The Trail of Cthulhu: Difference between revisions

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: Shrewsbury, Arthur, and Claiborne

* [[Big Damn Villains]]: {{spoiler|Hastur and his minions.}}

* [[Continuity Nod]]

* [[Cosmic Horror Story]]: Starts out as this, but quickly turns into more of [[Lovecraft Lite]] {{spoiler|only to go right back to [[Cosmic Horror Story]] at the very end}}.

* [[Decoy Protagonist]]: In the first chapter, Andrew Phelan is obviously the main character, then it turns out that {{spoiler|each chapter has its own protagonist}}

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: {{spoiler|Every character other than Shrewsbury and Hovarth (who was introduced too late into the story to have a chance to be demoted).}}

** {{spoiler|Though of course, it's implied that this victory is only temporary.}}

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]

* [[Lovecraft Country]]

* [[Lovecraft Lite]]: {{spoiler|Subverted in the epilogue, which goes out on a very bleak note that falls more under [[Cosmic Horror Story]] than it does this}}.

* [[Occult Detective]]

* [[Opaque Lenses]]

* [[Up to Eleven]]: The climax of ''The Black Island'', when compared to the climax of ''The Call of Cthulhu''

** Just to specify, {{spoiler|instead of sailors who accidentally land on the island, we now have military men seeking out the island and deliberately laying explosives; Cthulhu comes out and even more specific detail is given about his freakish features and gargantuan size than in Lovecraft's story; our heroes run away from the scene, only to DETONATE CTHULHU AND THE ENTIRE ISLAND WITH A FREAKING ATOMIC BOMB once they are at a safe distance!}}

* [[Wide Eyed Idealist]]: Abel Keane