History Main / PhysicalGod

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* In ''Fanfic/TheBridge'', the Nexuses of Magic are this in spades, the [[BigBad God of Extinction]] from Terra, [[spoiler:[[GodOfEvil Bagan]]]], and [[BigGood Nexus of Light Magic]], [[spoiler:[[GodOfGood Harmony]]]]. Both are described as gods and are the only known beings who could fight the other one on one. It's noted even Grand King Ghidorah, one of the strongest kaiju in existence, fighting either of them alone would be suicide. [[spoiler:Grogar, the Nexus of Dark Magic, is stated to be on the same tier as Harmony could only just barely defeat him.]]
* ''FanFic/ABridgeOnceBroken'' has Norse gods and other fantasy gods.
* ''Fanfic/AChampionInEarthBet'': The main character is the Avatar, specifically the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification divine Avatar]] of Adeltom, God of [[IdealHero Heroism]], charismatic, noble, and capable of manipulating cosmic energy and even [[WindsOfDestinyChange fate]] itself. And in the CrapsackWorld of [[Literature/{{Worm}} Earth-Bet]], his help is desperately needed.
* ''FanFic/ChainsOfReality'' has both versions of the Loud family: More specifically, the original prototype sisters, the new set of sisters from the new reality, and Lincoln/Proto-Lincoln/Sincoln. Interestingly enough, however, while all of them have access to divine powers and such, only the prototype sisters and Proto-Lincoln/Sincoln have an innate knowledge on how to use them, while Lincoln and the Neo-Sisters have to be trained in order to access them.
* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has a large number:
** Thor, Loki, Odin and Frigga, for instance. In fact, Royal Asgardians in general, and ordinary Asgardians with specific mantles of power, e.g. Heimdall and Sif.
*** Harry, needless to say, is progressing towards this point thanks to his ancestry. Since his maternal second cousin is Jean Grey and he got the same X-Gene, he gets it twice over, though in terms of raw psychic power he's still well below Jean and [[spoiler:Maddie]]. By the sequel, he's on the borderline of this and PersonOfMassDestruction.
** 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.]]
** The Hulk qualifies as this, being the only person bar Odin capable of restraining Thor in full berserker mode.
** Of the Avengers' off-screen previous enemies, Count Nefaria qualifies, as does the Juggernaut, who appears in the sequel, fighting evenly with Thor. Then he made Thor mad. Cue UnstoppableRage.
** Gravemoss, technically. Like the Enchantress in the [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor comics]], he's pretty weak in the higher realms, like Asgard, but on Earth, he's an incredibly fast killing machine who can rip through concrete with his bare hands.
** [[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 below Wanda.
** Omega Class mutants, though rare, fit this criteria -- the above mentioned Wanda, her father Magneto and eventually, Jean Grey and [[spoiler:Maddie Pryor]].
** 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). When the full potential power of the Lantern is revealed in ''Unfinished Business'', it's stated to be the sort of power that ''creates pantheons'' - and it lives up to the billing.
** Dracula, [[VampireMonarch King of the Grey Court,]] who barely lost a fight to Thor centuries ago, then promptly hunted down and killed another PhysicalGod, Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder, just to prove he hadn't gone soft. He demonstrates his power by swatting Voldemort like a bug, and beating Harry to a pulp twice, the first time while simultaneously reflecting a psychic attack from a Cerebro-amped Charles Xavier.
** Merlin is later confirmed to be on this level, with Strange himself stating that as far as magical practitioners go, "Merlin was and remains on another level entirely."
** [[spoiler:Nimue]], after she takes control of the full power of Project Pegasus, turning her into [[RealityWarper a Dark Lantern.]] Given that she's an ancient and seriously powerful PersonOfMassDestruction to begin with, this is... alarming.
* ''Fanfic/CodexEquus:''
** The Equestrian Alicorn Princesses are confirmed as such; while they're implied to be younger than the Alicorns still living in the outside world, they're incredibly powerful, and [[AdaptationalBadass much more capable in canon]]. Celestia flash-fried a Kraken attacking Manehattan as soon the opportunity presented itself; and Cadence was able to beat up Fik'iri despite the latter being older than her, since Fik'iri is now her equal in power following her loss and de-powering in the "Abyssinian Divine Coup" event.
** Golden Scepter, a surviving antediluvian Alicorn Emperor from the Alicorn Civilization, is an "Antecedent"-type god, meaning that he's ''extremely'' ancient, and ''extremely'' powerful compared to the newly-Ascended Alicorns of current generations, including his nineteen sons, who are Alicorn demigods. As the Alicorn god of Psionics, he's one of the strongest psychics on Equus, to the point where his entry mentions that even the mightiest Alicorns couldn't hope to match his potent mind. Even one of his mortal Pony generals, [[TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}} General Aurum Lupus]], had to rely on divine empowerment to even confront him during the "Aurum Apostasy" conflict after he [[FaceHeelTurn turned traitor]]. As such, any attempt to fight him will almost always result in an extremely one-sided CurbStompBattle. However, it's stated in his own entry that he often takes the form of a rather normal-looking Alicorn when among mortals, and whenever he needs to go unnoticed, he appears as an unassuming Earth pony stallion named Revelation. Like Queen Mzazi and Isati, he's a benevolent HumanoidAbomination who is ''much'' more powerful in his true form.
** Blue Suede Heartstrings is one due to being an [[WingedUnicorn Alicorn]]. It's stated that he has an extremely impressive mastery over music in general, given his origins as a famous musician, and after becoming the god of Music, he's very skilled and creative with it. His domain of Humility gives him telepathy, empathy, and [[{{Seers}} precognition]], and his domain of Performance gives him [[VoluntaryShapeshifting shapeshifting abilities]] and enhanced combat skills thanks to his domain of Performance. Lastly, he is a Love deity who embodies Philia Love, allowing him to see the bonds of friendship that tie mortals and/or divines together. Due to his humble character, though, [[GodInHumanForm he often takes the form of a mortal]], though it's implied that his mortal forms are no slouches, either. His entry notes that he is a "prodigy" deity, which gives him an accelerated rate of physical and magical growth compared to normal deities, and is already showing signs of growing a second pair of wings. And because he was born in the early Second Age, he's ancient enough for people to start making guesses as to what his origins story is.
