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Unfeeling Heavens
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Everything in the Heavens is pure (most of the time). Of course, Pure Is Not Good, so any gods or angels residing there might be too detached from the "impure" mortal life to understand some human feelings or maybe any of them. This trope is in action when heavenly creatures are outright robotic or simply out of touch with human feelings and attachments, viewing them as unnecessary and nonsensical, and in the worst-case scenario, seeing mortal lives as worthless. This alienation often puts them into antagonistic roles. It's not that God Is Evil — it's that he just doesn't care. If they are collectively on the side of good, however, it's usually because God Is Good or maybe they are Intrigued by Humanity. Subtrope of Pure Is Not Good. Angelic Abominations, Light Is Not Good and Holy Is Not Safe might be expected. Likely to be on the side of Order if there's an Order vs. Chaos conflict. If on top of being detached and logical they're also extremely rulebound, you may get a Celestial Bureaucracy. |
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Johannes Cabal: The title character claims that God is so obsessed with order that he scrubs the personalities off of everyone who enters heaven, simply for neatness' sake. | |
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The Kyrian of World of Warcraft downplay this; they're reality's angelic Psychopomps residing in a parasidical realm full of Scenery Porn, it is an assigned afterlife by The Arbiter only to the souls who were truly selfless in life... Because you have to be truly selfless to become a Kyrian: It entails giving up everything that made you, you; Your mortal identity, relationships, biases, doubts, and memories have no place in a Psychopomp. Everything you once were must be removed or forgotten before you can take on the impatial Above Good and Evil role of being a Psychopomp - the entire goal of their training is for you to be comfortably able to say That (Wo)man Is Dead. What makes it downplayed is that they're not antagonistic, fulfilling an important role in the cosmos, they are okay with emotions and memories between their own kind, and The Arbiter doesn't make mistakes - this does not stop this trope from being the root cause in a Kyrian Civil War between those who view all these sacrifices of their memories as unacceptable, and those who view them as necessary. Eventually, the Kyrians are forced to acknowledge they don't have an Omniscient Morality License; they lost the ability to care about the possibility that the system may be flawed until it was too late to save thousands of souls from being shattered by The Maw, purgatory was slowly tainted by the corruption it was meant to cleanse while the only people capable of saving it at the time said "we shouldn't interfere with other realms over suspicions, they're always kooky like this", and losing their memories meant they no longer identified how dangerous Azeroth's usual threats are - like, say, a demonically-possessed prince wielding a soul-crushing sword. |
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I'm the Grim Reaper: God is absent from his kingdom, his second-in-command is mindlessly obedient and refuses to disobey orders to stand by even though she could easily fix the Crapsack World Earth has become, and his third-in-command has partial clairvoyance and knows everyone is screwed so he doesn't see the point in trying to change anything. The fourth-in-command gives a crap about humanity, but is too detached from Earth to understand the damage she does whenever she visits. Even worse, the Akashic Records reveal that God was born without emotion or empathy, and had trouble understanding what he was experiencing when he finally evolved a sense of feeling. Episode 130 reveals that the purpose of existence is for God to understand empathy and themselves - by devouring Heaven and Hell after the final apocalypse. | |
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In Tom Judge: The Rapture, Angels, and by extension Heaven, are presented as this. The Angels are shown as apathetic and indifferent to suffering and insults and only concerned with enforcing decrees from Heaven. They are also fiercely militaristic and cynical of demons and humans alike. | |
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The Heavenly Beings in The Tale of the Princess Kaguya do not show or seem to understand any emotion other than joy. | |
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Taken to the logical extreme in Tales of Symphonia where it's revealed that the Cruxis angels of Derris-Kharlan are beings incapable of emotion and feelings. This is the natural end state of all chosen ones who succeed in the Journey of World Regeneration, as Colette and the rest of Lloyd's group find out the hard way each time she succeeds in the temple trials. First, she loses her sense of taste, then her abilities to sleep and speak, until finally, she's unable to feel emotion at all. Lloyd gets around this by carving a Key Crest into her necklace, restoring her senses. | |
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Grounded for All Eternity: Downplayed. Heavens' solution to Parris escaping into Salem is to simply smite the entire town to keep his influence from spreading, and attempt to go through with this even after the threat has been neutralized. | |
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The Good Place has a variation. The residents of the Good Place are genuinely nice, well-meaning, and accommodating, but they're so detached from humanity and obsessed with bureaucracy that they are completely ineffectual against the Bad Place's machinations and prove to be no help to the heroes. In the finale, they're so jaded from centuries of impossible management requirements (namely, nobody can be happy in The Good Place anymore) that they fork all their careers to Michael the instant he fixed one thing about The Good Place and ran away screaming. | |
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In the The Blood War Trilogy the Upper Planes are presented this way, In the first book one of the "patry members" Phaeton the Deva is presented as completely detached from how mortals live their lives, at one point he kills a Mook with a lightning spell only for a Dwarf party member to chew him out for it, claiming he should have tried to reason with him first, over the course of the books however he grows out of this as he lives among mortals, even becoming a godfather to a child, exemplified at the start of the third book where the party visits him on Mount Celestia, his Neighbours are a bunch of self righteous jerks living in white marble palaces with golden roofs while he lives in a more humble overgrown tower with a herb garden, when his neighbours find out that the rest of the party are fought in the Blood War they form an angry mob and try to have them killed. | |
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Good Omens (2019) gives the side of Heaven more appearances than they got in the original novel. The angels are portrayed as unsympathetic, stoic anti-heroes (at best) whose main priority isn't saving the Earth or humanity but rather getting to fight a war against Hell, and go after Aziraphale for caring more about the former. They are so thoroughly detached from humans that when posing as one, Gabriel is... unconvincing. | |
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Diablo: A major problem throughout the series; while some angels (Tyrael in particular) care about the fate of humanity, the ruling caste and majority generally leave the mortal world alone, especially when demonkind eagerly rampage all over the face of the planet. They do give supernatural aid from afar (such as supplying Hope to mortal souls), but it's never a shield to stop a demon from stabbing mortals in the face. | |
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Sorcery 101: One angel claims that its Jerkass tendencies come from not understanding mortals and their feelings. A human counters that it knows them well enough to manipulate people into serving it, it just doesn't care about people beyond their utility to the forces of Light. | |
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In The Sandman (1989), when Hell is put up for sale by Lucifer, the Shining City deploys two angels to the Dreaming in order to observe the sale. Just as Dream is about to announce his intention to leave Hell empty, the Shining City suddenly intervenes, announcing that there must be a Hell, and therefore the two angels, Remiel and Duma will become its new administrators, even though neither of them have ever rebelled as Lucifer did, and even though it's clear that neither of them expected to get this gig. | |
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Kubo and the Two Strings: Kubo's aunts and his grandfather, The Moon King, want his remaining eye so that he will be as blind to humanity as they are. | |
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Touhou: The Lunarians operate on Blue-and-Orange Morality that seems to fade away when they stay away from the Moon for some time. Because they're obsessed with purity, eternal and more or less amortal, the concept of death is utterly alien to them, to the point where they expelled Kaguya and Eirin for coming up with the Hourai Elixir (an Immortality Inducer that required both of their powers to work, and by removing the possibility of death, permanently marks the drinker with its impurity). In a later game, we find out that mortal humans walking on the Moon caused some severe existential damage, which is exploited by the Big Bad, who used a fairy made of pure life force dressed as an American flag to fight them. | |
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