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** Everyone realizes how insignificant they are. They all become [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Nietzsche Wannabes]] and/or commit suicide. Thus, no story.

** Alternately: The premise is that Humans are insignificant to these creatures, which means they'd never bother with a small hunk of rock floating close around one in a zillion stars. What wouldn't bother causing humanity trouble.

** This worldview basically fosters a [[Darkness Induced Audience Apathy]] mentality among both the inhabitants and the readers.

** This worldview basically fosters a [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]] mentality among both the inhabitants and the readers.

** In a more positive deconstruction: In Real Life cosmology there really are things out there so enormous, so powerful and [[Mind Screw|so mind-shatteringly complex]] that our entire world is meaninglessly small in comparison, but we just don't care like how they don't care about us. Also, the existential horror of insignificance isn't that horrifying, being pretty easy to ignore.

** The story is so depressing, hopeless, and horrifying that [[Brown Note|it drives people to insanity and suicide.]]

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** The story switches to the perspective of the survivors who defied seeing the world pessimistically and/or [[Xenofiction|the cosmic horrors themselves]].

** Alternately: ... so the entire story revolves around cultists trying to get the attention of the monstrosities so they will come to the earth to prove once and for all there is no god. [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|Oops, forgot about the whole 'devouring worlds' thing...]]

** So this kind of story basically fosters a [[Darkness Induced Audience Apathy]] mentality.... but as a response, while the unstoppable horrors are still present, the protagonists are at the very least given some [[Character Development]], with exploring the psychology and meaning of their existential crisis before the inevitable doom. Sometimes works and makes the characters more sympathetic than a bunch of ants, sometimes doesn't.

** So this kind of story basically fosters a [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]] mentality.... but as a response, while the unstoppable horrors are still present, the protagonists are at the very least given some [[Character Development]], with exploring the psychology and meaning of their existential crisis before the inevitable doom. Sometimes works and makes the characters more sympathetic than a bunch of ants, sometimes doesn't.

* '''Zig Zagged''': A main character, very fearful of being attacked by an [[Eldritch Abomination]], sights a tentacle in the forest, but it was just someone elses costume, then he sights an actual real tentacle, which grabs him. Only it was a dream and he's just letting paranoia get to him... or is he?

* '''Averted''': There are no Lovecraftian horrors in the world.