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The supreme deity of a given setting is not just a mere [[Jerkass Gods|jerkass]]—he is actively [[Complete Monster|malevolent, a callous, sadistic, tyrannical monster]] who created the world or universe to be a miserable [[Crapsack World|sack of crap]].
The classic [[wikipedia:Problem of evil|problem of evil]] tends to be invoked in this trope, along with the irrationality of [[The Fundamentalist|religious extremism]]. People foolish enough to try a [[Religious Russian Roulette]] to get a god like this to answer their prayers are unlikely to like the result.
In some works, this being is the supreme deity of a [[Fantasy Pantheon]], while in others, the being is a powerful monotheistic deity, with some works casting the [[God|Big Guy]] himself—or his [[Crystal Dragon Jesus|nearest fantasy analogue]]—in the role. Sometimes, the being [[A God Am I|calling itself a god]] ... isn't. Its powers are just so close to omnipotent that it makes no difference.
In settings that take the controversial stance of God being evil, it is not uncommon for [[Satan Is Good|his opposite to be good]]. This [[God and Satan Are Both Jerks|isn't strictly necessary]], however, especially in darker [[Crapsack World]]s whose authors take a [[Black and Grey Morality|more humanistic stance on things]].
Ninety-eight times out of one hundred, where an evil supreme god is in charge of things, you will also find a [[Knight Templar]]. Whether or not that person (or group) follows this evil supreme deity is entirely dependent on [[Black and Grey Morality|the Knight's]] [[Grey and Grey Morality|alignment]].
This trope can also be called ''dystheism,'' or ''maltheism''. These are beliefs that a monotheistic god is (respectively) [[The Gods Must Be Lazy|lazy]] or evil. This trope is often found in [[Rage Against the Heavens]] plots (and will likely invoke ''misotheism''
{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Morganna from ''[[.hack]]''. She manifests as a godlike being; a disembodied voice and psychic presence.
* ''[[Angel Sanctuary]]''. Technically a spoiler, but between the state of Heaven and the [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]], it's pretty obvious.
* [[Go Nagai]] did this all the time in his works.
** ''[[
** ''[[Devilman]]'' implies that God exterminated and sealed away demons because he disapproved of the way his first shot at creating life turned out. And he's basically an [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Brown Note|who the mere sight of]] [[Taken for Granite|turns humans into salt pillars]].
** [[It Gets Worse]] in ''AMON'', where it's revealed that {{spoiler|God has put entire world on a time loop so all humans and demons live and die for nothing over and over, just to make Satan suffer the loss of his beloved repeatedly for all eternity}}. What a ''dick''.
* ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' has the eccentric sadist Drosselmeyer to contend with: a dead writer whose influence, and love of tragedy, still haunt Kinkan Town.
* The manga of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' has The Truth, who, despite being very enigmatic, describes itself as God. It is a sadistic jerk, viciously mocking and laughing sadistically at the poor saps it forces to trade away bits of themselves for knowledge. {{spoiler|It's a little better in the final chapter, though that's in part because [[Kick the Son of
* ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'' has Zhuqiaomon, a phoenix god who is one of the four Holy Beasts that rule the Digital World. He sent his servants, the Devas, to the human world, to wreak havoc and eventually kidnap one of the heroes' friends, a small Digimon with the power to trigger evolution. However, this trope is inverted once the other Holy Beasts intervene, and explain that Zhuqiaomon was only trying to use their friend's special powers to fight the [[Big Bad|D-Reaper.]] Of course, Zhuqiaomon really dislikes humans as it is and isn't very apologetic to the children, so while not evil per se, he's still kind of an ass.
** Another ''[[Digimon]]'' god is Yggdrasil, a master computer that, in some incarnations of the Digital World, created the world and controls it. In every media it appeared it, whether it is the X-Evolution movie or the ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' anime, it always ends up trying to destroy its own creation (and in the case of Digimon Savers, the human world as well).
** He has a highly variable morality though-in X-Evolution, he's an enigmatic [[Cosmic Horror]] who has motives no one knows, in ''[[Digimon Savers]]'' he's an [[Anti-Villain]] with a [[Moral Event Horizon|easily justifiable]] [[Humans Are
* ''[[Berserk]]'': {{spoiler|In a semi-de[[Canon
* In a "not quite" case, the ''[[One Piece]]'' crew travels to another society in the sky and is forced to battle a lightning-flinging man identifying himself as god; his subjects even have (seemingly nonfunctional) wings! Turns out in this society "God" is just the title given to their ruler...
* The motivating idea behind all of the [[Monster Clown|Millennium Earl's]] actions in ''[[D
* Deus Ex Machina from ''[[Mirai Nikki]]''. Sure, he's about to die and is taking the world down with him, but picking his successor by forcing mostly innocent people to fight a battle royale for the lulz? Not to mention telling a 4-year-old to kill (semi)-innocent people.
* Many of the various gods in ''[[Kurohime]]'' and one of its central themes. When we finally meet the creator of man (not the [[Big Bad]] by the way, just some goddess lazing around), she abandons her creations outright to kill the titular heroine. She fails of course, which brings up [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|
* God in ''[[Cat Soup]]'' is pretty much only concerned about eating, {{spoiler|even fucking up with time and space to do so}}.
* Of all places, this appears in ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Garth Ennis]]' ''[[The Punisher]]'': "Sometimes I'd like to get my hands on God."
* In ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'', God is shown to be a pathetic creature who has a pathological need to be loved, and is willing to destroy anyone who turns their back on Him. {{spoiler|He dies at the hands of the Saint Of Killers}}.
* In the comic book ''[[
* ''[[Cerebus the Aardvark]]'' crossed the line into [[First and Ten Syndrome]] when its author began proposing such theories [[Writer
* In Warren Ellis's comic ''[[The Authority]]'', the main superhero team actually fight "God," which turns out to be a gigantic pyramid-like entity which created the Earth as a "retirement home" and is bugged when it returns to find humanity living there.
* In ''[[
* The [[Doom Patrol]] once battle a man who claims to be God as well as Jack the Ripper.
* God in [[Chronicles Of Wormwood]] is another example, as He's apparently {{spoiler|[[Mad God|insane]] or severely mentally deficient}}. Also of note: this version of God also seems {{spoiler|to really, really, really love masturbating}}.
* The premise of the post-Rapture graphic novel ''[[Therefore Repent!]]''.
* Eppy Thatcher from ''[[Grendel]]'' subscribes to this trope, and has "God hates me" as his [[Catch Phrase]]. Then again, this is a guy who's so messed up that he believes {{spoiler|he ''killed'' God}} at the end of his run as Grendel.
