Cthulhu

What video game character can even touch this motherfucker?

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Mass Effect is just one dude fighting a legion of Robot Cthulus

Nobody. Cthulhu's a cosmic horror with unimaginable power, not some random world boss you have to throw spells at until it's dead.

>cosmic horror's can't be beaten

Fuck off m8, the flood/gravemind were about as strong as anything can get and still got shat upon by space jesus

In one of the books a few guys run away from him with a boat by running him over.

steam boat

Why does everyone remember Cthulhu? It's not one of Lovecraft's best

No dude, it's not the fucking same. Simply looking at cthulu fucks your head up. Chief is not even close to being on the same level. Asura, Bayonetta, Dante and maybe Kratos stand a chance and that's about it. Doomguy too probably.

Geralt of Rivea, it's just another contract for him

what makes him so stronk then ? could he be beatten by a machine that cant get insane ?

Cthulhu's weak though, even without the boat incident.

The flood is objectively stronger in every single way.

Gee, I dunno. Ever read the fucking story?

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It's the most concrete one with a already well established phobia backing him up.

He wasn't ran over. He was slightly inconvenienced and gave so little shits that he just went back to sleep.

No harm done.

The moon lord (not Cthulhu)

One of the major running themes of Lovecraftian horror is an emphasis on hopelessness.
They're simply beyond our understanding or comprehension. It's like a snail understanding calculus, it's just so far beyond it and it will never happen. That's part of what makes it Lovecraftian "horror"
That they're terrifying, that their very presence alone drives people insane, and that we're simply too weak to do anything about it.

Azura's a bad bitch, but I hate that people post this webbum cuz Wyzen is like the weakest of the seven and chakravartin

Blame August Dereleth

After Lovecraft's death, Dereleth and some other friends of lovecraft published his stories. He made Cthulhu out to be a major player in it all and coined "The Cthulhu Mythos." Then proceeded to write more stories in Lovecraft's universe, but presented Cthulhu out to be this super evil thing of evil.

When in reality, Cthulhu is a lesser being who got owned by a boat to the head.

Just saying he's 2spooky to fight doesn't make it so

Any of them. They're both fictional characters, you just need something in the respective game saying "X kicked Cthulhu's ass", and impressionable idiots all over the world will just start howling, slapping their knees and going "X KICKED CTHULHU'S ASS! I KNOW WHO CTHULHU IS, THIS IS SO EPIC!!!".

The real question is, why the fuck would you even ask something so stupid.

To be fair, it was stated that the wound did regenerate and it only gave them enough time to get away. They didn't really beat him.

anyone with a highschool education since Lovecraft couldn't even manage that

I will fucking knock you out if you make a post like this again.

Get the fuck out of my thread.

It was a fuckin steam boat m8

If a fucking steam boat does that imagine what motherfuckers with rockets and shit will do to this pussy ass "cosmic horror"

A steam boat that did nothing more than distract him and leave no wound at all. So what we know for sure is that damage you do has no lasting effect. So shoot all your rockets, when regeneration kicks in you have to do all this stuff again. You're buying yourself time thats all you do. And I am completly ignoring the fact that for the absolute majority of people the sheer presence of Cthulhu makes them insane.

[Speech 100] You should stop this and think of the ones you are harming. I will not ask again.
>"You make a good point human, forgive me as I leave this realm."

*noclips through the door causing the engine to crash*

>Doomguy
Doomguy is shit-tier compared to those three (Kratos not included).

CTHULHU IS NOT ALL-POWERFUL
CTHULHU IS NOT INVULNERABLE
CTHULHU IS A HUGE ALIEN WITH PSYCHIC POWERS AND HE CAN REGENERATE FROM ANYTHING.

BUT HE'S NOT THE ULTIMATE BAD GUY

NOT EVEN IN HIS SHORT STORY

CTHULHU IS A THREAT BECAUSE HE CAN AWAKEN THE GREAT OLD ONES, WHO ARE THE REAL ALMIGHTY ALIEN GODS.