** Bossa Nova Heartstrings, Blue's older twin brother is one due to being an [[WingedUnicorn Alicorn]]. While he isn't a "[[TheAce prodigy deity]]" like Blue is, being a Death god automatically makes him powerful, as he can [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation summon weapons out of thin air]], appear in multiple places at once, and has power over spirits of the deceased, including the power to free them from whatever is binding them to the mortal planes. His Death domain also gives him both clairvoyance to sense when people are going to die, and [[{{Seers}} psychic foresight]] to predict how people are going to die. His Music domain gives him control over both MagicMusic and [[MakeSomeNoise sound magic]], and he has almost all the same abilities as Blue, who taught him how to use said abilities. His domain of Joy also gives him [[{{Telepathy}} telepathic]] and [[TheEmpath empathic]] abilities that allow him to detect and spread joy, especially among the dying and deceased. As Blue's older twin brother, Bossa Nova is also pretty ancient and is only marginally older than him, though being a Death god who started out as a stillborn foal means that he doesn't have to deal with people constantly guessing his past like Blue does.
** As an "Antecedent"-ranked Zebra goddess, Queen Mzazi is one. As a goddess of Alchemy, she's one of the most powerful alchemists and potion-makers on Equus (and has mentored younger deities who share her domain or partake in the craft). She can generate lightning potent enough to electrocute Giants and Dragons if she chooses, and has created cataclysmic lightning storms for both offense and protection (one imperialistic fleet was wiped out down to its last soldier for trying to invade Zebrica, and Zebrica itself is surrounded by a storm whenever she goes traveling). This comes from being a goddess of Nature, though [=Kendell2=] has stated that she embodies the stormy aspects of it rather than [[GreenThumb plant manipulation]] as Nature-based deities usually have. And due to being extremely ancient, her divine strength is proportionate to her "age" and she is incredibly well-versed in magic in general. As a hallmark of her "age", her true form as a Zebralicorn goddess is a gigantic HumanoidAbomination with a mane and tail composed of lightning storms, wing feathers made of lightning, and a magical wing gradient going from pink to mint-green.
** Prince Healing Song is one, due to being an Alicorn god from the Second Age. Like Blue Suede Heartstrings, his mentor, Healing Song has an incredible mastery over music, which manifested as the Music domain when he Ascended to godhood. Unlike Blue, though, he is skilled in using its healing/empowering aspects and mostly chooses to do that over using music to attack people. His Potential domain gives Healing Song potent [[{{Seers}} precognitive abilities]] and the ability to empower allies with their future potential, and his Teaching domain gives Healing Song a psychic intuition that allows him to adapt to his students' needs and learning developments. His Psionics domain gives him great psychic abilities like telepathy and psionic telekinesis, and coming under the tutelage of Emperor Golden Scepter and his son, Prince Crimson Star, has given Healing Song new psychic abilities and made him even more powerful. Being a "[[TheAce prodigy deity]]" also makes him stronger compared to "normal" deities in overall power and growth. However, because of his [[MartialPacifist pacifistic beliefs]], Healing Song mostly chooses to serve a healing/support role and only uses his offensive abilities when necessary, though this has prevented him from fighting effectively at times.
** As an Alicorn, Prince Sparkling Wing is one, despite being one of the younger members of the Church. Notably, he is skilled with [[WeatherManipulation weather magic]], a powerful [[TheEmpath empath]], and can [[SuperEmpowering empower mortals]] and forge temporary bonds that allow them to share each other's abilities [[ThePowerOfFriendship based on how deep they trust each other]].
* ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': Daniel and Rayana are the {{Immortal Ruler}}s of Avalon (BigGood of the story, but not the heroes). Having Ascended to godhood long ago, they always wear a humanoid shape and they are immortal, very ancient, can manipulate souls and travel through time, space and dimensions, have some level of reality-warping and omniscience, and Rayana's speciality is magic. They also are pretty cool "people".
* ''FanFic/{{Dimensions}}'': [[spoiler:Takato and Rika]], thanks to being the current incarnations of [[spoiler:Chaos and Harmony]] respectively. Also a major case of subverted PersonalityPowers.
* In ''Fanfic/AForceOfFour'', the WarGod Mars is the main antagonist.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12595819/1/Getting-Too-Old-For-This Getting Too Old For This]]'': Literature/HarryPotter is far more than just a powerful wizard; he's the "Master of Death and all that entails." Not only is he unkillable (or rather, he'll simply get better), Harry is also responsible for the deaths of all things. An example is when he stopped the Hogwarts Express from being scrapped. His intervention, preventing the "death" of the last steam engine on Earth, caused a massive resurgence in interest in steam power across the galaxy, such as the [[Franchise/MassEffect Asari]] creating a steam powered spaceship. Liara T'soni describes him as "the next best thing to omnipotent while being as far from omniscient as everyone else."
--> '''Harry Potter:''' Death comes for everything. People die, yes, but ideas also die. Cells die, sanity dies, seconds die and in the end all answer to me. An accident preventing one such death resonated across billions of cubic light-years.
* ''Fanfic/TheGodSquad'' is built around this idea. Celestia, Luna, Discord, Chrysalis, Tydal, and Cadence are all literal gods who are forced to keep almost all their power in check, lest they destroy the universe. Their normal bodies (which are nearly impossible to hurt and filled with more power than any mortal in the world) are merely 1%. At 10% we get Nightmare Moon territory, at 15% we have Discord, and Tydal has managed to go to 40% (turning him into a cross between a Kaiju and a weapon of mass destruction). Celestia has stated that their true forms are so large the planet would be a grain of dust to them.
* In ''Fanfic/HellsisterTrilogy'', the main characters run into plenty of them:
** In the first arc, the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes turn to the Greek deities to save ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'s life. They meet Zeus, Mercury, Venus, Vulcan and Apollo, and it's mentioned that the other Olympians are "on a day trip to Asgard".
** In the second arc, they join the ComicBook/NewGods to battle ComicBook/{{Darkseid}}
** In the third arc, [[ComicBook/TheSandman1989 Destruction of the Endless]], the anthropomorphic personification of the self-named cosmic principle allies himself with the heroes.
* ''Fanfic/{{HERZ}}'': [[spoiler:Rei. Her soul was Lilith's, an EldritchAbomination was the mother of all life on Earth. However her body was Shinji's mother cloned body.]] In the battle of 2015 she absorbed [[{{EldritchAbomination}} Adam]] and her bigger body, becoming even more powerful, but she kept her mortal form to live with her family for a while longer.
