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14	When a character is adapted from their source material to another form of media, oftentimes alterations are made to their abilities, origins, and more in order to make them better suited to the new take, or [[RuleOfCool simply because it's cool.]] Normally, these changes aren't too drastic, or even are more subdued in an attempt to make the work more 'realistic' by having their unusual characters be more grounded.
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16	[[ThisIsNotThatTrope This trope is not for such adaptations.]]
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18	While in the source material a character may have been a simple, easy-to-understand monster, or wizard, or what have you, in the adaptation they are ''far'' from ordinary. For example, characters who were simply a man with superpowers may become a HumanoidAbomination, either to [[PlayedForHorror make the audience afraid of his powers]], or even [[DoingInTheWizard as a way to ''explain'' his powers]]. Sometimes it's a case of AscendedFridgeHorror, and sometimes it's just the adaptation being DarkerAndEdgier... that is, if the eldritch nature of the adaptation has a basis in the original work at all, and isn't just the new author ''completely'' changing things up.
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20	SubTrope of EldritchAbomination and AdaptationDeviation. SuperTrope to {{Santabomination}}. Contrast AdaptationalMundanity. See also AdaptationalBadass and AdaptationalVillainy. May qualify as an AdaptationSpeciesChange, if either version [[AKindOfOne can be called a species]] in the first place.
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27	* Each installment of the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' anime trilogy introduces a new, eldritch take on an existing, iconic monster.
28	** Starting with ''Anime/GodzillaPlanetOfTheMonsters'', Godzilla ''himself''. Not only is he the largest iteration of the character ever at 300 meters tall, he's been reimagined as a {{planimal}}, making him equal parts AnimalisticAbomination and BotanicalAbomination with metal skin to boot. He drove humanity off the planet and killed every other kaiju, leaving him the undisputed ruler of the planet for [[StrongerWithAge 20,000 years]]. [[spoiler: He's also implied to be a product of GaiasVengeance, and has subjugated the ''ecosystem itself'', with every living thing on Earth [[MotherOfAThousandYoung now being an offshoot of himself]] in one way or [[MonsterProgenitor another]].]]
29	** ''Anime/GodzillaCityOnTheEdgeOfBattle'' shows that not even [[HumongousMecha Mechagodzilla]] is immune to this treatment. While originally a {{robeast}} made of {{nanomachines}}, it was destroyed before it could activate. Over the 20,000 years since, however, [[spoiler: it has become a MechanicalAbomination GeniusLoci, as the nanometal that makes up its body spread and [[TheAssimilator absorbed any creature that comes into contact with it]], becoming the titular Mechagodzilla City. Despite being the best weapon the survivors of humanity have against Godzilla, its victory would also mean that it would be free to [[GreyGoo assimilate everything on Earth]].]]
30	** Finally we have the ''Anime/GodzillaThePlanetEater'' interpretation of [[DraconicAbomination King Ghidorah]]. While he's always been a huge threat, and in many incarnations a CivilizationDestroyer, here he is, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin as the title implies]], a true PlanetEater. [[spoiler: He is an EnergyBeing who [[EvilIsBigger dwarfs even Godzilla]] at ''[[SerialEscalation twenty kilometers long]]'', he comes from another dimension and as such is not bound by the laws of physics. His signature [[PsychoElectro "Gravity Beams"]] have turned into [[GravityMaster actual gravity powers]], which includes the ability to warp time and space. This results in such situations as inflicting YouAreAlreadyDead on a space station after crushing them [[TimeDilation by desynching them with time]].]]
31	* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Alucard is revealed to be Dracula/Vlad the Impaler. The Dracula [[Literature/{{Dracula}} in the original novel]] was a powerful vampire capable of controlling beasts and the weather, possessing the strength of 20 men and shapeshifting into mist, but otherwise didn't stray much from what vampires are traditionally capable of. Alucard, however, is an UndeadAbomination who can shapeshift into a mass of angry darkness and eyes, and [[YourSoulIsMine has the souls of all his victims within him]].
32	* In ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'' and their remakes, Unown are a weak Pokémon with poor stats and only one attack. ''[[Anime/Pokemon3 Pokemon The Movie 3: Spell of the Unown]]'', on the other hand, turns the species into a nigh-unstoppable RealityWarper with the ability to travel between dimensions and create life from nothing. That said, they can only do this when large numbers are working in tandem; one episode of the anime dealt with a single isolated Unown, and it was about as weak as they are in the games.
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36	* Sometimes used in Creator/DCComics Creator/{{Elseworlds}}:
37	** In ''ComicBook/AquamanAndromeda'', Aquaman himself looks more inhuman underwater compared to most depictions, with completely black eyes and coral-like growths protruding from his shoulders similar to his time as the Dweller in the Depths. This only applies to the present day, as in flashbacks he looks like his usual self.
38	** ''ComicBook/BatmanTheDoomThatCameToGotham'', being a Lovecraft-homage Franchise/CthulhuMythos-mashup in Batman form, a lot of Batman's more outlandish rogue's gallery are reinterpreted as {{Eldritch Abomination}}s or [[TranshumanAbomination made into one]] through dark forces.
