Godzilla might be able to win because it's not capable of understanding the unfathomable fear that any sentient being would immediately experience before spiraling into a complete mental breakdown when beholding the terrible sight that is Cthulhu. This is also why the steam boat won.
Saale said: But it didn't kill him... Also, he had just woken up from his slumber and was in a very weakened state.
It's the equivalent of you or me stubbing a toe while getting out of bed and then going "fuck this shit, I'm going back to sleep."
Alternatively, imagine waking up in the middle of the night wanting to get a light snack and you go to the fridge to get a sandwich, then your sandwich suddenly slaps you across the face, making you go "wtf?" and then just decide to go back to sleep because you are too tired for this shit.
That's what I remember when someone explained it to me.
Essentially, the man rams through him, Cthulhu's head tears asunder, and when the guy looks back, a green mist seems to be putting it back together, and Cthulhu continues to give chase. The man throws the boat into overdrive, and goes insane.
But yes, in terms of Elder Ones, Cthulhu is but a baby. Some don't even call him an Elder One.
sammyj069 said: Essentially, the man rams through him, Cthulhu's head tears asunder, and when the guy looks back, a green mist seems to be putting it back together, and Cthulhu continues to give chase. The man throws the boat into overdrive, and goes insane.
But yes, in terms of Elder Ones, Cthulhu is but a baby. Some don't even call him an Elder One.
He isn't one, says so in Lovecraft's own writings. He's the Elder One's high priest.
sammyj069 said: when the guy looks back, a green mist seems to be putting it back together, and Cthulhu continues to give chase. The man throws the boat into overdrive, and goes insane.
Why does everybody in Lovecraft's work go insane? It's not like any of the things he describes are really all that unfathomable. Shit, some of it isn't even all that alien.
AnkhAnanku said: Why does everybody in Lovecraft's work go insane? It's not like any of the things he describes are really all that unfathomable. Shit, some of it isn't even all that alien.
Well, that's Lovecraft for you. Most of his stories are just page after page of the narrator telling us how horrifying and scary this is. Which always makes the climax very underwhelming, since it never quite lives up to the absurd amount of hype.
AnkhAnanku said: Why does everybody in Lovecraft's work go insane? It's not like any of the things he describes are really all that unfathomable. Shit, some of it isn't even all that alien.
Because the whole point of Lovecraftian horror is that terror depends on who is the beholder of those horrific things. Lovecraft gave his interpretation of that particular reality. For somebody like you, exposed to different things through your more modern life, it would be quite horrible and insanity inducing. I can asssure you that...
Of course, Cthulu is pretty much the bottom of the totem pole when it comes to Lovecraftian monstrosities.
zepheyr said: you need to reread the stories. just SEEING Cthulhu in person is enough to induce explosive diarrhea, projectile vomit, and burning urine. and as if that weren't enough, as your paralyzed knees cause you to collapse into a pool of your own blood and filth, your mind is being anally raped over and over again by the agonizingly superior alien intellect of a Great Old One, who is force feeding your mind the most horrifying and nightmarish images your primitive human imagination can comprehend. even looking at Cthulhu can turn you into a babbling madman with the mind of a mentally challenged infant.
I think this comment clearly explains why Chthulhu is more than enough for us puny humans...
AnkhAnanku said: Why does everybody in Lovecraft's work go insane? It's not like any of the things he describes are really all that unfathomable. Shit, some of it isn't even all that alien.
His work about how human triumph is insignificant and how scary the things we don't know about were pretty new during his time. The same time period that wrote book after book about the "White man's burden" (don't look at me, that's just how early 20th century America was).
