History Main / TranshumanAbomination

** While the Adeptus Mechanicus certainly count, their Servitors take this a step further, being lobotomized cyborg slaves that would make Frankenstein look virile and spritely.

** The titular Akira himself is an even bigger example, especially in the manga - while he still looks [[humanoidAbomination like a small human boy]], his PsychicPowers have developped to the point where he dwarfs those of Tetsuo my orders of magnitude and has attained a kind of apotheosis, he's so psychologically different he can barely interact with people and his environment most of the time, and in the end he decides to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence.

* ''Anime/{{Akira}}'' has Tetsuo acquire fantastic powers, almost to RealityWarper levels. As his powers increase, he becomes more unhinged and less able to keep them in check. Tetsuo ultimately mutates into a billowing mass of flesh, a BlobMonster that takes up most of a football stadium, crying out to his best friend Kaneda in a desperate attempt to cling to his last sliver of humanity and sanity.

* ''VideoGame/{{Sundered}}'': In the Embrace ending, [[spoiler:Eshe merges with the Shining Trapezohedron and is overtaken by her {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s, transforming into a HumanoidAbomination.

** Happens when [[spoiler:Mr. Snippy]] agrees to merge with [[EldritchAbomination the Biomatrix]]. At first, it merely gives him a LovecraftianSuperpower, but after he's killed, it revives him as an undead HumanoidAbomination due to its spotty knowledge on human anatomy.

** Happens twice-over when [[spoiler:Mr. Snippy]] agrees to merge with [[EldritchAbomination the Biomatrix]]. At first, it merely gives him a LovecraftianSuperpower, but after he's killed, it revives him as an undead HumanoidAbomination due to its spotty knowledge on human anatomy.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is an odd example, since what a “human” even is is ambiguous within the show. That being said, the fact that the Evangelion units are [[spoiler: Gargantuan frankensteinien abominations wearing armor, inhabited by human souls, instead of traditional mecha]] definitely matches this trope tonally.

* Weapon XI in ''Film/XMenOriginsWolverine'' is the result of Weapon X rigging the super power lottery to turn Wade Wilson into a biological killing machine with Cyclops' eyebeams, Wraith's teleportation and Wolverine's claws and healing factor. Colonel Stryker has direct control of him, using his creation to try and kill Wolverine.

* Rom, the Vacuous Spider from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' is a [=spider/caterpillar-esq=] Great One that [[PlayerCharacter the Hunter]] encounters hiding on the [[PlacidPlaneOfAnkleDeepWater Moonside Lake]] at Byrgenwerth College. Also known as the "Byrgenwerth Spider", in-game text all but confirms that Rom was originally a scholar at Byrgenwerth before eventually ascending into a Kin of the Great Ones. The methods in which she achieves this is unknown, as "true enlightenment need not be shared."

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Mind Flayers are hideous, purple-skinned creatures with powerful telepathic abilities, tentacles surrounding their mouths, [[PickyPeopleEater and a hunger for humanoid brains]]. They're also created by implanting a tadpole-like organism into a human's ear, at which point it burrows into their brain and mutates them in an extremely horrific process. If that weren't bad enough, once a mind flayer reaches the end of its lifespan its brain gets placed into a pool where it merges with the other mind flayer brains in there to form an Elder Brain, a huge pulsing mass of brain matter with massive psychic powers.

While there are many "classical" monsters that used to be human, such as vampires, werewolves, and zombies; they have some element that is recognizably human. You would not know these things had once been human if it wasn't stated in story.

* The Cymeks from the ''Franchise/Dune'' prequels were [[BrainInAJar the preserved brains]] of the "Titans" who overthrew the Old Empire, encased in massive robotic exoskeletons. Eventually, they [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul became the generals of the rogue AI, Omnius.]] They finally met their end in the closing years of the [[MachineWar Butlerian Jihad.]]

** [[DemonOfHumanOrigin Daemon Princes]] are formnerly human servants of [[GodOfEvil the Chaos Gods]] who "ascended" to the status of daemons of their respective patrons. They undergo [[BodyHorror mutations]] to better suit their transformation into supernatural beings, at the end being virtually unrecognizable beings of [[ChaosIsEvil Chaos]].

* The Cymeks from the ''Literature/Dune'' prequels were [[BrainInAJar the preserved brains]] of the "Titans" who overthrew the Old Empire, encased in massive robotic exoskeletons. Eventually, they [[CyberneticsEatYourSoul became the generals of the rogue AI, Omnius.]] They finally met their end in the closing years of the [[MachineWar Butlerian Jihad.]]

