You only go insane becsuse you can't comprehend an alien. I don't think anyone in modern times would be affected unless they were as hyper-racist as Lovecraft was.
All the other super heroes think of Aquaman like most real people and havent had much interest in learning more about him. Well, except Batman. Who still can't read his mind, but can psycho analyze him well enough to devise a plan to stop him if he goes evil.
Does this actually count? What constitutes a creature as "aquatic"? When I swim at the beach, am I considered "aquatic life" until I leave the water again?
Has this line of thinking ever been explored in the comics or anything? This all seems like something that I would expect the creators to have addressed, but I just don't know anything about this character.
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SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 37 pts · 328d
Wouldn’t he go insane being that close to Cthulhu and looking at it?
lemmyseikai@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 328d
He did. You are seeing the delusion.
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 328d
You're assuming that a man who spends all day talking with fish is sane in the first place.
Just go to a fish breeder convention. Find the sanity there.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 8 pts · 328d
Do they fuck the fish or do they get fucked by the fish?
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 328d
Sometimes one, sometimes the other, sometimes both.
Sometimes multiple, but cephalopods are getting harder to book.
MelodiousFunk@slrpnk.net · 6 pts · 327d
The pages get soggy.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 327d
you have to be a knight to go to fish breeder conventions? damn i knew i was small time but this... i may have to go have a long shit about it.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 20 pts · 328d
You only go insane becsuse you can't comprehend an alien. I don't think anyone in modern times would be affected unless they were as hyper-racist as Lovecraft was.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 14 pts · 328d
You don’t think telepathically mind-fucking Cthulhu would drive fish boy insane?
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 19 pts · 328d
It might drive Cthulhu insane. We don't know what Aquaman's mind is like. 🤷♂️
SatansMaggotyCumFart@piefed.world · 10 pts · 328d
Rose_Thorne@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 328d
I'm more surprised we don't. Has a psychic never mind-dived Aquaman? Martian Manhunter hasn't Head-Handed him? That's how J'onn says hello!
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 8 pts · 328d
All the other super heroes think of Aquaman like most real people and havent had much interest in learning more about him. Well, except Batman. Who still can't read his mind, but can psycho analyze him well enough to devise a plan to stop him if he goes evil.
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 21 pts · 328d
According to Wikipedia, this ability is
Does this actually count? What constitutes a creature as "aquatic"? When I swim at the beach, am I considered "aquatic life" until I leave the water again?
warmaster@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 328d
It depends if you're a hydrohomie or not.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 328d
actually, since all life descended from the ocean, Aquaman does have some slight mental influence on humans.
SatyrSack@quokk.au · 5 pts · 328d
Has this line of thinking ever been explored in the comics or anything? This all seems like something that I would expect the creators to have addressed, but I just don't know anything about this character.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 7 pts · 328d
All of 'em. Even microbial life. IIRC, he once killed a dude by telling seamonkies or something to explode a MFer.
wander1236@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 328d
My immediate thought would be anything that requires being in water for some length of time to live.
I'm not sure where amphibians would fall though.
porksnort@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 327d
No one knows what to do with amphibians, in a way it is similar to dealing with bisexuals
FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 327d
Yea, you have stupid powers. Cthulu has cool powers
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 1 pts · 327d
Pff, this dude doesn't know the Power of Friendship is the strongest there is
Or, in this case, possibly controlling fish brains
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 327d
To be fair, i think if you asked Cthulu nicely, he would end the world and drive your enemies to madness for you.
WormEmperor@sopuli.xyz · 8 pts · 327d
Hey there Cthulhu
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 327d
What's it like in R'lyeh City
WormEmperor@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 327d
The stars look very pretty from R'lyeh https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxScTbIUvoA
nocturne@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 328d
There was a qfig made of this.