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God Is Dead

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God Is Dead	comment	In the beginning, God created Heaven and Earth. Whether it took six days or six billion years for Him to complete the Creation, there's nobody to give the award plaque to. Why not, you ask? Because, somewhere along the way, God kicked the bucket. Answered the last prayer. Played the last game of skee-ball. Named the last prophet. He is an Ex-Deity!! This is going a step beyond Have You Seen My God?; they've called off the search and alerted the next of kin. The Council of Angels is now running around trying to figure out who's in charge. Note that this trope does not directly refer to Nietzsche's pronouncement, which, in one of the most serious debates in the academic world, implies that God and all God represents didn't exist to begin with.note The "death of God" according to Nietzsche is a crisis of faith caused by scientific progress: modern people began to increasingly rely on the scientific method and along the way realized that empirical science cannot prove the existence of what was assumed to be immutable truth: universal morals, a definite meaning in life and any sort of afterlife. In short, a more accurate summary of Nietzsche's argument would be "Philosophy is dead, morality never existed and science has denounced those as bullshit", but that wouldn't quite manage to convey the poetic severity of the message and his tragic view on the Enlightenment's pursuit of scientific revelations. He put it more expansively this way: "Belief in the Christian god has become unbelievable." Thankfully, we don't need to dwell on grim philosophical intangibles to enjoy a story about the literal implications of the mortality of the divine. This trope can occur in either a monotheistic or a polytheistic setting; of course, the ramifications of a God dying vary in severity, depending on if there are many Gods or just one, whether gods are truly necessary for their respective domains of influence to keep functioning, and whether the position can be filled in some way or another. Some people may be interested in trying to find the corpse or Pieces of God. Compare GÃ¶tterdÃ¤mmerung and Death of the Old Gods, which is the general end of the age of Gods, and Kill the God, wherein a (usually mortal) character destroys a God. Expect a certain amount of surprise should they succeed. Also compare Evil Stole My Faith, which is about a character's belief that there was no God to begin with; they don't necessarily have to be correct. This is one of the criteria for a work to fall in Class 1 on the Sliding Scale of Divine Intervention. Not to be confused with Shinigami or The Grim Reaper, which are divine manifestations of the death principle (God Is Death), or Fallen Creator. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. Examples
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God Is Dead / int_11b7db91	comment	In the Adventure Time episode "Astral Plane", Grob Gob Glob Grod sacrifices themself to stop a comet from destroying Mars. Finn witnesses this happen. However, it's later revealed that they survived, but have lost their physical form as consequence.
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God Is Dead / int_12381dc	comment	In Divinity: Original Sin II, The Divine, the god of the setting, is dead, and there needs to be a new god lest the void destroy all of creation. The various player characters you can choose, as well as the big bad, are all godswoken, candidates for becoming the new divine. Turns out he's not dead... yet. His actions cause the other Seven Gods to starve and incur a Villainous Breakdown, revealing their hideous atrocities on their own believers, and motivating the party to devour their own gods. What happens next depends on the main character; they can seize godhood, give it to someone else, spread its power to everyone, or negotiate a permanent peace treaty with the Void.
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God Is Dead / int_184dc16f	comment	In The Salvation War Satan's already dead via anti-ship missile to the face, Jesus appears to have been nuked (in reality, he's fine and later becomes The Man Behind the Man for Heaven itself after the War), and Yahweh's been killed by Michael-Lan.
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God Is Dead / int_1a12bbee	comment	The Mighty Thor: Both exaggerated and downplayed in Thor: God of Thunder (2012). Gods aren't really the true creators of the universe, but they are cosmically powerful entities, devoted to good, evil, or their own interest. Gorr the Gods Butcher dedicates himself to tracking and torturing every one of them to death. At the end of the first book, he has nearly achieved his goal: only an old, tired Thor is left alive. Because Gorr wants to keep him alive for the end.
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God Is Dead / int_1bd9c52c	comment	Lobo: Lobo: A Contract on Gawd has him graphically murdering "Gawd" and his brother Dave (the Devil Expy).
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God Is Dead / int_1f0bc3d3	comment	Hellboy: In Hellboy In Hell, Hellboy's arrival in Hell sparks an upheaval in the demonic hierarchy, with many former slaves turning on and killing their masters. Eventually it is revealed that Satan himself is dead, murdered by Hellboy during a gap in his memory, in apparent fulfillment of his destiny.
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God Is Dead / int_1f630f72	comment	Dark Souls III: You not only kill basically all the remaining Gods, you also kill all the remaining demons and the deific incarnations of the very things the gods draw their power from that also act as near immutable laws of the universe!
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God Is Dead / int_23a1b9ae	comment	God Is Dead: In the aptly named comic, the Abrahamic God is found dead with a hole in His head on His throne in Heaven.
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God Is Dead / int_24b39653	comment	Implied in Tears to Tiara. The Council of Angels are the ones running the show and, without supervision, have gone a little overboard on the whole Heaven on Earth thing. Watos (the supreme creator deity) hasn't been seen since existence started. Probably seen as less offensive than an actual evil God when we already have a good Satan. Subverted in the sequel when the goddess of war is given a mortal form and leads a rebellion against the empire. There's a pantheon and Tarte has a mother. It's implied that either Watos never existed or was an invader compared to the pantheon.
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God Is Dead / int_2542819c	comment	Buckshot Roulette: During the second time you take out your items in the second round, you accidentally pull out a bloody release of liability signed with the name "GOD", suggesting that God Himself decided to play the game with the demon and lost. Furthermore, the Game Over screen takes you to a bleak hellscape labeled in the game's files as "Heaven".note The game also prevents you from inputting that name at the start.
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God Is Dead / int_26c4b445	comment	In Rosemary's Baby, the title character peruses the issue in a doctor's waiting room.
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God Is Dead / int_28552979	comment	In the GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World, if the gods of the â€œBroken Worldâ€� arenâ€™t actually dead, they are certainly terribly inaccessible.
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God Is Dead / int_2a5145ed	comment	Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII: Etro, Goddess of Death, is dead, and now there is no one to take care of the souls of the deceased. One of the random battle quotes in the final battle with Bhunivelze. Lightning pretty much screams this at him.
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God Is Dead / int_2a9edae	comment	A The Kids in the Hall sketch centers around this. "God is dead... and here is the body to prove it." What was most surprising was how short He was.
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God Is Dead / int_2bb7d2f3	comment	Yukko in Nichijou uses this exact phrase, in English, after Mai hits her on the head with a book. This is followed by a dramatic camera angle change to focus on the (possibly reincarnated) wooden Buddha statue on the desk in front of her, and the narrator exclaims "Kami ga shinda" accompanied by a lightning strike in the background.
