History Main / GodIsEvil

* In Andrew Kepple's WebAnimation/{{Animutation}} trilogy ''WebAnimation/ColinMochrieVsJesusHChrist'', after saving everyone from Colin Mochrie [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext after he gets turned into a rampaging Scotsman]], Jesus takes over the world and starts persecuting characters from "fanimutations". At the end of Part 3, [[spoiler: it turns out "Jesus" is actually [[Series/TheBradyBunch Mike Brady]], who starred alongside Colin in Neil Cicirega's "The Japanese Pokerap" but was jealous that Colin became a BreakoutCharacter, and orchestrated the whole thing in order to get revenge.]]

** Another ''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/DigimonDataSquad'' anime, it always ends up trying to destroy its own creation (and in the case of ''Data Squad'', 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/DigimonDataSquad'' he's an AntiVillain with a easily justifiable [[HumansAreBastards hatred of humanity]], and in ''NEXT'', he's a victim of DemonicPossession.

* There was an arc of ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' that featured God apparently going [[MadGod completely insane]] and ''cannibalizing'' the ArchangelMichael in a scene right out of a Goya painting. However, it's eventually revealed that a). GodIsGood, b). Michael was in on it, and c). the entire thing was a SecretTestOfCharacter for the Spectre.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjU5PH5xVng&ab_channel=SLAMWORLDWIDE "Sacramentum ov Filicide"]] by Nitheful portrays 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. Their second full-length album ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8zavnXv0p0&ab_channel=SLAMWORLDWIDE The Creation ov God]]'', which the aforementioned track comes from, is a ConceptAlbum dedicated to this trope, with each and every song based on atrocities that God committed Himself or ordered His followers to carry out in His name as depicted in the Bible.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjU5PH5xVng&ab_channel=SLAMWORLDWIDE "Sacramentum ov Filicide"]] by Nitheful portrays 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.

* [[spoiler: The Archangel]] from ''Franchise/TheFearMythos''. [[spoiler: He ''is'' the afterlife. The whole damn thing.]]

* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'' uses this as a fundamental premise. Yahweh, the entity that presented himself as the Christian god (and apparently Allah for the Islamic faith as well) is actually an immature douchebag who became drunk on the power he held over humanity until he reached the point where he became convinced of his own lie. He eventually became fed up with those parts of humanity that questioned him, and closed the gates of Heaven to mankind sometime around 1000 A.D., thereby condemning all of humanity to Hell, ''even the faithful''. The story gets kicked off when he decides that isn't enough, and gives Satan free rein to wipe out mankind forever so Yahweh could go to a different dimension to find some other species that might be more obedient. However, by the time this happened, humanity had become very technologically advanced, while Heaven and Hell were still at the Bronze Age. [[CurbstompBattle You can predict]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge what a pissed-off humanity]] [[RageAgainstTheHeavens does next.]]
** Even the angels are pissed off at him! The Archangel Michael is running ThePlan which basically saves the heavenly host while pointing an army of absolutely enraged humans at Yahweh, and eventually kills him himself, having killed off all of Yahweh's powerful supporters by stealth or by human. Except Jesus, really called Elhmas, who is mostly presented as a stoned out of his brains idiot, [[spoiler: until it is revealed he faked his own death and is keeping an eye on Michael to prevent him from turning into another Yahweh.]]

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/collected-excerpts-on-the-sea-mother The Sea Mother]] from Website/TheWanderersLibrary [[spoiler:Or maybe she's just insane from feeling us moving through her “skin”.]]

* Played for laughs in ''WebAnimation/SocietyOfVirtue'' where the superhero community treats the Second Coming of Christ like a typical "PhysicalGod trying to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt" [[MetaphoricallyTrue scenario]].

* God in [[{{WebVideo/Starpocalypse}} Starpocalypse]] is a deranged, perverted monster who gets sexually aroused by killing humans, making humans kill humans, watching humans have sex, and caused various social problems imposing arbitrary and insane rules on early humans for fun. It had a great time during the Inquisition.

* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'':

* The ''Shadow of the Demon Lord'' RPG from Schwalb Entertainment, has TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy as one of its biggest influences. In this CrapsackWorld, CosmicHorror DarkFantasy RPG, the universe is under threat from the all-consuming, near omnipotent Demon Lord, the most powerful being in existence. The Demon Lord is [[spoiler:actually God himself, but with his best bits removed by ambitious genies when he was taking a break after creation. Sure he's a lot less powerful now, but he's all spite and rage with plenty of sadism mixed in too.]]

* ''ComicBook/TheGoddamned'' features [[CainAndAbel Cain]] as the main character, who espouses this trope at every opportunity, having been cursed with TrueImmortality for his crime. Earth is little more than a wasteland, with every human shown having been reduced to cannibalistic savagery, and a massive army led by Noah pillaging what little is left, claiming to be under divine orders to construct a great Ark for the coming deluge that will drown the Earth and all it's sin, enslaving anyone they don't murder as laborers. [[spoiler: the series ends with the MoralityPet being murdered by her own son, who has been driven insane by his suffering, Cain killing Noah, and the Ark being burned as the slaves revolt. Cain walks away as it begins to rain...]]
** The second series centers around the origin of the Nephilim, with a LadyLand cult raising young girls to become pure brides of God (those who are not chosen are trained as warriors to protect the mountain they live on). Two friends begin to question their society just as they begin to reach maturity... [[spoiler: The girls are actually stolen as babies from wild tribes of humans living beneath the mountain. The girls chosen as brides are whisked away from a mountaintop into the heavens where...something is implied to rape them. They're returned to earth pregnant, and give birth to horrifically malformed giants, crossbreeds of the mortal and divine, with most of them dying in childbirth.]]

