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* ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]''. The star spirits in the first game gain power from the wishes of the denizens of Mushroom Kingdom. In the final boss fight, the young star spirit Twink gains enough power from Peach's wishes to beat up Bowser's sidekick and help Mario save the day.
* Sierra's [[City Building Series]] cuts both ways. While gods need sacrifices or festivals almost constantly, ignoring them only makes them '''angry'''. Cue earthquakes, plagues, floods, failing crops... On the other hand, keeping them happy also brings benefices.
* In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'', the gods, demons, and spirits feed on a substance called Magnetite or Magatsuhi - which is human belief and emotion and works as the setting's mana source. In ''[[Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne|Nocturne]]'', when humanity was wiped out, demons had to abuse [[Artificial
** For as long as a single person believes in YHVH as his or her god, He will return, again and again. Unfortunately, it seems the [[Mega Ten]] universe works on the same principle as the ''Malazan'' example above-Humanity's own inner darkness and desire for a God [[Humans Are the Real Monsters|that accurately represents them]] has horrifically twisted Him into a bitter, unsympathetic tyrant with nothing but contempt for humans.
** Even worse, this trope may have been the origin point for [[Cosmic Horror|Nyarlathotep]], a monster [[Made of Evil|born of the hatred, fear, greed and despair of all of mankind]]. As the Shadow of Humanity's collective unconscious, it is ''[[Complete Monster|really]]'' [[Hannibal Lecture|easy]] [[Shut Up, Kirk|to see]] [[The Heartless|where the]] [[And Then John Was a Zombie|title of]] "[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Crawling Chaos]]" comes from.
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