* ''[[FanFic/ThirtyHs HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH]]'' has Harry Potter. He can see subatomic particles by squinting, seemingly teleports across galaxies, and has destroyed entire planets for no reason at all.
* In ''[[http://fanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Hottie_3:_The_Best_Fan_Fic_in_the_World Hottie 3: The Best Fan Fic in the World]]'', Robyne AKA Hottie II's, later Hottie I, fourth and most powerful SuperMode "Super Hottie Goddess" is this.
* ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-16860-21/MMcGregor+I+Am+What+I+Am.htm I Am What I Am]]'': [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow]] fulfills this to the point of actually being considered a god by several religions. Xander explains that while normally only people with almost no magical ability can forge magical weapons, Willow manages it by turning magic into solid weapons rather than forging metal into a magical weapon. Xander once asked how long she could keep up an enhancement spell that (after years of training) he can hold for roughly four seconds. Willow, after asking the date, tells him she's been maintaining it for eight years.
* ''FanFic/TheImmortalGame'':
** Princesses Celestia and Luna, of course, as per canon, but the story also adds their equally strong brother Prince Empyrean, and their even ''more'' powerful parents [[BigBad King Titan]] and Queen Terra. And then, near the end of the story, [[spoiler:Twilight taps into the full power of the Elements of Harmony and becomes so powerful that only Titan himself is able beat her in a fight]]. And ''then'', during the climax, [[spoiler:she absorbs the powers of Harmony and becomes an alicorn who is Titan's equal]].
** Of all ponies, [[spoiler:''[[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]]'']] becomes one during the [[FinalBattle Battle of the Everfree]]. And she does so in ''epic'' fashion -- [[spoiler:she uses something equal to the Royal Canterlot Voice to browbeat the most ancient of all dragons into [[HeelFaceTurn switching sides]], then rides him as her personal steed in the story's most impressive BigDamnHeroes moment]].
* ''Fanfic/TheInfiniteLoops'': Most loopers past a certain threshold probably qualify, but the trophy has to go to the original seven. They've been looping for so long that they're all literally older than time in any given iteration of the universe, (Ichigo said that he once stuck around until ''the entire universe burned out''), and Ranma in particular, being the oldest, is so powerful that he can collect '''Death Stars'''. Any one of them could ascend to true godhood by flexing, if the urge struck them, and they're generally regarded as the most powerful beings in the multiverse.
* ''FanFic/TheInfinityLeague'' has Miranda Eon, the human-looking incarnation of an Eon God.
* ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'': The Pyar gods physically inhabit the substance of the White Tower, which is keeping them alive.
* ''[[http://www.mediaminer.org/fanfic/view_st.php/19769 The Legend of Link: Lucky Number 13]]'': Most characters are physical gods, including [[spoiler:Link himself]] after TheReveal. [[TopGod Fate and Destiny]] are thought by "regular" gods to be PowersThatBe, fundamental to the structure of reality, but [[spoiler:their deaths at Link's hands]] prove the only real difference is that they are older and stronger; reality itself carries on just fine without them.
* ''Fanfic/TheMoonstoneCup'': There's a small number of very ancient, very powerful beings who rule over nations of regular mortals and view themselves as deities with little hyperbole. In addition to Celestia and Luna, these include their "cousin" Najstariot, the dragon queen, and the huge wolf Amarok, who rules over lesser wolves and commands the magic and spirits of the cold north.
* ''FanFic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'': The Grand Ruler is, at the very least, the child of one.
* ''FanFic/MythsAndBirthrights'': Every single alicorn. They're even called (and treated like) gods.
* ''Fanfic/NobodyDies'': The more powerful Angels are considered this, even by the other Angels. ADAM in particular is in a class of his own, with literally world-shattering power. Observe Israfel's description of Zeruel, second only to ADAM in power: [[AC:Imagine a being with a heartbeat that could move an island. A gaze that can burn down a mountain. More power in his little pinky then we have in our full, entire form. Imagine something that early Lilim wrote about, thinking it was Omnipotent, Almighty, and a vengeful God. Imagine that, and maybe you can imagine Zeruel.]]
* ''FanFic/TheNonBronyverse'': Celestia and Luna are explicitly mentioned to be gods. TD accidentally gets in on the act in the AU story ''TD the Alicorn Princess''.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10685852/3/On-a-Pale-Horse On a Pale Horse]]'': Harry Potter (or at least a version of him) has become [[TheGrimReaper the embodiment of Death itself]], is so powerful that curiously tugging on the magic attempting to summon him causes the entire building said summoners are in the jerk, and is old enough that he uses the Earth's age as a unit of measure (at one point he notes he hasn't been a hero in about "four Earth's worth of time").
* ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'': Sarah possesses telekinesis, teleportation, mind-reading, and a massive HealingFactor, mostly because she possesses [[spoiler:all Siren powers combined with the Force]]. Considering [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who created her]] this makes perfect sense.
* ''FanFic/PonyPOVSeries'':
** All of the Alicorns and Draconnequi qualify, except their Elders, who are ''actual'' gods. It's said that Celestia, when not holding back, could destroy an entire planet with a solar flare if she so desired, which thankfully she doesn't.
** There's also Queen Tiamat, the Mother of All Dragons and their patron deity. Her power alone qualifies her for this, as she single-handedly turned the tide of the Dragon-Hooviet War when she entered the fray. By the time she was finished, half the Hooviet Empire was blazing ruin with her willingly stopping just short of the capital. [[CurbStompBattle The Hooviets didn't leave a scratch on her.]] Her husband Bahamut is every bit as strong.
** Mother Deer is to her people what Tiamat is to the dragons, though she's also a pacifist, so she leaves the fighting to her followers.
* In ''FanFic/{{Propagation}}'' [[spoiler:Taylor, as Eden Reborn]], is a very, very close equivalent.
* ''FanFic/PuellaMagiYuukoMagica'': Madoka is stated to be this by Kyuubey and Mami. Her appearant power tops all of the [[spoiler:Puella Magi in the universe]] individually. Plus, she's got a mental link with [[spoiler:Madokami]]. Of course, being who she is, she begins to assert AGodIAmNot by a certain chapter.
