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It is good to be a god, isn't it? You can rule whatever you want inside your area of expertise, spend all day floating around the clouds or hang around with your followers. As long as people believe in you, everything is fine... As cool as it is to be patron saint of soldiers, the god of thunder or the demonic representation of lust, not everyone in the Celestial Bureaucracy can be bosses. Some mythologies decide to tie up the loose ends and lump in minor responsibilities with the major, producing gods with an oddly erratic remit. That is when the Odd Job Gods start to act. Sometimes averted by giving your existing gods additional domains, though that way you end up with gods of, say, mountains, earthquakes, and apples. Also, while most of these domains may seem unimpressive when taken at face value (and sometimes are painted as the divine equivalent of What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?), it could be highly symbolic or more complex. Regardless of the complexities of their powers, it still would not be a good idea to tease them about it. A Modernized God may become one of these as its influence extends far beyond the original myths. Not to be confused with, though sometimes goes with, God Job. See also Painting the Frost on Windows and Magical Underpinnings of Reality. Note also that, in historic mythologies, it was very common for major deities to have multiple and often internally inconsistent lists of associations and domains. In part this was because people tended to assume that the mighty rulers and creators of the world would have been involved in many different things rather than being one-trick ponies. Additionally, it was common for a primary association to influence secondary ones related to it in theme — for instance, a thunder god could also become a fertility god, since rain fosters crops, or a war god, since both storms and war are destructive calamities. Finally, religious practices are as prone to evolving over time as any other aspect of culture, and a god could accrue a lot of different stories and concepts as a mythology changed, split, remerged, and syncretized with other faiths over centuries or millennia. You can find several of TV Tropes' very own Odd Job Gods at Trope Pantheons. |
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Lampshaded in Mort, when Cutwell, trying to get the coronation done as fast as possible before reality collapses in on itself, realizes to his horror that the officiating priest is going to name all 900 known gods. He gets as far as Steikhegel, God of Isolated Cow Byres before someone stops him. | |
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The Mighty Thor has Shadrak, an alien god of the Diamond Moons of Oghogho (driven mad by being forced to witness the butchering of his pantheon). Shadrak variously claimed to be the God of Wine and Waterfalls, the God of Songs and Somersaults, the God of Baubles and Ballerinas, the God of Kittens and Coconuts, and the God of Pancakes and Tambourines. As it turns out, he was hiding his guilt in designing a god-destroying device by lying about being Shadrak, God of Bombs and Fireballs. After his sanity is (partially) restored, he takes on a new role assisting the Lord Librarian (God of Recorded Knowledge) as Shadrak, God of Daffodils and Documentation. | |
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In the Disgaea series, any item can be entered like a dungeon; (this is called an Item World.) If that item has a "legendary" trait; then this Item World is 100 levels deep. It has generals, kings, and at the end of level 100; an item god. You are encouraged to go through these and kill them all; as it powers that item up for you. So you can kill the Item God of a sword, piece of armor, used piece of chewing gum, detached horse penis... | |
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Uncle Time from Sluggy Freelance is in charge of governing the timestream in Timeless Space, which, as its name suggests, doesn't have a timestream. What he does all day besides knocking the occasional mini-lop rabbit through dimensions is unclear. | |
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In Reaper Man, when we get Hughnon Ridcully's delightful summation of events in Cori Celesti... | |
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Lord Dunsany's The Gods of Pegāna includes many of these; indeed, nearly the entire Pegana pantheon qualifies! | |
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From The Simpsons, when the family visits a cave: | |
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In Ah! My Goddess, goddesses run help-lines for the purpose of granting wishes to nice guys to whom the world has not been kind. | |
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This is sort of the whole point of Nobilis, where your character is essentially one of these. Your character might literally be the Power of Friendship. On the other hand, she might also be the Power of Lipton Instant Noodles (an example from the book). The difference in power and prestige between these is less than one might think- or may not necessarily even go in the direction one might think. | |
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A very early episode of Beavis and Butt-Head had the boys meet up with Sterculius, the god of feces at a monster truck show. He was not made up for the show, either. | |
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Shin Megami Tensei games feature numerous Odd Job Gods as regular encounters and occasional boss fights. Special mention goes out to Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, with Kanbari, the god of toilets. Devil Summoner: Raidou Kuzunoha vs. King Abaddon has more than a few of its own; early on, you get cursed with bad luck, and are assaulted by Binbou-gami, the god of poverty, who takes the form of a man hanging upside-down from a cloud raining coins from his shirt. Most of his attacks involve giant coins landing on top of you, too. Other strange gods include the above-mentioned Pele and fellow Hawaiian deity Kamapua'a (a hog-man), and Taoist god Neko Shogun. Others include, but are not limited to: Kudan, a human-headed cow that is born to issue a single prophecy of disaster and then dies, the Hare of Inaba, who was skinned for his insolence, Mamedanuki, a sort of raccoon dog capable of transforming its scrotum into useful objects, and hell, even the friggin' Chupacabra. |
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In 8-Bit Theater, Red Mage says that if they're lucky, they'll deal with what he calls "the wussy demons," meaning "The usual stuff: pain, darkness, anger..." When Black Mage asks what he thinks the "Hardcore," demons are, he replies "demons relating to urine or bad haircuts." While Black Mage is obviously skeptical, Red Mage proves him wrong. | |
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The Gentleman Bastard series takes place in a world with twelve gods (thirteen if you count the heretical god of thieves) with flourished and sometimes funny titles. For example, Gandolo the god of trade is also known as the "Heavenly Father of Business Transactions", and the god of thieves (simply known as the Nameless Thirteenth) is nicknamed the "Father of Necessary Pretexts". | |
