History Main / GodIsEvil

* Morganna from ''Franchise/DotHack''. She manifests as a godlike being; a disembodied voice and psychic presence.

* ''LightNovel/ArifuretaFromCommonplaceToWorldsStrongest'': [[spoiler:Ehit is the main, final antagonist Hajime and his party must fight in order to save the world. Being the one behind most of the horrible things that happen in the story, he kickstarts the plot by having Hajime and his class kidnapped so he could possess Kouki and use his body to destroy Tortus and travel to other worlds to start over - as he entertains himself with the suffering of mortals, considering them mere toys for him to use and throw away.]]

** It's also been stated that there are other {{Physical God}}s on the server, with most of them being ''relatively'' more benevolent as far as our knowledge goes, but they are either minor characters at best (Mumza, Drista, possibly [=MotherInnit=] if we take her WordOfSaintPaul for it[[labelnote:*]]All three of them are either played by server guests or only make cameo appearances[[/labelnote]], or are nowhere near as powerful as XD and thus are unable to challenge him (Foolish).

** [=DreamXD=] is the TopGod (as far as we know) of the DSMP universe and [[PoweredByAForsakenChild draws his power from death]], so he actively encourages the [[CrapsackWorld wars and deaths and all-round shitty conditions on the server]] so as to stay powerful. For example, [[spoiler:he grants time-travelling powers to certain people, but ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne as their memory deteriorates the more their powers activate (they can't control to when and where they travel) until they undergo LossOfIdentity, and XD has them ''[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed]]'' after that]]. He does PetTheDog on occasion, making him a ''bit'' of a {{downplayed|Trope}} example, but not by much.
** It's also been stated that there are other {{Physical God}}s on the server, with most of them being ''relatively'' more benevolent as far as our knowledge goes, but they are either minor characters at best (Mumza, Drista, possibly [=MotherInnit=] if we take her WordOfSaintPaul for it--all three of them are either played by server guests or only make cameo appearances), or are nowhere near as powerful as XD and thus are unable to challenge him (Foolish).

In some works, this being is the [[TopGod supreme deity]] of a FantasyPantheon, while in others, the being is a powerful monotheistic deity, with some works casting the [[{{God}} Big Guy]] himself -- or his [[CrystalDragonJesus nearest fantasy analogue]] -- in the role. Sometimes, the being [[AGodAmI calling itself a god]] (or ''the'' God) isn't one (often to lessen the offense that religious readers might obviously feel when this trope comes in play); its powers are just so close to [[TheOmnipotent omnipotent]][[note]]whether it's due to being a SufficientlyAdvancedAlien or, in the case of those claiming the identity of "God", being a god who is vastly more powerful than any and all of the other ''known'' gods combined (while implicitly leaving the door open for the '''real''' God to come in and show the interloper the error of his/her ways).[[/note]] that it makes no difference.

* A major plot point in episode 9 of ''Anime/SevenMortalSins'' [[spoiler:revealed that God plans on purging both Earth and Hell and banished Lucifer after she protested against it.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings'': While he isn't stated to have created the universe, [[BigBad Raiden the Moon King]] is nonetheless the ruler of {{Heaven}} and is characterized as a cold, [[FantasticRacism human-hating]] totalitarian. [[DatingWhatDaddyHates Angry that his daughter married a human]], he tries to take their son, Kubo, to live with him in Heaven ([[HellOfAHeaven portrayed here as cold and uncaring, especially towards humans]]), which requires him to ''[[WouldHurtAChild tear out]]'' ''[[EyeScream Kubo's eyes]]'' to make him blind to humanity. At one point, Raiden actually refers to Earth as "[[CrapsackWorld hell]]". He even [[GrandpaGod looks]] like an ElderlyImmortal, albeit without a beard. [[spoiler:At the film's end, Raiden is [[HumanityEnsues magically transformed into a human]], [[AmnesiacGod loses his memory]], [[HeelFaceBrainwashing and is convinced by everyone else that he has always been good]].]]