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God Is Dead / int_2f203125	comment	The whole Shin Megami Tensei series. You have gods. You get to fight gods. YHVH is effectively immortal, however, even though he is temporarily killed in SMT II. As long as there is even one human who believes in a higher power, God will exist. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse: In one of the game's endings, you get to finally kill YHVH, starting off by not only completely denouncing him, but then removing him from his position of godhood, much as YHVH did to many of the other gods in the backstory. Shin Megami Tensei V: By the end of the first area of Da'at, Lucifer spells out what this new world is about. While the angels are opposed as usual, they choose to seek a middle ground where both God and free human will exist; the exception is Abdiel, who is a hardcore devout of YHVH, all the way down.
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God Is Dead / int_2f48034	comment	Anbennar has two variant of this, both with the qualifier that whether gods are real is ambiguous. The believers in the Regent Court (both the name for the pantheon and the faith), the dominant faith in Cannor (the closest Europe-analogue) has hailed Castellos as the ruler of the Regent Court since its inception. Then the continent of Aelantir is (re-)discovered, and uncomfortable parallels are found over its exploration, culminating in the widespread belief that Castellos is dead. The resulting period is aptly called the Age of Unraveling. Orcs believe in the god Dookan, with the Old Dookan branch sticking to the older myth that Dookan was imprisoned for trying to find a home for himself, and that the orcs were created to free Dookan and punish the dwarves for their treachery. In most games, this will remain pure myth, but if the orcish country of Shattered Crown is greatly successful it turns out that the name Dookan almost certainly began as Ducaniel, who was a powerful elven mage during the war between the elven precursor empire and the old dwarven empire — which means there's no Dookan to free, as he already was freed by the orcish hordes breaking the siege of the dwarven hold he'd been occupying, returned to the elven empire and ended up dying by causing the cataclysmic Ruin of Aelantir.
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God Is Dead / int_3a44e6f	comment	Angel Sanctuary: The very first sentence: God is dead. He's not actually dead until the very end. He's just been absent from Heaven for so long that a lot of the angels think he's dead. He turns out to be kind of an evil dick, so it's not a big loss when he gets killed.
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God Is Dead / int_3a596341	comment	Shin Megami Tensei V: By the end of the first area of Da'at, Lucifer spells out what this new world is about. While the angels are opposed as usual, they choose to seek a middle ground where both God and free human will exist; the exception is Abdiel, who is a hardcore devout of YHVH, all the way down.
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God Is Dead / int_3aeb1c75	comment	Dragon Ball: In Dragon Ball Z, the universe is ruled in a hierarchy; Kais each rule over a quarter of the living world, and the Supreme Kais each rule over a quarter of the entire universe (including the afterlife), with the Grand Supreme Kai ruling over them. Sounds impressive, until you realize that King Kai (the ruler of the north quadrant of the universe) is not even as strong as the first set of villains, and even the Shin the Supreme Kai is surpassed in strength by all three of the main heroes at the point where we first see him. As such, there are no fewer than six 'gods' killed in the course of the series; Kami, the God of Earth indirectly by Nappa, King Kai by Cell's self-destruction, and the Supreme Kais of North, South, West and Grand Supreme Kai by Majin Buu. Although given that the Kais live in the afterlife to begin with, for some of them dying just means a halo appears over their head. On the other hand, being absorbed into Buu results in them permanently being fused with his being. In Dragon Ball Super all of the gods of the entire multiverse in Future Trunks's timeline are dead. Most of them were killed by Goku Black and Zamasu, but the Supreme Kai of Universe 7 (that is, the main universe of the setting) was shown in the manga to have been killed by Dabura when he and Trunks stopped Buu from being released.
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God Is Dead / int_3b08dfc9	comment	Pillars of Eternity: Several years before the story begins, the god of light and redemption, Eothas, suddenly took a mortal avatar and tried to invade the Dyrwood, starting a war that ended with him getting blown up by a Fantastic Nuke. Since then, Eothas answers no prayers and a terrible curse called the Hollowborn Plague that causes random children to be born soulless has afflicted the Dyrwood, leading most people to presume that he's dead for good and cursed his enemies as he died. They are wrong on both counts; Eothas did not die, he just got temporarily disabled by the destruction of his avatar, and he was actually trying to prevent the Hollowborn Plague. However, it is double-subverted in the sequel, as Eothas's last act winds up being a Heroic Sacrifice where he expends all his power to destroy the Ukaizo Wheel and free mortalkind from the control of the other gods. That does indeed kill him.
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God Is Dead / int_3b37873c	comment	In The Divine Cities, the Continent's gods — who created not only most of the Continent's infrastructure, but much of its parallel realities as well — were killed in a rebellion 75 years prior to the first book, City Of Stairs, and the Continent still hasn't recovered since. The fact that they're no longer even allowed to discuss or reference their old gods doesn't help with the discontent.
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God Is Dead / int_3c33bf0f	comment	In Demon: The Fallen, Lucifer murders a monk for even suggesting that God, who has, to this point, been missing in action, may have really died to save the earth: The Sundering was not God's punishment for rebel angels breaking His commandment of not revealing themselves to humanity, it was God sacrificing Himself by catching the world as it fell due to the violation of some cosmic law. The suggestion would haunt Lucifer until the End of Days.
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God Is Dead / int_3d7a9e29	comment	Possibly the case in The Lost Room. Some say that the Event that created the Objects was the death of God.
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God Is Dead / int_3defe34c	comment	Discussed in volume 5 of Reign of the Seven Spellblades. Ancient mages in alliance with demihumans killed the planet's god fifty thousand years ago to free intelligent life from its interference. However, this had the unintended consequence of making the world look like easy pickings for every other planet's god, forcing the creation of the Gnostic Hunters, an order of elite battlemages, to battle the resulting Alien Invasions.
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God Is Dead / int_3f214754	comment	In I'm the Grim Reaper, God has not interacted with their archangels for thousands of years, and stopped judging souls a few years back. When the world starts to near its end, Archangel Bernadette violates the laws of heaven, steals Archangel Celeste's key, and breaks into God's sanctum by force to demand answers, only to find God's blood-spattered corpse.
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God Is Dead / int_3f9dfc77	comment	At the end of The Way of Kings (2010), Dalinar receives a "prerecorded" vision from the Almighty, the setting's god, in which He reveals that He is actually dead, having been killed by a God of Evil named Odium at some point prior to the beginning of the book. This also has some crossover with God Is Evil, since Odium is now the world's de facto God.
