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** ''Fanfic/MaidensIllusionaryFuneral'' depicts Yukari Yakumo as an unstoppable juggernaut who is really a nightmarish mass of darkness and eyes masquerading in the form of a human woman. Glimpses of this are seen throughout her battles as she gets her GameFace on, but she only drops the illusion when Youki bisects her; [[OhCrap his reaction]] is most appropriate.

* The Master from Webcomic/TheInvitation. While her true form appears to be some collection of vines or tentacles, she always takes on at least a vaguely humanoid shape.

* ''Series/Archive81'' has Cthulhumanoid [[spoiler:Kaelego]]. It is an ancient Demon God who lives in another dimension called the Otherworld. He is worshipped by the Vos Society and Alexander Davenport.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' has [[spoiler:Rei]] and [[spoiler:Kaworu]], each of whom is the soul (or part of a soul) of an Angel jammed into a soulless clone body, and are even more powerful and just as incomprehensible as the "regular" Angels. The [[spoiler:Evangelion units]] themselves are also this, being cloned bodies of Angels forcefully stuffed inside armor suits that lock away their true powers.

* Emperor Belos from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' actually looks surprisingly normal, his appearance being akin to an old man with a strange skin condition, resulting in a band of green, rotting flesh across his face. [[spoiler:However, this form is just a {{Glamour}} for his ''true'' appearance -- a nine-foot-tall, skeletal monster, covered in a thin layer of liquefied, necrotic flesh, and absolutely ''covered'' in [[EyesDoNotBelongThere glowing blue eyes]]. Even in his human form, Belos is able to stretch out his arms as long as he'd like, and morph his limbs into things like spears and scythes. After the season 2 finale ends with the Collector splattering him across a wall, season 3 shows that ''that didn't kill him'', and he's [[FromASingleCell able to regenerate from a single drop of liquid rot]] by possessing various woodland animals and consuming them from the inside out. In this state he can even possess people's bodies and puppet them around, which he does to Hunter, Raine, and even the Titan himself.]]

** While he is a demonic shapeshifter that can take even more monstrous forms, [[EldritchAbomination Aku's]] default appearance is a gigantic, humanoid being made of darkness, and he is capable of assuming more human-like disguises such as a [[http://samuraijack.wikia.com/wiki/Ikra beautiful woman]] on one occasion. The catch is that he will always be [[GlamourFailure limited to the same green/red/black color-scheme, and reflections reveal his true form]]. He also has a wide range of superpowers at his disposal (such as BlackMagic, CompleteImmortality, VoluntaryShapeshifting, [[TheCorruption corrupting]] other living beings, creating [[TimeTravel time portals]], etc.), and is NighInvulnerable to all weapons, except for a [[ForgedByTheGods divine magic sword]] wielded by the titular hero.

** A very tragic example is featured late in Season 5 with none other than [[spoiler:Ashi, Jack's [[HeelFaceTurn enemy-turned-sidekick]]/[[BattleCouple lover]], who is revealed to be a literal [[HalfHumanHybrid Daughter of Aku]], sired when her mother drank a fraction of his essence and gave birth to seven daughters. Her nature was foreshadowed throughout several episodes when she displayed massive tolerance to pain, and enough superhuman strength to dispatch a massive army and emerge unscathed. Once Aku learns of this, he turns Ashi into a demonic being in his own image and compells her to attack Jack.]]

