1 | Tropes that deal with gods and/or goddesses. |
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3 | Compare with AngelicTropes and TropesOfTheDivine. |
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6 | !!Tropes |
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8 | '''Also see:''' |
9 | * DeityFiction |
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11 | * AboveTheGods: A setting that features entities even more powerful than its gods. |
12 | * AbstractApotheosis: When a character becomes an abstract concept or an idea. |
13 | * TheAlmightyDollar: God(s) of wealth, money, trade, prosperity/abundance, or fortune/luck. |
14 | * AlmightyIdiot: A being of great power who lacks intelligence and self-awareness. |
15 | * AmnesiacGod: A deity with LaserGuidedAmnesia at the beginning of a story. |
16 | * AnthropomorphicPersonification: A deity who represents an abstract concept related to human society or the natural world. |
17 | * TheAntiGod: Another, often opposing deity who's on par with the one true {{God}}. |
18 | * AppeaseTheVolcanoGod: Being sacrificed to a volcano god. |
19 | * BargainWithHeaven: Making deals with gods or goddesses. |
20 | * BeingGodIsHard: When it sucks to be a deity. |
21 | * {{Blessing}}: A supernatural gift can be bestowed by deities or by a holy man through proxy. |
22 | * CelestialBureaucracy: A bureaucracy who determine where people are supposed to go after they die. |
23 | * {{Cernunnos}}: A horned deity usually associated with hunting, animals, and nature. |
24 | * CosmicEgg: The universe starting from an egg or something similar. |
25 | * CrystalDragonJesus: A fantasy religion with similarities to Christianity. |
26 | * DeathIsALoser: When TheGrimReaper or another deity of death is unintimidating or a ButtMonkey. |
27 | * DeathOfTheOldGods: When the gods that once ruled the world are dying or fading away. |
28 | * DeityOfHumanOrigin: A human or human-level being who becomes a god. |
29 | * DeityOfMortalCreation: A god is created by humans, or their equivalent. |
30 | * DemiurgeArchetype: A false God-figure who impersonates the true God. |
31 | * DestroyerDeity: A deity associated with destruction. |
32 | * DeusEstMachina: An A.I. that's practically a god and thus benevolent. |
33 | * DisabledDeity: A deity or other divine being who has a disability. |
34 | * DividedDeity: A deity who becomes split into two or more distinct and lesser deities. |
35 | * DivineConflict: Deities fighting each other. |
36 | * DivineDate: A mortal romancing a deity. |
37 | * DivineDelegation: A pantheon consisting of a TopGod and several lesser gods serving them. |
38 | * DivineIncest: Incest amongst the gods in mythology. |
39 | * DivineInfernalFamily: God and {{Satan}} or TheAntiGod are considered relatives. |
40 | * DivineIntervention: When God (or a divine equivalent in the story) takes an active role in a non-divine character's conflict. |
41 | * DivineMisfile: When the celestial bureaucracy screws up the paperwork. |
42 | * DivineParentage: When one or both of a person's parents happens to be a deity. |
43 | * DivinePunishment: When a god punishes someone (justified or not) for perceived transgressions. |
44 | * DivineRaceLift: A deity or other mythological figure has an appearance that differs from their usual depiction. |
45 | * DivineRanks: A pecking order among deities. |
46 | * DontFearTheReaper: A friendly personification of death. |
47 | * DoubleStandardRapeDivineOnMortal: Getting raped by a deity isn't considered as bad as getting raped by another mortal. |
48 | * DragonsAreDivine: Dragons depicted as holy or sacred. |
49 | * EarthMother: A hearty, smiling lady who is invariably portrayed as heavily pregnant and holding a brimming cornucopia, or nursing a baby, while children play at her feet. |
50 | * EldritchAbomination: An ancient otherwordly being of unfathomable power. |
51 | * EmissaryFromTheDivine: An old fashioned prophet from God, or a mortal or angel chosen for a certain role by the divine. |
52 | * EnergyBeings: Gods and goddesses are sometimes portrayed as this. |
53 | * EthnicGod: The god of a specific tribe, nation, species or similar group. |
