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* "The Shunned House" has the protagonist destroy the vampiric threat by burning it to death with acid.
* The narrator of "From Beyond" foiling Tillinghast's plan to kill him by shooting his machine.

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* "The Shunned House" "Literature/TheShunnedHouse" has the protagonist destroy the vampiric threat by burning it to death with acid.
* The narrator of "From Beyond" "Literature/FromBeyond" foiling Tillinghast's plan to kill him by shooting his machine.

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* Robert Olmstead managing to escape the Deep Ones in ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth''.

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* 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.


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* The narrator of "From Beyond" foiling Tillinghast's plan to kill him by shooting his machine.


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[[folder: Ramsey Campbell's writing]]
* Parry of "The Room in the Tower" [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu sets the Great Old One Byatis on fire, destroying its physical form]] and possibly killing it.
* "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.
* "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.
* 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]].
* 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.
* 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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* Walter Gilman in ''Literature/TheDreamsInTheWitchHouse'' successfully kills Keziah Mason and temporarily defeats Brown Jenkin.
* ''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.
* "The Shunned House" has the protagonist destroy the vampiric threat by burning it to death with acid.
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* ''Literature/TheCaseOfCharlesDexterWard'': Marinus Bicknell Willett does something almost as impressive by killing [[spoiler: Joseph Curwen]] through the practice of modern magic.

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* ''Literature/TheCaseOfCharlesDexterWard'': Marinus Bicknell Willett does something almost as impressive by killing [[spoiler: Joseph Curwen]] Curwen through the practice of modern magic.



* The Elder Gods beat the Great Old Ones [[spoiler: for a second (perhaps millioneth)]] time by brain-wiping them.

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* The Elder Gods beat the Great Old Ones [[spoiler: for a second (perhaps millioneth)]] millioneth) time by brain-wiping them.



* Fanfic/OldManHenderson [[spoiler: killed Hastur]]. No, seriously.

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* Robert Olmstead managing to escape the Deep Ones in ''Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth''.
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* 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.

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* "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.



* Marinus Bicknell Willett does something almost as impressive by killing [[spoiler: Joseph Curwen]] through the practice of modern magic.
* Randolph Carter's final leap into the void in ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''.

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* ''Literature/TheCaseOfCharlesDexterWard'': Marinus Bicknell Willett does something almost as impressive by killing [[spoiler: Joseph Curwen]] through the practice of modern magic.
* Randolph Carter's final leap into the void in ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''.''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath''.



* Old Man Henderson [[spoiler: killed Hastur]]. No, seriously.

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* Old Man Henderson Fanfic/OldManHenderson [[spoiler: killed Hastur]]. No, seriously.
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* Professor Armitage in ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' inspired generations of CoC fans by being the first one to save the world for a time by defeating Yog-Sothoth's son[[spoiler:s]].

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* Professor Armitage in ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' inspired generations of CoC Call of Cthulhu fans by being the first one to save the world for a time by defeating Yog-Sothoth's son[[spoiler:s]].son.
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* Professor Armitage in ''TheDunwichHorror'' inspired generations of CoC fans by being the first one to save the world for a time by defeating Yog-Sothoth's son[[spoiler:s]].

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* Professor Armitage in ''TheDunwichHorror'' ''Literature/TheDunwichHorror'' inspired generations of CoC fans by being the first one to save the world for a time by defeating Yog-Sothoth's son[[spoiler:s]].
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* Old Man Henrickson [[spoiler: killed Hastur]]. No, seriously.

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* Randolph Carter's final leap into the void in ''The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath''.
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* Old Man Henrickson [[spoiler: killed Hastur]]. No, seriously.
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* Professor Armitage in ''TheDunwichHorror'' inspired generations of CoC fans by being the first one to save the world for a time by defeating Yog-Sothoth's son[[spoiler:s]].
* Marinus Bicknell Willett does something almost as impressive by killing [[spoiler: Joseph Curwen]] through the practice of modern magic.
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* The Elder Gods beat the Great Old Ones [[spoiler: for a second (perhaps millioneth)]] time by brain-wiping them.
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* 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.
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* 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.

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