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** In ''[[Discworld/Small Gods|Small Gods]]'', the Great God Om {{spoiler|narrowly avoids this fate.}}

* ''Our Friends From Frolix 8'', by Phillip K. Dick:

"They found the remains of an organism advanced several thousand times over what we are," Charley said. "And it evidently could create habitable worlds and populate them with living organisms, derived from itself. [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien|But that doesn't prove it was God]]." }}

* In ''[[Gods Debris]]'', God {{spoiler|killed Himself, resulting in the Big Bang}}.

* In ''[[Planescape]]'', dead gods are a part of the setting, their corpses floating in the Astral Plane. There's even a high-level adventure entitled "Dead Gods". Also, [[Dungeon Master|the Lady of Pain]] killed the god Aoskar for daring to set up shop in Sigil; this is one of the greatest demonstrations of why you really don't mess with her.

** She didn't attack him when he merely came there and has a portfolio that covered her portals. She killed him when his followers started to talk about her as his aspect aloud and some of her servants became his worshippers. Not only does she flay people with her gaze even for attempting to worship her as a deity in her own right, but in ''[[Planescape]]'', the "aspect" part alone sometimes causes problems to the target (e.g. Bast didn't make it through).

** And then there are resurrection attempts. In ''Finder's Bane'', for one.

* In ''[[Kult]]'', {{spoiler|God is dead, and the Devil is the only one who wants him back. Also, god is dying retroactively, being dead further and further back in history.}} It's mostly a good thing (as far as anything can be good in this [[Crapsack World]]).

* In ''[[Exalted]]'', this can (depending on your ST's preference for where to take the story) happen in the Endgame chapter of ''Return of the Scarlet Emperor'' with {{spoiler|Infernal Exalted, possibly backed up by demons or even Abyssals, breaking into the Jade Pleasure Dome through a long-forgotten 'back door' and assassinating the Unconquered Sun, who lacked his usual invulnerability because he was addicted to the Games of Divinity. The Ebon Dragon never expected the [[Oh Crap|massive power boost every Solar Exalt in Creation got]] when their patron Incarnae was killed.}}

* The majority of the Aedra of the ''[[Elder Scrolls]]'' universe invested so much of their essence into the Mundus that they became mortal and died. Earthbones, the laws of reality which bind mortals, are magical restraints created from their deaths. In all, only eight remain alive and they're halfway to dead themselves.

* The Creator Deity-slash-[[Eldritch Abomination]] Ormagoden from the [[Creation Myth]] in ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' chose [[Better to Die Than Be Killed|to self-terminate rather than have his fire extinguished by the First Ones' dirt]], destroying the ancient world and creating the Age of Metal [[Pieces of God|from his own body]] in process.

* In [[Mass Effect]] Cerebus agents find the corpse of a Reaper who they estimate had been rendered non-operational 37 million years ago. As they investigate it they begin to become indoctrinated by the Reaper, despite it being dead, and their minds start melding together as shown by them sharing memories that only logically they should know which is a side effect of the Reaper's hive mind. After a while everyone goes crazy and the only survivor makes an [[Apocalyptic Log]] talking about the Reapers as if they were Gods and that even a dead god (in this case the dead Reaper they found) can dream. In his own words he talks about how a true god, not the white-bearded old man with magic powers told about in mythology, is a verb, a force of nature that warps reality just by existing it doesn't have to desire affecting things around it for it to do so. In this case he wishes that they had never found god.

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