History Main / TopGod

** ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' introduces Omnipotence City where [[CrossoverCosmology gods from many different pantheons meet and live]]. [[EverbodyLovesZeus Zeus]] is the King Of Gods-type leader of that city. Even Thor is a fan at first, before [[BrokenPedestal being disappointed]] when realizing Zeus and Co. really are JerkassGods.

** ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' introduces Omnipotence City where [[CrossoverCosmology gods from many different pantheons meet and live]]. [[EverbodyLovesZeus Zeus]] is the King Of Gods-type leader of that city. Even Thor is a fan at first, before [[BrokenPedastel being disappointed]] when realizing Zeus and Co. really are JerkassGods.

** The Egyptian religion also included the concept of a deity "mightier than the gods," though more as a matter of theology than actual worship. This deity was rarely depicted iconographically, and writers had no fixed name to refer to him/her. Attempts to illustrate the god beyond the gods generally involved combining the iconography of several deities together into a hermaphroditic, multi-armed, multi-headed, multi-winged entity somewhat reminiscent of Hindu deities.

* ''Film/MonsterVerse'': The kaiju (who are semi-explicitly treated in this franchise's take on ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' as {{Physical God}}s of nature) operate according to a zoological version of the King of the Gods type, where the strongest alpha kaiju acts as the pack alpha via AsskickingToLeadership and commands all the lesser Titans. Godzilla is the default and reigning alpha, but in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', King Ghidorah temporarily usurps Godzilla before the latter reclaims his title.

** The status of who is the top god is subject to constant retcon. The first divine being that Goku meets is Korin. He, along with Popo, is later revealed to be an attendant from the Afterlife who advises the God of Earth, Kami, like many other planetary gods. Kami is later shown to be deferential to King Yemma, a deity who runs the afterlife, but we're told he's inferior to another god. We then meet said god, Kami's boss, King Kai, the highest of the gods. At the end of the Frieza arc, it's revealed that King Kai is only the NORTH Kai, and thus presumably there are in total four Kais (Kings of Worlds) that rule over the four galaxies. At the end of the Cell arc, this still seems to be the case, as King Kai refers to himself as the most important person in the universe (the other three Kais would presumably be tied with him). Then the early Buu arc, on top of showing the other Kais (just South Kai in the manga), reveals that even ''they'' have a boss, the Grand Kai that leads the four Kais. Then later in the Buu arc (as in later in the same conversation), it's revealed that above him are the four Supreme Kais (God-Kings of Worlds) that rule over the four quadrants of the Universe '''and''' the afterlife. They have their own attendants, such as Kibito to Shin, the East Supreme Kai; it's not clear where they rank compared to the Kais, though they're known to be a lot stronger. Finally, the boss of the four Supreme Kais revealed at the very end of the arc is the Grand Supreme Kai, making this dude a King of the Gods.

** ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' reveals that there ''is'' a king of TheMultiverse named Zen'o, and ''his mere presence'' causes Gods of Destruction to ''freak out.'' [[spoiler:He also has the power to destroy ''the whole multiverse'' and kill beings with CompleteImmortality, which he later proves]]. According to WordOfGod, the only being more powerful than Zen'o is Robotoriyama, Creator/AkiraToriyama's AuthorAvatar.
*** By the end of ''Super'' the Gods of Destruction's terror is fully justified. Zen'o may be top god, and generally a nice enough sort, but he's also emotionally an ''8-year-old child.'' It's shown that he has a complete lack of understanding of the value of mortal, or immortal, life, for example playing marbles with ''inhabited planets.'' This includes forcing multiple entire universes to have an InvoluntaryBattleToTheDeath, killing ''Trillions.'' Having said that, it's also revealed at the end of the tournament in the anime (though not [[Manga/DragonBallSuper the manga]]) that [[spoiler:a selfish wish at the end of the Tournament of Power would have resulted in him intervening, but he also knew that the winner wouldn't have made it in the first place.]]

* '''King of the Gods:''' Not that different from the rest of the gods, but he tends to have the benefits of AuthorityEqualsAsskicking in full effect. He's often applicable to YouKillItYouBoughtIt if someone challenges his title. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Gods this]] article on Website/{{Wikipedia}} for more info on these types.

* Film/MonsterVerse: The kaiju (who are semi-explicitly treated in this franchise's take on ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' as {{Physical God}}s of nature) operate according to a zoological version of the King of the Gods type, where the strongest alpha kaiju acts as the pack alpha via AuthorityEqualsAsskicking and commands all the lesser Titans. Godzilla is the default and reigning alpha, but in ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'', King Ghidorah temporarily usurps Godzilla before the latter reclaims his title.

