Talk:Cthulhu in popular culture

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[edit] Clean up needed

As of April 1, 2006, this article needs style cleanup. Please see Wikipedia:Manual of Style (titles) for guidelines on properly formatting titles. It wouldn't hurt to also take a look at the Wikipedia:Manual of Style. I also notice that some entries are scattered about in a largely haphazard fashion — these need to be moved to their appropriate sections.
-,-~R'lyehRising~-,- 19:17, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

I agree. Needs some organization. Also, since individuals will inevitably seek to link themselves from here (I just removed an external link in the main body), perhaps a subcategory on Cthulhu/Lovecraft-inspired music/games/film/books, that allows for external links and a listing organized alphabetically by title. As it grows, each may warrant a page in itself.GuardianZ 22:10, 6 April 2006 (UTC)


The Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG factoid is incorrect. Chthonic is a word meaning relating to the underworld and derived from the greek word for earth(?) 'chthon'.



This should maintain its own article. It's not like it's Cthulu, it's a story itself.

[edit] DND vs. Cthulhu

Should it be mentioned in this article, that several DND iconic characters were brought to 20th level and faced Cthulhu? It resulted in several deaths of characters who were then brought to life again. An article detailing the fight is found on the wizards.com site.

Here is the quote from that article: "Great Cthulhu against 20th-level versions of Mialee, Regdar, and the other iconic D&D characters. "There were six players, and if you died you got to bring in a new 20th-level character the following round," Monte said. "Even faced with those odds, Cthulhu killed 13 of them before they killed him. Actually, they didn't kill him, they imprisoned him with an imprisonment spell -- because they just couldn't kill him." "

[edit] Removing Triva

I removed this triva

Just didn't there was a link between the two. User=Zerath13

It's hard to have a giant, tentacled space alien in a story without making people think of Cthulhu. And Moore has written some explicitly Cthulhu Mythos stories. Still, it's probably OR to say that the Watchmen creature was inspired by Cthulhu. Nareek 02:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
The monster in Watchmen also has telepathic abilities very much like Cthulhu - "The psychic was the key. Poor young Robert Deschaines. I acquired his brain after death and my geneticists cloned something much bigger and more powerful from it, incorporating it into my creature. The brain was a psychic resonator. It would amplify a signal pulse and broadcast it, the signal triggered by the onset of death. We coded a lot of information into that signal. Terrible information. Max Shea's descriptions of an alien world, Hira Manish's images and Linette Paley's sounds... Other than those killed outright by the shock, many will be driven mad by the sudden flood of grotesque sensation... and sensitives worldwide will have bad dreams for years to come." - Watchmen Ch. XII pg. 10. If that ain't straight from Call of Cthulhu, what is? --RevWaldo 04:44, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
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