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[[File:GodsThrone.jpg|link=Grandpa God|frame|"Don't make Me come down there."]]
The Big Boss of the universe in monotheistic religions. The Alpha And The Omega, the Big Cheese, the Big Guy in the Sky, the Almighty, the Creator, the Capital G, the Ceiling Cat, the Man Upstairs.
[[Breaking the Fourth Wall|If all of existence is one big story,]] ''He's'' the [[Big Good]].
Metaphysical human concept or not, he's got a pretty large chunk of humanity as believers and followers, thanks in part to best-selling books such as [[The Bible]] and [[Islam|the Qur'an]] which feature '''God''' as a prevalent character, if not the main character.
Using God as a character rather than simply referring to the [[Powers That Be]] or [[The Lowest Cosmic Denominator|using terms without religious connotations]] is a dicey proposition, as it is just about the only thing you can do, other than a series finale [[Clip Show]], that is 100% guaranteed to piss off a chunk of the viewers.
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Also, had you been the first person to edit this article, you'd have seen the phrase "[[Describe Topic Here|Describe God here]]." A daunting task, to say the least.
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== Anime and Manga ==
* In ''[[Suzumiya Haruhi]]'', a certain {{spoiler|overpowering [[Genki Girl]] unwittingly}} seems to possess godlike abilities, though Itsuki, the philosopher of the group, would not go so far as to designate them God (and later novels support him).
** There's also a strong fan theory that {{spoiler|the girl is actually ''not'' the one with powers, but instead they belong to her seemingly-normal [[Deadpan Snarker]] boyfriend, who lets everyone believe she has them because he doesn't ''want'' them}}.
* ''[[Serial Experiments Lain
* In ''[[Pani Poni Dash!]]'', God is a cat that changes colors every episode and lives in a vending machine.
* In ''[[Code Geass]]'', God {{spoiler|is the collective will of every person that has ever lived (and maybe ever will live, they're not too clear on it)}}. Charles and his brother want {{spoiler|to kill it.}} Instead, Lelouch {{spoiler|geasses it}}, ruining their plans.
* The Almighty One in ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]''. Father of Belldandy and Skuld, as well as Urd, who was produced by a tryst with <s>[[Satan]]</s> the Ruler of Demonkind. While some fans [[Wild Mass Guessing|
*
* ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]'' of course. Features [[God Is Evil]] in a really, really nasty way. God not only forced an Original Sin down on his angels ( {{spoiler|when growing in their tubes they live from their own Mother, Adam Kadamon; during her captivity in Eden Alexiel also is made to Eat fruits from the Tree of Enlightenment. Which grows from Adam Kadamon's eye.}} Yuck. That the fruits look like baby heads doesn't make it any better. ) - nope, he also considers all of his angels failed experiments and wants to end the world. {{spoiler|Oh, and he's a computer program.}} Neat one, Kaori Yuki - neat one.
* ''[[Shaman King]]''{{'}}s Great Spirit is "God" and is every spirit manifested into a giant pillar of light.
* The Truth of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' starts his speech to anyone who dares cross into his domain (i.e. through Human Transmutation), by stating that he is "I am World. I am Universe. I am God. I am Truth. I am One. I am All. And I am also you!"
* Deus ex Machina from ''[[Mirai Nikki]]''. The story happens because Deus {{spoiler|is dying and needs to choose a successor to become the new god.}} Interestingly, there appear to be a couple of limits on his powers: {{spoiler|it has been conclusively stated that he cannot resurrect the dead, as apparently he is unable to bring back the souls of the deceased. That, and he's dying himself.}}
== Comic Books ==
* The ''[[Lucifer (comics)|Lucifer]]'' comics depict God as sympathetic towards humans, but ultimately rather alien and willing to do terrible things in pursuit of greater goals. Indeed, at one point He is willing to destroy the entire universe, as He wasn't sure if it was really a successful experiment or not. Eventually, He was convinced to do nothing and let the inhabitants of his universe solve the entropy of the universe by themselves, an idea He didn't seem to have even considered and thus found rather amusing.
* God is shown, face and all, in the ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' comics. Definitely not one of the kinder depictions of his power or personality.
* [[Marvel Comics]] have an interesting relationship with God. The highest being in the setting and creator of the universe is [https://web.archive.org/web/20091118045459/http://marvel.wikia.com/One_Above_All_
* The [[DCU]] has [http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Presence_%28New_Earth%29 The Presence
* ''[[Conan]]'' has Mitra, who's essentially the Judaeo-Christian God under a different name. His followers are strict monotheists (the only ones in Hyboria!), believe in Heaven and Hell and are sworn enemies of Set, the setting's serpentine [[Satan]] analogue.
