How did Cthulhu come to Earth?

Cthulhu is characterized as the priest or leader of the Old Ones, a species that came to Earth from the stars before human life arose. The Old Ones went dormant, and their city slipped under Earth's crust beneath the Pacific Ocean.
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How did Cthulhu get trapped?

He wrote that Cthulhu had once ruled the Earth, and that one day he would do so again. As the story unfolds, the narrator discovers that Cthulhu was trapped in a stone city beneath the ocean, but an earthquake pushed part of the city back above the surface.
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Why is Cthulhu in the ocean?

Cthulu and the Deep Ones

Created by horror writer H.P. Lovecraft, Cthulu fell from the stars when the Earth was still young with many other cosmic deities which became known as the Deep Ones for their choice to dwell in the deepest part of the Ocean.
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What animals is Cthulhu made of?

Cthulhu is the name of a fictional monster created by author H.P. Lovecraft. The creature is described as a combination of an octopus, a dragon, and a human being, and just looking upon it will drive the viewer insane.
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Is Cthulhu real or fake?

Cthulhu is the fictional creation of the author H.P. Lovecraft but the reason, I believe, it has such resonance is that Cthulhu is an acceleration of the unfeeling universe, On a geological timescale, we are irrelevant.
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Did the Cthulhu ever exist?

Cthulhu, fictional entity created by fantasy-horror writer H.P. Lovecraft and introduced in his story “The Call of Cthulhu,” first published in the magazine Weird Tales in 1928.
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What does Cthulhu do to humans?

Cthulhu is infamously known for his grotesque appearance and gigantic size, as well as his ability to drive any human that gazes upon his form to insanity.
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What does Cthulhu eat?

Like the Psilotoad, the Cthulhu can only eat Pet Food type 2, and can eat Human corpses.
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Is Cthulhu a good guy?

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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What is Cthulhu's real name?

So far, the full sentence, exact and correctly spelled, "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn" has never been mentioned in Marvel Comics in its original spelling.
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What is the goal of Cthulhu?

The Cthulhu Cult was founded around the same time as mankind first appeared on Earth by the Great Old Ones. Its purpose was to serve the Old Ones on Earth until such a time as they could be freed, and then to free the Old One Cthulhu and bring about the end of the world.
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Where is Cthulhu on Earth?

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. (Cthulhu is generally thought of as a "he" for some reason.)
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What type of God is Cthulhu?

Considered a Great Old One within the pantheon of Lovecraftian cosmic entities, this creature has since been featured in numerous popular culture references. Lovecraft depicts it as a gigantic entity worshipped by cultists, in the shape of a green octopus, dragon, and a caricature of human form.
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Who gave birth to Cthulhu?

According to correspondence between Lovecraft and fellow author James F. Morton, Cthulhu's parent is the deity Nug, itself the offspring of Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath.
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What happens if Cthulhu wakes?

He has, like, a million HP and immunity to magic. This is what happens if you wake him up. Every sentient creature on the planet must save or go permanently insane as the Cthulhu's supersentience rips through their own, like a cruise ship powering through a narrow canal.
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Where does Cthulhu sleep?

R'lyeh is a fictional lost city that was first mentioned in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in Weird Tales in February 1928. R'lyeh is a sunken city in the South Pacific and the prison of the entity called Cthulhu.
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What race is Cthulhu?

Biology. Little is known about Cthulhu's origins, other than he's the offspring of a being called Nug and the grandchild of the Outer Gods Yog-Sothoth and Shub-Niggurath - both of which are grandchildren of the primordial Azathoth, who created the universe.
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What color is Cthulhu's eye?

The Eye of Cthulhu's appearance is that of a giant eye with several veins that move when he flies. The Eye of Cthulhu's sclera is blue and his iris is greenish.
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Does Cthulhu have a body?

He - or rather it - has an upper body similar to a man, but possesses narrow, webbed wings upon its back and its arms and legs end with clawed digits. The most defining feature of Cthulhu is its head, which closely resembles an octopus.
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How big is Cthulhu?

Some say that Cthulhu is so large that his body spans the entire universe, while others claim he is only as large as a human.
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Was Cthulhu in underwater?

Cthulhu is the main antagonist of the 2020 science-fiction thriller/horror film Underwater.
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Is Cthulhu a leviathan?

Leviathan is the name given by some Inuit Cultists to a child of Cthulhu: "...the Other Tornasuks left or went to sleep with Him [Cthulhu], except Dagon his servant-creation and Leviathan his son." It is not clear if it is one of the named sons.
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Is Cthulhu one of the old ones?

"Old One" is an ambiguous term in the Cthulhu Mythos, and may refer to: Great Old Ones, a pantheon of dead alien deities buried inside the Earth, including, Cthulhu. (The Call of Cthulhu).
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Who is Cthulhu's greatest enemy?

H.P. Lovecraft about Azathoth and his "Hideous Name". Azathoth, also known as The Blind Idiot God, The Daemon Sultan, and The Nuclear Chaos, is the overarching antagonist of the Cthulhu Mythos, created by the late horror-fantasy writer H. P. Lovecraft.
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