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Modernized God
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A god or other supernatural entity adapts to the modern world due to some of their aspects or powers no longer being as important to their worshipers' lives as they were in their heyday. May be caused by Gods Need Prayer Badly and result in Odd Job Gods. See also Death of the Old Gods for when they can't keep up. Compare Post-Modern Magik. Contrast The Modern Gods, where the gods start out in the modern era. |
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Serwa Boateng: The afterlife uses modern technology, and the nature goddess Asase Yaa is now a Granola Girl social media influencer. | |
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Defied in The Salvation War, where both Yahweh and Satan are extremely conservative (with the latter a regular Bad Boss and the former outright mad as well). In fact, it is believed that God closed the gates of Heaven a thousand years ago due to finding it easier than keeping Heaven good enough for the increased standards of humanity. However, a lot of the plot is centered around individual angels and demons trying to survive the war with Humanity by keeping up with times. One archangel runs a night club with rock band members snatched out of Hell. | |
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Downplayed in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Battle Tendency. After awakening in late-1930s Europe, Native American/Mexican/Aztec super-vampire Kars finds a trench coat and a hat to wear unlike the other Pillar Men. Though he doesn't keep it for long. | |
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In Justice League Unlimited, the God of War Ares poses as an arms dealer to sell the Annihilator to a bunch of rebels from Kaznia. When the rebels aren't doing a good enough job in fighting, and the leader rejects his Blood Knight tendencies, Ares decides to kill him and take over the rebellion himself. | |
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Hellraiser: Judgement: There's a frank discussion amongst the leaders of Hell how they are supposed to adapt to the shifting technological environment of mankind. While it breeds more sin than ever before, Pinhead concludes that the puzzle boxes are now outdated and once again they must actively go out in search of fresh blood. | |
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In Hercules (2015), an unclear "Storm" threatens the existence of mythological beings through Death of the Old Gods. As it turns out, the "Storm" is a pantheon of three new gods born out of the obsessions, vices and flaws of modern society, and their goal is to erase all "old gods" to replace them. They are Cryptomnesia, a god of data and information with constant access to all communication devices and the entirety of the Internet ; Catastrophobia, a modern "god of war" that uses targetting missiles instead of traditional weapons ; and Horrorscope, the embodiment of toxic self-image and narcissism as a plastic surgery model. The comic drew heavy inspiration from Neil Gaiman's American Gods (see below), with Cryptomnesia even being an Expy of the Technical Boy. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Averted when a woman is blessed by a god there to grant all her desires... who assures her that she is now fertile and assured to bear male children, his idea of what women consider a blessing not having kept up with the times. | |
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The Dresden Files: Odin has a day job as CEO of a security firm that rents out the services of valkyries and einherjar, where his power is greatly reduced so he can avoid the All-Powerful Bystander effect and remain active in mortal affairs. He also holds the "mantles" of the Winter Court Fae Kringle and Santa Claus, roles which he fills part-time. As he says, a life as long as his is full of strange twists and turns. In a related turn of events, it is still possible to summon smallfae with bread and honey... but what they really go nuts for is pizza. In one book, Harry needs to summon a loa for advice on the latest mystery, which means providing the spirit with a vessel. She is less than happy to find that she has been incorporated into a Cabbage Patch doll. |
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Supernatural: Quite a few Physical Gods maintain cover identities in modern-day American society, such as Mercury running a hotel and conference center. Even those who don't have had to adjust their tactics to gain worship and sacrifice — one even impersonates human celebrities when hunting victims. | |
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Earthworm Jim gives us this scene from the Christmas Episode: | |
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Discworld: Gods Need Prayer Badly, so some out-of-style deities will do whatever it takes to get by. The ancient volcano goddess Lela reinvented herself as Anoia, Goddess of Things That Get Stuck In Drawers, and has actually managed a minor renaissance in her new position. The central theme of Hogfather is "old gods do new jobs". The title character was originally the personification of midwinter sacrifices to bring the sun back, and is now a jolly toymaker. |
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In Ultimate Marvel, Loki is the Norse God who best adapts to the modern world, posing as a PR agent and operative for the EU who stage-manages their version of the Ultimates. During the Liberators arc, he gaslights Thor and the Ultimates, by making the former seem like a madman and not a real Norse God, and turning the Avengers against him. The Liberators arc ends with the world finding out that the Norse myths were Real After All. | |
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Fate Series: Throughought the Fate multiverse, many characters of mythology and old history are summoned into the modern world as "Servants". Some of them adapt to the new world just fine (such as Arturia or Gilgamesh), wearing modern clothing and indulging in present-day food and entertainment; a few of them even use modern weapons in fights, such as Lancelot. | |
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Loki has taken on the guise of Mr. World, head of The Men in Black. | |
