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!!I,Cthulhu provides examples of:
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** Cthulhu states that no one pronounces his name right, a reference to Lovecraft's intended pronunciation being far more alien and difficult to say than the modern and commonly accepted "kuh-thoo-loo".
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** Cthulhu states that no one pronounces his name right, a reference to Lovecraft's intended pronunciation being far more alien and difficult to say than the modern and commonly accepted "kuh-thoo-loo"."kuh-thoo-loo" (Lovecraft's approximation was "Khlûl'-hloo").
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"I, Cthulhu", or ''What's A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9' S, Longitude 126° 43' W)?'' is a short story written by Creator/NeilGaiman that adds as a parody of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. The plot goes that Cthulhu, the High Priest of the Elder Gods, is recounting his life story, from his birth to his arrival to Earth, to a servant named Whateley, who is writing the Great Old One's memoir.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Cthulhu asks Whateley if the Old One would ever lie to him when the latter questioned Cthulhu's unrelated anecdote about a cruise magician who accidentally summoned R'lyeh. Cthulhu then confesses that he would lie to Whateley.
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** Cthulhu asks Whateley if the Old One would ever lie to him when the latter questioned Cthulhu's unrelated anecdote about a cruise magician who accidentally summoned R'lyeh. Cthulhu then confesses that he would lie toWhateley.Whateley.
** Cthulhu keeps insisting that someone feed the shoggoth. [[FedToTheBeast Turns out he means literally.]]
** Cthulhu asks Whateley if the Old One would ever lie to him when the latter questioned Cthulhu's unrelated anecdote about a cruise magician who accidentally summoned R'lyeh. Cthulhu then confesses that he would lie to
** Cthulhu keeps insisting that someone feed the shoggoth. [[FedToTheBeast Turns out he means literally.]]
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* MeanBoss: Cthulhu doesn't treat Whateley very well, but surprisingly doesn't kill him or worse when the man talks back.
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* MeanBoss: Cthulhu doesn't treat Whateley very well, but surprisingly doesn't kill him or worse dictates his story to Whateley, then when he's finished has him fed to the man talks back.shoggoth.
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* TheUnpronounceable: Cthulhu states that no one pronounces his name right, a reference to Lovecraft's intended pronunciation being far more alien and difficult to say than the modern and commonly accepted "kuh-thoo-loo".
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** Cthulhu states that no one pronounces his name right, a reference to Lovecraft's intended pronunciation being far more alien and difficult to say than the modern and commonly accepted"kuh-thoo-loo"."kuh-thoo-loo".
** Cthulhu doesn't know how to spell Khhaa’yngnaiih either.
** Cthulhu states that no one pronounces his name right, a reference to Lovecraft's intended pronunciation being far more alien and difficult to say than the modern and commonly accepted
** Cthulhu doesn't know how to spell Khhaa’yngnaiih either.
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Can be read [[https://www.neilgaiman.com/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/I_Cthulhu here]], on Gaiman's website.
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"I, Cthulhu", or ''What's A Tentacle-Faced Thing Like Me Doing In A Sunken City Like This (Latitude 47° 9' S, Longitude 126° 43' W)?'' is a short story written by Creator/NeilGaiman that adds as a parody of the Franchise/CthulhuMythos. The plot goes that Cthulhu, the High Priest of the Elder Gods, is recounting his life story, from his birth to his arrival to Earth, to a servant named Whateley, who is writing the Great Old One's memoir.
Can be read [[https://www.neilgaiman.com/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/I_Cthulhu here]], on Gaiman's website.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: Azathoth in the original series was called [[AlmightyIdiot the Blind Idiot God]] for a reason, having no mind or agency. Here, he's friends with Cthulhu, Hastur, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, Tsathogghua, Shub Niggurath, and Yuggoth, traveling the many planes of existence having fun.
