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** Orian, a demonic hunter, is summoned by merely reading (not aloud) a mystic sigil. He arrives in our world by ripping his way out through the victim's mouth.
* A ''[[Hellblazer]]'' story seemed to be about this when people celebrating a [[Attack of the Town Festival|revived pagan festival]] became many interesting shades of crazy while some scientists were conducting mysterious tests at a nearby facility {{spoiler|it turns out that [[A Fete Worse Than Death|the festival itself was the cause]], since the scientists' equipment was not only unplugged but ''never worked to begin with''}}.
* In the one-shot ''Battle for the Cowl: Arkham Asylum'', the Hamburger Lady believes that her face is so deformed that anyone not already insane can't look upon it. Dr Arkham tries to prove her wrong by looking at her face... and is later implied to have gone insane because of it.
* One of ''Tharg's Future Shocks'' from ''[[2000 AD]]'' written by [[Alan Moore]] gave a spin on the alien parasite
* In ''[[Scott Pilgrim]]'', the rival band "Crash and the Boys" has [[The Power of Rock|a song that is so epic]], it knocks the audience unconscious for twenty to thirty minutes.
* ''National Lampoon'' once ran a comic about Ugly Deirdre, a little girl who was so hideous that the sight of her face caused people to lose bowel control. A kind plastic surgeon tried to fix Deirdre's face... and the results were so horrible that anyone who looked at her would violently blind or kill themselves. The cartoonist spared us the sight of the after-surgery face by covering it with a black box labeled "TOO HIDEOUS FOR PUBLICATION".
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* The Choir from ''[[The Fear Mythos]]'' can distort sounds...and make them shatter glass, rupture eardrums, and ''hemorrhage people's brains''. Luckily, most of the time they seem content to simply [[Driven to Suicide|drive you to suicide]], but if you piss them off...
* The ''[[Doug]]'' theme tune to [[The Nostalgia Critic]]. He called the resulting brain tumor "Pork Chop".
* Many of the eponymous creatures in ''[[STRANGERS|S T R A N G E R S]]'' have effects on people simlpy by being in their presence. For instance, contact with the gazedrene causes a spike in violence and aggresion around it, and those who live with the quiet simdroni will grow more and more antisocial until they
== Western Animation ==
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