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A villain-specific type of He Who Must Not Be Seen, the Unseen Evil is something so horrifying it cannot be shown on screen. Used when nothing the art department could come up with could possibly be horrifying enough. Or because you have no budget for effects, and need an easy out (see Shaky P.O.V. Cam). In some cases the Unseen Evil is eventually shown on screen, perhaps because the heroes are finally at the end of the Sorting Algorithm of Evil and need something tangible to oppose. These cases usually end in disappointment, and prove the original decision not to show anything correct. If said disappointment is intentional on the authors' part, then the villain is just The Man Behind the Curtain. Compare Monster Delay. Sister trope of Nothing Is Scarier, where an entire story's terror factor relies on the invisibility of... whatever it is. You Cannot Grasp the True Form is sometimes used in conjunction with this trope; even those who attempt to look at the Unseen Evil are unable to do so, in which case it's probably an Eldritch Abomination. Contrast Obscured Special Effects, where we may catch glimpses of the monster but never get a good look. |
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Ultraman Gaia has its Big Bad, the Radical Destruction Bringer (sometimes called the Root of Destruction). It's never actually seen or appears, but is responsible for the events of the entire series either directly or indirectly. All that we really know is that it hates Earth and sees the planet as a threat to the universe. It pretty much vanishes after the final monster Zogu is destroyed, so many fans speculate its identity to have been Zogu. | |
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AI War: Fleet Command: Whatever it is that is fighting the AI in the Extragalactic War. We know Spire remnants are a definite enemy and that stuff like the Nanocaust could well be "one of those things" that the AI needs its true fleet to battle. But the rest is apparently a damnably huge, permanently unidentified threat that could well be unified. We only know the AI believes it would kill humanity if left alone (something the AI itself is putting off in the meantime), and that it's apparently so bloody huge and dangerous it takes 99.9% of the AI's industrial might to merely keep it at bay. A unified, giga-industrialized intelligence with access to things like Motherships, Planetcrackers and Flensers is throwing everything it has at the Extragalactic threat and it is not working. The game's creators have stated that the main body of the Extragalactic Threat is the Obscura; Absolute Xenophobe particulate life forms that in another time, another game, took a massive coalition of alien empires to beat. | |
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The fourth volume of Nova has Abyss, a terrifyingly powerful necromancer with a knack for escaping from any prison. He spends his only appearance locked inside of a high-tech casket, so we don't get to see what he looks like, though we do get to hear him speak and see his nightmarish powers in action. | |
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Subverted in Darkened Skye, where the Big Bad, known as "He whose face must not be glimpsed" and universally feared by all, is ultimately revealed to literally be a tiny maggot. As the heroine puts it: "He Whose Face Must Not Be Glimpsed? That's because he's too small to see!". Deliberately or not, this might be a Shout-Out to Captain Marvel's enemy, Mister Mind. When he first appeared in the 1940's, it was over a year of comics before he appeared as anything but a voice over a radio, sending his Monster Society of Evil to wreak havoc. When he was finally revealed, his true form was... a superintelligent alien caterpillar about 4 inches long, wearing glasses. |
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Throughout the lifespan of Destiny, the Darkness responsible for leveling human civilization (and empowering several of the enemy factions trying to finish off the survivors) never received a depiction or even a coherent description. One Grimoire Card was even dedicated to listing various in-universe theories about what it was, ranging from an invading alien armada to a metaphysical corruption. This was due to the developers themselves not knowing what the Darkness was at the time of release. Further details emerged over the years, in which it became clear that it was a Sentient Cosmic Force of selfishness and violence, but it was only until Destiny 2 that its physical avatars were revealed, first as the Black Fleet, a fleet of giant black pyramids, and secondly in the Witness, an Uncanny Valley Humanoid Abomination that commands the pyramids. Even then, it's questionable whether the Witness is truly the mind and embodiment of the Darkness, as its stated goals and speech patterns are different from what we've previously heard from the Darkness itself. | |
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Played with by both main villains in Mistborn. The Lord Ruler is kept off page for most of the first novel, building up an air of mystery and fear about him; as a result, even though other main characters have met him before, Vin is stunned the first time she sees him and realizes he's a pretty ordinary-looking man. Later on, the real Big Bad, Ruin is portrayed for the first part of the third book as a completely inhuman force of nature. Later, it starts interacting with mortals in suprisingly humanlike fashion, using images of people they've known as its avatars. Vin speculates that this is just a mask, though spoiler:and she's proven right when she becomes a god herself and sees Ruin in his true form. What little description the reader gets could easily be summed up as "Eldritch Abomination", proving that while the heroine can now face the villain on his own terms, he's still brain-breakingly horrible to mortals. | |
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The Silmarillion suggests that it was difficult for him to take physical form, at least without The Ring's power. | |
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The Wolf, Ram, and the Hart, aka the Senior Partners of Wolfram & Hart from Angel. A powerful and ancient cabal of demons that are the true power behind the series' main antagonists, they are never seen or even heard once. The demon that appears for the Review was just possessed by one of them. Yet the series makes their influence an undeniable and terrible thing. By the end of the series, they ultimately prove to be an unstoppable force of Evil that Angel and company can only fight, but never defeat. In contrast to the First Evil, the Wolf, Ram, and Hart were once ordinary (and quite lowly) demons in primordial times. But when most of the more powerful demons died off (first by warring with each other, then being defeated by early humans and the original Slayer), and they managed to survive in the shadows, scheming and building up their power to the point that they're even more threatening than the First Evil. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons (1983): The Nameless One, boss of Venger, is a hugely powerful and evil being that destroys worlds only because it feels like it. Its body is permanently wrapped up in a massive tornado that reaches the clouds, and its real aspect is never shown. You can only see its glowing eyes. | |
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In Ori and the Will of the Wisps, the pitch-black areas of Mouldwood Depths harbor a Grue-type entity that devours Ori should he linger in the darkness for more than a few seconds. | |
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The same goes for the demon of Paranormal Activity, in which only footprints and the shadow of the demon are visible (3-toed footprints to make clear it isn't human). | |
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Pooh's Grand Adventure: Owl warns the gang about a horrible monster called the Skullosaurus. As they goes though their quest they keep hearing terrifying noises following them but the monster is never seen. It turns out they were just hearing the sounds of Pooh's empty stomach rumbling amplified by their fears. | |
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King Stan in Okage: Shadow King is trapped in the form of a shadow for 95% of the game, citing that the entire world will shake in terror once he regains his True Form. It turns out to be less than impressive (although that chin is pretty scary). | |
