Godzilla vs Cthulhu

[poseidon]

The king of the monsters vs the former ruler of earth

Godzilla 



Vs 

Cthulhu 

[creature386]

Cthulhu takes this, IMO.

It wasn't easy for me to pick a winner, given how both combatants are beyond ridiculous in terms of feat and there are so many versions. Therefore, it probably helps to explain my reasoning.

Cthulhu has three key advantages:

1) Durability. We all know the scene where Cthulhu got knocked-out by a steamboat and he's often mocked for that. However, keep in mind that his head immediately reformed.

But Johansen had not given out yet. Knowing that the Thing could surely overtake the Alert until steam was fully up, he resolved on a desperate chance; and, setting the engine for full speed, ran lightning-like on deck and reversed the wheel. There was a mighty eddying and foaming in the noisome brine, and as the steam mounted higher and higher the brave Norwegian drove his vessel head on against the pursuing jelly which rose above the unclean froth like the stern of a daemon galleon. The awful squid-head with writhing feelers came nearly up to the bowsprit of the sturdy yacht, but Johansen drove on relentlessly. There was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a sound that the chronicler would not put on paper. For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern; where—God in heaven!—the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam.

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Also, keep in mind the context of this fight. The sailors woke up Cthulhu by accident. The conditions for his summon weren't met yet, the stars weren't right so to speak. Cthulhu was probably somewhat sleepy and it's heavily implied that, once he rises for good, Cthulhu will be unstoppable. During this battle, Cthulhu probably won't be put to sleep with a single punch.
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^Also, as JUST A ROBOT explained, the Cthulhu that sleeps at the bottom of the sea might just be an avatar. It's implied that the real Cthulhu is multidimensional and thus beyond the reach of Godzilla. Either way, I don't see Godzilla killing Cthulhu for good.

You might point out that Cthulhu himself is featless and thus probably not capable of putting down Godzilla either. That's true, however, two more points.

2) Intelligence. Cthulhu has vast knowledge beyond what humans can even understand. He's capable of using technology, as he built the city of R'lyeh and it's well beyond human comprehension. His Star Spawn also waged a war against the Elder Things (as we saw in At the Mountains of Madness) which are a highly advanced alien civilization capable of FTL travel and building weapons that cause "atomic disturbances". If this fight goes on long enough, Cthulhu might be able to create a weapon that destroys Godzilla on the nano- or picoscale.

3) Magic. Lastly, Cthulhu is capable of magic. He can cause psychic dreams even while he's asleep and likely much more.

His capacities are admittedly vague. However, with Godzilla having no real way to kill the Great Old One, I guess this will end with Cthulhu either building a weapon that can kill Zilla or mind-controlling the lizard into suicide somehow.

[jhg]

Cthulhu wins very easily like having a little schoolgirl with a stick beating an earthworm to a pulp.