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* [[The Unity Saga]] has this happen to [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Captain Picard]].
* [[The Unity Saga]] has this happen to [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Captain Picard]].
* ''[[Shinji and Warhammer 40 K (Fanfic)|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'': If it doesn't follow the ''exact'' path of the [[God-Emperor|God-Emperor of Mankind]], this is almost certainly going to be the conclusion of [[Messianic Archetype|the life]] of [[Elseworld|this universe's]] Shinji Ikari. As well as possibly [[Yandere|Rei]]; and [[Tsundere|Asuka]].
* ''[[Shinji and Warhammer40K|Shinji and Warhammer 40 K]]'': If it doesn't follow the ''exact'' path of the [[God-Emperor|God-Emperor of Mankind]], this is almost certainly going to be the conclusion of [[Messianic Archetype|the life]] of [[Elseworld|this universe's]] Shinji Ikari. As well as possibly [[Yandere|Rei]]; and [[Tsundere|Asuka]].
* In A:TLAR, this is the fate of any Host's soul that is next in the cycle to inherit the power of the Spirit, as explained on the [[A God Am I]] page. Had the Spirit remained to observe its creation, it would've eventually realized that allowing humans to take on the role of God [[Humans Are Bastards|would backfire.]]
* In A:TLAR, this is the fate of any Host's soul that is next in the cycle to inherit the power of the Spirit, as explained on the [[A God Am I]] page. Had the Spirit remained to observe its creation, it would've eventually realized that allowing humans to take on the role of God [[Humans Are Bastards|would backfire.]]
* In [[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]], at the end, Ronan and Sakura use a medallion to enter a dimension where they have sex for all eternity, leaving [[Adam and Eve Plot|repopulating the earth]] to Ekaj and Atni.
* In [[Naruto Veangance Revelaitons]], at the end, Ronan and Sakura use a medallion to enter a dimension where they have sex for all eternity, leaving [[Adam and Eve Plot|repopulating the earth]] to Ekaj and Atni.
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** In his lesser-known [[Space Trilogy]], the hero gets taken away by [[God|Maleldil]] to live in a valley on Perelandra with Elijah, Enoch and King Arthur for company. Or something.
** In his lesser-known [[Space Trilogy]], the hero gets taken away by [[God|Maleldil]] to live in a valley on Perelandra with Elijah, Enoch and King Arthur for company. Or something.
* In [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]]' ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'', Remedios the Beauty quite unexpectedly ascends to heaven one day, taking the best linen with her. It's a weird book that way.
* In [[Gabriel Garcia Marquez]]' ''[[One Hundred Years of Solitude]]'', Remedios the Beauty quite unexpectedly ascends to heaven one day, taking the best linen with her. It's a weird book that way.
* ''[[Childhoods End]]'', the famous (and depressing) 1953 science fiction novel by [[Arthur C. Clarke|Sir Arthur C. Clarke]], uses this. Alien Overlords come to Earth, gifting Mankind with incredible technological advances, and creating true world peace. But ultimately, it is revealed that they're a servitor race of a higher entity, and their reason for coming is to prepare Mankind to its final fate: The current generation of humans will be the last one and with them human civilization will cease to exist, as all their children born from that moment on are no longer human and will mind-meld and ascend into a higher form of consciousness that transcends material bodies. Ultimately, that is the fate of all sentient races, except those that are "stuck" and cannot ascend (like the Overlords), doomed to die out or linger on until the stars burn out. All technological or social progress becomes meaningless ([[Writer on Board|according to the author]]) in view of this, and most of the adults of the final generation linger on for a bit before committing suicide.
* ''[[Childhood's End]]'', the famous (and depressing) 1953 science fiction novel by [[Arthur C. Clarke|Sir Arthur C. Clarke]], uses this. Alien Overlords come to Earth, gifting Mankind with incredible technological advances, and creating true world peace. But ultimately, it is revealed that they're a servitor race of a higher entity, and their reason for coming is to prepare Mankind to its final fate: The current generation of humans will be the last one and with them human civilization will cease to exist, as all their children born from that moment on are no longer human and will mind-meld and ascend into a higher form of consciousness that transcends material bodies. Ultimately, that is the fate of all sentient races, except those that are "stuck" and cannot ascend (like the Overlords), doomed to die out or linger on until the stars burn out. All technological or social progress becomes meaningless ([[Writer on Board|according to the author]]) in view of this, and most of the adults of the final generation linger on for a bit before committing suicide.
** ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' was directly inspired by ''[[Childhoods End]]. The [[Assimilation Plot]] Intrumentality is a direct homage.
** ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' was directly inspired by ''[[Childhood's End]]. The [[Assimilation Plot]] Intrumentality is a direct homage.
** The nature of the Reapers in the ''Mass Effect'' series bears a striking similarity to this, as well, "compulsory evolution" and all.
** The nature of the Reapers in the ''Mass Effect'' series bears a striking similarity to this, as well, "compulsory evolution" and all.
* The German pulp [[Sci Fi]] series ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'', started in 1961 as weekly issues and still ongoing, introduced the concept of [[Psychic Powers]] that allowed out-of-body travel and ascended entities called "super-intelligences" early on, within the first 50 issues. Later, during the early 1980s, this was expanded into a whole cosmic framework for the series. Sufficiently mentally advanced space-faring races would be fostered by super-intelligences until their individual consciousnesses would either be absorbed into an existing entity or ascend and merge to form a new one. More advanced entities strove to merge with whole galactic clusters and form White Holes, thereby recycling burned-out suns and cosmic matter, until they were ready to transcended the space-time continuum of the multiverse and join the ranks of the real Cosmic Players, the near omniscient forces of [[Order Versus Chaos|Order and Chaos]] called Kosmokrats and Chaotarchs.
* The German pulp [[Sci Fi]] series ''[[Perry Rhodan]]'', started in 1961 as weekly issues and still ongoing, introduced the concept of [[Psychic Powers]] that allowed out-of-body travel and ascended entities called "super-intelligences" early on, within the first 50 issues. Later, during the early 1980s, this was expanded into a whole cosmic framework for the series. Sufficiently mentally advanced space-faring races would be fostered by super-intelligences until their individual consciousnesses would either be absorbed into an existing entity or ascend and merge to form a new one. More advanced entities strove to merge with whole galactic clusters and form White Holes, thereby recycling burned-out suns and cosmic matter, until they were ready to transcended the space-time continuum of the multiverse and join the ranks of the real Cosmic Players, the near omniscient forces of [[Order Versus Chaos|Order and Chaos]] called Kosmokrats and Chaotarchs.
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