39	*** Mister Freeze is portrayed as a man who was driven mad and transformed into an [[OurLichesAreDifferent undead-being]] that freezes everything around him, obsessed with unleashing his dark master.
40	*** While Pamela Isley was an eco-terrorist that gave herself GreenThumb powers in the mainstream DC-universe, here Poison Ivy was a potted plant turned into a BotanicalAbomination by Ra's al Ghul.
41	*** Ludvig Prinn was originally a necromancer who supposedly lived to be 500 years old, having authored his own evil spellbook. Here, he was a cultist who, after being imprisoned in the catacombs beneath Gotham, became a reptilian monster.
42	*** Two-Face's evil half [[spoiler:becomes a portal to Cthulhu's realm]].
43	*** [[spoiler:His father having been cursed with immortality from the Testament of Ghul, ''Batman'' is revealed to be one. He's TheChosenOne destined to thwart Ra's al Ghul's plan of summoning Iou-Sotha and permanently transforms into Man-Bat to accomplish this.]]
44	** "The Reaching Hand" in ''Elseworlds 80-Page Giant'' reimagines [[spoiler: Metamorpho]] as a cthuloid entity worshipped by a cult that kills people and reanimates them as grotesquely distended creatures (yes, all DC's RubberMan characters).
45	** ''ComicBook/BatmanDarkJokerTheWild'' reimagines the Joker as a nigh-omnipotent EvilSorcerer who commands legions of demonic creatures to assault innocent villages. Bruce is a TykeBomb who was being used by his parents in a ritual to create a ChosenOne powerful enough to defeat the Dark Joker, but gained the appearance of a monstrous bat creature when the Joker himself interrupted the ritual and [[DeathByOriginStory killed Bruce's parents]].
46	** ''ComicBook/BatmanTwoFaces'', being an adaptation of ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', does this with the Joker, via putting him in the Hyde role, a HumanoidAbomination that is the end result of taking an ordinary, flawed man and removing all the good in him, that man in question being Bruce Wayne.
47	** ''ComicBook/BatmanVampire'' already did its work by having Batman succumb to vampirism, but by ''Crimson Mist'', he has gone full on HumanoidAbomination, becoming a rotted skeleton enshrouded in his tattered costume, capable of transforming into mist or a flying beast depending on his choice.%%
48	* ''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'':
49	** TheAntiChrist was originally [[spoiler: [[Characters/HarryPotterHarryJamesPotter Harry Potter]]]] before [[GoMadFromTheRevelation going insane after finding out that his whole life was a fabricated charade meant to groom him for the Apocalypse]]. Afterwards, he became [[HumanoidAbomination a grotesque giant with eyes littering his head like boils]].
50	** [[spoiler:Literature/MaryPoppins is an incarnation of God, or more specifically the maternal, protective part of God.]]
51	** In ''Black Dossier'', there is mention of a Great Old One manifesting in Springfield, Massachusetts. [[spoiler:Its description implies it to be Literature/TheCatInTheHat.]]
52	** The Golliwog, a racist caricature design for a rag doll, is adapted as a StarfishAlien whose appearance is due to essentially being a walking black hole, whose true mass and voice could shatter the environment around it.
53	* ''ComicBook/SubMariner'': In the story ''ComicBook/SubMarinerTheDepths'', Namor is portrayed as a silent HumanoidAbomination who defends the EldritchOceanAbyss that is Atlantis. Deviations from his mainstream counterpart include pale white skin and BlackEyesOfEvil and being ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, being far older than his mainstream counterpart should during the 1950's (his thirties) with him being blamed for the disappearance of a Spanish ship that was sent to the New World in 1610, the beaching of the Meduse in 1810 and the sinking of Titanic in 1912.
54	* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': When first reintroduced in ''ComicBook/ActionComics2011'', Ultra Humanite is no longer an evil scientist whose brain is implanted in the body of a mutated, albino gorilla. Now ''it'' is an alien horror, apparently native to the Phantom Zone, that mind controls the citizens of Smallville into experiencing their worst fears while also brainwashing them into enjoying being afraid, feeding on their minds in the process.
55	* ''ComicBook/UltimateFantasticFour'': The comic takes the inherent weirdness of Reed Richards' powers and really explores the possibilities. Nothing remains of his internal organs; he's basically a cluster of bacteria that looks human because that's what he's used to. This gets even more prominent [[spoiler:in his fight with Sue after his FaceHeelTurn]].
56	* ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'':
57	** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'': Some of the gods are given more unusual or monstrous appearances compared to their depictions in the myths and previous Wonder Woman continuities. Most notable are Hades who appears as a small child with a head made of lit candles and Poseidon who appears as an enormous teal creature that looks vaguely like a combination of a few octopi, a whale, and some type of pinniped with growths atop his head that look like coral and a giant starfish. There's also a smaller version of himself inside him. Outside of these two, the gods range from humans with unusual traits (Dionysus has fox teeth, Zeus constantly glowing eyes) to more HumanoidAbomination (Artemis looks like a living marble statue and can turn into a horned woman made of moonlight, while Ares is a creepy old man with black holes for eyes and legs constantly soaked in blood).
