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* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'':
** 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]]):
** The biggest example has to be the Bloodthirster Skarbrand's death in the 7e Daemons of Chaos army book. Skarbrand is possibly the strongest daemon of the setting's strongest god. Yet he was killed at the Battle of the Krudenwald, along with his entire daemonic army, facing merely part of the strength of three of the Empire's ten electorates. What did him in? [[MugglesDoItBetter Muskets and cannons.]] [[MoreDakka Lots of them.]] To give some context, this was the same battle where Skarbrand [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder killed fellow Greater Daemon Necroth]] [[SingleStrokeBattle with a single strike]]. Yet when the [[PunyEarthlings puny humans]] with their muzzle-loading smoothbores were through, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill there was barely enough left of him to take as a trophy.]]
-->''As Skarbrand triumphed over his former ally, Hafstaf recovered his wits enough to order his remaining troops to open fire. In Kreil's account, every cannon, handgun, and pistol in the Empire lines was discharged at Skarbrand. The creature was torn apart in a fusillade of bullet, shot, and shell - indeed, its head was retained as a trophy by Hagstaf until the unfortunate and unforeseen slaughter at Hagstaf manor some eight years later.''
** In the 8e Core Rulebook, the Bloodthirster Kargharak is slain at the Battle of Volganof by the men of the Empire. Kargharak being probably much weaker than Skarbrand, this didn't even require gunpowder: he was [[DeathOfAThousandCuts hacked to death by a regiment of halberdiers]], despite killing many of them in his death throes. Special credit must be given to Sergeant Oberwald, who buried his sidesword up to the helt in the daemon's chest [[HeroicSacrifice before being killed]], which inspired the rest of his men into action.
** In the "Witch Hunter" novel series, a Great Unclean One is killed by a flamethrower.
** Also totally possible to do in-game to any type of Greater Daemon; it's easiest with a lucky cannon shot.
** For a non-daemon example, the 6e Core Rulebook contains an anecdote about the Great Dragon Araugnir (higher-tier dragons being some of the only beings in the settings that can reliably defeat Greater Daemons). He was decapitated by a cannon ball launched from an Imperial culverin. The city of Nuln still keeps his skull in the trophy room.
* ''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.
* 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...
** 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]]):
** The biggest example has to be the Bloodthirster Skarbrand's death in the 7e Daemons of Chaos army book. Skarbrand is possibly the strongest daemon of the setting's strongest god. Yet he was killed at the Battle of the Krudenwald, along with his entire daemonic army, facing merely part of the strength of three of the Empire's ten electorates. What did him in? [[MugglesDoItBetter Muskets and cannons.]] [[MoreDakka Lots of them.]] To give some context, this was the same battle where Skarbrand [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder killed fellow Greater Daemon Necroth]] [[SingleStrokeBattle with a single strike]]. Yet when the [[PunyEarthlings puny humans]] with their muzzle-loading smoothbores were through, [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill there was barely enough left of him to take as a trophy.]]
-->''As Skarbrand triumphed over his former ally, Hafstaf recovered his wits enough to order his remaining troops to open fire. In Kreil's account, every cannon, handgun, and pistol in the Empire lines was discharged at Skarbrand. The creature was torn apart in a fusillade of bullet, shot, and shell - indeed, its head was retained as a trophy by Hagstaf until the unfortunate and unforeseen slaughter at Hagstaf manor some eight years later.''
** In the 8e Core Rulebook, the Bloodthirster Kargharak is slain at the Battle of Volganof by the men of the Empire. Kargharak being probably much weaker than Skarbrand, this didn't even require gunpowder: he was [[DeathOfAThousandCuts hacked to death by a regiment of halberdiers]], despite killing many of them in his death throes. Special credit must be given to Sergeant Oberwald, who buried his sidesword up to the helt in the daemon's chest [[HeroicSacrifice before being killed]], which inspired the rest of his men into action.
** In the "Witch Hunter" novel series, a Great Unclean One is killed by a flamethrower.
** Also totally possible to do in-game to any type of Greater Daemon; it's easiest with a lucky cannon shot.
** For a non-daemon example, the 6e Core Rulebook contains an anecdote about the Great Dragon Araugnir (higher-tier dragons being some of the only beings in the settings that can reliably defeat Greater Daemons). He was decapitated by a cannon ball launched from an Imperial culverin. The city of Nuln still keeps his skull in the trophy room.
* ''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.
* 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...
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* 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''. 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...
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** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's greatest foe, thus allowing him to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that when an Elder God is summoned, there is a ''very'' brief window where they are weak enough to be permanently killed. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. This is followed by DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu when, buried beneath the building wreckage, Henderson and Hastur have a friendly conversation and share Henderson's [[OneLastSmoke last joint]] before they both die from their injuries, with Hastur being very impressed that a human actually managed to kill him.
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** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome [[RuleOfCool the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's greatest foe, thus allowing him to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that when an Elder God is summoned, there is a ''very'' brief window where they are weak enough to be permanently killed. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. This is followed by DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu when, buried beneath the building wreckage, Henderson and Hastur have a friendly conversation and share Henderson's [[OneLastSmoke last joint]] before they both die from their injuries, with Hastur being very impressed that a human actually managed to kill him.
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** 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.
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** Done ''twice' ''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.
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* ''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.
** 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.
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* Making certain entities statless for this reason shows up in a number of other [=RPGs=], such as ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''. In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' there is only one rule for fighting [[CainAndAbel Caine]], the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast first vampire]]: "You lose".
-->"Tenth level disciplines require no roll to activate and no blood to be expended in their use. They work because the GM wants them to." -- '''Gehenna, Time of Judgement'''
** Of course in Caine's case this is not just his absurd power level but also the Sevenfold Curse, which means that, by divine mandate, any harm done to Caine is reflected seven times as bad on whoever did it. So yeah, you lose, since even if you had the power to kill him (which is quite possible) it'd kill you first.
* The boardgame ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror'', a spin-off of the ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' RPG, involves the players trying to close interdimensional gates opening around the town of Arkham. If they fail, a Great Old One awakens and the players have to fight him. It's possible, but extremely difficult, to defeat the Great Old One (unless it's Azathoth, who [[RocksFallEveryoneDies automatically ends the game with a loss for the players]] if he awakens).
** Fantasy Flight's sibling game Mansions of Madness allows this as well, including unarmed combat with [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch horrors]]. Depending on what the players are fighting this may not be such a good idea. But the Sanctum of Twilight Expansion adds in a martial artist character that has stats better suited for unarmed combat in addition to getting guaranteed extra damage whenever they hit in unarmed combat. This makes her very well suited for literally punching out [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch horrors]]. Doing this to a Star-spawn is as close as one can get to punching out Cthulhu itself within this game however.
* [[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]]''.
** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's greatest foe, thus allowing him to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that when an Elder God is summoned, there is a ''very'' brief window where they are weak enough to be permanently killed. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. This is followed by DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu when, buried beneath the building wreckage, Henderson and Hastur have a friendly conversation and share Henderson's [[OneLastSmoke last joint]] before they both die from their injuries, with Hastur being very impressed that a human actually managed to kill him.
* In the early ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' by Creator/{{Chaosium}} the Headbutt skill allowed you to stop anyone acting for one turn. A starting character had a 95% chance of pulling this off. Apparently, even Great Old Ones are affected by the Headbutt. (Most versions of the rulebook mention that non-humanoid creatures are completely immune to all knockout attempts.)
* In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', Sam Noblood chased down [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Summer itself]] and used a tree-branch of autumn leaves [[ImprovisedWeapon as a spear]] to force it to make an exclusive pact with him.
