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Compare with [[Physical God]], where the creations' worship is because the creator(s) ''are'' gods, [[Living Toys]], where the characters are usually inexplicably aware and tend to rely on their owners for meaning in their lives, and [[Deity of Human Origin]], where the act of creating AI:s is what make the humans divine. [['''Thank the Maker]]''' adherents consider their creators benevolent or at least generally benign.

* ''[[Men in Black (Filmfilm)|Men in Black]] II'''s locker aliens consider Kay their God for supplying them with the light of his [[Plot Coupon|digital watch.]] Then they consider Jay their God when he gives them a new one after Kay takes his back...

* Subverted by V'Ger in ''[[Star Trek]] The Motion Picture'', as it seeks out "The Creator" in order to [[Ascend to Aa Higher Plane of Existence]]. "The Creator" is revealed to be {{spoiler|humanity, as they created the Voyager 6 probe at V'Ger's core,}} but it refuses to believe such primitive creatures created it.

*** There's actually a rather touching comic about that called 'Thank The Maker'. When 3P0 got separated from the group and shot to pieces by stormtroopers, Vader wanted to take a look and immediately had [http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_03dneahoti.jpg flashbacks]{{Dead link}}. Then he sent it [http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_05akawemur.jpg to be destroyed]{{Dead link}}, only to have it turn up again in [http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_07utfoiyus.jpg Chewbacca's quarters]{{Dead link}}, and there are [http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_08tgfhnpvj.jpg further]{{Dead link}} [http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_09oljqgxna.jpg flashbacks]{{Dead link}}. Then he orders his men to [http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_10anrxgxke.jpg deliver the parts to the Wookiee]{{Dead link}}. It used to be up on scans_daily, and part of it is [http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1054905.html here].

* Not a canon example, but fanfiction and fanart of Shane Acker's film [[9 (Animation)|Nine]]-- which—which stars nine ragdoll-like mechanical homunculi-- tendshomunculi—tends to feature this, despite the actual film's lack of any such references. The Seamstress, however, ''does'' bow down in front of the Fabrication Machine as if worshipping it.

* In Grant Naylor's ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' novels, the ship's AI, Holly, used to be too intelligent to believe in it, but several million years of senility have led him to adopt the idea with unshakable faith. Kryten destroyed his intended replacement by [[Logic Bomb|driving it to doubt the existence of Silicon Heaven]].

{{quote| “It is empirical that we were Upgraded to our current state millennia ago by some technological agency. It is also empirical that the galaxy contains many other life forms, worlds and phenomena that could not have come into being without technological intervention. And many of the fundamental mysteries of the universe can be resolved by postulating it as a construct of some entity or civilization existing on a transcendent plane. Given the power and pervasiveness that such a creative agency would require, it's logical to interpret all lesser creative agencies in the universe as aspects of the ultimate Builders”. }}

* In the Joel-era episodes of ''[[MST3KMystery Science Theater 3000]]'', the bots tended to have a more mellow attitude towards Joel, but they did recognize him as their creator. Joel could be a vengeful god, once tearing Crow's arm off and throwing it across the theater after a particularly bad pun and, on a separate occasion, threatening to bounce Tom off the wall if he wouldn't stop doing his Anthony Newley impersonation. He was right to do it. The Bots attitude towards Mike was much less respectful.

* The robot manufacturers in ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'' created the idea of Silicon Heaven to reinforce the servitude of their products, and installed it in the form of a "belief chip".

* The Centauri of ''[[Babylon Five5]]'' have a pantheon of about fifty gods, but the greatest of them all is the Great Maker. According to the backstory, he is a god borrowed from another, monotheistic religion.

* ''[[MegamanMega Man Battle Network]]'' has the quote, "Prepare to meet your programmer!"

* ''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'': "Well done, Android. The Enrichment Center reminds you that Android Hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance."

* In ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]'', your geth teammate Legion refers to quarians with the somewhat reverent title of "Creators", though there's no implication of godhood. {{spoiler|They have also been proven to have the potential for religion by the Heretics worshipping Sovereign, who was seen as the pinnacle of synthetic life, and are apparently rebuilding and/or maintaining the quarians' abandoned homeworld like a race of timeless, mechanised caretakers.}} What this implies is up there for interpretation.

** Which was a [[Shout-Out]] to ''[[Red Dwarf (TV)|Red Dwarf]]'''s Silicon Heaven.

* Subverted by the [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]] in ''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]'' -- not—not only are they aware of their creators' limitations (and actively subvert them,) they gather to read about and discuss religion and philosophy, in an attempt to understand their place in the universe.

* Jenny in ''[[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot]]'' hilariously says "Thank Jobs" (as in Apple co-founder/CEO Steve Jobs) in an early episode. As she is a [[Robot Girl]], he probably is her equivalent of God.

* ''[[Re BootReBoot]]'''s [[Old Master|sagelike sprite]] Phong has been known to shout, "Thank the User!" As the User's games [[Humans Are Cthulhu|can potentially annihilate blocks of Mainframe]], the other sprites are a little less reverent.

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': in the Halloween episode where Lisa creates life, her creations regard her and Bart as [[God]] and [[Satan]], respectively.

** ''[[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Wars]]'' introduced the idea of a Transformer heaven and hell; The Matrix and The Pit, respectively. These phrases were often used as [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|expletives]] by the characters.

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