Pf'legmwad

Pf'legmwad is a fictional monster from the Donald Duck comic book story "The Call of C'rruso", which parodies the Cthulhu Mythos. The story first appeared in the German comic book Lustiges Taschenbuch ("Funny Paperback"), published in October 2004. Its first US appearance was in IDW's Donald Duck #16, published in 2016.CBR.com, "Donald Duck #16," August 2, 2016.
==Description==
While most of its inhabitants are blissfully unaware of it, all of reality is in fact a dream of Pf'legmwad, a cosmic entity that eternally dreams inside a white citadel in the sunken island of Sp'too.
While dreaming, Pf'legmwad's subconscious mind also manifests itself as a pair of humanoid figures known as C'rruso and D'mmingo, which identify themselves as psychic manifestations of the monster's conflicting impulses. C'rruso dresses in black and dislikes reality, so he tries to get Pf'legmwad to wake up, while D'mmingo dresses in white and finds reality pleasant, so he seeks to keep Pf'legmwad asleep and preserve it. Every 100 years, as Sp'too rises above the waves, the two personifications compete against each other to see which will prevail.
As an otherworldly entity, Pf'legmwad's perception of music differs from the norm, in that it regards tuneful music as irritating, and dissonant music as soothing. Singing a song in a melodious voice in its presence will readily cause Pf'legmwad to wake up enraged, erasing most of reality and transforming the remaining parts into something more akin to its own image. On the other hand, someone with a particularly bad singing voice (such as Donald Duck) can lull the titan back to sleep and restore reality to normal.
==Gallery==
Pf'legmwad2.jpg|Pf'legmwad emerging from Sp'too (art by Flemming Andersen)
C'rruso&D'mmingo.jpg|C'rruso and D'mmingo, manifestations of Pf'legmwad (art by Flemming Andersen)
RealityChanges.jpg|Reality starts to collapse (art by Flemming Andersen)
==Behind the Mythos==
Pf'legmwad shares several traits with Cthulhu from H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Call of Cthulhu", which "The Call of C'rruso" is a parody of. Both are giant tentacled creatures which lie dreaming inside a sunken citadel at the bottom of the ocean.
Furthermore, the fact that Pf'legmwad is the creator of reality and must be kept asleep to prevent it from destroying it makes this entity similar to Māna-Yood-Sushāī from Lord Dunsany's The Gods of Pegāna.
C'rruso and D'mmingo are meant to be "Lovecraftian" renditions of the names of famous opera singers Enrico Caruso and Plácido Domingo.
==References==
Category:Other Supernatural Beings
Category:Characters Originating From Mythos-Inspired Works