Webcomics like to deconstruct a lot of tropes, not least among them the tendency for villains to proclaim their godhood.
- Sarda of 8-Bit Theater.
- "Wizards do parlor tricks, I throttle the heavens.
" - "I am Sarda. My will be done."
- Black Mage's power seems to be unstoppable now killed two of his teammates and White Mage. Also, he long before considered himself destined to crush that petty world he lives on since he is a nexus of destruction... and stuff.
- After looking into the datasphere, Red Mage himself states that his goal is to use his new found infinite knowledge to dethrone the gods and to make the world in his own image.
- "Wizards do parlor tricks, I throttle the heavens.
- In The Beast Legion, Dragos proclaims himself as a God the will purge the light at the end of Issue 2.
- Damien, Big Bad of El Goonish Shive's Painted Black arc, created in a lab but believing himself to be the fulfillment of a prophecy: he insists he was summoned, not created. When he realises that he may in fact not be god it occurs to him that all the evil things he has done were evil, instead of falling under an Omniscient Morality License. Instead of a Heel–Face Turn he decides that life as a mortal is not worth living, and that he will take Grace with him.
- In Errant Story, a half-elven mage named Meji embarks on a quest to do this as a school project (due to a convoluted backstory that made it her only option for graduating magic university). She seeks to become the single most powerful mage in existence by absorbing the energies of Anilis, believed to be one of the two elven creator gods. Another half-elf mage named Ian beats her to it becoming a very powerful and very insane Physical God bent on genocide. She later absorbs Senilis, the other elven creator god
- In Fafnir The Dragon, Edward Catheter invokes this trope after drinking the blood of the titular dragon. However, since he was supposed to bathe in it, not drink it, the firey blood of Fafnir helped to kill him.
- Fans!: Subverted in Book 2, with General Maximiliana.
- Girl Genius:
- The Queens who achieved a second breakthrough historically call themselves immortal god queens and are capable of feats that seem like they are omniscient and magical within their domain. The fact that Lucrezia has been hunting them and killed so many that only two are known to still be alive indicates that they are not entirely immortal, and that she's an even more dangerous threat than was realized when her identity as the Other was uncovered.
- Fittingly, Lucrezia Mongfish/the Other often speaks of herself in divine terms. At the same time, her mind-controlled servants often refer to her as simply "The Goddess".
- When Quintillius Snackleford achieves a second breakthrough the power effectively makes him a demigod. Shortly thereafter he expresses panic and outrage that his summoned Eldritch Abomination would dare to leave its "god".
- Homestuck: Karkat introduces himself to John by acting as a wrathful God who despises him after helping to create his universe. What he doesn't realize is that due to weird time shenanigans, they've been talking for a long time and are already friends from John’s perspective. For double irony points, John has, by this stage, gone "god-tier", essentially making him more godly than Karkat. Not that he makes a huge deal of it.
- Two of the comics main antagonists, Jack/Bec Noir and Lord English, have this view of themselves. After being given incredible powers of spatial manipulation and near invincibility the narration states that Jack has essentially started to see himself as a Demi-god. Lord English on the other hand creates/inspires an entire religion with himself as the main deity. Fitting, considering he’s already a God-tier player.
- Heat Man from In Wily's Defense, who gets so full of himself that Sphere, the ''actual'' God, has him dragged to Paradise to have the Angel of Destruction, Magdelena, tortured just to get him to shut up about it. It didn't work.
- Irrelevator: I'm now the prophet of elevator-music-ism. It only makes sense, I started liking this groove before you guys did. But most of all because I look like a hispanic Jesus, so...◊
- Mob Psycho 100: Most antagonistic espers show this attitude in regards to their powers making them inherently superior to normal humans. Most of them end up on the receiving end of a Kirk Summation from the protagonists, who reject the idea of espers being better than humans due to their powers. Also of note is the spirit Dimple, who's main motivation is to have himself and, later, Mob, worshipped and revered as Deities for their powers.