CTHULHU IS NOT THE FINAL BOSS OF THE MYTHOS OR SOMESHIT

CTHULHU IS NOT A JOBBER FOR YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER TO BEAT

HE'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE MIND-BLOWINGLY POWERFUL

HE'S ONLY THERE TO HINT AT ALL THE SHIT THAT'S STILL SLUMBERING IN R'LYEH AND IN THE OUTER SPACES.

THAT'S HIS ONLY PURPOSE AS A PIECE OF FICTION

CTHULHU IS ONLY IMPRESSIVE WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THAT STORY

IF YOU TAKE HIM OUT OF THAT CONTEXT HE'S JUST A BIG PSYCHIC TROLL, HE'S NO LONGER IMPRESSIVE, AND PITTING HIM AGAINST OTHER CHARACTERS BECOMES POINTLESS.

WHY AREN'T YOU ASKING YOURSELF IF YOUR FAVORITE CHARACTER CAN BEAT GALACTUS INSTEAD?

GALACTUS IS TOUGHER THAN CTHULHU.

Cthulhu isn't even that much of a cosmic horror. He's basically the high priest of the REAL cosmic horrors, like the Demon-Sultan Azathoth.

Does anybody here actually reads lovecraft, or is it just people that heard about the chtulhu meme and took it much like chuck norris jokes?

Cthulu was taken out by a boat hull.

Don't know about you, loud guy, but I find a huge psychic troll to be very impressive

Thank you.

Who is best Lovecraft God

at least three people do:

>mfw Cthucucks chanting near me

>IF I TYPE IN ALL CAPS AND MAKE AN OBNOXIOUSLY LONG POST, PEOPLE WILL HAVE TO WATCH ME SPURG THE FUCK OUT ABOUT THINGS THAT WE ALL LITERALLY ALREADY KNOW AND HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID IN THIS THREAD

>GOD I'M SO SMART AND I THOUGHT THIS THROUGH

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Have written my master thesis about racism in Lovecrafts work, so yes

Basically this. I think somewhere he's called "great priest" or something, implying he's basically a worshiper of something greater.

on his own, yeah, but as soon as you put him in powerlevel arguments, not anymore.

Yog-Sothoth

Passage straight from the book:
>"There was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a sound that the chronicler would not put on paper. For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and there was only venomous seething astern; where - God in heaven! - the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form!"
The motherfucker didn't even get hurt, it just dispersed into a green cloud and then recombined. They didn't hurt Cthulhu at all.

Basically. I've read enough of his short stories and people keep saying the main focus os his writing is "madness". It just really isn't, it's much more like a nuance to create a sense of horror.

Because steam boats in Lovecrafts time were the most powerful thing humans had ever build. And all it did was causing Cthulhu to turn into a cloud for a few seconds and then reappear slightly annoyed.

Nyarlathotep walks into the club, and slaps your girlfriend's ass

pick a vidyagame character that could fight him

Abhoth, because I can relate to it.

This was always my favourite depiction of Nyarlathotep. I'm not sure why.

If everyone literally already knows these things, then why are they still making powerlevel threads about Cthulhu?

Knowing these things takes all the fun out of powerlevel arguments involving Cthulhu.

>english majors

Jesus Christ

Lovecraft's oversight, I guess, was that he always undersold humans compared to cosmic threats. Humans are capable of rationalizing a lot of things.

Yog-Sothoth or Nyarlathotep are my favourite

>you will never travel through the Dream World
>you will never fight frog monsters with an army of ghouls
>you will never escape from the Nyarlathotep by jumping off of the Moon with a herd of cats
>you will never find Kadath

>not Azathoth

it did hurt him, temporarily
then he was like "whatever, man, I'm out"

The moment you put Cthulhu in a "powerlevel argument" is the moment you dont understand what Cthulhu represents. and if you wanna use some lovecraftian horror to win most of these arguments, take Azatoth. He's stupid, but strong.

I've thoroughly enjoyed a good number of his works, but you really gotta be in a certain mood for em. His writing style is annoying in that he often gets sidetracked by mundane shit that clearly fascinated him, and his prose is so awkwardly verbose it took like two pages to get someone to climb out a goddamn window.

