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* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': In the comics, the Spot is a petty thief who, in spite of his [[ThinkingUpPortals powers]], gets his ass handed to him on a regular basis. This iteration is a TranshumanAbomination who is shown to have a PortalCrossroadWorld contained within himself. [[spoiler:After getting a powerup from the collider in Mumbattan, he transforms into [[OneWingedAngel an even more powerful form]], essentially a living CosmicFlaw who threatens TheMultiverse just by existing.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': When first reintroduced in ''ComicBook/TheNew52'', Ultra Humanite is no longer an evil scientist whose brain is implanted in the body of a mutated, albino gorilla. Now ''it'' is an alien horror, apparently native to the Phantom Zone, that mind controls the citizens of Smallville into experiencing their worst fears while also brainwashing them into enjoying being afraid, feeding on their minds in the process.

* ''ComicBook/SubMariner'': In the story ''Sub-Mariner: The Depths", Namor is portrayed as a silent HumanoidAbomination who defends the EldritchOceanAbyss that is Atlantis. Deviations from his mainstream counterpart include pale white skin and BlackEyesOfEvil and being ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, being far older than his mainstream counterpart should during the 1950's (his thirties) with him being blamed for the disappearance of a Spanish ship that was sent to the New World in 1610, the beaching of the Meduse in 1810 and the sinking of Titanic in 1912.

* ''ComicBook/SubMariner'': In the story ''Sub-Mariner: The Depths", Namor is portrayed as a silent HumanoidAbomination who defends the EldritchOceanAbyss that is Atlantis. Deviations from his mainstream counterpart include pale white skin and BlackEyesOfEvil and being Really700YearsOld, being far older than his mainstream counterpart should during the 1950's (his thirties) with him being blamed for the disappearance of a Spanish ship that was sent to the New World in 1610, the beaching of the Meduse in 1810 and the sinking of Titanic in 1912.

* ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' loves this trope. Minos was originally a giant man with a snake's tail - in the game he is still a giant with serpentine traits, but on top of that mummified-looking, eyeless and with his crown fused to his head. Cleopatra, merely a humanoid shade in the original poem, is now a purple-skinned giant with a GlasgowGrin, mouths for niples and her lover living inside of her. As for Cerberus, they mixed the three-headed dog description and his appellation in the poem "great worm" to invent a gigantic three-headed tapeworm living inside a blind humanoid head with arms for legs, something straight out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.

* Sometimes used in Creator/DCComics {{Elseworld}}s:
** In ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}: The Doom That Came to Gotham'', a Franchise/CthulhuMythos mashup, many characters get this, most notably Two-Face, whose evil half [[spoiler: becomes a portal to Cthulhu's realm]].

** ''Batman/Dark Joker: The Wild'' reimagines the Joker as a nigh-omnipotent EvilSorcerer who commands legions of demonic creatures to assault innocent villages. Bruce is a TykeBomb who was being used by his parents in a ritual to create a ChosenOne powerful enough to defeat the Dark Joker, but gained the appearance of a monstrous bat creature when the Joker himself interrupted the ritual and [[DeathByOriginStory killed Bruce's parents]].

* In the ComicBook/SubMariner story ''Sub-Mariner: The Depths", Namor is portrayed as a silent HumanoidAbomination who defends the EldritchOceanAbyss that is Atlantis. Deviations from his mainstream counterpart include pale white skin and BlackEyesOfEvil and being Really700YearsOld, being far older than his mainstream counterpart should during the 1950's (his thirties) with him being blamed for the disappearance of a Spanish ship that was sent to the New World in 1610, the beaching of the Meduse in 1810 and the sinking of Titanic in 1912.
* ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'' takes the inherent weirdness of Reed Richards' powers and really explores the possibilities. Nothing remains of his internal organs; he's basically a cluster of bacteria that looks human because that's what he's used to. This gets even more prominent [[spoiler:in his fight with Sue after his FaceHeelTurn]].
* ''Franchise/WonderWoman'':

* Being a Lovecraft-homage in Batman form, a lot of Batman's more outlandish rogue's gallery in ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDoomThatCameToGotham'' are reinterpreted as {{Eldritch Abomination}}s or [[TranshumanAbomination made into one]] through dark forces.
** Mister Freeze is portrayed as a man who was driven mad and transformed into an [[OurLichesAreDifferent undead-being]] that freezes everything around him, obsessed with unleashing his dark master.
** While Pamela Isley was an eco-terrorist that gave herself GreenThumb powers in the mainstream DC-universe, here Poison Ivy was a potted plant turned into a BotanicalAbomination by Ra's al Ghul.
** Ludvig Prinn was originally a necromancer who supposedly lived to be 500 years old, having authored his own evil spellbook. Here, he was a cultist who, after being imprisoned in the catacombs beneath Gotham, became a reptilian monster.
** [[spoiler:His father having been cursed with immortality from the Testament of Ghul, ''Batman'' is revealed to be one. He's TheChosenOne destined to thwart Ra's al Ghul's plan of summoning Iou-Sotha and permanently transforms into Man-Bat to accomplish this.]]
* When first reintroduced in ''ComicBook/TheNew52'', Ultra Humanite is no longer an evil scientist whose brain is implanted in the body of a mutated, albino gorilla. Now ''it'' is an alien horror, apparently native to the Phantom Zone, that mind controls the citizens of Smallville into experiencing their worst fears while also brainwashing them into enjoying being afraid, feeding on their minds in the process.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', Decoy Octopus is merely a very gifted and possibly a little insane MasterOfDisguise, who uses the blood of whoever he's disguised as in order to improve his work. ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'', possibly as a result of the author misremembering that last detail, reimagines him as a "freak of nature" who can drink blood in order to transform into a perfect duplicate of its donor, to the point where a female disguise will cause his genitalia to change.