* In the "World's End" storyline in ''ComicBook/TheSandman'', one of the nested stories is a take on ''[[ComicBook/{{Prez1973}} Prez: First Teenage President]]''. In this version when Prez Rickard dies, Death takes him to meet the Prince of the World (although she says he didn't ''create'' the world, he just "runs the local franchise"). Prez is horrified to discover this is Boss Smiley, the corrupt politician he's been fighting against his whole career. Instead of taking his place at Smiley's right hand, he goes off to find other Americas with Morpheus.

* In the GothicHorror[=/=][[{{Gorn}} splatterpunk]] RPG ''TabletopGame/{{KULT}}'', [[spoiler:the Demiurge / Creator put the curse of death on mankind, stripping away their immortality and most of their powers. Then, he disappeared, and Astaroth / Satan is looking for him, since the Demiurge is the only one who gave his life some sense. The devil is quite alone in this search - nobody else wants God to come back. It is also stated that God did NOT create the true world, and it's implied that it was a great place to live in until God came along and ruined it]].
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'', all the major gods are addicted to the Games of Divinity. What the Games are is left up to the individual ST but it is known that they are incredibly addictive, with only the original makers of the world, the Primordials, immune. Thus a common Internet meme states "The Unconquered Sun is on Celestial Crack". Then again, so are Luna, the Five Maidens, several of the head divisions, many God-Blooded (children of major gods, minor Gods don't get access) and even '''anyone who has seen the Games of Divinity Form of the Prismatic Arrangement of Creation Style of Sidereal Martial Arts.'''
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'', the [=PCs=] are the half-human offspring of various deities from (mostly) abandoned mythologies. While their divine parents have an aspect of all-too-human dickery about them (the game is quite faithful to how mythology originally presented them), only a couple of them are outright evil. The Abrahamic deity is not ''explicitly'' present, but the sole avatar of one of the evil Titanic Primordial Forces is a shining bearded guy who wants everything in existence to sacrifice their free will and be absolutely devoted to him. ''Scion Companion'' presents, as a possible antagonist, a group of people who are manipulating Fate to force all gods into an Abrahamic mold. It's heavily suggested that if they pulled it off, it would fit this trope.

** Within the larger franchise, while not quite God, Gaia is the creator of the earth gods and by extension humanity, and is the [[MotherNature manifestation of the planet itself]]. She is also the OverarchingVillain who [[GaiasVengeance wants to knock humanity back to the Stone Age]], if not [[KillAllHumans outright obliterate them]], for daring to rise above the natural order.

* God in ''ComicBook/TheChroniclesOfWormwood'' (by [[RunningGag ...you guessed it,]] Creator/GarthEnnis) is another example, as He's apparently [[spoiler:[[MadGod insane]] or severely mentally deficient]]. Also of note: This version of God seems [[spoiler:to really, really, really love masturbating]] (something of a RunningGag in Ennis' works).

** Though the Fantasy version of [[AxCrazy Khaine]] has no [[HonorBeforeReason redeeming qualities]] at all.
** In WHFB, the gods are not necessarily outright evil as in [=WH40K=]; they are [[JerkassGods much more subtle]]. Chaos deities, however, are completely immoral. Likewise, [[GoodIsNotNice goodness does not equate niceness]] - TheEmpire professes all the decandent, fanatic, militaristic and intolerant ingredients of the historical Holy Roman Empire, while Bretonnia is a [[TheDungAges feodalistic hellhole]]. Even so, the world of Warhammer is [[CrapsackWorld a world half empty]], and its [[JerkassGods deities reflect that]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjU5PH5xVng&ab_channel=SLAMWORLDWIDE "Sacramentum ov Filicide"]] by Nitheful takes this trope UpToEleven, portraying UsefulNotes/{{God}} as a CompleteMonster responsible for the ills of man so He can receive their unyielding supplication and worship as their supposed "savior" while doing nothing to save his son [[MessianicArchetype Jesus]] from his crucifixion just to satisfy His sadistic pleasure.
** Heck, ''all'' of Nitheful's music output has this view towards God, with their debut album ''Paradisium Ruination'' being a ConceptAlbum about [[SatanicArchetype Lucifer's]] rebellion and overthrow of God for his tyranny

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjU5PH5xVng&ab_channel=SLAMWORLDWIDE "Sacramentum ov Filicide"]] by Nitheful takes this trope UpToEleven, portraying UsefulNotes/{{God}} as a CompleteMonster responsible for the ills of man so He can receive their unyielding supplication and worship as their supposed "savior" while doing nothing to save his son [[MessianicArchetype Jesus]] from his crucifixion just to satisfy His sadistic pleasure.

