Deus Est Machina: Difference between revisions

*** You may have defeated your own point, since SHODAN {{spoiler|was ''the player character's Creator''. And though he started out naturally cowed into childish obedience due to amnesia and naivety, he matured enough to best her and her other creations in 'what can be presumed to be mere hours.'}}

**** The point was that she was still a, if not the prime example of this trope. {{spoiler|Ultimately, it doesn't matter who killed who. [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|Punching out Cthulhu]] is to be expected. That said, the second game's ending was not what the creators had intended. Read more about it here: http://irrationalgames.com/insider/what-might-have-been/ }}

* Bungie's ''[[Marathon Trilogy|Marathon]]'' series had quite a few of these, Durandal was probably the most powerful of the lot - mostly because he had the player - which he would often wax poetic about his love of over the rest of humanity - to do his dirty work.

** Durandal is a very interesting variation on the trope, as he can neither be called good nor evil, per se. A [[True Neutral]] AI that only wants to preserve its own existence, only interested in power over other beings as a means to that end. The moment the human race does what he needs it to do, he leaves them alone ({{spoiler|although he does pop up 10,000 years later and buzzes the Solar System in a [[Precursor]] warship [[Crazy Awesome|just to say hi]]}}). Durandal in fact plans on finding some way to become an actual god, transcending physical reality and outliving the universe. {{spoiler|He does not succeed, but he does survive until the Big Crunch, and claims to have comprehended the totality of the universe in that time.}}