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In the realm of space, the most basic aspects of a galaxy boils down to the surrounding matter within, these includes meteors, comets and most importantly, planets. The hall is a conglomerate of various celestial objects that roam around in various universes. Keep in mind that such counted in this house are the various planets, stars, satellites or moons, and space debris, including meteors and the occasional comets.

Earth

Earth, Divine Cosmic Epicenter (Terra, Terrestria, Gaia, Tellus, The Human World, The Globe, Sol III, The Third Rock From The Sun, Jasoom, The True Earth, Holy Terra)

• An Earth identical to the Real Life one unless noted otherwise.
• Symbol: A circle divided into quarters
• Alignment: True Neutral
• Portfolio: Real Life, Many Writers Making Earth Disproportionately Important In Stories, Often Based On Nigh-Improbable Scale Despite Seeming Irrelevance From Time to Time, Lays Way for Humanity And Their Accompanying Tropes, Odd Name Out in the Solar System
• Domains: Earth, Nature, Averageness, Specialness, Humans
• Sacred to: Over 90% of the Pantheon, especially Gaea and humanity in general
• Banned: Deities that desire to ruin/destroy its ecosystems and/or humanity, which is unfortunately quite a large group.
• Alternate versions: Holy Terra
• Earth is the third planet from the Sun/Sol, an almost 6 sextillion-ton rock. Currently, the planet is most known for being dominated by humans, although dinosaurs had quite a long reign before their extinction. It's mostly harmless, and as of the 21st century, the dominant species has barely left. Despite this, it's a Weirdness Magnet, a favorite of alien invaders/protectors and humans who usually have some importance. At least, when it's not made an Insignificant Little Blue Planet, but due to the trope it represents, this Earth is hardly revered as such aside from those who are unfamiliar with Earth being important in the first place.
• The planet has been personified as various beings, two of them being Geb and Gaea. Regardless of whatever personification it has, said personifications and their conditions are dependent on the overall health of Earth and its ecosystems. Those that dare to pollute or damage said ecosystems are banned from accessing this Earth, and Earth's personifications all hope that the planet's native humans are able to do good for its lands themselves. On a darker note, certain evidence has revealed this Earth could be the sleeping form of Unicron.
• The favorite spot of alien invaders, who often want their women, snacks, water or something else like conquest. Of course, there are aliens like the Doctor who want to protect it, an appreciated form of support given the increasing threat of aliens that oppose humanity. Special enmity is given to The Combine, ADVENT, and the Ur-Quan Kzer-Za who have all managed to successfully conquer Earth by themselves, as well as The Borg who managed to assimilate all of Earth once. Thankfully, they all see each other as rivals and have no intention of working together to take over this Earth together.
• Some just want to destroy the Earth, for both serious and casual reasons, if any particular reason at all. Majin Buu and Frieza succeeded until the Reset Button was pulled. There's also Marvin the Martian who wanted to detonate Earth because it obstructs his view of Venus, Galactus out of hunger, Brainiac by blowing up the Sun, plenty of Doctor Who aliens, and too many an Omnicidal Maniac to list. On top of keeping an eye out for all of those deities, special measures have been set up so it isn't destroyed by a Vogon Constructor Fleet for a new interstellar highway, or to be turned into a giant parking lot by aliens like Nitros Oxide.
  • Unfortunately for the planet, someone decided to make a list of reasons for more potential villains to destroy Earth. Regardless of discouragement against reading it, said list ends up in some alien's hands, though it hasn't led to aliens wanting to destroy Earth yet. For the sake of not stooping down to the Hall of Tyrannical Figures, the article is not explicitly banned to read.
• Beerus considers Earth valuable because it has the best food, but that's debatable. There are also aliens who view Earth as an entertaining reality show. Other important things about Earth is that it has the most Green Lanterns per planet/sector, as well as arriving Ultramen, being the center of the Federation due to humans' potential as ambassadors among other things. The VUX, having highly negative views of Earth and its humans, point out that all of these occurrences are just because of homo sapiens wanting to make themselves special. While some do acknowledge the point given by the bigoted aliens, others call the VUX out, knowing that their pride in their own beauty and their condescending views toward other alien species would lead them treating their own planet, known as Beta Luyten I, with just as much if not more bias than humanity does with Earth.
• The Grand United Alliances are not allowed to have any direct influence of the moral direction of the planet's citizens, to prevent more unnecessary fighting. Everyone agrees primarily since such attempts would only make their philosophies look weaker in others' eyes, believing that the superiority of their own ways can be proven by other means. However, there's a recurring activity in the Pantheon where optimistic and cynical deities bet on how future events turn out on their own, whether for the better or worse. No one's keeping track on how often bets toward the optimistic side or the cynical side win out as far as we know, but perhaps that's for the better.
• Most of us believe that Earth is special because it isn't being a Planet of Hats, though some aliens may not view humanity that way. Plenty of aliens and even some humans argue that the reason we don't see ourselves as such is that we simply know enough about ourselves to see ourselves as diverse. What that hat is can be argued upon for a quite a long time, with some groups having more positive perspectives of Earth's hat than others. Nyarko sees Earth's hat as its entertainment media that we use everyday, and the Incubators see our emotional temperance as a hat, which is why they seek to recruit magical girls on Earth in particular. Others see its hat as The Power of Friendship. There's also the United Powers League that chose to make Earth a more prominent Planet of Hats for the sake of unity and prevention of wars and similar conflicts, though they had to kill off around four hundred million dissenters to do so.
• The DC Multiverse regards Earth (specifically Earth 0/the "main" universe) as its center. The exact opposite of Earth 0 is Earth 33, supposedly Real Life. Linkara is quick to mock this given "the real world" was destroyed by the Anti-Monitor once and nobody noticed. Given that more and more deities are finding their way into the Pantheon, there's probably some explanation through use of the Timey-Wimey Ball on how such an event got reversed. Or maybe it isn't, and the Pantheon is being run by aliens discovering what was left of us.
• Vash is interested in this planet having been native to a designated colony planet known as Gunsmoke. This Earth has also gained the curiosity of deities like those originating from Cowboy Bebop or WALL•E and EVE who are more familiar with a ruined and ravaged Earth that would be abandoned by their counterparts of humanity. Speaking of the latter, Buy N' Large is no longer allowed on that Earth since the consumerism it brought was responsible for the ruination of its Earth. Other deities related to the House of Commerce are also similarly restricted or put under tight regulations for similar reasons.
• Various reasons have been given for why Earth is so important for the universe, ranging from being the birthplace of the Life Entity, housing the Greatest Treasure in the Universe, or being a supercomputer searching for the Ultimate Question, but the real reason is because the writers live on Earth, so they all just make it the most important because of Creator Provincialism.

The Far, Far Range

The Far, Far Range, Divine Planet Relevant For Only One Product

Left (from bottom to top): The Ranch, The Dry Reef, The Indigo Quarry, The Moss Blanket, The Ancient Ruins