* ''The Goddamned'', published by ''Creator/ImageComics''; it features [[CainAndAbel Cain]] as the main character, who espouses this trope at every opportunity, having been cursed with TrueImmortality for his crime. Earth is little more than a wasteland, with every human shown having been reduced to cannibalistic savagery, and a massive army led by Noah pillaging what little is left, claiming to be under divine orders to construct a great Ark for the coming deluge that will drown the Earth and all it's sin, enslaving anyone they don't murder as laborers. [[spoiler: the series ends with the MoralityPet being murdered by her own son, who has been driven insane by his suffering, Cain killing Noah, and the Ark being burned as the slaves revolt. Cain walks away as it begins to rain...]]

** God is a cruel, capricious being who is subjecting the protagonists (not to mention the rest of the world) to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking pain, horror and [[spoiler: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bad writing]]]] [[ForTheEvulz for his own sadistic entertainment.]] [[spoiler: [[SarcasticConfession He said so himself.]]]]

* Of all places, this appears in ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' in the form of Z-One, the last human of the BadFuture. He somehow got divine powers and he's worshipped by Yliaster. After losing hope and his friends, Z-One sends android copies of his friends to the past to correct the past, but some of their actions made things worse and didn't bring the results he hoped for. After several failures, he decides as his final plan to destroy the entirety of Neo-Domino City to prevent the BadFuture from happening, even at the cost of thousands of lives.

* Creator/GarthEnnis' ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': "Sometimes I'd like to get my hands on God."
* In ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' (also by Ennis), God is shown to be a pathetic creature who has a pathological need to be loved, and is willing to destroy anyone who turns their back on Him. [[spoiler:As it turns out, He isn't even omnipotent; it's His ''throne'' that gives Him limitless power, and in the final issue He's tricked into leaving it and ends up reaped by His own [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reaper]], who as it turns out WasOnceAMan whom God had ''massively'' screwed over in his mortal life ''so that'' he'd replace the current Angel of Death]].
--> "[[BlatantLies I am a Loving God]], Tulip... But ''don't push it''."
** What started the plot in the first place? [[spoiler:God created a creature as powerful as Himself... so He could be loved by it. He actually gets a kick out of people worshipping Him despite the craptastic nature of the world, and actively makes it worse for that reason.]]
* In the comic book ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' ([[RuleOfThree which Ennis did a lot of writing for]]), The First of the Fallen (a leader of Hell) tells John Constantine that God is completely insane. John also works out that The First is actually God's conscience, removed at the dawn of creation because he kept nagging at Him. God himself never appears, but from what little is seen of His work through the Angels doesnt exactly paint Him in the best light. For example, the Archangel Michael himself assisted in the creation of Jesus by raping Mary, and commited genocide against the first-born of Egypt, all on God's orders. You can probably tell that Ennis isnt crazy about Christianity.
* 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]]; then there's also the fact that [[spoiler: he's in league with Satan to bring about the biblical Apocalypse, over the objections of their much nicer sons [[JesusWasWayCool Jay]] and [[AntiAntiChrist Wormwood]]]]. Also of note: This version of God seems [[spoiler:to really, really, really love masturbating]] (something of a RunningGag in Ennis' works).
* ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'' crossed the line into CerebusSyndrome when its author began proposing such theories [[WriterOnBoard through the mouth of his barbarian-turned-intellectual main character]]. To be more precise (and yet dumb down the theories), Sim's argument isn't that God is evil, [[spoiler:it's that the YHWH of the Old Testament and God are two separate entities, and the conflict between them stems from the YHWH having a '''massive''' inferiority complex.]]

* 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 premise of the post-Rapture graphic novel ''ComicBook/ThereforeRepent''.

* [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid 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.
** And by ComicBook/FinalCrisis, when he's the only New God left, he gives us this little gem (as well as ample proof of statement):
--->[[BadassBoast I AM THE NEW GOD]].

* In ''Comicbook/{{Spawn}}'', God [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks and Satan]] are portrayed as, though not exactly "evil," essentially the cosmic equivalent of spoiled teenagers who enjoy breaking each other's stuff. It's the fact that this includes ''us'' that causes this to become a problem. [[spoiler:Oh, and He's not actually the Creator]].
* There was an arc of ''ComicBook/TheSpectre'' that featured God apparently going [[MadGod completely insane]] and ''cannibalizing'' the ArchangelMichael in a scene right out of a Goya painting. However, it's eventually revealed that a). GodIsGood, b). Michael was in on it, and c). the entire thing was a SecretTestOfCharacter for the Spectre.
* In the "World's End" storyline in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', 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.
* ''ComicBook/CliveBarkersNextTestament'' has Wick, the Father of Colors. [[EvilIsPetty He's petty]], he seeps the life force out of people, levitates them and lets them plummet to their death, makes their heads explode, forces them to build monuments in his honor and ultimately [[spoiler:becomes an OmnicidalManiac]]. Also, he fucking hates free will.
* O'ne the Creator in ''Comicbook/TheGreatPowerOfChninkel''. The Almighty Creator is willing to annihilate an entire planet and its life but not willing to just kill the three warring immortals Itself. [[spoiler: O'ne actually ''does'' kill almost all life (save a few tawals living underground) by raining fire on the planet's surface. The reason? The heretic king N'om [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech called It out on Its dickery]] and how everything was a conspiracy to make everyone worship It for all eternity. Though at the very least he kept his promise not to destroy Darr.]]

