To all those spreading the idea that Cthulhu wasn't harmed by the boat.
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"The stars were right again, and what an age-old cult had failed to do by design, a band of innocent sailors had done by accident. After vigintillions of years (This statement, an exaggeration as it is contradicted in the Mountains of Madness by an actual record of Cthulhu's arrival to Earth in TMOM. This is a good example of not taking Lovecraft's descriptions of things literally) great Cthulhu was loose again, and ravening for delight.
Three men were swept up by the flabby claws before anybody turned. God rest them, if there be any rest in the universe. They were Donovan, Guerrera, and Ångstrom. Parker slipped as the other three were plunging frenziedly over endless vistas of green-crusted rock to the boat, and Johansen swears he was swallowed up by an angle of masonry which shouldn’t have been there; an angle which was acute, but behaved as if it were obtuse. So only Briden and Johansen reached the boat, and pulled desperately for the Alert as the mountainous monstrosity flopped down the slimy stones and hesitated floundering at the edge of the water.
Steam had not been suffered to go down entirely, despite the departure of all hands for the shore; and it was the work of only a few moments of feverish rushing up and down between wheel and engines to get the Alert under way. Slowly, amidst the distorted horrors of that indescribable scene, she began to churn the lethal waters; whilst on the masonry of that charnel shore that was not of earth the titan Thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like Polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of Odysseus. Then, bolder than the storied Cyclops, great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency. Briden looked back and went mad, laughing shrilly as he kept on laughing at intervals till death found him one night in the cabin whilst Johansen was wandering deliriously.
But Johansen had not given out yet. Knowing that the Thing could surely overtake the Alert until steam was fully up, he resolved on a desperate chance; and, setting the engine for full speed, ran lightning-like on deck and reversed the wheel. There was a mighty eddying and foaming in the noisome brine, and as the steam mounted higher and higher the brave Norwegian drove his vessel head on against the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth like the stern of a daemon galleon. The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but Johansen drove on relentlessly. 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 then there was only a venomous seething astern; where—God in heaven!—the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam."
Not only was Cthulhu beaten, he was beaten when the stars were right. Cthulhu is still a massively dangerous entity......to normal humanity from Lovecraft's time. Cthulhu wasn't meant to be unbeatable by any means. While he is probably immune to many weapons that we would fire at him (due to regeneration alone), he can still be harmed. The idea that was further explained in "A Shadow Out Of Time", was that humans are very superstitious creatures and will typically apply godlike attributes and or supernatural powers to things we don't understand. Marvel is a different story all together. There are many superheroes capable of defeating Cthulhu, Thanos would definitely be one of them. Beings like Thanos and Darkseid, while not being terribly ugly, would definitely have the power and intelligence to stand against many Lovecraft's creations. I would also like to remind everyone of the Cancerverse story. Where, at the end *Spoilers* Thanos tricked them into letting Death into the Universe. Death then destroys the entire universe in one attack. Personally, the whole cancerverse thing didn't really seem Lovecraftian to me. For one, many Lovecraftain beings are merely scary aliens, The Mi-Go, Elder Things, Hounds of Tindalos, Yithain, etc. Making them out to be some evil ugly creatures seems kind of funny to me. Especially when, within the Marvel universe, there are alien races very similar to ones described in Lovecraft's stories. But I digress. Use this information for or against each other if need be.
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