Is Cthulhu good or bad?

He is a Great Old One. He is the great-grandson of the greatest evil in all of the Universe, though he himself is not evil. Cthulhu transcends morality. He is instead the priest of the dormant Old Gods, who can only return upon the proper alignment of the stars.
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Is Cthulhu evil or neutral?

Cthulhu is not evil. He is indifferent to the (continuing) existence of humanity. So most humans would consider that evil, but he just really doesn't care.
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Is Cthulhu a good guy or a bad guy?

Type of Villain

Cthulhu is a major antagonist and the titular character in the Cthulhu Mythos by the late famed horror author H. P. Lovecraft, first appearing as the titular main antagonist of the 1928 story The Call of Cthulhu​.
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What does Cthulhu do to humans?

Cthulhu is so grotesque that merely looking at him is said to drive people insane if they don't die first. Like all Great Old Ones, Cthulhu communicates telepathically even through his own dreaming slumber.
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What is the goal of Cthulhu?

It's main goal is to reawaken with the rest of the great old ones when the stars are right. Then reclaim the universe. But it probably has goals far too maddening for one to know, heck even looking at Cthulhu makes you insane.
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Why does Cthulhu hate humans?

The Old Ones are neither good nor evil, meaning that they do not hate humans, they just do not care about them. They think of humans as if they could be ants. Also, their appearance is so unlike anything of this world, that it is said that any human who so much as gazes upon one of them will go insane.
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Why does Cthulhu make you insane?

Lovecraftian beings drive people insane simply by existing. They are so alien/unnatural in appearance and action that human minds can't cope and snap.
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What happens if you meet Cthulhu?

“Your body would crumble as your mind collapsed into madness.” As stated in Lovecraft's writings, Cthulhu is so “outside” what we are capable of understanding that our minds simply can not make sense of what our eyes are seeing, and the only resolution, the only escape for our minds, is into the depths of madness.
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What happens if Cthulhu wakes up?

Q: What happens when Cthulhu wakes up? “The time would be easy to know, for then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy.
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What kills Cthulhu?

Essentially, this means you will have to get him with vorpal blows twice, and it will force his essence to fade and return to his tomb. But to answer this point, by the rules a vorpal weapon is perfectly capable of killing him.
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Is Cthulhu in the Bible?

Cthulhu is a fictional character, created by writer H.P. Lovecraft.
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What does Cthulhu eat?

Diet. Mindflayer Sacrifices are their main diet but can also eat any animal it sees even if it isn't sacrificed.
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What is Cthulhu's weakness?

His flesh is four dimensional, creating an indescribable spectacle. He can violate your mind with indescribable visions of non-euclidean architecture and impossible cats. His only true weakness are boats, of which he is extremely terrified.
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Why is Cthulhu feared?

Astronauts, the representatives of courage, exploration, science, etc., are in the posture of praying – the most unscientific posture they can ever make. Those represent the power of the Dark Demon: the inexplicable unknown. It is scorn of humanity and those virtue people value. That's why Cthulhu is feared.
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What kind of demon is Cthulhu?

In the story, Cthulhu was never described as a “demon”, though he had been misinterpreted as a god. He is, however, an alien being from beyond what we would think of as “our” universe. He comes from a place where there are more spatial dimensions than three. He is still some sort of biological being, though.
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Why is Cthulhu sleeping?

According to H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu", Cthulhu rests in a tomb in the city of R'lyeh, which sank beneath the Pacific Ocean aeons ago. Cthulhu is dead but not truly dead, as he and his fellow inhabitants of R'lyeh sleep the aeons away.
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Can Cthulhu exist?

Cthulhu is a cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was introduced in his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published by the American pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928.
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Can I summon Cthulhu?

Summoning Cthulhu is made possible when you engage with a Kn-yanian, which will unlock a black spire-like object in the middle of the Skull and Chalice. When summoned, the screen will shake, and you will see a glimpse of Cthulhu's eyes before ascending to the void and meeting the four constellations of outer gods.
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What would happen if Cthulhu rose?

When Cthulhu rises, we will all hear his call, dreamsong that cannot be ignored or escaped. It will change us and we will be like him, filled with the knowledge of gods and ancients. We will know the Truth of the universe, and we will be free of the shackles of morality and emotions.
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What does Cthulhu actually look like?

Cthulhu is a cosmic entity who is often depicted as a giant humanoid creature with an octopus-like head, dragon wings, and tentacles. He is considered to be one of the Great Old Ones in Lovecraft's mythology and is often associated with chaos, madness, and destruction.
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How is Cthulhu born?

In the Lovecraft mythos, Cthulhu is the spawn of Yog Sothoth. He was born on Vhoorl in the 23rd nebula.
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Where does Cthulhu sleep?

Cthulhu is a Great Old One. He and his brethren ruled the Universe untold millennia ago, but now the stars are wrong and He lies sleeping in his city beneath the waves, R'lyeh.
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Can Cthulhu destroy the world?

(repost) Cthulhu is not really an all-destructive deity in the Mythos, though certainly when the “stars are right,” the old order of the world will fall and a new one arise. The new order will certainly be hostile/inimical to humanity, but humanity is an irrelevancy to Mythos deities.
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How is Cthulhu beaten?

Cthulhu has never been “beaten” in any true sense — it sleeps in its realm, waiting to break through and destroy our universe. While the efforts of cultists have been stopped, due to a variety of reasons — and a variety of human foibles, Cthulhu remains, ever sleeping, waiting for its time.
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What is sanity call of Cthulhu?

Thus, "Sanity" is the game's register of the investigator's mental resilience. It is not designed to model or make light of real-world mental health conditions, in the same way that hit points (and the loss of them) in most RPGs do not make light of real-world physical trauma and injury.
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