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Examples of [[{{TOPLEVELPAGE}}]]s in [[{{SUBPAGENAME}}]] include:
* ''[[Ow, My Sanity]]'' features an [[Unwanted Harem]] of
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]'': Judging by [[Brain Bleach|Kat's reaction]] [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=336 upon seeing him], the insect-[[Psychopomp|Guide]] Ketrak [[Take Our Word for It|apparently]] ''looks'' like something from Lovecraft's nightmares. But [[Dark Is Not Evil|he's quite friendly once you get to know him]].▼
▲* ''[[Ow, My Sanity]]'' features an [[Unwanted Harem]] of elderich abominations (who take human female forms).
▲* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'': Judging by [[Brain Bleach|Kat's reaction]] [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=336 upon seeing him], the insect-[[Psychopomp|Guide]] Ketrak [[Take Our Word for It|apparently]] ''looks'' like something from Lovecraft's nightmares. But [[Dark Is Not Evil|he's quite friendly once you get to know him]].
** Also how {{spoiler|Coyote and Ysengrim}} look in the ether. {{spoiler|Coyote}} in particular can best be described as a starry night sky with ''lots'' of [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|teeth]] and [[Extra Eyes|eyes]]. When Annie sees them she is left in awe by how magnificent, beautiful and terrifying they are.
** At the start of year 9, the girls meet a giant [
** In a [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=301 guest comic], [[Ugly Cute|Zimmy]] is something like this
* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'': The {{spoiler|Paa'nuri}}
** The final story arc gives their reason for this: {{spoiler|"baryonic" life had been killing them by using teraport technology to travel FTL. It was an "us or them" situation.}}
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20111225072626/http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030528 Mind Wedgier] from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. "To a Mind Wedgier, our flesh is a crunchy candy shell to the nougat center of our spirit."▼
* In ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130509005412/http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-11-09 it's revealed] that {{spoiler|the Infernomancer}} has become one...▼
▲* The [http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=030528 Mind Wedgier] from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. "To a Mind Wedgier, our flesh is a crunchy candy shell to the nougat center of our spirit."
** ... but he is nothing compared to his master, dubbed the Beast. Appearing as a gigantic eye, tentacles, and many, many teeth, its nature is so ''alien'' that it is effectively invisible to Dominic's Second Sight. Dominic, one of the most powerful seers alive and a master of mental combat, further empowered by Luna's [[Black Magic]], was barely able to fight off a tiny fragment of the Beast that tried to claim {{spoiler|Celesto Morgan's}} soul.▼
▲* In ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'', [http://dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2008-11-09 it's revealed] that {{spoiler|the Infernomancer}} has become one...
▲** ... but is nothing compared to his master, dubbed the Beast. Appearing as a gigantic eye, tentacles, and many, many teeth, its nature is so ''alien'' that it is effectively invisible to Dominic's Second Sight. Dominic, one of the most powerful seers alive and a master of mental combat, further empowered by Luna's [[Black Magic]], was barely able to fight off a tiny fragment of the Beast that tried to claim {{spoiler|Celesto Morgan's}} soul.
* ''[[The Order of the Stick]]'':
*
▲*** That's Miranda's mentor, and from [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2010-06-18 what] [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2010-12-14 else] we've seen she's the only archmage who isn't one.
▲* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'': The Snarl is an incomprehensible being born from deific rage and strife, kept in check from destroying the world and the gods only by <s>five</s> two measly gates. He's depicted as nothing but lines of blue and purple energy in a very vaguely humanoid form.
* ''[[8-Bit Theater]]'':
** The Cultists
▲*** Although [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?|he's really a big softy at heart]], as we saw from his relationship with O-Chul.
** Early in the series, it's revealed that the reason Black Mage must wear a hat that conceals his face is that he is a human nexus of dark energy and seeing his visage for only a moment would... well, [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/06/18/episode-044-what-the-hell-just-happened-in-survivor-8-bit-style-part-9/ do this
▲* The Cultists in ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|8-bit Theater]]'' worship and summon eldritch abominations on a regular basis: First there's a nameless creature referred to as an "eye-stalk" which [[Mind Rape|mind rapes]] anyone that makes eye contact with it (in addition to transporting the victim to its own pocket dimension). Then there's major enemy Ur/Jnn'efur, who fits the "fragment of the true being" bill.
** Sarda may also qualify, having a non-linear view of time and being older than the universe. {{spoiler|Chaos is definitely this, and emerges from Sarda's mortal shell.}}▼
▲** Early in the series, it's revealed that the reason Black Mage must wear a hat that conceals his face is that he is a human nexus of dark energy and seeing his visage for only a moment would... well, [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2001/06/18/episode-044-what-the-hell-just-happened-in-survivor-8-bit-style-part-9/ do this.] The few times he drops the [[Idiot Ball]] are downright scary, and it's implied he could potentially destroy the universe.
