Talk:Professor Cthulhu

I had never read "The Call of Cthulhu." Last week I remedied that omission. I have to say, his reputation as the most terrifying figure in literature is a bit exaggerated: Before the narrator has even finished piecing together Cthulhu's nature, he's already been neutralized. Then we learn he was on the loose for four or five pages; managed to kill half a dozen people; got his clock cleaned offstage by a character so bland and unappealing that we never even meet him; and, while he's still alive, the number of years before he and his toadies will even get back to the point where their plans can be thwarted by a random extra is ten to the sixty-third power. So what are we supposed to be afraid of? The murderous bastards in his cult are kind of scary, but they're pretty run-of-the-mill for dark and nefarious secret societies. Turtle Fan 19:57, February 16, 2011 (UTC)