Right: The Glass Desert

• Description: A colorful planet with vast seas of slime and various environments, interesting landmarks, and slimes. Humans can breathe in its atmosphere with little to no assistance.
• Symbol: A smiling Pink Slime
• Theme Songs: Ranch Theme, Dry Reef Theme, Indigo Quarry Theme, Moss Blanket Theme, Ancient Ruins Theme, Glass Desert Theme
• Alignment: Chaotic Neutral, leaning towards Neutral Good for competent and caring Ranchers (Areas that currently have a Tarr outbreak are Chaotic Evil)
• Portfolio: Filled With A Variety Of Slimes, Being Desired Only For Slime Plorts, The Whole Sea Being Made Of Slime You Can't Swim In, Containing The Indigo Quarry, Having Ancient Ruins, Feline Slimes in the Moss Blanket and The Wilds, Holding The Very Remote Glass Desert, Having Chickens And Roosters But With Different Names, Every Slime Consuming Two Different Plort Types Becoming Tarrs, Full Of Unusual Fruits & Veggies With Unique Properties, Tarr Being Harder To Kill And More Feral Slimes At Night
• Domains: Slimes, Wilderness, Nature, Exports, Ranching, Exploration
• Distance from Earth: Approximately 1000 light-years
• Sacred To: Beatrix LeBeau
• Source of Interest to: The House of Nature (excluding the Hall of Electricity), most opportunistic deities of the House of Commerce, the artillery-obsessed deities of the House of Military and Warfare, the House of Craft, deities well known for their Greed
• Unholy To: The Cuccos and all other chicken-related deities
• Banned: Mr. Burns, Hedorah, Hexxus, GUAE Trollkaiger
• When Beatrix was ascended into the Pantheon, it was suggested that the Far, Far Range she was employed to work in could be brought into the Pantheon by many opportunistic deities. It would be a far better alternative to having slimes appear in random places in the Pantheon, and make it so there would be a consistent source of plorts. It didn't take long for many deities to try heading into the Far, Far Range once it was ascended for One-Product Planet, given that the only reason deities wanted to ascend it was for the versatile and useful plorts that were produced from feeding slimes. Unfortunately, as indicated in its name, it was located pretty far from the Pantheon, even in comparison to the other planets in the Pantheon, though Beatrix has a teleporter to get from there to the Pantheon whenever she wants to.
• Soon after the Far, Far Range was integrated into the Pantheon, slimes would no longer produce plorts outside of the Far, Far Range's atmosphere, as it was in Beatrix's home universe. Now the planet holds many willing to become Slime Ranchers like Beatrix to obtain plorts, though many found the task of feeding and managing slimes to get plorts to be surprisingly difficult, showing how dedicated Beatrix was to the job. Additionally, many deities would have troublesome memories of falling into the Slime Sea and drowning, even for those who were good swimmers, since they would all instantly sink in the slime that the Slime Sea was made of.
• Mr. Burns, who doesn't like nature in general, as well as Hexxus and Hedorah, both known for being destructive towards nature and being opposed by it in general, are kept out of the Far, Far Range for the sake of its slimes. Due to how valuable plorts are, there are many deities aside from The Nature Preservers and like-minded deities that will gladly enforce their ban from the place.
• Some deities have tried their hand at slime ranching and didn't handle many of the slimes too well. Poorly kept Slimes, especially the more valuable ones, can cause a lot more havoc should they be brought to an agitated state. From general aggressive behavior to more frequent explosions, frequent teleporting, and even tornadoes, it's recommended to be highly dedicated to the work if you don't want to get knocked out by agitated slimes. Ed, Edd, and Eddy had tried to capture their own slimes in order to make profits from their plorts, but the slimes they capture only cause a big mess around their temple, and most of the money they make from selling plorts ends up being spent on repairs. However, given the popularity of her job, other deities are still trying their best to get profits from slime ranching.
• If a regular slime consumes a plort from a different variant of slime in the Far, Far Range, it will become a Largo Slime with the properties and diet of the two slimes, and will produce both of the related slimes' plorts when fed. But upon a Largo eating a plort of a different slime to its base components, it will become a deadly Tarr that will attack any living being nearby. The GUAE Trollkaiger have been banned from the Far, Far Range since they would intentionally create Tarr to sabotage Beatrix and other potential ranchers.
  • One of the few slimes not vulnerable to Tarr are giant Gordo Slimes, which can be fed their favorite food in order to make them explode into many smaller slimes. Beatrix can also use Gordo Snares to attract more of these slimes, and with a Gilded Ginger she can even attract Gold Gordos, which always means money galore for Beatrix.
• Notable areas include the Ranch which is also Beatrix's temple, and its extensions (which include a laboratory), where she holds corrals of slimes to feed them and obtain plorts. Much of her equipment is from 7Zee, her employers, giving her a decent advantage over other potential rivals for the time being. She also gets requests from mortal clients that ask for plorts and sometimes things that are not plorts. Nearby is The Dry Reef, a former coral reef that has become home to primarily the most common slime variants.
• Considering how Hen-Hens and Roostros are just chickens but exclusive to the Far, Far Range, and food for a majority of slimes, including the common Pink Slime, the planet is practically a Death World for chicken or rooster deities in the Pantheon, with hungry slimes popping up practically everywhere, and some being able to sneak up on them or grab them from afar. Some of the vegetarian slimes also have abilities that can be dangerous for chicken deities to hang around near.
• The Pink Slimes are the most common type of Slime to appear, and by extension, their plorts are the most mundanely useful, being the Green Rocks equivalent of plorts, and can be used to produce food, cleaning products, tools, and all sorts of non-specialized utilities. Additionally, Pink Slimes are the easiest to take care of due to lacking many dangerous abilities (aside from being able to turn into Tarr easily) and being able to eat both veggies and meat. Same applies with all of their Largo variants. Pink Slimes are actually popular with the House of Family due to the fact that Pink Slimes are just that friendly. It helps that it won't mistake children deities for food, save any chickens or other avians.
• The Rock Slimes found within the Far, Far Range are also commonly appearing slimes, though not to the extent of Pink Slimes, and prefer rocky areas, especially the Indigo Quarry. Despite how rough dealing with one can be, their plorts are highly desired for enabling the creation of "blue metal", which is both stronger than titanium and lighter than plastic. The House of Machinery and Technology has been itching to utilize this "blue metal" as much as possible given its versatility, and Spike just find the Rock Plorts delicious.
• Tabby Slimes are highly popular pets for deities to take as pets, although the fact that they only eat meat makes them a bit harder to take care of. They also seem to prefer meat raw or live like the Henhens they normally eat. They also like to snatch small objects, which can be problematic if it's a Largo snatching another plort.
  • Their plorts are used to enhance physical abilities, making these sort of like steroids. Not only are they desirable for soldiers that could utilize the boost, but the Scout decided to use up a bunch of them at once to utterly dominate a physical sports tournament, although the reason he wasn't called out for cheating was that spectators and judges were laughing at the uncontrollable butt-wiggles he was constantly doing as a side effect of the Tabby Plorts.
• Phosphor Slimes can be spotted just about anywhere during the night, becoming neat and friendly bioluminescent slimes that could even make wandering the house of Mentalism more pleasant. However, they will disappear if exposed to sunlight, so they're only found at night. Their plorts have been threatening to put many electric companies out of business since as a Fantastic Light Source they can be used to make bulbs that can produce light without any power for a very long time, which can greatly cut down one's electric bill and improve eco-friendliness at the same time. Also you can just use the plorts to rub it like a gel on stuff to make things glow for the Rule of Cool.
  • Phosphor Slimes are also popular slimes to keep in the House of Vampires. More childish deities like the Scarlet sisters find them fun to keep around, but the more pragmatic vampires use Phosphor Slimes as the sunlight-equivalent to a Canary in a Coal Mine when it comes to distinguishing harmless artificial light and dangerous sunlight. If a Phosphor Slime is brought into a lit area and dissipates, vampires will know the area is unsafe for them as well.
• The Moss Blanket is a jungle-like island known for being home to Boom Slimes and more importantly, Honey Slimes. There are also some areas that are home to Hunter Slimes, but some of these slimes will be feral and attack almost all deities in sight until they are fed something, and turn friendly once they are fed. There's also the Indigo Quarry that was once the location of a mining project for all the rare minerals found within it. However, since these minerals would all dissipate outside the Far, Far Range's atmosphere, they were considered not worth obtaining due to that and the danger of dealing with its slimes, especially the Crystal and Rad Slimes.
• Honey Slimes like to wander in the Moss Blanket and their plorts attract other slimes to their location, which decently increases the risks of Tarr outbreaks. However, the plorts are also highly desired by the House of Food since they make for fantastic sweeteners, and some chefs are trying to use honey plorts for fitting recipes. Both Lemres and Stocking among other sweet tooths in the Pantheon have nearly been driven insane by some of the new desserts made with Honey Plorts.
  • Pooh does enjoy how extremely sweet it is but he has noted that it just isn't the same as actual honey, though he thinks they could go together well. Pooh describes it as more of a gel-like substance that's overloaded with natural sugars.
• Boom Slimes are very easy to explain. They explode. While Beatrix doesn't really want to export all of these Boom Plorts since it'll inevitably get in the hands of many within the House of Military and Warfare, it'd be a waste to leave Boom Plorts all alone. The Hall of Explosions is practically all over the explosive potential of the Boom Plorts, and one can count the deities that DON'T have an interest in them with one hand. Kira who finds their purpose unnecessary to him, Terry Crews who could just spontaneously make explosions, and Wheeljack and John Sheridan who don't want to create more explosions.
  • The Corpus has been at odds about utilizing the likes of these plorts along with the Rad Plorts, both popular buys in the House of War, though it would mean making big and risky changes for the purposes of not only manufacturing new technology through the plorts used to do so, but perhaps training more potential ranchers to take advantage of the very young slime ranching industry.
• Puddle Slimes, which are becoming common in the House of Water and Moisture, simply produce Puddle Plorts without any need of food, just a body of water. Just don't hoard them since they're too shy to produce plorts when in large groups. All Puddle Plorts do is get used to create a special compound called "H2Ohhhhh" which many members of the House of Royalty claim to be completely superior over regular water, for some reason. Beatrix has attempted to convince some of them that Puddle Plorts aren't that valuable, but they insist on paying far more than normal market value for Puddle Plorts.
• Rad Slimes are living sources of nuclear energy that appear in the Indigo Quarry, primarily. Constantly emitting radiation, these slimes can be dangerous to stay near due to all the risks from radiation exposure. Their Rad Plorts are highly valuable, on the other hand, for making "plortonium" that further dashes the hopes of electric companies in the Pantheon, producing constant energy that fulfill energy needs that Phosphor Plorts can't fill. Blight also wants to utilize and understand the potential of the Rad Plorts for his personal goals. The House of Science wants to use the Rad Plorts to advance nuclear technology and create more efficient power generators, and the House of War just wants more nukes.
• Hunter Slimes are known for being a less domesticated variant of Tabby Slimes, and should they get agitated they will turn feral and attack deities in the Pantheon until they are fed. These carnivorous slimes also produce plorts can grant Invisibility straight up, which has gained the interest of The Spy and Sanji who are both interested in utilizing the Hunter Plorts to further their stealthiness. ( Sanji does have a Raid Suit that grants invisibility, but he does not like to wear it often for personal reasons.) Hunter Plorts are generally desired by members of the House of Crime, so the House of Commerce does track down the transactions of Hunter Plorts.
• Crystal Slimes are troublesome to take care of since they form hot crystal spikes wherever they bounce around, and they're a pain to literally handle as expected from being a variant of Rock Slimes. Sableye also enjoys nabbing Crystal Plorts for a neat snack. While the transparent metals that Crystal Plorts can be used to make are often used by the House of Technology, the House of Craft has been experimenting with it for new architecture ideas, and deities from the House of Magic prefer to use it in their raw plort forms.
• Quantum Slimes are reputable for creating quantum copies of themselves that they can freely swap positions with, and their Plorts are rumored to have similar properties. They're found in the Ancient Ruins of the Far, Far Range, which also contains a portal to the Glass Desert. The Pantheon is conflicted on whether the Pantheon can accept Quantum Plorts as exports, since it would be an interest of the House of Time and Space, but eventually, there's bound to be some ambitious Mad Scientist who will certainly try reality-warping with it.
  • Being quite the unusual scientist he's known to be, Cave Johnson is more interested in the Phase Lemons that Quantum Slimes love to consume, for the sake of making combustible and reality-shifting lemons.
• The Glass Desert can be pretty nasty to hang around in due to risk of falling into endless sinking sand, slimes with dangerous abilities, and the periodic storm of fireballs. However, due to Beatrix's actions within the place there are lush sites of nature resulting from being treated with ancient water, which has intrigued many within the Hall of Water and Moisture due to apparently being unique from normal water, and more so than that of Puddle Plorts.
  • At the end of the Glass Desert is a warp station with an inactivated portal, that would have been used by the Ranch's previous owner, Hobson Twiligers, to travel into new frontiers of space, had he not decided to turn back and settle down with his Love Interest Thora West.
• Mosaic Slimes are rather peculiar for their ability to create solar glints that can create explosions when landing on the ground, and them along with their plorts have potential to create local solar anomalies, which naturally made it a source of interest for the House of War, but the House of Craft has tried to make pretty decorations with them, and Rarity has been attempted to make something fashionable with the Mosaic Plorts.
• Dervish Slimes have the power to create minor wind gusts and ride dust devils, and can cause chaos through wind storms should they be agitated. Often found in the House of Wind and Air, their Dervish Plorts can produce a limited amount of wind energy that can be used for whatever machines rely on it.
• Tangle Slimes can be frightening in spite of what their appearance portrays. If it sees a chicken, it will use vines to snatch it from the ground in order to eat it. While popular in the House of Plants, deities that can't afford to feed them meat will end up suffering through all the pollen they produce when agitated. Poison Ivy is not one of them and is continually trying to understand the biology of Tangle Slimes in order to create something better out of them. Also finds them to be adorable meat-eating plant slimes.
• Fire Slimes are the opposing counterpart to Puddle Slimes, being much more high-maintentance due to their reliance on ash to produce plorts, and being living fire. Their plorts can let you spend almost nothing for the monthly heat bill, and are beloved to Hestia for their ability to easily provide warmth for even those in the coldest areas. Ragnaros also decorates his temple with him and sometimes relaxes in a great pit of fire while covered in Fire Slimes. Anyone who tries to point out the oddness in this behavior will be IMMEDIATELY INCINERATED by Ragnaros.
  • At this point, it should be understandable how plorts like these have the potential to create a technological revolution, one that ends up being eco-friendly by both their nature of collection and lowering the importance of older power sources like coal and gas, to the chagrin of more stubborn industries.
• Then there are Lucky Slimes and Gold Slimes that can suddenly pop up anywhere, and the more greedier deities always have some food ready if they spot one of these. The Lucky Slimes will always give out money should a deity feed them, so even those who care little for gold greatly covet them if their main shtick is Greed. The Gold Slimes will drop Gold Plorts if hit with food, which the Gold Slimes do not really appreciate, so they'll always slide away from any deity they meet, with the exception of their favorite food, the Gilded Ginger, which they will eat and then give out multiple Gold Plorts in exchange. Regardless of whether how they intend to obtain the super rare plorts, plenty of gold-hunting deities are out for them, whether the Gold Slimes like them or not.
• On top of having clients in the Pantheon, Beatrix regularly visits a remote location on the Far, Far Range called The Wilds, to get Saber Plorts from Saber Largo slimes, believed to be ancestors of the Tabby and Hunter Slimes, with their base form having gone extinct. There are plenty of deities trying to bring back the Saber Slime back to life, but John Hammond doesn't see anything good coming from the effort anymore.
• Sometimes, Beatrix heads off to an even more secluded area called the Nimble Valley where Quicksilver Slimes zoom about, and Beatrix, currently the only Rancher with proper access to it, gets Quicksilver Plorts to there only to give them all to a mortal who owns the place, Mochi Miles. While the effects of Quicksilver Plorts are unknown to the Pantheon, Quick Man is willing to change that, suspecting that they may boost his agility and speed even more. The Flash has also been keeping watch to make sure his enemies don't try to infiltrate the Nimble Valley to snatch some for themselves.
• There are Party Gordo Slimes that often appear in specific areas in the Far, Far Range every Friday to Sunday. Mysteriously, party music is emitted from them. They're just Pink Gordo Slimes wearing special party hat and sunglasses. On popular request, Beatrix granted the House of Celebration a special Gordo Snare to attract a Party Gordo for the House's members to keep around. They like to call that particular Party Gordo "Jelly Jesse" in honor of it.

