Who is Cthulhu: SMT Lore

[@Tony4You]

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[@100Servings]

I still say you should take a look at Orgone energy, after the Orgone Ghost demons in the original Devil Summoner. It's an interesting topic of pseudoscience that I think your audience may like. Mister Tachyon did an episode of his show on the subject if you need a reference.

[@KrankuSama]

HP Lovecraft would have loved the Megami Tensei wiki because it's very efficient at categorising races.

[@BlankPageEmperor1334]

I HATE HOW CORRECT THIS IS

[@tuckernutter]

Shiiiit

[@changvasejarik62]

Wonder what he would have thought of morgana.

[@Tony4You]

This is so true

[@klaus.sfc01official30]

​@@changvasejarik62 demon spawn just a demon spawn worse than lucifer worse than the worst being in any religion ever. Morgana telling you to go to sleep is the worst suffering that can be unleashed upon a human being.

[@windego64]

The way he added Sonichu so casually 😭

[@Tony4You]

Shoutout to horrors beyond mortal comprehension

[@giovanniprovost]

Chris Chan truly is the prophet of the GREAT YELLOW ONE. @@Tony4You

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

Tony has been spicing the editing on his videos lately, I love it xd

[@SecretRareJinzo1]

@@Tony4YouPlease, make a video about my first two videos. Anyway, the name of channel is called, "Joe Titanium!!" I created a ORIGINAL superhero and a ORIGINAL super heroine, who can one-shot all of the gods of H.P Lovecraft. This IDEA has NEVER been done BEFORE!!

[@lhfirex]

The Kaneko design sure is something. Maybe he drew it like that because he didn't want to tip anyone off about belonging to the cult of Cthulhu.

[@Tony4You]

This explains so much...

[@Abd0_25]

He didn't want to "tip"...

[@maskedsaiyan1738]

HP Lovecraft was a master at existential horror. I want Cthulhu or Azathoth for Shin Megami Tensei 5 Vengeance.

[@Tony4You]

Sadly I don't think they have the guts to make Cthulhu in to a 3D model considering the contents lol

[@anders6326]

Azathoth in Royal was pretty tight. They even evolved into the perfect man, too.

[@rubenjacobs334]

They could have Doi come up with a new design like he did for Artemis.@@Tony4You

[@Mitarari]

Spoiler alert for anyone who hasn't play P5/P5R yet.

[@costelinha1867]

@@Tony4You Couldn't they just... make another design? Cthulhu wouldn't be the first, nor only demon in SMT to have multiple different designs.

[@mariofan105]

Need that Tony audio Book

[@Tony4You]

One day I want to do audiobooks, it's a dream of mine!

[@SeruraRenge11]

Not that many of Lovecraft's protagonists actually go insane. What usually happens is they learn about something that completely shatters their conception of the world from the perspective of a white dude living in 1920's New England, and they just become really scared and paranoid about what might be out there. It's not so much that gaining forbidden knowledge drives you crazy, it just makes you wish you never learned about it. It's like if you discovered that Hell is real, but Heaven isn't, and that we all go there when we die. You'd wish that you had never learned that and feel utterly powerless to do anything about it. And it should be noted that everyone else sees you as crazy, but in your own mind you're completely lucid and rational in your thoughts. Lovecraft always explained what was going on in excrutiating detail, there's a story where Yog-Sothoth just outright talks to the main character and tells him what's going on. Nyarlathotep plainly states how he's been roaming around human society for millenia fucking with people basically just for his own amusement. Threats in his stories were never unknowable, and the fact of the matter is NOT knowing is infinitely less scary and less dangerous for someone living in that setting. Do you know what happens to the plucky adventurer who shoots a Deep One, has no idea what the fuck is going on, and leaves thinking he did his job? He goes home and nothing bad happens to him, he's unironically too stupid for all this cosmic shit to get to him. The researcher with him understands that the monster represents some utterly insane shit and loses his mind, being forcefully committed to an asylum as he's become a gibbering madman trying to make people understand the horrors that mortal minds fear comprehending and that we're all fools for thinking reality is what we claim it is. There's not really such a thing as "the unknowable", there can just be motivations that you can't understand how they logically reached that conclusion. When Lovecraft made something "unknowable", he wasn't saying we CAN'T understanding it, but rather we SHOULDN'T because it's so horrific that to understand such a truth brings one to madness. The entire point of cosmic horror is to show out pointless our existence is in the grand scheme of the universe and we could all be consumed by a giant space squid tomorrow with it just viewing us as another mouthful on his fork.

