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 Cathulhu appears in The Collect Call of Cathulhu. The name of Cthulhu was purposely misspelled to Cathulhu for legal reasons.
Cathulhu was a vastly powerful entity dwelling at the bottom of the ocean awaiting for the stars to be in the correct alignment for it to rise again. This occurs every 60 years, however it appears that Cathulhu requires an outside ritual contained in the Necronomicon to bring this about. It had a acolyte creatures known as the "Spawn of Cathulhu" as well as a human cult who worshiped and attempted to awaken it to bring about the apocalypse.
According to Egon Spengler Cathulhu makes Gozer look like "little Mary sunshine" and is "completely off the scale" in terms of power. This would indicate that it is well beyond the standard class system. Physically he resembles a reptilian humanoid, with bat like wings and an octopus head. Or as Peter Venkman put it "looks like Godzilla wearing an octopus hat." Cathulhu is capable of physical regeneration, as shown when the Ghostbusters fired their particle streams at his head. As a result of this, and its inherent power, it was entirely immune to conventional ghostbusting techniques. It did possess a weakness to magic, however it would take a magician of vast ability to have anything other than a very short term effect on him, as shown when Professor Dereleth attempted use an incantation to return it to its slumber.
Cathulhu was eventually sent back to the depths when the Ghostbusters used their particle streams to ionize a roller coaster track, causing lighting to strike it, effectively sending 1000 giga volts of electricity though it. This was however not enough to cause any lasting injury, but was enough return it to a dormant state, until the stars are right again.
According to Ray Stantz, H.P Lovecraft used Cathulhu to create works of fiction. This is a reference to the author of many short stories set in the "Cthulhu mythos" written around the 1920s. Such stories included the Necronomicon, and were in fact published by August Dereleth, who the Cathulhu expert was obviously named for. |
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