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| 12 | ->'''The Courier:''' This building is... interesting. What do you know about it?\ |
| 13 | '''The King:''' ''[in Music/{{Elvis|Presley}} accent]'' Near as I can tell, it was some sort of religious institution. Oh, I know it says "school" out front, but everything in here seems to be related to the worship of some guy back in the day. People used to come here to learn about him. To dress like him, move like him. To ''be'' him. If that's not worship, I don't know what is. |
| 14 | -->-- ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' |
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| 16 | In the future, long after our current society has [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt crumbled into nothing,]] mankind survives. They have been reduced to tribal beings, clinging to the last throes of survival. But all is not lost for humanity, for this tribe has discovered the God of the new world. He shall lead their tribe out of the darkness. He shall bring humanity back to what it once was... wait, is that UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln they're worshiping? |
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| 18 | Yes, after all records of society were erased, the poor, confused tribal humans of the future stumbled upon TheConstant of their predecessors. It may have been a monument, or it may have been a pop culture icon of the past. But in their confused state, the poor tribesmen have mistaken it for an image of the gods, and have begun worshiping it in kind. |
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| 20 | It should be noted that this is a separate trope from CargoCult, though the two can overlap. A CargoCult is when an object is interpreted as a sign of the gods or a god itself. All Hail the Great God Mickey is similar, but occurs AfterTheEnd, when the remnants of a past society are mistaken for a sign of the gods. Due to cultural drift, this trope may also be found attached to DaysOfFuturePast. |
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| 22 | Subtrope of LegendFadesToMyth. Compare FutureImperfect, FromCataclysmToMyth and ProfoundByPopSong. Not to be confused with DisneyOwnsThisTrope. See also SinglePreceptReligion. |
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| 25 | !!Examples: |
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| 27 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 28 | |
| 29 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 30 | * ''Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico'': It turns out that the Jovian Lizards were [[spoiler:[[HumanAllAlong humans all along]]. A long abandoned space colony orbiting Jupiter, left to its own devices, where ''Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}}'' is treated as a sacred text and code of conduct. All jovian men we get to see model themselves after the three main pilots of the anime, and they all treat the show's female lead as a society-wide waifu.]] |
| 31 | [[/folder]] |
| 32 | |
| 33 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 34 | * ''ComicBook/{{Axa}}'': The middle people consider freeway intersections to be temples, and TV sets to be altars. |
| 35 | * Creator/FirstComics, a comic company back in the '80s was fond of this. In both ''ComicBook/GrimJack'' and ''ComicBook/{{Nexus}}'' there are references to a "St. Elvis". |
| 36 | * ''ComicBook/DeKiekeboes'': In the album ''De Wereld Volgens Kiekeboe (translation: "The World According To Kiekeboe")'' Kiekeboe travels to the far future, when mankind has destroyed most of its civilization during a world war. They rebuilt everything afterwards and discovered the entire collection of Kiekeboes albums (except for the one they are currently appearing in). They enjoyed the books so much that they built their entire civilization according to the universe in Kiekeboe's stories. Naturally they do get a [[FutureImperfect lot of things about our century wrong]], because the albums are the only artefacts they can base their knowledge on. |
| 37 | * ''ComicBook/{{Scout}}'': A wandering prophet uses the works of Creator/JRRTolkien as his bible. |
| 38 | * ''ComicStrip/TheTowerKing'' is set in a post-apocalyptic setting where electricity generation is impossible. The hero encounters a cult based in Battersea Power Station who worship electricity and pretend it still exists. |
| 39 | * ''ComicBook/{{Transmetropolitan}}'' is set an indeterminate amount of time in the future. In fact, no one in the comic actually knows what year it is, at least according to our calendar. Vestiges of modern civilization abound, but the people have some... interesting interpretations. For example: |
| 40 | -->"Who was [[UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler Hitler]]?"\ |
| 41 | "Rock star. He was in Music/LedZeppelin. Fucked goats and wrote the old national anthem. Blew up Auckland in the Blitz."\ |
| 42 | "Wasn't all bad, then, was he?"\ |
| 43 | "History's a wonderful thing, see? We learn from it." |
| 44 | [[/folder]] |
| 45 | |
| 46 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 47 | * ''WebVideo/FalloutNukaBreak'': Ben the ghoul is asked if he can remember anything from before the bombs fell, and all he can come up with is "By Mennen", though he can't remember what it means. The other main characters assume it to be part of a religious hymn, and start using the phrase similarly to "by God". Mennen is the company that makes, among other things, Speed Stick deodorant, which have "By Mennen" stamped on their packages, and many [=80s=] and [=90s=] ads for Speed Stick and its relatives had the jingle at the end (although since the company was acquired by Colgate-Palmolive back in 1992 the name's been gradually phased out from advertising). |
| 48 | * ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'': Blight hid inside the ruins of a Starbucks restaurant during his Hunger Games, and prays to Starbucks as a god for the rest of his life as a result. As it turns out, Beetee knew that Starbucks was actually a coffee chain, but never had the heart to tell Blight. When Joanna and Connor find out, they burst into laughter. |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 52 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'': The priests worship, among other things, a great symbol of an eye -- the CBS logo -- and use a mixture of English and Yiddish words simultaneously. |
| 53 | [[/folder]] |
| 54 | |