Mars

Mars, Divine Seat of Formerly Lush Worlds (The Red Planet, Sol IV, The Fourth Rock From the Sun, Barsoom, Garobus, Ma'aleca'andra)

• Description: A red, cold desert planet about half the size of Earth
• Symbol: A red male symbol
• Theme Song: Mars, The Bringer of War by Gustav Holst
• Alignment: True Neutral
• Portfolio: Science Fiction magnet, Science Marches On, Formerly Wet Planet That Became One Big Desert, Having Terrain That Resemble Human Faces
• Moons: Phobos and Deimos
• Domains: Ice, Deserts, Dust/Rust, Science Fiction, Potential Extraterrestials, Astronomy
• Sacred to: Many Martian deities and collectives in the Pantheon, especially Marvin the Martian, The Martians (Mars Attacks), J'onn J'onnz, Amy Wong, Ares, Abraham Lincoln, John Carter, Rei Hino/Sailor Mars, Douglas Quaid, The Guardians, Mars People
• Unholy to: The Doom Slayer
• Banned entry: Zim, Ghidorah, The Illusive Man
• Over 200 million kilometers from the Sun lies the planet Mars. About half the size of Earth, today Mars is a desert colder than Antarctica. But in the past, evidence suggested that eons ago Mars had oceans, and perhaps some sort of life by extent. However, later studies in the future would prove that it never did have any significant lifeforms, let alone intelligent species like humans. But by the time came to pass, many creators were already captivated by the idea of Mars being a former world of life similar to Earth. How that lively planet became the barren red planet we know today is up to many, many interpretations. The Curiosity rover of NASA has also since discovered organic compounds on Earth that also hint to having been able to hold life, even if it was primitive life.
• Named after Mars, the Roman God of war. The Ares in the Pantheon, who also goes by Mars sometimes, is obviously fond of the place, and one of his incarnations had a base there once. The name comes from how Mars is red, the color of blood and violence. Given the various moralities of the Martians who originate from the planets, there certainly is some form of hostile conflict between all the Martians clashing with each other between who deserves more dominion over the planet. With all the good, evil, and neutral denizens of Mars with different relationships with Earth, the reputation of Mars is overall contestable. Many trying to criticize the conflict are often hit with the rebuttal that Earth has similar problems already.
• Despite the Viking probes disproving the existence of civilized life on Mars, science-fiction had already taken the idea and made it the most likely place aliens come from. It didn't help that Venus was already disproved to be capable of civilized life given its thick and toxic atmosphere. Marvin the Martian, the Martians, the Mars People, J'onn J'onnz, and many other Martian deities all call it home. Though depending on who you ask, the planet is called Barsoom or Ma'aleca'andra by the natives. As for how said Martians claimed to have prospered here before Mars became the way it was, there are some who don't find the conditions on Mars besides its lack of life too bad, and others who fared much better with Mars before. Regardless, the prospect of somehow restoring the planet to a state that it could have harbored much life is still appealing.
• Often Martians and the people of Earth are rivals or enemies, such as Marvin's people, the Martians from Mars Attacks, the Mars People of Metal Slug, and classically their Victorian-era invasion. Fortunately, the Good-aligned Martians are there to hinder any attempts from the invasive Martians in the Pantheon. Tension is never low with the benevolent, friendly, and human-friendly Martians getting into conflict with the invasive, malicious, and human-unfriendly Martians that some would call "conqueror-wannabes". Despite the military and aggression advantage of the invader Martians, it's offset by the fact that they're ultimately too selfish to truly cooperate together despite how proper teamwork could let them overtake their enemies. It helps little that the Laughably Evil Martians' methods and composure conflict with the more serious Martian villains.
• Why is it a cold desert with a thin atmosphere? Most believe that it's because it cooled internally and lost the same magnetosphere that prevents the Earth from being a barren wasteland, due to being smaller. The Martian Manhutner has stated the real reason is because his psychopath of a brother exterminated the population in a psychic plague. Zim believes the Martians died off turning it into a Planet Spaceship just because it was cool, as they did with Mercury. Ghidorah was also responsible for destroying Martian civilization in his universe, though some claim that it was Venus that was wrecked by Ghidorah. Deities may not come to a consensus, but it's agreed that Ghidorah should be kept out regardless. The Doctor has stated that there was a native race known as the Ice Warriors, who survived the cataclysm though they won't be active for some time.
• According to the Tenno, there used to be a civilization that lived on Mars that worshiped the Orokin as deities, completely oblivious to their true nature. Then the Grineer came and decided to have a nice little takeover. Now they rule most of Mars in their universe, the rest belonging to the Corpus or the Infested who engage in many conflicts with each other. The Grineer desire to take over this Mars as well, but there's way more resistance willing to swiftly deal with any of their invasions. And according to The God-Emperor of Mankind, by the 41st millennium, the Adeptus Mechanicus will be found there, and Mag'ladroth being sealed within. It's unknown how this might affect the future where the Martian Manhunter has merged with the planet.
• The Guardians fondly remember Mars as the place where humanity first met the Traveler, who proceeded to help usher in a golden age for them... at least until it sacrificed itself to protect them against its Arch-Enemy, the Darkness. The Vex and the Eliksni meanwhile used to have a presence here, but the Red Legion's Invasion and terrible strategic moves from a Servitor for the respective factions contributed to their downfall in Mars. One of Oryx's sons, Nokris, and the Worm God, Xul, tried invading Mars but were frozen by the Warmind, Rasputin. When brought up, he sneers at the mention of Xul and doesn't even bother acknowledging Nokris' existence.
• Abraham Lincoln was King of Mars for some time. After he died, Grob Gob Glob Grod took the position, and after he was put out of condition, the Mars that the Adventure Time deities were familiar found a more apt ruler in the humbled and redeemed Magic Man, now known as King Man. Sailor Mars serves as the guardian of the planet, and John Carter is well respected for earning the title of "Warlord of Mars". Douglas Quaid also saved the planet from Cohaggen's tyrannical rule by giving it air, though there's the question of how either managed to deal with Mars' thin atmosphere in the first place if they ever did. Johnny Rico is also a respected figure for the denizens of Mars (at least to the non-invasive ones) for defending the planet from an invasion of Bugs by leading a band of Martian soldiers to deal with them and a human politician named Amy Snapp who wanted to see the planet destroyed for their citizens' secessionist movement. While Rico realizes that he's a welcomed soldier there, the experience is something that he'd prefer not to talk much about, though he's willing to help with friendly Martians and colonies there.
• Zim is banned from ever visiting Mars again since when he hijacked the Planet Spaceship, he ended up damaging the planet and flung it out of the solar system. The Doomslayer isn't really fond of Mars due to the forces of Hell having opened up a portal to Hell on one of its moons once. He's also rather unpopular with deities representing Mars due to him shooting a hole in it with the BFG-10000 later on. Many of Mars' inhabitants disapproved of his actions but they did understand that it was a necessary action for defeating Hell's forces, and have taken extra caution to ensure that any of the Doomslayer's enemies don't try to take Mars again to prevent similar occurrences. The same applies to Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos, since Doomslayer has investigated them for signs of demonic activity there.
• Despite how barren the world is, human colonists want to go to it anyway and one day Terraform it to their liking. A few have already done it, and by the 30th century, the Wong family had owned the western hemisphere of their Mars, with Amy Wong being a Chinese Martian. However, some criticize them for how harshly the native Martians are treated, and put into small designated areas meant for them, similar to how America dealt with their Native Americans. Mikazuki Augus and Orga Itsuka recall how their Mars was also colonized by Earth after the disastrous Calamity War occurred on Earth. Calvin and Hobbes have also considered the option of immigrating there should Earth get too polluted and Mars becomes inhabitable. There used to be the idea of having The Spring Sprite somehow grant life to Mars as she does in her world, but unfortunately, healing different planets is not as simple as it seems. Also, sending cockroaches to Mars is also considered to be a terrible idea, given the The Terraformars' presence in the Pantheon.
• Commander Shepard has fond opinions of Mars, since Mars was one of the main reasons humans in his universe became so prevalent in the galaxy among other alien races in the first place. In particular, the European Space Agency had discovered a large cache of alien technology left over by the Protheans. From there, humanity developed its way into growing past their own solar system to become a well known race among the galaxy with their newfound technology, including FTL Drives. While there isn't such a cache on this Mars for The Illusive Man nor his organization Cerberus to take, he and his organization are also not allowed on Mars anyway given that The Illusive Man would not get along with the Martians.
• Said that men are from here, and women from Venus due to Greek symbols of those planets being to compare the two genders. May be in short supply of women and chocolate. Soap◊ is also at high demand for those spending time on Mars. There are supposedly faces on Mars, and pyramids among all the craters, which have some individuals with more wild minds doubting that such structures could be natural. Doctor Who himself has also warned visitors about the dangers of Mars' pyramids, and more importantly, to beware the water on Mars, since The Flood from his world came from a water-borne virus that originated on Mars.
• It's not something that many deities want to talk about, but Santa Claus was once taken to Mars to give presents to Martian children. Somehow, this odd event was misinterpreted as Santa conquering Mars, although the non-evil Martian deities are on good terms with Santa, and are grateful that he's not excluding Mars from the Christmas spirit. Santa on his part was ok with the occurrences there and has moved on from all that trouble, giving presents to nice Martian children as with everyone else. The Satellite of Love Crew have been known to be the ones who are most likely to explain the event to outsiders while cursing some alien named Dropo.

