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== Tabletop Games ==
* The deities in ''[[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]]'' & ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''. '''All''' of them. Canon does ''sometimes'' seem contradictory on this point, though.
** Khorne wants to see people fight battles, the bloodier and more gruesome the better. In the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] universes, simply being a god of war makes him a possible good guy, while the fact that ''your'' viscera would be just as pleasing to him as your enemies, makes him one of the bad guys.
** Slaanesh might want to help you to experience every positive sensation that you can, even turning negative sensations into new kinds of pleasure... but he '''definitely''' wants to ''force'' you to experience ''everything'', as a kind of torture-orgy.
** Papa Nurgle either wants you to help you to accept the pain and suffering of existence in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] universes, even nullifying some of the effects for you... so that you will be grateful enough to help him "spread the love" by infecting healthy people with incurable diseases and unhealing wounds to help them see how bad the universe is, so that they will turn to Grandfather Nurgle and he can help ''them,'' too.
** Tzeentch ''definitely'' is a [[Jerkass God]], because he is the god of scheming to such an extent that ''anything'' good ''or'' bad in the [[Warhammer Fantasy Battle]] universe is his doing. His grand master-plan was responsible for every single happy moment of your life...and every single moment of negativity of any kind.
* Many gods in ''[[Exalted]]'' have grown corrupt and complacent without anyone to answer to.
** The Usurpation came to be because the Golden Age Solars had turned into this, as well.
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{{quote|"The root problem with Christianity is that their god is supposed to be all-powerful and benevolent. It sounds like an easy sell but when life turns completely to shit you have to come up with all kinds of whacked-out reasons for why kindly old Jehovah saw fit to run over little Timmy with a combine harvester and leave him in a state of vegetative limbless agony for eighteen years. Ancient cultures didn't have that problem; they knew their gods were a bunch of drunken lunatics who ran around boning their close relatives and turning their goolies into fruit-bearing trees. Consequently they tend to make for much more interesting stories."}}
* Used [http://anaheyla.livejournal.com/1175.html here] towards the end. The main character renounces his god and the first thing that god does is try to kill him and over fifty thousand of his people, succeeding in the latter case.
* From various profile in ''[[
** Translations of the official background material have also shown that Poseidon (who is a goddess in this setting) turned against the other gods and sided with the demon lord in part at least because the other gods were forcing her to make storms to reduce human populations and make them fear the sea.
** Also from the settings material, it turns out that the monsters are living creatures the Chief God created so that the population of humans could be easily controlled. The previous Demon Lords were control devices so that the gods could control the monsters. Whenever the population of humans got too high, the monsters would become incredibly vicious and begin killing large numbers of humans. Then when humans started to die out and the monsters became too numerous, the Chief God would grant humans incredible power, creating “heroes”, and send them to slay the Demon Lord. With the Demon Lord slain, the monsters would kill each other to decide the next Demon Lord, causing a rapid decrease in the monster population. This would go on until humans again became too prosperous, at which point a new Demon Lord would be born and take control of the Monsters. This process ran for several cycles until a Succubus fought her way to becoming the current Demon Lord, and started messing with the system.
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