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Intelligences created by or dependent on humans, especially robots, frequently view their creators or hosts as deities.
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== [[Live-Action TV]] ==
* Subverted with a vengeance on the new ''[[Battlestar Galactica
** The Final Five, {{spoiler|the five [[Artificial Human|Humanoid Cylons]] that made the other Humanoid Cylons}}, refer to having consciously avoided this with their "children" as the colonial Centurions already had a single, loving God.
* In the Joel-era episodes of ''[[Mystery 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.
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* The robots in puzzle/RPG game ''[[Mr. Robot]]'' make comments such as, "oh, for maker's sake!" One of the hints that there is more to {{spoiler|Zelda}} than immediately apparent is the comment, "Thank God!"
== [[Web Comics
* ''[[Captain SNES]]'' has the sprites view the "Creators" as gods. The only ones that feel differently are RPG sprites, which were isolated from the rest of Videoland and therefore know nothing of them, and some Touched... [[Humans Are Cthulhu|who know the truth]].
* ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'': <Don't be silly. If there's no machine heaven, where do all the toasters go?>
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* Subverted by the [[Ridiculously-Human Robots]] in ''[[Freefall]]''—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.
** Except for Blunt, who thinks humans are perfect and does not even consider that [[Deadly Upgrade|Gardener In the Dark]] might be anything other than necessary (like, say, [[Corrupt Corporate Executive|executive idiocy]]).
* In a rare organic example, the genetically-engineered chakats from [[Chakona Space]] will also refer to "the makers"—even though they know exactly who those makers are.▼
* In ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'', [[Species Surname|Robot]] considers [[Gadgeteer Genius]] Kat to be an [[Our Angels Are Different|angel]]. {{spoiler|And is potentially making a religion around with the other robots....}}
== [[Web Originals]] ==
▲* In a rare organic example, the genetically-engineered chakats from ''[[Chakona Space]]'' will also refer to "the makers"—even though they know exactly who those makers are.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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