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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