▲** Sarda may also qualify, having a non-linear view of time and being older than the universe.
** [http://www.nuklearpower.com/comics/8-bit-theater/ep1154.png The epilepsy llama.] Even Sarda's not 100% sure what it is.
* And then, there's ''[[The Unspeakable Vault of Doom]]''. [[Catch Phrase|Yum Yum!]]
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* Though they don't really appear in the comic proper, [http://missmab.com/Demo/Cubi04.php this tidbit concerning cubi dream surfing] reveals that these creatures do exist in the world of ''[[Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures]]''.
{{quote| '''Fa'lina:''' Cubi aren't the only creatures who can lurk into dreams...}}
* ''[[Grim Tales from Down Below]]'', being a fan-comic based mostly on ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* ''[http://www.ghastlycomic.com/d/20010715.html Ghastly's Ghastly Comic]'' plays with this trope, just like it does every other one. Cthulhu is a baby
* Gravehouse of ''[http://www.necessarymonsters.com Necessary Monsters]'' turns out to be much more tentacle-monstery than [[Living Bodysuit|the human he looks like]].
{{quote|'''Gravehouse:''''{{spoiler|"I crawled into his body and ate him up from the inside out. Until all that was left was skin and memory. Tell me... would you like to meet the real me?}}}}
* ''[[DM of the Rings]]'': [http://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=1168 "never try to scare a Call of Cthulhu player"]
* Played with occasionally in Kris Straub's ''[[Chainsawsuit]]''. The designer of ''[[Braid (Video Game)|Braid]]'' [http://chainsawsuit.com/2008/08/20/strip-45/ is one of them], though a quite approachable <s>one</s> One.
* Sam Starfall from ''[[Freefall]]'' is heavily implied, under his [[Mobile Suit Human|nauseatingly cute spacesuit]], to look like one of these - he's been called [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2500/fc02413.htm "tentacled horror from beyond my stars"] at least once (see also the next page). But despite appearances, he's ''not'' a pit-spawned soul-eating obscenity against nature from before time (no matter what the Mayor thinks), just a charming con artist with tentacles. And despite how it looks like, his tentacles move entirely inside our continuum. He got this certified.▼
▲* Sam Starfall from ''[[Freefall]]'' is heavily implied, under his [[Mobile Suit Human|nauseatingly cute spacesuit]], to look like one of these. But despite appearances, he's ''not'' a pit-spawned soul-eating obscenity against nature from before time (no matter what the Mayor thinks), just a charming con artist with tentacles.
{{quote| '''Helix:''' Remember to keep your helmet on when you're photographed. They had to take your picture down in the post office because it gave seeing-eye dogs heart attacks.}}
* ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'' has one. The "heroine" herself explains him best:
{{quote| '''Wonderella:''' Meet [http://nonadventures.com/2007/02/03/victorian-secret/ Spirral.] Duder's a 300-story ''thingy'' who travels the galaxy, mind-controlling millions with his Spirral Spores.}}
* The Sisters Of Twilight from ''[[
* Joel from ''[[Concession]]'' becomes something like an [[Eldritch Abomination]] when {{spoiler|he is influenced by his sister Miranda's power}}. There is some hidden background material that suggests {{spoiler|all ghosts become these eventually.}}
* Some of Lovecraft's Elder Gods make an appearance in the [http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=507 Games We Play In Hell] arc of ''[[Jack (
* ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'', naturally, has its own [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF154-Zuthulus_Resurrection.jpg cynical take] on the subject.▼
▲* Some of Lovecraft's Elder Gods make an appearance in the [http://www.pholph.com/strip.php?id=5&sid=507 Games We Play In Hell] arc of ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]''.
* ''[[
▲* ''[[Perry Bible Fellowship]]'', naturally, has its own [http://www.pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF154-Zuthulus_Resurrection.jpg cynical take] on the subject.
▲* ''[[Main/ptitlei 84 z 7 dqh|Captain SNES]]'' has The Sovereign of Sorrow. In a multiverse of Super Nintendo games, she easily shrugs off attacks from final bosses, destroys game worlds in a few minutes, and most terrifyingly of all, reveals to characters that all their life's hardship has been created for the entertainment of others. Mortals are only capable of interpreting her form; only Gods cab see her for what she is. Her mission: mercy killing the entire multiverse.