** Later on in the series, the series's trope naming instances of TheyKilledKennyAgain was {{Deconstructed}}, via CerebusRetcon, because of Kenny being one. Because of some NoodleIncident involving a cult dedicated to Cthulhu, Kenny has ResurrectiveImmortality.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': In [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E24LegsFromHereToHomeworld "Legs From Here to Homeworld"]], we finally see [[spoiler:[[BigBad White Diamond]]]]. Pearl describes her as fundamentally different from other Gems, [[spoiler:including the other Diamonds]]. She glows so brightly she looks like she's made out of light, even more so than the usual Gem HardLight, and it's hard to make out her features, making her head look two-dimensional from some angles. She also stands as still as a statue with her arms outstretched (something [[spoiler:her Pearl]] shares), and speaks in DissonantSerenity for the entirety of her screentime. Her body's even drawn more like the background scenery than a character.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'', Raven's demonic heritage manifests as four glowing red eyes and shadowy tentacles growing from underneath her robe. Otherwise, she usually looks human.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'', Karai becomes this after mutating by accident. Whenever she isn't in full humanoid snake form, she assumes what looks like her original human self...unless she deliberately displays snake-like traits like scaly skin and sharp fangs or turns her arms into snake head limbs to attack, that is. Plus, she can shed her skin to shrug off any minor injuries.

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* Emperor Belos from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' actually looks surprisingly normal, his appearance being akin to an old man with a strange skin condition, resulting in a band of green, rotting flesh across his face. [[spoiler:However, this form is just a {{Glamour}} for his ''true'' appearance -- a nine foot tall, skeletal monster, covered in a thin layer of liquefied, necrotic flesh, and absolutely ''covered'' in [[EyesDoNotBelongThere glowing blue eyes]]. Even in his human form, Belos is able to stretch out his arms as long as he'd like, and morph his limbs into things like spears and scythes. After the season 2 finale ends with the Collector splattering him across a wall, season 3 shows that ''that didn't kill him'', and he's [[FromASingleCell able to regenerate from a single drop of liquid rot]] by possessing various woodland animals and consuming them from the inside out. In this state he can even possess people's bodies and puppet them around, which he does to Hunter, Raine, and even the Titan himself.]]

* ''Franchise/TalesOfArcadia'': ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' has Morgana, a mysterious being who also goes by the name of the "Eldritch Queen." She is capable of stealing the souls of others and controlling them, and she can easily give others magical abilities. Her spiritual form is WreathedInFlames with GlowingEyesOfDoom, and her true form is even more powerful and almost unstoppable.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'': Mumm-Ra looks like nothing so much as a mummified, semi-decayed human, in spite of (unlike the original) no humans existing in the setting. However, the shape of his face and his gait are just ever-so-slightly... off. His OneWingedAngel form reveals that [[spoiler: he is actually an anthropomorphic vampire bat; kudos to the animators for pulling off this bit of foreshadowing.]]
** The Arcane Order from ''WesternAnimation/Wizards2020'' may be even bigger examples. They claim to have existed [[TimeAbyss since the beginning]] and their appearances, as well as their powers, make it clear that whatever they are, they are not human. It's revealed that [[spoiler: they were the ones who gave Morgana her powers, and they turned King Arthur into the Green Knight, an undead being of AntiMagic.]]

** Devils are (usually) humanoid creatures, and while they are such, they don't necessarily seem that eldritch -- but they are formed into individuals out of formless stuff of chaos.

** Gog Agog appears normally as a female human-like jester, but even superficially, shown when she transforms or gets injured, she's really composed of a lot of worms -- and that's not accounting for her being a thing from the beginning days of the multiverse that also assimilates countless people that want to partly be a part of her.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' episode "[=NegaDuck=]", Darkwing accidentally gets separated into his [[ItRunsOnNonsensoleum "good and evil particles"]], creating a ([[GoodIsImpotent wussy]]) good and (badass) evil version of him. Then the evil version gets galvanized. The resulting "[=NegaDuck=]" (not to be confused with the recurring MirrorUniverse EvilCounterpart of Darkwing by the same name) is still shaped like Darkwing, though with negative black-and-white colours and PowerGlows, but it's an almost mindless accumulation of pure evil and destruction that uses its RealityWarper powers to tear everything apart. (The good side also gets galvanized, but the result is much less abominable.) However, the whole thing is largely PlayedForLaughs, so it also speaks in an exaggerated StupidEvil CardCarryingVillain ForTheEvulz manner.