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The Akuma - the rank-and-file enemies in D.Gray-Man - are each powered by a human soul that gets more and more tortured and twisted as the Akuma grows in power and changes form. When a Level 4 Akuma - the most powerful form of Akuma seen thus far, each individual one being a One-Man Army that even Exorcist Generals struggle with - finally makes an appearance, the audience doesn't get to see what its soul looks like as they did whenever a new level of Akuma made an appearance, but it was apparently so grotesque to behold that one look caused Allen to double over and vomit at the sight of it. | |
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The Abominable Snowman never gives us a good look at its very mystical take on the yeti. We see claws here and there, and at the climax, a few of them appear in heavy shadows. As with many examples, though, they're not so much evil as they are beyond our understanding. | |
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In Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, the Evil Entity is not shown to have a definitive form until the last episode where it's a mass of darkness with a mouth and eyes. | |
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The Forbidden Power in TOME is this for a good chunk of the series, mostly in Season 1. Becomes less so once its true nature and appearance are revealed towards the end, though literally being Made of Evil gives it points for the Unseen Evil category even when one considers its "Kajet" body. | |
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unOrdinary: Spectre is an odd case, all members of the violent, teenager targeting, illicit experimenting criminal organization are shown greyed out with no identifiable features or with their faces in shadow and given no personal names except when they are posing as being unaffiliated with the group. The only exceptions are two members that have broken away from the main group and claim to be benevolent, though their trustworthiness is still in question. | |
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Eberron has Khyber, the Dragon Below, who is one of the three beings from the beginning of time and now is the underworld. Same goes for Eberron, who is the world, and Siberys, who is the Sky, but they are not considered to be evil. It's entirely possible the three progenitor dragons are just myths and metaphors for the surface world, underworld, and the planet's ring, though. | |
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In both From Russia with Love and Thunderball, SPECTRE's Number One is only shown from the chest down, leaving his face a mystery. Even the credits didn't reveal the actor who played him in either movienote It was Anthony Dawson, with Eric Pohlmann providing the voice, if you're curious, in order to invoke this. | |
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The Minotaur in House of Leaves. In reality, the Minotaur isn't so much a character as it is a concept invented by characters journeying through the house to explain the uneasy feeling that they're being watched, followed, and hunted down by some horrific creature. Tom Navidson even calls it "Mr. Monster" at one point. It is only called the Minotaur by Zampanó, who later struck through every passage containing that title. The strike-throughs are actually provided by Truant, who reconstructed the passages after Zampanó attempted to destroy them. On at several occasions, he succeeds, most notably on pages 372-373, the former of which contains the phrase [2 pages missing] and the latter of which is a series of XXXXXXXX interrupted only by one word and one partial word, though the footnotes survived. However, it's not simply that there is no such as independent thing as the Minotaur. People even seem to get killed by it. | |
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The monsters under Calvin's bed are rarely seen (apparently because they shrivel up and die upon exposure to light). Sometimes, though, you'll see parts of their body in the dark, which don't look terribly cuddly. | |
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In The Evil Dead (1981), and for most of the second (up until the end), and for the entirety of the third again, we don't actually see the spirit that is chasing the characters through the woods; it's represented almost entirely in point-of-view shots. What makes this so weird is that the characters being chased will often look into the camera, scream, and flee, but then the camera will cut to another angle (not a POV shot) and the characters will seem not to be running from anything at all. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-055 is the most mysterious and potentially dangerous SCP contained by the Foundation. Its only known property is that it somehow erases any other information pertaining to it from all records and memory. As a result, no one remembers when or how the Foundation first acquired it. While it's entirely possible that the SCP is otherwise completely harmless, the Foundation isn't taking any chances and treats it like any other Keter object. It is possible to remember what it isn't. Which somehow makes it worse. And what, so far, do people remember it isn't? Round, safe, or contained. Simliar to 055, SCP-579 is apparently so utterly horrible that the description is censored. All that's revealed is the containment procedures...which involve sealing the thing in an alternate universe (which is itself created by another SCP—something that's strictly forbidden by the Foundation's MO). And the protocol in case of a breach? Destroy the alternate universe. And if even that doesn't work? Well... SCP-231, a group of women impregnated with Eldritch Abominations by an evil cult, is rife with this. Of the seven, six have already given birth, resulting in greater casualties every single time, with implication that the seventh giving birth may cause The End of the World as We Know It. There is no description for any of the six Abominations already born. The photo that came with the document - whatever it depicted - has been censored away by the O5s. We don't get to know either what is the mysterious "Procedure 110-Montauk", regularly performed on SCP-231-7 to prevent her from giving birth to the final Eldritch Abomination, only that it's something very cruel and inhumane which probably involves violent rape but has been confirmed by Word of God to be even worse than just that. And what about its father? Exactly what the Scarlet King is varies depending on the author (as does everything in the SCP mythos), but he's either the manifestation of the border between modern enlightenment and old feudalism, out to bring the world back to a primitive, Might Makes Right state, or, considerably worse, a god born under the roots of the Tree of Knowledge, born with the curse of self awareness, convinced that existence is suffering, and intent on freeing all that is from the pain of being by burning the Great Tree. |
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Supernatural: While all angels only appear on screen using human vessels due to their true forms being too intense for humans to perceive, Lucifer takes this farther than any of them. His true form is apparently so unbelievably horrible that Sam and Rowena, having managed to see it only due to being in a metaphysical realm that allowed them to, are left utterly traumatized by it. | |
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The "evil force" in Greek Ninja. At first, no one knew who or what was behind it. | |
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Webwork has the entity referred to only as "IT", which represents Darkness in the Balance Between Good and Evil, and manipulates causality in Darkness' favor in its Cosmic Chess Game with "OTHER", its Light counterpart. IT is never described, never speaks, and is so immensely powerful that merely being in its presence terrifies Tarakudo. | |
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Subverted in Scrooged, where a character actually calls the bluff of the menacing hooded figure that claims to be a supernatural creature, and looks under its robes. The ghost is genuine, and the view is not pretty. | |
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The Otherness in the Repairman Jack and The Adversary Cycle books. | |
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Repairman Jack | hasFeature |