* The tabletop roleplaying game ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech,'' which is a mashup of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', both averts and works this way. The Old Ones themselves pretty much automatically win if they actually bother directly fighting any number of protagonists, and the awakening of Cthulhu would officially screw over not just the human race, but an alien race trying to invade as well. Even the avatar of Hastur, horribly crippled to work within our limited sets of dimensions and weakened by improper summoning, is set as outgunning every other army on the planet combined. [[DeusExitMachina Thankfully, he stays at home]]. On the other hand, you can easily beat up a few HumongousMecha or even an [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Engel]] with luck and some simple soldiers, or survive exposure to the infinite dimensions without being fried instantly. Seeing an Old One directly ''can't'' even drive you irreparably and instantly insane on its own, and lucky individuals can stroll up to the body of Cthulhu, take a picture, and leave without taking a single point of insanity.
* 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.]]]]
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* Making certain entities statless for this reason shows up in a number of other [=RPGs=], such as ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''. In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' there is only one rule for fighting [[CainAndAbel Caine]], the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast first vampire]]: "You lose".
-->"Tenth level disciplines require no roll to activate and no blood to be expended in their use. They work because the GM wants them to." -- '''Gehenna, Time of Judgement'''
** Of course in Caine's case this is not just his absurd power level but also the Sevenfold Curse, which means that, by divine mandate, any harm done to Caine is reflected seven times as bad on whoever did it. So yeah, you lose, since even if you had the power to kill him (which is quite possible) it'd kill you first.
* The boardgame ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror'', a spin-off of the ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' RPG, involves the players trying to close interdimensional gates opening around the town of Arkham. If they fail, a Great Old One awakens and the players have to fight him. It's possible, but extremely difficult, to defeat the Great Old One (unless it's Azathoth, who [[RocksFallEveryoneDies automatically ends the game with a loss for the players]] if he awakens).
** Fantasy Flight's sibling game Mansions of Madness allows this as well, including unarmed combat with [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch horrors]]. Depending on what the players are fighting this may not be such a good idea. But the Sanctum of Twilight Expansion adds in a martial artist character that has stats better suited for unarmed combat in addition to getting guaranteed extra damage whenever they hit in unarmed combat. This makes her very well suited for literally punching out [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch horrors]]. Doing this to a Star-spawn is as close as one can get to punching out Cthulhu itself within this game however.
* [[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]]''.
** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's greatest foe, thus allowing him to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that when an Elder God is summoned, there is a ''very'' brief window where they are weak enough to be permanently killed. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. This is followed by DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu when, buried beneath the building wreckage, Henderson and Hastur have a friendly conversation and share Henderson's [[OneLastSmoke last joint]] before they both die from their injuries, with Hastur being very impressed that a human actually managed to kill him.
* In the early ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' by Creator/{{Chaosium}} the Headbutt skill allowed you to stop anyone acting for one turn. A starting character had a 95% chance of pulling this off. Apparently, even Great Old Ones are affected by the Headbutt. (Most versions of the rulebook mention that non-humanoid creatures are completely immune to all knockout attempts.)
* In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', Sam Noblood chased down [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Summer itself]] and used a tree-branch of autumn leaves [[ImprovisedWeapon as a spear]] to force it to make an exclusive pact with him.
* The tabletop roleplaying game ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech,'' which is a mashup of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', both averts and works this way. The Old Ones themselves pretty much automatically win if they actually bother directly fighting any number of protagonists, and the awakening of Cthulhu would officially screw over not just the human race, but an alien race trying to invade as well. Even the avatar of Hastur, horribly crippled to work within our limited sets of dimensions and weakened by improper summoning, is set as outgunning every other army on the planet combined. [[DeusExitMachina Thankfully, he stays at home]]. On the other hand, you can easily beat up a few HumongousMecha or even an [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Engel]] with luck and some simple soldiers, or survive exposure to the infinite dimensions without being fried instantly. Seeing an Old One directly ''can't'' even drive you irreparably and instantly insane on its own, and lucky individuals can stroll up to the body of Cthulhu, take a picture, and leave without taking a single point of insanity.
* 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.]]]]
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* In TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} like the above mention of First Edition, As of Bestiary 4 Cthulhu once again has stats... and is once again killable by players.
** ...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.
** There exists a theory crafting situation in which players take a single level 20 character and devise a means by which this character could defeat Cthulhu. Example include sentient ships and armies of outsiders.
*** 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.
** Several other Great Old Ones were also statted out in the same book, and there exist stats for several entities that are effectively gods, but can be killed by players.
** That being said, ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' draws a clear line between demigods (Great Old Ones like Cthulhu, as well as demon lords, archdevils and the like) and true deities. The former have stats, and can, at least theoretically, be killed by sufficiently powerful characters. The latter have no stats and are basically untouchable by even the most powerful [=PCs=]. Cthulhu can be punched out; Yog-Sothoth not so much.
* [[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]]''.
** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's greatest foe, thus allowing him to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that when an Elder God is summoned, there is a ''very'' brief window where they are weak enough to be permanently killed. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. This is followed by DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu when, buried beneath the building wreckage, Henderson and Hastur have a friendly conversation and share Henderson's [[OneLastSmoke last joint]] before they both die from their injuries, with Hastur being very impressed that a human actually managed to kill him.
* In the early ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' by Creator/{{Chaosium}} the Headbutt skill allowed you to stop anyone acting for one turn. A starting character had a 95% chance of pulling this off. Apparently, even Great Old Ones are affected by the Headbutt. (Most versions of the rulebook mention that non-humanoid creatures are completely immune to all knockout attempts.)
* Making certain entities statless for this reason shows up in a number of other [=RPGs=], such as ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''. In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' there is only one rule for fighting [[CainAndAbel Caine]], the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast first vampire]]: "You lose".
-->"Tenth level disciplines require no roll to activate and no blood to be expended in their use. They work because the GM wants them to." - '''Gehenna, Time of Judgement'''
** Of course in Caine's case this is not just his absurd power level but also the Sevenfold Curse, which means that, by divine mandate, any harm done to Caine is reflected seven times as bad on whoever did it. So yeah, you lose, since even if you had the power to kill him (which is quite possible) it'd kill you first.
* In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', Sam Noblood chased down [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Summer itself]] and used a tree-branch of autumn leaves [[ImprovisedWeapon as a spear]] to force it to make an exclusive pact with him.
** ...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.
** There exists a theory crafting situation in which players take a single level 20 character and devise a means by which this character could defeat Cthulhu. Example include sentient ships and armies of outsiders.
*** 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.
** Several other Great Old Ones were also statted out in the same book, and there exist stats for several entities that are effectively gods, but can be killed by players.
** That being said, ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' draws a clear line between demigods (Great Old Ones like Cthulhu, as well as demon lords, archdevils and the like) and true deities. The former have stats, and can, at least theoretically, be killed by sufficiently powerful characters. The latter have no stats and are basically untouchable by even the most powerful [=PCs=]. Cthulhu can be punched out; Yog-Sothoth not so much.
* [[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]]''.
** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's greatest foe, thus allowing him to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that when an Elder God is summoned, there is a ''very'' brief window where they are weak enough to be permanently killed. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. This is followed by DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu when, buried beneath the building wreckage, Henderson and Hastur have a friendly conversation and share Henderson's [[OneLastSmoke last joint]] before they both die from their injuries, with Hastur being very impressed that a human actually managed to kill him.
* In the early ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' by Creator/{{Chaosium}} the Headbutt skill allowed you to stop anyone acting for one turn. A starting character had a 95% chance of pulling this off. Apparently, even Great Old Ones are affected by the Headbutt. (Most versions of the rulebook mention that non-humanoid creatures are completely immune to all knockout attempts.)
* Making certain entities statless for this reason shows up in a number of other [=RPGs=], such as ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''. In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' there is only one rule for fighting [[CainAndAbel Caine]], the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast first vampire]]: "You lose".
-->"Tenth level disciplines require no roll to activate and no blood to be expended in their use. They work because the GM wants them to." - '''Gehenna, Time of Judgement'''
** Of course in Caine's case this is not just his absurd power level but also the Sevenfold Curse, which means that, by divine mandate, any harm done to Caine is reflected seven times as bad on whoever did it. So yeah, you lose, since even if you had the power to kill him (which is quite possible) it'd kill you first.
