Lee Wood said:
Therumancer said:
Honestly?
Probably laugh as he got ripped to shreds by the police and/or national guard.
(snipped for length)
Ah well, enough rambling. This is probably too serious an answer for the discussion.
Give this man a medal, someone who wouldn't take Cthulu's s**t and would actually stand fighting, rather than serve the alien priest.
And how would his image turn us insane, he's a dude with a squid for a head, and dragon's wings...that's pretty much something similar to a Chimaera.
I think you're both missing the entire point of Lovecrafts particular brand of Horror by looking at this like statistics in a videogame. The entire premise behind Cthulhu as well as most of Lovecrafts other work was that of a greater cosmic horror which made all the grand achievements of humanity pail in comparison. Before Lovecraft most horror was of the 'boo' monster style or of the more religious hell quality, Lovecraft wanted to craft a new brand of horror which would terrify people who didn't believe in ghosts, ghoulies or gods. And thus was born the Cthulhu mythos.
Cthulhu isn't a grand boss fight, he wouldn't blindly stumble into a city and then try to tear shit up Godzilla style, he wouldn't bother. Nor is he a demon out to destroy all good things and which can be fought by praying hard enough. No, humanity is beneath his notice, he honestly doesn't care about us, we're ants to a cosmic being of his magnitude. The thing that makes him terrifying is just as much what he signifies as what he *is*, and what he signifies is humanities ultimate pointlessness in the grand vastness of space and time. Our complete insignificance in the greater cosmos.
Similarly you couldn't kill Cthulhu because while art likes to portray him as a betentacled squid dude, thats only because its the closest out humans minds can come to visualizing what we would see were we to look at a being of Cthulhu's magnitude. He exists within multiple realms of reality which we cannot even fathom, looking directly at Cthulhu is to see a piece of something so much greater and beyond even the greatest of human minds to comprehend. You look at him and you know that no matter how advanced humanity becomes, how great our weaponry, how vast our achievements, it's all meaningless because in the end we're still only a shadow in comparison to even just this one creature. And so, in our blind ignorance, we call it a God and some worship it. But Cthulhu isn't a God, he's just something greater than us, something we cannot understand. And what we do not understand we either fear or worship!
So no, you couldn't kill Cthulhu. He would awaken and it would spell the end of civilization. Not strictly because he would directly 'attack' anything so much as simply what the implications of a being like him existing would mean for our race as a whole. Thus, as the prophet Abdul Alhazred said, shall begin a new era of madness and violence.
It shall be
glorious!
ia ia cthulhu fhtagn!
ia ia cthulhu fhtagn!