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However it is completely averted in his Egyptian mythology-based series, The Kane Chronicles. Given most of the Egyptian pantheon has been locked up and sealed away since the end of Antiquity, the gods are the very opposite of "modernized", except for a few of them that actually avoided being imprisoned (such as Thoth who is now a laboratory-dwelling professor thriving on scientific research). | |
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In Wonder Woman (2017), Ares poses as Sir Patrick, a member of England's War Cabinet during World War I, posing as a bureaucract and politician who instigates war on both sides. | |
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With times changing, a lot of gods in Divine Misfortune have modernized their domain, brand and methods. Hephaestus, Greek God of the Forge, has his own motor company — Hephaestus Motors — employed with people cast from metal. While Fólkvangr was originally reserved for the Aesir and the Einherjar, modernization had led to Odin opening it up to living mortals and other gods who pay for tickets, turning their annual battles into a Blood Sport. "My Dinner with Ares": The form Ares takes in this story is a gruff man in modern camo-fatigues along with the old Spartan helmet. He also carries a Glock pistol along with the old shield and sword. |
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Darwin Carmichael Is Going to Hell has a page where the Egyptian cat goddess Bastet is shown to run a sex shop. Apparently sex acts using their products count as acts of worship. | |
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While the Olympians are generally reclusive in Class of the Titans, they still adapt to the present day. Hermes is in charge of emails and phone calls, Hephaestus makes all kinds of vehicles and weapons, and Zeus disguises himself as a janitor. | |
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The central theme of Hogfather is "old gods do new jobs". The title character was originally the personification of midwinter sacrifices to bring the sun back, and is now a jolly toymaker. | |
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"My Dinner with Ares": The form Ares takes in this story is a gruff man in modern camo-fatigues along with the old Spartan helmet. He also carries a Glock pistol along with the old shield and sword. | |
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In The Magicians (2016) gods have largely stopped interacting with mortals. Bacchus is a notable exception: since mortals like to party, he has adapted well to the 21st century. He can be tracked through his Instagram (at least until it got suspended for something involving nipples) and party animals like Josh have favor with him. | |
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Wonder Woman: Greg Rucka's run on Wonder Woman (1987) introduced this trope into the dynamic of the Olympian gods. At the dawn of the 21st century, the Olympian pantheon is dividing itself between the older deities, such as Zeus and Hera, who still dress and behave as if they were in Ancient Greece, and the younger Olympians, such as Eros, Apollo and Artemis, who put on modern outfits and blend in more with current society. As Ares himself explains to Wonder Woman in issue 199, the power hierarchy among the Olympians has changed thanks to gods needing prayer badly. Zeus is just king of the gods in title, since nobody fears the sky anymore, leading to him being greatly weakened. Meanwhile, three other gods have gained enough forms of "worship" to challenge him: Ares, whose power is fueled by the many wars waged by humanity; Aphrodite, who is still strong thanks to the timeless power of sex; and Athena who, as the goddess of war and wisdom, benefits from both the military and scientific advances of the new century. This trope even led Ares, who understood thanks to Wonder Woman that causing wars for the sake of war would end up being a self-destructive process, to reshape himself not as the "god of war", but as the "god of conflict", taking power from things such as protests, disputes and simple physical brawls. As he puts it: "We must adapt to survive". In the New 52 Wonder Woman (2011), the pantheon are all radically reinvented, mostly to look somewhat inhuman, but some have also updated their look: Apollo wears a business suit and seems to be seen as the "fixer" of the gods, and Hephasteus wears brass goggles and is surrounded by automatons, giving him a slightly Steampunk look. In Wonder Woman (Rebirth) Aphrodite has gone for a modern-casual look, wearing a loose sweatshirt with a swan (one of her sacred animals) on it. |
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In Wonder Woman (Rebirth) Aphrodite has gone for a modern-casual look, wearing a loose sweatshirt with a swan (one of her sacred animals) on it. | |
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Naqua-Den: The manga shows us in chapter eight a spider-goddess that managed to adapt herself to the modern days by ruling over a different kind of "web". She is called WWW, and is the spider-goddess of the Internet. | |
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Good Omens: The Horsemen of the Apocalypse now ride motorcycles. War is now a journalist, igniting wars in third-world countries with her mere presence; Famine became a businessman, dabbling in both the eating-disorder-inducing diet industry and the malnutrition-inducing fast food industry; and Pestilence retired after the invention of penicillin cut into the plague business, being replaced by Pollution. Even Death has traded his cowl for an opaque visor. Crowley the demon has switched from one-on-one spiritual corruption to high-volume stunts like bringing down the mobile phone network over peak hours, setting off The Chain of Harm ten thousand times over as people vent their frustrations on others. |
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Fate/Grand Order: Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca got enamored with wrestling and guns respectively, to the point that it rewrote their identities in the Throne of Heroes: Quetzalcoatl as a wrestler and Tezcatlipoca as an arms dealer. | |