* In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', Sam Noblood chased down [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Summer itself]] and used a tree-branch of autumn leaves [[ImprovisedWeapon as a spear]] to force it to make an exclusive pact with him.
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* In TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} like the above mention of First Edition, As of Bestiary 4 Cthulhu once again ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has stats... and is once again killable by players.
** ...but not permanently. If Cthulhu is "killed", he discorporates intoa cloud good number 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.
** There exists a theory crafting situation in which players take a single level 20 character and devise a means by which this character could defeat Cthulhu. Example include sentient ships and armies of outsiders.
*** 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.
** Several other Great Old Ones were also statted[[EldritchAbomination ineffable, horrifying beings]] out in the same book, and there exist stats for several entities on the periphery, all designed so that are effectively gods, but can be killed by players.
** That being said, ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' draws a clear line between demigods (Great Old Ones like Cthulhu, as well as demon lords, archdevils and the like) and true deities. The former have stats, and can, at least theoretically, be killed by sufficiently powerful characters. The latter have no stats and are basically untouchable by even the most powerful [=PCs=]. Cthulhu can be punched out; Yog-Sothoth not so much.
* [[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 1D6your characters per round"; will inevitably beat the snot out of them. A lot of ''gods'' in ''Exalted'' are weak enough for starting characters to kill them without much trouble (granted, many gods are "Least Gods", whose dominion encompasses things like individual blades of grass). ''Scion'', by the same company, follows the same design philosophy.
** The quotes page for ''Exalted'' contains this gem, apparently found on rpgnet.
--->Exalted is in many ways like TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu. Both can be set in a [[CrapsackWorld largely negative world]] and both contain [[EldritchAbomination mind-numbing horrors]] whose [[FingerPokeOfDoom gentlest sneeze]] could [[PersonOfMassDestruction kill half of Malaysia]]. The difference is the scope of fear; humans fear Cthulhu, Cthulhu [[HumanoidAbomination fears]] [[AGodIsYou the Exalted]].
* 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 horror supplement ''TabletopGame/TheMadnessDossier,'' the big guy with an A-bomb would only get rid of him for two days, after which he would return... ''[[ILoveNuclearPower radioactive]]''.
** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's greatest foe, thus allowing him to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that when an Elder God is summoned, there is a ''very'' brief window where they are weak enough to be permanently killed. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. This is followed by DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu when, buried beneath the building wreckage, Henderson and Hastur have a friendly conversation and share Henderson's [[OneLastSmoke last joint]] before they both die from their injuries, with Hastur being very impressed that a human actually managed to kill him.
* In the early ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' by Creator/{{Chaosium}} the Headbutt skill allowed you to stop anyone acting for one turn. A starting character had a 95% chance of pulling this off. Apparently, even Great Old Ones are affected by the Headbutt. (Most versionsRed Kings, literal god-kings of the rulebook mention that non-humanoid creatures Earth in an alternate history, are completely immune to all knockout attempts.)
* Making certain entities statless for this reason shows up in a number of other [=RPGs=], such as ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''. In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' there is only one rule for fighting [[CainAndAbel Caine]], the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast first vampire]]: "You lose".
-->"Tenth level disciplines require no roll to activate and no bloodgenerally assumed to be expended functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in their use. They work because our reality. Except... in 1961, the GM wants them to." - '''Gehenna, Time heroes of Judgement'''
** Of course in Caine's case this is not just his absurd power level but alsothe Sevenfold Curse, which means that, by divine mandate, any harm done to Caine is reflected seven times as bad on whoever did it. So yeah, you lose, since even if you had the power to kill him (which is quite possible) it'd kill you first.
* In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', Sam Noblood chased down [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Summer itself]] andsetting, Project SANDMAN, used a tree-branch French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly even kill a Red King. Okay, using a nuke is hardly trivial, but still — they basically killed a god (they hope) by political shenanigans. And all it cost was two decades of autumn leaves [[ImprovisedWeapon as a spear]] to force it to make an exclusive pact with him.psychic disruption in human society.
** ...but not permanently. If Cthulhu is "killed", he discorporates into
** There exists a theory crafting situation in which players take a single level 20 character and devise a means by which this character could defeat Cthulhu. Example include sentient ships and armies of outsiders.
*** 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.
** Several other Great Old Ones were also statted
** That being said, ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' draws a clear line between demigods (Great Old Ones like Cthulhu, as well as demon lords, archdevils and the like) and true deities. The former have stats, and can, at least theoretically, be killed by sufficiently powerful characters. The latter have no stats and are basically untouchable by even the most powerful [=PCs=]. Cthulhu can be punched out; Yog-Sothoth not so much.
* [[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
** The quotes page for ''Exalted'' contains this gem, apparently found on rpgnet.
--->Exalted is in many ways like TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu. Both can be set in a [[CrapsackWorld largely negative world]] and both contain [[EldritchAbomination mind-numbing horrors]] whose [[FingerPokeOfDoom gentlest sneeze]] could [[PersonOfMassDestruction kill half of Malaysia]]. The difference is the scope of fear; humans fear Cthulhu, Cthulhu [[HumanoidAbomination fears]] [[AGodIsYou the Exalted]].
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}''
** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's greatest foe, thus allowing him to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that when an Elder God is summoned, there is a ''very'' brief window where they are weak enough to be permanently killed. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. This is followed by DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu when, buried beneath the building wreckage, Henderson and Hastur have a friendly conversation and share Henderson's [[OneLastSmoke last joint]] before they both die from their injuries, with Hastur being very impressed that a human actually managed to kill him.
* In the early ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' by Creator/{{Chaosium}} the Headbutt skill allowed you to stop anyone acting for one turn. A starting character had a 95% chance of pulling this off. Apparently, even Great Old Ones are affected by the Headbutt. (Most versions
* Making certain entities statless for this reason shows up in a number of other [=RPGs=], such as ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''. In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' there is only one rule for fighting [[CainAndAbel Caine]], the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast first vampire]]: "You lose".
-->"Tenth level disciplines require no roll to activate and no blood
** Of course in Caine's case this is not just his absurd power level but also
* In ''TabletopGame/ChangelingTheLost'', Sam Noblood chased down [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Summer itself]] and
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* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** The C'tan {{Physical God}}s just need new bodies built for them if the shells are destroyed, although it is said that neither of the two active ones are at full power yet. They can actually be [[CherryTapping Cherry Tapped]] to death with sniper rifles, due to their crappy save and sniper weapons always wounding half the time.\\
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The Necron 5th edition book has {{Retcon}}ned this backstory so the C'tan, with the possible exception of the Void Dragon (who is implied to have been punched out by the Emperor), were ripped several dozen new ones by the Necrons, with the star-gods reduced to fragments rather like Khaine. Only worse, since Khaine was destroyed by other divine beings, and the C'tan dismembered by ''robots''. We assume their expressions were rather like that of a chess player being beaten to death by their own pawns. Justified to an extent, since by that point the C'tan had badly weakened themselves with infighting, their gluttony having reached a point that they started devouring ''each other'', which depleted their power.
** {{Literature/Eisenhorn}} managed this one throughout his career, but the most notable is when he destroyed the [[OneManArmy daemonhost]] [[PunnyName Prophaniti]] so thoroughly that [[DeaderThanDead even its warp presence was extinguished.]] With nothing more than a force staff and his own balls-out badassness.
** The Ultramarine Space Marine Chapter Master, Marneus Calgar literally punches out the Avatar of Khaine, the bloody handed war god of the Eldar.
** In the ''VideoGame/FireWarrior'' game and the novels based on it, the [[FlatEarthAtheist Tau]] manage to defeat a Chaos greater daemon. In the book, it's killed by a team of MiniMecha, in the game it's killed by [[TheHero Kais]] himself. Alas, Kais [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes a bit off his trolley]] afterwards, but hey, not many beings in the setting can boast about taking on a greater daemon single-handedly and coming out on top.
