A God Am I: Difference between revisions

* In ''[http[Avatar://avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Fanon:A:TLAR A:TLARThe Last Airbender Revised]]'', the interpretation of the Avatar (of the series ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'') is a bit different. The Avatar Spirit is er, was a resident of the Spirit World that aspired to create a physical world that would teem with life. Once it had crafted the earth and humanity, it blessed humanity with a genetic trait that would allow a being to manipulate the molecules of elements, otherwise known as bending. The gift of bending divided humanity into four peoples that were isolated from each other, the Air, Water, Earth and Fire civilizations. It selected one airbender to be its host, so that it could teach the Air people the principles that it believed humanity needed to be taught. Once its host had died, it began a cycle that continued for generations by choosing to inhabit one of the Water people next, then one of the Earth people, and lastly one of the Fire people. Once this cycle had finished, it repeated itself. After each cycle completion, the role of the Spirit is taken over by the soul of one of the last generation's hosts, i.e. after the first cycle, the spirit of the first air host became the new Avatar, then after the second cycle, the spirit of the second water host became the Avatar, etc. Although the Spirit is a full-on [[Reality Warper]], the hosts are not. The hosts can only have limited access to the Spirit's massive power reservoir by going into the Avatar State, which can only be achieved by severing all of one's earthly ties, also known as the Transcendence ritual. Beings that take the role of the Spirit and have undergone Transcendence have difficulty relating to entities of the physical realm, which can eventually go from bad to worse as ([[Foreshadowing]]) the Spirit loses all empathy for humans and embodies A God Am I. Problem is that theory is jossed by canon.

* Although he doesn't actually gain any godly powers, Calvin seems to believe this in [[Makes Just as Much Sense in Context|one long insane spurt]] in ''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series|Calvin and Hobbes The Series]]'':

* In the ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship isIs Magic]]''/[[Discworld]] crossover ''[[Binky Pie]]'', Pinkie Pie ends up inspiring a "Church of the Pink Pony of Death" while helping as Death's new assistant. Since [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]] is in full effect on the Discworld, Pinkie Pie eventually ends up ascending to godhood. Complicating matters is the fact that she had previously been standing in for Death after he got trapped in Equestria due to a magical mix-up...