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* ''[[Skullgirls]]'' has Double, a shape-shifting creature that often appears as a
* Zophar
** Of course, [[Nightmare Retardant|he's substantially less scary-looking]] [[Bishounen Line|when he does get the power of Althena]]. His aims are still plenty terrifying, though.
* ''[[League of Legends]]'' has quite a few of these as
*
** Dr. Venom wasn't always like this:
** The final boss in ''[[Gradius
* The Lambent from the ''[[Gears of War]]'' series, especially the Lambent Brumak and Drudges. If Drudges take too much damage but do not die, they will hideously mutate into three different forms:
* The Crawler Zombie from the Nazi Zombies mode of ''[[Call of Duty]]''
* Lavos from ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''—a horror from space that descended to Earth when it was young, and slept and ate until it was awakened to destroy it in 1999. While Lavos' initial form is just a giant magical space tick, it evolves into full-fledged [[Eldritch Abomination]] in ''[[Chrono Cross]]''
** We see the Time Devourer in its full hideous glory in the [[Bonus Dungeon]] of the DS remake, there known as "Dream Devourer". After you "win
** Lavos is also explicitly stated to be just one member of an entire species. Multiple times in the end game, you fight "Lavos Spawn", Lavos' children, with the clear implication that they're how Lavos began its own life.
** [[Sarcasm Mode|Even better]], Lavos is summonable through occult ritual, and is itself a source of magical power. {{spoiler|Originally, man used the sun as a source of magical power, but the sages of the great magical kingdom of antiquity tapped into Lavos and apparently he beat the hell out of the sun's magic, managing to power an entire floating continent of mages even before they managed to directly tap into its power. Mind, the main characters end up using sun-granted magic to defeat him, so there.}}
* ''[[Undertale]]'' gives us [[One-Winged Angel|Omega Flowey]] and [[Mix-and-Match Critters|the Amalgamates]].
* The Primagen in ''[[Turok (series)|Turok
* ''[[Star Control]]''
** The Androsynth disappeared before the beginning of ''[[Star Control II]]'', and their region of space is now occupied by the Orz. Trying to put together an accurate assessment of what happened on their homeworld results in the scientist who read about the Androsynth's IDF research going insane and being attacked by invisible creatures. It's not exactly clear ''what'' went down, but the Arilou put it best: "You do not wish to be seen. The Androsynth were seen. There are no more Androsynth anymore. Only Orz."
*** This is an especially subtle example: early on, the Orz seem comical, with their round bird-beaked bodies, their nearly-untranslatable speech and their silly voices. But if you ask the Orz about the Androsynth, [[Berserk Button|they attack and take no prisoners]]. Also note that "going insane and being attacked by invisible creatures" is a good description of what happened to Abdul Al-Hazred, writer of the Necronomicon in [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s works. As if the Orz needed any more creepy stuff said about them, [[It Got Worse]]: [[Word of God|According to developers]], [https://web.archive.org/web/20130808033410/http://wiki.uqm.stack.nl/Orz Orz as the captain sees them] are actually a projection of some higher-dimensional being's ''fingers''. At one point, you can also find them above what used to be the Taalo homeworld. Now, for context, the Taalo were exterminated several thousand years ago. The Orz claim to be currently interacting with the dead Taalo, ''chasing'' them and describing it as excellent fun. They also imply that this will be humanity's eventual fate if they continue to be good ''campers''.
** In Quasi-Space, part of the background music is quite obviously ''something'' [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz_k2l10YXA#t=55s screaming]. It doesn't ever actually appear, which somehow [[Nothing Is Scarier|just makes it worse]].
** ''Star Control 3'' has the completely Lovecraftian Eternal Ones: they're invincible and feed on "sentience", so they wait for advanced civilizations to develop and then come and harvest them.
* In ''[[Earthbound Beginnings]]'', Giygas was just a very angry [[The Greys|Grey]] alien who tried being human for a while, but was upset when humanity took advantage of his knowledge. In the sequel ''[[EarthBound]]'' however, Giygas has become something far more horrible. Mindless, he exists in the future and the past, and has no physical form. [[Expy|He's practically Azathoth with less tentacles]] and [[The Mindless Almighty|about as aware of his surroundings]], and became the [[Trope Namer]] for one of the main characteristics of Eldritch Abominations, [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]].
* ''[[Shadow of the Comet]]'', ''[[Prisoner of Ice]]'' and the better-known ''[[Alone in the Dark]]'' by Infogames are all in the same Cthulhu Mythos-haunted world, with several direct Lovecraftian references including [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|the Necronomicon and De Vermis Mysteriis]]. The name of the mansion from the first ''Alone In The Dark'', Derceto, is revealed in-game to be an alias of Shub-Niggurath, the Mythos' equivalent of a fertility deity... Oh, and there's a Cthonian in the basement.
** Shub-Niggurath's other title is "The Black Goat of the Woods with a thousand young". Those three-legged, tree-sized monsters in the picture at the top of the page? Her children. And of course [[Monster Is a Mommy|Mommy]] is watching over the whole thing.
* The [[The Legend of Zelda|''Zelda'' francise]] has various bosses that fit this bill, many of which serve as [[Big Bad]]s:
** Ganondorf from used to be human (or very close to it), but after claiming the Triforce, he often turns into an incarnation of magic and malice. {{spoiler|Ganondorf is the reincarnation of [[God of Evil|Demise's]] hatred, making him an Abomination in most instances even ''before'' he claimed the Triforce}}.
** Bongo Bongo from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time]]'' is a giant, vaguely humanoid phantom with [[Raymanian Limbs|disembodied, floating]] [[Giant Hands of Doom]]. Its "face" consists of [[Cyclopean Creature|a singular red eye]].
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'' has the titular antagonist, a seemingly-sentient mask that revels in destruction. {{spoiler|It can possess its wearer, and is capable of manifesting tendrils, limbs, and even a body.}}
** The Shadow Nightmares from ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening]]'' and its [[Updated Rerelease]]s for the [[Game Boy Color]] and [[Nintendo Switch]]. They are amorphous blobs of darkness that take on various shadowy forms, some of them familiar - their last form, Dethl, has [[Cyclopean Creature|a single eye]] and spike-tipped arms that it will try to bludgeon Link with. {{spoiler|As their text indicates, defeating them awakens the Wind Fish and initiates a [[Dream Apocalypse]]}}.
** Bellum, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass]]'', is a large squid-like creature adorned with eyes, including one in a mouth-like cavity and one on each tentacle. It's actively malevolent and obsessed with absorbing Life Force.
** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap]]'', Vaati goes [[One-Winged Angel]] and becomes this after {{spoiler|managing to extract some of Princess Zelda's light force, particularly in his "Transfigured" and "Wrath" forms}}. This also applies to his appearances in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords|Four Swords]]'' and ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Four Swords Adventures|Four Swords Adventures]]'' (which chronologically take place after), where he is always depicted in his one-eyed form.
** The Imprisoned {{spoiler|and its true form, Demise}} in ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword|Skyward Sword]]''. {{spoiler|This retroactively makes Ganon one as well, as this game reveals he is the incarnation of Demise's hatred.}}
* Most games in the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' series and its spin-offs will let you control or fight with at least a few dozens of these - some of the designs of demons are themselves Eldritch, if they weren't already. Taken a gander at the [[Eldritch Abomination/Mythology and Religion|Mythology and Religion]] sub-page yet? Some of those handsome fellas (most of them, really) found their way to these games. Whole paragraphs could be devoted at an attempt to explain as to what [http://megamitensei.wikia.com/wiki/Satan Satan] looks like.
** Now, a simple question, just so you can understand the sheer ''scope'' of just how ''alien'' the demons are: how exactly is a sentient entity made of ice crystals<ref>Jack Frost, the series' resident [[Mascot Mook]]</ref> capable of forming a ''very'' reasonable facsimile of the human form?
** Notably in ''[[Strange Journey]]'', ''all'' demons [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|appear as shapeless balls of static when you first encounter them]], only revealing their form once you kill one. The only exceptions are bosses and demons that actually ''want'' you to see them. {{spoiler|The [[Final Boss]] of two routes, [[Gaia's Vengeance|Mem]] [[Mother of a Thousand Young|Aleph]], also appears as an Unknown until [[Touched by Vorlons|an outside force]] grants you the ability to see her}}.
* ''[[Devil Survivor 2]]'' has The Septentriones. Considering the [[Whole-Plot Reference|likely]] [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|inspiration]] for the fellas, not really surprising.
** Lovecraftian deity Nyarlathotep is the villain of ''[[Persona 2]]'', depicted in the page image, and receives bonus points for {{spoiler|[[The Heartless|being made out of literally every single evil act perpetuated by Humanity]]}}. Unfortunately, among the many avatars it chose to screw with the heroes, [[Adolf Hitler|its most prominent one]] meant [[Bad Export for You|half the game]] [[No Export for You|was not released outside Japan]] until 2011's [[Updated Rerelease|PSP remake]]... wherein he was [[Paper-Thin Disguise|given sunglasses]] to at least mask his appearance a little.
*** ''Persona 2: Eternal Punishment'' included Great Old One Hastur, the Byakhees, and Elder God Nodens as summonable Personae.
** ''[[Persona 3]]'' has Nyx, an [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of Death, as its [[Big Bad]]; SEES fights it [[Do Not Go Gentle|to assert themselves as living beings]] (and on the slimmest of chances they might even win). It even subverts the traditional [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]] ending for video games featuring them: being Death itself, it can never be vanquished, and allows itself to be "beaten" as a courtesy to let the heroes live to their fullest, then [[The Battle Didn't Count|shrugs off the defeat]] and continues to bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. Ultimately, this fate is only averted when {{spoiler|the main character receives an [[Eleventh-Hour Superpower]] courtesy of [[The Power of Friendship]], and even then he only manages to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|seal it away]]}}.
*** For an extra dash of Nightmare Fuel... the body that SEES tried and failed to defeat was only Nyx's Avatar. {{spoiler|Nyx's true body is the moon, and that surface is just a shell}}.
** In the new chapter, ''Persona 3: FES'', the team discovers Erebus (Nyx's husband and brother in Greek myth). Aigis and company learn that {{spoiler|their grief over the hero's death}} not only manifested the Abyss of Time, but also helped fuel Erebus, the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of nihilism and sorrow in human hearts. This "nihilism avatar" was the real problem, not Nyx—Nyx existed long before humanity ever awoke, and by itself was a completely neutral force; it was only when the self-destructive thoughts in Humanity hit a critical threshold that they coalesced into the decidedly unfriendly Erebus, who seeks to absorb Nyx's power and bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. {{spoiler|The hero wasn't sealing Nyx away, but instead keeping Erebus away from Nyx.}} The party fights Erebus in a final battle, and learns that {{spoiler|the protagonist can never return to them, because [[As Long as There Is Evil|so long as there is the desire for destruction in human hearts, Erebus will live on]]. However, a stated goal of the presumably immortal [[Robot Girl]] Aigis is to work to improve humanity to the point that Erebus ''can'' be defeated -- someday}}.
** In ''[[Persona 4]]'', many a thing from beyond the TV screen {{spoiler|as well as [[Final Boss]] Izanami}} more than fits the bill, with a small caveat: {{spoiler|Teddie and Izanami [[Dark Is Not Evil|aren't really bad when you get to know them]] -- Teddie becomes one of your [[True Companions]], while Izanami happily accepts that it was just a big misunderstanding after you [[Defeat Means Friendship|prove the worth of humanity's bonds to her]]}}.