** In the lore, Skarbrand tried to do this to Khorne after being prodded by Tzeentch into thinking he's more deserving of the title "Blood God". Khorne's [[UnstoppableRage reply to this]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown is exactly why]] Skarbrand is the sole Bloodthirster unable to fly.
** In ''TabletopGame/BlackCrusade'', the roleplaying spin-off for Chaos-worshipping characters, a sample Slaaneshi daemon princess is an EmpoweredBadassNormal who did just this. Known as the Thrice-Possessed, she summoned ''three'' Keepers of Secrets into her own body sequentially, and each time she did so, she reversed the possession, enslaving them and drawing off their power until [[DeaderThanDead she completely drained them]]. For a bit of perspective, a Keeper of Secrets is an EldritchAbomination that is so mind-rendingly beautiful that most people will, upon seeing one, fall to their knees and beg for rapturous death at their hands, and normal daemonic possession is a FateWorseThanDeath for the person possessed.
** In the backstory, the mortally wounded Emperor finally realized that Horus was beyond saving after witnessing Horus casually murdering a man (by psychically flaying him alive) who was absolutely no threat to him. The Emperor then unleashed a psychic bolt at Horus that was so powerful that it sent the four Chaos gods who were possessing Horus fleeing back to the Warp. While the Chaos gods survived, they notably haven't taken as active a role since.
* 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''. 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...
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has a good number of [[EldritchAbomination ineffable, horrifying beings]] out there on the periphery, all designed so that your characters will inevitably beat the snot out of them. A lot of ''gods'' in ''Exalted'' are weak enough for starting characters to kill them without much trouble (granted, many gods are "Least Gods", whose dominion encompasses things like individual blades of grass). ''Scion'', by the same company, follows the same design philosophy.
** The quotes page for ''Exalted'' contains this gem, apparently found on rpgnet.
--->Exalted is in many ways like TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu. Both can be set in a [[CrapsackWorld largely negative world]] and both contain [[EldritchAbomination mind-numbing horrors]] whose [[FingerPokeOfDoom gentlest sneeze]] could [[PersonOfMassDestruction kill half of Malaysia]]. The difference is the scope of fear; humans fear Cthulhu, Cthulhu [[HumanoidAbomination fears]] [[AGodIsYou the Exalted]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' also averts this, however; yes, you ''can'' kill the Titans, but there's a reason [[SealedEvilInACan the gods sealed them up instead of doing it in the first place]]. Remember the Ice Age? It ended the SECOND Ymir was killed. And flooded most of the Earth.
** The C'tan {{Physical God}}s just need new bodies built for them if the shells are destroyed, although it is said that neither of the two active ones are at full power yet. They can actually be [[CherryTapping Cherry Tapped]] to death with sniper rifles, due to their crappy save and sniper weapons always wounding half the time.\\
\\
The Necron 5th edition book has {{Retcon}}ned this backstory so the C'tan, with the possible exception of the Void Dragon (who is implied to have been punched out by the Emperor), were ripped several dozen new ones by the Necrons, with the star-gods reduced to fragments rather like Khaine. Only worse, since Khaine was destroyed by other divine beings, and the C'tan dismembered by ''robots''. We assume their expressions were rather like that of a chess player being beaten to death by their own pawns. Justified to an extent, since by that point the C'tan had badly weakened themselves with infighting, their gluttony having reached a point that they started devouring ''each other'', which depleted their power.
** {{Literature/Eisenhorn}} managed this one throughout his career, but the most notable is when he destroyed the [[OneManArmy daemonhost]] [[PunnyName Prophaniti]] so thoroughly that [[DeaderThanDead even its warp presence was extinguished.]] With nothing more than a force staff and his own balls-out badassness.
** The Ultramarine Space Marine Chapter Master, Marneus Calgar literally punches out the Avatar of Khaine, the bloody handed war god of the Eldar.
** In the ''VideoGame/FireWarrior'' game and the novels based on it, the [[FlatEarthAtheist Tau]] manage to defeat a Chaos greater daemon. In the book, it's killed by a team of MiniMecha, in the game it's killed by [[TheHero Kais]] himself. Alas, Kais [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes a bit off his trolley]] afterwards, but hey, not many beings in the setting can boast about taking on a greater daemon single-handedly and coming out on top.
** In the lore, Skarbrand tried to do this to Khorne after being prodded by Tzeentch into thinking he's more deserving of the title "Blood God". Khorne's [[UnstoppableRage reply to this]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown is exactly why]] Skarbrand is the sole Bloodthirster unable to fly.
** In ''TabletopGame/BlackCrusade'', the roleplaying spin-off for Chaos-worshipping characters, a sample Slaaneshi daemon princess is an EmpoweredBadassNormal who did just this. Known as the Thrice-Possessed, she summoned ''three'' Keepers of Secrets into her own body sequentially, and each time she did so, she reversed the possession, enslaving them and drawing off their power until [[DeaderThanDead she completely drained them]]. For a bit of perspective, a Keeper of Secrets is an EldritchAbomination that is so mind-rendingly beautiful that most people will, upon seeing one, fall to their knees and beg for rapturous death at their hands, and normal daemonic possession is a FateWorseThanDeath for the person possessed.
** In the backstory, the mortally wounded Emperor finally realized that Horus was beyond saving after witnessing Horus casually murdering a man (by psychically flaying him alive) who was absolutely no threat to him. The Emperor then unleashed a psychic bolt at Horus that was so powerful that it sent the four Chaos gods who were possessing Horus fleeing back to the Warp. While the Chaos gods survived, they notably haven't taken as active a role since.
* 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''. 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...
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' has a good number of [[EldritchAbomination ineffable, horrifying beings]] out there on the periphery, all designed so that your characters will inevitably beat the snot out of them. A lot of ''gods'' in ''Exalted'' are weak enough for starting characters to kill them without much trouble (granted, many gods are "Least Gods", whose dominion encompasses things like individual blades of grass). ''Scion'', by the same company, follows the same design philosophy.
** The quotes page for ''Exalted'' contains this gem, apparently found on rpgnet.
--->Exalted is in many ways like TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu. Both can be set in a [[CrapsackWorld largely negative world]] and both contain [[EldritchAbomination mind-numbing horrors]] whose [[FingerPokeOfDoom gentlest sneeze]] could [[PersonOfMassDestruction kill half of Malaysia]]. The difference is the scope of fear; humans fear Cthulhu, Cthulhu [[HumanoidAbomination fears]] [[AGodIsYou the Exalted]].
* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' also averts this, however; yes, you ''can'' kill the Titans, but there's a reason [[SealedEvilInACan the gods sealed them up instead of doing it in the first place]]. Remember the Ice Age? It ended the SECOND Ymir was killed. And flooded most of the Earth.
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* The tabletop roleplaying game ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech,'' which is a mashup of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' and ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', both averts and works this way. The Old Ones themselves pretty much automatically win if they actually bother directly fighting any number of protagonists, and the awakening of Cthulhu would officially screw over not just the human race, but an alien race trying to invade as well. Even the avatar of Hastur, horribly crippled to work within our limited sets of dimensions and weakened by improper summoning, is set as outgunning every other army on the planet combined. [[DeusExitMachina Thankfully, he stays at home]]. On the other hand, you can easily beat up a few HumongousMecha or even an [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Engel]] with luck and some simple soldiers, or survive exposure to the infinite dimensions without being fried instantly. Seeing an Old One directly ''can't'' even drive you irreparably and instantly insane on its own, and lucky individuals can stroll up to the body of Cthulhu, take a picture, and leave without taking a single point of insanity.
* The boardgame ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror'', a spin-off of the ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' RPG, involves the players trying to close interdimensional gates opening around the town of Arkham. If they fail, a Great Old One awakens and the players have to fight him. It's possible, but extremely difficult, to defeat the Great Old One (unless it's Azathoth, who [[RocksFallEveryoneDies automatically ends the game with a loss for the players]] if he awakens).
