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*** It only took all this because, since this was a [[The Silver Age of Comic Books|Silver Age]]/[[The Bronze Age of Comic Books|Bronze Age]] story, it ''had'' to be visually entertaining. Since then, he's been [[Retcon|Retconed]] to be at Galactus-tier levels.
** And now, thanks to ''[[Blackest Night]]'', {{spoiler|he's baaaaack...}}
** Mandrakk, on the other hand, is a gigantic vampiric Monitor that feeds on reality itself. To quote Zillo Valla: "[[The Authority|Carriers]], Destroyers, Tankers, and Explorers...''vast'' in scale from your perspective, these machines are mere Monitor ''nanotechnology!'' The '''eyes''' of Mandrakk." Or, to quote Mandrakk himself: "'''[[Omnicidal Maniac|Let me feed and feed until nothing remains but Mandrakk! Bloated and alone beneath a skyful of murdered stars!]]'''" To stop him, the Question and Captain Marvel (of [[Alternate Universe|Earth-5]]) have to bring forth the Supermen of the Multiverse, an entire ''army'' of alternate universe Supermen, and Nix Uotan has to summon [[
*** What makes it [[Tear Jerker|even worse]] is that the subtext that implies that Mandrakk is the [[Crisis on Infinite Earths|original Monitor]] or his reincarnation, who has been corrupted and made into all of creation's greatest threat. This, of course, [[Humanoid Abomination|means that the original Monitor belongs here.]]
** Another Abomination is the [[Mind Screw|baffling]] entity known as the Overmonitor or Overvoid. It's a sentient void, inside which ''the entire DC Multiverse'' exists. It created the Monitors, and it's heavily implied that both the Monitor and Anti-Monitor were born from a probe it sent to investigate: meaning it's responsible for two eldritch abominations already. And, even [[Mind Screw|weirder]], it's described as being the embodiment of the very concept of the narrative.
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** Mageddon, the [[Big Bad]] of his ''JLA'' run, is a cosmic doomsday weapon that survived the death of the universe of the god-like beings who built it. Its purpose is to initiate universal suicide by psychically prompting all living beings to war with each other to death. Even when disabled (by the combined forces of the angelic hosts of Heaven, every single human being on Earth endowed with super powers, and a secret weapon that was basically its Kryptonite), it was still in danger of detonating and vaporizing half the galaxy. All while being far larger than the Earth.
** Hexus, the Living Corporation, from ''Marvel Boy'', a sort of [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|Cosmically Corrupt Executive]].
** The Archons of The Outer Church in ''[[
** ''Zenith'' in ''[[2000 AD]]'' features a number of five-dimensional beings, the Lloigor, who owe more than just their names to [[H.P. Lovecraft]] (and turn out to be {{spoiler|former superheroes}} [[Gone Horribly Wrong]]).
** His run on ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' was practically made of these. Orqwith, a city that doesn't exist and sends out Scissormen to literally cut people out of reality as we know it. Red Jack, who lives in a pocket dimension mansion with a floating head that is just a mask and claims to be both God and Jack the Ripper. The Fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, Extinction and Oblivion, who lives inside a painting that can 'eat' reality and is gigantic with no skin. The Decreator, some kind of anti-god that appears as simply a gigantic eye in the sky. The Avatar that lives under the Pentagon appears to be this, although we didn't get to see too much of its full extent, but required [[Flex Mentallo]], who can [[Reality Warper|warp reality]] by flexing his muscles, to force the Pentagon into a circle, which caused an immense amount of strain, and [[Summon Bigger Fish|the summoning of The Candlemaker, a far worse Eldritch Abomination]], to stop it.
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** ''The Lost Year'' miniseries also dealt with the Authority ending up in a universe without superpowered beings and trying to figure out why their powers were wonky. As the Doctor put it, they'd ended up in a universe where Lovecraft was right -- the earth was in thrall to a cosmic parasite that lurked in the back of everyone's minds. And the Authority's presence just [[Oh Crap|woke it up]].
*** The feeding of said parasite caused a lot of problems for its victims, with many people suffering headaches, nausea, irritation, exhaustion, and general misery, with occasional people committing horrible acts or even suicide because of the thing's presence. Did we mention this world was exactly like ours? [[Paranoia Fuel|Commence paranoia now...]]
* Caged Demonwolf from ''[[
* Some of these were responsible for Ramjet's [[Lovecraftian Superpower|Lovecraftian Superpowers]] in the ''[[Transformers]]'' comics. A servant of Unicron, Ramjet ended up in the creatures' world when his master imploded and was unmade and remade a few times by the creatures for fun, and when they got bored with him, they dumped him back on his homeworld.
* The unfinished miniseries ''[[A Nightmare on Elm Street]]: The Beginning'' would have revealed that the Dream Demons, the masters of Freddy Krueger and the ones who gave him his powers, were something akin to this. For those interested, the script for the issue that explored their origin is available to read [http://www.andymangels.com/Beginning_3.pdf here].
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