History Main / KingOfAllCosmos

* ''Film/TimeBandits'' can be seen as predicated on the foibles of a rather inept and idiosyncratic version of the Christian {{God}}. Hilariously {{lampshaded}} in the little speech given by Evil about God's lack of interest in computers and technology. To give an example, the Supreme Being (in the movie) literally can not remember ''why'' he created evil when Kevin asks:
-->'''Supreme Being:''' I think it has something to do with free will.
* The ''Film/OhGod'' series portrayed him as the old vaudevillian Creator/GeorgeBurns.

* In the 2000 feature ''Film/{{Bedazzled}}'', both the Christian God and Satan are represented this way, though Satan less so. Satan, played by Elizabeth Hurley, is shown as beautiful, desirable, and even polite. Though she can be angry and cruel and appear as the traditional Satan, she only does so when it fits her goals, and she is legitimately not angry when a soul escapes her grasp. Meanwhile, God is played by Gabriel Cassius, and appears as a young black man in jail, offering very casual wisdom and hope for the main character without revealing anything about his identity.

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are not explicitly referred to as deities, but they control the sun and moon respectively and both seem to be immortal, so they might as well be. The former has enough of a trickster streak in her that she is not above pranking overly servile subjects or ruining a boring fancy dance [[ItAmusedMe because it's too boring]], while the latter is an {{adorkable}} FishOutOfTemporalWater who gets unusually excited at so much as doing good in a carnival game for foals.

* [[spoiler: Polaris]] from ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei: VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2'' looks like [[spoiler: a giant top (and then a giant egg-thing with weird arms).]]

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "Godfellas", Bender encounters a galaxy-shaped being who may or may not be God, and takes a rather laissez-faire view on divine intervention: his philosophy is "[[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all]]."

** ''Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods'' and ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' introduces the Gods of Destruction and their attendants (one for each of the 12 universes); the one we see most often is Beerus, who's a food-obsessed LazyBum who feuds with his twin brother Champa, the God of Destruction for Universe 6. Later on we meet the TopGod Zen-O, who's essentially a blue-skinned, football-headed [[GooGooGodlike child with power over all of existence]].

%%* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' has a Giant Robot God. Primus, while [[SuperDickery not always Mr. Nice God]] (at least in the comics, he comes across better when he appears in the cartoons), is in fact the creator of the Transformers, and their homeworld is his body. Surprisingly little goes on by way of religious ceremony, though he is connected to both the Autobot Matrix of Leadership and ''Cybertron''[='=]s Omega Lock, and granted the Autobots the Spark of Combination in ''Energon'', as well as the Cyber Keys from ''Cybertron'' being derived from his power. And all this while he's sealed away in a deep slumber.

%%* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and its crazy-amazing [[spoiler:gigantic living all-wise [[MixAndMatchCritters Lion Turtle]] [[TurtleIsland island]], which, based on the knowledge it/he gives to Aang, may be even older than both the Avatar and bending as we knew it]].

%%* ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' had an odd pantheon of Gods. Such as "The God of Noseflutes"

* ''Manga/HeIsMyMaster'' (Alligator, also an AuthorAvatar)

** The above is true, but because of the giant snarl of GambitRoulette that ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' and ''Manga/XxxHolic'' have become, Creator/{{CLAMP}} fandom is starting to joke that Clow Reed is the ''real'' God of the Clamp Multiverse.

* ''Manga/SaintYoungMen''. Not God, but rather Jesus. And He is ''[[CloudCuckooLander weird.]]''

* ''Comicbook/TheInvisibles'': [[{{Dissimile}} "If the Buddha were from Liverpool and swore a lot, he'd be a bit like Jack."]]
* Speaking of Creator/GrantMorrison, Comicbook/DoomPatrol's [[AxCrazy Red]] [[UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper Jack]] (assuming he's actually who he says he is; [[MindScrew it's hard to tell]]).