** Fantasy Flight's sibling game Mansions of Madness allows this as well, including unarmed combat with [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch horrors]]. Depending on what the players are fighting this may not be such a good idea. But the Sanctum of Twilight Expansion adds in a martial artist character that has stats better suited for unarmed combat in addition to getting guaranteed extra damage whenever they hit in unarmed combat. This makes her very well suited for literally punching out [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch horrors]]. Doing this to a Star-spawn is as close as one can get to punching out Cthulhu itself within this game however.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' has a Cthulhu version, as well as a variety of others. It has been stated in the Internet-based epic rules that with these rules in play, at high levels, you can have enough personal power to kill a radioactive Cthulhu and his clone. Presumably, by this point you have six hands, and they're all on fire.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Monsterpocalypse}}'' features the [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Lords of Cthul]], who have "We were inspired by Creator/HPLovecraft" written on them in the maddening tongue of R'lyeh. Complete with tentacles. In the backstory, they're avatars of cosmic forces and are here simply because they like making people dead. These avatars can be taken out by tank fire, kamikaze cyborg alien birds, and 60-foot-tall HighlyVisibleNinja bodyslamming them.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Witchcraft}}'', humans can grow powerful enough to eventually take on Gods, Archdevils, Archangels, powerful monsters, and other horrible things from beyond. However, special mention goes to the non-magical dreamer guy that crushed a god. Turns out taking on a lucid dreamer in the dreamscape is a good way to get yourself killed, no matter what you are.
* The boardgame ''TabletopGame/ArkhamHorror'', a spin-off of the ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' RPG, involves the players trying to close interdimensional gates opening around the town of Arkham. If they fail, a Great Old One awakens and the players have to fight him. It's possible, but extremely difficult, to defeat the Great Old One (unless it's Azathoth, who [[RocksFallEveryoneDies automatically ends the game with a loss for the players]] if he awakens).
** Fantasy Flight's sibling game Mansions of Madness allows this as well, including unarmed combat with [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch horrors]]. Depending on what the players are fighting this may not be such a good idea. But the Sanctum of Twilight Expansion adds in a martial artist character that has stats better suited for unarmed combat in addition to getting guaranteed extra damage whenever they hit in unarmed combat. This makes her very well suited for literally punching out [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch horrors]]. Doing this to a Star-spawn is as close as one can get to punching out Cthulhu itself within this game however.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' has a Cthulhu version, as well as a variety of others. It has been stated in the Internet-based epic rules that with these rules in play, at high levels, you can have enough personal power to kill a radioactive Cthulhu and his clone. Presumably, by this point you have six hands, and they're all on fire.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Monsterpocalypse}}'' features the [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Lords of Cthul]], who have "We were inspired by Creator/HPLovecraft" written on them in the maddening tongue of R'lyeh. Complete with tentacles. In the backstory, they're avatars of cosmic forces and are here simply because they like making people dead. These avatars can be taken out by tank fire, kamikaze cyborg alien birds, and 60-foot-tall HighlyVisibleNinja bodyslamming them.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Witchcraft}}'', humans can grow powerful enough to eventually take on Gods, Archdevils, Archangels, powerful monsters, and other horrible things from beyond. However, special mention goes to the non-magical dreamer guy that crushed a god. Turns out taking on a lucid dreamer in the dreamscape is a good way to get yourself killed, no matter what you are.
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* Averted in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' unless [[ThanatosGambit Cthulhu wants to be punched out]]. Dragons can't be punched out unless they're absolutely dumb, because they have [[LuckStat Edge]] and can burn it in the same ways as [=PCs=] and then some, and one of those uses is to cheat death, ''notwithstanding'' the ChunkySalsaRule. Even if you [[RefugeInAudacity explode a nuke inside the dragon's gut]], it's OnlyMostlyDead and it'll come back and destroy your life from a place of complete safety, then have you for lunch once you're safely under control. Meanwhile, Harlequin, in the adventure he appears in, simply has no stats because the designers ''know'' that if you give it stats, the players will kill it, and [[{{Railroading}} that would screw up the setting]].
** Harlequin did finally end up getting stats in 4th Edition. The book came out a few years ago, so the smug, clown-faced bastard has probably died many times since.
* In ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'', some of the villains include an extra-dimensional demon, an immortal nature spirit, a near omnipotent trickster, and of course, the upcoming [=OblivAeon=]. It's possible to beat them with purely mundane heroes like Bunker, Expatriette, and the Wraith. Depending on the cards used, the punching can be quite literal.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' horror supplement ''TabletopGame/TheMadnessDossier,'' the Red Kings, literal god-kings of the Earth in an alternate history, are generally assumed to be functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in our reality. Except... in 1961, the heroes of the setting, Project SANDMAN, used a French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly even kill a Red King. Okay, using a nuke is hardly trivial, but still — they basically killed a god (they hope) by political shenanigans. And all it cost was two decades of psychic disruption in human society.
* 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.]]]]
** Harlequin did finally end up getting stats in 4th Edition. The book came out a few years ago, so the smug, clown-faced bastard has probably died many times since.
* In ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'', some of the villains include an extra-dimensional demon, an immortal nature spirit, a near omnipotent trickster, and of course, the upcoming [=OblivAeon=]. It's possible to beat them with purely mundane heroes like Bunker, Expatriette, and the Wraith. Depending on the cards used, the punching can be quite literal.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' horror supplement ''TabletopGame/TheMadnessDossier,'' the Red Kings, literal god-kings of the Earth in an alternate history, are generally assumed to be functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in our reality. Except... in 1961, the heroes of the setting, Project SANDMAN, used a French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly even kill a Red King. Okay, using a nuke is hardly trivial, but still — they basically killed a god (they hope) by political shenanigans. And all it cost was two decades of psychic disruption in human society.
* 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.]]]]
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* Averted ''TabletopGame/{{Monsterpocalypse}}'' features the [[LawyerFriendlyCameo Lords of Cthul]], who have "We were inspired by Creator/HPLovecraft" written on them in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' unless [[ThanatosGambit Cthulhu wants to be punched out]]. Dragons can't be punched out unless the maddening tongue of R'lyeh. Complete with tentacles. In the backstory, they're absolutely dumb, avatars of cosmic forces and are here simply because they have [[LuckStat Edge]] like making people dead. These avatars can be taken out by tank fire, kamikaze cyborg alien birds, and can burn it 60-foot-tall HighlyVisibleNinja bodyslamming them.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' has a Cthulhu version, as well as a variety of others. It has been stated in thesame ways as [=PCs=] and then some, and one of those uses is to cheat death, ''notwithstanding'' the ChunkySalsaRule. Even if Internet-based epic rules that with these rules in play, at high levels, you [[RefugeInAudacity explode a nuke inside the dragon's gut]], it's OnlyMostlyDead and it'll come back and destroy your life from a place of complete safety, then can have you for lunch once you're safely under control. Meanwhile, Harlequin, in the adventure he appears in, simply has no stats because the designers ''know'' that if you give it stats, the players will kill it, and [[{{Railroading}} that would screw up the setting]].
** Harlequin did finally end up getting stats in 4th Edition. The book came out a few years ago, so the smug, clown-faced bastard has probably died many times since.
* In ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'', some of the villains include an extra-dimensional demon, an immortal nature spirit, a near omnipotent trickster, and of course, the upcoming [=OblivAeon=]. It's possibleenough personal power to beat them with purely mundane heroes like Bunker, Expatriette, and the Wraith. Depending on the cards used, the punching can be quite literal.
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' horror supplement ''TabletopGame/TheMadnessDossier,'' the Red Kings, literal god-kings of the Earth in an alternate history, are generally assumed to be functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in our reality. Except... in 1961, the heroes of the setting, Project SANDMAN, used a French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly evenkill a Red King. Okay, using a nuke is hardly trivial, but still — they basically killed a god (they hope) radioactive Cthulhu and his clone. Presumably, by political shenanigans. And this point you have six hands, and they're all it cost was two decades of psychic disruption in human society.