* ''FanFic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': Princess Luna falls squarely into this trope, as does Corona, The Tyrant Sun. Cadance falls right at the very bottom of this trope: While an order of magnitude more powerful than a mortal pony, she's still far weaker than [[spoiler:her mother]]. It's implied that she'll eventually grow into this trope, however.
* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8296097/1/Shinji-s-Nightmare Shinji's Nightmare]]'': Arguably Shinji once he truly becomes an Alicorn. He's capable of surviving in the vacuum of space, withstand atmospheric reentry with ease, and tests his telekinesis by creating a sphere over a kilometer in diameter of molten metal, concrete powder, and crushed glass, and throwing it into orbit thereby creating a second moon.
* ''FanFic/SonicXDarkChaos'': Maledict is an interesting {{Deconstruction}}. He's actually a HumanoidAbomination that was forced to take physical form in order to survive his injuries after his epic battle against Allysion that created the entire universe. And he's trying to keep his physical form at all costs, as dying will unleash his power and cause the end of the universe.
%%* ''FanFic/TamersForeverSeries'':
%%** Chaos. [[spoiler:Takato becomes one after fusing with Chaos]].
%%** And then of course you have Goddramon and the Sovereigns [[spoiler:including Huanglongmon]].
%%** And "The Saviour"/[[spoiler:Terriermon]]
* ''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...
* ''Fanfic/{{Transcendence}}'': As far as most of Azeroth is concerned, Ichigo counts as one. Even bound to a vessel that severely limits his Shinigami powers, he regularly pulls off stunts that most humans couldn't hope to accomplish, and his latent spiritual power is compared to minor deities such as the Ancient Guardians and the Loa. One character even refers to him as "the young god". Ichigo doesn't seem to put much stock into this himself though.
* In ''Fanfic/WithStringsAttached'', George meets and talks to Ardav, one of the Dalns gods. What this gender-less god's powers are is unknown, except that it can bring people to its home dimension, and that anyone who speaks to it cannot remember what it looks like.
** At one point, thanks to the amazing mundanity surrounding the Dalns gods—their “worshippers” are more like employees and, in fact, don't even know what “worship” means—George speculates that they're actually phonies who set themselves up as gods. The various reveals about them during the book (e.g., they had a court fight over who was to control C'hou) leave the matter ambiguous, but they are definitely JerkassGods.
** Given how powerful the four become, the trope could possibly apply to them.
** Well before they get any power, John sardonically refers to the four as the gods of rock 'n' roll.
* ''Fanfic/TheWizardInTheShadows'':
** Wizards and witches are seen as this. This is true. But only when the [[spoiler:Sword of Gryffindor (which acts Mjolnir in pretty much all but name, amplifying magic on an incredible scale)]] is involved.
** [[spoiler:Merlin]] may be one. He's a bona fide world jumper and time-traveller, as well as being one of the most powerful wizards in history, as well as possibly being TheAgeless.
* In ''[[http://kleinerkiller.deviantart.com/gallery/41037509 Yognapped]]'', the sibling gods Notch, Herobrine, and [[spoiler:Rana]] are these to Minecraftia. They are, however, far from impervious to physical damage. [[spoiler:Which is why Notch can stab the others InTheBack and permanently kill them.]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''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/Ben10UltimateAlien'':
** In the GrandFinale, [[spoiler:Ben possesses the powers of the Ultimatrix, Ascalon, and Dagon. 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.]]
** Dagon 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 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.
* ''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/{{Gargoyles}}'':
** Oberon's Children (and especially Oberon himself) are really TheFairFolk, but due to their immense power, they were worshipped as gods. Anubis and Odin are a few other examples, but [[NoSuchThingAsWizardJesus not Jesus of course]].
** Goliath becomes one for an episode after donning the Eye of Odin in a desperate attempt to stop Odin from killing him and his companions in his bid to retrieve the Eye. He becomes even more powerful than Odin himself thanks to the Eye's ability to drain Odin's power. Unfortunately, WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity.
* ''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/{{Hercules}}'' depicts gods and goddesses the same way as ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess''.
* ''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/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 ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFiendshipIsMagic'', 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]].
** 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/TheOwlHouse'': "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E17EdgeOfTheWorld Edge of the World]]" reveals that [[spoiler:[[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector the Collector]] is worshipped as a god called the Huntsman on a different Titan corpse. In "King's Tide" once freed he proceeds to demonstrate his capabilities as this when he '''moves the moon''' by simply ''dragging it like a touchscreen'', flicking it away from the sun to stop the draining spell, then proceeds to level Belos' lair by lifting his arms while levitating and summoning King back to him. They're so powerful that the only thing capable of defeating and imprisoning them was a fully grown Titan, a being the size of an island with immense magical power, and even then it's heavily implied that the Titan died in the process.]]
* 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/RickAndMorty'':
** Rick builds a micro universe with sentient life in 'The Ricks must be crazy.' And yes, the inhabitants venerate Rick (i.e., celebrations such as 'Ricksgiving'). Further, the President explicitly refers to Rick as a 'Living God' in 'The Rickchurian Mortydate.' Given Rick's sufficiently advanced technology, its probably an accurate description.
** Rick is friends with [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Hephaestus]], who has never turned down an offer for "a job".
** "Childrick of Mort" sees Rick do battle with a Zeus-like God named Reggie. After the battle he tells the others Reggie was just ''a'' God: if it were "the real thing", it would be a whole different story.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** Apparently, WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse is a powerful godlike entity limited only by his need to slumber in Valhalla after his destructive, fire-breathing rampages.
** Cthulhu also makes an appearance.
** So does Jesus, if you're into that whole Trinity thing.
* ''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. ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'' revealed them to be the LastOfHisKind of a race of {{Precursors}} known as the Celestials.