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God Is Dead / int_4141af74	comment	In Future Diary, this trope is played not only for the events leading up to it but its effects. God attempts to choose a successor through a survival game, resulting in the story's plot line.
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God Is Dead / int_43576f5	comment	Supernatural: In season five, the Archangel Raphael claims that the reason Castiel cannot find God is because He is dead. Later episodes suggest that He is alive, but uninterested in the Apocalypse. The season finale implies that that not only God is alive, but Raphael was the one protecting Him all along, as he was in the form of a certain human called Chuck Shurley. Whether Raphael was ignorant or blatantly lying is up for debate. In the same season, The Grim Reaper does reveal that God will eventually die at the end of time by his hand. The Grim Reaper actually dies BEFORE God, and later in the series it's implied that if God dies, the universe will collapse and cease to exist. Unless his sister dies too. If both die, then a 'new balance' will assert itself, perhaps implying a new God will come about. In the climax of Season 15, Jack the Nephilim transforms God into a mortal human, meaning he will eventually die like a human.
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God Is Dead / int_43f52aa9	comment	In the Shivering Isles DLC of Oblivion, Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness dies... and in his place comes Jyggalag, the Daedric Prince of Order. In the end Jyggalag is split from Sheogorath and the Player Character becomes Sheogorath.
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God Is Dead / int_45599333	comment	In Tower of God, the 43rd floor of the Tower is different from all the others because its near-omnipotent Administrator is dead. Coming to the floor on the Hell Train, the main characters see a hostile landscape that turns out to be the Administrator's corpse.
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God Is Dead / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In Monstrous Regiment, the Borogravian god Nuggan died some time ago. Since gods live or die based on their worshippers' belief. It is revealed that Nuggan died because everyone came to believe in his numerous abominations more than Nuggan himself. Getting assaulted by an irate follower in The Last Hero certainly helped speed the process along. Technically Nuggan still exists... as a disembodied voice that keeps whispering further abominations. In Small Gods, the Great God Om narrowly avoids this fate.
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God Is Dead / int_49ad83ee	comment	In the Zul'drak region of World of Warcraft, the Drakkari trolls native to the region have been killing their gods and stealing their powers in a desperate bid to protect themselves from the Scourge. Your character can go through a quest chain in which you try to save the gods or, failing that, Mercy Kill them or help them avenge themselves on their killers. It turns out the Titan Pantheon is dead too. They fell in battle against Sargeras, where their physical bodies were destroyed. They tried to save their spirits by blasting them toward Azeroth, but by the time they arrived, they had little power. This power was transferred into their servants, the Titanic watchers. Several of which have been killed by players by now. Oops. However, they aren't all gone. A new Titan world-soul is gestating inside Azeroth itself.
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God Is Dead / int_4d9653ef	comment	In Planescape, dead gods are a part of the setting, their corpses floating in the Astral Plane. There's even a high-level adventure entitled "Dead Gods". Also, the Lady of Pain killed the god Aoskar for daring to set up shop in Sigil; this is one of the greatest demonstrations of why you really don't mess with her.
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God Is Dead / int_4ea10091	comment	Grandia II has the revelation that Granas, the God of Light, died fighting Valmar the Devil of Darkness long ago. Turns out they were both just Sufficiently Advanced Aliens though. And despite the Church of Granas referring to their conflict as the "War Between Good and Evil" (and claiming that Granas won, of course), it would be more accurately called the War Between Order and Chaos.
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God Is Dead / int_500bac67	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion: Homura's familiars cheerfully announce at one point that Gott ist Tot. Interestingly, they hedge closer to what Nietzsche actually intended to say, in that there is no such thing as moral absolutism and thus one should live as an Ãœbermensch. While Homura doesn't kill the Goddess, she does usurp the Law of the Cycle out of necessity, and no, she doesn't feel good about it.
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God Is Dead / int_50cdd564	comment	Sensei no Susume has God being dead as the reason for the plot. God died quite some time ago and now the higher layer of angels has decided to look for a suitable angel to promote to the position of God.
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God Is Dead / int_51be5b37	comment	In KULT, God is dead, and the Devil is the only one who wants him back. Also, god is dying retroactively, being dead further and further back in history. It's mostly a good thing (as far as anything can be good in this Crapsack World).
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God Is Dead / int_526e9e90	comment	In Mandela Catalogue, The Antichrist already won and Satan overthrew God. The setting takes place in an Alternate History where Satan masqueraded as Archangel Gabriel when he was sent to herald Jesus' birth, and replaced Him. He then managed to trick all of mankind into worshipping him instead, imprisoned Jesus, and took over the world while filling it with demonic Humanoid Abominations to torment mankind further.
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God Is Dead / int_5755b96a	comment	An entire pantheon of gods get killed in the backstory of The Order of the Stick (along with the whole world being destroyed, then remade by the surviving gods).
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God Is Dead / int_5a0daa35	comment	In contrast, in the Iron Kingdoms setting, the elves are the ones with the dead gods; specifically, six of their eight gods have died after the pantheon moved into the mortal world, and the remaining two aren't doing so well either. The really bad news is that the death of their gods would likely lead to the elves going extinct, and they've already started being born without souls. One of the factions in Warmachine, the Retribution of Scyrah (Scyrah being one of the surviving gods) thinks human magic is killing their gods, and so has set out to kill all human mages.
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God Is Dead / int_5bd6bb99	comment	Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse: In one of the game's endings, you get to finally kill YHVH, starting off by not only completely denouncing him, but then removing him from his position of godhood, much as YHVH did to many of the other gods in the backstory.
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God Is Dead / int_5c66fff9	comment	Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer features a dead god in an important role.
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God Is Dead / int_5cc59ec7	comment	in Godbound, humanity waged war on God. He might not be dead, but He's definitely missing in action. And the world is crumbling in His absence.
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God Is Dead / int_5ce3fc86	comment	In Soul Eater, there were eight "powerful warriors" eight hundred years ago, only one of which is widely worshiped by sensible people: The Grim Reaper. In chapter 110, he dies, giving temporary control of his kingdom to Excalibur until his second son returns. Also, another one of these eight was Asura, who, being the Big Bad, will probably also die. Those who worship him will probably also have this feeling.