Mercury

Mercury, Divine Industrialized Inner Planet (Sol I)

• Description: Naturally a cratered, sun-drenched planet
• Symbol: A stylized caduceus
• Theme Song: Its segment from Gustav Holst's Planets Suite
• Alignment: True Neutral
• Portfolio: Was Initially Thought To Be A Tidally Locked Planet, Single-Biome Planet, Resource Sink In Speculative Fiction, Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
• Domains: Space, Craters, Extreme Temperatures, Solar Radiation, Iron, Potential Resources
• Related bodies: The Sun (star it orbits), Venus, Earth, Mars, Uranus (fellow solar planets), Pluto (another part of the same star system)
• Namesakes: The Greco-Roman deity Mercury/Hermes
• Sacred to: Sailor Mercury, Dib Membrane, The Vex, the Grineer, the Imperium of Mankind
• Unholy to: Invader Zim
• The first planet from the Sun is also the smallest, at least after Pluto got demoted. Smaller than even two moons, Mercury is similar to the Moon in being an airless, scarred world covered in craters. Because of the lack of an atmosphere and a very slow rotation Mercury can reach lead-melting temperatures during the day and near nitrogen-condensation temperatures during the night. It's got an oversized iron core, leading some scientists to believe it used to be bigger but a massive impact blew off much of the rock. Mercury is one of the harder planets to spot from Earth, it's almost always seen low in the sky.
• Mercury has a bit of a reputation of being "boring" as a planet, possessing neither the insane environment of Venus nor the speculation and romanticism of Mars. However it was still able to find a niche for itself in the Trope Pantheon and complete the collection of Sol's inner planets thanks to one trope: Industrialized Mercury. Because of the proximity to the Sun and being so metal rich, plus there being more attractive targets for terraforming, it has potential for mining and industry. There are also reports of radioactive materials, according to the New Alliance of Free Stars
• Sometimes mistaken for mercury the element and Mercury the deity. There's no mercury metal there in case anyone is wondering, plus the element was originally called quicksilver or hydrargyrum. The planet was named after the deity due to having the shortest/fastest orbit. Within the Trope Pantheon its official guardian is Ami Mizuno, also fittingly known as Sailor Mercury. As Hermes was the original namesake, he has helped her out in protecting the planet. The planet is also the namesake for a Mercurial Base trope.
• Annoys Isaac Newton because its orbit didn't match his theories on gravity. For some time people assumed there must've been an even closer planet, Vulcan, that explained this away. Vulcan was eventually disproved, and the irregularities were explained by Albert Einstein's theories on relativity and space-time. It was also assumed to be tidally locked, until it was eventually revealed to rotate... just so slowly that 3 rotations are completed in 2 orbits/~176 days.
• Ownership of Mercury's minership rights is a heated one between the Imperium of Mankind and the Grineer. The latter don't give a damn about what other species think but will still claim that they were there first, and the Imperium harvesting mineral riches "came later". As expected, they disagree with violence. Commander Shepherd believes neither has the rightful claim as he clearly remembers the Alliance uses it as a hub for solar energy production.
• Dib Membrane was angry that his own claim wasn't recognized since as far as he's concerned, he did the best with Mercury. Before turning their own planet into a spaceship the Martians used Mercury as a beta, which came in handy when Zim hijacked Mars to use as a Planet Spaceship. Dib piloted Mercury in an epic planetary dogfight with Zim, ultimately thwarting his plan to squish humanity with Mars and flinging Mars out of the solar system. He hoped to be recognized for this but no-one did, which is the story of his life to be honest.
• Mercury isn't as much a victim of destruction as the Moon, but it doesn't go unmolested. Some races on the better end of the Kardashev Scale will harvest the entire planet to create a Dyson Sphere or Dyson Swarm. After all, it's not like anyone lives there so who's going to complain? Because of this, spare "virgin Mercurys" from other universes are brought over as a replacement. The Vex have hollowed their one out, and transformed it into a giant supercomputer that houses the Infinite Forest.
• The Spore Player Race boasts that they can successfully terraform Mercury into a T3 planet, officially for wanting to get as much Spice from the solar system as possible but likely just as a flex to prove all the naysayers wrong. Many deities don't think is a brag, but rather a waste of money compared to terraforming Venus and Mars. Said Player Character was irked by this and pointed to the 853rd century as proof it could be done. Earth-691 beat them to it as one of the original Guardians of the Galaxy is a fiery superheroine called Nikki, and she comes from Mercury.
• The decision to terraform Mercury may not be as stupid as it seemed at first glance due to sources that yes, there are versions of the planet that are habitable. Of note, they include:
  • Jack Flash's race according to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Few were surprised because the setting has been called by some "the Trope Pantheon before there was a Trope Pantheon". Jack Flash is a superhero who snuck away on a rocket and currently lives in Cornwall. Due to his resemblance to Mercury the deity, it's suspected Mercury (again, the deity) has made some versions of the planet habitable as a flex.
  • Mercurians and Treens according to Scarlet Traces. Well, mainly the Mercurians; the Treens are actually native to Venus but some migrated to the first rock from the Sun. In hindsight it shouldn't be a shock as the solar system of Dan Dare is teaming with life.
  • Clark Ashton Smith documents that there are two different races on Mercury; the hostile surface is ruled by savage, tribal Lizard Folk known to sacrifice people. Hiding from the sun underground are the Oumnis, Space Elves who would prefer to hide from humanity. Many humans would prefer if they did, as they reportedly haughty and insufferable.
  • Not as well documented are universes where there are brutish giants ruled over by a misandrist queen who Wonder Woman deposed and A primitive race of crab-like beings with ammonia-based biochemistry who live on the dark side of the planet. Like with Dan Dare, this could just be because most of the solar system is habitable in those universes.
• The Futurama universe takes a lot more lax response to Mercury; they didn't really terraform it outside of being able to ride in a hovercar, but they do have a gas station. Unfortunately it's the only one on the planet. Dante Aligheri believes Mercury is Serious Business, however; his journey into Paradiso had him witness it be home to the souls of righteous leaders and rulers, albeit too focused on politics to reach the higher reaches of Heaven.

Neptune (Futurama)

Neptune, Divine Gas Giant Treated Like It Has A Solid Surface

Neptune as it appears in the setting of Futurama

True color image of the planet Neptune as taken by Voyager 2 during its flyby of the planet in 1989...aka what it actually looks like

• Description
  • In Futurama: A bluish planet with an Arctic tundra and solid ground, harsh but livable
  • In real life: A bluish "ice giant" (gas giant with a large icy interior) with storms raging up to twice the speed of sound^note so not livable
• Symbol: Robot Santa's hat over a trident
• Alignment: True Neutral for most of the planet; Lawful Evil for its polar region
• Portfolio: Strolling on Jupiter, Home To Robot Santa's Workshop And The Neptunians, Grim Up North IN SPACE!!
• Domains: Tundras, Santa Claus, Neptunian aliens, Astronomical Bodies, Yetis
• Sacred to: Robot Santa Claus, Michiru Kaioh/Sailor Neptune
• Unholy to: Anyone Robot Santa declares naughty (so almost everyone here and almost everyone else) (explicit to the Arctic region)
• Barred entry: The Iris, Majin Buu
• The eighth planet in the Sol System is Neptune, discovered by Earthlings in the 1840s. Who exactly discovered it is debated, and beforehand it was predicted due to how the orbit of Uranus^note so Urectum behaved. A cool, bluish planet, it is home to the Neptunians, four-armed humanoids with piggish noses and being famed for their cooking. In the 29th century Robot Santa Claus was made and moved to its North Pole, where he set up his Death Fortress and a toy shop that is basically never used since virtually everyone is branded naughty. It has a primarily arctic environment, but since what's been seen on the surface is the polar region that might just be that area. It has a number of moons, the biggest of which is Triton. Triton has its own fauna, and both bodies are home to yetis.
• The ascension of Neptune was somewhat unique amongst its fellow Sol System planets, in that rather than being the "real" version of the planet that acts as a Composite Character, it was explicitly the version from Futurama. And there's a good reason why; Neptune in general didn't really have enough to get a place in the Dominions Expansion, and Futurama's Neptune had something specific going for it; Strolling on Jupiter. In real life, Neptune is what's known as an ice giant and thus has no solid surface. Its also far colder, with a "surface" temperature under -200 degrees Celsius. Its stormy winds can reach over 2000 km/h and the only remotely Earth-like thing about it is the gravity (just a bit more). There's been no evidence Futurama's Neptune was ever terraformed, and Farnsworth thinks that it's simply because "people of the Stupid Ages didn't have enough info". That said, a portal occasionally shows up in this Neptune's orbit that lets people see other, more accurate Neptunes in the multiverse.
• The fact it has a solid surface and is habitable is something that Wonder Woman remembers, way back in the day, when she dealt with some invaders from there and eventually helped overthrow their dictator. She's not the only person who recalls a gas giant being a lot less gassy, and not just (a) Neptune. John Carter has visited Jupiter in the unfinished book Skeleton Men of Jupiter which had forests and water, and is inhabited by two sentient races. Porky Pig and Sylvester were once abducted by aliens from Jupiter and ended up on the body no worse for wear, and Timmy Turner once made a wish for every day to be Christmas, and naturally ended up on Robot Santa's Naughty List while he was dealing with his mess. Oddly, he also recalls his Fairy Godbrother, Poof, claiming that it was Jupiter with the solid surface, not Neptune. Never mind that if they were solid planets, they'd have a lot more mass and consequentially more severe gravity. This all said, one mortal actually proposed a solid concept for how the real Neptune could be colonized. It still wouldn't fit the experiences of these deities, mind you.
• Significantly increased habitability asides, Futurama's Neptune is not a popular place to visit. The reason for this is down to Robot Santa Claus, who rules as a tyrant over the Neptunians in the Arctic. They look like Christmas Elves yes, but that is more down to them being malnourished because Robot Santa doesn't feed them enough. Unless it's X-Mas he almost never leaves, and if anyone finds themselves in his territory should prepare for some murder and merry mayhem. His Death Fortress was raided by the original, organic Santa and Nicholas St North in order to depose his rule, but the collateral damage was becoming too much. Instead, an agreement was made; Robot Santa would not unduly try to kill, main, or injure visitors to the Neptunian polar region and double the portions of his "elves", in exchange for having their promise they will protect his planet from interlopers. Robot Santa reluctantly agreed to this...however he is still conniving in stretching the "unduly" part to his favor without breaking the agreement.
• Winterbolt and SCP-4666 aspire to conquer Neptune for themselves...well, mainly Winterbolt. The Yule Man was content with his morbid actions in Earth's Arctic regions and went alongside the former's plan more to try something fresh with the Neptunians, and decided to start by taking over the relatively obscure Neptunian South Pole. Even Robot Santa was shocked to see the results of a Weissnacht, though that might just be because he doesn't list his planet's residents into the naughty/nice lists. In order to test the other Santa would live up to their agreement, he called them up to deal with his problem before they started spreading across the rest of the planet, while he watched with a bunch of X-Mas cookies in hand. To those outside his purview, Robot Santa has pushed the Neptunian politicians to make more weapons to protect their homeworld. After all, doing so helps Robot Santa's weapons factories and protects his planet.
• The planet is named after the Roman god Neptune, aka Poseidon. He had initially considered claiming the planet, mainly in the name of flexing his ego, but with how inhospitable the actual Neptune was he didn't feel like it. However Futurama's Neptune is something he could try to claim since it does have liquid water, if often covered by ice...it's still not something he's all too interested in. Since his programming doesn't account for gods on the naughty or nice spectrum (possibly relating to his friendship with the Chanukah Zombie) Robot Santa isn't gonna do anything in response but he is watching him in case Poseidon pulls something. With the original Neptune absent, Sailor Neptune doesn't have as much authority or connection over Futurama's, but she's still considered a guardian of the planet. It's for this reason she's one of the very few people on Robot Santa's nice list.
• Outside of the Neptunian Arctic, the Neptunians are a strong and relatively tall species who are well-known for their cooking. One of the best chefs on Earth is a Neptunian called Elzar. A staple of their dishes is the Neptunian space slug, more specifically the greenish-yellow one. Don't try the purple one though, since they cause diarrhea^note not even as a laxative; its terrible and nightmarish. Sometimes they can be domesticated. As a defensive maneuver, they can inflate themselves to a large size, and like Earth slug they shrivel up with salt. So long as you don't use too much salt they make a nice staple food, so mortal residents have been selling these space slugs to the House of Food. Star Wars deities have noticed they seem to be based off the Gormaanda. Neptunians are a common immigrant on Earth and they usually make their living in the service sector. There's a place called Little Neptune in New New York if you want a microcosm of their culture.
• As previously mentioned Neptune and Triton have yetis, though they aren't simply aliens; the Himalayans of the 31st century have yetis too, though if this is some sort of coincidence or interplanetary migration it's never been stated. The existence of these alien yetis deeply intrigues Ithaqua, who has been referred to as the Yeti, and it hopes to make Neptune and Triton a second home. Attempts to take Neptune for itself got a response for Robot Santa's TOW missile so the Great Old One chose to settle on the less populated Triton. While Neptune has a bunch of moons, Triton is by wide margin the biggest and only one to be round, though rather than an Arctic environment the real Triton is so cold as to have methane snow, and cryovolcanism...then again, it might've been terraformed by the time the Professor and Zoidberg first met there in 2927. The House of Health and Diseases has advised protection when dealing with the pools of liquid methane as they're a source of hypermalaria, a humiliating disease with no cure even by the 31st century and can strike at any moment. Being scratched by the yetis comes off like the same disease but will actually inflict yetiism...fortunately the aforementioned house went to both Neptune and Triton and has a yeti gland ready for curing the illness.
  • There are some other moons, at least 15 others known by the year 2024. They tend to be named after other aquatic deities and figures in legend, including names like Nereid, Thalassa and Proteus. As the second biggest moon is a mere 420 km in diameter (for comparison, Triton is about 2700 km in diameter or bigger than Pluto) almost nobody visits them on their way to Futurama's Neptune unless they want to be "quirky and unique". On another note, Neptune has a ring system but like the other gas giants they're way less notable/impressive than the sixth planet's.
• Many have wanted to Take Over the World. Some have wanted to take over the moon, or Mars. But conquering Neptune? It's practically never heard. Even Robot Santa is only ruler of the Arctic region of Neptune. Aphoom-Zhah did, however. Way back when Neptune was known as Yaksh it had visited and it wishes to take Neptune for itself, claiming it to be its right. Never mind this was a different Neptune. Despite being a Great Old One, it is still seen as less of a threat to the planet than the Iris is. The Iris had at some point mutated its Neptune into something unrecognizable. When it plans to invades the Solar System of the 31st century, this Neptune is expected to be its first target. If anything could unite all the Neptunians and those who immigrated there, it would be in opposition to this Eldritch Abomination. Majin Buu has a different mindset on what to do with Neptune; blow it up! Then again, that's his usual go to answer, but while he is also barred from getting anywhere near Neptune, the Iris is just as much a target for Buu's Planet Burst, which the people of Neptune are quite relieved to see keeps the Iris far away from them. The Collector considered using it as one of his celestial pinballs but after realizing there's life on it chose not to.