* [[spoiler: [[PhysicalGod Notch]]]] in [[http://kleinerkiller.deviantart.com/gallery/41037509/Minecraftia-Saga Yognapped]] is a petty {{Jerkass God|s}} 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.]]
* ''Fanfic/{{The Games We Play|TheGamerRWBY}}'': [[spoiler:Malkuth]] might not actually be omnipotent or omniscient, but he's close enough to it that there's little practical difference as far as the Huntsman on the ground is concerned... and unfortunately for all, he's a massive dick. ''The'' massive dick, in fact, being [[spoiler:the creator of the Grimm]] and all.

* [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12942137/1/Attero-Dominatus This story]], in which an Israelite soldier sees what he and his people are doing to God's enemies, and strives to put an end to it.

* Quoted from Riddick in ''Film/PitchBlack'' when questioned about his belief in God;
-->''"Think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? Think he could start out in some liquor-store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe? Got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in God... And I absolutely hate the fucker."''
* In the 2010 film, ''Film/{{Legion}}'', God comes to the conclusion that the human race is no longer worthy of Him, and decides to end their existence. ArchangelMichael fights the angelic army, and tells ArchangelGabriel that he (Michael) did what God needed, not what God wanted, thus giving humanity another chance. The weird thing about that is that the baby the pregnant woman is carrying is implied (if not outright stated) to be the second coming of Christ. Who is God. Who is trying to end the world. [[MindScrew By stopping himself from being born and saving the world...]]
* The BlackComedy ''Film/ASeriousMan'' implies that God may be malicious and/or utterly incomprehensible.

* ''Film/TheDevilsCarnival'' implies and ''Film/TheDevilsCarnivalAlleluia'' outright depicts their version of God as being petty, lustful, and wrathful, and with Heaven as his seemingly-cheerful personal [[InfernalParadise dictatorship]]. He even sings about causing one of the worst dust storms in U.S. history. The Devil and his [[IronicHell Carnival]] are only little better...maybe.

* ''Film/TheRapture'': Sharon comes to believe this. [[spoiler: The film explores this question, since not only believers but atheists get a chance to enter heaven but only if they accept God. Sharon is only left out by her own choice.]]
* The rather [[AssPull demented]] twist ending to ''Urge'' reveals that the "[[PsychoSerum designer drug]]" that is causing everyone to go insane and kill each other and themselves was created and distributed by God... played by Creator/PierceBrosnan.
* The Architect in ''Film/TheMatrixReloaded'' and ''Film/TheMatrixRevolutions'': Not only is he named "The Architect" (the name that Freemasons use for God), he sits in a throne, watching everything that happens in his realm and is an old man with a white beard and a deep voice. Clearly an allusion. He's also incapable of empathy (he creates the program Oracle for that) and feels no love at all for the humans. His sole purpose is to facilitate the proper functioning of the Matrix by manipulating the Resistance indirectly. He might not be the creator of the humans or the universe outside the Matrix, but is a very similar concept of God that certain religions have like the Demiurge in Gnosticism or the role of Brahma in Buddhism (Buddhist and Gnostic themes are prevalent in the films).

* ''Film/TheBinding'' is about a minister who claims that God has ordered him to murder his infant daughter. In the end, the minister is unable to go through with it and instead commits suicide, so God appears to kick start the End of Days in a fit of rage over the minister's lack of devotion.
* Downplayed in the GDR children film ''Film/GodfatherDeath'', retelling the fairy tale of the same name. A husband searches a godfather for his child, but he rejects God, who offers himself, on socialist grounds (dealing fate unequally), justifying the motive already present in the fairy tale. Evidently he wouldn't go as far as declaring God as straightly evil, and tells the Devil who gladly offers his service to sod off straight to hell. He agrees to the offer of Death, who he sees as an absolutely just Lawful Neutral.

** God is a cruel, capricious being who is subjecting the protagonists (not to mention the rest of the world) to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking pain, horror and]] [[spoiler: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bad writing]]]] [[ForTheEvulz for his own sadistic entertainment.]] [[spoiler: [[SarcasticConfession He said so himself.]]]]

* Dewey in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' suggests that God is merely indifferent instead of outright evil. He even suggests that people should enjoy themselves and stop fighting over trivial things such as religion, since it hardly matters when God can simply whip out a magnifying glass at ''anytime?!''
* On ''{{Series/Hannibal}}'', this is Lecter's view: "Killing must feel good to God too-he does it all the time."
** Later, he speculates whether, if God exists, his killing people could actually be called [[AboveGoodAndEvil "good" or "evil"]].
** In "Ko No Mono" Hannibal also states that his own "modest actions" pale in comparison with God's.
** {{Discussed}} once again in "Tome-Wan", where Hannibal speculates that to God innocence is offensive, thereby explaining the suffering of innocents.
* ''Series/HandOfGod'': Pernell rants that God is malicious and sadistic [[spoiler: after PJ doesn't come out of his coma.]]
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The First Evil is older than the universe as exists since before the Big Bang. This is the reason why creepy serial murderer priest Caleb considers it to be God.
* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Butcher argues this to a Christian at the Believe Expo, saying if God exists he's cruel and hates humanity given how much suffering the world has.

