History PhysicalGod / AnimeAndManga

** It's later revealed that Ten-Tails [[spoiler:was actually just a supernatural god-tree without sentience, the reason it became Juubi was because [[OutsideContextProblem a woman named Kaguya]] fuses with it in the distant past]].
** [[spoiler:After Naruto’s meeting with Hagoromo, he acquires the powers of Six Paths Chakra, and the chakra of all nine of the Tailed Beasts, the former allows him to enter a godly transformation called Six Paths Sage Mode, which amplifies all of his abilities to their absolute peak, and the latter grants him all of their elemental releases]]. It more or less cements Naruto's status as this. The new novels outright state it, with Shikamaru of all people being the one to compare him to a god.

** Then there's Dabura, who is the King of Demons. And unlike Demon King Piccolo, that isn't a title. For Dabura, that's his description. Power-wise, he's around Super Perfect Cell's level on top of having magical powers like being able to create objects like the Kais and his spit turning anyone who touches it into stone, effectively killing them. However, he’s not a god, but a being stronger than most gods.

** Out of the main heroes, Goku fits this trope best. He was already powerful enough to fight against beings that are considered to be godlike in power. However by the time of ''Super'', he becomes a literal god in ''Battle of Gods'' by becoming a Super Saiyan God, during his battle with Golden Frieza he uses another godly form called Super Saiyan Blue, which is more a powerful transformation than Super Saiyan God. In the Tournament of Power, Goku goes even further than that eventually reaching a point where he is AboveTheGods in a state known as Ultra Instinct, [[spoiler: and during the Galactic Prisoner Saga, after some training from Merus, he is capable of entering Ultra Instinct at will.]]

** Out of the main heroes, Goku fits this trope best. He was already powerful enough to fight against beings that are considered to be godlike in power. However by the time of ''Super'', he becomes a literal god in ''Battle of Gods'' by becoming a Super Saiyan God, during his battle with Golden Frieza he uses another godly form called Super Saiyan Blue which is basically a combination of his normal Super Saiyan form and his Super Saiyan God form. In the Tournament of Power, Goku goes even further than that eventually reaching a point where he is AboveTheGods in a state known as Ultra Instinct, [[spoiler: and during the Galactic Prisoner Saga, after some training from Merus, he is capable of entering Ultra Instinct at will.]]

** Out of the main heroes, Goku fits this trope best. He was already powerful enough to fight against beings that are considered to be godlike in power. However by the time of ''Super'', he becomes a literal god in ''Battle of Gods'' by becoming a Super Saiyan God, during his battle with Golden Frieza he uses another godly form called Super Saiyan Blue which is basically a combination of his normal Super Saiyan form and the power of Godly Ki. In the Tournament of Power, Goku goes even further than that eventually reaching a point where he is AboveTheGods in a state known as Ultra Instinct, [[spoiler: and during the Galactic Prisoner Saga, after some training from Merus, he is capable of entering Ultra Instinct at will.]]

** Out of the main heroes, Goku fits this trope best. He was already powerful enough to fight against beings that are considered to be godlike in power. However by the time of ''Super'', he becomes a literal god in ''Battle of Gods'' by becoming a Super Saiyan God, during his battle with Golden Frieza he uses another godly form called Super Saiyan Blue which is basically a combination of his normal Super Saiyan form and his Super Saiyan God form. In the Tournament of Power, Goku goes even further than that eventually reaching a point where he is AboveTheGods in a state known as Ultra Instinct, [[spoiler: and during the Galactic Prisoner Saga, after some training from Merus, he is capable of entering Ultra Instinct at will.]]

** Out of the main heroes, Goku fits this trope best. He was already powerful enough to fight against beings that are considered to be godlike in power. However by the time of ''Super'', he becomes a literal god in ''Battle of Gods'' by becoming a Super Saiyan God, during his battle with Golden Frieza he uses another godly form called Super Saiyan Blue which is basically a combination of his normal Super Saiyan form and his Super Saiyan God form. In the Tournament of Power, Goku goes even further than that eventually reaching a point where he is AboveTheGods in a state known as Ultra Instinct.
** Vegeta manages to become one too after some training from Whis. In his battle against Golden Frieza, he easily defeats him in his Super Saiyan Blue form with no difficulty and during the Tournament of Power he managed to unlock a new form of Super Saiyan Blue that was strong enough to match Jiren and overpower Toppo in his God of Destruction form. [[spoiler: In the Galactic Prisoner Saga, it was stated by Goku that he managed to surpass him, and that was during Vegeta’s fight with Moro before he absorbs Seven-Three, and during his fight with Granola he achieves another new form called Ultra Ego, which seems to draw upon a severe level of self-indulgence in battle, in contrast to Ultra Instinct and in this form, he was able to overpower Granola in battle.]]