** There is a long running myth in the comics world that ComicBook/{{Galactus}}, a giant planet-eating PhysicalGod, was created for the purpose of having the ComicBook/FantasticFour "fight God". (Truth is, both Lee and Kirby were very clear in their inspirations, calling him A god, but not God. Kirby compared him more to Zeus than to the judeo-Christian deity). While he isn't played for laughs, he ''is'' a giant purple dude [[FashionVictimVillain with a ridiculous helmet...]] Though that's just how human beings are able to perceive him. At least one comic has indicated that his true form is beyond mortal comprehension and has shown that each sentient race in the universe sees a very different Galactus when they look at him (including one form that appeared as a giant black void, covered in warped and screaming faces). Apparently the big purple humanoid with the weird helmet is as scary as humans can understand.
* The Franchise/MarvelUniverse also has [[http://marvel.wikia.com/Eternity_%28Earth-616%29 Eternity]]; literally a personification of the universe.

** The Endless are not gods but {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of universal constants: They aren't creators or objects of worship but avatars and wave functions. They were created by their concepts, they didn't create them, and they're fairly impotent outside of their domains. That said, if having the concept of Entropy look like Creator/BrianBlessed doesn't count for this trope then what does?

* Any of the gods in ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'s'' Gensokyo who aren't outright JerkassGods are usually this, most of them being of the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} variety.

* In a particularly funny and depressing Web Animation, ''Videogame/KatamariDamacy'' is parodied and done more "realistly". The King of the Cosmos sends the Prince out to make Katamaris just like in the game, but since building large Katamaris implies murdering the people rolled up in the ball, the Flamboyent King is actually evil. When the Prince decides he wants to stop, the King beats him and orders him to keep going. The people of Earth come to see the King as God and worship him. The Prince loaths the people for being so ignorant and even where "God's" people are unsatisfied with the Katamaris, the King beats the Prince. The Prince is only held together by his kind mother who speaks fondly of the King's previous kindness when they courted. The Prince reasons that made she hoped the King still had a decent side and didn't want to give up on him. However, the King goes into a drunken rage and beats her. The Prince then kills him by rolling him up in a [[{{Irony}} Katamari]]. The Prince's final line? "Hail to the the King, baby."

* Also pretty much how God (usually referred to simply as The Boss) appears in ''Webcomic/LifeAndDeath'', albeit with some Handwavium due to the fact that AllMythsAreTrue in that scenario.

* In ''Webcomic/BlurTheLines'', God is a HardGay, [[http://www.blur-the-lines.com/?p=502 of the bear variety, specifically]].

** He does make a surprisingly profound statement during their conversation: "Bender, being a god isn't as easy as it looks. If you do too much, your worshipers get dependent on you, and if you do too little, they lose hope."
** It is "probable" that he's [[Film/StarTrekTheMotionPicture the remains of a computerized space probe that collided with]] God. Which is actually significantly weirder than just saying outright he is or isn't God...
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' has a Giant Robot God. Primus, while [[SuperDickery not always Mr. Nice God]] (at least in the comics, he comes across better when he appears in the cartoons), is in fact the creator of the Transformers, and their homeworld is his body. Surprisingly little goes on by way of religious ceremony, though he is connected to both the Autobot Matrix of Leadership and ''Cybertron''[='=]s Omega Lock, and granted the Autobots the Spark of Combination in ''Energon'', as well as the Cyber Keys from ''Cybertron'' being derived from his power. And all this while he's sealed away in a deep slumber.
** And by the time of the ''Cybertron'' series, it turns out that he is a Transformer himself. Created in his own image, you could say...

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' and its crazy-amazing [[spoiler:gigantic living all-wise [[MixAndMatchCritters Lion Turtle]] [[TurtleIsland island]], which, based on the knowledge it/he gives to Aang, may be even older than both the Avatar and bending as we knew it]].