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Errata, the Goddess of Misunderstandings (from Discworld Noir), famous for having the largest number of followers who, by mistake, follow a different god. | |
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True Villains has a god for every aspect of reality, but because Gods Need Prayer Badly, only the ones with worshipers are powerful enough to bother with. None of the odd job gods made it into the top rank, although Lollywog the god of silly antics is a Running Gag. | |
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In the actual play podcast Friends at the Table, season 7, the Weird West Sangfielle, introduces Slumbous, the god of putting out candles at bedtime. Slumbous has a very dedicated nun who has moved into the town's deserted abbey and is spreading the word of snuffing your lights properly to the townspeople. | |
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In Six Ages: Ride Like The Wind, you can pick between five minor gods that your ancestors may have taken with them when they evacuated the city of Nivorah: Tepekos, god of redsmiths; Narva, goddess of beer; Perondeto, god of glassmaking; Nocheli, goddess of the red dye insect; and Buseryan, god of writing. | |
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Dilbert: The Demon of Demos. Phil, the Prince of Insufficient Light, the ruler of Lower Heck. Instead of damning you to hell, he darns you to heck. He punishes people (usually Dilbert) for minor infractions not worthy of damnation in hell, such as using copier paper for the printer, stealing a chair from another cubicle, or taking the last cup of coffee and not making more. Thor appears to Dogbert offering him a job as one of these, promising further career advancement (Thor himself claims to have started out as the God of Static Cling). Dogbert then accepts the position of "God of Velcro". And he signed Dilbert up for the God of Mayonnaise. |
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The SCP Foundation: Ashur, God of the Wind, who isn't quite an example of this trope — but he is also one of the most credulous beings ever to exist, and the Foundation are able to convince him that various staff members are also gods, albeit with some very strange domains. Domains such as being able to lick one's own elbow, juggling, or turning on a light switch. He is also unable to believe that his good friend Suen is actually the god of the moon. BOTULAE, self proclaimed god of the pit, not of pits or any one mighty pit, but specifically the ball pit of a singular Chuck E. Cheese. |
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In the Earthworm Jim episode "Assault and Battery", Jim goes to the Fabled, Long-Sought Home of the Gods to receive a new battery for his supersuit. There, he meets the gods of nasal discharge and puns and the goddess of disco, who explain that the biggies are at a party in Valhalla. | |
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Discworld: A blink-and-you'll-miss-it explanation for why many gods end up with weird coverage areas tacked on: Old gods do new jobs. The verse has among other things: Aniger, the minor goddess of squashed animals (growing in power as carts get faster and roads get smoother and more people cry out, "Oh gods, what was that I hit?!"), possibly connected to Herne the Hunted, God of things destined to live short lives ending in a crunch. Anoia, minor goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers (formerly a volcano goddess)... who is heading up; in Making Money she's said to be tapped to be the new Goddess of Lost Causes, a growth industry on a world where "Million to One Chances crop up nine times out of ten". Note that Anoia's revival was pretty much fortuitous, derived from events she had no control over or any part in; but people believed she did, and belief is everything... Bilious, the oh God of Hangovers, whose newfound existence allows the God of Wine to drink as much as he likes and never get a hangover (and incidentally allows humans with the same trait to do it too). The reverse applies for Hideous Hangover Cures and their "humorous effects", which lets him have some measure of catharsis. He eventually decides to do freelance godding for any gods that want to take a break. Errata, the Goddess of Misunderstandings (from Discworld Noir), famous for having the largest number of followers who, by mistake, follow a different god. The heroic dog who stole the Tsortian Falchion and became the god of Unnecessary Subplots in Legends. Nuggan, the recently deceased God of Paperclips, Correct Things in the Right Place in Small Desk Stationery Sets, and Unnecessary Paperwork. His main purpose in Borogrovia appears to be just forbidding things because he's convinced prohibitions should have an actual effect on peoples' lives, so convinced the disembodied voice that remains from him post-mortem keeps doling them out, which is why no one noticed his passing. The God of Evolution. Who is an atheist. Bastet, god of things left on the doorstep, things half-digested under the bed, and computers that cheat at Tetris. The Hogfather, the god of Hogswatch. Oh, and the sunrise (more Spring than sunrise, as he is a Winter Solstice god). All of the above is just in the mainstream pantheon. There's also oddballs like P'Tang-P'Tang and Quetzovercoatl... or even think about Djelibeybi, which has a In-Universe Continuity Snarl of a pantheon. Lampshaded in Mort, when Cutwell, trying to get the coronation done as fast as possible before reality collapses in on itself, realizes to his horror that the officiating priest is going to name all 900 known gods. He gets as far as Steikhegel, God of Isolated Cow Byres before someone stops him. Another Lampshading in Small Gods, where Om mentions there's a God of Cabbage. Thunder gods may come and go, but when there's an attack of caterpillars, whom does everyone turn to? In Reaper Man, when we get Hughnon Ridcully's delightful summation of events in Cori Celesti... Small gods are what are created when random events occur (e.g. two snails crossing paths, or someone catching a dropped pen, etc.) or as in Witches Abroad, when a practitioner of the voodoo style of witchcraft sets out to make a few gods to order. A little headology to get people to believe in them is all you really need to do so; heck, C.M.O.T. Dibbler may have created the Black Dragon of Unhappiness by accident when he convinced a feng shui customer it existed! In a variation of this trope, Discworld also has multiple Deaths. Like a Death of Rats. (This wasn't always the case; the extra Deaths were created during the events of Reaper Man; by the end of the story, all but the Death of Rats and Death of Fleas were reabsorbed into one Death. It's strongly implied in the same work, however, that the Death we know only covers the Discworld; other Deaths exist in other places, and all are aspects of Azrael, the Death of the Universe.) Unseen Academicals features Pedestriana, the Goddess of Football. |
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On Sam & Max: Freelance Police, after the titular duo get Zeus and Juno back together in the episode "Dysfunction of the Gods", they are rewarded by becoming the god of junk food and the god of vulgar novelty items respectively. | |
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Embric of Wulfhammer's Castle has deities for every occasion, including contrivances and misguided but ultimately benevolent ideas, among others. | |
