Cthulhu Mythos in Buffy

Neither the Buffyverse nor the Evil Dead replaced Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, they merely renamed them. In Angel, the Powers That Be are clearly the Elder Gods, while Army of Darkness has... Ash. Either way, both draw heavily from the Mythos as a whole. There was even an Order of Dagon on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer TV show and The Necronomicon is the book which summons the Evil Dead in the film. But all of these things are slightly, if not entirely, removed from their articles of inspiration.

Thanks to the Open Mythos and CthUniSystem, I have just placed the actual Lovecraftian Mythos in there! How cool is that? There is still a Powers That Be, and they might still be the Elder Gods... who's to say? There was already at least one Necronomicon, so now how many versions and copies are there? I'm not telling. Still, I wanted to share that because it is definitely going to come up on down the road.

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