* ''Manga/ShuumatsuNoWalkureRecordOfRagnarok'' portrays [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Zeus]] as not only the king of the Olympian gods, but also the supreme god over ''every known deity'', even having authority over other traditionally supreme gods like [[Myth/NorseMythology Odin]] and [[Myth/HinduMythology Shiva]].
* ''Anime/{{Slayers}}'' has three. [[BigGood Flare Dragon Seified]] is this to the powers of good, and his equal foe [[SatanicArchetype Ruby-Eye Shabranigdu]] is this to the five demon kings. Then there is the Lord of Nightmares. You can run from the others, you can hide behind their opponents. You cannot run from her, as the aptly named Hellmaster found out when he made her mad, and she is known by that appellation because she is so utterly incomprehensible to both sides that the mere whisper of her is a nightmare. She could easily cause a ApocalypseHow/ClassZ apocalypse by willing it. Fortunately, she doesn't seem interested at the moment. Heaven forbid you wake her up from her nap though.

** On Theros, there is a pantheon whose mono-white-aligned deity (an {{Expy}} of Zeus without the libido and some traits of Apollo) styles himself the leader.

** The god with the actual claim to the position, in fact if not in name, is the green-blue deity, with the seniority and the demonstrated power to back it up. He prefers to remain in the background, except when the cosmic temper tantrums provide too great a threat to the mortals of the plane.

* '''King of the Gods:''' Not that different from the rest of the gods, but he tends to have the benefits of AuthorityEqualsAsskicking in full effect. He's often applicable to YouKillItYouBoughtIt if someone challenges his title. See [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_of_the_Gods this]] article on Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} for more info on these types.

* Who's in charge in Myth/AztecMythology depends on who you ask[[note]]generally, it's either [[WarGod Huitzilopochtli]] or [[TricksterGod Tezcatlipoca]][[/note]], but ''cosmologically'', it's whoever's serving as the [[GodOfLight sun god]]. So, in order, the top gods were Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl, Tlaloc, and Chalchiuhtlicue, with

* {{ComicBook/Darkseid}} is GodEmperor of [[{{Dystopia}} Apokolips]] and thus King of that world's ComicBook/NewGods. On Apokolips the state ReligionOfEvil goes so far as to cultivate worship of Darkseid as [[GodIsEvil God himself]].

* The ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'' has the Maelstrom, the primordial creative force which birthed the universe and may or may not be sentient, as a variation God of Gods, and also the Three (Nahadoth, god of darkness and chaos; Itempas, god of light and order; Enefah, goddess of balance) who collectively function as Kings and Queen of the gods. When the Three fall out of harmony, or any time the Maelstrom's attention is drawn to the physical world, ''bad'' things happen...

* In Hittite Mythology, the King of Gods was Teshub, who replaced Kumarbi, who replaced Anu, who replaced Alalu. The sun goddess of Arinna is usually his consort and a powerful deity of her own right, sometimes even been identified as the mother and father of all the gods.

* Nyname the sky god is king in the mythology of the Ashanti people of Ghana.
* Cagn king god to the San people of Southern Africa. He is also TricksterGod in his pantheon.

* Aramazd was basically the Armenians adopting the monotheistic Ahura Mazda into their own polytheistic system.
* The Zoroastrian Ahura Mazda is similar to the supreme being of Abrahamic religions, but rules over a pantheon of divine or angelic figures called Ahuras, Amesha Spentas, and Yazatas.
* According to Zurvanism, an extinct version of Zoroastrianism, the first principle of creation is Zurvan, a god of time and space who is AboveGoodAndEvil. From it came Ahura Mazda and Ahriman.
* In Yoruba tradition, the Orisha, owners of heads, are often translated as gods since they are worshiped like a polytheistic pantheon but they really are not. It is just that God is too powerful and [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm defying of description]] for humans to properly worship so a lot of attention is given to Orishas, who take on [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith forms that can be viewed by people directly]], with hope they will act as middlemen to God for humans. Undergods is a more correct term.
* UsefulNotes/{{Voudoun}} works similarly. People often call the loa gods, but the theology states there is only one God. Loa are powerful forces who are served by people and serve people in a mutualistic relationship that helps both groups reach paradise with God. Historically, this idea probably came from native West African religions, which often feature a distant supreme being/creator (such as Chukwu of the Igbo religion). But it also dovetailed with Catholicism, historically the dominant religion in Haiti, allowing Voudou practitioners to equate their creator figure with the Biblical God and therefore aver to be monotheistic, while also venerating the loa (who are often identified with Christian saints).
* Roog, who is known by different names depending on which group you ask, is king god in the mythology of the Serer people of West Africa.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perun Perun,]] notable for being worshiped as a grand god by nearly ''all'' Slavic tribes. Even if they couldn't agree on anything else, they acknowledged that Perun was the god of gods.

