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{{quote|'''Data:''' Q's interest in you has always been very similar to that of a master and his beloved pet.
'''Picard:''' ''
'''Data:''' It was merely an analogy.
|''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'', "All Good Things"}}
{{quote|'''Bethany:''' Christ? You knew Christ?
'''Rufus:''' Knew him? [[N-Word Privileges|Nigga]] owes me twelve bucks.
|''[[Dogma]]''}}
Maybe you live in a [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]]. Perhaps you're the proud resident of a world with a [[Crossover Cosmology]]. Whatever the case, you need to put the [[Did We Just Have Tea with Cthulhu?|kettle on the boil]] and biscuits on the tray because your pal Jesus is coming over for tea in twenty minutes.
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* ''[[Dragon Ball]]''. By the end of ''Z'', not only have our heroes met three tiers of gods, the manager of hell, and sundry other beings, the main characters are also ''[[Monty Haul|more powerful than they are]].''
** They are also in charge of selecting the Guardian of Earth- basically our local God. So, not only are they pals with Jesus, but they're his bosses, mostly because [[Asskicking Equals Authority]].
** Goku is likely the only friend [[Top God| Omni-God Zeno]] has; Zeno claims everyone else is too afraid of his power to effectively socialize with him.
* In [[Yu Yu Hakusho]], Yusuke's boss is a [[Really 700 Years Old]] toddler who is charge running the afterlife [[Celestial Bureaucracy]].
* ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'', the Great Will of the Macrocosm regularly chastises Excel for getting killed, [[Reset Button|forcing the Will to bring her back to life]].
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* Played with in [[The Chronicles of Wormwood]]. The [[Anti Christ]] (a really nice guy who rejects his heritage) pals around with Jesus, who has brain damage from a police beating.
* [[Doctor Strange]] is on a first-name basis with a lot of powerful entities, from the Vishanti to Eternity and even the Living Tribunal. They seldom go to him, though he has paid a house call on Agamotto once or twice.
== Fan Works ==
* Doug Sangnoir starts the ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' already on a first-name basis with a goddess (they even have a shared flat in London), and picks up a few more as friends or acquaintances over the course of his travels. Not bad for a [[Nay Theist]] with a [[Fantastic Racism]] against gods.
* It's common in ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'' for a residence building to have a tutelary, and in some cases the kami (or demon) visits often enough that they're on a [[First-Name Basis]] with the building's residents.
== Film ==
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{{quote|'''Bethany:''' Christ? You knew Christ?
'''Rufus:''' Knew him? Nigga owes me twelve bucks. }}
* In ''[[The Return of Hanuman]]'', Maruti the incarnation of Hanuman befriends Minku, Munni, and Daddu, until he's not allowed to play with them because he is considered to be dangerous. {{spoiler|However, they get to be friends again after Maruti saves the village from Armageddon.}}
== Live
* ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]:'' Q.{{context|reason=Is Q really a pal to any of the NextGen characters, or is he an advesary character?}}
* From the point of view of his Companions, [[Doctor Who|the Doctor]] could be seen like this.
** It's also slightly implied that the Doctor himself may have been this, if only by an offhand comment of him attending the 'first Easter'. "Just between you and me, what really happened was..."
** In ''The Fires of Pompeii'', {{spoiler|both the Doctor ''and'' Donna are this for a Roman family they help out. At the end of the episode, we see that the family honors the two as their household gods.}}
* The title character of the [[Too Good to Last|short-lived]] series ''The Book Of Daniel''.
* The titular Joan of ''[[Joan of Arcadia
* Iolus on ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'', best buds with Zeus's son. He also got along pretty well with Aphrodite, too.
** While "pals" isn't the best word for most of the relationships, being on speaking terms with the gods was pretty much standard on Hercules and [[Xena]].
* ''[[Andromeda]]:'' Trance Gemini is eventually revealed to be the avatar of the sun of Tarn-Vedra and exists across multiple realities.
* An in-universe example: A ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20130923191235/http://snltranscripts.jt.org/98/98rbible.phtml sketch] focuses on Jesus and his best pals Paul and, um, Barry.
* The Filipino TV series (teleserye) ''May Bukas Pa'' has a boy named Santino being best friends with Jesus, whom he 'nicknames' "Bro".
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* ''[[Narnia]]:'' Aslan is Jesus in a world where paws and a mane happened to be more appropriate than hands. It's no secret.
** It helps that Lion!Jesus is more of a hands-on divinity than Human!Jesus. Like, coming in person to help slay the evil overlord, stopping by to break curses, makes public appearances like coronations, does birthday parties and bar mitzvahs, etc.
*** Actually, people rarely hire any of Jesus' incarnations for bar mitzvahs, for some reason.
** To be fair to the original, Narnia's version(s) of Satan are more about overt conquest than subtle temptation and require more direct intervention.
* ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]:'' Gandalf is actually one of team of five minor angels sent to Middle-earth on a mission from the Valar, who can be likened to archangels or gods under a creator god.
** Also in ''[[The Silmarillion]]'': Elves and Valar both live in Valinor. One Elf marries a Maia (minor angel).
* Garion in ''[[The Belgariad]]'' grows up as a [[Farm Boy]] type character raised by his "Aunt" and "Grandfather" who are actually [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|long-lived]] movers and shakers of the universe.
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* And to round out the Eddings citations: in the ''[[The Elenium|Elenium/Tamuli]]'' series, Sephrenia's younger sister is {{spoiler|an incarnation of her patron goddess Aphrael}}. And Sparhawk's daughter is {{spoiler|another incarnation of the same goddess Aphrael. Now imagine a scenario in which the two incarnations meet. The world doesn't end, but those in the know feel as though it should have.}}
* ''[[Dragaera]]'' is a major example of this - Vlad is on a first name basis with Verra the Demon Goddess, as well as Sethra Lavode, who is practically a [[Physical God]]. He's also good friends with Aliera and Morrolan, who are some of the most powerful Dragaerans in the Empire.
* ''[[Discworld]]'':
** [[Anthropomorphic Personification|Death]] of the
** Also, in ''[[Discworld/The Last Hero|The Last Hero]]'', the gods allow the Silver Horde to infiltrate Dunmanifestin and greet them as equals (the "new gods we've been hearing about"). Initially it was only a joke, but Cohen's trick with the dice seems to have earned the respect of at least a few deities.▼
*** Death is also fairly friendly towards the people he meets in his official capacity (unless they don't like cats), because his job is to make sure they get going on to the afterlife all right, but it's not a job that allows for much socialization.▼
▲** Also, in ''[[
** Nanny Ogg was Time's midwife. Literally.
** Death and the Lady have both developed an interest in Rincewind, although he doesn't actually meet them much.
** And Brutha spends most of ''[[
▲** Death is also fairly friendly towards the people he meets in his official capacity (unless they don't like cats), because his job is to make sure they get going on to the afterlife all right, but it's not a job that allows for much socialization.
** Twoflower teaches the [[Horsemen of the Apocalypse|Four Horsemen]] ''bridge.''
* ''[[Lamb: The Gospel According To Biff]]'' toys with the trope a bit, since Biff was Jesus' best friend ''before'' he hit it big.
* In the ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' series, Luna is a relatively ordinary human with a talent for painting. She winds up directly related to Death, Fate, Nature, and God(dess) and indirectly connected to Time, War, and Satan (via female relatives' affairs with the latter three), and it's strongly hinted that Night is an indirect ancestor of hers. See [[One Degree of Separation]] for a (hopefully) clearer narrative of all the connections in this series.
* Steven Erikson's ''[[Malazan Book of the Fallen]]'' is full of [[Physical God
** Anomander Rake, one of the most [[Badass]] Ascendants in the world, calls the human Whiskeyjack his "friend," something he has almost never done before with any mortal or god.
** Tehol Beddict lives with his manservant, Bugg. {{spoiler|Bugg is really Mael, the Elder God of the sea. Tehol doesn't know this at first, but when he finds out, both are happy to continue the relationship they have.}}
** There are several more instances of some mortal character being revealed as a god in disguise, including Cotillion, Nightchill and the Errant.
* In Alfred Bester's lesser-known novel ''The Computer Connection,'' the main characters are literally pals with
* In the original ''[[Dragonlance]]'' trilogy, Paladine the supreme god of Good tags along with the adventurers as {{spoiler|[[Eccentric Mentor|Fizban]] [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|the]] [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Fabulous]]}} and pals around with [[The Fool|Tasslehoff Burrfoot]].
** And then Tas proceeds to mention that fact every chance he gets.
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** And she's trained in magic by {{spoiler|Odin One-Eye himself.}}
* In the [[Codex Alera]] series, each of the heads of the House of Gaius in turn has a relationship (of varying nature) with Alera, the fury that represents their entire country. It's like if every United States President got advice from a manifestation of Uncle Sam.
* In [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''[[
* [[The Dresden Files|Harry Dresden]] has a personal relationship (not necessarily cordial) with a surprising number of powerful supernatural and mythological beings. In later books, it's even implied that {{spoiler|[[God]] Himself}} has taken a personal interest in Harry. Both friends and enemies have found such contacts to be cause for concern.
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== Radio ==
* Radio Free Vestibule's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20110828053505/http://www.themadmusicarchive.com/song_details.aspx?SongID=5933 Kevin and God]'' is an audio skit about God appointing a mortal named Kevin to be his new prophet, but things get derailed due to Kevin's [[The Ditz|airheaded nature.]] This eventually rubs off, and God spends his time watching TV and going bowling with Kevin.
