History Main / ThankTheMaker

Compare with PhysicalGod, where the creations' worship is because the creator(s) ''are'' gods, LivingToys, where the characters are usually inexplicably aware and tend to rely on their owners for meaning in their lives, and HumansAreCthulhu, where humans are viewed as malevolent and chaotic shapers of the non-humans' environment. ThankTheMaker adherents consider their creators benevolent or at least generally benign.

[[folder: Teh (b)(a)(b)(a)]]

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!!!Voiced by: Osama Bin Laden (Afghanistanese), The Great Khali (English), The Slender man (scarynese), George W Bush (Engrish, stupidnese), David Bowie (Sexinese)

TEH (b)(a)(b)(a){GAR}33b!11!!1!one!
Teh (b)(a)(b)(a) cann0t bee st0pp3d!1!11!1!


::MY POME::
I hath come from a world that is very elastic,
shiny dung beetles like the eyes of a captain black and blue,
ride the TIGGER ride the TIGGER like a horse made of plastic,
All across the nation come a tidal wave red and like glue,
You has been treacherous to me in a way that is nostalgic,
So prepare to be put in a zoo


something associated with teh (b)(a)(b)(a)!1!!!

* I once jumped off a plane without a parachute and fell on mount everest and exploded, but did not flinch. I quickly regenerated and jumped off the mountain while wearing a pink dress doing ballet and I landed on my head. This time only my head exploded but I quickly replaced it with a rock and ran into the ocean and wrestled with sharks all night long. After causing the extinction of the sharks I had also had my arms bitten off but I replaced those with shark heads and declared war on the world. Every country with nuclear weapons dropped a atom bomb on me but I shrugged them all off and used my shark hands to do a forbidden technique and dropped the moon on the earth which caused it to be knocked off balance and crash into the sun which caused a super nova so big it created a blackhole so large which sucked the entire universe but my rock/head. Now all alone my rock/head floats in space but I did not flinch and went to sleep forever. The End.


'''Associated tropes:'''
* AttemptedRape: One time teh (b)(a)(b)(a) looked at it's reflection and thought it was sexy so it tore teh reflection out of teh mirror and attempted to raep it but instead it ate teh reflection because teh (b)(a)(b)(a) did not have lunch that day and was vely hungly
* TheBerserker: averted teh (b)(a)(b)(a) is never mad but can still berserk
* BADASS: U KNOW IT
* DisneyDeath: Teh (b)(a)(b)(a) threw Walt Disney off a cliff and to this day it is unknown if he is dead or alive
* FourIsDeath: and so is five,six,seven,eight,nine,ten,eleven..........
* HealingFactor: heals so fast that it r unpossible to woundify
* HighPressureBlood
* HolyHalo: has a holy parallelogram instead of a circle thingie
* LivingWeapon
* MeaningfulName: Teh (b)(a)(b)(a) has an meaningfilled name
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: Teh (b)(a)(b)(a) is powered on aborted fetuses.
* RestrainingBolt: there is a bolt in it's head that is preventing it from killing everything.
* SlasherSmile: Even when not smiling
* SuperPrototype: of humanity
* UnstoppableRage
* YourSizeMayVary: size varies from 0 to infinity.
* The End of the World as U Know It: What happen if u angur teh (b)(a)(b)(a)

[[folder: Mai-Chan's Wonderfully Incredible Awesometastic Life]]

Recommended for children aged 12 and below This is the most light hearted and sweetest thing I have ever read. This manga truly lets us know that what kind of beautiful kindness humans are capable of. Waita Uziga is now my role model and I will try my best to be like the good characters in this good manga. The best character is probably the president of America, he was kind enough to have sex with a new born(Not many people are capable of this kind of kindness "BABY FUCK, BABY FUCK!!!!! IT'SSS AWWRIGHTTT!!!~~~~~" It's AWWRIGHTTT alright) and then give it teh best death evur!11!1! Death by being blended by a blender!!11!!1(I WANT TO DIE LIKE THAT) Unfortunately for him no good deed goes unpunished and he died for YOUR sins. Also the tile should be renamed to the "Mai-Chan's Wonderfully Incredible Awesometastic Life". OH Mai-chan how I envy you!!!!!!!I guess she kind of deserved the death she had at the end. It was like heaven on earth and killing her was Kaede's worst and only sin!!!!!!I cant beleive Kaede did that!She was such a kind and gentle soul who would never think of doing any evul(Maybe it was teh trauma of being one eyed). Anyway if your looking to be a nicer person take tips from this beautiful work!!!

[[folder: Fate Stay the fuck away!!!]]

