History Main / GodWasMyCopilot

** Also played with mere moments before it's played straight. After [[spoiler:Castiel shows up and undoes what little damage was done in "the final apocalyptic battle"]], Dean asks if he's God. His response is "No, but thanks for the compliment."

* This happens with distressing regularity in ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''. The Senate Elders in ''II'' are three of the Four Archangels. Sister Gabby in ''IV'' is the Archangel Gabriel, with Lilith as the Black Samurai.

* This happens with distressing regularity in ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei''. The Senate Elders in ''II'' are three of the Four Archangels. Sister Gabby in ''IV'' is the Archangel Gabriel. Lilith is the Black Samurai in the same.

* The ''NeverwinterNights'' mod VideoGame/TalesOfArterra has the revelation of Evanine's heritage. Given the base [[DungeonsAndDragons ruleset]] having an angel rogue on your side would be much more useful than having an elf rogue. Justified in that she didn't know what she was either.

* The ''NeverwinterNights'' mod Tales of Arterra has the revelation of Evanine's heritage. Given the base [[DungeonsAndDragons ruleset]] having an angel rogue on your side would be much more useful than having an elf rogue. Justified in that she didn't know what she was either.

* Heavily implied in TamoraPierce's ''[[TortallUniverse Song of the Lioness]]'' quartet with Faithful being some sort of constellation given mortal form, and a previous incarnation of him appears in the ''Provost's Dog'' series set several centuries before. Also Daine is actually half-god in a slight variation.

* ''{{Crimson}}'' features God masquerading as a little black girl who never says anything (though she apparently communicates telepathically) and just goes around either selling flowers to the unaware protagonist or doing friendly miracles, such as reviving a café full of people killed by some overzealous archangels, and offering redemption to Lucifer himself. (He turns her down, since he likes his current gig.)

** Played with in the ''SherlockHolmes'' crossover fic ''A Case of Jerusalem'' wherein England is revealed to have been copilot to ''several'' British regiments just in the late 19th Century alone, including possibly that of Dr. Watson. He does get "reassigned" once his men grow suspicious of him, however.

* In the ''TwilightZone'' episode "A Passage for Trumpet," a depressed, down-on-his-luck trumpet player named Joey is persuaded by another trumpet player to keep on living and playing. Only at the episode's end does Joey think to ask for the helpful person's name. The reply? "It's Gabe, short for Gabriel" and as he says it, he steps under an overhanging light... that gives him a perfect halo.

* The ''TenchiMuyo'' OVA series pulled this off no less than four times, with Sasami having merged with Tsunami, one of the three Chousin, her mother being Counteractor, Washu being another one of the three Chousin, and finally Tenchi himself being an avatar of a force even more powerful than the Chousin themselves.

The opposite of this trope is the LouisCypher. Compare PalsWithJesus, AngelUnaware and KingIncognito. If they're shown to be there from the get go, it's SidekickExMachina. Compare FairyGodmother.

* in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', [[spoiler: Rei Ayanami]] turns out to be an incarnation of Lilith, the source of all life on Earth. And shortly after, [[TheEndOfEvangelion some very, very bad things happen.]]

* In the first ''Comicbook/GhostRider'' series, Satan (who was indirectly responsible for the hero's creation) kept trying to claim his soul. At one point, he's thwarted by the intervention of a normal-looking man who just claimed to be "just a friend." It was heavily implied that he was actually Jesus[[note]]This was later retconned so that it was all just a part of Satan's plans, the writer of the original story [[WordOfGod has confirmed that yeah, it was meant to be the real Jesus]].[[/note]].

** This is played with by Fizban's apparent {{Expy}} Zifnab in ''TheDeathGateCycle''. He has the same mix of senile eccentricity with flashes of remarkable wisdom and power, and at one point even says that he's a god, but is really just a very crazy old man with a lot of plot-centric information locked up in that confused brain. The dragon that is his constant companion, however, ''is'' a semi-divine being.

* David also uses this trope in ''[[Literature/KnightLifeSeries Fall of Knight]]'', with the minor character of Joshua Cook. (?Carpenter would have been too obvious.?)

* Tad Williams' cat-fantasy ''Literature/TailchasersSong'' uses this trope when Tailchaser is in his darkest hour, trapped by evil demon-cats underground...and then the insane, filthy old tom that has been clinging to his traveling group for most of the novel reveals himself as the cat-god Tangaloor Firefoot.