* [[Darkseid]] of the [[New Gods]] is the "god of evil" and revels in it. He runs a hellish planet dedicated to this with all his lieutenants being other evil gods.
* And by ''[[Final Crisis]]'', when he's the only New God left, he gives us this little gem (as well as ample proof of statement):
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* Loki of ''[[The Mighty Thor]]'' is often called and self-titled the "god of evil." Other gods or godlike beings from the [[Marvel Universe]] are very much about evil including the [[Omnicidal Maniac|Seth]] and the elder god Chthon.
* In ''[[Spawn]]'', God [[God and Satan Are Both Jerks|and Satan]] are portrayed as, though not exactly "evil," essentially the cosmic equivalent of spoiled teenagers who enjoy breaking each other's stuff. It's the fact that this includes ''us'' that causes this to become a problem. {{spoiler|Oh, and He's not actually the Creator}}.
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[The Devil's Advocate]]'' (though, [[Unreliable Narrator|as given by]] [[Satan]]):
{{quote|''"Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it: he gives man '''''INSTINCTS'''''. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does he do - I swear, for his own amusement, his own private cosmic gag reel - he sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all-time. Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste! Taste; don't swallow. And while you're jumping from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughing his '''''SICK, FUCKING ASS OFF'''''! He's a tight ass! He's a '''''SADIST!''''' He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? Never!"''}}
* Quoted from Riddick in ''[[Pitch Black]]'' when questioned about his belief in God;
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* In the 2010 film
* The [[Black Comedy]] ''[[A Serious Man]]'' implies that God may be malicious and/or utterly incomprehensible.
* In ''[[Fight Club]]'' the narrator and Tyler Durden discuss this when Tyler tries to 'enlighten' the narrator by means of {{spoiler|burning his hand with lye}}.
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'''Narrator:''' No, no, I... don't...
'''Tyler Durden:''' Listen to me! You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, He hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen.
'''Narrator:''' It isn't?
'''Tyler Durden:''' We don't need Him! }}
* ''[[God
== [[Literature]] ==
* Author [[Philip K. Dick]] used this at least twice, in the short story [[Dangerous Visions|"Faith of Our Fathers"]] and the novel ''[[The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch]]''.
* In [[Philip Pullman]]'s ''[[His Dark Materials]]'' trilogy, the Authority is {{spoiler|a feeble, senile old man who has been usurped by a more malevolent foe, and he's not even really the creator of the universe anyway}}.
* The novel ''[[The Jehovah Contract]]'' portray [[God and Satan Are Both Jerks|both God and Satan as bratty, spoiled sibling rivals]], {{spoiler|while the Mother Goddess is portrayed as the ''real'' Creator who now has to win Her own creation back.}}
* Steven Brust's novel ''[[To Reign in Hell]]'' doesn't have God as being necessarily evil as much as a bit thick and egotistical. Of course, that same novel has Satan as an [[The Devil Is a Loser|indecisive schlep]] until it's too late.
* In [[Dean Koontz]]'s earlier works,
* The [[Harlan Ellison]] short story
* [[Harlan Ellison]] plays with this trope (again) in his short story "Hitler Painted Roses." Another of Ellison's short stories, "The Death Bird" portrays the "Satan" character as a misunderstood savior and "God" as a malevolent alien bent on control. The main character, a reincarnation of Adam, is revived and sent to defeat "God" in order to bring Earth to an end and achieve rest for himself and humanity.
* Lester Del Rey's short story ''For I am a Jealous People'' has [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens|God's Chosen Aliens]] doing unto Earth what God's Chosen People used to do to other humans.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s novel ''[[
* The stageplay ''J.B.'', based on Job, takes it a little further: Satan's last attempt to corrupt Job is to paint the bit at the
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20090827124116/http://www.yiffstar.com/index.yiff?pid=8192 Bartleby Tales series] ([[NSFW]]) has this as its main trope: God is actually everything the most stereotypical religious zealots preach him to be, sending otherwise-good people to Hell for minor "sins" (like homosexuality) and even tossing his own Son in there for preaching the complete opposite of what he intended. Likewise, Satan's a lot more altruistic, using a loophole in his contract as Lord of Hell to change the first two circles into the closest he could come to what Heaven should be (though appropriately twisted; this ''is'' Hell, after all). Eventually, it starts its own [[Rage Against the Heavens]] subplot, though it's yet to actually delve into it.
* Part of the backstory of [[Clive Barker]]'s novel ''Imajica'' is that ages ago, the one, singular male god named "Hapexamendios" defeated all the various separate minor female goddesses and became the God of all realms. Hapexamendios has been trying to bring about "The Reconciliation" which will reconnect Earth to the other four "Dominions" {{spoiler|which will then allow him to destroy them all}}.
* In the [[Clive Barker]] short story ''[[The Midnight Meat Train]]'', it's implied that the [[Eldritch Abomination]] that leads the race of immortal cannibals who secretly rule New York from hidden tunnels underneath it, or others of its kind, are the original inspiration for all myths of Gods throughout human history.
* [[William Blake]], beginning with his ''[[The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell]]'' and elaborated in his poem about Milton, turned the tables to posit that mistakes are innocent and perfection is villainous. C.S.Lewis actually wrote a response to Blake's ''Marriage of Heaven and Hell'' called ''The Great Divorce'', in which denizens of Hell actually always have the chance to go to Heaven, but very few of them want to stay
* In [[Charles Stross]]'s ''Singularity Sky'' series, there is a God-like entity called the Eschaton, which spread humanity over three thousand years of space and responds to any attempts at [[Time Travel]] by almost completely destroying the offending planet. Slightly subverted, however, because the Eschaton specifically states that it is ''not'' God. Also, the Eschaton is not evil - it acts only from self-preservation (ensuring that the timeline leading to its own creation takes place correctly), not from sadism. This doesn't stop some people in-Universe from seeing it as evil, but they tend to the villains in-story.
* In Nick Perumov's ''Keeper of the Swords'' series of books, the local [[Crystal Dragon Jesus]], called "The Saviour", is evil. And, he is depicted very similar to the actual Jesus. Creepy.
* In Alan Campbell's ''[[Deepgate Codex]]'', the local god, Ulcis, is {{spoiler|raising a zombie army made out of the corpses of his worshipers to take over the world, so he can (personally) eat everyone}}.
