History Literature / CthulhuArmageddon

''Cthulhu Armageddon'' is a series by Creator/CTPhipps set in the world of Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos. The first book is also called ''Cthulhu Armageddon'' and has its tropes listed here. It is followed by ''Literature/TheTreeOfAzathoth''.

''Cthulhu Armageddon'' is a series by Creator/CTPhipps set in the world of Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos. The first book is also called ''Cthulhu Armageddon'' and has its tropes listed here. It is followed by ''Literature/TheTreeOfAzathoth''

''Cthulhu Armageddon'' is a series by Creator/CTPhipps set in the world of Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos. The first book is also called ''Cthulhu Armageddon'' and has its tropes listed here.

* TheStarsAreGoingOut: More like re-arranging, which John admits is even more impossible than it sounds (and it sounds insane) since they shouldn't have their light visible for millennium.

* NotAlwaysEvil: Despite taking place in Creator/HPLovecraft's Franchise/CthulhuMythos, the majority of monsters are BlueAndOrangeMorality rather than evil and even things like the Deep Ones or ghouls are no more malicious than the human beings in the setting. A few are even allies of the protagonist.

* NobleBigotWithABadge: Stephens, one of the Gamma Squad Rangers is a brave and capable soldier who dies heroically, but is misogynistic and racist towards blacks, and while he leaves the homosexual Hispanic Garcia alone, this might just be because their first cousins.

* FantasticRacism: Called out in the text that Deep Ones, ghouls, and Serpent Men are all closer to humanity than they are to the Great Old Ones they worship. Nevertheless, all of them hate each other and consider their variations monstrous.

It is one hundred years past the rise of the Old Ones which has been reduced to a giant monster-filled desert and pockets of human survivors (along with Deep Ones, ghouls, and other “talking” monsters). John Henry Booth is a ranger of one of the largest remaining city-states when he’s exiled for his group’s massacre and suspicion he’s “tainted.” Escaping with a doctor who killed her husband, John travels across the Earth’s blasted alien ruins to seek the life of the man who killed his friends.

* AdaptationalVillainy: The Elder Things, depicted by HP Lovecraft as ALighterShadeOfBlack, and an educated cultured race are shown to be a vicious monstrous one that John hates with every fiber of his being. This may be due to the fact they are slavers and they are John's BerserkButton.

* FantasyCounterpartCulture: The Dunwych tribals for Native Americans. They are also a subversion in that they are one of the most technologically adept peoples and have access to the most knowledge from before the Rising. It's just that they are also a tribal people, ecologically integrated, worshipers of the Great Old Ones, and take names based upon their deeds as often as not.

* BerserkButton: John has this reaction to slavers and considers that anyone keeping a slave or dealing with them worthy for killing. This also applies to those who hurt children as someone who does so is almost certain to get slaughtered by any human remaining. [[spoiler: Cruelly subverted with Alan Ward who murders a whole bunch of them out of a twisted sense of mercy.]]

* CosmicHorrorStory: The backdrop to a post-apocalypse western.

* TheGunslinger: John Henry Booth is both the Trick Shot and the Vaporizer. He's implied to also be the Quick Draw but that is somewhat useless when dealing with monsters and eldritch horrors. It helps that his pistols tend to be magical, though, and he once shot to pieces a ''shoggoth.''

* PalsWithJesus: A peculiar example given Lovecraft's CosmicHorrorStory universe but actually something with precedent in HPL's works. John has a weird relationship with Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos and Other God. Nyarlathotep seems to find him slightly more interesting than other mortals and has placed his "mark" on him.

* TheAtoner: Mercury wishes to become this but doesn't quite realize how difficult it's going to be in the Wasteland.

* MagicalNativeAmerican: The Dunwych to an extent with the subversion they're descendants of a bunch of tourists who formed a tribal (but functional society) in a green zone near the aforementioned town. They're stated to be a "new race" due to the mixture of the people onboard the bus.

* TortureTechnician: Mercury was forced into being one of these when she was barely above a teenager.

* SevenWesternPlots: The first book is a revenge story about how the protagonist is on a mission to find out who massacred his Ranger squad. The second is more an homage to MagnificentSevenSamurai with WordOfGod even referencing it by name.

* FantasticRacism: Called out in the text that Deep Ones, ghouls, and Serpent Men are all closer to humanity than they are to the Great Old Ones they worship. Nevertheless, all of them hate each other and consider their variations monstrous. WordOfGod says this is a deliberate inversion of Lovecraft's beliefs on race.

* DeathWorld: The Great Old Ones have risen, the environment is destroyed, monsters run amuck, humanity is mutating into something else, time is broken, and the stars are going out.

* EldritchLocation: The Black Cathedral is made of organic and inorganic material, has non-euclidean geometry, and also exists in multiple dimensions.

* AdventureTowns: Scrapyard, Kingsport, and New Arkham.

* DangerousDeserter: Peter Goodhill, who fled the Remnant to avoid punishment for running in a fight, and ultimately turns out to be in bed with the slavers.

* LovecraftLite: Averted. It appears to be this way but [[spoiler: humanity has only three centuries to live, New Arkham is destroyed, and the children were DeadAllAlong.]] Played straight in the fact the monsters are shown to have more human qualities than typically found in Lovecraftian writing.

* WouldHurtAChild: Alan Ward proves to be this most resoundingly. [[spoiler: He killed all of his young captives in order to make them immortal.]]

* ApocalypseCult: Much of humanity has converted to worshiping the Great Old Ones. Which is understandable since this is implied to be the future of ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu.''

* NewOldWest: The post-apocalypse Cthulhu one.