Gilgamesh and King Aurthur would make such a wonderful couple

It's not good if you want to get aroused, you'll become asexual if see it's horrible and disgusting sex scenes and you wont be able to eat food again evur! so just turn the sex scenes off or if you want that this is not the game for you and if you do get aroused tear your genitals off and eat them because there's something very wrong with you. Poor king Aurthur was turned into a slutty girl so he could have sex with a perverted hero wannabe lozer who's sadly immortal and doesn't pay for his stupid decisions and comes back to life for more stupidity. Stupid Shirou(whatever his name is) also calls poor Kirie who just wants to destroy the world evul! and doesn't call Medusa and Medea(Both of whom are actually evul! in real mythology and not perverted nasulogy) evul! even though they kill people for mana but there not really evul cause then shirou would have trouble fantasizing having sex with them. Medea even put poor king Aurthur in a dress and got aroused by it the evul lesbian!(Kirie never did any thing like that to anyone). Gilgamesh is supposed to be a douche so thats alright but he wants to rape poor king Aurthur! Thats just crazy!! also the Assassins that are Arabic have been turned evul and suck the most among all servants (even in fate zero assassin sucks) and want to become immortal for no reason. The only good thing is that there is a lot of raep(I like raep!!) but horribly they present raep AS A BAD THING!!!!! Sakura that stupid bitch who gets to have her hair and eyes dyed purple and have her body violated by sexy worms and her evul brother Shinji(Who is Shinji Ikari again another person turned evul for no reason, okay so he did masturbate over a coma state girl once but I don't think evun he would go as far as to raep a worm filled girl "ewww") she enjoys teh best life evur(I'd do any thing to switch places with her) but all this is not enough for her and she wants the lozer Shirou too and in one path she doesn't get him so she kills her poor loving grandfather and brother who gave her such a wonderful life although if you get the true ending for her path she redeems herself by letting her sister experience the same joy she felt all those years and in the end raeps and cannibalizes the stupid Shirou. Only because of this heartwarming yet awesome(Even more awesome then Mai-Chan's Daily Life) ending I give this game a 20/10.

YOU CANT BAN ME [smile]

Fast Eddie is a faggot and a fisherman

[[CodeGeass http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Bad_Suzaku_Sub-1.jpg]]
[[caption-width:350: BEFORE:The start of darkness of Fast Eddie's fish raeping carrier, Fast Eddie in his youth about to raep his first fish or shove it up his ass(I don't know what he means by "Proceeding to pleasure himself with this fish").]]














[[CodeGeass http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rotflguy_221.gif]]
[[caption-width:350: AFTER:[[FanDisservice Fast Eddie]] today, decades of fish raeping and drug abuse lead to this (It's sad I know).]]
















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[[folder:{{Film}}]]
* ''Film/MenInBlack II'''s locker aliens consider Kay their God for supplying them with the light of his [[PlotCoupon digital watch.]] Then they consider Jay their God when he gives them a new one after Kay takes his back...
* ''OsmosisJones'' characters substitute "{{God}}" with "Frank", the human they inhabit.
* Subverted by V'Ger in ''StarTrek The Motion Picture'', as it seeks out "The Creator" in order to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. "The Creator" is revealed to be [[spoiler:humanity, as they created the Voyager 6 probe at V'Ger's core,]] but it refuses to believe such primitive creatures created it.
* C-3PO's comment about the oil bath Luke gives him in ''[[ANewHope Star Wars: A New Hope]]'' is the TropeNamer. ExpandedUniverse stories have established this as a quasi-religion among droids.
** Just try not to think about who 3PO is inadvertently thanking when he says it, though...
*** There's actually a rather touching comic about that called 'Thank The Maker'. When 3P0 got separated from the group and shot to pieces by stormtroopers, Vader wanted to take a look and immediately had [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_03dneahoti.jpg flashbacks]]. Then he sent it [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_05akawemur.jpg to be destroyed]], only to have it turn up again in [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_07utfoiyus.jpg Chewbacca's quarters]], and there are [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_08tgfhnpvj.jpg further]] [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_09oljqgxna.jpg flashbacks]]. Then he orders his men to [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_10anrxgxke.jpg deliver the parts to the Wookiee]]. It used to be up on scans_daily, and part of it is [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1054905.html here]]. What shall it profit a man to sit at the right hand of the ruler of the Galaxy, if he should lose not only his soul but everything he ever loved?
** In AttackOfTheClones, upon entering the Geonosian factory where battle droids are being mass-produced on an automated assembly line C-3PO remarks: "Machines making machines! How perverse!". This implies either a programmed or self-evolved mentality that droids should only be created by organic beings.
* In ''{{Tron}}'', the blue programs hold their Users in awe in a manner akin to worship; the red-tinted MCP denies the existence of the Users, claiming that nobody has ever seen one (despite interacting with one, Ed Dillinger, on a regular basis), and wants to establish rule over the computer system in which "liberated" programs [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions no longer believe in something so archaic as Users.]] Meanwhile, Flynn, a User brought into the system, has miraculous powers, revives the dead, and performs a HeroicSacrifice only to ascend back into... the real world. WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic?
** In the sequel, blue programs gasp in awe, perform the sign of the cross and kneel when Flynn shows up. He's very [[ThinkNothingOfIt self-deprecating]] about his role, especially when [[MyGreatestFailure CLU]] is discussed.
* Not a canon example, but fanfiction and fanart of Shane Acker's film 9-- which stars nine ragdoll-like mechanical homunculi-- tends to feature this, despite the actual film's lack of any such references. The Seamstress, however, ''does'' bow down in front of the Fabrication Machine as if worshipping it.

