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* The second ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie, ''The Beast With a Billion Backs'', had this happen literally when [[spoiler:Bender, along with his Damned Army that he gained by sacrificing his firstborn son to the Robot Devil, drags Heaven, where all of the universe sans robots has gone to exist for all eternity, out of its pocket dimension. He then leads an pirate invasion culminating in a duel between himself and the kraaken-like Heaven being, Yivo. He would have lost, but nonetheless, the fact he did all of this out of jealousy that Yivo had taken Fry from him, demonstrates how much his friendship with Fry [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming means to him]].]]

*** Note: in the ShinMegamiTensei series, [[spoiler: Satan and Lucifer are two different beings. Lucifer is the Devil and Satan an archangel of sorts. Shin Megami Tensei is the trope namer for LouisCypher after all.]]
** In yet another SMT installment, VideoGame/DevilSurvivor, [[MagnificentBastard Naoya]] makes it obvious that he does not like God. [[spoiler:This is because he is the original Cain, and after he killed Abel, God cursed him to reincarnate endlessly with ''[[FateWorseThanDeath every single memory he has gained over his many lives.]]'']]

** It's actually one of the major themes of greek mythology. Chronnos destroyed his father Uranos and started the reign of the Titans. Then his son Zeus decided to destroy all the Titans, and started the reign of the Olympian Gods. That eventually someone would attempt to destroy the Olympian gods was pretty much a given. [[spoiler:And it is revealed towards the end of the second game, that Kratos is actually a son of Zeus, and Zeus was trying to stop the inevitable from happening when he got rid of Kratos.]]

* ''TheSimpsonsGame''. [[spoiler: After failing to save Springfield by [[RageAgainstTheAuthor beating up Matt Groening]], the Simpsons to take their case to God, whom they eventually defeat in Dance Dance Revolution-ish minigame.]]

TheOtherWiki calls this ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misotheism misotheism]]'' -- hatred of God or the Gods. This trope seems at least partially connected to DarkerAndEdgier, and can turn out the same horrible results.

** In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyXIII''', the entire worlds of Cocoon and Gran Pulse are run by the godlike fal'Cie, who occasionally force recruit humans into their service for special tasks. Not only do they not exactly tell their new servants what they are supposed to do and the punishment for failure is being turned into a zombie, even if the task is completed, the "reward" is being made "immortal" by being turned to stone [[spoiler:(so they can store their most useful servants for later use.)]]. After the Cocoon fal'Cie attempt to exterminate her entire town for possibly having come into contact with a Pulse fal'Cie, her sister gets turned into a big chunk of crystal, and she gets forced to perform a task without knowing what it is, Lightning storms off to use the time left before she turns into a zombie and destroy all of the fal'Cie. [[spoiler:She later backs off from her plan when she realizes that destroying the fal'Cie would mean turning of the Sun, the worlds only source of electricity, and the entire automated water and food supply, dooming everyone to death. In a way, this makes the whole situation even worse, since this seems to mean that to the fal'Cie humans are not slaves, but just pets.]]

* Shades of this appears on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. For the main characters, they're pissed at Heaven, not God, and actually want God around, because He's their only chance for coming out of the Apocalypse with their minds, bodies, and souls intact. The demons don't want God around for obvious reasons, and a few angels (Zachariah in particular) don't want him around because without God, ''they're'' running Heaven.

** It turns out ''later''[[spoiler: God is still around and does care about the Apocalypse, He was just moving in mysterious ways, using the Winchesters to stop it without directly intervening. [[MindScrew Maybe]].]]

* Done with an '''excellent''' reason in [[http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1366#comic this]] ''{{SMBC}}'' comic.

* Pretty much the definition of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misotheism Misotheism]].

** In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyII'' [[spoiler:after the Emperor is killed, his dark half goes to hell and [[LikeaBadassOutOfHell takes over,]] but his Light half goes to Heaven and... takes that over too.]] Yeah, [[spoiler:this guy is so evil his ''good side'' somehow managed to overthrow God.]] {{Badass}} much?

** In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyII'' [[spoiler:After the Emperor is killed, his dark half goes to hell and [[LikeaBadassOutOfHell takes over,]] but his Light half goes to Heaven and... takes that over too.]] Yeah, [[spoiler:this guy is so evil his ''good side'' somehow managed to overthrow God.]] {{Badass}} much?

* ''BruceAlmighty'' has Bruce yelling and ranting at God until He decides He's had enough of it and declares "Fine, LetsSeeYOUDoBetter!"

* Shades of this appears on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''. For the main characters, they're pissed at Heaven, not God, and actually want God around, because He's their only chance for coming out of the Apocalypse with their minds, bodies, and souls intact. The demons don't want God around for obvious reasons, and the angels (Zachariah in particular) don't want him around because without God, ''they're'' running Heaven.
** In an early season 4 episode, Dean rants a bit about God sitting on his ass, and asks if God cares about humanity, why doesn't he do something? To quote Bobby, "I ain't touching this one with a ten-foot pole."
** It turns out [[spoiler: God's still around, he just doesn't care about the Apocalypse.]]
** Which leads to this trope being more obviously shown in "Dark Side of the Moon", where Castiel loses the last traces of his faith and starts yelling at the ceiling.
*** It turns out ''later''[[spoiler: God is still around and does care about the Apocalypse, He was just moving in mysterious ways, using the Winchesters to stop it without directly intervening. [[MindScrew Maybe]].]]

