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* [[H.P. Lovecraft|The main man himself]] is (temporarily) thwarted in "The Call of Cthulhu" when he is [[Ramming Always Works|run down by a steamship]] (he begins regenerating but becomes stuck in R'lyeh). Though [[Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu|the heroic sailor doesn't come out of the encounter in the best of mental health]]...
** In August Derleth's ''[[The Trail of Cthulhu]]'', the above sequence is one-upped when Cthulhu is thwarted (again temporarily) by [[Nuke'Em|having a nuclear bomb dropped on him]].
*** In [[Tabletop RPG]] ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' however, this is dealt with by saying that Cthulhu will simply regenerate and then you'll have to face a ''radioactive'' [[Eldritch Abomination]]. So it's not recommended.
** And if memory serves, in Derleth's "The Whippoorwills in the Hills", the same thing was achieved with {{spoiler|dynamite}}. ...Okay?
** There's also ''[[The Dunwich Horror]]''. While the horror may not actually be a god (he's a spawn of one of them), the characters manage to banish him. As all three characters neither die nor become cripplingly insane (they're not so bad off as to be locked up), this is probably the only happy ending in the Cthulhu Mythos as penned by Lovecraft.
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