OH IT IT’S A SHOWDOWN Ladies and gents – an Apex Predator and a Lovecraftian Sea Menace…the
Titanoboa vs Cthulhu.
Who will win….the great big snake or the tentacle faced mind mischief.
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I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today I am asking What if the Titanoboa Snake Fought
Cthulhu?
Why….welll…..because according to your viewing stats, you guys love a snake and you
love Cthulhu…and while you can’t milk either of these creatures because they don’t
exist…you can milk a trend….a beautiful scaly trend.
Before we get into this video I want to ask you guys what video you think we should create
for you next – what creatures shall we get fighting it out in epic mythical battles?
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OKAY so Cthulhu is a god slash monster invented by the author HP Lovecraft – who describes
him as as a monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose
face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet,
and long, narrow wings.
So…tentacle face, rubbery but clawy and wings…cool.
Gotcha.
Thanks HP!
The Titanoboa was a very real vary scary giant snake that lived for two million years but
went extinct 60 million years ago.
SO, before this pair even fight, what would happen in a battle of looks?
Which is the most ferocious upon the eye.
I’m gonna be honest, a giant snake is a ferocious sight, but the Cthulhu is not only
scary to look at but has the ability to drive a person or animal who looks at it insane.
Oh dear…things aren’t looking great for old snakey are they….Cthulhu has got into
his brain!
That isn’t even the half of it – not only will looking at the Cthulhu get inside your
mind but creature can also control minds.
That being said it is claimed that the Cthulhu can only control those with creative brains
– rational and mundane minds are not said to be able to handle the beast….
So perhaps the primordial snake’s simplicity would save it from mind control.
So how would these creatures measure up?
Isn’t it all about size in a fight?
The Titanoboa was thought to be the largest that ever existed and the largest non marine
creature to ever live.
Snakey baby was thought to be around 12.8 meters in length, so 42 ft…which is roughly
the size of a house.
The snake was heavy at 2,500 lbs….so around 1133 kilos.
We never really hear exactly how back Cthulhu is – Lovecraft described him as like a mountain.
An extensive reddit thread on the topic decided the monster is a modest 160ft, so around 48
metres – much bigger than the snake….and also, while the snake could slither up trees….cthulhu
has wings….and wings really, really are an advantage.
How does the Titanoboa kill?
Well despite being a woesome snake with huge fangs, it wasn’t venomous.
It could take a good chunk out of you and cause a wound big enough for you to bleed
out, but its main jam is squeezing animals to death.
It is thought that the Titanoboa was able to crush its prey with a force of 400lbs per
square inch.
Would this even hurt the much bigger Cthulhu?
Well… perhaps it could, but the Titanoboa would have to catch the creature first – and
again – wings.
We never really hear about the Cthulhu in combat – all we know is that it supposedly
sends its adversaries mad to the point of death.
In reality, if the Cthulhu fought the Titanoboa then it would very much be a case of the Cthulhu
flying out of reach of the snake and sending it mad so it bit itself and squeezed itself
to death….
What a sight that would be!
But like, come on…how was it ever going to end any other way?
The Cthulhu is an elder god and the snake, however fearsome and big it was, is just a
snake!
One final thought though….
Cthulhu is a great creation….well done Lovecraft… but the Titanoboa WAS real.
In terms of the real world, the Titanoboa is much scarier because we know it slithered
the earth for two million years…whereas lovecrafts monster has only been engaging
minds for 90 years.
In this respect….the Cthulhu has some ways to go before we put a crown on that horrifyingly
tentacled head.
So guys….that was Cthulhu vs the Titanoboa.
What did you think to this video?
Will you ever be able to get the image of a huge snake biting and squeezing itself to
death in a fit of madness out of your brain?
No?
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