Cthulhu Mythos/Trivia

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  • Common Crossover, including:
    • Several stories by Stephen King
    • Cthulhu Tech= (Cthulhu Mythos + Mecha + Post Cyber Punk)
    • Demonbane (Cthulhu Mythos + Humongous Mecha + Moe. And by humongous, we're talking about one can destroy universe with sheer size.)
    • The Whateley Universe (Cthulhu Mythos + Super-Hero School).
    • In Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, the sourcebook Lords of Madness states that the Outer Gods (or reasonable facsimiles thereof) are "worshiped" by the inhuman aboleths, while Dragon #360 implies that Nyarlathotep may be the father of the demon prince Graz'zt.
      • 4th Edition hasn't any direct crossovers yet, but it's made clear that the Far Realm referenced in the standard campaign setting is a realm of Lovecraftian horrors that require the combined power of the gods to repel, and is the source of all psionic powers.
      • And in the 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 Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game) 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.
    • A couple of Doctor Who Expanded Universe Tie In Novels have incorporated the Old Ones into the Doctor's universe, to the extent of doing a Retcon labeling several of the Doctor's past adversaries as Mythos deities under different names. All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane adds Sherlock Holmes.
      • According to at least one story, The Nestene Consciousness, leader of the Autons, is actually one of Shub Niggurath's oft-mentioned but seldom seen 1000 young. Clark Ashton Smith would be proud. To be fair, he(?) really does look the part.
    • Sherlock Holmes canon, being in the public domain, has also been bridged more than once, such as in A Study in Emerald, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened or The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Shadows Over Baker Street is an anthology of short stories in which Sherlock Holmes investigates various Lovecraftian mysteries.
    • Tokusatsu show Ultraman Tiga drops subtle referrences throughout its run, but it becomes obvious in two last episodes with a sunken city rising from the ocean and Big Bad Ghatanothoa awakening from its deep slumber.
    • World of Warcraft has entire sections of lore based on the Elder Gods, Eldritch Abominations straight out of Lovecraft, such as C'Thun, and Yogg-Saron, as well as the Murlocs, a clear Expy of the Deep Ones.
    • The Real Ghostbusters unexpectedly battled Cthulhu in an episode that provides a detailed explanation of H.P. Lovecraft, Arkham U, and the mythos in general.
    • Merkabah Rider consists of the adventures of a Hascidic Jew who battles demons. However, the overarching story is the invasion of the Outer Gods who are not part of the binary Heaven vs. Hell conflict. The first novel hints that these are Mythos creatures, and this becomes explicit in the second novel. Whether you consider this a crossover depends on whether you see the Rider as his own character, or whether you see it as a Mythos story from the very beginning.
    • The DCAU did it explicitly in Justice League, when they fought 'Ichthulhu' and its hordes. The writers later said they weren't aware that Cthulhu is public domain, othertwise they would just use him.
    • Similiar, Marvel Comics The Thanos Imperative has "Many-Alleged Ones", tiny veiled copies of Mythos' most popular gods attacking Marvel Universe and even defeating some of the Abstracts, who are among Marvel's most powerfull *
    • South Park had a trilogy of episodes where BP's drilling opened a hole into another dimension that many Eldritch Abominations, including Cthulhu, came through to attack Earth.
    • Let's just say that at one point or another, every major franchise that is even slightly Speculative Fiction must include a Cosmic Horror that would be right at home in the Mythos.
  • Fan Nickname: 'Cthulhu Mythos'. Lovecraft himself jokingly called it 'Yog-Sothothery'.
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