Basic Trope: A story where humanity is unimportant, and the universe is filled with creatures more mind-warping horrible and powerful than humans can grasp. * Straight: The Scientific Investigation Corporation digs into the center of the earth and unleashes a horde of inhuman, uncaring, and horrifying monsters into a helpless world. * Exaggerated: * The SIC, having discovered that the otherworldly creatures are indeed horrifying and incomprehensibly evil, decides that humanity itself must become a similar entity in order to survive. However, upon doing so, the humanity-abomination realizes that there are always even bigger fish in the sea that the 'Horrifying monsters' seem like helpless little humans compared to. * A horde of inhuman, horrifying, and incomprehensibly evil mo