History Main / TheChosenPeople

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'': The Pureblood High Entia think to be this as they misinterpreted visions from [[GeniusLoci the Bionis]] calling them his chosen people and with some members believing they are superior to all other life. [[spoiler: [[GodIsEvil The Bionis']] [[BeastOfTheApocalypse actual plans for the High Entia]] [[TragicMonster are far less than beneficial for them.]]]]

* In Judaism, the Israelites (and their descendants) are God's Chosen people. This is in regard how certain people among the Israelites are chosen to carry-out divine missions, or are exempt from specific declarations and boundaries brought up by God. However, God does make it clear in the story of [[Literature/BookOfJonah Jonah]] that he is the God of All nations, and gets angry when Jonah is unwilling to preach so the people of Ninevah (Assyrians) can be saved.

* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series includes [[OurGodsAreDifferent numerous forms of deities]] who have had direct, tangible impacts on the mortal world. Included are these deities expressing favoritism toward [[LoadsAndLoadsOfRaces specific races]] or groups of people. To note a few prominent examples:

* In ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens unfathomably powerful]] {{Precursors}} known as the Forerunners waged war with AdvancedAncientHumans, reducing them to stone-age primitives surviving only on a single planet, only to learn they were InvadingRefugees fleeing an [[TheAssimilator all-consuming]] parasitic HiveMind known as "the Flood". Realizing the only way to stop the flood was to starve it of biomass, they committed a species-wide HeroicSuicide using [[LostSuperweapon the Halo array]] to exterminate nearly all life in the Galaxy, save for a few protected pockets. Knowing that this would leave a massive power vacuum, they designated humanity as the "Reclaimers", their chosen successors and the only species who can activate their technology, [[HumanityIsSpecial in recognition of their potential]]. Unfortunately, humanity is pretty much completely ignorant of this, and the only people who ''do'' know are the leaders of [[ScaryDogmaticAliens the Covenant]], a powerful alien [[TheTheocracy theocracy]] that worships the Forerunners. Upon learning that they are not, in fact, the Chosen People, the Covenant "Prophets" decide to cover up the discovery by [[FinalSolution exterminating humanity]].

** The Nora believe that they hold the preeminent place in the eyes of the All-Mother, by virtue of never leaving the Embrace. Other tribes are compared to wayward children, who have forfeited her protection, and thus are not to be interacted with unless absolutely necessary. It should be noted that this attitude is extended to Nora who leave the Embrace (except for the extremely rare Seekers). One of the reasons that the Nora are seen as savages by everyone else is simply because no one else ever meets a Nora.
** Not unlike the Nora's own belief, Carja theology holds that the Carja occupy a special place under the Sun, as its anointed people. However, unlike the Nora, the Carja also believe that since the Sun shines on all tribes and peoples, the Carja are still obligated to help them when they can. Of course, the previous Sun-King was TheCaligula who decided the best way for other tribes to bring glory to the Sun was [[HumanSacrifice to be sacrificed in the Sun Ring]]. Most of the politics in the game revolves around the new Sun-King trying to make up for his father's horrific foreign policy.

** In the case of Israel, being "Chosen" also means having [[WithGreatPower responsibilities]]. Several times Israel is punished for failing to uphold their part of the Covenant with God. Israel as a whole is a TribeOfPriests leading by exemple the entire human race.

** The Forerunners themselves proclaimed themselves to be the chosen of their own {{Precursors}}, selected to bear the “Mantle of Responsibility” that granted them stewardship of the galaxy. But near the end of the war against the Flood, the Forerunners (re)discovered the truth: the Precursors didn’t choose them at all. In fact, they were planning to choose humanity. The ancient Forerunners, enraged at being passed over, slaughtered the Precursors and essentially stole the Mantle, and over time forgot and/or covered up the truth. The designation of humanity as their Reclaimers was in part the deliberate righting of an ancient wrong.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'', a massive space-faring sphere known as [[MessianicArchetype the Traveler]] makes itself known to mankind. Not only does it sacrifice parts of its own power to stave of the Darkness, but it also provides an arsenal for humanity to defend itself with and the power of resurrection to the Guardians of the last city. This has inspired much envy from aliens of other races, including [[TheChosenWannabe Dominos Ghaul and the Cabal]]. This isn't the first time this has happened either; the Traveler has chosen multiple races before humanity, including another race that they fight, the Fallen, but each one has been destroyed by the Hive, an EvilTwin of this trope who have been chosen by the Darkness, the Traveler's archenemy. They do this because the Darkness wants them to return the universe to its "true form", where conflict and survival of the fittest is what decides how life proceeds.