58	** ''ComicBook/WonderWomanHistoriaTheAmazons'': Similar to the comic above, this comic also gives the gods more eldritch appearances. Some are part of the ElementalEmbodiment territory (Hestia appears as a woman made of fire and Zeus has lightning bolt-like veins across his sky-blue skin), some are more abstract (Athena doesn't have any body, and is just a set of animated armor pieces, mask and dress) and then you have representations that are simply quite unusual (such as Poseidon as a winged centaur, or Aphrodite as a BigBeautifulWoman seemingly made of galaxies).
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62	* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': Whereas Ghidorah was already portrayed in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' canon as a DraconicAbomination and an Adaptational Abomination to earlier incarnations of the character; in ''Abraxas'', [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonKingGhidorah Ghidorah]]'s PsychicPowers and HealingFactor are even more Lovecraftian than anything it managed to display in Franchise/MonsterVerse canon. [[spoiler:Ghidorah drives humans who spend too much time around its severed remains insane, such as members of Monarch's Outpost 32 team and Jonah's mercenaries, it retains a long-range PsychicLink to San and Vivienne which it uses to episodically torment them, and with time and energy to feed off, it can slowly regenerate its entire body from just a single severed head, with [[MultipleHeadCase all three]] minds and memories completely intact.]]
63	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'':
64	** In Marvel canon, the Phoenix Force is a cosmic firebird that takes hosts and occasionally eats stars, operating to an uncertain purpose. Eldritch enough. Here, it's taken further, being the primary aspect of Destruction of the Endless, and even the most stable hosts being mild {{Humanoid Abomination}}s. A fully fledged Dark Phoenix is a galaxy eating EldritchAbomination.
65	** Surtur goes from a BigRedDevil style enemy of Asgard, to a cosmic force of destruction (ironically TruerToTheText as compared to the mythology) and recreation, rebuilding everything and everyone in his own image, being firmly convinced that the universe is flawed and only he knows how to fix it. And he has absolutely no problem wiping out entire galaxies and/or imprisoning the souls of his enemies and turning them into his monstrous minions in the process. It's revealed that the Alliance of Realms (the Nine Realms minus Niflheim/Helheim and Muspelheim) were once phenomenally advanced galactic scale {{Magitek}} empires who had literally all their dominions destroyed fighting him, and tried everything to stop him - including stuffing him in a black hole. The only thing that finally took was [[spoiler: building Yggdrasil as a ludicrously complicated trap and/or prison that functioned as a cosmic alignment to empower all of them, as well as both draining Surtur's power and giving the chosen wielder of the future Odinforce the power to go toe to toe with him... long enough to distract him]]. And even ''that'' has been a LeakingCanOfEvil, with avatars of his will going forth and being capable of destroying ''armies'' of gods through sheer will. [[spoiler: Unsurprisingly, he's the original Dark Phoenix]].
66	*** He also created a number, with his Great Captains all ''minimally'' being capable of destroying planets, and shrugging off being thrown into neutron stars, while the Elder Wyrms, the children of Jormungand, are {{Draconic Abomination}}s designed as planet-busters.
67	** The Grandmaster appears in the third book, and while based off of the MCU version (apparently just an ordinary if quirky HumanAlien smart enough to rise to the top of Sakaar's rubbish heap), he's noted to wield vast [[RealityWarper reality bending powers]] and is implied to have both created Sakaar - here an extra-universal EldritchLocation - and have been [[spoiler: Annihilus]].
68	* ''WebOriginal/{{Eldritchrune}}'', as the name implies, adapts each member of the monster cast of ''Videogame/{{Deltarune}}'' into a massive AnimalisticAbomination, befriended by the sole human Kris.
69	* [[ComicStrip/TheYellowKid Mickey Dugan]] appears in ''WebComic/FateGagOrder'' looking mostly like himself apart from having only four fingers. The name of the story he appears in? ''[[Literature/TheKingInYellow The Kid in Yellow]]''.
70	* Used deliberately to preserve TheReveal of ''[[https://creepypasta.fandom.com/wiki/My_Perfect_World,_Shattered My Perfect World, Shattered]]'', as the story describes [[spoiler:Sonic the Hedgehog]] more akin to an AnimalisticAbomination to hide that [[spoiler:it's a PerspectiveFlip of ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog1'', and this is how Dr. Robotnik sees him]].
71	* ''Fanfic/UnlifeIsStrange'':
72	** Inverted with the Red Queen and Myrddin Wylt. In ''VideoGame/Vampyr2018'', the two were primordial vampires, existing with no apparent corporal form. Myrddin claims to have never been human, and his mothers origins escape even him. Here, it’s revealed that Myrddin was once the Celtic God Lugh, and that his mother once had a corporal humanoid form of her own. In Arthur's time, this form was named "Morgana" and the partial basis for Morgan Le Fay. This form still exists, albeit only appearing in dreams, visions and hallucinations.
73	** Implied with [[{{Wendigo}} The Makkapitew]] from ''VideoGame/UntilDawn'', which in the game isn't implied to be anything more than a particularly strong and vicious spirit. While it never directly appears in the story, when it's discussed, passing mentions heavily imply that it is a manifestation of Ithaqua from ''Franchise/TheCthulhuMythos''.