* The ''[[Phantasy Star]]'' series has [[Big Bad|Dark Force]] and {{spoiler|[[Bigger Bad|The Profound Darkness]]}}.
* Despite its cute and fluffy aesthetics, the ''[[Kirby]]'' franchise is famous for its many genuinely creepy Lovecraftian horrors that are often pitted against everyone's favorite super-tough pink puff.
** Most ''Kirby'' final bosses are at least somewhat Eldritch. Nightmare is the manifestation of everyone's bad dreams, Dark Mind from ''The Amazing Mirror'' is an evil mirror demon, and Dark Nebula from ''Squeak Squad'' is [[Sealed Evil in a Can|a sleeping Eldritch Abomination]] said to be the Lord of the Underworld itself. Also, all of these beings are heavily hinted to have some kind of connection to Zero/Dark Matter...
** Dark Matter is an immensely powerful [[Hive Mind]] formed by a swarm of shadowy eyeball creatures that can possess any living beings they come into contact with, as well as corrupt entire ''planets'' into [[Eldritch Location|eldritch hellscapes choked by darkness]]. Further, judging by how often it's reappeared, it appears to be [[Fighting a Shadow|impossible to permanently destroy]], and can only be temporarily defeated. It's [[Vile Villain, Saccharine Show|even creepier when considering the setting]]. Thankfully, it's also far more ''defeatable'' than most major abominations, but you usually need some kind of special weapon to do so - it's so strong that {{spoiler|the all-mighty Star Dream, a living supercomputer with its own [[Mechanical Abomination|abominable powers]], can't comprehend its true form and can only replicate its less powerful Swordsman form}}.
** 0 (Zero) is the "heart" of Dark Matter, essentially a giant bloody eyeball in a white sphere that fights by spraying its own ''blood'' at Kirby before ''tearing its eyeball from its body'' in a last ditch effort to kill him. It returned as 02 in ''[[Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards]]'', looking like a nightmarish angel complete with wings and halo while still bleeding from its eye.
** To a lesser extent, the [[The Spook|chief servant/decoy/imperfect form of Zero/0²]] known as Miracle Matter has the same red eyeballs/simplistic white body aesthetic... but it looks less like a giant eye and more like a multi-sided die ''covered'' in eyeballs, and can transform into seven different bizarre-looking forms over the course of its boss fight. Unless you use attacks that correspond with its current form, you're not going to hurt it, and its base form is immune to ''all'' damage. And unlike any other form of Dark Matter that have some kind of vague explanation as to what they even are, there's ''nothing'' explaining Miracle Matter, which might just make it the most unsettling abomination of the bunch.
** Kirby's friend Gooey is said to be an offshoot of Dark Matter, but is fortunately kind, goofy, and cute instead of horrifying. But during the fight against Zero in ''Dream Land 3'', he transforms into something that looks closer to his brethren, showing that he's still in touch with his eldritch roots.
** [[Mechanical Abomination|Clockwork Stars]] like Nova {{spoiler|and Star Dream}} are planet-sized supercomputers that can warp space, time, and even reality itself to grant wishes to those who seek them out. And if {{spoiler|Star Dream}} is of any indication, they can affect people's minds to the point of wiping memories, causing batshit insanity, and ultimately {{spoiler|absorbing and ''deleting them entirely'', as poor President Haltmann would show you}}. While just as beatable as Dark Matter, they're also incredibly powerful, with {{spoiler|Star Dream}} itself constantly teleporting in and out of reality and summoning large, surreal objects from another dimension during its boss fight.
** Later games would portray recurring boss Kracko as this, at least from a lore standpoint. In terms of power and appearance, he isn't anything too special - just a living cloud with an eyeball and spikes that can shoot lightning, rain, and laser beams. But he's an immortal beast that's been around since the dawn of time and is impossible to truly kill since the presence of clouds ''anywhere'' will allow him to revive himself. And by anywhere we ''mean'' anywhere: he can rematerialize on different planets and even ''other dimensions entirely''.
** Marx seems to become one after making his wish upon Nova. He spontaneously grows plants made entirely out of spikes, can generate knives from nowhere, and can rip himself in half to create a hole to a dimension made entirely out of '''pain'''. He gets even freakier in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'', where he can attack by turning his eyeballs into large shadowy blobs and siccing them on you, turn them into uncomfortably gigantic multi-pupiled laser guns, and sprout a complex web of tendrils that look disturbingly like veins or even ''blood vessels''.
** ''[[Kirby Star Allies]]'' would go on to give us the series' [[Most Triumphant Example]]: Void Termina, {{spoiler|a known destroyer of worlds that exists in ''all'' dimensions and has ties to not just Dark Matter and a number of darkness-tainted objects through the series, but '''''Kirby himself'''''}}. The implications are definitely unnerving to say the least.
** Kirby's proposed origin in the anime series ''[[Kirby: Right Back at Ya!]]'' more or less posits that he himself is an Eldritch Abomination that went good, which explains a lot. While this ''is'' an [[Alternate Continuity]], the games would later hint that this is the case for the canonical Kirby. After all, he's ridiculously adaptive to all kinds of elements and weapons, can absorb and eat ridiculous amounts of matter in way that almost suggests that he has a literal [[Black Hole Belly]], regularly fights godlike beings without breaking a sweat, and is even stated at different times to have unlimited power... or ''almost'' unlimited power. {{spoiler|''Star Allies'' all but confirms that he's a friendly reincarnation of the eldritch Void Termina or closely related to one, with Void's core taking on a very similar appearance to Kirby during the fight, which also ties him to Dark Matter and Zero/0² given that it also takes forms similar to them}}.
** {{spoiler|Fecto Elfilis}} from ''[[Kirby and the Forgotten Land]]'' {{spoiler|is a genocidal interdimensional alien with the power to open portals into other dimensions. It can also worm its way into the minds of other creatures and [[Mind Rape]] them into feral beasts, or shatter their souls into pieces before possessing them outright. While it has a recognizably humanoid form, its appearance is unlike that of any beast encountered in Dream Land ''or'' the Forgotten Land.}}
* Yuris from ''[[Tales of Rebirth]]''. It's the physical manifestation of all of the negative emotions produced by the Huma and Gajuma after they're subjected to a [[Hate Plague]], and has a rather indescribable appearance.
* ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' has the Adephagos, {{spoiler|which is a [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] abomination and is released about 2/3rds into the game. It's destroyed by stopping using aer as an energy source and switching to using mana instead.}} A cookie to those who get the [[Green Aesop|aesop]].
* The eponymous being from ''[[Chzo Mythos]]''.
* ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'' is filled with these things. The [[Final Boss]] of the first game, Meta-God, {{spoiler|is a [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] with a moderate resemblance to Cthulhu crossbred with a horse, and is beyond human reasoning
* ''[[Eternal Darkness
** Denis Dyack, who founded
* In ''[[Drakengard]]'', [[The World Is Always Doomed]] because the gods are [[God Is Evil|not just evil]], but also composed entirely of [[Eldritch Abomination]]s. There are not slithering masses of tentacles that cause insanity by their very sight, but [[Humanoid Abomination|something very morbid]].
** And they're not just restricted to one dimension either! Their very presence in Shinjuku in Ending E causes such horrifying destruction to that world {{spoiler|(due to a supernatural disease they brought with them)}} that humanity is driven to near-extinction, AKA the world of [[
** What Caim's sister [[Came Back Wrong|comes back as]] in Ending B probably counts as well.
* ''[[Warcraft
** ''Warcraft'' also features the Old Gods (of which the Faceless are servants), which are basically [[Shout-Out
***
** The Faceless return in ''[[World of Warcraft]]: Wrath of the Lich King'' in the form of ''three'' Forgotten Ones and Herald Volazj, who are ''very'' Lovecraftian in appearance. The Herald periodically causes the player characters to go insane and fight one another. The power behind the Faceless, not to mention all sorts of other weirdness in Northrend, seems to be an Old God named Yogg-Saron (not to be confused with Yog'Sothoth, of course). Just Yogg-Saron's existence beneath the lands drove creatures to madness and its very ''blood'' is forged in to equipment for arming the armies of undead in Northrend. When Yogg-Saron was fought as a raid boss after a content patch, he is able to drive characters insane and make the entire raid hallucinate about past events, true to the trope. Despite this, within twenty four hours he'd met [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|the fate of all raid bosses]], though it required the aid of ''four'' previously corrupted guardians that must be slain. The battle without their aid is considered to be one of the hardest in game and was even outright dismissed as 'mathematically impossible' on initial inspection.
** With the final major content release, N'Zoth hasn't appeared in person but it has been revealed that {{spoiler|the corruption of Deathwing was so extensive that, after tearing off his elementium plates, he transforms into something very like an Old God - complete with a spell that can destroy the entire world}}.
** ''Cataclysm'' also features Iso'rath, a gigantic Old God spawned monstrosity in the Twilight Highlands that consists of a giant pit of a maw in the ground and numerous spiky tentacles. Though it's not actually much of a challenge to kill through a series of quests, it is theoretically a lot nastier than most opponents; being inside it puts you in danger of being digested, and in one of the quests you will actually fail to survive its inner defenses and be plunged into a "nightmare" where you are likewise unable to stop the world from being destroyed by the [[Big Bad]].
* The Elder God of ''[[Legacy of Kain]]'' fame claims to be an omnipotent demigod, existing beyond any casual interpretations of time and space as "The Engine Of Life" that turns "The Wheel Of Fate", and physically manifests himself as an enormous mass of eyeballs and tentacles. It is eventually speculated by the protagonists that he is {{spoiler|little more than a parasite who feeds on the souls of the dead, masquerading as an omnipotent god to strike fear into the hearts of his servants
* The [[Roguelike]] ''[http://www.incursion-roguelike.net/ Incursion]'' has among its pantheon [http://www.incursion-roguelike.org/man/Pantheon.html#KY Kysul], the Watcher Beneath the Waves
* In most ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games, the final boss appears as an Eldritch Abomination at some point.
** Chaos from the original ''[[Final Fantasy I|Final Fantasy]]'' is an eldritch demonic being created by an endless time loop.
** Cloud of Darkness from ''[[Final Fantasy III]]'': [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin]].
** Zeromus in ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' is more or less the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of hatred, borne from the soul of an evil wizard. [http://www.videogamesprites.net/FinalFantasy4/Bosses/Zeromus2.gif And he looks like this.]
** ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'':
*** Exdeath is just plain is the part normally, as he was born from an aggregate of evil souls sealed into a sacred tree, and later becomes an embodiment of The Void. He really looks it {{spoiler|in his ultimate Tree from the final battle, and then during the last stages as Neo Exdeath}}.
*** Those nameless... ''things'' that lurk below the ocean floor.
** Kefka from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' actually subverts this, even after {{spoiler|absorbing the power of the Warring Triad}} - however, as the [[Final Boss]], he stands atop a large tower of human flesh and organs whose floors represent the levels in Dante's Divine Comedy.
** ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'':
*** Jenova is an alien being whose descent destroyed the Cetra civilization. By extension, Sephiroth is [[Half-Human Hybrid|half-human]], half-[[Eldritch Abomination]]. [[One-Winged Angel|And considering Sephiroth's form and power...]]
