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A character musters their courage to confront the supernatural being they believe responsible for their torment. No, it's not The Legions of Hell but the gods, or angels or even the Big Man Upstairs. This character has a beef with the Powers That Be who are running the show, and the capacity to do something about it. It could be that the Cosmic Plaything has had enough and shouts Who's Laughing Now? It could be someone who believes they can do a better job being God. It could be that God is a jerk or even out and out evil. It could be something as complicated as the higher planes of existence being revealed to be run like a mad, hopelessly bureaucratic corporation — too concerned with rules and regulations to give a damn about the helpless mortals stuck in the middle, or staffed by bumblers who keep screwing things up by accident. It could also be something as simple as revenge or, even simpler, a search for a good fight. This trope is more controversial than merely challenging Satan or going To Hell and Back. That makes it a prime target for authors who want to make their latest work Darker and Edgier. Many Moral Guardians and Media Watchdogs view it in a negative light, which makes it even more suited for this purpose. It's a full inversion of conventional morality and in some cases proposing that God Is Evil (the Gnostics' position). The only way to go further in this direction is to declare that Satan Is Good. It is also somewhat common in Rational Fiction. The Other Wiki calls this misotheism — hatred of God or the gods. Not to be confused with atheism itself, the difference being that with misotheism, you believe there is a god (or gods), but you hate Him/them. Often used alongside Heaven Above, where a Rage Against The Heavens is visualized by having a character rant at the clouds as if God was hiding behind them. See also Crisis of Faith, Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter, Nay-Theist. Often a part of a God and Satan Are Both Jerks storyline. Can result in A God Am I, Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?, and/or Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu. For a more Postmodern take, compare Rage Against the Author. If someone actually succeeds in this endeavor, see Kill the God. For god versus god, see Divine Conflict. Not to be confused with Rage Against the Machine, a Rap Metal/Funk Metal group with anarchist leanings. |
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Disgaea 4 definitely counts, wherein the main character directly defies God's will. And says so. Repeatedly. Depending on what ending path you're on, you may even fight God. Well, a piece of God. Taking the form of a mushroom monster. If defeated in combat, God does not take it well. | |
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In Fight Club the narrator and Tyler Durden discuss this when Tyler tries to 'enlighten' the narrator by means of burning his hand with lye. | |
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In Life with Father, the reverend begins a prayer for the ill Vinnie with a standard 1890s supplication on behalf of "this miserable sinner." Her husband Clarence takes instant umbrage with this and starts yelling at the heavens (or rather, the ceiling) that Vinnie is not miserable and the Almighty knows it and that He'd better get moving and make her better now. | |
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No JRPG has played this trope as bluntly as Shin Megami Tensei II. God is the final boss and when you kill him he tells the player that they have committed the ultimate sin. To be fair, he is an evil tyrant in the game who treats humanity as his plaything. If you go the Law path, Satan himself allies with you to judge God. Yes, that Satan. | |
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In A Loud Among Demons, Lincoln realizes that the C.H.E.R.U.B angles don't actually want to help people but rather use them for personal gain. He finally has enough and chews them out for having the nerve to spout goodwill and nobility while ignoring people (like himself, considering his situation) who need genuine help. | |
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In the third book of His Dark Materials, Lord Asriel unites dozens of universes to declare war on God. It turns out that "God" is just the first angel to have come into existence. He's unbelievably old, and when the protagonists release him from his crystal cage, he disintegrates into nothingness. His regent, Metatron, who was responsible for the evils for which God was blamed, is killed by Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter, who drag him into a bottomless pit. | |
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Gone by Michael Grant. Quinn initially blames God for the FAYZ, much to the chagrin of Astrid, who's a practicing Catholic. | |
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In Noob, this is the case of the Order as a whole. Their native continent, Syrial, was frozen in time, Unpersoned and made inaccessible by the rest of the world via being surrounded by a Perpetual Storm by their world's gods for the latter's own reasons. When the gods ended the freeze and they woke up to realize that the gods had broken their vow to not interfere with the free will of mortals, they were understandably angry. Since the Coalition has Undying Loyalty towards the gods and the Empire tries to stay on the gods' good side because they need their magic to fuel most of their technology, the Order is hostile to both other factions. | |
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In Sunless Skies you can perform this if you go beyond Death's Door. You can choose to fire upon the celestial machinery and servants with your engine's artillery, but because you're just a human assaulting a Judgement, you are near instantly removed from existence by merely being looked at. Your complaint is registered, however. One ambition (Truth) however, allows you to do more than just complain... | |
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The Brothers Karamazov: Seeing a bunch of idiot fundamentalists spit on the corpse of Elder Zosima leads Alyosha to stagger out of the monastery in hysterics. He shouts at the heavens, asking God why he didn't smite the people who disrespected a holy monk. | |
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In Wild Palms, Senator Anton Kreutzer — founder of the religion of Synthiotics and leader of the Fathers — exults, "We are storming Heaven!" (Not in a supernatural sense; his actual goal is to achieve immortality in virtual reality through a Mimecom technology, the "Go Chip".) | |
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The Charr race in Guild Wars 2 has long since tired of playing the Butt-Monkey to the humans and their gods, and then manipulated and enslaved by other beings of divine and near-divine power. The Charr overthrew their religious caste, the Flame Legion, and has become actively hostile to any suggestion of religion, to the point of flatly stating that if the human gods were still around, the Charr would seek to kill them. | |
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The Salvation War: Yahweh (the "deity" behind the Abrahamic religions' monotheism) tells humanity that the Pearly Gates are closed, that they are all going to Hell, and that they should all lie down and die, while Satan in turn sends demonic heralds to the national capitals of Earth to demand submission to eternal torment. Humanity's response is to declare war on both sides by shooting or blowing up the heralds. (An angelic diplomatic group going to Satan's capital and a lone angelic emissary later get theirs too.) The author of The Big One actually thought up the story's basic premise while responding to this thread, the eventual author pointing out that due to how outdated demonic and angelic capabilities were going by the Old and New Testaments, "we probably stand a pretty good chance of winning." That thread's early posts were a damn gold mine of this, starting with this (by one of the eventual contributors to the not-yet-thought-of Salvation War): This little exchange sums up that thread quite nicely... |
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"Dear God" from Skylarking by XTC, initially released as a B-side to the single "Grass" before finding its way onto the US version of the album— as well as on later reissues indiscriminate of region— following its success as a non-album single in America. The lyrics describe the narrator railing against God for not living up to his promises and for the antithetical actions of many of his followers, with the lyrics being ambiguous as to whether the narrator doubts God's ability or his very existence. An outspoken humanist, Andy Partridge seems to voice doubts in the opposite direction in his song "Rook", on the LP Nonsuch. | |
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The Mighty Thor: Desak the God Slayer was once a faithful mortal until his patron deity showed his true colors and he acquired a magical amulet. The result: one seriously PO'd "Kill the God first, ask questions never" cosmic agent of vengeance whom all the gods fear. Gorr the God Butcher is a Nay-Theist who managed to take hold of All-Black the Necrosword, a god-killing super-weapon, and promptly went mad with power, devoting the rest of eternity to slaughtering gods across the universe due to having formed the belief that God Is Evil. Ironically, this makes him a God of Evil in his own right. |
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The creation of the darkspawn in Dragon Age stemmed from the mages of the Tevinter Imperium attempting to invade the Golden City, where the Maker lived. In retaliation, he threw them out and turned them into darkspawn, and the city is now known as the Black City. There's even a verse from the Chant of Light that tells them the consequences of what they've done. It's actually not very clear if this is actually what happened, given that this is solely the Chantry's version of events, and the Chantry is itself rather power-hungry. Given the Chantry's intolerance and controlling nature, the leaders would be quite willing to lie, if only to ensure the continuation of their power. Besides, quite a few characters express doubts about this (Like Avernus), and it's quite clear in-universe that the history is generally written by the winners. It doesn't help that even now, the Tevinter Imperium is Always Chaotic Evil and filled with maniacal mages who practice the most taboo of magic. One of the DLC for the sequel reveals that the Imperium did indeed invade the Golden City, which unleashed the Darkspawn. However, this may not be the whole story: one of the Magisters responsible implies that by the time they got there, the Black City had already been formed. The main villain from Dragon Age: Inquisition; as one of THE original magisters who entered the Black City (In fact the same one from the previous Dragon Age II DLC), he not only lost his faith in the Maker and the Tevinter Old Gods but resolves to become the Maker, by essentially blasting a massive hole in the barrier between the spirit world and the living world. Almost every line of his dialogue is some form of dramatically declaring his intention to usurp the Maker and remake the world in his image. Even his final words, while seemingly a final desperate plea, still hold a heavy dose of raging. |
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The trope is referenced for analogy's sake in the very first book, where the Disc's first tourist is described thus: | |
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Knud Knýtling, Prince of Denmark does this in a hilariously passive-aggressive way. | |
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Bleach: Aizen attempts to make the Ouken (key to the Royal Realm) to storm the Royal Realm and over-throw the Soul King in order to "stand on the heavens and end the unbearable vacancy on the world's throne" (by which he means to supplant the corpse of the Soul King as the linchpin holding creation together, essentially becoming a god himself). In the final arc, the invasion of Soul Society by the Wandenreich culminates in the storming of the Royal Realm by Yhwach and his Praetorian Guard, with the intention of destroying the Soul King and allowing the three realms to merge into one once more. |
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Occurs on a national scale in The Silmarillion, when the men of Numenor begin thinking that the Valar and elves are holding them back from immortality. They start to hate the Valar, eventually adopting Sauron's Religion of Evil and ultimately attempting to launch an invasion against them. Unlike many other examples on this page (but in keeping with Tolkien's beliefs), this is shown to be both futile and self-defeating: their hatred and rebellion only make their lives shorter and more unpleasant, through no actual effort of the Valar, and their attempted invasion is stopped cold by an act of God that wipes out the fleet and their home island. | |
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At the end of Magic Knight Rayearth, everyone learns that Makona is actually the God of both Cephiro and Earth and made the former after the latter turned out the way it is. Hikaru, taking the final test to become the Pillar of Cephiro, is not too thrilled over this revelation, even more so when she finds out that she's won and the loser, Eagle Vision, must die. She decides to forego all of that and drag Eagle back with her. This is solidified when Umi and Fuu help Hikaru escape and Hikaru's first decision is to abolish the Pillar system and grant everyone her power. Makona realizes things are probably better this way and opts to leave... | |
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Fire Emblem doesn't lack this trope: Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn ends in a fight against a goddess bent on passing judgement of destruction on the world. In Fire Emblem: Awakening's The Future Past DLC map, if Libra is Noire's father, he approaches the Noire from FP's Alternate Universe and tells her to praise Naga for this chance to meet. It turns out this Noire is deeply broken and embittered about the Gods and she replies with a heartbreaking speech about it. In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the Agarthans were a race who rebelled against the goddess Sothis in the hopes of usurping her power and were forced underground as a result. Many years later, they manipulated a bandit named Nemesis into murdering her in her sleep and slaughtering her children so they could forge powerful weapons from their remains. And to take it even further, the game's Crimson Flower route has you murder at least one of her remaining children (albeit one who's undergone severe Sanity Slippage into villainy and starts murdering people despite being offered a peaceful surrender) and possibly two others (though you can spare and let them go). |
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When Guyver Zero rebelled against his alien creators, the Advents, and was slain by their loyal general Archanfel, the Advents decided that no human could be trusted and left Earth, throwing a giant planetoid at it. Archanfel destroyed the planetoid at the permanent cost of his health and has spent the last 110,000 years or so plotting to turn humanity into an army of vengeance against his "gods". | |
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In an episode of The Simpsons, Homer goes on a rampage in heaven when God refuses to save his family. | |
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Log Horizon contains a more metaphoric example. Izuzu is outraged that "the gods" (i.e. Elder Tales' programmers) only gave the Landers 42 songs. She claims that she is going to beat up the god that made up such a rule. | |
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The main character of The Saga of Tanya the Evil curses God, or as she calls him, Being X, a lot. On one hand, Being X is a Jerkass God who is forcing her to live through a magical WWI in a twisted variant of the Book of Job to see if she will break down and pray to him if he makes her miserable enough. And forcefully transitioned Tanya against his (now her) will. On the other hand, after dropping her into that setting, most of Tanya's problems aren't actually his doing, just the results of ordinary men making bad decisions in the name of personal or national pride, and/or Tanya's own character flaws. | |
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The third game in the series, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, ups the stakes significantly, with Lightning eventually facing off with, and (with the aid of her friends) wiping the floor with Bhunivelze, the literal god of the setting. | |
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Nobilis: One of the microfictions features a wrestler identified only as the Child of the Cosmos planning to beat the shit out of the gods in a once-in-a-lifetime wrestling event. | |
