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The Titus Crow series is a group of seven horror fiction books published throughout the 1970s by Brian Lumley. The books are based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.The titular character is an occult investigator (based loosely on Sherlock Holmes) who, accompanied by Henri-Laurent de Marigny, investigates the Cthulhu Mythos on behalf of the Wilmarth Foundation and later the Elder Gods. The series is notable for switching from Titus Crow as a protagonist fairly early to Henri and later Hank Silberhutte.In a departure from many Cthulhu Mythos stories, Lumley's characters are not helpless victims of unimaginable forces which can drive humans mad by merely manifesting themselves. Instead, Titus Crow, his friend Henri-Laurent de Marigny, and other Lumley characters confront Cthulhu's minions in a series of increasingly large-scale encounters, in which humans, although outmatched, try to fight back. In a letter to the journal Crypt of Cthulhu, Lumley wrote: "I have trouble relating to people who faint at the hint of a bad smell. A meep or glibber doesn't cut it with me. (I love meeps and glibbers, don't get me wrong, but I go looking for what made them!) That's the main difference between my stories...and HPL's. My guys fight back. Also, they like to have a laugh along the way."Crow has been known to survive any number of encounters with monsters, although he may not always be able to defeat the creatures. For instance, he may fall unconscious upon running into a monster that kills anything that moves. Eventually, his series falls to his sidekick Henri-Laurent de Marigny when he Ascends to a Higher Plane of Existence.
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Ancient Tradition
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Ancient Tradition: Not much of an ancient one but the Wilmarth Foundation was founded after the events of The Strange Case of Charles Dexter Ward.
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Brainwashed and Crazy
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Brainwashed and Crazy: The primary method for which the Cthonians attack their enemies. The other method being earthquakes.
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Continuity Porn
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Continuity Porn: Every single Lovecraft story that Lumley could even vaguely reference was done so here. This includes many obscure works which were done as collaborations as well as the mythology of August Derleth.
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Heterosexual Life-Partners
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Heterosexual Life-Partners: Titus Crow and Henri have this sort of relationship with no sign of female companionship.
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Mistaken Identity
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Mistaken Identity: In his first attempt to return home after being rebuilt into a cyborg, Titus ends up in Roman era Brittain, where a rich Roman mistakes him for his deceased son, returned to him by the gods. Titus is forced to go along with the ruse until he can find a way to get the clock back.
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May–December Romance
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May–December Romance: How relationships with Dream people go on the humans side, reversed with Elysians.
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Captain Ersatz
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Captain Ersatz: Early on Titus Crow acquires a time clock just about the size of a coffin (or maybe a police telephone box) that allows him to travel anywhere in time and space, controlled by his thoughts, and is Bigger on the Inside. He crashes it, dies and then is given a new, ageless body by an advanced race of robotic life (you could almost say he regenerated). He returns home in the time clock and tells all of this to a companion. He then goes on to have adventures in time and space, combating evil aliens and gods. Does this remind you of someone?
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Special Guest
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Special Guest: Hero of Dreams and Eldin the Wanderer from Lumley's Dream Cycle appear and have an important role in the story.
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What Measure Is a Non-Cute?
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What Measure Is a Non-Cute?: Kthanid is apparently so benevolent that Titus Crow finds him somewhat adorable despite the fact he's the same race as Cthulhu.
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La Résistance
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La Résistance: The People of the Plateau are this against Ithaqua.
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The Fog of Ages
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The Fog of Ages: The reason why the Elder Gods needed Titus Crow. The Great Old Ones are coming back, but the Elder Gods forgot what they did the first time they defeated the Great Old Ones on account of the war happening so long ago.
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Properly Paranoid
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Properly Paranoid: Seismographs, daily magic potions, ritual exorcisms, and a houseboat are all methods used against the Chthonians. They're barely enough.
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Artifact of Doom
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Artifact of Doom: Inverted with the Clock of Dreams. It's an Artifact of Doom which turns out to be the heroes' best weapon against the Great Old Ones.
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Bittersweet Ending
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Bittersweet Ending: Elysia is destroyed and the Elder Gods missing but the Great Old Ones are bound for another cycle which will probably last millions if not billions of years. And a new Elysia will be made on Arcturus.
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Do-Anything Robot
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Do-Anything Robot: The Curator was made in Elysia and has several different types of Eye Beams to do whatever he wishes - including Disintegrator Ray, Frickin' Laser Beams, Tractor Beam, Agony Beam etc.
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Badass in Distress
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Badass in Distress: Henri has to go to the Dreamlands in order to rescue Titus Crow and his bride.
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Magical Native American
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Magical Native American: Inverted for once as the Native Americans are all dealing with magical white people.
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Always Chaotic Evil
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Always Chaotic Evil: The Cthonians and their offspring are treated as this in the story despite later discoveries that the Elder Gods are just the "good" members of the Cthulhu Cycle.
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Big Good
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Big Good: Kthanid is pretty much the universe's guardian of nobility and justice, being a hyper-friendly Cthulhu. No, seriously. The Wilmarth Foundation's head holds this role before Kthanid's appearance.
