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Age and build

Immense, mountainous scale

“A mountain walked or stumbled” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 4)

Bloated, corpulent form

“This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy, was of a somewhat bloated corpulence, and squatted evilly on a rectangular block or pedestal” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Gelatinous composition

“the green, sticky spawn of the stars” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 4)

Face and hair

Octopus-like head with feelers

“an octopuslike head whose face was a mass of feelers” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Greenish coloration

“the green, sticky spawn of the stars” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 4)

Dress

Scaly, rubbery body

“a scaly, rubbery-looking body” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Long, narrow wings

“long, narrow wings behind” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Prodigious claws

“prodigious claws on hind and fore feet” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Voice and speech

Telepathic transmission of thought rather than vocal speech

“Their mode of speech was transmitted thought” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Chaotic, non-vocal sensation

“from some undetermined point below had come a voice that was not a voice; a chaotic sensation which only fancy could transmute into sound” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 1)

Slobbering, inarticulate sounds

“It lumbered slobberingly into sight” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 4)

Signature words

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Dead Cthulhu waits dreaming

“In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Gait and mannerisms

Lumbering, slobbering movement

“It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 4)

Flapping, wave-raising pursuit

“great Cthulhu slid greasily into the water and began to pursue with vast wave-raising strokes of cosmic potency” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 4)

Gibbering and slavering

“the titan Thing from the stars slavered and gibbered like Polypheme cursing the fleeing ship of Odysseus” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 4)

Strengths

Cosmic power and ancient knowledge

“They knew all that was occurring in the universe” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Ability to influence dreams of sensitive minds

“the Great Old Ones spoke to the sensitive among them by molding their dreams” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Vast physical strength and resilience

“There was a bursting as of an exploding bladder, a slushy nastiness as of a cloven sunfish, a stench as of a thousand opened graves, and a sound that the chronicler would not put on paper. For an instant the ship was befouled by an acrid and blinding green cloud, and then there was only a venomous seething astern; where—God in heaven!—the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 4)

Flaws

Imprisoned and dependent on stellar alignment

“When the stars were right, They could plunge from world to world through the sky; but when the stars were wrong, They could not live” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Requires external force to escape entombment

“The spells that preserved Them intact likewise prevented Them from making an initial move, and They could only lie awake in the dark and think whilst uncounted millions of years rolled by” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Can be temporarily subdued by physical force

“the scattered plasticity of that nameless sky-spawn was nebulously recombining in its hateful original form, whilst its distance widened every second as the Alert gained impetus from its mounting steam” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 4)

Traits

Ancient, pre-human existence

“They had come from the stars, and had brought Their images with Them” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 4)

Object of worship by secret cults

“the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Dreaming consciousness while entombed

“In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Malevolent and alien nature

“This thing, which seemed instinct with a fearsome and unnatural malignancy” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

Lines in their own words

The ritual chant addressed to Cthulhu

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)

The meaning of the chant

“In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming” (The Call Of Cthulhu, part 2)