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* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Season 4's Cabbie Killer believes himself to be the Greek god Charon, aka The Ferryman, thus it is his duty to transport the deceased across the River Styx.

** ''Series/KamenRiderSaber'': Isaac, the BigBadWannabe, is quickly convinced that his ''Omni Force'' book and its RealityWarper powers make him God. The actual BigBad, Storious, is under no such illusions even when he gains all of Isaac's powers and more, because he also has omniscience and knows everything including his own villainy is preordained.

** [[BigBad Great Professor Bias]] of ''Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman'' has a huge superiority complex to the point that he [[spoiler:tries to create a Giga Brain Wave which will transform all of humanity into mindless slaves under him as well as making him an immortal]].
** [[BigBad Princess Meadow]]/[[spoiler:really Vulgyre]] of ''Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'' plans on destroying 1000 planets and draining there life force to become immortal and become the ''God of the Milky Way''.
** [[BigBad Count Radiguet]] of ''Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman'' claimed on the first day of his arrival, that he was to be a God for the Earthling. He even goes as far as [[spoiler:claiming his "holy body was invincible" during the final battle, after he merges with the Vylock.]]
** [[spoiler:[[BigBad Long the Infernal Dragon]]]] of ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'' believes that since hes an ancient being and immortal that he has the right to use humans and treat every other living being as his playthings. Going so far as being responsible for centuries of human strife and war just to alleviate his boredom.

** Gary Mitchell in "Where No Man Has Gone Before".
** In the episode "Return to Tomorrow", [[EnergyBeings Sargon]] explains that his civilization destroyed itself when it became so advanced and arrogant that "we dared think of ourselves as gods".
* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': The SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Q plays with this in "Tapestry". Picard dies and enters the "afterlife", where he finds Q awaiting him, who informs him that he's dead and that Q himself is God. Picard rejects this, because he doesn't think that "the Universe is so badly designed". Q just snarks that Picard is lucky Q doesn't smite him for his blasphemy.

* Many ''Franchise/KamenRider'' villains tends to show signs of god complex. Specific examples are:

** ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'': Ryoma Sengoku/Kamen Rider Duke's ultimate motive is the achievement of godhood and fulfillment of his desire to become a being that surpasses humanity.

** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'':
*** [[spoiler: Kuroto Dan]], aka Kamen Rider Genm, is definitely showing delusions of godhood, as his master plan of [[spoiler: turning the world into a “game” where ordinary citizens fight for survival against monsters]] gets closer to fruition. [[spoiler:Even after his death, resurrection, and HazyFaceTurn, he still keeps call himself a god]].
*** And [[spoiler:his father]] is quite possibly ''even worse'' after he becomes [[spoiler: Kamen Rider Chronos/Cronus]]
** A rare heroic version is the titular protagonist of ''Series/KamenRiderKabuto'', Souji Tendou. He's arrogant and believes himself to be better (and for the most part, he's right), but does fight for the good of humanity.

'''Jane''': Only without the omnipotence and the [[{{Superman}} X-ray vision]].\\

*** The Goa'uld not only fit this trope perfectly, but are also ''really'' extreme cases. Although they are just [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens highly advanced aliens]], they do ''pose'' as gods in front of their primitive slaves. Many -- like Ra, Cronus, and Apophis -- seem to buy into their own propaganda and think they really ''are'' gods, though Ba'al is aware he is just a parasitic snake with a host and Yu never proclaimed himself a god, instead setting himself up as a legendary emperor. Both Ba'al and Yu have disdain for those who buy into their delusions (although Yu grows generally delusional at a certain point on account of his senility), and Ba'al manages to outlive all the others and obtain the greatest degree of power. Anubis is... ambiguous, though out of all the Goa'uld, he has the best case for calling himself one -- being that unlike other Goa'uld, he AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, and, despite being rejected by the other Ascended beings, remained a half-Ascended EnergyBeing. The Goa'uld in general border on a {{deconstruction}}, as this hubris quite frequently leads to their doom.

** Similar to Savitar, Godspeed declares he's the God of Speed, even saying that's why he uses his code name. In his final battle, he declares, "You can't kill a god!"

** [[BigBad Savitar]] boasts that he's the God of Speed, demands everyone bow down and worship him, and sees all other speedsters as insults and pretenders (given how far he outclasses every other speedster, he has a point). According to folklore, he's the first human in the multiverse to ever gain SuperSpeed, and he seemingly has'nt aged since ancient times.[[spoiler:Though it turns out that's a lie and that he's a future evil version of Barry Allen instead.]]

* ''Series/TrueBlood'': Bill after he becomes [[FanNickname Billith]].

