History Main / BlasphemousBoast

* Done in the ''Series/YesMinister'' episode "Doing the Honours" while discussing [[KnightFever the Order of St Michael and St George]]. The Order has three grades: Companion (CMG), Knight Commander (KCMG) and Knight Grand Cross (GCMG). Jim Hacker's Principle Private Secretary Bernard Woolley explains what the abbreviations mean in the Civil Service:

* Done in the ''Series/YesMinister'' episode "Doing the Honours" while discussing the Order of St Michael and St George. The Order has three grades: Companion (CMG), Knight Commander (KCMG) and Knight Grand Cross (GCMG). Jim Hacker's Principle Private Secretary Bernard Woolley explains what the abbreviations mean in the Civil Service:

* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E15TheNewBreed The New Breed]]", the protagonist, the inventor of {{nanonachines}} that can heal any damaged or diseased cells in the body, is accused of playing God. His response: "Let's just say God created a flawed man. I think I can do better." Let's just say his attempt to do better [[TransformationHorror doesn't quite go according to plan]].

* In ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'' episode "The New Breed", the protagonist, the inventor of NanoMachines that can heal any damaged or diseased cells in the body, is accused of PlayingGod. His response: "Let's just say God created a flawed man. I think I can do better." Let's just say his attempt to do better [[TransformationHorror doesn't quite go according to plan]].

** There's "Ivanova's mantra" that she takes a moment to tell some folks after they refuse to obey her in Season 1. She takes a quick moment to apologize to God for the boast after she's finished and nobody else is listening.

** A ''much'' more subtle one comes in the second season episode "Comes the Inquisitor". Capitan Sheridan is shocked that a human is working as an agent for [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens the Vorlons]], since as far as anyone knows the only Vorlon interaction with humanity was sending an ambassador to the station. When questioned about it, the man cooly informs Sheridan "Yes, the Vorlons have been to Earth. [[WeAreEverywhere The Vorlons have been everywhere]]. The Vorlons '''are'''." (Explanation: The tradition name for God in Hebrew comes from Yahweh, meaning "I am." The parallel with "The Vorlons are" is undoubtedly intentional, especially considering the nature of the character who says it.)

* The ''Series/BabylonFive'' mantra:
-->"Ivanova is always right. I will listen to Ivanova. I will not ignore Ivanova's recommendations. Ivanova is God. And if this ever happens again Ivanova will personally rip your lungs out!"
** She then takes a moment to apologize to God for the boast.

* From ''Literature/LongForThisWorld,'' on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey Aubrey de Grey,]] "My wife borrowed my notebook and wrote to me in big block letters: HE IS MORE SURE OF HIMSELF THAN GOD."]]

** In his ''Film/ConanTheBarbarian'' review, he played the scene of Conan "praying" mentioned above, then spoofs it with [[SeriousBusiness wanting a specific Happy Meal toy]].

