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replaced "Story-Breaker Power" with "Apotheosis" as the trope potholed by the phrase "perfectly accurate assessments"
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|''[[The Bible]]'', '''Ezekiel 28:2'''}}
When a character or villain gains superhuman abilities thanks to [[Green Rocks]], [[I Love Nuclear Power|nuclear power,]] [[Cybernetics Eat Your Soul|Transhumanism]], going [[One-Winged Angel]], being [[Touched by Vorlons]], or [[Ambition Is Evil|just achieving whatever his dream is]], [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|he is left less than sane and often gains delusions]] (or, in some cases, [[
He will often give an [[Large Ham|over-the-top]] speech emphasizing just how far beyond ordinary humanity [[Goal-Oriented Evolution|he has evolved]], and how [[What Measure Is a Non Super|lowly they are compared to him.]] Cue the villain becoming a [[Narcissist]] who is [[Drunk on the Dark Side]] or declaring that they will [[Take Over the World]].
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The character may declare that he has transcended morality as well, and is [[Above Good and Evil]], but the [[trope]]s do not have to coincide.
Aiming for godhood by ''rewriting the rules of the world'' is [[In Their Own Image]]. Another alternate version is the [[End of the World Special]]. See [[Physical God]] for those who don't have to try so hard, and [[Apotheosis]] for those who actually succeed. May, but [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|does not always]] result in a [[God Mode Sue]]. Having a sovereign ruler do this makes the character a [[God-Emperor]]. Also, see [[It's All About Me]] for a similar trope, minus the declaration of godhood.
See also [[One-Winged Angel]], [[Smug Super]] and [[Dark Messiah]]. Not to be confused with [[God Guise]]. Contrast with [[A God I Am Not]], where a genuinely godlike being refuses the label to avoid the implications; [[Stop Worshipping Me!]], where a deity doesn't want to be venerated as such; and [[Pro-Human Transhuman]], where a post human remains sympathetic to humanity. Also see [[Like a God to Me]], which is when a character declares someone else godlike but only out of flattery, not as a statement of serious worship.
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