| 55 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 56 | * ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'': The few surviving humans believe that advertising statues left from before the Psychlos' invasion of Earth are gods that had been [[TakenForGranite turned into stone]] as punishment for falling in love with mortal women. In the book, the bald eagle on the Great Seal of the United States (as seen on coins, belt buckles, etc.) draws the same reverence. |
| 57 | * ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes'': The mutants worship a hydrogen bomb left over from before the war that killed most of the humans. |
| 58 | * ''Film/EnemyMine'': At one point, Davidge quotes WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse, and the alien Jeriba Shigan assumes the cartoon character is actually a "great Earthman teacher," which Davidge does not correct. This leads to a hilarious bit during a later argument, when Jerry thinks he's deeply insulting Davidge's beliefs by calling Mickey Mouse "one big, stupid ''DOPE!''" It helped that the line was functionally identical to a famous quote from a great Drac teacher Shigan follows. |
| 59 | * ''Film/{{Kumare}}'': In one scene, Vikram Gandhi, pretending to be a traditional yoga teacher/guru from India, asks a lady student about her necklace which has a pendant in a familiar outline: "This symbol is your religion symbol?" She laughs and says "No, no, it's just Mickey Mouse." |
| 60 | * ''Film/MadMax'': |
| 61 | ** ''Film/MadMaxBeyondThunderdome'': The kids are waiting for Captain Walker (Ă la [[CargoCult John Frum]]) and believe things like records and radios are magical, even if they don't know how to use them. "Captain Walker" is a ShoutOut to ''Literature/RiddleyWalker'', another classic post-apocalyptic tale. Given the end of the world was just a few years before, there was almost certainly a real Walker and the kids are half-remembering things they were too young to understand. |
| 62 | ** ''Film/MadMaxFuryRoad'': The War Boys revere the spirit of "V8" (the engine, not the drink). Nux is so devoted to the spirit that he has an engine block scarification on his chest. |
| 63 | *** Their language is heavily influenced by this trope as well, to the point that ordinary water (a rare and valuable commodity) is now called "Aqua Cola". Also, Nux proclaims that after his suicide attack, he would be in Valhalla "[=McFeasting=] with the heroes of our time". |
| 64 | * ''Film/MortalEngines'' has a brief gag early on when the London Museum's collection is shown to include a set of "American deities" which are quickly revealed to be a set of large [[Franchise/DespicableMe Minions]] figurines. |
| 65 | * ''Film/ThePostman'': Borderline. The Holnists are a survivalist cult founded on the teachings of an author of trashy self-help books, who they worship as a near-deity. |
| 66 | * ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'': [[BigBad Deacon]], the leader of the Smokers, every so often mentions "Old Saint Joe" with the same reverence as some sort of deity: [[spoiler:Near the end of the movie it's revealed that the Smokers' base is the remains of the Exxon Valdez and "Old Saint Joe" is a portrait of the ship's disgraced captain, Joseph Hazelwood.]] |
| 67 | * ''Film/{{Zardoz}}'': Frayn chooses the name Zardoz in order to help the main character to eventually realize that he made it up, taken from ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz''. |
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| 70 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 71 | * ''Literature/AmtrackWars'': The Mutes worship the Great Sky Mother Mo-Town. While the Federation seems to be technically atheistic, they have a quasi-religious reverence for the First Founder George Washington Jefferson. It's strongly implied that this was deliberately engineered by the Federation's leadership to keep the rank-and-file in line. |
| 72 | * ''Literature/TheAndroidsDream'': A cult called the Nugentians is mentioned to practice bow-hunting as a sacred ritual and keep the preserved corpse of [[Music/TedNugent their founder]] as a holy relic, dressed in a loincloth. |
| 73 | * ''Literature/BraveNewWorld'' has its future {{dystopia}}n society view Henry T. Ford as a God-like figure, to the point where [[FutureSlang Ford's name]] is used in phrases where "God" would have been used originally. It's because he [[MachineWorship invented the system of production lines]] that they use to produce everything ([[DesignerBabies including children]]). In issues of psychology, however, they refer to "[[AllPsychologyIsFreudian Freud]]". However, [[CompositeCharacter they're apparently believed to have been the same person]]. It's also implied that this religion was designed to allow for easy conversion of Christian symbols: cut off the top part of a cross, and you've got a perfectly servicable T (as in the Model T), which is used similarly in the Ford religion. It doesn't even seem to be a secret in-universe that this religion was fabricated out of whole cloth as a tool of social control, but most people go along with it anyway because it's the path of least resistance... and the whole plot of the book is [[{{Anvilicious}} a thoroughly unsubtle moral lesson]] about why taking the path of least resistance instead of applying any critical thinking to what you've been brought up to believe is a bad thing. |
| 74 | * "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_the_Waters_of_Babylon By the Waters of Babylon]]": The protagonist visits the sacred and forbidden ruins of [[spoiler: New York City]] (which his tribe believes to be the former home of the gods) and prays to a statue of George Washington. |
| 75 | * ''Literature/ACanticleForLeibowitz'': The first chapter is set in the 26th century, long after a disastrous nuclear war. A seventeen-year-old novice named Brother Francis Gerard is on a vigil in the desert. While searching for a rock to complete a shelter, he encounters a pilgrim who inscribes Hebrew on a rock that appears the perfect fit for the shelter. When Brother Francis removes the rock he discovers the entrance to an ancient fallout shelter containing "relics", such as handwritten notes on crumbling memo pads bearing cryptic texts resembling a 20th-century shopping list. He soon realizes that these notes appear to have been written by Leibowitz, the founder of his order. The discovery of the ancient documents causes an uproar at the monastery, as the other monks speculate that the relics once belonged to Leibowitz. The items are then used as evidence in Leibowitz's canonization process, thus making them actual holy relics under the Church's definition. |