* [[Stephen King]]'s:
** ''[[
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** ''[[The Stand]]'' also has some elements of this near the end, {{spoiler|with many protagonists' deaths being likened to sacrifices to God [[Deus Ex Machina|so He'll personally interfere]] with [[Big Bad|Randall Flagg]]'s plans (in a way that kills virtually all his "followers", including children whose only fault was being with adults who went to Flagg's side).}}
* God himself doesn't put in an appearance in the [[Neil Gaiman]]/[[Terry Pratchett]] collaboration ''[[
* In Karen Miller's ''[[Godspeaker Trilogy]]'', [[Religion of Evil|the God]] of [[The Empire|the Mijaki]] is portrayed in this way. Except {{spoiler|it's actually a [[Devil but No God|dark power]] that they '''believe''' to be a god}}.
* Old Testament God is the [[Big Bad]] in ''Jericho Moon'', with an invulnerable, yet rather harried Joshua as [[The Dragon]].
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* ''Star Maker'' by Olaf Stapledon, one of the great classics of science fiction, paints a portrait of {{spoiler|God, or as he's referred to in the book the "Star Maker," who creates universes more out of a sense of aesthetics than anything else. Once he's done with one, he'll discard it and move on to another (no Heaven here, folks). The book gives fleeting descriptions of the final, perfect universe that will perfectly fulfill the Star Maker; even (or especially) in this universe, there will be beings who exist in a perfect state of eternal suffering and horror, without which the universe as a whole could not be perfect. Ugh.}}
* God in [[Anne Rice]]'s ''[[Memnoch The Devil]]''. Maybe. We only have what Memnoch showed Lestat to go on.
* In ''[[
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* K.J Parker:
** ''[[The Scavenger Trilogy|Scavenger Trilogy]]'' If you have to pray, pray the god Poldarn isn't real. You don't want his special salvation.
* This is a staple of many of [[Cosmic Horror Story|weird fiction author]] [[Thomas Ligotti]]'s short stories, especially "Nethescurial", "The Tsalal" and "The Shadow, The Darkness".
** "The Sect of the Idiot" actually opens with a quote regarding Azathoth (see above).<ref>From the [[Tome of Eldritch Lore|Necronomicon]], no less!</ref>
* In ''[[
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* [[Mark Twain]]:
** ''The Mysterious Stranger'' features Satan, the sinless nephew of ''that'' [[Satan]], delivering a speech stating that reality is a dream, because a world where God does such evil things and is still worshiped as good is clearly the nonsensical creation of an unconscious mind. Part of this speech can be found in the Quotes section of this very page.
** ''Letters From The Earth'', which depicts God as a megalomaniacal hypocrite who, among other things, not only punishes sinners for minor offenses, but also innocents simply because they were part of the same civilization as the sinners. All of this is narrated by Satan, who was thrown out of Heaven for asking too many questions about the contradictions of God's law.
*** There are two Gods in Letters From the Earth. God - Real God - is mostly unconcerned with humanity and thinks of them all as an amusing experiment. He is short with Satan for Satan mouthing off and has a temper. However, Real God is not evil. Satan writes about the Biblical God as a totem invented by small tribe of men - and describes Him as one depraved monster.
* In Matthew Stover's ''Jericho Moon'', the Hebrews are portrayed as having made a [[Deal
* The perceived viewpoint of Jesus and God within [[La Résistance|The Other Light faction]] in the [[Left Behind]] book ''Kingdom Come'', who believes that
* [[
* Eloat in [[Storm Constantine]]'s ''[[
== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* ''[[Supernatural]]'':
** God is a cruel, capricious being who is subjecting the protagonists (not to mention the rest of the world) to [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|pain, horror and]] {{spoiler|[[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|bad writing]]}} [[For the Evulz|for his own sadistic entertainment.]] {{spoiler|[[Sarcastic Confession|He said so himself.]]}}
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** Due to the Season 6 finale, {{spoiler|Castiel}} might also fall into this category, {{spoiler|since a combination of [[Well-Intentioned Extremist|well-intentioned extremism]] and phenomenal cosmic power seems to have made him more than a little [[A God Am I|prideful/nuts.]]}}
*** Though in season 7 it turned out that {{spoiler|this was at least partly due to [[The Corruption]], and by the time he truly goes off the deep end he's fallen victim to a full-blown [[Demonic Possession]].}}
* Dewey in ''[[Malcolm in
== [[Music]] ==
* This trope, when applied to the Big Guy Himself, is a main source of [[Religion Rant Song
* Pretty much the entirety of Gary Numan's musical catalogue from the album "Sacrifice" onwards (1994-) has dealt with his own image of God's cruelty, His servants' horrid actions and the barren, dead wasteland that is heaven.
* Depeche Mode did not want to start any blasphemous rumours, but they think that God has a sick sense of humour (and when they die, they expect to find him... laughing).
* The song "Father, You're Not a Father" by the [[Death Metal]] band Immolation, is about God being a rapist and a betrayer of men.
* God in Fireaxe's four hour epic "[[Food for
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* [[Captain Obvious|As might be surmised from the name]], every other song by [[Death Metal]] band [[Deicide]] deals with how much they hate God. It is somewhat unclear whether they believe God exists or not.
* [[
* The song "War is my Destiny" by rapper Ill Bill implies that the Devil (not [[Satan|that one]]
* "Smithereens" by rapper El-P features the line "Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?/With cherubs puffin' a bundle, trying to remember why he even tried"
* [[Sage Francis]] has a song called "Sun vs Moon", where he sings "God's not a woman/He's a big white guy in the sky/In the desert, saw reflections of his eyes/He doesn't cry for us/But when he does, it's cause he's drunk"
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* "Remnant (March of the Undead IV)" by [[Machinae Supremacy]] uses a [[Zombie Apocalypse]] as a metaphor to criticize religious followers who insist that God is benevolent despite doing nothing to keep horrible things from happening. The song even implies that God enjoys watching the destruction he causes through inaction.
* "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)" by [[Randy Newman]] has several verses sung from God's perspective which show him to be quite a bit of a [[Jerkass]]. As is typical with Newman songs though, it's not entirely clear how serious he's being. It's also worth pointing out that the God in the song criticises humanity pretty severely ("I recoil in horror from the foulness of thee/From the squalor and the filth and the misery"), but his not intervening to prevent these things could still be regarded as [[Jerkass]] behaviour.
{{quote|''I burn down your cities-how blind you must be
''You all must be crazy to put your faith in me
''That's why I love mankind
''You really need me
''That's why I love mankind }}
* Extremely common in [[Black Metal]] songs. Deathspell Omega in particular has basically made a career of this.
