History Main / TranshumanAbomination

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.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is an odd example, since the definition of "human" 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 HumongousMecha and that they are capable of incomprehensible eldritch powers]] definitely matches this trope tonally.

* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' is an odd example, since the definition of "human" 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 HumongousMecha and that they are capable of incomprehensible eldritch powers]] definitely matches this trope tonally.

-->--'''Julian Faylona''', [[https://www.deviantart.com/julian-faylona/art/The-Hour-of-Transfiguration-833845872 The Hour of Transfiguration]]

* ''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.]]
* ''Manga/BungoStrayDogs'': Artificial Ability users like [[spoiler:Chuuya and Verlaine]] are implanted and merged with entities which give them their [[spoiler:[[GravityMaster gravity]]]] powers. However, near the end of ''Storm Bringer'', during a VillainousBreakdown, [[spoiler:N releases the entity within Verlaine, Guivre, transforming the man into a mindless horror which threatens to destroy Yokohama]]. [[spoiler:Guivre is thankfully defeated by Chuuya, reverting Verlaine who survives thanks to Rimbaud replacing the entity that kept him alive with his own Ability, though this weakens him]].

* ''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, and that they are capable of incomprehensible eldritch powers]] definitely matches this trope tonally.

* ''Manga/RosarioPlusVampire'' has {{Alucard}}, a vampire who transformed himself into one by [[CannibalismSuperpower devouring other monsters]]. By the present day, the ''only'' thing he has in common with a vampire is drinking blood; his current form is a {{Kaiju}}-sized insectoid creature with a [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph-like head]], CombatTentacles, and TooManyMouths, who wields the power to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.
* 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.]]

* Phase IV of ''ComicBook/{{Zenith}}'' belatedly [[TheReveal reveals]] that the [[EldritchAbomination Lloigor]] were once human, [[spoiler:more specifically, the superhero team Cloud 9, who had evolved far beyond human form and had gotten stuck on the wrong side of a dimensional barrier in the process]].

* The aptly-named Abomination in ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk2008'' is the result of Bruce Banner's blood interacting with the super soldier serum in Emil Blonsky's body. Blonsky becomes an insane BloodKnight after the transformation and massacres the responding US Army troops before seeking out the Hulk.

* Both the Salaryman and the metal fetishist in ''Film/TetsuoTheIronMan.'' Both infected with a virus that turns their bodies into machines and scrap metal. The final film in the trilogy explains it as [[spoiler: an experimental invention originally designed to help people with disabilities regain the use of their bodies. Gone horribly, HORRIBLY wrong.]]
* 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, Kestrel's teleportation and Wolverine's claws and healing factor. Colonel Stryker has direct control of him, using his creation to try and kill Wolverine.

* 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 [[RobotWar Butlerian Jihad]].
** The [[UterineReplicator Axolotl Tanks]] from ''[[{{Franchise/Dune}} Dune]]'' are female cyborgs used by the Bene Tleilax (in fact, the ONLY female Bene Tleilax are the Axolotl Tanks) to produce their numerous biological products and experiments. Many of these products fit the bill as well, such as Twisted Mentats (bio-engineered human supercomputers), Face-Dancers (shapeshifting assassins) and Gholas [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking (clones)]].

* 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]]]].

* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Vecna is revealed to be [[spoiler:none other than One aka Henry Creel, Victor Creel's telekinetic son who was transformed into what he is now by the Upside Down's lightning after Eleven sent him there with her powers]].

* Scylla and Charybdis of [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]], once beautiful women who were cursed by the gods to become hideous [[SeaMonster sea monsters]] and then chained to the opposite sides of the Strait of Messina to pose a threat to the passing sailors.
* The {{Wendigo}} of Algonquin lore is a former human reduced to a perpetually hungry, cannibalistic monster after they have [[ImAHumanitarian eaten human flesh]] or committed some terrible act out of greed or desperation. And [[SpeakOfTheDevil it's said that even speaking its name]] puts you at risk for becoming one of them. There's a very good reason why a lot of Native Americans are not fond of talking about this thing.

