Skuld is terrified of her while Belldandy explains to Keichi how strong Hild is, and then Hild hugs Belldandy and Skuld, and then she flirts with Keichi. She's the ruler of all demons, her appearance in the anime is given ominous music to odd to her ominous entrance, and then she goes and hugs her daughter Urd. If this happens too often in pop culture, it can lead to The Taming of the Grue. For an example of this, see Santabomination. Even if it doesn't follow any known laws of reality, it's not a certainty that it's evil. There's every chance that the creature is misunderstood and actually friendly. See also Otherworldly Communication Failure in which the supernatural entity is trying to communicate a benign or helpful message to a human, but the human often runs away in terror mistaking it for malevolent.Īn Eldritch Abomination is not necessarily evil. A Wowing Cthulhu moment can lead into this trope and vice versa. An Adorable Abomination is more likely to overlap with this trope.Ĭompare with Wowing Cthulhu where the greater being is amazed by a lesser character. a twisted subversion of God Was My Copilot? Monster Roommate is similar, but more permanent. If you didn't know it was that bad until after you had tea, it's. A distant relative of Go-Karting with Bowser.
If things go beyond this, you may be in Did You Just Romance Cthulhu? territory. May be part of an Enemy Mine, or overlap with Don't Fear The Reaper. Often used to show the Villain is Affably Evil or an Anti-Villain. Bond, I Expect You to Dine and Villain Over for Dinner, but here the other party seems genuinely friendly. Contrast with Enemies with Death, where the menacing cosmic figure is hostile. Similar to Pals with Jesus, but here we have the added weirdness that the creature seems scary. To make things easier, they usually prefer two cubes of sugar, and a drop of virgin blood for creamer. And what does a mind warped beyond human understanding consider tasteful dinner conversation? These problems are magnified by the fact that among Eldritch Abominations it is almost universally considered an appropriate response to breaches of etiquette to reach across the table (hypocritical as that may seem) and eat one's dining companion. While traditionally one uses the fork on the far left for salad, it's frequently unclear to the mortal in this situation how this rule is modified by Alien Geometries. This can lead to some troubling questions of etiquette. For whatever reason, be it sinister and self serving or just misunderstood, the big horrible scary thingy treats you in a friendly manner. It is so much more powerful than you that it could kill you without thinking, or maybe just by thinking, but instead of whatever you were dreading it has just invited you to have a nice cup of tea and a bun.
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