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1[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Vault_of_Doom_2.jpg]]
2[[caption-width-right:250:[[ManipulativeBastard Nyarly]] and [[FatBastard Cthulhoo.]]]]
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4''[[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/ The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom)]]'' is a webcomic created by François Launet and featuring some of the more famous entities from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, depicted in a humorous manner.
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6!!''The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom)'' provides examples of the following tropes:
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8* {{Adorable Abomination}}s: Due to the art style. (Their manners are less adorable.)
9* AffectionateNickname: To most of them, related to the above. Nyarly for Nyarlathotep and Shoggies for Shoggoth, for example.
10* AffectionateParody
11* AutoIncorrect: {{Parodied}} in [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/252/ this strip]] of ''Webcomic/TheUnspeakableVaultOfDoom''. Apparently, computer-generated pentacles aren't that great an idea.
12-->'''Cthulhoo:''' For once, drawings are good, but using "Childhood" unstead ''[sic]]'' of "Cthulhoo" and "Feting" for "Fhtagn" is more than a beginner's mistake.
13* BerserkButton: Don't mention to Yogzotot that he looks like soap bubbles. ''He will ZAP you.''
14* BigEater: Cthulhoo. Of humans, of course.
15-->'''Cthulhoo, during mealtimes''': Yum yum!
16* BlackComedy: Oh yes.
17* [[BunnyEarsLawyer Bunny Ears Elder God]]: All the characters have their own problems... Cthulhoo eats humans, the Shoggies have little intelligence, 'Zatoth is just as stupid, Yogzotot has a bad temper, and Dagoon bashes stuff with a stone pillar, to name a few.
18* CatchPhrase: "Fhtagn!" for Cthulhoo, "soooo cooooooool" for the Shoggies. "Yum, yum", usually by the big C. "I'm the gate, I'm the Key" for Yogzotot.
19* [[ConspicuousTrenchcoat Conspicuous Robe]]: Hast-[[TheScottishTrope erm, I mean "The Unspeakable One"]] always wears a gold king mask and robe, looking like Advertising/TheBurgerKing with tentacles. Amusingly enough, he [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/230/ becomes the mascot for a fast-food chain.]]
20%%* TheDitz: The shoggies.
21%%* DoomyDoomsOfDoom
22* EatTheSummoner: Cthulhoo eats cultists that just summoned him.
23-->'''Cthulhoo:''' Yum yum!
24* {{Engrish}}: The author is French, and occasionally makes some very odd grammatical errors. The worst of these are usually corrected.
25* EvilIsNotAToy: As usual, invoking Cthulhoo is an incredibly bad idea. Of course, invoking the other gods can be just as bad, and summoning them all... [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/350/ well...]]
26* TheFaceless: Hast...
27* FacelessMasses: The cartoonist doesn't draw facial features on his human characters. (And when he does for once, probably something unspeakable has happened to the poor guy.)
28* TheFundamentalist: [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/316/ Runs into some trouble]].
29* GrotesqueCute: This is still the Franchise/CthulhuMythos, and the gore factor actually goes ''up'' compared to Lovecraft's stories (since here you're more likely to see someone dismembered than be told they [[NothingIsScarier suffered unspeakable horrors]]).
30* HonestJohnsDealership: Nyarly loves selling miscellaneous GOO items like sacrificial knives, cultist robes, GOO-customized cameras, etc.
31* ImAHumanitarian: Cthulhoo's most defining trait. In fact, the whole point of his invocation phrase is to let him know where to find lunch.
32* WebOriginal/LOLCats: [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/222/ of Ulthar]].
33* LovecraftLite: FridgeBrilliance style. The element of CosmicHorrorStory remain unchanged. Cultists still kill people for sacrifices, reading text from TomeOfEldritchLore... uh, [=RPGs=] sourcebook is enough to get you devoured and mythos beings are still extremely dangerous. However, they are a bunch of goofs and humans can be awfully ''annoying'' to them.
34* MotherOfAThousandYoung: Shubby, obviously. Here, it's PlayedForLaughs.
35* MuggingTheMonster: [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/4/Cultists/ Heh heh heh]]
36* MundaneUtility: A cultist once summoned Yogzotot to ask the time. Needless to say, it doesn't end well...
37%%* NightmareRetardant: [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/209/ Discussed In-Universe]].
38%%* NotSoHarmlessVillain: The Shoggies can actually do quite a bit of damage, as indicated in [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/332/ this sequence]].
39%%* OldShame: An InUniverse example: [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/330/ Cthulhoo's childhood sculpture]].
40* PardonMyKlingon: Context implies that "Fhtagn!" is a swearword.
41* RingRingCRUNCH: [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/572/ Cthulhoo.]] As you know, he likes his sleep.
42* RockMeAsmodeus: [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/319/ The Gods (and Sauron) made Heavy Metal and saw that it was good.]]
43* RunningGag: Lots of them. Cthulhoo's gluttony, the Shoggies' stupidity, cultists getting eaten, etc. Not to mention people summoning Cthulhoo by accident every couple of strips.
44* ScullySyndrome: A frequent reaction of Cthulhoo's victims, shortly before they get eaten. Justified in one case with an outright ShoutOut: "[[AwfulTruth I DON'T want to believe]]!"
45* ShoutOut: Several of them, notably to ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''.
46** [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/233/ Case in point.]]
47** [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/315/ Looks like no more root beer floats.]]
48** [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/341/ Warhammer 40,000 gets one in this strip.]]
49** Cthulhoo [[Series/CSIMiami ate]] [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/317/ Horatio Caine! :D]]
50* SpellMyNameWithAnS
51** The names used for a lot of the Mythos characters are spellings Lovecraft never used; this is to avoid the ongoing copyright controversy involving his work.
52*** Actually, according to the author notes for [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/552/ this strip]], " the mutation of the God's names in the [=UVoD=] were not made to avoid legal problem, but rather to illustrate the difficulties to transcode the Great Old Ones's names in human language."
53** If one broadens the trope to any spelling troubles (not strictly character-wise), the completely unspeakable R'lyeh-ish gives rise to many in-universe jokes: "And it's ''fhtagn'', not ''fthagn''! (yum yum)"
54* SufficientlyAdvancedAlien: One of the justifications Cthulhoo uses for eating his own followers -- he's more like a wild animal than a god anyways.
55* TeamPet: Tindaloo
56* TentacleRope: Played ''deadly'' straight by Cthulhoo, much to the annoyance of Nyarly, who clearly prefers, eh, a certain related red-linked trope.
57* TongueOnTheFlagpole: Apparently, a pile of shoggoth(s?) grew some tongues for the specific purpose of sticking them onto a glacier when teleported to the Antarctic by the Elder Things in [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/339/ this]] comic.
58* TooDumbToLive: The cultists. All of them. Literally.
59* TotalPartyKill: [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/93/ Thanks to one idiot]].
60* WayPastTheExpirationDate: [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/2/The%20Elderz/ One fine day]], one of The Elderz wanted to make an instant soup. Except, as he was already cooking, he noticed, that the expiration date has passed a few million years before. The result of his mistake were the Shoggies, who soon ate almost all individuals of their (accidental) creators' kind, before being banished to Antarctic.
61* WeirdCrossover: The author paid homage to Creator/AlbertUderzo's death by drawing [[http://www.goominet.com/unspeakable-vault/vault/607/ Cthulhoo disguised as]] [[ComicBook/{{Asterix}} Obélix]].
62* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Played with with the Deepoines.

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