What happens...

[Double Yuggoth]

...if you hit Cthulhu with a nuke?

Does he do the dissolve-into-stinky-goo-and-reform trick? Or, since a nuke is a bit more damaging than a steamship, does it take him longer to reform? Or is his physical form permanently destroyed (even if his essence or whatever survives)?

If I was writing a Mythos story where this happened, I'd have his physical body blown apart, but his essence would eventually re-form one, in effect 'cloning' it from any surviving cell. (This assumes, of course, that Cthulhu actually HAS cells.)

[Eternities End]

Ahhh Cthulhu would prolly just blow apart and redissolve, Im sure that with a nuke though it would probably take alot longer...plus Cthulhu prolly has some ability to desolve before inmpact to minamize the damage...

While were on this topic, how were the Elder Things evn capable of holding him at bay when they cant even keep control of their gooey slave Shoggis

[Jesus Prime]

I'd say it could probably fuck him up good - not from the blast, but from the radiation.

[odin2]

While were on this topic, how were the Elder Things evn capable of holding him at bay when they cant even keep control of their gooey slave Shoggis

It's a lot easer to keep something in a cage then it is to make it do what you tell it..

[JJ Burke]

you don't get to be high priest of the great old ones without having some contingency plans. i'd be surprised if he's never been hit with something like a nuke before...

[Jesus Prime]

Fuck nukes. Ever get hit with a claw hammer?

[JJ Burke]

yes, on my thumb. with the non-claw part. but my thumb recombined into its original hateful form

[Jesus Prime]

Good to know. I'd say that'd be useful if you were chopping wood drunk.

[Eternities End]

Booze and wood chopping, the greatest mix created by mankind

[a_Lex]

The radiation won't have any effect. Cthuhu and his spawn have traveled between stars. They have endured worse.

As for nuke itself....
Well, I have a strong feeling Cthulhu will disperse and reform, in full glory, and even more potent than before!

"Rationale"?

Well, he seems to have actually become stronger since being hit by a yacht. Look, he now has MORE followers, MORE influence, the Russian president is asked about Cthulhu (not about a rise of violence and overall poverty of most of ppl of Russia) and there are amulets sold to those willing to worship him right away.

C'mon, it is obvious that whatever way you resist Cthulhu it only makes him more strong, more alive, and, maybe, a tiny bit more angry.

Also, I guess Cthulhu is made up notonly of "usual" baryonic matter, and might even involve unusual multi-dimensional structures beyond the analytic capabilities of modern science, So all his reactions might appear quite "counterintuitive" to humans.


P.S.: Hmmmm... maybe I know how will he render all humanity insane in a click... He will publicly demonstrate something that experimentaly proves Superstring Theory to be obviously right.

[Eternities End]

Meh I dont really see why everyones all worried...Cthulhus been sleeping for like 1000000 years, he'll prolly just get up and take a piss that lasts like 50 years, after that we would of come to some kind of deal or at least find how to kill his ass

[a_Lex]

he'll prolly just get up and take a piss that lasts like 50 years

That means humanity is going to drown in the wastes of a non-euclidian, star-faring octopus.

Oh the horror...

[Jesus Prime]

Nah, it's okay. We'll go to the mountains first, and feast upon the hordes of dead fish. Then, we'll build glass boats to withstand the acidity of the urea, then swim up the stream like a toothpick fish and fuck up his gonads til he screams like a star-baby.

[JJ Burke]

or maybe that's his favorite thing ever... maybe if we do that, he will become super cthulhu, like mario becomes super mario when he eats the mushroom. YOU DON'T KNOW, MAN—you just...don't.....know

[Jesus Prime]

I say it's worth a shot. A nutshot.