History Main / OurGodsAreDifferent

* Absolute Immortality with [[TheAgeless Agelessness]] and instant {{healing|Factor}}/[[NighInvulnerability invulnerability]]: can never die, is not affected by age, and either recovers instantly from anything, or is invincible. A character would have about as much luck trying to kill ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the Author]]'' as one of these.
* Advanced Immortality: cannot die of old age. However, can be killed under certain circumstances. Such as beheading them with a sacred sword during a certain cosmic event might kill them, but not fire, bullets, or being stabbed.

* Simple Immortality: don't die of old age, but can be killed by anyone with enough strength to bypass their defenses.

* Near Immortality: not truly immortal, but [[TimeAbyss capable of living for millions of years or longer]]. May be combined with EternalRecurrence, where the birth and death of gods is tied to that of universes.

* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Arthur [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2017-09-20 refers]] to the "Will of Magic" as a god, Heka [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2017-04-10 refers]] to himself as holding the mantle of the god of magic and Voltaire [[http://egscomics.com/comic/sister3-309 refers]] to the former role of Immortals as demigods.

* ''Super Snail'' from Qcplay Limited has 8 Demon Gods who correspond to a country in the world (the US expy is a guy in PowerArmor with [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Doctor Octopus tentacles]]), can only be reached by a space rocket and are the villains of the game. They backstabbed the goddess Gaia, so she's just an disembodied eye in the game (you can find her lost bodyparts to graft on yourself). A frenemy to Gaia is a god who's a wish-granting dragon as a shoutout to ''Anime/DragonballZ''. Then there's a pantheon of friendly minor gods who correspond to a stat that you have. The god of strength is an old geezer who looks like Happosai from Manga/RanmaOneHalf but using Darth Vader's armor and lightsaber. The god of Fame is [[Music/MichaelJackson Jackson during his "Bad" era]]. Meanwhile the Tec god is "Moosk" who's an expy of Elon Musk but wearing a blue Iron Man armor, the god of Art is Van Gogh and etc. Oddly the god of Faith is Hermes, yup that Greek messenger god but as he explains here he's acting as the god of faith (and expensive women's purses). If you offer souls to their altar and give enough of them, these gods will manifest and reward you with tadpoles, cells from zombies (as well as other creatures) and in rare instances - relics or parts of relics.

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bbwp4PbWYzw&ab_channel=RationalAnimations The Goddess Of Everything Else]]'', created by Rational Animations, tells an alternate creation myth in which an evil entity called the Goddess of Cancer created life of Earth and gave all life the overriding imperative; "KILL! CONSUME! MULTIPLY! CONQUER!", while the benevolent Goddess of Everything Else is able to subvert the Goddess of Cancer's design by encouraging cooperation and community among living beings.

** Most deities are born from various elemental/abstract phenomena as simple lifeforms that gradually develop sapience and intelligence until they Ascend to godhood. Other deities, however, are the result of [[DeityOfHumanOrigin mortals Ascending to godhood]], hence the Ascendant category. While generally [[PureMagicBeings composed of magic]], deities can assume physical forms and are capable of biological reproduction, even spawning racial divine hybrids in some cases, and unlike mortals, they generally do not suffer any consequences from incestual relationships. Also, unlike mortals, deities [[StrongerWithAge only become more powerful and eldritch as they get older]], with the oldest of them being feared and [[EldritchAbomination incomprehensible]]. However, due to the fluid nature of divinity in general, it is possible for deities to take this further by having their 'age' accelerated or even re-Ascending into a completely different being under the right circumstances.

* ''Super Snail'' from Qcplay Limited has 8 Demon Gods who correspond to a country in the world (the US expy is a guy in PowerArmor with [[ComicBook/SpiderMan Doctor Octopus tentacles]]), can only be reached by a space rocket and are the villains of the game. They backstabbed the goddess Gaia, so she's just an disembodied eye in the game (you can find her lost bodyparts to graft on yourself). A frenemy to Gaia is a god who's a wish-granting dragon as a shoutout to ''Anime/DragonballZ''. Then there's a pantheon of friendly minor gods who correspond to a stat that you have. The god of strength is an old geezer who looks like Happosai from Manga/RanmaOneHalf but using Darth Vader's armor and lightsaber. The god of Fame is [[Music/MichaelJackson Jackson during his "Bad" era]]. Meanwhile the Tec god is "Moosk" who's an expy of Elon Musk but wearing a blue Iron Man armor and the god of Art is Van Gogh and etc. If you offer souls to their altar and give enough of them, these gods will manifest and reward you with tadpoles, cells from zombies (as well as other creatures) and in rare instances - relics or parts of relics.

