Line #5 Awesome/CthulhuMythos


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4	* "Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu": Johansen hitting Great Cthulhu's head using the ship. It doesn't kill Cthulhu, but still awesomely badass, and eats up enough time for Cthulhu to be forced back into his slumber.
5	* Professor Armitage in ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' inspired generations of Call of Cthulhu fans by being the first one to save the world for a time by defeating Yog-Sothoth's son.
6	* ''Literature/TheCaseOfCharlesDexterWard'': Marinus Bicknell Willett does something almost as impressive by killing Joseph Curwen through the practice of modern magic.
7	* Randolph Carter's final leap into the void in ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath''.
8	* Robert Olmstead managing to escape the Deep Ones in ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth''. Followed by the government raiding Innsmouth, arresting all the Deep One hybrids and torpedoing the city, setting their plans back several years.
9	* Walter Gilman in ''Literature/TheDreamsInTheWitchHouse'' successfully kills Keziah Mason and temporarily defeats Brown Jenkin.
10	* ''Literature/TheThingOnTheDoorstep'': Daniel Upton imprisons Ephraim Waite by having Derby committed, then when that fails and Ephraim's release is imminent he kills him permanently with a headshot.
11	* "Literature/TheShunnedHouse" has the protagonist destroy the vampiric threat by burning it to death with acid.
12	* The narrator of "Literature/FromBeyond" foiling Tillinghast's plan to kill him by shooting his machine.
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14	[[folder: Brian Lumley's writing]]
15	* The Elder Gods beat the Great Old Ones for a second (perhaps millioneth) time by brain-wiping them.
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17	[[folder: Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu]]
18	* More or less the point of the game. Virtually every module has the players up against the Old Ones with a "win" condition for delaying the end of the world for a little while longer.
19	* Fanfic/OldManHenderson killed Hastur. No, seriously.
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21	[[folder: Ramsey Campbell's writing]]
22	* Parry of "The Room in the Tower" [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu sets the Great Old One Byatis on fire, destroying its physical form]] and possibly killing it.
23	* "The Horror from the Bridge": A shining example of LovecraftLite, this story has Chesterton's ritual sealing away most of the creatures before they can be released, an ordinary hunting party killing [[BigBad Phipps]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu and two of the creatures]] and the third and final creature being defeated and entombed beneath Clotton for the foreseeable future.
24	* "The Inhabitant of the Lake": Cartwright's HeroicSacrifice, dying cutting off one of Gla'aki's spines and forcing it to retreat back into the lake.
25	* The heroes of "The Plain of Sound" drive the denizens of S'glhuo back to the gulf from whence they came, albeit at [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu great]] [[GoMadFromTheRevelation personal cost]].
26	* Gladys Shorrock, the titular witch of "The Return of the Witch", is returned to the dead when the pentagram used for her ritual is destroyed. [[NothingIsScarier Whatever horrible thing was in her chest]] is found and burned in the garden.
27	* While it's downplayed in return for the AndIMustScream, FateWorseThanDeath and DrivenToSuicide elements of the ending, the implication that the protagonist of "The Moon-Lens" was able to imprison Shub-Niggurath's cult with it beneath the hill.
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