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* Literature/SherlockHolmes canon, being [[PublicDomainCharacter in the public domain]], has also been bridged more than once, such as in ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald'', ''Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened'' or ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. ''Shadows Over Baker Street'' is an anthology of short stories in which Sherlock Holmes investigates various Lovecraftian mysteries.
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* Literature/SherlockHolmes canon, being [[PublicDomainCharacter in the public domain]], has also been bridged more than once, such as in ''Literature/AStudyInEmerald'', ''Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened'' or ''Comicbook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''.''ComicBook/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen''. ''Shadows Over Baker Street'' is an anthology of short stories in which Sherlock Holmes investigates various Lovecraftian mysteries.
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** More humorously, Comicbook/{{Hitman}} had the protagonist battling the "Many-Angled Ones'' alongside parody superteam Section 8 thanks to a MadScientist using AlienGeometries in his teleportation experiments.
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** More humorously, Comicbook/{{Hitman}} ComicBook/{{Hitman}} had the protagonist battling the "Many-Angled Ones'' alongside parody superteam Section 8 thanks to a MadScientist using AlienGeometries in his teleportation experiments.
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** Even earlier, Comicbook/DoctorStrange and [[Comicbook/TheTombOfDracula Dracula]] had each battled Mythos-like monsters like Shuma-Gorath and Y'Garon in the 1970s and 1980s, and the first issue of Strange's revived series in 1988 opened with a brief sequence showing him defeating an (unnamed) Cthulhu by causing R'lyeh to sink back beneath the waves.
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** Even earlier, Comicbook/DoctorStrange ComicBook/DoctorStrange and [[Comicbook/TheTombOfDracula Dracula]] ComicBook/{{Dracula|MarvelComics}} had each battled Mythos-like monsters like Shuma-Gorath and Y'Garon in the 1970s and 1980s, and the first issue of Strange's revived series in 1988 opened with a brief sequence showing him defeating an (unnamed) Cthulhu by causing R'lyeh to sink back beneath the waves.
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* RunningTheAsylum: An appropriate and positive example - Lovecraft encouraged his fans to use his mythology, and expanded off the concepts within those tales. Also, he disliked typing so much that he sometimes didn't submit completed work to publishers because he'd have to type it -- and his friends volunteered to type it for him. Indeed, without Lovecraft's fan friends, his work would have drifted into obscurity.
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* RunningTheAsylum: An appropriate and positive example - -- Lovecraft encouraged his fans to use his mythology, and expanded off the concepts within those tales. Also, he disliked typing so much that he sometimes didn't submit completed work to publishers because he'd have to type it -- and his friends volunteered to type it for him. Indeed, without Lovecraft's fan friends, his work would have drifted into obscurity.
* ScienceImitatesArt:
** ''Yogsothoth'' is a genus of protist named after the Outer God from the stories of Creator/HPLovecraft (due to forming spherical colonies with many round scales that bear a resemblance to the description of Yog-Sothoth resembling many floating orbs).
** ''Cthulhu'' is a genus of protist that dwells in the gut of termites that helps them digest wood, named due to its octopoid-like shape. It has a smaller close relative called ''Cthylla'', named after the daughter of Cthulhu.
* ScienceImitatesArt:
** ''Yogsothoth'' is a genus of protist named after the Outer God from the stories of Creator/HPLovecraft (due to forming spherical colonies with many round scales that bear a resemblance to the description of Yog-Sothoth resembling many floating orbs).
** ''Cthulhu'' is a genus of protist that dwells in the gut of termites that helps them digest wood, named due to its octopoid-like shape. It has a smaller close relative called ''Cthylla'', named after the daughter of Cthulhu.
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* Similiarly, Creator/MarvelComics' ComicBook/TheThanosImperative has "Many-Angled Ones", thinly-veiled copies of the Mythos' most popular gods, attacking the MarvelUniverse and even defeating some of the Abstracts, who are among Marvel's most powerful beings.