== Tabletop Games ==
* The ''[[Scion]]'' series of tabletop RPGs from White Wolf has the player-characters set as mundane children of the gods. Mundane until they are revealed to be children of the gods, and then slowly ascend their way from "[[Badass Normal|basic mortal]]" to "[[A God Am I]]." While still simply Scions (as opposed to Demigods or Gods), their powers basically come from being on first-name basis with their god-parents (as opposed to later, when their powers come from their own deification).
* Immortals in the [[Mystara]] ''[[Dungeons
== Video Games ==
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* In the [[Playable Epilogue]] of ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', Mario can chat with the game's equivalent of Hades and Zeus and they think he's such a fantastic guy that they tell him that when he eventually does die, he can just find them and say the word and he gets the fast-express to the top-rank tier of the afterlife (granted, it's ''Mario'', and he probably was karmically inclined for that already, but it's nice to have it outright stated).
** For that matter, Rosalina has mentioned that she particularly likes him too and will watch after him, and she's stated to be guardian of the cosmos.
* The more "normal" ''[[Touhou]]'' characters (though calling anyone in [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|Gensokyo]] normal is just asking for trouble) in particular [[Miko|Reimu]] and [[Cute Witch|Marisa]] are shown to be on a friendly basis, or at least grudgingly accepting, of anything from [[Odd Job Gods]] to [[Physical God
** That, and they seem to hang out with [[The Messiah|Hijiri Byakuren,]] after UFO.
** And Sanae lives with the gods she worships. Of course, she's also [[Half-Human Hybrid|part god herself]], since one of her gods is also her many-times-great-grandmother.
* ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]'': Prophet-in-training Issun is a good pal of Ammy the Furball, aka Amaterasu, Sun Goddess and most important Shinto Deity.
** Let's not forget Ammy's other good friend {{spoiler|from her past - Waka}}!
** Her son, [[Ōkamiden|Chibiterasu]], has a total of ''five'' close pals over the course of his game- the [[Kid Samurai]] Kuni, the [[
* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]'' has Raiden, God of Thunder, as a playable character. Slightly subverted as in the MK-verse the "Gods" are more [[Elemental Embodiment|Elementals]] and the position is treated like a job. Played straight in [[The Movie]], however.
* In ''[[Sonic Unleashed]]'', Sonic's latest [[Fairy Companion|companion]] is Chip, {{spoiler|who is actually [[God|Light Gaia.]]}}
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* In ''[[Cthulhu Saves the World]]'', you play as a [[De-Power|Depowered]] Cthulhu. Thus all the members of his party are this trope.
* Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in the first two ''[[Lunar]]'' games and their remakes, where both protagonists are not only friends with the Cthulhu's, they're the love interests too!
* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', Magni Brozebeard seems able to hear and speak to the living spirit of Azeroth itself, referring to her as one would a grandmother. In ''Battle for Azeroth'', while both factions greedily fight over [[Mineral MacGuffin|veins of azerite]], he's [[Only Sane Man| the only one who seems to realize]] (or care about) the pain she is in from these veins, which are actually a result of [[Villain's Dying Grace| the wound inflicted by Sargeras.]]
== Web Comics ==
* ''[[Sinfest]]'' practically runs on this concept. In the [https://web.archive.org/web/20070311112907/http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=7 first week], [[God]] is introduced as a frequently recurring character.
* The various Deaths in ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'' have struck up friendly relations with characters.
* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'': Monica and Shelly are on speaking terms with some very strange and powerful beings who have influenced the destiny of the entire world. In Minneapolis.
* [[8-Bit Theater
* [[Penny Arcade (Webcomic)|Gabe and Tycho]] have occasionally been shown to be ''literally'' friends with Jesus.
** And he is F'in ''Metal''.
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** Despite this, Tycho maintains his atheism.
* ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' is frequently visited by mythological creatures and sometimes deities. At least, the Minotaur lives there, Coyote (that sneaky [[Trickster]] and apprentice [[Physical God|god]] from [[Native American Mythology]]) and [[Chinese Mythology|Chang'e]] dropped in, and some teacher-parent meetings apparently involved Odin.
** ...because reincarnated [[Valkyries|Brynhildr]] was one of the Court students -- [http://gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=541 and a good friend of Surma and Anja]
** Antimony has spent enough time speaking with various [[Psychopomp
** One fine lady with personal interest in Moon affairs {{spoiler|(Chang'e)}} accidentally [[Crash Into Hello|ran into]] Annie's classmate, Matt. Then lad helped her to catch the white rabbit, they had a nice chat and he ended up a little... moonstruck. She also "borrowed" his mp3 player with the full Dire Straits discography on it.