[@kurenian]

Great video! Would like to see the other Old Ones in SMT biographed

[@Tony4You]

I hope to cover more for sure!

[@RigalicReign]

The first thing I think of when I hear HP Lovecraft is his cat, it had a funny name. I would like to pet it. Meme aside tho I think Cthulhu has become incredibly overhyped but by that same token being in the Narylethotep fan is becoming about as overhyped these days.

[@Tony4You]

Nyarlethotep clears Cthulu but in terms of name recognition it is no contest

[@masterseal0418]

If you're not black, don't mention it by name only.

[@greasysmith3150]

I am black and i thibk you should say it. Shout it!

[@miso.1993]

​@@greasysmith3150yeah lol if they are bold enough to say that shit. im black too and i hope they dont

[@DronesOverTheMoon]

​@@masterseal0418🥷Man

[@NotCatchy]

Honestly the Lovecraft entities are some of my favorite SMT designs.

[@abekvt]

fr they got drip

[@Championoko]

Oh nooooooooo when you know the design before watching the video!

[@ocelot-sensei4384]

I had a little brainstorming session few days ago where I came up with a hypothetical setting for Shin Megami Tensei spin-off or perhaps even a numbered title or sequel where alongside Law, Chaos and Neutral there would be a fourth one dubbed "Void", which is represented by all kinds of Lovecraftian and Cosmic abominations hellbent on transforming reality itself into their own unfathomable image where not even gods or demons matter to them, unknowingly led by Azatoth, the one whose dream the reality itself is alongside Lucifer, YHWH and even the Great Will or Axiom as it's also known as are. The Law and Chaos alignment factions are at such a critical point where even they have to form a temporary alliance to oppose the Void faction as it alone is much more powerful than neither on their own. The main character of course can join this new alignment and in its ending, transcende into a conscious level of a Cosmic Abomination where no Earthly needs nor wants matter any longer. Makes a tyrant like YHWH seem like a bargain at that point, but this of course comes down to philosophical preference; are you able to sacrifice everything you've cherished and understood till that point for something that may lead to a new way of perceiving the entirety of reality itself.

[@anders6326]

That’s one hell of a pitch - I love it! We would’ve actually gotten a great antagonist in Nyarly had Atlus chosen to remake the correct Persona game. But naw, we just got depressed high school simulator with no engaging plot for 1/3 of the game, instead. Hopefully, we get a new mature game with adults in the near future. Poor Baofu. ._.

[@zeitcrystal4403]

The Dx2 story event for Cthulhu is really cool imo. The protag and two others get attacked in their dreams and the protag kinda goes crazy.

[@darklordliam]

And it ends with Cthulhu actually catching the protagonist, also seemingly letting us go (as if Cthulhu understood our role in that game’s approaching apocalypse) One of the better event storylines of that game, along with the Demiurge and Moloch stories.

[@alucard002x]

Great summary from The Cthulhus mythos, love Tony's thoughts about the book and how out of nowhere this little guy with a very noticeable stinger appears. Talk about whiplash! Anyways, Tony I think a Nyarlathotep video is mandatory at this point... Gonna be hype for sure.

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

Cthulhu is uncle grandpa from 3rd Подъезда, located at Пушкина Street, Бабушкина House, 8.

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

Uncle Grandpa is Cthulu's far relative

[@100Servings]

This was a great one Tony! You covered so much, but still left plenty for fans to research on their own. I also appreciate that you focused on the monster, and not Lovecraft himself. He's become rather controversial in the modern day, but we're not here to talk about that. When I was in the Navy, my primary job was basically oceanography, which in the modern day meant I did very little oceanography and a lot of boarding operations. Regardless, we gather data all over the world as our ships go about, usually related to temperatures and depths. I read years ago that a Navy ship got strange readings while passing over the supposed location of R'lyeh. I've never looked into it more, but perhaps I should. Also, I still love the graffiti from the book Needful Things by Stephen King. Painted on a wall in spray paint is "Yog-Sothoth Rules", named after Cthulhu's grandfather. There's about a thousand questions about who made it and how it got there, but since Stephen King is a hack, he offered no explanation. Keep up the good work! I liked your religion seminar in KHC's Linda3 video. You just can't help yourself...