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* Similiarly, Creator/MarvelComics' ComicBook/TheThanosImperative has "Many-Angled Ones", thinly-veiled copies of the Mythos' most popular gods, attacking the MarvelUniverse Franchise/MarvelUniverse and even defeating some of the Abstracts, who are among Marvel's most powerful beings.
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* TheWikiRule: [[http://lovecraft.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page The H.P. Lovecraft Wiki]].
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!!{{Trope Namer|s}}
* ArkhamsRazor, as a play on OccamsRazor.
* [[DidYouJustIndexCthulhu Anything with "Cthulhu" in it.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation, from a line in ''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu''.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung, the epithet of Shub-Niggurath.
* ThatWhichMustNotBeIndexed, from Lovecraft's "That Which Must Not Be Named".
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth, the Mythos sharing the honor with ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' for this one. In the cartoon, Billy is rejected by a [[CaptainErsatz "Yog Sawhaw"]].
* ArkhamsRazor, as a play on OccamsRazor.
* [[DidYouJustIndexCthulhu Anything with "Cthulhu" in it.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation, from a line in ''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu''.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung, the epithet of Shub-Niggurath.
* ThatWhichMustNotBeIndexed, from Lovecraft's "That Which Must Not Be Named".
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth, the Mythos sharing the honor with ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' for this one. In the cartoon, Billy is rejected by a [[CaptainErsatz "Yog Sawhaw"]].
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--> More than a literary icon, he's a cultural omnibus who shaped a style
of horror that spoke to the terrors of modernism and looked ahead to
what’s come to be called the postmodern. He’s the faux English gentleman who became a bit bohemian, the traditionalist who helped create a
revolution in comic books and B movies. A self-declared provincial who
never went west of the Mississippi river, he has helped shape a part of
Hollywood Babylon that owes more than it sometimes seems to know
to this terminally uncool man who at one point in his life believed it
unseemly to leave his house without a hat. -- W. Scott Poole, ''In the Mountains of Madness: The Life & Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft.''
of horror that spoke to the terrors of modernism and looked ahead to
what’s come to be called the postmodern. He’s the faux English gentleman who became a bit bohemian, the traditionalist who helped create a
revolution in comic books and B movies. A self-declared provincial who
never went west of the Mississippi river, he has helped shape a part of
Hollywood Babylon that owes more than it sometimes seems to know
to this terminally uncool man who at one point in his life believed it
unseemly to leave his house without a hat. -- W. Scott Poole, ''In the Mountains of Madness: The Life & Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft.''
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--> More than a literary icon, he's a cultural omnibus who shaped a style
style of horror that spoke to the terrors of modernism and looked ahead to
to what’s come to be called the postmodern. He’s the faux English gentleman who became a bit bohemian, the traditionalist who helped create a
a revolution in comic books and B movies. A self-declared provincial who
who never went west of the Mississippi river, he has helped shape a part of
of Hollywood Babylon that owes more than it sometimes seems to know
know to this terminally uncool man who at one point in his life believed it
it unseemly to leave his house without a hat. -- W. Scott Poole, ''In the Mountains of Madness: The Life & Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft.''
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* BasedOnADream: The Nightgaunts were from a nightmare Lovecraft once had, so it's rather fitting they be living in the Dreamlands.
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* BasedOnADream: The Nightgaunts were from a recurring nightmare Lovecraft once had, had as a child, so it's rather fitting they be living in the Dreamlands.
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* RunningTheAsylum: An appropriate and positive example - Lovecraft encouraged his fans to use his mythology, and expanded off the concepts within those fics. Indeed, without Lovecraft's fan friends, his work would have drifted into obscurity.
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* RunningTheAsylum: An appropriate and positive example - Lovecraft encouraged his fans to use his mythology, and expanded off the concepts within those fics.tales. Also, he disliked typing so much that he sometimes didn't submit completed work to publishers because he'd have to type it -- and his friends volunteered to type it for him. Indeed, without Lovecraft's fan friends, his work would have drifted into obscurity.