* The gods in ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'' are referred to as Asuras, and are defined less as beings to be worshipped and moreso as beings that are able to transcend their bodies and fully harmonize with mana. They reside in Epheotus, a portion of the physical world that was drawn into the aether realm by their progenitors. There are eight races of Asuras - [[OurDragonsAreDifferent dragons]], [[ThePhoenix phoenixes]], titans, pantheons, leviathans, hamadryads, sylphs, and basilisks - and each race comprises of multiple clans with one clan being the first among equals to represent said race in the High Eight (which in turn is ruled by the [[DragonsAreDivine Indrath Clan of dragons]]). Despite their power, they are not immortal but very long-lived. The crux of the storyline revolves around the fact [[spoiler:that most if not all Asuras are JerkassGods. Long ago, [[GodIsEvil Kezess]], the Lord of the Indrath and thus the ruler of the Asuras, and his clan orchestrated the genocide of the [[{{Precursors}} Djinn]] ostensibly because their mastery of [[ElementNumberFive aether]] and refusal to share it with the Asuras was a threat to the world, but in all actuality was [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist motivated by petty jealousy]]. Their attempts to cover up their atrocity led to significant repercussions. Kezess had to also cover up banishing his closest friend Mordain for going against the genocide, which in turn led Mordain to establish an [[HiddenElfVillage enclave]] within the Beast Glades for any likeminded Asuras and the [[GenocideSurvivor surviving Djinn]]. Later on, [[SatanicArchetype Agrona]] and the Vritra Clan of Basilisks ended up discovering the truth about the genocide due to their fascination with the ruins the Djinn left behind, and when they threated to expose the truth they were [[FallenAngel exiled]] to the continent of Alacrya. This in turn led to the DivineConflict that underpins the main story, as in the process of wanting to get revenge on Epheotus, Agrona and the Vritra became a case of HeWhoFightsMonsters, [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks becoming no better than Kezess and the Indrath themselves]]. [[TokenHeroicOrc Only a few Asuras]] are exempt from being JerkassGods like the rest of their kind, such as the aforementioned Mordain and his followers, Aldir, Wren, Sylvia, and Sylvie (the last of which is ironically the [[WhiteSheep only decent living member]] of both the Indrath and the Vritra, being the daughter of Agrona and through her late mother Sylvia the granddaughter of Kezess)]].

** Finally, there are the [[EldritchAbomination Ancient Ones]], which generally come from the works of Creator/HPLovecraft. They exist outside of reality, and are so absurdly powerful they can't even enter it themselves by nerfing themselves like the lower gods. Their influence instead manifests primarily through vessels: special chosen [[DifferentlyPoweredIndividual talents]] that have whatever their trait was prior overwritten with the Eldritch Trait, and are given a specialized object through which they can cast the most powerful magic in the setting, albeit it is CastFromSanity and mental faltering can lead to their respective Ancient One possessing them, at which point it's a race against time until they regain their true power and become so strong that lesser gods are merely ''food'' to them.

** ...because from the [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment oh-so-redundantly-named]] deus gods onwards, all gods live in the Divine Realm instead. Deus gods onwards possess the Deus Trait, and are significantly more powerful than local gods. Of note is that when a god of the Divine Realm descends to the mortal realm, their divinity is severely reduced and needs to be recharged over a (usually extremely long) period of time. The deus gods are also where

