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* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The Force is usually portrayed as a nonspecific SentientCosmicForce, but "The One" arc in this series introduced Son, Daughter, and Father, who were, apparently, aspects of the Force that had taken on humanoid form. Unless they were just very powerful Force Adepts whose relationship perfectly mirrored the nature of Balance... it is very ambiguous. In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', Veris Hydan refers to them as gods implying that they were believed to be gods at some point in the past.

* In ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'', it has been showcased many times that [[EvilOverlord Oma Zi-O's]] status is nothing less than nigh-omnipotent. Beyond the fact that he has [[SuperPowerLottery the powers of every single every Rider of the Heisei era]], he has unparalleled abilities in using [[MindOverMatter Psychokinesis]], SuperStrength, NighInvulnerability, the ability to [[TimeStandsStill Freeze Time]] [[AndIMustScream while keeping his victims aware]], and [[NoBodyLeftBehind the power to project waves of disintegrating force.]] And all this is just the tip of the ice berg as every single battle he is in is a one sided slaughter that ends in the blink of an eye due to being so above everyone in the setting. Even after his younger self had obtained the power of every single rider before him, he still isn't even anywhere close to his level.

** Whoever possess the Matrix of Leadership, which is basically a peace of Primus would not only become a Prime, but also gain a portion of Primus' godly power.

** The WingedUnicorn [[PrincessesRule Princesses]] Celestia and Luna are the closest things the ponies have to gods, not directly worshipped but [[OhMyGods invoked]] as if they were. They control the sun and the moon, and seem to be immortal ([[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld both are over a thousand years old]]). The comics imply that the show has not depicted their true power yet. In ''Fiendship is Magic'', it's shown that Celestia fought [[OneManArmy Chrysalis and her entire army once]]. The battle ended with the Changelings utterly defeated, [[ScarsAreForever scarred with their holes]], and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in a volcano]].\\
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There are some other alicorns, who have powerful magic but nothing godlike, and some other beings that can challenge the power of the ruling sisters at least temporarily -- but these, too, fall short of godlike, with some exceptions:

** In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:Ben possesses the powers of the Ultimatrix, Ascalon, and Diagon. Vilgax tries to corrupt him into becoming a universe-conquering tyrant by pointing out that Ben could do ''anything'', and fix ''everything'' with that much power at his fingertips. Ultimately, Ben's girlfriend Julie convinces him not to abuse the power. Ben only uses his powers to restore Earth's population back to normal before relinquishing them to Azmuth.]]
** Diagon was also this, considering that he is a [[EldritchAbomination half-mile-wide octopus thing]] who can [[spoiler: change size, mind control people, control the weather, and a few other godly things. His first move was to turn ''everyone in the world'' into Esoterica.]]

** Celestialsapiens could also be considered a god ''species'', since they could remake all of reality with a single thought. Then recall that Ben can turn into one using the Omnitrix.

** Celestiansapians could also be considered this, since they could remake all of reality with a single thought. Then recall that Ben can turn into one using the Omnitrix.

** Season 2 introduces the Great Dragon's (the god of creation and magic) evil counterpart: the Shadow Phoenix, currently going by the name of Lord Darkar. He can absorb magic, shape-shift from an armored skeleton to a creepy phoenix, create hordes of tar monsters whose only weakness is [[LightEmUp light]], corrupt fairies, grant power boosts to witches, summon demonic creatures, and manipulate dark energy. He was born from the void in conjunction with the Great Dragon right at the beginning of the universe. Ironically, it only took a very powerful convergence from six mid-tier fairies to defeat him.
** Season 3 brings the Elders of Magix, eternal magical beings who guard the Water Stars (the elemental counterpart of the Great Dragon) and inhabit the Golden Kingdom, a dimension isolated from the rest of the universe and outside of time. Overall, they are a downplayed example seeing they seem to be more demigods than anything. Although Arcadia, the first fairy, has reality-warping powers over at least the Golden Kingdom. Arcadia is also the most "divine-looking" with her glittering, pale blue skin, her gold eyes, and her large wings.