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Koala Man: Dapto has gods who are called "The Gods of Dapto" and they consist of the God of Fire, the God of Good Health, the God of Popping Down the Shops, the God of Always Has a Guitar at a Party, the God of Fancy Seeing You Here, the God of Just Fuckin' Do It, and the God of Realizing Your Potential. | |
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Anoia, minor goddess of Things That Get Stuck in Drawers (formerly a volcano goddess)... who is heading up; in Making Money she's said to be tapped to be the new Goddess of Lost Causes, a growth industry on a world where "Million to One Chances crop up nine times out of ten". Note that Anoia's revival was pretty much fortuitous, derived from events she had no control over or any part in; but people believed she did, and belief is everything... | |
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A Donald Duck comic featured a bored nephew of Zeus making him, at his request, the god of cars, television, and rock music. At the beginning of the comic he had been rather fed up with these things and planned to go completely over the top with them, so, when the inevitable request for a reset happened, he could sneak in changing the things that were already there before into other, in his opinion, less obnoxious things (such as a radio into a banjo). He managed to botch the job so well he sent Duckburg's technical prowess back to the 17th century. The only thing he didn't count on was that Tar and Feathers still existed, which the rather angry Ducksburg population were more than happy to remind him of after being Brought Down to Normal again. | |
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In Irregular Webcomic! there is a separate Death for every way anybody has ever died, including such infrequent events as death by choking on a giant frog and death by being ground by a Mars rover rock abrasion tool. The less likely Deaths are desperate for promotion. | |
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The Order of the Stick has Giggles, god of slapstick. He's worshiped exclusively by a tribe of orcs on a small island and was made up by Elan. Who is the world's only worshiper of Banjo, god of puppets. Although they're officially brothers, so Banjo may enter the orcish pantheon as well. (The orcs were actually Banjo worshippers initially, but Giggles was a better fit for their spiritual needs.) | |
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There are some of these in The Death Mage Who Doesn't Want a Fourth Time, being mostly lesser deities that serve major gods, like the god of records, goddess of maps, god of battle flags, and god of degenerate corpulence. Surprisingly the last one is rather easygoing. | |
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Tutenstein has Tut temporarily turned into the god of ice cream. | |
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Hyper Princess Pitch has The Goddess of Explosions. Which is also the protagonist's mom. | |
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This is Spın̈al Tap's David St. Hubbins' surname is derived from the patron saint of quality footwear. Note that the actual saints of footwear are the duo Crispin and Crispinian. Yeah, there are patron saints for everything, see below. | |
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Nodwick featured a lot of oddball deities. In one story, a goddess of peeping toms appeared. (Who was, ironically, very often the victim of them.) | |
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In the tabletop RPG Exalted, everything has a god. Everything. From concepts like love, taxes, and urban metropolises, to physical places and objects like crop fields and even individual rocks. Generally speaking, gods of concepts and abstracts outrank those of concrete things and places. Gods of things smaller than say, a large building, tend to not be sentient. The god Nara-O of the Hundred Veils would seem to be this since his official purview is "Secrets Known to Only One Person". However, this practically means that he's the god of all private (and often lost and forgotten) information. Nara-O is probably personally and politically one of the top ten most powerful gods in Heaven. Ryzala is a giant humanoid praying mantis. She is also the Goddess of Bureaucracy and Lady of Paperwork, making her the most powerful god in the Celestial Bureaucracy who is not actually a Celestial Incarna. One artifact from the splatbook, Wonders of the Lost Age is a type of prayer stone called a "Prayer Transceiver Module", each one being keyed to one specific goddess, whose entire purpose is to receive and relay messages made on that specific stone. She is immensely reliable because she's that desperate to have something to do. Not to mention that the stones have been lost since the Golden Age, making for one terminally bored goddess. Heaven also contains literal odd job gods, being people who are only good for basic paperwork, filing, and message carrying. |
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In PS238, the reincarnation of the Hestia, Greek goddess of the hearth, is in the Rainmaker Program, where superkids whose powers don't lend themselves to crime-fighting learn other uses for them. They're thinking she could be the world's best advice columnist, fertility clinician, or marriage counselor. She's also the goddess of Sacred Hospitality, though, and can actually become dangerous if people violate those rules. | |
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The main religion in the World of the Fly by Night Series has an emphasis on "odd." There are hundreds of Gods, called Beloveds, for every possible job. Some are responsible for glorious tasks, like raising the Sun, delivering messages to dead loved ones, or protecting boats from sinking. Further down the ladder are Beloveds for keeping vegetables fresh and protecting jams and butter from pesky flies. | |
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Unseen Academicals features Pedestriana, the Goddess of Football. | |
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One of the most powerful characters in The Tick is the Mighty Agrippa, Roman god of the aqueduct. According to the series canon, he's the last god to join the Roman pantheon, but when he showed up the rest had left for another planet. Despite being a low-ranking god, he's still a Physical God and one of the strongest beings in the series. | |
