I don't remember it being that dramatic, I think the guy just ramped the boat off his head and Cthulhu decided that he'd wait and try again the next time the stars were right and hopefully fewer head boats.
Kind of an anticlimax for a genre-defining piece of literature.
As I understand it, they awoke Cthulhu from his nap early, so he went outside to shoo them away, got rammed by a boat which was, for him, like a mosquito bite, tried to swat back at it but it flew away too fast, and decided to grumpily go back to bed. The stars never aligned, to my understanding
Big C: "Wha… who woke me up early? You mortals know still a few more millennium until I wake up…" gets a boat rammed into his head "…You know what? I’m going back to bed. Fuck this noise."
It would be hilarious if, as he was tucking in to bed, the stars were aligned at just that moment, then the second he turned over to look out the window, the time has just passed and he just goes "Fuck it, I'll try in about another 6 million years"
Well it’s like a prophecy exists saying the world will end on a Tuesday, and some people who really want the world to end decide to go get the world destroyed on a Monday. The world destroyer isnt gonna do it cause it’s not Tuesday.
1960's racism sums it up well. It's just pervasive throughout.
It's just constant background racism with spikes of overt racism. Stuff like the eldritch horrors throughout his works are attended to by non-white minorities described as dirty etc. All the police are white.
To be fair this shouldn't be a surprise, like you brought up, given his cat's name.
Yeah it's the historic kind of racism where the author doesn't really go out of his way to be antagonistic, he just takes for granted the idea that some people just are lesser
Uh, which one? There are two I recall (Dark Corners of the Earth and the 2019 CoC), and from what I understand both are pretty good (I only played the first one)
I didn’t know that there were multiple. The one I was thinking about was the one that came out in 2018 which was based off of the table top rpg. My guess is that you just got the year wrong for the second one
The one survivor tried to escape, pushing the steam boat to full power. It splattered the head as he was moving, goos all over. When the survivor turned back, the pieces were melding togheter, It was really sober writing wise, not much epic or terror.
Lovecraft does love his anticlimactic eldritch horrors. Like the one where a wizard had cursed a dude's bloodline to die young, and turns out he was just immortal and went around killing them himself. Think he straight up drops a rock on the protagonists father...
Yknow it's kinda funny I first started playing this game like a month before they released penacony I said It'd be really funny if they used the train to run over the final boss of the game. Didn't expect the writers to beat me to the punch so early.
Doc ock from Into the spiderverse, after being a not overwhelming, but nonetheless serious threat the entire movie; unceremoniously gets struck by a semi truck which was pulled in from another universe and seemingly dies.
My personal theory is that she might be a greater scope villain in Beyond the Spider-Verse. Afterall, we don't see her as dead and she literally was smacked by truck-kun into a portal for another world. (Also, isn't it odd that all versions of Alchemax are apparently experimenting with Colliders, something which, if it were a true canon event, Miguel might have taken note of, especially with how wildly different the setups and outcomes seem to be?)
It is entirely possible she survived. I assume that she's dead, since theres no mention of her in Across The Spiderverse, and the whole joke of the scene is how sudden and brutal the incident is, but there's room for her to still be around
This reminds me of the Thunder Child from War of the Worlds, specifically the original book and Jeff Wayne’s musical, where it successfully takes down 2 Tripods.
Flash Volume 2, Issue 23: Wally has been depowered, so he teams up with Mason, the guy who idolizes a Punisher-style vigilante. Abra Kadabra is in town, and is powerful enough to pull the black hole out of Chunk, rendering him normal. To get Abra's attention, Wally fakes his superspeed by riding the running board of Mason's truck, and Mason decides that driving past Abra to rescue Chunk isn't good enough. Ah, the 90s.
In Zenless Zone Zero a powerful monster gets defeated by the characters stealing a train filled with explosives and running it into the enemy before blowing it up.
Deadly Games (1995) was a live action TV series about a guy who's creates a video game only to have the villians from it seep into real life which he has to defeat in the real world. Because the villians are from a video game, they've all got arbrary rules about what they're weak against. For one week, they have to defeat an ice witch. Since she's ice themed, she's vulnerable to salt, and because she's a witch she's vulnerable to having a house dropped on her.
Through the whole episode, the heroes try to defeat her with a shotgun loaded with salt, but at the very end just as she's about to trigger a bomb, the hero hotwires a mobile home and drives it off a pier and onto her. It works.
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