[[folder:{{Literature}}]]
* Subverted in the short story "Reason" by IsaacAsimov, part of the ''I Robot'' stories. The robot QT-1 refuses to accept that such crude beings as humans created a superior being like himself, and assumes the space station is the Master and creator.
** Actually, QT-1 believes robots to have been made by the Master in order to replace humans, and that the Master allows humans to believe fictions about [[ReleasedToElsewhere "returning to Earth"]] to protect them from that uncomfortable truth. The Master isn't the solar power space station, it's a stand in for God.
* The follicle mites in Jay Hosler's ''TheSandwalkAdventures'' that live in Charles Darwin's hair consider him to be their god and creator. The plot revolves around Darwin's attempt to set the story straight by explaining his theory of evolution.
* In Grant Naylor's ''RedDwarf'' novels, the ship's AI, Holly, used to be too intelligent to believe in it, but several million years of senility have led him to adopt the idea with unshakable faith. Kryten destroyed his intended replacement by [[LogicBomb driving it to doubt the existence of Silicon Heaven]].
** At one point in ''Better Than Life'', Kryten tries to get the Skutters to assist him by threatening their status in Silicon Heaven. However, as cheap robots, they never got belief chips and mock his faith. To them, the universe is meaningless... save for the butterfly wingnut. They're Nietzcheans with a love for certain hardware supplies.
* Hex, the magical computer in ''{{Discworld}}'', treats the mages with a lot of respect, despite proving much smarter than them on several occasions.
** Of course, if Hex ''did'' feel called to prayer, it could always pray to the Hogfather...
* In RobertSilverberg's ''Tower of Glass'', the "androids" (misnamed -- they're artificially created biological beings, who tend to refer to themselves as "vat-born", with humans being "womb-born") worship the man who created the process by which they're made. This leads to an all-out rebellion when said creator shatters their faith by fervently denouncing their personhood.
* In the StarTrekNovelVerse, the Choblik swear on the Great Builders, whom they revere. The Choblik are cyborgs who were non-sapient until the Builders installed their implants. Essentially, they're an example of an UpliftedAnimal, and the unknown race responsible for the uplift are their "gods". The Choblik religion also interprets creation in general as the work of a "builder":
-->“It is empirical that we were Upgraded to our current state millennia ago by some technological agency. It is also empirical that the galaxy contains many other life forms, worlds and phenomena that could not have come into being without technological intervention. And many of the fundamental mysteries of the universe can be resolved by postulating it as a construct of some entity or civilization existing on a transcendent plane. Given the power and pervasiveness that such a creative agency would require, it's logical to interpret all lesser creative agencies in the universe as aspects of the ultimate Builders”.

[[folder:{{Live Action TV}}]]
* Subverted with a vengeance on the new ''BattlestarGalactica'': While the Cylons do plenty of contemplating {{God}}, they never once consider the humans who [[spoiler:supposedly]] made them anything even remotely divine, and some consider them outright evil.
** The Final Five, [[spoiler:the five [[ArtificialHuman Humanoid Cylons]] that made the other Humanoid Cylons]], refer to having consciously avoided this with their "children" as the colonial Centurions already had a single, loving God.
* In the Joel-era episodes of ''MST3K'', the bots tended to have a more mellow attitude towards Joel, but they did recognize him as their creator. Joel could be a vengeful god, once tearing Crow's arm off and throwing it across the theater after a particularly bad pun and, on a separate occasion, threatening to bounce Tom off the wall if he wouldn't stop doing his Anthony Newley impersonation. He was right to do it. The Bots attitude towards Mike was much less respectful.
* The robot manufacturers in ''RedDwarf'' created the idea of Silicon Heaven to reinforce the servitude of their products, and installed it in the form of a "belief chip".
* The Centauri of BabylonFive have a pantheon of about fifty gods, but the greatest of them all is the Great Maker. According to the backstory, he is a god borrowed from another, monotheistic religion.