* AdaptationalJerkass: In the original books, with a few exceptions, the Great Old Ones, Elder Gods, and Outer Gods had minds [[BlueAndOrangeMorality completely alien]] to humans, which meant they couldn't exactly be called "evil". Here, they have minds, desires, and personalities comparable to humanity, making them appear far more malicious.
* AdaptationalWimp: All of existence is merely Azathoth's dream, and everything will cease to exist if he wakes up. Here, Azathoth is awake, yet the story is still happening, implying he's now part of reality instead of the other way around.
* BaitAndSwitch: Cthulhu asks Whateley if the Old One would ever lie to him when the latter questioned Cthulhu's unrelated anecdote about a cruise magician who accidentally summoned R'lyeh. Cthulhu then confesses that he would lie to Whateley.
* CapitalLettersAreMagic: As the King in Yellow points out, despite being phonetically identical, "old ones" and "Old Ones" have two different meanings.
* CivilizationDestroyer: Cthulhu and his friends were this during their reign on Earth, and Cthulhu will be one again once the stars align to release him.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Seen from the Cosmic Horrors' end, where it's revealed that they're more akin to hedonistic party-goers than incomprehensible forces of destruction and madness.
* DeadpanSnarker: Surprisingly, Cthulhu has a dry wit to him.
* EldritchAbomination: Featuring the most famous one of them all as the storyteller.
* HumansAreInsects: Cthulhu (not unreasonably) has this opinion, outright calling humanity's kingdoms "ant-empires" towards the end.
* HumansAreUgly: Cthulhu admits that the first time he saw humans, we "[s]cared the shit out of [him]".
* JerkassGods: While the Great Old Ones in the source material were so far removed from humanity that our normal rules of morality [[BlueAndOrangeMorality couldn't really apply]], the Great Old Ones here had fun subjugating and tormenting humanity during their reign on Earth.
* MeanBoss: Cthulhu doesn't treat Whateley very well, but surprisingly doesn't kill him or worse when the man talks back.
* MisterSeahorse: While Cthulhu is an EldritchAbomination from beyond our normal notions of spacetime, and thus gender, he's usually referred to as male. However, at the end he expects he'll be impregnated and eaten by his offspring like he did his mother.
* MythologyGag:
** Cthulhu's comment that nobody can pronounce his name correctly references how the common "kuh-thoo-loo" was not actually the pronunciation Lovecraft intended; it was "Khlûl'-hloo", as the name is in a language not meant to be said by human vocal cords.
** The King In Yellow describes himself as "[[Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace a mere colour out of space]]" when he first came to our plane of reality.
** Cthulhu's servant writing this story down is named [[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Whateley]].
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: A Great Old One barbeque caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs.
* RunningGag: Cthulhu being concerned if the shoggoth has been fed.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Cthulhu states that he ate his mother at birth after she had devoured his father. He does state that he expects his own spawn to do the same to him, implying this is a natural thing his kind does.
* TimeAbyss: Cthulhu states he was born "uncounted aeons ago", and claims that by the time he'll reach sexual years, Earth will be a dead rock. He also states that the Sun of Khhaa'yngnaiih was even older than he was until it finally exploded.
* TheUnpronounceable: Cthulhu states that no one pronounces his name right, a reference to Lovecraft's intended pronunciation being far more alien and difficult to say than the modern and commonly accepted "kuh-thoo-loo".
* WeirdMoon: Khhaa'yngnaiih's moon was red with blood dripping down it. Cthulhu claims that it's "a real moon", not like our Moon.
* WhenThePlanetsAlign: Like in the source material, the stars aligning will wake the dreaming Cthulhu to begin the end of the world.
Can be read [[https://www.neilgaiman.com/Cool_Stuff/Short_Stories/I_Cthulhu here]], on Gaiman's website.
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* AdaptationalIntelligence: Azathoth in the original series was called [[AlmightyIdiot the Blind Idiot God]] for a reason, having no mind or agency. Here, he's friends with Cthulhu, Hastur, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep, Tsathogghua, Shub Niggurath, and Yuggoth, traveling the many planes of existence having fun.
