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...Just a slob like one of us? It's a simple question, really. What if someone were a god? Being God in Human Form or Deity of Human Origin would probably be harder than one would think. For starters, there's a good possibility you wouldn't be The Omnipotent. For another, there's the whole "human psyche" aspect to worry about. What happens when the powers of a god are encased in a mortal shell? Even if only perceived as such, and not a god in actuality, what would the psychological ramifications be? Would you use this for power? |
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In The World Ends with You, Joshua shows elements of The Prince and The Shepherd, trying to erase all of Shibuya, shooting Neku twice, and using him in a pawn in his game. On the other hand, -he- also keeps the Game running as a means of judging the dead and refining their Imaginations, and Neku, Shiki and maybe Beat seem to have grown from their experiences in it. Hanekoma, meanwhile, seems to be a straight example of The Shepherd. | |
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Lain of Serial Experiments Lain starts out as The Oblivious, but becomes aware of her true nature by the end of the series. | |
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Naruto: Pain is basically human but possesses godlike powers (or something like that) and tries to use them. The category... he probably thinks of himself along the lines of a savior but is more a prince type. But you can probably argue about that. | |
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The Outer Limits (1995): In "Josh", Captain Marquez believes that Josh Butler is God. Josh's amazing abilities support this. | |
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One of the central themes of Exalted is to explore this question. Given that there are several thousand of them, the titular Exalted tend to run the gamut of archetypes presented here, with the possible exception of Obliviousness—Exaltation is hard to miss. | |
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In the Dungeons & Dragons Immortals Set, which describes what happens to player characters who Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence, the Immortals are Apathetic: completely concerned with their own society and personal projects (many of which involve creating life-bearing planets from scratch). With a few exceptions (such as Rad), Immortals are only interested the Prime for three reasons: to use it as a neutral meeting ground, to nab specimens of interesting species for their projects, and to recruit potential new Immortals. | |
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Of all people, Jesus of Nazareth is presented as a Reluctant-Messiah-type in The Last Temptation of Christ. Some of the gospels had him showing hints of this also, notably in the garden of Gethsemane. He asks God if they could avoid the whole crucifixion thing, but then says that since it's the big guy's will, that's okay too. |
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The premise of the Haruhi Suzumiya series is that Haruhi is The Oblivious. She's bored with ordinary life, so she regularly goes out of her way looking for interesting things, or trying to imagine mysteries where none exist, but she doesn't realize some of her friends are aliens or time travelers, who may or may not exist because she wished them into existence. One recurring vein of Wild Mass Guessing suggests that Haruhi is a Red Herring and Kyon is the oblivious deity. |
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Epiphany: One of the Gods who uplifted the animals populating the comic's setting turns out to be working at a Radioshack equivalent, actively trying to avoid notice. It turns out he and his former partner used to run the world's first city, but when the populace turned on them she made him raze the city and he bailed. | |
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Devil Survivor: The Main Character in the King of Saints ending is the Prince, with some Shepherd-like characteristics. In the King of Demons ending, he acts like he's The Ubermensch, but this is actually a smokescreen: he's actually The Savior in a somewhat twisted way. In the other endings he gives up or fails to attain the power of Bel, though an argument could be made for him acting as The Shepherd and The Self-Denouncer in Atsuro's route, as he gives power to humanity instead of seizing it for himself. Gin's route is pure Rebel, while Yuzu's is an unusual Rebellion in that the MC simply drops the problem and runs away rather than fighting to save the world. | |
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The Gods of Arr-Kelaan has examples of all these types. Ronson is the Self-Denouncer, Aldman is the Savior, Salsmen is the Despot, Mike is the shepherd and so on. | |
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Light Yagami of Death Note is a perfect example of The Prince. He uses godlike powers to kill evildoers and those who stand against him, so as to gain the fear and admiration of the weak populace as a true god, all to ultimately bring order and peace to the world - with him as God Almighty reigning over it, of course. | |
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Superman, pre-Crisis, is a clear-cut example of a Savior-type. Post-Crisis he is a combination of a Reluctant Messiah and Self-Denouncer type - he hates being called a god, but wishes he were the god people make him out to be. | |
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Xenoblade makes Shulk the next god of the world. They ultimately become The Rebel and sacrifice their godhood to recreate their world, so that it doesn't need gods to function. | |
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The Delver's Guide to Beast World: Varasta, god of chance, is the only one of the setting's deities who typically takes physical form, spending most of his nights cruising casinos and dropping the odds sheet for the world's survival in bathrooms. He's not particularly subtle about this, as one pillar made of solid gold will attest, and his temples operate as casinos in hopes of attracting him. | |
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Kamichu! Yurie fits the bill for Relcutant Messiah. | |
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The plot of Bruce Almighty. Starts as The Despot, tries to be The Savior but isn't up to the task. | |
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Thor: While living among humans, and even a bit among his own kind, Thor is a Prince (possibly because he literally is one), but becomes a Savior later. Loki is even more twisted, taking delight in killing humans purely because Thor has sworn to protect them, like a bratty kid breaking his brother's favorite toys. | |
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Kevin Flynn started as Oblivious, went to Self-Denouncer (admitting to Tron and Yori he was totally making things up as he went along), then built The Grid and tried to the The Savior, but it blew up in his face as he really wasn't up to the task, and more or less ends as The Apathetic, as he cared little about The Grid itself and only about getting Sam and Quorra to safety. | |
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Tron 2.0: Thorne got shot into cyberspace and embraced being The Despot whole hog. The people behind Thorne plan on being even worse Despots. Ma3a, the Benevolent A.I., uploads Jet Bradley in desperation. Jet thwarts them, but realizing what being a User means doesn't do his sanity any favors. He ends up as a cross of Reluctant Messiah, Self-Denouncer, and The Savior, realizing that as much as he hates the idea of being a User, humans have a responsibility to the Programs and that there's always another guy like Thorne waiting in the wings. | |
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Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan is essentially a god, and is explicitly called that by one character. Because he sees everything at its molecular level, and all time exists at the same time for him, though, he's become The Ubermensch. In flashbacks (such as the Vietnam War), he's more of an Extreme Doormat who doesn't fit any of the archetypes, though he tries to be The Savior. | |
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The first three "seasons" of Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki effectively deals with this trope: Tsunami, Washu and Tokimi, three superbeings with godlike power (the Japanese term used for them is choushin), have been in search of the avatar of their universe's God, which automatically makes them The Oblivious. However, they go about it their own ways — Washu is reborn as a semi-normal person and uses her great intellect to create a being who can handle her power, namely Ryoko; Tokimi decides to mess with history to create that person, leading to Z; Tsunami, however, goes about using The Slow Path and, in modern times, finds Tenchi. Tenchi proves to be the one they're looking for, especially when Z goes power mad and they decide to hit the Reset Button and focus exclusively on Tenchi, though he shifts into the Self-Denouncer as he and the others treat him as normal as possible. | |
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In Baldur's Gate, the PC is The Oblivious for much of the game. In Baldur's Gate II: Throne of Bhaal, the ending determines whether he will be The Despot, The Savior with shades of Rebel, or Rebel and leave the mantle on the floor. | |
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"It's a Good Life", and the The Twilight Zone (1959) episode based on it, deal with what would happen if a bratty child were given Reality Warper powers akin to God. | |
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