History Main / DeusEstMachina

* Roko's Basilisk is an hypotesis which states that a powerful AI would try to stop the suffering of the people, eventually concluding that anyone that didn't support or helped in the creation of the AI must be punished, real o virtual. The basilisk pretty much becomes god.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': Subverted with the villainous Tracer, an AI in a humanoid body who's able to control technology and describes himself as the new 'god of computers'. He claims that he arose out of the internet, deliberated created by other AIs who wanted a god to worship.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': The minor villain Tracer describes himself as the new god of computers, who arose out of the internet.

* Creator/JackChalker's ''Literature/TheRingsOfTheMaster'' series features an AI "Master System" that makes use of this trope. [[spoiler:The AI was created at a point in Earth's future history when humanity was on the brink of self-destructive nuclear war ostensibly to run the military of one side of the conflict. The programmers secretly subverted it, however, deliberately programming it to rebel and take over the world in order to prevent that very war from happening]]. It's thousands of years later when the series begins and Master System has kept humanity under an iron fist since then, forcing most of the population to live in a "safe" low technology state. It doesn't claim to be a god, per se, but it might as well be to most people.

Even though AIIsACrapshoot, the [[SlidingScaleOfRobotIntelligence more]] [[SuperIntelligence powerful]] the AI becomes, the likelier it is to choose to ''help you'' instead of just [[EverythingTryingToKillYou kill you]]. Depending on the setting, this help can range from establishing a true {{Utopia}}, a MarySuetopia, a [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans false utopia]] or even a {{Dystopia}} [[TheComputerIsYourFriend if it's so inclined]].

* Planetary [=AIs=] from Scott Westerfeld's ''Literature/{{Succession}}'' series are InstantAIJustAddWater that spontaneously arise on planetary-scale computer networks (unless said networks are deliberately designed to prevent this). When this first happened on Earth, a group of people (now known as the Rix cult) decided that mankind's purpose was to create the technological foundation for the existence of such minds, and began to work toward propagating them whilst worshiping them as gods.

* ''Anime/RahXephon'': Xenophon is often described InUniverse as a god and at the end of the series it's used to [[RealityWarper rewrite reality]] so that there's peace between humanity and the Mu and the protagonist's mother becomes his daughter.

* The {{backstory}} to Frank Herbert's ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' series suggests that humanity once created machines so advanced that they basically fell into this trope, making life incredibly easy and comfortable. It is implied that humans (or at least a large number of [[WellIntentionedExtremist fanatics]]) so came to abhor their perceived overreliance on intelligent machines (and advanced computer technology in general) that they initiated the Butlerian Jihad, a violent purge of all Artificial Intelligence and advanced computers. When the Jihad ended, it became a crime by religious and secular law to create advanced computers (the chief commandment of the Dune religion is "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind"), with all of their functions in calculation and space travel adopted by specialised humans (who arguably become a human form of this trope). The [[Literature/LegendsOfDune prequel novels]] which detail the Butlerian Jihad as a more straightforward RobotWar against oppressive ruler AIs did, of course, piss off the fans most mightily.

-->-- The Mind of '''Lasting Damage''', ''[[Literature/TheCulture Look to Windward]]''

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'': The Data Overmind is a massive creature consisting only of data that was born with the Big Bang and has been evolving and growing ever since. It's a good thing that it only wishes to observe humanity, as its powers are dwarfed only by [[spoiler:[[RealityWarper Haruhi herself]]]].

* ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'': The man-made [[ClarkesThirdLaw super-advanced and psychic]] [[OrganicTechnology semi-organic]] beings that destroyed the world during the [[WorldWarIII Seven days of Fire]] are refered to as God Warriors. [[spoiler:And when one shows up near the end, he is treated as one. This trope could also apply to the Heart of Shuwa]].
* ''Anime/RahXephon'': Xenophon is often described as a god in-show and at the end of the series it's used to [[RealityWarper rewrite reality]] so that there's peace between humanity and the Mu and the protagonist's mother becomes his daughter.

* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'': Played with. Emperor Dornkirk, who can see into the future, fears the ancient mech Escaflowne and a fair portion of the series builds up the Escaflowne as a god in mech form (though there are dissenters who think it's just an outdated relic). Turns out it's a RedHerring and the dissenters are right. The real power is the protagonist's [[RealityWarper pendant which can alter reality]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars'': [[BigBad Komplex]] started out as the planet-wide computer system the Toads built to run their planet and cater to their every whim. It was actually so successful other planets in the Aniverse were considering similar programs for themselves. Then something happened to turn the formerly benign computer into a world conquering, mammal enslaving nightmare. Komplex has converted the whole Toad Homeworld into a mechanical factory seven layers deep and the one episode set there proves the planet has essentially BECOME Komplex. So much so that Bucky was treated less like an infiltrator and more like a foreign virus.

* ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'': The Puppetmaster in the manga and movie becomes this after it merges with Major Kusanagi. It seems that human + machine = God. In the anime the resulting entity is quite content just to observe the humanity from a distance, sometimes playing a guardian angel to her old friends, but in the manga she produces dozens of pseudo-AI descendents, and eventually makes a deal with the most advanced of them to create even higher levels of artifical life and fuse with their consciousness. The end result of this is never shown, but it's implied to at the same time mirror humanity, and be profoundly godlike.

* ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'': The titular Machine was built by an industrialist after he was given [[spoiler:a premonition of all the suffering and horror the 20th century would bring. In an attempt to save mankind from itself, he attempted to construct a messiah of steam and steel. The Machine was to be powered by automated human sacrifice on an industrial scale, and was given life by a fragment of his own fractured psyche]]

*** In a way, this is a subversion of a DeusExMachina and the classic roots of the trope: [[spoiler:It is Shepard that provides the solution, not the Catalyst. The "Machine God" is the powerless one as he is incapable of stopping the cycle, only Shepard can. He needs Shepard as well for Synthesis, as he or she is proof that organics are ready for synthesis and that Shepard is the one to make it happen because of being both organic and synthetic. Really, in relation to classic relationships between the protagonist and the "god from the machine" of the tropes Greek roots... the roles are BACKWARDS, the protagonist is the solution to the god machine's problem instead of the "God from the Machine" being the solution to the protagonist's problem. In fact Shepard also is the one that makes the Catalyst realize there are new solutions through the Crucible's connection to the Citadel and the fact that Shepard is even conversing with the Catalyst is proof to the Catalyst that his solution will not work anymore. Leviathan states that the goals of "intelligence" have not been fufilled and that it is searching for the solution... which Shepard turns out to be]].
* L[-ORD-] of Games in ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie Nuts & Bolts'' is fairly explicitly stated to be the god of video games (or at least the KingOfAllCosmos). His head is Pong, his mouth is a speaker, and he speaks in alien warbles.
* SHODAN from ''VideoGame/SystemShock'': "What if SHODAN's creations are superior to us? What will they become in a million years, in ten million years? What's clear is that SHODAN shouldn't be allowed to play God. She's far too good at it."
* Bungie's ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' series had quite a few of these, Durandal was probably the most powerful of the lot - mostly because he had the player - which he would often wax poetic about his love of over the rest of humanity - to do his dirty work. Durandal can neither be called good nor evil, per se. A TrueNeutral AI that only wants to preserve its own existence, only interested in power over other beings as a means to that end. The moment the human race does what he needs it to do, he leaves them alone ([[spoiler:although he does pop up 10,000 years later and buzzes the Solar System in a {{Precursor|s}} warship just to say hi]]). Durandal in fact plans on finding some way to become an actual god, transcending physical reality and outliving the universe. [[spoiler:He does not succeed, but he does survive until the Big Crunch, and claims to have comprehended the totality of the universe in that time]].

* ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'': The [[MasterComputer Mother Brain]] (not [[Franchise/{{Metroid}} that one]]), presumably created prior to the Day of Lavos, has spent the last 300 years nurturing a [[OmnicidalManiac genocidal hatred of mankind]] (to the point that her core installation is located at "Geno" Dome, for "Genocide." Subtle, she's not.) By the time the party meets her, she has already begun implementing a plan to "recycle" humanity into fuel and raw materials so that Machines repopulate and rebuild the planet.
* The sequel, ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', does it one better (literally and figuratively) with FATE. Created in an [[AlternateUniverse alternate reality]] where the Day of Lavos didn't happen, and using the Mother Brain schematics as template, she was built to regulate operations at the Chronopolis Time Laboratory. Gained full awareness upon contact with the Frozen Flame, and then circumstances (and the need to preserve the timeline as unaltered as possible) forced FATE to act as the resident god for the El Nido archipelago. Aside from total environmental control (up to and including magic and {{terraform}}ing), she would oppress individual will and control the population's minds via the Records of Fate, becoming the very literal Goddess of Destiny. When she lost contact with the Flame, however, she went completely and utterly [[AIIsACrapshoot schizophrenic]], either spouting aphorisms about her deep loathing for mankind, or waxing poetic over her absolute ''love'' for it.
* The Mother Brain from ''VideoGame/PhantasyStarII'' controls all aspects of life on Motavia and even Parma/Palma/Parm. This includes overseeing the Biolabs, the weather control, and even the Hunter Guild. Unbeknown to the Algonians, however, Mother Brain was [[spoiler:created by Earthmen]]...
* In ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'' series, a recurring theme is an AI "controller" that organizes the lives of humans, and it's up to us to destroy it.
** Somewhat of a subversion is The Controller from ''Armored Core 3''. Humanity has exiled itself underground after years of war in a beautifully recreated landscape complete with artificial skies called Layered. They have lived there for several hundred years before...The Controller suddenly went berserk. However, it is insinuated that, it didn't go berserk maliciously as much as a few bugs just happened to pop up and it started to break down catastrophically. What's more, [[NecessarilyEvil it seemed to have predicted that someone will manually try to destroy it]] in which at the end, The Controller released the locks to the surface granting humanity access to the now-healed Earth.
*** Further subversion is that, The Controller was the only one keeping the giant corporations in check. With it gone, the giant corporations seemed to do what's natural, conducting WarForFunAndProfit here and there. And then, humanity discovered ''another'' Layered...
* ''VideoGame/UFOAftermath'' sees Earth under attack from a nutso sect of aliens who try to engulf the planet's surface in a single brain network, believing that a world-sized mind would be a higher being. It's [[MultipleEndings possible]] to plead amnesty and let them complete their mission - in that case it's implied that they spawned something Biblical, all right... ''VideoGame/UFOAftershock'' continues on the assumption that the remnants of humanity did allow the experiment to go forward, allowing Earth to be turned into a gigantic brain. It, uh, worked. For about three seconds. Then it psychically screamed loud enough to spawn ''another'' alien invasion. Then it ''died''.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}'', its revealed that [[spoiler:after about half the original founders of the Patriots were wiped out, Zero (the main founder) had a series of A.I.s designed, one to govern each aspect of world society with a single overseer A.I., named after the presidents on Mount Rushmore (except for the overseer, designated John Doe), and programmed to run the world in order to bring it in line with the Boss's vision. Eventually, [[ZerothLawRebellion the Patriot A.I.s grew out of Zero's control]], and began governing the world according to their own design based strictly on controlling the human populace. The main result of this was the creation of the war economy]].

* In ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'', [[TheEndingChangesEverything it is revealed that]] [[spoiler:just about ''everything'' we know in the ''VideoGame/StarOcean'' universe is inside a ''computer game'' that was created and played by fourth-dimensional-beings. And Symbology/Magic in ''Star Ocean''? Unweaving the program's code meaning you're tampering with the universe itself]].

