History Main / GodKartingWithBeelzebub

* Possibly the UrExample, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation depending on your interpretation of their relationship]]. Literature/TheBible's {{God}} and {{Satan}} meet up once in the Bible on comparatively friendly terms. Though if you read the subtext, Satan is questioning God. Keep in mind that "Satan" is from the Hebrew Ha Satan/Shaitan meaning "the accuser" in Hebrew.
** In Judaism, the Devil is traditionally not seen as God's enemy. Instead, he works with God's permission, tempting mortals to test their faith in God (see the Book of Job), and after their deaths pointing out the sins they've committed in life that might prevent them from getting to Heaven (essentially working as a prosecutor in God's court).
*** A minority of Christians also take this view. Others merge the traditional Satan with the prosecutor, and see Satan as truly evil, yet also as the prosecutor who simply likes his job too much.
*** The traditional idea of "the devil" pulls together multiple Biblical figures that Bible scholars will tell you were not originally seen as the same entity.

* ''SuperPaperMario'' has God and Satan as husband and wife, respectively.
* ''TheGrayGarden'', similarly to the ''SuperPaperMario'' example above, has God and the Devil as partners and arguably a romantic couple.

* In ''LucyTheDaughterOfTheDevil'', the devil is torn between wanting to kill Jesus and force his daughter to marry a corrupt politician instead, and befriending Jesus.

* Often done in ''GodTheDevilAndBob''. One episode had The Devil throw a strop and remove evil from the world because God "forgot" his birthday. [[spoiler: They make up by the end.]]
* In ''TrippingTheRift'', God and Satan are often found chatting with each other.

* Possibly the UrExample, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation depending on your interpretation of their relationship]]. Literature/TheBible's {{God}} and {{Satan}} meet up once in the Bible on comparatively friendly terms. Though if you read the subtext, Satan is questioning God. Keep in mind that "Satan" is from the hebrew Ha Satan/Shaitan meaning the accuser in Hebrew.

*** A Minority of Christians also take this view. Others merge the Traditional Satan with the prosecutor, and see Satan as Truly evil, yet also as the prosecutor who simply likes his job too much.
*** The traditional idea of "the devil" pulls together multiple Biblical figures that Bible scholars will tell you were not original seen as the same entity.

* At the end of the ''Film/{{Bedazzled 2000}}'', the Devil and God or and angel are seen playing a friendly game of chess in the park (The Devil cheats).

* In an episode of ''FamilyGuy'', {{God}} and TheDevil are seen at a bar together.

* In Creator/RobertAHeinlein's ''Literature/JobAComedyOfJustice'', the protagonist finds out that [[spoiler: God and Satan are actually brothers and part of an entire race of divine beings. Earth is something akin to a school project that Satan was helping his brother on. But God went on a power trip and rewrote all the rules, making his brother the evil force in his universe and demanding complete loyalty from creatures he had designed to be anything but obedient. He specifically wrote out the apocalyptic prophesy to make his brother look like a jerk and come out a hero for his own ego boost. Satan, quite flatly, tells the protagonist that he isn't going to attend the end of days to deprive his brother of the satisfaction.]]

* The plot of ''Theatre/FaustFirstPartOfTheTragedy'' starts off with God and Mephistopheles having a friendly conversation in Heaven, which ends with God betting that Mephistopheles cannot turn over the scholar Faust to eternal damnation, and giving Mephisto free rein to tempt Faust to try it.

* Mikhail Bulgakov's treatment of Woland (the Devil) in TheMasterAndMargarita. He is not evil, just tricky and likes to tempt mortals into traps. And though he does not meet God or Jesus 'onscreen', they're neutral at the very least. Woland punishes sinners, mocks atheists and obviously supports Christian worldview, and he fulfills Jesus's request on the Master's fate.

* God and Mephistopheles seem to be on remarkably good terms at the beginning of Goethe's ''Theatre/{{Faust}}''.

** In Judaism, the Devilr)is traditionally not seen as God's enemy. Instead, he works with God's permission, tempting mortals to test their faith in God (see the Book of Job), and after their deaths pointing out the sins they've committed in life that might prevent them from getting to Heaven (essentially working as a prosecutor in God's court).

* The plot of ''Theatre/FaustFirstPartOfTheTragedy'' starts off with God and Mephistopheles having a friendly conversation in Heaven, which ends with God betting that Mephistopheles cannot turn over the scholar Faust to eternal damnation, and giving Mephisto free rein to tempt Faust.

* God and the Devil are on good although misunderstanding terms on the fate of humans in Creator/AnneRice's ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles MemnochTheDevil]]''.