- The Order of the Stick:
- Vaarsuvius, after hir Deal with the Devil, has a borderline case of this. V ends up trying to destroy Xykon singlehandedly and actually does a lot of damage to him, but mostly just pisses him off. Lampshaded (like most everything in the comic) by the Three Fiends — one of them warns V that the soul splice tends to do this (it's later stated that was just a half-truth aimed at lowering V's inhibitions in order to actually invoke the trope).
- The declaration by the traditional movie snacks to the young upstarts as they explain just how much power their long life has given them: "We have become like unto tiny refreshing GODS!"
- Belkar's declaration of being "A SEXY SHOELESS GOD OF WAR!" while standing Atop a Mountain of Corpses during the Battle of Azure City.
- In Problem Sleuth, one of Pickle Inspector's clones ascends to Godhood using his pure power of imagination. In somewhat of a subversion though, Godhead Pickle Inspector would only then respond to a command to "fondly regard creation" or something suspiciously similar (such as "crustacean"). Unless the integrity of the universe itself is menaced. DEUS EX SEWING MACHINA
- Baldr gets a serious case of this in Realmwalker . He straight up starts forcibly rewriting people's personalities so they'll blindly worship him.
- Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal:
- Thor claims to be the god of thunder (or possibly some guy claims to be Thor, the god of thunder, but the dialogue seems to suggest he's actually called Thor), but it's really just a weird sex thing and he just makes thundercap noises with his mouth.
- In "Words 2", Superman changes his name to SuperGod.
- Thor
- Schlock Mercenary:
- Petey is a Benevolent A.I. in control of a vast fleet of warships and a generator made from the galactic core, making him the most powerful entity in the Milky Way by orders of magnitude. He's ever so modest about it:Petey: You do realize that the creation of your embassy was intended to clearly communicate my status in the eyes of the UNS. The Galactic Fleetmind is to be considered a "foreign power."
Breya: I'm sorry, what else could you possibly be mistaken for?
Petey: "God" probably tops the list. - And then there's his response when directly confronted by a religious expert.Reverend Theo: Wow, you really do think you've become a god.
Petey: I'm just trying to do what I think a god would do if he were in my position.
- Petey is a Benevolent A.I. in control of a vast fleet of warships and a generator made from the galactic core, making him the most powerful entity in the Milky Way by orders of magnitude. He's ever so modest about it
- Tales of the Questor
- Completely and soul-touchingly inverted in Brother Linnaeus' arc, when the Gragum chief asks Quentyn if he is God... then asks why God seems to have abandoned the Gragum. Quentyn's "letter delivery" for them is especially touching.
- Later on, invoked twice by Quentyn during his Badass Boasts, as he refers the Gragum Shaman's claim in both of them.
- Completely and soul-touchingly inverted in Brother Linnaeus' arc, when the Gragum chief asks Quentyn if he is God... then asks why God seems to have abandoned the Gragum. Quentyn's "letter delivery"
- Tower of God: After Twenty-Fifth Bam/Jue Viole Grace learns his group won't help the Name Hunt Station to sort its problems out after liberating them because "they're not gods" he wishes he was just for a moment (this was after an arc that featured him absorbing billions of angry souls without any problem, or as his bad side put it he thoughtlessly ate billions of souls because he's capable of Power Copying or Cannibalism Superpowers). Then the leader of a criminal organization shows up by introducing himself as "The God of FUG", blows up a train, and attacks Bam's friend who happens to be one of their strongest fighters. FUG used Bam as their "Slayer Candidate" for a while (that's where he got the name Jue Viole Grace) and several within the group considered him to be their god of change (he declined, though he's determined to change the ruthless nature of the Tower).
- Umlaut House 2:Saundra: Do you ever worry that we're playing God?
Dr Pegasus: Not really. At some point, we definitely stopped playing. - xkcd: Parodied here.An x64 processor is screaming along at billions of cycles per second to run the XNU kernel, which is frantically working through all the POSIX-specified abstraction to create the Darwin system underlying OS X, which in turn is straining itself to run Firefox and its Gecko renderer, which creates a Flash object which renders dozens of video frames every second — because I wanted to see a cat jump into a box and fall over. I am a god.
- In Zodiac, Nightmare considers herself and other superpowered whasnames to be gods because of their powers.
