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{{trope}}
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The name originates from classic scifi/horror writer Mr. [[HP Lovecraft]], whose characteristic creations often seemed equal parts Nightmare Fuel and biology textbook.
A subtrope of [[Bad Powers, Bad People]], usually, possibly because [[Magic Is Evil]]. May be a useful side-effect of [[The Virus]] or [[The Corruption]]. Often manifests as [[Combat Tentacles]], [[You Are Who You Eat|cannibalistic]] and [[Body Horror|horrific]] [[Shapeshifting]] (sometimes [[Partial Transformation|partial shapshifting]]), [[Bloody Murder]], or a [[Bee
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** And perhaps one of the tamest. At least Bruce maintains a totally humanoid form. There are a number of gamma mutates who aren't ''nearly'' so lucky...
* Top Cow seems to be fond of this. With two parts of their Triarchy, ''[[Witchblade (Comic Book)|Witchblade]]'' and ''[[The Darkness]]'' fitting the description. [[Combat Tentacles]] being just the start for both powers. The third of them, [[Light Is Not Good|the Angelus]], is more of a [[Holy Hand Grenade]].
* It's possible that [[Green Lantern|Guy Gardner]]'s [[Shapeshifter Weapon|Warrior powers]] weren't supposed to invoke this trope, but the terrible '90s art on his [[Nineties Anti
* Most of the characters from [[Grant Morrison]]'s run on the [[Doom Patrol]].
** Perhaps most emblematically, Freak. A parasitic tentacle beast lives in her body. While she has total control over its tendrils... ''ick''.
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** The Halosians can animate their vomit into a seperate entity.
** When starved, Delvians produce venomous buds from their skin and exhale clouds of paralysing spores.
** E'Alet, the villain from "A Prefect Murder", could [[Bee
== Mythology ==
* The warp-spasm of Cuchulainn from [[Celtic Mythology]] is all this. Think the [[Incredible Hulk]], [
** Longrunning [[Two Thousand AD (Comic Book)|2000 AD]] strip ''[[Slaine]]'' (being a fusion of Celtic mythology, Robert E Howard novels and the good old fashioned, classic 2000 AD, punk aesthetic) has its eponymous hero (an appropriate fusion of Cuchulainn and Conan, with a punk aesthetic) warp-spasm similarly.
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* The hero of [[FPS]] ''[[The Darkness]]'', Jackie Estacado, sprouts a pair of snapping serpentine demon-heads from his shoulders, as well as producing dark tentacles to impale foes and destroy walls as needed.
* In the first ''[[Baten Kaitos]]'' game, {{spoiler|Geldoblame}} is transformed into a hideous deformed monstrosity after {{spoiler|infusing himself with the power of Malpercio}}. [[Jiggle Physics]] are involved, which is as [[Squick|unpleasant]] as it sounds.
* ''[[Bio Shock]]'s'' "Insect Swarm" plasmid causes a small hive-like growth to form on your palm, which allows you to ''[[Bee
** Most of the other plasmids, which are injected into yourself in order to [[Lego Genetics|rapidly modify your genetic structure]], combine this with [[Elemental Powers]].
* Similarly to ''[[Warhammer]]'' and ''[[Warhammer 40000 (Tabletop Game)|Warhammer 40000]]'', [[ADOM]] features various "corruptions" that you eventually gain after enough exposure to the forces of Chaos (from traps and Chaos beings, but also simply being deep in a dungeon). These most commonly take the form of Lovecraftian superpowers - although as "superpowers", they're mostly examples of [[Blessed With Suck]]. Also similarly to the ''Warhammer'' games, taking enough corruption will turn you into a "writhing mass of primal Chaos".
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* The [[Soul Series]] has a couple of examples. The various forms of Nightmare have a [[Red Right Hand|horribly disfigured and mutated arm]], and Abyss, the ultimate form of Zasalamel...[[Body Horror|yeah.]]
* In the [[Scott Pilgrim (Video Game)|Scott Pilgrim video game]], Todd has [http://paulrobertson.mechafetus.com/toddingram_freakout_a.gif this attack].
** It's a [[Shout
* [[Baldurs Gate|Baldur's Gate]]. In Shadows of Amn, the main character eventually gains the power to transform into the Slayer, a giant demonic creature with huge claws that's nearly unstoppable. Unfortunately, there are [[Blessed With Suck|side effects]].
* ''[[Dead Space (Franchise)|Dead Space]]'': Unitologists believe that the power of the Marker will allow them to become a new, immortal form of life... [[Gone Horribly Right|and they're not wrong]]. It just so happens that this "immortality" involves losing your mind and having your body transmuted into a specifically-formed zombie with no purpose than to harvest biological matter to propagate your species.
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* Being what amounts to a [[Cute Monster Girl|cute little girl with an eldritch tentacled horror attached to her back]], ''[[Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten (Video Game)|Disgaea 4 a Promise Unforgotten]]'''s Desco naturally comes with quite a few of these.
* Nero Chaos in ''[[Tsukihime]]'' is a magus whose entire body consists of the loosely drafted together biomass of 666 wild animals, beasts and legendary monsters that he can either send out in their true form or, more in tune with this trope, use partially, such as generating black tentacles, fangs, claws and such out of his flesh.
* Being a direct and very obvious [[Shout
* Subverted with Double, from ''[[Skullgirls (Video Game)|Skullgirls]]''. She is an [[Eldritch Abomination]] who normally looks like she would possess this kind of thing but in reality, she's a [[Voluntary Shapeshifter]] with the ability to assume the form of any of the other fighters and use their powers in battle. Ms. Fortune is a sort-of example (her power comes not from the ability to mutate herself to fight but her undying body and nigh-infinite [[Healing Factor]], though she can do things that fit such as ensnare opponents in her muscle fibers).
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