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* ''Creator/TheAsylum'' did a [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]] called ''Film/AlmightyThor'' where Their comes to Los Angeles to save it from Loki.

** Thor's sister, ComicBook/{{Angela|AsgardsAsassin}}, joined the superhero team ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy, and fought alongside them.

** Thor's sister, ComicBook/{{Angela|MarvelComics}}, joined the superhero team ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy, and fought alongside them.

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

* The Justice Friends SuperGroup hfrom ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' has Valhallen the Viking god of [[ThePowerOfRock Rock]].
* The ''Super Best Friends'' from ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' are a supergroup composed of Jesus, Muhammed, Moses, Krishna, Joseph Smith, Lao TSE, Buddha and an ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' parody called Seaman.

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* The song "Something Just Like This" by Music/TheChainsmokers and Music/{{Coldplay}} invokes this, the lyrics comparing Superman, Spider-Man, and Batman to Achilles and Hercules.

* The Indian parody religion, ''[[http:wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkoism Dinkoism]]'', worships the cartoon superhero mouse, Dinkan.

** [[BlowYouAway Fujin]], Raiden's fellow Earthrealm god, [[VideoGame/MortalKombat4 occasionally]] [[VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon gets in on the action]] as well.
** Taven, TheHero of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatArmageddon'', is the [[SemiDivine demigod]] son of the Edenian Protector God Argus and his wife [[LadyOfBlackMagic Delia]].

* Thor also appeared in ''ComicBook/{{Elementals}}''. Not too surprising, since all the supers there have magical or mythological origins.
* Inverted in ''ComicBook/TheSavageDragon'': Thor is a villain.
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* The Linda Danvers version of ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} was an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent "Earth-born Angel".]]

* 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/HerculesUnbound'' 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. In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'' she briefly became the goddess of truth, but was able to return to her (semi-)mortal state as an Amazon in short order.

* The ComicBook/NewGods, though the degree to which most of the New Gods are ''gods'' rather than HumanAliens [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens with superpowers and advanced technology]] varies a lot. Creator/JackKirby originally conceived them as new characters to introduce into the Thor mythos--they were literally a ''new'' pantheon for modern times, hence all the technological and modern imagery, rather than ancient chariots and swords. But he jumped ship to DC and took them with him. In that sense, the name "ComicBook/NewGods" is something of an ArtifactTitle.
* [[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 long since been murdered]] by [[spoiler: Haxxalon the Star Archer]] with "The Brick That Can Think", which in an apparent attempt at communicating its own sentiments on the matter [[ApologeticAttacker had "I'M SORRY" written on it.]]
* Doctor Manhattan from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is the quote source for AGodIAmNot but at the end of the story he accepts his role as a DeityOfHumanOrigin and leaves Earth to create human life elsewhere. It later turns out he created ''Franchise/TheDCU''.

* The Indian parody religion, ''[[wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkoism Dinkoism]]'', worships the cartoon superhero mouse, Dinkan.

* ''Webcomic/GodOfHighschool'' probably counts. After all, [[spoiler:Mori Jin is the Monkey King from ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'']]. Later, we get a character who's a direct descendant of of Hercules, which allows him to get possessed by him, essentially becoming Hercules for a brief duration.

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* Given this is a Supers Trope, you know there's a ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' example, and here it is: The New Olympians may or may not be the classical Greek Gods reborn. They certainly think they are, and have appropriate powers.

** Raiden is the [[ShockAndAwe God of Thunder]] and the Protector God of Earthrealm. He normally takes a hands off approach to protecting Earth, usually serving as the BigGood, but when circumstances are dire, he steps in to kick ass alongside the heroes.

** Belmod is Universe 11's God of Destruction and commands a {{Sentai}} group called the Pride Troopers if which he used to be an active member. The Troopers' current leader, Top is in training to replace Belmod as God of Destruction.

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

** Kami was Guardian of Earth but also a FlyingBrick able to help the heroes take on the various aliens that tracked Earth.

* Doctor Manhattan from ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' is the quote source for AGodIAmNot but at the end of the story he accepts his role as a DeityOfHumanOrigin and leaves Earth to create human life elsewhere. It later turns out he created the ''Franchise/DCU''.

* ''Film/{{Hancock}}'' belonged to a race of immortal FlyingBricks who were considered gods and angels in ancient cultures but superheroes today.

* ''Film/WonderWoman2017'' has the Amazons, a mythical race of female warriors. The villain in the movie is the Greek god Ares, the last of the gods after a long war. [[spoiler:Diana is also the daughter of Zeus, born and raised to be a [[KillTheGod living weapon against Ares.]]