** Apparently he finds what they did at the church in ''Beavis & Butt-Head Do America'' sucks.

* ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' had an odd pantheon of Gods. Such as "The God of Noseflutes"

A deliberately bizarre or unusual portrayal of gods (especially the Christian {{God}}), usually without the intent of being deliberately offensive. This goes well past [[DivineRaceLift using a]] [[Film/{{Dogma}} woman]] or a [[Film/BruceAlmighty minority]] (or both -- Creator/WhoopiGoldberg has played God at least [[Film/ItsAVeryMerryMuppetChristmasMovie once]]).

* Aslan from ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfNarnia'' is UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} in a form more suitable for Narnia. On Earth, which is dominated by humans, he took the form of a man. In Narnia, which is mostly populated by {{Talking Animal}}s and [[FantasyKitchenSink mythical creatures]], he takes the form of a [[PantheraAwesome giant talking lion]] who gives you rides on his back and lets you stroke his mane.

-->-- '''Voltaire'''

* [[Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier What does God need with a starship?]] Well, in ''VideoGame/{{Homeworld}}'', God ''is'' a starship. Sajuuk, the Creator entity in the various religions of almost every race in the galaxy, is revealed in ''Homeworld 2'' to be an incredibly powerful {{Precursor}} starship lying dormant at the center of the galaxy.

* Most of the god-like beings in ''Manga/DragonBall'' are rather odd:
** Kami, the Guardian of Earth (or God, in the original Japanese) is actually fairly ordinary all things considered...except for the facts that he's a member of a slug-like race of aliens and that he purged his own dark side to take the job, which resulted in the creation of Demon King Piccolo, the original series' Satan analogue. His assistant Mister Popo is a little odd himself, being an inscrutable genie-like being who can hold his own in a fight against Goten and Trunks at the same time.
** King Kai, overseer of the North Galaxy (1/4th of the known universe) is a blue, obese, catfish-like being with a bad sense of humor, and quickly gets demoted from supreme being to comic relief. The Kais of the other three quadrants are equally eccentric, but we only really see them in {{Filler}} so they mostly just bounce off each other like squabbling siblings. Their boss the Grand Kai acts like an old man trying to be the "cool grandpa", being fond of rock music and classic cars while also trying to shirk responsibility whenever possible.

** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' introduces the Gods of Destruction and their attendants (one for each of the 12 universes); the one we see most often is Beerus, who's a food-obsessed LazyBum who feuds with his twin brother Champa, the God of Destruction for Universe 6. Later on we meet the TopGod Zen-O, who's essentially a blue-skinned, football-headed [[GooGooGodlike child with power over all of existence]].

* In ''Manga/OyasumiPunpun'', God is an unhelpful grinning afro'd man who only seems to care about belittling Punpun and encouraging his destructive impulses. Later on, it's strongly implied that God is [[spoiler: merely an imagined personification of Punpun's growing nihilism.]]

** In strip [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=3403#comic 3403]], it's revealed that life and humans on Earth were created by a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien living in the centre of the Earth who only cared that "it's so erotic having these dumb carbon blobs scampering over my skin" and is just randomly called home one day.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has an entire pantheon of these. There's "GrobGobGlobGrod" as the main Deity of Ooo, who in his appearances seems pretty chill, he's not above taking selfies with other gods and having pool parties. Then there's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Party God"]] who is a giant floating wolf head wearing a sideways cap, and is shown to be an abusive boyfriend, "Prismo" a odd pink shadow in the form of a man whom only exists while a certain human is asleep, and "The Cosmic Owl" who comes to people in their sleep to predict their death, and originally sounded like Series/DoctorPhil. Finally, UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln himself who is the immortal ruler of Mars. (Would say MakesSenseInContext, but it really doesn't)