*** The Ori take this far enough that it becomes ridiculous when people insist that they're ''not'' gods, since, well, everything a god can do the Ori can do. (Including Virgin Birth.) If that's not a god, one has to wonder what people would accept as a god. Teal'c later suggests that acts, rather than power, make gods. Or at least, that being a god is not the same as being worthy of worship. They couldn't [[spoiler:stop the team from killing them]]. Adria explicitly states in ''Film/TheArkOfTruth'' that the Ark can only make people believe what is true, which is why she can't use it. Since the Ark makes the Priors believe that the Ori are not gods, clearly the Ori are actually not gods. Although she fully believes she could use it if it weren't for the existence of Ancients undermining her by being just as high up in the grand scheme.

** Played with by the [[EnergyBeings Vorlons]] and possibly the other [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens First Ones]]. Shown best by a quote from the movie Thirdspace.

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* ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'': The Season 4 episode "Thunder Man" has that episode's villain, munitions expert William Poole [[spoiler:– he had raped and killed several women, including the girlfriend of one the show's main protagonists, Little Joe Cartwright –]] threaten to use a vial of a new, highly-explosive and destructive substance called nitroglycerin to kill Joe (after Joe was able to finger Poole as a killer, rather than the seemingly amiable man he presented himself as). Poole dares Joe to take him into custody but then, revealing the power he holds in his hands, declares he is invincible and effectively declaring himself God: "I'm a Thunder Man, and not a force in Heaven and Earth can even begin to move me!" A split second before Poole throws the vial's contents at Joe, Joe is able to retrieve a gun he discarded and shoot Poole, killing him after the nitro spills onto him and explodes.

** Willow, Giles, and Xander [[AllYourPowersCombined combine their essences]] with Buffy through a magical ritual, giving her the power to defeat Adam in the penultimate episode of season 4.
** Willow becomes this trope several times through the series, in a good way in season 5, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds in a bad way]] in season 6, and good again in the final episode of season 7

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E6TheAztecs "The Aztecs"]], Barbara is [[GodGuise mistaken for a god incarnation of a dead Aztec priest, Yetaxa]]. The Doctor encourages her at first to use her sudden power to give him and the other companions free reign to explore and have a good time. Barbara has other ideas and decides to start manipulating Aztec politics to abolish HumanSacrifice, getting increasingly power-crazy all the time. She claims that she might as well be a god as she knows what will happen to the Aztecs, and once, when the Doctor gives her a lecture about the dangers of trying to change history, shoots him down by announcing "not Barbara — [[BecomingTheMask Yetaxa]]".

-->"Yes... yes. To hold in my hand a capsule that contained such power... to know that life and death on such a scale was my choice. To know that the tiny pressure on my thumb, enough to break the glass, would end everything. Yes - I ''would'' do it. That power would set me up above the ''gods''! ''[[LargeHam And through the Daleks, I shall have that power]]''!"

** In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E16TheWatersOfMars "The Waters of Mars"]], the Doctor snaps after being pushed to the limit and declares himself to be, in essence, a god. And he is not under any sort of mind control — nor can he be said to be having delusions of grandeur, since his claim to godlike power is entirely accurate. Rather, he's giving us a glimpse of what [[spoiler:the last of the Time Lords could become without the restraint that his Companions give him.]] Having said that, he is promptly snapped back after [[spoiler:Adelaide Brooke commits suicide]] rather than muck around with her destiny, so it worked out in the end. Sort of. (In the episode, the Doctor declares himself to be "The Time Lord Victorious", which has since been invoked by fandom to refer to rare other occasions in which the Doctor begins to slip towards applying this trope to himself, such as...

** If we can assume that [[spoiler:Maury Parkman's illusion of Linderman]] accurately portrays the actual character's personality, then we can infer that [[spoiler:Linderman]] thought of himself as either a god or very close to one. In one season 3 episode, he implied that he spoke the word of God. However, he may have been simply trying to ''convince'' Nathan, who had recently gone through a bit of a religious awakening, that he was God in order to manipulate him into doing what [[spoiler:his father]] wanted him to do.

* ''Series/HouseOfAnubis''- While Rufus Zeno first was just a ruthless ImmortalitySeeker, he later became more ambitious and attempted to make himself into a God by using the Mask of Anubis. [[DraggedOffToHell It didn't exactly go as planned]]. Senkhara also seemed to want to become a Goddess, specifically wanting to live in the "field of golden rushes" and be admired as she believed she deserved.

*** The Goa'uld not only fit this trope perfectly, but are also ''really'' extreme cases. Although they are just [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens highly advanced aliens]], they do ''pose'' as gods in front of their primitive slaves. Many — like Ra, Cronus, and Apophis — seem to buy into their own propaganda and think they really ''are'' gods, though Ba'al is aware he is just a parasitic snake with a host and Yu never proclaimed himself a god, instead setting himself up as a legendary emperor. Both Ba'al and Yu have disdain for those who buy into their delusions (although Yu grows generally delusional at a certain point on account of his senility), and Ba'al manages to outlive all the others and obtain the greatest degree of power. Anubis is... ambiguous, though out of all the Goa'uld, he has the best case for calling himself one — being that unlike other Goa'uld, he AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, and, despite being rejected by the other Ascended beings, remained a half-Ascended EnergyBeing. The Goa'uld in general border on a {{deconstruction}}, as this hubris quite frequently leads to their doom.