* ''[[Last Man Standing (graphic novel)|Last Man Standing]]'' has Hex, who is by [[Word of God]] the God of [[The Verse]].
* [[Quino]]'s works portray him as an old man with a triangular halo over his head.
* ''[[Savage Dragon]]'' has an arc named "A Talk With God". Guess who shows up? Special mention to the fight between Him and Satan!
== Fan Works ==
* Appears on-screen more than once in the 1990s-vintage ''[[Ah! My Goddess]]'' [[Self-Insert Fic]] ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20180115193229/http://www.yggdrasil.org/omg/index.html Oh! My Brother]'', where He's called "Boss" by the main character and tends to manifest as [[Norse Mythology|Odin]].
* The same entity also appears in ''[[Drunkard's Walk|Drunkard's Walk V]]'', which is in part a sequel to ''Oh! My Brother''. In addition to appearing as Odin Classic, He uses several variations on his Odin guise, plus a "man-on-the-street" who calls himself [[Stealth Pun|Harold Laird]].
== Film ==
* In ''[[Star Trek V: The
* ''[[Oh, God!]]'' and its sequels (starring [[George Burns]] as God)
* ''[[Time Bandits]]'' with Sir [[Ralph Richardson]], slightly hedged since he was billed as "the Supreme Being."
* ''[[Bruce Almighty]]'' with [[Morgan Freeman]].
* ''[[Field of Dreams]]'' The Voice - unknown actor, listed in credits only as "[[Character as Himself|Himself]]"... implication clear!
* ''[[Monty Python and
* In ''[[Dogma]]'', God appears in two incarnations. First, He's a rather shabby and gentle old man who unfortunately gets the crap kicked out of Him by demonic underage murderers on rollerblades; second, ''
* Monotheism seems fairly rare in the [[Star Wars]] Galaxy, but there is one notable exception, the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Sunesi Sunesi] species, a devoutly religious race that believes in the [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Maker Maker], an all-powerful deity who made the universe and all its inhabitants. The Force ''might'' be God or like God. Its interesting to note that the one Sunesi Jedi in the [[Expanded Universe]] believes that his ability to use the Force is "a gift from the Maker."
* Humorously, the Narrator in ''[[George of the Jungle]]'' apparently is God (in the straight-to-video sequel, he drags away a villain who told him to shut up into Heaven - complete with heavenly music, cartoon cherubs, and screams of terror), and generally screws around with the villains who often get tired of his narrating.
* God is played by none other than [[Paul Sorvino]] in ''[[The
== Literature ==
* References to "the Creator" as the antithesis of the Dark One are everywhere in the ''[[The Wheel of Time|Wheel of Time]]'' series through phrases like "the light of the Creator", but, Inquisition aside, there doesn't seem to be much religion involved, and the Creator itself never appears in the series ([[Canon Discontinuity|not even as a mysterious voice in the first book]]). The lack of religion has been explained by the fact that in-universe Creator and Dark One are very much real, and everyone knows that (for example, saying the Dark One's true name aloud will have dire(ct) consenquences). The Creator seems to be a very hands-off kind of deity. In one of the books, it's implied that he created all worlds, but doesn't particularly care if one of them dies in the way that a gardener plants all the flowers in a garden, but doesn't care if one of them wilts. The characters seem to acknowledge and accept this. That doesn't explain why prayers and catechisms are addressed to him, though.
* An interesting take in ''[[DDD]]'' by [[Kinoko Nasu]]: [[The Multiverse]] being the way it is, even the phenomenon of "God" was most likely [[Clap Your Hands If You Believe|willed into existence by humanity's beliefs]]. However, while [[Our Monsters Are Different|demons are incomplete beings]] (which is why they need humans to define their existence), if God was truly omniscient and omnipotent, then He would have no need to interact with human beings, since He only needs Himself.
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* Never actually makes an appearance in [[Good Omens]], but his plans and motives are speculated about a lot. His ineffable nature {{spoiler|is invoked by an angel in an argument that helps stop the apocalypse}}.
* [[H.P. Lovecraft]] subverted the notion of an omnipotent god perfectly. He gives us many gods of varying unspeakable power, but the undoubtedly omnipotent one is Azathoth, who is not a loving, merciful creator who watches his beloved creations from on high, but is an [[Eldritch Abomination|incomprehensible mass of literal, mindless chaos that dreams up and devours entire realities randomly.]] The only reason we still exist is not because we're loved, it's because Azathoth is ''asleep''.