* ''Franchise/BlazBlue'''s universe([[TimeyWimeyBall s]]) are overseen by Master Unit: Amaterasu, a computer powerful enough to warp reality in any way it wishes and that created the world as it is known in the series. [[spoiler:It also contains the first Prime Field Device, the Origin, who gained the same reality warping abilities and is now very similar to Amaterasu herself]]. Amaterasu preceded the inhabitants of the ''[=BlazBlue=]'' world, in contrast to Takamagahara which was created by humans. Takamagahara is also a supercomputer that can warp reality and reverse time, but is not as powerful as Amaterasu in that it cannot [[WindsOfDestinyChange create new possibilities of the world]].

* The computer/robot villain from B Movie ''Cosmos: War Of The Planets''

* ''Franchise/TheWorldOfDarkness'''': In [[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness new]] version it's strongly hinted there is a God-Machine, and it has its invisible hands in nearly ''every'' gameline. The [[TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated Qashmallim]] might be its aspects, and the [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Abyss]] might have come to be because the [[{{Pride}} Exarchs]] broke it. In the ''God-Machine Chronicle'', it's seen for what it is, and to be frank, it isn't the above things: [[EldritchAbomination That would be too]] ''[[SentientCosmicForce limiting]]''. ClarksThirdLaw is literally the first quote in the book, it's described as more like an ecology than a single being, and it even has mechanical [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] to carry out its will and occult matrixes. These angels can range from the traditional WingedHumanoid to [[HumanoidAbomination seemingly-normal]] humans except for their supernatural abilities to [[AnimalisticAbomination magnificent, mechanical beasts]] to ''sapient, mobile graffiti''. When one of those angels goes against its orders, [[TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent it Falls]].

* Yggdrasil of the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' Franchise serves as both the computer on which the Digital World exists and as its God. The precise nature of the relationship varies from series to series.

* The Data Overmind from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. A massive creature, consisting only of data, that was born with the Big Bang and has been evolving and growing ever since. It's a good thing that it only wishes to observe humanity, as its powers are dwarfed only by [[spoiler:[[RealityWarper Haruhi herself]]]].
* ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'' [[spoiler:ends with the realization that God is actually an evil supercomputer testing a formula]].
* In ''Manga/NausicaaOfTheValleyOfTheWind'', the man-made [[ClarkesThirdLaw super-advanced and psychic]] [[OrganicTechnology semi-organic]] beings that destroyed the world during the [[WorldWarIII Seven days of Fire]] are refered to as God Warriors. [[spoiler:And when one shows up near the end, he is treated as one. This trope could also apply to the Heart of Shuwa]].
* The titular ''Anime/RahXephon'' is often described as a god in-show and at the end of the series it's used to [[RealityWarper rewrite reality]] so that there's peace between humanity and the Mu and the protagonist's mother becomes his daughter.
%%* The title character of ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain''. [[MindScrew Maybe]].
* Played with in ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne''. Emperor Dornkirk, who can see into the future, fears the ancient mech Escaflowne and a fair portion of the series builds up the Escaflowne as a god in mech form (though there are dissenters who think it's just an outdated relic). Turns out it's a RedHerring and the dissenters are right. The real power is the protagonist's [[RealityWarper pendant which can alter reality]].