*** The WEAPONs avert this trope despite ''looking'' the part: The first appearance of one is a creepy bigass eye that almost inconspicuously opens and closes behind a crystal rock face. Then it erupts out of the solid ground as a giant monster, and "WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" Though its mechanical [[Godzilla]]-like appearance lends it some momentary [[Narm]], it manages to be scary yet again when one of them crawls out of the sea and attacks Junon like it was Cthulhu rising from R'lyeh. The WEAPONs are noted [[All There in the Manual|in the backstory of the game]] to be the [[Gaia's Vengeance|all-natural guardians of the Planet]] and [[The Lifestream]] - unfortunately, humanity has [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|proven itself dangerous]] to the Planet, so they went aggro on human cities.
*** The "Unknowns" fought in the sunken Gelnika would also qualify. They're [[Starfish Alien]] [[Boss in Mook Clothing|Bosses in Mooks Clothing]].
** ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'':
*** Necron, AKA "The Darkness of Eternity"/"Eternal Darkness" in Japanese releases, fits this to a T, with the effect being accentuated by [[Nightmare Fuel]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62MkCz0f83s scenery and music]. It's essentially the embodiment of death itself, and appears as a pale blue otherworldly being with a "skinless" humanoid torso and a mask-like face, with two arm-like limbs that taper off into tentacles with stingers at the ends; it is fought as the game's [[Final Boss]], and the ''20th Anniversary Ultimania'' describes it as "a being awakened by Kuja's fear, despair, and hatred, which called out to it as he learned of his mortality, just as his ambitions were within reach". Necron concludes from [[Big Bad|Kuja's]] actions that all life exists to seek death (as Kuja would not have struggled so much against the concept otherwise), and seeks to revert everything to perpetual oblivion, thus removing both life and the need to fear death.
*** Also, there's [[Bonus Boss]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HM7kgvbr2E Ozma]. It's a spherical [[Energy Being]] of otherworldly origin, found within an "eidolon cave", and [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|its true nature is unknown]].
*** For a less boss-ish enemy, the Mistodons. Giant, undead... bug things... with creepy yellow eyes that flash in alternating patterns giving them an unearthly machine-like feel, and {{spoiler|they come out in droves to attack Alexandria}}.
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*** Sin is a giant monster the size of an entire city that emerges from the depths of the ocean to completely annihilate all settlements larger than small villages at random intervals and terrorizes Spira for a thousand years. Even if it is defeated by a High Summoner {{spoiler|by sacrificing themselves and their friends}}, it returns a few years later {{spoiler|by reincarnating from the body of the High Summoner's closest friend}} to continue its rampage. Sin leaves swarms of smaller monsters in its path and everyone who survives coming into contact with its toxins (fortunately) suffers from massive memory loss. And apparently it can wipe out entire armies by causing distortions of space.
*** {{spoiler|Yu Yevon and The Final Aeon can qualify as well. Yu Yevon is the still lingering sentiment of a long dead summoner who frequently possesses Aeons for the purpose of destroying the world and is the unholy will powering Sin. The Final Aeon, while benevolent (usually) is hellishly powerful, and its warped form [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|crafted from the loving sacrifice of a Guardian for their Summoner]]. An example is Seymour's Anima, whose domain is ''pain''.}}
** ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' brings back Atomos, everyone's favorite inter-dimensional [[Nightmare Fuel|nightmare]] from V and IX. This time, {{spoiler|it is actually quite capable of devouring an entire timeline}}
** The world of Ivalice in ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' is so heavily populated with them, it's a wonder anyone is still scared at this point. ''All of the summons'' are varying degrees of this, as well as the final boss of the sequel DS game, the Occuria...
*** The Esper Famfrit was apparently a cloudlike being before the gods shoved him into a suit of armor with spikes inside.
** The Fal'Cie from ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' are also this,
** In ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'', practically every major enemy in the game transforms into one of these at some point in the game. One of these [[Eldritch Abomination]]s, {{spoiler|Wiegraf/Belias}}, even fills in the game's role of [[That One Boss]]. And the final boss is one from [[Nature Abhors a Virgin|an innocent little girl]].
** Xagor of [[SaGa 3]].{{context}}
* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' has a ''lot'', and the [[Unreliable Narrator|vagueness surrounding the franchise's intentionally contradictory lore]] only serves to make them all the more unknowable and mind-breaking:
** At the very peak of the series' sorting algorithm of otherworldly beings are Anu and Padomay. Calling them gods isn't quite accurate: they're more or less primal forces that serve as the embodiments of Stasis and Change, and their interplay within the Void gave birth to the universe and with it, Creation. When Padomay tried to destroy Creation, the blood spilled by their resulting fight is suggested to have created the Aedra and the Daedra in some texts, while most sources unanimously agree that the fight ended with Anu and Padomay being removed from time itself, ensuring that their struggle could never threaten Creation again.
** In a series full of ''weird'' cosmic horrors, Sithis easily takes the cake. Later games attempted to pass him off as a more traditional god of death, but the game's backstory reveals that he is actually a great void, the undying soul of a dead primordial force that is the antithesis of all things and worshipped by his followers as the embodiment of chaos and change. Some even claim that [[Mind Screw|Sithis Is Not]], or in other words ''is'' the very concept of "Is Not" itself. There are other hints that he could be the aformentioned Padomay, or at the very least an aspect of him.
** The Daedric Princes appear to be at least heavily influenced by this concept. They are extradimensional beings said to be born from the spilled blood of Padomay, one of the universe's dead creators, and are alien beyond human understanding in both morality and form, though they often [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|take a humanoid (if not outright human) form to deal with mortals.] .How they feel about the mortal races varies from prince to prince; many enjoy being worshiped, and some just enjoy toying with mortals' lives for their own amusement. Particularly malicious ones have sought to subjugate the plane of Mundus itself and absorb it into their own hellish planes of reality. But all of them have demonstrated a willingness to reward mortals they find particularly helpful, loyal, or amusing.
*** Hermaeus Mora is freaky even by Daedra standards and never bothers with a palatable humanoid form. Often appearing as a vast expanse of eyeballs and tentacles, and on one occasion a swirling vortex of chaos and darkness, he's a seeker of forbidden knowledge who offers forbidden knowledge of his own to any mortals willing to serve him, which risks [[Gone Mad From the Revelation|breaking the minds of those who delve too deeply into it]]. According to Mora, he himself ''is'' forbidden knowledge incarnate, specifically the living incarnation of rejected concepts and ideas from the creation of reality. Or in other words, a sentient rough draft of existence itself!
*** Namira's sphere of influence covers many things mortalkind finds revolting on a deep instinctual level. Cannibalism? Vermin? Decay? The diseased and disfigured? She's the god of all those and more thanks to her ultimate role being that of the Prince of the Ancient Darkness, the primal fears of mortals given shape. She's also got ties to the aforementioned Sithis, and is said in some obscure texts to be a piece of the Void that broke off and gained sentience.
** While [[God Is Good|entirely benevolent]] as opposed to the far more unpredictable Daedra, the Aedra worshipped by the denizens of Tamriel (save for [[Deity of Human Origin|Talos/Tiber Septim]]) are just as alien and unknowable as their cousins, if not moreso. Like the Daedra they are said to have been born from the spilled blood of Anu and Padomay, but unlike them they sacrificed their power and possibly even their lives to create Mundus, meaning that they cannot directly interact with it and can only subtly influence it. The latter theory adds to their eldritch nature because it postulates that they're still able to function due to "dreaming they are alive", [[Mind Screw|somehow subconsciously ignoring their own deaths to do so]]. And the weirdness doesn't stop there: while the Daedra have personalities and roles that are easy to pin down, the Aedra are much harder to comprehend thanks to embodying so many natural laws of Mundus at once that they manifest as aspects with their own personalities, leading to wildly different interpretations of the same deity across various religions. Official lore also states that the planets occupying the infinite void of space outside of Nirn ''are'' the bodies and planes of the Aedra themselves, filtered through mortal eyes that can't comprehend what they're looking at.
** Don't be fooled by their mundane appearances, because Hist Trees aren't ordinary trees. They're a hivemind of impossibly ancient and sentient trees that are quite possibly the sole survivors of the twelve worlds that existed before the creation of Nirn, and are the ruling body of the Argonians of Black Marsh. They created the Argonians in the first place by influencing primitive lizards into drinking their sap, which has other strange properties such as altering ''any'' lifeforms that drink it, driving the drinkers insane, and allowing them to communicate with the Hist themselves. They also possess unfathomably deep knowledge from all points in time, ranging from the dawn of creation to a limited understanding of events that have yet to transpire.
** They don't look too different in comparison to your stereotypical Western dragons, but ''Elder Scrolls'' dragons aren't fire-breathing lizards so much as they are divine beings with a connection to [[Top God|Akatosh]] himself. They're immortal creatures that can't be permanently killed unless their souls are absorbed, and find mortality to be so alien of a concept that it ''hurts'' them if they're forced to comprehend it. They also don't breathe fire, but instead ''speak it into existence'', with the dragon language giving them all sorts of other fantastic powers that include becoming ethereal and greatly weakening anyone they fight.
*** Alduin, one of the most powerful dragons in the series, cranks this up even further. He is either the firstborn son of Akatosh, an aspect of him, or Akatosh himself, and that's ignoring the likely explanation that he's [[Mind Screw|all three at once]] somehow. His powers go further beyond his weaker brethren, and include being able to raise dragons from the dead as well as {{spoiler|travelling directly to Sovngarde, the Nordic afterlife, and devour the souls of the honored dead to get even stronger}}. His role is meant to be that of a living apocalypse that plays into the world's cycle of death and renewal, hence his moniker "The World-Eater".
** Several [[Eldritch Abomination]]s called the Deep Ones live in the caverns under the Imperial town of Hackdirt, and have most of its populace under their thrall. They seem to require or enjoy ritualistic sacrifice and have their followers kidnap innocent people as part of their religious rites, with said followers having seriously ''[[Uncanny Valley|off]]''-looking faces and being incapable of showing emotions beyond primal bloodlust. Some context clues hint that they're connected to the Daedra in some way, but others hint at a connection to the grotesque [[Starfish Aliens|Sload]] race. Yet they could easily be some horrible unknown threat unlike anything seen on Nirn: [[Nothing Is Scarier|we never encounter them, and only have their distant, ominous roars from deep in the unexplorable reaches of the Hackdirt Caverns to go off of]].
** In ''[[The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind]]'', the horrors of the Sixth House are twisted, disease-ridden abominations that were once the followers of Dagoth Ur before he twisted them into living conduits of the horrific Corpus plague. Dagoth Ur himself is also this, having ascended from a mortal Dunmer to a dangeorus godlike being thanks to the powers of the dead god Lorkhan's heart.
** Numidium is one of the [[Mechanical Abomination|mechanical variety]]. It's a thousand-foot tall robot powered by the heart of a dead god, granting it abilities far beyond that of any mere machine. Just being active allows it to passively warp reality to unimaginable extents, such as allowing multiple mutually exclusive events to all happen at once, or remove anything from existence just by refuting it. In fact, some sources believe it to be the embodiment of refutation as a concept, which may or may not have allowed it to play a role in the mysterious disappearance of the Dwemer, its creators.