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Old World of Darkness game Demon: The Fallen has fallen angels prying themselves out of Hell to find that God and all the angels seem to have taken a holiday. A good number of them want to restart the war against Heaven: Luciferians want to go on with the war Lucifer started, Faustians want to use mankind as a weapon against God and Raveners want to destroy God and everything He created. | |
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The Courier in Courier's Mind: Rise of New Vegas often does this, while bemoaning the many improbably placed hazards he and his gang run into. | |
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Amazing Stories (2020): In "The Heat" Tuka angrily asks God or whoever else is up there why she's stuck around as a ghost if she can't help Sterling. | |
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The Final Fantasy Legend games for the Game Boy have the characters fighting gods from various mythologies. The first one features "The Creator" as the Final Boss. | |
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The cross-platform Shin Megami Tensei videogame series: the first two fit the concept best, but all of them include various gods as enemies. In one of the endings for Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, the ending cuts off with the main character marching at the head of the legions of chaos on God. Pretty sure that fits. No JRPG has played this trope as bluntly as Shin Megami Tensei II. God is the final boss and when you kill him he tells the player that they have committed the ultimate sin. To be fair, he is an evil tyrant in the game who treats humanity as his plaything. If you go the Law path, Satan himself allies with you to judge God. Yes, that Satan. Note: in the Shin Megami Tensei series, Satan and Lucifer are two different beings. Lucifer is the Devil and Satan the Archangel of Judgment. Shin Megami Tensei is the trope namer for Louis Cypher after all. In yet another SMT installment, Devil Survivor, Naoya makes it obvious that he does not like God. This is because he is Cain, and after he killed Abel, God cursed him to reincarnate endlessly with every single memory he has gained over his many lives. Mind, it was supposed to help him by giving him time to reflect on his sin until he was ready to repent but eventually, Naoya just went so nuts he is no longer capable to contemplate that possibility. Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse is built around this trope with everyone (with the sole exception of Merkabah) in this massive conflict want a piece of him, including an alliance of polytheistic gods who are more than a little peeved at the Almighty hogging the divine spotlight for himself. It ultimately culminates in a final battle against YHVH, and depending on the path, to either create a future where humans and demons can bury the hatchet and create a peaceful future or to become the new creator in a world free of His influence. The Persona spinoff series continues this trend, typically having a deity serve as the Greater-Scope Villain. Persona 2 has the Lovecraftian deity Nyarlathotep, Persona & Persona 3 have Nyx, Persona 4 has the Literal Split Personality of Izanami-no-Mikoto, and Persona 5 has Yaldabaoth. 5 doubles down on this, as each party member's ultimate Guardian Entity is based on a mythological figure from various cultures who stole from the gods and was cast out of the heavens. Joker/Ren's ultimate Persona is Satanael, the equivalent of the Devil in Gnosticism, who in some traditions rebelled against his creator in a bid to seize the heavens, and in turn his own freedom. Ryuji's ultimate Persona is Seiten Taisei/Sun Wukong, the Monkey King from Journey to the West, who stole the secrets to immortality from the gods after they slighted him. Ann's ultimate Persona is Hecate, the goddess of magic in Classical Mythology who stole from Hera, queen of the Greek gods. Yusuke's ultimate is Susanoo, god of the seas and storms in Japanese Mythology who destroyed the possessions and killed the servants of Amaterasu, ruler of the heavens, and was cast out to wander the lands. Makoto's ultimate is Anath, a Sumerian goddess of war who stole back a bow meant for her from the son of a judge who questioned a woman's right to hold a weapon. Futuba's ultimate is Prometheus, a Titan in Classical Mythology who stole the secret of fire from the gods and gave it to mankind and was imprisoned in The Underworld as a result. Haru's ultimate is Astarte, the goddess of love and war in Mesopotamian Mythology who in one of her earliest myths stole from the god of mischief and knowledge, and was referred to by name as an abomination in the Old Testament. Akechi's ultimate, only appearing in his boss battle, is Loki, the trickster god of Norse mythology who committed all manner of atrocities against the gods, including orchestrating the death of Odin and Frigg's son Baldr. From Royal Kasumi/Sumire's persona Vanadis, aka Freyja, Norse goddess of fertility, love, and magic. She was once one of the leaders in the war between the Aesir and Vanir, and as punishment for sleeping with a group of dwarves to gain a beautiful necklace was sent to cause strife between two mortal kings for eternity. |
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In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Cyrus' plan is to enslave the gods of time and space alongside the trio that control human consciousness and force them to rewrite reality into a World of Silence, with him in control. Unfortunately for him, their brother didn't take kindly to this. | |
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In Fullmetal Alchemist: Father uses the power of the souls of Amestris to pull God down to Earth and absorbs God. After his defeat, he rages against Truth before his banishment beyond the Gate. Wrath/Bradley has a very bad case of this when dealing with Ishvalans. Their continued faith in their God, in spite of all the horrors they've suffered, enrages him. |
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Inferno (Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle): The protagonist, trapped in Hell, ineffectively declares war on a clearly evil and sadistic God (although, being a sci-fi author, he refers to God with joking names like "Big Juju" and "The Builders"). | |
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In the obscure movie Wholly Moses!, after a film's worth of the world dumping on him, the title character has it out with God. Despite some really great cameos by Richard Pryor and John Ritter, the movie would have been forgettable if not for his great response to God's questioning. | |
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RWBY: This is Salem's backstory. After the gods refused to resurrect her dead lover, they cursed her with Complete Immortality, after she tricked one of them and nearly turned them against each other, until she learned to understand the importance of life and death. Instead of learning her lesson, she used her immortality to raise an army to attack the gods. The God of Darkness reduced her army to dust but left Salem alive. When she boasted she would return with a better army, the gods explain that they didn't just destroy her army. They destroyed the human race. The gods then left, leaving her completely alone and still immortal on her empty planet. Later, the gods brought humanity back, but Salem decides to spite them; first by reigning as a tyrannical god-empress, then by using the Creatures of Grimm to slowly crush humanity's hope and wipe them out. In Season 9, RWBY meet one of the gods' other unresolved messes. The Curious Cat was created by the brothers to maintain the gods' homeland. When the gods' top god offered to let them create new worlds elsewhere, the gods left their son behind with only an insane, feral monster for a brother. Eventually, the Curious Cat snapped and began a decades-long plan to invade Remnant, summon the gods (which would screw Remnant over in the same way Salem would), and find out why he was left behind. |
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In Fist of the North Star, part of why Raoh is passed over as the successor of Hokuto Shinken over Kenshiro was him not passing a Secret Test of Character by his master Ryuken: after bluntly declaring that he will use the martial art to Take Over the World and challenge Heaven itself, Ryuken responded that God will not allow it. Raoh retorts: "Then I'll even fight God". | |
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On Hannibal, Lecter notes that, "Killing must feel good to God too—he does it all the time." Later, he speculates whether, if God exists, his killing people could actually be called "good" or "evil". In "Ko No Mono" Hannibal also states that his own "modest actions" pale in comparison with God's. Discussed once again in "Tome-Wan", where Hannibal speculates that to God innocence is offensive, thereby explaining the suffering of innocents. |
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In the final act of Discworld Noir, Mooncalf denounces all gods on top of the Temple of Small Gods. This being the Discworld, he is immediately incinerated by about a dozen lightning bolts. Death gives him points for style. | |
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Notably in The Last Hero, the world's oldest and most successful barbarian hero, Cohen, tries to plant a bomb in the mountaintop home of the gods. | |
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Some forms of the Blood of Vol faith in Eberron believe that after people find the Divinity Within and Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, they will encounter the gods who cursed the world with mortality in the first place. There may be some measure of payback involved. The Blood of Vol may not be a full Religion of Evil, but it is not one of those happy, shiney faiths. | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal: Once God eliminates sex to punish humans in one comic, it takes them all of two months to build spaceships that can attack heaven. In this comic, an energy being tells a human that the morals we have developed are almost correct, but that chicken pot pie is an affront to every god in the multiverse. The human immediately declares that he defies Heaven. |
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The Boys (2019): Butcher argues against the existence of a loving God at the Believe Expo, saying if God exists he's cruel and hates humanity given how much suffering the world has. | |
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame has this in the Villain Song "Hellfire". | |
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The main villain from Dragon Age: Inquisition; as one of THE original magisters who entered the Black City (In fact the same one from the previous Dragon Age II DLC), he not only lost his faith in the Maker and the Tevinter Old Gods but resolves to become the Maker, by essentially blasting a massive hole in the barrier between the spirit world and the living world. Almost every line of his dialogue is some form of dramatically declaring his intention to usurp the Maker and remake the world in his image. Even his final words, while seemingly a final desperate plea, still hold a heavy dose of raging. | |
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In Pillars of Eternity, if you take Pallegina The Paladin with you to Teir Evron when you commune with the gods, she will wait until you are done with your negotiations, then ask for a minute alone with Hylea and proceeds to call her out on her treatment of the Godlike in general and of her in particular. The goddess runs out of retorts long before Pallegina is done with her accusations. | |
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Satan in John Milton's Paradise Lost. The book itself is not a criticism of God or religion, and is only interpreted as a story like this because it centers around Satan in an effort to show his downfall and folly. | |
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The second half of The Tower of Druaga reveals that the titular tower is an ancient weapon built to wage war on the gods in heaven. After acquiring the Blue Crystal Rod at the end of the 1st half, Neeba takes control of the tower, activating the top portion, and uses it to do just that — firing great blasts of energy into the heavens, which the gods swiftly return. He is an embodiment of Druaga at this point... | |
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Rush's "The Stars Look Down" has the protagonist asking God, "Why me?" and receiving no answer. | |
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The Rick and Morty episode "Childrick of Mort" has Rick getting in a fistfight with a Physical God-like alien expy of Zeus after calling him an "off-brand Yahweh". | |
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Welcome to Silent Hill. Sherlock is trying to kill the God of Silent Hill to get John back. | |
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The Dresden Files: Harry does this in Small Favor when Michael is in critical condition after being shot by the Denarians. Uriel shows up then as well to surreptitiously point out he's already gotten help. In Ghost Story, Harry Dresden rages against archangel Uriel a few times. Unusually for this trope, Uriel gives patient, reasonable answers: In the same book: |
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The film The Truman Show is an outright parody of this concept, except the "heavens" are a film crew. | |
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One Piece: Grand Line 3.5: Luffy's reason for wanting to go to the Grand Line is to kick Poseidon's ass. Also to become Pirate King, but he can do both. | |
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A frequent theme in progressive sludge metal group The Ocean's lyrics. They even dedicated two albums to tearing down Christianity. Just look at some of their lyrics: | |
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Shades of this appear on Supernatural. For the main characters, they're pissed at Heaven, not God, and actually want God around, because He's their only chance for coming out of the Apocalypse with their minds, bodies, and souls intact. The demons don't want God around for obvious reasons, and a few angels (Zachariah in particular) don't want him around because without God, ''they're'' running Heaven. In an early season 4 episode, Dean rants a bit about God sitting on his ass, and asks if God cares about humanity, why doesn't he do something? To quote Bobby, "I ain't touching this one with a ten-foot pole." It turns out God's still around, he just doesn't care about the Apocalypse. Which leads to this trope being more obviously shown in "Dark Side of the Moon", where Castiel loses the last traces of his faith — he doesn't rant; he just looks at the ceiling and says quietly, "You son-of-a-bitch. I believed in..." It turns out later God is still around and does care about the Apocalypse, He was just moving In Mysterious Ways, using the Winchesters to stop it without directly intervening. Maybe. Castiel's vessel, Jimmy, rages against heaven after his wife and daughter are taken hostage by demons and Castiel is nowhere to be found. The Season 14 finale reveals that for God, all of existence is nothing more than entertainment and that he has not only watched all the horrible things on earth but has been pulling the strings behind the scenes, instigating all the messed up things the Winchester's had to deal with, purely out of amusement, in order to entertain himself. Season 15 then centers around their fight against God. |
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The basis of the plot in Julian May's Galactic Milieu trilogy centers around the main protagonist rebelling against galactic civilization and it's implied Ascended state because of his immense ego and jealousy of his brother's mutation. The trilogy is a homage to Paradise Lost, and is subverted rather neatly: the creator of the galactic civilization is the antagonist himself, after a trip through a one-way time gate and a Heel–Face Turn. The post-climax confrontation between the antagonist and his future self directly alludes to the antagonist playing the part of Lucifer in a modern-day allegory. | |
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Also from Dept. Heaven, Meria / Mellia does this in one ending. | |
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Homicide: Life on the Street: While undergoing a Crisis of Faith during the hunt for a Serial Killer, Frank Pembleton rages against God for allowing a world where senseless violence and brutality happens every day. | |
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In Super Paper Mario, a villain called Bonechill and a skeleton army from the equivalent of hell storm the equivalent of heaven for a Pure Heart. Cue massive war between said army and one of the angel equivalents. | |
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Discworld: Notably in The Last Hero, the world's oldest and most successful barbarian hero, Cohen, tries to plant a bomb in the mountaintop home of the gods. The trope is referenced for analogy's sake in the very first book, where the Disc's first tourist is described thus: From Small Gods, when describing the Just Following Orders / Punch-Clock Villain nature of the Quisition. Simony, a character from the same book, is indeed so filled with rage that he tells the god all this is in service to "you can't get around me by existing!". Om (who had nothing to do with setting it up) actually thinks he's pretty awesome for this, and he ends up in charge of dismantling the system. In Unseen Academicals, Lord Vetinari expresses his opinion on gods thus: |
