God Test: Difference between revisions

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''Prove to me that you're divine; change my water into wine!"''|''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'', "Herod's Song"}}

** Apparently, God also pulled the same stunt on Gandhi, who took it a lot harder than Bruce.

* [[M. Night Shyamalan]]'s ''[[The Last Airbender]]'' has one of these.

* In ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II'', Biff challenges his future self to prove that the Sports Almanac knows the results of every sporting event in the next 50 years.

* ''[[Bill and Teds Excellent Adventure]]'': Invoked when Bill and Ted challenge their future selves:

''[quadruple air guitar]'' }}

** Double subverted in the sequel; when the heroes' [[Evil Twin|Evil Twins]] arrive, Ted is suspicious, but Bill convinces him to trust them. Then Ted trusts his robot counterpart after it passes a [[How Many Fingers?]] test.

** In the two-parter "Human Nature"/"The Family of Blood", Martha Jones, a medical student from the future, uses her knowledge of anatomy to prove that she's not "just" a maid, which she's currently disguised as.

* ''[[Joan of Arcadia]]'' has Joan ask the teenage boy claiming to be God to prove his divinity. He gestures behind himself to show... a tree.

'''God''': "Let's see ''you'' make one." }}

* ''[[Red Dwarf]]'': Lister's comments have been misinterpreted over the years as the promises of a god, leading to this hilarious exchange:

'''Cat''': "So am I!" }}

* For a show that dealt with fake gods, ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' only ever used this test once, and indirectly at that. When Gerak becomes a Prior of the Ori and is asked to destroy Jaffa who refuse to believe, Teal'c asks him what makes him believe they are gods, citing various impressive miracles they could have performed<ref>For added rhetorical punch, they're all feats that the Goa'uld regularly performed as part of ''their'' [[God Guise]]</ref>. He then posits that the measure of a god is not how they display their power, but how they apply it. If they were gods, they wouldn't need Gerak to kill anyone on their behalf, or even ask such a thing of him.

* Repeatedly in ''[[Okami]]'', since faith in the gods is at a low ebb. Amaterasu sometimes displays a wicked sense of humor in answering them.

* In ''[[Dragon Age]]'', the Lyrium-addled Templar, Carroll, repeatedly refuses to believe that the protagonist is a Grey Warden;

'''Warden''': *''Irritated''* There ''aren't'' any Darkspawn here! }}

== Western Animation ==

* Spoofed in [[Beavis and Butthead]]. The duo meet a cult leader claiming to be God, and try to do the test. The problem is that the guys asking the questions are, well, Beavis and Butt-head.

'''Beavis''': Yeah! }}

* In ''[[God, the Devil and Bob]]'', after several attempts God makes to prove his divinity, Bob ''still'' brushes him off causing God to play ''hardball''. Cue the entire bar split apart, growing to fifty feet, bathed in heavenly light and surrounded by doves... with a bear in a fez riding a tricycle with the banner; "It's really Him!!!"

== Real Life ==