History Main / AttackOfTheMonsterAppendage

* In ''[[TheLegendOfZeldaMajorasMask Majora's Mask]]'', a hand reaching out from underneath a bathroom asks for your help. The owner of the hand is never seen.

* Before you fight the Medusa-Kraken-hybrid-like Tentalus in [[TheLegendOfZelda Skyward Sword]], its tentacles attack the ship you're on, bursting through walls and such. [[{{Narm}} Then you see Tentalus itself.]]

* TheReveal of "Under the Pyramids" by HPLovecraft is that the five-headed creature that the narrator sees crawling out of the abyss (and which is implied to be the inspiration for the Sphinx) is merely the forepaw of some vastly larger EldritchAbomination.

* One monster from ''DragonquestVIII'' is a hand made of mud, said to belong to a larger mud monster who lives underground.

* ''DeadSpace'' 1 has a a huge tentacle that pops out at least three times on the Ishimura and tries to drag Isaac towards a gruesome doom.

* ''TheLordOfTheRings'' has the Watcher in the Water, but only in the books and in Bashki's movie.

* [[EldritchAbomination Bel-Shamaroth]] from ''TheColourOfMagic''. While he's mentioned from the beginning, only his tentacles are shown, and about the rest of his body, we only see a glimpse of his gigantic eye.

* ''TalesFromTheDarkside'': At the end of the episode "Seasons of Belief", two monstrous arms break through the windows of a room, killing a husband and wife in front of their two young children.

* In ''GodOfWar'' II and III there are the Arms of Hades: a swarm of (left) hands coming out of the ground to pull Kratos into the depths of Hades.

* In ''GodOfWar III'' you have to fight back several large water creatures known as Hippocampi. Later you find that that said Hippocampi are actually the tentacles of [[spoiler: Poseidon's]] war form.

{{Eldritch Abomination}}s often have these, especially [[KrakenAndLeviathan Krakens and Leviathans]]. {{Supertrope}} of GiantFootOfStomping and GiantHandsOfDoom; {{subtrope}} of OrganAutonomy. See also CombatTentacles and TentacleRope.

* The [[LargeHam Great Mighty Poo]] from ''ConkersBadFurDay''.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}'' "Supersymmetry" had a tentacle creature that popped out of a portal and picked up Fred and Angel. We never saw the whole monster, t hough.

* {{Ecco The Dolphin}} had type one in the first game. Some of them just slapped at you and drained your health as you went by, but others actually latched onto you and could drive you nuts trying to escape before you ran out of air (unless you'd found the secret debug menu and invincibility mode, in which case they just annoyed you until you either escaped or got bored and pulled the 'switch off immortality to die'option.)

* Thing from ''TheAddamsFamily''.

* {{Angel}} "Supersymmetry" had a tentacle creature that popped out of a portal and picked up Fred and Angel. We never saw the whole monster, t hough.

* In ''HouseOfTheDead 3'' you face several tentacles in one level, later revealed to be part of the Sun boss.

* {{Ecco The Dolphin}} had type one in the first game. Some of them just slapped at you and drained your health as you went by, but others actually latched onto you and could drive you nuts trying to escape before you ran out of air (unless you'd found the secret debug menu and invincibility mode, in which case they just annoyed you until you either escaped or got bored and pulled the 'switch off immortality to die'option.

* In ''{{Monsterpocalypse}}'', [[CaptainErsatz Lord]] [[CthuluMythos Osheroth]] enters the game underground, represented by four CombatTentacle units. When he TurnsRed, he [[IAmNotLeftHanded uses his full power]] and takes his opponent on head to head, as a normal sized giant monster.

* In ''WarcraftIII'' the [[EldritchAbomination Faceless Ones]] can summon huge, spiky tentacles at will from the ground.

* The giant claw boss from ''HalfLife''.

* In ''{{Rayman 2}}: The Great Escape'' there are some giant skeletal limbs in some level which will drag you inside their coffins.

* There's a few monsters in the ''[[{{Game/Munchkin}} Munchkin]]'' series like this, such as Squidzilla, the Unspeakably Awful Indescribable Horror, and the Big Ole Planet Eater Guy. Also "Big Foot" for the humanoid limbs variety.

* ''DeepRising'': At first the monsters attacking the submarine seem to be a patch of giant, carnivorous tube-worms. It's later revealed that they're just the tentacles of a colossal octopus monster.

* In ''[[Disney/{{Aladdin}} The Return of Jafar]]'' When [[BigBad Jafar]] brings Abis Mal to the bottom of the ocean (ItMakesSenseInContext) [[ButtMonkey he's almost istantly snatched by a large tentacle.]]

* ''DeepRising'': At first the monsters attacking the submarine seems to be a patch of giant, carnivorous tube-worms. It's later revealed that they're just the tentacles of a colossal octopus monster.