@korvus: Ah, I see what you're saying now. Marvel (and other comic book universes) have definitely always had power scale issues. It varies from author to author and circumstance to circumstance, even as they attempt to box so-and-so into a box as being less powerful than this-other-guy (for example, Spiderman and Captain America are both on the weakest end of the spectrum, I believe, while not much else in the Marvel universe can actually go toe-to-toe with the Hulk).
And yeah, that's where they have to write in weaknesses in the characters which range from the ridiculous (kryptonite) to the arguably clever (Hulk not being able to control himself/think tactically) otherwise there would be no conflict. The concept at large is really pretty silly, and I think to enjoy them without completely shutting off your brain you almost need to look for the deeper side-conflict (hopefully the writers had the forethought and decency to write some type of sub-conflict in - so far they've done pretty well with that in the MCU).
Lovecraft has his own mythology - His own Gods, his own rules, and his own history. His Gods are kind of in the middle, I guess, between old world Gods and omnipotent beings. They're immortal, but they're currently held in check in various ways. The thing about Lovecraft's Gods is that, in most of the stories, they perform little to no actions. They're whispered about, alluded to, and seen largely indirectly because if they ever actually were released it's understood that it would be game over.
Lovecraft's Gods are mostly about the creation of a sense of dread and antique mystique. They're about creating a sense of something long forgotten and malevolent from the world of our ancient past lying beneath the modern world we're building up in the present.
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