Shub-Niggurath in Popular Culture

The Outer God Shub-Niggurath has appeared in and been referenced by numerous other works in popular culture. The following is a non-comprehensive list of media that either includes Shub-Niggurath or contains references, allusions or themes relating to her.
==Comics==
*Infestation 2: the IDW crossover event has Shub-Niggurath facing off against the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
==Literature==
*Moving Pictures: Terry Pratchett's comedy-fantasy novel references the being Tshup Aklathep, Infernal Star Toad with A Million Young which kills its victims by showing them pictures of its children until their brains implode.
===Light Novels===
*Overlord: makes a reference to her when the main character casts a spell that summons one of Shub-Niggurath's offspring, the Dark Young, to destroy an enemy army.
*That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: "Harvest Lord, Shub-Niggurath" is an ultimate skill Rimuru acquires after "Theosophy Core: Ciel" tinkered and combined his other skills.
==Manga==
*The Elder Sister-like One: features Shub-Niggurath as one of the two main characters in the series.
==Miscellaneous==
*Malevolant (Audio Drama): the cult of Shub-Niggurath attempting to summon her and failing before the series began is mentioned many times throughout the podcast.
*Olshevsky, George: named the nonconvex snub polyhedra after several of the Great Old Ones and Outer Gods, dubbing the great snub dodecicosidodecahedron "Shub-Niggurath".
==Music==
*Morbid Angel: mention the name Shub-Niggurath on their track "Angel of Disease".
*Shub-Niggurath: a French rock band founded in 1982.
*Shub-Niggurath: a Mexican death/black metal band formed in 1988 (although the name Shub-Niggurath was only used from 1990 onwards).
*Alkaloid: multiple mentions in their eponymous track "Shades of Shub-Niggurath".
==Video Games==
*Alone in the Dark (1992): the main antagonist Ezechiel Pregzt claims he built Derceto Manor dedicated to Shub-Niggurath.
*Alone in the Dark (2024): Shub-Niggurath appears as an overarching antagonist in the game, acting through one of her Dark Young.
*Arcane 2: The Stone Circle: Shub-Niggurath makes an appearance as the main villain in the online PC game.
*Devil Maker: Tokyo: Shub-Niggurath appears in the mobile game. 
*Fate/Grand Order: Mobile game featuring a character having been possessed by an unknown god proclaiming to be Shub-Niggurath, sharing the name and body of "Jacques de Molay". The power of the Outer God that shares the vessel becomes more prominent as their host continues to gain strength.
*Night in the Woods: PC game in which an entity known as the "Black Goat" plagues the dreams of the main character, who later encounters a cult dedicated to it and the supposed bottomless pit that it resides in.
*Quake: a version of Shub-Niggurath is the final adversary of the first-person shooter video game.
*Shadow Hearts: From the New World: Shub-Niggurath appears as a boss in the 2005 Playstation 2 game, though its name is mistranslated as Jeb Niglas.
*South Park: The Fractured but Whole: Shub-Niggurath appears as a boss character.
*Sucker for Love: Date to Die For: The Black Goat of the Woods, also known as Rhok’zan, is the protagonist’s love interest. 
==Television==
*Doctor Who: the Nestene Consciousness is identified as the offspring of Shub-Niggurath in some spin-off novels. 
*Transformers: Cyberverse: The Scientist's laboratory is labelled "Shub-Niggurath Nursery". 
==Web Original==
*Bruno the Bandit: one of the denizens of the demon world is "Shub-Megawrath", a goat-like blob creature with a thousand children (1001 counting the croatoan clone of Bruno she created). The character is one of several Lovecraft references which pepper the strip.
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