** Played With as ''Super'' Perfect Cell. Though he’s technically not a god, he’s merely a being that is stronger than most gods. He was designed to be the UltimateLifeForm, and his designer succeeded. Among other abilities, he has: super strength, super speed, and super durability greater than the gods themselves, instant teleportation (just like Goku), the ability to spawn powerful warriors who are god-like themselves (the Cell Juniors), regeneration FromASingleCell, the ability to come back ''stronger'' after being blown to bits, extremely powerful telekinesis (which he uses to build an arena, among other things), the ability to absorb things and gain their power with his tail, the ability to survive ''any'' injury (including ''half of his body being blown clean off''), and energy blasts powerful enough to destroy entire solar systems.
** Then there's Dabura, who is the King of Demons. And unlike Demon King Piccolo, that isn't a title. For Dabura, that's his description. Power-wise, he's around Super Perfect Cell's level on top of having magical powers like being able to create objects like the Kais and his spit turning anyone who touches it into stone, effectively killing them. However like Cell, he’s not a god, but another being stronger than most gods.

** Perfect Cell was already strong enough, but ''Super'' Perfect Cell is the one that really qualifies. He's another example of a being that is stronger than most gods. He was designed to be the UltimateLifeForm, and his designer succeeded. Among other abilities, he has: super strength, super speed, and super durability greater than the gods themselves, instant teleportation (just like Goku), the ability to spawn powerful warriors who are god-like themselves (the Cell Juniors), regeneration FromASingleCell, the ability to come back ''stronger'' after being blown to bits, extremely powerful telekinesis (which he uses to build an arena, among other things), the ability to absorb things and gain their power with his tail, the ability to survive ''any'' injury (including ''half of his body being blown clean off''), and energy blasts powerful enough to destroy entire solar systems.
** Then there's Dabura, who is the King of Demons. And unlike Demon King Piccolo, that isn't a title. For Dabura, that's his description. Power-wise, he's around Super Perfect Cell's level on top of having magical powers like being able to create objects like the Kais and his spit turning anyone who touches it into stone, effectively killing them.

** In the Thousand Year Blood War arc, [[TheHero Ichigo]] learns that he is a hybrid of Soul Reaper, Quincy, Hollow, and Human, with a potential that reach to unimagined heights. The manifestation of his Quincy powers even reveals to him that the amount of power that he has been using up to that point, was only a part of how powerful he could truly be. Once he realizes his potential, and forges his true Zanpakuto, Ichigo evolves into a transcendent being capable of fighting four Sternritters simultaneously with little effort, and even fighting againts a Soul King-empowered Yhwach, who even fear the capability of his true Bankai so much, that he used The Almighty to destroy before Ichigo could even use it against him. Even when deprived of his Quincy and Hollow powers, Ichigo still possessed enough raw power to kill Yhwach, and Ichibei was intending on using Ichigo as a replacement for the Soul King.

** Majin Buu, an EldritchAbomination so powerful that he killed off several real gods prior to the start of the series. He has the most powerful regeneration in the series (capable of returning [[FromASingleCell from a single atom]]), has powerful [[MindOverMatter telekinesis]], VoluntaryShapeshifting, ability to turn [[BalefulPolymorph anyone into anything else]] (usually some form of confectionery which [[ImAHumanitarian he eats]]), doesn't age (he's older than the universe itself), PowerCopying, limitless stamina, absorption of others to acquire their strength and abilities, can annihilate a planet's population without destroying the actual planet, break dimensions just by screaming, can casually blow up [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnVB_4GXYns stars]] in his weakest state (he did this ''millions'' of times), and {{teleportation}} which he copied from an actual god. All of this on top of the standard super strength/super speed/flight/etc. power set that everybody else has, only cranked to insane degrees- in his weakest form he one-shotted Super Saiyan 2 Gohan and the aforementioned Dabura, and curb-stomped Super Saiyan 2 Majin Vegeta. At his ''strongest''? He can [[OmnicidalManiac cause the entire universe to collapse on itself]] just by ''getting angry and screaming really loudly.'' Save for Beerus, Buu is more of a god than the actual gods.

* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Played With. "God" is merely the title of the ruler of Skypiea, the island in the sky. However, Eneru, the God at the time of the Straw Hats' arrival, [[AGodAmI believes he is an actual god]], and [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou certainly]] [[{{Teleportation}} has]] [[NighInvulnerability the]] [[ShockAndAwe power]] to back

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** Played With. "God" is merely the title of the ruler of Skypiea, the island in the sky. However, Eneru, the God at the time of the Straw Hats' arrival, [[AGodAmI believes he is an actual god]], and [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou certainly]] [[{{Teleportation}} has]] [[NighInvulnerability the]] [[ShockAndAwe power]] to back up his claim.
** A straight example appears at the climax of the Wano arc. Anyone who eats and Awakens the Mythical Zoan Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika will become an incarnation of Nika, a warrior revered as the sun god. [[spoiler:It turns out that the Gum-Gum Fruit Luffy ate was actually this Fruit all along. The World Government suppressed the truth of the fruit's nature because they feared its power that much. When Luffy Awakens his Fruit power during his fight with Kaido, he gains various reality warping abilities akin to ToonPhysics that allow him to manhandle Kaido even while the latter is in full dragon form.]]

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', it’s Played With. "God" is merely the title of the ruler of Skypiea, the island in the sky. However, Eneru, the God at the time of the Straw Hats' arrival, [[AGodAmI believes he is an actual god]], and [[BigBrotherIsWatchingYou certainly]] [[{{Teleportation}} has]] [[NighInvulnerability the]] [[ShockAndAwe power]] to back up his claim.

** Aleister Crowley somehow manages to be worse. He can ''[[spoiler:exist at [[RealityWarper more than one location at the same time]]]]'' and possesses ''two'' [[InfinityPlusOneSword items]]: [[SimpleStaff The Blasting Rod]] [[spoiler:which can take down the aforementioned Fiamma with one hit. By overpowering that OneHitKill he possesses]], and Archetype Controller [[spoiler:[[RealityWarper which can manipulate the]] [[UsefulNotes/CarlJung Jungian Archetypes]] [[RealityWarper of everything]], which would be the equivalent of manipulating ''{{trope}}s'', in a way. He used this to literally create the entire Science Side (and presumably its espers too) and the modern day magecraft]].

** Out of the main heroes, Goku fits this trope best. He was already powerful enough to fight against beings that are considered to be godlike in power. However by the time of ''Super'', he becomes a literal god in ''Battle of Gods'' by becoming a Super Saiyan God, during his battle with Golden Frieza he uses another godly form called Super Saiyan Blue which is basically a combination of his normal Super Saiyan form and his Super Saiyan God form. In the Tournament of Power, Goku [[UpToEleven goes even further than that]] eventually reaching a point where he is AboveTheGods in a state known as Ultra Instinct.

** [[spoiler: Whis, [[UpToEleven who is more powerful than even Beerus]]. On a scale of 1 to 10, the author rates him a ''15''. He is also Beerus' teacher and has the power to rewind time by three minutes. Whis could be called a God of a God, though he has denied being a god himself whenever asked. The aforementioned Vados is here too since she is Whis' sister and said to be slightly stronger than even him (or at least that was thousands of years ago, Whis comments that may have changed). It's eventually revealed that he and Vados are [[OurAngelsAreDifferent actually angels]]]].

* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'' naturally turns this trope UpToEleven. It's a series where you can become a Physical God through ''[[HeroicWillpower sheer force of will]]''. In fact, the plot of the story revolves around [[spoiler:Spiral Power, an energy that all spiral race (including us) has, which bends reality to our will]]. Using those, the heroes manage to create mechas powerful enough to ''punch people out of the universe''. Later, a guy shoots laser beams to ''every point in space-time''. When they create the titular mecha at the finale, the sheer size of the mecha allows it to tank '''Big Bang''' and use galaxies as ''throwing pebbles'' with the ability to create anything out of pure thought and energy.

** [[spoiler: The second CompilationMovie takes the series [[UpToEleven standard]] of this trope and cranks it up to ''[[SerialEscalation twenty.]]'' In the movie, the heroes absorb the aforementioned Big Bang and use it to create the Super Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann. While only having about four minutes of screentime, the mere creation of this mecha is godly as it stands at a size of 52 billion light years, making it over half the size of the observable universe. Then the series BigBad proceeds to make an even bigger mecha. Then the two mechas clash using drills that are calculated at being around 180X the mecha's size. Meaning that both the heroes and the villains created weapons that are around ''100 universes'' big. So in other words, [[{{Understatement}} they are very powerful.]] ]]

** [[spoiler:After Naruto’s meeting with Hagoromo, he acquires the powers of Six Paths Chakra, and the chakra of all nine of the Tailed Beasts, the former allows him to access a godly transformation called Six Paths Sage Mode, which amplifies all of his abilities to their absolute peak, and the latter grants him all of their elemental releases]]. It more or less cements Naruto's status as this. The new novels outright state it, with Shikamaru of all people being the one to compare him to a god.