Pluto

134340 Pluto, Celestial Butt-Monkey Of The Solar System (formerly Planet 9/Planet X/the ninth planet, Yuggoth, SCP-2362)

Pluto as seen from the New Horizons probe.

• Description: An icy dwarf planet about 2/3rds the size of the Moon
• Symbol: A stylized capital P
• Alignment: True Neutral
• Portfolio: Religious and Mythological Theme Naming, Pluto Is Expendable, Went From The Ninth Planet To One Of The Dwarf Planets
• Domains: Cold And Ice, Dwarf Planets, The Outer Solar System
• Related dominions: Earth, Mars, Uranus (closer bodies that orbit the same star as Pluto)
• Sacred to: Setsuna Meioh, Hades, Nox (sort of), Charon, The Lernean Hydra, Cerberus, The Corpus
• Banned entry: Cosmo, Vril Dox/Brainiac, any Planet Eater
• On poor terms with: Jerry Smith
• When Uranus was discovered, its orbit suggested an eighth planet causing gravitational influence. This was later confirmed with the discovery of Neptune, but something seemed to be influencing it's orbit. The hunt was on to look for the ninth planet, but instead in 1930 a far too small object was discovered by one Clyde Tombaugh; Pluto. For a time it was accepted as the ninth planet, but discovery of other Pluto-like objects led to its demotion to a new dwarf planet designation. Some still argue that it isn't fair. Cold enough for the air to freeze, Pluto
• Because Pluto is a cold, tiny body at the edge of the solar system world enders like to use it as target practice. And given this is the Trope Pantheon, replacement Plutos are in demand. Cosmo once blew it up by accident with a button that'd destroy the world^note they didn't say which world and Brainiac turned it into a new Warworld. Naturally, they aren't allowed entry to Pluto. The Borg were banned for assimilating it too. Later security ultimately was for naught since Pluto itself broke open and a massive space jellyfish hatched out...turns out at least in the SCP universe, Pluto was an egg.
• Despite their goals the Grand United Alliance of Destruction doesn't try to use Pluto as target practice; they find it boring. Also, Nekron wants the end of all life specifically and there's usually nothing there, nor would it be a good candidate for a Black Lantern planet like the trick he pulled with Xanshi. Neptune's fair game, though. Galactus and Unicron are cool with eating it, but mainly as something for a hot day or as a dessert after having a full planet. Notably this was the first body Remina ate on its rampage, though only because it was going from farthest to closest body in the solar system during its world-devouring rampage.
• Sailor Pluto wasn't pleased to hear that the world she guarded is no longer considered a planet, and protests the new definition of planets. Amusingly the new designation of dwarf planet upgrades a former asteroid, Ceres, into a dwarf planet. She was happy to learn that the New Horizons probe had finally snapped pictures, at least. Its discoverer, Clyde Tombaugh, would die before the demotion, and a small portion of his ashes was put on the New Horizons probe. Eventually the guy who demoted it went mad with power and the planet tried to get back in the planetary designation... for a price.
• No, Pluto the dog had no influence in the naming. Because of how far and cold it was, it was named after god of the underworld Pluto, aka Hades's Romanized version. Charon is the namesake of the moon half the size of Pluto, to the point of them being twin dwarf planets. Nix (based off Nox), Hydra and Kerberos (based off Cerberus) are names for Pluto's minor, more asteroid-like moons. Their opinion on being associated with the Pluto system ranges from apathy to disappointment. Naturally it's a very dark place, which is what Nox likes.
• Because of how cold Pluto is (at most 55 Kelvin) and having ice make up a large part of its composition, the Hall of Ice and Cold holds some interest in studying it. It's possible that Olaf might be able to live on Pluto due to being made of ice and there being no proof he needs any atmosphere, though Elsa would definitely have to wear a spacesuit. Some believe that the Night King might want to set up a retirement there if he'd ever succeed at turning "Planetos" into a frozen grave, but it might be too cold for even the Others. It's not like he knows or cares much about extraterrestrial bodies anyway, but the question of what kind of power cryomancers might have on such a world is an ongoing question.
  • By contrast, no-one in the Hall of Fire and Heat likes Pluto because there's no oxygen and virtually no heat for fire. Aphoom-Zhah is the sole exception due to its properties and having landed on Neptune, which is almost as cold as Pluto.
• One future has a Eurovision Song Contest on what world should be a gigantic rubbish dump, with Earth and Pluto being the last contestants. Guess who won. Hades could be heard laughing in one of his meaner forms as he wasn't pleased at his Romanized namesake being dumped on. That said, Pluto has made itself useful by being an important Mass Relay and spaceport, or a nature reserve, mainly for penguins. The Madagascar Penguins still don't think much of it.
• Before its' discovery, H.P Lovecraft believed that it was an important outpost for the Mi-go. For those from the Cthulhu Mythos, they know it as Yuggoth. This is probably the most valuable incarnation of the dwarf planet and it's a source of some discussion among eldritch brethren. Hades has encouraged all this discusson in hopes of boosting interest on it, if only because he's annoyed of the Pluto Is Expendable jokes Zeus has made at his expense. He wants to cut off the Corpus' stranglehold of it since while cold and desolate, they're capitalists and their ventures in the name of profit takes them to all sorts of places.
• It used to be a lot bigger before being exploited for its resources. Jerry was the only person who believed Pluto was still a planet, which was exploited by the rich elites draining the planet dry. Eventually he had to shame himself by denying Pluto is a planet so it wouldn't get destroyed, and due to the whole incident he still isn't welcome by the natives.

