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->'''Anne:''' And you look like my cat because...?\\
'''Guardian Entity:''' [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith My true form would make your human brain explode]].\\
'''Anne:''' [[TemptingFate I don't know.]] I've [[ConditionedToAcceptHorror seen some pretty]] craz-\\
''(The entity momentarily transforms into its true form of a cosmic EnergyBeing, causing Anne to FreakOut)''
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->''"[[TropeNamer You cannot grasp the true form]] of [[EldritchAbomination Giygas's]] attack!"''
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}''

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->''"[[TropeNamer ->''"[[TropeNamers You cannot grasp the true form]] of [[EldritchAbomination Giygas's]] attack!"''
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}''
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->'''Q:''' You asked me to show you ''me''. My real form. It was a challenge. You were daring me to reveal myself, to give you a glimpse behind the curtain. And I couldn't help but rise to the challenge. I brought you there, out into the depths of space, and I let you look up at me. Or at least, what parts of me are visible to your puny human eyes.\\
'''Picard:''' What happened?\\
'''Q:''' You were amazed. It was the first time I've ever seen you ... ''pleased'' ... by anything I've done. You said I was ... beautiful. And you were beautiful, too, glowing in the light from my stars and nebulas. I've never seen you like that before. And I - forgot myself. You seemed so brilliant, so alive, that I forgot you weren't - a real person. A Q. I forgot myself. And I reached out to touch you with one of my - limbs, I suppose you'd call it. And you broke. You were ''dead'', Jean-Luc. One minute you were a person and one minute you weren't and you were ''gone''.\\
'''Picard:''' You killed me. And then you regretted it.\\
'''Q:''' I never meant to hurt you! It's not my fault you humans are so fragile.
-->--''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/12433167 Fragility]]''
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->''[[EldritchLocation This]] is a response. Like a reaction. Nature doesn't abhor a vacuum, but people do. [[OutOfCharacterAlert Your]] minds aren't made for [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds this]], right? You stare at the stars and see [[{{Constellations}} things]], because that's what you do. Making sense of it. Order is a man-made concept.''

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->''[[EldritchLocation This]] is a response. Like a reaction. Nature doesn't abhor a vacuum, but people do. [[OutOfCharacterAlert Your]] minds aren't made for [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds this]], right? You stare at the stars and see [[{{Constellations}} things]], things, because that's what you do. Making sense of it. Order is a man-made concept.''
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->'''Quentin:''' I suppose you're going to say that [[OurGodsAreDifferent that]] is a being of sublime beauty and power, and he only looks like that because my fallen mortal eyes are are incapable of perceiving his true magnificence.
->'''Penny:''' [[SubvertedTrope No. We think that's actually pretty much it]].
->'''Poppy:''' Come on. He ''is'' pretty impressive: he's big. And silvery.
->'''Quentin:''' A big silvery janitor. Penny, this can't be how the universe works.
->'''Penny:''' In the Order, we call it 'inverse profundity.' We've observed it in any number of cases. The deeper you go into the cosmic mysteries, the less interesting everything gets.
-->--''[[Literature/TheMagicians The Magician King]]''
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-->--Szadek, flavor text for TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering card "[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm Glimpse the Unthinkable]]"

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-->--Szadek, -->--'''Szadek''', flavor text for TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering card "[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm Glimpse the Unthinkable]]"



-->Bob Howard, ''Literature/TheRhesusChart''

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-->Bob Howard, -->'''Bob Howard''', ''Literature/TheRhesusChart''



-->-- '''[[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Nacht]]''', ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', "Silent Nacht"

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-->-- '''[[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Nacht]]''', ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', "Silent Nacht"Nacht"
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-->--'''Pennywise''', ''Literature/{{It}}''

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-->--'''Pennywise''', ''Literature/{{It}}''
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-->--Szadek, flavor text for MagicTheGathering card "[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm Glimpse the Unthinkable]]"

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-->--Szadek, flavor text for MagicTheGathering TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering card "[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm Glimpse the Unthinkable]]"
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-->--''[[Literature/ThousandSons Ahriman: Unchanged]]''

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-->--''[[Literature/ThousandSons Ahriman: Unchanged]]''Unchanged]]''

