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== Anime ==
* In ''[[
== 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 ''[[
* 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
* 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 ''[[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 ''[[
** 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: Skyward Sword
** [[The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
** ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
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