[[folder:Music]]
* In "How Do You Do?" Music/{{Shakira}} has an honest conversation with God about His cruelties. However, she forgives Him.

* Much of Music/GaryNuman's musical catalogue from the album "Sacrifice" onward depicts God as cruel and delighting in humanity's suffering.

* As might be surmised from the name, every other song by DeathMetal band Music/{{Deicide}} deals with how much they hate God. Whether or not frontman Glenn Benton actually believes in God's existence or is simply trolling Christians remains unclear.

* The song "War is my Destiny" by rapper Ill Bill implies that the Devil (not [[{{Satan}} that one]] -- when the War in Heaven ended, the Fallen Angels dethroned Satan and crowned a new leader in his place) convinced humanity that he was God and proceeded to make their lives miserable. Whenever God sent prophets to save the people (yes, there were multiple messiahs), the fallen angels hunted them down and burned them. Eventually God unleashed the Flood and destroyed the kingdoms of the fallen. After the flood, the Devil allowed the prophets to live, only so he could twist the word of God and humanity would worship him once again, thinking they were worshipping God. Basically what it boils down to is that while GodIsGood, the guy that everyone ''thinks'' is God is very, very evil.
* "Smithereens" by rapper El-P features the line "Why should I be sober when God is so clearly dusted out his mind?/With cherubs puffin' a bundle, trying to remember why he even tried"
* Music/SageFrancis has a song called "Sun vs Moon", where he sings "God's not a woman/He's a big white guy in the sky/In the desert, saw reflections of his eyes/He doesn't cry for us/But when he does, it's cause he's drunk."
* Music/{{XTC}}'s "Dear God" from ''Music/{{Skylarking}}'': "Did you make disease...", "You're always letting us humans down/The wars you bring, the babes you drown..."
* Music/{{IAMX}}'s I Salute You Christopher - which is dedicated to Creator/ChristopherHitchens - "Control yourselves,/ 'cause the man in the sky is a tyrant and a lonely psychopath/ Dreamed up to steal your minds."
* "Remnant (March of the Undead IV)" by Music/MachinaeSupremacy uses a ZombieApocalypse as a metaphor to criticize religious followers who insist that God is benevolent despite doing nothing to keep horrible things from happening. The song even implies that God enjoys watching the destruction he causes through inaction.

* Extremely common in BlackMetal songs. Music/DeathspellOmega in particular has basically made a career of this (though it should be noted that this does ''not'' mean they think SatanIsGood). Some black metal groups go even further - straight into RefugeInAudacity territory - by portraying God as weak and pathetic, and writing songs about humiliating Him.
* ''The Dragonland Chronicles'' storyline by power metal band Music/{{Dragonland}} details how "The Gods" pit the Armies of the Light (Humans, Elves and Dwarves) against the Hordes of the Night (Orcs, Goblins and Trolls) in a semi-apocalyptic battle once every century for entertainment; if the Light Side wins, the Hordes of the Night are driven back to whatever unholy place they crawled out of and peace endures until the next Battle of the Ivory Plains. If the Dark Side wins, Dragonland is plunged into a century of darkness and pestilence. One century after the triumph of the Dark Side, a hero emerges to defeat the Hordes of the Night decisively, ascends to the Heavens to slay The Gods who have been driven mad with power, and proceeds to become "one with the universe", achieving apotheosis and becoming the new, benevolent God of known existence.

* The Music/{{Vocaloid}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHffjNbWmig "Honey I'm Home"]] features an evil god with an incredibly creepy appearance who [[spoiler: literally ''vivisects'' the protagonist.]]
* Music/TheBlackDahliaMurder's song "Their Beloved Absentee" off of ''Everblack'' portrays God as a twisted and perverted voyeur who takes fiendish amusement in silently watching [[HumansAreBastards mankind turn on and destroy themselves]].

* [[{{Creator/MontyPython}} Monty Python]]'s [[{{AudioPlay/MontyPythonsContractualObligationAlbum}} "All things Dull and Ugly"]] parodies a Christian hymn, praising god for a number of bad things he created.

[[folder:Mythology and Religion]]

