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The villains in Attack on Titan are voracious monsters whose only obvious desire is to feast on human flesh. They appear in various forms, each more terrifying than the next—with their most unnerving features being their dead expressions, empty eyes, and a curiously featureless humanoid physique.
Titans are simply incapable of listening to (or comprehending) concepts like logic, reason, empathy, love—everything that defines human relationships, making them as dangerous as they are uncontrollable. That said, there are a number of television monsters so grim and hideous that the sense of unadulterated dread emanating from the Titans pales in comparison before them.
Warning: minor spoilers below.
7 The Tooth Child’s Appearance And Mannerisms Are Downright Ghastly — Channel Zero
Channel Zero‘s first season, Candle Cove, reveals a creepypasta-esque entity known as the Tooth Child—a monster whose entire body is covered in/composed of thousands of teeth, nearly all of them incisors. It turns out to be Eddie Painter (the protagonist’s twin brother who’s killed to protect the other children in their town).
Eddie doesn’t really die, though, as he eventually returns to wreak vengeance on Mike by transforming into the enamel-coated monster. Its appearance and mannerisms are downright ghastly, even though its child-sized stature isn’t as intimidating as it could be. One can only imagine the unnatural skin texture of the Tooth Child; it’s clearly far creepier than the relatively smooth epidermis of the Titans.
6 The Weeping Angels Are Among The Most Macabre Sci-Fi Villains — Doctor Who
Doctor Who has some pretty ominous antagonists, but the Weeping Angels are easily among the most macabre of the lot. They take the form of winged statues (with demonic faces), although they move so slowly that their targets rarely perceive their presence before it’s too late.
The Weeping Angels are exceptionally threatening because they feed off “time energy,” transporting their victims into the past in order to consume the remainder of the latter’s lifetimes. Their methods may not sound as painful as those employed by Titans, but the Weeping Angels are also capable of physically murdering people if they have no access to “time.” These grotesque creatures are about as ancient as the cosmos, meaning that they have been preying on living beings for a long, long time.
5 The Gentlemen Are Overly Menacing And Brutal — Buffy The Vampire Slayer
“Hush” is considered one of the best TV episodes ever made, in no small part due to the dreadful entities known as the Gentlemen. With their black suits, steel grins, floating bodies, and bluish-purple skin, these monsters wreak havoc on Sunnydale by stealing “voices” from everyone in town.
If that’s not creepy enough, the Gentlemen also perform vivisections on conscious (and unanesthetized) victims, extracting hearts by slicing through rib cages with their trademark scalpels. Titans might have the same dead smile as the Buffy villains, but they aren’t half as brutal or menacing. The Gentleman can’t be injured by normal means, either, although they are completely defenseless against human voices.
4 The Skeksis Camouflage Their Deformed Anatomies With Tattered Robes — The Dark Crystal: Age Of Resistance
Originally introduced in Jim Henson’s masterful 1982 film, The Dark Crystal, the Skeksis are a combination of carnivorous raptors and reptiles (mostly vultures, buzzards, alligators, and crocodiles). They wear tattered pieces of finery, laces and silks studded with a variety of ornaments, camouflaging their deformed anatomies. Titans are significantly more pleasant-looking than these vicious villains.
The Skeksis are blatantly incapable of masking their desperate need for power and eternal life—however, many of the Gelfling obey their commands out of respect for tradition. Their accidental existence is fortunately rectified when the Crystal of Truth is healed, allowing them to recombine with their urRu counterparts and become whole once again.
3 The Flukeman Is A Biologically Impossible Monster — The X-Files
The Flukeman is a biologically impossible monster from The X-Files, notably appearing in “The Host.” Almost nothing is known about this entity, except that it’s probably human in origin. Its existence is attributed to the most obvious of all sci-fi tropes, radiation poisoning, specifically from the Chernobyl disaster of 1986. The Flukeman lurks in the dingiest of sewers, partly why it’s more sinister than most Titans.
It reproduces by means of larvae (which eerily resemble the Liver fluke, a parasite that causes Fascioliasis in humans and cattle). Each infected person eventually regurgitates a single larva, which would presumably undergo metamorphosis into a pupa and, subsequently, a fully functional adult. Luckily, the Flukeman “perishes” before this happens.
2 The Borg Queen Leads Her Voracious Hive Mind With An Iron Fist — Star Trek: Voyager
The Borg are not all that horrifying in terms of their outward presentation, but audiences soon learn that these cyborgs are part of an extremely voracious hive mind whose only purpose in life is to grow their ranks by assimilating other lifeforms and their respective planets. They are apparently led by the Borg Queen, originally revealed in Star Trek: First Contact (1996) and reappearing in the fifth season of Voyager.
She commands a host of countless minions from her cybernetic sanctuary, Unimatrix 01 in the Delta Quadrant. The Borg Queen prefers to remain in her barebones form—head, neck, shoulders, and spine—dangling from a pair of cables, but she can compile a physical body for herself if necessary. Unlike Titans, who are permanently incapacitated when their napes are cut open, the Borg Queen is eternal. In fact, she can be easily replaced on the off chance that she is destroyed.
1 Der Kindestod Is Abominable In Every Respect — Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Buffy‘s Der Kindestod literally translates to “the child’s death” in German, a direct reference to the monster’s appetite for the life force of small children. It is unbelievably cold-blooded, preferring to feed on the sick in order to evade identification and capture. Der Kindestod is visible only to kids with extremely high body temperatures, although few would want to see the creature’s repugnant face in any context.
Aside from its contorted nose and upward-pointed fangs, Der Kindestod possesses a pair of stalks that extrudes from its eye sockets, using these loathsome organs to suction out vital energy. This monster is abominable in every respect, as Giles states that it “gorges by sitting atop [its] prey, pinning it down helplessly.” Titans don’t even come close.
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