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Of course, any example of this trope would be justified in saying "[[A God Am I]]", without the usual implications of megalomania. That said, many go the other route and say "[[A God I Am Not]]" due to their new proximity to mortality and humanity.

 

 

As such, their human forms may often have a very different personality, and on occasion even [[Amnesiac Dissonance|alignment]], from their [[True Self]]. For example, a villain could very well live their human life as a pure and chaste paragon of heroism, but return to villainy upon awakening. And a benevolent deity could very easily be a thuggish [[Jerkass]]. Although overall, it is more common for benign gods to be good people, and malevolent deities to be bad people. Killing the human form of the god, if it's possible, [[Fighting a Shadow|probably won't actually kill the god.]]

When the character is ''not'' a god but is merely pretending to be one, the trope is [[God Guise]].

 

 

 

 

* Jesus and Buddha from ''[[Saint Young Men]]'' are buddies who decided to spend their vacation on Earth.

* ''[[Kamichu]]!'' is all about [[Shrinking Violet|an unassuming schoolgirl]] who becomes one of these. [[Slice of Life|Reality ensues]].

 

== Comic Books ==

* Steven Baxter in ''[[The Second Coming (TV)|The Second Coming]]'' is a very ordinary, not particularly bright bloke who suddenly finds out he's the son of God. He only discovers what he's supposed to do little by little. {{spoiler|Killing him, in his human form, means that God dies. His dual nature makes it all [[Tear Jerker|incredibly sad]]: though the death of God is supposed to be a good thing and he eventually accepts this, Steven is also very much human and doesn't want to die at all.}}

* In the new ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' series, there are a couple of instances of Time Lords locking away their Time Lord identities and memories, and assuming human form. The Doctor does it to escape a family of short-lived assassins. Later, it's revealed that {{spoiler|the Master did the same thing to escape the Time War}}.

 

 

** 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.

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

** Also, the form the [[Cosmic Horror|C'tan]], and possibly the Chaos [[Eldritch Abomination|Greater Daemons]], take on the battlefield.

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* {{spoiler|Hakuoro and Diy}} of ''[[Utawarerumono]]''. Technically the same person, actually, but due to being unable to die and having a huge mental breakdown some indeterminate but loooong time before, the person called 'Iceman' split into them. They tend to fight each other a lot as they embody separate aspects of his character. {{spoiler|Hakuoro seems to vastly prefer his existence as a human, being the side of him wishing for peace/to be destroyed instead of to destroy while Diy is his violent chaotic side which seems to prefer Godhood so as to blow stuff up as part of his evil darwinist philosophy.}}

* {{spoiler|Joshua aka [[Physical God|The Composer]]}} in ''[[The World Ends With You (Video Game)|The World Ends With You]]''.

* 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).

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Oracle of Tao (Video Game)|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.

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