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* Several theological and philosophical concepts involve a belief in an evil, incompetent or indifferent God:
** ''Maltheism'' (from ''mal'', meaning bad/sickness and ''theism'' [[Captain Obvious|meaning theism]]) is the belief that a God or Gods exist, but they are malevolent or incompetent. Few religions have a wholly maltheistic view of the world, though several include maltheistic strands - for example, gods of evil, such as Ate (the Goddess of Evil, Folly, and Destruction) in Hellenistic mythology. Abrahamic belief in the Devil can be seen as a variant - although the exact nature (or even his existence) of the devil is not universally agreed on in Abrahamic theology, he is often construed as a supernatural agency with malicious intentions for humans. A related concept is ''Hypothetical Maltheism'', used as a criticism of religion by agnostics and atheists (see Richard Dawkins quotation below), which holds that, if God exists, he would be unworthy of worship due to the ''[[wikipedia:Problem of evil|Problem of Evil]]'' and ''[[wikipedia:Problem of hell|Problem of Hell]]''. [[Captain Obvious|Unsurprisingly]], [[wikipedia:Problem of hell#Annihilationism|several]] [[wikipedia:Problem of hell#Free will|religious]] [[wikipedia:Problem of hell#Universal reconciliation|responses]] exist to such a line of thought.
{{quote|'''[[RationalWiki]]''': Maltheism is the idea that God...is like a kid who keeps removing pool ladders in [[The Sims]].}}
** ''Misotheism'' ("hatred of Gods") is a related concept to ''Maltheism'', but is more active in its meaning - rather than mere belief in a malevolent God, misotheism is an outright hatred of said God. [[Older Than Feudalism]], maltheistic positions and characters appear in Icelandic sagas and in some Hellenistic sagas. It is distinct from Maltheism in the sense that, whilst Maltheism is the position that God is unworthy of worship, Misotheism is ''active hatred'' for God. Frequently leads to [[Hollywood Atheist|Hollywood atheism]].
{{quote|'''[[Pitch Black|Riddick]]''': I absolutely believe in God...And I absolutely hate the [[Precision F-Strike|f***er]]}}
** ''Dystheism'' ("ungodly") is the belief that God is not wholly good, and possibly (though not necessarily) evil. It differs from maltheism in that it draws no conclusions about whether said God is worthy of worship - a maltheist is always a dystheist but a dystheist is not always a maltheist. Many ancient religions were dystheistic in nature - Hellenistic and Norse mythology, with jealous Gods who interfere in mortal affairs (and mortal women) but who still demanded respect and sacrifice being the best-known examples. Since [[World War Two]], more specifically the Holocaust, [[wikipedia:Holocaust theology|some Jewish theologians]] have proposed a dystheistic approach to God.
{{quote|'''Walter Savage Landor:''' Men in all age and nations have displayed more zeal in pulling the Gods down towards their own level than raising themselves up to the level of God. }}
* [[Gnosticism]] holds that the God of the material universe is a petty, [[It's All About Me|self-centered]] tyrant who believes himself to be the absolute God, when he's in fact the creation of a greater (and more benevolent) being known as Sophia, who is herself a wayward angelic servant of the true God of the spiritual universe.
* There is a particular branch of Satanism (which in most variants has little to nothing to do with [[The Bible|THAT]] Satan despite stereotypes) known as Luciferianism which takes this view in regard to the Adam & Eve story. The interpretation here is that God deliberately forbade eating from the Tree of Knowledge to keep humanity blinded, ignorant, and subservient [[Alternative Character Interpretation|while the serpent freed them from this and thus gave humans the capacity for higher thought and true sentience.]] Of course, the cost of humanity's higher knowledge (and morality, sentience, deeper consciousness, complex thought processes, and all the other baggage that comes with it) may or may not have been worth it.
* [[Richard Dawkins]] described the Abrahamic God in no uncertain terms:
{{quote|The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: [[Yandere|jealous and proud of it]]; [[Evil Is Petty|a petty]], [[Disproportionate Retribution|unjust, unforgiving]] [[Control Freak]]; [[A Nazi by Any Other Name|a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser]]; [[Complete Monster|a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.]]}}
* Some modern Jews believe that God is, while not evil per se, at least not wholly good, with the reasoning that a benevolent God would never have allowed [[World War 2|the holocaust]] to happen.
** The film [[God on Trial]] portrays a group of Jews at Auschwitz debating this very subject. The trial is not about whether or not God is evil, but whether he is guilty of a breach of contract with regards to his covenant with the Jewish people.
* There's a certain tribe in Africa who believe that their supreme god created humanity because he was bored and wanted something to torture. There's good news, though: you can rebel against him, and in fact it is the right and duty of every human to do so.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[Patton Oswalt]] talks about an Evil God in his [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iq10bz3PxyY Christmas Shoes] routine. Also one with the [[Jesus Was Way Cool|Jesus isn't evil]] variety.
{{quote|'''God:''' What's this? Someone in a bad mood on my son's birthday? Bullshit! [[Moral Event Horizon|Give that kid's mom cancer!]] Make sure he's in front of him in line, make him seven cents short for the shoes! This guy'll buy them, then he'll be in a good mood!
'''Jesus:''' I don't think we need to give the mother cancer...
'''God:''' You shut the fuck up! This is gonna be the best birthday you ever had! }}
* The late, great [[George Carlin]] also had some choice words concerning the Big Guy Upstairs.
{{quote|Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky who watches everything you do, every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a special list of 10 things he does not want you to do. And if you do any of these 10 things, he has a special place, full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send you to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! . . . But He loves you! He loves you! He loves you and he needs money.}}
== [[Tabletop
* Practically every ''[[Dungeons
* On top of this, the supplementary D&D book "Lords of Madness" takes this even further. Drawing heavily from the [[Cthulhu Mythos|Lovecraftian mythos]], the book heavily implies that the evil aberrations known as Aboleths predate the existence of the universe and the D&D deities themselves. Not only is the world born of this primal evil, but the book takes it a step further and goes on to explain that Mindflayers, Cthulhu-looking psychic humanoids that teleport between dimensions at will, see in complete darkness, paralyze opponents with sound, [[Brain Food|eat the brains of their victims]], and procreate by enslaving other <s>humanoids</s> organisms and infecting them with a parasitic larvae that takes control over an augment of the body, are the ultimate stage of evolution at the end of the universe. In fact, their existence in the medieval-like D&D era is explained as occurring simply because they utilized all of the resources by the end of the universe and reduced it to a cold barren wasteland. Afterwards, they decide to go back in time so they can fuck the universe over all over again. One of their goals is to destroy the sun, partially to fuck over the other species that rely on it but also because they just like it better that way.
* The concept of the game ''[[Midnight]]'' is fighting hopelessly against the Evil God Izrador who rules the world. However, Izrador is not the Creator, but merely the evil member of a pantheon exiled to the mortal world. The rest of his pantheon are definitely jerks for choosing the mortal world as Izrador's prison and locking everyone else in with him with no help, though.
