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* Similarly, the aliens in ''[[The X Files]]'' were, for the entirety of the first season, represented by slo-mo and flashlights.

* The Family Channel had a short-lived series called ''Scariest Places on Earth'' which would use a night vision camera to capture the horrified expressions of those visiting the eponymous places and seeing the eponymous scary stuff, but that was it. Short-lived because '''nobody''' who watched the show once was stupid enough to want to watch it ''twice''.

* The new series of ''[[~~Doctor Who (TV)|~~Doctor Who]]'' season 4 episode "Midnight" has a chillingly effective Ultimate Evil. Unlike all of the Doctor's other adversaries, it has no shape or form and is only known by its influence on others. The Doctor proves to be utterly mystified and helpless against it, and {{spoiler|were it not for a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by the tour guide}}, it would have succeeded in killing the Doctor. In its one appearance, it evokes the same fear from the Doctor that the Doctor usually inspires in other alien menaces, such as the Daleks.

* The new series of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' season 4 episode "Midnight" has a chillingly effective Ultimate Evil. Unlike all of the Doctor's other adversaries, it has no shape or form and is only known by its influence on others. The Doctor proves to be utterly mystified and helpless against it, and {{spoiler|were it not for a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] by the tour guide}}, it would have succeeded in killing the Doctor. In its one appearance, it evokes the same fear from the Doctor that the Doctor usually inspires in other alien menaces, such as the Daleks.

* Reavers in ''[[Firefly]]'' are never seen on-screen; only their ships and the after-effects of an attack are. This got turned on its head when they got revealed in ''[[The Movie|Serenity]]'' and [[Villain Decay|proved, once again, why]] [[Tropes Are Not Bad]].

* ''[[Smallville]]'' portrays [[Darkseid]] as this.

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** Oh, and let's not forget what said Ultimate Sin entailed back at the Spirit Temple. With the Water Dragon and the monks gone, [[Eldritch Abomination|-something-]] slipped in through the cracks of reality. The exact nature of this entity is never revealed; its simplest form is a giant, glowing green orb. It mostly works through demons, and your final confrontation with it is just copies of you. Because it doesn't belong in the natural order of the world, the gods are powerless against it, and it won't give you so much as a name. [[The Devil|Oh, and it's the living embodiment of hate, fear, darkness, and suffering apparently.]] It should tell you something about Jade Empire that this thing is a side-quest.

* Subverted in ''[[Darkened Skye]]'', where the [[Big Bad]], known as "He whose face must not be glimpsed" and universally feared by all, is ultimately revealed to literally be a tiny maggot. As the heroine puts it "He Whose Face Must Not Be Glimpsed? That's because he's too small to see!".

** Deliberately or not, this might be a [[Shout Out]] to [[Captain Marvel]]'s enemy, Mister Mind. When he first appeared in the 1940's, it was over a year of comics before he appeared as anything but a voice over a radio, sending his Monster Society of Evil to wreak havoc. When he was finally revealed, his true form was... a superintelligent alien caterpillar about 4 inches long, wearing glasses.

** Deliberately or not, this might be a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Captain Marvel]]'s enemy, Mister Mind. When he first appeared in the 1940's, it was over a year of comics before he appeared as anything but a voice over a radio, sending his Monster Society of Evil to wreak havoc. When he was finally revealed, his true form was... a superintelligent alien caterpillar about 4 inches long, wearing glasses.

* The Dark Master of ''[[The Legend of Spyro]]'' series was not seen in the first two games (Except in animated cut-scenes which are not very representive of his real appearance) or heard, until he finally appears at the ''very end'' of ''Dawn of the Dragon'', fufilling the trope completely. And he actually is every bit as horrific, powerful, and [[Complete Monster|monsterous]] as he'd been made out to be. He's a Purple Dragon like Spyro, but he's far larger than normal and pretty much looks like a dragon straight out of the pits of Hell. He's also an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] whose sole goal is to destroy the world, and he comes so close to succeeding the world is already starting to break apart when {{spoiler|Spyro lets loose a [[World Healing Wave]]}}.

* The eponymous ''[[Siren (Video Game)|Siren]]''. You hear its cry -- something like a distorted, unearthly air raid siren, in a play on the dual meaning of the word -- but you never actually get to see it. The [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]] skips right over it, taking you straight from the shibito to Datatsushi, The God That Fell, the creator of the siren, the shibito, and the red water.

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* ''[[He Man and The Masters of The Universe (Animation)|He Man and The Masters of The Universe]]'' and She-Ra gave us Horde Prime, the [[Man Behind the Man|man behind both Skeletor and Hordak]]. All we ever saw of him was a greenish glow and a huge mechanical fist.

* Similar to Darth Vader, [[Big Bad|Slade's]] mask is generally used as a symbol of absolute evil on ''[[Teen Titans (Animation)|Teen Titans]]''. Unlike Vader, the viewer ''never'' gets to see what's beneath it- whenever it's torn off, what's revealed is either one of Slade's robot body-doubles, a quickly-concealed silhouette, or an undead skull. Of course, in the orignal comics Slade's a fairly ordinary looking middle-aged man, so the animated version probably shares that appearance.

** Subverted with Trigon from the same series, who for his first few appearances is just a deep voice, [[Red Eyes Take Warning|glowing red eyes]], and a silhouette, but is ultimately revealed in all his glory when he breaks through into the mortal world. Think [[Satan]] ''on steroids''.

** Subverted with Trigon from the same series, who for his first few appearances is just a deep voice, [[Red Eyes, Take Warning|glowing red eyes]], and a silhouette, but is ultimately revealed in all his glory when he breaks through into the mortal world. Think [[Satan]] ''on steroids''.

** Well, actually, we see Trigon in the very first season. Or at least, we see Raven's Inner Darknesss and it looks exactly like him. So more of an inversion, or perhaps a zig-zag, with avatar of villain revealed-> true form of villain concealed-> true form revealed.

* Nergal JR of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]'' takes the form of a small boy with green eyes, as his real form shown off screen in his first appearance freaked out anyone who saw. However, in a much later episode when Billy angers him, he takes the form of a demonic creature for a few seconds. Whether this is his true form is uncertain, but it looks horrifying enough to be so.

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