Cthulhu being the face of Cosmic Horror was really just a matter of good character design, like, most people who know Lovecraftās other works agree that Color From Out Of Space was way better, the King in Yellow has been around longer, Yog-Sothoth, Nyarlathotep and Azathoth were more important (Lovecraft actually considered Yoggie the most important member of the myths, to the point where he considered naming the myths after him,) but we all went with the priest who got his ass beat not by eldritch rituals, another god, or even just sufficient artillery, but ramming a boat into him.
Yet none of them had the simple, yet memorable design of a green dragon-man with a cuttlefish for a head.











