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* In ''[[The Sandman]]'', Death is a [[Perky Goth]] girl rather than being the [[Grim Reaper]].
* To cash in on the popularity of the live-action ''Thor'' film, the all-ages ''Thor: The Mighty Avenger'' series portrayed the Norse god Heimdall as a black man.
* The [[New 52]] ''[[Wonder Woman]]'' series has the deity Apollo portrayed as a black man.
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== Literature ==
* ''[[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.}}
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* In Chinese Bibles, God is referred to as "It" because the character for "he" includes the character for "man".
* To go from the example given in the introduction, [[Norse Mythology|Thor]] was a redhead. So was [[Trickster Archetype|Loki]] who tends to be [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]] in adaptations.
* People from all over the world report seeing aparitions of the Virgin Mary. They always report that she conforms to whatever [[Beauty Equals Goodness|the ideal of feminine beauty is]] [[World's Most Beautiful Woman|in their culture]].
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* Satan, Andy's girlfriend on ''[[Casey and Andy]]'' is female as far as the rest of the cast is concerned- (s)he [[Catch Phrase|Has Many Forms]], though, including a giant terrifying demonic one which certainly appears to be male, and which actually shows up pretty regularly. God seems to be male (and is dating "Andina" in the [[Bizarro Universe|Dimension of Hackneyed, Stereotyped Opposites]]).
* The completed webcomic ''[[Boy Meets Boy]]'' features the Devil as a woman named Lucy.
* [[The Grim Reaper|Death]] in ''[[
* [[Luci Phurrs Imps]] has God and Jesus as black men, Jesus is pretty laid back but God has nearly ended the world several times, only being distracted by watching 'planets funniest animals'
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* ''[[Moral Orel]]'': Parodied somewhat where Buddha has the voice and mannerisms of an effeminate southern man.
* ''[[Captain Planet and the Planeteers]]'': Gaia, the spirit of Earth and [[Big Good]]. Voiced by [[Whoopi Goldberg]], she falls somewhere in between [[But Not Too Black]] and [[Ambiguously Brown]]. Ironically, heroes and gods from [[Greek Mythology]] [[Inverted Trope|are usually depicted as white]], despite being from the Mediterranean. This Gaia [[Tropes Are Not Bad|probably looks more authentically Greek than most]], even if she does have [[Purple Is the New Black|purple hair.]]
** According to the show's own website she's supposed to have features from numerous races—dark skin (African), almond-shaped (Asian) [[Blue Eyes]] (Caucasian), etc. Any connection to Greek myth is [[In Name Only]] (especially since the mythological Gaia was rarely anthropomorphic and kept giving birth to monsters).
* An episode of ''[[American Dad]]'' had Steve envision God while stranded in the Saudi Arabia. She appeared to him as [[Angelina Jolie]]. He was able to convince everyone of God's wise words, including the easy, fair way to peace in the Middle East. Until he said God was a "she".
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