* Huánglóng, the Yellow Dragon embodying [[DishingOutDirt earth]], is the leader of TheFourGods in Chinese Mythology living at the center of the four directions they represent; however he does not have a Japanese Mythology counterpart and thus is not their leader there.

* Ala, the embodiment of dry land and highest of the Alusi spirits, is very much the same in the Odinani religion of the Igbo people of southern Nigeria. The supreme being Chukwu[[note]]As in many West African-based religions, the supreme being is less actively worshipped by the Igbo than the lesser spirits[[/note]] appointed her ruler of everything else. She will live and rule until dry land is no longer needed.

* Gnostics in general believed that the physical Universe was created by an entity named the Demiurge (generally associated with Yaweh), whether he’s evil or just dumb and misguided depends on the sect, but almost all agree that there is a much more superior God above him which can’t be grasped by human minds, similar to the concept of Brahman in Hinduism and Ain Soft in Jewish Kabalah, from whom the monads (human spirits that the Demiurge uses to create humans) come from and want to return. Even more, some Gnostic cosmologies even place other gods over the Demiurge including in some cases Sophia (daughter or the God of Light and mother of the Demiurge) and/or a dozen of superior pairs of gods/goddesses. In addition, the Demiurge itself has also minor gods under his service (the Archons) who are often worshiped as gods by some cultures thus he’s also (at least in the material plane) king of other gods. These gnostic beliefs also influenced others such as the Manicheans, Cathars, Rosicrucians and some modern Esotericist groups (like the Theosophical Society, also influenced by Hinduism, that mentions the Unmanifest Absolute) and several modern Luciferian groups that think Lucifer is the actual supreme god over Yaweh.
* Finnish mythology has Ukko ylijumala, a weather god who may have been influenced by Perkunas of the neighboring Baltic tribes.

-->-- '''Zeus''', ''Literature/TheIliad'' (translation by Robert Fagles)

** The status of who is the top god is subject to constant retcon. The first divine being that Goku meets is Korin. He, along with Popo, is later revealed to be an attendant from the Afterlife who advises the God of Earth, Kami, like many other planetary gods. Kami is later shown to be deferential to King Yemma, a deity who runs the afterlife, but we're told he's inferior to another god. We then meet said god, Kami's boss, King Kai, the highest of the gods. At the end of the Frieza arc, it's revealed that King Kai is only the NORTH Kai, and thus presumably there are in total four Kais (Kings of Worlds) that rule over the four galaxies. At the end of the Cell arc, this still seems to be the case, as King Kai refers to himself as the most important person in the universe. Then the early Buu arc, on top of showing the other Kais (just South Kai in the manga), reveals that even ''they'' have a boss, the Grand Kai that leads the four Kais. Then later in the Buu arc (as in later in the same conversation), it's revealed that above him are the four Supreme Kais (God-Kings of Worlds) that rule over the four quadrants of the Universe '''and''' the afterlife. They have their own attendants, such as Kibito to Shin, the East Supreme Kai; it's not clear where they rank compared to the Kais, though they're known to be a lot stronger. Finally, the boss of the four Supreme Kais revealed at the very end of the arc is the Grand Supreme Kai, making this dude a King of the Gods.

** The status of who is the top god is subject to constant retcon. The first divine being that Goku meets is Korin. He, along with Popo, is later revealed to be an attendant from the Afterlife who advises the God of Earth, Kami, like many other planetary gods. Kami is later shown to be deferential to King Yemma, a deity who runs the afterlife, but we're told he's inferior to another god. We then meet said god, Kami's boss, King Kai, the highest of the gods. At the end of the Frieza arc, it's revealed that King Kai is only the NORTH Kai, and thus presumably there are in total four Kais (Kings of Worlds) that rule over the four galaxies. At the end of the Cell arc, this still seems to be the case, as King Kai refers to himself as the most important person in the universe. Then the early Buu arc, on top of showing the other Kais (just South Kai in the manga), reveals that even ''they'' have a boss, the Grand Kai that leads the four Kais. Then later in the Buu arc (as in later in the same conversation), it's revealed that above him are the four Supreme Kais (God-Kings of Worlds) that rule over the four quadrants of the Universe '''and''' the afterlife. They have their own attendants, such as Kibito to Shin, the East Supreme Kai; it's not clear where they rank compared to the Kais, though they're known to be a lot stronger. Finally, the boss of the four Supreme Kais revealed at the very end of the arc is the Grand Supreme Kai, making this dude a King of Gods of Gods of Gods.

-->-- '''Zeus''', ''Literature/TheIliad'', translated from the Greek by Robert Fagles

* ''Franshise/{{YuGiOh}}'', has a few of them.

* ''Franshise/YuGiOh'', has a few of them.