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* [[Masquerade]]: One of the defining aspects of the Mythos, living in ignorance of the true horrors of reality.
* [[Medium Awareness]]: Lovecraft encouraged the authors he corresponded with to use elements of his mythos in their stories, even if those stories were not part of the mythos itself. This emergence of common elements in seemingly unrelated works of literature created the impression that the mythos was actually real, thus leading to the fan theories that Lovecraft actually had encounters with eldritch entities. This culminated in a peculiar case when an infamous [[Moral Guardian]] by the name of Patricia Pulling included in a questionnaire submitted to police as a means of investigating people for possible occult affiliations, a question regarding whether or not the suspect had heard of and read the Necronomicon. This question, among various other things, led to her discrediting as a credible expert in the area of occult crime.
* [[The Mindless Almighty]]: Azathoth is a classic example of this trope, literally referred to as the "Blind Idiot God". Where Nyarlathotep was actively malicious towards humanity to a degree, and Cthulhu even had aspirations to bring back the Old Gods, Azathoth is far beyond either of them in power, but comparatively is utterly lacking in motive of any kind. [[H. P. Lovecraft]] conceived it as ''"The Nuclear Chaos"'' that mindlessly drives the forces of physics and may have created our universe - and as such, it [[Primordial Chaos|embodies this]] [[Blue and Orange Morality|quite literally]].
* [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: You can find most, if not all, of the mythos beings depicted as human girl. Cthylla is notable that, being called Cthulhu's daughter, it's much easier to search for her moe art than squid-like form. ''[[Haiyore! Nyaruko-san]]'' takes this to [[Up to Eleven|the next level]], with Nyarlathotep, Cthugha, and Atlach-Nacha as cute [[Moe]] girls.▼
** Later writers made it so that this wasn't always the case, and instead became that way upon losing its mind; [[August Derleth]] in particular portrays this as divine punishment from the Elder Gods.
** Azathoth also [[Truly Single Parent|reproduces by fission]], [[Bizarre Alien Reproduction|as does its offspring]] -- it's not uncommon at all to liken ol' Azzy to the universe's most powerful amoeba.
▲<!-- * [[Moe Anthropomorphism]]: You can find most, if not all, of the mythos beings depicted as human girl. Cthylla is notable that, being called Cthulhu's daughter, it's much easier to search for her moe art than squid-like form. ''[[Haiyore! Nyaruko-san]]'' takes this to [[Up to Eleven|the next level]], with Nyarlathotep, Cthugha, and Atlach-Nacha as cute [[Moe]] girls. --><!-- MOD: This is not a trope of the work, but a Fan Reaction. -->
* [[Mushroom Man]]: The Fungi from Yuggoth.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Pretty much all of them, unsurprisingly.
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