* Several theological and philosophical concepts involve a belief in an evil, incompetent or indifferent God:
** ''Maltheism'' (from ''mal'', meaning bad/sickness and ''theism'' meaning theism) is the belief that a God or Gods exist, but they are malevolent or incompetent. Few religions have a wholly maltheistic view of the world, though several include maltheistic strands - for example, gods of evil, such as Ate (the Goddess of Evil, Folly, and Destruction) in Hellenistic mythology. Abrahamic belief in the Devil can be seen as a variant - although the exact nature (or even his existence) of the devil is not universally agreed on in Abrahamic theology, he is often construed as a supernatural agency with malicious intentions for humans. A related concept is ''Hypothetical Maltheism'', used as a criticism of religion by agnostics and atheists, which holds that, if God exists, he would be unworthy of worship due to the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil Problem of Evil]]'' (which asks how and why a benevolent, omnipotent God even allows evil to exist) and the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_hell Problem of Hell]]'' (which addresses {{Hell}} and questions the justice and necessity of [[DisproportionateRetribution eternal torment as punishment for the sins of a single mortal lifetime]]). Unsurprisingly, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_hell#Annihilationism several]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_hell#Free_will religious]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_hell#Universal_reconciliation responses]] exist to such a line of thought.
--->'''Rational Wiki''': Maltheism is the idea that God... is like a kid who keeps removing pool ladders in VideoGame/TheSims.
** ''Misotheism'' ("hatred of Gods") is a related concept to ''Maltheism'', but is more active in its meaning -- rather than mere belief in a malevolent God, misotheism is an outright hatred of said God, regardless of its actual nature (i.e. it can be that GodIsGood, and yet is hated by a particular person despite or even because of said goodness). OlderThanFeudalism, misotheistic positions and characters appear in Icelandic sagas and in some Hellenistic sagas. It is distinct from maltheism in the sense that, whilst maltheism is the position that God is unworthy of worship, misotheism is ''active hatred'' for God. Frequently leads to [[HollywoodAtheist Hollywood atheism]]. Several Norse saga characters, e.g. Hrafnkell on ''Hrafnkell's saga'' were called ''goðlauss'' (godless) because of their disdain of the Norse deities and rather relying on themselves.
--->'''[[Film/PitchBlack Riddick]]''': I absolutely believe in God... And I absolutely hate the [[PrecisionFStrike fucker]].
--->'''ComicBook/ThePunisher''': There are times I'd like to get my hands on God.
** ''Dystheism'' ("ungodly") is the belief that God is not wholly good, and possibly (though not necessarily) evil. It differs from maltheism in that it draws no conclusions about whether said God is worthy of worship - a maltheist is always a dystheist but a dystheist is not always a maltheist. Many ancient religions were dystheistic in nature-Hellenistic and Norse mythology, with jealous Gods who interfere in mortal affairs (and mortal bedrooms) but who still demanded respect and sacrifice being the best-known examples. Since UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, more specifically the Holocaust, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_theology some Jewish theologians]] have proposed a dystheistic approach to God. Compare UsefulNotes/{{Deism}}.

* Maybe not evil per se but clearly misguided according to some Buddhists; in Buddhist cosmology Brahma is the King of Devas and as such the most powerful being in the material Universe (Samsara) other than, of course, Boddhisatvas. Some believe that Brahma mistakenly thinks he is a Creator and is the inspiration of the monotheistic religions. Nevertheless, this may contradict certain Buddhists' scriptures that say that Brahma actually accepted Buddha’s supremacy and teachings. It should be noticed that Devas in Buddhist cosmology are very powerful beings often praised as gods by many cultures but in any case not divine or eternal, just another life form like humans and animals. Buddhist philosophers were among the first who argued that no all-good, all-powerful deity exists based on the amount of evil which we find in the universe, related to this trope.
* Neopaganism, as presented by ''The Spiral Dance'', makes the case that Abrahamic god is a jerk.

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* God in Creator/WhiteWolf's ''TabletopGame/DemonTheFallen'' is made out to be a psychotically ungrateful megalomaniac. Then again, the entire point of that RPG is that [[SatanIsGood Lucifer is a sympathetic protagonist]]. What the Demons say about God in that game comes from an obviously biased source. God's actual intentions and motivations are far more ambiguous in the game as a whole; the whole Reconciler faction of Demons believes that God must have been good after all, mysterious as His ways may seem... and Lucifer himself expresses doubts about his rebellion and a desperate desire to be reconciled with God at the end of the Time of Judgment game fiction.
** Its successor game, ''TabletopGame/DemonTheDescent'' muddies the waters a good deal with the God-Machine. The only things known for certain about it are that it possesses godlike power, creates angels to serve it, and that it's not so much malicious as apathetic; for all its power, it's still ''a computer'', and sees everything as inputs and outputs. Yes, it might drive someone to suicide for some occult algorithm or protect a mass-murderer, but these are just side-effects for its real, inscrutable goals.

* ''TabletopGame/{{KULT}}'': 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.
* ''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.'''
* ''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.
* ''TabletopGame/TheDarkEye'' at first glance has a "gods = good; demons = evil" divide. Apart from the Nameless God, who was a traitor to the good gods. Then you find out about some more obscure (demi)gods, particularly the bloodthirsty Kor, who is the patron of mercenaries and likes to get cut off fingers of slain foes as sacrifice. Of course the fact that some misguided people worship demons as gods doesn't mean anything. Until [[spoiler:you get deeper into the ancient history/mythology and find out that at least some of the Archdemons that rule Hell used to be gods, and are only demons now because their number of worshippers diminished and they were supplanted by newer, more popular gods. Or they just did it ForTheEvulz.]]
** Plus, the gods really only care about the existence of creation. Mortals are only interesting for them for their effect on creation and for reaping their souls (every god gets the souls of mortals that live by his ideals) to strengthen the armies of creation in the last battle when the aforementioned Nameless God rips the outer sphere open, letting in the hordes of uncreated demons. Some of them seem to be curious about mortals that live by their ideals, like Phex (essentially god of tricksters) or Hesinde (goddess of wisdom and art), but that could be a ruse to get more souls. Others, the hard liners, were ready to nuke a region to stop a renegade from damning all mortals (signing their souls over to the demons), even if it meant reaping tens of thousands of souls prematurely. Luckily the largest army of mortals in the last age stopped the renegade before that.
** The "evil" (demi)gods are implied to be falling gods, going over to the demon side. The Nameless God didn't go over to the demons' side, he just weakened creation, letting the demons in more easily, gaining control of some of them, and taking creation for himself.
* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', the gods that are worshipped by the people of Zendikar -- Cosi, Ula, and Emeria -- were actually inspired by distorted memories of Kozilek, Ulamog, and Emrakul, the three [[EldritchAbomination Eldrazi]] [[OmnicidalManiac titans.]] One cleric has a crisis of faith [[http://magiccards.info/roe/en/5.html when the truth is revealed.]]
--->'''Ayli, Kamsa cleric:''' I believed in a beautiful god. But this is the true face of the divine.