| 76 | * ''Literature/CountToTheEschaton'': The far-future civilization of the Witches has a [[FutureImperfect greatly confused notion of the world's history]]. In particular, they believe that figures such as [[Franchise/HarryPotter Hermione]], [[ComicBook/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch Sabrina]] or [[Series/{{Bewitched}} Samantha]] are actual powerful witches from history, and so invoke their names in their rituals. When Menelaus (who comes from a much earlier era) tries to correct a Witch on this, the Witch replies haughtily that surely the ancients wouldn't have devoted so much loving attention to these figures if they weren't real. |
| 77 | * ''Franchise/TheDarkTower'': Roland's world has "moved on", and in some places remnants of the old technology are used as icons of worship, such as an Amoco (since absorbed into BP) gas pump. Roland's home city also based itself on Myth/ArthurianLegend. |
| 78 | * ''Literature/EarthAbides'': One character knows that the ruins of the cities and bridges were built by people called "the Americans". He then wonders if the land and skies were built by the older Americans depicted on coins. |
| 79 | * ''Literature/{{Emberverse}}'': The DĂşnedain Rangers have a quasi-religious reverence for the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Just how serious they take this reverence varies from individual to individual. The older members, with the extreme exception of Astrid, tend to take it less seriously while the younger members consider them actual histories and swear by the Valar. Given that they pal around with a bunch of Wiccans who consider any god or god figure from classical religion or mythology to be aspects of the same multifaceted divinity or divinities and have a fairly laissez-faire attitude toward worship, it's reasonably justified. |
| 80 | * ''Literature/GatheringBlue'': A group of survivors worships a cross recovered from a Christian church. They don't know what Christianity actually was composed of before the apocalypse, but they do know that the cross had some importance. |
| 81 | * "Literature/TheGreatGodAwto", a Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith short story, shows an archaeologist in the distant future lecturing his audience on the religious fanaticism and mass human sacrifices of the ancient and barbaric cult of "the Great God Awto". |
| 82 | * "Literature/HistoryLesson", a short story by Creator/ArthurCClarke, opens with a tribe of primate people migrating south to avoid the glaciers of an oncoming ice age. They carry with them sacred relics of the past, the most treasured of which is sealed in a flat round metal container. At the end of the story, it's revealed to be [[spoiler:a Walt Disney cartoon]]. |
| 83 | * ''Literature/TheHistoryOfTheRunestaff'': The pantheon of the Granbretan Empire includes such gods as [[Music/TheBeatles Jhone, Jhorg, Phowl, Rhunga]] and [[UsefulNotes/WinstonChurchill Chirshil]]. |
| 84 | * ''Literature/TheHouseOfLions'': The titular building is thought to be a temple containing magical treasures. It's actually the New York Public Library. |
| 85 | * ''Literature/{{Mallworld}}'', a series of short sci-fi stories by Creator/SPSomtow, shows the humans that live in space (the titular Mallworld) worshiping such things as Saint Betty Crocker and Elvis. |
| 86 | * ''Literature/TheMartianGeneralsDaughter'': There's an orgiastic cult dedicated to the goddess Creator/{{Marilyn|Monroe}}. |
| 87 | * Creator/MickFarren: |
| 88 | ** ''Literature/ArmageddonCrazy'': The only religion that has managed to remain independent of the [[StrawmanPolitical fundamentalist Christian government]] are the Elvi, worshipers of Elvis Presley. |
| 89 | ** ''Literature/TheTextsOfFestival'' is set in a post-apocalyptic world where the survivors believe rock lyrics are the fragments of holy texts. |
| 90 | * ''Literature/TheMoonMen'': After Earth is conquered by the eponymous moon aliens, the American flag becomes an object of worship to the rebellious underground. |
| 91 | * ''Literature/MortalEngines'': |
| 92 | ** The London museum includes, among its exhibits depicting the pre-apocalyptic world, "[[RuleOfFunny plastic statues of Mickey and Pluto, the animal-headed gods of lost America]]". |
| 93 | ** ''Literature/FeverCrumb'': In one scene, Fever encounters "...celebrants in robes and pointed hats whirling and clapping and chanting the name of some old-world prophet, '[[Franchise/HarryPotter Hari, Hari! Hari Potter!]]'" |
| 94 | * ''Literature/MotelOfTheMysteries'' is an illustrated gag "archeological report" on relics found in a long-ago hotel room, as written up by future archeologists with a ''very'' FutureImperfect understanding of our era. One of their ongoing debates is about which "ancient altar" was the more revered: the television or the toilet. |
| 95 | * ''Literature/ThePelbarCycle'': In ''The Ends of the Circle'', the Children of Ozar worship an eponymous creator god. This is actually [[spoiler:the airplane that crash-landed a thousand years before, bringing their ancestors to the area]]. |
| 96 | * ''Literature/PhulesCompany'': The company chaplain is a follower of "the King". Guess [[Music/ElvisPresley who]] that is? |
| 97 | * "Literature/{{Return}}", a Creator/HBeamPiper short story, takes place after a nuclear war and follows a pair of explorers who discover a tribe whose religion is based on [[spoiler: the Sherlock Holmes stories]]. |
| 98 | * ''Literature/RiddleyWalker'', set some two thousand years after a nuclear war, has widespread worship of the god St Eusa (the Catholic Saint Eustace, buried in Canterbury Cathedral). The story of St Eusa also involves computer technology, the atom bomb, and puppet shows. The ruins of Canterbury, now known as Cambry, have the shrine to "Eusa" that forms the base of the St Eusa story. |
| 99 | * ''Literature/SnowCrash'' has, as a key element, a franchise church called "the Reverend Wayne's Pearly Gates". The church's decor and religion orbits what it defines as its own Holy Trinity: Jesus, Elvis, and the Reverend Wayne Bedford. (Jesus does get top billing in the artwork, but Elvis appears more frequently and, apparently, gets at least as much reverence. After all, [[WhoShotJFK Elvis Shot JFK to save America from Communism]], according to their holy writ.) |
| 100 | * "Literature/TabloidReporterToTheStars": The first interstellar expedition encounters an alien race that already knows about humans because of an apparently divine messenger that the narrator finds out is [[spoiler: Elvis Presley]]. |