* In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and their remakes, Unown are a weak Pokémon with poor stats and only one attack. ''[[Anime/Pokemon3 Pokemon The Movie 3: Spell of the Unown]]'', on the other hand, turns the species into a nigh-unstoppable RealityWarper with the ability to travel between dimensions and create life from nothing.

* The ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'' sees the Music Meister reimaginied as a HumanoidAbomination with seemingly limitless RealityWarper powers.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Whereas Ghidorah was already portrayed in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' canon as a DraconicAbomination and an Adaptational Abomination to earlier incarnations of the character; in ''Abraxas'', [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonKingGhidorah Ghidorah]]'s PsychicPowers are even more Lovecraftian than anything it managed to display in Franchise/MonsterVerse canon; [[spoiler: driving humans who spend too much time around it or its remains insane, such as members of Monarch's Outpost 32 team and Jonah's mercenaries, and also retaining a long-range PsychicLink to San and Vivienne which it uses to episodically torment them.]]

** ''ComicBook/BatmanVampire'' already did its work by having Batman succumb to vampirism, but by ''Crimson Mist'', he has gone full on HumanoidAbomination, becoming a rotted skeleton enshrouded in his tattered costume, capable of transforming into mist or a flying beast depending on his choice.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Whereas Ghidorah was already portrayed in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' canon as a relatively mild EldritchAbomination and an Adaptational Abomination to earlier incarnations of the character; in ''Abraxas'', Ghidorah's PsychicPowers are even more Lovecraftian than anything it managed to display in Franchise/MonsterVerse canon, [[spoiler: driving humans who spend too much time around it or its remains insane, such as members of Monarch's Outpost 32 team and Jonah's mercenaries.]]

** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' leans into this in its depiction of [[DraconicAbomination King Ghidorah]]. In the original ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuity of the ''showa'' films, Ghidorah was established as a civilization-destroying world eater from the depths of space, but when he became Godzilla's most frequently-recurring enemy, VillainDecay set in pretty hard, and even [[Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster his first film]] has a pretty light and campy tone. Most of the Japanese films since played him as just another kaiju, albeit one of the franchise's more iconic villains. ''King of the Monsters'', on the other hand, emphasizes Ghidorah's alien biology (the revelation that he is an alien comes just after watching him [[BodyHorror disturbingly]] [[HydraProblem regrow a lost head]] after shrugging off a weapon that should have melted him), returns his threat level to a truly global scale with HostileTerraforming, and giving him a [[AllMythsAreTrue folkloric]] backstory as TheDreaded tormentor of ancient civilizations. Even the cinematography around him is full of apocalyptic and satanic imagery, and his {{leitmotif}} is a DroneOfDread set to a Buddhist chant about void and nothingness.

* In ''Literature/TheBookOfLostThings,'' the BigBad of the story is none other than Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}}, AKA the Crooked Man, here portrayed not as a DepravedDwarf with a connection to the FairFolk, but as a HumanoidAbomination that simply came into being alongside humanity and has been sustaining his existence through horribly sadistic "stories" arranged via [[DealWithTheDevil Faustian Bargains]] -- most commonly [[WouldHurtAChild with children]]. Another John Connolly short story -- ''The Hollow King'' -- takes this even further by speculating that the Crooked Man might be the FetusTerrible result of a union between an old god and a human woman or even ''[[EldritchAbomination something]]'' that was born from "the dark stuff of the universe."

** WesternAnimation/PeppaPig in ''I can count to three'' is an AnimalisticAbomination with two mouths and four eyes as a [[BodyHorror horrifying]] mockery of CheekyMouth and eats his family members.

* In the comics, Ian Karkull is a guy with shadow powers. In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Karkull (no first name) is a Cthulhu-esque magical horror who turns the Daily Planet into a BiggerOnTheInside cavernous {{Hellgate}}. Anyone possessed by his minions, such as Lois and Jimmy, instantly turns into a monster. Oh, it gets [[SarcasmMode even more cheerful]]. The center is a BottomlessPit, or so we think. Well, when the tablet Karkull was sealed in falls down the pit and Superman has to chase it, we find it does have a bottom. The bottom has a ''mouth''. The bottom is also ''rising,'' fast enough that ''Superman has to push himself to outfly it''. It's hard to imagine a C-list villain like Ian as the master of all this, but his animated counterpart gave us some of the DCAU's best NightmareFuel.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011'' promotes Mumm-Ra to HumanoidAbomination, while at the same time downplaying it. He may look particularly peculiar, beng fanged and snub-nosed, but as his Ever-Living form reveals, he is actually a bat, though one can imagine even other bats in the setting not looking quite so abominable.

* ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' features a downplayed example as while the first Godzilla is still a mutant iguana, like in the source film, he becomes an UndeadAbomination, complete with BodyHorror, and cybernetic enhancements.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The legend of Saint George and the Dragon upgrades the dragon to a C'tan, a star vampire currently locked on Mars and implied to be the ''real'' Omnissiah worshiped by the Adeptus Mechanicus. Saint George was not a normal knight either, but the immortal GodEmperor of Mankind himself.