Unseen Evil / int_48c2633f | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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The Vasari from Sins of a Solar Empire are running away from a terrible, nameless evil that destroyed all of the inner colonies of their once-great empire. We never learn much more about it, because in their eagerness to get the game out, the developers forgot to include a campaign mode, and as a result the plot ends at the beginning of the game and (until the expansion) the lore serves only as an explanation for why the sides' units look and act the way they do. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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The origin of this particular usage was dramatized in The Bad and the Beautiful, in which Kirk Douglas (playing a Composite Character based partly on Cat People producer Val Lewton) and Barry Sullivan spend a scene or two working on a B-movie called Cat Men. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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The mysterious inhabitants of the Black Tower in The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World. Some people think they're an evil mirror image of the good Pyar gods in the White Tower. Some think the inhabitants were destroyed but their evil lives on. Certainly, no one has ever seen them. What's definitely known is that they're responsible for unleashing the Tayhil and their monsters on the unsuspecting world of C'hou, and that the only way to prevent total disaster is to put together the Nine-part Key and enter the Black Tower. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Homestuck's requisite example is Lord English, the Eldritch Abomination summoned by the death of the universe so he can feed upon its remains. He isn't constrained by things like time, though. In fact, he's already here. However, in the intermission between the 5th and 6th Acts, he does appear. | |
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Homestuck (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil / int_526d4c5c | type |
Unseen Evil | |
Unseen Evil / int_526d4c5c | comment |
In Knights of the Old Republic II, you never actually see Darth Nihilus's face. The only scene where his mask is removed is done by a different character and his corpse is destroyed before you can look yourself. According to other sources, Nihilus is actually dead, and just takes the form of a mask and cloak through the force. Kreia implies that he has, through eons of hate, malice, dark side power and soul draining entire species, become literally nothing but Evil with a lightsaber- making him possibly the only villain to ever hate himself out of the laws of reality. |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit never shows the true appearance of the Toon who killed Eddie Valiant's brother. Mind you, this Toon does eventually show up in the movie, but he's disguised as a man. All we see under the rubber mask are his red eyes — which are nightmarish enough on their own, given how they're constantly shifting and at one point morph into knives when he's "staring daggers" at Eddie. | |
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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By the time of Eugenesis, Unicron has become this, what with being stuck inside the Matrix. Some of the villains of the piece worship him, but they don't make any effort to free him. | |
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Eugenesis | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil / int_5755b96a | type |
Unseen Evil | |
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Parodied with The Monster in the Darkness in The Order of the Stick, who is obliged to stay in complete darkness all the time to avoid revealing what he is. Later he starts carrying an umbrella so that he's always got a shadow to stay in. Mind you, he's not very evil. It is hinted that he's powerful and has a fearsome appearance. | |
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The Order of the Stick (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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James Bond: In both From Russia with Love and Thunderball, SPECTRE's Number One is only shown from the chest down, leaving his face a mystery. Even the credits didn't reveal the actor who played him in either movienote It was Anthony Dawson, with Eric Pohlmann providing the voice, if you're curious, in order to invoke this. For the first two thirds of Dr. No, the titular doctor isn't shown, giving an order to one of his subordinates via a voice in an empty room. When he finally makes his first appearance, he's shown from the waist down to keep his face mysterious. It's only when he invites Bond to dinner that his full appearance is revealed. |
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James Bond | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Schlock Mercenary features the Pa'anuri, a species of Dark Matter entities. They're unable to directly interact with baryonic (i.e. 'normal') matter in any way, and therefore cannot be seen, heard, or in any way detected or interacted with, with the exception of gravitic manipulation and wormhole generation. They also plot to destroy all non-baryonic life, due to the fact that baryonic life keeps learning to do manipulate gravity and create wormholes, and they find that annoying. A few books and a few years later, digital imaging with gravitic instruments shows that they resemble twisted tendrils. | |
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Schlock Mercenary (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Sebastian's true form in Black Butler. Although it has a physical manifestation, Sebastian tells Ciel to close his eyes, and the camera only gives us glimpses. There are black feathers. A lot of black feathers. | |
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Black Butler (Manga) | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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The sequel reveals that "Nex" is short for Nexus of Ever Fated Rising Madness, Hope of All Turned Black, Doom to All the Beligerents and Their Gods, All Hail Doom Nightmares. | |
Unseen Evil / int_5d34927f | featureApplicability |
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The Age of Dusk / Fan Fic | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil / int_60425b68 | type |
Unseen Evil | |
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The crossover fic Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters has the entity living at the bottom of the Shadow Realm. Whatever the hell it is, it's described as being like a god, being so powerful that it can control the Cavalcade of Horrors and terrify Tarakudo (who, it should be noted, has no problem standing up to said Horrors). | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Silent Hill. The town itself. Especially in Silent Hill 2. This particular game is where this trope gets applied the hardest, as the town is unquestionably malevolent, and capable of shaping itself to inflict the most pain possible on its victims. However, despite multiple possibilities being offered, nothing ever really confirms for sure what makes the town the way it is, or why it does it. There's even some speculation that the God of the cult that lives there is actually also an illusion the town has created to inflict more suffering on the world. This probably done on purpose since ultimately, the town would be less scary if we knew why it was the way it is. | |
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Dr. Claw, the villain from Inspector Gadget was never shown on the original animated series. For the first movie, he was played by Rupert Everett, but was clearly meant to be a completely different villain. An action figure of Dr. Claw was made, when it was revealed that he disappointingly looked like your stereotypical "Mad Scientist". There was also a video game that showed half his face that used the same design. | |
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Inspector Gadget | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Sedna in Umi Monogatari has no real form, only seen as a cloud of red sparkles. | |
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Umi Monogatari | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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A magnificent example of Unseen Evil is The Last Wave, which is all about the end of the world and about doom. There isn't a single effects shot. | |