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God Is Dead / int_5e150650	comment	In Exalted, this can (depending on your ST's preference for where to take the story) happen in the Endgame chapter of Return of the Scarlet Emperor with Infernal Exalted, possibly backed up by demons or even Abyssals, breaking into the Jade Pleasure Dome through a long-forgotten 'back door' and assassinating the Unconquered Sun, who lacked his usual invulnerability because he was addicted to the Games of Divinity. The Ebon Dragon never expected the massive power boost every Solar Exalt in Creation got when their patron Incarnae was killed.
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God Is Dead / int_5fb6422f	comment	Ruins: The graphic novel shows a newspaper headline with a photo of Galactus' corpse and the headline reading: "God Found Dead In Space"◊.
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God Is Dead / int_6053d9f9	comment	The creation myth told by the cultists in Silent Hill ends with God dying. Silent Hill 2 implies that the cult has ignored all the other gods in Silent Hill who are mostly sleeping but still alive. Gods that James can commune with in a bad ending. Silent Hill 3 and Silent Hill 4 are attempts to resurrect God. They fail. Even if you get a bad ending, the villains are too insane to properly resurrect a god.
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God Is Dead / int_6744d821	comment	The Owl House has the Titan -the closest thing that the denizens of the Boiling Isles have to a proper deity-, which is not only dead, but it's very corpse servers as the land they live on. That said, Emperor Belos claims that it's still alive and gave him the authority to rule in its stead. While Belos is lying through his teeth, the Titan's spirit actually is still clinging to life while trapped in the In Between Realm and has been using what little influence they have on the world of the living to try and stop his evil plans. It's not until the Grand Finale that they finally expire for good by giving all their remaining life force to Luz to both revive her and give her the strenght to end Belos' threat once and for all.
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God Is Dead / int_68237790	comment	The very first sentence in the main Pathfinder campaign setting book is "Just over a century ago, the god of humanity died."
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God Is Dead / int_6a58c657	comment	Have a Nice Life have two songs centered around this theme. "Bloodhail" is a song from the perspective of mankind, as the entire human race comes together to build a ladder to heaven with their own bodies so that a figure called "The Great Hunter" can climb up it and kill God with his arrows. "Hunter" comes later on the album, and is sung from the perspective of God as he lays dying on the earth. With his last breaths, he forgives mankind for its violence and gives up his body as a feast for all the animals on earth.
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God Is Dead / int_6a8aff51	comment	The Stormlight Archive: At the end of The Way of Kings (2010), Dalinar receives a "prerecorded" vision from the Almighty, the setting's god, in which He reveals that He is actually dead, having been killed by a God of Evil named Odium at some point prior to the beginning of the book. This also has some crossover with God Is Evil, since Odium is now the world's de facto God. Except Cultivation, the third of Roshar's shard gods, is still around (although we haven't met her yet), and since the setting is actually part of the Cosmere, all the other shard gods are still running around on other worlds (apart from the ones Odium has Splintered, like Aona and Skai). Plus, it would be more accurate to say Tanavast, the man who became Honor, is dead, as Honor's power is still out there and it is possible another person may take up his shard. Got all that? As far as Vorinism, Roshar's dominant religion, is concerned, the trope is in full force, since Honor/The Almighty is/was their only recognized god. Of course, rather than dealing with the massive implications of all that, they insist that Dalinar is simply wrong. They eventually declare him a heretic.
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God Is Dead / int_6ac55ec7	comment	The Dungeons & Dragons Forgotten Realms setting has a tendency to kill off some gods and introduce new ones every time a new edition of the game rules is released.
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God Is Dead / int_6de00dec	comment	One of the possible final bosses in Guardian Heroes is "The Creator". When you beat him, he admits that he was just toying with humanity all along, and now that he's dying, humans are free to choose their own destiny.
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God Is Dead / int_6fd29670	comment	Sky Doll: Spoofed, where a character is named God just to be able to start the series by declaring that "God is a jerk" and then to say that "God is dead" once he gets murdered.
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God Is Dead / int_7140c712	comment	The Banner Saga starts out with the phrase "The gods are dead." Throughout the campaign, you discover that the gods didn't believe they could be killed, until one of them accidentally killed another while bickering about the fate of mortals, causing mass hysteria among the pantheon that lead to a chaotic all-consuming war of paranoia which ended them. It didn't help that the last survivor, instead of patching his wounds and accepting a weakened existence, spitefully decided to use the last of his power to create an egg that would hatch a god of destruction to mop up the surviving mortals. This final plan to restore the age of gods was utterly derailed when a rogue weaver tried to use the egg to resurrect the dead and caused the apocalypse in the game; a wave of darkness spilling god-nourishing chaotic energy that mutates mortals into creatures of the warp.
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God Is Dead / int_72c7235	comment	While sitting through an especially awkward comedy bit on The Star Wars Holiday Special, Mike Nelson of RiffTrax bitterly offers this quip:
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God Is Dead / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: In "Homefront", Worf says that according to Klingon mythology, their gods were slain by ancient Klingon warriors. "They were more trouble than they were worth." In "You Are Cordially Invited", Sirella recites while administering the Klingon marriage rite to Worf and Jadzia that the Klingons' gods were killed by the sound of the beating hearts of the first Klingon couple in love.
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God Is Dead / int_769da46e	comment	In Monstrous Regiment, the Borogravian god Nuggan died some time ago. Since gods live or die based on their worshippers' belief. It is revealed that Nuggan died because everyone came to believe in his numerous abominations more than Nuggan himself. Getting assaulted by an irate follower in The Last Hero certainly helped speed the process along.
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God Is Dead / int_76d5f61b	comment	In Full Fathom Five: all the island gods are dead. But as it turns out, one of them survived.
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God Is Dead / int_7988cb68	comment	In Mass Effect Cerberus agents find the corpse of a Reaper who they estimate had been rendered non-operational 37 million years ago. As they investigate it, they discover that dead Reapers are still capable of indoctrination. The last one alive comes to the conclusion that a god, even a dead one, is not a conscious entity but a force that alters everything around it.
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God Is Dead / int_79b82b28	comment	There are two back stories in Sword of Mana. The first is that of the setting's creation myth, wherein the creator goddess' final act was to transform herself into the Mana Tree that sustains all life. The legend goes that the tree will grant unsurpassed power over Mana to the first person who touches it - and upon doing so it will die. The second backstory is the historical account of the Vandole Empire, wherein the man who would become said emperor found the Mana Tree and proceeded to do just that. Gaining the tree's magic, he proceeded to go completely mad with power, ushering in a dark age that was only ended when a group of heroes put him down and returned life to the tree. Or at least so it seemed. The final twist of the game is that in fact the tree wasn't restored to life, it was replaced. The Mana Goddess, if indeed there ever was one, is now dead, her role as Mana Tree taken by a succession of at least two human woman, the main Heroine's mother and at the end of the game, the Heroine herself.