* Christ is a [[Death by Origin Story]] character via accounts of Thomas Didymus in ''[[
== Live Action TV ==▼
* God appears in various forms as a major character in ''[[Joan of Arcadia]]''.
* Though Heaven, Hell, and a living personification of all evil exist in the [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Buffyverse]], God is almost conspicuous in His absence. Buffy herself comments that there's "nothing solid" on the matter. However, there are The Powers That Be. They may be gods, but they're not God. It's implied that a divine miracle occurred in Season 3 when it snowed to prevent Angel from committing "Suicide by Sunrise." However, it's left ambiguous enough that it ''could'' also have been Santa Claus looking out for vampires with souls. The whole "White Christmas" thing being his entire shtick and all.
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* God appears inside ''[[Herman's Head]]'' once, taking the form of Leslie Nielsen to better meet Herman's expectations.
* In the first season finale of ''[[The Sarah Silverman Program]]'', the titular character meets, is saved by, sleeps with, and then dumps the Morgan Freemanesque entity which she refers to as "Black God." When God makes his first appearance, she asks him, consistent with her character's casual racism, "Are you God's black friend?" A later episode has them reconciling and briefly dating, and God is portrayed as clingy, emotionally insecure, and prone to coming on too strong.
* [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|The re-imagined ''
* Season 4 of ''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]'' brought us Judeo-Christian mythology (with some amount of Islamic mythology added in regards to Lucifer's history), with the appearance of Castiel (an angel), who insisted that God did exist. At the beginning of season 5, {{spoiler|Sam and Dean were mysteriously transported onto an airplane, and Castiel was brought back from the dead, both of which he attributed to an act of God.}}
{{quote|'''Castiel''': There is someone besides Michael strong enough to take on Lucifer. Strong enough to stop the apocalypse.
'''Sam''': Who's that?
'''Castiel''': {{spoiler|The one who resurrected me and put you on that airplane}}. The one who began everything. God. ''(pause)'' I'm gonna find God.
'''Dean''': Try New Mexico. I hear he's on a tortilla. }}
** As the fifth season went on, various characters, including
** In 5x18, "Dark Side of the Moon," Sam and Dean are told by
** A {{spoiler|mysterious disappearance}} in 5x22, "Swan Song," led many viewers to speculate that {{spoiler|Chuck is God}}.
* In ''[[St. Elsewhere]]'', Howie Mandell met God in an out-of-body experience. God was also played by Howie Mandell. As he explained, "I made you in my own image, didn't I?"
* Gets a minor reference in ''[[NCIS]]'':
{{quote|'''Suspect:''' ''(to Gibbs)'' [[Deus Ex Machina|It was the hand of GOD!]]
'''Ziva:''' ''(watching)'' Can Gibbs arrest God?
'''Tony:''' I dunno... it's like [[Fantastic Four|the Thing]] trying to take in [[The Hulk]]. }}
* Unlike in the novel, the [[Good Omens (TV series)|''Good Omens'' miniseries]] has God narrate the story. She is played by [[Frances McDormand]].
== Tabletop Games ==
* ''[[Dragonlance]]'' has the Highgod, who created the lesser deities but has only intervened in Krynn's history to prevent its destruction. Chaos is the entity that opposes the High God, and it is from Chaos that the universe was created.
* In ''[[Forgotten Realms]]'', the Overgod Ao created the place and sets the rules by which gods proper (the powers who [[Gods Need Prayer Badly|need prayers]]) can play within his sandbox, but doesn't deal with mortals himself, except to declare something when gods try to mess the place up too much. Fate plays a similar role on Zakhara (Al-Qadim setting) as Ao on Faerûn, but supposedly sometimes answers appeals (though since it works better for priests, and unlike Faerûn, Fate's domain is more lenient on impersonal divine magic, it's impossible to tell whether it even reaches her and gets answered or e.g. counts as "to whomever it may concern" prayer). It's not clear whether they are the same entity, or Abeir-Toril is supposed to be the result of some sort of a "demiurge party", or what.
** ...and at the end of the Avatar Trilogy Ao in turn contacts ''his'' "Master".
* God is a major character in the ''[[Demon: The Fallen]]'' background fluff, although not [[Have You Seen My God?|so much in the actual game campaigns]]. All the Fallen have known God personally at the dawn of time, but ever since their Rebellion and incarceration in the Abyss came to hate Him (except the relatively small Reconciler faction). There are also indications that in oWoD, [[Samus Is a Girl|God is actually female]] and that She has [[Heroic Sacrifice|sacrificed Her life to save the world]] centuries before the Fallen broke free from the Abyss.
