Digital Abomination: A virtual eldritch being originating from cyberspace.Botanical Abomination: An eldritch organism which appears to be an extremely bizarre and unnatural plant.Animalistic Abomination: An eldritch creature which somewhat resembles or behaves like a more monstrous version of an ordinary animal.Interestingly, while most angels in The Bible look like what one would expect from religious art, some of them do appear as this type. Angelic Abomination: Angels which look extremely bizarre and alien, instead of being more humanoid.Alliance with an Abomination: When an ordinary mortal teams up with a very powerful eldritch being.Adorable Abomination: An eldritch being which actually looks rather cute (though maybe deceptively so, or perhaps it's genuinely friendly).Adaptational Abomination: An entity which was not so eldritch in the original story becomes more of an abomination in the adaptation.Thanks to the nature of this trope, potential Real Life examples are very vague and questionable at best. However, an Eldritch Abomination who has clear agency and is sufficiently heinous by the standards of the story can qualify as a Complete Monster. May be the cause of a Bizarro Apocalypse.ĭo not confuse this with Complete Monster, which is more about evil than (physical) monstrousness, especially since a Complete Monster isn't necessarily a literal monster, and an Eldritch Abomination isn't always evil. An Eldritch Location is not necessarily an Eldritch Abomination that takes the form of a Genius Loci, but it can be. Sister Trope to Brown Note Being, since eldritch or abomination doesn't describe every creature which causes a Brown Note, nor does every Eldritch Abomination cause one (though it is common for them). When regular humans look like (or legitimately are) Eldritch Abominations to other species, that's Humans Are Cthulhu. More candidates for being Eldritch Abominations are: God of Evil, God of Chaos, The Old Gods, Paradox Person, and Starfish Aliens. The monster must break the established internal logic of the work.įor specific storylines involving Eldritch Abominations, see the Did You Just Index Cthulhu? page. Though note that a monster being really powerful, weird or ugly is not, in and of itself, an example of this trope. Subtrope of Our Monsters Are Different, Our Monsters Are Weird & Cosmic Entity. As they are defined by existing outside reality as we conceive it, most also come from somewhere beyond the stars or before the dawn of time or outside our universe. If it's truely a faithful alien however, it shouldn't even be 'evil' in the typical sense. They are often used as a Greater-Scope Villain, Outside-Context Problem, Mad God, God of Evil or Sealed Evil in a Can.

Howard, the Eldritch Abomination has become a mainstay of horror and fantasy works, along with numerous others that popularly derive inspiration from Lovecraft. Native to the Cosmic Horror Story genre dabbled in by authors such as H. Any rules that they do follow are beyond our understanding, as are what motives they might have for any of their actions. Humans suffer Brown Note or Go Mad from the Revelation effects just from witnessing their Alien Geometries. They are grotesque mockeries of reality beyond comprehension whose disturbing otherness cannot be encompassed in any mortal tongue. The Eldritch Abomination is a type of creature defined by its disregard for the natural laws of the universe as we understand them.

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