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[[File:Whale_Eating_9834.jpg|link=Homestuck|frameright| See that little thing few of the tentacles points at? That's it's mouth. It's currently eating a whale.]]

** At the start of year 9, the girls meet a giant [[wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merostomata| Merostomatazon]]--basically a horseshoe crab from your nightmares, with 47 eyes (and 15 not-eyes) and a brain that functions in a different dimension. {{spoiler|Her name is Lindsey. Not only is she friendly, but she has a Ph.D in structural physics and she's an accredited couples therapist.}}

** In a [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=301 guest comic], [[Ugly Cute|Zimmy]] is something like this --— an oculist goes all Abdul Al-Hazred after looking into [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|her eye]].

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'': The {{spoiler|Paa'nuri}} (with a mobile apostrophe) are fall pretty neatly into this, being entities made entirely of {{spoiler|Dark Matter}}, and can only be detected by traditional matter through the gravitic disturbances they generate and also use as weapons. {{spoiler|OnlyOne is only ever "seen" on a gravy-screen.}} To give some idea of just how implacable and beyond normal life they are: It's implied by one joke that either their term for other races translates directly as "annoying", or they don't actually have a word for other races and just call them annoying. On a less comedic front, they engaged in a long-term plan spanning over a hundred-thousand years to {{spoiler|wipe out the Milky Way galaxy and everyone in it}}, apparently due solely to a grudge they had been holding for at least four million years.

{{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 and& Mandy]]'', have some as well. The artist obviously enjoys himself drawing these.{{context|...what are they?}}

* ''[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. Onehere, and one of the main characters gets stuck babysitting when he tries to summon him. (Note: The linked page is Safe For Work. The comic as a whole is very much [[NSFW]].)

* Gravehouse of ''[http://www.necessarymonsters.com Necessary Monsters]'' turns out to be much more tentacle-monstery than [[Living Bodysuit|the human he looks like]]. ({{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?}}")

*:* {{spoiler|Harp's Bane}}'s [[One- Winged Angel]] form is one of these, too.

* 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.

{{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 ''[[Mind MistressMindmistress]]''. They're [[Time Abyss|much older than Elder Gods]] and things they can do to you are horrifying.

* 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.}}

* The [[World Building/Deepspawn|Deepspawn]]. Especially this passage "eventually undergo a radical mutation, growing and hardening into a vaguely serpentine, coiling behemoth best described as a horrific combination of squid and serpent. Mottled exo-skeletal plates and supple, strong muscle extend along a long, ridged, coiling body, ending in a fierce head with an expanding four-pronged beak or maw. Several clusters of ferocious barbed tentacles serve as limbs, each glowing with fell energies, and especially ancient specimens' fins expand to the size of vast wings. The many eyes of the abhorrent head are portals into a soulless -- but dreadfully aware -- abyss."

* [[Bog Leech|The Insidious [[Bogleech]], uses the concept often in his on-site comic strip, cartoons and other drawings; and then there's his Mortasheen stuff...

** Most notably out of saidhis [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen] series of monsters, everything under the Unknown section fits this, from the Vault (which can go through solid matter like it was nothing and is spawned from [[Alien Geometries]]) to the Lobotomask (Aa Horriblehorrible face-type thing that eats your mind).

* 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, in his new comics, posted onSeanbaby's ''[[Cracked.com]]'' comics, he is... still a goofy ginger with a shit-eating grin in what appears to be a marching band outfit, but rather than offering frozen treats, he offers unimaginable terror and suffering. {{smallcaps|{{color|red|None of you are safe!N}}}}

** 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... Andand wiped his name from all existence, so that itno cannot be said in reference to him so that noneone left in his reality could call him back. His pseudonym of Shift seems to be working well enough now, though. His horrible PTSD from the zombies however has made him into a mumbling lunatic. At least he's a good guy.

* Also fromFrom ''[[Something Awful]]'' (more specifically, [[Zoofights]]), we have Swanmass. It starts out as a bunch of swans with gorilla arms, but after the Zoofights people reanimate it with [[Black Magic]], [[ItFrom Bad Getsto Worse]].|it Muchgets much, much worse]].

* [[Magic and PhysicsMagicandphysics]] has SPDA, who goes fishing for [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]. That's right fishing for them. Why? Because he wants to [[Humanoid Abomination|dissect them for fun]].

* ''[[Homestuck]]'':* The Horrorterrors of the [[Eldritch Location|Furthest Ring]] befit the classic definition of vast monsters of varying forms of hideousness and deformity, with plenty of tentacles. There's probably hundreds of them, arranged in several tiers of power, the strongest being the Noble Circle of Horrorterros. They can communicate with the Derse dreamers of every session of Sburb owing to the [[Eldritch Location]] nature of the Furthest Ring, and are intended to provide some level of guidance. In the kids' session, [[Black Magician Girl|Rose]] - previously well-read in their lore - channels their power through her Thorns of Oglogoth and it proves to have a less-than-desirable effect on her sanity; on Earth, the cartoon series [[Tastes Like Diabetes|Squiddles!]] is actually mankind's subconscious representation of the Horrorterrors, and Rose wears a repurposed Squiddles! shirt.

*** [http://mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=004748 This is pretty much what they look like.] Watch it until [[Schmuck Bait|the very end]]. And keep in mind, something is somehow mass-murdering these things. [[Madness Mantra|they just want to be tangle buddies]]

* ''[[Guttersnipe]]'' features [[H.P. Lovecraft]] as a sort of 1920s [[Stephenie Meyer]], complete with eldritch abominations standing in for sparkly vampires.

** 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 thea ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' [[Alternate Universe]] that'''wheres onethe thingresult wentof differently[[For soWant everything'sof different'''a Nail]], gazing upon T-rex and Utahraptor's true colours would cause one to [[Go Mad From the Revelation]].

* [httphttps://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1815 Randy], the eternal, from ''[[Questionable Content]]''.

* ''[[Xkcdxkcd]]'' features [httphttps://xkcd.com/1013/ Sheeple].