** It was never intended that mortals be locked up the way they are with Izrador. Izrador, being a god of chaos and corruption, screwed up the seal that locked him into the world. Instead of being a world where every being except Izrador could enter and leave at will (by normal [[Dungeons
* Creation is also used as a prison for evil gods in Monte Cook's d20 setting ''Ptolus''. At least there, the Chaos Gods are also [[Sealed Evil in
* God in [[White Wolf]]'s ''Demon: The Fallen'' is a psychotically ungrateful megalomaniac. Then again, the entire point of that RPG is that [[Satan Is Good|Lucifer is a sympathetic protagonist]]. What the Demons say about God in that game comes from an obviously biased source. God's actual intentions and motivations are far more ambiguous in the game as a whole; the whole Reconciliationist faction of Demons believes that God must have been good after all, mysterious as Her ways may seem... and Lucifer himself expresses doubts about his rebellion and a desperate desire to be reconciled with God at the end of the Time of Judgment game fiction.
* Taken to the extreme in ''[[Warhammer
* Gork, Mork, and the Emperor of Mankind, who are slightly less bad. Slightly. To be fair, Gork and Mork are mostly better because they don't actually ''do'' anything except be an object of worship by Orks in the 40K setting. They're more active in ''Fantasy'', and not nearly as nice there. The Emperor was a good guy while he was alive, the intolerance and all that were the actions of his followers. If he were to come back in all his glory, odds are he would flip out at how far his Imperium has strayed from what he set out for.
* The C'Tan? They're arguably not ''real'' gods (they're just hideously powerful [[Energy Beings]] with the power of gods, to whom the laws of physics aren't even guidelines), but they're active at the moment... and make the Chaos Gods look good by comparison. The Chaos Gods at least have positive traits even if they're, at the moment, almost totally overshadowed by vile evil. The C'Tan are a bunch of self-serving, duplicitous, genocidal bastards who want to wipe out all life in the galaxy because life energy tastes better than stars. Also, they reduced their entire race of worshipers into near-mindless <s>cyborg</s> [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|undead robotic]] slaves. There are four of them left: the [[Grim Reaper|Nightbringer]], the personification of death who [[Mind Rape|burned his image into the psyche]] of virtually all life (big exception: the Orks) as such and made life be afraid of death; the Deceiver, [[Chessmaster]] par excellence; the Outsider, currently [[Ax Crazy|batshit bonkers]] and [[Sealed Evil in
** The Deceiver in particular is one of the only entities so nasty that he's evil in both [[Canon]] ''Warhammer 40k'' and the fan-made [[Mirror Universe]] ''Brighthammer 40k''. In the latter, he's known as the Soothsayer, and specializes in telling dangerous and harmful truths, and dispelling even the most harmless or beneficial lies.
** The Eldar used to have a nice, normal, stable pantheon with many nice gods. Guess which ones survived the [[The End of the World
** And Isha the god of fertility and love. Of course, she's kind of busy being [[Cold-Blooded Torture|held prisoner and tortured]] by the Chaos God Nurgle, who is otherwise a rather [[Affably Evil]] god.
** AND The Laughing God, the Eldar trickster god, patron of the Harlequins, and possibly the last hope for the universe. That is, unless Tzeench turns out to be on our side. You never know with him.
* While ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] Fantasy'' has the same Chaos gods, many of its other gods are much more benevolent, if a bit more subtle. They tend to act more by creating or empowering a champion to fight back chaos, most recently Voltan.
** Though the Fantasy version of [[Ax Crazy|Khaine]] has no [[Honor Before Reason|redeeming qualities]] at all.
** In WHFB, the gods are not necessarily outright evil as in WH40K; they are [[Jerkass God|much more subtle]]. Chaos deities, however, are completely immoral. Likewise, [[Good Is Not Nice|goodness does not equate niceness]] - [[The Empire]] professes all the decandent, fanatic, militaristic and intolerant ingredients of the historical Holy Roman Empire, while [[The Kingdom|Bretonnia]] is a [[The Dung Ages|feodalistic hellhole]]. Even so, the world of Warhammer is [[Crapsack World|a world half empty]], and its [[Jerkass God|deities reflect that]].
* In the [[Gothic Horror]]/[[Gorn|splatterpunk]] RPG ''[[
* In ''[[Exalted]]'', all the major gods are addicted to the Games of Divinity. What the Games are is left up to the individual ST but it is known that they are incredibly addictive. Thus a common Internet meme states "The Unconquered Sun is on Celestial Crack". Then again, so are Luna, the Five Maidens, several of the head divisions, many God-Blooded (children of major gods, minor Gods don't get access) and even '''anyone has seen the Games of Divinity Form of the Prismatic Arrangement of Creation Style of Sidereal Martial Arts.'''
* In ''[[Scion]]'', the PCs are half-human offsprings of various deities from (mostly) abandoned mythologies. While their divine parents have an aspect of all-too-human dickery about them (the game is quite faithful to how mythology originally presented them), only a couple of them are outright evil. The Abrahamic deity is not ''explicitly'' present, but the sole avatar of one of the evil Titanic Primordial Forces is a shining bearded guy who wants everything in existence to sacrifice their free will and be absolutely devoted to him. ''Scion Companion'' presents, as a possible antagonist, a group of people who are manipulating Fate to force all gods into an Abrahamic mold. It's heavily suggested that if they pulled it off, it would fit this trope.
* ''[[The Dark Eye]]'' at first glance has a "gods = good; demons = evil" divide. Apart from the Nameless God, who was a traitor to the good gods. Then you find out about some more obscure (demi)gods, particularly the bloodthirsty Kor, who is the patron of mercenaries and likes to get cut off fingers of slain foes as sacrifice. Of course the fact that some misguided people worship demons as gods doesn't mean anything. Until {{spoiler|you get deeper into the ancient history/mythology and find out that at least some of the Archdemons that rule Hell used to be gods, and are only demons now because their number of worshippers diminished and they were supplanted by newer, more popular gods. Or they just did it [[For the Evulz]]}}
** Plus, the gods really only care about the existence of creation. Mortals are only interresting for them for their effect on creation and for reaping their souls (every god gets the souls of mortals that live by his ideals) to strengthen the armies of creation in the last battle when the aforementioned Nameless God rips the outer sphere open, letting in the hordes of uncreated demons. Some of them seem to be curious about mortals that live by their ideals, like Phex (essentially god of tricksters) or Hesinde (goddes of wisdom and art), but that could be a ruse to get more souls. Others, the hard liners, were ready to nuke a region to stop a renegade from damning all mortals (signing their souls over to the demons), even if it meant reaping tens of thousands of souls prematurely. Luckily the largest army of mortals in the last age [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|stopped the renegade before that]]
** The "evil" (demi)gods are implied to be falling gods, going over to the demon side. The Nameless God didn't go over to the demons side, he just weakened creation, letting the demons in more easily, gaining control of some of them, and taking creation for himself.