** Also parodied with the [[http://oglaf.com/sithrak/ Cult of Sithrak the Blind Gibberer]], [[http://oglaf.com/outreach/2/ with added irony]] (both SFW).

* Proven in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's Old vs. New of ''Film/TheTenCommandments vs. WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', where he smites the titular character for thinking he's kind and loving.

Compare and contrast UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}},[[note]]In short, Gnostics believed that the God worshiped by Jews and by the other early Christian sects was evil...but that he also wasn't really God, just a lesser celestial being with delusions of godhood.[[/note]] EverybodyHatesHades, GodOfEvil[[note]]which this trope is not to be confused with; a God of Evil is a deity, not necessarily the chief deity of the setting, that represents the concept of evil, while the trope God is Evil is about a deity that is the chief deity of a setting that is evil but whose domain is not necessarily specifically the concept of evil[[/note]], GodIsInept, GodIsFlawed, OrderIsNotGood. The flip side is SatanIsGood. See also: GodAndSatanAreBothJerks, DevilButNoGod, NeglectfulPrecursors, JerkassGods for when the deities are not really evil but just neglectful, AbusivePrecursors for when this so called creator is beyond just guilty. Definitely the polar opposite of GodIsGood. May or may not happen with a CorruptChurch - with that, the god is not guaranteed be evil, but those who serve (or claim to serve) him are.

* ''ComicBook/CliveBarkersNextTestament'' has Wick, the Father of Colors. [[EvilIsPetty He's petty]], he seeps the life force out of people, levitates them and let's them plummet to their death, makes their heads explode, forces them to build monuments in his honor and ultimately decides to [[spoiler:KillEmAll]]. Also, he fucking hates free will.

** And Isha the god of fertility and love, who seems to be the only [[AvertedTrope total avertion]] in the series. Of course, she's kind of busy being [[ColdBloodedTorture held prisoner and tortured]] by the Chaos God Nurgle, who is otherwise a rather AffablyEvil god.

This trope comes into play when the supreme deity of a given setting is not just a mere {{jerkass|Gods}} -- he/she/it is ''actively malevolent'', a jealous, callous, sadistic, monstrous tyrant who created the world or universe to be such a miserable CrapsackWorld, preparing DisproportionateRetribution and an EasyRoadToHell for everybody else.

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* This trope is [[ShowDontTell shown rather than told]] in WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfMarkTwain when the children meet a [[RealityWarper god-like entity]] known only as Literature/TheMysteriousStranger. As they interact with him, he brings a civilization of clay figures to life on his planet. However, when he notices a few of the clay figures [[HumansAreFlawed having a petty argument over property,]] he grows angry, and kills them all in a rage. The children are horrified, but The Mysterious Stranger [[LackOfEmpathy doesn't show any remorse at all]], since he can always make more clay people if he wishes. [[spoiler: Granted, he's actually {{Satan}}, who doesn't exactly have the greatest track record of empathizing with mortals.]] His musings as the children leave are [[ExistentialHorror especially creepy]]:
-->'''The Mysterious Stranger''': [[StrawNihilist Life itself is only a vision. A dream. Nothing exists, save empty space and you. And you... are but a thought.]]

* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' has Zhuqiaomon, a phoenix god who is one of the four Holy Beasts that rule the Digital World. He sent his servants, the Devas, to the human world, to wreak havoc and eventually kidnap one of the heroes' friends, a small Digimon with the power to trigger evolution. However, this trope is inverted once the other Holy Beasts intervene, and explain that Zhuqiaomon was only trying to use their friend's special powers to fight the [[BigBad D-Reaper.]] Of course, Zhuqiaomon really dislikes humans as it is and isn't very apologetic to the children, so while not evil per se, he's still kind of an ass.
* Another ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' god is Yggdrasil, a master computer that, in some incarnations of the Digital World, created the world and controls it. In every media it appeared it, whether it is the X-Evolution movie or the ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' anime, it always ends up trying to destroy its own creation (and in the case of Digimon Savers, the human world as well). He has a highly variable morality though-in X-Evolution, he's an enigmatic terror who has motives no one knows, in ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' he's an AntiVillain with a easily justifiable [[HumansAreBastards hatred of humanity]], and in ''NEXT'', he's a victim of DemonicPossession.

* ''{{Manga/Berserk}}'': [[spoiler:In a semi-de[[{{canon}} canonized]] chapter, which was removed for reasons of revealing too much, God was revealed to be behind everything that happens in Berserk's CrapsackWorld, and it was created out of humanity's desire for there to be an ultimate reason to blame for human suffering; which resulted in the creation of the Idea of Evil, [[TheHeartless a grimdark version of Plato's Theory of Forms]], whose purpose in life was ''to literally be responsible for everybody suffering so much''. And it's ''very good at it'', having conspired to drive Griffith into his ascension as the fifth Godhand, Femto, through the workings of Causality, which leads to the series theme of [[ScrewDestiny Fighting Fate]]. It can be seen as an inversion though; in this case, evil is God]].

* In ''Comicbook/GhostRider'', and thus the MarvelUniverse as a whole, the evil angel Zadkiel finally succeeded in his violent coup to seize the throne of Heaven. The horrors of a Heaven run by Zadkiel are so great that many who are in the know would sooner kill themselves and take their chances in Hell.
* The ''Comicbook/DoomPatrol'' once battled Red Jack, a sadistic and utterly psychotic HumanoidAbomination who claimed to be both the Supreme God and UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. Although as he/it/whatever was clearly batshit crazy neither of these were necessarily true.

* {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} of the ComicBook/NewGods is the "GodOfEvil" and revels in it. He runs a hellish planet dedicated to this with all his lieutenants being other evil gods.

--->[[BadassBoast I AM THE NEW GOD.]]

** The times when ComicBook/{{Thanos}} of Titan has acquired omnipotence (Heart of the Universe, Infinity Gauntlet, the Cosmic Cube) the situation is similar to this. "How can you cope with a universe where God is truly mad."
** Ironically, the Thor villain [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Gorr the God-Butcher]] both ''believes this'', being a HollywoodAtheist with a TraumaCongaLine background, and ''is this'', as he's empowered by an uber-divine god-killing weapon - created by an actual evil God - that he uses to take RageAgainstTheHeavens to the level of hunting down, torturing and murdering every god he can find.

* In the "World's End" storyline in ''Comicbook/TheSandman'', one of the nested stories is a take on ''[[ComicBook/{{Prez1973}} Prez: First Teenage President]]''. In this version when Prez Rickard dies, Death takes him to meet the Prince of the World (although she says he didn't ''create'' the world, he just "runs the local franchise"). Prez is horrified to discover this is Boss Smiley, the corrupt politician he's been fighting against his whole career. Instead of taking his place at Smiley's right hand, he goes off to find other Americas with Morpheus.

--> '''Windfall:''' Excuse me--you're a nun, right?
--> '''Twister:''' Oh yes. Sister Mary Ignatius. They used to call me Twister. And you're Windfall. We're going to do God's work together.
--> '''Windfall:''' Do you mind if I ask you a question about God, Sister?
--> '''Twister:''' Of course not, child!
--> '''Windfall:''' Why--why does God hate me?
--> '''Twister:''' Oh, Windfall! God doesn't hate just you! God hates everybody.
--> '''Windfall:''' ... What?!
--> '''Twister:''' Well, look at me! Look at you! Look at the state of the world! Do you see the loving hand of a kindly God or somebody's idea of a sick joke? Don't take it personally.
* ''{{Supergod}}'': The concept of God or gods, and especially the desire for them to exist, is described as a glitch caused by human sapience, and the creation of superhumans is a modern substitute. Even the ones that could even be remotely described as benevolent such as Krishna or Jerry Craven (J.C, get it?) are BlueAndOrangeMorality at best. Krishna was created with the purpose to "save India", which he did... by massacring 90% of it's population, then rebuilding the entire country to allow the survivors to live in a technological utopia. And that's not even touching on the ones that could be described as actively malevolent such as Gajjial [[spoiler: who destroys the world and dooms mankind because he can see alternate timelines and Krishna and J.C's utopia would be boring]].