->''Imagine that you’re in a boat and you see some fish in the water. You reach your hand into the water to grab one of the fish. From the fish’s point of view, this weird thing with a flat body and five tentacles and a weird thick tail that reaches out into nowhere, but no eyes, mouth or fins, just appeared in a shower of bubbles. It moves around in ways that have nothing to do with swishing its tail or moving fins in any way. Then this thing which shouldn’t be any stronger than the fish is, and has no eyes with which to see, wraps itself around one of the other fish, and suddenly that fish disappears from the first fish’s plane of reference. The hand is utterly alien to the fish, and it operates in ways that would seem magical to it, if fish had the brains to encompass the notion of magic. I think that your Headhunter is like that: it has much, but not all of the power of the demon at its disposal, and it has a perspective that most mortals can’t have, and it operates on very different principles and motives.''
-->-- '''[[NightmareFuelStationAttendant Nacht]]''', ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', "Silent Nacht"
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->A figure of white-hot fire sat on a throne at the center of the tower top. Blazing light sketched the shape of bare limbs and smooth muscle. Its left hand held a sceptre of black iron capped with a globe which swirled with blackness and starlight. A single blood-red eye sat at the center of its face beneath a crown of curled horns. It was a vision of the divine and the terrible, and it was a lie. Knekku knew that each of the sorcerers kneeling with him would be seeing a different vision, and that none of them were true.

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->A ->''A figure of white-hot fire sat on a throne at the center of the tower top. Blazing light sketched the shape of bare limbs and smooth muscle. Its left hand held a sceptre of black iron capped with a globe which swirled with blackness and starlight. A single blood-red eye sat at the center of its face beneath a crown of curled horns. It was a vision of the divine and the terrible, and it was a lie. Knekku knew that each of the sorcerers kneeling with him would be seeing a different vision, and that none of them were true.''
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-->--'''D-124[[spoiler:/unformed [[EldritchAbomination Pattern Screamer]]]]''', ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' file for [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3930 SCP-3930]]

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-->--'''D-124[[spoiler:/unformed [[EldritchAbomination Pattern Screamer]]]]''', ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' file for [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3930 SCP-3930]]SCP-3930]]

->A figure of white-hot fire sat on a throne at the center of the tower top. Blazing light sketched the shape of bare limbs and smooth muscle. Its left hand held a sceptre of black iron capped with a globe which swirled with blackness and starlight. A single blood-red eye sat at the center of its face beneath a crown of curled horns. It was a vision of the divine and the terrible, and it was a lie. Knekku knew that each of the sorcerers kneeling with him would be seeing a different vision, and that none of them were true.
-->--''[[Literature/ThousandSons Ahriman: Unchanged]]''
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->''?! ...What did [[spoiler:Porky]] do?!''
-->--''VideoGame/MOTHER3''
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-->--''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings''

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-->--''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings''-->--''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings''

->''[[EldritchLocation This]] is a response. Like a reaction. Nature doesn't abhor a vacuum, but people do. [[OutOfCharacterAlert Your]] minds aren't made for [[VoidBetweenTheWorlds this]], right? You stare at the stars and see [[{{Constellations}} things]], because that's what you do. Making sense of it. Order is a man-made concept.''
-->--'''D-124[[spoiler:/unformed [[EldritchAbomination Pattern Screamer]]]]''', ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' file for [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-3930 SCP-3930]]
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->''The form of [[spoiler:Giegue's]] attack was inexplicable!''
-->--''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings''
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->''"Silly boy. You still think you can "see" '''me?''' Heh, heh, heh. You'll never see me. You'll see only what your little mind can allow. GO! '''NOW.'''"''
-->--'''Pennywise''', ''Literature/{{It}}''
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-->Bob Howard, ''[[Literature/TheLaundrySeries The Rhesus Chart]]''

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-->Bob Howard, ''[[Literature/TheLaundrySeries The Rhesus Chart]]''
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->'''Kim:''' So, what's it like out there in Galactic Cluster III?
->'''Seven:''' Beyond your comprehension.
->'''Kim:''' Try me.
->'''Seven:''' Galactic Cluster III is a transmaterial energy plane intersecting twenty two billion omnicordial lifeforms.
->'''Kim:''' Ah...interesting.
-->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "The Gift"
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-->Bob Howard, ''[[Literature/LaundryFiles The Rhesus Chart]]''

