History Main / CreepilyLongArms

This is a trope where a monster of some kind has extra-long arms. These arms won't necessarily be used in a physical way...it's more just to indicate how ''unnatural'' the monster is. Shows up frequently on [[HumanoidAbomination Humanoid Abominations]] as a quick way to indicate something's not quite right.

* Slender Man in the indie horror game VideoGame/{{SLENDER}}. If you beat the game you unlock "daytime mode" in which the sky is brightly lit. Beat daytime mode and Slender Man will appear with tentacles protruding from his back.

->''"Look at those arms! I bet [[TheSlenderManMythos he]] gives wonderful hugs."''

->''"Look at those arms! I bet he gives wonderful hugs."''

* Adam in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'' appears with these when he's briefly glimpsed right before initiating Second Impact. EVA Unit-04 also appears to have these, and can actually stretch them out.

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** And in newer versions of it, [[FandomNickname Slendy]] sends out his tentacles if you look at him too long, or when he's about to get you!

* The BigBad monster from ''Literature/{{Olympos}}'' by DanSimmons, known as Setebos. It has miles upon miles of tentacles that burrow through the ground like a complex network of worms...but one of the heroes discovers that these are actually arms, with ''hands'' at the end of them. If you disturb one of them, the hand will grab you and the whole arm will retract, dragging you through the tunnels and eventually into one of Setebos's many mouths.

* The BigBad monster from ''Olympos'' by DanSimmons, known as Setebos. It has miles upon miles of tentacles that burrow through the ground like a complex network of worms...but one of the heroes discovers that these are actually arms, with ''hands'' at the end of them. If you disturb one of them, the hand will grab you and the whole arm will retract, dragging you through the tunnels and eventually into one of Setebos's many mouths.

* Slender Man in the indie horror game SLENDER. If you beat the game you unlock "daytime mode" in which the sky is brightly lit. Beat daytime mode and Slender Man will appear with tentacles protruding from his back.

* The "Bandersnatches" from ''ResidentEvilCodeVeronica''. Bonus points for having one giant arm and one atrophied arm.

* [[{{Ninja Yatsume]] [[WolverineClaws Mumyoi]] from ''Manga/RurouniKenshin''. In his case, he had his arm lengthened by wearing a set of iron rings on them since childhood (think of the rings worn by the long-necked african women). To top it, while most of the other characters are at least human-looking, he literally looks like Venom from ''{{Spiderman}}''.

!Examples:

* Lavos's final form in ''ChronoTrigger'' resembles a bipedal creature in a spacesuit with extra long arms that he raises dramatically to cast various attack spells.

* "MasterofTheFlyingGuillotine" has a "yogic" fighter who's able to extend his arms to ridiculous lengths.

* Slender Man in the indie horror game SLENDER. If you beat the game you unlock "daytime mode" in which the sky is brightly lit. Beat daytime mode and Slender Man will appear with tentacles protruding from his back.

* Freddy Krueger, in one of Tina's dreams in ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet''.

* In ''CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind'' the first alien we see has very long, thin arms and legs, and is by far the most inhuman looking one.

* The entire Devimon line from the ''{{Digimon}}'' franchise.

* In ''DeathNote'', a shinigami usually has long arms.