| 101 | * From 1939 to 1941, Nelson S. Bond wrote a series of science fiction shorts about Meg, a priestess of a LadyLand who rebels against her tribe, partly by taking a man as an equal partner. A typical story, "Magic City", describes Meg and her husband Daiv's journey from the land of Jinnia (in the country of Tizathy: at one point Meg actually recites an ancient magical incantation that begins with the line, "My country, Tizathy") to the far-off city of Loalnyawk (New York City), to slay Death who dwells in a temple called Slukes. Along the way, they come to the entrance of the ruined Holland Tunnel in "Joysy" and assume its street signs ([[SignsOfDisrepair which read]] "N'''O Parki'''ng" and "N'''O Left Tur'''n") to be prayers. When they reach Loalnyawk, Daiv points out that the temple is clearly marked '''STLUKES''', and Meg reminds him that the Ancient Ones often wrote carelessly and misspelled things (one [[TheUnpronounceable harsh-sounding example]] of such writing in Loalnyawk reads "Mcmxl"). Later on, Meg stops a band of marauders by standing in their way, raising an arm and yelling "HOLD!"; she's got a big book in her other hand, and is mistaken for a familiar New York landmark which she hasn't seen yet but which the locals have naturally assumed to be the image of a goddess named Salibbidy. In another story in the same series where she first meets Daiv, Meg discovers "the Place of the Gods", giant carvings of gods known as Jarg, Ibrim, Taamuz, and Tedhi (George, Abraham, Thomas, Teddy) -- Mount Rushmore. |
| 102 | [[/folder]] |
| 103 | |
| 104 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 105 | %%* ''Series/The100'': There are elements of this in the Grounder religion. Murphy at one point tells Titus "you pray to garbage".%%ZCE. What elements are these? |
| 106 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'': |
| 107 | ** G'Kar wonders if WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck is some sort of household god in Earth religions upon seeing a poster in Garibaldi's quarters. |
| 108 | --->'''Zack Allen:''' ''[answering G'Kar]'' You might say it's the Egyptian god of [[ButtMonkey frustration]]. |
| 109 | ** An actual Church of Elvis exists on Earth in the ''B5'' universe, and representatives were invited to participate in an interfaith conference on the station. |
| 110 | * ''Series/{{Quark}}'': The main character is descended from a tribe called "the Americans", which -- based on studies of archeological digs in California -- the future society believes worshiped, and were ruled by, a fully clothed, giant mouse. |
| 111 | * ''Series/{{Revolution}}'': A {{Downplayed}} example (the apocalypse was less then twenty years ago, after all), but at one point Miles meets a young sheriff who was inspired by stories his father used to tell him about a badass Texas ranger who fought for justice. |
| 112 | -->'''Miles:''' So what was this badass's name?\ |
| 113 | '''Sheriff:''' Walker.\ |
| 114 | '''Miles:''' Wait. Your dad told you stories about ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger''?\ |
| 115 | '''Sheriff:''' Yeah. You've heard of him?\ |
| 116 | '''Miles:''' ...[[SureLetsGoWithThat His legend is known far and wide]]. |
| 117 | * ''Series/RedDwarf'': In "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIWaitingForGod Waiting for God]]", a cat society has lived in the recesses of the ship for 3 million years. They discovered Lister's plans to open a fast food franchise, and mistook it for a Church of the One True Religion. They now have holy wars over what color to make the fast food hats, because Lister neglected to write down that detail. And both sides got it wrong. |
| 118 | * ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': In "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E23TheOmegaGlory The Omega Glory]]", on a world where nuclear war destroyed civilization, the survivors' descendants are divided into Yangs (Yanks) and Coms (Communists). The Yangs worship the Constitution without understanding its real meaning. |
| 119 | [[/folder]] |
| 120 | |
| 121 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 122 | * ''Podcast/RiffTrax'': {{Lampshaded}}, as Kevin notes that while the Egyptians left the pyramids, the Incans left behind Machu Picchu, America left behind the giant fiberglass bunny on the 6th green of the local Putt-Putt. |
| 123 | [[/folder]] |
| 124 | |
| 125 | [[folder:Radio]] |
| 126 | * ''Music/MitchBenn'': In the ''Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music'' episode "Fans", Mitch suggests the Church of Elvis [[CreatorWorship already exists]]. |
| 127 | -->Oh, Elvis, our King, in heaven above,\ |
| 128 | How gentle your mercy, how tender your love,\ |
| 129 | You died for our sins, of this we are sure,\ |
| 130 | So keep us, we pray. Amen. Uh-huh-huh. |
| 131 | * ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' presents several religions that frequent the Restaurant at the End of the Universe to witness the nightly apocalypse. None are more prolific than the disciples of the great prophet Zarquon. |
| 132 | [[/folder]] |
| 133 | |
| 134 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 135 | * ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'': A sourcebook has a throwaway line about a group that runs a half restaurant/half church dedicated to an ancient Terran named [[Music/TheGratefulDead Jerry Garcia]]. |
| 136 | * ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' has Badders (mutant badgers) that worship the Wisconsin badger mascot. |
| 137 | * ''TabletopGame/TranshumanSpace'': There's a religion that worships Elvis. It's only 100 years in the future and there hasn't been any great catastrophe, so they know who he was, but someone in Memphis was supposedly healed by a vision of Elvis, which lead to an evangelical Christan movement called the Sons and Daughters of the King (also known as the Presleyan Heresy). It's even schismed; one leader (derisively known as "the Colonel") declared that all images of Elvis should be from his early years, leading to a split between the Sons and Daughters of the King (the Younger) and the Sons and Daughters of the King (the Elder). |
| 138 | [[/folder]] |
| 139 | |
| 140 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 141 | * ''Theatre/MrBurnsAPostElectricPlay'' is an exploration of this trope, discussing ''how'' a piece of pop culture becomes a focus of myth and worship over time as [[FutureImperfect history and fiction become muddled]]. The play starts out shortly after [[ApocalypseHow the nuclear apocalypse]], with a group of survivors talking about an old episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' to pass the time. Eventually, they form a small theater troupe and begin performing a slightly altered version of the episode for the entertainment of tribal audiences, who further spread the story around. The play is [[GossipEvolution gradually expanded and altered with each retelling until it barely resembles the original episode]], having been twisted into a religious opera performance about an evil god of radiation named Mr. Burns destroying Springfield as an allegory for the CreationMyth of the world. |