** Season 2 introduces the Great Dragon's evil counterpart: the Shadow Phoenix, currently going by the name of Lord Darkar. He can absorb magic, shape-shift from an armored skeleton to a creepy phoenix, create hordes of tar monsters whose only weakness is [[LightEmUp light]], corrupt fairies, grant power boosts to witches, summon demonic creatures, and manipulate dark energy. He was born from the void in conjunction with the Great Dragon right at the beginning of the universe.

** In Season 3, [[spoiler:Adamai is already very powerful, being the strongest of the aforementioned Eliatrope Dragons when fully grown. When channeling all six of the Eliatrope Dofus like Yugo did, he's bar none the most powerful being in the series, even stronger than the actual Twelve Gods. Unfortunately, he's an antagonist this season.]]
** Also from Season 3, there's the BigBad Oropo. [[spoiler:Oropo is the last Eliotrope, having inherited the wakfu of all of the others when they passed. He's had centuries to hone the same powers his "creator" Yugo wields. He also has possession of the Eliacube. Near the end of the season, he absorbs the power of the Eliacube and the six Eliatrope Dofus to become a massive owl-like giant made of pure wakfu that curbstomps the heroes with ease, with even Goultard himself barely able to do much more than deflect his attacks.]]

** [[TheArchMage Wanda and Doctor Strange]] arguably reach this level, with Wanda capable of dropping meteors on people's heads with pin point precision and Doctor Strange challenging ''the entire White Council'' to a duel. That's a couple of thousand [[PersonOfMassDestruction Persons of Mass Destruction]], a few of whom reach the edge of this weight class. And ''they backed down''. While a lot of this is his reputation, and the sequel indicates that his natural power level is PersonOfMassDestruction level and that he's actually weaker than Wanda, his sheer precision and creativity mean that he approaches this level -- he's the Sorcerer Supreme, and fights and/or manipulates {{Eldritch Abomination}}s for a living. And if he needs more power, he can get it -- this is the man who steals the Tesseract from Asgardian maximum security when he's ''bored.'' Essentially, he and Wanda are both in between PersonOfMassDestruction and PhysicalGod status, but Stephen is a few steps above Wanda.

** Alan Scott as the Green Lantern, who is mentioned as having been SHIELD's countermeasure against Magneto (though without the ring, he was "only" a BadassNormal).

** Another living God would be Phantaminum, being a man-made God who can't be interfered with by any other than his equal. Just like the relatively less powerful [[GodSlayer Enryu]], he's an [[OutsideContextProblem "Irregular"]] who entered the Tower on his own power rather than being chosen by Headon and displayed [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority such great power that his Rank is higher than King Jahad]].

* {{Immortality}}: They usually don't age, but can be killed - although more than likely [[NighInvulnerability it will be incredibly difficult]] and [[GodzillaThreshold takes a great deal of effort]] or a [[InfinityPlusOneSword special item]] to do so. Sometimes [[TakesOneToKillOne only a god can kill another god]]. And it's not uncommon for them to be [[BackFromTheDead resurrected]], either - although they may lose their memories or be forced to take a new form.

** The Olympian Pantheon is mentioned, with examples including Hera, Athena, Hercules (who, like his comics counterpart, is as strong, if not stronger, than Thor) and eventually his daughter, Diana of Themyscira a.k.a. ComicBook/WonderWoman - though at the start of the story she's a pre-teen... albeit one capable of pulling a OneHitKill on a kind of monster that had previously survived a [[ColonyDrop pin-point orbital bombardment]], [[RasputinianDeath being rammed against the edge of a crater by the Tumbler, a jet-powered tank, demolition charges from the same, and then most of the electricity of a major metropolitan area being channelled into its exposed innards to kill.]]

** [[TheArchMage Wanda and Doctor Strange]] arguably reach this level, with Wanda capable of dropping meteors on people's heads with pin point precision and Doctor Strange challenging ''the entire White Council'' to a duel. That's a couple of thousand [[PersonOfMassDestruction Persons of Mass Destruction]], a few of whom reach the edge of this weight class. And ''they backed down''. While a lot of this is his reputation, and the sequel indicates that his natural power level is PersonOfMassDestruction level and that he's actually weaker than Wanda, his sheer precision and creativity mean that he approaches this level - he's the Sorcerer Supreme, and fights and/or manipulates {{Eldritch Abomination}}s for a living. And if he needs more power, he can get it - this is the man who steals the Tesseract from Asgardian maximum security when he's ''bored.'' Essentially, he and Wanda are both in between PersonOfMassDestruction and PhysicalGod status, but Stephen is a few steps above Wanda.
** Omega Class mutants, though rare, fit this criteria - the above mentioned Wanda, her father Magneto and eventually, Jean Grey and [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor]].