* ''Podcast/AintSlayedNobody'': Around ⅔ of the way through Season 1, the Posse encounters a Dark Young of Shub-Niggurath, which stomps its way through their campfire and noms on some would-be horse-thieves. At the end of Season 1, [[spoiler:Johnny binds himself to the Dark Young, discovering it was mind-swapped with Kate, a previously background NPC who was the assistant to eccentric archaeologist Professor "Sparky" Henry.]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Annventure}}:'' [[spoiler:Tyrannia]], an unfathomably powerful demon with the power to tear apart entire universes, was once [[spoiler:a mortal witch before turning herself into a {{lich}} and making a deal for demonic power]].

** Rom, the Vacuous Spider is a [=spider/caterpillar-esque=] 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 method in which she achieves this is unknown, as "true enlightenment need not be shared."

** [[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 ask [[HospitalHottie Litchi]] to do something about his former body Arakune, as it's far too dangerous to be left alone]].

* The final boss of ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', the Spider Mastermind. Olivia Pierce traded her soul and betrayed humanity to Hell for eternal life and power. She probably didn't anticipate gaining that power by transforming into a giant brain-like demon which, while extremely powerful, appears to be utterly mindless.
** It's arguable whether or not Valen's son from ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' would qualify as a 'human', but what he becomes is certainly an abomination. He was made host to the Icon of Sin, transforming him into a skyscraper-sized demon which exists to kill, and whose mere presence threatens reality around it.

* ''VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublicIITheSithLords'': Darth Nihilus, who WasOnceAMan but, through sheer hatred and hunger, became effectively a vampire feeding off of Force energy, wiping out (nearly) all life on at least one planet by his sheer presence, and it is implied that he would eventually grow in power to the point where he could kill everything.
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Lissandra was a human who sold herself to primal ice spirits and turned into a horrific elemental who, with their help, nearly brought about the end of the world centuries ago. Unlike most other examples of this trope, she is perfectly aware of what a mistake this was, and spends all her time trying to [[TheAtoner keep the abominations she's beholden to from awakening]], even though she knows she's only buying time.

* ''Franchise/MassEffect:'' The Reapers are a race of [[MechanicalAbomination Mechanical Abominations]] made from the remains of entire species they've harvested, condensed into one mind and locked in a giant mechanical shell. They were created when an AI was given the task of "preserving" life and took a very specific definition of that task as the only option. At least some Reapers genuinely think they're doing organic life a favor.

* ''Franchise/ResidentEvil'', given that its overarching villains are pretty much all {{Evilutionary Biologist}}s, has at least one per game, especially the {{Big Bad}}s[=/=]{{Final Boss}}es, from the [[VideoGame/ResidentEvil1 Tyrant]] to [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/ResidentEvilVillage Mother Miranda]]]].
* Almost all of the enemies [[spoiler:And [=NPCs=]]] in ''[[{{VideoGame/Soma}} SOMA]]'', being humans [[AndIMustScream kept alive]] by the [[AIIsACrapshoot WAU.]]
** The Flesher; a drowned, [[FullFrontalAssault naked]] human corpse with its head converted into a mass of eyes and cables.
** The Proxies; Blind, armless masses of structure gel and tumors.
** Jin Yoshida; A diver trapped in his suit with a head made of almost nothing but metallic tentacles.
** Robot Girl; a sobbing female corpse reconstructed into a mechanical monster.
** Terry Akers; an eyeless, humanoid mass of tumors that howls like a [[HellIsThatNoise banshee with bronchitis.]]
** [[spoiler:Simon Jarett, AKA YOU.]]
* While ''VideoGame/SoulSacrifice's'' Archfiends are similar to ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'s'' Apostles in the sense that they're humans who turned into horrific monsters by [[DealWithTheDevil making a deal]] through [[ArtifactOfDoom sinister objects]] (The Sacred Chalice in this case), they're both physically imposing and magical, and animals aren't immune to these devilish deals. However, none of them hold a candle when compared to [[spoiler:Magusar's DraconicAbomination forms, one of them being a result of Magusar trapping the game's JerkassGods who are responsible for [[GreaterScopeVillain the game's horrors and plot]].]]