== [[Theatre]] ==
* Played with in ''[[Angels in America]]'': God isn't evil ''per se'', but {{spoiler|he is a serious [[Jerkass]] who abandoned Heaven a couple decades back, leaving the Angels in disarray and despair. It takes Prior, who has had a similar bad experience recently with a man walking out on him, to knock some sense into them, and say "Screw him!".}}
* [[King Lear|"As flies to wanton boys are we to th'gods/They kill us for their sport."]] Though by the end of the play, Gloucester's had ANOTHER [[Heel Faith Turn]].
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Shin Megami Tensei I]]'' and 'II'' both use this trope faithfully, although how good Lucifer is by comparison varies between the games. But Lucifer can never seem to keep up in terms of absolute evil. Mostly because he swore never to abandon humanity. He does this, however, by guiding them into his vision of perfection...
** By the end of ''[[Shin Megami Tensei II]]'', {{spoiler|everyone basically wants God dead, from Lucifer to the angel Gabriel. The player takes care of this}}.
** The boss theme of ''Nocturne'' has the ''demons'' praying to Him for help. Lucifer also implies that God has been destroying and recreating the world multiple times over, with each new iteration meaning the deaths of everyone in the old world that is replaced, and it's implied {{spoiler|the events of ''[[Shin Megami Tensei II]]'' didn't take and the protagonist got a [[Fate Worse Than Death]] for his part in it.}}
** This however is becoming less featured {{spoiler|or much more subtle}} in the later SMT games as opposed to the earlier ones. In ''[[
** Many fans have taken this as the idea that the "something terribly wrong" is the menaces in the [[Persona]] games, which have been sorted, making God good again in time for [[
** In [[Strange Journey]], however, the [[That One Boss|Demiurge]] [[That One Sidequest|sidequest]] ''very'' heavily implies the Demiurge is, in fact, YHVH, and that the Demiurge fella is still very much this. While it's implied he becomes somewhat more reasonable after {{spoiler|you defeat him and allow Metatron (actually another piece of YHVH) to merge with him, he's still more or less an [[Ax Crazy]] [[Knight Templar]] who has you take him to Mem Aleph so he can participate in killing her in the Law Path and warns you ''very'' severely there will be consequences for not choosing his way in the other paths. He's also flat-out mentioned to have forgotten his love for humans and trampled the Goddess-worshipping world, implying he's still an attention-hungry bastard.}} [[
** The [[Updated Rerelease]] of ''[[
* In ''[[
* In the [[Crapsack World]] of ''Demon's Souls'', Magic is explained as power that comes from the human (Or demon) will, and Faith is explained as a power that comes from God. For this reason, Faith-users are usually pretty rude toward ungodly mages. This is all well and good, but in multiple places in the game you can discover that {{spoiler|The "god" that faith users actually get their power from is the world-destroying [[Big Bad]] Demon Overlord, the Old One, and that faith users are not aware of this. Whether the religion is completely wrong, or whether (even worse) the Old One actually IS god is not revealed. However, faith coming from the Old One is implied by Sage Freke in an optional conversation, and confirmed by the item description of the Talisman of Beasts.}}
* Zeus from ''[[God of War (
** In ''III'', it's revealed that {{spoiler|Kratos corrupted Zeus when he opened Pandora's Box in the first game to defeat Ares.}}
* God is the [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Makai
** The most popular way the final confrontation goes down? {{spoiler|1=The heroes murder God with a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]]. [http://img236.imageshack.us/my.php?image=squenif353hp0.jpg One artist's rendering].}}
* In ''[[Alundra]]'' {{spoiler|Melzas is actually the god who is worshipped by the citizens of Inoa, which makes him more powerful. And then he starts killing them off. What a jerk.}}
* A disproportionate number of ''[[Breath of Fire]]'' games use the world's leading god as their [[Final Boss]], mostly because the [[Sorting Algorithm of Evil]] says not much else should be powerful enough to faze them by the end of the game. In some cases, like the third installment, they portray the realisation that you are going to have to fight and ''kill'' God with the weight such a goal would bring.
** Myria and Deathevan are actually more like cases of [[God of Evil|Gods of Evil]] because they are not the world's only deities. Ladon, the dragon god who appears throughout the game, is actually [[God Is Good|a pretty cool guy]], especially in the third game where he can actually teach you some of his abilities by acting as a Master.
* ''[[
* ''[[
* And finally, we have ''[[
* In ''[[Shadow Hearts]]'', "God" is {{spoiler|a [[Cosmic Horror|world-destroying alien monster]] which doesn't have any dialogue.}}
** Although, it's explained by {{spoiler|the real Roger Bacon}} that it isn't truly a god, but rather something that's as far above humans as humans are above ants (or further).
* In ''[[Dragon Quest VII]]'', when you resurrect God, he immediately begins an evil tyranical regime that confuses and subjugates the newly reunited world. However, {{spoiler|this turns into a subversion as "God" is actually the thought-to-be-defeated Demon Lord in disguise. You eventually ''do'' fight God, but it's as a [[Bonus Boss]] outside of anything resembling the plot}}.
* In ''[[Dragon Quest IX]]'', it turns out The Almighty is kind of a royal prick who tried to destroy humanity just 'cuz. Thankfully his daughter's pretty cool.
* The Elder Gods in ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' can certainly qualify; while hiding behind a [[Obstructive Code of Conduct]] of non-interference with their own creation, they've either downright ignored imminent threats to the Realms and breaking of sacred laws (like they did with Shao Kahn's invasion of Earth in MK 3), or manipulated proxies into doing their dirty work through elaborate [[Gambit Roulette
** Raiden could also qualify, depending on the game. In his ''Armageddon'' ending, he became increasingly aggressive in his protection of Earth, going as far as to destroy ''all'' other realms (both threatening and non-threatening ones) to prevent them from being a danger to Earth. And in his ending in the original game, Raiden wins the [[Mortal Kombat]] tournament, but soon becomes bored with human competition and invites other gods to participate in the tournament, which ends up destroying the planet.
* Odin in ''[[Valkyrie Profile: Silmeria]]'' {{spoiler|is ready to destroy the entire mortal world rather than face the possibility that humans will stop serving the gods unquestioningly. Lezard doesn´t seem that bad all of the sudden}}.
** He is somewhat ''[[Lawful Evil]]'' in the first ''Valkyrie Profile'', too. After all {{spoiler|he is fine destroying the order of the mortal world by stealing it´s sacred treasure just to have a mighty artifact for himself and to help Lenneth to recruit more Einherjar}}.
