Cthulhu

This is the entry that I very nearly didn't write. I was very close to swapping Cthulhu out for someone else (probably Unicron). The problem I ran into was the lack of any real assessment of Cthulhu's capabilities in the source material. I know that Cthulhu is way powerful, but rarely in my (admittedly limited) experience with the works of Lovecraft is the power of Cthulhu shown firsthand. I promise to amend this later, but blogs need to be written.

However, drawing upon what little knowledge I do have, I can see him easily defeating Superman. First, Cthulhu is telepathic. He communicates with and exerts control over his followers wherever in the world they may be. For all his power Superman is relatively defenseless against telepathic assaults. This typically doesn't become an issue for Superman because being able to attack his mind doesn't protect you from a superfast punch in the face.

Even if the type of telepathy Cthulhu seems to have isn't necessarily the kind one would typically attack another person with, it is well documented the affect the mind of Cthulhu has on the minds of lesser beings. People go insane after mere moments in his presence. Imagine what would happen to someone who actually tried to fight him.

It is also important to note that Cthulhu cannot be killed. He has survived for countless years, hibernating in the sunken city of R'lyeh. Cthulhu is capable of healing mundane injuries almost instantly, and has used his magic (the same magic that will bring him and his star-spawn back when the end comes) to survive intact the end of entire civilizations.

Cthulhu is also a powerful physical being. Big as a mountain, with imposing claws and wings. Cthulhu isn't known to be abnormally strong to my knowledge, but his epic stature gives him a bit of an advantage against a human-sized adversary.

So when the stars are right and Cthulhu slithers and slinks his way out of the sunken city of R'lyeh, awakening his subjects and the other Old Ones to reduce the earth to a chaotic wasteland of self-gratification and chaos-fueled revelry I hope no one counts on Superman to save them. Superman may get in some good shots, he may even win the day. But when the stars are right again and Cthulhu returns once more, Superman will have been already been driven insane by the dark power of the great dead beast.

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