A God Am I: Difference between revisions

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'': Gendo Ikari, combining this goal with [[Love Makes You Evil]] (he wants to make himself and Yui God), and is more explicit at the God part in the manga. He fails at trying to become a [[Physical God]], however. {{spoiler|Shinji and Rei do succeed in it, but [[Powered by a Forsaken Child|unwillingly]].}} Also part of Yui's plan. [[Mind Screw|Probably]]. Due to the nonsensical cosmology of this world, it's relatively easy for a Human to become any sort of God, since they already have one of the pieces needed. It just depends on how much of a God they become, and the ultimate version has potentially absolute control over reality, metaphysical concepts, and the ability to create new Universes at will. Maybe. We don't actually know, to be honest.

* In ''[[Transformers Headmasters]]'', Galvatron hatches a scheme to use the Earth as raw material to become a being akin to his creator, Unicron. When Punch, the Autobot spy learned of this plot, he uttered the words, "He's gone mad!" As if all of Galvatron's actions since the third season of the Generation 1 cartoon didn't clue us in already.

* ''[[Scrapped Princess]]'' also twists this trope in at the end.

* Largo, of ''[[Bubblegum Crisis]],'' not only considered himself a god, but developed a messiah complex for his Boomer "brethren" to boot.

* In ''[[The Books of Magic]]'', Timothy Hunter may become this in the future, and we catch glimpses of it. The first story arc of the series involves various magicians in [[The DCU]] trying to decide what to do about this.

* {{spoiler|Element Lad}} in the ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes (Comic Book)|Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' storyline "Legion Lost." {{spoiler|After getting lost through a [[Timey-Wimey Ball|time/space rift]] he transmutes himself into living mineral to survive, becoming immortal, and starts altering life on developing worlds to pass time, eventually creating whole civilizations of [[Scary Dogmatic Aliens]]. By the time his time-displaced friends find him again billions of years later, his powers have grown a thousandfold; he's lost all sense of morality and murders one of his former comrades on a whim.}}

* During the end of [[Peter David]]'s run on Marvel's [[Captain Mar-Vell|Captain Marvel]], Genis, the then-Captain, became Cosmically Aware ''and'' empowered. He was driven mad by being suddenly conscious of every event and being that existed throughout the universe at once, then subsequently went about erasing ''all of reality'' within a meager few pages. Reality gets better later, though. He later goes on to harass preachers and Asgard in an attempt to force his self-declared godhood on the rest of the world.

* Ironically subverted during "The Korvac Saga" in ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]''. Korvac, a supervillain, accidentally gains cosmic powers and knowledge... and, realizing humanity is at the mercy of [[Cosmic Horror Story|uncaring cosmic beings]], decides to help free the universe from them. Unfortunately, he is tracked down by The Avengers (who had no idea what had happened to him) and is exposed, ruining his plans. In the end, he commits suicide out of despair. This story has been retconned later to make it seem that Korvac was still villainous and that the Avengers were right in opposing him, but anybody who reads the original version can clearly tell that wasn't the case.

* [[Judge Dredd]]'s arch-enemy Rico.

{{quote| ''"For the crime of being human, when we could have been gods! Guilty"''.}}

{{quote| '''Hulk:''' ''"Puny god."''}}

* Divine from ''[[Pink Flamingos]]''. When asked if she believes in God, she replies "I ''am'' God!"

 

== Folklore ==

** The equivalent Russian tale, as recorded and remade as a poem by [[Alexander Pushkin]], doesn't have the wife want to be the big-G God. Here she wants merely to be "the lady of the seas", something like a small-g goddess. The fish nevertheless gets pissed off, probably because that's what is the fish herself.

 

** In ''[[The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim]]'', Alduin is already a god, being the firstborn son of Akatosh and an aspect of Akatosh at the same time. Being just a god isn't enough for Alduin though, he's trying to destroy the world so he can assume the mantle of his father Akatosh.

* ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' likes this trope, its the default mode for villains that aren't [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]]. From the top:

** Kefka from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' became this after absorbing the power of the Goddess Statues and becoming the [[The Magic Goes Away|source of all Magic]]. It's also hinted that intended to become a god from the start presumably motivated by nothing more than his [[Ax Crazy|insanity]] (when bragging about how much power he has gotten from extracting magic from the Espers in the Magitek Research Facility, one of the first things Kefka says is that he is a god.)

** ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]'s'' Sephiroth, who wished to [[Omnicidal Maniac|destroy the Planet]] absorb its energies to become a god, although he never actually made it there. However, he himself had [[Eldritch Abomination]] lineage that would have done the same exact thing, so it might just be justification for something else.