Eldritch Abomination/Web Original

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • The Cjopaze from Ruby Quest is apparently the force responsible for downfall and corruption of the facility and also the reason why the Brig/reality has been tearing apart over the course of the story.
  • Homestuck
    • The Horrorterrors, monstrous beings which live beyond the outer rim of the microcosm of a game of Sburb. The only one known to exist outside of the game is capable of killing off all intelligent life in the galaxy with a single (probably psychic) sound. Oh, and there's a distinct possibility that they're among the good guys in the greater scheme of things.
    • You know the Squiddles? The ridiculously adorable plushies that Taste Like Diabetes? Yeah, turns out that they're humanity's subconscious manifestation of the Horrorterrors.
    • Lord English could also probably count, seeing as he's an immortal, dimension-hopping demon destined to consume the dead fragments of the universe. He does wear a pretty snazzy coat though.
  • Much like the Noble Circle of Horrorterrors above, the Dark Lord Inglip is one of the rare examples of a friendly Abomination...well, sort of.
  • Humorously addressed in an advertisement for Elder Sign.
  • The SCP Foundation deals with these things on a regular basis.
    • SCP-058 is a gigantic bovine heart with insect-like legs and tentacles that constantly speaks cryptic nonsense in a monotone voice.
    • SCP-682 is an extradimensional, shapeshifting reptilian creature with a murderous hatreds toward all life. It can regenerate from anything, including (but not limited to) vaporization, vivisection, being eaten alive and being shot into the sun. It has a disturbing tendency to cause any SCP with shapeshifting, transmuting or creation capabilities to produce another copy of itself (to the point of being a Running Gag). Oh, and SCP-343 (who is basically God) said, "he isn't one of mine; deal with him yourself". Yeah.
    • Whatever was responsible for the destruction of the world accessible through SCP-093.
    • SCP-1129 gives the impression of being an Eldritch Abomination. That is, anyone viewing it directly, or viewing a photo or video of it, immediately becomes convinced that it's intrinsically wrong, should not exist, and must be destroyed. However, looking at an illustration of it merely gives the impression that it's strange. Technically it shouldn't be able to exist in our universe, since it seems to occupy more than the usual three spatial dimensions, but that shouldn't cause people to react to it with hatred, loathing and fear.
  • In the Creepypasta "Candle Cove", the eponymous show itself is implied to maybe be one.
    • The "Jackal" in another called "The Cave" certainly is. Carvings of it found in the cave are all mostly scratched out. When the protagonist sees it, it's so incomprehensible it really looks rather like that.
  • The Slender Man easily qualifies for this.
  • The main antagonists of podcast Critical Hit are The Void, a group of insane Gods who inhabit the world's moon. They are all insane, powerful beyond belief and have wonderful names such as "She Who Slumbers In Agony".
  • The Protectors of the Plot Continuum have gone up against a version of Nineteen Eighty-Four's Big Brother - or at least something that identified itself as such - in the past, despite it being contrary to Big Brother's canonical treatment. The Mary Sues also count, though they're invariably incredibly beautiful humanoids, and there's been at least one instance where excessively Purple Prose created a sentient purple cloud which proceeded to take over the Word World and antagonise the agents; it went away as soon as the Author-wraith was dealt with, however.
  • Something Awful and /co/'s Dogscape, a colossal organic mass of dog parts smothering the entire globe leaving only trees growing puppy fetuses and occasional masses of milk teats as the only sustenance for the few remaining scraps of humanity.
  • Most of the holders are eldritch abominations, or have one nearby. Most of the stories include one somewhere.
  • Orion's Arm has the Transapients born of The Singularity, and especially the Archailects. The very least of them is as far beyond a baseline human as that human is beyond a non-provolved animal. They are so advanced that their individual thoughts are sentient, and their physical forms vary from "Moon Brains" to entire pocket universes with just a small piece sticking out into reality.
    • And most of those listed are "friendly" to humanity - there are also entities that turn entire colonies into masses of flesh and metal as "art".
    • Also, The Queen of Pain.
  • Zalgo. H̜́͑ͨͥȆ̵̶͖̟̯̹̔̇͒ͭ̇̈́ͧ̀ ̷̢̭͖̭̃ͫͣ̈́̐ͮ̚C̨̜̘̤̥̙̤͈̩ͤ̌̂ͫͯ͞Ö̷̧͔̱̯̟̬͓͎́̾͗̊̓̓͋ͤ̚͞M̟̌ͬͥ̽̎̒̃̂E͖̫͙̝̟̊ͬͭ̃͊̽͑͗͜S͖̅ͫ͊̋̄̊
  • Anonymous is often portrayed as this.
  • BEN is most likely one of these.
  • In Fine Structure, the Big Bad is an Omnicidal Maniac type, and there's another one ("The Imprisoning God") keeping him somewhat in check. technically the Big Good is one as well, but he spends most of the story as a human being.
  • In There Will Be Brawl, we get the multiple Mr. Game And Watches once they use their Final Smash. This is especially surprising because they are seen all over the city earlier, socializing and holding down normal jobs.
  • Little Lenny Penguin And The Great Red Flood is chock full of these. Most are antagonists, but the occasional friendly eldritch protagonist comes along and helps Lenny and the gang (Wrigley, Quack, partially Half-Face). They reside in a hellish Dark World where the vast majority of the story takes place.
  • The Entity from Atop the Fourth Wall. For such a campy, silly show about a Adult Child who reads comic books, this thing is Nightmare Fuel. For one thing, it seems to lack physical form. And from there, it all goes downhill. It's so deadly, the guy fighting it became a Multiversal Conqueror feared throughout creation just to stop it.
  • Todd in the Shadows has made a Running Gag out his belief that Lady Gaga is "a demon from hell".

Todd: By the end of next year, she's gonna just be an enormous blob of protoplasm, crushing the world.
Todd: Part of me resents the idea that she's the pop star that it's safe to like. And I don't mean safe, in that she's less likely to devour you.

    • During his encounter with the Makeover Fairy, the Fairy saw what was under Todd's mask which, given her reaction, seems to be based on non-Euclidian Geometry.
  • Lambda features the beast called "Ichi". It is said to guard a power source called the White Pool.

"Its horrifying appearance cannot be fathomed by a thousand wise men. They would go mad before seeing its partiality. Its unrecognizably twisted mind – if that is indeed what it is – cannot be predicted by a thousand prophets. They would perish before probing its shallowest depths. Its power cannot be harnessed by a thousand magi. They would melt and explode from its uncontrollable flow."

Retrieved from "https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Eldritch_Abomination/Web_Original?oldid=2040755"