-->-- '''[[TheUnfavorite Zuko]]''' (yelling at a massive thunderstorm), ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderBitterWork Bitter Work]]" [[note]]CosmicPlaything The heavens ignore him.[[/note]]

->''"[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished You've always thrown everything you could at me!]] [[IronWoobie Well I can take it!]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard And now I can give it back!]] [[SmiteMeOhMightySmiter Come on! Strike me]]! [[You've never held back before!]]"''

->''"[[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished You've always thrown everything you could at me!]] [[IronWoobie Well I can take it!]] [[HoistByHisOwnPetard And now I can give it back!]] [[SmiteMeOhMightySmiter Come on! Strike me]]! [[CosmicPlaything You've never held back before!]]"''

-->-- '''[[TheUnfavorite Zuko]]''' (yelling at a massive thunderstorm), ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'', "[[Recap/AvatarTheLastAirbenderBitterWork Bitter Work]]"

* The ''HisDarkMaterials'' book series by PhilipPullman.
** In the third book, Lord Asriel unites dozens of universes to declare war on God. [[spoiler: It turns out that "God" is just the first angel to have come into existence. He's unbelievably old, and when the protagonists release him from his crystal cage, he disintegrates into nothingness. His regent, Metatron, who was responsible for the evils for which God was blamed, is killed by Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter, who drag him into a bottomless pit.]]

* Medusa's current explanation for her actions in ''SoulEater'' (she'll come up with something else soon enough). While she's previously alluded to wanting to get rid of gods, she's now claimed it's in the nature of witches to do so.

* Manga/{{Bleach}} has [[spoiler:Aizen]] to fulfill this trope. It seems the whole reason he did ANYTHING was because he thought people should be masters of their own destiny.

* This is essentially the plot of ''{{Amatsuki}}'', in which the titular world is ruled over by the god Teiten, who really couldn't care less about what happens to its inhabitants, as long as they don't interfere with his own plans (and if they do, there are ''severe'' consequences). He also predicts the fates of all living things so that he may control them. The demon [[AntiHero Bonten]], who lost everyone he loved because of Teiten, decides he's tired of this way of life and takes action once it becomes evident that Teiten intends to destroy the world. Hapless protagonist Tokidoki, the only one whose fate has not been decided, is part of a plot made by Bonten and the demons to overthrow Teiten and escape the awful fate that awaits them. [[RefusalOfTheCall Except he doesn't like the idea of being made a god]].

* Guts, the main character of ''{{Berserk}}'', spends more than a year hunting and killing the demonic Apostles, the subordinates to the [[BigBad God Hand]]. [[spoiler:And according to a deleted chapter, there's an actual man-made God called the Idea of Evil running the show, which Guts will probably have to face off against once he finishes with Griffith and the God Hand]].

* The second ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie, ''The Beast With a Billion Backs'', had this happen literally when [[spoiler:Bender, along with his Damned Army that he gained by sacrificing his firstborn son to the Robot Devil, drags Heaven, where all of the universe sans robots has gone to exist for all eternity, out of its pocket dimension. He then leads an pirate invasion culminating in a duel between himself and the kraaken-like Heaven being, Yivo. He would have lost, but nonetheless, the fact he did all of this out of jealousy that Yivo had taken Fry from him, demonstrates how much his friendship with Fry [[CrowningMomentOfHearwarning means to him]].]]

* The second ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' movie, ''The Beast With a Billion Backs'', had this happen literally when [[spoiler:Bender, along with his Damned Army that he gained by sacrificing his firstborn son to the Robot Devil, drags Heaven, where all of the universe sans robots has gone to exist for all eternity, out of its pocket dimension. He then leads an pirate invasion culminating in a duel between himself and the kraaken-like Heaven being. He would have lost, but oh well.]]

* ''{{Saiyuki}}'' Gaiden, a prequel to the main story's plot (both of which are on-going), explains the story of how the 4 ([[spoiler:possibly 5 or more since Hakuryu/Jeep seems to indeed be the Gojun, Dragon King of the West Army]]) main characters of the current story were banished from heaven for trying to overthrow the ruling gods. As the Gaiden story is on-going, we still don't know quite what happened.

* In ''{{Bayonetta}}'', you fight angels as your primary enemies and use demons from Hell as finishers for the bigger ones. Not only do you kill angelic bosses that are bigger and more powerful with each one, but you eventually [[spoiler:kill Jubileus, the Creator, in the most awesome way ever to kill a god: You ''[[SummonBiggerFish summon something even bigger]], [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out her soul]]'' and ''[[HurlItIntoTheSun knock it from Pluto into the sun!]]'' And it is awesome to do.]]

* ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' [[UpToEleven takes this to a level]] even VideoGame/GodOfWar, or possibly even {{Bayonetta}} dosen't go to! The first boss's final state becomes ''bigger than the planet Earth'' and tries to crush you to death with his finger! And unlike Kratos or Bayonetta, the hero fights just by punching everything and making energy blast come out of his fists! And the rage just keeps getting hotter, as Asura kills the rest of the Seven Deities one by one. The storyline ultimately concludes in the last DLC-specific chapter "Nirvana" where Asura [[spoiler: assaults [[{{God}} Chakravartin's]] immense fortress (bigger than ''entire galaxies'') and punches him out.]] Because those bastards [[PapaWolf made his daughter cry.]]

* ''NeonGenesisEvangelion''...maybe. [[MindScrew Who can tell?]]

:: God's reaction is to calmly and dispassionately turn him into a small pile of sewage, and cut Hell's space in half.

** Wrath/[[spoiler:Bradley]] has a very bad case of this when dealing with [[spoiler:Ishbalans. Their continued faith in their God, in spite of all the horrors they've suffered, enrages him]].