* ''[[Pokémon]]'':
** [[The Missingno|Missingno.]] and its [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Glitch_Pokemon glitchy ilk] fit this on a gameplay level: they are essentially junk data given form, and many of them warp or alter music, graphics and save data, possess bizarre dimensions ('M is 23 feet tall, and Missingno. itself is ''more than three thousand pounds''), and can induce game crashes. It's a common speculation that [[In-Universe]], they might as well be [[Primordial Chaos]] to the player character.
*** [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Female_symbol The glitch Pokemon] whose name is only represented as a female symbol gets special mention. It has an endless cry that actually sounds like a bizarre twisted song, it's base stats are second only to [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|Arceus]], it looks like [[EarthBound|Giygas]], and finally, it ''weighs 3 tons and is 80 feet tall''.
*** The Bad Egg, [[Dangerous Forbidden Technique|which you can get]] [[No Fair Cheating|by cheating]]. [[The Virus|They can turn other Pokemon into Bad Eggs]]. They're actually ''usable'' in battle. And when they hatch... all you see is an egg, and then the game freezes.
** In terms of canon examples, Giratina is able to counteract Dialga and Palkia, which are which are Eldritch beings in their own right due to being the draconic incarnations of time and space. It lives in [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Torn_World the Distortion World], a dimension [[Eldritch Location|where time and space do not work like they should]]. It can travel to different universes, and warp reality. There's ''a good reason'' why people compare it to Yog-Sothoth.
** To a lesser extent, Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza. Ancient, slumbering entities responsible for the enviroment. They're millions of years old, and when the former two are awoken, they start to cause the end of the world, requiring the third to intervene and set things right. As [[Expy|Expies]] of the Behemoth, Leviathan and Ziz, who are arguably cosmic horrors on their own, they may very well be Pokemon [[Cthulhu Mythos|Great Old Ones to the Creation Trio's Outer Gods]].
** Spiritomb is a lot more alien than most Ghost types, since it technically isn’t a singular being. Instead, it's a swirling, malevolent [[Hive Mind]] made of 108 wicked human souls trapped in a special keystone. While not a legendary Pokémon, the methods used to encounter them in most games are ''weird'', such as interacting with a certain amount of people with its keystone in your pocket, or exiting a menu while in a room that it's said to haunt.
** Arceus, the creator of the universe and THE [[Top God]] of the Pokémon pantheon. While a benevolent and divine creature, it's hinted to be something far more unknowable and alien given that it's said to have created the universe with "one thousand arms" that it doesn't have, and puts the player through a disorienting and terrifying [[Mind Screw]] that may or may not rewrite the universe just from birthing a new member of the Creation Trio. It also lives in a pocket dimension above Dialga and Palkia’s summoning grounds, and all music associated with it just sounds... ''wrong''.
** Darkrai is a [[Living Shadow]] that traps its unfortunate victims in painful and deadly nightmares that slowly [[Mind Rape]] them to death. Whether it's a malicious Freddy Krueger wannabe or a peaceful creature unintentionally hurting people is unknown (with its appearances in the franchise going back and forth between interpretations), but the sole consistent trait of these nightmares is that they can be triggered passively just from Darkrai being too close to a sleeping person.
** Unown are an entire race of these, being sentient letters of the alphabet that are weak individually, but are capable of reality-bending feats as a group. Because they help Arceus give birth to a member of the Creation Trio in the Johto remakes' Sinjoh Ruins event, they might possibly be the aforementioned 1000 arms that helped it create reality as we know it. It’s also worth noting that in their first appearance, being in their presence causes your radio to play some [[Hell Is That Noise|freaky transmissions]], and upon being summoned at the Ruins of Alph, the tourists milling around suddenly vanish into thin air. Either they got spooked and fled, or something far worse happened to them...
** Xerneas and Yveltal are the living incarnations of life and death respectively, and are otherworldly to a T. Xerneas breaks the usual mold of cute, cuddly Fairy types and is a divine, imposing stag who can grant eternal life to those it deems worthy of it. Yveltal, on the other hand, is a ghastly vulture who can suck the life out of people, Pokemon, and the very Earth itself, and upon dying will steal the life force of everything in its immediate vicinity.
*** Eldritch as they are, neither Xerneas nor Yveltal hold a candle to the third member of their trio: Zygarde. While Xerneas and Yveltal at least have recognizably animalistic forms, Zygarde’s status as a hive mind collective of tiny cell-like creatures makes it a lot weirder. Depending on the amount of Zygarde Cells gathering around a "Core", it can take on the appearance of a dog, a bizarre alien serpent, or a hulking monstrosity that looks like some sort of alien Gundam. No matter the form, it’s a hyper-vigilant protector of nature that will eliminate any and all threats to the ecosystem with extreme prejudice. Thankfully, it's an otherwise benevolent and gentle creature.
** Hoopa may look the part of a mischievous imp, but its true form is that of a gargantuan monstrosity that can warp reality and casually phase into and out of other dimensions, thanks to its power over rings that serve as hyperspace portals.
** The Ultra Beasts of ''[[Pokémon Sun and Moon]]'' and their ''Ultra'' second versions are only barely recognizable as Pokémon, and are interdimensional beings whose appearances and powers are unlike those of even the most Eldritch of their fellow Abominations. While all of them are fairly Lovecraftian, a select few are especially so:
*** Nihilego looks like an oddly humanoid jellyfish, but is inexplicably a Rock/Poison type instead of anything even remotely aquatic. It secretes a venom that [[Mind Rape|turns victims into rabidly insane husks of their former selves]], and drives the conflict behind ''Pokémon Sun and Moon'' by {{spoiler|turning the once kind and loving Lusamine into a narcissistic sociopath who terrorizes her children and innocent Pokémon alike}}.
*** Xurkitree is a massive, dancing treelike creature made entirely out of electrical cables, and has no face whatsoever. It can also grow to the size of ''mountains'', as seen by the gigantic Xurkitree hanging out in the background of their home dimension.
*** Blacephalon vaguely resembles some kind of abstract, faceless, candy-colored alien clown, and has a Fire/Ghost typing that's every bit as non-indicative as Nihilego's Rock/Poison typing. Its head isn't connected to its body, and serves as its weapon of choice by doubling as a powerful regenerating bomb that it loves to toss at its enemies.
*** Serving as something of an unofficial "leader", Guzzlord is a gluttonous [[Draconic Demon]] that acts as a living black hole. Its monstrous appetite allows it to devour anything, whether it be people, buildings, or nuclear waste, and convert it all into energy. It never leaves any waste behind, and is hinted to have been created by nuclear disasters that devastated its home dimension.
* In ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]'', the "...att008 Crimbo" event resulted in [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/The_Crimbomination the Crimbomination]. Just ''look'' at that thing. It's also about as unbeatable as a typical Eldritch Abomination, no [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|punching out Cthulhu here]]. To hammer in the Lovecraftian overtones, [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Ho-ho-ho-hee-hee-hee-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! it's made clear that the guard that was assigned to the factory has been driven completely insane just from looking at it].
** This is also a rare case where the Eldritch Abomination was created by <s>human hands</s> [[Everything's Better with Penguins|penguin flippers]]. The Crimbo factory was taken over forcefully by the Penguin Mafia, and the Crimbo Elves were forced to work in a factory powered by [[Green Rocks|grimicite]], which is highly radioactive and caused the elves to mutate. After curing a lot of elves of their mutation, the remaining mutated elves [[Biological Mashup|fused together]] to create the Crimbomination. The Kingdom's adventurers were able to weaken it to the point where the penguins could [[Sealed Evil in a Can|seal it in a gigantic crate]].
** Unsurprisingly to anyone who knows KoL penguins, they released it next year at the end of Crimbo 2009. The player community brainwashed it into becoming Father Crimbo, and it and its twisted presents will likely be the focus of the 2010 event.
** There is also [http://kol.coldfront.net/thekolwiki/index.php/Squamous_Gibberer the Squamous Gibberer], a fragment of horrible monster from beyond reality who whispers horrible secrets and paranoia-inducing mutterings straight into your mind. Who happens to be [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?|a pretty useful familiar]].
* In
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'':
** Rularuu, a [[Planet Eater]] who was only defeated by [[Sealed Evil in a Can|banishment]] to the Shadow Shard, a weird, twisty dimension. His minions are things like giant eyeballs with teeth and giants made of crystal, he commands reflections of the inhabitants of the worlds he's devoured, and you never face him directly—just fragments of his personality, which in and of themselves are ridiculously powerful archvillains (except for the heroic fragment who helps you).
** Hamidon, a giant single-cell monster that is the largest Giant Monster in the game and leader of the Devouring Earth faction, may count. Though it is implied that [[Was Once Human|he was once a person]] that became what he is through a combination of science and magic, there are some people that will swear (rightly so) that he is a god. (He was actually referred to as 'a dark god' in a press release, though the writer later admitted they [[Did Not Do the Research]].)
*** The Devoured, humans [[The Virus|contaminated by the Devouring Earth]], are smaller, wingless versions of Cthulhu, while Hamidon itself is recognized in the fluff as arguably the greatest threat to all other life on Earth in a world filled with superbeings, gods, demons, and aliens, and is known in-game as the most powerful enemy yet, who you should only try to tackle in 50-character raids. The [[Mirror Universe|Praetorian]] version of Hamidon is even more powerful, having taken over most of the surface of the Earth.
** Mot, a god of death buried under Dark Astoria who becomes active in late-game Incarnate-level content. It's large and non-Euclidean enough that you never actually see more than ''parts'' of it (including the inside of its stomach in one particular trial).
* The Myrmecols from the [[UFO: After Blank|''UFO'' series]] are a pretty-much-textbook example: they're enormous, spacefaring creatures with the power to control the populations of entire ''planets'' on a regular basis as part of their reproductive cycle.
** In ''[[Dead Space 2]]'', {{spoiler|The Marker}}.{{context}}
* [[Sapient Ship|The Reapers]] in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' are {{spoiler|massive mechanical beings from beyond the edges of the galaxy. Whenever galactic civilization becomes advanced enough, they wake and wipe it out}}. Just ''one'' of them is {{spoiler|able to wipe out nearly the entire Citadel fleet and it wasn't even ''trying'' to fight back, and is only defeated because Shepard is able to distract it}}. True to the classic Eldritch Abomination style, the Reapers appear to be giant space cephalopods.
** There's also the Thorian from the first game.{{context}}
** In ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'', {{spoiler|you can board a "dead" Reaper}}. But even dead gods can still dream...
{{quote|''{{spoiler|Chandana said the ship was dead. We trusted him. He was right. But even a dead god can dream. A god -- a real god -- is a verb. Not some old man with magic powers. It's a force. It warps reality just by being there. It doesn't have to want to. It doesn't have to think about it. It just does. That's what Chandana didn't get. Not until it was too late. The god's mind is gone but it still dreams. He knows now. He's tuned in on our dream. If I close my eyes I can feel him. I can feel every one of us.}}''}}
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:* Also in ''Mass Effect 3'': {{spoiler|the being or beings that built the Reapers, the Citadel and the Mass Effect relays and is controlling them. Or maybe it's [[God]]? [[Gainax Ending|It's confusing.]]}}
* In ''[[Eversion]]'', a major character is one. In the bad ending, {{spoiler|she eats you}}. In the ''good'' ending, {{spoiler|[[Tomato in the Mirror|you're one, too.]]}}.