[@gustavocolomaoporto2055]

i love hp Lovecraft, i wish horrors beyond my comprehension where real

[@Tony4You]

One day we will see them, I believe!

[@tinybee7780]

The unique designs that H.P. Lovecraft managed to come up with is definitely one of my favorite things about the mythos, especially those inspired from the creatures of the deep ocean. I really hope we get to see Soejima's interpretations once they decide to incorporate more H.P. Loveraft creatures or gods, or themes in SMT.

[@ahmedfalahy9337]

There is a dungeon crawler RPG called *The Lost Child* featuring The Old Ones, including Cthulhu and the others, as the main bosses Design is very interesting, look it up when you have the chance

[@LassBisharp]

Can you do a video on Cthulu's brother? The King in Yellow himself? Hastur?

[@EinSilverRose]

Cthulhu and the other gods don't immediately destroy a human if the person sees them. In some of Lovecraft's works a human does indeed see the true form of a god and they survive. It's really only a matter of whether or not can handle seeing such a colossal and strange looking being. Someone has even seen Azathoth and was only bed ridden in a hospital for a few days. Another example is how Nyarlohotep has a familiar who acts as his Earthly avatar and the only way to banish it is for someone to see Nyarlohotep's true form and not go insane which has been done a few times within the Lovecraft works.

[@Stray_waif]

Banger video as always!!!

[@klaus.sfc01official30]

Today i learned that cthulhu is in SMT because of course it is :) Can i just state how SMT manages to make every religion work at the same time without disregarding anything? I just love that about this series.

[@rexailos475]

I did not watch the video yet but I have a feeling it's gonna be a hit in terms of views. Keep it up!

[@stuntmankelp3198]

Tony? For me? (I think this every upload and it never gets old)

[@bubbletea_]

looks like villgax from ben 10, although he was pretty intimidating (in the original series at least).

[@PyrZero72]

As a huge Lovecraft fan I look forward to you covering the other outer gods and great old ones.

[@angwelio]

If sonichu and Cthulhu got into a fight Which one is the most incomprehensible being for the human mind

[@EhurtAfy]

Great video, also SMT V Vengeance hype 😁

[@JackieJKENVtuber]

Please make a video on the gods and demons of Catherine!

[@ANIpJs]

I would love for mainline SMT to do more with Lovecraft. It would be an interesting wrinkle to add into the stories.

[@harryhewson2382]

Oh man, that whole third chapter is lifted straight from The Boats of the Glen Carrig by Hodgson. No wonder he used it as inspiration for Cthulhu

[@messmass2573]

I just saw IX and Sonichu in the same video. I've never felt the need to bash my head into a nearby wall for just a small chance of wiping that imagery.

[@kakizakichannel]

"When HP Lovecraft's name is said, the first thing you think of is probably Cthulhu" Haha....

[@czms922]

Hp Lovecraft when he runs into XP HATECRAFT

[@fireorb2]

I think it's amazing that such a guy who had an emotionally depressive life, in addition to a deep fear of the ocean, created something that basically was true to his own personal fears and anxieties.

[@boyyladd]

Now I need a video covering Nyarlathotep :)))

[@alang.bandala8863]

Ironic, a great old one powerful enough to drive to madness everyman... its slayed by a boat

[@grandsome1]

To be fair Cthulhu looking grotesque is pretty much on brand you're suppose to say WTF when you see a Old One...then be afraid and then lose your mind.

[@Lilfoofoopuffs]

Teehee you said dripping 3:27

[@dragowolfraven3806]

H.P Lovecraft would love the SMT series. I have a book full of his stories. Waiting for SMT V: Vengeance.

[@cgcurctct8ccottccricorc8rc86]

Hp lovecraft characters losin their mind bcuz they saw a big fish

[@giovanniprovost]

Can you please explain Scathach mythology and her relationship to the other dieties in that area of the IRL world? Love me some floaty thigh witch. :)

[@Fermin-hw5pd]

Explain every irish mitology in 1 video Tony, we dare you

[@johanandersson8252]

A big squiddly boy 🦑

[@AlonzoTompkins]

Wish they’d use Lovecraft more in the games.

