Thread:Mesektet/@comment-3581997-20160615160106/@comment-3581997-20160827072555

Not in Lovecraft, no. The thing about Lovecraft's writing is he wrote about beasts so massive that humans were as microbes to them. If you inhaled a bit of bacteria and your immune system immediately got to work destroying it, would you start taking pleasure in the germs as they died, as their sibling bacteria was evaporated into nothing beside them in your blood? No they would be literal specs and you'd destroy them as an involuntary action. Same basic thing with Cthullu and the Outer Gods.

But just because Lovecraft never wrote eldritch abominations that were also Complete Monsters, does not mean there aren't any. Many writers became inspired by the concept so there are Eldritch monsters out there who are just massive dicks for the sake of being massive dicks to everything and everyone in every conceivable way.

The Doom Phantom is pretty bad. Yes, yes reduce the cosmos to nothingness, been done 1000 times, but why did he have to tear apart two families organize a geocide to do it? He didn't. He just went above and beyond to destroy lives while he was getting set up to destroy life.

The aforementioned Dr- Schriber - he isn't an evil space god but he has been warped into a eldrich terror of anti-matter and is tormenting children and colleagues along the way, pretty much just because SCIENCE!

Asmodeous of Shadow Hearts certainly is a contender, when someone goes around mind raping children into killing each other and wants to destroy the world, but slowly over thousands of years of soul poisoning humans into killing eachother off in wars, just cause he likes to see them suffer, that raises some eye-brows and not just cause you are some cosmic lord of hell.

Hojo was always a Complete Monster but at the end of FF VII he also become an eldritch abomination. Any other creature, including big bad Sephiroth, would go mad from merging with JENOVA DNA, but turns out Hojo is too sociopathic to be affected and remains in control the whole time.