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Playing With: Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu

Basic Trope: A godlike Eldritch Abomination is beaten by comparatively-lowly beings.

Straight: Bob, your typical somewhat-empowered hero, manages to defeat Cthulhu.
Exaggerated:
- Bob, a weak Muggle, defeats Cthulhu by poking it in the side.
- Bob defeats God.
- In-Universe: Bob, a weak Muggle, defeats Author Avatar in a way it kills the author beyond the fourth wall.
Downplayed: Bob deals just enough damage to Cthulhu to send it back to R'lyeh... for now.
Justified:
- Badass
- Bob was blessed by other divine beings with the power necessary to defeat Cthulhu.
- Alternately, Bob was an Eldritch Abomination himself.
- Bob claims that: "Anything can be defeated if you hit it hard enough."
- Or, Cthulhu is weaker than Bob.
- Bob is Crazy-Prepared enough to exploit any weakness and shortcoming, and/or has Cthulhu's weakness.
Inverted:
- Cthulhu defeats Bob.
- Or, Bob tries to defeat Cthulhu and fails utterly.
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
Subverted:
- Bob thinks he's defeated Cthulhu... nope, it's back, and stronger than before, too.
- Bob launches everything he has at Cthulhu but doesn't make a dent.
Double Subverted:
- Bob defeats Cthulhu again, this time for good.
- Bob hits Cthulhu again harder and defeats him.
Parodied:
- Bob's job is officially "Destroyer of God-Like Eldritch Abominations".
- Bob is an exterminator and takes out Cthulhu with a 'roach bomb.
- Bob literally punched out Cthulhu in a boxing match.
  - Complete with super-slo-mo shot of the knockout punch.
  - And the referee was Nyarlathotep, so Cthulhu was really punched-out: the referee declared so!
Deconstructed:
- Bob's victory over Cthulhu gives him a God complex.
- Alternately, Bob broke his arm punching out Cthulhu.
- Cthulhu is the weakest among the Eldritch Abomination pantheon. With him defeated, the whole group change their opinion about humanity from "insignificant" to "must eliminate threat".
Reconstructed:
- The world still turns out to be a much nicer place without Cthulhu haunting it all the time.
- Bob just punches out every deity that appears after Cthulhu.
- Cthulhu is the weakest among the Eldritch Abomination pantheon. With him defeated, the whole group decide their safest option is to leave humanity alone.
Zig Zagged: Bob faces a long sequence of One-Winged Angel forms of Cthulhu.
Averted: Cthulhu really is invulnerable, so Bob never tries.
Enforced: "We should inspire our readers/viewers to do great things... how about the main character is able to defeat a god?"
Lampshaded:
- "Oh, are you some kind of super-Badass that can even defeat gods?" "Allow me to demonstrate."
- "In strange aeons, even Death may die...but once he's dead, your destruction isn't so hard to wrap my head around!"
Invoked: Upon hearing that Cthulhu is unbeatable, Bob says "Screw Destiny!" and makes it his mission to defeat it.
Defied:
- Cthulhu makes it so Bob never gets the strength to defeat him.
- Alternatively: "Cthulhu? He's invincible! No way am I gonna try and face that thing!"
Discussed: "We're just ordinary human beings. Do you think we have a chance against Cthulhu?" "Don't know until we've tried!"
Conversed: "I'm so going to end up going against Cthulhu at the end of this game, aren't I?"