A subtrope of WasOnceAMan and EldritchAbomination, often the result of an EldritchTransformation. If the transhumans became abominations via cybernetics they may be a MechanicalAbomination instead, or an UndeadAbomination via necromancy. If the transformation was voluntary it can qualify as TranshumanTreachery.

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* ''Anime/{{Akira}}'' has Tetsuo acquire fantastic powers, almost to RealityWarper levels. As his powers increase, he becomes more unhinged and less able to keep them in check. Tetsuo ultimately mutates into a billowing mass of flesh, a BlobMonster that takes up most of a football stadium, crying out to his best friend Kaneda in a desparate attempt to cling to his last sliver of humanity and sanity.

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* Alveus/Hive, the BigBad of Season 3 of ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'' is an Inhuman who's become a borderline Eldritch Abomination. He's a HiveMind being who's [[TimeAbyss impossibly long-lived]] (he went through his transformation during the Ice Age), can disperse himself in the form of small sand-like insects, and can possess corpses and control other Inhumans. His control acts more like drug addiction, warping his victims' minds into thinking they ''like'' working for him. He does this partially because his true form is a creepy monster resembling a fusion between Cthulhu, a human, and an insect. He's insanely powerful, capable of reducing a roomful of humans into flayed skeletons in a matter of seconds and shrugging off any attacks that don't involve fire or electricity. He's also a MergerOfSouls and retains the personalities and memories of every person he's ever possessed. [[spoiler: He's not really evil, just [[BlueAndOrangeMorality extremely out of touch with how people actually feel]] and his EvilPlan is ultimately just a desperate attempt to [[IJustWantToHaveFriends feel some kind of connection to mortals once again]]]].

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* In ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack'', Alpha was once a regular human before he started grafting alien body parts onto himself. As the series wears on, he becomes progressively less humanoid in appearance.

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* ''Anime/{{Akira}}'' has Tetsuo acquire fanatic powers, almost to RealityWarper levels. As his powers increase, he becomes more unhinged and less able to keep them in check. Tetsuo ultimately mutates into a billowing mass of tissues, a BlobMonster that takes up most of a football stadium. He cries out to Kaneda, his best friend, to help him cling to his last sliver of humanity and sanity.

A subtrope of WasOnceAMan and EldritchAbomination, often the result of an EldritchTransformation. If the transhumans became abominations via cybernetics they may be a MechanicalAbomination instead, or a an UndeadAbomination via necromancy. If the transformation was voluntary it can qualify as TranshumanTreachery.

* ''Anime/{{Akira}}'' has Tetsuo acquire fanatic powers, almost to RealityWarper levels. As his powers increase, he becomes more unhinged, and less able to keep them in check. Tetsuo ultimately mutates into a billowing mass of tissues, a BlobMonster that takes up most of a football stadium. He cries out to Kaneda, his best friend, to help him cling to his last sliver of humanity and sanity.
* ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'': The [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Apostles]]. [[WasOnceAMan Former-human]] beings who made a DealWithTheDevil with the Godhand, they are capable of switching between their [[HumanoidAbomination relatively human]] forms and their [[OneWingedAngel Apostle form]]. Their Apostle form [[RuleOfSymbolism represents the forms of their souls within the Astral realm]], and bring it forth into the physical realm. Despite their often unnatural and hideous forms though, they are nowhere as reality-breaking as the Godhand, and is relatively just powerful physical monsters. Emperor Ganishka however, does qualify when [[spoiler:he reincarnates himself into a tentacled giant who resides between the physical and Astral realms, whose size dwarfs a whole city and can function as a bridge between the two realms]]. As a side-effect, he also becomes mindlessly destructive and spawns innumerable lesser abominations to kill and eat everything in their path. The Godhand themselves were also formerly human, who particularly impressed the existing members of the Godhand just before the Eclipse, [[spoiler: as seen with Griffith's ascension.]]

* Wiseman/Death Phantom in the ''Manga/SailorMoon'' Manga is a GeniusLoci EldritchAbomination that used to be a depraved mass murdering criminal who merged with Planet Nemesis through ThePowerOfHate while he was dying. This just made him [[OmnicidalManiac more insane.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Mild-mannered nuclear physicist Jon Osterman is disintegrated at the sub-atomic level thanks to a bizarre [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything quantum-science]] [[FreaklabAccident accident]], but [[TheDisembodied his mind continues to exist]] and very gradually is able to [[SelfConstructedBeing piece together a body]]. Now he's Doctor Manhattan, a PhysicalGod capable of controlling, reshaping and disintegrating atomic structure on a massive scale just by thinking about it. He [[NonLinearCharacter exists outside of time as we know it, experiencing all points in his life simultaneously]]. He also has CompleteImmortality, as his still-disembodied mind does not rely on his physical body to live -- his body isn't just replaceable, it seems to just be a convenience for other human beings. As a result of his newfound powers, he grows progressively more detached from the human condition, convinced that anything he does would be so insignificant in the long run that [[StrawNihilist taking action would be pointless]], and unable to see the lives of individual humans as significant.