| 142 | * ''Theatre/WeWillRockYou'': The Bohemians worship Music/{{Queen|Band}} as gods, and "Bohemian Rhapsody" is their sacred text. They are also devotees of late-20th century music in general, but understand very little of the cultural context or significance of it; one gag written into the script is that the male leader of the Bohemians takes on the name of a female pop star as his rebel name (in the original production, the name used was Britney Spears). |
| 143 | [[/folder]] |
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| 145 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 146 | * ''VideoGame/AfterTheEndAPostApocalypticAmerica'': The [[RuleOfFunny tongue-in-cheek]] post-apocalyptic America has a fair few, though the dev teams have taken pains to [[ShownTheirWork avoid shallow parody]] and build surprisingly believable faiths out of them: |
| 147 | ** Followers of a religion known as Americanism have taken the Founding Fathers of the United States to be gods who once walked among men, interpreting the many monuments and statues to them as temples and idols. Their entire religion is structured around the interpretation of documents such as the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers as religious texts. |
| 148 | ** The Tribe of the Mouse may be a literal example of this trope. They are Americanists (although earlier versions had them as Atomicists), but given their name and the fact that their capital is in Orlando and their ruling family is the Waltney family, it is likely they have some reverence for Disney and Mickey Mouse. |
| 149 | ** A few of the descriptions of the Consumerist religion that arises a while into the game suggests that one of the major in-universe inspirations was the consumerists-to-be finding references to the Almighty Dollar and taking it seriously. The Monetarist heresy in turn is implied to have emerged from Consumerists finding texts on monetarism and interpreting them through their pre-existing religious lens (the key point of contention between Monetarism and mainstream Consumerism is that Consumerism sees spending wealth as a holy act while Monetarism believes overspending is an affront to the Almighty Dollar). |
| 150 | ** Followers of Occultism's Lore of the Old Ones are not aware that the writings of Creator/HPLovecraft were intended as fiction and regard them as holy documents offering both wisdom and warning. The Lore of the Masons likewise misinterprets Freemasonry as an independent religion rather than a fraternal brotherhood. |
| 151 | ** In what was the American Southwest and northern Mexico, Wrestling/ElSanto has been interpreted to be an actual, literally semi-divine saint that the player can choose to follow the path of. Because the new world has forgotten about the whole "{{kayfabe}}" thing, unarmed gladiatorial combat is involved. |
| 152 | ** Although the Atomicists and Rust Cultists are primarily Cargo Cults, the relics they worship ''are'' remnants of pre-Event civilization (the Atomicists worship "the power of Atom" without really knowing what that is, and the Rust Cultists see the machinery of old as the creation of a higher power), and they have re-purposed related non-material concepts into their faith -- for example, the Atomicist religious leadership, when founded, is the Atomic Energy Commission. |
| 153 | ** Revelationism is a unique take on this trope, as their subject of fascination is in fact ''Protestant Christianity''. Allegorical Biblical stories [[FutureImperfect lost their context]] and went on to be taken literally, folkloric practices such as speaking in tounges or divine healing completely overtakes mainstream theological practices, and syncretism with local myths and superstitions leads up to a pantheon consisting of the (very literal) Lamb, the divine Burning Bush, and the knowledge-giving Serpent. |
| 154 | ** The Orientalists are a group descended from non-Muslims reconstructing Islam from what sources they could find. While the result is closer to Islam than Revelationism is to Christianity (Orientalism is classified as part of the Muslim religious group, while Revelationism is ''Pagan''), it still includes… oddities like seeing ''Arabian Nights'' as a holy text and Aladdin as a holy figure, and wearing Shriner-derived garb. |
| 155 | * ''VideoGame/Caravaneer2'': The [[SupermanSubstitute Man of Zinc]] and [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Chunk Nariz]], an expy of Creator/ChuckNorris, both have a large religious following in the wasteland. There's also the Kivi religion, in which they worship a scientist named Spencer Rice who showed them how to do agriculture effectively. |
| 156 | * ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'': |
| 157 | ** The Children of Atom worship radiation and nuclear annihilation as vehicles of creation and life, and it's not the only time characters have misconstrued pre-war information as some kind of religion. |
| 158 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': |
| 159 | *** In the DLC "The Pitt", your reward for [[GuideDangIt finding all 100 ingots]] in the steelyard is [[AndYourRewardIsClothes a suit of power armor]]. While it resembles [[BigBad Ashur's]] own suit, Everett mentions that some of the local tribals fashioned this power armor to resemble their "gods". Although the colors are faded, the armor is clearly decked out in the black and yellow colors of the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague Pittsburgh Steelers]][[note]]A common color scheme among the city's sports teams, shared with the [[UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball Pirates]] and [[UsefulNotes/NationalHockeyLeague Penguins]][[/note]]. Ashur's own armor has an identical color scheme, so it's possible he's simply exploiting local superstitions to appear as a "god". |
| 160 | *** Abraham Lincoln (via the remnants of the Lincoln Memorial, where the Gettysburg Address is still legible) is seen as something of a deity to freed slaves. |
| 161 | ** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': |
| 162 | *** This is how the Kings became a gang of {{Elvis Impersonator}}s. After finding a school filled with memorabilia, instructions on how to act like him, and a metric ton of hair gel, they figured it must be a place of worship, and that they'd keep his memory alive. [[MetaphoricallyTrue They're not wrong, per se.]] Notably, this is all without even knowing his ''name'' -- in all that memorabilia, nothing in the building explicitly said what the name of the person being emulated was due to damage and looting in the centuries since the bombs fell, just that he was "the King."[[note]]This was also, out-of-universe, due to Elvis Presley's estate retaining the rights to his image and music, and the developers not having the funds to officially license them[[/note]] Downplayed in that the Kings -- or the leaders, at the very least -- don't really think of "The King" as a ''god'' per se, viewing him more as an enlightened person worth emulating, akin to some views of Buddha. |
