History Main / OddJobGods

* ''Webcomic/TheGodsOfArrKelaan'' has Ronson, the god of apathy and beer, as well as Shadowscared, god of being afraid. Despite this, Ronson is the head of the traveler pantheon.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' we are given Mona, Angel of Hedgehogs (a job she chose in order to avoid taking on too much responsibility). The only other god in her universe is Elaine, Angel of everything ''except'' hedgehogs.

** St. George as the patron of war and the army.
** As in Catholicism, St. Nicholas as the patron of sailors and fishermen.
** St. Peter as the guardian in the AfterlifeAntechamber [[JudgementOfTheDead who judges whether a soul should go to Heaven or Hell]].

* The Bastard from the ''Literature/{{Chalion}}'' series. The only god not associated with a season, his domain is all things out of place: demons, children born out of wedlock (obviously), [[HoYay odd loves]], disasters, and unorthodox justice. He also takes the souls of those not devoted to any of the other gods. He's not all bad news, though: his domain also includes unexpected windfalls, and when [[ForWantOfANail a nail is wanted]], he's often the one to provide it.

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Note also that, in historic mythologies, it was very common for major deities to have multiple and often internally inconsistent lists of associations and domains. In part this was because people tended to assume that the mighty rulers and creators of the world would have been involved in many different things rather than being one-trick ponies. Additionally, it was common for a primary association to influence secondary ones related to it in theme -- for instance, a thunder god could also become a fertility god, since rain fosters crops, or a war god, since both storms and war are destructive calamities. Finally, religious practices are as prone to evolving over time as any other aspect of culture, and a god could accrue a lot of different stories and concepts as a mythology changed, split, remerged, and synchretized with other faiths over centuries or millennia.

** The Greeks liked to append random attributes to Apollo, which eventually made him god of light, the sun, prophecy/oracles, healing, plague, music, and poetry.

** It has patron saints of nuclear missiles, strategic bombers, and other weapons of mass destruction. St. Barbara is the heavenly patron of the Strategic Missile Forces of Russia. Much older tradition: St. Barbara has been recognized as the patron saint of artillery, fireworks, and other gunpowder objects since the invention of the European gunpowder, in Catholicism as well as in Orthodoxy. Indeed, she is also the heavenly patron of U.S. Army and Marine artillery as well as artillery arms of many other countries.

--> "Blessed Saint Vidicon, defend us from Murphy!"

* In the tabletop RPG ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', everything has a god. Everything. From concepts like love, taxes, and urban metropolises, to physical places and objects like crop fields and even ''individual rocks''. Generally speaking, gods of concepts and abstracts outrank those of concrete things and places. Gods of thing smaller than say, a large building, tend to not be sentient.

** It should be noted that these only sound like odd jobs to humans. [[BlueAndOrangeMorality To Orks these concepts are as basic as gods of light and dark]]

* Rokugan (the setting of ''TabletopGame/LegendOfTheFiveRings'') has the Fortunes, minor gods of the in-universe mythology, and anyone can be upgraded to such a position by the Emperor. However, no Emperor can overturn a decree made by a previous Emperor . . . which can be quite the mess if an Emperor decides to name you, for example, the Fortune of torture or of cockroaches (which happened under [[TheCaligula Hantei XVI]]).

* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Devils]] act as {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of just about every conceivable concept, with their level of strength [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve scaling to how much people fear them]]. This means that while the most dangerous devils embody concepts like control, the future, darkness, knowledge, and various weapons, others get things like mold, tomatoes, sea cucumbers, and skin. There are even devils for otherwise ''fictional'' concepts like zombies, though not naturally existing makes the devil less powerful. [[spoiler:What truly makes them akin to gods is that the very existence of the concepts they embody is tied to their own, as ChainsawMan is able to use his RetGone power on Devils representing [[TokenHeroicOrc threats to human survival]] [[RealityWarping to rewrite reality]].]]

* In ''Manga/ChainsawMan'', [[OurDemonsAreDifferent Devils]] act as {{Anthropomorphic Personification}}s of just about every conceivable concept, with their level of strength [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve scaling to how much people fear them]]. This means that while the most dangerous devils embody concepts like control, the future, darkness, knowledge, and various weapons, others get things like mold, tomatoes, sea cucumbers, and skin. [[spoiler:What truly makes them akin to gods is that the very existence of the concepts they embody is tied to their own, as ChainsawMan is able to use his RetGone power on Devils representing [[TokenHeroicOrc threats to human survival]] [[CosmicRetcon to rewrite reality]].]]
** Notably, this scales to a real fear level. The Zombie Devil for example exists, but as most people are not actually afraid of zombies as a concept, it is not particularly powerful as one might expect.

** The Spookshow, those [[TheMenInBlack anonymous suit-wearing government agents]] who everyone believes exist...[[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve so they do]].

** Later in the series we get a popularity contest among the gods, Yato gets beaten in popularity by a cat, a literal house cat whose only job in life was being a mascot of a train station. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tama_(cat) Believe it or not, such cat god really does exist.]]

** Sharess is primarily a goddess of sex, but also cats. [[VideoGame/BaldursGate3 Or thanks to]] Speak With Animals, primarily a goddess of cats, and also sex.