* ''Theatre/KingLear'': "As flies to wanton boys are we to th'gods/They kill us for their sport." Though by the end of the play, Gloucester's had ANOTHER HeelFaithTurn.

* In ''[[http://www.atom.com/channel/channel_stickman_exodus/ Stickman Exodus]]'', the {{Gorn}}-doodling teenage owner of the notebook is effectively a cruel {{God}} to the two-dimensional cast.

* The titular [[Webcomic/TheWaterPhoenixKing Water Phoenix King]], Yamra, and his predecessor Gurahl, though this was, and to some extent still is, a contested belief in the story. Those who benefitted under his rule consider him to have been a benevolent deity, and the opposition to be immoral for rebelling against the [[OrderVersusChaos Natural Order of the Universe]]; the rebellion considered him an awful tyrant, and the order that Gurahl imposed on the universe a harmful thing -- as did Lady Luck, who killed Gurahl over his binding the sun-goddess Okidesha. "Pure" Yamrans seek to restore the strict caste system, with Hadrakahn priests and knights at the top of the heap, everyone else working for them, and witches and sorcerers cast into the outer darkness...for the [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans Good Of All]], of course!

* In ''{{Wulffmorgenthaler}}'', God and Satan agree on God being the evil one after [[http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/2010/02/15/ flipping a coin]].
* It's kind of hard to deny that ''Webcomic/TheBrickTestament'' has this angle going for it; it was pretty much intended as a way of pointing out the questionable points of the Bible. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt The Book of Revelation]] in particular is stuffed to the gills with this trope, right down to sardonic titles and cutting commentary by the Franchise/{{LEGO}} minifigures suffering the whole time.
* ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' [[http://oglaf.com/howtheygetyou proves the point]]. (SFW page on site where most pages are NSFW.)
** The adherents of the [[http://oglaf.com/sithrak/ Cult of Sithrak the Blind Gibberer]] believe that Sithrak is a cruel and gruesome god who tortures his worshippers for all eternity. This is actually the main draw of the religion, since it completely absolves you of moral quandries. Doesn't matter if you're good or evil, Sithrak will torture you either way. [[spoiler:Of course, it turns out that Sithrak is actually a decent guy, and the cult is based on some angsty teenage poetry of his]].
** And again: "[[http://oglaf.com/assorted-fruits/ God is on their side. But I've been reading their holy book, and I think that God may be a psycho.]] (SFW)
* ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'' discusses maltheism, slightly tongue-in-cheek, in a series of strips starting [[http://wondermark.com/804/ here]].
* In ''Webcomic/ATaleOfTwoRulers'', this is one of Zelda's two theories on the truth regarding Hyrule's patron trio: either [[GodGuise they're long-dead mages still profiting from the world's biggest scam]]... or they're evil for letting Hyrule become so [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] on their watch.

** One point against Sinfest's God, however, is the way the classic Problem of Evil is eventually resolved... turns out, God CREATED The Devil, and made him do what he does. Presumably just to make himself look good by comparison. When The Devil finds out, he outright quits and [[DeathTakesAHoliday goes on a tropical vacation]]... only to then apparently forget all about it and come back, continuing where he left off. As such, all of The Devil's (unquestionably evil) deeds can be laid squarely at God's feet in this universe... or, at least, at his hand.
* ''Webcomic/InWilysDefense'' features Sphere. He isn't exactly evil but he's basically a lazy, irresponsible, and petty {{Jerkass}} who is apathetic towards the actions of his destructive children. He shows more concern over a random guy calling himself the "God Of Flames" than he does over the angels of death and destruction going to war with each other.
* The Morce from Space Blood has two evil sides with its two god-like incarnations being evil. [[spoiler:It is also a bit of an inversion as the Morce is made of [[http://space-blood.thecomicseries.com/comics/20/ Evil]] as a case of Evil Is God.]]

* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'' uses this as a fundamental premise. Yahweh, the entity that presented himself as the Christian god (and apparently Allah for the Islamic faith as well) is actually an immature douchebag who became drunk on the power he held over humanity until he reached the point where he became convinced of his own lie. He eventually became fed up with those parts of humanity that questioned him, and closed the gates of Heaven to mankind sometime around 1000 A.D., thereby condemning all of humanity to Hell, ''even the faithful''. The story gets kicked off when he decides that isn't enough, and gives Satan free rein to wipe out mankind forever so Yahweh could go to a different dimension to find some other species that might be more obedient. However, by the time this happened, humanity had become very technologically advanced, while Heaven and Hell were still at the Bronze Age. [[CurbstompBattle You can predict]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge what a pissed-off humanity]] [[RageAgainstTheHeavens does next.]]
** Even the angels are pissed off at him! The Archangel Michael is running ThePlan which basically saves the heavenly host while pointing an army of absolutely enraged humans at Yahweh, and eventually kills him himself, having killed off all of Yahweh's powerful supporters by stealth or by human. Except Jesus, really called Elhmas, who is mostly presented as a stoned out of his brains idiot, [[spoiler: until it is revealed he faked his own death and is keeping an eye on Michael to prevent him from turning into another Yahweh.]]
** Michael's plot was apparently not the only one either.
* Some interpretations of WebVideo/MrDeity are this. He's not so much actively evil as tremendously uncaring.
* Proven in WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic's Old vs. New of ''Film/TheTenCommandments1956 vs. WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'', where he smites the titular character for thinking he's kind and loving.
-->'''God:''' You were wrong. I'm not a loving God, I'm a vengeful God. Your ass is grass.

