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Adding examples from the Nasuverse, Lucifer, A Certain Magic Index, Classical Mythology, and Buddhism.
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* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': {{spoiler|Madoka makes her wish to erase Witches before they are even born. By doing this, she becomes a goddess who prevents Magical Girls from turning into Witches in the past, present, and future.}}
* ''[[Bleach]]''{{'}}s {{spoiler|Aizen planned on ascending to become a being like the Sul King by using the Hogyoku to recreate the world as he saw fit.}}
* Averted with the ''[[Nasuverse]]'' when the Age of the Gods was coming to an end. The Gods were changed into Divine Spirits, the highest form of Nature Spirits. There's also how people reborn as gods became closer to humans, though they still became beings of worship.
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* Happens in the campaign in ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'': After Bob's character Knuckles III dies, his next character (Knuckles IV) manages to get Knuckles III promoted to [[Phantasy Spelling|gawdhood]]. The promotion appears genuine, and temples to Knu-Kyle-Ra are now a recurring feature in the comic.
* In the ''[[Harry Kipling]]'' series published in ''[[2000 AD]]'', being regarded as a god by his sort-of clone Klux actually elevates Kipling to godhood, or at least to a level where he gains the ability to kill (other) gods.
* In ''[[Lucifer (comics)]]'', the Prescene abdicates his throne, leaving his granddaughter, Elain Belloc, his only heir, to take the throne. After Fenris attacked the Silver City, she absorbed his power, thus making her the new God.
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* This happens -- on a temporary basis! -- to mortals chosen to take up the various offices of the Incarnations in [[Piers Anthony]]'s ''[[Incarnations of Immortality]]'' series -- especially in the case of God (Good) and Devil (Evil).
* The late Duchess of Borogravia is elevated to a minor deity by the prayers made to her instead of to Borogravia's "official" god Nuggan in the ''[[Discworld]]'' book ''[[Monstrous Regiment]]''.
* ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'' has Magic Gods, people who have mastered magic where they can bend reality without exception through it. To obtain such godhood, a magician needs to master a path (such as a theology based in Shinto, Voodoo, Hindu, Buddhism, Norse, Greek, etc.) to the end and perform a special ritual. There is also the possibility of becoming an impure Magic god due to a magician's stopping their growth.
** On the Science Side, Level 6 Espers are comparable to Magic Gods, which is why Academy City was created. They are trying to achieve this to gain knowledge about the world's truth, which even the Magic Side has been trying to gain. Many experiments have involved getting Espers to level up, especially with the Level 5s. There has been success, but only temporarily.
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* [[Mormonism]] includes among its tenets a belief called "exaltation", in which the faithful will ascend to heaven and eventually become lesser gods subordinate to God while dwelling with Him through eternity. They believe that one purpose for Christ's mission and atonement was to allow the deification of mortal men, which will (eventually) happen in the afterlife to those who properly embraced Mormon beliefs before the final judgment.
* Unlike the subjects of most of the "hero cults" of [[Ancient Greece]] (which resembled ancestor worship more than anything else), [[Classical Mythology/Characters#Mortals and Demigods|Heracles]] and [[w:Asclepius|Asclepius]] were (at least sometimes) venerated as mortals who had ascended to become true gods.
** Dionysus was the son of Zeus and a mortal woman. Depending on the version, he became a god by being born as on or rebirth. One version was him being the unborn son of Semele, who was killed by Hero while being pregnant with him. Zeus saved him by sewing him into his thigh until he was fully grown and born as the god of wine (which also follows with his name meaning "twice born"). Another version had him being the son of the mortal Persephone. Hera tried her hands at sabotage until she enlisted the help of Titans to rip the newborn apart. Zeus fought the Titans, but the child was already eaten except for his heart, which was saved by a goddess, and Dionysus was reborn.
* While different branches of [[Taoism]] often venerate entirely different pantheons of gods, most include historical figures who are believed to have become [[w:Xian (Taoism)|immortals]] and thus are worthy of worship and reverence.
* ''[[Buddhism]]'': Siddhartha Gautama abandoned his luxurious life and spent six years as an ascetic. He spent his years conquering the need for sex, comfort, and food through yogic disciplines. Being near death from fasting, he accepted a bowl of rice from a girl. He realized that physical asceticisms are not the means for achieving spiritual freedom. At the place known now as Bodh Gaya, he sat under a pipal tree and meditated overnight; he defeated the demon Mara and reached enlightenment, thus becoming a Buddha( which means "enlightened one") at age thirty-five. Despite trying to present himself as a teacher rather than a god or object of worship, it's said that he performed miracles throughout his life until he died at the age of eighty.
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