* ''Fanfic/ThousandShinji'': Due to the events of the fic, [[spoiler:Shinji, Asuka, Rei and Misato]] became ''[[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 the New Chaos Gods]]''. They have a myriad of shapes, but usually wear their old human forms -or humanoid shapes- when they interact with mortals (their "public relations" bodies to put it another way). Their powers include immortality, psychic powers, and limited reality warping. Each one of them is attuned to a concept and has powers associated with it: [[spoiler:Shinji,]] God of Trickery, has limited omniscience, the greatest psychic powers and shoots lightning bolts; [[spoiler:Asuka,]] Goddess of War is super strong, super fast, nearly invulnerable and master of combat -armed or otherwise-; and so on...

** Illyria. Similarly to Glory, she had a true form, a taloned, tentacled EldritchAbomination, but was trapped in a human body. This substantially decreased her power. Then her power had to be artifically reduced further, as it was eating through her physical form.

* Glory the Hellgod from the 5th season of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' is an example of a former [[GodIsEvil Hellgod]] confined to a physical form -- in this case, as a punishment. She's still incredibly powerful, able to move at absurd speeds and punch through force fields.

* On ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', Peter Petrelli becomes this by about midway through Volume One. He's got NighInvulnerability, {{Telekinesis}}, SuperStrength, {{Flight}}, {{teleportation}}, the ability to [[PlayingWithFire shoot fireballs]] and [[ShockAndAwe unleash lightning bolts]], FromASingleCell type {{Immortality}}, and he's a TimeMaster. In Volume Three, he gets {{Nerf}}ed by the BigBad -- his own father, Arthur Petrelli -- who steals his powers and soon after was himself deemed TooPowerfulToLive by the show's writers.

** The Trickster. Here, a Trickster is a pagan god. He can reshape reality and mess with time. Dropped a guy into a wormhole ForTheEvulz. Good times. A few other Pagan gods have also featured in the series. In season 5 it's revealed that [[spoiler:the Trickster is actually not a pagan god at all, but an Archangel, specifically Gabriel, who's hiding from his brothers.]]

** At the end of season 6, [[spoiler:Castiel]] becomes one. [[AGodAmI Or at least that's what he claims.]] He proceeds to take a very active role in managing his new kingdom, [[spoiler:roasting half of Heaven]], killing people all over the world who displease him, and presenting himself as a wrathful but just deity.
** It has been confirmed by Eric Wolpaw and Rob Benedict that [[spoiler:Chuck Shurley]] as {{God}} plays this trope entirely straight. After spending much of the show as an AllPowerfulBystander, he takes a proactive role in season 11 to fight TheAntiGod.

* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'':
** The C'tan star-gods of the Necron faction can personally take to the battlefield. Only two of the remaining four gods are active however, with the third irreversibly DrivenToMadness and the fourth still sleeping.
** Also, the Avatars of Khaine.
** The aptly-named God-Emperor of Man was this back when he was still up and walking rather than on life support. [[AGodIAmNot Despite his insistence that he wasn't.]]
** There are also his sons, the Primarchs. While not as powerful as him, all of them are much more powerful than a normal man. The only reason that the Emperor was wounded as badly as he was by Horus was because he was his favorite son, whom he was hesistant to kill. Once he saw the depths of Horus's depravity, he erased him from existence with a single psychic blast. The Daemon Primarchs even more so. Take a Primarch, give up his soul to a Chaos God, and replace it with raw Warp power. The result is something second only to the Chaos Gods themselves in terms of power and malevolence, with CompleteImmortality to boot. The only tradeoff (besides having a Chaos God own your soul forever) is that their new existence as Warp entities means they cannot manifest in the Materium without a huge expenditure of power.
** The Greater Daemon minions of the Chaos Gods when they enter the Materium. The Gods themselves are too powerful to take a physical form.
** Alpha psykers and above usually veer into this territory. Physically they're more or less members of their respective species, but their psychic powers are so vast they can [[RealityWarper make reality their bitch]] without even consciously thinking about it. Stories tell of alpha-psykers snapping [[HumongousMecha Emperor Titans]] in half with a thought, wiping out armies with a glance, or mind-controlling whole hive cities just by being there. One Nurglite alpha could infect the population of entire planets with Grandfather Nurgle's diseases before his ship even arrived in the system. As a side effect of their reality warping they often become very hard to kill, either by wrapping themselves in impenetrable barriers or by just ignoring boring inconveniences like physics. And let's not forget that even the death of an alpha can have devastating consequences - they often explode with enough power to inflict an EarthShatteringKaboom on the world they're on, or spawn any number of really nasty Warp incursions. Unsurprisingly for the CrapsackWorld that is the ''40K'' universe, such displays of tangible power tend to attract huge numbers of devout followers, usually of the Chaos persuasion.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}} Fantasy'':
** Sigmar, a mortal man who ascended to godhood after his death. A snake god, Sotek, manifested the same day Sigmar was born to save the lizardmen from the skaven. It hasn't been confirmed, but it seems like there must be a connection given that two races were saved from extinction by different, brand new physical gods at the same time.
** When Chaos first showed up, the elven gods gave Aenarion the power to kick so much demonic ass that the elves managed to beat back the outpourings of a fully open warp gate long enough to partially seal it off. He single-handedly killed thousands of enemies, including ''four'' Greater Daemons.
** The daemon princes has most of these powers and are usually worshiped by bands/tribes of marauders.
** The Old Ones ({{Mayincatec}} god-like extraterrestrials worshiped by Lizardmen). They modified the orbit of the planet, the planet's continents and tectonic plates, created the Lizardmen from actual reptilians that already existed to protect their ''creation'' and then created elves, dwarfs, ogres, halflings, and humans and ''gifted'' them magic. They have spaceships, too. Also, Chaos is more or less the ''dark side'' of their magic powers.
** Several gods have physical avatars in the mortal world that are available as units on the tabletop, most notably Orion and Ariel, the [[SemiDivine half-elven]] forms of the elven gods Orion and Isha, respectively.
** Greater Daemons are explicitly said to be worshipped as minor gods by the Chaos-aligned tribes, and like the above, they show up in physical form on the battlefield to fight alongside their minions. They're superhumanly strong, biologically immortal, and have various magic powers from flight to energy projection to teleportation, but can still be felled by mortal weaponry. One notable example (in the Daemons 7e army book) involved Skarbrand, the most powerful daemon of Khorne, appearing in a battle with Imperial troops only to be [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu reduced to a puddle of gore by]] [[MugglesDoItBetter some pseudo-16th century blackpowder cannons.]]
** During the End Times, the Incarnates each one held one of the eight winds of magic within themselves. [[spoiler: Sigmar also returns in physical form to do battle with Chaos once more. In addition, the elven goddess reveals that their gods are simply the ones who survived their world's fall to chaos, and intends on taking the Grail Knights of Bretonnia as well as a few chosen Elves to become the respective pantheons of the next world.]]
* ''TabletopGame/{{Scion}}'' focuses on the children of couplings between gods and mortals. In time, the characters grow so powerful that they become gods themselves.

* The Maker from ''TableTopGame/{{Puppetland}}'', hence how the backstory of the game involves Punch - one of The Maker's own creations - killing him for his power.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Rifts}}'' has a book called ''Pantheons of the Megaverse'' with gods that boil down to normal stats turned up to eleven.
* ''TabletopGame/ThePrimalOrder'' is a "capsystem", a set of rules that can be applied to any RPG system, that outlines how to play deities, and is often considered the best god RPG system around.

* ''VisualNovel/SilverCrisis'' has the titular Silver claim to be this after [[spoiler: absorbing the aura/souls of the Goddess Din and the Demon King Ganondorf.]] In terms of power after making this statement, he's not wrong.