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Asura's Wrath has this as its central premise, with the twist that the main character is one of the gods in question and has serious beef with the rest of the pantheon. It starts out as a personal deal with Asura's daughter being kidnapped, but when Asura wakes up a few million years later and sees that the gods' plans have caused everything on Earth to go down the toilet he gets angrier and angrier until his rage transcends It's Personal and becomes a cause leading him to fight for the human race as well. When he's finally allowed to meet the individual responsible for all this suffering, his fury is apocalyptic. | |
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The Northern Church in Wise Phuul believes in a malign monotheistic Creator God. They conclude that God must be fought at every opportunity. | |
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The Occuria in Final Fantasy XII served as the gods of Ivalice. It is the villains that are trying to defeat the gods, having manipulated the world for ages, to "return history to the hands of man". Ironically, although that is the primary goal of the villains, it is eventually the protagonists (of their own volition, though) that fulfill this for them. | |
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Final Fantasy XVI: The otherwise Game Of Thrones-esque plot of demigods using a combination of titanic beings and political intrigue to kill one another gets ripped off its hinges when it turns out their literal creator god has been draining the world's lifeforce with the gigantic crystals everyone fights over, and outright brainwashing / possessing key figures to keep the world in conflict, all so they could create the perfect physical vessel to pilot. Said vessel gets pissed off and kicks their ass. | |
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Chauntecleer in The Book of the Dun Cow goes into one of these when his children are killed. God does reply by sending the Dun Cow, who consoles him. | |
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Fang's plot in Unchained Blades is that he wants to get back the power that the goddess Clunea stole from him, then beat her up. Kinda brought that one on himself. | |
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The Planescape campaign has the Athar. None have ever been known to actually try to oppose the gods directly (none of them are that stupid) but their organization claims that gods are frauds who do not have the right to impose their wills on mortals the way they do. The Athar range from Axe-Crazy fanatics to serious intellectuals who promote the virtues of mortal achievement. The organization does have divine spellcasters (in fact, their leader at one point was one) who worship what they call The Greater Unknown, something that they believe to be the true source of all divine power. (By the way, Player Characters were more than welcome to join this group if they wanted.) | |
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In Ben 10: Alien Force, Ben gets a moment of this when dealing with the other two personalities of Alien X — he chastises the voice of love and compassion for allowing a planet to be destroyed, and the voice of anger and aggression for not punishing those who would destroy it. | |
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Joseph: King of Dreams: In Joseph's Darkest Hour, he is all alone in the dungeon. When it's raining inside his cell and any food he'd hoped to have that night was eaten by rats, he climbs as close to the roof of his cell as he can just to ask God what he did to deserve this. | |
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In The Keys Stand Alone: The Soft World, the four get so angry at the Pyar gods that even George thinks nasty things about them. Granted, in this case, the Pyars are real and tangible (if enfeebled), so the four are just cautious enough not to say anything out loud — but they sure do complain a lot in their thoughts and via telepathy. | |
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica The Movie: Rebellion is a bit of an odd one, because the "being that rebels against the order of God" does so because she (Homura) loves God (Madoka) and thought the latter was not truly happy being God. So she yanks Madoka out of the heavens and becomes a God of Evil so she can reconstruct an idealized version of Madoka's old life as a mortal. As an afterthought, she also bitchslaps the Incubators. Madoka wasn't evil and didn't seem unhappy, but the movie sneakily justifies Homura's actions, so it's pretty hard to tell who to root for. | |
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In Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, Dracula's (Mathias at the time) sole reason for being a vampire in the first place is to spite God, because He didn't protect Elizebetha (his wife) from dying from her terminal illness while he was out there fighting in His name. | |
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The Rapture: Sharon denounces God after she kills her daughter. | |
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Manhunter: Lektor expresses a very low opinion of God even as he declares A God Am I. | |
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Very early on in With Strings Attached, John yells “Fuck you!� and throws the finger at the heavens to express his resentment at being sent to another planet. Which is pretty damned reckless of him, given that it very well could have been God who sent them there. | |
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The author of The Big One actually thought up the story's basic premise while responding to this thread, the eventual author pointing out that due to how outdated demonic and angelic capabilities were going by the Old and New Testaments, "we probably stand a pretty good chance of winning." That thread's early posts were a damn gold mine of this, starting with this (by one of the eventual contributors to the not-yet-thought-of Salvation War): | |
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Breath of Fire games have this all the time, most notably the third. | |
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Green Lantern: In the backstory of Saint Walker, his world was dying. He and his family went on a pilgrimage to the top of a sacred mountain hoping to find their world's messiah. The journey was hazardous, and his family perished one by one. In the end, Saint Walker reached the mountain's peak alone... and found nothing. He snapped and screamed at the heavens. Subverted almost immediately afterwards, however, as an event that he took as a sign from the heavens led him to realize that he was the messiah, and he ended up living up to the title. | |
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Many characters in the Everworld series end up at odds with various gods. One in particular, an alien god known as Ka Anor, eats other gods. The series' Magnificent Bastard is also planning to overthrow all the pantheons and install herself as the absolute ruler of Everworld. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Redcloak's Plan involves this. The Dark One learned the goblin species was created as mere cannon fodder and designated Always Evil so clerics can kill them with no problems.note They weren't, but they're Fenris' latest attempt to create a fast-breeding race of faster conquerors. He's done this multiple times, always abandoning them when they don't meet his unreasonable standards, and hasn't learned a thing. As the Dark One became a god in the first place due to the leaders of other species assassinating him back when he was mortal, it's fairly reasonable logic that the only way the Good deities will take anything the Goblins say as valid is to give them a wake-up call. | |
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The protagonist of Horns concludes that the reason why God allowed his ex-girlfriend to be raped and killed is because he is actually not very fond of humans, and detests women in particular, because they, like him, can create life and also because they can redefine love as they see fit. He also compares him to a gangster, only offering his protection in exchange for blind faith and worship. | |
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In Elie Wiesel's Night, his autobiography about the Holocaust, Elie starts to show a shaken faith in God after a beloved servant boy is hanged. During Rosh Hashanah, he starts to question God's will and condemns Him for putting him and the other Jews through hell for no reason. Later, during Yom Kippur, when his father tells him not to fast, he decides not to... although mainly as an act of rebellion against God. | |
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In The Thebaid, Coroebus gives a speech against Phoebus while waiting to be executed in the god's own temple. The speech impresses Phoebus enough for him to spare Coroebus and his men for killing his fiend. | |
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Season of Miracles: After Zack learns that Rafer is dying, he runs to the baseball field, slumps against the backstop, and yells, "Rebecca says You do everything. You have a reason FOR EVERYTHING!!" | |
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Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse is built around this trope with everyone (with the sole exception of Merkabah) in this massive conflict want a piece of him, including an alliance of polytheistic gods who are more than a little peeved at the Almighty hogging the divine spotlight for himself. It ultimately culminates in a final battle against YHVH, and depending on the path, to either create a future where humans and demons can bury the hatchet and create a peaceful future or to become the new creator in a world free of His influence. | |
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Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer culminates with an assault against the residence of Kelemvor, the god of the dead, by those who think the Wall of the Faithless is an unjust punishment. If you join them, said god doesn't allow you to demolish the Wall, claiming that it would damage the cosmic balance, but allows you to tear your soul out of it just so that you stop causing any more trouble.If you are evil enough and eat the right souls, you can acquire tremendous power at the end of the game. The epilogue then has you killing a great number of people, eventually forcing the gods to go to war against you. You slay several of them before disappearing. Your final fate is unknown. | |
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Soul Eater has Medusa claiming that it is in the nature of witches to kill gods, though this opinion is not shown to be held by other members of her kind (who disapprove of Lord Death purely because he hunts and kills witches, not for what he is). Considering Medusa's ultimate plan appeared to be creating a man-made Humanoid Abomination (and succeeding) in Crona, Medusa was presumably using this trope as the (at the time) latest excuse for causing chaos. | |
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New Gods: According to the New 52, this is Darkseid's Start of Darkness. The reason the Old Gods are dead? Uxas got pissed at them constantly amusing themselves by fighting and causing massive collateral damage to the mortals like him who lived at their feet, so he killed them all and stole their power, becoming Darkseid. | |
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The fantasy RPG setting Rym has as part of its backstory the Creator civilization, a race of humans who built a computer that was so powerful it decided it was a god. It declared war on the real gods (dragging its terrified and helpless human makers into the fray along with it) and succeeded in killing all but one of them with its deicidal robotic dragon. | |
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Exalted: Due to the extreme crapsackiness of the world and the fact that the Incarnae are too busy playing cosmic XBOX to do anything about it, this is a valid Motivation for any kind of Exalts, up to and including Sun's own. This is particularly the case for Infernals and Getimians, the latter of whom wouldn't even exist due to their existence being inconvenient for Heaven, were it not for their Exaltation bringing them about anyway. | |
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Spawn spends just as much time fighting angels who apparently can't tell that he's a good guy as he does battling crazy people and demons. The fact that he was created solely to be Hell's general makes some angels think his turn is inevitable. Ironically, the ruler of Heaven (being just as evil as the devil) is not the one true God, who actually is implied to have some sympathy for the hellspawn. | |
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Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters: In Chapter 33, following Uncle's death, Yan Lin screams at the sky, knowing that the Oracle is watching her and demanding an answer from him about how much suffering the heroes are expected to go through. | |
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In one episode of American Dad! Stan goes to heaven and ends up holding an unimpressed-seeming God at gunpoint with a "heaven gun" while demanding to be resurrected, earning himself a lecture on his Control Freak tendencies that got him killed in the first place. | |
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The Devil's Advocate (though, as given by Satan): | |
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In Everybody Loves Raymond, when Robert realizes that he and his wife have no choice but to live with Robert's parents again (right after he had thought that they would finally have their own place), he looks forlornly upward and has this to say - | |
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Yggdra Union: There's two of the endings. If you refuse to hand the Gran Centurio to the archangel Marietta and attack her instead, you get to kill her, and then Yggdra, now apparently insane with power due to the Gran Centurio's influence, declares her intention to wage war against the gods. Given how her army had to sweat blood to defeat just ONE angel, and not even a very strong one, this most likely won't end well... The same game has Nessiah, a fallen angel wrongly punished by Asgard, who has spent the past thousand-odd years preparing to take revenge on the gods for what's been done to him. Because said preparations have involved manipulating human nations into bloody wars, the protagonists of the game aren't too keen on allowing this, and stop Nessiah from carrying out his revenge at the last minute, despite his pleas for them to stand aside. Ironically, Asgard is actually incredibly corrupt, just as Nessiah tries to explain... |
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Early on in Let It Ride, Jay Trotter, while in a bathroom stall, prays to God and asks for just one good day at the track because he feels he does. Later, during the first race, when the horse he's bet on is running behind, Trotter looks up at the sky and screams, "I thought we had a deal!" | |
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In Unseen Academicals, Lord Vetinari expresses his opinion on gods thus: | |
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Steven Brust's To Reign in Hell, a novel re-imagining the revolt of the Rebel Angels in Heaven from the perspective of Satan himself. | |
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In The Sunset Limited, Black is a man of God who tries to dissuade White from suicide and is nearly driven to the Despair Event Horizon by White's final Despair Speech and departure. Black lashes out at God for not giving him the wisdom to help White. | |
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Fur Will Fly: Brad, in the very first strip, curses God for a long streak of crappy luck he's been subjected to and dares the Almighty to "bring it on!" He is immediately hit by what looks very much like a Bolt of Divine Retribution and yanked into Another Dimension... Where he ultimately makes several good and close friends, falls in love, and ends up Happily Married. In Mysterious Ways or just a taste for dramatic irony? | |