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/collected-excerpts-on-the-sea-mother The Sea Mother]] from Website/TheWanderersLibrary [[spoiler:Or maybe she's just insane from feeling us moving through her “skin”.]]
* God in [[{{WebVideo/Starpocalypse}} Starpocalypse]] is a deranged, perverted monster who gets sexually aroused by killing humans, making humans kill humans, watching humans have sex, and caused various social problems imposing arbitrary and insane rules on early humans for fun. It had a great time during the Inquisition.
* Played for laughs in ''WebAnimation/SocietyOfVirtue'' where the superhero community treats the Second Coming of Christ like a typical "PhysicalGod trying to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt" [[MetaphoricallyTrue scenario]].
* There is a creepypasta that combines this trope with DevilButNoGod, where a soul finds himself in Hell despite a virtuous life, and is met by Satan himself who reveals that ''he'' is our creator, and spread the myth of a benevolent God for the sole purpose of creating a HopeSpot he could destroy to further our torment.

* In ''Bartleby Tales'', God is a megalomaniac who constantly changes His rules to ensure the maximum amount of people go to Hell. [[EasyRoadToHell It's so easy to be damned]] that in a given year, out of a universe with uncountable numbers of sentient beings, ''six'' might get into Heaven. '''''Jesus''''' is in Hell in this setting, because God wasn't amused when He preached love and tolerance instead of unthinking obedience to divine law.
* {{Downplayed|Trope}} in the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'':
** [=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, as the spin-off series ''Tales From the SMP'' reveals, he grants [[spoiler:time-travelling]] powers to certain people, but ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne as [[spoiler:their memory deteriorates the more their powers activate (they can't control to when and where they travel) until they undergo LossOfIdentity, then XD has them ''[[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness killed]]'' after that point]]. 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[[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).

* The Canadian adult animated series ''WesternAnimation/TrippingTheRift'' actually features a few appearances by God and the Devil. Though the latter is definitely evil, the former is kind of a dick. He's depicted as wagering on the main character's soul with the Devil because he's bored and unleashing a plague of locusts on a planet because they refused to worship him (thinking he's a con artist like the ones they had dealt with earlier in the episode). However, the most blatant example of the trope is in the episode where Chode and Gus travel back to the beginning of time. Their ship accidentally collides with God and kills Him. But when they return to their own time, they discover that they've actually made things BETTER. Without God, there's no concept of good and evil, and everyone is basically decent towards each other; there's no crime or war or sexual repression. Everything is going pretty well...until Chode and Gus let the cat out of the bag and introduce the concept of sin to the universe, sending it into chaos. They travel back in time to set things right and get killed themselves, and God walks away laughing at their deaths.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BeastMachines'', Megatron has pretty much become the malevolent God of Cybertron, controlling just about every aspect of existence there. Of course, the last few Maximals alive aren't going to stop until he's taken down. Towards the end, [[spoiler:he decides to absorb all the sparks he stole, and was literally '''seconds''' away from turning Cybertron into "the perfect Technosphere" and becoming the new Primus.]]
** [[spoiler:Unicron]] from ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' also counts. [[spoiler:As Optimus puts it he is, metaphorically speaking, the parent of humanity and all life on Earth. He agrees with Optimus on this, and then Unicron declares all life he created as parasites unworthy of living]]
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' mostly uses the idea that GodIsFlawed, but on a few occasions, does show him to be a real jerk, such as the revelation that for some reason, people who are handicapped on Earth remain handicapped in Heaven (which looks like a Sandals resort). He's also been shown to be rather short and annoyed with his followers.
* This appears to be the case in the Joan of Arc segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Tales from the Public Domain."
--> '''God:''' I told this maiden to lead the French to victory.\\
'''English Soldier (Willie):''' Wait a minute, you two-timing spot of light. You told me to lead the English to victory!\\
'''Joan (Lisa):''' *gasp* Is that true, Lord?\\
'''God:''' Well, I never thought the two of you would be in the same room, actually. This is a little embarrassing. [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere Goodbye now.]]

* ''ComicBook/{{Nameless}}'' by Creator/GrantMorrison: [[spoiler: An EldritchAbomination MadeOfEvil imprisoned on an asteroid is directly responsible for the very concept of God in the human psyche.]]

* ''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.]]

--->'''Wiki/RationalWiki''': Maltheism is the idea that God... is like a kid who keeps removing pool ladders in VideoGame/TheSims.

* ''The Binding'' is about a minister who claims that God has ordered him to murder his infant daughter. In the end, the minister is unable to go through with it and instead commits suicide, so God appears to kick start the End of Days in a fit of rage over the minister's lack of devotion.
* Downplayed in the GDR children film "Godfather Death", retelling the fairy tale of the same name. A husband searches a godfather for his child, but he rejects God, who offers himself, on socialist grounds (dealing fate unequally), justifying the motive already present in the fairy tale. Evidently he wouldn't go as far as declaring God as straightly evil, and tells the Devil who gladly offers his service to sod off straight to hell. He agrees to the offer of Death, who he sees as an absolutely just Lawful Neutral.

