I think the picture should be changed from the nun punching out Cthulhu. It just looks very lame.

I don't think personal preference overrules the general consensus that it is indeed ''awesome''. [[InsistentTerminology Besides, she's elbowing him.]]

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I think the bit about World of Warcraft should be expanded, and the bit about Sargaras in particular. He was an all-mighty titan (essentially a god) whose hobby was to not only kill everything in the universe, but to burn the universe itself to nothingness. He destroyed millions of worlds and killed trillions of races, and he ultimately is destroyed by a knight and a low-level mage.

Austin: There is no way that Sargeras was at full power when in Medivh's body.

Back to Warcraft 3 for a moment, there's a round in the Orc Campaign where you have to kill Cenarius(Basically a giant Keeper of the Grove). And the "legal" way was to drink from the Chaos well(him having Divine Armour of 999 so all other types of damage did 1 point each), etc. I once killed him by spamming a lot of ranged attackers(probably Trolls). Took near forever. Likewise, Archimonde, at the end of the Night Elf campaign.
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{{Cassius335}}: Taken out:

"* In the {{Pokemon}} games, you are able to capture legendary mons that are often forces of nature. The lasted game
contains Arceus, who ''created the universe''".

...because catching the bugger ain't easy - the highest Base Stat total in the game (720); appears at Lvl 80, itself a record for a Wild Pokemon... basically he's the strongest thing you'll ever have to catch. Train the box legendary up to Lvl 100 and you might have a prayer... maybe.

And that's the game. The anime? Forget it. A dozen normal Pokes's couldn't even scratch Darkrai, never mind the big 'A' himself.

ThatOther1Dude: Unless you use a Master Ball ;).

YourObedientSerpent thinks it should go back in: none of the literary, cincematic or game examples listed make it EASY to kill a god.

FalconArrow: Who posted the quote about a 20mm against Satan, and where's it from?
*{{Narvi}}: Dunno who posted it. It's from "Armageddon?", a fic where the armies of the world are fighting the armies of Satan, and it was a poster's summation of a discussion they were having. [[http://bbs.stardestroyer.net/viewtopic.php?p=2720631#2720631 Here it is.]]

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{{Norman Rafferty}}:

* Removed references to Conan killing gods. No offense to Conan's bad-assery -- he really was really bad-ass -- but unless someone can find an actual example to Conan killing a god, he's not a Cthulhu puncher. Replaced it with Elric, who is definitely D&D's inspiration.
* Removed the Dunwich Horror text. Despite the factual inaccuracies, an exorcism is not a punch. The plot resolution is "the only way to stop the Big Bad is to cast an obscure spell that only this professor knows!" This trope should apply to when brute force solves a problem, not specialty knowledge or McGuffins.

FastEddie: I suppose if these were quotes, they would have been attributed ...
--> ''Cthulhu is not actually just sleeping until the "stars are right", he's really [[MemeticBadass hiding from Chuck Norris]]''

--> ''If a sniper's .50cal headshot [[ImmuneToBullets isn't enough to kill]] {{Satan}}, I suggest we use a [[{{BFG}} 20mm sniper rifle instead]]. ''

{{Firelegend567}}-I'm pretty sure I made up the one about Chuck Norris. Granted it's possible I read that somewhere and forgot about it, but I'm quite certain it was all me. As for the Sniper one, It's above.

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Xander did not just walk into a millitary base with a costume; he had mystically granted knowledge established from a previous episode. People were turned into their costumes and Xander was a generic millitary dude, so he had generic millitary knowledge.

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The Doctor Who example was bunk. I would've thought whether the beast was Satan plays second-fiddle to the fact the Doctor did the exact opposite of punching him out; he used the trap set up by the ancients to destroy him. Doctor Who in general avoids this where it can.

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Austin: Regarding The Forgotten One, I fail to see why that should be considered "offensive" to cosmic horror fans. Just because it's ancient, ugly and powerful doesn't automatically make it nigh-unbeatable.

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MaliciousIllusion: I removed some jibberish about Giygas being beaten in the "sequel" by singing at him because Giygas wasn't in Mother 3, and if we're talking Mother/Earthbound 0 (the ''prequel''), Giygas/Giege wasn't any sort of cosmic horror yet. Just an irate alien invader with emotional issues.
And I'm wondering whether to remove the Terra counterthing from the Kefka example, as trying to justify beating someone that had become God Of Magic by saying they had a powerful natural mage with them is really silly.

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GentlemensDame883: Finally bothered to merge the two Warhammer entries. Also merged the two Hellboy mentions.
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Howdy. Anybody seen "Chinese Ghost Story II"? It has a scene where characters appear to kick the shit out of frickin' Buddha. Yeah.
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{{Bob}}: Cutting the ''ColossalCave'' example. A dragon doesn't qualify as a CosmicHorror. I am making it the opening quote for CrowningMomentOfAwesomeVideogames instead.

*In ColossalCave there is a dragon blocking your way to a treasure that no weapon or spell works on. The solution?
---> [[foldercontrol]]

[[folder: KILL DRAGON ]]

---> ''"With what? Your bare hands?"''
---> [[/folder]]

[[folder: YES ]]

---> ''"Congratulations, you've just killed a dragon with your bare hands! (Unbelievable, ain't it?)"''

{{Bob}}: I'm cutting this as well. It isn't really an example.

Edit: On second thought, it might fit as an example, but I'm rewriting it.

* In TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya, at some point the main male kisses a the female lead on the lips. Said female lead is actually a [[spoiler: RealityWarper with enough power to create and uncreate worlds, and the kiss was the way to keep her from re-inventing the whole universe [[AdamAndEvePlot except for Kyon and herself]]]].

