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[[File:Cthulhu__s_Day_Out_by_ursulavCthulhu s Day Out by ursulav.jpg|link=Ursula Vernon|frame|[http://ursulav.deviantart.com/gallery/#Happy-Cthulhu-and-Friends Happy Great Old Ones]? Sure!]]

This can lead to some troubling questions of etiquette. While traditionally one uses the fork on the far left for salad, it's frequently unclear to the mortal in this situation how this rule is modified by [[Alien Geometries]]. And what does a mind warped beyond human understanding consider tasteful dinner conversation? These problems are, of course, magnified by the fact that among [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]s it is almost universally considered an appropriate response to breaches of etiquette to reach across the table (hypocritical as that may seem) and eat one's dining companion.

** And almost became good friends with the bigger one. As his kind goes, {{spoiler|Xellos}} is [[Affably Evil|benevolent in his own way]] -- volunteers—volunteers information when it's not against his orders (or his lulz) and even saved humans when didn't need to. ''He'' is only one notch below Dark Lords themselves in raw power, and the worst the humans get when he messes with them just for fun? A little frustration and indirect property damage. While in an encounter with lowliest Monster humans are lucky if they don't have their heads bitten off... slowly.

* In ''[[Return to Oz]],'' Dorothy and her companions eventually confront the Nome King, a shapeshifting [[Dishing Out Dirt|earth elemental]] that all but doubles as the mountain that contains his [[Supervillain Lair]]. As it happens, he's also a [[Affably Evil|polite and warmhearted]] host who provides Dorothy with a meal of limestone pie and hot molten silver -- upsilver—up until the conditions of his game are revealed.

** Then there's the time Harry goes to a party run by a vampire who's just trying to find an excuse to kill him and has peaceful encounters with a lot of powerful baddies -- onebaddies—one of which is Ferrovax, a dragon wearing legionnaire armor he's kept around from his time in Rome and who makes Harry feel like his head is gonna explode by saying just a ''part'' of his [[I Know Your True Name|true name]].

* The climax of Geoph Essex's ''Lovely Assistant'' elicits a [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?|Did We Just Have a Chat With Cthulhu?]] moment that even includes a clean white tablecloth and maybe a waiter (heard but not seen). {{spoiler|Though it's all just an [[Starfish Language|abstract psychic language]] that Jenny and the creature use to communicate, and the [[Our Monsters Are Different|creature isn't really Cthulhu at all]].}}

** Many Hindu gods have forms that look less than [[A Form You Are Comfortable With|comfortable]] and still are helpful to mortals--atmortals—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.

* [[Islam]] has more or less the exact same thing going with angels, which are, if anything, ''even more'' Eldritch than the ones described in the Bible. The second ''sura'' (chapter) of [[The Quran]] to be revealed (Al-Muddathir--"The Cloaked One"--Sura—Sura 74 in the modern order) starts with the words of God trying to comfort Muhammad (the aforementioned "cloaked one") upon the sight of the angel Gabriel, who was delivering the message on God's behalf. (To be a bit flippant, it basically goes, "Oh, it's just an angel, so stop cowering behind that cloak of yours and spread the Word!")

* Orz from ''[[Star Control]] II''. Funny, friendly ,<ref>if you don't [[Berserk Button|ask them about the Androsynth]] again</ref>, chatty, rather warlike and a bit creepy <ref>''Androsynth are not here. Orz are here.''</ref> [[Eldritch Abomination]] .<ref>''Orz are not *many bubbles* '', Orz is ''one with many *fingers* ''</ref>. {{smallcaps|[[Starfish Language|You are help Orz with *parties* ]].}}

** And an interesting variation: when {{spoiler|the Appriser of Death}} [[Heel Realization|realizes]] [[Tomato in the Mirror|who he]] [[The Grim Reaper|really is]] and [[Apocalypse How|what]] [[The End of the World as We Know It|he will cause]], and shares this information with his friends --friendsfriends—friends with whom he {{spoiler|had eaten ramen with, peeped on girls with, attended classes with, and enjoyed hot baths with at an onsen during a school trip}}. It hits them all pretty hard with the implications of all the time they've spent together. And even then, although he can [[One-Winged Angel|willingly change back and forth into his true form]], he will still sit quietly and converse with his friends about the ultimate outcome.

* "Tea Parties" are practically a euphemism for the [[Defeat Means Friendship]] in ''[[Touhou]]''. Considering as most of the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]s are either [[Physical God|actual Gods]], or [[Cosmic Horror|millennium-old monsters of unstoppable power]] who just happen to be [[Cute Monster Girl|cute girls]], you wind up with an almost literal occurrence of this trope in at least one ending of any given game.

* Happens in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' with Antimony Carver (a twelve-year-old girl) and Coyote (an ancient trickster god of incredible power), who act friendly and seem to more or less treat each other as equals. [[Word of God]] holds that one of the reasons Coyote likes Antimony is because she doesn't hesitate to shrug him off. To her ethereal sight he looks much like someone peering into a fishbowl would -- ifwould—if that fishbowl were our three-dimensional space... and she has no problems riding on his back or playing a prank on her teacher together.