History Main / SuperheroGods

* Over at Creator/{{DC|Comics}}, Hercules is treated as a JerkAss more often than not, usually showing up to get in fights with Franchise/WonderWoman or Franchise/{{Superman}}. His most notable outing as a ''hero'' was in the Silver Age series ComicBook/HerculesUnchained, where he defended the remnants of mankind in a post-nuclear world.

* Over at Creator/{{DC|Comics}}, Hercules is treated as a JerkAss more often than not, usually showing up to get in fights with Franchise/WonderWoman or Franchise/{{Superman}}. His most notable outing as a ''hero'' was in the Silver Age series Hercules Unchained, where he defended the remnants of mankind in a post-nuclear world.
* Comicbook/WonderWoman gets half-points for a few reasons: she's an Amazon, which are basically a race of semi-immortal demigoddesses, and she was created when her mother, Hippolyta, prayed to the gods to create her from clay. The Comicbook/New52 changed things so that she was Zeus' daughter, but Comicbook/DCRebirth has changed it back. She also briefly became the goddess of truth, but is now back to being (semi-)mortal.

* ''ComicBook/{{Viz}}'' had a story called ''[[https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/exchristian/comments/7ltc3f/supergod_and_son_of_man_wonder/ SuperGod and The Son of Man Wonder]]'' where God and Jesus are superheroes who fly around doing nothing but assuring victims of accidents and crimes that they'll go to Heaven when they die (apart from the man having impure thoughts about his wife's sister) and that their tormentors will burn in Hell unless they relent and get to sit at God's side for all eternity.

* Invoked in most productions of ''Theatre/{{Godspell}}'' where Jesus has a Superman logo on hi t-shirt.

* One of the most powerful characters in ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' is the Mighty Agrippa, Roman god of the aqueduct. According to the series canon, he's the last god to join the Roman pantheon, but when he showed up the rest had left for another planet. Despite being a low-ranking god, he's still a PhysicalGod and one of the strongest beings in the series.

* ''Film/{{Thor}}'' in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUmiverse'' saved Earth multiple times and teamed up with other superheroes to form The Avengers.

** Goku and Vegeta's Super Saiyan God forms that Goku learned to fight Beerus, the God of Destruction in ''Anime DragonBallSuper''. Other gods in the setting confirm that these forms do make them gods [[note]]While in this form, their power levels can only be sensed by other gods[[/note]]

** Goku and Vegeta's Super Saiyan God forms that Goku learned to fight Beerus, the God of Destruction. Other gods in the setting confirm that these forms do make them gods [[note]]While in this form, their power levels can only be sensed by other gods[[/note]]
** Vermoud is Universe 11's God of Destruction in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' and commands a {{Sentai}} group called the Pride Troopers.

** Goku and Vegeta's Super Saiyan God forms that Goku learned to fight Beerus, the God of Destruction. Other gods in the setting confirm that these forms do make them gods [note]While in this form, their power levels can only be sensed by other gods[/note]

* Vermoud is Universe 11's God of Destruction in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' and commands a {{Sentai}} group called the Pride Troopers.

* Top is Universe 11's God of Destruction in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' and commands a ''Franchise/SuperSentai'' style group called the Pride Troopers.

Perhaps it's because of the connection of incredibly attractive and powerful people intervening in our daily lives with saving the world. Perhaps it's because having the godlike serve to protect our lives is the closest we can get to getting the divine to be serve us. Perhaps it's what comes naturally of making a character stronger than the strongest person. Whatever the case, comic book writers (and others) have seen the obvious logic in not just making godlike superheroes, but making ''gods'' superheroes.

* [[ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaRebirth The current JLA]] and ComicBook/DoomPatrol introduced not simply a superheroic god, but the God of Superheroes himself, Ahl. Reaching down from his domain in "Final Heaven" millions of years ago, he gave birth not only to the idea of justice, but to the concept that would eventually become Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman, from whom all other superheroes symbolically descend; the area where he touched Earth, having risen up to meet him and eventually becoming a mountain in Happy Harbor, Rhode Island, would one day become the first headquarters of the original Justice League, who were unaware of the true significance of Mount Justice. By the time we learn of him however [[KillTheGod he's been murdered under unknown circumstances]] with (or possibly '''by''', given its title) "The Brick That Can Think", [[ApologeticAttacker which mysteriously had "I'M SORRY" written on it.]]

** Even Thor's adopted brother ''freaking'' Loki was in some superhero teams: In the second lineup of the ''ComicBook/YoungAvengers'', admittedly the guy was [[TokenEvilTeammate most of their problems]] too, and if we count disguises in one iteration of the ''ComicBook/MightyAvengers'' (as Scarlett Witch).

** And Comicbook/{{Ares}}, god of war, sometime member of Comicbook/TheAvengers, in a semi-{{Aversion}} of EverybodyHatesAres.

** And Comicbook/{{Ares}}, god of war, sometime member of Comicbook/TheAvengers.

* Over at [[DCComics DC,]] Hercules is treated as a JerkAss more often than not, usually showing up to get in fights with Comicbook/WonderWoman or [[{{Comicbook/Superman}} Superman.]] His most notable outing as a ''hero'' was in the Silver Age series Hercules Unchained, where he defended the remnants of mankind in a post-nuclear world.