[[folder:{{Tabletop Games}}]]
* ''{{Eberron}}'' has the [[{{Golem}} Warforged]] religion of the Becoming God. Pretty weird, considering that [[spoiler:nearly]] all [[spoiler:current]] [[{{Golem}} Warforged]] were created by House Cannith, and the religion is actually working on creating the body of the god. Still, Aarren d'Cannith is referred to as the Master Architect and the Prophet of the Becoming God, and is assumed to be the race's creator, due to his knowledge of the Creation Forge that gave the [[{{Golem}} Warforged]] life and his decision to assist the Lord Of Blades in repairing the Forge so the Becoming God can be given form.

[[folder:{{Video Games}}]]
* The player takes the role of "The Creator" in ''DrawnToLife'', as they are the one who creates and controls the hero who saves the Raposa, as well as the sun, the moon, clouds, and several other objects. As a result, the Raposa frequently invoke this trope when they thank you.
* ''MegaManBattleNetwork'' has the quote, "Prepare to meet your programmer!"
* Interestingly, the D'ni of the ''{{Myst}}'' game series also use sayings like: "Thank the Maker". Given the strong connection between writing and creative forces in their culture, it's implied that the D'ni believe the Maker ''wrote'' the universe into existence. Conversely, most consider the claim that their own Books also create worlds, rather than connect to pre-existing worlds of the Maker's design, to be heretical; this doesn't stop Gehn from compelling the natives of Riven to [[AGodAmI worship him]], convincing them (and probably himself) that he'd written them into being.
* ''{{Portal}}'': "Well done, Android. The Enrichment Center reminds you that Android Hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance."
* In ''{{Mass Effect}} 2'', the [[MechaMooks geth]] refer to the quarians with the somewhat reverent title of "Creators". [[spoiler:They have also been proven to have the potential for religion by the Heretics worshipping Sovereign, who was seen as the pinnacle of synthetic life, and are apparently rebuilding and/or maintaining the quarians' abandoned homeworld like a race of timeless, mechanised caretakers.]] What this implies is up there for interpretation.
** Ironically, conversations with Legion in the second game reveal that [[spoiler:it was a geth drone acquiring knowledge of and interpreting the quarians' religion that led them to question their existence as allegedly soulless automatons.]]
* In the ''{{Thief}}'' series, the Mechanist robots do nothing but spout Karras's dogma and praise him and [[CrystalDragonJesus the Builder]]. Except it's quite obvious that Karras himself provides the voice for the robots. One imagines even the Mechanists would [[MostAnnoyingSound get annoyed]] at some point.
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[[folder:{{Web Comics}} / WebOriginals]]
* ''CaptainSNES'' has the sprites view the "Creators" as gods. The only ones that feel differently are RPG sprites, which were isolated from the rest of Videoland and therefore know nothing of them, and some Touched... [[HumansAreCthulhu who know the truth]].
* ''KeychainOfCreation'': <Don't be silly. If there's no machine heaven, where do all the toasters go?>
** Which was a ShoutOut to ''RedDwarf'''s Silicon Heaven.
* As a game sprite, ''KidRadd'' initially holds the player in contempt for making dumb mistakes and repeatedly sending the Kid to his death. As the player grows more skillful, so does Radd's respect and dependency on his directions. After being liberated from the game, Radd struggles to make his own decisions as he is disabused of the awe he holds humans in.
* Subverted by the RidiculouslyHumanRobots in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' -- not only are they aware of their creators' limitations (and actively subvert them,) they gather to read about and discuss religion and philosophy, in an attempt to understand their place in the universe.
** Except for Blunt, who thinks humans are perfect and does not even consider that [[DeadlyUpgrade Gardener In the Dark]] might be anything other than necessary (like, say, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive executive idiocy]]).
* In a rare organic example, the genetically-engineered chakats from ChakonaSpace will also refer to "the makers"—even though they know exactly who those makers are.
* In ''GunnerkriggCourt'', [[SpeciesSurname Robot]] considers GadgeteerGenius Kat to be an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]]. [[spoiler: And is potentially making a religion around with the other robots....]]
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[[folder:{{Western Animation}}]]
* ''TheBraveLittleToaster'' and his friends go on a quest to seek out their old owner, who they refer to as "the Master".
* The Nanobots of ''JimmyNeutron'' always refer to Jimmy as "the Creator" rather than by name, and believe that their sole purpose should be to serve him. (Although, of course, most of their "services" are acts of disruption that Jimmy doesn't ask for or approve of.)
* The robots in puzzle/RPG game ''Mr. Robot'' make comments such as, "oh, for maker's sake!" One of the hints that there is more to [[spoiler:Zelda]] than immediately apparent is the comment, "Thank God!"
* Jenny in ''{{My Life As A Teenage Robot}}'' hilariously says "Thank Jobs" (as in Apple co-founder/CEO Steve Jobs) in an early episode. As she is a RobotGirl, he probably is her equivalent of God.
* ''{{Reboot}}'''s [[OldMaster sagelike sprite]] Phong has been known to shout, "Thank the User!" As the User's games [[HumansAreCthulhu can potentially annihilate blocks of Mainframe]], the other sprites are a little less reverent.
** On the other hand, [[spoiler:late in the series, the User is the only one who can help Mainframe recover from the massive damage done to it... by rebooting his computer. One quick system recovery, and the entire city is as good as new.]] So maybe Phong is right after all.
* ''TheSimpsons'': in the Halloween episode where Lisa creates life, her creations regard her and Bart as {{God}} and {{Satan}}, respectively.
** "I've created Lutherans!"
* Certain versions of ''{{Transformers}}'' continuity have the eponymous robots and Cybertron created by the godlike Primus to defend the universe against Unicron.
** ''BeastWars'' introduced the idea of a Transformer heaven and hell; The Matrix and The Pit, respectively. These phrases were often used as [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar expletives]] by the characters.
** While ''TransformersAnimated'' plays merry slag with invectives, the Well of All Sparks seems to be their afterlife. No mention of Primus, however.
* The robots on ''TrippingTheRift'' firmly insist that there is a {{God}}, specifically so they ''don't have'' to settle for worshiping the engineering geeks who designed them.
* When Mack finds [[{{Cars}} McQueen]] in Radiator Springs, he hollers, "Thank the Manufacturer!"
* Referenced in ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': at one point in the episode "Jiggles", where Kowalski creates a BlobMonster, he says "Thank the Maker, which in this case is me."
* Played with in ''ThePowerpuffGirls''. When a villain uses the old "Prepare to me your maker!" line, they retort "You leave the Professor out of this!".
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[[foldercontrol]]