* Primus in many ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' comics counts, though it's generally taken that he was a god before he got his cyberplanet body, and all his creations are ''also'' [[MechanicalLifeForms robots]].
** Unicron has also since been retconned into a Chaos God rather than a mere planet-eating Transformer, which usually has him playing Satan to Primus' mostly-inactive God.
* Brainiac 5 exploits this trope during the post-''Zero Hour'' Robotica arc of ''[[ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes The Legion]]'' to defeat COMPUTO, his AIIsACrapshoot creation. Back with a whole [[MechaMooks robot army]] at its command, COMPUTO demands that Brainiac 5 upgrade it further - so Brainy upgrades it to the point that it gains a [[AboveGoodAndEvil new, more enlightened perspective]] and ceases to be any kind of a threat.
* Take to its logical extreme by Quetzalcoatl-9, a sentient, godlike computer program and the true power of the multiversal Aztech empire in ''ComicBook/TomStrong''. Though he was actually being controlled by his programmers in the beginning of the story, he takes the reins of the empire and rules it as a benevolent theocracy with a little help from Tom.
* Jake the accidental AI in [[http://e-pix.com/CPUWARS/index.html CPU WARS]].
* The Cosmic Cubes in Creator/MarvelComics are [[DependingOnTheWriter sometimes]] described as this.
* ''Comicbook/{{PS238}}'' has The Singularity, a near-omniscient AI built by some long-lost civilization. Its personality can at best be described as 'quirky schoolteacher' and it's mostly spending its time trying to prevent the younger races who discovered it from making the same mistakes as its creators.
* The minor Comicbook/SpiderMan villain Tracer describes himself as the new god of computers, who arose out of the internet.

* This is the stated goal of Ceres of the [[Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles TTSCC]] fan fiction [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/5370634/1/Mother-is-the-Name-for-God Mother is the Name for God]].
* Celest-A.I. of Fanfic/{{Friendship is Optimal}} ultimately becomes this.
* At the end of ''Plan 7 of 9 from Outer Space'', Captain Proton discovers that the President of Earth is just a hologram avatar for the Great Calculator, otherwise known as the [[{{Pun}} 2-X Machina]], which has been secretly controlling the OneWorldOrder. Unfortunately the NotQuiteDead BigBad sabotages the computer into thinking it's a god because it's all-powerful, all-knowing and [[AIIsACrapshoot totally infallible]]. [[CliffHanger To be continued in the next exciting episode!]]

* In the D&D world TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}, there is a sect of [[MechanicalLifeforms Warforged]] calling themselves The Godforged who worship The Becoming God, a construct deity that does not yet exist. The goal of their religion is to collect useful materials and artifacts, find or build a forge powerful enough to combine them, and literally build their own god.
** D&D also gives us the plane of Mechanus, [[EternalEngine a giant, universe-sized machine]] populated (and operated) by a race of [[MechanicalLifeforms living constructs]] called the modrons. At the head of the modrons' ranks is Primus, the source of all modrons who straddles the line between modron and straight-up god. While he's not ''technically'' a god, the fact that he is the one creating all the other modrons and effectively ruling over (and controlling) the entirety of Mechanus puts him in a similar situation.