54 | * EverybodyHatesHades: No one likes the god of death. |
55 | * EverybodyLovesZeus: The god of light and the heavens is portrayed as good and pure even if they weren't in the original mythology. |
56 | * EvilStoleMyFaith: It's established that a villain used to be religious, but lost their faith because of a serious misfortune they suffered. |
57 | * FantasyCounterpartMyth: A fictional myth, or mythical being, clearly modeled after one from RealLife. |
58 | * FantasyCounterpartReligion: A fictional religion which is explicitly based on or very similar to a real one. |
59 | * FantasyPantheon: When writers invent fictional deities to populate their world. |
60 | * FertilityGod: A god responsible for creating and nurturing life. |
61 | * FightingYourGod: When a person or a group decide to engage in conflict with their own figure of worship or divinity. |
62 | * FireStolenFromTheGods: A myth that argues that knowledge now held by mortals was taken from the gods by force or trickery. |
63 | * FoodGod: God of whatever food is the basis for a culture's survival. |
64 | * ForgedByTheGods: A weapon is special because the gods made it. |
65 | * {{God}}: Singular almighty being who's often the creator of the universe along with all that's in it and the focus of many religions. |
66 | * AGodAmI: A person believes themselves to be a god. |
67 | * AGodIAmNot: A person has amazing godlike powers but does not believe this makes them special or above others. |
68 | * AGodIsYou: The main character of the game is a god. |
69 | * GodCouple: When two deities become a couple. |
70 | * GodEating: Gods eating each other or being eaten by a non-deity. |
71 | * GodEmperor: A ruler depicted as a deity. |
72 | * GodGuise: Someone pretends to be a god. |
73 | * GodInHumanForm: When a deity takes on a human form. |
74 | * GodIsDead: When the creator of the universe is revealed to be dead. |
75 | * GodIsDispleased: When deities withdraw their protection over a slight. |
76 | * GodIsEvil: God is not benevolent in the least. |
77 | * GodIsFlawed: God isn't perfect and has the same faults as humans do. |
78 | * GodIsGood: When God, or the setting's equivalent, is portrayed positively. |
79 | * GodIsInept: Cases in which the Lord Almighty is not suited for his job. |
80 | * GodIsNeutral: When God is neither benevolent nor malevolent. |
81 | * GodJob: A job that requires one to be a deity. |
82 | * GodOfChaos: A god who represents chaos and disorder. |
83 | * GodOfDarkness: A deity who reigns over shadows, darkness, and the night. |
84 | * GodOfEvil: A god who represents all that is evil. |
85 | * GodOfFire: A god who commands fire and/or volcanoes. |
86 | * GodOfGood: A god who represents all that is good. |
87 | * GodOfKnowledge: A god who represents knowledge, learning, or wisdom. |
88 | * GodOfLight: A god who represents the sun, the stars, light, day or dawn. |
89 | * GodOfOrder: A god who represents order and law. |
90 | * GodOfTheDead: A deity who either oversees the process of death or judges the souls of the dead. |
91 | * GodOfTheMoon: A god who represents or moves the moon. |
92 | * GodOfThunder: A deity who embodies electricity and/or storms. |
93 | * GodhoodSeeker: Someone wants to be a god. |
94 | * GodlySidestep: When deities refuse to answer humanity's biggest questions. |
95 | * GodsHandsAreTied: There are reasons why God can't just fix everything on a whim. |
96 | * TheGodsMustBeLazy: Gods who are either incapable or unwilling to resolve conflicts. |
97 | * GodsNeedPrayerBadly: Gods will cease to exist if people stop believing in them. |
98 | * GodWasMyCopilot: A deity in disguise. |
99 | * GoldAndWhiteAreDivine: Gods or goddesses with gold and white color schemes to emphasize their divinity. |
100 | * {{Gotterdammerung}}: A sudden, large-scale event that causes the gods to die or be sealed away forever. |
101 | * GrandpaGod: God's usual depiction as a bearded, elderly man. |
102 | * TheGrimReaper: The AnthropomorphicPersonification of death. |
103 | * HaveYouSeenMyGod: When God is currently unavailable. He may be coming back, He may not. |
104 | * HealerGod: Deities of healing and/or medicine. |