* In ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens unfathomably powerful]] {{Precursors}} known as the Forerunners waged war with AncientAdvancedHumans, reducing them to stone-age primitives surviving only on a single planet, only to learn they were InvadingRefugees fleeing an [[TheAssimilator all-consuming]] parasitic HiveMind known as "the Flood". Realizing the only way to stop the flood was to starve it of biomass, they committed a species-wide HeroicSuicide using [[LostSuperweapon the Halo array]] to exterminate nearly all life in the Galaxy, save for a few protected pockets. Knowing that this would leave a massive power vacuum, they designated humanity as the "Reclaimers", their chosen successors and the only species who can activate their technology, [[HumanityIsSpecial in recognition of their potential]]. Unfortunately, humanity is pretty much completely ignorant of this, and the only people who ''do'' know are the leaders of [[ScaryDogmaticAliens the Covenant]], a powerful alien [[TheTheocracy theocracy]] that worships the Forerunners. Upon learning that they are not, in fact, the Chosen People, the Covenant "Prophets" decide to cover up the discovery by [[FinalSolution exterminating humanity]].

* In ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'', the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens unfathomably powerful]] {{Precursors}} known as the Forerunners waged war with AnceintAdvancedHumans, reducing them to stone-age primitives surviving only on a single planet, only to learn they were InvadingRefugees fleeing an [[TheAssimilator all-consuming]] parasitic HiveMind known as "the Flood". Realizing the only way to stop the flood was to starve it of biomass, they committed a species-wide HeroicSuicide using [[LostSuperweapon the Halo array]] to exterminate nearly all life in the Galaxy, save for a few protected pockets. Knowing that this would leave a massive power vacuum, they designated humanity as the "Reclaimers", their chosen successors and the only species who can activate their technology, [[HumanityIsSpecial in recognition of their potential]]. Unfortunately, humanity is pretty much completely ignorant of this, and the only people who ''do'' know are the leaders of [[ScaryDogmaticAliens the Covenant]], a powerful alien {{theocracy}} that worships the Forerunners. Upon learning that they are not, in fact, the Chosen People, the Covenant "Prophets" decide to cover up the discovery by [[FinalSolution exterminating humanity]].

* ''VideoGame/{{Oddworld}}'': The Modukons believed themselves the chosen people after the appearance of a moon with the shape of a modukon hand on its face. They became arrogant and this alienated their former allies the Glukkons who eventually underwent an industrial revolution and enslaved them.
* ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'': The Winged people's religion says that they are the special children of the "Mother".

* In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'', the [[PerfectPacifistPeople Heron Tribe Laguz]] claim that they are the closest to the setting's goddess. The given reason for this is that their hearts are much more balanced between [[OrderVersusChaos order and chaos]] than either beorc or their fellow laguz; this makes them the only race that can safely hold [[ArtifactOfDoom Lehran's Medallion]]. Their claim also put them into conflict with the Empire of Begnion, who claim that their empress has the power to directly speak to the goddess; the herons claim that the empress's powers are a lie. This conflict is why the citizens of Begnion were so quick to believe that a race of [[ActualPacifist Actual Pacifists]] could assassinate the empress. [[spoiler: The irony is that the empresses of Begnion have their powers because they are [[HalfHumanHybrid beorc-heron hybrids]] who inherited their power from the individual heron that was the closest to the goddess.]]
* One of the Kiith (clans) from ''VideoGame/HomeworldDesertsOfKharak'', Kiith Siidim, believe that they are this to the god of the Hiigarans, Sajuuk, and that they will ascend to the stars while the other Kiith remain on their homeworld of Kharak. They believe this so strongly, in fact, that in their people's distant past during a religious war against another Kiith, they declared that all sources of water around their territory were theirs and brutally kicked out any Kiith that lived around them as "unclean."
* In the ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' franchise, hylians are a sub-category of humans that are differentiated by their long, elf-like ears. Their ears distinguish them as the Chosen People of their goddesses and allow them to hear what others cannot.

* ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'': The Pureblood High Entia think to be this as they misinterpreted visions from [[GeniusLoci the Bionis]] calling them his chosen people and with some members believing they are superior to all other life. [[spoiler: [[GodIsEvil The Bionis']] [[BeastOfTheApocalypse actual plans for the High Entia]] [[TragicMonster are far less than beneficial for them.]]]]