access the Kiln of the First Flame. His origins are a mystery, but one of his titles "the First of the Dead" would imply that he was the very first creature to die and is the first undead, his body a [[BodyOfBodies mass]] of [[DemBones skeletons]] fused together in a cloak-like mass of furs.

* In VideoGame/GuildWars2, Zhaitan, Elder Dragon of Death and Shadow, combines this with DraconicAbomination. Like all Elder Dragons, it's an unimaginably old creature that feeds on magic, it's capable of raising the dead on such a scale that it's blighted a whole country, and it looks like a massively decayed dragon with many smaller heads leaking from its mouth.

* Gashadokuro are {{Youkai}} of Japanese folklore. They are giant, humanoid [[DemBones skeletons]] that rise from the ground with the intention of grabbing any person unfortunate enough to be close enough to it before proceeding to bite their heads off. This is because they are apparitions created from the souls of people (and we mean ''a lot'') who perished in [[TheFamine famine]].

** At least certain of the [[TimeAbyss antediluvean]] master vampires in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' have become sufficiently inhuman to qualify as this, ranging from many-bodied horrors to virtual GeniusLoci of undeath and continent-spanning {{Living Shadow}}s.

* Emil from ''VideoGame/NieR'' was originally a boy who suffered from a strange affliction that caused anything he looked directly at to turn to stone. It is later revealed that he and his sister Haula (referred to as No. 7 and No. 6 respectively) were involved in Project Snow White by the National Weapons Laboratory as a means of combatting the Legion and possibly curing White Chloronation Syndrome. The experiments causing Emil's magical gaze and turning Haula into a mindless, skeletal monster. After Emil and Nier manage to incapacitate Haula, [[FusionDance Emil and Haula merge]], turning Emil into a magical skeleton-like being with a permanent rictus grin. This new "weapon form" gives him the ability to levitate, as well as [[TokenWizard providing an extensive of spells that he can use for combat]]. In ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'', it is revealed that not only did he survive the Alien Invasion and [[spoiler:the [[HumanitysWake extinction of the human race]] at the hands of the Machine Lifeforms thousands of years in the future]], but he learned a variety of other useful abilities, including the ability to clone himself in a desperate attempt to fend off the invasion. These duplicates would go on and become a completely separate (and insane) EldritchAbomination all its own, [[spoiler:capable of self-destructing in an explosion that could [[EarthShatteringKaboom destroy the Earth]] [[TimeLimitBoss should 2B and 9S not defeat it within a certain amount of time]].]]

* ComicBook/{{Thanos}} transforms Nebula into this during the events of ''ComicBook/TheInfinityGauntlet''. After finding she wasn't quite dead after he burned her alive, but she might as well die soon, he changed his mind about her fate. As a gift to his beloved Lady Death, he freezed her burned corpse in time just as she was passing away, trapping her in a mangled form that experienced nothing but pain, yet was neither truly alive or dead. Making her a monument and metaphor to what his vision of life was, as a living/undead abomination. (Once she got ahold of the Infinity Gauntlet, [[TheDogBitesBack she bit back]].)

* Gashadokuro are {{Youkai}} of Japanese folklore. They are giant, humanoid [[DemBones skeletons]] that rise from the ground with the intention of grabbing any person unfortunate enough to be close enough to it where it proceeds to bit their heads off. This is because they are apparitions created from the souls of people (and we mean ''a lot'') who perished in [[TheFamine famine]].
* Some [[StringyHairedGhostGirl onryō]] in Japanese folklore could inflict insanity on those who cross them, and some were powerful enough to cause natural disasters unless pacified.

* ''Webcomic/Goblins'': Behold [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/03252011/ Mr. Fingers.]] an undead abomination in the best traditions of the clad composed [[{{Fingore}} entirely of fingers]], pulled from the dreams of a child. As per [[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Dungeons & Dragons]] he has [[http://www.goblinscomic.org/comics/20110524.jpg a stat block]], which says Mr. Fingers is a [[AlwaysABiggerFish 'lesser' Finger Horror.]]