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* Durandal, the resident [[Magnificent Bastard]] AI from ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' frequently claims that "Escape will make me God," and has many a [[Gambit Roulette]] in place to escape from the humans, and later the ''entire physical universe,'' just in time to watch it collapse 15 billion years later, no doubt. {{spoiler|He (probably) failed. But he understood the entire universe before it ceased to exist.}} Oh, and he even comes back to life for seemingly no reason at least once in the series (though there are a couple other instances that would probably count as well). Hey, [[Faux Symbolism]]...and yes, that would seem to make Tycho the devil.

** While we are at it, pick a media with a smart AI in it. Seems that [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|AI is such a Crapshoot]] that making one automatically gives it a god complex.

* ''[[Deus Ex]]'' plays with this trope and the aforementioned AI variant. Bob Page plans to become the {{spoiler|[[Physical God]] of the entire world}} by {{spoiler|merging his own mind with the AI Helios (who coincidentally is the [[Everything Is Online|Internet and other assorted global communications networks]], a [[~~Nano Machine~~]] [[Mook Maker|Assembler]] and a [[The Virus|nanomachine plague]] present in large amounts of the world's population, so that he becomes omniscient and omnipresent}}, with total control of the world. However, {{spoiler|Helios wants no part in this, and the player may choose to merge JC (not initials) with Helios}} to become the ''benevolent dictator'' of the world. There's a small distinction, but the ending's tagline notes that {{spoiler|JC}} has effectively become as a god anyways.

* ''[[Deus Ex]]'' plays with this trope and the aforementioned AI variant. Bob Page plans to become the {{spoiler|[[Physical God]] of the entire world}} by {{spoiler|merging his own mind with the AI Helios (who coincidentally is the [[Everything Is Online|Internet and other assorted global communications networks]], a [[Nanomachines|Nanomachine]] [[Mook Maker|Assembler]] and a [[The Virus|nanomachine plague]] present in large amounts of the world's population, so that he becomes omniscient and omnipresent}}, with total control of the world. However, {{spoiler|Helios wants no part in this, and the player may choose to merge JC (not initials) with Helios}} to become the ''benevolent dictator'' of the world. There's a small distinction, but the ending's tagline notes that {{spoiler|JC}} has effectively become as a god anyways.

* Both ''[[Summoner]]'' and its sequel apply. In the first, {{spoiler|Joseph, the Summoner, must become Urath Reborn,}} and the second takes it a step further when Maya, named in the blurb as the Goddess Laharah, is {{spoiler|revealed as Aosi, creation itself, far beyond any mere god.}}

* Albert Wesker of the ''[[Resident Evil]]'' series certainly falls into this trope in ''[[Resident Evil 5]]'', in the form of an [[Evilutionary Biologist]]. His vaguely Darwinist plot involves wiping out ''almost'' the entire human race by dumping his specially created virus out of a plane, and the survivors are the ones his virus has supposedly "chosen."