* God and the Devil are on good although misunderstanding terms on the fate of humans in AnneRice's ''MemnochTheDevil''.

* Possibly the UrExample, [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation depending on your interpretation of their relationship]]. Literature/TheBible's {{God}} and {{Satan}} meet up once in the Bible on comparatively friendly terms. Though if you read the subtext, Satan is hugely insulting to God. Keep in mind that "Satan" and "Devil" mean "rebel" and "slanderer" respectively, and both can be applied to Satan rebeling and slandering God.
** In Judaism, the Devil is traditionally not seen as God's enemy. Instead, he works with God's permission, tempting mortals to test their faith in God (see the Book of Job), and after their deaths pointing out the sins they've committed in life that might prevent them from getting to Heaven (essentially working as a prosecutor in God's court).

-->'''Constantine:''' What if I told you that God and the Devil made a wager, a kind of standing bet for the souls of all mankind? [snip] No direct contact with humans, that would be the rule. Just influence. See who would win.
-->'''Angela Dodson:''' Why?
-->'''Constantine:''' Who knows? Maybe just for the fun of it.
* At the end of the ''Film/{{Bedazzled 2000}}'', the Devil and God/Jesus are seen playing a friendly game of chess in the park (The Devil cheats).

* In the ''IncarnationsOfImmortality'' books, [=JHVH=] is Satan's friend (When he first became an Incarnation, [=JHVH=] provided him with valuable advice and assistance. Satan later repayed his kindness by manipulated another Incarnation into making sure the holocaust doesn't happen). At the end of ''And Eternity...'', God[[spoiler:dess]](who is a seperate Incarnation from [=JHVH=]) is Satan's [[spoiler:stepdaughter, [[ThePlan as it was his ultimate goal to give her the job]]]].
** Note that this isn't because he's planning on doing anything evil: it's just the former holder of the position is a useless idiot not doing His job.

* ''Fanfic/TheGameOfTheGods'' has Varda (and diverse other gods and great heroes of LordOfTheRings lore) all playing a game with [[UltimateEvil Morgoth]] which involves the latter creating {{Mary Sue}}s for the former to kill them off using the laws of reality and canon. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption You can almost feel sorry for Morgoth sometimes.]]

* ''The Game of The Gods'' has Varda (and diverse other gods and great heroes of LordOfTheRings lore) all playing a game with [[UltimateEvil Morgoth]] which involves the latter creating {{Mary Sue}}s for the former to kill them off using the laws of reality and canon. [[FailureIsTheOnlyOption You can almost feel sorry for Morgoth sometimes.]]

* In ''OhGodYouDevil'', {{God}} and TheDevil are adversaries, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZdVlWzWP0 it's a rather friendly competition]].

* At the end of the remake of ''Film/{{Bedazzled 2000}}'', the Devil and God/Jesus are seen playing a friendly game of chess in the park (The Devil cheats).

* God and Mephistopheles seem to be on remarkably good terms at the beginning of Goethe's ''{{Faust}}''.

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* In "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniels, Satan and a young fellow named Johnny engage in a fiddling competition. The prize for Johnny is a golden fiddle, but the prize for Satan is Johnny's soul.

* One episode of ''SouthPark'' has Satan go to God for relationship advice. Note that they ''are'' portrayed as enemies, however--Satan was rather nervous about seeing God for the first time in thousands of years, and God seemed perplexed that Satan's visit wasn't about universal domination.

* In ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087835/ Oh, God! You Devil]]'', {{God}} and TheDevil are adversaries, but [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVZdVlWzWP0 it's a rather friendly competition]].

-->Constantine: What if I told you that God and the Devil made a wager, a kind of standing bet for the souls of all mankind? [snip] No direct contact with humans, that would be the rule. Just influence. See who would win.
-->Angela Dodson: Why?
-->Constantine: Who knows? Maybe just for the fun of it.
* At the end of the remake of ''{{Bedazzled}}'', the Devil and God/Jesus are seen playing a friendly game of chess in the park (The Devil cheats).

* At the end of the remake of ''{{Bedazzled}}'', the Devil and God/Jesus are seen playing a friendly game of chess in the park.

* In StevenBrust's ''Literature/ToReignInHell'', Yaweh, Satan, Michael, Lucifer, Raphael, Leviathan and Belial are all friends and basically brothers (born of the 'First Wave' of order and chaos from which they created themselves and Heaven). The Second and Third Waves created the archangels and angels (including Beelzebub, Lilith, Harut, Ariel, Asmodai, Mephistopheles, Uriel, Abdiel, Gabriel and Zaphkiel), and aside from worrying about [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt the Fourth Wave]], they're pretty much all good friends (though Lilith has caused some tension by being the first to take a female form).