** Then there is [[AllPowerfulBystander Ryougi Shiki's third personality]], also known as the Origin of the Void. It possess a very deep connection to the Akasha, the origin of everything itself, and was thought to be omnipotent - until WordOfGod states that she is still below Arcueid's Archetype Earth form in terms of power level.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2009/03/15/issue-1-page-7/ Jon's attempt to end the world was in service of one.]]

* The Seven of ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': In addition to each having sufficient mastery of one the setting's ''many'' [[FunctionalMagic combat]] [[SupernaturalMartialArts systems]] to have to narrowed the [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Demiurge]] population down to just themselves, Implanted in each of their skulls is a a Key of Kings; a [[PiecesOfGod seventh of the voice of]] [[TheMaker YISUN]] whose power they can channel to alter the location of stars or transform into thousand-foot-tall monsters.

* ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'':%%Gothmog.
** The New Olympians are ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: the Greek Dodekatheon (the primary gods of Olympus), stuffed into the bodies of teenaged mutants. While their power is only a tiny fraction of what it once was, they are still very much the real deal. It has been mentioned that other deities are around as well, such as Belisarius, a minor Roman war god now passing himself off as the superhero 'Legionaire'.
** In addition, there are Avatars[[note]]mutants with the power to bond with a spirit, let it share their own soul's 'hallow' in exchange for the use of the spirit's powers[[/note]] who serve as Paladins for some other gods and god-like beings, most notably Miyet (paladin of Bast) and Okami (paladin of Amaterasu). While they are not the gods and goddesses themselves, they do serve as their agents in the material world, and are given power suitable for that purpose.

* In ''Terramirum'', they apparently used to have a whole pantheon of living gods.
* In ''Roleplay/ShadowhunterPeril'', Oblivion is this, but completely [[GodIsEvil evil]]. He's the only character in the series to be an Ushubaen, a human with demonic energy flowing through his body, yet still manages to retain a soul that prevents him from imploding with the force of a small bomb. He is powerful enough to fight and actually injure Puriel, and angel of the Almighty himself. Nuriel, another angel, states that he once fought another Ushubaen with two of his brother angels, and that the Ushubaen completely curb-stomped the first angel to death, then killed the other one and severely wounding Nuriel before it was brought down. And since Ushubaens never stop growing in power, it's certainly possible Oblivion will grow to become an omnipotent evil being of destruction, considering how young and powerful he already is...
* A very downplayed example, but the ''WebAnimation/AnimatorVSAnimation'' series takes place in a computer. Because of this, the Animator who owns the computer is pretty much a god, having the abillity of create and destroy whatever and whoever he wants. It's downplayed because outside of the computer, the Animator is a normal human.
** When you think about it, the same goes for pretty much everyone who owns a computer, as it's implied a huge part of the programs is sentient.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has quite a few. SCP-343 in particular actually claims to be the Abrahamic God.
* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'':
** "[[EldritchAbomination The Entity]]" could be considered this when he was in the form of 90's Kid, but still had a form that was much, MUCH larger [[spoiler: when he absorbs the entire universe and every being within it into himself except for Linkara's apartment (allowing him to do one last review)]]
** [[MultiversalConqueror Lord]] [[AntiHero Vyce]] himself could be considered one considering he is one of the most powerful enemies Linkara's faced (the only confirmed stronger one being The Entity), in a commentary Lewis mentioned that at full power he could "Go ten rounds [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu with God]]", he could [[spoiler: transform himself into data to fight the Entity on equal grounds]], and his greatest accomplishment is [[spoiler:fighting and WINNING against beings similar to the Entity in the past]].
* ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'': [[GodIsEvil Yahweh]] and {{Satan}} are both quite powerful, the latter crushing a [[ShootTheMessenger messenger]] with his ''mind'', the former destroying his throne room over bad news. Many demons and angels as well are powerful enough in their own right. [[ArchangelUriel Uriel]] is able to kill [[spoiler: [[WalkingWasteland thousands with sheer psychic force]]]]. However they still prove to be kill-able: [[spoiler: Uriel with some missiles and a laser, Satan with two missiles to the face, and God by the hand of Michael and his friends]].
* ''Literature/BeyondTheImpossible'': The Greek gods. It's possible to physically hurt them, but they can't be killed by conventional means (unless you count turning a neutron star into a black hole "conventional").
* ''Franchise/{{Noob}}'': The Sources in the FictionalVideoGame in which the story is set. The first of them Fargöth is TheMaker of the universe and basically the father of all the other Sources. Most have settled for a "One planet, one Source" arrangement by the time of the game main plot, but a handful of them are a having a DivineConflict over a moon named Olydri, on which the game is set.
* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Waterfall Girl is essentially the Poseidon of the series.
* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'': Like Kai, Drake, and Eleenin, Keedran is one of the guardians of the planet, but she's a straight-up deity rather than a druid or a mage.
* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' has the [[spoiler: Brother Gods of Light and Darkness, who created Remnant and humanity together (with the latter creating the Creatures of Grimm). They are shown to be able to create and end life at will, with the God of Darkness being able to extinguish all human life on the planet with all the difficulty of waving his hand.]]