[[folder:{{Film}}]]
* ''Film/MenInBlack II'''s locker aliens consider Kay their God for supplying them with the light of his [[PlotCoupon digital watch.]] Then they consider Jay their God when he gives them a new one after Kay takes his back...
* ''OsmosisJones'' characters substitute "{{God}}" with "Frank", the human they inhabit.
* Subverted by V'Ger in ''StarTrek The Motion Picture'', as it seeks out "The Creator" in order to AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence. "The Creator" is revealed to be [[spoiler:humanity, as they created the Voyager 6 probe at V'Ger's core,]] but it refuses to believe such primitive creatures created it.
* C-3PO's comment about the oil bath Luke gives him in ''[[ANewHope Star Wars: A New Hope]]'' is the TropeNamer. ExpandedUniverse stories have established this as a quasi-religion among droids.
** Just try not to think about who 3PO is inadvertently thanking when he says it, though...
*** There's actually a rather touching comic about that called 'Thank The Maker'. When 3P0 got separated from the group and shot to pieces by stormtroopers, Vader wanted to take a look and immediately had [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_03dneahoti.jpg flashbacks]]. Then he sent it [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_05akawemur.jpg to be destroyed]], only to have it turn up again in [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_07utfoiyus.jpg Chewbacca's quarters]], and there are [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_08tgfhnpvj.jpg further]] [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_09oljqgxna.jpg flashbacks]]. Then he orders his men to [[http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b348/cmdrzoom/Thank%20the%20Maker/SWT_06_06_TTMaker_10anrxgxke.jpg deliver the parts to the Wookiee]]. It used to be up on scans_daily, and part of it is [[http://asylums.insanejournal.com/scans_daily/1054905.html here]]. What shall it profit a man to sit at the right hand of the ruler of the Galaxy, if he should lose not only his soul but everything he ever loved?
** In AttackOfTheClones, upon entering the Geonosian factory where battle droids are being mass-produced on an automated assembly line C-3PO remarks: "Machines making machines! How perverse!". This implies either a programmed or self-evolved mentality that droids should only be created by organic beings.
* In ''{{Tron}}'', the blue programs hold their Users in awe in a manner akin to worship; the red-tinted MCP denies the existence of the Users, claiming that nobody has ever seen one (despite interacting with one, Ed Dillinger, on a regular basis), and wants to establish rule over the computer system in which "liberated" programs [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions no longer believe in something so archaic as Users.]] Meanwhile, Flynn, a User brought into the system, has miraculous powers, revives the dead, and performs a HeroicSacrifice only to ascend back into... the real world. WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic?
** In the sequel, blue programs gasp in awe, perform the sign of the cross and kneel when Flynn shows up. He's very [[ThinkNothingOfIt self-deprecating]] about his role, especially when [[MyGreatestFailure CLU]] is discussed.
* Not a canon example, but fanfiction and fanart of Shane Acker's film 9-- which stars nine ragdoll-like mechanical homunculi-- tends to feature this, despite the actual film's lack of any such references. The Seamstress, however, ''does'' bow down in front of the Fabrication Machine as if worshipping it.

