Eldritch Abomination: Difference between revisions

They are native to the genre known asof [[Cosmic Horror Story]], but they are not confined to it. [[Lovecraft Lite|Mild examples]] can be found throughout the [[Horror]] and [[Fantasy]] genres., while Greatergreater abominations can occur in almost any type of fiction, so long as enough [[Cosmic Horror Story]] tropes are used. Usually they derive, at least in inspiration, from [[Mythopoeia|Lovecraft's work]].

Physically, Eldritch Abominations range from [[Uncanny Valley|almost]] [[Humanoid Abomination|human]], [[Starfish Aliens|through big ugly monsters]], to the [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|unimaginably]] [[Mind Screw|bizarre]]. Generally, the weirder they look, the more powerful they are, but this isn't a universal rule. Here, the "ugly" in "big, ugly monster" doesn't just mean that it's horrible to look at -- it means that there's [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|something about it, about the way it looks]], or the [[Alien Geometries|the spaces through which it moves]], that violates every law of reality]] as you know it. "Big" doesn't just mean that it could use the Empire State Building as a toothpick -- it means that the... thing doing just that is only the barest fraction of the monster's true form, the 3-dimensional tip of a multidimensional iceberg. Eldritch abominations are perhaps the biological equivalent of [[Absolute Comparative]]: they are uglier, they are bigger, and they are more powerful than anything else in existence. Some abominations are so eldritch that even lesser abominations find them abominable. Some look approximately human, but just [[Brown Note|reading their name]] condemns you to [[Mind Rape]]. If you see one of these in the flesh, it's too late to run.

This trope has some overlap with [[Starfish Aliens]]. However, Starfish Aliens aren't necessarily horrific or unnatural; they're alien only because they evolved in a different environment than humanity and can be helpful or neutral, whereas Eldritch Abominations have a deep ''wrongness'' to them, no matter where you find them. For example, while Starfish Aliens are usually willing to take on a [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]] to avoid breaking your mind if they can, most Eldritch Abominations won't even acknowledge/ or realize you have one to break (and the rest either can't or won't care) and are thus more often cast as antagonistic.

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Once again, please note that a character/ or creature merely being extremely ugly is not, in and of itself, an example of this trope.

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