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Not to be confused with [[Like a God To Me]].

 

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== Comic Books ==

* One major story arc in the ''[[Tomb Of Dracula]]'' comics started as a result of Count Dracula appearing before a Satanic cult preparing a sacrifice to give to their dark master. Afterwards, Dracula says that he is in fact the Devil, and that the cult should serve him.

* In ''[[Steelgrip Starkey and The All Purpose Power Tool]]'', Flynn Ryan pretends to be an angry Lion God (complete with lion suit) to frighten General Kingu into revealing his scheme to mine the Moon. {{spoiler|The [[Land Mine Goes Click|other]] kind of mine.}}

* The Aleksandr Zarevin's ''Lonely Gods of the Universe'', the [[Human Alien|Ollan]] refugees pretend to be gods to the ancient Atlanteans. For reference, the security guard sent with them is called [[Roman Mythology|Mars]] [[Greek Mythology|Ares]]. They also call the hill when they have their palace Oll-ympus after their homeworld.

** Also, their home country on their planet is called Atl. They decide to call their new home "Atl-antis" in her honor.

* In ''[[The Accidental Time Machine (Literature)|The Accidental Time Machine]]'' by Joe Haldeman, an A.I. pretends to be Jesus.

* One Marra in ''[[The Madness Season (Literature)|The Madness Season]]'' poses as a god on a primitive colony planet. When he is finally "defeated", he even does a convincing impersonation of the Burning Bush.

**** The theory in the instance of people actually ASKING for help is that it's OK to provide limited assistance in a life-or-death situation, but it's not OK to make global changes in their culture that go beyond making sure they don't all die. Even then, it's best to do it in such a way that they won't realize that outsiders did it.

* Seen repeatedly in ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' (as well as the original ''[[Stargate (Film)|Stargate]]'' movie) -- usually, anyone who comes through the Stargate is automatically assumed to be God. (This is perfectly in tune with the plot, however. The [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]] who stole the gates have invested a ''lot'' of energy in making this happen; it's less a God Guise than somebody else's [[Path of Inspiration]].) The Goa'uld at first used this trope to maintain their positions of power, but most of them [[A God Am I|actually came to believe their own propaganda]]. Ba'al is one of the few exceptions; Anubis's case [[Physical God|is justified]]. Vala actually impersonated the Goa'uld (Qetesh) who once controlled her for a while, acting as a god to the people of a particular planet.

** A variation appears in "The Face of Evil", where the Doctor is instead mistaken for The Evil One (and the resemblance is ''not'' a coincidence).

** In the serial ''The Aztecs'', Barbara is mistaken for the Aztec deity Yetaxa and tries to use her position to change the Aztec Empire.

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