Basic Trope: A creature or object is made of, resembles, or has distorted or traumatically injured anatomy.
- Straight: A Humanoid Abomination has several extra deformed limbs and its facial features are twisted and vaguely animalistic. It uses tumorous Organic Technology.
- Exaggerated: An Eldritch Abomination appears to be made of a tangle of human organs and eyes, and is terraforming the area around it to resemble its homeland, the Bloody Bowels of Hell.
- Downplayed:
- A beautiful Human Alien has a disfiguring scar, and the architecture of her Living Ship resembles organic forms and anatomy just enough to be mildly unsettling.
- Bloody Horror
- Justified: A creature or object is actually made from crudely assembled body parts.
- Inverted:
- Though a creature or object is made of or resembles anatomy, it looks extremely natural and beautiful.
- Angels look like collections of platonic solids and thus look shockingly not only inorganic but not even robotic.
- Subverted: A creature cloaked in shadow at first appears to be a tangle of limbs, but when it steps out of the shadows it is actually one normal human sitting on another's shoulders.
- Double Subverted: At which point it unzips the Genuine Human Hide Person Suit and attacks.
- Parodied: The horrific disfigurement is a bad case of acne.
- Zig Zagged:
- Some zombies are fresh with few to no signs of rot. Others are missing limbs and dragging trails of intestines behind them.
- Whether or not the bizarre features on Bob are actually apart of his body or just disjointed cosmetics is left ambiguous.
- Averted: The starfish aliens don't remotely resemble earth anatomy.
- Enforced:
- "Fans loved the dangling eye zombie last season; let's do more of those."
- "This Kerbal Space Program video was created by Danny 2462"
- This PSA doesn't pull its punches when it comes to the consequences of checking/relighting firework duds.
- Lampshaded: "Why do eldritch abominations always look like a serial killer's compost pile? You'd think at least once in a while one would go with something original, like a talking fire hydrant or something..."
- Invoked:
- A sorcerer deliberately transforms Alice into a horrifyingly twisted shape to scare off anyone who might try to help a talking bunny or frog.
- Lovecraftian Superpower
- Malevolent Mutilation
- Exploited: Alice discovers that having three arms, scales, eyes on stalks, a Prehensile Tail, and the ability to make an ogre cry by making a funny face is actually rather useful for an adventures, once you find a nice bulky hooded robe for trips into town.
- Defied: A mad scientist takes care to make his cyborg minions look aesthetically pleasing and keep them in good repair, studying the latest trends in jewelry design and plastic surgery.
- Conversed: Alice and Bob discuss whether something having too many eyes is scarier than if it has too many limbs.
- Implied: The virus victim is never fully shown on screen/described, but the character's reactions and the fragments we do see suggest they have been twisted into a horrifying form.
- Deconstructed: The Eldritch Abomination which resembles a mass of limbs and organs can barely move or sense its surroundings. After flailing around for a while, it eventually dies from massive infection due to its exposed organs.
- Reconstructed:
- The next one, learning from its moronic partner's mistakes, takes the time to plan out a mortal-brain-shattering form with an efficiently designed skeleton and metabolism, with usefully placed limbs and sensory organs, before manifesting on the mortal plane
- The Eldritch Abomination looks like a grotesque, writhing mass of organs without sensory organs, but instead of being pathetic, blind and easily dying of infection, the creature just keeps going and can somehow sense what's around it, accentuating how unnatural and unbound by normal reality it is.
- Played For Laughs:
- The anatomy in question is laughably bizarre- for instance, having a foot for a head. Hard to pull off, due to the Uncanny Valley.
- Trying to cheat God in How Many Fingers? results in your hand having multiple fingers and losing your appetite for 3 weeks.
- Played For Drama: A character is horribly disfigured, leaving them ashamed and isolated from humanity.
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