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Power Perversion Potential
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Power Perversion Potential: Exior is one horny sorcerer and he uses his magic to make himself a harem of lamia and succubi who are constantly Mooning him or rubbing their breasts against him. When he discovers that Henri is a descendant of his, Exior exclaims that it looks like the lamia and succubi were good for something after all.
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Dream Land
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Dreamland: The majority of the novel takes place in Lovecraft's Dreamlands.
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Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu
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Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Miskatonic University is destroyed in a flood in revenge for their interference
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Affably Evil
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Affably Evil: Exior the Sorcerer is an awful-awful human being but never anything but friendly to our heroes.
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Lovecraft Lite
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Lovecraft Lite: One of the big examples of this.
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Hero of Another Story
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Hero of Another Story: Peasley and the Wilmarth Foundation have been fighting the Mythos far longer than Titus and Henri.
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Enemy Mine
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Enemy Mine: Henri works with Hero and Eldin's enemies: Zura of Zura, the Princess of Death and the eidolon Lathi of Thalarion to save Hero and Eldin from the moonbeast, Gudge the pirate. It helps that King Kuranes gave Zura and Lathi an ultimatum backed by force and Gudge had double-crossed both villainesses.
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Good Twin: Kthanid is essentially a good (?!) Cthulhu. Even more than that, he's actually Cthulhu's brother (?!?!?!).
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Wife Husbandry
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Wife Husbandry: Ithaqua had been kidnapping humans and making them reproduce so that eventually there'll be a girl beautiful enough for him to take and mate with. One time he did that he got a tribe of beautiful idiots from too much selective inbreeding. The next time he lucked out and got some new people to start breeding, resulting in his latest would-be mate, Moreen.
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Clarke's Third Law
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Clarke's Third Law: One of the early things established in the series is that there is no such thing as "magic" and that everything they encounter is the advanced science of the Cthulhu Mythos or the Elder Gods. It's just the latter functions identically to magic with summonings, incantations, and so on.
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Space Jews
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Space Jews: The moons are populated by a combination of Space Vikings and a bunch of ancient corpse monsters.
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Meaningful Name
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Meaningful Name: Elysia is a physical heaven or Elysium for Titus.
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Passing the Torch
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Passing the Torch: Titus Crow gives up the Clock of Dreams and his cloak to Henri in hopes of inspiring him to be an even better hero than himself.
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Black-and-White Morality
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Black-and-White Morality: Like Derleth, Lumley's Great Old Ones are a great deal more human than Lovecraft intended. They're all malevolent jerkasses opposed by the saintly Elder Gods. Lumley mixes it up a bit by having "good" examples of the Great Old Ones' races too.
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GoodCounterpart
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Good Counterpart: Kthanid and the other Elder Gods turn out to be these for the CCD.
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Who You Gonna Call?
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Who You Gonna Call?: The Wilmarth Foundation, a secret society devoted to the destruction of the Cthulhu Cycle.
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Fetch Quest
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Fetch Quest: Kthanid gives one to Henri before he can go to Elysia. He has to rescue various individuals, each giving a hint towards finding the next person.
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
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Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Noting that Star Stones are ways to block evil spirits (Lovecraftian monsters), a bunch of shamans dug them up in an area of Africa, unwittingly freeing Shudde M'ell and his evil species.
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Monster Lord
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Monster Lord: Shudde M'ell is the ruler of the Cthonians, their ancestor, and a gigantic mile-long member of their race.
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Doing In the Wizard
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Doing In the Wizard: Titus Crow and Henri decide that all magic in the world is actually just Psychic Powers and misunderstood Elder God science.
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Psychic Powers
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Psychic Powers: Almost all of the protagonists have this.
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Eye Beams
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Eye Beams: Kthanid can shoot these and they're even more powerful than the weapon on the Time Clock. Kthanid curbstomps Nyarlathotep with them.
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Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies
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Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies: The witness to the hatching of some newborn Cthonians describes them as being the size of a walnut. Adults never stop growing, such that Shudde M'ell, largest and eldest of their species, is a mile long.
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Crystal Spires and Togas
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Crystal Spires and Togas: How Elysia appears. It's a place halfway between Fantasia, heaven, and a 70s album cover.
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The Bus Came Back
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The Bus Came Back: Elysia is destroyed and Titus joins Henri and their brides on a time-space journey across the Multiverse.
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Big Bad
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Big Bad: Cthulhu comes to the forefront as the central villain of the story.
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Cyborg
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Cyborg: A friendly alien robot makes Titus into one of these, which works out well for him since he gains a much prolonged life as a result.
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Continuity Nod
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Continuity Nod: To The Shadow over Innsmouth in the discussion of the Innsmouth Raid.
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Occult Detective
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Occult Detective: Titus Crow, being a scholar of the mystical arts. Henri-Laurent de Marigny is another. So is Hank.
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Homage
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Homage: Lumley has the heroes plane swept up to an enchanted new world with a tornado.
