History Main / KingOfAllCosmos

** God is usually portrayed as a sapient sundial or a disembodied halo or something. True to the themes of the strip, while not intentionally malevolent, he is flighty, petty and [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2084#comic impulsive]], and has an... [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2076#comic interesting]] sense of humor. There are several weird explanations as to why he created the world or some part of it the way it is, like the time the salesthing at the dimension store wondered why he'd even bother making a universe if he could only afford four dimensions, or when he made humans much less intelligent so that they'd look funnier when having sex. He also frequently answers questions from humans directly, usually giving some weird explanation for the way the world or the universe is. One comic had a priest asking why is there suffering. He responds that everything is getting better. The priest asks about suffering on a personal level... God [[OhCrap realizes that he was looking a bit too big picture.]]

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* In ''VideoGame/EpicBattleFantasy 4,'' TheCreator Goddess is a cat, fittingly called Godcat. She created cats in her image and humans as a slave race to them. But over the years, cats bonded too closely with humans for her liking, so [[JerkassGods she took away their arms and legs]]. Yeah... Though she does [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]] [[DefeatMeansFriendship after being defeated]], and admits her fault.

The King of All Cosmos frequently mentions that he (or she) is not omnipotent.

* ''Comicbook/TheSandman'' has the seven Endless. Immortal and almost all-powerful and knowing beings who have been around since the beginning of the universe. The oldest, Destiny, appears like a man in a hooded cloak carrying a large book and looks the most like a traditional God figure. The second one is Death, who is by far the most unusual by appearing as a PerkyGoth who is one of the nicest and sweetest people you'll ever met. (As well as the first and the last.)
%%** 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?
** Several old gods show up during the course of the series (but not the Judeo-Christian one) and generally avert this trope, looking like humanity has always envisioned them. The exception to this is probably Lord Kilderkin, an avatar of the concept of 'order'. He looks like a cardboard box, and communicates through spontaneously generating messages on small strips of paper from inside the box.

-->-- '''Henry Louis Mencken''' ([[https://checkyourfact.com/2019/06/27/fact-check-voltaire-god-comedian-audience-afraid-laugh/ and not Voltaire]])

** Jesus is represented as a sarcastic, short-tempered and foul-mouthed prankster. {{Justified}} as he lost his memory when [[NiceJobBreakingItHero God gave him back his body too fast during the Second Coming and thus hit his head hard on landing]], but it's implied the only difference from normal is that he would be polite and ''slightly'' more patient, and it's shown that Judas' betrayal was out of frustration at Jesus continuously pranking and humiliating him (just as planned: they ''needed'' Judas to genuinely hate him). He also was married with Mary Madgalene and had a ''healthy'' sex life, and [[spoiler: didn't actually die on the cross: [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Doc Brown]] hated religion, so came back in time and ran over Judas and the guards from the Sanhedrin to prevent the birth of Christianity. To remedy that, Jesus threatened to turn all of Pilatus' wine into water if he didn't lend him the soldiers needed to make it ''appear'' he died on the cross and returned to life after three days]];

* 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.

* ''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}'' has several similar depictions of God figures that resemble the Judeo-Christian God, and none of them are very impressive. (Don't even ask about the few original gods in the setting.) These range from the completely deranged Old Testament parody who inevitably annihilates His followers for some blasphemy or another to merely awkward versions like the one [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext who gets accidentally tied up]] when someone gets carried away with Japanese rope bondage.

* ''WebComic/{{Oglaf}}'' has several similar depictions of God figures that resemble the Judeo-Christian God, and none of them are very impressive. (Don't even ask about the few original gods in the setting.) These range from the completely deranged Old Testament parody who inevitably annihilates His followers for some blasphemy or another to merely awkward versions like the one [[ItMakesJustAsMuchInContext who gets accidentally tied up]] when someone gets carried away with Japanese rope bondage.

** ''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.]]

* ''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/AdventureTime'' has an entire pantheon of these. There's "Grob Gob Glob Grod" 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 a neglectful boyfriend, "Prismo" a odd pink shadow in the form of a man who 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/EarthwormJim'' had an odd pantheon of Gods. Such as "The God of Noseflutes"

* In ''Film/{{Xanadu}}'', Zeus turns out to be a forgetful, flawed retiree who's perplexed by human emotions and our perspective on time.