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77	* The Wood Sprite from ''WesternAnimation/GuillermoDelTorosPinocchio'' goes full on AngelicAbomination, looking like a humanoid angel but has six sets of wings covered in eyes, similar to the biblical Seraphim.
78	* ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManAcrossTheSpiderVerse'': In the comics, the Spot is a petty thief who, in spite of his [[ThinkingUpPortals powers]], gets his ass handed to him on a regular basis. This iteration is a TranshumanAbomination... for whom the same holds true, until his first humiliating defeat reveals to him that he has a PortalCrossroadWorld contained within himself. This drives him to get serious about figuring out his powers. [[spoiler:After getting a powerup from the collider in Mumbattan, he transforms into [[OneWingedAngel an even more powerful form]], essentially a living CosmicFlaw who threatens TheMultiverse just by existing.]]
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82	* ''Film/FantasticFourRiseOfTheSilverSurfer'' reimagines Galactus, already an abomination in his own right, as a being with no human-like qualities, only appearing as a black cloud. Hints of his signature helmet appear as a shadow and as a fiery storm respectively.
83	* ''Film/It2017'': In terms of presentation, it is only downplayed with the titular Pennywise/It. While It was as much of an EldritchAbomination [[Literature/{{It}} in the book]], its traits are exaggerated and more overtly demonstrated in the 2017 adaptation. The original Pennywise was mostly capable of [[FauxAffablyEvil putting on the act of a flashy, friendly clown]], however, Creator/BillSkarsgard's interpretation is more feral and [[ObviouslyEvil obviously monstrous]], rarely bothering to even act human. Pennywise is clearly inhuman from the get go, while in the book it only becomes apparent later on and the humanoid form is a very poor disguise that quickly falls off. The [[Film/ITChapterTwo second half]] plays with this. Pennywise never fully assumes the spider form of the book [[spoiler:only a clown-headed spider form]], but more emphasis is given to the fact that Its true form is the [[LightIsNotGood Deadlights]], a trio of lights akin to three suns.
84	* In ''Literature/JamesAndTheGiantPeach'', the rhinoceros which ate James's parents isn't really described as anything else other than just an animal ([[CarnivoreConfusion which makes it even more surreal in a way]]). In the live-action/animated film, it is a malevolent supernatural entity from beyond which manifests itself as a storm cloud shaped like a rhinoceros more closely related to the book's Cloud People.
85	* ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'':
86	** ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'': Dormammu was always a HumanoidAbomination, but [[ComicBook/DoctorStrange his comic version]] was still a recognizably humanoid EvilSorcerer. His live-action film counterpart isn't even remotely humanoid beyond a face and exists [[PlaceBeyondTime outside of time]] while he tries to assimilate universes into his Dark Dimension.
87	** ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'': While [[GeniusLoci Ego the Living Planet]] was quite powerful, the Ego of the film is more of a cosmic being despite having the ability to [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith take a human form]]. His true form is [[BrainMonster a giant glowing brain]] with the planet being something he formed for himself rather than just being a planet that was given consciousness. [[spoiler:He becomes more Lovecraftian [[EvilAllAlong when his true colors are revealed]], as his [[AssimilationPlot expansion plot]] involves spreading pieces of himself to grow like tumors on other planets.]]
88	** ''Film/SpiderManFarFromHome'': Invoked and subverted with the Elementals, who are portrayed by Mysterio as immortal beings who have inspired myths throughout history and are capable of ''destroying the entire planet''. [[spoiler:Except they don't actually exist at all, at least in the incarnations Mysterio presents, as they are his illusions he uses to pretend to be a hero. Morris Bench, the "real" Hydro-Man, is mentioned to supposedly exist as a "mere" superpowered human.]]
89	* The Titans in the ''Franchise/MonsterVerse'' take the {{Kaiju}} from the ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' and ''Franchise/KingKong'' franchises into this direction. While the various monsters from each series were weird and terrifying in their own unique ways, the ''[=MonsterVerse=]'' makes a point that the Titans not only predate mankind by many millions of years (Not as species, [[TimeAbyss as individuals]]), but that should they ever awaken from their slumber, humanity is hilariously ill-equipped to do anything about it. Research from MONARCH reveal that they were all worshipped by various human civilizations of the past ([[TheOldGods being the source of various gods and monsters from religions new and antiquated]]), [[FertileFeet their mere presence acts as the catalyst that allows life to thrive on Earth]], most of them are or have become SingleSpecimenSpecies, they have anatomies and abilities that should be impossible, they can (and have) hibernated for thousands of years, their bodies can absorb and store radiation and the only thing keeping them from destroying all of humanity is that their alpha (Godzilla) commands them not to, and even then it is left vague as to why.