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The Spookshow, those anonymous suit-wearing government agents who everyone believes exist... so they do. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons has quite a few: In Greyhawk: Wastri, the god of human-supremacist bigotry. And for some reason, also frogs. Zagyg, the god of eccentricity. Gzemnid, the beholder god of gases. Murlynd, god of "magical technology". This wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't obviously a cowboy, complete with six-shooters explained by being magic. Zuggtmoy, the demon lord of fungus. She has a very hard time attracting worshipers because there isn't much she can offer mortals. Anyone insane enough to actually do so tends to die quickly of the virulent fungal infections she "blesses" them with. Zarus, "god of humanity" (in the same sense that Corellon Larethian represents the elves, although the philosophy of Zarus tends to be expressed in a more Gruumsh-like manner). In Mystara: Buglore, the Immortal patron of insects. In The Forgotten Realms: Finder Wyvernspur, demigod of bards, new beginnings, and saurials. He was elevated to godhood after slaying Moander, the god of corruption and decay, and in the process saved the saurials from their slavery to said god, which was how he ended up as their patron deity. Lurue, goddess of intelligent and/or talking beasts. Siamorphe, demigoddess of nobility and royalty (and the noblesse oblige that comes with such status). Selûne isn't too weird, being the goddess of Light and the Moon, but her domain includes Lycanthropes, but only the good-aligned ones. Evil lycanthropes fall under Malar, god of the hunt. Sharess is primarily a goddess of sex, but also cats. Or thanks to Speak With Animals, primarily a goddess of cats, and also sex. |
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The deities of Dwarf Fortress are procedurally generated like the rest of its worlds and given several random spheres of influence out of a list. Spheres can range from the expected things like storms, luck, fertility, justice, and war, to stuff like rainbows, muck, poetry, jealousy, and salt. There's also an element of Flight, Strength, Heart as it's totally possible to get a god of justice, strength, and pregnancy, or one of peace, love, and torture. | |
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Something*Positive has an appearance by Google Crom, who judges your every action from his throne clutching his terrible skull mace. Flame trolls and he rewards you with comely wenches; grief lower-level players and camp their corpse, and he lowers you sixty levels with a bellow of "CROM'S WILL IS DONE!!!" | |
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Neopets: Most Faeries that don't belong to one of the six basic elemental types tend to be themed around a specific domain, some more oddly-specific or less glamorous than others. Kari the Negg Faerie, the Soup Faerie, and the Tooth Faerie's roles speak for themselves, Bree's duties revolved entirely around the former Key Quest subgame, and the Meridell Rubbish Dump even receives donations from an unseen Dung Faerie. | |
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Saint Vidicon of Cathode in the Warlock of Gramarye series by Christopher Stasheff. The patron saint of technicians and engineers. Saint Vidicon's symbol is a yellow screwdriver worn in the shirt pocket. In a later book, his history was revealed — he was martyred when he used his body to close an electrical circuit, allowing a speech by the Pope to make it to air and save the Catholic Church from obsolescence. | |
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In The Forgotten Realms: Finder Wyvernspur, demigod of bards, new beginnings, and saurials. He was elevated to godhood after slaying Moander, the god of corruption and decay, and in the process saved the saurials from their slavery to said god, which was how he ended up as their patron deity. Lurue, goddess of intelligent and/or talking beasts. Siamorphe, demigoddess of nobility and royalty (and the noblesse oblige that comes with such status). Selûne isn't too weird, being the goddess of Light and the Moon, but her domain includes Lycanthropes, but only the good-aligned ones. Evil lycanthropes fall under Malar, god of the hunt. Sharess is primarily a goddess of sex, but also cats. Or thanks to Speak With Animals, primarily a goddess of cats, and also sex. |
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Small gods are what are created when random events occur (e.g. two snails crossing paths, or someone catching a dropped pen, etc.) or as in Witches Abroad, when a practitioner of the voodoo style of witchcraft sets out to make a few gods to order. A little headology to get people to believe in them is all you really need to do so; heck, C.M.O.T. Dibbler may have created the Black Dragon of Unhappiness by accident when he convinced a feng shui customer it existed! | |
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In the short film A Case of Spring Fever, our protagonist encounters Coily the Spring Sprite, a seemingly omnipotent being (or at least a high-powered Reality Warper) that has an odd preoccupation with springs. | |
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Tortall Universe: Tamora Pierce's series of books set in-universe has the big gods, like Mithros (war and justice), and the Goddess (fertility, women, agriculture), but it also has minor gods like Weiryn (god of the hunt for a small mountainous area), and rather hilariously a god of crossroads. | |
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In Mystara: Buglore, the Immortal patron of insects. |
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In Chainsaw Man, Devils act as Anthropomorphic Personifications of just about every conceivable concept, with their level of strength scaling to how much people fear them. This means that while the most dangerous devils embody concepts like control, the future, darkness, knowledge, and various weapons, others get things like mold, tomatoes, sea cucumbers, and skin. There are even devils for otherwise fictional concepts like zombies, though it's a major limit when their power is tied to something that doesn't naturally exist. What truly makes them akin to gods is that the very existence of the concepts they embody is tied to their own, as Chainsaw Man is able to use his Ret-Gone power on Devils representing threats to human survival to rewrite reality. | |
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Turns out, she's just one of the six gods of sweets (her name being Sweet Guardian due to her role in protecting pudding from being erased in Dangerous), the others being Sweet Maker (Saki, also from SUGURI), Sweet Eater (Tomomo, who's also a Dark Magical Girl on top of that), Sweet Breaker (the Big Bad of QP Shooting Dangerous, with her real name revealed to be Amami), Sweet Blogger (Natsumi from Xmas Shooting, although you probably wouldn't tell from her since her attacks more involve veggies than sweets) and Sweet Creator. The last one's identity however is unknown. | |
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Noragami: The main character Yato probably counts, being a god of calamity. He seems to have been a lot more busy and important in the past but nowadays has to survive by literally doing odd jobs around town that mortals call him for, like finding their lost pet. He works his ass off getting his number out there so people don't forget about him entirely and he dies/disappears as a result. The series also has an example of a binbogami (god of misfortune) in Kofuku, an acquaintance of Yato's. Real Life Odd Jobs God Ebisu also appears and becomes important toward the end of the second season. Later in the series we get a popularity contest among the gods, Yato gets beaten in popularity by a cat, a literal house cat whose only job in life was being a mascot of a train station. Believe it or not, such a cat god really does exist. |
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RuneScape has Brassica Prime, the cabbage god of cabbages. | |