%%* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'' depicts gods and goddesses the same way as ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess''.

* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
** Avatars are a vergence of spirit and human: of [[BigGood Raava]], the great spirit of peace and harmony, and the latest human incarnate she blends with. As such, the living Avatar is the only individual capable of [[AllYourPowersCombined wielding]] all four ElementalPowers in the form of SupernaturalMartialArts, and of channeling cosmic energies to [[SuperMode amplify these elemental powers to epic levels]]. This is quite necessary, as they lack invulnerability and need to actively defend themselves like anyone else. The second season of ''The Legend of Korra'' introduced the [[EvilCounterpart "Dark Avatar"]], the fusion of Raava's eternal foe Vaatu, spirit of chaos and darkness, and [[spoiler:Korra's EvilUncle Unalaq.]]
** Before the era of the Avatar, the massive Lion Turtles were this. They protected humans from the spirits. They were responsible for the creation of the Avatar when they granted the power of the four elements to a teenager named Wan. Unfortunately different factions of [[HumansAreBastards humans waged wars on each other and slaughtered the Lion Turtles to weaken other factions]]. Only one managed to survive and lived long enough to meet Aang. The Lion Turtle taught Aang Energybending, a skill rare even among the Avatars.
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'': Amazo's animated counterpart, more specific when he came back in Justice League Unlimited, having travelled through galaxies and collected as many powers and as much knowledge as he could. This resulted in him being able to accomplish Godlike feats like being able to "think" planets out of his way without technically being a God. He also manages to battle against all available JLU members like they were nothing. He was only stopped because JLU's reasons to fight him were all a misunderstanding, he wasn't returning to Earth for revenge but simply to find a purpose in his life. (He put everything he moved back in place by just "thinking it" again, showing he was a good guy after all). He then he left to play chess along with other absurd beings.
%%* ''WesternAnimation/ClassOfTheTitans'': The Greek gods, especially the series BigBad Chronus.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'': The Ninja Tribunal consists of four humans turned gods after intensive, if unspecified, training; when we first see them in the present, they are shown to possess immortality, limited omniscience, and the ability to reshape reality, among other perks.
* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'': Trigon the Terrible [[spoiler: turned the world into a fiery wasteland as part of his dramatic entrance, is big enough to use the T-tower as an interimistic throne,]] and he reminds you that you are only an insignificant insect compared to him. [[spoiler: Then Raven presumably kills him.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers'': Though referred to as a "spirit", Gaia qualifies. She's only physical on Hope Island, though. Her [[GodOfEvil nastier counterpart]], Zarm, [[DependingOnTheWriter generally]] doesn't have that problem, though he sometimes [[ItMakesSenseInContext needs a spaceship]].
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
** One episode features an odd example: a galaxy-sized space anomaly who admits it may or may not be God (it's not sure itself). It ''does'' have incredible power and apparently receives a portion of God's worship, though.
** Yivo from ''The Beast With a Billion Backs'' qualifies. Shkle is a planet-sized entity from another universe who possesses nigh-invulnerable tentacles capable of destroying or breaking any form of matter from our universe due to being made of electromatter, a primordial form of matter. Yivo can also resurrect the dead, travel between universes at will, alter matter and energy and shkle's body is literally Heaven itself, capable of providing resources and room for all life in our universe. The only things that can kill Yivo is electromatter or exiting shkler's universe.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'':
** The WingedUnicorn [[PrincessesRule Princesses]] Celestia and Luna are the closest things the ponies have to gods, not directly worshipped but [[OhMyGods invoked]] as if they were. They control the sun and the moon, and seem to be immortal ([[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld both are over a thousand years old]]). The comics imply that the show has not depicted their true power yet. In ''Fiendship is Magic'', it's shown that Celestia fought [[OneManArmy Chrysalis and her entire army once]]. The battle ended with the Changelings utterly defeated, [[ScarsAreForever scarred with their holes]], and [[SealedEvilInACan sealed in a volcano]].\\
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There are some other alicorns, who have powerful magic but nothing godlike, and some other beings that can challenge the power of the ruling sisters at least temporarily -- but these, too, fall short of godlike, with some exceptions:
** Discord, [[AnthropomorphicPersonification the spirit of chaos]], is older than the royal sisters and capable of doing just about anything with a snap of his claws, [[ActorAllusion much like]] [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Q]]. He's also on a higher tier than the sisters as an AnthropomorphicPersonification; an abstract concept instead of a celestial body. The sisters could only defeat him using the Elements of Harmony.
** In the season 4 finale, [[spoiler:Tirek becomes this after draining Discord's magic along with the magic of every pony in Equestria. Twilight Sparkle also becomes one after the other princesses give her their magic.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'': In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:Rex gains the power of the united Meta-Nanites. When he ponders what he should do with his newfound power, Black Knight says "You're a god now Rex. You can do anything you want." Fortunately, Rex only uses that power once to initiate a global Cure event before ordering the Meta-Nanites to shut down. He doesn't want anyone to have access to such power again, including himself.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'':
** In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:Ben possesses the powers of the Ultimatrix, Ascalon, and Diagon. Vilgax tries to corrupt him into becoming a universe-conquering tyrant by pointing out that Ben could do ''anything'', and fix ''everything'' with that much power at his fingertips. Ultimately, Ben's girlfriend Julie convinces him not to abuse the power. Ben only uses his powers to restore Earth's population back to normal before relinquishing them to Azmuth.]]
** Diagon was also this, considering that he is a [[EldritchAbomination half-mile-wide octopus thing]] who can [[spoiler: change size, mind control people, control the weather, and a few other godly things. His first move was to turn ''everyone in the world'' into Esoterica.]]
** Celestiansapians could also be considered this, since they could remake all of reality with a single thought. Then recall that Ben can turn into one using the Omnitrix.
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'': The Force is usually portrayed as a nonspecific SentientCosmicForce, but "The One" arc in this series introduced Son, Daughter, and Father, who were, apparently, aspects of the Force that had taken on humanoid form. Unless they were just very powerful Force Adepts whose relationship perfectly mirrored the nature of Balance... it is very ambiguous. In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'', Veris Hydan refers to them as gods implying that they were believed to be gods at some point in the past.