* In ''[http://www.metalstorm.net/comics/view_all.php?series_id=1 Headbanged]'', the main character becomes friends with Jesus after he (Jesus) borrows one of his black metal CDs.
* ''[
* Jeffrey Rowland, creator and main character of ''[[Overcompensating]]'', infrequently hangs out with YHWH and his son.
* The main heroes of ''[[Planescape Survival Guide]]'' not only end up having one-on-one training time with Thor and his ilk, but are also {{spoiler|close personal friends and allies of [[Physical God|The Youngest]], one of the three [[Powers That Be]] who created the whole [[Planescape]]. Of course, it helps that they do know her - [[Have You Seen My God?|The Eldest is dead]] and [[God Is Evil|The Elder is evil]].}}
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* [[Order of the Stick|Elan and Banjo.]] Banjo even gets a "Brother," Giggles, who leaves to be the god of an orc tribe. *sniff*
* ''Russel's Teapot'' has a primary character who hangs around with Jesus and discusses theology.
* Death seems to be good friends with the main character of ''[[Ctrl+Alt+Del]]'''s side comic [https://web.archive.org/web/20090930215457/http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/sillies.php sillies].
* In ''[[Digger]]'' the statue of Ganesh, an avatar or sorts containing ''part'' of the god Ganesh, is perfectly personal and quite a nice guy. As you'd expect for the remover of obstacles.
* In ''[[Jack (webcomic)|Jack]]'' heaven appears to operate a "my door is always open" policy as it is perfectly possible for mortals to have a friendly, down to earth relationship with Angels both before and after they are dead, regardless on where they end up after death, and it is shown that senior Angels who were once mortal enjoy an equally pleasant and informal relationship with god. Unfortunately as the gates of [[Ironic Hell|hell]] appear to [[Cardboard Prison|have been replaced with revolving doors]], it is just as possible to have a relationships with [[Anthropomorphic Personification
* In early strips of ''[[The Devil's Panties]]'', [[Author Avatar]] Jennie would hang out with JC and the Devil. They still make occasional appearances but not as often.
* ''[[Happle Tea]]'' has this on a regular basis with a few different beings.
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* A relatively common occurrence in [[Massive Multiplayer Crossover|multifandom roleplaying games]] which allow gods or godlike characters. In [http://community.livejournal.com/dramadramaduck Drama Drama Duck], for example, people like [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright]] and [[Transformers Film Series|Mikaela Banes]] are on friendly terms with the likes of [[Oban Star Racers|Jordan C. Wilde]] and [[Greek Mythology|Apollo]].
* Sailor Moon and the Sailor Scouts seem to have a direct line to Jesus in ''[[Sailor Moon Abridged]]'', as he always responds immediately whenever they so much as say his name. This doesn't seem to help them in the slightest, though.
== Western Animation ==
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** There's also Saddam Hussein's, er, relationship with Satan.
** And Eric Cartman's special relationship with Cthulhu.
* [[The Simpsons (animation)|Flanders to God! Flanders to God!]]
* Zoidberg in ''[[Futurama]]'' comes to Bender's execution dressed up and introduces himeslf as [[Santa Claus|Santa's]] pal Jesus.
** Not forgetting Bender meeting possible God and hanging around with him.
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* [[Wonder Woman]] freaks out when she gets an unexpected visit from Hermes in ''[[Justice League]]'', but he tells her to calm down because "You're like family."
** Parodied in the same episode when Hawkgirl and Wonder Woman are flying through what amounts to Hell, and the demons there start attacking them until they notice that Hawkgirl has ''wings'':
* A fourth season episode of ''[[Rick and Morty]]'' shows that one of Rick's old friends is [[Classical Mythology| Hephaestus, the Greek God of blacksmiths.]]
{{quote|'''Hawkgirl:''' That's right, I'm an ''angel''. You can mess with me if you want to but I don't think you want to mess with [[God|The Boss]].
The Demons fly away scared
'''Hawkgirl:''' If we're lucky, they'll all be that dumb. }}
* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* The episode of ''[[Family Guy]]'' in which Peter literally becomes friends with Jesus.
* ''[[The Real Ghostbusters]]'' have, within their containment unit, the avatar of a Sumerian god who takes the form of a giant marshmallow man. They sometimes let him out to fight other ghosts too big for them to handle on their own and he's buddies with [[Team Pet]] Slimer.
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== Real Life ==
* The importance of having a "relationship with God" is a common theme in various religions.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100323080649/http://chantellysette.com/About_Chantel.html Chantel Lysette] and mediums like her fit this trope in real life.{{context}}
* Parodied and played straight with T-shirts that say "Jesus is my homeboy."
* "Jesus" (pronounced Hay-sus) is a common name in Hispanic countries so you can be best friends with Jesus [[In Name Only]].
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