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--> More than a literary icon, he's a cultural omnibus who shaped a style
of horror that spoke to the terrors of modernism and looked ahead to
what’s come to be called the postmodern. He’s the faux English gentleman who became a bit bohemian, the traditionalist who helped create a
revolution in comic books and B movies. A self-declared provincial who
never went west of the Mississippi river, he has helped shape a part of
Hollywood Babylon that owes more than it sometimes seems to know
to this terminally uncool man who at one point in his life believed it
unseemly to leave his house without a hat. -- W. Scott Poole, ''In the Mountains of Madness: The Life & Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft.''
of horror that spoke to the terrors of modernism and looked ahead to
what’s come to be called the postmodern. He’s the faux English gentleman who became a bit bohemian, the traditionalist who helped create a
revolution in comic books and B movies. A self-declared provincial who
never went west of the Mississippi river, he has helped shape a part of
Hollywood Babylon that owes more than it sometimes seems to know
to this terminally uncool man who at one point in his life believed it
unseemly to leave his house without a hat. -- W. Scott Poole, ''In the Mountains of Madness: The Life & Extraordinary Afterlife of H.P. Lovecraft.''
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* NamesTheSame: Not only are there both Great Old Ones and Old Ones and Elder Things and Elder Gods and Old Gods, there are mentions of various "old ones" and "elder ones," "ancient ones," and "old things" unconnected to the "codified" entities of those names. In addition, the influence of the Mythos will lead many sci-fi and fantasy authors to use these names for entities in their own universe, with varying degrees of similarity to the originals.
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!!{{Trope Namer|s}}
* ArkhamsRazor, as a play on OccamsRazor.
* [[DidYouJustIndexCthulhu Anything with "Cthulhu" in it.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation, from a line in ''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu''.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung, the epithet of Shub-Niggurath.
* ThatWhichMustNotBeIndexed, from Lovecraft's "That Which Must Not Be Named".
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth, the Mythos sharing the honor with ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' for this one. In the cartoon, Billy is rejected by a [[CaptainErsatz "Yog Sawhaw"]].
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!!FanNickname
* Originally the "Cthulhu Mythos". Lovecraft himself jokingly called it 'Yog-Sothothery'.
* Nyarlathotep's often called "Nyarly" or "Gnarly" by his fans.
* "Big C" for Cthulhu.
* "Shubby" for Shub-Niggurath.
!!{{Trope Namer|s}}
* ArkhamsRazor, as a play on OccamsRazor.
* [[DidYouJustIndexCthulhu Anything with "Cthulhu" in it.]]
* GoMadFromTheRevelation, from a line in ''Literature/TheCallOfCthulhu''.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung, the epithet of Shub-Niggurath.
* ThatWhichMustNotBeIndexed, from Lovecraft's "That Which Must Not Be Named".
* TooSpicyForYogSothoth, the Mythos sharing the honor with ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' for this one. In the cartoon, Billy is rejected by a [[CaptainErsatz "Yog Sawhaw"]].
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* There's a Franchise/{{Batman}} Elseworlds story called ''The Doom that Came to Gotham''.
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* There's a Franchise/{{Batman}} Elseworlds story called ''The ''[[ComicBook/BatmanTheDoomThatCameToGotham The Doom that Came to Gotham''.Gotham]]''.
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** And in the TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} (AKA D&D 3.75) campaign setting, a local race of subterranean Abominations explicitly worships the Mythos and use Shoggoths as guards, while the module ''The Carrion Hill Horror'' is pretty much TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu without the nasty sanity effects, and the ''Rise of the Runelords'' adventures involve the realms of Leng and Kadath. In general, the creators have explicitly said that the non-Earth specific elements of the Mythos are fully compatible with the ''Pathfinder'' universe, and they run with it.
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** And in the TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}} (AKA D&D 3.75) campaign setting, a local race of subterranean Abominations explicitly worships the Mythos and use Shoggoths as guards, while the module ''The Carrion Hill Horror'' is pretty much TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu without the nasty sanity effects, and the ''Rise of the Runelords'' adventures involve the realms of Leng and Kadath.Kadath; and while most of the planets in the Golarion system are representative of staples of PlanetaryRomance, the furthest one, Aucturn, is clearly analog to the Mythos version of Pluto AKA Yuggoth. In general, the creators have explicitly said that the non-Earth specific elements of the Mythos are fully compatible with the ''Pathfinder'' universe, and they run with it.
