History Main / TakingOverHeaven

* ''Comicbook/GhostRider'': The traitorous angel, Zadkiel, managed to take over the throne of Heaven and usurp Yahweh's place as the ruler of creation after taking the powers of various Ghost Rider incarnations. Things went south for Zadkiel when God actually returned and sent Zadkiel to Hell where he was fated to be tortured by Lucifer (who he had betrayed at an earlier point) for eternity.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'', [[FromNobodyToNightmare Christopher Rudd]] manages to go from damned soul to sextoy for the nobility of Hell into one of the nobility himself and eventually ruler of Hell. Then he reforged the damned souls and the demons into an army to storm Heaven. And won.
* Napoleon accomplishes this briefly in ''ComicBook/BillAndTedGoToHell''.

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* In ''Literature/JourneyToTheWest'', the Monkey King felt snubbed after being put in charge of cleaning the heavenly stables. In an act of defiance, the Monkey King declared himself "The Great Sage Equal to the Heavens" and proceeded to defeat every god, immortal, and miscellaneous divine spirit that happened to get in his way to prove himself superior as the master of the Heavens. When the entire combined forces of the heavens were shown to be unable to match him, the Buddha himself was forced to personally intervene to stop his rampage.

* In the finale of Act III of ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'', Diablo, upon his rebirth as the Prime Evil following Adria's betrayal, launches a full-scale assault with all his demonic forces on the High Heavens, seeking to destroy the Crystal Arch and plunge both the Heavens and Sanctuary into darkness forever. Because Diablo has become the embodiment of all seven of the Great Evils in one being, the angels did not have a chance in Heaven ''or'' Hell of stopping him.

-->-- '''Darkseid''', ''Comicbook/FinalCrisis''

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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Hercules}}'': Hades managed to conquer Olympus (albeit temporarily) by using the formerly imprisoned Titans to contain Zeus and utterly trounce the Olympians under his command. Then [[BigDamnHeroes Hercules]] showed up.

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* Napoleon accomplishes this briefly in ''Franchise/BillAndTed Go To Hell''.

->''"There was a war in Heaven...and I won."''

* ''{{Disney/Hercules}}'': Hades managed to conquer Olympus (albeit temporarily) by using the formerly imprisoned Titans to contain Zeus and utterly trounce the Olympians under his command. Then [[BigDamnHeroes Hercules]] showed up.

** In the Comicbook/{{New 52}} reboot of the Wonder Woman series, the [[TheDreaded Firstborn]], the first begotten son of Hera and Zeus, managed to conquer Olympus after single-handedly killing Apollo and transforming Olympus into a hellish flesh-like dominion.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarSeries'', the lead character, Kratos, managed to destroy the Gods protecting Olympus, decimate their strongest forces and creations, and reduce Olympus to a pile of rubble. However, these actions had the side of effect of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero effectively creating chaos and untold suffering throughout the world]].

* In ''Franchise/GodOfWar'', the lead character, Kratos, managed to destroy the Gods protecting Olympus, decimate their strongest forces and creations, and reduce Olympus to a pile of rubble. However, these actions had the side of effect of [[NiceJobBreakingItHero effectively creating chaos and untold suffering throughout the world]].

->''There was a war in Heaven...and I won.''

* A primeval example from the Christian Scriptures would be the eponymous Lucifer's fall from grace after he attempted to overtake Heaven along with one-third of the Heavenly Host because of his refusal to bow down to mankind on the occasion of the creation of man, pride and gradual distancing from God through use of his free will, and/or the declaration by God that all were to be subject to his Son.

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-->--'''Darkseid''': ''Comicbook/FinalCrisis''

* In the God War arc of the ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' series, Cronus and his new Titan forces invade multiple realms of various mythological pantheons to absorb the essence of dead gods and eventually become {{God}} or The Presence Itself.

* In the Comicbook/{{New52}} reboot of the Wonder Woman series, the [[TheDreaded Firstborn]], the first begotten son of Hera and Zeus, managed to conquer Olympus after single-handedly killing Apollo and transforming Olympus into a hellish flesh-like dominion.

* In ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', the former scribe angel, Metatron, managed to take over Heaven by tricking Castiel into helping him banish all angels in Heaven to Earth and cultivating the power of the Angel Tablet to make himself virtually unstoppable.
** An earlier short-live example was present when Castiel absorbed the souls of Purgatory and slaughtered Raphael and his angel followers before claiming total dominance over Heaven.

* According to Hindu scriptures, an asura demon named Mahishasura obtained a boon from the creator deity, Brahma, that rendered him invincible to men of any species whether they were human, beast, or god. With his demon army, Mahishasura invaded the heavens and defeated the heavenly armies along with the God of the Heavens, [[TopGod Indra]], himself. Mahishasura was eventually defeated in battle by Durga, the result of the [[NoManOfWomanBorn "divine feminine force"]] created by the Great Trinity (Brahma, Shiva, and Vishnu) being sent to Shiva's wife, Parvati.
* According to one famous story in Greek Mythology, Typhon, The Father of All Monsters, attempted this. Typhon, according to Hesiod's Theogony, was the last child of Gaia (the Earth) and Tartarus (a violent and bottomless storm pit) born out of Gaia's revenge against the Gods for killing her Giant offspring.He attempted take over Mount Olympus, home of the gods, and with the exception of Athena and Zeus, all of the other Greek gods and goddesses fled the scene, opting to change forms and hide from the monster rather than try to fight him. After a long and arduous battle, Zeus managed to fling Typhon back into Tartarus and throws Mount Etna on top of him, forever trapping him under its weight.