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In any of the Neptunia games, the CPU goddesses (aka the Playable Characters) do quests, build a nation, and govern the people. There's a reason for that first one. | |
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The Gods of Arr-Kelaan has Ronson, the god of apathy and beer, as well as Shadowscared, god of being afraid. Despite this, Ronson is the head of the traveler pantheon. | |
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Exceptionally powerful enemies in Realm of the Mad God have the title of Gods, even though Oryx is the only truly omnipotent being in the game. So we have Medusa, the Red Demon, the White Demon, the Ghost God, the Undead Dwarf God, the Sprite God, the Slime God, the Ent God, the Evil Chicken God, Cthulhu... the list goes on and on. | |
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In the first episode of Rome, Titus Pulio is locked up in a cell and prays to Forculus to release him. Forculus is related to Janus, the god of gates and doors, though the DVD commentary notes he should have prayed to Cardea as well, the goddess of hinges. | |
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In My Name is Bruce, the town of Gold Lick is menaced by the Chinese warrior-god of bean curd. This is a real Chinese god incidentally, although he's portrayed as highly benevolent in real life. | |
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Squid Fairy from Imminent Moose has the power to grant any wish... as long as it pertains to squids. | |
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The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl features the God of the Used Book Market, who helps people find books they're looking for and punishes unscrupulous collectors who are Only in It for the Money by stealing their rare books to put them back into circulation. | |
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The Mystery Science Theater 3000 sketch inspired by A Case of Spring Fever (see Films above) goes even further, implying that not only is there a tiny sprite that governs Mike's existence and can erase him from reality if someone wishes it, but there's a different sprite just for his socks. | |
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Fire Emblem on Forums features a few across the many roleplays: Fire Emblem on Forums: Chains of Horai: While most of the Gods of the Land have dominion over an element, their alternate domains can sometimes qualify. Ozen is the god of money in addition to being the god of earth, while Mao is the god of pleasure and vice. Rau is also the god of change in addition to their power over thunder. This sometimes determines their favoured kind of Gnosis wielder. |
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Due of the wide array of tropes (and non-tropes) in the Trope Pantheons, some of the gods might gain some odd positions to cover. | |
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The Elder Scrolls series has many deities, and quite a few cover "odd job" spheres. A large list is available on the series' Divine Beings character page. To note a few prominent examples: In the old Nordic pantheon, Stuhn is the "God of Ransom" and is credited with teaching the early Nords how to take prisoners of war alive for ransom. His brother Tsun is the "God of Trials Against Adversity" and stands guard at the Hall of Valor in Sovngarde. The spirits of dead warriors must prove their worthiness to enter in a duel against him. In Skyrim, this is actually a part of the main storyline. The Daedric Princes offer a fairly true-to-life take on the randomness of gods. For example, Peryite the Taskmaster is viewed by some as the weakest of the Princes. His sphere is pestilence, but also the ordering of the lowest orders of Oblivion. Other Daedric Princes cover odd spheres such as nightmares, decay, hunting, shadows, pariahs, luck, or cheese. Alduin, the Big Bad of Skyrim, is specifically the god of "world-eating"; a Beast of the Apocalypse who returns the world to its primordial state so that it can be reborn into a new world. While performing his duties as the World Eater, he is said to be an invincible monster who dwarfs mountains and eats entire countries in a single bite. When he's not, he's simply a very powerful and almost-invincible dragon. The old Yokudan pantheon of the Redguards has a number of these. Perhaps the most interesting is the Hoon Ding, the "make way" god. He manifests as a great warrior (or sometimes a weapon) whenever the Redguard people need to "make way" for their people to live, and is said to be able to "make way" through anything. The Indy Ploy is a highly valued concept to the Khajiit people, to the point where they have a god for it, Baan Dar. He is commonly attributed with "the genius which lends itself to the creation of last-minute plans to foil the machinations of the Khajiit's foes." The Magna-Ge, aka "Star Orphans", are et'Ada ("original spirits") who fled Mundus (the mortal plane) along with their "father" Magnus (God of Magic and "architect" of Mundus) during the creation of Mundus. Some of the Magna-Ge seem to govern over or are associated with some unusual, often mind-bending concepts. The commonality between them seems to be that they are all fleeting things, perhaps associated with luck or chance. Examples include synesthesia, the catching of fish, burping, the doom of new ideas, ideas that too quickly come to fruition, and "divide-the-line" wisdom. This makes sense, of course, as the Magne-Ge were those et'Ada who had interest in the idea of the world Lorkhan wanted to create but weren't committed enough to make the sacrifice needed to become a part of that world like the Aedra. The concepts they are associated with are thus fleeting or bizarre or otherwise things that only happen momentarily or in possibilities. One interesting aspect of Elder Scrolls gods is that they seem to have overlapping roles and spheres, but that within each of these overlapping spheres they have very, very specific areas of responsibility. For example, Mara and Dibella are both gods of love, but they handle very specific aspects of love, with Mara being the goddess of affection and union between two beings, while Dibella is associated with passionate love and creativity. Similarly, Jyggalag and Peryite are both gods of order, but Peryite is the god of menial tasks and day-to-day activities (essentially the god of middle managers) while Jyggalag is a god of obsessive ordering and prediction of all things. |
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In Kamichu!, a very Shinto-inspired series, you even see gods for empty aluminum cans, ice cream bars, and cheap grocery store mascots. | |
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Discussed in One Piece. Sanji brings up this phenomenon in order to encourage Usopp since they're on their way to defy and confront "God Enel" of Skypeia. A rough quote: | |
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In Dungeons of Dredmor, you can get a Side Quest to earn a random piece of magic equipment by praying to Inconsequentia, Goddess of Pointless Sidequests. You can also leave offerings of lutefisk to shrines of the Lutefisk God, who will offer a magic item if you bring him enough. | |