* ''[[Star Ocean: Till the End of Time]]'' has Our Heroes daring to enter the Time Gate into the 4th dimension, to thwart God's plans to eradicate the Milky Way and establish independence. In the climax, it turns out that {{spoiler|the fourth dimension is full of super-advanced apathetic humans, who created our universe as a combination of reality TV and role-playing games (Earth's mythical heroes were player characters). "God" is a corporate suit who's reformatting parts of the program, seeing humanity's attempts to practice "symbology" (programming code) as some kind of bug in the system.}}
** And what truly makes this "god" evil is that when he finds out that humans have been practicing Symbology, rather than {{spoiler|painlessly deleting them}}, he sends the "angelic" hordes to wipe out humanity. {{spoiler|Maybe he thought it would boost the ratings...}}
* In ''[[Drakengard]]'', [[The World Is Always Doomed]] because
** Well, to be technical, {{spoiler|The giant babies are only said to be the gods in the sequel. In the original game, it instead appears to be what happens if the gods ''die'' -- they may be evil, but keeping them around is preferable to the alternative. Given that the portion of the original game where the babies appear didn't happen as far as the sequel is concerned, it's quite possible that both versions are correct within the context of their own games.}}
* ''[[
* This is touched upon in ''[[
* ''[[
* The DS Tactical RPG ''[[Luminous Arc]]'' has this, as well as a {{spoiler|[[Corrupt Church]]}}. Oddly enough, they actually oppose each other in the end.
* In ''[[
** Granted, the ''entire thing'' was essentially expanding on the Pharisee argument found in the Bible - {{spoiler|Is Jesus' power really ''divine'' in origin, or is he meant to tempt people from the true path/faith?}} Pretty damn serious subject-matter for a T-rated video game, and one that could be completely missed by anyone not familiar with the subject matter.
** The above is the result of poor translation (something the [[PS 1]] version was well known for). The plot of the PSP version has the final boss as a false prophet type plotting to use Lucavi to rule the world. The Beoluve family are blood descendants of the person who stopped him the last time.
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* ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' gods come in two varieties, the Aedra and the Daedra, namely: those who took part in the creation of Mundus and those who did not.
** The Aedra rarely affect mortal life directly, but tend to be worshiped by mortals for their contribution and are mostly believed to be benign.
** The [[Big Bad]] of the ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
** The Daedra - specifically the Daedric Princes - were disinterested in assisting in the creation of Mundus and merely leech on its existence to host their own realms of existence (seen to those on Nirn as other planets); likewise, their dealings with humans are typically less than ethical, save for Azura, who is considered the most compassionate Prince. It's a value dissonance. Of special note: Sheogorath, until recently, has a flair for unlocking the inner madness of his worshipers - "a bitter mercy" - and Mehrunes Dagon has been trying to conquer/destroy Tamriel for many thousands of its years because that's what he does.
** In the first expansion for Morrowind, ''Tribunal'', the main quest ends with you (the hero) {{spoiler|having to kill one of the Tribunal gods, Almalexia. It turns out she has gone mad and killed another god, Sotha Sil, and wants you to die as a martyr.}}
** In the Shivering Isles expansion for Oblivion {{spoiler|you find out that Jyggalag, the daedric prince of order, became so powerful he threatened the other daedric princes, and thus was cursed with madness, transforming him into Sheogorath. You then free Jyggalag and [[A God Am I|take the mantle of]] Sheogorath.}}
* ''[[Viking: Battle for Asgard]]'': You know Freya? {{spoiler|Yeah, she's kinda evil. The kind of evil that brings you back to life with the promise that she'll give you a chance to enter Valhalla if you kill someone for her and then realizes the benefits of having a personal assassin and promptly stabs you in the back.}} Skarin was not pleased and suffice it to say, it did not end well if you happened to be a God.
* In [[Scribblenauts]], you can turn God evil. [[Memetic Mutation|You can also give him a shotgun and a skateboard and have him fight Cthulhu.]]
* Although this will come as a surprise to no one, ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110226001142/http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1924722 behold! The Tetris God!]''
** Although, he's not so much evil as a complete and total '''DICK'''.
* In ''[[Dragon Age]]: Origins'', Archdemons that lead Darkspawn hordes are Old Gods of the Tevinter corrupted by the Blight. The Maker is kind of an asshole of a god, instead of just killing the Tevinter mages that attempted to breach the Golden City, he cursed them to spread devastation in their wake and sent them to destroy the mortal world.
** The ''Legacy'' DLC for ''[[Dragon Age II]]'' reveals that {{spoiler|according to the Darkspawn Emissary Corypheus, who was once a Tevinter magister, the Golden City was already the Black City when he and his fellow magisters entered it....implying that it corrupted them rather than the other way around. Which, if the Golden City/Black City is the home of the Maker, likely implies that the Maker is evil too. Considering what a [[Crapsack World]] ''[[Dragon Age]]'' is set in, that makes a disturbing amount of sense...}}
* ''[[The Last Resurrection]]'' features Jesus as its [[Big Bad]] and God as its [[Bigger Bad]].
* The Creator in ''[[Final Fantasy IV:
* In the [[Sengoku Rance|Rance universe,]] the [[King of All Cosmos|creator god]] is a [[Space Whale|giant whale]] who created all of existence just to watch people fight and kill each other in wars. So [[Humans Are
* ''[[Bayonetta]]'''s Jubileus {{spoiler|is a goddess who intends to destroy the earth upon resurrection so that she can remake it into a perfect world.}}
* [[Xenoblade Chronicles]] has {{spoiler|Zanza,}} [[Big Bad]], God of Bionis and a complete and utter bastard, who {{spoiler|destroyed the ''entire universe'' as well as the world multiple times so that the humans he relies on to exist don't leave the world and expand to the stars.}}
** {{spoiler|Meyneth,}} on the other hand, is a kind and caring deity who only wants to stop the above from happening again. {{spoiler|She even performs a [[Heroic Sacrifice]] to save the heroes from Zanza.}}
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** The Seven Deities are a less powerful example of this. Of them, only Yasha, Deus and Augus are not outright sadistic, violent, arrogant beings who look down upon mortals and use them as they see fit, and Augus only because he cares not for domination but simply [[Blood Knight|a good fight]]. And even Yasha and Deus was willing to be [[Necessarily Evil]].
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* In ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20120311100430/http://www.atom.com/channel/channel_stickman_exodus/ Stickman Exodus]'', the [[Gorn]]-doodling teenage owner of the notebook is effectively a cruel [[God]] to the two-dimensional cast.