Skaro

Skaro, Celestial Strangely Named Planet (D5-Gamma-Alpha)

• Description: A barren wasteland with large amounts of radiation that is virtually uninhabitable to anyone who isn't a Dalek, with a number of Dalek cities located throughout the planet
• Symbol: A monolithic, grungy Dalek-shaped skyscraper
• Theme Song: "Skaro" (unreleased music)
• Alignment: Chaotic Evil
• Portfolio: A Planet Named Zok, Crapsack World Of Irradiated Wastelands And Mutated Monstrosities, result of a Forever War, Meaningful Name, Has Been Destroyed At Least Twice But The Daleks Always Brought It Back, Doomed Hometown, BBC Quarry
• Domains: Cataclysm, War, Radiation, Violence, Evil, Xenophobia
• Sacred to: The Dalek Empire and Davros (their homeworld), the Grand United Alliance of Destruction (tentatively)
• Unholy to: EVERYONE ELSE, especially The Doctor and his friends, and other Time Lords like the Master
• No race is as feared as the Daleks. So when you explain their planet is an irradiated hellhole, no-one is surprised. The aptly, curiously sci-fi named Skaro became what it was because of a Thousand-Year War between the Kaleds and the Thals. Various nuclear and chemical agents of war made it borderline unlivable and full of mutated flora, fauna and people. Davros proposed a solution so the Kaleds survive; mutate them further into Daleks so they can thrive... as beings incapable of any positive emotion that only think of killing "the other". Then he had the Daleks take out the Kaleds for not approving of them. And then they decided Davros wasn't a Dalek.
• One of the very first alien worlds the Doctor ever visited back in the Daleks' early days, while they were still squabbling with surviving Thals who had turned into pacifists. It's unknown were the Thals eventually went off to, but one can hope they left the planet when he blew up Skaro's sun. Or when it was destroyed again in the Time War. Like the Daleks, it always comes back somehow and no-one agrees how. The Master is somewhat afraid of being on Skaro because they were put on trial and executed there. None of the Doctor's friends, or even non-Dalek enemies want to spend any amount of time there willingly either.
• It's unknown when the "present" of Skaro is besides being "whatever amounts to the present for the Doctor", so the House of Time and Temporality is always keeping track of its space-time co-ordinates as much as the limits of the Daleks temporal standing permits. The Pantheonic Time Police works to keep their antics in check, though it's worth noting the Daleks still practice some caution with the Web of Time...except in the Last Great Time War, of course. Even ignoring the Daleks' own counter-strikes to such an effort, trying to alter Skaro's history is also strictly forbidden by the Web of Time. Sure no-one wants the Daleks around, but the time someone tried to stop that would ultimately backfire. Nobody wants a second Time War.
• Skaro may be the least visited domain in the entire Trope Pantheon. Even if the locals don't aim their guns at everyone else, it's not got much of value for non-Daleks. However, they do allow meetings as part of their schemes, which inevitably involve "EX-TER-MIN-ATE DE-LE-GATES LA-TER!" The GUAD are the most tolerated visitors as the Daleks also want to kill everyone and everything, which the only sticking point being they want to be the exception. Palpatine initially wanted to have some traction on the to planet, but lost interest after every Imperial Personnel sent there was exterminated.
• Even before the Daleks were made, Skaro was seen as an even worse version of war-torn Berlin. Naturally anyone who fought there like Victor Reznov hope never to be on the cursed planet even if the Daleks weren't on it. Someone unbelievably bold asked Davros why a war this terrible as to ruin the planet even started, only for him to shrug and admit not only does he had no idea, but people stopped caring why it started long before he was born. The Daleks of course don't care, and like their planet the way it is. In no small part, BECAUSE it's so unlivable. Plus while they'll always try to bring it back with enough free resources, the Daleks don't need their homeworld to be a functional spacefaring empire.
• The surface is said to resemble a British quarry. At one point it had a jungle, which was petrified during the war. Skaro had a lake when the Doctor first visited, though it was full of monsters, and there are metallic lizard creatures called magnedons. Those with the misfortune to visit Apokolips think Skaro is like what the dread world would look like if you stripped it off the majority of its city and ghetto-complexes. If it weren't for the Daleks the planet might be more livable than the Abyss, but even that "might" is contentious. There was an agreement that it is less toxic than the Hall of Toxicity, which would've embarrassed the Daleks if they could feel shame.
• As Skaro serves as the Daleks' capital, those who avoid quaking in their boots at it really want to get rid of the planet once and for all, Joker Immunity be damned. Attempts were made to outsource eating it to Galactus and Unicron, but the two refused to do so. The former considers Skaro almost as unpalatable as Apokolips would've proven, while the latter wants to keep Skaro around because he and the Daleks have the same goal. Well, almost the same goal; after he's destroyed the rest of the universe he's coming from them. They have the same plan for him, of course. When Planet Remina was somehow directed to try to take Skaro out, Unicron stepped in and wrestled Remina away as the Daleks are too valuable for his cause to betray yet.
• Though Galactus himself doesn't want to eat it, Skaro is technically still habitable. As such, the Grox can't actually survive without a closed environment as while its "T score" would be a shaky T1, it's not a T0. However if the Daleks were completely out of character and let the Grox have Skaro, minimal effort would be need to Groxify the place. The edge of Skaro's star system saw a brief exchange of Grox and Dalek ships do battle before the former were forced to retreat and they were denied "a trophy prize". After or before this they chose to make the planet invisible to cloak it from interlopers.
• Many war deities have mixed feelings on this planet; some embrace it as a planet of war, completely ignoring the fact that was had severe consequences for the planet, while others are horrified at how war had affected the planet and those that are native to it. Though the Daleks are only zealously hateful in war, plenty of war gods admit they are incredible in it and their native element. Hexxus and the Lich like Skaro due to how irradiated and ruined it is, though the latter is mainly there as part of the GUAD's envoy and gaining nascent power from the radiation. The Daleks couldn't give a damn how Hexxus feels about pollution as they have no concept of his gluttony for it and will try to get rid of him like a parasite.
• Death Phantom loves Skaro. He himself is a living Death World that like the Daleks sees life like a blight. And yet he's even more omnicidal, and would love there to be nothing but possibly him in existence due to preferring the silence. To everyone's shock, the Daleks actually permit Death Phantom to walk their homeworld and admire it in his weaker Wiseman guise, who finds Skaro "beauty only two steps away from the void". They do this because they both hate all other life, and would rather focus on killing everyone else before trying to kill each other than try to kill everyone else WHILE trying to kill each other.

The Star Of Bethlehem

The Star Of Bethlehem, The Christmas Star

^{Click here to see The Star as it appears in A Certain Magical Index}

• Description: Usually depicted as a bright 4-8 pointed celestial body.
• Symbol: A star in the night sky above a baby resting in a manger or overlooking three magis.
• Theme Song: Star of Bethlehem by John Williams, Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem by The Judds
• Alignment: Neutral Good or (depending on the story) True Neutral
• Portfolio: A Staple in Manger Stories and Some Christmas Episodes, Occasionally Appears in Science Fiction, Many Interpretations, Cosmic Motifs
• Domains: Christmas, Guidance, Signs, Miracles, Prophecy
• Under Protection of: Various Abrahamic Gods (like The Love That Moves the Stars, God [God, Devil and Bob], God [Bruce Almighty]) and Various Angels
• Sacred to: Various Christian Deities, Houses of Celebration (Hall of Xmas and Yule), Religion and Faith and Prophecy and Fate
• Annoys: Brian Cohen
• Under Observation By: The House of Space and Cosmos, SCP Foundation
• Banned Entry: Fiamma of the Right, Planet Eaters like Galactus and Unicron or Star Killers like The C'Tan
• The Star of Bethlehem, also known as The Christmas Star, is a celestial phenomenon mentioned in the Gospel of Matthew and is a traditional miracle among various Christians as it was believed to reveal the birth of Jesus to the traveling wise men. As the story goes, its appearance in the night sky inspired the magis "from the East", commonly known as The Three Wise Men, to travel to Jerusalem. They came and meet King Herod of Judea, asking him where the King of Jews was born and expressing their intention to worship Him. Herod then asked his advisers, who quoted a prophecy from the Book of Micah, that a messiah would be born in Bethlehem just to the south of Jerusalem. From there, the wise men followed the star to the place where Jesus was born, worship him and give the baby three gifts before the wise men returned home to their "own country".
• Sometime after Christmas, a shining bright star appeared in the night sky. This is first spotted in the Pantheon by various astronomers in the House of Space and Cosmos, as they were routinely studying the vastness of space. The star's sudden appearance initially caused alarms among the deities there. So much so that there were plans to organize a dispatch and send some astronauts to check out what it is. It wasn't until the scientists were approached by various Angels from the House of Otherness did they relayed to them that it was indeed the Star of Bethlehem, although the Angels declined to disclose the purpose of the Star's presence in the Pantheon, other than most likely representing itself.
• No one knows where it could be pointing under, not even the scientist that rediscovered the Star. There are various speculations on where this version of the Star could be pointing to in the Pantheon, including above the House of Celebration, House of Religion and Faith, or even around Brian Cohen's temple. Either way, it was eventually announced, mainly headed by both the Houses of "Religion" and "Prophecy" (mostly its fate-breaking members), that no one is allowed to follow where it leads to various reasons. The Houses don't want a repeat of what happened after the Star was first discovered in its original world. Upon receiving the knowledge about the prophecy regarding Messiah, King Herod secretly ordered the killings of the children of Bethlehem "two years and under" as he fears the Messiah would one day usurp him and his kingship. Whether or not the Star could be pointing at a possible Messiah, it would be better not to disturb them, especially since there are plenty more malevolent deities who would be happy to "take advantage" of the situation, either by killing or kidnapping the person(s) underneath.
• Many religious Christians welcomed the Star, given that the Star is seen in their religion as a miracle sent by God that marked the birth of Christ. Many fate-abiding deities at the House of Prophecy and Fate also welcome the appearance of the Star, being deities that respect Fate's plans and believed that the Star had fulfilled a prophecy just from its appearance. Most other deities are a bit neutral about its appearance, but many of them do like the brightness of said Star in the night. Given its importance among the Christians and Angelic deities, the demonic deities are not very happy with the Star's appearance, to say the least.
  • On the flip side, some scientists seem skeptical of the Angels' claims that the "Star" is indeed the Star of Bethlehem and continue to study the star in case the Star turned out to be something else. Other scientists, while they believed the claims made by the Angels, are more curious about the Star's composition, which is also why they too are studying it. More pragmatic explanations of what the Star might include that it is either a supernova, a comet, a "sun rise", planets (Jupiter or Venus) or an existing star like Siruis (which according to one source, does lead to Bethlehem when one follows it). Some of the Christians upon hearing this were kinda iffy about these explanations given that it is sacrilege to their faith. The SCP Foundation, an organization dedicated to maintaining normalcy, also studying it in the case turns out to be an anomaly, having observed various anomalous solar phenomena before, as such with SCP-1548.
• Despite being a recognizably bright star and heavily associated with Christmas, it should not be confused with Polaris, the North Star, which points nearly underneath the North Pole. The stars that were being put underneath the Christmas Trees are based on the Star of Bethlehem. It also should not be confused with the bright star various Disney deities are familiar with. Namely: It's not the star Tiana and Naveen known as Evangeline, The Second Star to the Right known to Peter Pan and company nor Pinocchio's Wishing Star. Their initial excitement upon seeing the bright star thinking it was from their world, turned to disappointment and confusion upon clarification on what the Star was.
• As part of the studies conducted by selected deities from the House of Space and Cosmos, the researchers decided to interview various deities to catalog their appearance in their worlds:
  • They first interviewed Brian Cohen, a contemporary of Jesus and one who is often mistaken as the Messiah. He recalls what his mother told him around the time of his birth, that three wise men suddenly barged into their stable, was going to give three gifts, before retracting the gifts to give it to the family next door to them, who happened to be the actual Holy Family. Brian was less annoyed about not receiving those gifts and more about the fact that his troubles with Unwanted False Faith started not long after he was born. He has heard about the Star's recent appearance and some deities thought he might something to do with it, which he strongly denied having connections with the Star. He's hoping their study would clear things up for others in the future.
  • They also interviewed the Griffin Family, seeing as one of their stories recalls their version of the story of the Nativity. The head of the family Peter recalls that The Three Wise Men were following the Star to the birthplace of the Messiah, said Star turned out to be airplane lights. Actually, the nativity story in their world may have taken... a few creative liberties. Peter and their talking family dog Brian (who happens to be an atheist) thinks the Star in the Pantheon is probably some airplane lights as well.
  • One of the more disturbing incarnations of the Star comes from an unlikely source. Rod Serling, narrator and observer of The Twilight Zone, shared with the researchers a story he had the witnessed in the Fifth Dimension from one of its later incarnations. It tells of a group of space explorers that found the remains of a near-utopic civilization, that went extinct went its star went supernova. When the group's chief astrophysicist, a Jesuit priest, decided to calculate went the supernova had taken place, he was disturbed to learn that the light of said supernova reached Earth around the time the Star of Bethlehem appeared on the night sky. He started to question his faith due to the sadness he felt at the great loss of life for this miraculous sign. Despite that, the priest and his colleague were comforted to know that the people of the doomed planet at least lived in peace in their last moments and pitied those who lived without it.
  • Touma Kamijou and various other deities from his world are worried when they heard about the sudden appearance of the Star of Bethlehem. Touma explained that in his world, the Star takes the form of a 40 kilometer long floating fortress made out of religious items from churches and cathedrals. It was the ceremonial site for Fiamma of the Right's Project Bethlehem, where he intended to "purify and 'save' the world" by getting rid of all the humans. In the end, Project Bethlehem was thwarted and the fortress crashed into the Arctic Ocean. The researchers rest assured the group that Star is just a harmless celestial body, although it shouldn't surprise the group if it occasionally morphs into its floating fortress form in the future. Despite Fiamma already having a Heel-Face Turn following his defeat by Touma's Anti-Magical hands, he along with anyone with similar plans as him is forbidden to get near the Star until further notice.
  • Despite his busy schedule, Superman decided to accept the researchers' interview request about the Star. He recalls during his time as Superboy in the Legion of Super-Heroes, a group of super-powered teenagers from the future, an amusing incident around the holiday season. He proposed to his teammates to use their advanced technology to check out what the Star of Bethlehem was. When they traveled to the Star's location, they instead found various races from a Star-less planet in need of their help and decided to drop their plans to assist them. While the Legionnaires were never able to find the Star, they were at least happy to do a lot of good for a bunch of people. Superman doesn't currently desire to visit the Star himself, mainly due to more important priorities. That said, he wishes the researchers good luck in their studies and looks forward to hearing more about the Star.
  • As the Star of Bethlehem symbolizes guidance, it's not surprising that similar guiding stars appear in other worlds too. For instance, ex-FBI agent Fox Mulder once followed a star in order to find his lover and former FBI agent partner Dana Scully and their unborn child, who were hiding from their enemies at the time. Looking back on that event, the Skeptic and Believer Duo didn't ignore the parallels between the birth of their son William and Christ's birth story. They had a minor playful argument if the star Mulder followed was the actual Star itself. The researchers have listed this instance for further research and promised to contact the two further if they find something freaky.
• In addition to the initial ban on following where the star was directly pointing under, there was later a ban on visiting the star itself unless permitted by the Angels or the various Abrahamic Gods. This was enacted after various Planet Eaters or Star Killers nearly tried to consume the Star for food or just plain destruction for the heck of it. Many Christian deities were appalled by their actions that they requested more security around Its perimeters. The Star was later given to the protection of the Abrahamic Gods of the Pantheon, who then assign the protection task to their Angelic followers. The Angels were willing to ask other heroic deities for help should a big threat arises.
• The Star's appearance in the sky was not meant to last as it suddenly disappeared a few weeks later, as sudden as when it first appeared. As the scientists tried to find the Star again, many Christians lamented the loss of the beautiful Star. Thankfully, it appeared again sometime after Christmas the next year and continued its cycle of appearing and disappearing every year. After all, Christmas is only celebrated once a year.