* ''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.]]
* ''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.]]
* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
** Primus and Unicron in various generations, the latter of whom is a space-traveling planet-sized eater of worlds and the former of whom either lives in or actually ''is'' the Transformers' home planet of Cybertron and created them to battle Unicron.
** The Original Thirteen Transformers could count here. Prima, Vector Prime, Nexus Prime, Megatronus (The Fallen), Alpha Trion, Solus Prime, Liege Maximo, Micronus Prime, Onyx Prime, Amalgamous Prime, Alchemist Prime, Quintus Prime and the Thirteenth Prime [[spoiler:Optimus Prime]]. Each of them has some kind of god-like power.
** Whoever possesses the Matrix of Leadership, which is basically a piece of Primus, would not only become a Prime, but also gain a portion of Primus' godly power.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'', anyone who taps into the power of artifacts such as the Eliacube or the 12 Dofus will gain power equal to or even ''surpassing'' that of the official deities of the World of Twelve. For more specific examples:
** Ogrest, the being responsible for the flood that shaped the World of Twelve into what it is now. Originally a relatively harmless infant created from Ogrine by the demigod alchemist Otomai, he consumed the six Elemental Dofus while being manipulated by the doll Dathura. The six Dofus transformed Ogrest into an incredibly powerful monster whose might surpassed that of the Twelve, but he was reduced to a near mindless raging beast in the process. Even better, he can command the loyalty of the six elemental Dragons linked to the Dofus he possesses, each one just barely below deity levels of strength themselves.
** Nox was once a harmless Xelor clock and toy maker who lacked talent in the TimeMaster magic of his race. Discovering the Eliacube changed that. The Eliacube made him far more powerful, intelligent, and crazy. In the end, he accomplished something that was originally deemed impossible even by the ''gods'' [[spoiler:by reversing the flow of time. Albeit by a mere twenty minutes, but rewinding time for the ''entire Krosmos'' (read, the ''universe'') for any length of time is no small feat.]] The only beings capable of matching him power-wise once he went all-out were one of the Eliatrope dragons and Yugo after he tapped into the Eliacube's power himself.
** The Dragons born from the Eliatrope Dofus are technically "only" demigods, being among the firstborn of the Wakfu goddess Eliatrope and the Stasis god Great Dragon. Compared to the mortal denizens of the World of Twelve, they are effectively deities in their own right. Similar rankings can seen with the strongest elemental Dragons created through the hand of the god Osamodas.
** Qilby effectively becomes one after merging with the Eliacube, displaying Eliatrope powers of a far greater magnitude than Yugo's own, even after Phaeris unlocked Yugo's potential. [[spoiler:Even the combined might of the rest of the Eliatropes isn't enough to stop him. He is only foiled when a Dofus explodes right in his face, separating him from the Eliacube.]]
** Rushu, the strongest of the Shushu who resides in the pure Stasis dimension of Shukrute. He wants to be recognized as a fellow deity by the Twelve, but they refuse on the grounds that a being of pure Stasis would upset the balance between Wafku and Stasis that exists on the World of Twelve. He's already regarded as a deity in his own dimension, having eaten any would-be competitors (his ''brothers'' no less), but that's not enough for him. He's managed to gain a few followers in the World of Twelve such as the city of Brakmar (which unsurprisingly is something of a WretchedHive).
** Goultard the Barbarian started out as a demigod, being the son of Iop and the mortal woman Catrine. He eventually became the immortal steward to Iop's power [[spoiler:while Iop himself is on leave reincarnating into mortal incarnations]] and is effectively the new Iop. He's strong enough to fight the aforementioned Rushu on an even footing [[spoiler:and in the OVA he defeats Rushu and uses the would-be god as a footrest.]]
** [[spoiler:Sadlygrove, being the current incarnation of Iop]] briefly becomes a physical god again when he reclaims his power so he can fight Ogrest in the OVA. By the end of it, he is glad to hand the power back to Goultard for keeps having remembered why he gave up godhood in the first place.
** Yugo is already a demigod, being ''the'' firstborn child of Eliatrope and Great Dragon. But when he taps into the power of ''all six Eliatrope Dofus'' in the OVA, he becomes so powerful that he is able to fight Ogrest and his six Dragons. ''Too'' powerful unfortunately, since just channeling that much wafku threatens to tear the World of Twelve apart. [[spoiler:He also kind of breaks the timestream a bit, allowing humans in the ''Dofus'' era to see him. Said humans start to worship Yugo as a new god, which retroactively creates a new race in the World of Twelve, the Eliotropes.]]
** 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 curb stomps the heroes with ease, with even Goultard himself barely able to do much more than deflect his attacks.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'':
** The second season 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.
** The third season brings the Elders of Magix to the mix. They are 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 to ever exist, 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.
** The fourth season has a much more straight example -- the three almighty Ethereal Fairies. They are similar in appearance to Arcadia and, like her, they exist outside time and space, therefore being immortal. The trio, however, seems to be tied to Earth rather than the Enchanted Dimension. The Ethereal Fairies are implied to be able to predict the future and pick their own {{Chosen One}}s, granting these champions with the Gifts of Destiny. Two of the latter (Wisdom and Heart) are transformation boosts for fairies while the third, the Black Gift, is a powerful spell that can bring any living being back from death.
** The seventh season, produced after a soft-recon, has the Infinity Swan, keeper of the Ultimate Power of the Fairy Animals. Ignoring the mouthful, this being is a glowing, majestic swan born from the magical convergence of six bonded fairy animals, erasing them from existence. The Infinity Swan guards the greatest {{Beastmaster}} magic -- the ability to control and summon all fairy animals which, in turn, gives access to the MiniWorlds (miniature, pocket dimensions) and to all of the Wild Magic.
* ''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 impenetrable prison for most of the second season so that the main characters had something to do.
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** Exalted themselves, and Celestial Incarna (top gods) qualify first and foremost, though.