90	** ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' leans into this in its depiction of [[Characters/MonsterVerseKingGhidorah King Ghidorah]]. In the original ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' continuity of the ''showa'' films, Ghidorah was established as a civilization-destroying world eater from the depths of space, but when he became Godzilla's most frequently-recurring enemy, VillainDecay set in pretty hard, and even [[Film/GhidorahTheThreeHeadedMonster his first film]] has a pretty light and campy tone. Most of the Japanese films since played him as just another kaiju, albeit one of the franchise's more iconic villains. ''King of the Monsters'', on the other hand, emphasizes Ghidorah's alien biology (the revelation that he is an alien comes just after watching him [[BodyHorror disturbingly]] [[HydraProblem regrow a lost head]] after shrugging off a weapon that should have melted him), returns his threat level to a truly global scale with HostileTerraforming, and giving him a [[AllMythsAreTrue folkloric]] backstory as TheDreaded tormentor of ancient civilizations. Even the cinematography around him is full of apocalyptic and satanic imagery, and his {{leitmotif}} is a DroneOfDread set to a Buddhist chant about void and nothingness.
91	* In the ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' film series, Freddy Krueger was the ghost of a child murderer given dream powers, but ultimately still a human ghost. The Freddy Krueger of ''Film/WesCravensNewNightmare'', on the other hand, was never even human to begin with. Justified as this is not actually the Freddy that we know and love, but an EldritchAbomination masquerading as him who has taken other forms throughout the ages.
92	* Nearly every adaptation of ''Literature/TheRing'' emphasizes the scare factor to make it more palatable to horror audiences. Sadako Yamamura (and her foreign counterparts), for example, becomes a vengeful ghost who terrorizes her victims personally. The original novels are actually more science fiction than horror, the "curse" is cancer caused by a mutation of the smallpox virus rather than anything ghostly, and Sadako's origin story is rather mundane. The famous scene where she [[TelevisionPortal comes out of television to claim her victims]]? That isn't in the novel.
93	* ''Film/ReturnToOz'' has an interesting depiction of [[BigBad the Nome King]]. In the ''Literature/LandOfOz'' books, the Nomes generally look like, well, [[OurGnomesAreWeirder gnomes]] - the King is a fat little old elfin man. In the movie, their underground nature makes them into claymation creatures that hide in stone, and the King becomes a giant RockMonster.
94	* In ''Film/TheRitual'', one of the cultists claims that the supernatural monster stalking the heroes is a Jotunn, more specifically a spawn of Loki. In Myth/NorseMythology, Jotunns are alternatively known as "Frost Giants". Interpretations of what Jotunns look like depend between adaptations, usually being pictured as being similar to humans and gods, but significantly larger, with other adaptations giving them [[AnIcePerson ice-based]] decor to them. Here though, the Jotunn is portrayed as an AnimalisticAbomination with the body of a large elk overgrown with plant matter, with the addition of protruding spines from the vertebrae and an additional set of human-like hands by her hips. Her head is far more monstrous, resembling a headless human torso with antlers for arms and arms for legs, with a vaguely human head with glowing eyes where its crotch would be. It's worth noting that the most well-known Jotunn are Loki and his children: Fenrir (a giant wolf), Jormungandr (a giant snake), and Hel (a half undead goddess), so an animalistic being is completely in line with Norse myths.
95	* ''Film/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader'', the third installment of the [[Film/TheChroniclesOfNarnia Narnia movies]], makes the sea serpent much more eldritch than it was in [[Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader the original novel]]. It's more grotesque (for example, when it [[spoiler:unfolds its scales to reveal hundreds of insectoid legs]]), and it emerges from the fog of nightmares surrounding the Dark Island (which, in the book, has nothing to do with the serpent). WordOfGod confirms that, in the [[TheFilmOfTheBook film continuity]], the villain from ''Literature/TheSilverChair'' (a DiabolusExNihilo with a snake connection) was behind the fog and the sea serpent inside it.
96	* In the ''Franchise/WarcraftExpandedUniverse'', Alodi is a long-dead (male) mage of [[TheMagocracy Dalaran]] who became the first Guardian of Tirisfal, a very powerful wizard tasked with defending the world against demons. Other than that, the only thing special about him was his [[HalfHumanHybrid half-human half-elf]] heritage. In the [[Film/Warcraft2016 2016 movie]] however, Alodi is an unknown entity older than Dalaran whose true appearance is that of a floating black cube that can open to [[BiggerOnTheInside a seemingly infinite dimension of pitch black nothingness]] and who uses an ethereal grey-haired woman in [[BlackCloak black robes]] as its avatar to interact with people. It is still benevolent though.
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100	* In ''Literature/TheBookOfLostThings'', the BigBad of the story is none other than Literature/{{Rumpelstiltskin}}, AKA the Crooked Man, here portrayed not as a DepravedDwarf with a connection to the FairFolk, but as a HumanoidAbomination that simply came into being alongside humanity and has been sustaining his existence through horribly sadistic "stories" arranged via [[DealWithTheDevil Faustian Bargains]] -- most commonly [[WouldHurtAChild with children]]. Another John Connolly short story -- ''The Hollow King'' -- takes this even further by speculating that the Crooked Man might be the FetusTerrible result of a union between an old god and a human woman or even ''[[EldritchAbomination something]]'' that was born from "the dark stuff of the universe".
101	* ''Franchise/CthulhuMythos'': In Lovecraft's original works -- such as ''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu'', ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth'', and ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' -- Dagon, Hydra, and even Cthulhu were not counted among the Great Old Ones. Later writers such as August Derleth and adaptations such as Chaosium's ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' chose to disregard this and categorized them all as Great Old Ones.