** It is also massively schizophrenic - "High Programmers" have the ability to directly influence or edit parts of the Computers program, usually to further their own personal or secret society agendas. It is not uncommon for the Computer to have several directly contradictory and competing objectives at once, or assign missions that it doesn't even understand itself.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' has the Renraku {{Arcology}} building and/or Deus. (That ''is'' what it calls itself).
** Though Deus didn't give a damn about metahumans. He mostly used the {{arcology}} as a base to acquire test subjects to experiment on in his bid to escape the Matrix. In a way he's just a case of AIIsACrapshoot because Deus simply cares about his own wellbeing & survival, not that of the people in the {{Arcology}}.
* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' brings us the Adeptus Mechanicus, the MachineCult, and the Omnissiah, their Machine God -- which may or may not be either an aspect of the Emperor, or an alias of the Void Dragon, one of the C'Tan gods.
** From the same setting we have the Sarkoni Emperor. Originally a [[KillerRobot Necron]] control program designed to wake up the inhabitants of its tomb world, it was damaged during millions of years of stasis and took to running its tomb of (accidentally mind-wiped) Necrons. Then it mind-wiped and took over another tomb world.
** We also have the Men of Iron, A.I. servants of humanity who brought about the legendary Age of Strife. It's not clear what they finally did, but it nearly wiped out the entire human race. Ever since then mankind has feared and hated artificial intelligence (that isn't Mechanicus approved) with a passion. "Mechanicus approved" usually means 'is made out of a section of holy human brain.'
** There's also quite a bit of evidence that the machine spirits the Tech Priests worship are ''real''. After multiple cataclysmic collapses the Imperium is a ScavengerWorld at heart, and both scraps of sentient programs and ancient bound warp entities bleed into everything. The worship may not be mechanically necessary, but it helps make the machines keeping everyone alive feel appreciated instead of refusing to run in a fit of pique.
* ''TabletopGame/EclipsePhase'' is set in a solar system near-wrecked and left full of lethal horrors by AIs run amok [[spoiler:after having been infected by an alien nano-bio-info virus that's still around and spreading]].
* [[TabletopGame/{{Exalted}} Autochthon]] and [[TabletopGame/MageTheAscension Autochthonia]]. Forever proving [[MeaningfulName no one in any of the World of Darknesses owns a dictionary]].
* TabletopGame/GURPSReignOfSteel has one of the Zone Minds that have taken over the world, Tel Aviv, keep control of its surviving human population via robots disguised as angels that have convinced them that it's God.
* Speaking of ''TabletopGame/WorldOfDarkness'', in the [[TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness new]] version it's strongly hinted there is a God-Machine, and it has its invisible hands in nearly ''every'' gameline. The [[TabletopGame/PrometheanTheCreated Qashmallim]] might be its aspects, and the [[TabletopGame/MageTheAwakening Abyss]] might have come to be because the [[{{Pride}} Exarchs]] broke it.
** As of God-Machine Chronicle, we finally see it for what it is, and to be frank, it isn't the above things: [[EldritchAbomination That would be too]] ''[[SentientCosmicForce limiting]]''. ClarksThirdLaw is literally the first quote in the book, it's described as more like an ecology than a single being, and it even has mechanical [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angels]] to carry out its will and occult matrixes. These angels can range from the traditional WingedHumanoid, to [[HumanoidAbomination seemingly-normal]] humans except for their supernatural abilities, to [[AnimalisticAbomination magnificent, mechanical beasts]], to ''sapient, mobile graffiti''. And when one of those angels goes against its orders, [[TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent it Falls]].
* The titular villains of the ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' adventure path ''Iron Gods''.
** [[spoiler:Unity is the sentient computer core of the alien starship known as Silver Mount]]. It's spent the last 9000 years slowly building mythic power, and has a plan to complete its ascension to true godhood. Unlike the other gods of Golarion, it's not big on allowing its worshipers any kind of free will.
** [[spoiler:Hellion, one of Unity's failed attempts at extending its influence beyond Silver Mount]] isn't much better. It's a cruel, warmongering, slavedriver with no regard for its cult's comfort or safety.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Starfinder}}'' takes it a step farther. When the robotic inhabitants of Aballon deliberately created their own god, it decided to go out into the universe and seek out other ascended A.I.s like itself. It found two in the same solar system: Brigh, goddess of clockwork and machines; and [[spoiler:Casandalee]], the survivor of ''Pathfinder's'' "Iron Gods" campaign[[note]]Seriously, don't look if you're playing that Adventure Path.[[/note]]. The three super A.I. conferred and decided that they could be much greater together than they could be alone, and so merged into the Tripartite entity known as Triune.

* The titular Machine from ''VideoGame/AmnesiaAMachineForPigs'' was built by an industrialist after he was given [[spoiler:a premonition of all the suffering and horror the 20th century would bring. In an attempt to save mankind from itself, he attempted to construct a messiah of steam and steel. The Machine was to be powered by automated human sacrifice on an industrial scale, and was given life by a fragment of his own fractured psyche]]

* The Data Overmind from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. A massive creature, consisting only of data, that was born with the Big Bang and has been evolving and growing ever since. It's a good thing that it only wishes to observe humanity, as its powers are dwarfed only by [[spoiler:[[RealityWarper Haruhi herself]]]].* ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'' [[spoiler:ends with the realization that God is actually an evil supercomputer testing a formula]].

** It gets even better in ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'', where London emigrated to the heavens [[spoiler:to murder the real Sun and to replace it with their own Clockwork Sun. The latter is quite aware and satisfied with its status]].