* The
** The Waterwraith boss from ''[[Pikmin 2]]'' is anchored in another dimension and being capable of causing fear to the point of insanity.
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20100424164843/http://www.addictinggames.com/monsterevolution.html this flash game], you get to play as one.
** In [http://www.kongregate.com/games/GregoryWeir/the-majesty-of-colors this one too], though unusually, {{spoiler|[[Dark Is Not Evil|you can be a NICE tentacled three-eyed abomination]]}}.
* ''[[Custom Robo]]''
* The Dark One from ''[[Quest for Glory
* [[Genius Loci|The eponymous town]] of ''[[Silent Hill]]'' may be considered one, while the God its cult is trying to raise definitely qualifies. Though, according to the Book of Lost Memories, there is a good chance that said god is also just a monster manifested by the town itself, according to whomever has unwittingly influenced the environment.
* Several entities in ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' fit this category, such as [[Super Robot Wars Compact 2|Einst]], the inter-dimensional race that claims to have watched humanity from the beginning. Now they wish to "reset" humanity by choosing a new Adam and Eve. They also appear in ''[[Endless Frontier]]'', and claim to be the ones who created the titular world, by creating the Crossgate dimensional portal and turning the world into several mini-dimensions separated by a dimensional wall. It turn out that Einst's goal is to return to the original world, "the world of silence". One thing that makes them very strange is they appear to be made of some kind of material that's both organic and metallic.
** ''[[Super Robot Wars Destiny|Super Robot Wars D]]'' has Perfectio, king of the Ruina [[Energy Beings]] from another dimension. Since Perfectio feeds on despair, the Ruina try to turn Earth into his cattle farm by sealing Earth in another dimension. While it's possible to destroy the Ruina, Perfectio is immortal and can only be stopped by sealing the gate to its home dimension.
** ''[[Super Robot Wars K]]'' has Lu Kobol, an evil being defeated by [[Precursors|Crusians]] long ago. The Crusians even [[Sealed Evil in a Can|hid Lu Kobol's fragments in planets across the galaxy]] to ensure it won't return easily. Yet Lu Kobol resurrects as [[Energy Beings]] and seeks to reform itself by [[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroying every planet that hides its fragments]].
** ''[[Super Robot Wars Z]]'' mentions ''Taichi'' as the entity that ''controls the fate of all universes'' by manipulating the Origin Law. It is also the one that created twelve Spheres that grant their holder immense power and limited access to the Origin Law. However, the holder will slowly lose
* In the 3rd season of the Episodic Telltale ''[[Sam and Max]]'' games, Yog-Sototh - who looks supciously like Cthulhu and has many of the attributes of a cosmic horror - makes several appearences throughout the season. In episode 304, {{spoiler|he is actually seen. Then there's Junior, who is even more fearsome, and Maxthulhu, when Max's psychic powers combine with Junior's Taint}}.
* ''[[Knights of the Old Republic (video game)|Knights of the Old Republic II]]'':
** [[Omnicidal Maniac|Darth]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Nihilus]]
** The Jedi Council consider ''The Exile'' to be one of these. The real reason she was exiled in the first place was because they were terrified of her nature as a ''{{spoiler|Force black hole}}''.
* The ''Mask of the Betrayer'' expansion pack for ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]'' lets you ''create'' one by stuffing a legion of evil and insane murdered souls into the withered husk of a dead bear god. And then the absolute "Evil-With-A-Capital-E" ending has you become a soul-devouring abomination capable of '''unmaking gods.'''
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** There is mention of Death's Hand outgrowing his form and becoming a monstrosity in the Closed Fist epilogue.
* In ''[[Xenogears]]'', a being named Deus strongly exemplifies this, even looking irreconcilably bizarre to boot. (Incidentally, Deus is located aboard an interstellar spaceship named ''Eldridge''.)
* By comparison, in ''[[Xenosaga]]'' it is believed that [[God Is Evil]] and one of these... {{spoiler|but then it turns out that God is actually benevolent. It's just that His ''actual'' form drives
* ''[[Wild ARMs]]'':
** Ragu O Ragula, a monster of practically unimaginable destructive power, appears in pretty much every game, and is almost always a [[Super Boss]] sealed safely out of human reach (and out of its reach of humanity). Unseal it at your own terror.
** ...Well, might be scarier if it weren't a constantly recurring boss in the series. In ''[[Wild ARMs 2]]'', Ragu O Ragula can be defeated using ''[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|only Brad]]''. What does that make the titular Hero of Slayheim?
** ''Wild ARMs 2'' also has {{spoiler|the [[Planet Eater]] "Encroaching Parallel Universe" Kuiper Belt}} which qualifies in a decisively terrifying way, complete with music that perfectly captures "too terrible to exist in my universe".
* [[The Heartless]] of the ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]'' series qualify while still being cute as a button. Their ultimate goal is to devour the hearts of people and entire worlds and turn them into beings like themselves, and they can never be truly defeated because [[As Long as There Is Evil|they come from the darkness in people's hearts.]] In a minor subversion, it's quite possible that the Heartless were only a minor threat until Ansem's research turned them into a veritable army of darkness.
** It's later revealed that pureblood Heartless were always around and can exist in harmony with the world. It wasn't until emblem heartless were thrown into the mix as a result of Ansem's experiments that they became a world eating heart stealing menace, and as a result Nobodies came into being as well.
** Their counterparts the [[Empty Shell|Nobodies]] fit just as well, being the remnants of a powerful being absorbed by the Heartless, they are beings that stand at the exact edge of existence itself. They are essentially human-shaped voids, but unlike their dark cousins, retain their human memories and intellect to properly use their new power. {{spoiler|You also play as one for a game and a bit.}}
*** Unversed are created from the dark emotions in people as a result of the laws of the world becoming unbalanced by the creation of a being of pure darkness, Vanitas. Just Vanitas being near someone with negative thoughts will spawn an Unversed creature and he can also generate them on his own. They are "Unversed" because they are unversed in the complete ways of the world being composed only of dark emotions such as anger or jealousy.
** {{spoiler|Xion}} is halfway between this and [[Humanoid Abomination]]. And also one of the few generally nice examples.
* Cubia From the ''[[.hack|.hack//]]'' series
* The unfortunate researchers of the Black Mesa Research Facility from the ''[[Half-Life]]'' series by Valve discovered a border world, Xen, which all teleportation must be routed through. This border world is ruled by Nihilanth, a monstrous being that looks like a warped, legless fetus, which Gordon Freeman has to take on and destroy. By default, it is invincible: any damage dealt to it is instantly regenerated unless the crystals supplying said power is destroyed first. Once that's done, enough injury will open the creature's skull like a flower, revealing a huge portal inside.
** ''Opposing Force'' has the Gene Worm, a big-ass tentacle monster that can spit acid and the flailing tentacles demolish much of the environment as the fight goes on. Similarly to the Nihilanth, [[Attack Its Weak Point|its belly contains a portal whose destruction will kill the creature]] but in order to get to it, you first have to [[Eye Scream|blind the sucker to distract it]].
* The Flood of ''[[Halo]]'', a [[Hive Mind]]ed [[The Virus|parasitic entity]] of such ancient, alien power that even the near god-like [[Precursors|Forerunners]] were ultimately forced to sterilize an entire galaxy to put them down... and even then, they eventually rose up again, with the Gravemind calmly pointing out the second time it is being destroyed that this victory will simply delay the inevitable.
** Heck, the Gravemind on its own
** The Prisoner from the Cryptum novel. Described as a {{spoiler|huge, misshapen humanoid with four arms and compound eyes on an indescribably ugly face. And to top it all off, it's kind created the Flood.}}
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' video games:
** Dark Gaia, a [[Sealed Evil in a Can]] released by Eggman in ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'', is a ''sentient force of nature'' who ''helped create the universe'' (by destroying the old one, but meh). {{spoiler|Since the "stars ''aren't'' right" this time around though, it breaks up into various [[The Heartless|Heartless-esque]] critters - the [[Balance Between Good and Evil]] causes his [[Good Counterpart]] to be released as well, and he helps Sonic seal Gaia up again.}}
** There's also a case for the Black Arms: [[Starfish Aliens]] with a fairly [[Horde of Alien Locusts|horrific reproductive cycle]], a deadly toxin that can wipe out an entire planet and an innate talent for Chaos Control apparently hard coded into their DNA. And then, of course, Black Doom's ability to [[Lovecraftian Superpower|turn one of his eyes]] into a literal [[Starfish Alien]].
** Chaos from ''[[Sonic Adventure]]''. {{spoiler|However, it is usually benevolent, but was driven to evil by Pachacamac's [[Moral Event Horizon]]. It turns good again at the end of the game.}}
** There's also examples from [[Sonic the Hedgehog (2006 video game)|''Sonic the Hedgehog'' (2006)]]: Iblis, a massive beast of destruction made only out of fire; Mephiles, a gasseous-liquid mind of complete corruption and shadowy powers; and {{spoiler|Solaris, an ''interdimensional being trying to destroy reality''}}.
** In ''[[Sonic Generations]]'', there's the Time Eater. While most of its presence in the game is {{spoiler|as a roboticized/cybernetic vehicle operated by Robotnik and Eggman}}, Eggman reveals its natural purpose when he discovered it is {{spoiler|to erase time, making most of what the Eggmen have it do already a natural ability}}. Between that, its looks, and the dimension the game takes place in, as well as the location of the last boss fight...
** {{spoiler|The End}} from ''[[Sonic Frontiers]]'' feels like something straight out of the [[Cthulhu Mythos]]. {{spoiler|A sentient void with no true form that appears differently depending on people's perception of death and possessing unfathomable motives for the atrocities it commits, The End wiped out the Ancients and countless other civlizations, and is said to have been impossible for Super Sonic (who regularly fights eldritch abominations and ''wins'') to defeat in its prime. Its [[Motive Rant]] during the final boss fight, assuming it isn't all arrogant boasting, implies that it's further beyond the likes of Perfect Dark Gaia, the Time Eater, and even ''Solaris'' in power, and that the moon-like incarnation of it that Sonic and Sage fight is just that: ''one'' incarnation. It's doubtful it can be truly killed at all, meaning that it likely hasn't been defeated so much as it's been forced to delay its omnicidal plans for a bit.}}
* ''Sanity: Aiken's Artifact'' has individuals given [[Psychic Powers|psychic abilities]]. However, these abilities cause them to [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|become insane if they are overused]], and {{spoiler|were given through an artifact that was planted by a Sanity Devourer, who will harvest a planet once psychic abilities becomes commonplace enough for easy eating}}.
* In ''[[Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis]]'', {{spoiler|the ''main character's'' wish-granting power given "physical form"}} comes close. It was given a [[Bonus Boss]] [[Palette Swap]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|called "Pain"]], described this way:
{{quote|''The strongest, worst thing in the world. A concentrated mass of power, this being hints that the end of the world is near...''}}
* The Soulless Ones of ''[[Lusternia]]''. [[Psycho Prototype|Prototypes]] of the eventual template used to create the [[Physical God|Elder Gods]], they were born without souls and exist solely to devour - Gods, infant Gods, mortals, nature spirits, animals, even each other. They [[Cannibalism Superpower|imbibe the power]] of those they devour, making them stronger with every meal. By the present day only five remain, but those five have devoured ''so much'' of reality that they can no longer be destroyed, unless you want to [[Load-Bearing Boss|take down the universe with them]], so they're sealed away. [[Cardboard Prison|For the time being
* Baal in ''[[Disgaea]]'' is just as old as the universe, absurdly powerful
** It's implied that the most ridiculously powerful of ''Disgaea'' [[Our Demons Are Different|demons]] start to turn into these. {{spoiler|The true Overlord Zenon}} was becoming a completely inhuman (so to speak) [[Omnicidal Maniac]], and had to turn to [[Reincarnation]] for a way out.
