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== Anime ==

* {{spoiler|Hanyuu Furude}} in ''[[Higurashi no Naku Koro ni]]''.

* This is one explanation for Haruhi's powers in ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''~~--one~~ both suggested and rejected by [[The Philosopher|Koizumi]]. [[Did Not Do the Research|Fans tend to forget the latter part.]]

* This is one explanation for Haruhi's powers in ''[[The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''—one both suggested and rejected by [[The Philosopher|Koizumi]]. [[Did Not Do the Research|Fans tend to forget the latter part.]]

* Both pillars in ''[[Magic Knight Rayearth]]'' have much more power than they can comfortably use.

* Shaka, Gold Saint of Virgo in ''[[Saint Seiya]]'', is the [[Did Not Do the Research|reincarnation of Buddha]], and the most powerful of [[Crossover Cosmology|Athena]]'s Saints.

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* In the second ''[[Evil Dead]]'', the way to get rid of the Evil was to make it flesh, then have it sucked into a portal.

* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'' {{spoiler|Tia Dalma}} is the goddess Calypso. This particular case was decidedly ''involuntary''; she was trapped that way by {{spoiler|Davy Jones, with a little help from the Brethren Court}}, and spends the whole third movie trying to get her full power back. {{spoiler|It works}}.

** This is also parodied in the second movie, where a tribe of cannibals ''think'' for whatever reason that [[Loveable Rogue]] Jack Sparrow is a [[God in Human Form]]. He thinks this is great- until he finds out that they intend to "release" him from said human form... [[I'm a Humanitarian|by eating him]].

** This is also parodied in the second movie, where a tribe of cannibals ''think'' for whatever reason that [[Loveable Rogue]] Jack Sparrow is a God in Human Form. He thinks this is great- until he finds out that they intend to "release" him from said human form... [[I'm a Humanitarian|by eating him]].

* ''[[Bruce Almighty]]'' and the sequel has [[Morgan Freeman]] as God.

* In ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]'', Hindu God Hanuman descends to Earth as a human boy named Maruti because of his boredom as a result of staying in Swarglok (some [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]) for many years.

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** The Death of [[Discworld]] isn't a god by the standards of his universe, but he does occasionally self-limit his powers and go [[Walking the Earth|walking the Disc]] disguised as a human. Usually fails miserably because: a) in spite of hanging around humans for millennia, he's no good at ''being'' one, and b) some supernatural crisis inevitably drags him back to work.

* [[Ian McDonald]]'s novel ''Out On Blue Six''--{{spoiler|Kilimanjaro West turns out to be this}}.

* In the ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series the most powerful of the [[Powers That Be]] exist [[Time Dissonance|mainly outside of time]] and, to be able to do anything to that which exists inside of time, not only need to insert fragments of themselves into the time stream(s), but also to ~~[[God in Human Form|~~put that fragment into a physical body]]. This is usually done by the fragment hitching a ride in an already living being (usually without the mortal host being aware), which limits the amount of power they can use. However, if the host dies they can slap together a blob of physical matter and shove the fragment into that, giving them much greater access to their powers (and in a few instances the [[Big Bad]] starts out that way).

* In the ''[[Young Wizards]]'' series the most powerful of the [[Powers That Be]] exist [[Time Dissonance|mainly outside of time]] and, to be able to do anything to that which exists inside of time, not only need to insert fragments of themselves into the time stream(s), but also to put that fragment into a physical body. This is usually done by the fragment hitching a ride in an already living being (usually without the mortal host being aware), which limits the amount of power they can use. However, if the host dies they can slap together a blob of physical matter and shove the fragment into that, giving them much greater access to their powers (and in a few instances the [[Big Bad]] starts out that way).

* The Devil from Glen Duncan's ''[[I Lucifer]]'' is given the choice by God to redeem himself by taking over the body of Declan Gunn. He retains his devilish characteristics, but spends much of his time utterly overcome by the power of his human senses.

* A character in the ''[[Well World]]'' series claimed to be this, more or less.

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== Tabletop Games ==

* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' on [http://www.amazon.com/Faiths-Avatars-Advanced-Dungeons-Dragons/dp/0786903848 this], but on the [http://www.rotarytraderonline.com/shop/asinsearch_1560763620.htm other hand] in D&D [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]] have their [[wikipedia:Io (Dungeons ~~%26~~ Dragons)|own deities]] whose avatars are dragons.

* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' on [http://www.amazon.com/Faiths-Avatars-Advanced-Dungeons-Dragons/dp/0786903848 this], but on the [http://www.rotarytraderonline.com/shop/asinsearch_1560763620.htm other hand] in D&D [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]] have their [[wikipedia:Io (Dungeons & Dragons)|own deities]] whose avatars are dragons.

** In the ''Dungeons and Dragons'' Avatar Series (books and adventures), the deities of the [[Forgotten Realms]] are forced to descend to Faerun in their considerably weaker avatar forms as punishment for the misdeeds of two of them.

** In the ''Dungeons and Dragons'' Dragonlance setting, the god Paladine appears in the mortal world as the wizard Fizban.

** 4th Edition has taken this to new levels by actually allowing player characters to be the mortal embodiments of a god with the various divine Avatar epic destinies, which represent a character discovering that they are a [[God in Human Form]], or at least part of one, and ultimately ascending to rejoin that god.

** 4th Edition has taken this to new levels by actually allowing player characters to be the mortal embodiments of a god with the various divine Avatar epic destinies, which represent a character discovering that they are a God in Human Form, or at least part of one, and ultimately ascending to rejoin that god.

* In ''[[Warhammer 40000|Warhammer40K]]'', The [[God-Emperor]] of the Imperium is the God of Humanity ...and a mortally wounded and crippled man kept alive in the most complex iron lung imaginable.

** The Eldar can call forth the avatar of their god of war into one of their own for combat.

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* The [[Lunar]] series has Althena routinely taking the form of a human girl (usually a singer), who is the incarnation of the deity. They don't usually know this fact, nor do the other characters. Lampshaded in ''[[Lunar Silver Star Harmony]]'', when Alex tries to make a sculpture of Luna, and the person looking at it notices the similarity to the Goddess Althena.

* If you play your choices right in [[Dragon Age]]: Origins, {{spoiler|You can conceive one of these with Morrigan, a child with the soul of an old god.}} This will presumably have great consequences in the sequels.

* In ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka de|Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3]]'', both halves of the Dragon-God get depowered and assume human forms as a result. Kokuryuu/the Dark Dragon had his weakened human body destroyed and his powers snatched by an enemy, although it didn't cause power loss to his [[Miko]]. Hakuryuu/the White Dragon is initially found in the form of a pre-teen kid (also qualifying for the [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] trope as the Dragons have been around for at least ~~300-400~~ years by that point); he partially retains the ability to cross time-space, and later regains some of his power and assumes [[Bishonen|a more]] [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy|adult]] form. In one side game, both Dragons can be seen in both childlike and adult human forms.

* In ''[[Harukanaru Toki no Naka de|Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 3]]'', both halves of the Dragon-God get depowered and assume human forms as a result. Kokuryuu/the Dark Dragon had his weakened human body destroyed and his powers snatched by an enemy, although it didn't cause power loss to his [[Miko]]. Hakuryuu/the White Dragon is initially found in the form of a pre-teen kid (also qualifying for the [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old]] trope as the Dragons have been around for at least 300–400 years by that point); he partially retains the ability to cross time-space, and later regains some of his power and assumes [[Bishonen|a more]] [[Long-Haired Pretty Boy|adult]] form. In one side game, both Dragons can be seen in both childlike and adult human forms.

** ''Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 5'' features human forms of [[The Four Gods]]. [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys|Needless to say]], they're extremely pretty (especially Suzaku and Genbu).

* In ''[[Jade Empire]]'', {{spoiler|[[Mad Scientist|Kang the Mad]]}} is really {{spoiler|Lord Lao, the god of machinery}} with [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]].

* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'''s Raiden, Thunder God and protector of Earthrealm. Originally a [[God of Evil]] in [[Mortal Kombat (video game)|the original game]], later [[~~Retcon|retconned~~]] into a [[Mentor]] for the good guys. ([[Ret Canon|By way of]] [[Mortal Kombat (film)|the movie]]) Once an Elder God, he later took human form to assist the heroes in their defense of Earthrealm.

* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'''s Raiden, Thunder God and protector of Earthrealm. Originally a [[God of Evil]] in [[Mortal Kombat (video game)|the original game]], later [[retcon]]ned into a [[Mentor]] for the good guys. ([[Ret Canon|By way of]] [[Mortal Kombat (film)|the movie]]) Once an Elder God, he later took human form to assist the heroes in their defense of Earthrealm.

* ''[[Oracle of Tao]]'', this is the basic premise behind the hero's amnesia. Things don't add up with her memories and she thinks that [[Dream Apocalypse|she might not exist]], but the truth is in fact she's the only one who ''does exist'', and the world is a dream.

* The twin goddesses of ''[[Ys]]'' in the first two games.