* Pinnacle's ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' got to it with [[spoiler:Stone in the Devil's Tower trilogy, who was completely untouchable up to that point.]] Lateron 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.]]]]fire.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Munchkin}}'' has a Cthulhu version, as well as a variety of others. It has been stated in the
** Harlequin did finally end up getting stats in 4th Edition. The book came out a few years ago, so the smug, clown-faced bastard has probably died many times since.
* In ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'', some of the villains include an extra-dimensional demon, an immortal nature spirit, a near omnipotent trickster, and of course, the upcoming [=OblivAeon=]. It's possible
* In the ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' horror supplement ''TabletopGame/TheMadnessDossier,'' the Red Kings, literal god-kings of the Earth in an alternate history, are generally assumed to be functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in our reality. Except... in 1961, the heroes of the setting, Project SANDMAN, used a French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly even
* 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
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* In TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} like the above mention of First Edition, As of Bestiary 4 Cthulhu once again has stats... and is once again killable by players.
** ...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.
** There exists a theory crafting situation in which players take a single level 20 character and devise a means by which this character could defeat Cthulhu. Example include sentient ships and armies of outsiders.
*** 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.
** Several other Great Old Ones were also statted out in the same book, and there exist stats for several entities that are effectively gods, but can be killed by players.
** That being said, ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' draws a clear line between demigods (Great Old Ones like Cthulhu, as well as demon lords, archdevils and the like) and true deities. The former have stats, and can, at least theoretically, be killed by sufficiently powerful characters. The latter have no stats and are basically untouchable by even the most powerful [=PCs=]. Cthulhu can be punched out; Yog-Sothoth not so much.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' also averts this, however; yes, you ''can'' kill the Titans, but there's a reason [[SealedEvilInACan the gods sealed them up instead of doing it in the first place]]. Remember the Ice Age? It ended the SECOND Ymir was killed. And flooded most of the Earth.
* In ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'', some of the villains include an extra-dimensional demon, an immortal nature spirit, a near omnipotent trickster, and of course, the upcoming [=OblivAeon=]. It's possible to beat them with purely mundane heroes like Bunker, Expatriette, and the Wraith. Depending on the cards used, the punching can be quite literal.
* Averted in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' unless [[ThanatosGambit Cthulhu wants to be punched out]]. Dragons can't be punched out unless they're absolutely dumb, because they have [[LuckStat Edge]] and can burn it in the same ways as [=PCs=] and then some, and one of those uses is to cheat death, ''notwithstanding'' the ChunkySalsaRule. Even if you [[RefugeInAudacity explode a nuke inside the dragon's gut]], it's OnlyMostlyDead and it'll come back and destroy your life from a place of complete safety, then have you for lunch once you're safely under control. Meanwhile, Harlequin, in the adventure he appears in, simply has no stats because the designers ''know'' that if you give it stats, the players will kill it, and [[{{Railroading}} that would screw up the setting]].
** Harlequin did finally end up getting stats in 4th Edition. The book came out a few years ago, so the smug, clown-faced bastard has probably died many times since.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** The C'tan {{Physical God}}s just need new bodies built for them if the shells are destroyed, although it is said that neither of the two active ones are at full power yet. They can actually be [[CherryTapping Cherry Tapped]] to death with sniper rifles, due to their crappy save and sniper weapons always wounding half the time.\\
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The Necron 5th edition book has {{Retcon}}ned this backstory so the C'tan, with the possible exception of the Void Dragon (who is implied to have been punched out by the Emperor), were ripped several dozen new ones by the Necrons, with the star-gods reduced to fragments rather like Khaine. Only worse, since Khaine was destroyed by other divine beings, and the C'tan dismembered by ''robots''. We assume their expressions were rather like that of a chess player being beaten to death by their own pawns. Justified to an extent, since by that point the C'tan had badly weakened themselves with infighting, their gluttony having reached a point that they started devouring ''each other'', which depleted their power.
** {{Literature/Eisenhorn}} managed this one throughout his career, but the most notable is when he destroyed the [[OneManArmy daemonhost]] [[PunnyName Prophaniti]] so thoroughly that [[DeaderThanDead even its warp presence was extinguished.]] With nothing more than a force staff and his own balls-out badassness.
** The Ultramarine Space Marine Chapter Master, Marneus Calgar literally punches out the Avatar of Khaine, the bloody handed war god of the Eldar.
** In the ''VideoGame/FireWarrior'' game and the novels based on it, the [[FlatEarthAtheist Tau]] manage to defeat a Chaos greater daemon. In the book, it's killed by a team of MiniMecha, in the game it's killed by [[TheHero Kais]] himself. Alas, Kais [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes a bit off his trolley]] afterwards, but hey, not many beings in the setting can boast about taking on a greater daemon single-handedly and coming out on top.
** In the lore, Skarbrand tried to do this to Khorne after being prodded by Tzeentch into thinking he's more deserving of the title "Blood God". Khorne's [[UnstoppableRage reply to this]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown is exactly why]] Skarbrand is the sole Bloodthirster unable to fly.
** In ''TabletopGame/BlackCrusade'', the roleplaying spin-off for Chaos-worshipping characters, a sample Slaaneshi daemon princess is an EmpoweredBadassNormal who did just this. Known as the Thrice-Possessed, she summoned ''three'' Keepers of Secrets into her own body sequentially, and each time she did so, she reversed the possession, enslaving them and drawing off their power until [[DeaderThanDead she completely drained them]]. For a bit of perspective, a Keeper of Secrets is an EldritchAbomination that is so mind-rendingly beautiful that most people will, upon seeing one, fall to their knees and beg for rapturous death at their hands, and normal daemonic possession is a FateWorseThanDeath for the person possessed.
** In the backstory, the mortally wounded Emperor finally realized that Horus was beyond saving after witnessing Horus casually murdering a man (by psychically flaying him alive) who was absolutely no threat to him. The Emperor then unleashed a psychic bolt at Horus that was so powerful that it sent the four Chaos gods who were possessing Horus fleeing back to the Warp. While the Chaos gods survived, they notably haven't taken as active a role since.
* 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''. 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...
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Witchcraft}}'', humans can grow powerful enough to eventually take on Gods, Archdevils, Archangels, powerful monsters, and other horrible things from beyond. However, special mention goes to the non-magical dreamer guy that crushed a god. Turns out taking on a lucid dreamer in the dreamscape is a good way to get yourself killed, no matter what you are.
** ...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.
** There exists a theory crafting situation in which players take a single level 20 character and devise a means by which this character could defeat Cthulhu. Example include sentient ships and armies of outsiders.
*** 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.
** Several other Great Old Ones were also statted out in the same book, and there exist stats for several entities that are effectively gods, but can be killed by players.
** That being said, ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' draws a clear line between demigods (Great Old Ones like Cthulhu, as well as demon lords, archdevils and the like) and true deities. The former have stats, and can, at least theoretically, be killed by sufficiently powerful characters. The latter have no stats and are basically untouchable by even the most powerful [=PCs=]. Cthulhu can be punched out; Yog-Sothoth not so much.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' also averts this, however; yes, you ''can'' kill the Titans, but there's a reason [[SealedEvilInACan the gods sealed them up instead of doing it in the first place]]. Remember the Ice Age? It ended the SECOND Ymir was killed. And flooded most of the Earth.
* In ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'', some of the villains include an extra-dimensional demon, an immortal nature spirit, a near omnipotent trickster, and of course, the upcoming [=OblivAeon=]. It's possible to beat them with purely mundane heroes like Bunker, Expatriette, and the Wraith. Depending on the cards used, the punching can be quite literal.