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In Bruce Almighty, newly-divine Bruce gets stressed out from hearing everyone's prayers all the time, so he creates an e-mail inbox on his computer to collect and manage them. It's called Yahweh!, a Shout-Out to Yahoo!, and features a similar Title Scream to what Yahoo once used when he opens his inbox. | |
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Touhou Project: Yasaka Kanako is a weather goddess seeking to increase her influence (due to waning belief in the outside world), notably by getting into technology. One of these plots saw her feed a three-legged crow (a symbol of the Sun in Japanese mythology) to a none-too-bright raven youkai so as to give Gensokyo a source of green energy. The result was Reiuji Utsuho, a raven girl with the power to control nuclear fusion. | |
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Exterminatus Now: the Hound (a War God and Khorne expy) stops dressing in spiky black armor and instead wears a general's outfit, pointing out that modern warfare involves a lot less melee combat than it used to and therefore he's adapting to a world of drone strikes half a planet away. It helps that most of his worshippers are war gaming nerds and military generals, while his former berserker worshippers tend to die en masse to artillery barrages. | |
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A heavy component of The Wicked + The Divine, where twelve gods incorporate on Earth every 90 years, riding along with human hosts for a 2-year period to work miracles and spur human creativity. In addition to every god and goddess effectively being styled after a modern musician (Amaterasu looks like Florence Welch, Baphomet/ Nergal looks like Andrew Eldrich), Woden styles himself as a man in a Daft Punk-esque powersuit and uses technology to uplift his "Valkyries," Athena is grinding her way through technological developments, and Dionysus runs a rave that never stops. | |
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Played with in Over the Moon. Chinese moon goddess Chang'e shows off shapeshifting powers to throw vainglorious modern day C-pop concerts with elaborate costumes, ending with an instant switch to a more traditional looking Chinese garb. | |
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The Sandman (1989): Lucifer has made several attempts to modernize Hell over the centuries, most notably when he established a triumvirate with Azazel and Beelzebub in order to stave off a revolt. Before he finally retired from ruling Hell, he also created a modern office for himself, with a computer. Later characters in a similar position are Ishtar (now a poledancer) and Susano-o (who now has a Japan Takes Over the World vibe, seeking to acquire Hell for his own pantheon). This is Dream's own advice for gods whose worship wanes. It comes up when he meets one who started a travel agency. |
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Parodied in Ye Gods, where Mars has become a fervent anti-atomic weapons campaigner, because he's still expected to be in the front of battle, and the only way to learn if his immortality extends to being nuked is to try it and see what happens. | |
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American Gods has many old gods who've been forced to adapt to the times to keep up a sliver of their old relevance. Mad Sweeney is said to have started out as a local guardian deity, then developed into a pagan king, and now he's survived as a leprechaun. Czernobog managed to substitute his old human sacrifices by getting a job at a slaughterhouse and killing cattle with a sledgehammer, but after getting forcibly retired he's a shadow of his former self. Anubis and Thoth run a funeral parlor in Memphis, Tennessee. Eostre is possibly the most powerful old god because her name was co-opted for a Christian holiday. Hinzelmann is an ancient Germanic kobold produced by a child sacrifice who's attached himself to a small town in northern Wisconsin that he keeps prosperous except for the kids who go missing once a year. Loki has taken on the guise of Mr. World, head of The Men in Black. |
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In the New 52 Wonder Woman (2011), the pantheon are all radically reinvented, mostly to look somewhat inhuman, but some have also updated their look: Apollo wears a business suit and seems to be seen as the "fixer" of the gods, and Hephasteus wears brass goggles and is surrounded by automatons, giving him a slightly Steampunk look. | |
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Namu Amida Butsu! -UTENA-: The cast is full of Buddhist deities, but the setting is Heisei-Reiwa era Japan, and thus we have Buddhas watching TV, engaging in commerce, reading newspaper and using information and computer technology. | |
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The Camp Half-Blood Series: This happens to some of the gods and monsters of Classical Mythology since they have to adapt to modern North America. For example, Ares appears as a violent biker, Iris, Greek messenger goddess of rainbows,note said to 'travel on rainbows' to deliver messages, has more or less abandoned the 'messenger' part of her job and now runs a small store, Thanatos uses an iPhone to help him keep track of departed souls, the Amazons run Amazon.com, and Mount Olympus is over the Empire State Building. Rick Riordan also applied it to the spin-off series Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard: Valhalla is now a luxury hotel, Thor is a TV-addict, Ran is the sea equivalent of a bag lady, and Odin's quest for knowledge went from discovering the runes to mastering the secrets of Power Points and smartphones. However it is completely averted in his Egyptian mythology-based series, The Kane Chronicles. Given most of the Egyptian pantheon has been locked up and sealed away since the end of Antiquity, the gods are the very opposite of "modernized", except for a few of them that actually avoided being imprisoned (such as Thoth who is now a laboratory-dwelling professor thriving on scientific research). |
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The Raven Tower: The gods of Ard Vusktia tend to choose domains for marketing purposes, trading miracles in their area of expertise for worship. One god had cornered the market on flint-knapping but is expanding into metallurgy as stone weapons fall out of style. | |
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