** This is a surprise in ''[[Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice|Disgaea 3]]'' when you realize that Mao {{spoiler|looks a whole lot more like his father than initially implied
** ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten
* ''[[Prototype (video game)|Prototype]]'' has the Blacklight Virus. A sentient virus that [[I'm a Humanitarian|consumes biomass]], can shapeshift, absorbs peoples' memories, singlehandedly demolishes entire armies, and is [[Nigh Invulnerable]] ({{spoiler|even a ''nuke'' couldn't kill it in the end}}). Even ''other'' viral monsters [[Food Chain of Evil|end up on its menu
** There is also {{spoiler|Elizabeth Greene
** ''And'' there's also {{spoiler|PARIAH. He's only mentioned, but it's implied that if he and Alex Mercer ever meet, it's [[The End of the World as We Know It]].}}
** In ''[[Prototype 2]]'', the Blacklight Virus now has a new host: James Heller. And his powers are far more monstrous than Alex Mercer's in the first ''Prototype'', thanks to his "tendrils" power. Whenever tendrils are involved, the result is masses of flesh dangling from the buildings with strung-up corpses caught like flies on spider silk.
* ''[[Yume Nikki]]'' takes place entirely in a girl's demented nightmares, and it shows. Between the [[Memetic Mutation|infamous]] Uboa, the [[
* The ''[[Castlevania]]'' itself
** This series' depiction of Dracula is actually closer to this, with a dash of [[The Antichrist]], than to a traditional vampire.
** Legion/Granfalloon, a [[Nightmare Fuel|terrifying]] floating ball of screaming corpses with some sort of [[Combat Tentacles|tentacled]] ''thing'' in the middle. Oh, and in some games, the corpses reanimate and attack you.
* In ''[[Fable]]
* The entire setting of ''[[Prey]]'', albeit being techno-organic alien in nature. Big enough to host every level save for the introduction and ending, and never seen in its entirety. Reality-violatingly ugly as in portals, spatial anomalies and multi-directional gravity. Happens upon the Earth on one night without any warning. The hero even meets survivors who demonstrate knowledge to survive and assist him.
** It is implied that it seeded Earth with life just so it could come back and eat everyone.
** Even worse. They can, apparently, invade the spirit realm via portals. Although, even they are taken aback by the sudden spirit activity.
* ''[[Metroid]]'':
** ''[[Metroid Prime]]'' has the [[Genius Loci|sentient planet]] Phaaze. Among other things, it is inadvertently responsible for introducing the [[Starfish Alien]]-like Ing to normal space.
**
** Additionally, Mother Brain. She's a sentient, [[Cyclopean Creature|cyclopic]] spiked brain
** Samus herself could be considered to be almost an [[Eldritch Abomination]] from the Space Pirates' perspective. Entire ''armies'' of their forces have been slain by her, she regularly shows up and wrecks their plans (usually just because they happen to be on the same planet as her actual objectives), and many of their bases, not to mention the '''planets said bases are on''', are most likely going to explode in the near future; they've even dubbed her "The Hunter". In ''Echoes'', {{spoiler|the arrival of Samus on Aether shortly after Dark Samus' appearance prompted an entry into their database that boils down to "Oh fuck, there's '''TWO''' of them now!"}}
* ''[[Super Mario (franchise)|Super Mario]]'' franchise:
**
** ''[[Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story]]'' has The Dark Star. Its introduction sounds straight out of Lovecraft, and by the time it's [[Sealed Evil in a Can|inevitably unleashed]], it's a sinister blob of darkness that has the Mario Bros. choking from simply ''standing near it''. On the other hand, it's up against [[Determinator|Bowser]], who looks forward to the challenge from the monster that's taken his guise.
* [[Played for Laughs]] in Japanese ''[[Super Mario World]]'' hack VIP [[MIX 2]]. The final boss is supposedly the creator of the game himself, who appears as a cluster of 2ch memes.
* [http://gameboard.pl/gra/gobtron,431961?gclid=CNSn54qvop4CFRYL3wodxX7B7w Gobtron].
* In ''[[Ratchet and Clank Future A Crack In Time]]'', you actually get a gun that opens a portal to a cosmic horror that will eat your enemies. [[Fluffy the Terrible|Its name is Fred]].
* ''[[BlazBlue]]'' has The Black Beast, a horrifically powerful monster that appeared about a hundred years before the game's story kicks off, nearly destroyed the world,
* The Bydo in ''[[R-Type]]''. As the instruction manual puts it
** At least one
**
* The Serpent Riders from the ''[[Heretic]]'' and ''[[Hexen]]'' games are immensely powerful alien demons from beyond the crystal wall at the edge of normal space that slipped in when it was damaged. Only one of them really has the Cosmic Horror look, though - Korax from ''Hexen'', who is a bizarre humanoid-reptile-[[Alien (franchise)|Xenomorph]] thing. "Surely even hell would never spawn such a being." (D'Sparil looks like a cowled wizard, admittedly riding a humanoid serpent, and Eidolon like a more regular demon.)
* ''[[The Maw]]'' has the player character guide the title character, an [[Extreme Omnivore]] that grows in size as it's fed. It can also take the physical properties of what it eats (eating a salamander-like creature makes it a lava beast and eating an electrified creature makes it firefly-like). Think of an [[Ugly Cute]] Kirby [[A Boy and His X|as your pet]].
* In the ''[[Quake (series)
* ''[[Homeworld]]'':
** In the first ''Homeworld'', there is a small [[Breather Level]] called [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|"The Sea of Lost Souls"]]. It takes place, fittingly, inside a proto-star nursery (giving the level a very ethereal skybox), and in it is a ship known only as the "Ghost Ship", which projects an energy field that instantly subverts your capital ships and causes them to attack anybody that comes in range. When you finally disable the field and retrieve data from it, you learn that it is ''millions'' of years old (possibly older than the proto-stars around it) before the Bentusi (powerful, ancient alien benefactors) arrive and request the information for themselves... because this ship terrifies them. [[Nothing Is Scarier|You never learn anything else about the ship, in any of the games.]]
** [[The Virus]] in ''Homeworld: Cataclysm'' is one of these. The local [[Precursors]] apparently picked it up in [[Subspace or Hyperspace|subspace]] and disabled their ship in an attempt to [[Sealed Evil in a Can|contain it]]. They failed, obviously.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings Online]]'':
** Players get to explore unpleasantly organic looking caverns around the nameless lake deep beneath the bridge of Khazad-Dum, caverns which are home to a mind-controlling fungus. It grows on various creatuers including orcs and trolls, reducing them to pulsing masses of green fungus erupting from their skin, almost like exposed brains. (Don't ask what the giant spiders look like under its taint; just don't.) Now consider, these abominations can be found within sight of the base of the endless stair, the deepest point reached by dwarfs, but the tunnels beneath Moria go far deeper than that. What else might be down there?
** Also, the Nameless make some appearances when you're at very high level. They include headless creatures with fanged mouths between their shoulders, massive hulking beasts resembling lobsters gone wrong, and [[Kraken and Leviathan|the Watcher in the Water]]. Their leader is a massive sluglike monstrosity called the Mistress of Pestilence, which has an exposed brain and multiple eyes and is also the source of the previously-mentioned fungus.
* The ''[[Nightmare Ned]]'' video game features several shadow creatures that are responsible for Ned's nightmares.
* ''[[Alan Wake]]''
* The third ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' game has the [[The Corruption|corrupted]] version of the [[Precursors]], known as Dark Makers. Basically, they're Precursors that were overexposed to [[Psycho Serum|Dark Eco]]. Given the different types of Dark Makers, their resemblance to the Precursor Oracles, and {{spoiler|the fact that Dark Daxter's form looks nothing like them}}, there is plenty of evidence for the [[Fanon|popular fan theory]] that they're really just robots. Until official confirmation, however, they're this.
** No love for the Metal Head Leader from Jak II?{{context}}
* In ''[[La-Mulana]]'', one of the bosses is a giant eye monster with [[Combat Tentacles|tentacles]] and a massive eye, which is reminiscent of a eldrich abomination. However, the real award goes to {{spoiler|The Mother, who is actually the entire temple itself. It helps with the non-eulicidean geometries of the temple, not to mention the fact that the different areas have no correlation in how they are connected. Oh, and the fact that the Mother came from the sky, and created life (e.g. Us) in hopes that it would find a way to return her there.}}
* ''[[Sin and Punishment]]'': The inhabitants of Outer Space (which is apparently a separate dimension/realm/something from the space we know, which is called Inner Space) are described like this. They are not alive in any sense known to Inner Spacers, and can shapeshift to mimic ''anything''... including entire planets. They are defeatable, but it is really not easy to do (and the only inhabitant of Outer Space we see seemingly effortlessly survives the heroes' efforts to eradicate it, though they are unaware of this). Even some of the Inner Space characters get distinctly Lovecraftian at times; see Armon Ritter of ''[[Sin and Punishment 2]]'', particularly his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5f32EB6bMSs final form.]
* In ''[[Bayonetta]]'', these are usually [[Summon Bigger Fish|summoned]] by Bayonetta to finish off bosses or [[Giant Mook]]s. These range from multieyed crows to giant worms that sound like elephants. In fact, the final boss has Bayonetta {{spoiler|summoning Queen Sheba, perhaps the setting's equivalent to [[Satan]], to [[Megaton Punch]] [[God|Jubileus]] '''through the entire solar system and into the sun'''}}.
** The [[Light Is Not Good|angels]] themselves count, specially Iustitia, one of the cardinal virtues, intentionally designed like a mixture of a carnivorous plant with a tentacle monster with creepy cherubic baby faces everywhere because of its moral ambivalence.
* ''[[Devil May Cry]]'':
** The boss Nightmare definitely qualifies as this. Its natural form is a pile of hideous steaming goo, filled with the remains of those it has killed. It is completely invincible in this form, and constantly attempts to assimilate Dante into itself. If it succeeds, it sends Dante to a cavernous void that the enemy file says is a [[Your Mind Makes It Real|manifestation of Dante's subconscious fears]]. When the magic seals in the room are broken, it changes from its goo form to a form that can be damaged... and is also much more dangerous. This form looks like something straight out of an [[H. R. Giger]] painting. It shoots homing projectiles that are best described as demonic leeches, constantly drains your magic, and only has one weak point. However, get too close to it, and it shoots out huge spearlike appendages created from its inner core at blinding speed. The enemy file on it says it's not sure whether or not the thing is even alive, or whether it's some form of horrifying machine.
** In ''Devil May Cry 2'', Argosax the Chaos is this. It's a repulsive hivelike creature made from a mishmash of almost a dozen already-horrific monsters, half of which are eldritch abominations ''themselves''!
** In ''Devil May Cry 3'', the second to last boss in the game also has traces of this. It is a amorphous blob with an ever changing amount of tentacle like limbs, and can summon out of itself an army of fishlike monsters that constantly close in on you. Looking at it, it is difficult to tell if it is supposed to have a face, or even a head, or perhaps several dozen.