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** 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, [[CameBackWrong it revives him as an undead]] HumanoidAbomination due to its spotty knowledge on human anatomy.

** [[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 effect on his mind or temperament,]] and resulted in him orchestrating the apocalypse himself.

* WebAnimation/{{hololive}} has Ninomae Ina'nis, who was a normal human before she picked up a TomeOfEldritchLore that heavily mutated her as well as giving her [[LovecraftianSuperpower the ability to control tentacles]]. [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu She is still basically just a normal girl aside from that, of course]].
* In ''WebOriginal/OrionsArm'' transapients who transcend past a level of TheSingularity become utterly incomprehensible to those sophonts who remain below that singularity. Though possibly the most disturbing transapient in the Terragen sphere, the [[https://www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/46df6791979d9 Queen of Pain]], is not transhuman but a transcended [[CatsAreMean cat.]]

* ''WebVideo/TheMonumentMythos:'' It's revealed late in Season 2 that people who are stranded in [[EldritchLocation "Wonderland"]] by a [[BotanicalAbomination Special Tree]] will be ''severely'' warped, looking "stretched and burnt", if they actually try to climb the Trees in the middle of a shift. But if they stay there long enough, the effects apparently pile on to the point the people involved stop cooperating with normal space or biology... [[spoiler:the Liberty Lurker, also known as the Horned Serpent, is the most promiment example of such. Once, he was ''UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington'', and now it's a gigantic corpse-eating creature whose head alone must be kept stuck in the Statue of Liberty's pedestal, and whose body length may span the entire United States]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'': [[spoiler:Andrias' master]] the Core is a mechanical sphere with tentacles and many eyes that [[BrainUploading contains the minds]] of [[spoiler:the greatest thinkers in Amphibia's lost civilization]]. It then decides on a more mundane host, [[spoiler:[[GrandTheftMe namely Marcy]]]].
* ''WesternAnimation/FinalSpace'': In Season 3, [[spoiler:the [[Characters/FinalSpaceTheLordCommandersForces Lord Commander]] succeeds in his goal of becoming a [[EldritchAbomination Titan]] by merging with the Titan fetus at the Earth's core]].

* ''WesternAnimation/WhatIf2021'': In [[Recap/WhatIfS1E4WhatIfDoctorStrangeLostHisHeartInsteadOfHisHands "What If... Doctor Strange Lost His Heart Instead of His Hands?"]], Supreme absorbs countless mystical, demonic, and otherwise supernatural entities into himself in order to gain the power to save Christine -- including a few tentacles belonging to an EldritchAbomination implied to be Shuma-Gorath. [[spoiler:The end result is that when he uses his full power he transforms into a vaguely humanoid entity with tentacles, fangs, and multiple glowing eyes... but even this power isn't enough, and he ends up being the SoleSurvivor when his actions cause his universe to melt and implode.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'': The eldritch Lord of Order [[Characters/YoungJustice2010JusticeLeague Nabu/Dr. Fate]] is revealed to be one in ''Outsiders'', with ''Phantoms'' further elaborating. [[spoiler:Nabu was born a metahuman thousands of years ago, and after he died, the Lords of Order retrieved his soul, obtained an oath of fealty to Order from him, and turned his helmet into his anchor to the mortal plane while explicitly making him a Lord of Order in his own right]].

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* ''Series/StrangerThings'': Vecna is revealed to be [[spoiler:none other than Henry Creel, Victor Creel's telekinetic son who was transformed into what he is now by the Upside Down's lightning after Eleven sent him there with her powers]].

A subtrope of WasOnceAMan and EldritchAbomination, often the result of an EldritchTransformation. Compare DemonOfHumanOrigin and HumanoidAbomination. 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.

->''[...] Her eyes shone with supreme truth and understanding. The light of the cosmos with all its visible and invisible rays danced like multifaceted fractals in her vision, undimmed and unveiled, brighter than a thousand suns. Her frail flesh, no longer able to bear the weight of the revelation gave way to transcendence. Tongues of scarlet flame descended upon her and became consumed by it. She embraced utter annihilation and thus, ushered her rebirth.\\\
She is our Archempress, our blessed Matriarch. May her reign be eternal, now and always. We humbly prostrate in exaltation and despair. For this we are now anathema.''

