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See Also: [[Someone Has to Do It]], when supernatural forces are making sure that such a post is filled, sometimes via [[You Kill It, You Bought It]]. Also, people who ascend to such a '''God Job''' inevitably qualify as [[Physical God]]s. If you become a god of an unimpressive thing, your '''God Job''' might make you one of the [[Odd Job Gods]].

 

== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==

* The Guardians of Earth from ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. Literally called "Kami," which means "spirit" or "God".

 

== [[Film]] ==

** They do, however, keep certain characteristics of their old self. The third movie deals with what would have happened if someone ''evil'' got the suit- a crass commercial greedy Santa.

* ''[[Ernest Saves Christmas]]'' deals with this plot too, as Santa is looking for his successor to the job.

** Immortality is more than stretching it for Time (who retains his office for precisely as long as he lived before gaining it, since {{spoiler|he lives BACKWARDS in time, and 'dies' at the moment of his birth (or conception, this is never clarified and other Incarnations say they aren't sure which)}}).

* [[Discworld]]:

** Death is a role that must be filled, and when no one is around to do it, things get... weird. Nowadays his mostly-human granddaughter usually covers for him when he feels like [[Death Takes a Holiday|taking a holiday]]- not out of her own will, but because if he goes too long without doing the Duty, she starts displaying more Death-like traits and has no choice in the matter. She's generally quite indignant about the whole thing.

**** Nope. Death just wanted to marry off his adopted daughter, knowing that Mort will screw eventually up and she will have to help him set things right. Death just didn't anticipate how much Mort will manage to screw up and how hard it will be on him (Death) to stay away.

*** Nowadays it's heavily implied that the post of Death will ''eventually'' get passed on to Susan (the key word there being "eventually"), just as the post of Time was passed onto Time's son. There has been a lot of the [[Old Guard]] passing their jobs and duties onto the new though, or at the very least changing with the times (Kaos, anyone?)

* In the ''Mythology of the Modern World'' stories on ''Banter Latte'', some of the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]]s (such as the Neighborhood Coordinator) work this way, while others are supernatural beings that were never mortal.

* ''[[Tasakeru]]'' explores the various complications of {{spoiler|an outcast being selected to fulfill the role of a God.}}

* ''[[Lost]]'': The protector of the island gets all sorts of cool powers, gets to set the rules for the island, and never ages. However, he can be killed by conventional means, so he must perpetually seek a replacement. Also, {{spoiler|the finale implies that what's being protected is, at least in part, the afterlife, which the protector can never experience until he finds a successor and dies.}}

* Once in ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]],'' Ares loses his powers and it turns out that the god of war is a title; without someone in the position, violent urges in humans run rampant.

 

== [[Tabletop Games]] ==

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', Peter has to become Death when the reaper twists his ankle. It's also told in another episode that Death inherited the job from his father.

 

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