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** It's actually a bit debatable whether they're truly [[Sufficiently Advanced]], because while they're even more godlike in achievement than many others on this list, they ''do'' use recognizable tech... With the exception of the Anti-Xelee's [[Deus Est Machina]] schtick, at any rate. Thus they shade between this and being more a hyper-extreme case of [[Higher-Tech Species]].
* Langhorne and the other founders of ''[[Safehold]]'' are this to the unwitting colonists. Shan-Wei, a founder who resists the idea of setting themselves up as "Archangels" is defeated and becomes the planetary religion's equivalent of Satan.
* In the ''[[Remembrance of Earth's Past]]'' series (probably better known by the title of the first book, ''[[The Three-Body Problem (novel)|The Three-Body Problem]]''), it is revealed that there are unnamed, never directly met elder beings that use things like collapsing of dimensions, altering the speed of light, and other exotic workings on the laws of physics as weapons in a vast universal war.
== Live-Action TV ==
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