* 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.

** UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ, of course, is argued by some as the only Physical God in History and Real Life.

** 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.]] [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration Stats-wise]] these incarnates are about on par with the aforementioned Greater Daemons and godly avatars, which reflects in their fluff battles (e.g. the Bloodthirster Ka'Bandha taking on ''three'' incarnates and slaying one before being struck down).

** Some of the [[OurVampiresAreDifferent True Ancestors]] could qualify, as all of them are copies of TYPE-Moon. In particular, Arcueid Brunestud, whom the TYPE-Moon often [[DemonicPossession possesses on occassion]], takes the cake. She can [[WindsOfDestinyChange manipulate probabilities with her Marble Phantasm]], can recover after being killed DeaderThanDead, and in her ARCHETYPE-Earth form, she has no concept of death, similar to the TYPES themselves.

** The various gods and demigods from the Age of the Gods era fits the description. In fact, the "physical" is an important distinction between "true" gods and "mere" Divine Spirits, the latter of which is what happens when a god's physical body is somehow destroyed but their essence lingers on [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly and requires belief in order to maintain ties to the world]]. The various demigods who become heroes can be resurrected as [[HumanoidAbomination Servants]] though, and therefore still qualify for this trope, with Gilgamesh and Karna being the biggest examples. However, the former fits the trope better due to [[spoiler:gaining a physical body at the end of ''LightNovel/FateZero'', because of the Grail's corrupted mud]].

** Also, the Avatars of Khaine.

** 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]].

** GaoGod from ''Series/HyakujuuSentaiGaoranger'' is the originator of the Power Animals the rangers use and the protector of nature itself.

* ''Series/AmericanGods'' includes scads of gods including Mister Wednesday, Mister Nancy, Media, New Media, Technical Boy and Easter. Also a djinn, a zombie and a leprechaun.

* ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Q, as well as the better-behaved rest of the Q Continuum. It's unsure just what Q's limits are. He does enjoy to push humans' buttons by acting like a god, in any case (including once when Picard died and Q literally appeared to him as "God") In the episode "Hide and Q" Q gives such powers to Riker. Some think Trelane is a Q, too.
** In the [[ExpandedUniverse novel]] ''Q-Squared'', he is, and Q has to deal with him.
** In the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode ''Death Wish'', Quinn, while seeking political asylum to [[DeathSeeker commit suicide]], asserts that, while the Q wish to give the impression of godhood, they are not in fact omnipotent.
** There have been several other almost god-level beings that seem to be close to the same power level of the Q, (including what appears to be an old man who destroyed an entire species with a thought, or the species that ended a war between the Federation and Klingons), although a lot of them are energy beings so they may or may not count.

** In the third arc, [[ComicBook/TheSandman Destruction of the Endless]], the anthropomorphic personification of the self-named cosmic principle allies himself with the heroes.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': "[[Recap/TheOwlHouseS2E17EdgeOfTheWorld Edge of the World]]" reveals [[Characters/TheOwlHouseTheCollector the Collector]] worshipped as a god called the Huntsman on a different Titan corpse. In "King's Tide" once freed he proceeds to demonstrate his capabilities as this when he '''moves the moon''' by simply ''dragging it like a touchscreen'', flicking it away from the sun to stop the draining spell, then proceeds to level Belos' lair by lifting his arms while levitating and summoning King back to him. They're so powerful that the only thing capable of defeating and imprisoning them was a fully grown Titan, a being the size of an island with immense magical power and even then, it's heavily implied that the Titan died in the process.

[[caption-width-right:329:[[AC:[[BoltOfDivineRetribution Worship me or die]]]]]]

* ''Fanfic/{{Origins}}'': Sarah possesses telekinesis, teleportation, mind-reading, and a massive HealingFactor, mostly because she possesses [[spoiler:all Siren powers combined with the Force]]. Considering [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien who created her]] this makes perfect sense.

** 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 [[KillTheGod 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]].

** Apparently, MickeyMouse is a powerful godlike entity limited only by his need to slumber in Valhalla after his destructive, fire-breathing rampages.

* In ''Fanfic/TheKeysStandAlone: The Soft World'', the Pyar gods physically inhabit the substance of the White Tower, which is keeping them alive.

** Coyote is physical enough to be... [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=284 spanked.]] Doing so is strongly discouraged. And if you think Ysengrin was just protecting his little talking doggie, Coyote will be quick to remind you [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=286 who's in charge.]] He gave Ysengrin and Renard their powers, [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=491 dug the giant ravine outside the Court with his bare paw,]] and can [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=492 pull the moon out of the sky on a whim.]] It's a good thing he doesn't share Ysengrin's [[KillEmAll desired fate for humanity...]]

** In many schools of thought in UsefulNotes/{{Hinduism}} all of the physical gods are simply fragmentary manifestations of a CosmicSentientForce type of deity. The physical forms taken by those deities are simply illusions generated by the human inability to perceive the divine.

** The Boddhisatvas are [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Buddhist]] deities who choose to remain active and re-incarnate in physical form in the world. The Dalai Lama (the physical manifestation of the Buddha Avalokitesvara) is probably the most famous, but there are hundreds formally recognized around the world. Not exactly gods in the sense that Budhism see them as humans who at some point became what they are after attaining Nirvana, but socially and culturally fullfil the role of gods for all practical purposes.

** In many schools of thought in Hinduism all of the physical gods are simply fragmentary manifestations of a PowersThatBe type of deity. The physical forms taken by those deities are simply illusions generated by the human inability to perceive the divine.
** The Shinto faith holds that the universe is composed of beings of a wide range of power levels and forms, some of which fall into this range, while also all being part of the single Creator God that is also the universe.