** In the New 52's ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'' Zeus is missing and presumed dead so his children fight over his throne, the callous Apollo ends up king of Olympus before being killed and overthrown by "The First Born", who is bloodthirsty and unapologetically evil.

*** The disease ridden Nurgle loves all life equally; a bacterium is loved as much as a veteran of fifty years.

This trope comes into play when the supreme deity of a given setting is not just a mere [[JerkassGods jerkass]] -- he/she/it is ''actively malevolent'', a jealous, callous, sadistic, monstrous tyrant who created the world or universe to be such a miserable CrapsackWorld, preparing DisproportionateRetribution and an EasyRoadToHell for everybody else.

* Loki of ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' is often called and self-titled the "god of evil." Other gods or godlike beings from the MarvelUniverse are very much about evil including [[OmnicidalManiac Seth]] and the elder god Chthon. However, the actual highest being of the MarvelUniverse is almost certainly benevolent, and is usually referred to as The-One-Above-All, though it's [[TheUnseen debatable if he's ever actually been seen]] (though an entity that may or may not have been Him bore a striking similarity to Creator/JackKirby). His higher subordinates (whom all three of the above characters would be like dust mites to) have been known to drift into {{Jerkass}} LawfulNeutral on occasion, though.

* [[spoiler: [[PhysicalGod Notch]]]] in [[http://kleinerkiller.deviantart.com/gallery/41037509/Minecraftia-Saga Yognapped]] is a petty {{Jerkass}} who [[spoiler: murdered his fellow gods -- his brother and sister, no less -- and covered it up from the people of Minecraftia]], rubs shoulders with a [[GlasgowGrin constantly smiling]], [[TheSociopath sociopathic]] [[TheDragon demigod]], and uses his holy AmazonBrigade to hunt down anyone who knows how bad he is. [[WellIntentionedExtremist He has his reasons, though.]]

** In WHFB, the gods are not necessarily outright evil as in [=WH40K=]; they are [[JerkassGod much more subtle]]. Chaos deities, however, are completely immoral. Likewise, [[GoodIsNotNice goodness does not equate niceness]] - TheEmpire professes all the decandent, fanatic, militaristic and intolerant ingredients of the historical Holy Roman Empire, while Bretonnia is a [[TheDungAges feodalistic hellhole]]. Even so, the world of Warhammer is [[CrapsackWorld a world half empty]], and its [[JerkassGod deities reflect that]].

** Ironically, the Thor villain [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Gorr the God-Butcher]] both ''believes this'', being a HollywoodAtheist with a TraumaCongaLine background, and ''is this'', as he's empowered by an uber-divine god-killing weapon that he uses to take RageAgainstTheHeavens to the level of hunting down, torturing and murdering every god he can find.

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* [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] delights in imagining God this way, most notably in [[http://media.heavy.com/media/2013/03/bill4.gif this]] strip.
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* Luciferianism holds very similar believes to Gnosticism; basically Luciferians think that Lucifer is the true God of Light, the bringer of Wisdom (Light) and pure spirituality, and superior to the evil and materialistic god Yaveh who is only another deity, or sometimes even inferior to Lucifer like the Gnostic Demiurge. In some versions both the Serpent in the Garden of Evil is Lucifer bringing knowledge to Humanity to spite Yaveh, and Jesus himself if actually Lucifer in disguise or Lucifer's son also trying to bring down the Demiurge's religion. Is essentially Gnosticism but with a more active and less abstract "God of Light".