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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Hellstar Remina]]'', features an enormous sentient planet coming to Earth and wreaking indescribable horror upon it. {{spoiler|Then it '''''EATS''''' the Earth as if it was an appetizer before continuing on its way, presumably to eat more celestial bodies.}}
** Also ''[[Uzumaki]]'', by the [[Junji Ito|same author]]. A town is built {{spoiler|on top of an impossible spiral structure}}, which proceeds to cause increasingly horrible things to happen before absorbing the entire town. {{spoiler|It has done so countless times before and will do so countless times again.}}
* The whole ''[[Berserk]]''-verse is supervised by the [[Demon Lords and Archdevils|Godhand]] who are themselves servants of {{spoiler|[[God Is Evil|The Idea Of Evil]], a godlike entity that manipulates destiny [[Lawful Evil|through the rules of Causality]] in order to give the people of the world what they wish for. However, the Idea isn't about making people happy, it's about being responsible for their suffering. Because humans ''want'' something to be responsible, and [[The Heartless|it's actually that desire made sentient]].}}
* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': While it mainly focuses on Existential crisis, the setting has archetypes of cosmic horror stories in it. A post-apocalyptic [[Crapsack World]] where{{spoiler|, because man meddled with the underlying order of creation and other [[Things Man Was Not Meant to Know]],}} half of the population has died and the remainder are in the process of being annihilated by the [[Eldritch Abomination|Ang]][[Mind Rape|els]] (Quite a few old super robot shows did feature mysterious, alien villains with very lightly defined motivations; cue the relentless attacks of the Angels, alien (or not) assailants on whose motives, constituents or psychology we have a little idea of, simply malevolent [[
** Humanity does try to do something to defeat them by creating [[Humongous Mecha]] which are actually duplicates of said abominations, but [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|the chosen pilots are mentally ill]] to begin with. Various factions within the series vie for the opportunity to take down the Angels in the way they deem most appropriate, with the winner being the one that [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill|causes the most collateral damage]], and the battle [[It Got Worse|only makes things worse]] [[Nightmare Fuel|in increasingly horrifying details]]. There's also a [[Ancient Conspiracy|conspiracy of cultists]] who discovered and awakened these eldritch abominations in the first place and plans to use them {{spoiler|(especially the one whose ichor was actually the primordial origin of all life spilled in a cosmic accident never meant to happen)}} to bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]] [[In Their Own Image]]. In the end, the apocalypse is so [[Mind Screw|incomprehensible]] it even also makes [[Gainax Ending|us real life humans go mad from the revelation]].
* ''[[Bokurano]]'', a [[Deconstruction]] of different focus than Eva, yet similar to it: ''Something'' is making you fight in its super robot against other super robots, to decide the fate of the world {{spoiler|and infinite numbers of other ones}}. Why? You will never have the slightest idea.
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