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has an entire pantheon of these. There's "GrobGobGlobGrod" as the main Deity of Ooo, who in his appearances seems pretty chill, he's not above taking selfies with other gods and having pool parties. Then there's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Party God"]] who is a giant floating wolf head wearing a sideways cap, and is shown to be an abusive boyfriend, "Prismo" a odd pink shadow in the form of a man whom only exists while a certain human is asleep, and "The Cosmic Owl" who comes to people in their sleep to predict their death, and originally sounded like Series/DoctorPhil. Finally, UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln himself who is the immortal ruler of Mars. (Would say MakesSenseInContext, but it really doesn't)

* The entire Literature/{{Discworld}} pantheon. Not only the straight deities who venture more into CrystalDragonJesus territory, like Blind Io and Fate, but the [[OddJobGods slightly odder ones]], like the god of great ideas you forget to write down and will never remember again, the "Oh God" of hangovers, the goddess of the afternoon, the goddess of small dead things left half-digested on the porch (she has a cat head), the goddess of things that get stuck in drawers, and *cough* the Lady.

** God is a talking triangle with one eye. He's all-powerful, but he's also [[JerkassGod a jerk who doesn't care about mankind]], somewhat retarded, forgetful (to the point that, upon coming on Earth to cause the Apocalypse, he ''forgot'' until someone mentioned the end of the world in a completely unrelated context), and not omniscient in the least, and has no idea who Jesus Christ is (but he could have forgotten) or why that guy named Joseph continues pestering him for supposedly having an affair with his wife. He serves as an unwilling FinalBoss;

* Although gods and goddesses are extremely ubiquitous in the world of ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'', Io is considered to be a god of gods. Not only is he the creator of dragons, both good (Metallic), evil (Chromatic) and neutral (Gem), he remembers all things as they were and as they will be and exists outside the concept of time where he has and will remain. He is so powerful that even the most power-hungry and evil of the gods would think it suicidal to challenge him directly.
** All this despite Io having his body destroyed to create Bahamut and Tiamat. Despite this, he's still considered to be alive since his body was only ever a vessel for his divine essence, and D&D has a rather extreme approach to "killing" gods: destroying their bodies doesn't kill them, it just makes them weaker (relatively speaking) and unable to appear in the material plane for a short time.
** Another example is He Who Was, an early god so powerful that he inspired fear and awe in even the other gods, much like Io. His body was destroyed by Asmodeus and his name erased from the minds of all living beings. However, if anyone were to learn that name, simply speaking it aloud would be enough to revive him, and would most likely destroy Asmodeus and the Nine Hells immediately if it ever happened. He was only ever "killed" in the first place because he was ambushed Theatre/JuliusCaesar style.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' has an entire pantheon of these. There's "GrobGobGlobGrod" as the main Deity of Ooo, who in his appearances seems pretty chill, he's not above taking selfies with other gods and having pool parties. Then there's [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Party God"]] who is a giant floating wolf head wearing a sideways cap, and is shown to be an abusive boyfriend, "Primso" a odd pink shadow in the form of a man whom only exists while a certain human is asleep, and "The Cosmic Owl" who comes to people in their sleep to predict their death, and originally sounded like Series/DoctorPhil. Finally, UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln himself who is the immortal ruler of Mars. (Would say MakesSenseInContext, but it really doesn't)

* In ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', Odin's head got messed up temporarily for centuries when his worshipers decided magic (which he's a god of) was nonsense for fools and simpletons. Now, he's a benevolent TalkativeLoon, at least on a bad day, and may or may not deal out random prophecies that make no sense. Other gods have been shown in a weird light, too, like the god of beauty being a BrainlessBeauty and the god of monsters being StupidEvil. Thor, meanwhile, is shown as a BoisterousBruiser who really doesn't think a lot about what he's doing, but [[CharacterizationMarchesOn in his later, non-jokey appearance]], this side is largely downplayed by (presumably) the fact that, being a god, he's highly intelligent and has had centuries and millennia to think about things by now.

!!Examples

[[folder:Film]]
* ''Film/TimeBandits'' can be seen as predicated on the foibles of a rather inept and idiosyncratic version of the Christian {{God}}.
** Hilariously {{lampshaded}} in the little speech given by Evil about God's lack of interest in computers and technology.
** To give an example, the Supreme Being (in the movie) literally can not remember ''why'' he created evil when Kevin asks:
-->'''Supreme Being''': "I think it has something to do with free will."

