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{{trope}}
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{{quote|''"I wasn't expecting God to be a black woman," Mack gasped.''
''"That's because you've never read any quasi-liberal, religious crap like this before," God laughed.''
|[http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/29/fiction1 The Digested Read] of '''''[[The Shack]]'''''}}
In simplest terms, this trope is showing a deity with a standard appearance in a form people don't expect to see it in.
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== Comic Books ==
* God has been portrayed as an elderly woman in earlier ''[[Spawn]]'' comics.
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* ''[[The Shack]]''. In addition to a black female God, they have a Asian hippie as the Holy Spirit.
* Played with in ''[[American Gods]]'' through Mr. Ibis (Thoth) and his fellow Ancient Egyptian deities who live in [["London, England" Syndrome|Cairo, Illinois]]. Ibis notes that while for a long time, he and his family were just taken for foreign visitors, from the 1800s onward, people in the town assumed their [[Ambiguously Brown]] features meant they were black Americans, and thus from then onward,they've lived with/associated with that community in Cairo.
:In a way, {{spoiler|the protagonist Shadow himself}} also qualifies; earlier in the book, someone trying to rile him asks if he has "nigger blood" and there are also some references to his mother possibly having some Native American ancestry, so the character is definitely multi-racial. {{spoiler|His mother's ethnicity is never specified, but she is described as being completely atypical of Wednesday's usual "type", pale skinned blondes. Shadow is significant because he is actually the incarnation of Baldr, described as pure white in the Eddas.}}▼
▲In a way, {{spoiler|the protagonist Shadow himself}} also qualifies; earlier in the book, someone trying to rile him asks if he has "nigger blood" and there are also some references to his mother possibly having some Native American ancestry, so the character is definitely multi-racial. {{spoiler|His mother's ethnicity is never specified, but she is described as being completely atypical of Wednesday's usual "type", pale skinned blondes. Shadow is significant because he is actually the incarnation of Baldr, described as pure white in the Eddas.}}
* In Piers Anthony's ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'', in which ordinary human beings step into godlike roles at different times, the incarnation of Good has been the Christian idea of the old white guy for quite some time. Eventually, he is replaced by a young woman. The incarnations of Fate and Nature are traditionally female, but one incarnation of Fate is actually a disguised man. And an incarnation of War is a devout Hindu who doesn't believe in the role he's forced to fill.
* In the ''[[Betsy the Vampire Queen]]'' series, Satan usually appears resembling actress Lena Olin, which is more of a [[Continuity Gag]]: Satan possessed Betsy's stepmother (then, her father's mistress) on a lark and ended up pregnant. "She" appears to [[Anti-Anti-Christ|Laura]] and Betsy in this form to remind them aof their relationship.
== Live Action TV ==
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