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Techno Babble
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Technobabble: Combined with Rule of Cool as to explain why our heroes can fly up with a magic cape to the moons over the planet in a strictly scientific series.
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Half-Human Hybrid
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Half-Human Hybrid: Tiania the Girl Goddess is a descendant of Kthanid.
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Planetary Romance
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Planetary Romance: The entire book is an extended homage to the Warlord Of Mars books by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
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And I Must Scream
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And I Must Scream: The Cthonians extract Amery Wendy-Smith's brain and install it in an unkillable "body" of pliable black goo, then spend decades draining him of information about humanity.
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No-Sell
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No-Sell: The Sea Shoggoth can't harm the heroes as long as they have a star stone.
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Apocalyptic Log
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Apocalyptic Log: A number of these form the basis for the story.
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Retcon
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Retcon: Azathoth is the Big Bang and not a monster. Nyarlathotep doesn't exist save as a telepathic network between the Great Old Ones. Shub-Niggurath is just the Great Old Ones ability to have offspring with anything.
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence
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Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: Titus Crow goes to live on Elysia with his bride for all eternity. The Bus Came Back: Elysia is destroyed and Titus joins Henri and their brides on a time-space journey across the Multiverse.
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Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter
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Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Armandra is Ithaqua's rebellious daughter. Notably, she was already in open rebellion against her father before meeting Hank.
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Weaksauce Weakness
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Weaksauce Weakness: The Cthonians are vulnerable to water.
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All Amazons Want Hercules
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All Amazons Want Hercules: Armandra is attracted to Hank because of his ability to kick ass.
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Big "NO!"
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Big "NO!": Cthulhu can only scream out "Nooo!!!" three times, once he realizes that Elysia is a trap and that he and the other Cthulhu Cycle Deities are going to be lobotomized by the Azathoth spawn that powers Elysia and is now going supernova and then transforming into a black hole.
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Badass Bookworm
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Badass Bookworm: Titus and Henri. The entire Wilmarth Foundation. All of them are extremely well-learned occult scholars.
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome
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Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The majority of the war against the Cthonians is handled via correspondence.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Natural for a Mythos work, Lumley includes references to other Mythos tales, including to fellow British Mythos author Ramsey Campbell.
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Luke, I Am Your Father
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Luke, I Am Your Father: "Henri, I am your father's father many times over". The sorceror Exior K'mool made a deal with Cthulhu himself for immortality. Exior got ripped off, because Cthulhu pronounced that the only true immortality is continuing one's bloodline. So Cthulhu gave Exior some really dominant genes - so much that Henri, who's a descendant millions of years down the line, is a dead-ringer for Exior and even has Exior's talent for magic, as does Henri's own father.
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
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Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: Ithaqua gets a face-full of the Clock's energy cannon toward the end, forcing him to flee.
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Killed Off for Real
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Killed Off for Real: Peasley meets his end at the hands of the Great Old Ones in retaliation for his role in The Burrowers Beneath.
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Lighter and Softer
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Lighter and Softer: Odd for a Brian Lumley work, but the humans are remarkably well off despite living in the Mythos-run universe.
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Slap-Slap-Kiss
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Slap-Slap-Kiss: Armandra's Tsundere tendencies meeting Hank's Chivalrous Pervert attitudes result in this.
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Benevolent Precursors
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Benevolent Precursors: The Elder Gods fulfill this role in this version of the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Green-Skinned Space Babe
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Green-Skinned Space Babe: A lot of them. One of them is the ultra-hot wind sorceress daughter of a Great Old One (who ISN'T a deformed horror like Lovecraft would state such unions produce but quite the opposite) Amandra. The 'girl goddess' Tiania is another example. She's the niece of Cthulhu.
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Decoy Protagonist
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Decoy Protagonist: Titus Crow is actually something of an example of this as he is rapidly replaced by Henri-Lauren de Marigny.
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Friend to All Living Things
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Friend to All Living Things: Henri's future girlfriend Moreen.
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Oddly Overtrained Security
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Oddly Overtrained Security: The Curator has mighty Eye Beams and it can sense the slightest desire to steal an item from its Museum. The characters wonder why such a powerful being is guarding the museum. After discovering how to communicate with the alien Curator, it turns out it prevents the inhabitants of Dreamland from stealing into the museum and ruining the precious and unique dreams inside, while simultaneously preventing dangerous nightmares in the museum from escaping into Dreamland.
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Mars Needs Women
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Mars Needs Women: The Great Old Ones and Elder Gods are mostly male, lonely and they like the way humans look, so they often go looking for human mates to produce offspring that will look human.
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Expy
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Hank Silberhutte is a more subdued Expy for John Carter.
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SufficientlyAdvancedAliens
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Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: By The Burrowers Beneath, Crow deduces that the Great Old Ones / Elder Gods are really advanced aliens, and their “magic” simply a higher science.
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Heroes Want Redheads
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Heroes Want Redheads: Armandra is a beautiful redheaded woman despite ruling over a people descended from Eskimos.
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