* AdaptationalJerkass: In the original books, with a few exceptions, the Great Old Ones, Elder Gods, and Outer Gods had minds [[BlueAndOrangeMorality completely alien]] to humans, which meant they couldn't exactly be called "evil". Here, they have minds, desires, and personalities comparable to humanity, making them appear far more malicious.
* AdaptationalWimp: All of existence is merely Azathoth's dream, and everything will cease to exist if he wakes up. Here, Azathoth is awake, yet the story is still happening, implying he's now part of reality instead of the other way around.
* BaitAndSwitch: Cthulhu asks Whateley if the Old One would ever lie to him when the latter questioned Cthulhu's unrelated anecdote about a cruise magician who accidentally summoned R'lyeh. Cthulhu then confesses that he would lie to Whateley.
* CapitalLettersAreMagic: As the King in Yellow points out, despite being phonetically identical, "old ones" and "Old Ones" have two different meanings.
* CivilizationDestroyer: Cthulhu and his friends were this during their reign on Earth, and Cthulhu will be one again once the stars align to release him.
* CosmicHorrorStory: Seen from the Cosmic Horrors' end, where it's revealed that they're more akin to hedonistic party-goers than incomprehensible forces of destruction and madness.
* DeadpanSnarker: Surprisingly, Cthulhu has a dry wit to him.
* EldritchAbomination: Featuring the most famous one of them all as the storyteller.
* HumansAreInsects: Cthulhu (not unreasonably) has this opinion, outright calling humanity's kingdoms "ant-empires" towards the end.
* HumansAreUgly: Cthulhu admits that the first time he saw humans, we "[s]cared the shit out of [him]".
* JerkassGods: While the Great Old Ones in the source material were so far removed from humanity that our normal rules of morality [[BlueAndOrangeMorality couldn't really apply]], the Great Old Ones here had fun subjugating and tormenting humanity during their reign on Earth.
* MeanBoss: Cthulhu doesn't treat Whateley very well, but surprisingly doesn't kill him or worse when the man talks back.
* MisterSeahorse: While Cthulhu is an EldritchAbomination from beyond our normal notions of spacetime, and thus gender, he's usually referred to as male. However, at the end he expects he'll be impregnated and eaten by his offspring like he did his mother.
* MythologyGag:
** Cthulhu's comment that nobody can pronounce his name correctly references how the common "kuh-thoo-loo" was not actually the pronunciation Lovecraft intended; it was "Khlûl'-hloo", as the name is in a language not meant to be said by human vocal cords.
** The King In Yellow describes himself as "[[Literature/TheColourOutOfSpace a mere colour out of space]]" when he first came to our plane of reality.
** Cthulhu's servant writing this story down is named [[Literature/TheDunwichHorror Whateley]].
* PhlebotinumKilledTheDinosaurs: A Great Old One barbeque caused the mass extinction of dinosaurs.
* RunningGag: Cthulhu being concerned if the shoggoth has been fed.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Cthulhu states that he ate his mother at birth after she had devoured his father. He does state that he expects his own spawn to do the same to him, implying this is a natural thing his kind does.
* TimeAbyss: Cthulhu states he was born "uncounted aeons ago", and claims that by the time he'll reach sexual years, Earth will be a dead rock. He also states that the Sun of Khhaa'yngnaiih was even older than he was until it finally exploded.
* TheUnpronounceable: Cthulhu states that no one pronounces his name right, a reference to Lovecraft's intended pronunciation being far more alien and difficult to say than the modern and commonly accepted "kuh-thoo-loo".
* WeirdMoon: Khhaa'yngnaiih's moon was red with blood dripping down it. Cthulhu claims that it's "a real moon", not like our Moon.
* WhenThePlanetsAlign: Like in the source material, the stars aligning will wake the dreaming Cthulhu to begin the end of the world.