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': San, a rogue severed piece of [[Draconic Abomination Ghidorah]], essentially turns Vivienne Graham into one when he fuses with her and makes them a half-human, half-Ghidorah, TwoBeingsOneBody newborn [[{{Kaiju}} Titan]]. Likewise, [[spoiler:[[TheAssimilator the Many]] were created by fusing Ghidorah's experimented-on DNA to humans]].

-->--'''Julian Faylona''', [[https://web.archive.org/web/20211102153142/https://www.deviantart.com/julian-faylona/art/The-Hour-of-Transfiguration-833845872 The Hour of Transfiguration]]
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->''She looked deep into the void and sung strange hymns to the emptiness. Her faith was unwavering, her determination unyielding. Her sacrificial offerings, now measured an ocean below her feet, wafted like sweet incense into the nothingness. And it was worthy. Thus the voice of an ancient awareness sung back from the void. A responsorial was granted unto her, and invoked her to slake upon the waters of Infinite. She fell into temptation and thus committed an unforgivable sin. But in place of her iniquity, her eyes shone with supreme truth and understanding. The light of the cosmos with all its visible and invisible rays danced like multifaceted fractals in her vision, undimmed and unveiled, brighter than a thousand suns. Her frail flesh, no longer able to bear the weight of the revelation gave way to transcendence. Tongues of scarlet flame descended upon her and became consumed by it. She embraced utter annihilation and thus, ushered her rebirth.\\\

But what if that thing used to be human?

** Rom, the Vacuous Spider 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 method in which she achieves this is unknown, as "true enlightenment need not be shared."

** Rom, the Vacuous Spider 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."

[[quoteright:250: [[Literature/AllTomorrows https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/asteromorph_all_tomorrows.jpg]]]]
[[caption-width-right:250: I gazed upon the abomination from beyond the stars, and saw... myself... [[LivingForeverIsAwesome and I'm]] [[AGodAmI beautiful.]]]]

* The aptly-named Abomination in ''Film/TheIncredibleHulk'' is the result of Bruce Banner's blood interacting with the super soldier serum in Emil Blonsky's body. Blonsky becomes an insane BloodKnight after the transformation and massacres the responding US Army troops before seeking out the Hulk.

** The Necrontyr were a sickly, radiation-poisoned race that made a deal with the C'Tan for immortality. They were transmuted (willingly and [[UnwillingRoboticization unwillingly]]) into the skeletal killing machines known as the Necrons.
** While the Techpriests of the [[MachineWorship Adeptus Mechanicus]] certainly count, their Servitors take this a step further, being lobotomized cyborg slaves that would make Frankenstein look virile and spritely.
** Arco-Flagellants are Servitors made from heretics, used as berserker-like killing machines as a form of "penance."
** [[{{UterineReplicator}} The Daemonculaba.]] A ''nightmarish'' creation by the Iron Warriors to create new Chaos Marines, the Daemonculaba are [[spoiler: slave women that have been chained, mutilated and grotesquely fattened to become artificial wombs. Kids go in and either a skinless Chaos Marine or a horrific mutant comes out.]] [[BrainBleach There's a good reason the fanbase prefers not to talk about this.]]

* ''Literature/AllTomorrows'': Ironically enough, 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 fugitives/refugees who ''escaped'' the corrupt 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 and if one were to look close enough, can see small hands or claws at the tips of their elongated fingers. Their torsos atrophied into little more than digestive tubes that provide thrust. And their brains swelled 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, at which point they [[ProHumanTranshuman decided to free their slaves and rebuild galactic civilization.]]

** [[{{UterineReplicator}} The Daemonculaba.]] A ''nightmarish'' creation by the Iron Warriors to create new Chaos Marines, the Daemonculaba are slave women that have been chained, mutilated and grotesquely fattened to become artificial wombs. Kids go in and either a skinless Chaos Marine or a horrific mutant comes out. [[BrainBleach There's a good reason the fanbase prefers not to talk about this.]]