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Line 1: {{trope}} {{quote\|''"Hang on Lord! ''We're gonna fight for you! ''Hang on Lord! ''We're gonna fight for you!"''~~\|''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'', Peter and others trying to rescue Jesus}}~~ \|''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'', Peter and others trying to rescue Jesus}} Has the [[Love Goddess]] turned into a [[Damsel in Distress]]? Has [[The Messiah]] fallen victim to a mob hating unbigoted goodness? Is the pantheon dying because people have forgotten that [[Gods Need Prayer Badly]]? Or has it even come to pass that [[God Is Dead]], and now need resurrection badly? In either case, dear hero, it's time for you to [[Jumped At the Call\|Jump At The Call]] and '''Save Your Deity'''! Line 10 ⟶ 11: {{examples}} == [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] == * In ''[[Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?]]'', our hero has to rescue his patron deity during the final story arcs of both of the first two seasons. Granted, he has to rescue her from a kidnapping in both cases, but they're still rescues. == [[Film]] == * In ''[[Dogma]]'', {{spoiler\|Yahweh is in a coma for most of the movie. One of the protagonists rescues him by slaying ~~his~~the mortal form in which he's trapped}}. * ''[[Jesus Christ Superstar]]'': Fails miserably in the 1973 version: Peter and the others try to save Jesus, but are overwhelmed by the Romans—Jesus' surrender clearly save them from getting slaughtered. Various theater versions of the play may handle this scene in different ways, since it's mostly a matter of choreography. * In ''[[Hercules (1997 film)\|\|Hercules]]'', Herc has to save Zeus and the other gods from Hades and the Titans.▼ == [[Literature]] == Line 20 ⟶ 24: * In ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'', the quest of Grover and the other satyrs is to find their god Pan, who was said to be dead. Heck, book three of the first series is about saving Artemis, and book one of the second series is about saving Hera. Rick Riordan loves this trope. * In ''[[The Mists of Avalon]]'', [[Enigmatic Empowering Entity\|The Lady of the Lake]] is trying to rescue her pagan pantheon, which is dying from the advances of Christianity. * This is what drives the plot for most of ''[[~~Discworld/Small Gods\|~~Small Gods]]''. == [[Live -Action TV]] == * In ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'', [[Love Goddess\|Aphrodite]] need to be saved sometimes. * The ''episode "Blink Ofof Anan Eye''" ~~episode of~~from ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' takes place on a planet where the people are living in the stone age when ''Lightbringer, Groundshaker'' arrive. This deity ~~inspire~~inspires them to much greatness, but also ~~cause~~causes them much harm. Over the ages that follow, they develop their culture and technology in their quest for their deity - Eventually realizing that she is stuck in the sky. Eventually they work together with the crew of USS ''Voyager'' to save her. {{spoiler\|And yes - "Lightbringer, Groundshaker" ''is'' Voyager: Time itself pass differently on the planet. This episode is a rare case of a pre-warp civilization being portrayed as justified in their belief in humans/~~starfleet~~Starfleet.}} == [[Tabletop ~~RPG~~Games]] == * ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' ** In the adventure ''For Duty and Deity'', the high priestess of Waukeen gathers a group of adventurers who worship the goddess and sends them to the Abyss to rescue her from the demon lord Graz'zt. Line 34 ⟶ 38: * In ''[[Lunar]]'', the main [[Damsel in Distress]] turns out to be {{spoiler\|the goddess Althena}}. * ''[[God of War\|God Of War: Chains of Olympus]]'' tasks Kratos with rescuing Helios. * The main plot of '[[Pokémon Mystery Dungeon\|''Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky'']] actually involves the player trying to save Dialga from—Dialga. * ''[[Jade Empire]]'': This drives a large part of the plot. The Water Dragon is not only in charge of rain, but she's also the deity in charge of escorting the deceased to the afterlife for reincarnation. Without her, the world's getting overrun with angry and tormented ghosts. {{spoiler\|Of course, you don't ''have'' to rescue or restore her if you're playing Closed Fist.}} * ''[[Kid Icarus]]'': The first and second games involve saving Palutena. * ''[[MapleStory]]''. During the Sixth Job promotion, the player has to rescue the Goddesses of Maple World, Grandis, and Tynerum, who have become trapped by the [[Background Magic Field\| Sol Erda]] after attempting to stem the torrent of Erda that resulted from the fusion of all three worlds. Naturally, this means rescuing them is needed to accomplish that and preventing [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. == [[Web Original]] == Line 42 ⟶ 47: == [[Western Animation]] == ▲* In ''[[Hercules (1997 film)\|\|Hercules]]'', Herc has to save Zeus and the other gods from Hades and the Titans. * In ''[[South Park]]'', the kids work very hard to save Muhammad—a divine [[Superhero]] fueled by holy power equal to his teammate [[Kung Fu Jesus\|Jesus]]. {{reflist}} [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Religion Tropes]] [[Category:Goals and Objectives Index]] [[Category:Plots]] ▲[[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]]