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== Films -- Live-Action == |
== Films -- Live-Action == |
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* Done in ''[[Monty Python and |
* Done in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]''. Bizarrely, the God here is also W.G. Grace, an English 19th-century cricket player. In a joke that only those on the British Isles could possibly understand, for cricket fanatics, this man pretty much ''is'' God. |
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* ''[[The Matrix]]'' somehow managed to pull this off while simultaneously [[Lampshade Hanging]] [[Divine Race Lift]]. |
* ''[[The Matrix]]'' somehow managed to pull this off while simultaneously [[Lampshade Hanging]] [[Divine Race Lift]]. |
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** It's also worth noting that [[Fan Nickname|Deus Ex]] [[Deus Est Machina|Machina]], "God", or perhaps the ruling intelligence of the Machines, takes the form of a baby. [[Word of God]] (pun unintended) claims that this is a deliberate subversion of the "god is old" trope. |
** It's also worth noting that [[Fan Nickname|Deus Ex]] [[Deus Est Machina|Machina]], "God", or perhaps the ruling intelligence of the Machines, takes the form of a baby. [[Word of God]] (pun unintended) claims that this is a deliberate subversion of the "god is old" trope. |