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Sometimes the connection is a little laboured. For instance, the martyrdom of Saint Agatha (of Catania) involved having her breasts cut off, so somewhat unsurprisingly she is invoked against illnesses of the breast. But she is also patron saint of bronze-founders, which is said to originate in the passing resemblance between church bells and female breasts. She was also promoted to patron saint of the fictitious island of Catan from the board game Die Siedler von Catan, but this last job was not recognized by the Catholic church. | |
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Touhou Project: Gensokyo, which has many residents with basis in Shintoism and Japanese folklore, has a number of low-power gods. This includes Shizuha Aki, the god of autumn leaves; she turns them red by painting them by hand and makes them fall to the ground by kicking the trees. Okina Matara, being a god who's been syncretized with a whole host of other deities, predictably has a long list of things she is a god of. The earth, the mountains, the stars and destiny? Common enough. Seasons, Noh theatre and that which is hidden? A bit odd but still doable. Outcasts, the disabled, hindrances, silkworm breeding and back doors? Now we're getting weird, and that last one is just abstract unless you've researched her source of inspiration. |
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Rokugan (the setting of Legend of the Five Rings) has the Fortunes, minor gods of the in-universe mythology, and anyone can be upgraded to such a position by the Emperor. However, no Emperor can overturn a decree made by a previous Emperor... which can be quite the mess if an Emperor decides to name you, for example, the Fortune of torture or of cockroaches (which happened under Hantei XVI). | |
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Glen Cook's Garrett, P.I., while he doesn't believe in gods until he's actually hired by some of them, is a Deadpan Snarker with a personal Running Gag about how the Butt-Monkey Odd Job godling who passes out towels in the heavenly loo has a secondary job: messing with Garrett's life. He's also hypothesized that the reason so many shady people in TunFaire have really stupid nicknames is that some mentally challenged micro-deity thinks it's a hoot to slip ideas for them into people's heads while they're squatting over a chamber pot. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: In the Kamigawa block, the short version of the story is that the gods are pissed. The set's flavor was influenced by Shinto, so there are kami for everything, from cleansing fire and infinite rage to pus and painted roads. | |
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In 1000 tearz or deth (a Harry Potter fanfic... you can see where this is going), there's a talking tree who is the patron demon of the emos. | |
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In the Star Bomb song "God of No More", a number of these are sent out to fight against Kratos, since he's already finished off all the major ones and they're all that's left. Included on this list are the gods of smores, baked potatoes, chairs, and twerking. | |
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Courage the Cowardly Dog had gods appearing in a few episodes like a goddess of storms, Sandman the god of sleep and... the goosey god of honking. | |
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Since Werewolf: The Forsaken is basically built on animism through a Religious Horror lens, it should be no surprise that it's crawling with these. So long as you accept "spirits" and "gods" as being interchangeable, which they basically are in animism. For example, just in the court of wolf spirits, you have: spirits of wolves as a whole, spirits of specific breeds of wolf, spirits of wolves from a specific region, spirits of wolves of a specific pack, spirits of a specific wolf pack rank, spirits of wolf aspects (hunter, seeker, fighter, etc), spirits of wolf as metaphoric symbols, etc. The oddest of odd job gods are the Magath, borderline eldritch abominations created when two or more kinds of spirit merge that are either antithetical to one another or just form a very, very specific and unlikely niche. For example, the three sample magath in the Predators splat are "Walkerbreaker", a vehicle/pain hybrid spirit (so, in essence, "spirit of agonizing death by car accident"), Rainsliver, a swarm/glass/murder hybrid spirit that is trying to set itself up as "spirit of murder by glass shards or defenestration", and Wise Lost, a strays/knowledge hybrid spirit that set itself up as the guardian spirit of an inner-city library. |
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In the Rainbow Magic series, pretty much every fairy is this. There are fairies responsible for colors and the weather, as well as princesses, parties, the days of the week, sports, and fashion, among many others. | |
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Jade Empire features a Celestial Bureaucracy that tracks the actions of the heroes. At one point, a god appears to you and chews you out for wreaking so much destruction; his job was to tabulate your karma, and he was so ill-suited for the task he was demoted. So now he sells you trinkets. There's also a major case of Combo Platter Powers in the case of the Water Dragon who, in addition to her obvious dominion over rivers, rainfall, etc., also happens to be in charge of the cycle of death and reincarnation. |
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Perfect Strangers mentions the Mypiot god of windows cleaning. | |
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St. Clare of Assisi, the Patron Saint of Television. Supposedly when she was too ill to attend Mass, she could see and hear the ceremonies on the wall of her bedroom. | |
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In The Atomic Blood-Stained Bus, all the gods seen have huge remits in their portfolio (Spring, Plague, Sleep) but due to human modernisation, they have had to adopt other things alongside (Ten Pin Bowling, Post Offices, Reality TV Contestants) | |
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Grumble, the god of the minions in Spells, Swords, & Stealth is an Odd Job God by choice. When he ascended to godhood, rather than become a big name god he chose to watch over the lowliest of the low as he himself had once been. The protagonist Thistle the gnome is a devout follower of his instead of the more traditional gnomish god for precisely this reason and this devotion allows Thistle to become one of Grumble's paladins. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Neptune's Spatula", King Neptune uses his powers to turn SpongeBob into (presumably) the god of fry-cooking or some-such for about a minute before the latter decides to just teach him to cook for himself so he can stay in Bikini Bottom. | |
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Warhammer 40,000 has the two Ork gods Mork (who is cunningly brutal) and Gork (who is brutally cunning). Or was it the other way around? It should be noted that these only sound like odd jobs to humans. To Orks these concepts are as basic as gods of light and dark. The strange part of Tzeentch isn't their domain. It's that they are a God of Evil whose domain is hope. |
