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Sometimes happens in [[Lovecraft Lite]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* In ''[[Shakugan no Shana]]'', Shana's god-like master; Alastor the Flame of Heaven; contacts Yuji's mother via phone. She has no idea who he is besides Shana's "legal guardian" and a deep voice on the other line. They have a rather relaxed discussion on child-rearing techniques together; as Shana and Yuji goggle at what's going on.

== [[Literature]] ==

* [[Discworld]] examples:

** This is Death in general. His house even has a kitchen and dining room, so the rare living guests can have a nice meal, if they don't mind the weird dimensions, the monochrome-ness of the place, and Albert's cooking.

* A slightly odd (read TOTALLY FREAKING WEIRD) version of this is the dinner scene at the end of the book version of ''Hannibal''. To be fair, Hannibal [[I'm a Humanitarian|had most of his victims for dinner]]. Heh. He’s also polite and smiling, even after he eviscerates you.

** A similar scene opened ''[[Red Dragon]]''; Hannibal is having a dinner party, possibly feeding his guests people. Later his friend Will Graham shows up to ask for advice and when Hannibal steps out, he looks at a book and realizes Hannibal's the killer he's been looking for.

* Toby's friendship with [[Defrosting Ice Queen|the Luidaeg]] in the [[October Daye]] novels.

* [[Dave Barry]] once wrote a gag based on this. If women made computer games, instead of killing everything you saw you could ask the bug-eyed monster where the exit is. Surprised that you don't want to kill it, the monster would take you home, serve you snacks, and start showing you pictures of its larvae.

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* In ''[[Reaper]]'' the Devil tends to pop in and out to Sam whenever there's an escaped soul, or want to talk to Sam.

 

* Fairy tales from several different cultures all seem to include one myth in which a horrible baby-eating hag, Death itself, or some similar beast either adopts a foundling or takes a mentor role (such as "Death as Godfather"), and generally proves benevolent to the child.

* Ananta Shesha, lord of all nagas, according to the [[Hindu Mythology|Bhagavata Purana]], is a gigantic serpent with a thousand heads. So huge that it can hold all the planets in its hoods. Not only can it spew venom, but it also breathes fire. It's also one of the few beings that will remain after [[The End of the World as We Know It|the destruction of the universe]]. While that sounds like a fearsome [[Eldritch Abomination]], Shesha is a good deity. It prefers to sing and praise the glories of Vishnu, who sleeps on its back, rather than cause destruction with its venom and fire breath.

** Many Hindu gods have forms that look less than [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|comfortable]] and still are helpful to mortals—at least, ones approaching them properly. Kali once saw a toddler lying on a wasteland she just made... picked up and began to breast-feed him. Yes, right in that form, usually depicted with some blood dripping from the tongue stuck out between fangs.

** And if you come back with the intention of kicking their teeth in? Their reaction runs the gamut from crushing you to death to welcoming you back with open arms and presents for their star pupil. Occasionally, both.

** Sometimes, they can [[Brought Down to Normal|become human enough]] to actually have tea with you as a person, which can make interactions with them ''retroactively'' tea with Cthulhu.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

** Also occurs if Shepard is able to makes peace with the Geth and the Quarians. Shepard gets an email about some of the {{spoiler|Crucible}} staff freaking out when they notice Geth Juggernauts aboard the station, before they get the call informing them of what's going on. One guard had to awkwardly apologise to the Geth for the hole they'd shot through it.

* The Pokémon-Amie from ''[[Pokémon X and Y]]'' is a feature that lets you play games with, pet, and feed Poké Puffs to your Pokemon, and Legendaries like this as much as "regular" Pokemon.

 

== [[Web Comics]] ==

** They even have [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|a tea party together!]]

*** In an earlier, one time instance, Elan [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0030.html meets up with] a <s> Mind Flayer</s> <s> Illithid</s> <s> Psionic danger</s> [[Buffy-Speak|Squid Thingy]] and the two end up playing a friendly game of Scrabble. In this case, Elan, being [[The Ditz|Elan]] didn't have anything of interest to the creature, and so he was in no danger.

* In ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'', Torg is kidnapped by an [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=041027 Arachnaseuse], a spider-like monster from the Dimension of Pain that ... gives him a relaxing massage.

{{quote|'''Arachnaseuse:''' How do you feel now, mortal spec of meat-flesh?

* Sara from [[Whateley Universe|Whateley]] is probably this trope incarnate. As an [[Eldritch Abomination]], she by all rights should destroy the Earth. Thanks to [[Screw Destiny]], she's a main star. (And she does have people meet her in her room and talk.)

** Her dad can be even worse, since he's PRACTICING, and an active Demon Lord of Lust and Perversion.

* In the ''[[Felarya]]'' manga (warning: virtually every page contains nudity), Crisis, the giant man-eating naga (top half woman, bottom half snake), will occasionally befriend a human.

** Veeeeerrrrrry occasionally, though. 99.9% of the time, she'll just eat you.

* This happens in the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]'' once, when one of Los Hermanos's duplicates comes across [[Complete Monster|The Blood Red King]] in an empty New York coffee shop. The villain hadn't even killed any of the shop's staff.

{{quote|'''The Blood Red King:''' Sit down, sit down... if I had wanted to kill you, your entrails would already be hanging from the ceiling fans. Here... have a cup. It's Indonesian. Cream? Sugar?"}}

* The [[Anti Cliche and Mary Sue Elimination Society]]'s Alice takes this [[Up to Eleven]] when she '''''[[The Glomp|glomps]]''''' Cthulhu. Later on, another Agent makes baby Cthulhu his pet. [[Fluffy the Terrible|He names it Lil' C.]]

* [[Warning! Readers' Advisory|Warning! Readers Advisory]] features Cthulhu as a frequent side character. He seems quite friendly for an extradimensional squid god. Episode 27 is "Did we just review a movie with Cthulhu?"

 

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