* ''[[StarCraft]]'':
** The [[Hive Mind|Zerg Overmind
** ''Starcraft II''
** [[Word of God]] at BlizzCon 2010 said that "The Fallen One"/"The Dark Voice" [[Big Bad]] who altered the Overmind is NOT "The Voice in the Darkness" (and all those other names) that was freed by the humans. They are separate Eldritch Abominations. Also, it was said that the Zerg, in spite of their Woobie'd leader, are going to remain [[Exclusively Evil]] (along with Kerrigan, but that remains to be seen exactly), even though they are needed to defeat the Fallen One and his protoss-zerg Hybrids.
* ''[[Aquaria (video game)|Aquaria]]'' features the Creator, who starts out safely beyond the [[Bishounen Line]] but gets more and more monstrous as [[Sequential Boss|the battle progresses]]. Some of his earlier creations also qualify on looks alone, if not on powers.
* ''[[Epic Mickey]]'':
** The Phantom Blot has been changed into one of these. He was unwittingly created by Mickey and left to corrupt the world of forgotten toons for decades.
** The robotic Beetleworx, which [[Complete Monster|The Mad Doctor]] has built, were originally created to reconstruct the Wasteland. Eventually, they were altered to try to destroy the titular character. The concept art is worse compared to final product, considering the normally child-friendly-associated ''[[Winnie the Pooh|Tigger]]'' was found on one. ''[[Nightmare Fuel|With Fangs]]''!!
* ''Every Single'' [[True Final Boss]] in the ''[[Etrian Odyssey]]'' series. [[Bonus Boss|The one]] in the third game [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form|takes the cake]]. [[Nightmare Fuel|Just try to count all those eyes and tentacles...]]
* In ''[[Amnesia: The Dark Descent]]'', you are being followed by these "things" or "shadows" as you explore the castle. You have no weapons/defense other than hiding either, so there is a sense of hopelessness. While their appearance is a blurry/melted shambling humanoid, staring at them for more than a few seconds will cause you to [[Sanity Slippage|lose sanity]]. {{spoiler|Worse, those are just mooks. The journal scraps/notes you find hint that the main antagonist "comes from beyond the void" and "warps reality with its presence," which you experience as you progress through the game and parts of the castle are warped into nightmarish versions, with raw flesh coming out of the walls.}}
* While the ''[[Parasite Eve]]'' series can be considered to have skirted the trope at times, it seems that the upcoming sequel, ''The 3rd Birthday'', has dived head-on with its new menace, known simply as the Twisted. Colossal tentacled monstrosities, the first thing we learn about them in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_pTp-WZu3A&feature=sub the trailer] is that they somehow ''erode '''time and space''''', and it seems the only way to stop them is by using [[Time Travel]] [[Body Surf]] to [[Set Right What Once Went Wrong]].
* Galvaran, Jabir, Napishtim, etc. in the ''[[Ys]]'' series. Many of these were created when the humans who stole the Black Key attempted to recreate White and Black Emelas.
* ''[[Resident Evil]]'':
** ''[[Resident Evil Outbreak]]'' had this in the form of Nyx, a giant mass of seemingly acidic goo that had the corpses of the troops it digested, as well as the corpse of a digested Tyrant unit hanging out of it. Speculation claims it's some sort of plant matter, fungus, or a piece of T-Virus somehow magnified, but it's still horrific, especially it's implied ass cheeks...
** The [[One-Winged Angel|final mutations]] of most of the [[Big Bad]]s, especially G, Nemesis, Alexia, and Saddler.
** The Las Plagas itself may be this
* The Chaos beings in ''[[Ancient Domains of Mystery]]''. Most of the monster descriptions for them are [[Description Porn]] about how [[Mind Screw]]y they are.
* Leave it to the designers of ''[[LittleBigPlanet
* While the six dragons in ''[[Rift]]'' are explicitly stated to be mere manifestations of the Elemental Lords, [[Making a Splash|Akylios]] takes the cake
* The abominations in the circle tower and the {{spoiler|Broodmother in the deep roads}} within ''[[Dragon Age]]''.
* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[SaGa 3]]'' is {{spoiler|a blobby mass of goo and tentacles which can absorb the power of a [[Physical God]] via [[Body Horror]]. Not to mention creating an [[Eldritch Location]] outside of time and space. As the most powerful of the setting's divine creatures, it could easily be a stand-in for Azathoth.}} Many of the other enemies could count as well, some being direct [[Shout-Out
* In ''[[Return to Krondor]]'', the Dark God seems to be this. An entity that is very dangerous and had to be sealed away. A group of depraved individuals worship this god, and want to release it into the land of Midkemia. Releasing it would be a Very Bad Thing To Do.
* There is the Red Queen of ''[[American McGee's Alice]]'', especially in her true form.
** The sequel, ''[[Alice: Madness Returns]]'' has ruin enemies, which are basically black [[Blob Monster]]s with [[Creepy Doll|Doll parts]].
* The Old One from [[Demon's Souls]].{{context}}
** The Bed of Chaos in ''[[Dark Souls]]'' is an unholy fusion of the Witch of Izalith and the Flame of Chaos after the Witch attempted to recreate the First Flame. It's a massive treelike monster that sprouts a being of pure fire after its defenses are broken.
* The Destroyer from ''[[The Legend of Spyro: Dawn Of The Dragon]]'' counts. It's an ancient mythological monster whose existed since the beginning of time for only one reason: to cause [[World-Wrecking Wave|the end of the world in a wave of fire and ash]] when unleashed. Oh, and it's as big as a mountain and made of rock and lava. The only way to actually stop it is {{spoiler|to destroy every Dark Crystal in it's entire body, including flying inside it and blowing up its heart. And even that didn't stop it - because Malefor, [[Chessmaster]] that he is, had a backup crystal ready just incase.}}
* Subverted with the "Dark God" [http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Doma Doma], the final boss of ''[[Fire Emblem Gaiden]]''. He clearly appears as one, but his intentions are more Darwinist than most other comic horror entries.
* Also, there's [http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Abaddon Abaddon], the God of Secrets from ''[[Guild Wars]]''.
* ''[[Borderlands]]'' has {{spoiler|the thing that was inside the Vault
* ''[[Septerra Core]]''. Ouroboros is a giant monster that dwells somewhere near the Core of the world and is said to be as old as Septerra itself. It can be summoned with Fate Cards to inflict massive fire damage to the target and the only part of it seen are it's three heads, that alone are comparable in size with other, rather huge, summons. And it isn't known how large the rest of it's body is. It's also rumored that it's an inteligent being and that if it's heads will ever all agree on something, it will cause [[The End of the World as We Know It]].
* In the ''[[F.E.A.R.
* ''[[Spectrobes]]''
* Not only is ''[[Shikkoku no Sharnoth]]'' full of these in the form of the <<Metacreatures>>, but {{spoiler|M, the protagonist's cryptic guide, benefactor and possible love interest, is later revealed to be Nyarlathotep}}.
* ''[[Terraria]]'' has the [[Advancing Boss of Doom|Wall of Flesh]]: An enormous [[
* One of the chief reasons ''[[Fatal Frame]]'' is so scary is that it avoids this trope: all the ghosts are humanoid and [[Uncanny Valley|that much more frightening for it]]...
* The various Domz aliens from ''[[Beyond Good & Evil (video game)|Beyond Good and Evil]]''. Especially the Domz Priest, who looks very squid-like.
* The titluar ''[[Insanely Twisted Shadow Planet]]'' was created by a small [[Eldritch Abomination]]
* Many
* Many of the major bosses (especially later in game) from the Super Famicom Enix RPG ''[[Mystic Ark]]'' definitely follow this trope with its disturbing boss designs (which are all animated). Even more-so for the final boss {{spoiler|[[media:WHM 8078.png|Wicked Heart/Malice
* ''[[Soul Calibur]]'':
**
** In [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover]] ''[[Namco X Capcom]]'', the Soul Edge is a missing half of [[Big Bad]] [[Multiversal Conqueror|99]] and has the power to cut ''anything''. Its mere
* [https://armorgames.com/play/3314/the-majesty-of-colors This game] allows you to play as one, demonstrating either [[Video Game Cruelty Potential]] or [[Video Game Caring Potential]]... Although
* ''[[RuneScape]]'' has several examples:
** The Inadequacy and other monsters fought during "Dream Mentor
** That... ''thing'' that {{spoiler|Tolna}} has become in "A Soul's Bane
** The Stalkers, otherwordly multi-eyed beings that can cause headaches with their speech alone. Several of them are bosses, and all of them are grotesque monstrosities. Did we mention their leader has the title "World-Gorger?"
* Gohma Vlitra and {{spoiler|Chakravartin}} from ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'' are relatively hard to comprehend, especially when the latter
* ''[[Kid Icarus: Uprising]]'' has monsters such as Ornes and {{spoiler|the Chaos Kin}}.
* Golden Freddy from the ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's]]'' games seems to be one of these. Unlike the other animatronics, he seems to lack a physical body and is more of a spectral entity. In the first game, he teleports right into your office if you look at a certain poster, and the only way to get rid of him is to pull your camera back up, basically un-summoning him by throwing common sense out the window.
** Shadow Freddy and Shadow Bonnie from the second game seem to be of a similar vein,
* The ''[[Epic Battle Fantasy]]'' series has a twist on eldritch horrors, with intentionally glitched creatures with scrambled sprites simply known as "glitches" in the 4th and 5th games. In spite of very weak stats, they can uniquely absorb [[Non-Elemental]] damage of either the physical or magical type depending on the glitch, and their attack [[One-Hit Kill|instantly kills a character]]. The party's encounter with a small group of glitches in the 4th game makes them question the nature of their universe (Lance in particular, being the tech specialist). An encounter with an even more powerful and self-aware glitch in the 5th game that toys with them, [[Breaking the Fourth Wall|essentially using them as vessels to taunt the player]] and messing with the game's interface by replacing every icon with random piles of pixels, and [[Resurrective Immortality|keeps coming back shortly after being defeated]], leaves them all traumatized for life.
* ''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'': No matter the game, you always tend to face at least one as an end boss.
** While they're ultimately just floating hands (heavily implied to be the hands of a child playing with his toys, at that), Master Hand and Crazy Hand are presented as this trope. Their status as large, disembodied hands with weirdly deep voices makes them feel ''wrong'' when pitted against familiar video game characters, and they have a number of weird and inexplicable powers - lasers shot from their fingers, laying spike traps made of light on the ground, and shooting gigantic bombs and bullets despite having no mechanical components to them whatsoever. Even their more mundane attacks like slaps and pokes deal elemental damage and status ailments for some reason. As weird as they are though, from ''Brawl'' and beyond, they're often the prelude to even ''weirder'' and more powerful abominations - no telling what ''those'' are meant to represent...
** Tabuu from the Subspace Emissary mode of ''[[Super Smash Bros. Brawl]]'' looks like a bald human man made of neon blue light, with rainbow-colored butterfly wings that can instantly kill anyone that's hit with the "off-waves" they produce. Said to be the embodiment of Subspace itself, he can't leave his realm, so he instead pulls bits and pieces of the Smash world into his so he can warp it into an abominable hellscape that's more to his liking.
