The only way to answer such questions is to get each party to (i) decide on a set of rules of engagement and conflict resolution, whether formally written down as in D&D or something completely ad hoc, and (ii) decide how to characterize each antagonist using those terms of engagement. You see this all the time on the InterWebs: "Would the Enterprise beat a Star Destroyer?" "Would Hello Kitty beat Pokemon?" "Would Donald Trump beat Hilary Clinton? And on and on and on, ad nauseam. And you usually define them in terms that suit your prior prejudices if you're a huge fan of Big C, he always wins if not, not. The problem I find with these "who would win?" questions is that they always boil down to how you define the terms of engagement and the powers of the antagonists involved. Unlike Cthulhu, neither of those guys has met anyone who can even slow them down, let alone send them to lie dreaming, imprisoned for an age. And frankly, in that case, I wouldn't bet on the Emperor's chances. The really tough matchup, though, would have to be against either Azathoth or Yog-Sothoth. (Something the WH4k universe actually sort of has, unlike the Mythos.) In a true crossover, though, I think it could go either way, but I suspect the most likely outcome would resemble a draw, with Squiddy-boy sent back to sleep somehow, but undiminished as a potential future threat. If Cthulhu appeared in a Warhamster40k story, I suspect the Emp would have the edge, because continuity. Some versions of Cthulhu can be taken out with a few tactical nukes other would treat that as relish, and ask for more. If we go by Word of Dante (stuff that other, later, writers have claimed), then we get a confused mess, because Cthulhu's powers seem to vary as the plot demands.
We can try to extrapolate from what Lovecraft told us about other Ancient Gods/Great Old Ones, but there's no guarantee that any specific part applies to ol' squidface. Despite being the popular face of the Mythos, Cthulhu is a relatively minor character, and not all that well developed. "The Call of Cthulhu" is a fairly short story which doesn't give us a great deal to go on. If we go by canon, the answer has to be "insufficient data". Soon to be in theaters near you, whether you want it to be or not. The huge slumbering form, however, is loaded into a ship and begins transport to some suitably unimportant world where it can be examined and the planet can be Exterminatus'd if needed.īy sheerest accident, that planet is far enough ahead in the Milky Way, spinwise, that when it gets there, the stars turn out to be Right and Cthulhu CASE NIGHTMARE GREEN's his way out of the inadequate confinement, sups heartily on some Adeptus Astartes, and gets going-Cthulhu II: The Revengening, tagline: Time To Feed The Shoggoth. I mean, what is the backstory of this battle? A huge stone city is found on Holy Terra, it is immediately declared HERESY (few things aren't) and put to the torch (plasma torch, to be specific).
It all depends, of course, if the Stars Are Right and what that means in a interstellar context. Ol' squidface isn't even made of matter as it is commonly understood to exist. The Emperor of Mankind is having trouble with things that die if you shoot them enough.
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