| 163 | *** The Sorrows tribe in the ''New Vegas'' DLC ''Honest Hearts'' worship the "Father in the Caves", who was [[spoiler: an ex-Marine turned survivalist who [[MysteriousProtector protected their ancestors from afar]] shortly after the [[WorldWarIII Great War]]]]. After meeting the Mormon missionaries from New Canaan, they were confused by their teachings and came to believe that the [[UsefulNotes/{{Christianity}} Christian God]] and their Father were one and the same. |
| 164 | * ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'': |
| 165 | ** The Nora tribe worships the All-Mother, holding a specific vault in a particular mountain (implied to be Cheyenne Mountain, given its proximity to the ruins of Colorado Springs) to be sacred to her, especially a door which they can't pass through. They are MetaphoricallyTrue, in that the vault and others like it [[spoiler:''are'' where all of modern humanity originates, and there ''is'' a benevolent female immortal presence who struck down the Metal Devils]]. It's just a lot more complicated than that. |
| 166 | ** The Carja tribe is all about [[SternSunWorshippers sun worship]]. The first Sun-King found an ancient textbook about the sun which led to a great migration. Modern Carja believe their kings are chosen by the Sun, and that it has a will and enacts judgment. Again, they are broadly correct, in that the sun is immensely crucial to life on Earth even if it doesn't have that kind of intent and personhood. |
| 167 | ** The sequel ''[[VideoGame/HorizonForbiddenWest Forbidden West]]'' introduces the Quen, who [[PrecursorWorship revere Ted Faro as the prophet who saved the world]] and Elisabet Sobeck as his HypercompetentSidekick. Their titles, such as the "Board of Overseers" and the "Ceo", are taken from 21st century corporations. They don't realize that Faro was a CorruptCorporateExecutive who had a severe falling out with Sobeck, who was the one who was ''actually'' responsible for most of his company's innovations, [[spoiler:nor do they realize that Faro's greed destroyed the world]]. Alva, a Quen Diviner who is part of their expedition to North America, has a severe BrokenPedestal moment when she learns the truth about her ancient idol. |
| 168 | ** Also in ''Forbidden West'' are the Tenakth, a ProudWarriorRace who worship a group of ancient god-like soldiers called the Ten. Their holiest site is a building filled with holograms boasting of the Ten's mighty deeds, they go into battle adorned in red, white, and blue body paint, and they emulate their heroes by leaping from above to attack their foes. It's revealed that the building is a military museum dedicated to a paratrooper unit called JTF-10. |
| 169 | * ''Franchise/{{Splatoon}}'': The Inklings worship an ancient fax machine, known as the "Voice from on High", that supposedly transmits messages from the gods of old. The [[FictionalHoliday Splatfest]], the most important celebration of the Inkling culture, is based around a ritual to honor these messages through competition. In reality, the fax machine is [[AliensStealCable receiving ancient human signals]] that were sent into space [[AfterTheEnd millennia ago]], and, after bouncing off various celestial objects, have returned to Earth. |
| 170 | * ''VideoGame/{{Wasteland}}'' |
| 171 | ** The Servants of the Mushroom Cloud worship the nuclear holocaust as a holy event and radiation as divine while seeing UsefulNotes/AlbertEinstein and UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer as prophets. They seek to convert everyone in the wastes to their literally poisonous ideology and have several sects across postwar America such as the [[VideoGame/Wasteland2 M.A.D. Monks]] and [[VideoGame/Wasteland3 Cult of the Holy Detonation]], although they're mostly benign and perform good deeds like maintaining the Las Vegas nuclear power plant to provide power to the city and surrounding settlements. |
| 172 | ** The Rail Nomads are a group of tribal Native Americans who live in train cars and worship John Henry as well as Choo Choo Charlie from old Good & Plenty candy commercials. |
| 173 | ** ''VideoGame/Wasteland3'' has the Gippers who worship UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan as a GodEmperor and are ruled by an AI of him. |
| 174 | [[/folder]] |
| 175 | |
| 176 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 177 | %%* ''Webcomic/AloneInACrowd'': A quite literal example (although not post-apocalypse) [[http://aiacrowd.com/archives/254 here]] . |
| 178 | * ''Webcomic/PartiallyClips'' has [[http://partiallyclips.com/2014/04/15/monk-reading/ "Monk Reading"]], where, AfterTheEnd, monks study and try to find wisdom in stories about the struggle between the Messiah and the Dark One... in other words, [[spoiler:Popeye comics]]. |
| 179 | * ''Webcomic/TheParkingLotIsFull'': An inversion. Disney characters, including Mickey, are actually gods of Atlantis, as evidenced from sunken statues in one strip. |
| 180 | %%* ''Webcomic/RomanticallyApocalyptic'': The lemonade cult. |
| 181 | * ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': |
| 182 | ** Reverend Theo Forbius, resident Chaplain for Tagon's Toughs, refers to "[[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Gospel of Uncle Benjamin]]" when confronted with the quote ''"With great power comes great responsibility"'' and [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse1983 Greyskull's Power]] as part of an exorcism rite (the first time was in a dream sequence, but the second was a direct reference of his own). |
| 183 | ** When Admiral Emm performs a wedding for Theo and his fiancée, it takes about thirty seconds, and most of that is just declaring her legal ability to marry them. She explains that her parents were "Orthodox Las Veganists", First Church of [[Music/ElvisPresley the King]]. |
| 184 | * ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'': The devilgirl Pebbles thinks Jay-Z and Jesus are the same person, quoting lyrics from one of his raps as scripture. She also thinks Santa and Satan are the same, In later strips Seymour can be found preaching from the Gospel of Voltron although whether he considers Voltron an apostle of Jesus or an aspect of same is a little unclear. |