** [[spoiler:Castiel]] as of the season 6 finale, wherein [[spoiler:he absorbs all the souls of Purgatory into himself. He proceeds to do to Raphael ''exactly'' [[LudicrousGibs what Lucifer once did to him]], shrug off a BackStab with an angel-killing dagger, and declare himself the new Lord]].

** Lucifer is worshipped as a god by the demons since he is, after all, technically their Creator. In "Hell's Angel," he makes the case to the angels that GodIsEvil and suggests that [[AnOfferYouCantRefuse if they want]], they can start calling ''him'' God. In season 13, he desires to reunite with his {{Nephilim}} son Jack so, in his words, they can be better gods than his own Father. [[spoiler:When Jack refuses his offer of WeCanRuleTogether, he takes Jack's angel grace and plans to reshape the universe in his image.]]

** [[spoiler:[[BigBad Long the Infernal Dragon]]]] of ''Series/JukenSentaiGekiranger'' believes that since hes an ancient being and immortal that he has the right to use humans and treat every other living being as his playthings. Going so far as being responsible for centuires of human strife and war just to alleviate his boredom.

* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'': Callisto consumes ambrosia, the food of the gods, to become a god during a battle with a vengeful Amazon that had ''also'' consumed ambrosia solely [[DisproportionateRetribution so that she could kill Gabrielle]]. Uniquely, in later episodes she regrets her godhood and tries to find ways of undoing it, culminating in her begging Xena to find a way to kill her. [[spoiler:She changes her mind after witnessing Gabrielle make a HeroicSacrifice - unfortunately for her, Xena had already found a way to kill her, and didn't particularly appreciate her gloating about this.]]
* ''Series/{{Waco}}'': As he did in real life, Koresh believes himself a messiah, put on this earth to spread the truth about the seven seals.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': Season 4's Cabbie Killer believes himself to be the Greek god Charon, aks The Ferryman, thus it is his duty to transport the deceased across the River Styx.

** Benjamin Cyrus in "Minimal Loss" saw himself more as God's messenger as opposed to actually seeing himself as God, but some of his actions made one think he actually was God. Furthermore, when he took over the cult from its old leader, Leo Kane, Cyrus told Kane that God said that Cyrus was going to take over the cult, and when Kane asked him when God was going to make the change, Cyrus pointed a gun to his head and said "He just did".
** Billy Flynn in "The Longest Night" told his kidnapping victim, Ellie Spicer, that his serial killing prowess made him "like God".

--->'''Shooter''': I am God. Now who is brave enough to look God in the eye?

--->"Yes... yes. To hold in my hand a capsule that contained such power... to know that life and death on such a scale was my choice. To know that the tiny pressure on my thumb, enough to break the glass, would end everything. Yes - I ''would'' do it. That power would set me up above the ''gods''! ''[[LargeHam And through the Daleks, I shall have that power]]''!"

*** The Dalek Emperor had a pretty high opinion of itself. So much so that insulting it would trigger the now-famous line, '''[-"THOSE WORDS ARE BLASPHEMY!"-]''' and a chorus of '''[-"DO NOT BLASPHEMEME! DO NOT BLASPHEMEME!"-]''' from his subordinate Daleks.

*** Rose Tyler absorbs the heart of the TARDIS and is turned into a godlike hybrid called [[ArcWords ''Bad Wolf,'']] who disproves the Dalek Emperor's "I am God" hypothesis by disintegrating him.

*** Rose Tyler absorbs the heart of the TARDIS and is turned into a godlike hybrid called ''Bad Wolf'', who disproves the Dalek Emperor's "I am God" hypothesis by disintegrating him.

'''Chuck''': How else do you explain it? I write things and then they come to life? Yeah, no, I'm definitely a god. A cruel, cruel, capricious god. The things I've put you through... [[spoiler: Eric Kripke, the creator of ''Supernatural'', and Rob Benedict, the actor who portrayed Chuck, have confirmed that Chuck is indeed God.]]

** ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'': Tenjuro Banno wants to digitise all of humanity and will only give robot bodies to thoose who bow down to him.

*** The Dalek Emperor had a pretty high opinion of itself. So much so that insulting it would trigger the now-famous line, "[[AC:Those words are ''blasphemy!'']]" and a chorus of "[[AC:Do not blaspheme! Do not blaspheme!]]" from his subordinate Daleks.

'''Chuck''': How else do you explain it? I write things and then they come to life? Yeah, no, I'm deinitely a god. A cruel, cruel, capricious god. The things I've put you through …
::[[spoiler: Eric Kripke, the creator of ''Supernatural'', and Rob Benedict, the actor who portrayed Chuck, have confirmed that Chuck is indeed God.]]