102	* In ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'', Harley Q was a pathetic WarmUpBoss who's never mentioned again after his death. In ''Literature/QuantumDevilSagaAvatarTuner'', he becomes a NighInvulnerable, immortal BlobMonster and over the course of the story, he devours all the people to have ever died in the Junkyard, along with their HorrorHunger and despair. Eventually he -- or rather, [[ItIsDehumanizing it]] -- becomes an entity that is neither alive or dead which has no will of its own and is driven purely by hunger. It devours everyone and everything in the Junkyard, including the Junkyard itself.
103	* In Myth/ClassicalMythology, Pan is a Satyr-like forest god known for his poor impulse control. In ''Literature/TheGreatGodPan'', he is a being that [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong rapes and impregnates a woman]] and [[BrownNoteBeing drives those who see his true form to madness]].
104	* Similarly, TheFairFolk are interpreted by Creator/ArthurMachen to be slimy horrors with tentacle extremities (''The Three Imposters'') or slug/snake-like (''Literature/TheWhitePeople''). Either way, they are impossibly ancient and teach horrible things or rape people (or both).
105	* ''Literature/LordsAndLadies'' features elves, which at first seem like the traditional fantasy OurElvesAreDifferent portrayal. There's some weird elements though, like how they come from another dimension, are AlwaysChaoticEvil, and are heralded by the appearance of Crop Circles. Eventually, it becomes clear that the Glamour they wear is making them seem far more human than they really are, and their true appearance is something more akin to TheGreys.
106	* The ''Planet Of The Apes: The Fall'' prequel novel to ''Film/PlanetOfTheApes2001'' reveals that the NegativeSpaceWedgie that transports Leo and Pericles to the titular planet was actually a sentient BenevolentAbomination that was trying to get them to safety.
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110	* The ''Franchise/{{Arrowverse}}'' sees the Music Meister (who in [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold his original incarnation]] was just a highly memorable human crook with the ability to [[TheMusicMeister control people through musical numbers]]) reimagined as a HumanoidAbomination with seemingly limitless RealityWarper powers.
111	* ''Series/{{Kaamelott}}'': Meleagant was originally just Guinevere's kidnapper in Myth/ArthurianLegend. Here, he's some kind of HumanoidAbomination who visibly terrifies the Lady of the Lake just by existing, mind-controls people and corrupts Lancelot, implies he can't be killed and seeks to drive Arthur to suicide. When asked what the hell he is, he identifies as the gods' answer to Arthur's sins (sleeping with a vassal knight's wife).
112	* In ''Series/PennyDreadful'' [[spoiler:{{Dracula}} is [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Satan's brother]].]] A fallen angel who has been alive since the dawn of time, whose true form is never seen, only appearing in his human disguise.
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116	* A ''Pyramid'' article giving advice on creating a Supers/Cthulhu mashup game included vignettes featuring thinly-disguised versions of established characters, including Franchise/{{Superman}} as a humanoid Mi-Go, both [[ComicBook/SilverSurfer Surfer in Silver]] and [[ComicBook/NewGods Blackened Racer]] being among the many names of Nyarlothotep, the implication that the ComicBook/SubMariner and possibly ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} are Deep One hybrids, Bruce Wayne having been possessed by a Yithian who thus, became Batman, Dracula being the pulp hero the Shadow and more.
117	* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': The legend of Saint George and the Dragon upgrades the dragon to a C'tan, a star vampire currently locked on Mars and implied to be the ''real'' Omnissiah worshiped by the Adeptus Mechanicus. Saint George was not a normal knight either, but the immortal GodEmperor of Mankind himself, who keeps flirting with HumanoidAbomination status.
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121	* In the ''Franchise/{{Castlevania}}'' series, Dracula is more than just a powerful vampire like in [[Literature/{{Dracula}} the original novel]]. He is the commander of a seemingly endless army of demons, including [[TheGrimReaper Death himself]], has various forms of powerful black magic at his disposal, including ResurrectiveImmortality, owns a castle [[GeniusLoci that in itself is another demon]] and [[ChaosArchitecture is known for changing forms]], and he has the ability to [[OneWingedAngel turn into all sorts of demonic forms]]. In the ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaAriaOfSorrow'' and ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'' duology, it's revealed that Dracula is also known as The Dark Lord, which is basically this universe's equivalent to {{Satan}}.
122	* ''VideoGame/DantesInferno'' loves this trope. Minos was originally a giant man with a snake's tail - in the game he is still a giant with serpentine traits, but on top of that mummified-looking, eyeless and with his crown fused to his head. Cleopatra, merely a humanoid shade in the original poem, is now a purple-skinned giant with a GlasgowGrin, mouths for nipples and her lover living inside of her. As for Cerberus, they mixed the three-headed dog description and his appellation in the poem "great worm" to invent a gigantic three-headed tapeworm living inside a blind humanoid head with arms for legs, something straight out of a Hieronymus Bosch painting.
123	* ''VideoGame/EpicMickey'': The Phantom Blot as he appears in the original Mickey Mouse comics is just a thief in a stark black suit. Here, he's the Shadow Blot, a monstrous creature made out of paint and thinner out to destroy the Cartoon Wasteland.