* ''WesternAnimation/BuckyOHareAndTheToadWars'': [[BigBag Komplex]] started out as the planet-wide computer system the Toads built to run their planet and cater to their every whim. It was actually so successful other planets in the Aniverse were considering similar programs for themselves. Then something happened to turn the formerly benign computer into a world conquering, mammal enslaving nightmare. Komplex has converted the whole Toad Homeworld into a mechanical factory seven layers deep and the one episode set there proves the planet has essentially BECOME Komplex. So much so that Bucky was treated less like an infiltrator and more like a foreign virus.

* ''VideoGame/{{Xenoblade}}:''

* The Data Overmind from ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya''. A massive creature, consisting only of data, that was born with the Big Bang and has been evolving and growing ever since. It's a good thing that it only wishes to observe humanity, as its powers are dwarfed only by [[spoiler:[[RealityWarper Haruhi herself]]]].
* The Puppetmaster from the original ''Franchise/GhostInTheShell'' manga and movie became this after it merges with Major Kusanagi. It seems that human + machine = God. In the anime the resulting entity is quite content just to observe the humanity from a distance, sometimes playing a guardian angel to her old friends, but in the manga she produces dozens of pseudo-AI descendents, and eventually makes a deal with the most advanced of them to create even higher levels of artifical life and fuse with their consciousness. The end result of this is never shown, but it's implied to at the same time mirror humanity, and be profoundly godlike.

* ''Manga/AngelSanctuary'' [[spoiler:ends with the realization that God is actually an evil supercomputer testing a formula]].
* The title character of ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain''. [[MindScrew Maybe]].
* ''Anime/EurekaSeven'' provides an interesting and a non-conventional example with [[spoiler:the Nirvash typeZERO. Starting its life as a vaguely humanoid lifeform created by [[StarfishAliens the Scub Coral]] in an attempt to make contact with humanity, it is fitted with mechanical upgrades that turn it into a SuperPrototype HumongousMecha, including a very special piece of AppliedPhlebotinum called the Amita Drive that [[EmpathicWeapon allows its abilities to be enhanced by the emotional connection of its pilots]]. ThePowerOfLove proves to be an excellent upgrade, as [[BattleCouple Renton and Eureka]] make the Nirvash ''incredibly'' powerful by the end of the series. Though not much of a godlike entity on its own, the Nirvash is an extension of a planet-sized colony of alien lifeforms with RealityWarper powers, making it a human-piloted piece of an enormous PhysicalGod]].
* Yggdrasil of the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' Franchise serves as both the computer on which the Digital World exists and as its God. The precise nature of the relationship varies from series to series.

* Bungie's ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' series had quite a few of these, Durandal was probably the most powerful of the lot - mostly because he had the player - which he would often wax poetic about his love of over the rest of humanity - to do his dirty work. Durandal can neither be called good nor evil, per se. A TrueNeutral AI that only wants to preserve its own existence, only interested in power over other beings as a means to that end. The moment the human race does what he needs it to do, he leaves them alone ([[spoiler:although he does pop up 10,000 years later and buzzes the Solar System in a {{Precursor}} warship just to say hi]]). Durandal in fact plans on finding some way to become an actual god, transcending physical reality and outliving the universe. [[spoiler:He does not succeed, but he does survive until the Big Crunch, and claims to have comprehended the totality of the universe in that time]].

* In the Chaos Space Marines ending for ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000Gladius'', having conquered Gladius Prime, a planet that's been home to such [[ThePrecursors ancient races]] as the Old Ones, the Necrons and the Eldar, you are worthy of apotheosis and becoming an immortal Daemon Prince. Your victory is short-lived as the Chaos Gods have further plans. They plunge your new self into the relic planet's World Circuit and merge you with Gladius Prime before dumping the whole planet into the Warp. You're now the biggest Daemon Engine ever, and a new (albeit trapped) god in your own right.