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God Is Dead / int_82d5c9d9	comment	Invoked in We Happy Few: when playing as Sally Boyle, at one point, she gets into a debate with the leader of a suicide cult, during which she claims that the existence of Wellington Wells is proof that God is long dead.
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God Is Dead / int_853bf2d3	comment	The first episode of Tripping the Rift shows that after Chode takes a joyride on a spacejet, hitting something and resulting in the Big Bang. Afterwards, he and Gus end up in a world with same-sex relations and a severe lack of inhibitions. Chode replays the tape detailing the trip, then rewinds and slows it down, showing that during the joyride, Chode hit and killed God. Of course, he asks for some confirmation: Interestingly, this is initially portrayed as a good thing, with everyone being happy and innocent, which Gus attributes to God dying before he could create the Devil, and thus, evil. The trouble starts when word gets around about this new "evil" craze going around; without God's various punishments, there's nothing to instill a sense of inhibition.
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God Is Dead / int_865b5c19	comment	Runescape: In the quest "The World Wakes", Guthix, the god who created Gilenor, is assassinated by Sliske at the end of the quest. With his death, the Edict of Guthix is broken, bringing about the start of the Sixth Age, when other gods can physically enter Gilenor once more.
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God Is Dead / int_86814e56	comment	In Final Fantasy VI, all four gods are killed in the end by the Returners. Fiend/Doom. Demon/Poltergeist. Goddess. Kefka. They are all dead. Fortunately.
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God Is Dead / int_8e68cca9	comment	Digger uses TWO versions of this: firstly, â€œThe good manâ€� a Jesus analogue, is widely believed to have been attacked by jealous mortals and wounded, so his mother helps him to travel over the sea, swearing to one day come back. However, many refugee children living in the city at the centre of this cult believe that the world is so cruel that he MUST have died, murdered by his mother who went mad with envy when he said he was leaving, and she now roams the under-city as a vengeful goddess. Due to the universeâ€™s Clap Your Hands If You Believe, both of these stories are true. As mentioned above, this is based on a Real Life version of Catholicism that sprung up amongst Miamiâ€™s street children. The Digger universe also has a dead god kept on life-support against his will, so that whilst he lives, so does the daemon possessing him.
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God Is Dead / int_90e7823	comment	Grim Hollow, a third-party Dungeons & Dragons setting, has this as a core part of its backstory: most of the pantheon died fighting the Aether Kindred, and the rest were driven insane and murdered each other in a war to see who should be the Top God, leaving a literally-godless world behind. Their slots have been filled by various Arch Seraphs, who try to hold things together in their absence, and Arch Daemons, who exploit the power vacuum for their own gain. This also has the consequence that Divine Magic has been failing ever since; while Clerics and Paladins do still exist, they're increasingly rare, as the primary source of their powers is no longer there.
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God Is Dead / int_90eb5a2	comment	In The Reconstruction, Tezkhra is. (You have to bring him Back from the Dead.) Subverted in that he isn't actually a god, he's a sufficiently advanced alien, and just as killable as anyone else.
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God Is Dead / int_91f0df16	comment	Salt and Sanctuary: it's heavily implied that the Nameless God killed every other god in the world by imprisoning them, then exploiting Gods Need Prayer Badly by answering every prayer for them until they starved. When you find The Three, they are but clumsy undead, shadows of their former selves. No wonder the area they're found in is named The Crypt of Dead Gods. For good measure, you get to kill the Nameless God too.
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God Is Dead / int_920bdb7c	comment	Happened recursively in Kill Six Billion Demons. The Holy Suicide of Yisun gave birth to the two gods of Existence and Non-Existence, who destroyed themselves to create the pantheon of 777 777 gods, each of whom created a universe through self-annihilation. That doesn't stop people from worshiping them, or from Yisun, gods, and mortals interacting in the lore. However, a fundamental tenet of the religion is to embrace paradox. Meanwhile, the city of Throne is where the gods died, and it's a bit weird; all their corpses are just sitting there, and people used them for housing.
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God Is Dead / int_94a26281	comment	In Kult: Heretic Kingdoms, the world's God was killed by a hero some time prior to the game. The player character belongs to an Inquisition which aims to stamp out any vestiges of worship.
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God Is Dead / int_959e6cb	comment	Dragon Quest IX has a case of Have You Seen My God? that ends up becoming this. The Top God Zenus attempted to unmake the world because Humans Are Bastards, but his daughter Celestia convinces him to stay his hand and is permitted to take his place, becoming the World Tree. The Fallen Angel Big Bad Corvus then attacks Heaven, reducing Zenus to Pieces of God that are then fought by the Player Character in the postgame.
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God Is Dead / int_96213dc	comment	In the world of Tales From My D&D Campaign, the true gods are very nearly immortal, and will eventually recover from almost any force, even the power of their fellow gods. However, there exists a technique or spell known as "The Death Equation" which can truly and permanently destroy a god. This technique has been used only thrice in the histories of eternity. Luckily, each use raises the amount of power The Death Equation requires exponentially, rendering its use risky.
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God Is Dead / int_967347ea	comment	Revolutionary Girl Utena: MAJOR SPOILERS: Prince Dios's fate is revealed to be a figurative and literal example. From the beginning, Dios plays the role of Greater-Scope Paragon and Physical God, occasionally manifesting as a Utena's ghostly Guardian Entity during her duels. At the conclusion, he is confirmed to indeed be dead. ...by Akio, who is himself a now-fallen, depowered Dios. Yes, it does make sense (kinda), as Akio is lamenting the loss of his godhood and purity. More symbolically, this revelation leads Utena to reject her "Prince" as her idol, mirroring Neitzche's rejection of moral absolutism.
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God Is Dead / int_985ad25d	comment	In Dragon Ball Super all of the gods of the entire multiverse in Future Trunks's timeline are dead. Most of them were killed by Goku Black and Zamasu, but the Supreme Kai of Universe 7 (that is, the main universe of the setting) was shown in the manga to have been killed by Dabura when he and Trunks stopped Buu from being released.
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God Is Dead / int_9d25491c	comment	When Bower confronts Payton/Gallo in Pandorum, he asserts that God died along with the rest of humanity, and that there is nobody left to judge their actions as the concepts of right and wrong and good and evil have ceased to exist.