** ''[[Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS / Wii U]]'' has the Master Core - either a superpowered form of Master Hand, or some sort of abomination that took his guise, and neither option is pleasant. A swarming mass of darkness, Master Core takes on a number of terrifying forms: the gigantic humanoid Master Giant, the hellish scorpion-tailed Master Beast monster, a swarm of vicious living swords called Master Edges, and the [[Mirror Boss|player-duplicating]] Master Shadow. {{spoiler|Exclusive to the ''[[Wii U]]'' version is [[Eldritch Location|the dangerous living Master Fortress]].}} Its true form seems to resemble a Smash Ball and is harmless... unless you decide to take your sweet time killing it. Then, it unleashes a flurry of one-hit kill attacks that look uncomfortably similar to Tabuu's off-waves.
** Galeem from the World of Light mode in ''[[Super Smash Bros. Ultimate]]'' is [[Light Is Not Good|a malevolent, living sphere of light]] wreathed in freaky blade-like angel wings that kicks off the plot by ''killing everyone in the universe'' except for Kirby, and proceeds to enslave the spirits and bodies of those he killed as his "puppet fighters" that go on to infest the world he destroyed. Not much, if anything about him is explained, but if there's one thing we ''do'' know about him, it's that he's cruel and sadistic to a fault. A trait shared by...
** {{spoiler|Dharkon, a fellow [[Eldritch Abomination]] and the embodiment of chaos and shadow that is locked in a brutal war against Galeem. This thing introduces himself by ''shattering the sky like glass'' and slithering in from his home dimension, and looks like a hellish Sauron-style eyeball enveloped by thorny tentacles. He chases off a wounded Galeem and takes control over all his puppet fighters, before trying to destroy the world outright instead of merely shaping it to his liking}}.
* Many of the horrors infesting ''[[Spooky's Jumpscare Mansion]]'' are otherworldly abominations that count as this to some extent.
** Specimen 7 is a horrific wall of twisted, red-and-black corpses that looks uncomfortably similar to [[Earthbound|Giygas]], and one of the few Specimens capable of instantly killing the player. What this thing ''is'' isn't really explained that well, but it seems to be some kind of entity based on Jungian psychology, and is possibly a manifestation of the player's past trauma given shape.
** Specimen 8 looks like a humanoid deer wearing a robe, but its "body" is a mass of screaming faces of its past victims tucked under its ribcage. It kills its victims by assimilating them into itself, and every time it attacks you you're assaulted by disturbing imagery in the form of subliminal messages and sudden closeups of its freaky face.
** Specimen 9 is a red, creepily realistic floating skull-like head that manifests if you idle for too long in a room, or get lured into a deathtrap in certain rooms, and will instantly kill you once it touches you. Oddly enough, it has something of a mundane origin, simply being a mass of clay that came to life under unclear circumstances, but something happened to make it completely and utterly ''wrong''. It survived its own death, corrupts its CAT-DOS entry simply from existing, and can warp reality itself in a handful of rooms. It says a lot when [[Nightmare Fetishist|Spooky]] is afraid of this thing. {{spoiler|And then you discover that it's the [[Final Boss]] of the main story.}}
** Specimen 12 doesn't look that special, and is seemingly a creepy old man who stalks you around a mansion inside of Spooky's own mansion and instantly kills you if he catches you. But you find out later that {{spoiler|[[Genius Loci|the specimen is the mansion itself...]] which isn't even a mansion, but an anomalous being that takes the form of one. And after possessing the old man who investigated it, it uses his corpse as an avatar through which it can hunt and kill anyone unfortunate enough to end up inside of it}}.
* Elder Dragons as a whole tend to skew towards this status in ''[[Monster Hunter]]'': they're incredibly powerful monsters that don't fit into the tree of life like every other monster classification, and often have their powers manifest in ways that can't be explained away by an elemental sac or some other biological function. Some are worshipped and revered as gods, others feared as demons, and they often have a visible effect on a map they're present on - namely, some kind of environmental anomaly that has caused all monsters native to the area to flee for their lives.
** The Fatalis is easily one of the most eldritch and unholy monsters in the series, which is no small feat. Flavor text descriptions for the armor and weapons made from their body parts state that they plague those who wield them with horrifying nightmares, dark voices in their heads, and animalistic bloodlust, until their wearers go insane or die under mysterious circumstances. They can also possess their wielders, and possibly ''turn them into another Fatalis entirely''. This, combined with the fact that the Fatalis sword in Pokke village is constantly regenerating scales and {{spoiler|a Crimson Fatalis somehow hatches from a clutch of Tigrex eggs in 4U's eggstraction quests}} implies that it's impossible to truly kill a Fatalis since they'll always find some way to come back, no matter how impossible it should be. Their powers are also anomalous even by the standards of other Elder Dragons, with Crimson Fatalis being able to somehow send meteors crashing down to Earth while the White Fatalis is introduced triggering a solar eclipse by emerging from a mysterious portal, hinting that it might be ''extradimensional'' to some extent. The standard Black Fatalis is comparatively more mundane, but even it famously wiped out an entire civilization overnight.
** Yama Tsukami is ''weird''. It looks nothing like a traditional dragon and is more like a gigantic floating octopus covered in moss and earth, possessing a mouth full of disturbingly human teeth. It isn't aggressive or malicious, but it can destroy entire ecosystems by devouring ''everything'' it flies over, including entire lakes and forests.
** In a series where wielding two different elements can make a monster especially dangerous, Alatreon having power over ''all'' of them is downright mindbreaking. While it doesn't go out of its way to cause chaos, its powers are so unstable that it's practically a natural disaster in the form of a dragon. Like with Fatalis, equipment made from its body parts are said to drive the wielder completely insane over time.
** Dire Miralis, which is treated less like a monster and more like Satan himself, is feared as a harbinger of the apocalypse. A titanic Elder Dragon that looks like a Fatalis carved out of volcanic rock, Dire Miralis's body can naturally generate lava that it fires from its "wings", which are basically an organic gun battery as opposed to any sort of proper animal appendage. It's so powerful and destructive that it can sink entire islands, and even when it isn't being actively malicious it can still boil entire oceans into lifeless wastelands just by stepping into them. Like with Fatalis, it's hinted that killing it doesn't even stop it for good, since its heart beats independently of its body and is rumored to be able to regenerate a completely new Dire Miralis over time.
** Gore Magala looks like the unholy spawn of Venom, a Xenomorph, and a dragon, and is such a biological anomaly that no one really knows ''what'' to classify it as, ultimately settling for a class simply labeled as "???". It's essentially a plague given life, and casually spreads a virus that turns monsters exposed to it into rabid berserkers. {{spoiler|It turns out to be the juvenile form of the Elder Dragon Shagaru Magala, which is still a dangerous plaguemaster in its own right despite being a "proper" life form... or as proper of a lifeform as an Elder Dragon can be, anyway}}.
** Gogmazios is framed as something truly horrible and unknowable, even by the standards of this series' Elder Dragons. It looks like a skeletal dragon submerged in a tar pit, which said tar being passively generated from its body and weaponized in the form of explosive projectiles and superheated tar lasers. And despite being roughly as big as Godzilla, it's a skillful flier and stealthy to the point that there are no recorded sightings prior to the player's encounter with the beast. Some players believe it to be a heavily mutated relative of the Gore Magala, while others believe it to be the fabled [[Mechanical Abomination|Equal Dragon Weapon]] from the series' old concept art and background lore. But if there's one thing the fandom can agree on, it's that its weird biology, bizarre powers, and mysterious nature make it feel like an obscene and otherworldly anomaly.
* ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy (2021 video game)|Guardians of the Galaxy]]'':
** The game's true villain is {{spoiler|The Magus, Adam Warlock's dark and evil desires given form}}. While he can take a more conventionally [[Humanoid Abomination|humanoid form]] boasting an obnoxious and eloquent [[Psychopathic Manchild]] persona, he spends most of the game as a formless, silent mass of metallic shadowy crystals that [[Mind Rape|warps the minds of millions, if not billions of people]], into becoming a cult of fanatical zealots that worship him. His influence spreads across the galaxy so damned fast that he almost feels like some sort of sentient virus, and unless you {{spoiler|have the Soul Stone on hand to seal him into}}? Then you can forget about defeating him, because he can't be killed. At all.
** Downplayed with the Dweller-In-Darkness. While it looks the part due to being a creepy, powerful squid-thing straight out of the mind of H.P. Lovecraft, and its bio describes it as an interdimensional horror, [[Fluffy Tamer|Lady Hellbender]] keeps it as a pet and the Guardians kill it without too much of a hassle. Definitely a lot less impressive than {{spoiler|Magus}}.
* ''[[Bugsnax]]'' gives us none other than {{spoiler|the Bugsnax themselves. Each and every one of them, no matter if they're a tiny Strabby, a lovable Bunger, or a mighty Mothza Supreme. Their cutesy "sentient food with googly eyes" appearances hide the fact that they're a sinister collective of malicious parasites capable of things far fouler than "merely" stealing the nutrients of their hosts}}.
** {{spoiler|Bugsnax prey upon the Muppet-like Grumpuses, specifically ones with insecurities and other severe mental problems, and compel them into eating them by making them believe that they're the answer to all their problems. Every time a Grumpus eats a Bugsnax, a part of their body turns into the Bugsnax that they just ate, or at the very least gains their properties. This continues until the Grumpus has been entirely "Snakified", and at that point their mind has been broken and twisted into that of an addict who will happily eat Bugsnax until they die.}}
** {{spoiler|When a Bugsnax-addicted Grumpus eats themselves to death, they fall apart and are reduced to a lifeless heap of "Snax" that are promptly absorbed by Snaktooth Island... which is itself a titanic Bugsnax amalgamation that merely ''looks'' like an island. Within the bowels of the island, or the Undersnax, the remains of the Snakified Grumpuses are transformed into newly born Bugsnax.}}
** {{spoiler|While most Bugsnax don't look freaky in the slightest (likely as a way to lure in more victims), there are two exceptions to this rule. The first is the "Queen of Bugsnax", a monstrous creature that Elizabert Megafig transformed into when hundreds of Bugsnax forcefed themselves to her in a bid to assimilate her. Thanks to her insane willpower, she assimilated ''them'' at the cost of turning into a freaky hybrid of the four big "boss" Bugsnax that can barely keep the rest under control. She isn't evil, and actually saves the player and their friends at the end when hordes of malicious Bugsnax drop the cutesey act and try to assimilate them all.}}
** {{spoiler|The other overtly eldritch Bugsnax is the Snaxsquatch, a cryptid that looks like a cluster of unrelated Bugsnax body parts clumsily mashed into a humanoid shape. It's an extension of Elizabert's will and never attacks anyone (save for if you go down the wrong path while exploring the Undersnax), but it freaks out and terrorizes the islanders in a bid to make them leave Snaktooth Island before it's too late.}}
* {{spoiler|The Radiance}} from ''[[Hollow Knight]]'' is {{spoiler|a cosmic horror that vaguely resembles a fluffy moth crossed with one of the Bible's more outlandish angels. She can invade the minds of bugs and manifest a viral plague that [[Mind Rape]]s them into feral shells of their former selves, and can stop existing entirely if enough people forget about her... only to rematerialize upon being remembered. Even her roars are mind-bending and otherworldly, sounding more like an angry ethereal choir instead of any kind of earthly creature.}}
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