** 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 mentally screwed up, 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;

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]] [[Series/GoodOmens2019 a]] [[Film/{{Dogma}} woman]] or a [[Film/BruceAlmighty minority]] (or both -- Creator/WhoopiGoldberg has played God at least [[Film/ItsAVeryMerryMuppetChristmasMovie once]]); the King of All Cosmos is essentially a BunnyEarsLawyer on a grander scale.

* In ([[AuthorExistenceFailure what turned out to be]]) creator Steve Gerber's final Comicbook/HowardTheDuck story, he finds Yahweh in a bar, along with Jesus and The Holy Spirit (who are described as manifestations of His "tripolar disorder".) "Yah" (as He prefers to be called) describes Himself as an ordinary slob like His creations, explains that He never created religion (other than Zoroastrianism as a practical joke), and that He created the universe as a work-for-hire - His employers don't pull the plug on existence because it is a popular tourist attraction.

** God is usually portrayed as a sentient sundial or a disembodied halo or something. True to the themes of the strip, while not intentionally malevolent, he is flighty, petty and [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2084#comic impulsive]], and has an... [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=2076#comic interesting]] sense of humor. There are several weird explanations as to why he created the world or some part of it the way it is, like the time the salesthing at the dimension store wondered why he'd even bother making a universe if he could only afford four dimensions, or when he made humans much less intelligent so that they'd look funnier when having sex. He also frequently answers questions from humans directly, usually giving some weird explanation for the way the world or the universe is. One comic had a priest asking why is there suffering. He responds that everything is getting better. The priest asks about suffering on a personal level... God [[OhCrap realizes that he was looking a bit too big picture.]]

%%* ''Manga/HeIsMyMaster'' (Alligator, also an AuthorAvatar)
* Kami-sama in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' is not quite Odin, not quite the Christian God. Until he was revealed to be [[spoiler: Tyr]], we never see him [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen directly]], but it would appear that he resembles Anime/CaptainHarlock. In the [=OAVs=], he has long black hair and dresses in red and white. In the TV series, Hild remarks upon how much Skuld looks like him.
* Most of the god-like beings in ''Franchise/DragonBall'' are rather odd:
** The original ''Manga/DragonBall'' introduces Kami, the Guardian of Earth (or God, in the original Japanese), who 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.

* ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' depicts Benten, the Japanese goddess of beauty and art, as a tough, chain-smoking biker chick.
** While ''Anime/{{Kamichu}}'' has her as an idol singer, along with the rest of the Seven Lucky Gods as a J-pop band.

* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' went so far as to have an ultimate-level form called "Goddramon". (It only showed up in the ExpandedUniverse, however).
** There is also Yggdrasil in ''Anime/DigimonSavers'', who appears to be rather sociopathic and unfeeling. Yggdrasil may or may not be universal canon, as it also appears in ''Anime/DigimonXEvolution'', and in the same role.
** There are also some other deities (TheFourGods of Japanese mythology or three angels loosely based on Christian mythology) who rule the Digital World, depending on the continuity.
* In ''Manga/TwentiethCenturyBoys'', God is an old homeless guy who's obsessed with bowling and can predict the future. Granted, he probably isn't ''really'' God, but damned if you can convince his homeless buddies otherwise.
* The Great Will of the Macrocosm, ''Anime/ExcelSaga'''s ResetButton incarnate, is depicted as a night-sky-colored disc with two arms. In the show's typical zany style, she is actually [[spoiler:the same being as Pedro's wife, on the grounds that they share the same voice actress]].
* In the manga version of ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'', the Creator of the Universe is revealed to be [[spoiler: the bouncy rabbit thingy the heroines keep around as a pet/guide, and which regularly trashes Presea's office and trolls Umi]].
%%** 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.
* If ''Manga/KamenNoMaidGuy'' is any indication, God has a thing for panty shots. Fubuki's panties in particular.
* ''Manga/TheLawOfUeki'' features a God who drinks, dresses like a RummageSaleReject, and is a womanizing DirtyOldMan. Once it turns out that he has a strong sense of justice, it becomes hard to tell if he's [[ObfuscatingStupidity just faking the personality]], or [[BunnyEarsLawyer if he really is like that]].
* In a bit of a subversion, the main character of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', Haruhi, could be seen as an example, as it's a pretty unusual stretch for God to be in the form of a high school girl, especially when said girl is pretty damn strange by herself.
* ''Manga/TheFiveStarStories'' has some pretty weird gods & god-like beings. Amaterasu is an easily flustered hermaphrodite with an Oedipal complex & Lachesis is an airheaded teenager, although both of them [[LetsGetDangerous can be surprisingly competent when they need to]]. It has also been implied that Amaterasu's insane court jester, Spector, is actually the creator god of their universe, or at least the titular stars.
* In ''Manga/GoodnightPunpun'', 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.]]
* Deus from ''Manga/FutureDiary'' is described as the "lord of all space and time". His head looks like [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Unit-01's]]. Note that Deus is a bit darker than most examples here.