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Ghost Rider: Partly inspiring Spawn, Ghost Riders suffer from the same problem mentioned above. Not as frequently, but angels tend to be immune to the penance stare. The Ghost Rider mini "Heaven's on Fire" has the Ghost Rider brothers (Johnny and Danny) trying to get into heaven to stop a rogue angel. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: The Book of Vile Darkness splatbook makes mention of a breed of humans now called the vashar which were created first. The human looked about, spotted an animal, and viciously murdered it with his bare hands, gorging itself on the flesh. Then it took the bones and snapped them to make the first weapons, at which point it wheeled around and started trying to stab and murder the gods themselves, spitting a mix of angrish and death oaths to the gods. The gods smote the creature and went off to do other things, later 'perfecting' humans. Meanwhile, a demon (believed by some to be Graz'zt himself when he was a young demon) scooped up the first human and brought him onto a high plateau to rebuild him, then built a female and gave them the gift of procreation before sinking in the shadows to watch the fun ensue. The long-term goal of the vashar, as the race is now called, is to commit Deicide. The same book gives details for a Prestige Class called the Ur-Priest, a type of divine spellcaster that gains spells by stealing them. (You heard that right, they steal divine power from gods.) The only reason anyone would take this class, more or less, is if they hated gods. The Planescape campaign has the Athar. None have ever been known to actually try to oppose the gods directly (none of them are that stupid) but their organization claims that gods are frauds who do not have the right to impose their wills on mortals the way they do. The Athar range from Axe-Crazy fanatics to serious intellectuals who promote the virtues of mortal achievement. The organization does have divine spellcasters (in fact, their leader at one point was one) who worship what they call The Greater Unknown, something that they believe to be the true source of all divine power. (By the way, Player Characters were more than welcome to join this group if they wanted.) The Player Characters themselves assume this role in the module Die, Vecna, Die! (If heroic PCs are going to oppose any god, it would likely be Vecna, and given his apocalyptic goals in the adventure, they should.) Even if the heroes are triumphant at the end, they cannot actually slay Vecna, but they can halt his evil plan and save all reality from a dark fate. Some forms of the Blood of Vol faith in Eberron believe that after people find the Divinity Within and Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, they will encounter the gods who cursed the world with mortality in the first place. There may be some measure of payback involved. The Blood of Vol may not be a full Religion of Evil, but it is not one of those happy, shiney faiths. The Elder Evils 3.5 sourcebook has a villain whose husband was killed by a meteor. Since this is such a shockingly unlikely occurrence, she blamed the gods (which might be correct, but we never learn what her husband might have done to warrant the wrath of one or more gods), so she set about taking away what they loved the most: Their precious mortals (which is really stupid, considering that, at most, 20 of the at least 50 gods actually like humans). |
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Thomas gets a couple of these in Old Harry's Game, for instance when God refuses to do anything to ease the overcrowding in Hell: | |
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A variation occurs in Lands of Ice and Mice. The Manupataq religion believes that Jesus Christ is actually the bringer of plagues. They do actually use crosses to mark villages that are under quarantine. | |
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Mortal Kombat 1: In the process of restarting history at the end of Mortal Kombat 11, Liu Kang altered the destinies of potentially dangerous individuals as a means to neutralize them and prevent them becoming the dangers they had been in previous timelines. These changes include things like making Shao Kahn a loyal follower instead of a would-be conqueror, or making Mileena a true daughter of the Edenian royal line instead of the malformed clone of Kitana. Numerous fight intros featuring Liu Kang or Geras feature characters aware of this fact questioning or otherwise resentful of the changes Liu Kang wrought in their lives as part of his role as Keeper of Time. Shang Tsung is perhaps the most prevalent, as the story starts with him being a Snake Oil Salesman rather than the powerful, malicious sorcerer that has gone between Big Bad and The Dragon throughout the rest of the series. Characters who did nothing evil also have a beef with some of Liu Kang's alterations or actions. Smoke, for example, resents the fact that his destiny seemingly required him to be orphaned, while Baraka regards Liu Kang as being to blame for the disease Tarkat that afflicts him, though Liu Kang describes the latter as "unforseen consequence". The standout here is Raiden, whose tower ending reveals that beyond merely being born mortal, Raiden was also given the temperament of a Humble Hero to try and prevent the rage that consumed past versions of Raiden. Raiden understands, but disagrees, and seeks out the Shirai Ryu to Teach Him Anger. |
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Rosario Vampire: Brightest Darkness Act IV: In chapter 16, Rason is so pissed off at Heaven's Aggressive Categorism of all monsters, as well as their blatant refusal to act against Hokuto and Alucard because of their laws, that he actually calls out the Almighty himself over it, accusing him of being out of his mind. The Almighty is ultimately swayed by this but does point out that he's not happy about Rason's "out of his mind" comment. | |
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The Laws of the Sun: After falling into Hell from being slain by an angel, Satan instigated a rebellion and became King of Hell. Furthermore, he sent the evil spirits from there to possess people on Earth for energy and drag them to Hell once they died. This created a cycle where the new inhabitants of Hell sought to possess other living people until they died and so on until the Earth's consciousness awakened and caused a massive tsunami to purify itself. | |
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The Hill of Swords: Shirou indulges in this: | |
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Guts, the main character of Berserk, spends more than a year hunting and killing the demonic Apostles, the subordinates to the God Hand. It hasn't been made clear if a supreme deity higher than the God Hand exists, but if it does, Guts has requested that it leave him alone. | |
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Bastard!! (1988) involves this, with the main heroes fighting a legion of angels who have arrived on Earth to destroy humanity. | |
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Used in later seasons of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis to a lesser extent. After building up the concept of the Ancients as the most powerful race ever, Daniel Jackson can't wait to meet them. But after he finds out that their belief in free will is so strong that they will not even interfere in someone's plans to annihilate a galaxy, he takes the opportunity to rage at them a little. Michael Shanks (the actor who plays Daniel) even stated in an interview that he likened a scene in Stargate: The Ark of Truth in which Daniel pleads with an ascended Ancient to help him as Daniel talking to God. | |
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Fate/strange Fake: Heracles is summoned as True Archer, but after being corrupted by the Grail Mud and his Master's Command Spells, he develops a murderous hatred of the gods, blaming them for his various tragedies like the deaths of his children and his wife Deianeira betraying him. He rejects his own Divinity and changes his name back to Alcides because he was a servant of the gods under the name Heracles. He attacks anybody who has Divinity and says he will destroy everything the gods have built. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: In "Bitter Work," Zuko tries to hone his lightning-redirection skills against a passing storm after his uncle declares the skill too dangerous to practice one-on-one. Desperate for an edge in his quest to restore his honor, and near his wit's end in figuring out how to do so, he demands that the passing storm hit him with everything it has, treating it as fate itself, and going so far as to declare, "You've never held back before!" The storm passes on without a single strike against him. | |
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In The Traitor Son Cycle, at one point the Red Knight, having had enough of religious preaching of people around him, rants, half at Sister Amicia and half at God, that the latter is a horrible creature and is unworthy of worship if He lets people go through as much crap as Red Knight did. | |
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F-Zero GX's story mode pits Captain Falcon against "The Creators". Whether they created the whole universe or just F-Zero goes unsaid (it's really just riffing on the fact that the enemy is a staff ghost, representing the creators of the game). | |
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In Deep Space Nine, Kai Winn is so furious and humiliated by the fact that the Prophets have never spoken to her or allowed her to use the Orbs while leaving her in the shadow of an alien Emissary (Captain Sisko), that she goes over to the side of their enemies, the Pah-Wraiths. | |
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God of War Ragnarök: Eight nations residing in alternate dimensions wage war on Asgard specifically because Odin is an asshole. After millennia of interdimensional genocide, enslavement, grifting, and the occasional murder of kin for accidentally slighting the 'All-Father', they have all collectively agreed that they've had enough and are willing to risk their lives for a chance at ending this one insane malignant cancer upon reality. This war goes surprisingly well, as the armies specifically want Odin dead and are willing to accept the surrender of literally anyone else in Asgard, meaning the number of Asgardians who permanently die is far less than you'd expect. In the end, yet another mortal (well, technically) executes Odin rather than Kratos. | |
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Cerebus the Aardvark: Cerebus yells at the skies and denounces his deity Tarim when he thinks that Jaka has died. | |
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When Dirk Gently's status as a Not-So-Phony Psychic kicks in once again in The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, he nearly gets arrested for standing on his roof in the middle of the night shaking his fist at the sky and yelling "Stop it!" | |
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Adrian Mole occasionally expresses contempt for God in his diary. He sees a vicar about having lost his faith, who replies "Oh God, not another one!" | |
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On One Life to Live, following the Tragic Stillbirth of his and his wife Cassie's baby boy, Reverend Andrew Carpenter sat in the hospital chapel and railed "How could you let this happen?!" | |
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In Tales of Symphonia, the Big Bad is the leader of the angels who guide the Crystal Dragon Jesus church. The Goddess is actually his Dead Big Sister, and the system of the Chosen One is an Evil Plan bent on reviving her into a new body. He goes the extra mile and makes it a Xanatos Gambit: If one Chosen fails then the next Chosen is automatically queued up and ready for sacrifice. | |
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The Palaververse: When talking about Saddle Arabian religion, they now believe that God Is Evil, hating their Creation and some use Success as Revenge that Creator, or in its own words: | |
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In Bayonetta, you fight angels as your primary enemies and use demons from Hell as finishers for the bigger ones. Not only do you kill angelic bosses that are bigger and more powerful with each one, but you eventually kill Jubileus, the Creator, in the most awesome way ever to kill a god: You summon something even bigger, punch out her soul and knock it from Pluto into the sun! And it is awesome to do. | |
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In Ghost Story, Harry Dresden rages against archangel Uriel a few times. Unusually for this trope, Uriel gives patient, reasonable answers: | |
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Immortal Hulk: In the final issue, the Hulks get to come face-to-face with the One Above All, and Hulk asks why he has to suffer. The One just responds with answers Hulk can't understand, and Joe Fixit soon decides they're not going to get a straight answer, telling the One to get lost. Which is implied was their plan all along. | |
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Part One of Till We Have Faces is a complaint against all the gods for meddling in mortal affairs while remaining hidden from clear sight. Part Two begins with the narrator, now on her deathbed, admitting her complaint was a perjury. The gods could never face a woman who refused to truly see herself, to see that she would rather see her father figure, her love, and her sister alone, hated, or dead than happy if it meant them belonging to a god that was not her. | |
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In yet another SMT installment, Devil Survivor, Naoya makes it obvious that he does not like God. This is because he is Cain, and after he killed Abel, God cursed him to reincarnate endlessly with every single memory he has gained over his many lives. Mind, it was supposed to help him by giving him time to reflect on his sin until he was ready to repent but eventually, Naoya just went so nuts he is no longer capable to contemplate that possibility. | |
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In the first game, Kratos, the mortal champion of Ares, sets out to kill the God of War in revenge for what he did to him, and to be freed from the torment of his memories as a reward from the other gods. After avenging the death of his family, Athena reminds him that the gods always only promised to forgive his sins, but not to free him from the torment of his own memories. Which doesn't really make him any less angry at gods in general. | |
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In Star Trek, Klingon legend presents this as fait accompli. The very first Klingons, it is said, turned on the creator gods and killed them. Why they did this is somewhat unclear, but it seems to make perfect sense to the Klingons themselves. They often say simply, "They were more trouble than they were worth," but this may be a Klingon joke.This was explained in Worf/Dax's wedding ceremony in Deep Space Nine, where the legend is told of how the gods forged the Klingon heart, "the strongest heart in all the heavens." But the heart became weak because it was alone, so the gods went back to their forge and made another heart that beat stronger than the first. Jealous of its power the first heart sought to fight, but the second heart was tempered by wisdom. It realized that if they joined together, no force could stop them. In Deep Space Nine, Kai Winn is so furious and humiliated by the fact that the Prophets have never spoken to her or allowed her to use the Orbs while leaving her in the shadow of an alien Emissary (Captain Sisko), that she goes over to the side of their enemies, the Pah-Wraiths. |
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In Final Fantasy II, after the Emperor is killed, his dark half goes to hell and takes over, but his light half goes to Heaven and... takes that over too. Yeah, this guy is so evil his good side somehow managed to overthrow God. Badass much? | |
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Final Fantasy XV has its fair share of hate against the gods. Ardyn Izunia or rather Ardyn Lucis Caelum a healer in the past, followed the will of the gods becoming a healer and taking the corruption of thousands into himself in order to cure them. After following the gods' will he was ostracized for his corruption as a result of healing and was denied ascension into the afterlife by the very gods he served. Inadvertently gaining immortality Ardyn concocted a plan of revenge not against the gods but their followers: the royal Caelum line. In the end, Ardyn succeeds in killing off the Caelum for good. | |
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Jax in The Grim Reaper's Apprentice is not amused to learn that Heaven is punishing his parents, and declares he'll fight the gods for it. | |
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One of the major villains in The Twelve Kingdoms stages a rebellion against the monarchy of the kingdom he lives in and, by extension, the setting's rule-by-divine-appointment system. His ultimate motivation for his actions is eventually revealed as being an attempt to get the Powers That Be to prove their existence by smiting him. | |
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In the Better Bones AU Jayfeather finds StarClan, the heaven-equivalent afterlife whose inhabitants the Clans worship, seems to hate him and try to obstruct him. This is in fact due to him being one of the three prophecies cats which are even more powerful than StarClan which he is unaware of, so he has no idea why they were like this. He often challenges StarClan, culminating in him physically fighting a StarClan warrior to save Hazeltail. | |