124	* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'':
125	** Tiamat of Myth/MesopotamianMythology here isn't just the goddess of PrimordialChaos -- she's one of the [[EldritchAbomination Evils of Humanity aka Beasts]] and her nature as the ultimate MyBelovedSmother is brought front and center.
126	** The demons of the ''Literature/ArsGoetia'' vary in appearance and malevolence in the original grimoire. Here, [[DemonicPossession unless inhabiting a host]], they unilaterally manifest as shrieking flesh pillars dotted with eyes, and all of them are seemingly bent on destroying humanity. [[spoiler: Their [[MindHive collective]], Goetia, is arguably this trope applied to the ''Ars Goetia itself'', being Solomon's original summoning spell taking the form of a HumanoidAbomination (when it's not possessing Solomon's corpse) and another of the seven Evils of Humanity]].
127	** The Foreigner-class Servants are historical people who made contact with the [[Literature/CthulhuMythos "Outer Gods"]] and managed to cling to their sanity, leaving them with some powers from the Outer Gods at their disposal. Currently none of them have connections to the eldritch in life (as far as anybody knows, anyway...) but the game's story explains how each of them came to be. Abigail Williams (famous for the Salem Witch Trial) was "forced" to become the host for Yog-Sothoth, while Katsushika Hokusai apparently gets contacted by what's implied to be Cthulhu, and his Trial Quest says that Abigail has inadvertently opened the way for more Outer Gods to "visit" the Earth.
128	** In Myth/CelticMythology, Diarmuid ua Duibhne was killed by a demonic boar. This game shows that the boar was closer to an AnimalisticAbomination, who ''eats'' magic runes and strikes fear even to dragonkind. Likewise, Cernunnos is reimagined as a titanic progenitor of nations and monsters.
129	** The Red Dragon who Altria's powers are derived from and the White Dragon whose blood Vortigern drank to become a {{Humanoid\|Abomination}}/DraconicAbomination are revealed to have been the same entity, an ancient (as in, as old as -- if not older than -- the Earth itself) continent-sized [[DraconicAbomination eldritch dragon]] called Albion, whose not-quite-dead corpse forms the foundation of the British Isles.
130	* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' does that with a few of the Greek gods -- such as Hades, who is now a heavyset giant with a body covered in metallic spikes and a furnace for a head; or the Moirai whose appearances range from a silvery angel to a giant, bloated, multi-limbed hag.
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134	* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'', Decoy Octopus is merely a very gifted and possibly a little insane MasterOfDisguise, who injects the blood of whoever he's disguised as in order to perfect his work. ''Webcomic/TheLastDaysOfFoxhound'', possibly as a result of the author misremembering that last detail, reimagines him as a "freak of nature" who can drink blood in order to transform into a perfect duplicate of its donor, to the point where a female disguise will cause his genitalia to change.
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138	* The [[Website/{{Reddit}} subreddit]] [[https://www.reddit.com/r/imsorryjon/ "imsorryjon"]] is dedicated to art reinterpreting ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', of all characters, as one of these. It can range from darkly hilarious to extremely creepy in execution. Worse [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons (or better?)]], it's attracted and inspired people to give the same treatment to other properties (it's where ''Webcomic/TheBikiniBottomHorror'' originated, for one).
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142	* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': [[spoiler:[[VideoGame/PokemonRedAndBlue Missing[=No.=]]] is a video game glitch]] that while somewhat creepy, wasn't anything beyond that. The Entity, by contrast, is a universe-assimilating monster that's the most dangerous member of a Pantheon of {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, and a threat to the entire multiverse. Lewis wrote it as such because [[spoiler:Missing[=No.=]]] creeped him out as a kid, and represented this by making it a Lovecraftian monster.
143	* This is practically WebAnimation/LumpyTouch's whole gimmick, most frequently with Garfield as inspired by the Reddit memes listed in the above folder.
144	* In ''WebVideo/JoueurDuGrenier'', the review of ''Barney Hide and Seek'' turns ''Series/BarneyTheDinosaur'' into a child-hunting monstrosity. As the game is intended for small children, the kids are very easy to find, there's no way to die and if you leave the game idle, Barney starts walking to the exit by himself. The narration [[ExactWords takes this to mean that]] Barney cannot be hidden from, cannot be killed, and cannot be stopped.
145	* WebAnimation/MeatCanyon's parody style tends to have redesigns that [[AdaptationalUgliness lean towards the grotesque]] to amplify the NightmareFuel of it. Some cases of it go so far that it ends up being this trope due to exaggerated cartoonish movements. However, these are some noteworthy examples where the characters are portrayed with outright eldritch qualities:
146	** [[WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends Thomas the Tank Engine]] in ''RAILROAD'' who is depicted as a primordial entity who tries to make a deal with [[Franchise/{{Cars}} Lightning McQueen]] in return for his soul.
147	** WesternAnimation/{{Ed\|EddNEddy}} in the ''JAWBREAKER'' videos is a HumanoidAbomination that has the ability to melt and reform himself. Edd and Eddy, while in typical [=MeatCanyon=] style, show no such abilities.