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/collected-excerpts-on-the-sea-mother The Sea Mother]] from Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary [[spoiler:Or maybe she's just insane from feeling us moving through her “skin”.]]

* ''ComicBook/CliveBarkersNextTestament'' has Wick, the Father of Colors. [[EvilIsPetty He's petty]], he seeps the life force out of people, levitates them and lets 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.

* Dewey in ''Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle'' suggests that God is merely indifferent instead of outright evil. He even suggests that people should enjoy themselves and stop fighting over trivial things such as religion, since it hardly matters when God can simply whip out a magnifying glass at ''[[KillEmAll anytime?!]]''

* In ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'', while he never exhibited overt religiosity, Oskar von Reuenthal mused during the occasion where he was framed for the second time that if a Creator exists, He must be a malicious one.

* The concept of the game ''TabletopGame/{{Midnight}}'' is fighting hopelessly against the Evil God Izrador who rules the world. However, Izrador is not the Creator, but merely the evil member of a pantheon exiled to the mortal world. However Izrador, being a god of chaos and corruption, screwed up the seal that locked him into the world. Instead of being a world where every being except Izrador could enter and leave at will (by normal ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' standards), nobody is free to enter or leave, not even the other gods of the pantheon.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjU5PH5xVng&ab_channel=SLAMWORLDWIDE "Sacramentum ov Filicide"]] by Nitheful takes this trope UpToEleven, portraying 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.

Compare and contrast UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} and the DemiurgeArchetype, [[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.

* In ''Series/Loki2021'', [[spoiler: "He Who Remains"]] is the omniscient and supreme leader of the Time Variance Authority, which he leads in conducting all manner of brainwashing, executions, and slavery to make sure only his timeline can exist. The kicker, though, is that he does this [[spoiler: to keep [[EvenEvilHasStandards even more evil versions of himself from taking power]]]].

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

* ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' has the eccentric sadist Drosselmeyer to contend with: a dead writer whose influence, and love of tragedy, still haunt Kinkan Town.
* The last episode of ''Manga/YouAreBeingSummonedAzazel'' seems to indicate that in the universe of that series, the God of the Bible rules, and he is clearly depicted as every bit as loathsome as atheists usually contend that he is -- vengeful and petty, with unreasonable standards and demands on others. He also likes to subject people to really, really bad dirty jokes, but since he surrounds himself with irredeemable toadies who pretend that his jokes are funny, he isn't aware that they aren't.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** ''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 ''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/DigimonDataSquad'' anime, it always ends up trying to destroy its own creation (and in the case of ''Data Squad'', 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/DigimonDataSquad'' 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]].

* The motivating idea behind all of the [[MonsterClown Millennium Earl's]] actions in ''Manga/DGrayMan''. Considering that said God seemingly allows the existence of someone as monstrously malevolent as the Earl, he may have a point.
* Deus Ex Machina from ''Manga/FutureDiary''. Sure, he's about to die and is taking the world down with him, but picking his successor by forcing mostly innocent people to fight a battle royale for the lulz? Not to mention telling a 4-year-old to kill (semi)-innocent people. [[spoiler: Later revealed to be the result of a BatmanGambit by another of the Diary Holders, John Bacchus, who told Deus to have a last conflict before he died, and hence took all the winning cards with him as a reward. Eventually Subverted in the Third Continuity, where [[GodIsGood Deus]] just makes Yuno Gasai the God without any bloodshed.]]
* Many of the various gods in ''Manga/{{Kurohime}}'' and one of its central themes. When we finally meet the creator of man (not the BigBad Yashahime by the way, just some goddess lazing around), she abandons her creations outright to kill the titular heroine. She fails of course, which brings up [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu ANOTHER]] of the manga's central themes.
* In ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' God gives monsters and people his power to destroy humanity, and free him from his dimensional prison, and has no concerns with taking those powers back, along with the lives of those he granted power to, to ensure that they cannot reveal his presence.
* God in ''Anime/CatSoup'' is pretty much only concerned about eating, [[spoiler:even fucking up with time and space to do so]].

* In ''Anime/LegendOfGalacticHeroes'', while he never exhibited overt religiosity, Oskar von Reuenthal mused during the occasion where he was framed for the second time that if a Creator exists, He must be a malicious one.

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'':
** Played with a curious case with Ryuunosuke. He believes that God loves good ''and'' evil, therefore he thinks that God loves his mass-murdering. In his eyes, why else would God allow crimes and wars to keep happening and make blood and guts so pretty?
** The central conflict of the story rests around priests and magi trying to gain control of the Holy Grail, which will grant their greatest wish. It turns out towards the end that [[JackassGenie the Grail has a will of its own]] and may do anything from twist your wish to outright refuse it. That said, the church has their doubts that this artifact is actually ''the'' Grail ([[spoiler:according to background materials, it is ''not'']]), and other works in the Franchise/{{Nasuverse}} establish that [[spoiler:the Grail has been corrupted ever since the entity Angra Mainyu was sealed in it.]] So, it may be a subversion.
** 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 also [[GaiasVengeance wants to knock humanity back to the Stone Age]], if not [[KillAllHumans outright obliterate them]], for daring to rise above the natural order.
* 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]].
* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': In the webnovel version, the final antagonist (and the one behind most of the catastrophes in the story) is [[spoiler:Medea, a self-proclaimed goddess that causes the waves by merging multiple worlds together, so she can drain their energy for their own use, and causes untold levels of suffering for her own entertainment]].