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In Children of the Corn (1984), He Who Walks Behind The Rows is never openly shown on screen. Presumably, the kids' murderous fanaticism was sufficiently horrifying that seeing the god/demon/spirit/whatever which they followed wasn't deemed necessary. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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In The Shape of the Nightmare to Come, the Nex is a literally unspeakable entity residing under the deepest levels of the Warp. All that is known about it is that it did... something to the one ship that delved deep enough into the warp to encounter it. The author begins vomiting and babbling for a few minutes whenever the subject is brought up. The sequel reveals that "Nex" is short for Nexus of Ever Fated Rising Madness, Hope of All Turned Black, Doom to All the Beligerents and Their Gods, All Hail Doom Nightmares. In the same story, the "Ophilim Kiasoz" is implied to be an ancient Eldar superweapon, subverted by the C'tan Deceiver. It is described by its few survivors as an invisible, malevolent force, drifting from system to system. In its presence, life vanishes, and stars are said to "wither like rotten fruit." Is it alive? Is it a machine? No one knows, and no one is in a hurry to find out. |
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Unseen Evil | |
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The aliens in The X-Files were, for the entirety of the first season, represented by slo-mo and flashlights. | |
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The X-Files | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Gormiti: The Lords of Nature Return gives us Obscurio, the supremely powerful leader of the Darkness Gormiti. While the toyline does feature a figure of him, he has not been seen in the series proper, only appearing as a spiritual entity which hides in a specially-forged crown that possesses Toby in Episode 6. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Pale Night, a demon lord. She appears as a ghostly woman wearing a shroud. Her true form is so horrifying, though, that reality itself rejects it; the shroud is not hers, apparently, but something the multiverse forces on her. (This is implied to be because Obyrith demons themselves are chaotic beings of entropy and madness; the reason for their hideous forms is because the, for lack of a better term, intelligence of the Abyss is forced to adhere to the rules of a lawful universe to bring its servitors into being. Pale Night's true form, though, managed to break those rules.) Her deadliest attack is the ability to suppress her shroud for an instant. Unlike almost every other example in the game, if you succeed on the Will save against this ability, your character is considered to have NOT comprehended what he saw, and blocked it out. Whereas if you fail they understand what they see and die instantly. If the character is resurrected, they will have no memory of what was seen. Late 2nd Edition and early 3rd Edition D&D also had Asmodeus, the Dark Lord of the Ninth, ruler of the Nine Hells of Baator. For much of 2nd Edition, particularly the Planescape setting, the highest lords of Baator (especially Asmodeus) were shrouded in mystery, playing this trope conventionally. Then after the Archdevils were revealed, the mystery around Asmodeus had to be reestablished with A Guide to Hell, a sourcebook that suggested Asmodeus is an illusion maintained by an impossibly ancient... thing that resides at the bottom of the Ninth Hell, in a miles-long spiraling trench called the Serpent's Coil. A later 3rd Edition book (Fiendish Codex II) gave more details, once again pulling back the veil of mystery on Asmodeus. Pathfinder and 4th Edition have further rewritten Asmodeus for their own purposes, as he has become more popular among fans and writers both. D&D 3.5 supplement Lords of Madness gives vague description of beings that predate even the Aboleth, all of which are Lovecraftian entities that aren't even given statistics (unlike the aforementioned Pale Night), only how their influence shaped Aboleth societies. Aboleths are creatures for whom the writers had to invent a new word to describe: unhuman. |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Old Harry's Game: More like He Who Must Not Be Heard but the most frequently mentioned of the damned outside of the main characters is Adolf Hitler, yet he never has any speaking roles, is never spoken to, and with the exception of one scene where he is explicitly in disguise, is never even spoken about in such a way that one can infer his presence. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Beast I: Goetia, the aggregate body of the 72 demons pillars of the Ars Goetia. He was created by Solomon to watch over mankind. However, he decided that humans are so pitiful that it would be better to incinerate the human order and use the energy produced to travel back in time to create a new humanity. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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At the end of Commander Keen 4, Keen is shown what his new enemies the Shikadi look like. All we're shown is his face going through horrified expressions. This game is shareware and its full version is free; naturally the player is promised that they'll get to see what the Shikadi look like if they buy the next game. Apparently they don't look all that special. | |
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Commander Keen (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Smallville portrays Darkseid as this. | |
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Smallville | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Berserk: The Greater-Scope Villain of the manga appears only in a Missing Chapter that was never reprinted because the author felt it revealed too much too soon. We only catch a brief, unclear glimpse of the Idea of Evil, the entity responsible for Midland's woes that only the Godhand have met. | |
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Berserk (Manga) | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Drakengard 3 and its side materials reveal that the true Unseen Evil of the Drakengard multiverse (and by extension NieR) is the Black Flower. This dark malevolent entity was somehow sealed away within Cathedral City, but not before a small piece of it was able to infect Zero, manifesting as the flower in her eye. Its influence slowly turns its host into a Grotesquerie Queen, the source of the lesser Grotesqueries aka the Watchers. The reason Zero sought out the strongest dragon Michael (and later raises his reincarnation Mikhail to become stronger) was because dragons, being the natural predator of the Flower, are the only ones who can truly destroy it. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Mao-chan parodies the trope with an alien that is too cute to be shown, as it causes all who gazed at it to swoon with heart shapes in place of their eyes. While the program never reveals the alien to the audience as per the trope, the shadow of the creature suggests an amoeba-like form with eye-stalks and possibly small tentacles as well. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Used humorously in Beetlejuice when he demonstrates to Adam and Barbara that he can be scary. Something happens with his face, but we only see him from the back. In a movie filled with fun creepy special effects, the best one is the one we have to imagine. | |
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Beetlejuice | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Forgotten Realms Lawful Evil greater god Bane was originally portrayed this way, maintaining a grim mystique by operating secondhand through agents and only manifesting as a shadowy, faceless, menacing shape or a black gauntlet. The Avatar series put an end to this depiction - and to Bane himself for a few Editions - by trapping him in a mortal form and then killing him off. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Downplayed in Steven Universe with White Diamond, the leader of Homeworld's totalitarian regime. While she is depicted in the iconography that we see in various ways, she doesn't physically appear at all until the Season 5 finale. What makes her case notable is that she's so beautiful (to represent her ideal of "perfection") that she looks less like a person and more like a part of the scenery. | |