* Then there's The Dorm Mistress from Manga/MariaHolic. She even calls herself God more often than not, seems to be able to control the weather, is implied to have orchestrated a lot of the history of Ancient China and threatens students with everything from death to time-space distortion torture, a large amount of which have hit Kanako. To make it [[FridgeHorror even more horrifying]], she insinuates that she's being forced to do the job by a being [[UpToEleven stronger than herself]].
* In ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'', the Creator of the Universe is a [[{{Tsundere}} cranky]] [[MiniatureSeniorCitizens little old lady]].
* ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'' does this to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos (even moreso than normal; see Literature below); Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos takes the form of a cute silver-haired teen girl who [[{{Otaku}} loves]] {{Anime}} and {{Tokusatsu}}, has an obsessive crush on an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, and is a SpacePolice officer-slash-HenshinHero with [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill no sense of restraint or mercy]]. And she's just the tip of the iceberg...
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', "God" is UsefulNotes/CarlJung's idea of humanity's collective unconscious, a conglomeration of every person's unspoken thoughts and desires, both those of the living and of the dead. It takes the form of an alternate plane of existence where ideas and physical objects are equally tangible, and only once does something that could be considered taking action. V.V. straight up mocks the idea that the God he and his followers are trying to kill is the traditional bearded-man-in-the-sky archetype.

* In the TGIF comedy ''Series/TeenAngel'', God has a unique intermediary to mortals: [[LowestCosmicDenominator his cousin]] Rod, the giant, disembodied head of actor Ron Glass. Rod admits to being responsible for the Black Plague, ''The Chevy Chase Show'', and killer bees (though at first they weren't called 'killer bees' they were called 'Fun Flies.' Then they started killing people.) His arch-nemesis is the Devil's cousin Neville.

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]] [[Series/GoodOmens a]] [[Film/{{Dogma}} woman]] or a [[Film/BruceAlmighty minority]] (or both -- Creator/WhoopiGoldberg has played God at least [[Film/ItsAVeryMerryMuppetChristmasMovie once]]); the King of All Cosmos is essentially a BunnyEarsLawyer on a grander scale.

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]]); the King of All Cosmos is essentially a BunnyEarsLawyer on a grander scale.

* ''LightNovel/HaiyoreNyarkoSan'' does this to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos (even moreso than normal; see Literature below); Nyarlathotep the Crawling Chaos takes the form of a cute silver-haired teen girl who [[{{Otaku}} loves]] {{Anime}} and {{Tokusatsu}}, has an obsessive crush on an OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, and is a SpacePolice officer-slash-HenshinHero with [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill no sense of restraint or mercy]]. And she's just the tip of the iceberg...
* In ''Anime/CodeGeass'', "God" is UsefulNotes/{{Carl Jung}}'s idea of humanity's collective unconscious, a conglomeration of every person's unspoken thoughts and desires, both those of the living and of the dead. It takes the form of an alternate plane of existence where ideas and physical objects are equally tangible, and only once does something that could be considered taking action. V.V. straight up mocks the idea that the God he and his followers are trying to kill is the traditional bearded-man-in-the-sky archetype.

* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', a vision of the magnificent Almighty appears in the style of Creator/TerryGilliam cartoons. It is to be expected that Creator/MontyPython's version of God is offbeat. This particular God looks like famous cricket player W. G. Grace, and becomes crotchety when mortals don't DispenseWithThePleasantries.

* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', a vision of the magnificent Almighty appears in the style of Creator/TerryGilliam cartoons. It is to be expected that Creator/MontyPython's version of God is offbeat. He is particularly crotchety when mortals don't DispenseWithThePleasantries.

* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', the Almighty appears in one of Creator/TerryGilliam's silly and surreal cartoons. This God has a humorous edge, as expected with Creator/MontyPython. Be careful to DispenseWithThePleasantries with this Almighty.