# Why is Cthulhu all that?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 22, 2013, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-cthulhu-all-that/674539 "2013-11-22T17:18:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-cthulhu-all-that/674539/41 "2013-11-23T06:45:59Z")

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> [@Johnny\_Q](#):
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> When his time truly comes, nukes will only make him mad.

Could be [something worse than nukes](http://www.tomsmithonline.com/lyrics/cthulhu_lite_fm.htm). Could be lite-pop music.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2013, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-cthulhu-all-that/674539/42 "2013-11-23T06:49:06Z")

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[What’s your state’s nickname?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=612320)

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**Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-cthulhu-all-that/674539/43 "2013-11-24T00:37:26Z")

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The Great Cthulhu gets a belly rub:

> **[South Park - Mysterion Rises | South Park Studios US](https://southpark.cc.com/episodes/2lhwyz/south-park-mysterion-rises-season-14-ep-12)**
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> Mysterion's true identity is revealed. Meanwhile, the Coon, scorned by his fellow Super Heroes, is out for revenge.

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**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2013, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-is-cthulhu-all-that/674539/44 "2013-11-24T01:59:42Z")

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> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#):
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> I think we probably owe that to August Derleth, who essentially recast Lovecraft’s mostly scattered and disjointed mythical figures and deities into something approaching a more conventional pantheon, which he christened the ‘Cthulhu mythos’. Why, I don’t know—maybe he just liked the name.

[TVTropes sez:](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Franchise/CthulhuMythos?from=Main.CthulhuMythos)

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> The actual term “Cthulhu Mythos” (depending on how you define it) post-dates Lovecraft’s death, at which time H. P. Lovecraft’s work got seized and expanded on by August Derleth. Lovecraft himself called his budding mythology “the Yog-Sothothery”, because Yog-Sothoth features or is mentioned in many more stories than Cthulhu.

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