** The only one giving any info on the subject are [[Unreliable Narrator|the same demons who hate God's guts]], so the proverbial grain of salt is necessary here...
* In ''[[Kult]]'', he's called the Demiurge, and [[God Is Evil|is evil]]: Humans were immortal superbeings before he took all our powers away and made us what we are.
== Video Games ==
* The ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' games have an... [[God Is Evil|interesting]] (but there are [[God Is Good|occasional exceptions]]) relationship with God to say the least.
** In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei I]]'' he makes no direct appearance, but everyone on his side is working to build a kingdom on Earth where all men and demons shall fall prostrate before him for eternity, even completing a massive Cathedral that will serve as his Terrestrial Throne, and from all appearances, even though he doesn't show up, God approves of the above. We also learn that he long ago sealed away all the other demons and deprived them of the right to meddle in Man's affairs, but now they are back and aren't leaving without a fight.
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* ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]''. {{spoiler|The whole trigger of the plot is that the fal'Cie want to summon God by creating a mass sacrifice/slaughter of humans, hoping that the violence is enough to attract His attention. Even the fal'Cie Orphan, who's the one supporting all of Cocoon in the first place, has a death wish for that reason. The fal'Cie [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|can't do it on their own though]].}}
* God is a [[Bonus Boss]] in ''[[Dragon Quest VII]]''. The greatest power of the Supreme Being? [[Useless Useful Spell|Terrible jokes.]]
* ''[[Xenosaga]]'' has U-DO, God in the very [[Gnosticism|Gnostic]] sense, a sort of manifestation of the collective unconscious in a single rather <s>malevolent</s> [[Blue and Orange Morality|alien]] consciousness.
* Similarly, ''[[Xenogears]]'' has U-DO's more-or-less equivalent, the Wave-Existence.
* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' calls him The Maker. But there's no doubt that it's Him, with his church being modeled heavily after the Catholic ''and'' the Eastern Church, and the story of his Prophetess being an amalgam of Jesus, Mary, Mohammed, and Joan of Arc.
** Also a case of [[Have You Seen My God?|Have You Seen My Maker?]] as He got fed up with humanity's sins and left them to rot after they executed His Prophetess. Or so His [[The Church|Chantry]] says.
* ''[[Bayonetta]]'' surprisingly has something like this. Her, yeah, her, name is Jubileus, and in order to reawaken her, the Left Eye and Right Eyes of the world need to unleash their power and quite literally go inside her eye sockets. If one is removed she will go berserk and destroy everything not because she can recreate the universe, but because she is unbalanced... but she is not the hardest boss. That title goes to Rodin.
* Random soldiers in ''[[Metal Gear
* God (or some form thereof) also appears infrequently the ''Tales'' series.
** ''[[Tales of Eternia]]'' makes God (or Seyfert as He's known here) into a ''[[God Is Good|total dude]]''. He ''gives you'' the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Infinity Plus One Skills]] needed to defeat the [[Big Bad]].
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** His real name is {{spoiler|Chakravartin}}, which means {{spoiler|Ideal Universal Ruler}} in [[Hindu Mythology]]. Unfortunately, [[God Is Evil|He's evil]], and doesn't really fit the Benevolent part that being an Ideal Universal Ruler comes with being.
** This being ''[[Asura's Wrath]]'', though, there's only one logical end to the entire tale. {{spoiler|[[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|That end being sucker-punching God in the mouth for making your little girl cry]].}}
== Web Original ==
* [[LOLcats|Ceiling Cat]].{{context}}▼
▲* [[LOLcats|Ceiling Cat]].
* In the ''[[Mr. Deity]]'' series of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qzf8q9QHfhI on YouTube] shorts, God is interpreted as Mr. Deity, a Hollywood Executive type who, although essentially well-meaning, is a bit vague, thoughtless and temperamental, with a slightly alarming tolerance for various evils and unpleasantness. He also bears a startling resemblance to George Lucas.
* [http://twitter.com/OCriador O Criador] ("The Creator"), a popular Brazilian [[Twitter]] account.
* In the [[Journal Roleplay]] ''[[MS Elegante]]'', Captain Redd is pretty much every deity rolled into one.
* Shortly after 9/11, God made an appearance in [http://www.theonion.com/articles/god-angrily-clarifies-dont-kill-rule,222/ ''The Onion''.]