* ''Super Snail'' from Qcplay Limited has 8 Demon Gods who correspond to a country in the world (the US expy is a guy in PowerArmor with [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderman Dr. Octopus tentacles]]), can only be reached by a space rocket and are the villains of the game. They backstabbed the goddess Gaia, so she's just an disembodied eye in the game (you can find her lost bodyparts to graft on yourself). A frenemy to Gaia is a god who's a wish-granting dragon as a shoutout to ''Anime/DragonballZ''. Then there's a pantheon of friendly minor gods who correspond to a stat that you have. The god of strength is an old geezer who looks like Happosai from Manga/RanmaOneHalf but using Darth Vader's armor and lightsaber. The god of Fame is [[Music/MichaelJackson Jackson during his "Bad" era]]. Meanwhile the Tec god is "Moosk" who's an expy of Elon Musk but wearing a blue Iron Man armor and the god of Art is Van Gogh and etc. If you offer souls to their altar and give enough of them, these gods will manifest and reward you with tadpoles, cells from zombies (as well as other creatures) and in rare instances - relics or parts of relics.

* In ''Literature/TalesFromTheFlatEarth'', appear as humanoids sitting on thrones and so translucent a person can see the blood running under their skin. Tired of eons of raping and murdering people on Earth, the gods have taken to a more peaceful existence of [[WeWillContemplateOurNavels dwelling on their own thoughts]] and so haven't left their seats in eons. Even so they are by far the most powerful beings in the cosmos and were collectively the [[TheMaker creators of the universe]]. They have no fear of Death or any of the other Lords of Darkness as the gods are fully immortal and [[NighInvulnerable completely indestructible]].

* In ''Literature/TheTalesOfTheFlatEarth'', appear as humanoids sitting on thrones and so translucent a person can see the blood running under their skin. Tired of eons of raping and murdering people on Earth, the gods have taken to a more peaceful existence of [[WeWillContemplateOurNavels dwelling on their own thoughts]] and so haven't left their seats in eons. Even so they are by far the most powerful beings in the cosmos and were collectively the [[TheMaker creators of the universe]]. They have no fear of Death or any of the other Lords of Darkness as the gods are fully immortal and [[NighInvulnerable completely indestructible]].

* ''Super Snail'' from Qcplay Limited has 8 Demon Gods who correspond to a country in the world (the US expy is a guy in PowerArmor with [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderman Dr. Octopus tentacles]]), can only be reached by a space rocket and are the villains of the game. They backstabbed the goddess Gaia, so she's just an disembodied eye in the game (you can find her lost bodyparts to graft on yourself). A frenemy to Gaia is a god who's a wish-granting dragon as a shoutout to ''Anime/DragonballZ''. Then there's a pantheon of friendly minor gods who correspond to a stat that you have. The god of strength is an old geezer who looks like Happosai from Manga/RanmaOneHalf but using Darth Vader's armor and lightsaber. The god of Fame is [[Creator/MichaelJackson Jackson during his "Bad" era]]. Meanwhile the Tec god is "Moosk" who's an expy of Elon Musk but wearing a blue Iron Man armor and the god of Art is Van Gogh and etc. If you offer souls to their altar and give enough of them, these gods will manifest and reward you with tadpoles, cells from zombies (as well as other creatures) and in rare instances - relics or parts of relics.

* ''Super Snail'' from Qcplay Limited has 8 Demon Gods who correspond to a country in the world (the US expy is a guy in PowerArmor with [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderman Dr. Octopus tentacles]]) and are the villains of the game. They backstabbed the goddess Gaia, so she's just an disembodied eye in the game (you can find her lost bodyparts to graft on yourself). A frenemy to Gaia is a god who's a wish-granting dragon as a shoutout to ''Anime/DragonballZ''. Then there's a pantheon of friendly minor gods who correspond to a stat that you have. The god of strength is an old geezer who looks like Happosai from Manga/RanmaOneHalf but using Darth Vader's armor and lightsaber. Meanwhile the Tec god is "Musky" who's an expy of Elon Musk but wearing an Iron Man armor and the god of Art is Van Gogh. If you offer souls to their altar and give enough of them, these gods will manifest and reward you with tadpoles, cells from zombies (as well as other creatures) and in rare instances - relics or their parts.

