Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?/Playing With

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Basic Trope: A godlike Eldritch Abomination is beaten by comparatively-lowly beings.

• Straight: Bob, your typical somewhat-empowered hero, manages to defeat Cthulhu.
• Exaggerated:
  • Bob, a weak Muggle, defeats Cthulhu by poking it in the side.
  • Bob defeats God.
  • In-Universe: Bob, a weak Muggle, defeats Author Avatar in a way it kills the author beyond the fourth wall.
• Downplayed: Bob deals just enough damage to Cthulhu to send it back to R'lyeh... for now.
• Justified:
  • Badass
  • Bob was blessed by other divine beings with the power necessary to defeat Cthulhu.
  • Alternately, Bob was an Eldritch Abomination himself.
  • Bob claims that: "Anything can be defeated if you hit it hard enough."
  • Or, Cthulhu is weaker than Bob.
  • Bob is Crazy Prepared enough to exploit any weakness and shortcoming, and/or has Cthulhu's weakness.
• Inverted:
  • Cthulhu defeats Bob.
  • Or, Bob tries to defeat Cthulhu and fails utterly.
  • Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
• Subverted:
  • Bob thinks he's defeated Cthulhu... nope, it's back, and stronger than before, too.
  • Bob launches everything he has at Cthulhu but doesn't make a dent.
• Double Subverted:
  • Bob defeats Cthulhu again, this time for good.
  • Bob hits Cthulhu again harder and defeats him.
• Parodied:
  • Bob's job is officially "Destroyer of God-Like Eldritch Abominations".
  • Bob is an exterminator and takes out Cthulhu with a 'roach bomb.
  • Bob literally punched out Cthulhu in a boxing match.
    • Complete with super-slo-mo shot of the knockout punch.
    • And the referee was Nyarlathotep, so Cthulhu was really punched-out: the referee declared so!
• Deconstructed:
  • Bob's victory over Cthulhu gives him a God complex.
  • Alternately, Bob broke his arm punching out Cthulhu.
  • Cthulhu is the weakest among the Eldritch Abomination pantheon. With him defeated, the whole group change their opinion about humanity from "insignificant" to "must eliminate threat".
• Reconstructed:
  • The world still turns out to be a much nicer place without Cthulhu haunting it all the time.
  • Bob just punches out every deity that appears after Cthulhu.
  • Cthulhu is the weakest among the Eldritch Abomination pantheon. With him defeated, the whole group decide their safest option is to leave humanity alone.
• Zig Zagged: Bob faces a long sequence of One-Winged Angel forms of Cthulhu.
• Averted: Cthulhu really is invulnerable, so Bob never tries.
• Enforced: "We should inspire our readers/viewers to do great things... how about the main character is able to defeat a god?"
• Lampshaded:
  • "Oh, are you some kind of super-Badass that can even defeat gods?" "Allow me to demonstrate."
  • "In strange aeons, even Death may die...but once he's dead, your destruction isn't so hard to wrap my head around!"
• Invoked: Upon hearing that Cthulhu is unbeatable, Bob says "Screw Destiny!" and makes it his mission to defeat it.
• Defied:
  • Cthulhu makes it so Bob never gets the strength to defeat him.
  • Alternatively: "Cthulhu? He's invincible! No way am I gonna try and face that thing!"
• Discussed: "We're just ordinary human beings. Do you think we have a chance against Cthulhu?" "Don't know until we've tried!"
• Conversed: "I'm so going to end up going against Cthulhu at the end of this game, aren't I?"

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