[@BlankPageEmperor1334]

TONY 4 MY PERSONAL INTERESTS TONY FINALLY EXAMINES /MY/ PERSONAL BELIEFS IN A REASONABLE, ACADEMIC, AND SYMPATHETIC MANNER *capslock off* but I am definitely very sorry about H.P. Lovecraft. You know why.

[@nahidahamed1742]

finally some HP Lore

[@adidassmith6756]

Hp lovecraft is one of my favorite franchise just under creepy pastas and that's just under the scp foundation

[@Vailsiren]

man, watching this video is like watching a masteful shitpost with the funkopop, sonichu, honkai star rail's nihility Aeon (IX), and of course Lovecraft's Cat... well done Tony4You, very based

[@diavolo5997]

I would love to see an actual SMT game where the typical forces of chaos are replaced with the gods of Lovecraft such as in The Lost Child.

[@absoul112]

So I wasn’t seeing things, and that was a phallus in the design.

[@mps51297]

"The first thing you think of when it comes to Lovecraft is probably Cthulhu" Nah it's what he named his cat for sure 😂

[@someguy4852]

Does Chathulu only appear in Dx2?

[@AlonzoTompkins]

Still one of my favorite lesser used mythologies in SMT. Not enough love for the cosmic horrors in games.

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

Tony4Cthulussy

[@dimis_plays]

I had to do a double take when I saw sonichu show up

[@ancaryvan4811]

🧐 Paust at 11:38 !!!

[@magnawaves]

Uhhhh biased much Tony? I don't see you digging up any old works with this much DEPTH about mara or imp! Lovecraft? More like you love crafting tall tales to buff up your videos! (I'm playing Tony please don't sacrifice me fr fr no cap)

[@TheGajknight]

Everyone always asks who is Cthulhu but no-one ever asks how is Cthulhu. 😢

[@deviantknight7009]

weiner octopus could go "head" to "head' with Mara :D

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

Justin Trudeau - Prime Minister of Canada - vs. Cthulhu in SMT when? 😂

[@scientistservant]

I want Sonichu in SMT

[@thekidnexttome1]

Tony4Youlhu

[@Tony4You]

Shoutout great old ones!

[@JahleelSingh]

Do not look up HP's cat's name!!

[@natenamaxisbored]

Sorry man ama huge SMT fan, but when I hear Chutulu I think South Park 😂

[@TheStrongestLaPaz]

Shin Megami Tensei/Persona is temporary. Lovecraft is Eternal.

[@anungunrama8882]

Boat >

[@Se7enBeatleofDoom]

Japanese game devs tend to get Lovecraft more than Western devs.

[@Alexander-q9h6p]

Grey white shark is the deadliest sea creature this is fake megaladon might be real there is a small chance though if your hear kracken this thing and you know what I mean the big sea monsters that don’t seam real

[@ssjsylver]

As I'm watching this the video has 666 likes.... yeah that makes sense

[@bullblood_fan17]

they should add lovecraft's cat as a new demon in smt vengeance, it had a nice little name

[@Tony4You]

Lovecraft sure had a way with names

[@jasonblundelldobebussing]

Cthulhu is the original, immortal name of the first cat of Lovecraft. Do you know his cat's REAL, MORTAL name? 😂

[@xanderevert-l9x]

Y’all believe this stuff?

[@megansturino]

Cthulhu? more like Cthu-you

[@Barquevious_Jackson]

Lovecraft is so mid. He has to be the most overrated author of all time.

[@BlankPageEmperor1334]

He would agree with you lol

[@Tony4You]

Kinda agree to an extent, but his monsters sure are interesting

[@kakizakichannel]

I would argue the monsters are the least interesting part of Lovecraft

[@costelinha1867]

@@BlankPageEmperor1334 to be fair, from my experience, pretty much every author/artist under the sun is extremely insecure about their work so.... yeah, probably...

[@dantemustdie00]

I'm hoping Doi can do hom justice with a proper redesign, cause yeah Kaneko's version ij u st looks like something different