105 | * HeavenAbove: Heaven, where the afterlife and the gods are, represented as being literally in the sky over our heads. |
106 | * HenotheisticSociety: When it's the societal norm for groups or individuals to favor the worship of one god of a FantasyPantheon over the others. |
107 | * HighTechHeaven: When deities or angels make use of modern or even sci-fi level technology. |
108 | * HomeOfTheGods: The place where deities reside. |
109 | * HotGod: Beautiful deities. |
110 | * IncrediblyInconvenientDeity: When deities hassle their helpers. |
111 | * InhumanlyBeautifulRace: Deities often possess beauty far beyond normal human standards. |
112 | * JerkassGods: Gods who tend to screw over mortals. |
113 | * JudgementOfParis: A depiction of Paris deciding which goddess (Aphrodite, Hera, or Athena) should receive the AppleOfDiscord. |
114 | * KillTheGod: Killing deities. |
115 | * KingOfAllCosmos: When God is portrayed as eccentric. |
116 | * LadyLuck: A deity associated with luck and fortune. |
117 | * LittleMissAlmighty: When God is depicted as a female child/teen. |
118 | * LordOfTheOcean: A mercurial ocean deity, usually based on Poseidon. |
119 | * LoserDeity: Deities who are shunned or treated as a joke by their fellow deities. |
120 | * LoveGoddess: A deity, often female, of love. |
121 | * MadGod: A deity who is insane. |
122 | * TheMaker: The creator(s) of a/the world/universe/multiverse/species/etc. |
123 | * ManyFacedDivinity: Multiple masks or faces as divine symbolism. |
124 | * TheModernGods: A god that embodies modern concepts. |
125 | * ModernizedGod: When a god adapts their role to the modern day. |
126 | * NotQuiteTheAlmighty: Even God has limits to His power. |
127 | * OddJobGods: An excessively specialized deity. |
128 | * OfferingsToTheGods: Making physical offerings to deities. |
129 | * TheOldGods: Entities that are above and/or came before the gods. |
130 | * OlympusMons: A powerful creature you can capture and make fight for you and which also happens to be a divine being. |
131 | * OmniscientMoralityLicense: A deity who can do ''anything'' to the hero and still be considered one of the good guys because they know it will turn out okay. |
132 | * OurGodsAreDifferent: Common attributes and features of gods in fiction. |
133 | * OurTitansAreDifferent: The different traits and varying depictions of the Titans in fiction. |
134 | * PalsWithJesus: A character, or characters, who has a direct line to deities. |
135 | * PantheonSitcom: Deities in a sitcom setting. |
136 | * PatronGod: When a god or goddess regularly rewards devotion and piety toward them. |
137 | * PhysicalGod: A corporeal entity with god-like abilities. |
138 | * PiecesOfGod: God got broken into many pieces; this is the result of what happened. |
139 | * PowerOfTheGodHand: When a person, item, or skill is named "god hand," which makes them seem powerful. |
140 | * PowersThatBe: Almighty, powerful, and invisible forces. |
141 | * {{Precursors}}: Deities whose culture came before that of humans. |
142 | * {{Psychopomp}}: Deities or spirits of death. |
143 | * ReasoningWithGod: When a mortal convinces higher powers to help, or at least not to harm. |
144 | * RelievingTheReaper: When someone temporarily takes over Death's job. |
145 | * SemiDivine: A part normal, part supernatural being. Or in between them, in general. |
146 | * {{Shinigami}}: The Japanese version of TheGrimReaper. |
147 | * StockGods: Certain god archetypes. |
148 | * SuperHeroGods: A mythological deity depicted as a superhero. |
149 | * ThereIsAGod: A character is happy about something they wanted to happen and considers their good fortune proof that God must exist. |
150 | * TitanomachyRoundTwo: Someone's trying to free the Titans of Greek Mythology to take out the Gods. |
151 | * TopGod: A deity above the rest by their authority or very nature. |
152 | * TricksterGod: Gods of trickery and deceit. |
153 | * WarGod: A deity associated with warfare. |
154 | * WhatIfGodWasOneOfUs: When God is a human living among humans. |
155 | * WorshippedForGreatDeeds: Someone who is not a god is nevertheless worshipped because of something they did. |
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