Basic Trope: A powerful being is captured and controlled.
- Straight: Bob captures Cthulhu and controls him.
- Exaggerated:
- Bob does this to God.
- Bob does this to every entity he comes across.
- Downplayed:
- Cthulhu can still do whatever he wants as long as Bob allows it.
- Bob tames a Notzilla and controls it.
- Bob earns Cthulhu's respect and the two become partners.
- Justified:
- Bob is controlling Cthulhu mentally.
- The capturing process functions as a Power Limiter for Cthulhu.
- Cthulhu allows himself to be captured after judging Bob to be worthy to doing so.
- Cthulhu is a being with a lifespan far greater than Bob's (possibly infinite). Thus spending the rest of Bob's life as a "pet" is as consequential to him as finishing a cup of coffee.
- Inverted:
- Cthulhu is the one controlling Bob.
- Cthulhu is laughably weak.
- Subverted:
- Alice thinks Bob is controlling Cthulhu but Cthulhu injures Bob.
- Despite the legends surrounding it, it turns out that Cthulhu isn't as powerful as everyone thinks.
- Double Subverted: ...that was an accident. Cthulhu is actually controlled by Bob.
- Parodied: Bob makes Cthulhu do Bob's laundry, taxes, and clean his room.
- Zig Zagged: ???
- Averted: Bob doesn't control any entities.
- Enforced: "Bob is a badass, but how can we show it?" "I know! Let's make him control someone powerful!"
- Lampshaded: "Is Bob controlling Cthulhu?"
- Invoked: Bob makes plans to control a powerful being.
- Exploited: Bob makes Cthulhu attack the Big Bad.
- Defied:
- Bob lets Cthulhu go.
- "Me? Control a deity? No, I won't do that."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Deconstructed: Everybody starts to fear Bob because he controls Cthulhu, even though Bob's a good person.
- Reconstructed: But they see through it and find out about his kindness.
Go back to Olympus Mons and control Cthulhu there!