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In Codex Equus, there are a lot of deities with rare, extremely specialized domains Cultura is the Draconequi Goddess of Popular Culture. While certainly a weird thing to be based on, it has some impressive powers, such as being able to copy the powers of fictional characters, summon puppets of them to do her bidding and trap her enemies in fictional scenarios. She also possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of popular culture, all of it, which makes her a pretty skilled manipulator. Vehere is the Griffon Goddess of Modern Transportation and Travel. As with Cultura, this is more impressive than it sounds. She's incapable of getting lost (unless he wants to), has an encyclopedic knowledge of vehicles, a photographic memory, and can recreate any vehicle she's cataloged in her scrapbook from thin air, as well as create the means for them to travel wherever she likes. This includes things like tanks. She also can teleport, but she prefers to take the long route. Downplayed with Entasi, who is the Minotaur God of Strength and Victory on top of being the God of Sports. He gets unlimited stamina and incredible agility out of that part of his portfolio. Munditia is the goddess of Hygiene and Sanitation, who has the power to clean literally anything, including the body of toxins and poisons, pollution, and even the soul. Prince Sermo's domain of Newscasters doesn't seem like much compared to other common concepts like Integrity, Research, and Knowledge, but it's actually more powerful than it appears. Being a god of Newscasters grants him telepathic and telekinetic abilities, some degree of Sound magic, the ability to create holographic projections, and the ability to instantly understand and speak any language. Sermo's domain also grants him a degree of technopathic ability that allows him to control technology associated with newscasters, such as computers, cameras, and so on, with his powers changing and adapting as technology changes according to the standards of each Age. Sultana Sahra's domain of Exploration doesn't seem like much, but it prevents her from getting lost no matter where she is, and she can create maps from magic alone, which is a very useful power to have for avid explorers like her. Her Photographic Memory also allows her to remember places she previously visited so she can go back to them whenever she wants. Prince Crystal Clear's domain of Stage Crews doesn't seem as common or impressive as Sound or Technology, yet as is the case with Sermo's domain of Newscasters, it's actually more powerful than it looks. he possesses telepathic, empathic, and telekinetic powers for communication/coordination and multitasking, respectively, and he has precognitive abilities that allow him to protect his stage crews from accidents. He can also heal his co-workers and grant them various boons that allow them to do their jobs more effectively, such as enhanced stamina and endurance. |
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In the Warhammer Fantasy universe, there's Necoho, the god of atheism. He gets more powerful as he loses followers. | |
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The Liavek anthologies had Bree Amal, Goddess of Keepers of Disorderly Houses, and Ghologhosh, god of unmeant curses. | |
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The citizens of Santa Destroy in No More Heroes recognize gods of each side job in the game, so you have gods of coconuts, cats, garbage, steak, and scorpions, the last of which can apparently be slain by killing scorpions. | |
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In Snowflame, our protagonist worships the goddess of cocaine. | |
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In Nomine: Celestials can be assigned a Word, becoming the embodiment of a concept and in charge of encouraging its development on Earth. Demonic Words actually tend to be more logical than angelic Words, since anything that negatively influences mortals (Anorexia, Fast Food, Fine Print) is a source of demonic power. (On the other hand, Lucifer enjoys giving bizarre Words as punishments — just ask Imbap, the Demon of Stale Bong Water.) Angels are much more likely to have strange Words when they reflect personal obsessions. Some of the weirder examples on both sides: Druiel, the Angel of Teenage Death. Fulrick, the Demon of Pencil Shavings. Jorek, the Demon of Goth Wannabes. Kizke, the Demon of Internet Comics. Maigonigal, the Demon of Bad Art. Thratch, the Demon of Snappy Comebacks You Only Think of After It's Too Late. Tomas, the Angel of Catchy Tunes. Randolph, the Angel of Dictionaries. Stander, the Demon of Embalming. Bonniff, the Demon of Reading Peoples' Diaries. Carr, the Demon of Missing Puzzle Pieces (who has carefully expanded his Word's scope to refer to any missing clue in a wider "puzzle"). |
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In Journey to the West, Son Wukong (who regularly trounces the gods in hand-to-hand combat) gets the job of Celestial Stable Boy to placate his ambitions, but that just ends up kicking off an even worse Rage Against the Heavens when he discovers he’s on the absolute bottom rung of the divine hierarchy. (It does end up being a useful item in his resume later on, though, as all horses, regular and supernatural, hold him in awe as a result.) | |
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Embers in the Dusk features the Aetheric Concordat, a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits who are all minor Warp gods. Such as Zahhak, the goddess of the idea that evil is a choice, Zaeed, the god of mercenaries, and Faust, the goddess of friendship. There is also a god of cooks, of last stands (A Dead End Job with Legacy Immortality)... | |
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Ōkami features gods of assorted elements, rejuvenation, explosions, cutting, the Sun and Moon, and Kabegami, the god of walls. The game is based on Shinto, which has rather a lot of gods. When one wishes to refer to all of the Shinto gods collectively in Japanese, one speaks of "the eight million gods".note And that's not a strict limit, either. "Eight million" is an archaic Japanese euphemism for "a vast, possibly infinite number", the same way forty is used in the Bible. | |
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Pathfinder: Alseta, goddess of doorways. Ghlaunder, god of insects and parasites. Zarongel, goblin god of dog-killing, fire, and mounted combat. Not as random as it seems, as all three of those things are Serious Business among goblins. |
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In Lucifer we are given Mona, Angel of Hedgehogs (a job she chose in order to avoid taking on too much responsibility). The only other god in her universe is Elaine, Angel of everything except hedgehogs. | |
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In The Sandman (1989), we meet Pharamond, from the Babylonian pantheon, who is now "in charge of transportation." He appears to be more or less a travel agent for the puissant. He, in fact, manages a massive transportation firm. With the fringe benefit of being able to count road traffic deaths as sacrifices in his name. He is quite happy with his new place in the order of things. | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: The Goddess of Fortune mentions that if word gets out about how badly she screwed up she could be made the Goddess of Dirt. | |