The Sun

The Sun, The Divine Cosmic Incinerator (Sol)

• Description: A G-class star
• Symbol: A circle with a dot in the middle (also the alchemical symbol for gold)
• Alignment: True Neutral (due to having both Lawful Good and Chaotic Evil properties simultaneously) slowly becoming Chaotic Neutral; will slip into Chaotic Evil as a red giant
• Portfolio: The Power of the Sun And All That Comes With It, Powered By Nuclear Fusion, Hurl It into the Sun, Keeping Earth Alive With Its Presence (While Also Sending Deadly UV And Other Radiation)
• Domains: Stars, Light, Heat, Gravity, Power, Nuclear Fusion
• Governed by: Ra, Amaterasu, Princess Celestia, Helios, Apollo, Quetzalcoatl, Tezcatlipoca
• Sacred to: Virtually all life on Earth (or any other planet in the solar system). Special mention goes to Clark Kent/Superman and all Kryptonians, Hal Jordan, Robert Capa, Chanticleer
• Unholy to
  • Those who were flung into it: Cooler, Broly, Baby
  • Others: Apophis, the Grand United Alliance of Destruction, The Grand Duke of Owls, Zs'Skayr, Nightmare Moon, many Vampires, Zim
• Additional connection to: Bender
• From the remains of dead stars, a great and powerful nuclear fusion reaction resulted in the birth of the Sun. A brilliant G-class star, the Sun is the center of the Solar System and absolutely integral for life on Earth. For 4.6 billions years this colossal sphere of superheated plasma has illuminated its planets, and will continue to do so until it begins to bloat and expand into a red giant in 4-5 billion years, eventually being reduced to a super-dense white dwarf a few billion years after that.
• The Sun is an absolute necessity for the House of Plants as they require the sun's light for photosynthesis. It isn't as necessary for the House of Machinery and Technology, however the Sun is still important because of the obvious fact solar power relies on it...as do some robots. Wall-E, for example, is solar-powered. Doctor Otto Octavius tried harnessing its power another way, but that didn't go well; he'd rather not pull anything funny with the sun anymore.
• This essential domain to life on Earth became part of the Trope Pantheon under an Awesome, but Impractical trope to permanently dispose of things: Hurl It into the Sun. The Sentry has become most well-known for pulling this, and he never hears the end of it. The Martian Manhunter once threw his very evil brother in the sun to get rid of him, which given the power of Green Martians it wasn't overkill. Superman used it to get rid of nukes, but he doesn't want to acknowledge that. He'll still laugh about it with other caustic critics like the Nostalgia Critic, and cracked a dumb grin after learning the Angry Video Game Nerd used the Sun to get rid of the awful Superman 64 game.
• Cooler, Baby and the original Broly all have different motivations for what they do. However they are all united in hating the sun as it was the means used to dispose of them. Cooler barely survived and has sworn he's going to blow up the sun next time he plans to invade the Earth. The Lich, despite a version of himself also being flung into the sun, lacks their anger at the nuclear furnace since he wanted to fling the Earth into it in the first place via a Bag of Holding. Being the Lich, this was less fun than it sounds. Presumably, it can also get rid of Majin Buu. Wiz and Boomstick have been using the sun as a climatic finish a lot and think they should have a timeshare. The ascended sun gods feel they should sue the two instead.
• Speaking of sun gods, there are many who represent, or straight up embody the sun. Ra is the most well-known sun god, while the "not a god but kind of" Princess Celestial moves the sun across the sky. Helios was hired by Ra to make sure those who handle the sun as he doesn't want a Tragic Mistake like when his son Phaethon tried having a go. Though their personalities vary, all of them tend to agree on being sick of people using the sun for relatively minor problems, like getting rid of unpopular celebrities in a post Y2K apocalypse or trying to get rid of 31st century Manhattan dealing with a common cold plague because they ran out of piranhas.
• Kryptonians get their superpowers from the yellow sunlight, when their own red sun wasn't enough. As such, Superman considers it very important. When he gets into the Sun itself it can boost his powers drastically, however it's risky. On one hand spending 15,000 years in the Sun caused his future self, Superman Prime, to become god-like. On the other, overloaded his powers yet saturated his cells and was killing him. It is believed that Superman traveled to the Sun to stabilize his overwhelming new power and become Superman Prime, effectively merging the two timelines. Sunlight also serves as an important part of Hamon, and gives Starfire some of her power.
• There are those that oppose the sun for whatever reason, even if they know the importance. Apophis has spent his entire existence trying to destroy the Sun, ushering in the end of days. Because of how many heroes and villains need the Sun, the Grand United Alliance of Destruction seek to snuff it out. Others want a survivable world but still don't like it: Zs'Skayr wants to get rid of its presence because the sunlight burns him, Nightmare Moon because she seeks a never-ending night and the Grand Duke of Owls... because reasons. They aren't so maniacal as to outright destroy the sun of course, but more they want it obscured like some eternal eclipse so they can get The Night That Never Ends.
• Infamously Mr. Burns blocked out the sun for Springfieldians just to further his energy monopoly. He doesn't think much of others who oppose the sun, due to his failure to do so; namely, he was shot by accident, by a baby. Despite the importance of the Sun, it's still bad to make the sun never set. Maxie remembers what happens when Groudon forces the sun to always be out, and his old dreams of expanding the land would've gone too well thanks to Drought.
• The Sun will eventually die, but some want to speed up the process. However there are gods who can repair the Sun. Both Hal Jordan and Robert Capa sacrificed themselves to re-ignite the Sun. This importance of this seems to have been fueled by the discovery that in one universe, it serves as the afterlife. Souls that aren't careful as the Sun downloads them will be incinerated however. Amazingly there is even life on the sun. Bender can attest to that as he thwarted a notorious solar criminal called Flamo from turning Earth into a second sun, making him a hero to the sun people. Most were surprised since they assumed Bender was guilty of arson; he's willing to commit arson yes, but not for Engineered Heroics. Bender was shocked to later learn Courage and his owners also managed to fix the sun and even survive doing so.
• Though destined to make the Earth unlivable in a billion years or more, there exists a timeline where it did something "similar" much earlier. And by "similar", we mean "make its light turn any living thing into the consistency of melted wax and keep enough of its memories to grab survivors into itself and make more monstrosities". This is SCP-001 (S.D Locke's Proposal) and learning of this solar singularity is why The SCP Foundation has put more restrictions on what the Trope Pantheon can and can't throw into it, less they accidentally trigger it in the "main" timeline. Keel Lorenz can't help but think if this is a fitting alternative to Instrumentality, and the Borg speculate on if they could somehow incorporate it into their goals of perfection through assimilation.
• Silver fears this anomalous version of the Sun is due to him using it to finally destroy the Metal Virus that would've led to his most recent Bad Future. Dr. Eggman doubts even something he made would've survived long enough to pull that off and thinks Silver is worrying over nothing, though he probably shouldn't be saying that. The Doctor has helped Silver feel better by saying he's seen the sun will naturally grow old and become a red giant, and that despite everything the Earth will only be destroyed "on schedule" with everyone having moved off it at that point.
• Before you ask, no the SCP Foundation isn't going to terminate SCP-682. They tried that, but the damn lizard came back on fire. Besides, they have a more important anomaly near the Sun; its "sister" SCP-179. Right next to the Sun, "Sauelsueor" points to and alerts life in the solar system to threats. The SCP Foundation also had to deal with "solar tape worms" twice the diameter of the Earth. One wonders if they're distant relatives of the Star Killing C'Tan. As they find souls tastier now they'd rather not feed on Earth's Sun because a) the aforementioned parasites "makes it gross" and b) not worth getting more of the Imperium of Mankind on their ass right now.
• Most vampires treat the sun as half as bad as the nightmare "When Day Breaks" scenario. It's especially lethal for Dio Brando, who's corpse disintegrated in a matter of seconds. Zim believes that this vampire weakness is because humans had booby-trapped the Sun, however he only thinks this because he was stupid enough to look directly at it for directions. Fuhrer King Bradley lost thanks to a quick blinding light from the sun, but he still thinks Zim's anger at the Sun is stupid. On a much lighter note, Mario is always a little bit cautious of the Sun because sometimes the "sun" attacks him.
• Whether the original Lamps or Trees the sun and moon replaced was also dangerous to vampires is unknown. Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca were asked for their opinion, only to give a confused stare as they're pretty sure they'd remember that kind of sun/moon. According to them there are four previous suns. Tezcatlipoca was the first sun but he could only manage half of one and lost his position thanks to Quetzalcoatl. The Feathered Serpent was the second one, but the Smoking Mirror got back at him by turning the people into monkeys; Quetzalcoatl blew them away out of frustrating and stepped down from the role as the sun god.
• The Teletubbies were confused by the Sun because it wasn't the sun baby they were familiar with. Or even alive, for that matter. Most think that the Teletubbies are aliens anyway due to how weird their show is so maybe they just orbit a star similar to the sun, but alive somehow. Others have sworn the actual sun has a face.

