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* Zod from ''[[Open Blue]]'' is a drunken bastard who would rather fart up hurricanes, go on beer parties, and armwrestle with an expy of Cthulhu rather than answer the hundreds of millions of prayers directed at him.

* The ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' has these in spades. There are, of course, all the various Lovecraftian "gods". There's the Tao with its shamelessly invoked [[Omniscient Morality License]]. The Christian Heaven and Hell (or good facsimiles thereof) apparently exist and are locked in a [[Balance Between Good and Evil|carefully balanced stalemate]] with neither side actually ''trying'' to win too much, which works okay for the entity claiming to be Satan but casts a dim light on his counterpart. (Let's not even go into their respective treatment of Merry, later Petra, who by this point is a fully appointed knight of the Catholic church... even if she ''does'' also carry Sara's demon mark.) And the New Olympians school clique? Are some of the old Greek gods in new human host bodies, with at least some of them already up to their old tricks and none too happy that [[Gods Need Prayer Badly|nobody worships them anymore]].

* Although ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' does not contain examples of the trope, it does have a rather appropriate summary of it:

{{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."}}