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-->Bob Howard, ''[[Literature/LaundryFiles ''[[Literature/TheLaundrySeries The Rhesus Chart]]''
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->'' I wasn't about to open my inner eye and have an eyeball-to-eyeball look at the void by way of a third opinion, but I was pretty sure that if I did I'd see something so '''wrong''' that it wouldn't even be visible at all, except as a sucking blind-spot distortion in my visual field, dragging everything around it together at the edges like a detached retina.''
-->Bob Howard, ''[[Literature/LaundryFiles The Rhesus Chart]]''
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->"I am confident that if anyone actually penetrates our facades, even the most perceptive would still be fundamentally unprepared for the truth of House Dimir."
-->--Szadek, flavor text for MagicTheGathering card "[[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm Glimpse the Unthinkable]]"
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->''"Human beings have neither the aural nor the psychological capacity to withstand the awesome power of God's true voice. Were you to hear it, your mind would cave in and your heart would explode within your chest. (We went through five Adams before we figured that one out.)"''
-->-- ''Film/{{Dogma}}''
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-->--''Film/{{Excalibur}}''

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->'''Merlin''': Shall I tell you what's out there?\\
'''Arthur''': Yes, please.\\
'''Merlin''': The Dragon. A beast of such power that if you were to see it whole and all complete in a single glance, it would burn you to cinders.
-->--''Film/{{Excalibur}}''
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-->-- '''Mokkurkalfi''', ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''

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-->-- '''Mokkurkalfi''', ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''''Manga/AhMyGoddess''
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->'''[[TropeNamer You cannot grasp the true form]] of [[EldritchAbomination Giygas's]] attack!'''

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->'''[[TropeNamer ->''"[[TropeNamer You cannot grasp the true form]] of [[EldritchAbomination Giygas's]] attack!'''attack!"''
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->''"...the Mildly Disturbing Halloween Hats—'''moldering, eldritch veils of such manifold depravity''', the human eye will not process the '''sheer enormity of their malevolence''', and out of self-preservation will merely show you paper bags with faces on them. These faces are still moderately scary, though, so brace yourselves for '''mild terror!'''"''
-->--''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''

-> ''[[TropeNamer You cannot grasp the true form]] of [[EldritchAbomination Giygas's]] attack!''
-->--''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}''

-> ''You don't perceive our true appearance. Your existence and ours are different. My form, and what you think you are seeing, are not necessarily the same.''
-->--'''Mokkurkalfi''', ''Manga/AhMyGoddess''

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->''"...the Mildly Disturbing Halloween Hats—'''moldering, eldritch veils of such manifold depravity''', the human eye will not process the '''sheer enormity of their malevolence''', and out of self-preservation will merely show you paper bags with faces on them. These faces are still moderately scary, though, so brace yourselves for '''mild terror!'''"''
-->--''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''

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->'''[[TropeNamer
You cannot grasp the true form]] of [[EldritchAbomination Giygas's]] attack!''
-->--''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}''

-> ''You
attack!'''
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}''

->''"You
don't perceive our true appearance. Your existence and ours are different. My form, and what you think you are seeing, are not necessarily the same.''
-->--'''Mokkurkalfi''',
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-->-- '''Mokkurkalfi''',
''Manga/AhMyGoddess''
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->''"...the Mildly Disturbing Halloween Hats—'''moldering, eldritch veils of such manifold depravity''', the human eye will not process the '''sheer enormity of their malevolence''', and out of self-preservation will merely show you paper bags with faces on them. These faces are still moderately scary, though, so brace yourselves for '''mild terror!'''"''

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->''"...the Mildly Disturbing Halloween Hats—'''moldering, eldritch veils of such manifold depravity''', the human eye will not process the '''sheer enormity of their malevolence''', and out of self-preservation will merely show you paper bags with faces on them. These faces are still moderately scary, though, so brace yourselves for '''mild terror!'''"''



-->--''{{EarthBound}}''

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-->--''{{EarthBound}}''
-->--''VideoGame/{{EarthBound}}''



-->--'''Mokkurkalfi''', ''AhMyGoddess''

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-->--'''Mokkurkalfi''', ''AhMyGoddess''''Manga/AhMyGoddess''
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-->--''TeamFortress2''

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-->--''TeamFortress2''
-->--''VideoGame/TeamFortress2''
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-> ''You don't perceive our true appearance. Your existence and ours are different. My form, and what you think you are seeing, are not necessarily the same.

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-> ''You don't perceive our true appearance. Your existence and ours are different. My form, and what you think you are seeing, are not necessarily the same.''
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-->--''{{EarthBound}}''

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-->--''{{EarthBound}}''-->--''{{EarthBound}}''

-> ''You don't perceive our true appearance. Your existence and ours are different. My form, and what you think you are seeing, are not necessarily the same.
-->--'''Mokkurkalfi''', ''AhMyGoddess''

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