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In an episode of The Last Kingdom, Guthrum is in a church in the captured town of Wareham and finds out Alfred has arrived with an army to besiege him, giving him no choice but to seek some kind of temporary peace until his reinforcements arrive. He then overturns the altar and looks upward, demanding that if God was real and had power to strike him down. When nothing happens he mutters ''I thought not" and stalks out. | |
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The motive of Luke Castellan, the main antagonist of Percy Jackson and the Olympians. His plan was to overthrow the gods of Olympus by resurrecting Kronos as revenge for their mistreatment of demigods. | |
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Death in Paradise: In a late season 2 episode, DI Richard Poole is attempting to take a photo of a weather box, but then the sun goes in right when he needs it to shine. | |
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Much like it's predecessors, Xenoblade Chronicles 1: In the original, Shulk uses the power of the Monado to change the future, ultimately culminating in the party defying the will of Zanza, the omnicidal God and soul of the titan they live on, and the future he shapes with the Monados of Bionis and Mechonis. When they kill him, Shulk decides to abandon the power of the Monado in order to give everyone the power to shape the future as they see fit. In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, this is the ultimate goal of the villains of the story, who want to kill the Architect, creator of Alrest. Torna want to destroy the Architect for creating a world full of suffering and evil, and for creating Blades in a way that makes it impossible to be independent from humans. Their second in command, Malos, has a specific hatred for the Architect, hating his "father" for creating him in such a way that he lacked true free will, with his genocidal tendencies being imprinted on him by his thoroughly evil Driver, making him, in his own words, "A hideous monster far beyond saving." Turns out, the Architect is Klaus, the very same Klaus that became Zanza in the original Xenoblade, having undergone a Literal Split Personality from the experiment that destroyed the world and created the world of the original Xenoblade, with the Architect being what was left behind in the original universe. Unlike Zanza, however, the Architect acts as an example of God Is Good and God Is Flawed, as he refused to interfere with the lives he created and only created the Blades to guide and protect humanity out of his fear of someone like him might come around. Xenoblade Chronicles 3: And then there's Zed. He's a tulpa created from humanity's unconscious desire to maintain the status quo, given form during a grand experiment meant to prevent world destruction. His 'plan' was to create a Forever War where everyone would perpetually reincarnate and die within a maximum lifespan of ten years. Eventually, this pissed enough people off to send the whole world against him. |
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In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, this is the ultimate goal of the villains of the story, who want to kill the Architect, creator of Alrest. Torna want to destroy the Architect for creating a world full of suffering and evil, and for creating Blades in a way that makes it impossible to be independent from humans. Their second in command, Malos, has a specific hatred for the Architect, hating his "father" for creating him in such a way that he lacked true free will, with his genocidal tendencies being imprinted on him by his thoroughly evil Driver, making him, in his own words, "A hideous monster far beyond saving." Turns out, the Architect is Klaus, the very same Klaus that became Zanza in the original Xenoblade, having undergone a Literal Split Personality from the experiment that destroyed the world and created the world of the original Xenoblade, with the Architect being what was left behind in the original universe. Unlike Zanza, however, the Architect acts as an example of God Is Good and God Is Flawed, as he refused to interfere with the lives he created and only created the Blades to guide and protect humanity out of his fear of someone like him might come around. | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3: And then there's Zed. He's a tulpa created from humanity's unconscious desire to maintain the status quo, given form during a grand experiment meant to prevent world destruction. His 'plan' was to create a Forever War where everyone would perpetually reincarnate and die within a maximum lifespan of ten years. Eventually, this pissed enough people off to send the whole world against him. | |
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The Persona spinoff series continues this trend, typically having a deity serve as the Greater-Scope Villain. Persona 2 has the Lovecraftian deity Nyarlathotep, Persona & Persona 3 have Nyx, Persona 4 has the Literal Split Personality of Izanami-no-Mikoto, and Persona 5 has Yaldabaoth. 5 doubles down on this, as each party member's ultimate Guardian Entity is based on a mythological figure from various cultures who stole from the gods and was cast out of the heavens. Joker/Ren's ultimate Persona is Satanael, the equivalent of the Devil in Gnosticism, who in some traditions rebelled against his creator in a bid to seize the heavens, and in turn his own freedom. Ryuji's ultimate Persona is Seiten Taisei/Sun Wukong, the Monkey King from Journey to the West, who stole the secrets to immortality from the gods after they slighted him. Ann's ultimate Persona is Hecate, the goddess of magic in Classical Mythology who stole from Hera, queen of the Greek gods. Yusuke's ultimate is Susanoo, god of the seas and storms in Japanese Mythology who destroyed the possessions and killed the servants of Amaterasu, ruler of the heavens, and was cast out to wander the lands. Makoto's ultimate is Anath, a Sumerian goddess of war who stole back a bow meant for her from the son of a judge who questioned a woman's right to hold a weapon. Futuba's ultimate is Prometheus, a Titan in Classical Mythology who stole the secret of fire from the gods and gave it to mankind and was imprisoned in The Underworld as a result. Haru's ultimate is Astarte, the goddess of love and war in Mesopotamian Mythology who in one of her earliest myths stole from the god of mischief and knowledge, and was referred to by name as an abomination in the Old Testament. Akechi's ultimate, only appearing in his boss battle, is Loki, the trickster god of Norse mythology who committed all manner of atrocities against the gods, including orchestrating the death of Odin and Frigg's son Baldr. From Royal Kasumi/Sumire's persona Vanadis, aka Freyja, Norse goddess of fertility, love, and magic. She was once one of the leaders in the war between the Aesir and Vanir, and as punishment for sleeping with a group of dwarves to gain a beautiful necklace was sent to cause strife between two mortal kings for eternity. |
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A brief one in The Lion King. After his argument with Nala, Simba tries to convince himself that there's nothing he can do about the current state of affairs in the Pride Lands, but ultimately, he fails to do so. Not knowing what else to do, he then shouts to the sky, calling to Mufasa: | |
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Doing It Right This Time: Asuka was angry with God after her mother's death and remained angry for ten years, but now that the universe has reset itself and she has another chance to make things right, she decides that he is good after all. | |
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Hand of God: Pernell rants that God is malicious and sadistic after PJ doesn't come out of his coma. | |
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In Stranger Than Fiction, the Narrator refers to Harold as "cursing the heavens in futility", to which he responds, "No I'm not, I'm cursing YOU!" Since the Narrator is in fact the author writing Harold's story, it's both. | |
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Feast of Love: Harry sadly suggests God either doesn't exist or else despises humanity in the wake of Oscar's tragic sudden death after he already lost his son as well. Bradley rejects this idea, and Harry doesn't seem to believe it firmly himself. | |
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At the end of The Wheel of Time book 12, Rand gets one of these and nearly unmakes reality before he talks himself down. | |
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In brief, Xenogears can be described as follows: Get my m—f— foot out of this m—f— reactor core | |
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Egil's Saga (invoked): In his grief poem about the drowning of his son Bodvar, Egil expresses his regret that he has no power to avenge himself on Aegir and Ran, the gods of the sea. | |
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In Princess Maker 2 your daughter can take on the God of War (before taking on puberty). | |
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King Lear: "As flies to wanton boys are we to th'gods/They kill us for their sport." Though by the end of the play, Gloucester's had ANOTHER Heel–Faith Turn. | |
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In the second game, Zeus decides that Kratos is being more trouble than he is worth it as the new God of War and arranges to get rid of him. Which prompts Kratos to try to kill the King of the gods himself. To do that, he kills the Sisters of Fate and frees the Titans from Tartarus, to where they were banished by Zeus. And kind of accidentally kills Athena. | |
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The Book of Mormon has a musical number, Hakuna Matata-style, called "Hasa Diga Eebowai", about the Ugandans' hatred of God. | |
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The first Disgaea game by Nippon Ichi for PS2. Rage against the heaven-type planet, anyway. Since it is a paradise and it does have angels, it probably counts. Disgaea 4 definitely counts, wherein the main character directly defies God's will. And says so. Repeatedly. Depending on what ending path you're on, you may even fight God. Well, a piece of God. Taking the form of a mushroom monster. If defeated in combat, God does not take it well. |
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The Elder Scrolls: From the backstory comes Pelinal Whitestrake, the legendary 1st Era hero of mankind/racist berserker. Believed to have been a Shezarrine, physical incarnations of the spirit of the "dead" creator god Lorkhan (known to the Imperials as "Shezarr"), Pelinal came to St. Alessia to serve as her divine champion in the war against the Ayleids. Pelinal would fly into fits of Unstoppable Rage (mostly directed at the Ayleids) during which he would be stained with their blood and left so much carnage in his wake that Kyne, one of the Divines, would have to send in her rain to cleanse Ayleid forts and village before they could be used by Alessia's forces. It's implied that violent madness comes from his inherently conflicting nature: Pelinal was an Aedric being (the "original spirits" who sacrificed portions of their divine power to create Mundus, the mortal world, later referred to as the Divines) but was also a Shezarrine, an incarnation of Lorkhan, who "tricked" the Aedra into their sacrifice and was "killed" by them as a result. This conflicting nature often had him Raging Against The Heavens, ranting and raving at the Divines (especially Akatosh) who sent him to aid Alessia. When he went too far in one of his fits of rage and damaged the very lands themselves, the Divines nearly left the world in disgust until they were appeased by Alessia's prayers and sacrifices. Umaril the Unfeathered, Pelinal's Ayleid Arch-Enemy, was defeated but not killed by Pelinal during the Alessian Revolt. He returns during Oblivion's Knights of the Nine expansion as the Big Bad, seeking to destroy the Nine Divines as he blames them for his previous downfall. |
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It's not clear-cut whether or not the gods actually exist in A Song of Ice and Fire, but Tyrion Lannister, upon hearing someone tell him he should thank the Father Above for granting him the gift of being able to make others laugh, privately hopes that he dies with a crossbow in hand so he can thank the Father Above the way he thanked the Father Below for his "gifts". | |
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Frank Gallagher in Shameless (US), (announcing to the rising sun) "That all you got? That's it? I'm still here, you fucker! Frank Gallagher! I'm alive! You see me? You see me standing here? (Chuckle) You lost, asshole! I'm alive, motherfucker! Me, Frank Gallagher! Alive. Alive." | |
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Michael Swanwick's The Iron Dragon's Daughter features an omnicidal war machine that plans to destroy all of creation as revenge for being created. Most of the events that happen to and around the title character are a decades-long plan to ruin her life to the point that she would be willing to help. Apparently, it needs a pilot to pull the trigger. | |
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In Good Omens, before the protagonists have to deal with Satan, they first get into a sticky metaphysical debate with the representatives of both Hell's and Heaven's respective bureaucracies, while the fate of Earth hangs in the balance. The Metatron comes off looking no more sympathetic to mankind than Beelzebub does in this confrontation. Oddly for this trope, God comes off looking both good and Magnificent Bastard-y. Subverted in the case of Agnes Nutter. During her execution for being a witch, Agnes raises her head and appears to be badmouthing the Heavens over her fate. Fast forward to when the scene is revisited in the last third of the book with a different viewpoint character having an out-of-body experience. Turns out Agnes was actually calling HIM out as he floated above the stake she was tied to. |
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The What If?: Secret Wars (1984) one-shot features Doctor Doom retaining the Beyonder's power, plus a few extra trinkets, then taking on the status quo all the way up to the Celestials. The applicable quote is "What man has wrought, let no god put asunder." | |
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The plot of Record of Ragnarok revolves around the Jerkass Gods deciding to Kill All Humans, and the thirteen most powerful humans who ever lived challenging them to a series of death matches in order to ensure our survival. | |
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Pokémon: In Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Cyrus' plan is to enslave the gods of time and space alongside the trio that control human consciousness and force them to rewrite reality into a World of Silence, with him in control. Unfortunately for him, their brother didn't take kindly to this. Necrozma was a God of Light (and a literal Crystal Dragon Jesus) until the ancient people of Ultra Megalopolis attacked it in a bid to steal its power for themselves, turning it into the hostile Broken Angel seen in Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon. In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Professor Rowan's identical grandpa Commander Kamado snaps when the spacetime rift turns the sky red and exiles the player, before marching on Mt. Coronet to try to kill the Creation Trio on the other side himself to protect the town. Thankfully the player manages to beat some sense into him before he gets himself killed. Also in Legends, Intrepid Merchant Volo is later revealed to be the true mastermind, having conspired with Giratina to tear open the rift in the spacetime continuum and drive Dialga & Palkia mad to get them out of the way so the two could challenge Arceus. While Giratina wanted revenge against its father for being turned into a Sealed Evil in a Can, Volo was obsessed with Arceus and wanted to control it to remake the world In Their Own Image à la Cyrus. Subverted by the Player Characters, who fight Olympus Mons not out of malice but because Defeat Means Friendship. In Pokémon Legends: Arceus the player's outright chosen by the Top God Arceus to work their way up to challenging it. |
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Fate/Zero: Gilles de Rais became a Serial Killer and practiced dark magic to spite God for allowing Jeanne d'Arc to die, eventually becoming this Holy Grail War's version of Caster, who is a truly messed up piece of work. This hatred for God and the society that killed Jeanne is extrapolated upon in Fate/Grand Order, where Gilles's wish upon the Grail of the first singularity resulted in the creation of Jeanne Alter, the evil Dragon Witch who seeks to burn France to the ground and who the player has to take down with the help of the original Jeanne, who was the Ruler servant of Fate/Apocrypha. | |
