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** God's older siblings both look younger than him. His sister looks like a child.
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** God's older siblings both look younger than him. His sister [[LittleMissAlmighty looks like a child.child]].
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: In their quest to bring two people together, Craig and Eliza cause a great deal of havoc, including rupturing some poor guy's appendix, destroying a major airport in China, and crashing an oil tanker into the Galapagos Islands.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: In their quest to bring two people together, Craig and Eliza cause a great deal of havoc, including rupturing some poor guy's appendix, destroying a major airport in China, and crashing an oil tanker into the Galapagos Islands. {{Justified}}, as they only have two weeks to win, otherwise God will blow up the Earth and bring about even ''more'' death and destruction.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: All the episodes are named after the time remaining before the world-ending bomb erupts.
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* BoltOfDivineRetribution: God isn't very bright and has no subtlety so his solution to any obstacle in governing Earth is throwing down lightning bolts or some other terrifying weather phenomenon.
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* BoltOfDivineRetribution: God isn't very bright and has no subtlety so [[TheAllSolvingHammer his solution to any obstacle obstacle]] in governing Earth is throwing down lightning bolts or some other terrifying weather phenomenon.
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* BoltOfDivineRetribution: God isn't very bright and has no subtlety so his solution to any obstacle in governing Earth is throwing down lightning bolts or some other terrifying weather phenomenon.
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* WeWantOurJerkBack: In the fourth episode, Craig leaves the Answered Prayer department after becoming convinced that he's a third wheel with Eliza and Sanjay there. They soon find that they need him back after their bold plans cause Laura and Sam to get absurdly drunk at a party.
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* RupturedAppendix: The angels usually turn to bursting people's appendixes when they're panicking and out of options. They become even more panicked if their target has already had their appendix removed.
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** Sanjay, Eliza, and Rosie's idea of getting Sam and Laura on the kiss cam at a basketball game results in Sam and Laura freezing up, the mascot getting involved and putting even more pressure on them, and the date ending in disaster after the mascot dies because Eliza tries to defuse the pressure by making his appendix burst.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The protagonists leave a swath of death and destruction in their wake as they try to win their bet against God. {{Justified}}, as they only have two weeks to win, otherwise God will blow up the Earth and bring about even ''more'' death and destruction.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: NiceJobBreakingItHero:
** The protagonists leave a swath of death and destruction in their wake as they try to win their bet against God. {{Justified}}, as they only have two weeks to win, otherwise God will blow up the Earth and bring about even ''more'' death anddestruction.destruction.
** Turns out that God's not much better, with [[spoiler: the whole situation being his fault in the first place because he put no thought or care into his initial design and was apathetic in maintaining it]].
** The protagonists leave a swath of death and destruction in their wake as they try to win their bet against God. {{Justified}}, as they only have two weeks to win, otherwise God will blow up the Earth and bring about even ''more'' death and
** Turns out that God's not much better, with [[spoiler: the whole situation being his fault in the first place because he put no thought or care into his initial design and was apathetic in maintaining it]].
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* BigDamnKiss: Laura and Sam at the last possible second.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The protagonists leave a swath of death and destruction in their wake as they try to win their bet against God. {{Justified}}, as they only have two weeks to win, otherwise God will blow up the Earth and bring about even ''more'' death and destruction.
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* HollowWorld: According to God's sister he forgot to build a middle into his world so humans are forced to live only on the surface because the inside is all fire.
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* CelestialBureaucracy: God's angels work for Heaven Inc. and go about conducting celestial business as if they were mundane blue collar and white collar workers.
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* CelestialBureaucracy: CelestialBureaucracy:
** God's angels work for Heaven Inc. and go about conducting celestial business as if they were mundane blue collar and white collarworkers.workers.
** Earth and Heaven are just a part of a grand cosmos, with other planets and galaxies being run like businesses by other deities.
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* OnlySaneMan: Craig's caution makes him this. While Eliza, Sanjay, and Rosie are prepared to go to drastic measures to achieve their goals, Craig advocates caution and avoiding as much collateral damage as possible.
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* NoHeroToHisValet: While Sanjay relishes the status he gets from being God's right hand angel, he knows better than anyone that God is a complete wreck who is helpless on his own.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Eliza has pure intentions but she causes more trouble by trying to help. In the first episode alone, she accidentally inflicts deadly typhoons while trying to answer a farmer's prayer for rain, which snowballs into her giving God the idea to blow the Earth up.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Eliza has pure intentions intentions, but she causes more trouble by trying to help. In the first episode alone, she accidentally inflicts deadly typhoons while trying to answer a farmer's prayer for rain, which snowballs into her giving God the idea to blow the Earth up.
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* BlackSheep: [[spoiler:"1 Day" reveals that God is this for his family. His big sister rules over a planetwide utopia, while his big brother has almost beaten their mother's record for "longest period without a war".]]
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* MeaningfulName: [[AllThereInTheManual In press materials]], the main characters' surnames are listed as Craig Bog, Eliza Hunter, and Sanjay Prince. In their former lives, Craig was a bog guardian, Eliza was a warrior, and Sanjay was royalty.
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* KickTheDog: When Craig finds out that Sanjay has been helping [[spoiler: wipe God's ass]], he immediately gets it on camera to further the humiliation.