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Steven Universe | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Galactus in Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer is only shown as a massive cloud of smoke. This is likely because his common depiction in the comics is, frankly, rather silly looking. This helps because Galactus doesn't actually have a set form in the comics; different species perceive him differently, because his true form is incomprehensible to lesser beings. This is also similar to his depiction in the Ultimate Galactus Trilogy. There, he is a gigantic hive mind of city-sized robotic drones. | |
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Unseen Evil | |
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The Lord of the Rings, the eponymous villain Sauron is this, although he's not the biggest bad in The 'Verse. He's mentioned often but never actually appears, deliberately, to heighten the sense of his unfathomable, mind-breakingly evil power. He is, however, given some description in supplemental material, and going by those it's better that we don't see what's really behind all this craziness. In the film adaptation, Sauron was given a full costume for the prologue, and was even intended to appear in the climax and duel Aragorn, before filmmakers realized how goofy that would be and digitally replaced him with a big troll. Still follows the trope though, in that we never see what he looks like underneath his armor. Sauron appears as the Necromancer in the film adaptations of The Hobbit, and takes the appearance of a black, humanoid ghost. The Silmarillion suggests that it was difficult for him to take physical form, at least without The Ring's power. In the film he was never seen during the Third Age, although the giant fiery eyeball was mistakenly identified as his physical form by some viewers, including the 'Sauron blogger' who stated "I am not an evil lighthouse." |
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The Lord of the Rings | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Satan in The Golden Child is portrayed in this way. We don't see him, but see a typical Fire and Brimstone Hell through his point of view as he speaks in the Voice of the Legion. | |
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The Golden Child | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
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Mentioned by name in Transformers: Prime by Agent Fowler to describe Unicron, who in this version is the Earth's core. That is, the Earth accreted around the dormant body of Unicron. | |
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Transformers: Prime | hasFeature |
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Unseen Evil | |
Unseen Evil / int_8633051c | comment |
Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell: The story takes place in an endless forest filled with the shades of the dead, which will instantly murder anyone who breaks a few specific rules. Humans fled to this place in order to get away from "the Evil" in the old country. No detail on what exactly the Evil is, but it was considered worse than the continent full of ghosts. | |
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Death Note has the Shinigami King, the master of the creatures that feed on human lives. Word of God said that his image is too evil for human eyes. He was finally shown◊ in a bonus chapter. | |
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Ultraman Mebius's big bad, the Alien Emperor/Empera Seijin, could fall into this category, an evil alien from a dead star that was very similar to the Ultra people who commanded the Four Heavenly Kings and armies of monsters and aliens throughout the millenia. For the longest time he was only mentioned and not seen beyond a black silhouette shown in a flashback in Ultraman Taro. | |
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In The Wheel of Time, the Dark One fits this trope perfectly. It's a nigh omnipotent evil god that has existed since the beginning of time and is the ultimate cause of all the conflict in the series. So far it's still mostly sealed away from reality, and even if it does break free, it's been implied that it probably doesn't have an actual physical form. The only time anyone has encountered it directly is when it communicated mentally with one of the Forsaken. Even then, we only hear its voice, and that alone was enough to make the person hearing it weep from a combination of agony and ecstasy. Even when partially freed it takes the form of a vast void rather than anything humanlike. | |
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The Graveyard Book features an unseen Eldritch Abomination called the Sleer, which remains under this trope until the book's climax. | |
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Undertale has two, both at the Genocide route: The Fallen Child, who only briefly appears at the end, and The Anomaly who being the player, never appears in the game, in fact almost no one knows you exist. Who turns out to be the bigger evil depends on whether or not the Anomaly has a change of heart and tries to make things right (and fails) or they decide to keep doing Genocide routes, which makes The Fallen Child marvel at your depravity. | |
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This is invoked in Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura in regards to Arronax. Arronax was a very real and very dangerous elven mage way back in the Age of Legends, and was sealed in the Void for his crimes. In modern times, he's treated as the ultimate evil, turning him into a folklore symbol instead of something real. This allows the dark elves to infiltrate the Panarii religion, which was tasked with maintaining the seal that keeps him from returning, and trick them into ignoring their duty. | |
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Similarily, the alien from Super 8 (made by the same creator as Cloverfield) is never directly seen until the end, when it is very clearly shown. Although, you can look closely to see its reflection sneaking up on someone the second night. Somewhat subverted in that it isn't really evil, it just eats humans, and wants to go back to its home planet. And when we do see it, it appears as an oddly noble, sympathetic, and frightened creature. | |
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Many of the tenets of this trope evolved from the 1942 horror classic Cat People. In that case, the film's budget was very low and the only special effects the production could afford was tatty off-the-rack "man in a cat suit" suits; the director thought it would be much scarier to not show the creatures at all but merely use cinematographic tricks and the actors' performances to suggest them. The effect worked, and has been endlessly copied ever since. The origin of this particular usage was dramatized in The Bad and the Beautiful, in which Kirk Douglas (playing a Composite Character based partly on Cat People producer Val Lewton) and Barry Sullivan spend a scene or two working on a B-movie called Cat Men. |
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Azur Lane: The Sirens are apparently fighting an even bigger threat offscreen, one that they are throwing their best at and still losing to, which is why they are using humanity as a petri dish instead of just steamrolling us. As is the case with this trope, this alleged greater enemy is never depicted onscreen, never mind openly confronted by the player's forces. | |
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Mother 3 has a time-traveling Porky. Just like Giegue/Giygas, one of his battle messages reads as "...?! What did Porky do...?!". | |
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In Kaspall, a box shaped robe with one arm and a cane becomes horrific this way. Of course, knowing the things that it DID to its victims helps. | |
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In El Eternauta, the true invaders are never to be seen, relying on several enslaved races to carry out their bidding. Essentially, all we get on them is that they are the "cosmic hatred". | |
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Death from Final Destination, whose presence is usually indicated by things like shadows, gusts of wind, ominous phrases, etc. Its true form does show up in one of the spin-off novels. | |