* The Boddhisatvas are Buddhist deities who choose to remain active and re-incarnate in physical form in the world. The Dalai Lama (the physical manifestation of the Buddha Avalokitesvara) is probably the most famous one however there are hundreds formally recognized around the world. Not exactly gods in the sense that Budhism see all divinities as beings who reach such state after attaining Nirvana, but socially and culturally fullfil the role of gods for all practical purposes.

* The ''Wiki/SCPFoundation'' has quite a few. SCP-343 in particular actually claims to be the Abrahamic God.

* ''Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary'': Such beings appear frequently. Communion, Gods of Money, and Sedna V. Ataciara the Qalluk are just a few examples.

Interestingly, Franchise/{{Superman}} and some of the more powerful [[FlyingBrick Flying Bricks]] fulfill most of these requirements, except possibly the worship bit. This depends on how strictly you define worship, of course, since subscribing isn't usually considered the same as tithing. (For rabid fans, [[CrackIsCheaper subscriptions can total a lot more than 10% of your income!]]). Then again, Superman does share a setting with ''actual'' Physical Gods, some of whom are even stronger still than he is (DependingOnTheWriter, of course).

*** Harry, needless to say, is progressing towards this point thanks to his ancestry. Since his maternal second cousin is Jean Grey and he got the same X-Gene, he gets it twice over, though in terms of raw psychic power he's still well below Jean and [[spoiler: Maddie]]. By the sequel, he's on the borderline of this and PersonOfMassDestruction.

** Omega Class mutants, though rare, fit this criteria -- the above mentioned Wanda, her father Magneto and eventually, Jean Grey and [[spoiler: Maddie Pryor]].

** [[spoiler: Nimue]], after she takes control of the full power of Project Pegasus, turning her into [[RealityWarper a Dark Lantern.]] Given that she's an ancient and seriously powerful PersonOfMassDestruction to begin with, this is... alarming.

** Princesses Celestia and Luna, of course, as per canon, but the story also adds their equally strong brother Prince Empyrean, and their even ''more'' powerful parents [[BigBad King Titan]] and Queen Terra. And then, near the end of the story, [[spoiler: Twilight taps into the full power of the Elements of Harmony and becomes so powerful that only Titan himself is able beat her in a fight]]. And ''then'', during the climax, [[spoiler: she absorbs the powers of Harmony and becomes an alicorn who is Titan's equal]].
** Of all ponies, [[spoiler: ''[[ShrinkingViolet Fluttershy]]'']] becomes one during the [[FinalBattle Battle of the Everfree]]. And she does so in ''epic'' fashion -- [[spoiler: she uses something equal to the Royal Canterlot Voice to browbeat the most ancient of all dragons into [[HeelFaceTurn switching sides]], then rides him as her personal steed in the story's most impressive BigDamnHeroes moment]].

* In ''FanFic/{{Propagation}}'' [[spoiler: Taylor, as Eden Reborn]], is a very, very close equivalent.
* ''FanFic/PuellaMagiYuukoMagica'': Madoka is stated to be this by Kyuubey and Mami. Her appearant power tops all of the [[spoiler: Puella Magi in the universe]] individually. Plus, she's got a mental link with [[spoiler:Madokami]]. Of course, being who she is, she begins to assert AGodIAmNot by a certain chapter.
* ''FanFic/RainbowDoubleDashsLunaverse'': Princess Luna falls squarely into this trope, as does Corona, The Tyrant Sun. Cadance falls right at the very bottom of this trope: While an order of magnitude more powerful than a mortal pony, she's still far weaker than [[spoiler: her mother]]. It's implied that she'll eventually grow into this trope, however.

%%** Chaos. [[spoiler: Takato becomes one after fusing with Chaos]].

%%** And "The Saviour"/[[spoiler: Terriermon]]

** [[spoiler: Merlin]] may be one. He's a bona fide world jumper and time-traveller, as well as being one of the most powerful wizards in history, as well as possibly being TheAgeless.
* In ''[[http://kleinerkiller.deviantart.com/gallery/41037509 Yognapped]]'', the sibling gods Notch, Herobrine, and [[spoiler: Rana]] are these to Minecraftia. They are, however, far from impervious to physical damage. [[spoiler:Which is why Notch can stab the others InTheBack and permanently kill them.]]

* ''Series/TheMagicians2016'': [[spoiler: Julia]] becomes this after being raped by the TricksterGod Reynard. She has NighInvulnerability, can handle magic than others can't, and can still do magic after TheMagicGoesAway.

** Daijinryuu from ''Series/GoseiSentaiDairanger'' is a deity looking like a huge Asian dragon tasked with preserving the peace of the universe. [[spoiler: Because the conflict between the Dairangers and Gorma was threatening said peace, Daijinryuu visited earth to warn them to stop. Otherwise it would destroy the planet.]]

** [[spoiler: The Four Judges]] are godlike entities in the form of giant statues, who rule the world of [[spoiler:Cycle 65 in The Stolen Century.]] They [[spoiler: appear again, corrupted by The Hunger, in Story and Song.]]
** In the Live Boston Stunt Spectacular show, they prevent Garagos, the forgotten god of war, from [[spoiler: being summoned from his imprisonment, but not before his 5 hands appear, and destroy the arena.]]
** [[spoiler: Merle finally meets Pan face-to-face in episode two of Story and Song.]]

** 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.]] [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration Stats-wise]] these incarnates are about on par with the aforementioned Greater Daemons and godly avatars, which reflects in their fluff battles (e.g. the Bloodthirster Ka'Bandha taking on ''three'' incarnates and slaying one before being struck down).

* ''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.

%%* ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'': [[spoiler: He-is, the bound god]].