* In ''ComicBook/{{Wanted}}'', Adam One doesn't see the point in Mr. Rictus advocating for [[LegionOfDoom the Fraternity]] to step out of the shadows, since they're "already sitting here with more money than God".
* The ComicBook/UltimateMarvel version of ComicBook/NickFury, a.k.a. Creator/SamuelLJackson, after leading the first operation in the universe to successfully drive off [[ComicBook/{{Galactus}} Gah Lak Tus]]:
-->'''Nick Fury:''' I tell you, Cap. All this made you think there might not be a God. You know what all this makes me wonder? I'm wondering that when I get up to them pearly gates...\\
...Is God gonna put up a fight, or just move over and let me sit down?
* Which was something of a recycled line from one of Creator/WarrenEllis' [[ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}} earlier works]], when Spider is concussed and in a coma, he perceives it as being in a dark, empty room. He briefly wonders if he's dead and this is the afterlife, but decides there can't be anything beyond death because "If there was a God, he'd be here right now, surrendering his throne to me." Spider later concludes that he is in Hell, since being stuck in a neverending blackness with nothing to write about, nothing to write on and no cigarettes is Hell to a journalist.
* In the first few issues of ''ComicBook/YoungJustice'' (the comic obviously) Agents Fite and Maad are introduced and claim to 'have more clearance than God'.
* In an issue of ''ComicBook/TheSimpsons'', Homer becomes the owner of a new boat and proclaims that it is so powerful that God himself could not sink it. And then Moe drives a truck carrying a large ice cube into the boat, causing it to sink; following the repairs, Homer claims that he wishes to retract his earlier comments about God's ship-sinking abilities, also offering praises to Allah, Buddah, and Ra for good measure.
* In ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics Sonic Universe]]'', Shadow delivers a particularly epic one right to a god.
-->"Deny me all you want, but with [a Chaos Emerald], even a god must bow before the Ultimate Life Form."
* In ''Suore Ninja'' UsefulNotes/ThePope boasts that the Catholic Church is richer than God... [[JustifiedTrope Because all of God's money is handled by the Church]].
* The ''X-Men'' graphic novel "God Loves, Man Kills" has its penultimate showdown between the team and a highly religious preacher, William Stryker, who wants to rid the world of mutants because they are not "children of God" (the story opens with two mutant children killed by Stryker's goons) at a revival. When Stryker points to Nightcrawler and questions his humanity, Kitty Pryde angrily tells the preacher that she chooses her friend over Stryker's God. Stryker points a gun at Kitty ("Let those blasphemous words, child, be your epitaph!"), only for him to be brought down by a policeman's gun.
-->'''Bystander:''' That cop — shot the reverend!\\

* Rodimus tries this in ''ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'', when he launches into a RageAgainstTheHeavens speech where he demands to see the afterlife's manager -- assuming God isn't too chicken, anyway.
-->'''Swerve:''' Even if you're right, you can't just - you can't just demand an audience with God.\\

* ComicBook/{{Karnak}} of the Inhumans has a simple but ''very'' good inversion:
-->"Satan was just a story. I am Karnak."

[[caption-width-right:220:This is one of her less blasphemous utterings.]]

* In ''WebVideo/HellsingUltimateAbridged'', Maxwell boasts about being the new God of the world (remember, he's supposed to be Catholic) while slaughtering the innocent of London. [[spoiler:When Dracula's familiars shoot down the chopper carrying his "Holy Popebox", Anderson ruptures said Popebox and exposes him to said familiars explicitly because of this. Also, Anderson saw Maxwell had become a daft cunt.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D59BxfzCFJ8 This Lynx ad]]. Apparently, it smells so good that ''angels themselves'' will [[Literature/TheBible keep not their first estate and risk being reserved in everlasting chains under darkness]].

-->'''Koko Hekmatyar:''' [[spoiler: ...separate humans from war!]]

** The title of [[spoiler: Fiamma of the Right]] translates to "The One Above God."

* In the ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' comic [[http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2013-04-09/ seen here]], an [[IntimidatingRevenueService evil IRS worker]] claims he's made the tax code so complex, it would even confuse God. (But he seems to be wrong...)

* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5193644/1/Time-Braid Time Braid]]'', Sakura once makes reference to Naruto having 'more chakra than God' after being exposed to the various side effects (namely, he can't have sex with normal women without knocking them unconscious by overwhelming them with his aura, and there's a similar problem with his using the Yamanaka mindwalk jutsu). Technically, she [[spoiler:herself is a Kami-descended, ergo Goddess material, and therefore]] is right.

* ''Fanfic/MinesOfDragonMountain'': [[spoiler: [[GodOfEvil Tirac]]]] brags at one point about how he killed all but three of Equestria's gods in the ancient past.

** According to a LooseCanon RecursiveFanfiction story, Havoc actually keeps track of how many times He's heard certain blasphemous boasts from people condemned to [[{{Hell}} His domain]]. He even tells [[spoiler: the Valeyard]] exactly how many times He'd heard each of his.

** [[spoiler: [[GreaterScopeVillain Nightmare Eclipse]]'s claim that she chose her name for eclipsing Celestia and Luna and exceeding them is considered this by the Dark World!Mane Cast. She also claims to be above all the other Gods and outright states she's going to destroy the Goddess of Fate.]]

