'''Basic Trope''': [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Satan may be evil, but the Big Guy isn't any better.]]
* '''Straight''':
** TheLegionsOfHell are invading earth, but [[LightIsNotGood God and his angels]] don't seem to care about the collateral damage fighting them, leaving TheHero to try to save humanity caught between the armies.
** [[GodIsEvil Elysium the Creator]] enjoys her tyranny until [[SatanicArchetype Malucia]] [[LightIsNotGood the Light Star]] decided to act as TheStarscream, something which didn't go well. Many years later, they still locked in an EvilVersusEvil War, with AliceAndBob acting as the Heroes who will try and stop them before they destroy the world.
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Both Heaven and Hell are [[FateWorseThanDeath Fates Worse Than Death]].
** [[SatanicArchetype Malucia]] is burning down orphanages while [[GodIsEvil Elysium the Creator just ordered the angels]] [[ApocalypseHow to exterminate every last human]].
** WorldOfJerkass FromBadToWorse.
** God and Satan are both {{Complete Monster}}s
* '''Downplayed''':
** God and Satan both make all of humanity into their {{Cosmic Plaything}}s.
** Elysium the Creator and Malucia may be jerks, but they have [[EvenEvilHasStandards standards]].
** God and Satan are both jerks, but one of them is ALighterShadeOfBlack.
** GreyAndGrayMorality. Both God and Satan are deeply flawed beings who act the best they can.
* '''Justified''':
** CosmicHorrorStory, with God and Satan as both [[GodIsEvil evil]] or simply [[BlueAndOrangeMorality operating outside of normal human morality]].
** [[GodIsEvil Elysium the Creator is an evil tyrant]] and [[EvilVersusEvil Malucia is an ambitious rebel seeking to claim supremacy in her stead]].
** Humans have crossed the MoralEventHorizon, and God has decided "ScrewThisImOuttaHere", leaving humanity completely defenseless against the genuinely evil Satan.
** [[AboveGoodAndEvil Good and evil are just words anyway]] - the PowersThatBe [[invoked]][[TrueNeutral don't give a damn]].
** God and Satan are quite human in behaviour, and [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity with all that power, they're assholes]].
** God and Satan have a [[WithFriendsLikeThese quarrelsome and antagonistic friendship]].
* '''Inverted''':
** {{God|IsGood}} and {{Satan|IsGood}} both genuinely care about humanity, and [[GoodIsNotNice everything they do]] is ultimately in their best interests.
** [[GodIsGood Elysium the Creator]] and [[SatanIsGood Malucia]] are just buddies that care all about humanity.
** GodIsGood, SatanIsGood, but HumansAreTheRealMonsters. God and Satan are both convenient scapegoats to blame about human miseries, all while [[BitchInSheepsClothing humans portray themselves as the innocent victims, continuously slandering both sides of evil things they aren't thinking of.]]
* '''Subverted''':
** God or Satan has a change of heart, and later refuses to abandon humanity to the evils of the other.
** Both Elysium the Creator and Malucia decided to make a HeelFaceTurn and help humanity.
** Elysium and Malucia aren't gods at all; they're mortals who overthrew the truly benevolent queen of the gods, Faye.
* '''Double Subverted''':
** But then they just backstab the human race anyway.
** However Elysium the Creator and Malucia backstab them and are having a good laugh about it.
* '''Parodied''': Satan [[NewMediaAreEvil passes out free tickets]] [[RockMeAsmodeus to Metallica concerts]] while God [[NoHuggingNoKissing hands out]] [[SexIsEvil opal rings]].
* '''Zig Zagged''': God and Satan compete for who's EvilerThanThou, leaving the humans caught in the middle unsure of where to turn or what to do.
* '''Averted''': If a God and a Devil exist at all, one will be a staunch ally to mankind while the other a deadly enemy.
* '''Enforced''': "Hmm... having an almighty, benevolent God rule a world where demons regularly fight humans would just confuse the audience too much. Let's make Him or Her a [[JerkassGods Jerkass]] too!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "So LetMeGetThisStraight... You're saying that the Guys Upstairs ''AND'' Downstairs are out to get us?! [[OhCrap ...crap]]."
* '''Invoked''': "Hey [[ArchangelMichael Mike]], the humans' constant battle with Satan's gotten boring. Tell [[ArchangelGabriel Gabe]] to mess them up while [[PassThePopcorn I create some popcorn]] - those little buggers will totally ''flip''!"
* '''Exploited''': [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Elysium]] ''[[TwoAliasesOneCharacter is]]'' [[TwoAliasesOneCharacter Malucia]], with [[RunningBothSides all that implies]], and the apparent conflict between the two was engineered to keep the forces of Good and Evil busy, and mortals too afraid to act, while she works towards some hidden purpose.
* '''Defied''':
** "Hey, Mr. Up-In-The-Sky! We can't BOTH oppress humans! If you start [[BoltOfDivineRetribution blasting 'em]], [[SatanIsGood I'll just give 'em first aid kits]]!
** Malucia decided to talk some sense into Elysium the Creator into becoming a good ruler instead of acting as TheStarscream.
* '''Discussed''': "Demons torched a hospital, and all the angels did was take a piss in the flames. Hmmm... think I'll [[NayTheist quit my weekly Devotionals]]..."
* '''Conversed''': "{{God}} and {{Satan}} have been portrayed every which way in the media, so it's only natural that they'd both wind up evil in some works."
* '''Deconstructed''':
** TheHero realize that, since God ''AND'' Satan have it in for humanity, they have no greater power to turn to. [[CosmicHorrorStory This won't end well...]]
** God and Satan reveal to humanity that their pain and suffering for thousands of years was predestined, and sending all of them to hell was actually God's divine plan all along.
* '''Reconstructed''': But after days of LevelGrinding and SaveScumming, TheHero, and his/her RagtagBunchOfMisfits decide to take on [[OmnicidalNeutral both the forces of Heaven And Hell]]. [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu They win]], freeing humanity from their oppressors once and for all.\\
Since this is supposed to be a reconstruction: [[FallenHero The Hero]] then proceed to become ''just'' as bad as God and Satan had been, because it turns out that ''somebody'' has to do the jobs, and the nature of the job (particularly {{Human|sAreBastards}}ity) is such that anybody who holds it ''will'' be a jerk, eventually, or quit.
* '''Played For Laughs''':
** God and Satan both wander around annoying the other characters with their [[EvilIsPetty asinine behavior]].
** Elysium the Creator and Malucia are just jerks who pulls pranks on people and go so far as to trolling them.
* '''Played For Drama''': [[TheHero The Heroine]], wounded and hopelessly outnumbered by Satan's minions, heaves a sigh of relief when a squad of angels arrive. As the demons scatter, The Heroine rushes to thank her saviors. But then they draw their swords. The Heroine [[ScreamDiscretionShot begins to scream...]]
* '''Implied''': Satan is the BigBad and clearly evil, but God doesn't seem to help the protagonists out that much, while the angels that occasionally appear are GoodIsNotNice at ''best''.
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