* In [[The Salvation War]], God declares that the gates of Heaven are closed, and that everyone is going to Hell so they should just lay down and die. [[Rage Against the Heavens|Humanity doesn't takes this very well.]] {{spoiler|He was killed on July 14th 2010 by the Archangel Michael.}}
* On ''[[That Guy With The Glasses]]'', a God-like stand-in called Santa Christ makes occasional appearances, usually doing something incredibly awesome and helpful (like erasing a reviewer's memories of a horrible movie) and then doing something else very nice for the reviewer (such as curing their diabetes or giving them a present). Everyone is always very happy to see him. {{spoiler|In the second year anniversary video, he is shot, but rises from the grave in three days. When the Chick asks why it took a full three days, he points out that she never rose from the grave and thus has no point of reference.}}
* The Creator in the ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' is said to be the only entity more powerful than the Lovecraftian Outer Gods.
* God in ''Messed Up Bible Stories'' on [[YouTube]] (see [http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0886D8914D5FA08F&feature=iv&annotation_id=annotation_858663 here]) , which is portrated by basically a speaking, glowing ball of light.
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* ''[[Muertitos]]'' depicts God and [[Satan]] as the patriarchs of two clans of feuding rednecks.
* In [https://web.archive.org/web/20110417175112/http://bukucomics.com/loserz/go/201 this] ''[[Loserz]]'' strip. For some unexplained reason, he hates the protagonist Eric so much that it makes his eyeballs bleed, probably to parody the phrase 'God Hates Me', by taking it literally.
* [http://pbfcomics.com/?cid=PBF053-Angels_Caught.jpg This] ''[[The Perry Bible Fellowship]]'' strip has God depicted as the all-seeing eye. Hmm. A great eye that sees all? Sounds a bit like [[The Lord of the Rings|Sauron]]. That or the all-seeing eye on the back of the US $1 note.
* God shows up periodically in ''[[
* In ''[[Breakfast of the Gods]]'', God is {{spoiler|the Quaker Oats Quaker, the first cereal mascot}}.
* God and Jesus make frequent appearances in ''[[Overcompensating]]''. God is depicted in the typical old man with long hair and a long beard wearing a robe. However the robe is clearly a bathrobe and he dwells in a trailer park for some reason.
* God talks to Jesus off panel in a ''[[Penny Arcade]]'' comic. Jesus makes frequent appearances.
* God has appeared twice in ''[[Something
** Like almost everybody else in the strip, God is portrayed as a [[Jerkass]] who especially hates Davan and Mike and ignores prayers to Him in lieu of watching shit happen to them.
** He also made up the whole "Homosexuality angers God" business so that [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|He could watch lesbian couples having sex with each other]] to spite Him. It's not made clear if the spite is needed in order to invoke His name so that He is allowed to watch, if invoking His name merely alerts him to the location the act is taking place, or if the spite is just part of His [[All Men Are Perverts|kink]].
* God pops up rather frequently in ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' strips, in which He is depicted as a large yellow disk/sphere; basically, a halo from classical depictions of saints and Biblical figures. [https://web.archive.org/web/20120206024512/http://zs1.smbc-comics.com/comics/20100708after.gif "Why do you look like a golden pizza?"]
* Although he doesn't appear directly, God is an indirect presence behind the scenes in ''[[Misfile]]'', depicted as an all-knowing entity that lets his [[Celestial Bureaucracy|angelic bureaucracy]] handle the actual work...or does he?
* Lord Cyrios, the creator of the ''[[Daily Grind]]'' universe, has never appeared directly in the comic, but [[Our Fairies Are Different|the Fae]] claim to be will-less bodies inhabited by his spirit, and several dead
* ''[[Fans]]'' has God interfere with Rikk's making a [[Deal with the Devil]] to save his friends.
{{quote|"He did not realized what you have known for years.
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== Western Animation ==
* One of the three main characters of the short-lived ''[[God, the Devil and Bob]]''.
* In their usual style, ''[[South Park]]'' depicts God as a bizarre-looking and somewhat surly mandrill/hippo creature in "Are You There, God? It's Me, Jesus". And he's a Buddhist who only lets Mormons into Heaven.
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* As said, God has shown up in ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''. He's the only character with [[Four-Fingered Hands|five fingers]]. {{spoiler|As well as [[Mind Screw|five thighs.]]}}
* God doesn't actually show up, but in an episode of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', Hawkgirl and Diana are fighting monsters/demons in Tartarus/Hell and all of a sudden the demons back off and Hawkgirl realizes why.
{{quote|Hawkgirl: That's right, I'm an ''[[I Lied|angel]]''. You can mess with me if you want to, but I don't think you want to mess with
== Real Life ==
* [http://www.dumb.com/god/index.php Chat with God online].
* [http://www.facebook.com/#!/GodQuotes Has a Facebook too].
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