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** Mind-boggling horrors threaten to destroy the world, but all is not lost! Humanity is an embryonic god waiting to [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence]], and if we do manage to reach the next evolutionary stage, maybe we can drive off the monsters.
* '''Justified''': The immense size and complexity of the universe, the limitations and conflicts of human existence, the existence of an infinity of other multiverses, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, justifies almost everything about the Cosmic Horror Story.
* '''Inverted''': The SIC discovers intelligent aliens who turn out to be largely insignificant to humans, and who find us to be so abominable that they are likely to [[Go Mad
* '''Subverted''': The SIC digs down and discovers that the center of the earth is filled with ugly, tentacled creatures - who are, in fact, [[Dark Is Not Evil|as heroic or more heroic than people.]]
* '''Double Subverted''': . . .and then it turns out that it was an act, and they really are inhumanly evil.
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* '''Deconstructed''':
** Everyone realizes how insignificant they are. They all become [[Nietzsche Wannabe|Nietzsche Wannabes]] and/or commit suicide. Thus, no story.
** Alternately: The premise is that Humans are insignificant to these creatures, which means they'd never bother with a small hunk of rock floating close around one in a zillion stars. What wouldn't bother causing humanity trouble.
** This worldview basically fosters a [[Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy]] mentality among both the inhabitants and the readers.
** In a more positive deconstruction: In Real Life cosmology there really are things out there so enormous, so powerful and [[Mind Screw|so mind-shatteringly complex]] that our entire world is meaninglessly small in comparison, but we just don't care like how they don't care about us. Also, the existential horror of insignificance isn't that horrifying, being pretty easy to ignore.
** The story is so depressing, hopeless, and horrifying that [[Brown Note|it drives people to insanity and suicide.]]
* '''Reconstructed''':
** The story switches to the perspective of the survivors who defied seeing the world pessimistically and/or [[Xenofiction|the cosmic horrors themselves]].
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* '''Invoked''': The SIC develops a tentacle beast.
* '''Exploited''': A Fundamentalist uses the event to rally an End of the World cult.
* '''Defied''': The SIC finds that the Earth is filled with monstrous creatures of mind-warping horror - and they absolutely refuse to let this be one of those [[Cosmic Horror Story|cosmic horror stories]] where humans are unimportant.
* '''Discussed''': "[[Nietzsche Wannabe|Why bother living when we are going to end in their hands anyway?]]"
* '''Conversed''': "Due to the immense size of the universe, it's possible for other creatures to evolve beyond our comprehension."
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