** Vegito, the fusion of Goku and Vegeta, was already this, being the strongest character in the manga, surpassing the power of literal gods, and easily toying with the strongest form of Majin Buu as a normal Super Saiyan. However, he literally becomes a god in ''Super'' since Goku and Vegeta now have god forms and was to fight on par with Fused Zamasu in his corrupted state.

** [[spoiler:After Naruto’s meeting with Hagoromo, he acquires the powers of Six Paths Sage Mode, and all nine of the Tailed Beasts, the former amplifies all of his abilities to their absolute peak, and the latter grants him all of their elemental releases]]. It more or less cements Naruto's status as this. The new novels outright state it, with Shikamaru of all people being the one to compare him to a god.

** While there have been various gods appearing in the series, Beerus the BigBad of TheMovie ''[[Anime/DragonBallZBattleOfGods Battle of Gods]]'' and its accompanying arc in ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'', is a ''god''-god, the [[GodOfEvil God of Destruction]] to be exact, and as literal as the trope gets. He's stated to be capable of destroying ''entire galaxies'' and his power exceeds Goku's to the point he can [[CurbStompBattle curbstomp]] his Super Saiyan 3 form with a [[FingerPokeOfDoom finger]]. Goku needs to become a God himself in order to stand a chance against him, and even then Beerus only got a good workout.

** Out of the main heroes, Goku fits this trope best. He was already powerful enough to fight against beings that are considered to be godly in power. However by the time of ''Super'', he becomes a literal god in ''Battle of Gods'' by becoming a Super Saiyan God, during his battle with Golden Frieza he uses another godly form called Super Saiyan Blue which is basically a combination of his normal Super Saiyan form and his Super Saiyan God form. In the Tournament of Power, Goku [[UpToEleven goes even further than that]] eventually reaching a point where he is AboveTheGods in a state known as Ultra Instinct.

** [[GodEmperor Yhwach]] becomes a transcendent being when he absorbs the Soul King. Even before however, he was worshipped as the "Father of the Quincy" and has the ability to impart pieces of his soul unto others, but he also possesses "The Almighty", a power that allows him to see the future, and "know" and counter any ability he sees. [[BilingualBonus The kanji used to spell "The Almighty"]] -- ''zenchizennou'' -- even means "All-Knowing, All-Powerful". Then he kills and absorbs the Soul King, which transforms Yhwach into a [[HumanoidAbomination eldritch godlike being]], and taking the Soul King's place as the linchpin of all reality. As the new Soul King, he could manipulate and bend all dimensions to his will, or even erase all of them from existence if he desired to do so. It's later revealed that the true power of The Almighty, allows him to [[WindsOfDestinyChange alter every possible future to suit his advantage]], even from beyond the grave. In the final battle, he comes dangerously close to destroying all of existence, and replacing it with a world without death, and is only killed by Ichigo with a well-timed slash from Zangetsu, and only after he is shot from behind with the Still Silver Arrow to disable his powers and prevent Yhwach from resurrecting himself with The Almighty. Even after his death, his corpse contains enough Reiatsu to continue serving as the linchpin of reality.

** Sternritter 'X', [[ColdSniper Lille Barro]], is the very first Quincy granted a Schrift by Yhwach, and is by far one of the most powerful Sternritters in the Vandenreich, and is able to access a second form of his Vollständig that transforms him into a Godlike being. He himself states that he is closer to a God than a human. In the end, only a weapon that was specifically designed to kill Gods could hurt him, and even that didn't fully destroy him.

** Out of the main heroes, Goku fits this trope best. He becomes a literal god in ''Battle of Gods'' and [[UpToEleven then even further than that]] eventually reaching a point where he is AboveTheGods in a state known as Ultra Instinct.

** Like Whis and Vados, the Grand Priest, [[spoiler: Whis and Vados' father]], isn't classified as a god, he's only an attendant to Zen'o. However, he's one of the five strongest people in the multiverse. ''Whis'' says he would have no chances against him. In manga it is told that he's ''the'' strongest. So he's only below Zen'O in power.

** [[spoiler:After Naruto’s meeting with Hagoromo, he acquires the powers of Six Paths Senjutsu, Six Paths Sage Mode, and all nine of the Tailed Beasts, the former two amplify all of his abilities to their absolute peak, and the latter grants him all of their elemental releases]]. It more or less cements Naruto's status as this. The new novels outright state it, with Shikamaru of all people being the one to compare him to a god.