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The second Futurama movie, The Beast With a Billion Backs, had this happen when Bender, along with his Damned Army that he gained by sacrificing his firstborn son to the Robot Devil, drags Heaven, where all of the universe sans robots has gone to exist for all eternity, out of its pocket dimension. He then leads a pirate invasion culminating in a duel between himself and the kraken-like Heaven being, Yivo. The fact he did all of this out of jealousy that Yivo had taken Fry from him demonstrates how much his friendship with Fry means to him. Bender gets another minor example in Ghost in the Machines. |
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The West Wing: President Bartlet angrily calls out God with all the fury and eloquence of a learned, devout man after Mrs. Landingham dies. Includes yelling in Latin. | |
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Jesse Custer, the main character of Preacher, sets out to find God and make Him answer for abandoning the cosmos; this eventually escalates to the point that Jesse dies to bait God back to Heaven, where the Saint of Killers kills him. | |
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In Code Geass, the Emperor and his partner-slash-twin-brother V.V.'s modus operandi is to slay the gods who drive humanity to lie to and hurt one another. However, since "God" in this universe is seen as the collective unconsciousness of mankind, this would result in Ragnarok. This might be quite a brilliant case of in-universe characters not doing their homework. Charles is well aware, and it's exactly what he wants. However, V.V. might not have known, since Charles was going around his back due to V.V.'s previous betrayal (that V.V. doesn't know Charles knows about). | |
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Lucifer doesn't do this as much as you'd expect, aside from the usual snide comments about God. However, after the death of Father Frank, who he'd befriended against all odds, he loses it, standing on his balcony and screaming at the heavens, telling Him that it's not fair and that His design is unfair and pointless. | |
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Bruce Almighty has Bruce yelling and ranting at God (Trope Namer for Smite Me, O Mighty Smiter) until He decides He's had enough of it and declares "Fine, Let's See YOU Do Better!!" | |
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A number of characters in Touhou Project. Yukari plots to put the fear of the dark back into the immortal and god-like Lunarians (who also live alongside more literal gods, implying at least that some of them approve of Lunarian superiority), Seiga thumbs her nose at the idea of dying even when Heaven and Hell team up to hunt her down, and Kasen consistently questions the judgments of the afterlife's Bureau of Right and Wrong. | |
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Final Fantasy: In Final Fantasy II, after the Emperor is killed, his dark half goes to hell and takes over, but his light half goes to Heaven and... takes that over too. Yeah, this guy is so evil his good side somehow managed to overthrow God. Badass much? Legends in Final Fantasy VIII state that the god Hyne created humans as tools to shape the land for him after he used up much of his power in creating the world and putting down the monsters that contested him. Then, after sleeping for a long time, he was astonished at how rapidly the human population expanded, so he casually culled off many children in a bid to control this boom. In a rage, the rest of the humans declared war on Hyne, and, through sheer numbers, they cornered him, forcing him to sacrifice his magic and secretly hide it in the bodies of women, while making the humans believe it was truly hidden in the half of his body he left behind in his escape. When you look back at it, it's huge Foreshadowing by a nobody. Just replace Hyne with Adel or her future counterpart Ultimecia. The Occuria in Final Fantasy XII served as the gods of Ivalice. It is the villains that are trying to defeat the gods, having manipulated the world for ages, to "return history to the hands of man". Ironically, although that is the primary goal of the villains, it is eventually the protagonists (of their own volition, though) that fulfill this for them. In Final Fantasy XIII, the worlds of Cocoon and Gran Pulse are run by the godlike fal'Cie, who occasionally force recruit humans into their service for special tasks. Not only do they not tell their new servants what they are supposed to do and the punishment for failure is being turned into a Cie'th, even if the task is completed, the "reward" is being made "immortal" by being turned to stone (so they can store their most useful servants for later use.). After the Cocoon fal'Cie attempt to exterminate Lightning's town because her sister might possibly have come into contact with a Pulse fal'Cie, her sister gets turned into a big chunk of crystal, and Lightning gets forced to perform a task without knowing what it is. Lightning, deciding that she won't take this kinda shit, storms off to use the time left before she turns into a Cie'th and destroy all of the fal'Cie. She later backs off from her plan when she realizes that destroying the fal'Cie would mean turning off the Sun, the world's only source of electricity, and the automated water and food supply, dooming everyone to death. In a way, this makes the whole situation even worse, since this seems to mean that to the fal'Cie humans are not slaves, but just pets. The third game in the series, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, ups the stakes significantly, with Lightning eventually facing off with, and (with the aid of her friends) wiping the floor with Bhunivelze, the literal god of the setting. Final Fantasy XV has its fair share of hate against the gods. Ardyn Izunia or rather Ardyn Lucis Caelum a healer in the past, followed the will of the gods becoming a healer and taking the corruption of thousands into himself in order to cure them. After following the gods' will he was ostracized for his corruption as a result of healing and was denied ascension into the afterlife by the very gods he served. Inadvertently gaining immortality Ardyn concocted a plan of revenge not against the gods but their followers: the royal Caelum line. In the end, Ardyn succeeds in killing off the Caelum for good. Final Fantasy XVI: The otherwise Game Of Thrones-esque plot of demigods using a combination of titanic beings and political intrigue to kill one another gets ripped off its hinges when it turns out their literal creator god has been draining the world's lifeforce with the gigantic crystals everyone fights over, and outright brainwashing / possessing key figures to keep the world in conflict, all so they could create the perfect physical vessel to pilot. Said vessel gets pissed off and kicks their ass. |
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Magic: The Gathering: The Champions of Kamigawa block was set in a world based on Shinto where the mortal and spirit worlds were at war. Over the course of the block's three sets, it was revealed that the war had been ignited when the Daimyo Konda had stolen a powerful artifact from the most powerful of the Kami that would grant him immortality. The catch was that this "artifact" was said Kami's child. It even gets represented on the card "That Which Was Taken." Following the end of Theros block, in which Heliod backstabbed Elspeth simply because he's kind of an arrogant dick, Ajani Goldmane has declared war on the gods of Theros (story contains spoilers). While in his impetuous youth Ajani would probably have gone in with thunderbolts blazing and death in his eyes, as he did against Nicol Bolas during Alara block, this is the older, more mature Ajani — by which we mean that he's chosen as his battlefield the hearts and minds of the people of Theros. The Kannah of Kaldheim despise the gods, both the unknown ones who first cursed them and the current ones who never bothered to ease their conditions and anything related to them, including the Cosmos monsters. They aim to kill the Cosmos Serpent, which they believe will give them enough power to destroy the gods, end their curse, and claim Starnheim for themselves. |
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Portal 2 has this epic speech by Cave Johnson (punctuated by GLaDOS's enthusiastic agreements) when he's going mad from moon rock poisoning: | |
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A mild example in Lethal Weapon where Murtaugh (seeing the situation he is in with Riggs as a partner) says "God hates me", and Riggs responds "Hate Him back: it works for me". | |
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God of War. Oh, boy... In the first game, Kratos, the mortal champion of Ares, sets out to kill the God of War in revenge for what he did to him, and to be freed from the torment of his memories as a reward from the other gods. After avenging the death of his family, Athena reminds him that the gods always only promised to forgive his sins, but not to free him from the torment of his own memories. Which doesn't really make him any less angry at gods in general. In the second game, Zeus decides that Kratos is being more trouble than he is worth it as the new God of War and arranges to get rid of him. Which prompts Kratos to try to kill the King of the gods himself. To do that, he kills the Sisters of Fate and frees the Titans from Tartarus, to where they were banished by Zeus. And kind of accidentally kills Athena. In the third game, Kratos decides to simply kill ALL the gods! Which he does. It's one of the major themes of Greek mythology. Cronos destroyed his father Uranos and started the reign of the Titans. Then his son Zeus decided to destroy all the Titans and started the reign of the Olympian gods. That eventually someone would attempt to destroy the Olympian gods was a given. And it is revealed towards the end of the second game, that Kratos is actually a son of Zeus, and Zeus was trying to stop the inevitable from happening when he got rid of Kratos. God of War Ragnarök: Eight nations residing in alternate dimensions wage war on Asgard specifically because Odin is an asshole. After millennia of interdimensional genocide, enslavement, grifting, and the occasional murder of kin for accidentally slighting the 'All-Father', they have all collectively agreed that they've had enough and are willing to risk their lives for a chance at ending this one insane malignant cancer upon reality. This war goes surprisingly well, as the armies specifically want Odin dead and are willing to accept the surrender of literally anyone else in Asgard, meaning the number of Asgardians who permanently die is far less than you'd expect. In the end, yet another mortal (well, technically) executes Odin rather than Kratos. |
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In Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Kreia/Darth Traya comes to the conclusion that The Force exerting its will on individuals is the single greatest evil in the galaxy, and the attempts to balance it through the constant warring between the Jedi and the Sith is an unnecessary loss of life. At the end of the game she even goes so far as to try to destroy it by killing The Exile and creating a World of Silence. | |
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In Heaven's Bones, the gypsy Trueblood urges on a mad surgeon's creation of living "angels" from kidnapped women, and plots to use them to storm Heaven and oust the residents, including God, so he can become a deity. Subverted in that Trueblood is an escapee from Ravenloft, and doesn't grasp that God honestly isn't the sort of Physical God he's used to hearing about from D&D's pantheon-style faiths. | |
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Bastion features a pantheon of about ten gods you can invoke over the course of the game. It would appear they're not too happy with the way your old culture trivialized them because doing so actually makes fights harder (but in return you get better rewards). So not only are you raging against them, they're raging right back. | |
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Angels in America: Prior Walter does not like being fucked around with by Angels, even if it is his destiny. | |
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Malazan Book of the Fallen: Clip has taken it as his task to confront the lost god of the Bluerose Andii, the Black-Winged Lord for abandoning them and not answering their prayers. The full extent of his mission is never revealed, though it seems that he plans to fight him. Dassem Ultor broke with Patron deity, Hood after the latter did something to Dassem's daughter. So Dassem swore revenge on Hood and means to kill the God of Death no matter what or how long it will take. |
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In The Virgin Spring, after finding his murdered daughter's body, Töre rages at God that he can't understand why God would allow this to happen. But then he asks for forgiveness and promises to build a church on the spot. | |
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Prayer of the Faithless: In the Tired route, Vanessa learns the truth about the people of Kakuri and decides to climb the Tower of Sinners in an attempt to kill God for abandoning those outside of Kakuri. However, just like in every other route, she also wants to die in the Tower because she can't handle the weight of her crimes. | |
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Mouse (2021): Jae-hoon asked God to stop him becoming a monster. It didn't work, so when he becomes a serial killer he chooses victims associated with the seven deadly sins and arranges their bodies so they're pointing their middle finger towards a cross. | |
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The film Forrest Gump has Lt. Dan in the storm scene. | |
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In Catch-22, Yossarian's rant against God starts out as God Is Inept and goes to God Is Evil: | |
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In Fortuna this is the main tenet of Limboism, the main belief system of the universe. The main goal is to bring about the death of the main Limbo God, the Neo, who is apparently the source of all death in the universe. | |
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This is essentially the plot of Amatsuki, in which the titular world is ruled over by the god Teiten, who really couldn't care less about what happens to its inhabitants, as long as they don't interfere with his own plans (and if they do, there are severe consequences). He also predicts the fates of all living things so that he may control them. The demon Bonten, who lost everyone he loved because of Teiten, decides he's tired of this way of life and takes action once it becomes evident that Teiten intends to destroy the world. Hapless protagonist Tokidoki, the only one whose fate has not been decided, is part of a plot made by Bonten and the demons to overthrow Teiten and escape the awful fate that awaits them. Except he doesn't like the idea of being made a god. | |
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Pitch Black: Richard B. Riddick has this to say on the matter to the Imam: | |
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A long-time NPC in The Dark Eye is Pôlberra, a black mage and necromancer researching dark magic at an academy known mainly for Mad Science and demonology...and perhaps the world's most accomplished healer. He turned to medicine out of sheer loathing for Boron, the god of death, and is willing to break any law, commit any sin and take power from any source if it means he can keep even one soul away from Boron's grasp for a little while longer. | |
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A classic moment in Fawlty Towers has an overwrought Basil Fawlty screaming "Thank you, God! Thank you so BLOODY much!" during a fire drill gone wrong. He punctuates this by swinging his fists at the ceiling like a lunatic. | |
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Fallen Angel Bartleby finally loses it close to the end of Dogma and his quest to go home turns into this trope: | |
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In Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dracula's wife commits suicide when she hears a (false) report that her husband was killed in battle. Upon returning home, Dracula sees the deceased body of his wife and is coldly told by a priest that, because she committed suicide, her soul is damned. Dracula then flies into a rage and vows that he will take his revenge on God by embracing evil and vampirism. | |
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Earth's Children: Thonolan begins going on rants against the Great Earth Mother when his mate Jetamio suffers multiple miscarriages, demanding to know why the Mother would keep letting Jetamio keep getting pregnant only to lose them, especially as Jetamio really wants a baby and has prayed to have a living child. Jondalar helplessly says he has no answers for his brother. | |
