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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==

* ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' had a version of [[Clark Ashton Smith]]'s Abhoth (see above).

** The nuckalavee from the Basic/Expert/etc D&D system lives in fouled water and kills small animals by its very proximity. A subversion in that it's not a product of pollution or a [[Green Aesop]], and it looks like a skinned centaur with a [[Fish People]] head rather than a pile of trash. Based on a monster from Scottish legend.

** The ''Ravenloft'' Darklord Malus Scleris rules a domain that is the horror of unlimited pollution made real, and it is filled with these kind of monsters. Scleris is a pre-industrial version of a [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]; his [[Freudian Excuse]] is that his father, a druid, only cared about his work, not about his son, so in return he hates Nature for taking his father away from him. His MO is control of horrible and disgusting diseases.

** Koffing and Wheezing arguably count as this as well. They're based on pollution, but they're more inspired by smog that slime, although they do possess the ability to spit globs of slime.

** ''Black'' and ''White'' introduced the garbage Pokemon Trubbish and Garbodor.

* The Slag Golems enemy group in ''[[City of Villains]]''.

* ''[[Digimon]]'' has Raremon, a crawling, blubbery pile of rotten flesh entangled with random cybernetics. It smells like dead fish and vomits as an attack. Raremon is one of several "garbage" type Digimon, monster who basically failed their evolution. Others include Sukamon, a living pile of feces, the slug-like Numemon, and Garbagemon, which even lives in a trash can.

* ''[[Demons Crest]]'' on the SNES has the boss "Crawler," a huge mass of melted-looking flesh that takes on a semi-humanoid form after it swallows some bones. It can spawn zombie-like creatures from its body.

* The smoky Progg from ''[[Pikmin]]'' could count too as it is a horrifying crawling cloud of polllution which instantly kills any pikmin it touches. Not even unpicked ones are safe from its wrath.

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