%%** [[spoiler: Both Vegetto and Broly.]]
* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Immortals can gain this status if they go long enough without resetting. Even if an Immortal does reach this level of capability, however, actually using their full power corporeally would likely break Immortal law resulting in being forcibly reset so such a display of power would be brief. [[spoiler:Pandora]] [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2018-01-08 demonstrates]] what this looks like. [[spoiler: She kills every single aberration present, destroys "Scarf's" gun and prevents the shrapnel from hitting anyone within the span of a moment. She then [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2018-01-12 leverages]] the mechanism of her forced reset to [[http://egscomics.com/comic/2018-01-15 force]] all the other Immortals to carry out her plan to decimate the number of Aberrations worldwide.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Energize}}'': In ''Energize: Hunted'', [[spoiler:the title character]] [[TookALevelInBadass increasingly becomes one of these]]. He goes from being one of the world's most powerful heroes to [[spoiler:[[CurbStompBattle effortlessly mopping the floor with all the world's greatest heroes put together]]]]. It is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:he draws his powers from being host to the Titan Cronos who even the gods feared. He's grown much more powerful since then.]].

** Coyote is physical enough to be... [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=284 spanked.]] Doing so is strongly discouraged. And if you think Ysengrin was just protecting his little talking doggie, Coyote will be quick to remind you [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=286 who's in charge]]. He gave Ysengrin and Renard their powers, [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=491 dug the giant ravine outside the Court with his bare paw]], and can [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=492 pull the moon out of the sky on a whim]]. It's a good thing he doesn't share Ysengrin's [[KillEmAll desired fate for humanity...]]

* ''Webcomic/ItsWalky'': The Cheese. That's what [[TheMenInBlack SEMME]] calls him, but others know him as "the Wanderer" or occasionally just God. And yet even ''he'' gets [[http://www.itswalky.com/d/20030510.html utterly curb-stomped]] by Mist in the ''Webcomic/ItsWalky''[=/=]''Webcomic/{{Fans}}'' crossover, which went a long way toward building Mist up to be one scary motherfucker himself, [[spoiler: at least until it was later revealed that Mist was just a dude who sold his soul to Satan for power, and who [[VillainDecay ended up strangled to death]].]]

* In ''Webcomic/ProblemSleuth'', Pickle Inspector's amazing skill with imagination lets him do some crazy stuff while in the imaginary world, like split into multiple copies of himself, time-travel, [[spoiler: combine the two actions to create the subatomic particles that ''form all matter in the entire universe'']], and [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascend to outright Godhood.]]

* ''Webcomic/SlightlyDamned'' has Gaia and Syndel who rule over and live in Heaven and Hell [[spoiler: as far as we know]], Death, who presides over purgatory [[spoiler: or does he?]] and the Twelve Guardians who keep an eye on Medius in the absence of the higher gods [[spoiler: at least, they're ''supposed'' to...]].

** In "Holiday Wars", [[spoiler: Alien Santa]] calls Santa Claus -- as in, whoever holds the position -- "a virtual god of the holidays". More clearly, in the same story, the description fits [[spoiler: [[HairRaisingHare Bun-bun]] after his killing most of the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphic Personifications]] of holidays, [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt taking on new powers with each one he kills]].]] Their combined portfolios give him RealityWarper powers among others.

** The gods and demi-gods of Mohkadun [[spoiler: whose number Father Time and Uncle Time are actually part of]] had physical bodies, usually human.
** "Anima: Resolution" features reference to a goddess called Troloria. [[spoiler: It's implied she's really someone who won the war between psionicists stealing "souls" from others to increase their power. Apparently she got basically everyone's power, making her powerful enough to alter the whole "anima tapestry", the world's psionic-soul-thingy-system, as she wished.]]

** "[[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]].

** Dagon 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.]]

* ''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.]]

** The Original Thirteen Transformers could count here. Prima, Vector Prime, Nexus Prime, Megatronus (The Fallen), Alpha Trion, Solus Prime, Liege Maximo, Micronus Prime, Onyx Prime, Amalgamous Prime, Alchemist Prime, Quintus Prime and the Thirteenth Prime [[spoiler: Optimus Prime]]. Each of them has some kind of god-like power.

** 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 curb stomps the heroes with ease, with even Goultard himself barely able to do much more than deflect his attacks.]]

* The Boddhisatvas are Buddhist deities who choose to remain active a re-incarnate in physical form in the world. The Dalai Lama (the physical manifestation of the Buddha Avalokitesvara) is probably the most famous one however there are hundreds formally recognized around the world. Not exactly gods in the sense that Budhism see all divinities as beings who reach such state after attaining Nirvana, but socially and culturally fullfil the role of gods for all practical purposes.

** Ultraman King, the leader of the Showa Era Ultras, and the closest thing their universe has shown to {{God}}. He is revered as [[TheOmnipotent all powerful]] and so immensely strong that it only took him three moves to [[CurbstompBattle defeat Ultraman Belial]]: the first was telekinetically grabbing him, the second throwing him telekinetically into ''orbit'', and the last one was ''creating a moon around him'' for the sole purpose of [[SealedEvilInACan imprisoning him.]] In ''Series/UltramanGeed'', he takes the normal Ultra ability of fusing with a mortally wounded being to resurrect them UpToEleven by doing it to the ''freaking universe'' after Belial destroys it with a universe breaking bomb.

** The aforementioned ''Immortal's Handbook'' takes this trope MUCH further than any other book mentioned. The most powerful monster in the book can punch planets to pieces, and it's a golem created by even stronger beings called time lords. Time lords are below high lords, who are below the Supreme Being (not-quite-omnipotent ruler of the omniverse), and there are things called ultrals from [[UpToEleven a level of existence higher than omniversal]]. Note that all of these beings (except maybe the ultrals since we don't know much) are just as physical as the other gods in ''D&D''.

** 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.]]

** The daemon princes has most of these powers and are usually worshiped by bands/tribes of marauders.

** 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.]]

* ''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.]]

* In ''Film/{{Blade}}'', Deacon Frost becomes one after turning into La Magra, becoming the physical manifestation of the evil Blood God. [[spoiler:As strong as he is, he's still vulnerable to anti-coagulants.]]