== [[Web
* ''Locus'': Meittron was [https://web.archive.org/web/20091015044900/http://locus.keenspot.com/d/20091009.html driven] [https://web.archive.org/web/20091022105227/http://locus.keenspot.com/d/20091012.html to it]. Nor is [[Satan|Sammael]] an [[Unreliable Narrator]], as [[Word of God]] [http://forums.keenspot.com/viewtopic.php?f=129&t=107801 confirms his story].
* The titular [[The Water Phoenix King|Water Phoenix King]], Yamra, and his predecessor Gurahl, though this was, and to some extent still is, a contested belief in the story. Those who benefitted under his rule consider him to have been a benevolent deity, and the opposition to be immoral for rebelling against the [[Order Versus Chaos|Natural Order of the Universe]]; the rebellion considered him an awful tyrant, and the order that Gurahl imposed on the universe a harmful thing—as did Lady Luck, who killed Gurahl over his binding the sun-goddess Okidesha. "Pure" Yamrans seek to restore the strict caste system, with Hadrakahn priests and knights at the top of the heap, everyone else working for them, and witches and sorcerers cast into the outer darkness...for the [[Utopia Justifies the Means|Good Of All]], of course!
* ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' seems to be quite fond of this trope and frequently uses it for jokes.
* In ''[[Wulffmorgenthaler]]'', God and Satan agree on God being the evil one after [https://web.archive.org/web/20120607025336/http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/2010/02/15/ flipping a coin].
* It's kind of hard to deny that ''[[The Brick Testament]]'' has this angle going for it; it was pretty much intended as a way of pointing out the questionable points of the Bible. [[The End of the World
* ''[[Oglaf]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130321050317/http://oglaf.com/howtheygetyou/1/ proves the point]. (SFW page on site where most pages are NSFW.)
* ''[[Wondermark]]'' discusses maltheism, slightly tongue-in-cheek, in a series of strips starting [http://wondermark.com/804/ here].
== [[Web Original]] ==
* ''[[The Salvation War]]'' uses this as a fundamental premise. Yahweh, the entity that presented himself as the Christian god (and apparently Allah for the Islamic faith as well) is actually an immature douchebag who became drunk on the power he held over humanity until he reached the point where he became convinced of his own lie. He eventually became fed up with those parts of humanity that questioned him, and closed the gates of Heaven to mankind sometime around 1000 A.D., thereby condemning all of humanity to Hell, ''even the faithful''. The story gets kicked off when he decides that isn't enough, and gives Satan free rein to wipe out mankind forever so Yahweh could go to a different dimension to find some other species that might be more obedient. However, by the time this happened, humanity had become very technologically advanced, while Heaven and Hell were still at the Bronze Age. [[Curb Stomp Battle|You can predict]] [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|what a pissed-off humanity]] [[Rage Against the Heavens|does next.]]
** Even the angels are pissed off at him! The Archangel Michael is running [[The Plan]] which basically saves the heavenly host while pointing an army of absolutely enraged humans at Yahweh, and eventually kills him himself, having killed off all of Yahweh's powerful supporters by stealth or by human. Except Jesus, really called Elhmas, who is mostly presented as a stoned out of his brains idiot, until it is revealed he faked his own death and is keeping an eye on Michael to prevent him from turning into another Yahweh.
** Michael's plot was apparently not the only one either.
* Some interpretations of ''[[Mr. Deity]]'' are this. He's not so much actively evil, as tremendously uncaring.
* Proven in [[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The Canadian animated series ''[[Tripping the Rift]]'' (which is ''definitely'' '''not''' for kids) actually features a few appearances by God and the Devil. Though the latter is definitely evil, the former is kind of a dick. He's depicted as wagering on the main character's soul with the Devil because he's bored and unleashing a plague of locusts on a planet because they refused to worship him (thinking he's a con artist like the ones they had dealt with earlier in the episode). However, the most blatant example of the trope is in the episode where Chode and Gus travel back to the beginning of time. Their ship accidentally collides with God and kills Him. But when they return to their own time, they discover that they've actually made things BETTER. Without God, there's no concept of good and evil, and everyone is basically decent towards each other; there's no crime or war or sexual repression. Everything is going pretty well...until Chode and Gus let the cat out of the bag and introduce the concept of sin to the universe, sending it into chaos. They travel back in time to set things right and get killed themselves, and God walks away laughing at their deaths.
* Mostly averted by ''[[South Park]]'': the few times God has appeared in show, he's been portrayed as a decent guy. [[King of All Cosmos|A hippo-monkey-cat who's a practicing Buddhist for some reason]], but a nice guy. ''Mostly'' averted because of his long-time practice of only letting Mormons into Heaven... which meant everyone else went to Hell. Including Buddhists. [[Fridge Logic|Even though God himself is a Buddhist]]. South Park is ''weird''.
** Remember that in ''[[South Park]]'', Hell is a pretty decent place for most people (only serious evildoers get actually tortured), while Heaven is so dull that only the Mormons can enjoy it.
** Though there was the episode where Stan asked Chef about God (because Kenny was dying... again) and their conversation went like this:
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'''Chef''': Stan, sometimes God takes those closest to us, because it makes him feel better about himself. He is a very vengeful God, Stan. He's all pissed off about something we did thousands of years ago. He just can't get over it, so he doesn't care who he takes. Children, puppies, it don't matter to him, so long as it makes us sad. Do you understand?
'''Stan''': But then, why does God give us anything to start with?
'''Chef''': Well, look at it this way: if you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away. If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, then you would have nothin' to cry about. That's like God, who gives us life and love and help just so that he can tear it all away and make us cry, so he can drink the sweet milk of our tears. You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power.
'''Stan''': I think I understand. }}
** In another episode, the local priest, during a eulogy for yet another person killed by geriatric drivers, takes the view that God just finds it funny, and leads the group in praying that God's had enough of a laugh and will stop killing people already.
* In ''[[Wonder Showzen]]''. God appears as an evil, creepy voice. Of course, that´s not surprising considering [[Dead Baby Comedy|what kind of show it is]]...
* In ''[[
** {{spoiler|Unicron}} from ''[[Transformers Prime]]'' also counts {{spoiler|As Optimus puts it he is, metaphorically speaking, the parent of humanity and all life on Earth. He agrees with Optimus on this, and then Unicron declares all life he created as parasites unworthy of living}}
* God is a subversion in ''[[Newgrounds]]'', though Tom Fulp warns the audience not to underestimate God. At first glance, having Darnell (a child) die by having a flaming airplane fall on him is evil. But Darnell was an arsonist who decided to terrorize an entire city. So yes, he was asking for it, regardless of his age.
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