* NoHeroToHisValet: While Sanjay relishes the status he gets from being God's right hand angel, he knows better than anyone that God is a complete wreck who is helpless on his own.
* NoHeroToHisValet: While Sanjay relishes the status he gets from being God's right hand angel, he knows better than anyone that God is a complete wreck who is helpless on his own.
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* JadeColoredGlasses: Craig is worn down after millenia millennia of dealing with a never-ending deluge of prayers from humanity, most of them impossible to answer. He's managed to carve out a small bit of satisfaction by answering a handful of small scale prayers each day.day.
* OhCrap: At the end of the fourth episode, the team finds out that [[spoiler:Sam's beloved grandmother is due to die in two days.]]
* OlderThanTheyLook: Craig, Eliza, and Sanjay all look like they're barley out of college, but they all lived and died hundreds of years ago.
* OhCrap: At the end of the fourth episode, the team finds out that [[spoiler:Sam's beloved grandmother is due to die in two days.]]
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* GroinAttack: In the second episode, God tasks Sanjay with engineering a way to make Creator/BillMaher's penis expolde.
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* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: In their quest to bring two people together, Craig and Eliza cause a great deal of havoc, including rupturing some poor guy's appendix, destroying a major airport in China, and crashing an oil tanker into the Galapagos Islands.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Craig and Sanjay have a rivalry based on their approaches to miracles. Craig prefers tiny, carefully-engineered miracles that make as few waves as possible. Sanjay is more willing to take risks in order to create big miracles.
* TechnicianVersusPerformer: Craig and Sanjay have a rivalry based on their approaches to miracles. Craig prefers tiny, carefully-engineered miracles that make as few waves as possible. Sanjay is more willing to take risks in order to create big miracles.
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* AdaptationPersonalityChange: In the book both angels were optimistic, while in the series Craig is pessimistic and cynical.
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* ForWantOfANail: Answering prayers is a pain-staking task, with even the most minute mistakes kicking off major earthly disasters. Even a successfully answered prayer can have unintended consequences, such as answering a prayer for a lost glove, only for the person praying to turn out to be an armed robber who needed the glove to go on a violent crime spree.
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* TimedMission: Craig and Eliza have only two weeks to save Earth from destruction.
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* WideEyedIdealist: Eliza comes to the Answered Prayers Department thinking that she can really make a difference. Craig quickly disabuses her of that notion.
* WideEyedIdealist: Eliza comes to the Answered Prayers Department thinking that she can really make a difference. Craig quickly disabuses her of that notion.
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* HeroicBSOD: God is despondent at seeing just how trouble Earth and its denizens are in and he's isolated himself from the rest of heaven and spends his time drinking and moping.
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God is in a funk, having come to the realization that Earth has turned into a CrapsackWorld and that it's all become too much to handle. Deciding that his creation is a lost cause, God announces that he's decided to blow it all up and pursue other ventures. It's up to Craig and Eliza, low-level angels responsible for answering humanity's prayers, to convince God to give Earth one more chance by answering one impossible prayer within two weeks.
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* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Eliza bets God that she and Craig can answer one impossible prayer in exchange for giving Earth a reprieve from fiery destruction. If Eliza loses, God blows the Earth up and she has to eat a worm in front of her co-workers.
* BritishBrevity: As a limited series, the show consists of a single season of seven episodes.
* CelestialBureaucracy: God's angels work for Heaven Inc. and go about conducting celestial business as if they were mundane blue collar and white collar workers.
* ImpossibleTask: A large portion of humanity's prayers are immediately labelled as being impossible to answer because there are too many variables to try and control. Some of the worst are love prayers, one of which Craig and Eliza have to successfully answer in two weeks or else God blows the Earth up.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Eliza has pure intentions but she causes more trouble by trying to help. In the first episode alone, she accidentally inflicts deadly typhoons while trying to answer a farmer's prayer for rain, which snowballs into her giving God the idea to blow the Earth up.
God is in a funk, having come to the realization that Earth has turned into a CrapsackWorld and that it's all become too much to handle. Deciding that his creation is a lost cause, God announces that he's decided to blow it all up and pursue other ventures. It's up to Craig and Eliza, low-level angels responsible for answering humanity's prayers, to convince God to give Earth one more chance by answering one impossible prayer within two weeks.
!!''Miracle Workers'' provides examples of the following:
* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Eliza bets God that she and Craig can answer one impossible prayer in exchange for giving Earth a reprieve from fiery destruction. If Eliza loses, God blows the Earth up and she has to eat a worm in front of her co-workers.
* BritishBrevity: As a limited series, the show consists of a single season of seven episodes.
* CelestialBureaucracy: God's angels work for Heaven Inc. and go about conducting celestial business as if they were mundane blue collar and white collar workers.
* ImpossibleTask: A large portion of humanity's prayers are immediately labelled as being impossible to answer because there are too many variables to try and control. Some of the worst are love prayers, one of which Craig and Eliza have to successfully answer in two weeks or else God blows the Earth up.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Eliza has pure intentions but she causes more trouble by trying to help. In the first episode alone, she accidentally inflicts deadly typhoons while trying to answer a farmer's prayer for rain, which snowballs into her giving God the idea to blow the Earth up.