* Many of the vampires from ''WesternAnimation/{{Castlevania}}'' qualify, including Dracula himself. Of all the vampires, however, none are moreso an abomination than [[spoiler:Varney, who is actually a disguise for none other than ''[[CanonCharacterAllAlong Death]]''.]]

** Most human avatars of Entities (representations of fears such as the dark, isolation, being watched, BodyHorror, etc.) eventually become these.
** The podcast's version of vampires (humanoid creatures with long tongues for sucking blood that have mild hypnosis powers and little to no conscious thought outside of that regarding feeding).

** Randall Flagg, especially in ''Literature/TheStand'', and to a lesser extent in the other books where he is either the BigBad or TheDragon. In ''The Stand'' one character claims that Flagg is actually Legion, the [[Literature/TheBible Biblical]] demon horde that Jesus cast into a herd of pigs, while [[UnreliableNarrator Flagg]] himself claims to be [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Nyarlathotep]].

** The True Knot from ''Literature/DoctorSleep'' are a "family" of psychic [[OurVampiresAreDifferent quasi-vampires]] that devour the "Shine" (life force/supernatural abilities) of psychic humans. While they typically look like late middle-aged to elderly retirees, the monstrous true forms they take on when feeding has them having elongated jaws with a single tusk inside. One of their members, [[TheEvilGenius Walnut]], even hypothesizes about their condition, believing them to still have [=DNA=] but to have a changed nervous system, the latter of which causes the True Knot to react badly to flying (necessitating them to travel in a convoy of [=RVs=]).

* In ''Literature/{{Momo|1973}}'', the villains appear to be nondescript men in grey suits, but are actually something entirely inhuman and inimical to human life.

* The Clockmaker, [[spoiler:formerly Philip Lascaille]], from Creator/AlastairReynolds' ''Literature/ThePrefect''. Can assume any shape, but its default form resembles a stretched-out human form, spindly and quicksilver. Enjoys wanton slaughter and leaving intricately designed clocks and trinkets around... which may or may not be [[BodyHorror Body Horror-inducing]] booby traps.

* ''Literature/SpaceTrilogy'': The Un-man is the BigBad of the second book, and is a [[OurDemonsAreDifferent fallen eldila, who's heavily implied to be Satan]], possessing one of his pawns. It's so petty and evil, the protagonist can't be near him for too long.

* Mr. Edward Hyde in ''Literature/StrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'' is one of the earliest literary examples in literature. Most people who meet him find there to be something off about him but can never quite articulate it, beyond a vague sense of degeneration about him. [[ItWasHisSled As we all know]], Hyde is what you get when you take an ordinary, flawed man, and then subtract all the good from him. Mr. Hyde is ''pure'' evil.

** Nyarlathotep, the messenger and soul of the Outer Gods. He doesn't seem to have an actual body (being a sentient representation of the will of the Outer Gods), but he can manifest in the physical world using a [[FightingAShadow projected avatar]]. He seems to prefer manifesting in a form that is indistinguishable from a human, mainly because he's a [[TheChessmaster Chessmaster]] who [[ManipulativeBastard enjoys manipulating people]], and that's rather difficult to do if you manifest as a skyscraper-sized betentacled monstrosity. In his [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyarlathotep_(short_story) debut title]], Nyarlathotep appears to be a normal human in appearance. It's [[BrownNote his performance that drives people mad]]. In "The Dreams in the Witch House", he manifests as a mostly human figure that is heavily implied to have hooves. It is highly suggested that sometimes he manifests in a form that is so alien to the creature viewing it that it goes insane, and that each one of his forms can do that to some creature, which means that somewhere in the universe there is/are being(s) who see [[HumansAreCthulhu humans as so alien that they cannot view one without going into gibbering madness]].

** Hastur [[SpeakOfTheDevil the Unspeakable]]'s most recognisable avatar, the King in Yellow. His mask? It's NotAMask...