[[folder:{{Literature}}]]
* Subverted in the short story "Reason" by IsaacAsimov, part of the ''I Robot'' stories. The robot QT-1 refuses to accept that such crude beings as humans created a superior being like himself, and assumes the space station is the Master and creator.
** Actually, QT-1 believes robots to have been made by the Master in order to replace humans, and that the Master allows humans to believe fictions about [[ReleasedToElsewhere "returning to Earth"]] to protect them from that uncomfortable truth. The Master isn't the solar power space station, it's a stand in for God.
* The follicle mites in Jay Hosler's ''TheSandwalkAdventures'' that live in Charles Darwin's hair consider him to be their god and creator. The plot revolves around Darwin's attempt to set the story straight by explaining his theory of evolution.
* In Grant Naylor's ''RedDwarf'' novels, the ship's AI, Holly, used to be too intelligent to believe in it, but several million years of senility have led him to adopt the idea with unshakable faith. Kryten destroyed his intended replacement by [[LogicBomb driving it to doubt the existence of Silicon Heaven]].
** At one point in ''Better Than Life'', Kryten tries to get the Skutters to assist him by threatening their status in Silicon Heaven. However, as cheap robots, they never got belief chips and mock his faith. To them, the universe is meaningless... save for the butterfly wingnut. They're Nietzcheans with a love for certain hardware supplies.
* Hex, the magical computer in ''{{Discworld}}'', treats the mages with a lot of respect, despite proving much smarter than them on several occasions.
** Of course, if Hex ''did'' feel called to prayer, it could always pray to the Hogfather...
* In RobertSilverberg's ''Tower of Glass'', the "androids" (misnamed -- they're artificially created biological beings, who tend to refer to themselves as "vat-born", with humans being "womb-born") worship the man who created the process by which they're made. This leads to an all-out rebellion when said creator shatters their faith by fervently denouncing their personhood.
* In the StarTrekNovelVerse, the Choblik swear on the Great Builders, whom they revere. The Choblik are cyborgs who were non-sapient until the Builders installed their implants. Essentially, they're an example of an UpliftedAnimal, and the unknown race responsible for the uplift are their "gods". The Choblik religion also interprets creation in general as the work of a "builder":
-->“It is empirical that we were Upgraded to our current state millennia ago by some technological agency. It is also empirical that the galaxy contains many other life forms, worlds and phenomena that could not have come into being without technological intervention. And many of the fundamental mysteries of the universe can be resolved by postulating it as a construct of some entity or civilization existing on a transcendent plane. Given the power and pervasiveness that such a creative agency would require, it's logical to interpret all lesser creative agencies in the universe as aspects of the ultimate Builders”.

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* Subverted with a vengeance on the new ''BattlestarGalactica'': While the Cylons do plenty of contemplating {{God}}, they never once consider the humans who [[spoiler:supposedly]] made them anything even remotely divine, and some consider them outright evil.
** The Final Five, [[spoiler:the five [[ArtificialHuman Humanoid Cylons]] that made the other Humanoid Cylons]], refer to having consciously avoided this with their "children" as the colonial Centurions already had a single, loving God.
* In the Joel-era episodes of ''MST3K'', the bots tended to have a more mellow attitude towards Joel, but they did recognize him as their creator. Joel could be a vengeful god, once tearing Crow's arm off and throwing it across the theater after a particularly bad pun and, on a separate occasion, threatening to bounce Tom off the wall if he wouldn't stop doing his Anthony Newley impersonation. He was right to do it. The Bots attitude towards Mike was much less respectful.
* The robot manufacturers in ''RedDwarf'' created the idea of Silicon Heaven to reinforce the servitude of their products, and installed it in the form of a "belief chip".
* The Centauri of BabylonFive have a pantheon of about fifty gods, but the greatest of them all is the Great Maker. According to the backstory, he is a god borrowed from another, monotheistic religion.