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The menace in Dark Fall: The Journal is never seen, although a monstrous figure does appear in ancient engravings and Room Full of Crazy art. Lost Souls, a direct sequal, forgoes even this much, using an enigmatic symbol to represent the entity's presence and power. | |
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Beast III/R: The Demonic Bodhisattva, a Dark Messiah who seeks to fulfill her twisted idea of salvation upon the world. | |
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The To Love Ru fanfic To-Love-DEATH has a main antagonist that's a galaxy-destroying zombie alien. Earth is next and nothing can be done to defeat him.He cannot be stopped | |
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D&D 3.5 supplement Lords of Madness gives vague description of beings that predate even the Aboleth, all of which are Lovecraftian entities that aren't even given statistics (unlike the aforementioned Pale Night), only how their influence shaped Aboleth societies. Aboleths are creatures for whom the writers had to invent a new word to describe: unhuman. | |
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This is the main point of the first Cube movie. Apart from Worth's connection to the titular cube, no information whatsoever is ever given about the titular cube's creation, purpose or nature. The sequels give us progressively more information. | |
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For the first two thirds of Dr. No, the titular doctor isn't shown, giving an order to one of his subordinates via a voice in an empty room. When he finally makes his first appearance, he's shown from the waist down to keep his face mysterious. It's only when he invites Bond to dinner that his full appearance is revealed. | |
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Similarly, Jaws also used this trope as a loophole to film a movie about a shark attack virtually without a shark, due to the ceaseless problems with their mechanical substitute. Given how bad the props are in the sequels, the wisdom of this move is all the more apparent. Robot Chicken, in a parody of the reediting of the original Star Wars trilogy, had a sketch where Steven Spielberg announces his decision to redo the special effects in Jaws. The results are not pretty, to say the least. |
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In Caitlin Kiernan's The Red Tree, the protagonist gets fixated on a large oak tree and becomes convinced that it's really the mask for some sort of abomination. Of course, she's also suffering from Sanity Slippage and has read her fair share of Lovecraft, so who knows. | |
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Robot Chicken, in a parody of the reediting of the original Star Wars trilogy, had a sketch where Steven Spielberg announces his decision to redo the special effects in Jaws. The results are not pretty, to say the least. | |
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In Beyond the Deepwoods, the first book of The Edge Chronicles, the Gloamglozer is handled this way... but according to its descriptions, seems to be a fairly underwhelming bogeyman not much worse than some of the threats you actually do see. In an inversion of how this usually works, when it actually shows up toward the end of the book, it turns out to be something far, far worse: a grotesque and malevolent trickster with more than a little in common with Satan. | |
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The Overlord in Ninjago, is the source of all evil in the world of Ninjago, and was responsible for the actions of several other major antagonists in the show. | |
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In Fairy Tail, Zeref is played up as this for 200 chapters, with characters commenting on what a horrible killer he was whenever he's mentioned, several demons he created nearly killing people or being part of a character's tragic past, powerful wizards reacting to his name as though he were Voldemort, and evil cults forming dedicated to his worship. When he finally makes his debut... And now we have E.N.D., Zeref's most powerful demon and the Guild Master of Tartarus. Compared to Zeref, he's far more confusing: though most have claimed him to be a perfect example of this trope, Igneel and Zeref himself have claimed that there is more to him than that, such that the former he refused to kill him even when he had the opportunity and the latter claimed to Natsu that, upon encountering him, it would be his choice on whether to kill him or not. His true name is Etherious Natsu Dragneel and he is in fact the undead demonic brother of Zeref Dragneel. |
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Alien pulled the same trick; the director realized that while H. R. Giger's design was awesome and the creature did look scary in glimpses in the dark, it ran the risk of looking fake if it was too visible. When the special effects caught up with the design, we got Aliens. Although not really, because Nothing Is Scarier fully applies here. The design of the suits in Aliens were actually simplified (some only being leotards with bits and pieces of skin), not just to cut costs (because they needed a lot more suits), but to allow the actors a greater range of motion. In a well lit room the original would look far better, but because James Cameron kept them either in the shadows or moving too fast to clearly see, he gets away with it beautifully. |
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"Cjopaze" from Ruby Quest. Weaver was very, very careful to not reveal too much about the horror at once. | |
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In Fate/stay night, the heroes eventually find out that the MacGuffin they are fighting for was actually corrupted some time in the past and has become the home of Angra Mainyu, the Zoroastrian Devil. He is a being that is 60 billion curses personified and the antithesis of human goodness. And he hates back. The only thing we get to see is basically pure evil that is leaking from it, and it is implied that it has no 'real' shape. Except in the Heaven's Feel route, where it finally manages to manifest itself as a vaguely humanoid tangle of limbs and eyes. Luckily, it does not succeed in being properly born before it is obliterated. And then in Fate/hollow ataraxia, the trope is subverted. Angra Mainyu didn't exist until the Grail created him in accordance with the "wish" of the people who martyred Avenger: For there to exist an unseen evil which they could blame for their own sins. There's also the Beast-class Servants, seven (eight since one has two halves) powerful beings that each pose a threat to humanity simply by existing. There are several mentions of them and their members in various other Type-Moon works, but they come into prominence in Fate/Grand Order. Seven of them have been confirmed thus far: Beast I: Goetia, the aggregate body of the 72 demons pillars of the Ars Goetia. He was created by Solomon to watch over mankind. However, he decided that humans are so pitiful that it would be better to incinerate the human order and use the energy produced to travel back in time to create a new humanity. Beast II: Tiamat, the primordial Mesopotamian Goddess of Chaos who wants to exterminate all life so she can go through the experience of giving birth to all life once again. Beast III/L: Kama/Mara, the Hindu/Buddhist God(dess) of Love having fallen prey to her darker half who wishes to drown humanity in depravity and pleasure until society itself breaks down. Beast III/R: The Demonic Bodhisattva, a Dark Messiah who seeks to fulfill her twisted idea of salvation upon the world. Beast IV: Primate Murder, a being said to be the best existence at killing humans. Fou, the Ridiculously Cute Critter who's been accompanying you, turns out to be an alternate universe version of it. Beast VI: The Beast of Revelations Beast VII: U-Olga Marie, the mysterious Foreign God that attacked Earth and bleached the planet white with no life in sight and set about creating Lostbelts to fight each other and ultimately take the place as the "new" Proper Human History, with herself as its ultimate new ruler. She previously attempted to have the protagonist killed during a prototype Lostbelt experiment through her proxies, and for some reason she wears the face of the apparently deceased Olga Marie, before said reveal always acting through her emissaries and the Crypters but never actually appearing. |