>If everyone literally already knows these things, then why are they still making powerlevel threads about Cthulhu?

same reason why anybody here makes the same thread again and again despite knowing the answer already and knowing how people will react.

first post, best post

The flood is just a parasite

Worse. Literary science.

>it's another thread where autists try to do powerlevels with media where powerlevels aren't the point
I blame comic books.
The point of cosmic horror is that doesn't even function on any understandable terms. It doesn't even fully exist in our world, it just manifests in different ways. In some of LCs works it's implied that reality doesn't even work the same way in the far places these things originate from.
The point is they are beyond actual understanding by cannon. So how can anybody say what can or can't beat them?

Asura.

autism?

>just a parasite

M8 you're a retard.

>why are they still making powerlevel threads about Cthulhu?

It beats talking about video games

Point taken

Just finished reading Mountain of Madness yesterday. God it was fucking boring for 80% of it. I was expecting The Thing 1930 edition and got Mountains of Parnassianism for over half the story

Let's cut this shit - what's your favorite Lovecraft story?

>ctrl f
>no ash
wtf are you guys doing

Cthulhu is a joke and just a priest. The actual all powerful one is Yog-Sothoth who is basically the avatar of Azathoth. It exists outside of time and space and is basically an omnipotent demon-god.

Nothing could beat it. Cthulhu is just a low tier alien priest sleeping on earth.

Was Nyarlathotep basically Asshole Jesus with more body horror?

I'm boring, so its The Shadow over Innsmouth

rats in the walls

>I was expecting The Thing 1930 edition
You poor misinformed faggot

it's written from the point of view of a scientist doing a report on his mission.
Of course it's gonna be trite and wordy as fuck.

Anyway have you read Who Goes There? It's not very scary either.

The Thing works as a movie not just because of the plot but also because of the atmosphere, and it's a very quiet atmosphere, not something that can be properly conveyed with words.

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Asura can exist outside of time and space as well. He can just punch it out of existence.

The Shadow out of Time

The Crawling Chaos could dunk Cthulhu easily enough.

Dream-Quest because ADVENTURE

A LOT of his stories are samey because they were never intended to be read in collected forms. That only makes different works like Colour Out of Space really stand out.

>dat feel when Lovecraft would've felt right at home here on Sup Forums had he lived today

spotted the peasant

The idea is, if you think you understand it, you don't understand it.

You can either try to understand it in terms you do understand, or you can understand a bad explanation.

Here's an example: There are a billion trillion stars in the universe. You can imagine that number in terms of other numbers (Well, a billion is 1000 millions, and so I have a rough idea of how many a billion trillions is) or you can imagine a poor explanation (a lot), but the human brain can't imagine a billion trillion objects. You'd need ten billion more neurons to even have enough to devote one neuron to imagining each star.

Again, you can imagine what it must be like, but you can't actually picture it in your head, the way you could picture two objects easily.

I actually love that about him. I really abhor the notion writers take nowadays of "less is more", which is taught like a divine lesson to pretty much any new writer. I like my long-ass descriptions of inane shit. I like my first-person narrator trailing off like an autist, because that's what people do in your internal monologue.

Autistic, but accurate.

Cthulhu is a pussy god within his own continuity, he's a mere prelude to beings far FAR more incomprehensible Like Yog-Shathoth, who if i remember correctly is literally the multiverse itself. My fav depiction of him/it is a mass of eyes, the eyes each being a universe.

ANYONE WHO CAN DRIVE A FUCKING BOAT

You retards should actually read the stories you talk about instead of using your Wikipedia """knowledge"""".

>he's not even an actual God

Just another third act boss fight

No, he's more like space Mabuse.

>tw you will never be a yuge ayylmao

Is Nyarlathotep our guy?

You could just say there are as many stars as there are grains of sand in the desert. People have been saying that since forever.

>ten billion more neurons

I mean ten billion TIMES more neurons.

What if Cthulhu were a black woman?
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and you should read the thread because that has been debunked by citation itt

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