{{Bob}}: We have enough quotes, cutting some of them.

->'''Wonder Woman:''' There has to be another way...\\
'''Hawkgirl:''' There is. We go to Icthulthu's world and kick his slimy a-\\
'''Grundy:''' Birdnose is right!
-->-- ''JusticeLeague -- "The Terror Beyond"''

->''"Then we will Fight... and we will save our people. Make peace with whatever it is you gods worship. Your end is near!"''
-->-- '''Ike''', ''[[FireEmblem Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn]]''

{{Bob}}: Cutting examples for not being being godlike evils beyond the scope of mankind.

* Comedic example from ''Monster Squad'': "Wolf Man's got nards!"
* In one of the Drizzt novels, Drizzt finds himself in hand-to-hand combat with a mind flayer, a Cthulhu-esque humanoid that Drizzt knows is hermaphroditic by nature. He decides that the best way to see if this includes external genitalia is to kick his opponent very hard between the legs. Apparently, they do.
** Which doesn't really fit this trope, as the Illithid are only "Cthulhu-like" in the sense of having tentacles all over their faces. They're very powerful, but ''not'' set up as gods. A good fighter ''should'' be able to take one or two.
* Only arguably related to the trope, but Ruber, the BigBad of ''Quest for Camalot'' literally punches out a dragon.
* Will Smith's character in IndependenceDay, when confronting a soldier from the vastly technologically superior planet looters, ''punches it in the face''. Ok, it only looks like a cosmic horror, but still...

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Rutee: The tone of this article feels drastically different then the one I recall. Didn't this.. used to feel less like bitching and more like celebrating the innate badass of seeing an 'unstoppable' cosmic horror and saying "Screw your reputation" and punching it anyway?

{{KJMackley}}: I often come across articles that have mutated from something very specific into something vague, either through adding examples or changing the description. In the process, the description talks about something without identifying exactly what it is. This article seems to have fallen in the same process, because I noticed examples being that an EliteMook appears and gives the good guys a hard time and then they find a way to kill it. That is not this trope, that is SortingAlgorithmOfEvil. This is killing a creature that might be able to, I don't know, ''eat'' the Earth. This is killing a God. You rarely get a second chance at killing a creature like that.

Anyway, I trimmed down the description and made it much more clear what it is. I also fixed some examples that didn't fit, like the [[EliteMook Turok-Hai]] from Buffy.
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[[Edrobot]]: Found a more literal image, and posted it. If anyone could adjust it to make it look a little nicer, that would be appreciated.

"(basically a Celtic ''Conan'' with an appreciably larger vocabulary)"-removed this from the Slaine reference because 1, it doesn't really need a character description, 2, I've read both Slaine and Conan, and I do not think it's very accurate (Conan never seemed to lack for vocab, he's just not one of nature's talkers. None of Howard's heroes were. If you want a talky barbarian hero archtype with a yearning to discuss philosophy, there's always Fafyrd), 3, according to Howards "Hyborian Age", Cimmerians ARE proto-celts, so it's redundant.

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SomeSortOfTroper: I took out the ''painkiller'' example because it was just a straight aversion with little expectation of being otherwise. It was a typical final boss battle where you have to get a power, use the local environment and then deflect their own attacks. Now if that becomes a trope (and it probably is), it can go there but for now, bye bye.

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PhoenixFire: I'm putting the {{Dragaera}} quote back in. Because it's awesome, and rather more illustrative than the {{Ghostbusters}} one.
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{{Patsy}}: Removed some non-applicable stuff:

OnePiece example doesn't apply because there are no gods or EldritchAbomination involved, and therefore no clear power imbalance- just powerful fighters on both sides.

* Multiple cases in ''{{One Piece}}'' , usually whenever Luffy beats the big bad in the arc. (at least, everyone acts like he [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu Just Punched Out Cthulhu]].)
** In particular, when Luffy defeats the huge ass giant zombie(that is, the zombie of a giant, not just a really big zombie) Oz, after gaining several abilities through taking shadows.
** And another earlier moment when Luffy defeats Enel, who called himself god.
*** Bah. How about when Wiper ''actually kills'' Enel with the [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu dangerous]] Reject Dial. Luffy got Enel to leave; Wiper ''stopped his heart''. Sadly, [[BackFromTheDead that wasn't enough to stop Enel]], but still.

An invulnerable resurrected saint doing exactly what he was created to do (i.e., kill anything in existence using a weapon created to do so) doesn't count as punching out Cthulhu.

* ''{{Preacher}}'': An old-west gunslinger [[spoiler:kills God with a revolver. Okay, a [[InfinityPlusOneSword magical revolver made from the]] [[TheGrimReaper Angel of Death's]] sword, but still..]].
** And this is after he [[spoiler: literally causes hell to freeze over with only the iciness of his hatred]] which falls roughly into the same category. Scary guy. Between the two he [[spoiler: kills Satan with that gun for mocking him]].

Mior detail here; Willow didn't hurt her, just inconvenienced her.

*** And that wasn't her first time. A season earlier she managed to actually injure then until-then untouchable Glory. Twice. (Although the first time was by teleporting her high into the atmosphere and letting her splat.)

lockhead: I want to disciss the removal of the real life examples of punching out Cthulhu. Now Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris would proudly state that they want to kill god. I don't think their supporters would be upset over their inclusion.

FalconPain: Add new comments at the bottom. That said, there are two problems. First, those two aren't out to kill anyone; they largely don't think he exists. Second, even if they do want to kill God, that would be RageAgainstTheHeavens. They only qualify as this trope after they've ''succeeded''.