Chris: The thing where her bracelet has a Superman logo on it that opens up a portal to other dimensions and that’s how they fight Darkseid who is made of crows that live inside Glenn Beck? I mean, sure, that’s no more crazy than a Lex Luthor robot fighting a talking telepathic super-gorilla, but it was a total shrug moment for me. "Well, okay, I guess. If that’s how it works here."
David: The show’s really mysticized Krypton. Like, when I think of Krypton, I think of superscience and natural wonder, not magic spells and secret cults and all of this dumb sh*t.
Chris: It has to be mystical, since it's a planet where you can blow up and still be bitching at your kids 30 years later.
David: The show’s really mysticized Krypton. Like, when I think of Krypton, I think of superscience and natural wonder, not magic spells and secret cults and all of this dumb sh*t.
Chris: It has to be mystical, since it's a planet where you can blow up and still be bitching at your kids 30 years later.
Sinclair: Well, they say God works in mysterious ways.
Garibaldi: Yeah, but he's a con man compared to the Vorlons.
Garibaldi: Yeah, but he's a con man compared to the Vorlons.
— Babylon 5, "Deathwalker"
"Godlike aliens. Boy, do I hate godlike aliens. I'll take a critter over a godlike alien any time."
— John Crichton, Farscape
"You found me out. I'm not really a god. I'm just an ordinary eternal, omniscient, super-intelligent being."
— Sun God, Futurama
Ezio: You are... gods.
Minerva: [laughs] No. Not gods. We simply came... before.
Minerva: [laughs] No. Not gods. We simply came... before.
"RUDIMENTARY CREATURES OF BLOOD AND FLESH. YOU TOUCH MY MIND, FUMBLING IN IGNORANCE, INCAPABLE OF UNDERSTANDING. THERE IS A REALM OF EXISTENCE SO FAR BEYOND YOUR OWN YOU CANNOT EVEN IMAGINE IT. I AM BEYOND YOUR COMPREHENSION. I AM SOVEREIGN. [...] WE IMPOSE ORDER ON THE CHAOS OF ORGANIC EVOLUTION. YOU EXIST BECAUSE WE ALLOW IT. AND YOU WILL END BECAUSE WE DEMAND IT."
— Sovereign, Mass Effect
"The stars themselves once lived and died at our command, and yet you still oppose our will?"
— Farseer Mirehn Bielann, Warhammer 40,000note
"It was said the Masari could create energy from nothing!"
— Hierarchy Scientist, Universe at War
"Don't you think we would appear to be gods to a race far more primitive than we are? He's no more than a man. But he's a man from another time with great strengths, great powers, but governed by the same rules we are."
— Commander Adama, Battlestar Galactica (1978)
Sam: So what do you give an alien with godlike powers?
Helix: Humans don't have godlike powers.
Sam: They send ships between planets. They divert rivers. They move mountains. They take dirt and stone and turn it into mechanical servants that do their bidding. What part of this does not say "godlike powers" to you?
Helix: Humans don't have godlike powers.
Sam: They send ships between planets. They divert rivers. They move mountains. They take dirt and stone and turn it into mechanical servants that do their bidding. What part of this does not say "godlike powers" to you?
— Freefall
"I can guess what you are thinking! No, I am not all-powerful! The seeming miracles I accomplish are done through mastery of a science which no human brain can even remotely comprehend!"
— Uatu the Watcher, a Hulk story in Tales to Astonish
Catherine Sakai: Ambassador, while I was out there, I saw... something. What was it?
Ambassador G'Kar: [pointing at an insect on a nearby flower] What is this?
Catherine: An ant. They sometimes get shipped up from Earth on commercial transports, it's hard to keep them out.
G'Kar: Here... I have just picked it up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again, and it asks another ant, "What was that?", how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless, and if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants, and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know, we've tried. And we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot, or be stepped on.
Catherine: That's it? That's all you know?
G'Kar: Yes. They are a mystery. And I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe, that we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957. And they must walk there alone.
Ambassador G'Kar: [pointing at an insect on a nearby flower] What is this?
Catherine: An ant. They sometimes get shipped up from Earth on commercial transports, it's hard to keep them out.
G'Kar: Here... I have just picked it up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again, and it asks another ant, "What was that?", how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races. They are vast, timeless, and if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants, and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know, we've tried. And we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot, or be stepped on.
Catherine: That's it? That's all you know?
G'Kar: Yes. They are a mystery. And I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe, that we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Miss Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957. And they must walk there alone.
"I thought you were all-powerful," Rachel said.
The Ellimist smiled. "No. I seem so only from your limited perspective."
I looked around the room. Time was stopped. Leaping dancers hung in midair. The dust particles in the air were standing still. A kid named Joey had been sneaking a Ho-Ho. Someone must have made him laugh because his mouth was open, smiling, and a piece of Ho-Ho was dangling off his lower lip. Dangling and never falling.
Powerful enough, I thought. I don't want to meet the guy who can kick the Ellimist's butt.
The Ellimist smiled. "No. I seem so only from your limited perspective."
I looked around the room. Time was stopped. Leaping dancers hung in midair. The dust particles in the air were standing still. A kid named Joey had been sneaking a Ho-Ho. Someone must have made him laugh because his mouth was open, smiling, and a piece of Ho-Ho was dangling off his lower lip. Dangling and never falling.
Powerful enough, I thought. I don't want to meet the guy who can kick the Ellimist's butt.
— Animorphs #26: The Attack
"Despite our superiority to you, we remain but a clog in the gears. We aren't gods, although the distinction is insignificant from your perspective."
Jane Foster: Well, if there's an Einstein-Rosen bridge, then there's something on the other side. And advanced beings could have crossed it!
Erik Selvig: Oh, Jane.
Darcy: A primitive culture like the Vikings might have worshiped them as deities.
Erik Selvig: Oh, Jane.
Darcy: A primitive culture like the Vikings might have worshiped them as deities.
— Thor
"Once, mankind accepted a simple truth: that they were not alone in this universe. Some worlds man believed home to their gods. Others they knew to fear."
— Odin, Thor
"We can't let ourselves be fooled by the word "God". They're nothing but living beings just like us. Living beings who came from another planet... and with a science more advanced than our own."
—Cyborg 004, Cyborg 009 "Angels" arc