| 185 | [[/folder]] |
| 186 | |
| 187 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 188 | * WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic: The partial TropeNamer is the Critic's review of ''Film/BattlefieldEarth'': |
| 189 | --->'''Tribesman:''' ''[on a bunch of mall mannequins]'' Look at these poor bastards, though. They really, ''really'' angered the gods!\ |
| 190 | '''Nostalgia Critic:''' ''[waving his fingers]'' Over here you'll see the statue of the mouse god named "Mickey"! |
| 191 | [[/folder]] |
| 192 | |
| 193 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 194 | * ''Literature/NineteenEightyThreeDoomsday'': |
| 195 | ** A minority of people in the [[http://althistory.wikia.com/wiki/Republic_of_Lincoln_%281983:_Doomsday%29# Republic of Lincoln]] seem to worship Abraham Lincoln as a deity. However normal circumstances that bring this about are subverted: the cult seemed to have formed because "the people are desperate for any piece of old America, no matter how small." |
| 196 | ** There's also the "Cult of the Once and Future King", in New Britain, which worships Myth/KingArthur and UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily as divine. It's practically a step away from turning the ''British Empire'' itself into a god. |
| 197 | * ''Website/SCPFoundation'': |
| 198 | ** The Bellerverse is a collection of stories set on Earth long after the apocalypse hits. While the Foundation had measures in place to restart humanity if/when this happened, this too is far in the past, to the point where the original researchers, staff and even [=SCPs=] are now considered gods, heroes and monsters (such as the First King Starel locked away with the dragon Sikayt, in fact Captain Strelnikov who voluntarily became bait to trap the indestructible reptile SCP-682 in an inescapable maze). |
| 199 | ** The Doctors of the Church canon is similar, set in a post-apocalyptic future where humanity has fallen back to a medieval society. The Foundation survives as a church, with the senior staff worshipped as old prophets and containment procedures treated like sacred rituals. This was actually intentional on the part of the Foundation, who knew that a religious order was the most likely form the Foundation might survive in if society collapsed. Dr. Bright is still "alive", and makes sure they stay on track (though he'd really prefer if they stopped all that damn worship). |
| 200 | * ''Literature/PiecingTogetherTheAshesReconstructingTheOldWorldOrder'': A large part of the story is dedicated to this due to the humans' limited knowledge of our present day. Disney itself is regarded as a religion of the ancient world and its characters as deities. |
| 201 | [[/folder]] |
| 202 | |
| 203 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 204 | * ''WesternAnimation/BeanyAndCecil'': One episode has the crew on a tribal island looking for the Golden Menu, with which its possessor can order any food desired. The island is populated by a tribe of waitresses waiting for the arrival of the Great Customer, who turns out to be Captain Huffenpuff who is a dead ringer for the tribe's idol. The Captain must eat everything the waitresses serve him lest he offends them. |
| 205 | * ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'': In one episode, the gang encounters a cult that has a soft drink commercial as its inspiration and use its jingle as their hymn. |
| 206 | * ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'': Danger Mouse is looking for Penfold in a Brazilian temple (episode "Ants, Trees and...Whoops-A-Daisy") where the hopeless hamster has disappeared. DM encounters a coven of snakes of who have adopted the hippie lifestyles and mantras of the late 1960s. When DM finds Penfold, he is tied to a temple pillar by a tribe ants who force Penfold to [[ItMakesSenseInContext sacrifice his eyebrows]] as they await the arrival of their queen Ataxi. Penfold's auntie suddenly arrives and thinks the goings-on is childish nonsense. When she says she arrived in "a taxi," the ant tribe genuflect to her and upon her order releases Penfold. |
| 207 | * ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'': One episode sees Peter combining the Roman Catholicism with which he was raised with inspiration from his one-time spirit guide Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzerelli from ''Series/HappyDays'' and starting his own church. Eventually, Peter's followers are co-opted by churches built around other '70's sitcom characters ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg also, Kirk Cameron]]). |
| 208 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 209 | ** "Oprahism" is considered a mainstream religion. |
| 210 | ** All recordings of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' were sent off of Earth because the religion that formed around it was growing too fanatical. |
| 211 | ** The sewer mutants have a church where they worship an unexploded atom bomb. However, no one is very observant, going only on Easter and Christmas. |
| 212 | * ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': |
| 213 | ** "[[Recap/SouthParkS4E16TheWackyMolestationAdventure The Wacky Molestation Adventure]]": The children of South Park manage to send all adults to jail on false molestation charges. And of course, SocialServicesDoesNotExist. Later, in the ruins of the town, the children are seen worshipping a statue of John Elway made of trash that is supposed to represent "The Great Provider", a supreme being that provides them food and shelter (as a faint memory of what their parents did for them). PlayedForLaughs when we find out it's been only a week since all adults have left. |
| 214 | ** In another episode, Cartman tells Butters that the government is watching everything they do, and Butters misinterprets that as the government is a literal benevolent god. He and a handful of converts start confessing their sins at the Department of Motor Vehicles like actual church and this [[UnwantedFalseFaith pisses off an employee]]. |
| 215 | [[/folder]] |
| 216 | |
| 217 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 218 | * The Wahgi people of Papua New Guinea have been known to paint images of ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' on their shields, which is usually reserved for creatures that the Wahgi warriors want to emulate. The reason for this is most likely that American soldiers stationed on Papua New Guinea brought with them Phantom comic books and shared them with the natives. The Phantom is a mortal man, but his speed, skill and strength gives him an air of invulnerability, which the Wahgi wish to emulate. The Phantom also "worships" his ancestors by [[LegacyImmortality taking up their mantle]], similarily to the Wahgi's ancestor worship. |
