History Main / MechanicalAbomination

** ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis'' has a ''heroic'' Mechanical Abomination in the form of the Thought-Robot. It was sculpted from "divine metals" by the Overmonitor, the AnthropomorphicPersonification of the PrimordialChaos, after it noticed it had a multiverse growing inside it and was very disturbed by what it saw. The Thought-Robot was built to contain the Multiverse itself and as such is incomprehensibly huge, and it's been standing there, inactive, for so long that even TheOmniscient Monitors, the Overmonitor's descendants responsible for the upkeep of TheMultiverse, have no idea where it came from or what it does, ultimately concluding that it must be a weapon. Superman ultimately has to activate it in order to defeat a far worse abomination: Mandrakk, the devil-figure of Monitor culture and the AnthropomorphicPersonification of TrueArtIsAngsty.
%%** The [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' story "Rebirth!" sees Brainiac upgraded into an entity like this. Not realizing what has happened, Superman badly underestimates the new Brainiac in their first encounter, and it very nearly gets him killed.
%%** Brainiac gets an even bigger upgrade in ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', becoming a full-fledged RealityWarper, but it seems to have come at some terrible cost to himself, such that he feels like a monstrosity and just wants to return to a more mortal condition.
** ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica'' once featured Mageddon, a solar system - sized ancient weapon built by the Old Gods and used in the apocalyptic war that ended up destroying them. It had the ability to drive entire planetary populations insane, and was imprisoned at the edge of the universe, only to later escape and attack Earth.

** The Fury from ''ComicBook/CaptainBritain'' is a super-robot built by an alternate universe version of Mad Jim Jaspers to kill the superhumans of his world. While it sounds simple, Jaspers' RealityWarper abilities and insane mind led to a "machine" that was more like a living nuclear bomb made of an amorphous black substance and desiring nothing but to kill anything even slightly off from baseline humanity. The Fury quickly grew from a mere weapon to a HumanoidAbomination that killed everything on it's native Earth and began trying to do the same on other Earths, being [[TheJuggernaut so ungodly powerful]] that basically no superhero on any planet can beat it in a straight fight. Unsurprisingly, it's also TheDreaded of unimaginable proportions and one of the most feared entities in the multiverse, and with good reason.
** ''ComicBook/DarkAgesMarvelComics'' has the Unmaker, which is a cosmic mechanical lifeform created to consume black holes, but it was corrupted by the darkness and began consuming everything -- planets, stars, even galaxies. Even the Living Tribunal wasn't powerful enough to destroy it, sealing it into the core of the nascent Earth. It casually kills some of Earth's strongest heroes, and it takes Dr. Strange opening a portal to an EMP dimension to disable it.

** ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': One story arc featured the so-called "Manchester Gods", living, mobile cities that appeared in the godly dimension of Otherworld and started consuming everything they ran across. They were incarnations of the concept of the industrial revolution and modernization displacing the older gods of nature. However, they were being manipulated by Surtur, who intended to use their technology to gather energy and burn the multiverse.
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'', specifically in ''Pikappa'' #7, the titular [[OurOgresAreHungrier O.G.R.E.]] ([[GratuitousEnglish Organic Growing Restless Eater]]) is a biomechanical being created by MadScientist Vulnus Vendor as an act of revenge: starting out as a small can on threads capable of producing corrosive liquid to digest and assimilate machines, the O.G.R.E. gradually proceeds to absorb more and more machines, gradually growing in size and power until it becomes a towering, multi-eyed behemoth with large fleshy tentacles sprouting from the gaps of its mechanical body, driven by a desire to devour anything it can to improve itself, becoming more and more dangerous for each new tech it absorbs and even Vulnus knowsn that eventually it will become impossible to control. [[spoiler:Paperinik only manage to defeat this abomination with wits, tricking the enormous but luckily still dumb O.G.R.E. that the "red ball in the sky" was a huge pile of energy, causing it to fly away towards the Sun, it's ultimate fate unknown.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{Lancer}}:'' Some of the game's mechs can be fairly bizarre, but in most cases and for most manufacturers they use principles and technologies that are generally understood within the setting. Horus "patterns", however, have no such benefits, being the result of the collective brainstorming of cultists spread throughout the equivalent of the Dark Web. As a result, some of their more advanced mechs violate fundamental laws of nature in ''genuinely'' incomprehensible ways. These include the Minotaur violating the laws of space to pack extra components and block enemies from bypassing it, the Lich's temporal chicanery making it near-indestructible because there's nothing you can do to it that it cannot simply undo, and the paracausal nightmare that is the Pegasus and its gun that can [[MindScrew already have shot you when the pilot so decides it and may not even actually exist]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' has [[Characters/AmphibiaTheCore The Core]] serving as TheManBehindTheMan for [[TheHeavy King Andrias]]. It is a MindHive consisting of Amphibia's greatest minds and past monarchs. In its original form it has the appearance of a multi-eyed spherical robot with robotic tentacles and glowing orange eyes with lighter shaded pupils, it is way bigger than even King Andrias himself.

** The [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' story "Rebirth!" sees Brainiac upgraded into an entity like this. Not realizing what has happened, Superman badly underestimates the new Brainiac in their first encounter, and it very nearly gets him killed.
** Brainiac gets an even bigger upgrade in ''ComicBook/{{Convergence}}'', becoming a full-fledged RealityWarper, but it seems to have come at some terrible cost to himself, such that he feels like a monstrosity and just wants to return to a more mortal condition.

** The [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'' story "Rebirth!" sees Brainiac upgraded into an entity like this. Not realizing what has happened, Superman badly underestimates the new Brainiac in their first encounter, and it very nearly gets him killed.