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'''Basic Trope''': [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Satan may be evil, but the Big Guy isn't any better.]]
* '''Straight''': The [[Legions of Hell]] are invading earth, but [[Light Is Not Good|God and his angels]] couldn't care less, leaving [[Alice and Bob]] to clean up the mess on their own.
* '''Exaggerated''': [[Satan]] is burning down orphanages while [[God Is Evil|God just ordered the angels]] [[Apocalypse How|to exterminate every last human]].
* '''Justified''':
** Humans have crossed the [[Moral Event Horizon]], and God has decided "[[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]", leaving humanity completely defenseless against the genuinely evil Satan.
** [[God Is Evil|God is an evil tyrant]] and [[Evil Versus Evil|Satan is an ambitious rebel seeking to claim supremacy in his stead.]] 
** [[Above Good and Evil|Good and evil are just words anyway]] - the [[Powers That Be]] [[True Neutral|don't give a damn]].
** God and Satan are quite human in behaviour,and [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|with all that power, they're assholes]].
* '''Inverted''':
** [[God Is Good|God]] and [[Satan Is Good|Satan]] both genuinely care about humanity, and [[Good Is Not Nice|everything they do]] is ultimately in their best interests.
** ''Deconstructed:'' They just go about it the wrong way.
** Or, Everything is a pissing contest between them. 
* '''Subverted''': God or Satan has a change of heart, and later refuses to abandon humanity to the evils of the other.
* '''Double Subverted''': But then they just backstab the human race anyway.
* '''Parodied''': Satan [[New Media Are Evil|passes out free tickets]] [[Rock Me, Asmodeus|to Metallica concerts]] while God [[No Hugging, No Kissing|hands out]] [[Sex Is Evil|opal rings]].
* '''Deconstructed''': Alice and Bob realize that, since God ''AND'' Satan have it in for humanity, they have no greater power to turn to. [[Cosmic Horror Story|This won't end well...]]
* '''Reconstructed''':
** But after days of [[Level Grinding]], Alice, Bob, and their [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] decide to take on [[Omnicidal Neutral|both the forces of Heaven And Hell]]. [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?|They win,]] freeing humanity from their oppressors once and for all.
** Since this is supposed to be a reconstruction: They then proceed to become ''just'' as bad as God and Satan had been, because it turns out that ''somebody'' has to do the jobs, and the nature of the job (particularly [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|humanity]]) is such that anybody who holds it ''will'' be a jerk, eventually, or quit.
* '''Zig Zagged''': God and Satan compete for who's [[Eviler Than Thou]], leaving the humans caught in the middle unsure of where to turn or what to do.
* '''Averted''': If God and Satan exist at all, one will be a staunch ally to mankind while the other a deadly enemy. 
* '''Enforced''': "Hmm... having an almighty, benevolent God rule a world where demons regularly fight humans [[Viewers are Morons|would just confuse the audience too much]]. Let's make Him a [[Jerkass Gods|Jerkass]] too!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "So [[Let Me Get This Straight...]]... You're saying that the Guys Upstairs ''AND'' Downstairs are out to get us?! [[Oh Crap|...crap.]]"
* '''Invoked''': "Hey [[Archangel Michael|Mike]], the humans' constant battle with Satan's gotten boring. Tell [[Archangel Gabriel|Gabe]] to mess them up while [[Pass the Popcorn|I create some popcorn]] - those little buggers will totally ''flip''!" 
* '''Defied''': "Hey, Mr. Up-In-The-Sky! We can't BOTH oppress humans! If you start [[Bolt of Divine Retribution|blasting 'em]], [[Satan Is Good|I'll just give 'em first aid kits]]!
* '''Discussed''': "Demons torched a hospital, and all the angels did was take a piss in the flames. Hmmm... think I'll [[Nay Theist|quit my weekly Devotionals]]..."
* '''Conversed''': "[[God]] and [[Satan]] have been portrayed every which way in the media, so it's only natural that they'd both wind up evil in some works."
* '''Played For Laughs''': God and Satan both wander around annoying the other characters with their [[Evil Is Petty|asinine behavior]] and/or [[Sinfest|puppet shows]].
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice, wounded and hopelessly outnumbered by Satan's minions, heaves a sigh of relief when a squad of angels arrive. As the demons scatter, Alice rushes to thank her saviors. But then they draw their swords. Alice [[Scream Discretion Shot|begins to scream...]] 
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