* ''Fanfic/MegamiNoHanabira'': [[spoiler: Once Phillips enters his VillainousBreakdown and devolves into AGodAmI, he delights in this: starting off claiming God would reward him for his service by putting him among the highest spheres of angels, he quickly changes his tune to ''overthrowing'' a God who he sees as too soft on humanity. [[TheManBehindTheMan Metatron]] is understandably off-put by this assertion and [[DevourTheDragon sacrifices Phillips]] to manifest and take on Mai and the others himself...only for Phillips to [[AssimilationBackfire take over his body]], at which point his boasts get even ''wilder''.]]

* There's a season two episode of ''Series/{{House}}'' actually called'' "House Vs. God". Chase keeps a running tally on a whiteboard with House's successes on one side and God's on the other. [[spoiler:It ends in a tie.]]

* In ''Series/TheSopranos'' episode "[[Recap/TheSopranosS3E12ArmorFou Armor Fou]]", Jackie Aprile Jr. to his getaway driver before robbing [[spoiler: Tony's gang]]:

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': Nikola Tesla is fond of claiming that his control over electricity has surpassed even ''Zeus'', and considering that he is one of the most powerful Servants, his boasting seems to have some merit. [[spoiler: Until the Olympus Lostbelt, where he appears as an ally and Zeus is the antagonist. Zeus ''utterly [[CurbstompBattle curbstomps]]'' him, offscreen to boot, proving, [[Myth/ClassicalMythology as many people in Ancient Greece learned]], that you ''really'' shouldn't try to put yourself on the level of the gods.]]

* Website/BabylonBee: There's an article entitled ''"[[https://babylonbee.com/news/trump-i-have-done-more-for-christianity-than-jesus Trump: 'I Have Done More For Christianity Than Jesus']]"''

* ''Series/FlandersCompany'': Alternate Georges Trueman, the BigBad of season 4, has a good one in the finale [[spoiler:right before exerting MindControl on his own brother and daughter]]:

** "Lex Luthor vs Doctor Doom" sees Victor drop a truly ''glorious'' one after [[spoiler: impaling Lex against the Lexcorp logo and destroying the entire building with a flurry of energy blades]]:

* South Korean sex change surgeon Kim Seok-Kwon claims to "[[http://bigstory.ap.org/article/skorea-sex-change-doc-i-correct-gods-mistakes correct God's mistakes]]."
* From ''Literature/LongForThisWorld,'' on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aubrey_de_Grey Aubrey de Grey]], "My wife borrowed my notebook and wrote to me in big block letters: [[AC:He is more sure of himself than God.]]"

* ''Jerry'', [[StrawLoser of all people]] gets a possibly unintentional one in "Rattlestar Ricklactica" when he inadvertently catches Rick in a XanatosGambit:

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13983150/1/The-Way-Truth-and-Light The Way, Truth, and Light]]'': While making some friendly small talk, Cu Chulainn says that he and Jesus are pretty similar because they are both the sons of gods who died to save their people. Jesus calls his words blasphemy because he, the mere son of a pagan god, is comparing himself favorably to the son of the real one. [[spoiler:Because of this blasphemy, Jesus doesn't lift a finger to save Cu when he is killed by Mordred Alter, saying he had no faith, and those without faith will be denied salvation.]]

* A small one in ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys''. Ioulus claims that the town that Herc and he saved should have built a shrine to them. A lightning bolt strikes a nearby bush. The duo speculate if it was the gods or not. So Ioulus tests the "lightning never strikes somewhere twice" concept by repeating the line right next to the bush. It happens again. Oddly enough this gives [[CursedWithAwesome Ioulus precognitive abilities at the low, low cost of being fried with a lightning bolt]].

--->"...Herod, wearing his royal robes, sat on his throne and delivered a public address to the people. They shouted, "This is the voice of a god, not of a man." Immediately, because Herod did not give praise to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died."

* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13983150/1/The-Way-Truth-and-Light The Way, Truth, and Light]]'': While making some friendly small talk, Cu Chulainn says that he and Jesus are pretty similar because they are both the sons of gods who died to save their people. Jesus calls his words blasphemy because he, the mere son of a pagan god, is comparing himself to the son of the real one. [[spoiler:Because of this blasphemy, Jesus doesn't lift a finger to save Cu when he is killed by Mordred Alter, saying he had no faith.]]

* ''Fanfic/BoundDestiniesTrilogy'': After acquiring the Triforce, Veran openly mocks and disrespects Din, Nayru, and Farore, declaring that now that she has their power, she not only doesn't fear them, but curses their very names. It's even taken UpToEleven when she states that after she's done with Hyrule, she plans to invade and conquer the Sacred Realm itself.

* The song "Creation & Destruction" by Music/ImmortalTechnique is a BoastfulRap taken UpToEleven.

* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': Nikola Tesla is fond of claiming that his control over electricity has surpassed even ''Zeus'', and considering that he is one of the most powerful Servants, his boasting seems to have some merit. [[spoiler: Until the Olympus Lostbelt, where he appears as an ally and Zeus is the antagonist. Zeus ''utterly [[CurbstompBattle curbstomps]]'' him, [[UpToEleven offscreen to boot]], proving, [[Myth/ClassicalMythology as many people in Ancient Greece learned]], that you ''really'' shouldn't try to put yourself on the level of the gods.]]

* Jim Sterling in their ''WebVideo/{{Jimquisition}}'' series takes their persona UpToEleven where they go LargeHam, act smug, and end their segments with "Thank God for me!" [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness If they don't utter their catchphrase]], then they're talking about something much more serious where the theartrics aren't needed.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' WholeEpisodeFlashback "Them's the Breaks, Kid" has Eda and her older sister Lilith talking about all the cool things they'll do when they join the Emperor's coven, which Eda caps off by claiming that even the Titan (the GiantCorpseWorld that they live on which is treated as a quasi-godlike figure) will gasp in fear of them. [[spoiler:Funnily enough, this is does prove to be an accurate statement as Eda's future adopted son King (who is revealed in a later episode to be a titan) actually does show fear when coming face to face with their cursed forms.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty''/Rick does this so often it becomes almost reflexive.
-->"I made your atomic matrix slightly lighter than air, and now your shoes are heavier than air, which makes you neutrally buoyant, which I find conceptually more impressive than walking on water, but what do I know? I wasn't born into the god business. I fucking earned it."
** Rick's toxic counterpart is somehow even more assertive about it.
--> '''Toxic Rick:''' Yeah, motherfucker! Yeah! Get it! Get some! Right up your fucking bitch ass, you fuck! Guess who just discovered a new element?! You think you could do that, Morty? You think anyone but me could do that ever in a billion years? Do you think if God existed he could do it? The answer is no. If God exists, it’s fucking me!

* ''WebAnimation/DeathBattle'': "Lex Luthor vs Doctor Doom" sees Victor drop a truly ''glorious'' one after [[spoiler: impaling Lex against the Lexcorp logo and destroying the entire building with a flurry of energy blades]]:

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

* The titular Rick from ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' teeters on this, but his toxic counterpart dives right in:

* In a ShoutOut to [[Film/ConanTheBarbarian1982 Conan]], [[StopPokingMe if you click]] [[VideoGame/DiabloIII Sonya]] [[StopPokingMe enough in]] ''VideoGame/HeroesOfTheStorm'', she'll start praying to her God, Bul-Kathos, to… [[SeriousBusiness improve her MMR, and if he does not listen, then to Hell with him!]]

** [[Literature/TheOdyssey Odysseus]] would have saved himself several years of hardships had he not bragged to Poseidon to the point of refusing him a sacrifice, or mocking his son Polyphemus after blinding him. As a man of proverbial wit, you'd expect him to know better than anger the god of seas, [[WhatAnIdiot especially if you and home sweet home are hundreds miles of sea apart]].