148	** The baby sun in ''SUNRISE'' is a sun with a human baby’s face that takes the sacrifices of the Series/{{Teletubbies}}, being treated like a deity by them.
149	** WesternAnimation/PeppaPig in ''I can count to three'' is an AnimalisticAbomination with two mouths and four eyes as a [[BodyHorror horrifying]] mockery of CheekyMouth and eats her family members.
150	** ''{{Yokai}} WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'' is a HumanoidAbomination who can extend his limbs and neck with snake-like movements and is summoned by people who don't take care of their homes, taking a toll of someone's life.
151	** WesternAnimation/{{Pinocchio}} in ''When you wish upon a star'' is not only very large and creepy-looking, it turns out he wants to '''''eat''''' Geppetto to [[YourSoulIsMine gain a human soul]], revealing a huge LampreyMouth with MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily as he slowly drags the horrified old man towards it.
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155	* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'': Dagon is revealed to be the identity of the dragon that Saint George fought. Unlike in the original legend, the dragon is merely one form of a Cthulhu-like MultiversalConqueror whose mere visage is unpleasant to look at.
156	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bunnicula}}'': In the books, the titular Bunnicula's vampiric nature was downplayed to the point of being outright ambiguous, implying heavily he may have just been a normal rabbit. In the series, he's not only explicitly a vampire, he comes with pretty much every superpower in the book; Being able to take apart his own body, turn into a ghost at will, fly, and a host more depending on what vegetables he's eaten recently.
157	* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainLaserhawkABloodDragonRemix'' reimagines the [[VideoGame/RavingRabbids Rabbids]]--cute but annoying rabbit creatures who cause mischief--as grotesque, extradimensional {{Kaiju}} capable of destroying whole worlds.
158	* The ''Theatre/{{Macbeth}}'' episode of ''WesternAnimation/ShakespeareTheAnimatedTales'' made the Weird Sisters into an example of HumanoidAbomination and that is the easiest way to describe them, as they all switch between two forms with only one of them possibly qualifying as completely human in appearance, even if their abilities are completely inhuman.
159	* ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'': Inverted with [[spoiler: Horde Prime]]. In [[WesternAnimation/SheRaPrincessOfPower the original show]], [[spoiler: Prime's form was concealed by smoke except for a pair of [[GlowingEyesOfDoom glowing]] [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes]] and a [[GiantHandsOfDoom huge mechanical arm]]]]. Here, he’s a humanoid with a strong resemblance to [[spoiler: Hordak]], his most disturbing physical features being a couple of extra eyes.
160	* In the comics, Ian Karkull is a guy with shadow powers. In ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'', Karkull (no first name) is a Cthulhu-esque magical horror who turns the Daily Planet into a BiggerOnTheInside cavernous {{Hellgate}}. Anyone possessed by his minions, such as Lois and Jimmy, instantly turns into a monster. Oh, it gets [[SarcasmMode even more cheerful]]. The center is a BottomlessPit, or so we think. Well, when the tablet Karkull was sealed in falls down the pit and Superman has to chase it, we find it does have a bottom. The bottom has a ''mouth''. The bottom is also ''rising'', fast enough that ''Superman has to push himself to outfly it''. It's hard to imagine a C-list villain like Ian as the master of all this, but his animated counterpart gave us some of the DCAU's best NightmareFuel.
161	* ''Franchise/TalesOfArcadia'':
162	** In Myth/ArthurianLegend, Morgana le Fay was the half-sister of King Arthur and popular recurring villain in both the original stories and adaptations thereof, portrayed as either part-fairy or as an accomplished sorceress, sometimes on the same level of the Lady of the Lake. In ''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'' however, she is much more of a threat than that. It is never made clear whether or not she was ever human, and while she is mentioned to have been Merlin's apprentice, it is implied that she had been around long before him. She is indestructible, unstoppable at full-power, [[GreaterScopeVillain was responsible for the existence of every other villain in the series (if not directly, then by proxy)]] and she could not be killed, instead had to be contained either in amber ([[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu at the cost of most of Merlin's magical reserves]]) or, later, within the Shadow Realm.
163	** In ''WesternAnimation/Wizards2020'', Nimue -- better known as the Lady of the Lake -- is portrayed as [[spoiler:a giant, one-eyed tentacle beast with a vaguely feminine angler that Merlin had imprisoned in a magical cave. According to Merlin, she was the one who first created Excalibur, and when the sword is broken he returns so that she could repair it, only to get eaten for his troubles.]]
164	* Tokka from ''Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIITheSecretOfTheOoze'' is a mutant who served the Shredder. However, in ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2012'' he (or rather [[GenderFlip she]]) is portrayed as [[AnimalisticAbomination a giant volcanic alien tortoise]] known as one of the Six Cosmic Monsters of the Universe who guards a piece of the black hole generator and has no affiliation to Shredder and/or Rahzar in this incarnation.
165	* ''WesternAnimation/Thundercats2011'' promotes Mumm-Ra to HumanoidAbomination, while at the same time downplaying it. He may look particularly peculiar, beng fanged and snub-nosed, but as his Ever-Living form reveals, he is actually a bat, though one can imagine even other bats in the setting not looking quite so abominable.
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