** There has been much confusion created by the concept of The Holy Trinity in the Bible, the idea of one Godhead in three persons. It is an [[MindScrew infamously confusing concept]] that has kept biblical scholars from getting sleep for literal millennia. The Trinity holds that God appears in three persons, The Father (Jehovah/Yahweh/I Am), The Son (Jesus Christ), and The Holy Spirit. Scholars disagree if these figures are different manifestations of one deity or are three individual deities themselves connected by a similar substance. These ideas have challenged Christianity’s place as a “monotheistic” religion, and other Abrahamic faiths have come to label Christian beliefs as polytheistic. Catholic priests often teach Jesus is the direct manifestation of the God who created the Earth in seven days and the are not actually separate, independent, beings. However the concept of direct incarnation have had some doubt thrown on them and have been challenged with scripture from the Bible itself. Quotes such as Matthew 27:46, when Jesus cries “Oh Father, why have you forsaken me” while being crucified shows signs of Jesus and God having separate intentions and independent minds. However, most church goers surprisingly never put much thought into the concept of the Trinity and dismiss it as something humans are unable to understand.

* The various entities of Myth/AboriginalAustralianMyths (variously translated as spirits or gods) have a multifaceted and at times extremely complex nature. For instance the Wandjina of the cultures of Western Australia are ''[[https://www.encyclopedia.com/environment/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ungarinyin-religion simultaneously]]'' GeniusLoci, lightning flashes, ancestor spirits and unborn souls. Broadly speaking most gods exist outside of time and space and can die but not really, though further specifics vary widely from culture to culture. Conversely, despiste their complicated nature they can be surprisingly down to earth; for example the Gunwinggu GodOfThunder Mamaragan dwells in puddles, not exactly Olympus or Asgard here (though most do dwell [[HeavenAbove in the sky]].

[[WesternAnimation/OffTheAir I mean, that's so cool.
Jesus was way cool.
No wonder there are so many Christians.]]

[[I mean, that's so cool.

No wonder there are so many Christians. WesternAnimation/OffTheAir]]

[[Jesus was way cool.
Everybody liked Jesus.
Everybody wanted to hang out with him.
Anything he wanted to do, he did.
He turned water into wine.
And if he wanted to,
He could have turned wheat into marijuana, or sugar into cocaine, or vitamin pills into amphetamines
He walked on the water
And swam on the land.
He would tell these stories.
And people would listen.
He was really cool.
If you were blind or lame.
You just went to Jesus.
And he would put his hands on you.
And you would be healed.
That's so cool.
He could've played guitar better than Hendrix.
He could've told the future.
He could've baked the most delicious cake in the world.
He could've scored more goals than Wayne Gretzky.
He could've danced better than Barishnikov.
Jesus could have been funnier than any comedian you can think of.

He told people to eat his body and drink his blood.
That's so cool.
Jesus was so cool.
But then some people got jealous of how cool he was.
So they killed him.
But then he rose from the dead.
He rose from the dead, danced around, and went up to heaven.
I mean, that's so cool.
Jesus was way cool.

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* The gods in ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'' are referred to as Asuras, and are defined less as beings to be worshipped and moreso as beings that are able to transcend their bodies and fully harmonize with mana. They reside in Epheotus, a portion of the physical world that was drawn into the aether realm by their progenitors. There are eight races of Asuras - [[DragonsAreDivine dragons[]], [[ThePhoenix phoenixes]], titans, pantheons, leviathans, hamadryads, sylphs, and basilisks - and each race comprises of multiple clans with one clan being FirstAmongEquals to represent said race in the High Eight (which in turn is rule by the Indrath Clan of dragons). The crux of the storyline revolves around the fact [[spoiler:that most if not all Asuras are JerkassGods. Long ago, Kezess, the Lord of the Indrath and thus the ruler of the Asuras, and his clan orchestrated the genocide of the [[{{Precursors}} Djinn]] ostensibly because their mastery of [[ElementNumberFive aether]] and refusal to share it with the Asuras was a threat to the world, but in all actuality was [[NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist motivated by petty jealousy]]. Their attempts to cover up their atrocity led to significant repercussions. Kezess had to also cover up banishing his closest friend Mordain for going against the genocide, which in turn led Mordain to establish an enclave within the Beast Glades for any likeminded Asuras and the [[GenocideSurvivor surviving Djinn]]. Later on, Agrona and the Vritra Clan of Basilisks ended up discovering the truth about the genocide due to their fascination with the ruins the Djinn left behind]].