* in ''WesternAnimation/ProjectGeeker'', Geeker is an artificial lifeform who has complete mastery over his own molecular structure. That makes him ''very'' powerful. His only limitation is that he was freed before the loyalty and intelligence program could be installed, making him a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} who is blissfully unaware of how powerful he actually is.
* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': The four Diamonds. They are physical giants; they appear to have powers far beyond ordinary Gems; it is implied that there are multiple copies of all other Gem-types while the Diamonds are each one-of-a-kind; Gems are a manufactured race, but the question of who 'made' the Diamonds has yet to be raised; and they are capable of living forever [[spoiler:unless shattered, which is an eventuality so unthinkable that the shattering of Pink Diamond was a cataclysmic event in Gem history, as well as a source of great mystery as to how it actually 'happened', even to the Diamonds themselves. And it turns out she was never actually shattered in the first place -- she faked her own shattering using a handful of counterfeit gem shards. Truly shattering a Diamond may actually be impossible.]]
** It's worth noting that Gem Homeworld society appears to be a CultOfPersonality built around depicting the Diamonds as living gods, so how much of this is truth and how much of this is good PR is anyone's guess.
** This essentially means that [[spoiler:Steven Universe]] also counts as one [[spoiler:since he inherited Pink Diamond's gem, though he has yet to realize his full potential.]]
** When we finally see Yellow and Blue fight themselves, it proves to be more than simply PR: they possess immense sheer power and strength, a SuperpowerLottery, and are NighInvulnerable enough that buildings [[spoiler:and ''entire miles long warships'']] falling on their heads is considered a minor inconvenience.
** [[spoiler:When Steven's Gem is removed by White Diamond, his Gem reforms not as Pink Diamond or even Rose Quartz but as a pink HardLight version of Steven. "Pink Steven" shows just how powerful Steven's Gem really is by easily overcoming even White Diamond herself in his attempts to reunite with Steven.]]