| 219 | * Music/JohnColtrane: There is an [[http://www.coltranechurch.org African American Church of St. John Coltrane]] |
| 220 | * In Rastafari, Emperor Haile Selassie I is the embodiment of God. By all accounts, he showed a great deal of patience with them, even after they obstructed his plane from landing in Jamaica. |
| 221 | * [[http://www.drabuzzi.com/elvis_the_divine This]] website holds up Music/ElvisPresley as a god. |
| 222 | * [[http://churchofspongebob.tripod.com The church of Spongebob Squarepants]] and [[http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org the church of Google]]. |
| 223 | * A variation shows up anywhere there's monumental architecture of forgotten origins: among countless other examples, the Aztecs held the long-abandoned city-state of Teotihuacan to have been built by the Gods; 19th-century white settlers often attributed Mississippian earthworks to biblical figures, a mythical race of giants, or even God himself; the classical Greeks believed Mycenaean fortifications were created by the cyclopes; and the construction of Stonehenge has been associated at various times with giants, druid sorcerers, Merlin, St. Patrick, and aliens. |
| 224 | * The church of Haruhi Suzumiya, more like a fan club [[http://haruhichurch.webs.com/ though.]] |
| 225 | * The US Department of Energy looked for ways to subvert and prevent this from happening at Yucca Mountain and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, as described [[http://www.damninteresting.com/this-place-is-not-a-place-of-honor/ here]], since the very last thing you want people to do with a nuclear waste storage facility is to mistake it for a place of worship... |
| 226 | ** Alternatively, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Interference_Task_Force#Thomas_Sebeok some have suggested trying to invoke this]], using a religion as a means of preserving knowledge of the dangers of such places. |
| 227 | * Ironically, ''WesternAnimation/ChipNDaleRescueRangers'', which did an entire episode warning about the dangers of cults, actually spawned [[https://medium.com/@thefandome/gadget-hackwrench-religion-or-how-a-fandom-reborn-into-a-cult-c66050342d64 a cult in Russia that worships Gadget]]... who (again, ironically) was the most ''against'' the cult to start with. |
| 228 | ** That cult also considers some other [[WrenchWench Wrench Wenches]] as reincarnations of The Goddess, including [[Series/{{Firefly}} Kaylee]] and [[Webcomic/{{Freefall}} Florence]]. |
| 229 | * Invoked by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who coined the term "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge Manhattanhenge]]", a twice-a-year phenomenon in New York City when the sun sets aligned with the grid street pattern of Manhattan. Tyson also claimed that the two instances each year tended to happen near or during Memorial Day and the UsefulNotes/MajorLeagueBaseball All-Star game, and [[http://www.amnh.org/our-research/hayden-planetarium/resources/manhattanhenge postulated]] that "[[RightForTheWrongReasons Future anthropologists might conclude that, via the Sun, the people who called themselves Americans worshiped War and Baseball]]." |
| 230 | |
| 231 | *** [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jediism#Legal_recognition And it's not for lack of trying]]... |
| 232 | * The Billiken was a fad toy from the early 1900s that is kept alive partly because of this trope. In its heyday it was as popular as the Teddy Bear (which came out shortly before) and was a [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff hit in Japan]] because it bears a strong resemblance to their Seven Lucky Gods that inspired it in the first place. Today Billiken statues can be seen in Japan, especially Osaka, and he is something of an informal folk god. He's also a the mascot of the University of St. Louis and a popular kitsch item in Alaska, lots of Inuit carvers produce Billikens. |
| 233 | ** He's also worshiped by the [[http://churchofgoodluck.com/ Church of Good Luck]]. |
| 234 | * Annie Christmas is a tall tale heroine who has gotten that treatment. She's a African American giantess who captains a keelboat. Most scholars believe she is one of the many "fakelore" characters created as Expys of Paul Bunyan, but that hasn't stopped some voodoo practitioners from believing she is a Loa. |
| 235 | * There have been actual groups who are dedicated to worshipping the Great Old Ones and the Outer Gods found in the Cthulhu Mythos, such as a Defictionalized Esoteric Order Of Dagon and the Cult Of Cthulhu. |
| 236 | * The Church of the [=SubGenius=] is a send-up of fundamental religions from Dallas, Texas that worships J.R. "Bob" Dobbs. It's a figurehead of the face of a smiling, pipe-smoking man. From one of their radio promos, the words of its founder, the Rev. Ivan Stang: |
| 237 | -->What the hell do you think you're doing? Dragging your butt through the day selling body and soul to a bunch of bland normals? Acting stupid so they'll think you're one of them? Tired of getting all the guilt...but none of the sex? |
| 238 | |
| 239 | -->There is a simple answer, dear friends. A glowing beacon of "Slack" amidst the turmoil and darkness. It's J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, the living Slack master and his church of the [=SubGenius=]. "Bob" brings a new destiny for the abnormal, for "Bob" comes to ''justify'' our sins, to unmask the Conspiracy, and to get us back the "Slack" they stole away. |
| 240 | |
| 241 | -->It's us versus them. Are you gonna fry in hell on Earth alongside the pink boys, or will you pull the wool over your own eyes and accept "Bob" into your minds? |
| 242 | |
| 243 | -->Repent! Quit your job! Slack off! And ''PRAISE "BOB"!!'' |
| 244 | |
| 245 | -->'''Voiceover:''' The Church of the [=SubGenius=]. Eternal salvation or triple your money back. |
| 246 | * [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dudeism Dudeism]], a religious and philosophical movement inspired by UsefulNotes/{{Taoism}} that worships [[Film/TheBigLebowski The Dude]] and promotes emulating his [[TheSlacker carefree slacker]] lifestyle. |
| 247 | * Downplayed, but a minority of Catholic clergy and laypeople advocate for the canonization of Saint Creator/JRRTolkien.[[note]] But to be fair, this is no different from the advocation of any individual deemed to meet the qualifications of canonization, regardless of whether that person is well known (like Tolkien) or was not at all famous before canonization; and Tolkien ''was'' a devout Catholic. [[/note]] |
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