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Part of The Darkside Detective takes place in a crypt where Dooley gets trapped with a gang of mafiosi; examining the statue in the crypt will produce the information that it depicts the patron saint of being trapped in a crypt with a gang of villains. | |
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Acceleration of Suguri has QP of QP Shooting, the goddess of pudding. Turns out, she's just one of the six gods of sweets (her name being Sweet Guardian due to her role in protecting pudding from being erased in Dangerous), the others being Sweet Maker (Saki, also from SUGURI), Sweet Eater (Tomomo, who's also a Dark Magical Girl on top of that), Sweet Breaker (the Big Bad of QP Shooting Dangerous, with her real name revealed to be Amami), Sweet Blogger (Natsumi from Xmas Shooting, although you probably wouldn't tell from her since her attacks more involve veggies than sweets) and Sweet Creator. The last one's identity however is unknown. |
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Sverd Shelgr, an Inheritance Cycle webcomic that seems to no longer exist on the internet, featured a recurring character who was the Urgal God of Bunnies, Flowers and Miscellaneous Soft Pillows. He was temporarily kicked out of the pantheon for being lame, then allowed back in when he started smiting non-believers. | |
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I Should Write Doctor Strange features a story pitch involving the sudden and inexplicable emergence of a new pantheon. Its members include gods of couriers, cowboys, mad beats, and bungee. | |
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The Bastard from the Chalion series. The only god not associated with a season, his domain is all things out of place: demons, children born out of wedlock (obviously), odd loves, disasters, and unorthodox justice. He also takes the souls of those not devoted to any of the other gods. He's not all bad news, though: his domain also includes unexpected windfalls, and when a nail is wanted, he's often the one to provide it. | |
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In The Thousand Names, the leaders of the Redemption rename themselves after various angels. The leader of their military idly wonders what would happen when they ran out of angels with impressive portfolios like Vengeance and Victory and have to start using the names of lesser angels like the Angel of Sisterly Affection or the Angel of Small Crafts. | |
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In the Forgotten Realms crossover Finder's Bane, a god residing outside the Realms (which has, or used to have, tons of gods) comments that "We wouldn't be surprised to find they have a god there with dominion over the tableware and ale mugs." | |
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The title character of Good Luck Girl! is the goddess of poverty and misfortune. | |
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The fal'Cie of Final Fantasy XIII. Sure, you had fal'Cie who did important things like producing food or acting as the sun. But some fal'Cie had less important tasks like... operating automatic doors. | |
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Another Lampshading in Small Gods, where Om mentions there's a God of Cabbage. Thunder gods may come and go, but when there's an attack of caterpillars, whom does everyone turn to? | |
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Fire Emblem on Forums: Chains of Horai: While most of the Gods of the Land have dominion over an element, their alternate domains can sometimes qualify. Ozen is the god of money in addition to being the god of earth, while Mao is the god of pleasure and vice. Rau is also the god of change in addition to their power over thunder. This sometimes determines their favoured kind of Gnosis wielder. | |
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In another Shinto-inspired example, Spirited Away includes entities such as the alleged stench spirit and the radish spirit. | |
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DarkMatter2525: In "God of the Paradox," Yahweh was meant to be the god of pastries (since his major was Culinary Arts). | |
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Kingdom of Loathing has a mini-boss in the Hidden Temple, the half-serpent, half-sheep deity Baa'baa'bu'ran, who according to his Monster Manuel entry is the god of doorknobs, the smell of rain, open-faced sandwiches, and the ampersand. Also, one of the Pokemon-esque gods whose altar you find in the Hidden City is Squirtlcthulli, god of water and doorknobs. There was also an event that involved a player finding the name of the Demon Lord of Fruity Girl Drinks and summoning him for the first time. | |
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The Raven Tower: A god's Reality Warping power isn't limited in this way, but some gods choose to Invoke this to gain worship. One unnamed deity cornered the market on miracles related to flint-knapping in its region, then branched out into metallurgy. Justified in that some miracles, like Miracle Food, require specialized knowledge to perform safely, so expertise is sometimes needed. | |
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In Barry Hughart's The Chronicles of Master Li and Number Ten Ox, Master Li has to appeal to Heaven to replace the lost patroness of prostitutes; a prostitute discusses the possibilities with him. | |
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In Krampus: The Yule Lord, The Krampus is the God of Yuletide. | |
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In one episode of Babylon 5 G'Kar asked Zack Allan if Garibaldi's painting of Daffy Duck was one of his household gods. Zack called him the "Egyptian god of Frustration." | |
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Most of the gods of City of Heroes are pretty powerful, but that doesn't stop a djinn from existing solely to keep an eye on four enchanted mantles or prevent a wide array of quickly forgotten gods from running around. Trapdoor is essentially the god of running away, and the Furies are exactly what you'd expect. Lord Recluse seems to be the god of spiders, while Statesman seems to be the God of Superheroes. | |
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One arc of Over the Hedge has RJ deciding to worship the Roman gods, though he discovers there are quite a few of them such as "Larry, god of comfort insoles." | |
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Mountain Time has The God of Good Posture: good at standing, and proud of it. | |
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In Greyhawk: Wastri, the god of human-supremacist bigotry. And for some reason, also frogs. Zagyg, the god of eccentricity. Gzemnid, the beholder god of gases. Murlynd, god of "magical technology". This wouldn't be so bad if he wasn't obviously a cowboy, complete with six-shooters explained by being magic. Zuggtmoy, the demon lord of fungus. She has a very hard time attracting worshipers because there isn't much she can offer mortals. Anyone insane enough to actually do so tends to die quickly of the virulent fungal infections she "blesses" them with. Zarus, "god of humanity" (in the same sense that Corellon Larethian represents the elves, although the philosophy of Zarus tends to be expressed in a more Gruumsh-like manner). |
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