** Greater Daemons are explicitly said to be worshipped as minor gods by the Chaos-aligned tribes, and like the above, they show up in physical form on the battlefield to fight alongside their minions. They're superhumanly strong, biologically immortal, and have various magic powers from flight to energy projection to teleportation, but can still be felled by mortal weaponry. One notable example (in the Daemons 7e army book) involved Skarbrand, the most powerful daemon of Khorne, appearing in a battle with Imperial troops only to be [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu reduced to a puddle of gore by]] [[MundanesDoItBetter some pseudo-16th century blackpowder cannons.]]

** Sigmar, who was either the incarnation of a god or ascended to godhood after his death. A snake god, Sotek, manifested the same day Sigmar was born to save the lizardmen from the skaven. It hasn't been confirmed, but it seems like there must be a connection given that two races were saved from extinction by different, brand new physical gods at the same time.
** When Chaos first showed up, the elven gods gave Aenarion the power to kick so much demonic ass that the elves managed to beat back the outpourings of a fully open warp gate long enough to partially seal it off.

** The Old Ones (aztec god-like extraterrestrials worshiped by Lizardmen). They modified the orbit of the planet, the planet's continents and tectonic plates, created the Lizardmen from actual reptilians that already existed to protect their ''creation'' and then created elves, dwarves and humans and ''gifted'' them magic. They have spaceships, too. Also, Chaos is more or less the ''dark side'' of their magic powers.

* The Seven of ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': In addition to each having sufficient mastery of one the setting's ''many'' [[FunctionalMagic combat]] [[SupernaturalMartialArts systems]] to have to narrowed the [[DeityOfHumanOrigin Demiurge]] population down to just themselves, Implanted in each of their skulls is a a Key of Kings; a [[PiecesOfGod seventh of the voice of]] [[TheMaker YISUN]] whose power they can channel to alter the location of stars or transform into thousand-foot-tall EldritchAbominations.

* The Seven of ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': In addition to each having sufficient mastery of one the setting's ''many'' [[FunctionalMagic combat]] [[SupernaturalMartialArts systems]] to have to narrowed the Demiurge population down to just themselves, They each have a Key of Kings implanted in their skulls; a [[PiecesOfGod seventh of the voice of YISUN]] whose power they can mantle to do stuff like move stars or transform into thousand-foot-tall EldritchAbominations.

* The Seven Demiurges of ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': In addition to each having sufficient mastery of one the setting's ''many'' [[FunctionlMagic combat]] [[SupernaturalMartialArts systems]] to have to narrowed the Demiurge population down to just themselves, They each have a Key of Kings implanted in their skulls; a [[PieceOfGod seventh of the voice of YISUN]] whose power they can mantle to do stuff like move stars and transform into thousand-foot-tall EldritchAbomination

* ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'' has Elyon, Queen of Meridian, one of the most powerful beings in the Infinite Dimensions, so powerful she had to be tricked into an impentrable prison for most of the second season so that the main characters had something to do.

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Typical god [[StockSuperpowers powers and traits]] can include:

* ''Series/WandaVision'': Ever since her [[Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron introduction film]], Wanda has been one of the most powerful characters in the franchise, with telekinetic and telepathic abilities that make her extremely dangerous. Here, she's gone from "threat that must be carefully observed" to "''fuck you, I'm God''." She takes over an entire town, and while S.W.O.R.D. initially believes that she's using illusions to fake everything, Monica proves that she has graduated to a full-scale RealityWarper who can create permanent changes to anything that enters her area of control. Darcy and Jimmy even say that she almost beat Thanos with five Infinity Stones, and he only won because he managed to blitz her before she could bring her full power to bear.