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*** The late 1st edition adventure path ''Strange Aeons'' is all about this, as the adventure starts with the party as amnesiacs trying to escape an asylum corrupted by Mythos forces, and ending up embroiled in a terrible plot [[spoiler: to have the world swallowed up by the City of Carcosa to further Hastur's plans to evolve from Great Old One to full-fledged Outer God]]. The non-adventure sections also cover a variety of Mythos subjects and how they relate to the ''Pathfinder'' setting.
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** Also in 5th edition, where one of the Warlock’s patrons can be a Great Old One, Cthulhu being one of the given examples.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' had a trilogy of episodes where BP's drilling opened a hole into another dimension that many {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, including Cthulhu, came through to attack Earth.
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* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' had a trilogy of episodes where BP's drilling opened a hole into another dimension that many {{Eldritch Abomination}}s, including Cthulhu, came through to attack Earth. ''[[VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole The Fractured But Whole]]'' has a boss fight with Shub-Niggurath.
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* ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' = (CthulhuMythos + {{Mecha}} + PostCyberPunk)
* ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}'' (CthulhuMythos + HumongousMecha + {{Moe}}. And by humongous, we're talking about one can destroy the universe with sheer size.)
* The Literature/WhateleyUniverse (CthulhuMythos + SuperheroSchool).
* ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}'' (CthulhuMythos + HumongousMecha + {{Moe}}. And by humongous, we're talking about one can destroy the universe with sheer size.)
* The Literature/WhateleyUniverse (CthulhuMythos + SuperheroSchool).
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* ''TabletopGame/CthulhuTech'' = (CthulhuMythos (Cthulhu Mythos + {{Mecha}} + PostCyberPunk)
* ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}''(CthulhuMythos (Cthulhu Mythos + HumongousMecha + {{Moe}}. And by humongous, we're talking about one can destroy the universe with sheer size.)
* The Literature/WhateleyUniverse(CthulhuMythos (Cthulhu Mythos + SuperheroSchool).
* ''VisualNovel/{{Demonbane}}''
* The Literature/WhateleyUniverse
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* Arkham is loosely based on infamous witch-town Salem, Massachusetts, while Miskatonic University is based on Gordon College (Wenham, Massachusetts) and Arkham Sanitarium (no relation to ArkhamAsylum) is based on Danvers State Hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts. Curiously enough, this means LovecraftCountry is also home to Haverhill, Massachusetts -- one of the inspirations for Archie Comics' Riverdale!
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* Arkham is loosely based on infamous witch-town Salem, Massachusetts, while Miskatonic University is based on Gordon College (Wenham, Massachusetts) and Arkham Sanitarium (no relation to ArkhamAsylum) [[{{Franchise/Batman}} Arkham Asylum]]) is based on Danvers State Hospital in Danvers, Massachusetts. Curiously enough, this means LovecraftCountry is also home to Haverhill, Massachusetts -- one of the inspirations for Archie Comics' Riverdale!
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* The WhateleyUniverse (CthulhuMythos + SuperheroSchool).
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* Similiarly, MarvelComics' ComicBook/TheThanosImperative has "Many-Angled Ones", thinly-veiled copies of the Mythos' most popular gods, attacking the MarvelUniverse and even defeating some of the Abstracts, who are among Marvel's most powerful beings.
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* Similiarly, MarvelComics' Creator/MarvelComics' ComicBook/TheThanosImperative has "Many-Angled Ones", thinly-veiled copies of the Mythos' most popular gods, attacking the MarvelUniverse and even defeating some of the Abstracts, who are among Marvel's most powerful beings.
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* Similiarly, MarvelComics' TheThanosImperative ComicBook/TheThanosImperative has "Many-Angled Ones", thinly-veiled copies of the Mythos' most popular gods, attacking the MarvelUniverse and even defeating some of the Abstracts, who are among Marvel's most powerful beings.