* Averted in ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' unless [[ThanatosGambit Cthulhu wants to be punched out]]. Dragons can't be punched out unless they're absolutely dumb, because they have [[LuckStat Edge]] and can burn it in the same ways as [=PCs=] and then some, and one of those uses is to cheat death, ''notwithstanding'' the ChunkySalsaRule. Even if you [[RefugeInAudacity explode a nuke inside the dragon's gut]], it's OnlyMostlyDead and it'll come back and destroy your life from a place of complete safety, then have you for lunch once you're safely under control. Meanwhile, Harlequin, in the adventure he appears in, simply has no stats because the designers ''know'' that if you give it stats, the players will kill it, and [[{{Railroading}} that would screw up the setting]].
** Harlequin did finally end up getting stats in 4th Edition. The book came out a few years ago, so the smug, clown-faced bastard has probably died many times since.
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'':
** The C'tan {{Physical God}}s just need new bodies built for them if the shells are destroyed, although it is said that neither of the two active ones are at full power yet. They can actually be [[CherryTapping Cherry Tapped]] to death with sniper rifles, due to their crappy save and sniper weapons always wounding half the time.\\
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The Necron 5th edition book has {{Retcon}}ned this backstory so the C'tan, with the possible exception of the Void Dragon (who is implied to have been punched out by the Emperor), were ripped several dozen new ones by the Necrons, with the star-gods reduced to fragments rather like Khaine. Only worse, since Khaine was destroyed by other divine beings, and the C'tan dismembered by ''robots''. We assume their expressions were rather like that of a chess player being beaten to death by their own pawns. Justified to an extent, since by that point the C'tan had badly weakened themselves with infighting, their gluttony having reached a point that they started devouring ''each other'', which depleted their power.
** {{Literature/Eisenhorn}} managed this one throughout his career, but the most notable is when he destroyed the [[OneManArmy daemonhost]] [[PunnyName Prophaniti]] so thoroughly that [[DeaderThanDead even its warp presence was extinguished.]] With nothing more than a force staff and his own balls-out badassness.
** The Ultramarine Space Marine Chapter Master, Marneus Calgar literally punches out the Avatar of Khaine, the bloody handed war god of the Eldar.
** In the ''VideoGame/FireWarrior'' game and the novels based on it, the [[FlatEarthAtheist Tau]] manage to defeat a Chaos greater daemon. In the book, it's killed by a team of MiniMecha, in the game it's killed by [[TheHero Kais]] himself. Alas, Kais [[GoMadFromTheRevelation goes a bit off his trolley]] afterwards, but hey, not many beings in the setting can boast about taking on a greater daemon single-handedly and coming out on top.
** In the lore, Skarbrand tried to do this to Khorne after being prodded by Tzeentch into thinking he's more deserving of the title "Blood God". Khorne's [[UnstoppableRage reply to this]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown is exactly why]] Skarbrand is the sole Bloodthirster unable to fly.
** In ''TabletopGame/BlackCrusade'', the roleplaying spin-off for Chaos-worshipping characters, a sample Slaaneshi daemon princess is an EmpoweredBadassNormal who did just this. Known as the Thrice-Possessed, she summoned ''three'' Keepers of Secrets into her own body sequentially, and each time she did so, she reversed the possession, enslaving them and drawing off their power until [[DeaderThanDead she completely drained them]]. For a bit of perspective, a Keeper of Secrets is an EldritchAbomination that is so mind-rendingly beautiful that most people will, upon seeing one, fall to their knees and beg for rapturous death at their hands, and normal daemonic possession is a FateWorseThanDeath for the person possessed.
** In the backstory, the mortally wounded Emperor finally realized that Horus was beyond saving after witnessing Horus casually murdering a man (by psychically flaying him alive) who was absolutely no threat to him. The Emperor then unleashed a psychic bolt at Horus that was so powerful that it sent the four Chaos gods who were possessing Horus fleeing back to the Warp. While the Chaos gods survived, they notably haven't taken as active a role since.
* 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''. 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...
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Witchcraft}}'', humans can grow powerful enough to eventually take on Gods, Archdevils, Archangels, powerful monsters, and other horrible things from beyond. However, special mention goes to the non-magical dreamer guy that crushed a god. Turns out taking on a lucid dreamer in the dreamscape is a good way to get yourself killed, no matter what you are.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Mythender}}'' is all about this. To quote the game's introduction:
-->It's all about leaping off of mountains with your massive, [[FlamingSword flaming sword]] drawn and splitting open a giant's face.
-->At least, it was a face before you showed up to fix that.
-->It's all about leaping off of mountains with your massive, [[FlamingSword flaming sword]] drawn and splitting open a giant's face.
-->At least, it was a face before you showed up to fix that.
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* ''TabletopGame/LeviathanTheTempest'': In the setting's backstory, the god Marduk managed to cast down Tiamat, the mother of the titular Leviathans, liberating humanity from her thrall. And in the modern day, her children may be {{EldritchAbomination}}s, but they are still very definitely killable even by mundane humans.
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* In the ''[[TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' horror supplement ''TabletopGame/TheMadnessDossier,'' the Red Kings, literal god-kings of the Earth in an alternate history, are generally assumed to be functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in our reality. Except... in 1961, the heroes of the setting, Project SANDMAN, used a French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly even kill a Red King. Okay, using a nuke is hardly trivial, but still — they basically killed a god (they hope) by political shenanigans. And all it cost was two decades of psychic disruption in human society.
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* In the ''[[TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' horror supplement ''TabletopGame/TheMadnessDossier,'' the Red Kings, literal god-kings of the Earth in an alternate history, are generally assumed to be functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in our reality. Except... in 1961, the heroes of the setting, Project SANDMAN, used a French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly even kill a Red King. Okay, using a nuke is hardly trivial, but still — they basically killed a god (they hope) by political shenanigans. And all it cost was two decades of psychic disruption in human society.
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* In ''[[TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier]],'' the Red Kings, literal god-kings of the Earth in an alternate history, are generally assumed to be functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in our reality. Except... in 1961, the heroes of the setting, Project Sandman, used a French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly even kill a Red King. Okay, using a nuke is hardly trivial, but still — they basically killed a god (they hope) by political shenanigans. And all it cost was two decades of psychic disruption in human society.
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* In ''[[TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier]],'' the ''[[TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}'' horror supplement ''TabletopGame/TheMadnessDossier,'' the Red Kings, literal god-kings of the Earth in an alternate history, are generally assumed to be functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in our reality. Except... in 1961, the heroes of the setting, Project Sandman, SANDMAN, used a French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly even kill a Red King. Okay, using a nuke is hardly trivial, but still — they basically killed a god (they hope) by political shenanigans. And all it cost was two decades of psychic disruption in human society.
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** That being said, ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' draws a clear line between demigods (Great Old Ones like Cthulhu, as well as demon lords, archdevils and the like) and true deities. The former have stats, and can, at least theoretically, be killed by sufficiently powerful characters. The latter have no stats and are basically untouchable by even the most powerful characters. Cthulhu can be punched out, but Yog-Sothoth is right out.
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** That being said, ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' draws a clear line between demigods (Great Old Ones like Cthulhu, as well as demon lords, archdevils and the like) and true deities. The former have stats, and can, at least theoretically, be killed by sufficiently powerful characters. The latter have no stats and are basically untouchable by even the most powerful characters. [=PCs=]. Cthulhu can be punched out, but out; Yog-Sothoth is right out.not so much.
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** That being said, ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' draws a clear line between demigods (Great Old Ones like Cthulhu, as well as demon lords, archdevils and the like) and true deities. The former have stats, and can, at least theoretically, be killed by sufficiently powerful characters. The latter have no stats and are basically untouchable by even the most powerful characters. Cthulhu can be punched out, but Yog-Sothoth is right out.
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** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's Greatest Foe, thus allowing you to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that an Elder God summoned without their consent will be really pissed off, but temporarily weak enough to be killed, though you only get one attack to try it. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. Of course, it's technically less DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu than Did You Just Permanently Blow Up Hastur In An Ice Rink?!