* ''Literature/AllTomorrows'': While the Qu re-engineered humans into a wide variety of creatures barely recognizable as human, it's the [[http://www.sivatherium.narod.ru/library/Ramjet/pics/47.jpg Asteromorphs]], descendants of those who ''escaped'' the Qu, that become the most "Lovecraftian." Their limbs elongated and warped in microgravity, digits so long as to seem more like fractal extensions of their arms than fingers. Their torsos atropied into little more than digestive tubes that provide thrust. And their brains swollen to outmass their terrestrial ancestors' whole bodies, thinking unfathomable thoughts as they wander the immense gulfs between the stars. Inscrutable gods indifferent to the plights of their planetbound cousins. Until the [[MechanicalAbomination Gravitals]] decided to pick a fight with them, and lost.

* Rom, the Vacuous Spider from ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' is a [=spider/caterpillar-esq=] Great One that [[PlayerCharacter the Hunter]] encounters hiding on the [[PlacidPlaneOfAnkleDeepWater Moonside Lake]] at Byrgenwerth College. Also known as the "Byrgenwerth Spider", in-game text all-but confirms that Rom was originally a scholar at Byrgenwerth before eventually ascending into a Kin of the Great Ones. The methods in which she achieves this is unknown, as "true enlightenment need not be shared."
* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': There are two noticeable examples in the series. Circumstances are different, but at its core it?s the same.
** [[TheProtagonist Ragna the Bloodedge]] can, and has suffered from this Trope. First was during [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCalamityTrigger Calamity Trigger]], thanks to a never ending [[GroundhogDayLoop Time Loop]]. Every time Ragna failed to defeat [[{{Yandere}} Nu]], both he and she would fall into the [[{{Hellgate}} Cauldron]] and Nu would [[FusionDance fuse]] together with Ragna?s [[ArtifactOfDoom Azure Grimoire]] to become the [[BeastOfTheApocalypse Black Beast]]. In VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift, Ragna?s [[MultipleEndings Bad Ending]] has him [[PhlebotinumOverload overload his Grimoire]] and turn him into the Black Beast.
** [[EldritchAbomination Arakune]] is a more straightforward looking example. Initially a normal, if intellectually gifted, human being by the name of Lotte Carmine, aka "Roy". But with repeated exposure to the [[EldritchLocation Boundary]] and it?s [[TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow information]] both his body and mind have completely deteriorated. Now his physical body can best be described as a living pile of goo that also acts as a hive body for mutant insects. [[spoiler:Interestingly we learn in [[VideoGame/BlazBlueContinuumShift Continuum Shift]] that he?s a failed attempt at a Black Beast, which actually explains a bit. What's more is that we learn in [[VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction Central Fiction]] that his soul is completely safe, fine and content in the Boundary, still currently doing research. He does asks [[HospitalHottie Litchi]] to do something about his former body Arakune, as its far too dangerous to be left alone]].

* In the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' video games, broodmothers are nightmarish creatures which create the hordes of darkspawn, soulless monsters who are driven to kill and destroy. As is revealed in the course of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', the broodmothers were once female humans, dwarves, elves, or qunari before they were corrupted against their will into these monstrosities.

* ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': The recurring BigBad of the series, Ganondorf, has mutated over the tens of thousands of years separating this game from the previous adventures. While once he was merely a Gerudo, which resemble taller than average humans, he has since taken on a form made up entirely of his own dark magic, first resembling a cloud with a boar?s head, then a spider-like creature. All that remains of his old body is his hair and a nightmarish skeleton. In this form he is known as Calamity Ganon.

** [[BigBad The Lunar Overmind]] is a horrific, undead hybrid of man and machine that [[spoiler:was originally a clone of Engineer, who decided to connect himself to the Moon's technological network in his attempts to warn the G-Directorate of Earth's impending destruction]]. [[SanitySlippage The process has not had the best affect on his mind or temperament,]] and resulted in him orchestrating the apocalypse himself.