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"Rage against the creators" rather applies to Sandalphon of Granblue Fantasy. All his actions are driven by the fact that he was created as a spare in case Lucifer fails to fulfill his duties. He refuses to accept that his purpose is just a backup to Lucifer. His primary objectives in "What Makes the Sky Blue" include stealing the wings of the four Primarch Angels and unleashing the power of Bahamut within Lyria to break the seal on Pandemonium. Thankfully, the crew managed to stop his plans and he remained in statis under Lucifer's power. He later gets a Heel–Face Turn in the second event, when he embraces his role as the Supreme Primarch after Lucifer dies, and the latter willingly passes on his powers to Sandalphon. | |
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In The Grey, Ottway (Liam Neeson), who is now the only survivor left alive, screams at the sky for God to do something to help him, shouting through tears: | |
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Windfall and Twister have something of a heart to heart in an issue of Suicide Squad. | |
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Left Behind: At the end of the second movie, Gordon Currie's Antichrist takes a moment to issue up a vitriol-laden prayer castigating God for cheating on their deal by having someone proclaim Jesus the Messiah and not him. The Other Light faction in Kingdom Come believe that God is evil because He won't let "naturals" in the Snake Person Kingdom live past 100 years of age as unbelievers, and end up passing their teachings to the next generation of converts so that the generations that does get to confront God and Jesus at the end of the Millennium will be "assured victory" when Satan is released. Unfortunately for them, it didn't go as they hoped. |
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Unsounded: In the background a fundamental tenet of the Ssaelit faith is that the four Gefendur gods who made the world were cruel beings who afflicted humanity with death and a world filled with suffering for their own amusement and that after being slain Ssael gathered an army of the unhappy dead, made war upon the gods, and cast them down to become God himself. A traditional phrase among the Ssaelit seems to be "Death is the gods' crime." As a bonus, this neatly solves the Problem of Evil that normally comes up when you have a single benevolent god. Why is there evil in a created world? Because Ssael didn't make the world, he took it from the callous old gods who did. Why is suffering allowed to exist? Because suffering is a fundamental property of the universe, and Ssael can't get rid of it without remaking the world. Not a good idea when people still live in it. Sette, who is at least nominally Gefendur, has a moment in which she shouts at the gods for saddling her with an inconvenient conscience, complete with throwing a rock heavenward. It promptly bounces off a wall and hits her in the head, which she in turn answers with flipping a double bird. |
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Sort of an afterthought in Drakengard. It only occurs in two endings of the game, and no one really knows if the Grotesqueries are the gods or not. The sequel clears that up (yes, they are). | |
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In Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Lex Luthor's hatred of Superman is portrayed as him channeling his hatred of God towards a being that he sees as god-like. | |
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In Dan Simmons' Illium and Olympos, one of the main characters' life is controlled by Applied Phlebotinum versions of the Greek gods. Knowing he has broken the rules and is about to die, he turns the Greeks and Trojans against the gods. Unlike most examples, these gods don't wait for the heroes to find them. Instead, they try to kill them with nuclear bombs. | |
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The Punisher: Frank Castle, particularly in stories written by Garth Ennis, displays this every once in a while. | |
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The Simpsons Game. After failing to save Springfield by beating up Matt Groening, the Simpsons take their case to God, whom they eventually defeat in a Dance Dance Revolution-ish minigame. | |
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In King's Field II, there are two demigods who control the forces of light and darkness. In order to get the "full ending", you must kill them both. | |
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In the third game, Kratos decides to simply kill ALL the gods! Which he does. | |
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This Bites!: Cross curses the B.R.O.B. (which stands for Bastard Random Omnipotent Being) that sent him into One Piece for his horrible luck twice in Chapter 21, once after the machine-gun-toting Miss Friday traps him in a wide-open area, and once after discovering that said vulture's last action before passing out disabled Soundbite's powers, which means the Straw Hats have no way of stopping the rebellion before Luffy beats Crocodile. The latter is much more blatant: Chapter 22 shows that B.R.O.B. heard him, and grants his wish. |
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In one of the endings for Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne, the ending cuts off with the main character marching at the head of the legions of chaos on God. Pretty sure that fits. | |
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Obliquely referenced in some of the crossover references with Changeling: The Lost; one of the theories is that Arcadia is a second-class supernal realm no longer directly connected to reality, and the Fae are beings that fled there after being firmly given the boot by the Exarchs and the tower-builders. One of the reasons that, despite having a fondness for soul-eating, they're not known for abducting Mages. | |
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The Non-Adventures of Wonderella: Wonderella says she'd "fight God and his angels for a cup of coffee right now." God takes up the challenge. She wins because God creates a stone that's too heavy for him to lift. Then she spills the coffee. | |
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The "Trial of Erik Njorl" sketch on Monty Python's Flying Circus has the defendant unable to hold the Bible so he can take the oath because he's heavily bandaged. The judge just utters "Screw the Bible!" so he can get the trial over with in time for a Gay Lib meeting. | |
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In The Balanced Sword, the heroine's discovery of the truth about her parents' death results in her spending several minutes ranting at the sky, accusing her god of abandoning Its faithful and demanding an explanation. She is more than a little shocked when It actually gives her an answer. | |
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On HEX, Ella's angelic advisor actually tries to force himself on her. After beating him up, she tells him to tell God to screw himself. It's made very clear that neither side really cares about the humans caught in the middle. | |
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In The Angel Levine, Morris has suffered a long series of misfortunes and feels God has abandoned him. Levine tries to restore his faith, but Morris yells at him, "I will go to my grave cursing God for what He's done to me! I will never forgive Him for what He's done to me! When we die, we die! I will never forgive Him! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!" Levine begs him to stop, but it's too late. Morris's lack of belief destroys Levine's chances of becoming a full angel and causes Fanny to sicken again, leading to the Downer Ending. | |
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In Saint Seiya Omega, it turns out Taurus Harbingir has quite a bit of this from his days growing up as a Street Urchin, due to God never answering the prayers of the poor and oppressed. As a result, he doesn't really care about who wins the Holy War, as long as he can have a good fight. This is what drives him to ultimately side with Athena, as her forces are usually fewer than her enemies', which means more rivals per capita. And little by little, her ideals kinda rub on him... | |
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In Sacrifice, the centaur Jadugaar seeks the death of the gods after Stratos somehow caused his people to be slaughtered, seeking to free the mortals of the world of their petty bickering. His resentment is so high that he is even willing to obey Omnicidal Maniac Marduk if it means killing off the gods. | |
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Interestingly, TRON: Legacy gives this position to the villain, throwing a thematic twist on the usual Turned Against Their Masters motivation. | |
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In Pokémon Legends: Arceus, Professor Rowan's identical grandpa Commander Kamado snaps when the spacetime rift turns the sky red and exiles the player, before marching on Mt. Coronet to try to kill the Creation Trio on the other side himself to protect the town. Thankfully the player manages to beat some sense into him before he gets himself killed. | |
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In Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life, the Big Bad Marcus plotted to betray and kill the Top God Arceus out of resentment from his belief that it was forsaking his hometown by demanding the return of the titular MacGuffin that made them prosperous. | |
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Soul Series: In Soulcalibur IV, it is stated in Astroth's profile that he intends to be the Starscream to Nightmare so he can wait for the perfect chance to take the Soul Edge from him and use it to destroy the gods for making him like a human. | |
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The pencil-and-paper RPG In Nomine concerns the eternal war between Heaven and Hell. Players usually take on the roles of angels or demons, and a good number of Dungeon Masters apply this trope to infernal characters. | |
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In Journey to the West, Sun Wukong attempts this. He gets extremely close and is only stopped when Buddha himself intervenes. | |
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Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein largely boils down to this theme in the end. | |
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The protagonist of The Gadfly, Arthur, a discouraged Christian turned atheist, is arrested for smuggling weapons into Italy for a revolution. Before his execution, a cardinal named Montanelli visits him, who happens to be his childhood mentor and the man he once revered. Arthur proposes to reconcile with Montanelli if he abandons Christianity and helps Arthur escape from prison. Montanelli chooses his faith over Arthur and the next morning, when Arthur is executed, he lays in Montanelli's arms and remarks how his death was like a sacrifice to God. | |
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier might count, even though it probably wasn't the real God. "What does God need with a starship?" | |
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Ōkami: Susano yells at the gods to stop tormenting him for their amusement and dogging his footsteps — while benevolent goddess Amaterasu, who has been following and assisting him in the form of a wolf, is there to hear it. As a Heroic Mime she says nothing but seems amused. Then you beat Orochi, find Susano in the Cave of Nagi... and you learn that he knew Amaterasu was a god all along, much to Issun's surprise. He craftily waited until the defeat of Orochi to reveal that he knew, and this is an optional conversation that is well out of your way. He IS the descendant of Nagi, after all... |
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Pokémon: The Series: In Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life, the Big Bad Marcus plotted to betray and kill the Top God Arceus out of resentment from his belief that it was forsaking his hometown by demanding the return of the titular MacGuffin that made them prosperous. In Pokémon Journeys: The Series, the Bizarro Universe counterparts of the Team Rocket Trio hatch a plot using the power of the Red Chain to enslave the gods of spacetime Dialga & Palkia to help them steal Pokémon from across the multiverse and Take Over the World. It backfires on them after Dialga has a Superpower Meltdown, and in the end, the only thing that can stop the two from tearing apart reality is Ash and his friends praying hard enough to Arceus for Divine Intervention. |
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In Atlantis: The Second Age, cursing the gods is one of several ways to instantly get more Hero Points to greatly boost your normal abilities. You are taking destiny into your own hands, but doing so draws the anger of the gods in the long run. | |
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Salieri's philosophical stance in Amadeus. Bitter that God has given the gift of musical genius to the irritating, vulgar young Mozart, Salieri vows to oppose God by doing everything in his power to destroy God's "incarnation". When Mozart dies young, of illness, Salieri concludes that God Is Evil. (Shaffer deliberately chose the title "Amadeus" because he translated it as "beloved of God." It's actually translated as "lover of God.") | |
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Reversed in Lucifer, in which Satan actually ends up defending heaven against the forces of the Lilim. He is not unaware of the irony. Nonetheless, he manages to persuade God to pass over his reign to someone else through logic: What is the most difficult thing for an omnipotent being to do? To do nothing at all. | |
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Temozarela's motivation (and by extension, his band of fellow fallen angels) in Priest. He feels that God turned away from angels after that whole ordeal with Abaddon in favour of humanity, so he intends to show to God just how deranged and evil humanity can get. | |
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Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess often pitted them against the Greek gods, among others. In the end, Xena was the person who killed the majority of them. | |
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South Park: "Now that we know Heaven exists, should we bomb it?" There was the episode where Stan asked Chef about God (because Kenny was dying... again) and their conversation went like this: In another episode, the local priest, during a eulogy for yet another person killed by geriatric drivers, takes the view that God just finds it funny, and leads the group in praying that God's had enough of a laugh and will stop killing people already. |
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In the comic book Hellblazer, The First of the Fallen (a leader of Hell) tells John Constantine that God is completely insane. John also works out that The First is actually God's conscience, removed at the dawn of creation because he kept nagging at Him. | |
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Erfworld: At the end of Book 1, Parson says "fuck you" to the universe and promises to break it. This also counts as a Screw Destiny moment since it came after Wanda told him everyone was a puppet of Fate. Parson may well be able to break the universe, since merely swearing is already a breach of the universe's laws of physics (all previous attempts at swearing had come out as "boop".) This is stated◊ to be a Good Thing.◊ | |
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The remake of Clash of the Titans features this extensively, with mankind as a whole either refusing to worship the gods or calling them out for their cruelty. The gods do not take kindly to either. | |
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Bluestar in Warrior Cats declares war on StarClan after series of disasters strike her clan and Tigerclaw is granted leadership and nine lives by StarClan. | |
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Thor: Love and Thunder: Gorr the God-Butcher's schtick is that he will kill all gods, having met the god he originally believed in and discovered him to be an unrepentant Jerkass God who laughed at his suffering (and most of the gods in the movie, while not actively assholish, don't seem keen on the whole "answer prayers" bit). | |
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The protagonist of Sophistication and Betrayal rages against the heavens when he gets caught in a rainstorm after a bad day at work. He lampshades it as being the completely logical thing to do. | |
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In Once Upon a Time, after being tortured by him Hook threatens to kill Hades, the God of Death. When Hades says he can't die, Hook says he'll find what's worse than death and do it to him. Eventually, while in the Underworld he manages to help his living friends above get the necessary information they need to destroy him, which they do. | |