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** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's Greatest Foe, greatest foe, thus allowing you him to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that when an Elder God summoned without their consent will be really pissed off, but temporarily is summoned, there is a ''very'' brief window where they are weak enough to be killed, though you only get one attack to try it.permanently killed. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. Of course, it's technically less DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu than Did You Just Permanently Blow Up This is followed by DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu when, buried beneath the building wreckage, Henderson and Hastur In An Ice Rink?!have a friendly conversation and share Henderson's [[OneLastSmoke last joint]] before they both die from their injuries, with Hastur being very impressed that a human actually managed to kill him.
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* 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''. 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...
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** Of course in Caine's case this is not just his absurd power level but also the Sevenfold Curse, which means that, by divine mandate, any harm done to Caine is reflected seven times as bad on whoever did. So yeah, you lose, since even if you had the power to kill him it'd kill you first.
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** Of course in Caine's case this is not just his absurd power level but also the Sevenfold Curse, which means that, by divine mandate, any harm done to Caine is reflected seven times as bad on whoever did. did it. So yeah, you lose, since even if you had the power to kill him (which is quite possible) it'd kill you first.
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** Of course in Caine's case this is not just his absurd power level but also the Sevenfold Curse, which means that, by divine mandate, any harm done to Caine is reflected seven times as bad on whoever did. So yeah, you lose, since even if you had the power to kill him it'd kill you first.
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* 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.]]]]
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** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's Greatest Foe, thus allowing you to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that an Elder God summoned without their consent will be really pissed off, but temporarily weak enough to be killed, though you only get one attack to try it. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. Of course, it's technically less DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu than [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Did You Just Permanently Blow Up Hastur In An Ice Rink?!]]
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** Of course, even with this there are exceptions, the most famous being the tale of Fanfic/OldManHenderson, [[CrazyAwesome the only person to ever have won at Call of Cthulhu]], by using the trick of 1. Becoming Hastur's Greatest Foe, thus allowing you to personally summon him by chanting his name. 2. Knowing that an Elder God summoned without their consent will be really pissed off, but temporarily weak enough to be killed, though you only get one attack to try it. 3. Wiring a building with enough explosions to make Michael Bay blush. Of course, it's technically less DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu than [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome Did You Just Permanently Blow Up Hastur In An Ice Rink?!]]Rink?!
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**Fantasy Flight's sibling game Mansions of Madness allows this as well, including unarmed combat with [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch horrors]]. Depending on what the players are fighting this may not be such a good idea. But the Sanctum of Twilight Expansion adds in a martial artist character that has stats better suited for unarmed combat in addition to getting guaranteed extra damage whenever they hit in unarmed combat. This makes her very well suited for literally punching out [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch horrors]]. Doing this to a Star-spawn is as close as one can get to punching out Cthulhu itself within this game however.
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* In ''[[TabletopGames/{{GURPS}} GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier]],'' the Red Kings, literal god-kings of the Earth in an alternate history, are generally assumed to be functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in our reality. Except... in 1961, the heroes of the setting, Project Sandman, used a French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly even kill a Red King. And all it cost was two decades of psychic disruption in human society.
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* In ''[[TabletopGames/{{GURPS}} ''[[TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier]],'' the Red Kings, literal god-kings of the Earth in an alternate history, are generally assumed to be functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in our reality. Except... in 1961, the heroes of the setting, Project Sandman, used a French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly even kill a Red King. Okay, using a nuke is hardly trivial, but still — they basically killed a god (they hope) by political shenanigans. And all it cost was two decades of psychic disruption in human society.
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* In ''[[TabletopGames/{{GURPS}} GURPS Horror: The Madness Dossier]],'' the Red Kings, literal god-kings of the Earth in an alternate history, are generally assumed to be functionally unkillable; they could conquer our world merely by coming into full existence in our reality. Except... in 1961, the heroes of the setting, Project Sandman, used a French nuclear test in Algeria to close up a dimensional rift and possibly even kill a Red King. And all it cost was two decades of psychic disruption in human society.
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** Not all of them can be attacked with normal, everyday weapons, however. Some can only be defeated by spells and magic weapons. (And in the case of the Terrasque, it needs to be reduced to 0 or lower HP and then permanently dealt with via using the Wish spell to make it Someone Else's Problem, but that doesn't stop people from [[LordBritishPostulate trying to make builds that can kill Tarrasques]].)
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*** 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.
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The Necron 5th edition book has {{Retcon}}ned this backstory so the C'tan, with the possible exception of the Void Dragon (who is implied to have been punched out by the Emperor), were ripped several dozen new ones by the Necrons, with the star-gods reduced to fragments rather like Khaine. Only worse, since Khaine was destroyed by other divine beings, and the C'tan dismembered by ''robots''. We assume their expressions were rather like that of a chess player being beaten to death by their own pawns.
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The Necron 5th edition book has {{Retcon}}ned this backstory so the C'tan, with the possible exception of the Void Dragon (who is implied to have been punched out by the Emperor), were ripped several dozen new ones by the Necrons, with the star-gods reduced to fragments rather like Khaine. Only worse, since Khaine was destroyed by other divine beings, and the C'tan dismembered by ''robots''. We assume their expressions were rather like that of a chess player being beaten to death by their own pawns. Justified to an extent, since by that point the C'tan had badly weakened themselves with infighting, their gluttony having reached a point that they started devouring ''each other'', which depleted their power.
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* Making certain entities statless for this reason shows up in a number of other [=RPGs=], such as ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' and ''{{Planescape}}''. In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' there is only one rule for fighting [[CainAndAbel Caine]], the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast first vampire]]: "You lose".
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* Making certain entities statless for this reason shows up in a number of other [=RPGs=], such as ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' and ''{{Planescape}}''.''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}''. In ''TabletopGame/VampireTheMasquerade'' there is only one rule for fighting [[CainAndAbel Caine]], the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast first vampire]]: "You lose".
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* [[AvertedTrope Handily averted]] by just about every other ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' [=RPG=]. In the original rulebook by 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]]''.
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* [[AvertedTrope Handily averted]] by just about every other ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' [=RPG=]. In the original rulebook by Chaosium 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]]''.
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* In the early ''Call of Cthulhu'' by Chaosium the Headbutt skill allowed you to stop anyone acting for one turn. A starting character had a 95% chance of pulling this off. Apparently, even Great Old Ones are affected by the Headbutt. (Most versions of the rulebook mention that non-humanoid creatures are completely immune to all knockout attempts.)
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* In the early ''Call of Cthulhu'' by Chaosium ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' by Creator/{{Chaosium}} the Headbutt skill allowed you to stop anyone acting for one turn. A starting character had a 95% chance of pulling this off. Apparently, even Great Old Ones are affected by the Headbutt. (Most versions of the rulebook mention that non-humanoid creatures are completely immune to all knockout attempts.)
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**...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.
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Those who misspell the Tarrasque's name will have their character builds put to the test of defeating it. I don't imagine the average troper is more than level two.
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** From a purely flavor-point-of-view (rather than a game-mechanics-point-of-view like above), [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193452 Emrakul]] is a humongous, almost unstoppable EldritchAbomination (depicted in that page image). The card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193467 Near-Death Experience]] depicts [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=238329 Gideon Jura]] having just beaten it in combat, which kind of makes him quite a {{Badass}}.
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** From a purely flavor-point-of-view (rather than a game-mechanics-point-of-view like above), [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193452 Emrakul]] is a humongous, almost unstoppable EldritchAbomination (depicted in that page image). The card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=193467 Near-Death Experience]] depicts [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=238329 Gideon Jura]] having just beaten it in combat, which kind of makes him quite a {{Badass}}.badass.
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* [[AvertedTrope Handily averted]] by just about every other ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' [=RPG=]. In the original rulebook by 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 ''{{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]]''.
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