* In ''[[The Salvation War]]'' setting, according to [[Word of God]], whatever lives on the opposite side of the Minos Portal in Hell (the portal through which the human dead arrive in Hell) exists in a reality so different and alien that nothing from either "Universe-One" (Earth) or any of the "Universe-Twos" (Heaven, Hell, and other assorted "higher-level" realities) can exist on it. Nothing either living or mechanical from either set of universes that passes through the portal has ever returned.
* The [[World Building/Deepspawn|Deepspawn]]
*
** Most notably out of
* [[The Holders Series]] is incredibly fond of this trope.
* Popsicle Pete is a goofy ginger with a shit-eating grin in what appears to be a marching band outfit, originally created by Popsicle to advertise their wares. Then [[Seanbaby]] got a hand on the ads he was featured in. Now
** Also from Cracked, Mario Lopez. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120307161545/http://www.cracked.com/blog/extra-mario-lopez-has-no-soul/ Yes, really].
* In ''[[DC Nation]]'', an OC definitely fits the bill. His home reality does to our standards, but consider how his world sees him: he has powers it cannot control, he can shapeshift, teleport, bend his physical abilities to [[Beyond the Impossible]] levels, and was so dangerous to that reality that it caused a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] and then shunted him to the reality of DC Nation...
* ''[[New York Magician]]'': Hello, {{spoiler|Cthulhu}}!
*
* In the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'', Lovecraft was ''right'', sort of; he just got the details wrong. The Great Old Ones invaded this reality at the beginning of time, were imprisoned by the Powers That Be (or at least the Powers That Were at the Time), and in modern day the heroes have to deal with their remnants, their cultists, and their attempts to reinvade reality.
** Dagon, an evil sorcerer, is a primordial sea-god fused into the body of a modern human. It even resembles a mind flayer from [[Dungeons and Dragons]]. Just seeing him tends to [[Squick|make people very, very uncomfortable]].
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* In ''[[Freemans Mind|Freeman's Mind]]'', Gordon thinks the bullsquids look like these, often referring to them as Cthulhu Dogs.
* H-M Brown's ''[[Shell]]'' introduces us to a strange creature that is difficult to describe and has led those who saw it into madness.
* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'':
** {{spoiler|Pandora}} looks like this whenever she's not a [[Creepy Child]] or adult woman.
** Then there's [http://egscomics.com/?date=2010-04-09 this ... thing], which turns out to be a subversion as [[Body Surf|Sirleck]] [[Was Once a Man]].
* Darumatha, the Demon-Dragon of Broken Hours (with a name like ''that''...) in ''[[The Water Phoenix King]].'' It might appear in the form of one of your dead friends, fatal injuries and all, or it might take its ''real'' form of a vast serpentine coil of living metal scales, fangs, and spikes reaching all the way to the outer stars, a manifestation capable of making strong men vomit in terror, or as a charming young woman in evening dress who prattles cheerfully on about cutting hearts out. Or just go back and forth between all these shapes, apparently at random. It's really hard to say which is the worst!
* [[
* ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'':
*
**
** To give an idea on scale, [http://www.mspaintadventures.com/scratch.php?s=6&p=004330 read on for a few pages from here.] That is a whale it is eating. It is merely an ''emissary'' to the Horrorterrors.
* ''[[Guttersnipe]]'' features [[H.P. Lovecraft]] as a sort of 1920s [[Stephenie Meyer]], complete with eldritch abominations standing in for sparkly vampires.
* ''[[Goblins]]'':
** The horrifying [http://www.goblinscomic.com/03252011/ Mr. Fingers]. Who just [http://www.goblinscomic.com/04262011/ got loose]. And [[Lock and Key Puzzle|that's]] [[Death Trap|just]] [[Hope Spot|part]] [[Oh Crap|of]] [[It Got Worse|the problem]]... Later it is detailed to be know as a ''Lesser'' Finged Horror. Which implies the existence of its bigger brothers.<!--Someone who knows the comic better than me unkludge these potholes please.-->
** Soulspike Devourer, a monster who isn't anything close to [[Eldritch Abomination]] in any other [[Dungeons and Dragons]] setting, is one here. Why? Because it's a ''4th Edition'' monster in a world based on ''3.5 Edition rules'', which means the rules of the Universe doesn't work on this thing. It can just grab a person and eat its soul, because it's so different from known rules that there is no saving throw against it.
* [http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2016 Apparently], in
* [
* ''[[
* ''[[The Packrat]]'' has the Demon of Waste ([http://www.umop.com/art/kb014.jpg December 2010]).
* [[Insistent Terminology|Space monsters]] are known to exist in the world of ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''. They're planet sized. People who know of this pray they don't notice the earth.
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