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God Is Dead / int_9d34190a	comment	The Elder Scrolls: In the backstory, the creator god Lorkhan (aka Shor, Shezarr, Sep, Lorkhaj...). Though there are many different creation stories, his inclusion is one of the few consistent elements. He is generally better regarded by the races of men than by the Mer races, who view him as a trickster. (The Altmer have a particular dislike for him.) After he convinced the et'Ada who would become the Aedra to create Mundus (the mortal realm), sacrificing much of their divine power (including their Complete Immortality) in the process, he was "killed" and his "divine center" (heart) removed. It was tied to an arrow and launched across Tamriel by Auri-El, one of those et'Ada, where it landed in modern day Morrowind and formed Red Mountain. The moons are said to be his rotting corpse and his spirit was forced to wander Mundus, occasionally taking form as a "Shezzarine," great champions of mankind. The majority of the Aedra invested so much of their essence into the Mundus that they became mortal and died. Earthbones, the laws of reality which bind mortals, are magical restraints created from their deaths. In all, only eight remain alive and they're halfway to dead themselves, leading to God Is Inept and Have You Seen My God? type issues. In Morrowind, much of the plot revolves around the three Dunmeri Physical Gods known as the Tribunal and their arch-enemy, Dagoth Ur. Each used blasphemous Dwemer tools to tap into the powers of the aforementioned Heart of Lorkhan, gaining godhood as a result. By the end of the game's main quest and its first expansion, three of the four are dead, with the fourth reduced to a de-powered Semi-Divine shell of his former power. note Though if you really want to get into the metaphysics, he claims in Loose Canon developer supplemental writings to have achieved "CHIM," essentially omnipotence with fourth wall breaking powers that puts him far beyond the power of anything else in the setting, save for the player and developers themselves. In the Shivering Isles DLC of Oblivion, Sheogorath, the Daedric Prince of Madness dies... and in his place comes Jyggalag, the Daedric Prince of Order. In the end Jyggalag is split from Sheogorath and the Player Character becomes Sheogorath. If you believe Wordof God, this is the ultimate goal of the Thalmor in Skyim. By outlawing the worship of Talos, the ascended form of the human Tiber Septim, they hope to deprive him of worship, unmaking him completely. This would have very bad consequences for reality, as he is one of the very few things that remain to maintain Mundus.
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God Is Dead / int_9d34d97	comment	Starship is set in a distant future where science long ago killed God. Didn't disprove His existence; actually killed Him. The only effect this has on the story is an Oh, My Gods! running gag, e.g., "Thank dead God I caught you in time."
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God Is Dead / int_a49a890c	comment	Preacher: At the end of the comic, God meets his end at the hands of the Saint of Killers.
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God Is Dead / int_a7a0b48b	comment	A central theme in NieR: Automata. The characters are machines and androids created by humans and aliens as weapons of war. It turns out both the aliens and humans are long dead. The game is actually about making a life after the death of god.
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God Is Dead / int_a7b47b7f	comment	In The Egyptian, the Cretan God (really a kind of sea monster) is dead. The priest keeps killing the human sacrifices to keep people from noticing this.
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God Is Dead / int_a9517b88	comment	The entire premise of the God of War series is about the protagonist going on a quest to essentially kill all of the Greek gods, and he's already taken down Ares and Athena. At the end of 3, every God Kratos encountered is dead, with the exceptions of Artemis and Aphrodite. Afterwards he's ready to settle down and live in peace, until the Norse gods decide to pick a fight with him.
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God Is Dead / int_ac33235f	comment	The Second Coming ends up as this.
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God Is Dead / int_ad622d64	comment	In the Malazan Book of the Fallen war god Fener is first pulled from godhood in Deadhouse Gates and as such becomes effectively dead for his followers, but remains alive somewhere on the planet, in semi-human form. Then his death comes true at the very end of the series, when Karsa Orlong kills Fener for good, which has repercussions for the series' end battle halfway across the world.
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God Is Dead / int_ae2c32a0	comment	Let's see, in the second book, one of the characters killed the moon goddess of the first book (who isn't even one of his gods), the sun god, the sea god, and whole bunch of smaller gods.
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God Is Dead / int_af266e7e	comment	In the setting of My Best Friend Marneao, the job of God is taken by an angel chosen by a council of judges, with a powerful angel as its right hand. 500 years before the events of the series, God died and was replaced by another angel, who went mad with power, creating portals to gain control of the universe with dark matter, with this substance turning anyone it touches into a zombie-like abomination. He enslaved the Inferni citizens to work on these portals. This God's right hand is Baraquiel, a constantly angry Bad Boss with a severe Lack of Empathy, and the main Big Bad.
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God Is Dead / int_afe3a134	comment	In Lunar: Eternal Blue, it's revealed about halfway through the game that the Goddess Althena, who you've been seeking out to save Lunar from the Dark God Zophar, has been dead for a thousand years. Althena's younger sister Lucia does not take this well.
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God Is Dead / int_b06ae8de	comment	Played quite subtly and tragically in the 1986 anti-war film When the Wind Blows. It's near the end of the film, and past the end of the world. The kindly old couple we've spent the film following are dying of radiation sickness and their condition has worsened past the point of denial, Hilda simply asks Jim to pray. Unable to think straight, Jim simply asks "Who to?"
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God Is Dead / int_b5a2b326	comment	In Morrowind, much of the plot revolves around the three Dunmeri Physical Gods known as the Tribunal and their arch-enemy, Dagoth Ur. Each used blasphemous Dwemer tools to tap into the powers of the aforementioned Heart of Lorkhan, gaining godhood as a result. By the end of the game's main quest and its first expansion, three of the four are dead, with the fourth reduced to a de-powered Semi-Divine shell of his former power. note Though if you really want to get into the metaphysics, he claims in Loose Canon developer supplemental writings to have achieved "CHIM," essentially omnipotence with fourth wall breaking powers that puts him far beyond the power of anything else in the setting, save for the player and developers themselves.
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God Is Dead / int_b6d7b1e1	comment	That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: True Dragon Veldanava died over 2,000 years before the start of the story. Normally, this wouldn't be cause for alarm since True Dragons have Resurrective Immortality, but Veldanava for some reason has never revived since then. The consequences of this have been far-reaching, from his daughter Milim Nava growing up without her parents and becoming a Demon Lord, his younger sibling True Dragons being alone and having to find their own ways, the fall of some of his finest angels, the rest of the angels taking their grudge out on the mortal races of the world for his death, and one of his bequeathed Ultimate Skills gaining sentience and deciding it's going to bring him back to life no matter the cost...even if that means killing everyone in the world. And it would actually prefer that to come to pass, since with Veldanava back they could just Restart the World.
