Thread:Mesektet/@comment-27729149-20160128170019/@comment-3581997-20160515114850

Cthullu or, Galactus, or Satan, or whoever, is just a very powerful antagonist. In a story they are set up to be stopped.

A simple example. In The Secret World. Cthullu is running around, literally, a giant tenticled demi-god called Ur-Draug, who is a Captain Estraz for Cthullu. He has an army of undead sea mutantants, built from the corpses of slain heroes, who control an army of zombies. Ur-Draug can be fought, he can be beaten, the world is not Crapsack because of this. The world is Crapsack because even if Ur-Draug is beaten, the survivors all have spiritual cancer. They are going to go mad, become canabalistic shells of their former selves and will not find any peace even in death. This decease is a side effect of the same thing that summoned Not-Cthullu and even if beaten it can not be stopped, nor do any of the powers that be, the heroes work for, care to waste resources on curing the uncurable spirit cancer. The spirit cancer is also contagous and will eventually spread accross the world. The powers-that-be built power from normal man  the supernatural goings on not being made public knowledge and so not only can this happen again, it will happen again and there is no cure for it.

With all this on the line, a simple giant tenticle god that eats people and enslaves the dead is the easy thing to deal with. It is the enviroment, the problems and the lack of options to resolve those problems that make it Crapsack.