God Is Evil/Playing With

Basic Trope: An evil supreme being.
 * Straight: God is the creator of the world, the designer of the human race, and the supreme power in the universe. He also considers humans to be nothing but a culture of bacteria he is experimenting with, to be snuffed out when they overextend their bounds - or when he grows tired of the experiment.
 * Exaggerated: God created the world for the sole purpose of torturing everyone and everything for his own sadistic pleasure. The reason why we even have a life is because he wants us to experience hope before it is ripped away and revealed as a cruel illusion.
 * Downplayed: God is not a Complete Monster or a Card-Carrying Villain, but he enforces his not-unreasonable morals with horribly disproportionate punishments.
 * Subverted:
 * The protagonist begins the story believing God Is Evil, but comes to see that God was really looking out for him all along, in a roundabout kind of way.
 * The god that is evil is actually the devil in disguise
 * Double Subverted:
 * ... and then God destroys the hope he just instilled.
 * But then it's revealed that the Devil IS God.
 * Justified:
 * The classic Epicurean Problem of Evil, no wonder.
 * It's a Cosmic Horror Story.
 * The crapsackness of the world is Inherent in The System, God is the Anthropomorphic Personification of it.
 * Omnipotence actually makes anyone drunk, insane and bored.
 * If God possesses eternal life, then Immortality Immorality and Who Wants to Live Forever? are in effect.
 * Inverted: God is the greatest force for good ever.
 * Parodied: God is Dastardly Whiplash.
 * Deconstructed:
 * God created a perfect world for humans, but their ingratitude and disobedience made him hate his own creation......
 * God seems evil due to the fact that he has an entirely different view of morality.
 * God has all the power that followers of monotheistic religions believe him to have. There is nothing in the universe that can defeat him because he controls all things in it, even those that seek to destroy him. Furthermore, should god die the universe will too.
 * Reconstructed: .......and it's HIS fault for making humanity exist that way in the first place. Or, the fact he made us in his image all too well.
 * It's revealed that he allowed free will to exist just so he can have excuses.
 * It's revealed that he allowed free will to exist so that he can watch humanity torturing each other.
 * It's revealed that free will and hope was an accident. That He never bothered to fix.
 * Mankind still repents, but God still torments them, this time even more sadistically.
 * Zig Zagged: God keeps the world in a miserable state, but he reveals to the heroes that this is for humanity's development.... until God sends the heroes to Hell to be relentlessly tortured For the Evulz.
 * Averted:
 * God does not exist.
 * God isn't explicitly good or evil.
 * Enforced:
 * The author of the work is trying to make an Anvilicious criticism about a religion they disagree with.
 * "Why can a benevolent god exist, yet all the problems of the world do? Clearly God cannot be benevolent!"
 * Exploited: A person is given godlike powers for the sole reason of corrupting him.
 * Defied:
 * Allen becomes a Physical God, and makes a concerted effort to prevent going mad from power.
 * God imposes a Constitution onto himself and turns the Celestial Bureaucracy into a democracy.
 * Discussed: "If God is good and merciful why did he create sin?"
 * Conversed:
 * "With all those Fundamentalist rants, who would want to worship a God like that?"
 * "God or the Devil? They're probably the same thing anyways."

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