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God Is Dead / int_b9cc7496	comment	Only temporary, but Dogma makes killing God (or at least, Her current mortal guise, an old man on life support) crucial to the plot.
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God Is Dead / int_bb7d31a	comment	By the time Eldritch Lands: The Witch Queen's Eternal War begins, all of the gods with the sole exception of the elven Godtree are dead, the human gods, the Empire Souls, were slain long ago by Sofia Nitshe, while the Deep Ones, Gods of the seaside kingdom, died sometime after the Empire Souls, of a totally unknown cause.
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God Is Dead / int_bcadd7cb	comment	In Warhammer 40,000, all but three members of the Eldar pantheon were killed with the birth of the Chaos God Slaanesh. The God-Emperor of Mankind is a far more complicated case - despite his power, he fiercely denied his divinity, but after being mortally wounded during the Horus Heresy books, he was placed on the Golden Throne and kept in a psychically-active vegetative state, leaving his followers to proclaim him a deity. If ten millennia of worship has elevated him to proper godhood, this trope will probably soon apply due to the recently-discovered irreparable malfunctions in the Golden Throne.note A more optimistic, and therefore heretical, theory is that if the Emperor's mortal shell ever truly dies, he will finally be free to become the all-powerful god he is worshiped as. The Necron Dynasties turned on their gods and shattered them after they won the War In Heaven against the Old Ones. And we mean that literally: the C'tan were exploded into innumerable "shards", that are contained within containment units that are so advanced they're basically magic, and used as power sources and, in a pinch, weapons. One C'tan, however, is confirmed as actually dead: Llandu'gor, the Flayer, whose last act was to unleash the Flayer Curse on the entire Necron race.
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God Is Dead / int_c1ff499f	comment	In God's Debris, God killed Himself, resulting in the Big Bang.
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God Is Dead / int_c3d129cd	comment	In High School DÃ—D, Kokabiel reveals to the protagonists during their fight that God died long ago along with the Four Great Satans, and Archangel Michael is the one running heaven in his place. But don't feel too disappointed; he went out like a total badass using the last of his strength to seal away a being of such power that it could destroy the entire universe if left unchecked.
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God Is Dead / int_c4771251	comment	Similar to The Way of Kings, in Mistborn: The Original Trilogy, the benevolent god Preservation is actually, by its own account, already effectively dead at the start of the series. This happened as a result of his own decision to give up his mind to betray and trap the dark god Ruin after they created the world. He fully dies halfway through the third book in the series. The main goal of that series is to finish off Ruin in turn. On the other hand, as of The Alloy of Law, Harmony, once known as Sazed, is alive and active.
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God Is Dead / int_c74f2d3c	comment	The first two Diablo games never mention any sort of God, but the third finally reveals that back in the dawn of time, Anu, the god of Order and Good, battled it out with his antithesis Tathamet, the god of Evil and Chaos, a battle that would claim both their lives. Anu's remains became the High Heavens and would give birth to the angels. Tathamet's remains would become the Burning Hells, which would spawn the demons, and the Seven Great Evils which would menace the Diablo universe rose from each of Tathamet's seven heads.
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God Is Dead / int_cbbb2270	comment	Subverted in the sequel when the goddess of war is given a mortal form and leads a rebellion against the empire. There's a pantheon and Tarte has a mother. It's implied that either Watos never existed or was an invader compared to the pantheon.
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God Is Dead / int_d98cee6b	comment	The April 8, 1966 cover of Time magazine read "Is God Dead?" The accompanying article described a movement known as "theothanatology" (in other words, the study of God's death) that arose in the 1960s. Deconstructed by Martin Luther King Jr.: "Some are even saying that God is dead. The thing that bothers me about it is that they didnâ€™t give me full information, because at least I would have wanted to attend Godâ€™s funeral. And today I want to ask, who was the coroner that pronounced him dead? I want to raise a question, how long had he been sick? I want to know whether he had a heart attack or died of chronic cancer." In Rosemary's Baby, the title character peruses the issue in a doctor's waiting room. Three years later another Time cover asked, "Is God Coming Back to Life?"
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God Is Dead / int_e07a5e98	comment	Jeremiah: Many people In-Universe believe this. "...And the Ground Sown with Salt" features a Cult/militia leader named Michael, who expresses belief that the billions of deaths in The Plague prove that God is dead. That belief, combined with the amount of power he holds, makes him become try to replace God. "Red Kiss" features a settlement where (partially due to an old arcade game they found) the children believe that God has died and his angels have descended to Earth to fight evil. They think Jeremiah and Kurdy are two of those angels and that a local kidnapper is a vampire (really, he's a Mad Scientist).
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God Is Dead / int_e3b65448	comment	The Ballad of the White Horse has the Norse king Guthrum sing:
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God Is Dead / int_e5db6c8f	comment	The Greater Titans in Pyre are eldritch horrors of immense size and power that the Eight Scribes struck down almost nine hundred years prior to the game's events, and yet worship of them is not entirely unheard of; in the present, Witch Udmildhe is nigh-fanatical in her worship of Yslach Astral-Born, allowed herself to be exiled to get near its body, and wants nothing more than to release it upon the world again. From the third cycle onward, Bertrude will join you in the Rites; should you face Udmildhe in a non-Liberation Rite, she will offer the chance to cleanse Udmildhe's mind of Yslach's influence, in which this trope is involved. And should you prevail, she will carry out her work and leave Udmildhe begging empty air for an answer.
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God Is Dead / int_e5ea79ee	comment	The Authority: The Millennium story was about a creature who created the Earth and is explicitly described as the closest thing there is to God. This creature was the being that had physically collected the matter that the Earth is formed of and placed it into orbit around the sun, but its plan was to return someday and use the Earth as a home; the evolution of life was a completely unplanned event that stemmed from a freak asteroid collision billions of years ago. The creature, as large as the moon and of comparable power, planned to de-terraform the planet back to its original state before taking up residence, unconcerned with the extinction of humanity since we are less than microorganisms compared to it. It was killed by Jenny Sparks in a Heroic Sacrifice (as the Spirit Of The 20th Century, her time was up anyway — until she was resurrected as Jenny Quantum). The creature qualifies for this trope. Jenny does not.
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God Is Dead / int_e6b693d8	comment	In the book IT, by Stephen King, the Turtle created the universe (because of a stomach ache). Later, it's revealed that the Turtle died in the thirty-year time gap of the novel.