-->'''H.P. Lovecraft''': They danced insanely to the high, thin whining / Of a cracked flute clutched in a monstrous paw / Whence flow the aimless waves whose chance combining / Gives each frail cosmos its eternal law.

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[[folder:Web Originals]]
* ''Roleplay/OpenBlue'''s God is [[ShoutOut Zod]], an {{expy}} of the God from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' who loves drinking parties, and armwrestling with Kukulu (an {{expy}} of Cthulhu), and doesn't give a rat's ass about the hundreds of millions of humans praying to him.
* [[Wiki/SCPFoundation SCP-343]] claims to be God. Considering He can walk through walls (and by extension, can't be contained) and knows everything about everyone ([[EldritchAbomination except SCP-682]]), nobody's really questioned Him on this. They're just thankful He's friendly.
** Except for [[NayTheist that one doctor]].
*** [[{{Unperson}} What doctor?]]

* In a particularly funny and depressing Web Animation, Videogame/KatamariDamacy is parodied and done more "realistly". The King of the Cosmos sends the Prince out to make Katamaris just like in the game, but since building large Katamaris implies murdering the people rolled up in the ball, the Flamboyent King is actually evil. When the Prince decides he wants to stop, the King beats him and orders him to keep going. The people of Earth come to see the King as God and worship him. The Prince loaths the people for being so ignorant and even where "God's" people are unsatisfied with the Katamaris, the King beats the Prince. The Prince is only held together by his kind mother who speaks fondly of the King's previous kindness when they courted. The Prince reasons that made she hoped the King still had a decent side and didn't want to give up on him. However, the King goes into a drunken rage and beats her. The Prince then kills him by rolling him up in a [[{{Irony}} Katamari]]. The Prince's final line? "Hail to the the King, baby."
* "God" in ''WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation'' is represented as a huge, ephemural ocleot (think a FunSize leopard) telling whoever He appears to to "Kill the whores." It's implied He's nothing more than a hallucination to boot.

* WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim had an odd pantheon of Gods. Such as "The God of Noseflutes"

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* The UsefulNotes/FlyingSpaghettiMonster. According to ''The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster'', He spent most of creation being drunk (or hung over), accidentally created land twice (due to being drunk and hung over), and generally rushed the whole thing. Due to the overwhelming amount of errors in creation, his followers have introduced the notion of "Unintelligent Design," a theory stating that, while omnipotent, the Creator isn't necessarily very ''bright''.
* [[WebOriginal/LOLCats Ceiling Cat]] iz in ur ceiling watching u masterbate. He now can haz [[http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page Baibel]].
** Not everyone [[http://www.loltheist.com beleevz]] however.
* One of Lore Sjoberg's "Lore Brand Comics" posits the theory of Belligerent Design: the Universe was created to annoy him.
* An astronaut is sent into the center of the galaxy. When he returns, he secretly contacts the Pope.
-->'''Astronaut:''' I've talked with God. [[ShameIfSomethingHappened I have a list of reforms you're going to want to implement if you don't want me to tell people about what I've seen.]]\\
'''Pope:''' What? Why on earth wouldn't we want you to tell people you've met God?\\
'''Astronaut:''' Well, for starters, She's black...
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This trope is named for the King of All Cosmos, from the game ''Videogame/KatamariDamacy'', who destroyed all the stars in the sky after a drunken bender and made his diminutive son, the Prince, help with replacing them. He speaks with a RoyalWe.

* ''Webcomic/DinosaurComics'' features God as a recurring character, audible only to T-Rex, with a rather bizarre personality. A good example can be seen [[http://www.qwantz.com/archive/000933.html here]]. The Devil (also only audible to T-Rex) also appears regularly and has something of a video game fixation.