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* {{spoiler|The Moose}} from ''[[Johnny the Homicidal Maniac]]'' lopks like this trope, and its initial appearance literally screams this {{spoiler|as it tears through Johnny's [[Torture Cellar]], killing everyone, and apparently destroys reality upon reaching the surface}}. Despite this, however, [[Subverted Trope|it's later revealed by the Devil]] that its origins is closer to that of [[The Heartless]]; it's an accumulated distillation of negative psychic residues created by humans behaving generally badly.
** Ain't he cute?
* The ''[[Justice League of America]]'' sometimes faces these.
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** The same series has the Jin-En-Mok and the Silk Man, surviours of the destruction of what's described as "an earlier, cruder Creation" and so very horrible in their own, special ways.
* One played a major role in [[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Cyborg's]] origin in the comics. While visiting his parents at S.T.A.R. Labs, Victor's mother Elinor accidentally activated the experimental dimensional portal device his parents were working on at the time. The...''thing'' that came through it immediately devoured his mother and mutilated Victor before his father Silas forced it back into its own dimension, {{spoiler|but not before the creature gave him a terminal case of radiation sickness}}. Silas barely managed to save his son using cyborg prosthetics of his own design, but Victor resented him for turning him into a "cyborg freak" for years, believing that his father wanted to experiment on him, {{spoiler|until Silas revealed that he was dying thanks to the radiation. This led to Cyborg getting over his bitterness towards his father, and they spent one last day together as father and son before Silas died}}.
* The recent run on the ''[[Green Lantern]]'' comics has seen various alien entities that are incarnations of the various colors of the emotional spectrum, which has led to some fan speculating that these beasts may be like infant Chaos Gods from [[Warhammer
** The Orange entity (Avarice) was confirmed by [[Word of God]] to be the voice within the Orange Lantern Battery that converts its wielder into Agent Orange. Atrocitus initially assumed [[The Spectre]], the agent of God's Wrath, was the Rage entity. The Spectre denied this, claiming that he has ''met'' the Rage entity and warning Atrocitus (who, as one of the Five Inversions, is ''himself'' a [[Humanoid Abomination]] even without his red power ring) that seeking it out would only lead to his destruction. Avara, the blue entity of hope, looks basically like a huge eagle...with three faces and beaks; while Proselyte, the indigo entity of compassion, is just a massive octopus. Presumably, he just wants to hug you.
** Butcher, the red entity of rage, is a bull.
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** Go to the [[Eldritch Abomination/Mythology and Religion|Mythology and Religion]] page and read about Amatsu-Mikaboshi. That's the same guy.
*** The Chaos King's army is composed of deceased gods he murdered and recreated as his puppets. But one of them is Glory, a gigantic monstrosity composed of thousands of alien pantheons it assimilated into itself. Its nature is so alien and bizarre that even [[The Mighty Thor]] was scared beyond words during their encounter. It's an [[Eldritch Abomination]] even to gods. It's also one of the few beings that joined the Chaos King willingly, because [[For the Evulz|it enjoys all the destruction he causes]].
* One [[Donald Duck]] issue revealed that a giant octopus called Ar-Finn sleeps beneath the depths in a sunken city (Cthulhu and R'lyeh, anyone?). Our reality (or at least Donald's) exists only because Ar-Finn dreams about it. If he wakes up, the world will start to adapt to his image, with the architecture becoming more and more alien and the people more octopoid in appearance. It was awfully cynical for a Disney story, especially the ending, where Donald is horrified to find out that [[
* In ''[[Watchmen]]'', {{spoiler|Ozymandias creates a genetically modified monstrosity designed to look like one of these.}} [[Freud Was Right|It looks like the Sarlacc if Sigmund Freud was in charge of Star Wars.]]
* ''[[Hack Slash]]'' has the Neflords, giant masses of tentacles (that [[Face Full of Alien Wingwong|double as wing wongs]] [[Made of Explodium|that can make things explode]]) which possibly lived in the void that existed before God created the universe. Being unable to create life themselves, the Neflords [[Mars Needs Women|need virgins taken from Earth]] to impregnate to create minions. Also, their [[Beethoven Was an Alien Spy|main servant]] was [[Elvis Presley|Elvis]]. Yes, really.
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** Judging by what we see of them in ''Freddy's Dead'', they probably qualify even without this series explaining it.
* In ''[[Ghostopolis]]'', any living person who ends up in the titular city has the potential to become this.
* ''[[The Umbrella Academy]]'' has this by way of the team's [[Dead Little Sister]], Ben Hargreeves AKA The Horror. He's a nice guy, but possesses the most unholy and terrifying otherworldly monsters crawling under his skin that occasionally explode out of his stomach.
* M'Gubgub from ''[[Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja|Nth Man the Ultimate Ninja]]'' is a galaxy-devouring abomination with a million forms that has to spread his mass out over hundreds of light-years just to prevent his gravitational field from collapsing on itself. It wants to destroy the Earth in order to eliminate a temporal anomaly there.
{{quote|"This is but the merest pseudopod of my being! A single follicle protruding from a minor pore! I exist simultaneously in countless forms, stretching out beyond your planetary system into the cold barren emptiness between the stars."}}
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