History DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu / TabletopGames

* ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'':
** The [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Gehenna]] scenarios allow a coterie to pull off some of these against Antediluvians, who are weakened by the Withering.
** Done ''twice'' by the [[CreatureHunterOrganization Second Inquisition]] in ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasqueradeFifthEdition''. The Second Inquisition managed to take out multiple targets in the early stage of their campaign. One of these was every vampire in London killed in the course of a few days, including Queen Anne and Monty Coven (who is actually the Methuselah Mithras). The second time was when they killed the Inner Council of the Tremere, who were composed of 4th and 5th generation vampires as well as potentially a 3rd in the basement.

* [[AvertedTrope Handily averted]] by just about every other ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' [=RPG=]. In the original rulebook by Creator/{{Chaosium}} (and from 2nd Ed. onwards), Cthulhu's stats are so high that he's essentially NighInvulnerable (although a big enough attack, say six tanks firing at once, has a reasonable chance of dropping Cthulhu for up to 20 minutes), and he "devours 1D6 characters per round"; in the ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' version ''Cthulhupunk'' (which mixes modern-day ''Call of Cthulhu'', CyberPunk and High Tech Sci-Fi genre), a note indicates that vaporizing the big guy with an A-bomb would only get rid of him for two days, after which he would return... ''[[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive]]''.

*** It's surprisingly easy, really. The Great Old Ones aren't immune to polymorph effects, so as long as you can get Cthulhu to fail his saving throw, you can [[BalefulPolymorph baleful polymorph]] him into a harmless animal. A harmless ''mortal'' animal, because of a loophole in the rules that makes the spell make him lose his immortality for the duration.

* Pinnacle's ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' got to it with [[spoiler:Stone in the Devil's Tower trilogy, who was completely untouchable up to that point.]] Later on in Reloaded, after abandoning their "if you stat it they will kill it" mantra, the Plot Point Campaigns made it so you could [[spoiler:permanently kill Reverend Grimme, kill [[TimeTravel Young Stone]], beat a Last Son with Raven's stats and [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu talk Hellstromme]] [[HeelFaceTurn out of being evil.]] Taken UpToEleven in Hell on Earth's the Unity when you help Hellstromme [[SealedEvilInACan punch out all of the Reckoners, seal them in a device and send them all the way to Banshee.]]]]

** The Greater Daemons of Chaos are the most powerful Chaos entities short of the big four Ruinous Powers, and are in fact worshipped as minor gods by many Chaos-aligned tribes (which they basically are). On top of being ''massive'' and hundreds of times stronger than an average man, the Great Daemons also have various magical powers. Despite that, they're easier to kill than you might think for a lucky BadassNormal (or preferably [[ZergRush many]]):

* With the examples above, it should be noted that this is more often than not {{Averted|Trope}} in the various Games Workshop roleplaying games, like ''TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasyRoleplay''. Your characters there can be exceptionally capable, but you're still more or less grounded adventurers who will be hard-pressed even against mid-sized groups of mooks well into the late campaigns ([[VideoGame/VermintideII unlike some other "normal" heroes in the setting]]). Thus if your characters encounter a Greater Daemon or an Ancient Dragon then a TotalPartyKill is almost a certainty, at least unless the adventurers happen to be powerful veterans with an entire campaign or two behind them and the Cthulhu in question has been weakened or injured somehow beforehand, but still expect them to chew through Fate points like popcorn. However, doing just this ''is'' a prerequisite for the Daemon Slayer career...

** ...but not permanently. If Cthulhu is "killed", he discorporates into a cloud of green mist, then reconstitutes after a few rounds. For a few rounds after he reconstitutes, Cthulhu is stunned. If the PC's can kill him ''again'' during this period, he discorporates again and returns to sleep in R'lyeh. If not, they have to start all over again. All statted Great Old Ones have similar features, and it is explicitly stated that Great Old Ones cannot be permanently killed by any force mortals can wield. In short, the best that the PC's can hope for when dealing with Cthulhu is to punch him out.

** Gloomweaver (the extra-dimensional demon) is notable for the amount of times he's been punched out in the background lore, showing either extreme bad luck or extreme resiliance on his part. The most notable of these are:

** Gloomweaver (the extra-dimensional demon) is notable for the amount of times he's been punched out, showing either extreme bad luck or extreme resiliance on his part. The most notable of these are:

* ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'': while they were gods themselves (albeit having recently ascended from mortal status), Teclis and Tyrion managing to defeat ''Slaanesh'' in the setting's backstory is still treated as this. Slaanesh was far more powerfful than them, and previously it wasn't even clear if the Chaos Gods could be directly harmed in the ''Fantasy'' setting.[[note]]Various books reference indirectly weakening them by taking out their followers and thus, [[GodNeedsPrayerBadly their worshippers]], but that's not quite the same thing.[[/note]] Yet the elven deities baited him into a trap, maimed him, extracted the souls he consumed, and kept him imprisoned in the space between realms; he's been stewing in agony there for the last few thousand years.