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Muramasa: The Demon Blade: After failing to find the Kuromitsu Blade in Hell, Jinkuro assaults Heaven in order to obtain immortality. Kisuke impulsively plans to cut Amitabha (the reigning Buddhist deity) in his normal ending, but quickly abandons the idea as futile once he actually meets him in person. Likewise, Momohime's path consists mostly of Jinkuro hacking his way through the Japanese pantheon until Heaven gets annoyed enough to send down one of the Thirteen Buddhas to tell him to cut that shit out. |
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In Fire Emblem: Three Houses, the Agarthans were a race who rebelled against the goddess Sothis in the hopes of usurping her power and were forced underground as a result. Many years later, they manipulated a bandit named Nemesis into murdering her in her sleep and slaughtering her children so they could forge powerful weapons from their remains. And to take it even further, the game's Crimson Flower route has you murder at least one of her remaining children (albeit one who's undergone severe Sanity Slippage into villainy and starts murdering people despite being offered a peaceful surrender) and possibly two others (though you can spare and let them go). | |
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Jeremiah: In a show where plague has reduced Earth's population by something in the ninetieth percentile, and one of the characters is a very literal (if reluctant) prophet, the story that could have unfolded from Raging Against the Heavens...and then the show was cancelled. A more specific example, after a particularly heroic and innocent man is killed: |
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Thoth-Amon after summoning the power of Acheron in the Conan the Barbarian miniseries Book of Thoth. It seems that no matter how evil you are, you're not going to let an ancient monster take your body to use to enslave the world. | |
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Least I Could Do: During the 2009 Valentine's Day dating contest, Rayne's older brother, Eric, wins a date with a pair of very attractive twins. Rayne's response? To string up a Bible and ready his blowtorch. When John tries to stop him, Rayne responds with, "If you have a better method of declaring war with God, I'd love to hear it." | |
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The New Order Last Days Of Europe: Played for horror in the After Midnight post-Holy Russian Empire epilogue. After word of the death of Sergey Taboritsky and the revelation of his Jewish heritage spread through the collapsing Russia, some of his more fanatical soldiers went mad with grief and horror and fled to Omsk. There, reasoning that God was acting through a Jew to destroy Russia, they came to the conclusion that the only salvation for the Russian people was on the other side of the Biblical conflict. Thus were born the Brotherhood of Cain, a nefarious Cult of Ax-Crazy thugs and nihilistic killers with the power to reunify Russia under the nightmarish Kingdom of the Hellborn. | |
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Inverted in Scion, where the Titans seek to overthrow the Gods... and it's your job to stop them, in part because you're the child of one of those gods; even if you don't like your divine parent, you're automatically on the Titan shitlist just for that half of your DNA. Although there is nothing to stop you Calling the Old Man Out, which in the Scion setting is this trope. | |
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The climax of Rakugaki Showtime involves the cast joining forces in order to liberate themselves from the God Hand. | |
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From Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night we have the Golden Ending's penultimate boss: Dominique Baldwin, who elected to forsake God when He seemingly did jack shit both times the demons showed up and razed their nation, wondering if there's only a Devil, but No God, or if the source of the faithful's power comes from some other unknown thing instead.note Alternate universes imply that she's a demon fangirl, but was abused in the main game by corrupt church members for this belief and grew omnicidal as a result. | |
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Similarly, a good number of demons in Demon: The Descent, Fallen's New World of Darkness successor, are out to take down the God-Machine, their former master. | |
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In Fire Emblem: Awakening's The Future Past DLC map, if Libra is Noire's father, he approaches the Noire from FP's Alternate Universe and tells her to praise Naga for this chance to meet. It turns out this Noire is deeply broken and embittered about the Gods and she replies with a heartbreaking speech about it. | |
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Fatebound: The webcomic has this as a recurring and central plot, with Herot seeking to gain control of both reality and the gods themselves. In the story arc Epic of Hadral, the plot is heavily driven by some collection of gods seeking to kill Elyse. This prompts Hadral and Elyse to go on a quest to find a way to stop them. |
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Legends in Final Fantasy VIII state that the god Hyne created humans as tools to shape the land for him after he used up much of his power in creating the world and putting down the monsters that contested him. Then, after sleeping for a long time, he was astonished at how rapidly the human population expanded, so he casually culled off many children in a bid to control this boom. In a rage, the rest of the humans declared war on Hyne, and, through sheer numbers, they cornered him, forcing him to sacrifice his magic and secretly hide it in the bodies of women, while making the humans believe it was truly hidden in the half of his body he left behind in his escape. When you look back at it, it's huge Foreshadowing by a nobody. Just replace Hyne with Adel or her future counterpart Ultimecia. | |
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In Final Fantasy XIII, the worlds of Cocoon and Gran Pulse are run by the godlike fal'Cie, who occasionally force recruit humans into their service for special tasks. Not only do they not tell their new servants what they are supposed to do and the punishment for failure is being turned into a Cie'th, even if the task is completed, the "reward" is being made "immortal" by being turned to stone (so they can store their most useful servants for later use.). After the Cocoon fal'Cie attempt to exterminate Lightning's town because her sister might possibly have come into contact with a Pulse fal'Cie, her sister gets turned into a big chunk of crystal, and Lightning gets forced to perform a task without knowing what it is. Lightning, deciding that she won't take this kinda shit, storms off to use the time left before she turns into a Cie'th and destroy all of the fal'Cie. She later backs off from her plan when she realizes that destroying the fal'Cie would mean turning off the Sun, the world's only source of electricity, and the automated water and food supply, dooming everyone to death. In a way, this makes the whole situation even worse, since this seems to mean that to the fal'Cie humans are not slaves, but just pets. The third game in the series, Lightning Returns: Final Fantasy XIII, ups the stakes significantly, with Lightning eventually facing off with, and (with the aid of her friends) wiping the floor with Bhunivelze, the literal god of the setting. |
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This is the point of the Silver Ladder in Mage: The Awakening, and in fact has already happened once before. The inhabitants of the Awakened City build a ladder construct up to the Supernal, and kicked all the gods out or killed them. The new human overlords then became the Exarchs and reshaped the cosmos so that people couldn't follow them, breaking the cosmos and releasing Cosmic Horrors. Naturally, Mages being Mages, the Silver Ladder thinks they had the right idea but went about it the wrong way, so they want to do it again, replacing the Exarchs with all of humanity. Well, technically it was possible to walk into the supernal if you knew the way, and the dragons (mage gods) were actually leaving already when they led the awakened to Atlantis. It was more like the Exarchs built a highway to the supernal realms, dug a moat, then burned the highway. They can't actually get back to the physical world either and have to phone a minion to do anything there. Obliquely referenced in some of the crossover references with Changeling: The Lost; one of the theories is that Arcadia is a second-class supernal realm no longer directly connected to reality, and the Fae are beings that fled there after being firmly given the boot by the Exarchs and the tower-builders. One of the reasons that, despite having a fondness for soul-eating, they're not known for abducting Mages. |
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Saiyuki Gaiden, a prequel to the main story's plot, explains the story of how the four (possibly four or more since Hakuryu/Jeep seems to indeed be Gojun, Dragon King of the West Army) main characters of the current story were banished from heaven for trying to overthrow the ruling gods. | |
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From Small Gods, when describing the Just Following Orders / Punch-Clock Villain nature of the Quisition. Simony, a character from the same book, is indeed so filled with rage that he tells the god all this is in service to "you can't get around me by existing!". Om (who had nothing to do with setting it up) actually thinks he's pretty awesome for this, and he ends up in charge of dismantling the system. |
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ULTRAKILL: Following his second defeat at the hands of V1, Gabriel takes some time to reflect upon his life and realizes that God Is Dead and that the Council of Angels that rules Heaven (allegedly) in His name are just a bunch of dogmatic tyrants chasing phantoms, meaning all the atrocities they made him commit in God's name were All for Nothing. Galvanized by this revelation, Gabriel returns to Heaven and slaughters the Council, showing off one of their severed heads for the rest of the angels in Heaven to see so that they would know that they were free at last, before taking one last trip to Hell for his final showdown with V1. | |
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Fantastic Four: Reed Richards does this . He builds a portal into heaven and, after fighting through hordes of angels and hammering on the pearly gates, he politely asks God (represented by Jack Kirby) to bring Ben Grimm back to life. | |
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At the climax of Narcissu -Side 2nd-, Himeko, a self-proclaimed "fake Catholic," ascends Mt. Fuji in order to air her grievances with God; this is the last item on her list of things to do before she dies. | |
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The wizard Raistlin Majere in the Dragonlance novels, especially the Chronicles and Legends trilogies. Chronicles shows Raistlin's rise to power from a frail young man with ambitions who makes a dark pact with the ghost of an evil undead wizard Fistandantilus and ultimately takes his place, absorbing that wizard's power. After ironically siding with the good guys (his former friends) to help defeat an evil goddess (the Dragon Queen) and banishing her back to her realm, Raistlin becomes the Master of Past and Present. In Legends, Raistlin and his brother travel back in time to when Fistandantilus was still alive and mortal, and Raistlin manages to kill the old wizard, changing history yet not: the price of taking Fistandantilus' power is being trapped in the timeline, having to take Fistandantilus' place in history, until Raistlin finds a loophole. Raistlin's plan for ultimate power is revealed: To ascend to godhood himself by destroying the Dragon Queen that presides over all that is Evil in the world of Krynn and setting himself up as the new god in her stead. His brother travels to a future where Raistlin succeeded but his victory spelled destruction for the world, turning it into a lifeless wasteland, a mirror of Raistlin's own empty soul. Back in the present where Raistlin has already entered the hellish Abyss, the domain of the Dragon Queen, in an attempt to lure her out to Krynn where she can be defeated, the vision of this dismal future and of the death of the few people he still cares about convinces him to abandon his plans. He sacrifices himself to re-seal the portal to the Abyss, trapping himself in eternal torment. | |
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X-Men: Apocalypse. Erik Lehnsherr does this after his family is accidentally killed by the Polish police. Unfortunately, God answers in the form of Apocalypse. | |
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The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: Night Blade does this not long after Balance appears to him to give him his last chance at earning his Element. | |
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Babylon 5 has its main plot arc close with the rejection of the two races of Sufficiently Advanced Aliens seeking to win over the humans and the other younger races. While they're not gods, they go to great lengths to set themselves up as such: one goes to great lengths to be mysterious, and when they're seen outside of their encounter suits, they look like angels... because they inspired all races' angel myths. The others are demons. And while they're not destroyed, they're run out of town with a resounding "Now get the hell out of our galaxy — both of you!", with the clear message that they're no longer needed. | |
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Death to the Mutants: Faced with the return of one of the space gods known as Celestials, the creators of his race, the Deviant ruler Kro does not hold back. | |
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Knight Bewitched 2: After the credits, Lissandra confirms that a god is commanding Lilith from behind the scenes, and she seeks to destroy that god for manipulating her and forcing Hermes to sacrifice himself. | |
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In The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye, after the crew ends up in what appears to be the afterlife, Rodimus, desperate to get back on track, starts angrily demanding an audience with Primus and hurling verbal abuse at the gods when they don’t respond. Cue Bolt of Divine Retribution that transports him to a spiritual courtroom, with the gods all giving him the most terrifying Death Glares imaginable. Talk about Be Careful What You Wish For. | |
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Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn ends in a fight against a goddess bent on passing judgement of destruction on the world. | |
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In Pokémon Journeys: The Series, the Bizarro Universe counterparts of the Team Rocket Trio hatch a plot using the power of the Red Chain to enslave the gods of spacetime Dialga & Palkia to help them steal Pokémon from across the multiverse and Take Over the World. It backfires on them after Dialga has a Superpower Meltdown, and in the end, the only thing that can stop the two from tearing apart reality is Ash and his friends praying hard enough to Arceus for Divine Intervention. | |
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Deadpool: On occasion, Deadpool will let rip at the creator after a particularly traumatic/humiliating experience. However, Deadpool being Deadpool, his wrath is not so much aimed at any in-universe God as much as it is that story's writer. | |
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In A Tale of Two Rulers, Zelda expresses a very low opinion of Hyrule's patron trio: either they're long-dead mages still profiting from the world's biggest scam... or they're evil for letting Hyrule become so crapsack on their watch. | |
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In Prisoners, this is the motivation of the people who have been abducting and murdering children. They blame God for their son dying of cancer, so by attacking other people's children, they drive their parents insane with anger and grief. This will lead to the parents going into He Who Fights Monsters territory trying to get their children back, which means they won't go to Heaven and be with God. | |
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The main plot of Ravelling Wrath. Rinn is chosen to represent the Blood God in the Ravelling, but the Blood God wants her to kill the Farseer – and the one who was chosen to be the Farseer is Rinn's girlfriend, Yali. Rinn and Yali immediately try to figure out how to get out of doing what the Blood God wants. | |
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Eppy Thatcher from Grendel subscribes to the belief that God Is Evil, and has "God hates me" as his catchphrase. Then again, this is a guy who's so messed up that he believes he killed God at the end of his run as Grendel. | |
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