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God Is Dead / int_eacdd4fd	comment	An unspoken premise in Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness (the novel on which Apocalypse Now was based). Kurtz has convinced the Africans he has enslaved that he is a god, and by extension that the white race in general is divine. But when the protagonist finally finds him, Kurtz is already dying...
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God Is Dead / int_ec28245c	comment	In Dragon Ball Z, the universe is ruled in a hierarchy; Kais each rule over a quarter of the living world, and the Supreme Kais each rule over a quarter of the entire universe (including the afterlife), with the Grand Supreme Kai ruling over them. Sounds impressive, until you realize that King Kai (the ruler of the north quadrant of the universe) is not even as strong as the first set of villains, and even the Shin the Supreme Kai is surpassed in strength by all three of the main heroes at the point where we first see him. As such, there are no fewer than six 'gods' killed in the course of the series; Kami, the God of Earth indirectly by Nappa, King Kai by Cell's self-destruction, and the Supreme Kais of North, South, West and Grand Supreme Kai by Majin Buu. Although given that the Kais live in the afterlife to begin with, for some of them dying just means a halo appears over their head. On the other hand, being absorbed into Buu results in them permanently being fused with his being.
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God Is Dead / int_ec9155b1	comment	In Small Gods, the Great God Om narrowly avoids this fate.
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God Is Dead / int_ecd2d797	comment	The Baldur's Gate series is essentially the posthumous Batman Gambit of the God of Evil Bhaal, who foresaw his own death and arranged to be resurrected. Things usually don't work out quite perfectly for him. There's a side quest in the 2nd game in the temple of a different dead god who has since stopped being dead. Bhaal got better between the second and third games.
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God Is Dead / int_eed89257	comment	The later chapters of ULTRAKILL reveal that Heaven is run by a Council of Angels because God died ages ago, and Heaven has done everything in its power to keep this a secret. With the extinction of humanity, and the subsequent Killer Robot invasion of Hell, the secret is getting harder and harder to keep...
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God Is Dead / int_ef08c84	comment	God from Wonder Showzen kills himself after losing a Rockâ€“Paperâ€“Scissors competition over the fate of the Earth and then they eat him.
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God Is Dead / int_f0b5c2b3	comment	In Three Parts Dead, the moon goddess and later her husband. Neither of them are dead, as it turns out..
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God Is Dead / int_f2f6ef2c	comment	The Man Born to Be King: Plutarch's tale of the cry announcing Pan's death is incorporated into Pilate's wife's premonitory dream:
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God Is Dead / int_f6eed39	comment	Stated by Anthony Jr. in season 2 of The Sopranos, as part of his briefly becoming a Straw Nihilist.
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God Is Dead / int_fab472d2	type	God Is Dead
God Is Dead / int_fab472d2	comment	In Dark Souls, after Gwyn's departure for linking the First Flame, Anor Londo began to see a shift in leadership, with nearly every deity leaving Lordran save for Gwyndolin. Gwyn is not met until the very end of the Kiln of the First Flame, where it turns out he has become a Hollow as a result of burning in the Kiln all this time.
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God Is Dead / int_fd8ef85e	type	God Is Dead
God Is Dead / int_fd8ef85e	comment	In the Left 4 Dead campaign 'Dead Air', some of the graffiti on the walls says 'GOD IS DEAD'. Occasionally, Zoey can be heard saying, "Oh no, the zombies killed God!" when passing by this message.
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God Is Dead / int_fe5a4514	comment	In Craft Sequence, the world went through the God Wars...guess where most of the gods are. In Three Parts Dead, the moon goddess and later her husband. Neither of them are dead, as it turns out.. Let's see, in the second book, one of the characters killed the moon goddess of the first book (who isn't even one of his gods), the sun god, the sea god, and whole bunch of smaller gods. In Full Fathom Five: all the island gods are dead. But as it turns out, one of them survived.
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Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Arion (Comic Book) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Eternals (2021) (Comic Book) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Lucifer (Comic Book) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Thor: God of Thunder (2012) (Comic Book) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
We Only Find Them When They're Dead (Comic Book) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Dragon of the Eldritch (Fanfic) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Hero Academia D×D (Fanfic) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
One for All and Eight for the Ninth (Fanfic) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Pilgrimage of Heaven (Fanfic) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
What If Gine Went With Goku to Earth? (Fanfic) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Begotten / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Final Deployment 4: Queen Battle Walkthrough / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Rosemary's Baby / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Masque of the Red Death / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Quiet Earth / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
High School D×D / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Also sprach Zarathustra / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Craft Sequence / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
High School DÃ—D / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
It / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Kane Series / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Reign of the Seven Spellblades / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Relaunch / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Star Trek Novel Verse / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Ballad of the White Horse / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Blood War Trilogy / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Cosmere / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Divine Cities / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Egyptian / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Saint of Steel / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Salvation War / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Way of Kings (2010) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Way Of Kings (2011) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Words of Radiance / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Dichter And Denker	seeAlso	God Is Dead
JamesMorrow	seeAlso	God Is Dead
Parallel Paradise (Manga) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Sensei no Susume (Manga) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Black Sabbath (Music) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Have a Nice Life (Music) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Downward Spiral (Music) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Rolling With Difficulty (Podcast) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Blackthorn Corporation (Roleplay) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Mass Effect Relinquish (Roleplay) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
TalesOfIllyria	seeAlso	God Is Dead
Hikonin Sentai Akibaranger / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Jeremiah / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Kamen Rider Agito / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Lost Room / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Second Coming / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Sopranos / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Wonder Showzen / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Cards Against Humanity (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Demon: The Fallen (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
GURPS Steampunk Setting: The Broken Clockwork World (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Gods of the Fall (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Grim Hollow (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
In Dark Alleys (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Iron Kingdoms (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
La Notte Eterna (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
RuneQuest (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Scion (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Dark Eye (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Strange (Tabletop Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Starship (Theatre) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Crucible (Theatre) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Aion (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Anbennar (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Buckshot Roulette (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Diablo (1997) (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Divinity: Original Sin II (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Final Fantasy XIII-2 (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Lunar: Eternal Blue (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Myth (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Shin Megami Tensei V (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Six Ages (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
ULTRAKILL (Video Game) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
My Best Friend Marneao (Webcomic) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Unexpectables (Web Video) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Cendaran Marael (Webcomic) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Kill Six Billion Demons (Webcomic) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Solo Farming in the Tower (Webcomic) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Thunderstruck (Grayson Towler) (Webcomic) / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
Tripping the Rift / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Reconstruction / Videogame / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead

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