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Warhammer 40,000. The four Chaos Gods and the Emperor of Mankind all get this treatment to varying degrees. The Cosmic Horror Story-flavored C'tan, sadly, do not. Not on the table, where they've basically been torn out of space and rammed into an airtight liquid metal skin. In their natural form they operate on a scale so large they were surprised when they found out that planets exist, let alone the little noisy things on them. It's hinted, barely implied by a few lines of text here and there, that something makes Tyranids flee to Warhammer 40000. |
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The Nothing in The Neverending Story. A bit more prominent in the film adaptation. It's not an entity or being so much as it is a cosmic force, simply erasing the world form existence. | |
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The Watchers in Drakengard are made out to be ineffable and all-powerful by their servant, solidifying their position as the Unseen Evil in the game. Except when they appear near the game's finale, they take a form that is indeed horrifying and morbid. Part of it probably comes from expecting the writers to play this trope straight, and the other part comes from the symbolism latent in their appearance. | |
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Bubba Ho-Tep of the eponymous Bubba Ho Tep was shown in shadows for the majority of the film; it was handwaved that he's so powerful that he sucks the energy out of light bulbs, so whenever he's walking down a hallway the lights in front of him will suddenly flicker out, etc. | |
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Quite a few elements of Welcome to Night Vale, including the indescribable horrors that form Station Management, and, of course, Kevin's smile, which is... oh God... that is not a smile. There's also the Man in the Tan Jacket, whose presence is instantly forgotten the moment he leaves, and who may quite possibly be Satan himself. | |
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This trope can apply to mortal humans, too. In Road to Perdition, Al Capone is deliberately kept off-camera to evoke a sense of mystery and dread about the most powerful criminal in Chicago, and the power that rests behind Frank Nitti. | |
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Doctor Who: "Midnight" has a chillingly effective Unseen Evil. Unlike all of the Doctor's other adversaries, it has no shape or form and is only known by its influence on others. The Doctor proves to be utterly mystified and helpless against it, and were it not for a Heroic Sacrifice by the tour guide, it would have succeeded in killing the Doctor. In its one appearance, it evokes the same fear from the Doctor that the Doctor usually inspires in other alien menaces, such as the Daleks. | |
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Late 2nd Edition and early 3rd Edition D&D also had Asmodeus, the Dark Lord of the Ninth, ruler of the Nine Hells of Baator. For much of 2nd Edition, particularly the Planescape setting, the highest lords of Baator (especially Asmodeus) were shrouded in mystery, playing this trope conventionally. Then after the Archdevils were revealed, the mystery around Asmodeus had to be reestablished with A Guide to Hell, a sourcebook that suggested Asmodeus is an illusion maintained by an impossibly ancient... thing that resides at the bottom of the Ninth Hell, in a miles-long spiraling trench called the Serpent's Coil. A later 3rd Edition book (Fiendish Codex II) gave more details, once again pulling back the veil of mystery on Asmodeus. Pathfinder and 4th Edition have further rewritten Asmodeus for their own purposes, as he has become more popular among fans and writers both. | |
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The degeneration of the main villain fits in with the overall theme of The Dark Tower, where everything is breaking down. Things fall apart, the center cannot hold... | |
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Baccano!: While Ronnie isn't technically a "demon", much less pure evil, supposedly his true form is such that humans can't even grasp it. Apparently, the only thing that registers in people upon seeing his true form is an utterly overwhelming feeling of fear. In series, this form is portrayed as just a fluttering shadow on a wall accompanied by a creepy, echoing voice. | |
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At the end of At the Mountains of Madness, as the only survivors of the expedition are flying away from the titular location in Mysterious Antarctica, one of them looks back out the window and sees... something. He never tells the narrator what it was, but it gradually drives him mad. | |
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There's also the Beast-class Servants, seven (eight since one has two halves) powerful beings that each pose a threat to humanity simply by existing. There are several mentions of them and their members in various other Type-Moon works, but they come into prominence in Fate/Grand Order. Seven of them have been confirmed thus far: Beast I: Goetia, the aggregate body of the 72 demons pillars of the Ars Goetia. He was created by Solomon to watch over mankind. However, he decided that humans are so pitiful that it would be better to incinerate the human order and use the energy produced to travel back in time to create a new humanity. Beast II: Tiamat, the primordial Mesopotamian Goddess of Chaos who wants to exterminate all life so she can go through the experience of giving birth to all life once again. Beast III/L: Kama/Mara, the Hindu/Buddhist God(dess) of Love having fallen prey to her darker half who wishes to drown humanity in depravity and pleasure until society itself breaks down. Beast III/R: The Demonic Bodhisattva, a Dark Messiah who seeks to fulfill her twisted idea of salvation upon the world. Beast IV: Primate Murder, a being said to be the best existence at killing humans. Fou, the Ridiculously Cute Critter who's been accompanying you, turns out to be an alternate universe version of it. Beast VI: The Beast of Revelations Beast VII: U-Olga Marie, the mysterious Foreign God that attacked Earth and bleached the planet white with no life in sight and set about creating Lostbelts to fight each other and ultimately take the place as the "new" Proper Human History, with herself as its ultimate new ruler. She previously attempted to have the protagonist killed during a prototype Lostbelt experiment through her proxies, and for some reason she wears the face of the apparently deceased Olga Marie, before said reveal always acting through her emissaries and the Crypters but never actually appearing. |
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Unseen Evil is the entire premise of The Blair Witch Project. This is because the makers couldn't afford a really scary monster effect or suit. It ended up working better than if they had. There were, unfortunately, a few toy releases of the witch which portrayed it as a stereotypical movie monster. To be fair, these toy releases are not official. | |
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Mog-Pharau, the No-God from the Second Apocalypse series, is so unnatural and Eldritch that during the First Apocalypse, for the entirety of the time when it existed, literally no creature could be born living. No one knows what it looks like or what it even is. It is sealed in an enormous floating black obelisk in the center of a furious whirlwind. Needless to say, those who believe the stories of the Apocalypse are very keen on preventing it from being resurrected. | |
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Count Otto von Doom's is shown for one panel in one of the Marvel 1602 spinoffs. It's...not particularly pretty. Especially dark because Count Otto's sobriquet in the original series is "the Handsome". | |
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In Ed, Edd n Eddy Eddy's brother is kept from being seen, his presence only indicated by the stories Eddy tells, and his legacy only shown by the terrified reactions of Rolf, Kevin, and Eddy (when they thought he had come back). When we do finally see him, we see that he does mostly just look like Eddy, but coupled with his behaviors and the wildly frightening evil smiles and rather evil expressions he gives everyone, it's clear he is by far the greatest villain above the rest the show has to offer. Evil Tim. Maybe. |