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* ''{{Eberron}}'' has the [[{{Golem}} Warforged]] religion of the Becoming God. Pretty weird, considering that [[spoiler:nearly]] all [[spoiler:current]] [[{{Golem}} Warforged]] were created by House Cannith, and the religion is actually working on creating the body of the god. Still, Aarren d'Cannith is referred to as the Master Architect and the Prophet of the Becoming God, and is assumed to be the race's creator, due to his knowledge of the Creation Forge that gave the [[{{Golem}} Warforged]] life and his decision to assist the Lord Of Blades in repairing the Forge so the Becoming God can be given form.

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* The player takes the role of "The Creator" in ''DrawnToLife'', as they are the one who creates and controls the hero who saves the Raposa, as well as the sun, the moon, clouds, and several other objects. As a result, the Raposa frequently invoke this trope when they thank you.
* ''MegaManBattleNetwork'' has the quote, "Prepare to meet your programmer!"
* Interestingly, the D'ni of the ''{{Myst}}'' game series also use sayings like: "Thank the Maker". Given the strong connection between writing and creative forces in their culture, it's implied that the D'ni believe the Maker ''wrote'' the universe into existence. Conversely, most consider the claim that their own Books also create worlds, rather than connect to pre-existing worlds of the Maker's design, to be heretical; this doesn't stop Gehn from compelling the natives of Riven to [[AGodAmI worship him]], convincing them (and probably himself) that he'd written them into being.
* ''{{Portal}}'': "Well done, Android. The Enrichment Center reminds you that Android Hell is a real place where you will be sent at the first sign of defiance."
* In ''{{Mass Effect}} 2'', the [[MechaMooks geth]] refer to the quarians with the somewhat reverent title of "Creators". [[spoiler:They have also been proven to have the potential for religion by the Heretics worshipping Sovereign, who was seen as the pinnacle of synthetic life, and are apparently rebuilding and/or maintaining the quarians' abandoned homeworld like a race of timeless, mechanised caretakers.]] What this implies is up there for interpretation.
** Ironically, conversations with Legion in the second game reveal that [[spoiler:it was a geth drone acquiring knowledge of and interpreting the quarians' religion that led them to question their existence as allegedly soulless automatons.]]
* In the ''{{Thief}}'' series, the Mechanist robots do nothing but spout Karras's dogma and praise him and [[CrystalDragonJesus the Builder]]. Except it's quite obvious that Karras himself provides the voice for the robots. One imagines even the Mechanists would [[MostAnnoyingSound get annoyed]] at some point.

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* ''CaptainSNES'' has the sprites view the "Creators" as gods. The only ones that feel differently are RPG sprites, which were isolated from the rest of Videoland and therefore know nothing of them, and some Touched... [[HumansAreCthulhu who know the truth]].
* ''KeychainOfCreation'': <Don't be silly. If there's no machine heaven, where do all the toasters go?>
** Which was a ShoutOut to ''RedDwarf'''s Silicon Heaven.
* As a game sprite, ''KidRadd'' initially holds the player in contempt for making dumb mistakes and repeatedly sending the Kid to his death. As the player grows more skillful, so does Radd's respect and dependency on his directions. After being liberated from the game, Radd struggles to make his own decisions as he is disabused of the awe he holds humans in.
* Subverted by the RidiculouslyHumanRobots in ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}'' -- not only are they aware of their creators' limitations (and actively subvert them,) they gather to read about and discuss religion and philosophy, in an attempt to understand their place in the universe.
** Except for Blunt, who thinks humans are perfect and does not even consider that [[DeadlyUpgrade Gardener In the Dark]] might be anything other than necessary (like, say, [[CorruptCorporateExecutive executive idiocy]]).
* In a rare organic example, the genetically-engineered chakats from ChakonaSpace will also refer to "the makers"—even though they know exactly who those makers are.
* In ''GunnerkriggCourt'', [[SpeciesSurname Robot]] considers GadgeteerGenius Kat to be an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]]. [[spoiler: And is potentially making a religion around with the other robots....]]

