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== Anime ==
 
* In ''[[Slayers (Anime)|Slayers]]'', the Lord of Nightmares (aka L-sama), the local almighty supreme deity, created all of the worlds. Later she created various Gods and Dark Lords, and appointed one God and one Dark Lord for each world. Then the Gods created themselves lesser gods, and the Dark Lords created themselves lesser mazoku.
 
== Comic Books ==
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** From the fifth book onward, the series makes repeated references to a supreme being referred to as "the One." Speaking of which, look at the final line of the Wizard's Oath:
{{quote| To these ends, in the practice of my art, I will ever put aside fear for courage, and death for life--looking always toward the Heart of Time, where all our sundered times are one, and all our myriad worlds lie whole, '''in the One from Whom they proceeded...'''}}
* The Creator of the ''[[Discworld (Literature)|Discworld]]'' universe apparently hires other beings, also referred to as Creators, to make worlds. Some (such as the Creator of the Disc) are put-upon workmen, others (such as the Old Man Who Carries the Universe in a Sack, who later patched Fourecks in) are rather more artistic. Gods come later in the process, and don't really do all that much other than smiting.
* In ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' - in fact, it's arguable that some force (probably {{spoiler|Dust}}, maybe something else), ''is'' the true Creator of the Universe, never mind all those [[Our Angels Are Different|angels that take the credit and then argue about it]] .
** A possible candidate would be the goddess Yambe-Akka, mentioned in the first book by the witches, though like her mythological name sake she is only mentioned as a [[Psychopomp]].
* In [[Lord Dunsany|Lord Dunsany's]] ''[[The Gods of Pegana]],'' creation works this way, more or less. MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI created the 'little gods' and a bit of space for them to work with, then took a long long nap while they created the Worlds.
* In ''[[The Belgariad]]'', UL created the universe and then seven other gods, his sons, to make the actual world they would inhabit, while he basically sat around and grumbled at how poor a job they were doing.
* ''[[Keys to Thethe Kingdom]]'' falls into this indirectly. "The Architect" created the universe, [[Have You Seen My God?|then went off somewhere--nobody knows where]]. Her instructions were to appoint a mortal as her heir, but the seven greatest ([[Seven Deadly Sins|and most corrupt]]) members of the [[Celestial Bureaucracy]] took power for themselves and have been having one ''hell'' of a time.
* In Voltaire's short story ''[http://wondersmith.com/scifi/plato.htm Plato's Dream]'', the chief creator Demiurgos makes a number of lesser superbeings and then assigns each of them to create one of the planets in the solar system.
* Orr from David Weber's [[Bahzell]] series created the universe and then a whole pantheon of lesser gods and goddesses to help run it, though there exceptions. The realm of demons and devils where Shigu, the wife of Phorbros after he rebelled, came from seems to be separate from but connected to Orr's creation and ''no one'' knows where Hirahim Lightfoot, the resident trickster deity, came from even if his does acknowledge Orr's authority.
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* The ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'' universe may have been created by the Overgod Ao, but the world of Toril is the creation of the goddesses Selune and Shar.
** In the Avatar Trilogy, it is shown that Ao has a boss of his own, described as a "being of pure light" which is strongly implied to be the Judeao-Christian God.
* ''[[In Nomine (Tabletop Game)|In Nomine]]'' has the Archangels shaping the world at God's command, up until humans were created and God told the angels to leave Earth and not interfere. Lucifer took exception to this. As a result of the rebellion, the Archangels can no longer communicate clearly with God and have decided they need to stick around to counter the demons' plans, resulting in a millennia-long cold war between Heaven and Hell.
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', the Primordials created the universe, then created the gods to keep everything running while they wrecked shit and played games and then expected the gods to clean it all up. The gods were not pleased by this arrangement. So the gods created the Exalted, who could slip the bonds of the pact between the gods and the Primordials and actually kill them. And after the great war... the Exalted were charged with keeping everything running, while the gods engaged in the Games of Divinity. Yeah.
** It is implied that all the gods actually wanted was a part in the Games. This doesn't make the whole debacle any less ridiculous.
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== Video Games ==
 
* According to the mythology in ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl (Video Game)|Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'', after the original Pokemon Arceus created the universe, he created Dialga, Palkia and Giratina (representing time, space and anti-matter), followed by Uxie, Mesprit and Azelf (knowledge, emotion and willpower). After that, he went into a deep sleep, and the others took care of everything.
** At least until he got woken up again by a bunch of ten-year-olds with an Azure Flute.
*** [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|And then put in a Master Ball.]]
*** [[Olympus Mons|And forced to carry out said ten year old's biddings.]]
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' has Din, Nayru and Farore, "The Golden Goddesses" who left the world some time after creating it. Other beings of varying degree of power are commonly described as gods through the series, generally as implicitly or explicitly having been put there by the Golden Goddesses to maintain and protect in their absence. The threat level of Hyrule generally leaves them the divine equivalent of a [[Badly-Battered Babysitter]].
** [[The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword]] has the goddess Hylia, implicitly the highest ranked of the delegate divinities, who {{spoiler|incarnates as the mortal Zelda, leaving her power and soul within that bloodline}}. Below her, the surface is protected by a trio of dragons: Faron the Water Dragon that guards the Woods, Lanayru the Thunder Dragon who oversees the Desert and Eldin the Fire Dragon who watches over the Volcano, while the skies are protected by the whale-like deity Levias.
** [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess]] has the light spirits Ordona, Faron, Lanaryu, and Eldin, each tasked with keeping one province of Hyrule protected from magical darkness and the like.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time]]'' has the Deku Tree as a godlike figure for the Kokiri and Jabu-Jabu as a godlike figure for the Zora.
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: theThe Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker]]'' has the Deku Tree as the Spirit of Earth, the great fish Jabun as the Spirit of Water, the dragon Valoo as the Spirit of Fire, and a pair of... frog things as the Spirits of Air.
 
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