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* The ''[[Justice League of America]]'' sometimes faces these.
** Starro, the very first foe they dealt with, slowly moved in this direction over the years, being a literal [[Starfish Aliens]] that latches onto you and takes away your free will, though there was recently [[Retcon|revealed]] to be a humanoid alien controlling the giant starfish "Starro" that the Justice League faced in the past. {{spoiler|The humanoid alien has a smaller starfish on his chest. He controls the Starri from ''that''.}}
** The [[Silver Age]] [[Homage]] ''[[Justice League New Frontier]]'' had "The Centre", an ancient and unstoppable monstrosity. It also happens to be a [[Genius Loci|giant island]]. [[
** The ultimate would be the Anti-Monitor, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Crisis On Infinite Earths]]''. An [[Energy Being]] composed of pure anti-matter on the inside, covered by a giant armored shell that serves as an energy collector to gather positive matter from the universes he wiped out. At his strongest point (when he traveled to the beginning of time), a coalition of heroes from many universes and time periods didn't even scratch his armor. He was eventually killed by being magically poisoned, being attacked with the power of a star, attacked by two parallel universe Kryptonians, hit by Darkseid's full power, and finally thrown into a star, but that didn't stick. It took a duel with all the Guardians of the Universe and a galaxy-wiping explosion to take him out a second time.
*** 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.
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** [[Darkseid]] also becomes this during [[Final Crisis]]; after his reincarnation into Dan Turpin, his presence actually starts to decay time and space. Mandrakk is using Darkseid's attack to hide his own plans (but is stopped before getting too far). How does Darkseid [[Reality Warper|break reality]] (one parallel universe actually is destroyed by this)? He sits on his throne, waiting for reality to die ''merely because he exists''. [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Awe. Some.]]
*** And this happened because Darkseid's original body was killed, and he plummeted to Earth. Meaning that [[Humanoid Abomination|Darkseid's very soul is a cosmic horror.]] And, quite possibly, so are the rest of the New Gods.
** Imperiex could also be considered one, given that it was the power of the Big Bang given form who sought to reboot the universe due to an impurity in the fabric of existence that it detected. {{spoiler|Ironically enough, that flaw was Imperiex itself.}} It proved to be enough of a threat to force Mongul II and fucking '''''[[Complete Monster|Dark]][[A God Am I|seid]]''''' to ally with Superman and the rest of the resistance force. One of his most immense displays of power was reducing Doomsday to a skeleton in one shot. He was finally [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|destroyed by a sun-drenched Superman]] after an enormous battle, though not before killing off a good portion of both the resistance force and Earth.
*** And even then, he had to be sent back to the dawn of time, because ''the Big Bang itself'' was the only thing that could finish him off completely. [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann|Lord Genome's got him beat, though.]]
** Finally, there's the King of Tears, an extradimensional god who, after Johnny Sorrow is [[Hoist By His Own Petard|sucked into said dimension by a malfunctioning subspace gun]], pieces him back together and contorts his face to the point where it is so hideous that [[Brown Note|anything that sees it (barring special circumstances) dies of shock]], and makes him his servant, with his primary goal being to pull the strings required to allow the King to break into our world. The King himself manifests as a hideous crimson blob covered in tentacles and eyes, while Johnny's face is usually obscured by blinding light. The one time it is fully seen, however, [[Humanoid Abomination|it's a disgusting mass of tentacles and insectoid limbs]]. While Johnny has managed to get the King out on several occasions, he [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|never stays long]], primarily because something as inimical to reality as the King tends to attract the JSA.
* [[Grant Morrison (Creator)|Grant Morrison]] especially enjoys these.
** He used another member of Starro's species simply called the Star Conqueror during his run of JLA. It had a different color scheme and was ''much'' bigger -- like Hudson Bay bigger. In its second and so far final appearance, it invaded the dreams of the American populace, putting to sleep and taking control of nearly everyone in the ''entire country''. It took a two front assault on the creature -- some of the remaining JLA members attacked its physical self while ''[[The Sandman|the Lord of the Dreaming]]'' aided the other JLA members in attacking its mental self -- to stop it. It was finally driven off into deep space while its mental self was [[Sealed Evil in A Can|imprisoned in the Dream Lord's chest]].
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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 (Comic Book)|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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