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The eponymous Siren. You hear its cry — something like a distorted, unearthly air raid siren, in a play on the dual meaning of the word — but you never actually get to see it. The Sorting Algorithm of Evil skips right over it, taking you straight from the shibito to Datatsushi, The God That Fell, the creator of the siren, the shibito, and the red water. Word of God is that the siren is just the sound of Datatsushi, but this contradicts the game itself; a secret cutscene shows the fall of Datatushi and the first appearance of the siren, and there, the cry of the siren and the cry of Datatsushi are clearly two entirely different sounds, the siren responding to Datatsushi's scream. |
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Eve, the titular antagonist of Parasite Eve, is an in-universe case of this, seeing as no one except Aya and Klamp can ever get to personally see her, only the results of her "handiwork" on humans and animals. That said, the awakening mitochondria life forms that Eve manifests from are an invisible and omnipresent menace. | |
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In Challenge of the Super Friends: The End, the Eldritch Abomination known as the Benefactor is never seen. Only its voice is heard arising from the air, and it sounds oddly comforting, parental, like a patient teacher. | |
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Once Upon a Time has two: the Darkness, an Eldritch Abomination made from the darkness of all souls it ever bonds itself too all the way to its latest carrier (Rumpelstiltskin), and the Black Fairy, one of the most powerful practitioners of dark magic and the one who created the Dark Curse that the whole series was built around. | |
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Masters of the Universe gave us Horde Prime, the man behind both Skeletor and Hordak. All we ever saw of him was a greenish glow, beneath which an outline of his body can be conceived, a section of his face with red eyes, and a huge mechanical fist. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer has the First Evil, a primordial being which claims to be the will of evil itself. An incorporeal being, it can take the form of anyone who has died (even if they're The Undead or currently alive again), which it uses to very creepy effect. Then, about three times in the whole series, we get a brief glimpse of its apparent "true" form...which demonstrates the reason for this trope. Random demony face just isn't a match for one of our beloved main characters acting like a twistedly cruel version of themselves. | |
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The Legend of Spyro: The Dark Master Malefor is not seen in the first two games (except in animated cutscenes which are not very representative of his real appearance) or heard, until he finally appears at the very end of The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon, fulfilling the trope completely. And he actually is every bit as horrific, powerful, and monsterous as he'd been made out to be. He's a purple dragon like Spyro, but he's far larger than normal and looks like a dragon straight out of the pits of Hell. He's also an Omnicidal Maniac whose sole goal is to destroy the world, and he comes so close to succeeding the world is already starting to break apart when Spyro lets loose a World-Healing Wave. | |
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Zork has Grues, which will eat you, but can only exist in darkness. And in the fourth Zork game, they introduce the Ur-Grue, which is the progenitor of all grues and is capable of creating an aura of utter darkness around itself. Ya know how Grues don't show up if there's light? Yeah. He doesn't have that problem. | |
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The title character of It. The forms that ARE seen, such as the infamous Monster Clown Pennywise, are based on childhood fears. The giant spider form at the end was meant to be the most terrifying of the forms that humanity can "safely" comprehend. Beyond that, madness ensues. A secondary human villain was manipulated into bringing It a hostage and looks at It when It's not wearing a form and promptly keels over dead. Poor George Denbrough, who made the mistake of reaching down into the sewer for one of the Monster Clown's balloons. |
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Reavers in Firefly are never seen on-screen; only their ships and the after-effects of an attack are. This got turned on its head when they got revealed in Serenity and proved, once again, why Tropes Are Not Bad. | |
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Lone Wolf Appears in the first book of the series, Flight From the Dark. If Lone Wolf ends up in the Graveyard of the Ancients, he'll stumble upon the tomb of an ancient king. If you hand him an Idiot Ball and he opens the sarcophagus... Revealed in the remake to be Naar, the King of the Darkness, the true Big Bad of the series. |
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The Source on Charmed. A good example of what's problematic with showing the Unseen Evil, as well — after several seasons of only being mentioned in passing he's finally revealed as a mysterious cloaked figure. With each sucessive appearance, the Source gets more stupid looking and more like a traditional Big Bad, until finally he's killed off and replaced with new Big Bads. (At this point, "Source of All Evil" is eventually revealed to be a title rather than a literal descriptor.) | |
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And then in Fate/hollow ataraxia, the trope is subverted. Angra Mainyu didn't exist until the Grail created him in accordance with the "wish" of the people who martyred Avenger: For there to exist an unseen evil which they could blame for their own sins. | |
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The monster from Cloverfield is never directly seen until the end (and even then, it isn't that clear). We see glimpses of it at times earlier in the movie. There is, however, an official toy release of the monster showing its full body. | |
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Code Lyoko: XANA, to the point it doesn't even have a face or even body to begin with, being an AI. For the whole series, the only thing we saw of it was its mooks, its attacks and a mysterious Faceless Eye-like symbol. | |
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Babylon 5 gives us the Shadows, who are seen, but relatively rarely. They look like giant, really nasty spider/mantises, but they're usually invisible—saving on the CGI budget and adding to the fear factor: a Shadow could be anywhere, lurking, spying. The Vorlons, who eventually prove to be evil (or rather, Lawful Blue to the point where it's indistinguishable from Evil), are only ever seen in their encounter suits—again, their natural form is too CGI-heavy to be used that much. |
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Demonica of Stretch Panic is a monster so horrifying that merely seeing her causes Linda to die of fright. You must prevent her from entering the shack you are inside by following her shadow in the windows and attacking through the entrances she tries to use. | |
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In The Hound of the Baskervilles, the presence of the Hound is implied in various ways — legend, footprint, howling, rumoured sightings, the fact that people seem to have been chased by something — but it's not seen by Dr. Watson (the point of view character) or other protagonists until the climax. Of course, a major part of the mystery is just what it is in the first place. Ultimately, it turns out to be simply a large dog that is being used for a "Scooby-Doo" Hoax. | |
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The Cabin in the Woods both subverts this trope and plays it straight: we get to see almost all of the monsters in their full glory, under bright lights and for extended amounts of time- but the most we ever see of The Ancient Ones is a giant fist rising out of the ground at the very end of the film. One monster we don't see is simply known as "Kevin". That is the only thing we know about it. According to most sources, such as deleted scenes, Kevin is a superficially Nice Guy who is actually a psychopathic Serial Killer (possibly a Shout-Out to We Need to Talk About Kevin). |
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Sauron appears as the Necromancer in the film adaptations of The Hobbit, and takes the appearance of a black, humanoid ghost. | |
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