* The title character of ''Silverlock'' is befriended by a poet and singer who gives his name as "O. Widsith Amergin Demodocus ... And let's see; there are others of course, but to cut it short I'll wind up with Boyan Taliesin Golias." It's only when Golias sings his way into Hell to rescue Silverlock that we learn that the "O." stands for "Orpheus" (he doesn't, by the way, botch the rescue as he did with Eurydice) and the other names that he supplies are a really big hint that he isn't simply a wandering singer. "Widsith" is the name of a ''scop'' (poet and bard) in Old English mythology; "Amergin" is a name associated with two different master bards in Irish Mythology; "Demodocus" was poet in the court of King Alcinous in ''Literature/TheOdyssey''; "Boyan" is the name of a royal court bard in the Rus epic ''The Lay of Igor's Campaign''; "Taliesin" was a famed and highly regarded Welsh poet. Golias is the only name that doesn't belong to a legendary poet or bard; he's a mythical 'lord of vagabonds'. The fact that Silverlock doesn't catch any of the references simply underlines what a philistine he is.

* ''AdeptusEvangelion'' has this as a suggestion for using [[HumanoidAbomination Tabris]]. For anyone familar with its [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion source material]], it comes out a little [[ParanoiaFuel less positive]] then most examples.

*** Though most diehard Canonists of the Old World of Darkness would say the Taxi Driver was merely a Malkavian Imposter, in reference to a line in the Novel where it implies as such, along with others.

* The ''AlmightyJanitor'' in Max Barry's "Company" (listed here instead - granted, he's no God, but at least the company's CEO in disguise.)

* Conversed in ''Film/TheCannonballRun,'' although it doesn't really happen.

* A character memorably portrayed by Burt Reynolds appears to play this role in the "love it or hate it" ''XFiles'' episode aptly titled "Improbable."

* The final episode of Series/AshesToAshes strongly implies that God was their ''barman''.

* In ''Voyage to the City of the Dead'', by Creator/AlanDeanFoster, it turns out that the friendly, mentally retarded, GentleGiant is in fact a Mutable- a shapeshifting, neigh-immortal creature present in some form or another in the mythologies and legends of every known advanced species.

* Not quite a God, but in Eric Nylund's ''A Game of Universe'', the AI Setebos turns out to be an Angel.

* David also uses this trope in ''Fall of Knight'', with the minor character of Joshua Cook. (?Carpenter would have been too obvious.?)

* In ''Midnight at the Well of Souls,'' the main character himself is revealed to be god... or [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien something like god]], at the end.

* Tad Williams' cat-fantasy ''Tailchaser's Song'' uses this trope when Tailchaser is in his darkest hour, trapped by evil demon-cats underground...and then the insane, filthy old tom that has been clinging to his traveling group for most of the novel reveals himself as the cat-god Tangaloor Firefoot.

* Zelazny's "the Chronicles of Amber" begins with a feud between a group of semi divine siblings after their father Oberon disappears and the succession to the throne of Amber is in question. Oberon later turns out to have been the narrator's sidekick from a shadow earth.

* ''ComicStrip/TomTheDancingBug'' uses the InvertedTrope whenever [[GodModeSue God-Man]] teams up with [[CostumedNonsuperHero Human-Man]], as in [[http://www.gocomics.com/tomthedancingbug/2008/02/02 February 2, 2008]]. In other works, God disguises himself but helps someone. Here, God-Man reveals himself at the beginning, but has done nothing to help Human-Man by the end.

* In the first ''Comicbook/GhostRider'' series, Satan (who was indirectly responsible for the hero's creation) kept trying to claim his soul. At one point, he's thwarted by the intervention of a normal-looking man who just claimed to be "just a friend." It was heavily implied that he was actually [[hottip:Jesus:This was later retconned so that it was all just a part of Satan's plans, the writer of the original story [[WordOfGod has confirmed that yeah, it was meant to be the real Jesus]].]].

* Happens in ''TheDresdenFiles'' book ''Small Favor''. In a fight with fallen angels, Harry throws around power in the shape of a giant hand from an unexpected, inexplicable source. Later, during TheStinger, Harry [[RageAgainstTheHeavens Rages Against The Heavens]] because God lets the fallen angels run loose on Earth without interfering, and [[AlmightyJanitor Jake]] the [[SarcasmMode humble janitor]][[note]]Actually the Archangel Uriel. Killing the Firstborns of Egypt was him.[[/note]] points out to Harry that maybe God "already gave you a hand".

* ''AdeptusEvangelion'' has this as a suggestion for using [[HumanoidAbomination Tabris]]. For anyone familar with its [[NeonGenesisEvangelion source material]], it comes out a little [[ParanoiaFuel less positive]] then most examples.

* In ''EurekaSeven'', the comic-relief mystical tea-brewing Gonzy turns out to be a Coralian himself.
* in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion'', [[spoiler: Rei Ayanami]] turns out to be an incarnation of Lilith, the source of all life on Earth. And shortly after, [[TheEndOfEvangelion some very, very bad things happen.]]