Ultimate Fanboy Story

[EUOL]

So, I was thinking about the Arthur thread, and pondering how that legend has kind of spawned its own varied mythology--kind of an internal 'mythos' of its own.  

Then I was thinking about Hellboy, and the Lovecraftian themes, and how the Lovecraft mythos was kind of the other major self-sustaining fictional mythological world....

And, you guessed it.  I figured "Hey, wouldn't that be the most awesome fantasy fanboy story of all time?  I would call it:"

ARTHUR VS CTHULHU!

I can almost see it now....

(Feel free to respond to this, or come up with your own fanboy crossovers.)

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Well not really as fanboy as all that
Starship troopers (the novel) done as a miniseries like Band of Brothers with all the detail and washed out color.

but I suppose Batman vs Santa Claus cause it'd be fun!  

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

Dare I mention Buck Rodgers and Flash Gordon!

[Entsuropi]

Oh man... anyone else remember that PvP strip where they filmed the batman vs star wars vs aliens thing - darth vadar, a squad of stormtroopers, and
brent 'batman' spinner being face hugged. Classic.

But, there is a 'Dark ages cthulhu' out i think. It'd be like that, only even funnier - the PCs would be forced to hunt things that send them insane

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

You can't really have anything VERSUS Cthulu. I mean, not successfully. It's not really even tragic.

Of course, you could have Star Trek and X-Men. Oh wait, that WAS done. By Marvel nonetheless. Ugh...

[EUOL]

Arthur fighting Cthulhu would be what would make it so great!  He'd, like, find out that Cthulhu stole the Holy Grail, and would gather his knights via a FFVII summoning spell, set Excallibur to "Toast Demons" and take the light of Christianity to the Great Old Ones--via a few swift kicks to the face(s).

[Entsuropi]

Of course, you could have Star Trek and X-Men. Oh wait, that WAS done. By Marvel nonetheless. Ugh...

Hey, i read that. God that book was trashy. I read the sequel to the first crossover one. Uguu~

You can't really have anything VERSUS Cthulu. I mean, not successfully. It's not really even tragic.  

It is, however, very funny.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

Arthur fighting Cthulhu would be what would make it so great!  He'd, like, find out that Cthulhu stole the Holy Grail, and would gather his knights via a FFVII summoning spell, set Excallibur to "Toast Demons" and take the light of Christianity to the Great Old Ones--via a few swift kicks to the face(s).

I think, by the code of chivalry I'm sworn to, I'm obligated to give you a swift death, God-hating saracen though you are.

[Eagle Prince]

You can't really have anything VERSUS Cthulu. I mean, not successfully. It's not really even tragic.

We're talking about Cthulhu, not Azathoth or Yog Sothoth.  He's not exactly undefeatable.

The coolest crossover IMO would be Alucard from Castlevania: SOTN and Vampire Hunter D running into each other and getting into a slug-fest, then half-way through figuring out they are brothers.

[Entsuropi]

We're talking about Cthulhu, not Azathoth or Yog Sothoth.  He's not exactly undefeatable.

Uh, yes he is. They drove a SHIP into him and he survived. And its kinda the whole point of the mythos, there is nothing can be done to something like Cthulhu.

[EUOL]

I think what EP was saying is that Cthulhu, as one of the 'lesser' great old ones, is at least comprehensible in some small way.  The other two are forces like 'Chaos' and 'Creation.'  They're pretty much indestructible--if you destroyed them, you'd destroy reality.  Cthulhu is tough and all that, but he isn't intrinsically tied to the fabric of the universe.

[fuzzyoctopus]

In that case, I want to see Cthulhu battle the Eternals from Sandman.

[Eagle Prince]

What EUOL said.  Obviously he is hard to kill, he's a GOD.  But even gods can be defeated... some probably can't be killed or destroyed, but certainly they could be defeated.

[Master Xaio]

Heh, I'm going to bring up the bane of fantasy stories now:
Gods can be defeated, just looked at David Eddings.  Any of his series, they are all identical.

[The Holy Saint, Grand High Poobah, Master of Monkeys, Ehlers]

pfft.
You people obviously haven't read your lovecraft.

Cthulu is not comparable to your fantasy story gods. "god" isn't even the proper term for him. The whole POINT of the cthulu mythos is that there is NO hope for humanity to triumph against any of the named forces.

To nerd this up further, look at GURPs cthulupunk. you can nuke the crap out of Cthulu, he still just reforms and comes at you. You expend the entire earth's arsenel of nuclear weapons against him, and he just keeps coming. And don't look for supernatural aid either. All of it is firmly in the cthulu mythos camp. so using it just subjects you further to their influence. Even if you did find some independent, it would be far weaker than his. It is hardly a defeat from mortals that put him into his slumber.