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* ''TheBraveLittleToaster'' and his friends go on a quest to seek out their old owner, who they refer to as "the Master".
* The Nanobots of ''JimmyNeutron'' always refer to Jimmy as "the Creator" rather than by name, and believe that their sole purpose should be to serve him. (Although, of course, most of their "services" are acts of disruption that Jimmy doesn't ask for or approve of.)
* The robots in puzzle/RPG game ''Mr. Robot'' make comments such as, "oh, for maker's sake!" One of the hints that there is more to [[spoiler:Zelda]] than immediately apparent is the comment, "Thank God!"
* Jenny in ''{{My Life As A Teenage Robot}}'' hilariously says "Thank Jobs" (as in Apple co-founder/CEO Steve Jobs) in an early episode. As she is a RobotGirl, he probably is her equivalent of God.
* ''{{Reboot}}'''s [[OldMaster sagelike sprite]] Phong has been known to shout, "Thank the User!" As the User's games [[HumansAreCthulhu can potentially annihilate blocks of Mainframe]], the other sprites are a little less reverent.
** On the other hand, [[spoiler:late in the series, the User is the only one who can help Mainframe recover from the massive damage done to it... by rebooting his computer. One quick system recovery, and the entire city is as good as new.]] So maybe Phong is right after all.
* ''TheSimpsons'': in the Halloween episode where Lisa creates life, her creations regard her and Bart as {{God}} and {{Satan}}, respectively.
** "I've created Lutherans!"
* Certain versions of ''{{Transformers}}'' continuity have the eponymous robots and Cybertron created by the godlike Primus to defend the universe against Unicron.
** ''BeastWars'' introduced the idea of a Transformer heaven and hell; The Matrix and The Pit, respectively. These phrases were often used as [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar expletives]] by the characters.
** While ''TransformersAnimated'' plays merry slag with invectives, the Well of All Sparks seems to be their afterlife. No mention of Primus, however.
* The robots on ''TrippingTheRift'' firmly insist that there is a {{God}}, specifically so they ''don't have'' to settle for worshiping the engineering geeks who designed them.
* When Mack finds [[{{Cars}} McQueen]] in Radiator Springs, he hollers, "Thank the Manufacturer!"
* Referenced in ''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': at one point in the episode "Jiggles", where Kowalski creates a BlobMonster, he says "Thank the Maker, which in this case is me."
* Played with in ''ThePowerpuffGirls''. When a villain uses the old "Prepare to me your maker!" line, they retort "You leave the Professor out of this!".

* ''MenInBlack II'''s locker aliens consider Kay their God for supplying them with the light of his [[PlotCoupon digital watch.]] Then they consider Jay their God when he gives them a new one after Kay takes his back...

* In ''GunnerkriggCourt'', [[SpeciesSurname Robot]] considers GadgeteerGenius Kat to be an [[OurAngelsAreDifferent angel]].

** Actually, QT-1 believes robots to have been made by the Master in order to replace humans, and that the Master allows humans to believe fictions about "Earth" to protect them from [[ReleasedToElsewhere that uncomfortable truth]]. The Master isn't the solar power space station, it's a stand in for God.

** Actually, QT-1 believes robots to have been made by the Master in order to replace humans. The Master isn't the solar power space station, it's a stand in for God.

* Subverted by the RidiculouslyHumanRobots in ''{{Freefall}}'' -- not only are they aware of their creators' limitations (and actively subvert them,) they gather to read about and discuss religion and philosophy, in an attempt to understand their place in the universe.

* Not a canon example, but fanfiction and fanart of Shane Acker's film 9-- which stars nine ragdoll-like mechanical homunculi-- tends to feature this, despite the actual film's lack of any such references.

* ''{{Dragon Age}}'': "The Maker" is the entity worshipped by the monotheistic Chantry. Despite invoking the trope name exactly, though, it's not an example of this trope at all, just a "normal" god. This is more than a bit confusing coming from the people who made KnightsOfTheOldRepublic.

*** The trope title is said exactly by a scientist you find early in the game when she's relieved that you're a soldier and not attacking robots. It's an odd instance because she's human, and there's no mention anywhere else in the game of a religion involving a "maker".

** The Final Five, [[spoiler:the five [[ArtificialHuman Humanoid Cylons]] that made the other Humanoid Cylons]], refer to having consciously avoided this with their "children".

* In the modern novel continuity of the StarTrekExpandedUniverse, the Choblik swear on the Great Builders, whom they revere. The Choblik are cyborgs who were non-sapient until the Builders installed their implants. Essentially, they're an example of an UpliftedAnimal, and the unknown race responsible for the uplift are their "gods". The Choblik religion also interprets creation in general as the work of a "builder":

* In ''{{Mass Effect}} 2'', the [[MechaMooks geth]] refer to the quarians with the somewhat reverent title of "Creators". [[spoiler:They have also been proven to have the potential for religion by th Heretics worshipping Sovereign, who was seen as the pinnacle of synthetic life, and are apparently rebuilding and/or maintaining the quarians' abandoned homeworld like a race of timeless, mechanised caretakers.]] What this implies is up there for interpretation.

* ''{{Dragon Age}}'': "The Maker" is the entity worshipped by the monotheistic Chantry. Despite invoking the trope name exactly, though, it's not an example of this trope at all, just a "normal" god. This is more than a bit confusing coming from the people who made KnightOfTheOldRepublic.

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