Uranus

Uranus, Planetary Seat Of Juvenile Astronomy Jokes (Sol VII, 34 Tauri, George's Star, Georgium Sidus, Urectum)

Uranus as seen by the Voyager 2 probe

• Description: An icy gas giant about 14.5 times more massive than Earth, with dark, nearly invisible rings
• Symbol: A circle with a dot in the center and an arrow pointing upwards from the top of said circle
• Moons: At least 27, with five spherical moons-Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon
• Related dominions: Earth, Mars (fellow planets of The Solar System)
• Theme Song: Uranus, by Gustav Holst
• Alignment: True Neutral
• Portfolio: Celestial Fodder For Toilet Humor, Monumentally Massive Atmosphere, Made of Hydrogen, Helium and Methane Gases, Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
• Domains: Gas, Ice, The Outer Solar System, Gravity, Astronomy, Toilet Humor
• Named after: Ouranus
• Source of interest for: Followers of Sarkicism, The Chaos Gods, Ron Weasley
• Sacred to: Ouranos, Haruka Tenoh, The Talking Toilets
• Unholy to: Captain Underpants, Gaea, Cronus
• During the 18th century, astronomers observed that the orbit of Saturn didn't behave as predicted. There was a theory that this was because of a yet-unknown planet's gravity impacting it. On March 13, 1781, William Herschel proved this theory and identified a planet orbiting between 2.7 and 3 billion kilometers from the Sun. This seventh planet would be named after the Greek primordial of the sky; Uranus. It turned out to be one of two "ice giants" alongside the eighth planet, Neptune; cold gas giants not quite as huge as Jupiter or Saturn, but still substantially more massive than the Earth and with a lot more "ices" than the first two gas giants. It is tilted at just over a 90 degree angle, causing one side to face the Sun for half its 84 year-long orbit.
• The planet has become the butt^note heh...butt of many a jokes, due to its common pronunciation of Ur-an-us being similar to "your anus". Having a noticeable amount of methane has only made it easier to crack jokes. Yoor-in-us is an alternative, but given that's similar to "urine"...yeah. They tried to end the joke in 2620 by renaming it Urectum, though if you remove the "u" it becomes even easier to make jokes out of. Even Shepard couldn't resist probing it. The Hall of Jokes and Pranks commissioned a satellite to observe it. The Hall of Scientists and Geniuses demanded that they send probes to study it and its moons as well, since they want scientific study of the body^note IRL, only one probe has even flown by it. They were fine with the name "Proctologist I", though.
• People have dared Galactus into trying to eat Uranus, only for him to always ignore them since it's just down to wanting to make a lewd joke. Unicron, in spite of hating absolutely everything, is still above destroying Uranus because he's loathe to also be the subject of a lewd joke. The only one willing to eat it was the ambiguously sentient Planet Remina, who been going from farthest to closest planet on its feast of the Solar System. And it went and ate Uranus a second time before it could be forced out of the . Fortunately there was a spare incarnation of the planet to replace it.
• Why name it something that can be made fun of? Jupiter comes from Jove, king of the gods. Saturn comes from Saturnus, Jove's father. And Uranus (or Ouranus as he prefers to be called here) is the father of Cronus (the Greek equivalent of Saturnus), and a right asshole in his own right. It's unclear why, like all the other planets asides from Earth, it wasn't named after the Roman version Caelus, though most agree it was a good call not naming it George's Star. The primordial god has declared it under his lordship and plots to regain dominion over the Earth from it. Being a lot bigger than the Earth, it has the benefit of preventing an infuriated Gaea from going after her ex-consort.
  • Due to how much he hates his father, Cronus is one of the only people willing to destroy Uranus (and keep it that way).
• The primordials' ambitions have been hampered as Haruka Tenoh or Sailor Uranus was already up as the planet's guardian and representative, which has only fueled conflict between the two. Fortunately for the primordial the planet was the place the Turbo Toilet 2000 was condemned to. With an alliance to Ouranus, the ice giant is now a sanctuary to them where they can better plot revenge against Captain Underpants. They proceeded to rip off Robot Santa Claus by making a sweatshop and factory on Uranus' equator, which is functionally a massive Floating Continent protected from the harsh wind and extreme cold through a dome. When asked why not use Uranus' north pole, they admitted that the 97 degree tilt confused them to where "the top is".
• The SCP Foundation decided that if she was there already, it might be in their best interest to inform Sailor Uranus of two SCPs found in the Uranian orbit; a large moon made entirely of skin cells that's habitable and appears to be alive, and large flower growths over the moon of Umbriel. The former is of keen interested to the Sarkic Cults as it has ties to their faith. The Chaos Gods are also interested in SCP-4524, if only because it's a huge mass of flesh they want to corrupt and turn into a Chaos Spawn. Because of this. The Imperium of Mankind has increased security over Uranus
• Currently isn't inhabited by humans, but by the 853rd century it will be colonized by people and protected by Starman. Wally West was amused, but Kyle Rayner thinks Uranus jokes haven't been funny since the fourth grade. He doesn't care for jokes that E.T comes from there. The Green Lantern later gave Ron Weasley an advanced telescope construct so he can look at Uranus and get the joke out of his system, but it didn't. The planet does have a representative, and its valuable enough for aliens to take it over. Plus it's the larger producer of Helium-3 in Alliance space.
• As they live in gas giants, the Slyandro consider Uranus a legitimate choice for colonization. Naturally, they'll have to give it a more dignified name when they do. These efforts were obstructed by the Grineer, who had gained a stranglehold on the planet and used it as a base for extensive research into cloning and reproduction. For a time, one Grineer scientist even learned how to bypass Clone Degeneration… however the Tenno sabotaged all that.
• Bart Simpson disagrees with Kyle that Uranus isn't funny^note he is from the fourth grade after all, and has decided to crank call the House of Extraterrestrials about it. Zim actually believed this crank call and went to the ice giant, only to get stuck there for weeks. Ever since then, he's declared vengeance on the prankster. He was most disappointed at the lack of uranium as he was under the impression the planet had a lot rather than being what the element was named after, but he did get a bunch of diamond "rain". He hasn't figured out how valuable they'd be for the House of Commerce yet, though.
• The Moons of Uranus are considerably harder to joke about in their nomenclature, as most are named after characters from the works of William Shakespeare. And before anyone tries to pester him, he isn't interested in any Frivolous Lawsuit about the naming...not that this didn't stop Lionel Hutz from claiming they should be his intellectual property. Oberon, Titania and Puck have declared ownership over the moons that carry their name, mainly for the sake of flexing and pomposity, however the first two also want colonies there to spread the reach of The Fair Folk.
  • Other gods have also been used to name Uranian moons. For a complete list of ascended deities whose name was used on a Uranian moon, they are^note from closest to farthest from the planet Ophelia, Juliet, Cupid, Puck, Medb^note going by Mab here, Titania and Oberon.

Venus

Venus, Divine Seat of Supposedly Lush Planets (Morning Star, Evening Star, Sol II, Lucifer, Helel, "Earth's Evil Twin")

^{According to DC}

• Description: A planet slightly smaller than Earth, covered in very dense clouds.
• Symbol: A pink female symbol
• Theme Song: Venus, The Bringer of Peace by Gustav Holst
• Alignment: True Neutral (Assumed to be Neutral Good, but really Chaotic Neutral by human standards)
• Portfolio: Science Marches On, Former Science Fiction Magnet, Supposedly Lush and Habitable for Humans, Actually The Closest Thing To Hell We Know Of, Hottest Planet In the Solar System, Brightest Object in the Night Sky
• Domains: Clouds, Sulphuric Acid, Carbon Dioxide, Volcanoes, Science Fiction, Astronomy, Light, the Morning, the Evening
• Sacred To:
  • Heavenly: Aphrodite, Inanna/Ishtar, Quetzalcoatl, Horus, Piper McLean
  • Hellish: Every "Lucifer"/Satan (whether from SMT, Supernatural, Paradise Lost, Castlevania, Lucifer (comic), South Park, Mandela Catalogue, or Divine Comedy), Lucemon
  • Misc: Minako Aino/Sailor Venus, Rameses
• Avoided By: Namor the Sub-Mariner, Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, Jet Black
• Source of Interest To: Marvin the Martian, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Vex, The Corpus
• Banned Entry: Ghidorah
• The planet Venus is located around 107 million kilometers from the Sun. Since it's one of the brightest objects in Earth's night sky, Venus has been known to ancient civilizations for millennia. It's known as the Morning Star as well as the Evening Star due to being visible during those two times of day. In the modern period humanity learned that Venus was a planet almost the same size as Earth and having an atmosphere as thick (if not thicker) - as a result it was known as "Earth's twin". For a very long time sci-fi writers would speculate about what life on the planet would be like - usually that it was lush, green, and like a great big jungle. Some other authors went u p to eleven, and thought Venus was covered entirely with water (as Isaac Asimov did). For a very long time sci-fi stories focused on adventures on the supposedly lush Venus. But the more man learned about the planet, the more it was realized Venus was completely inhospitable, so it's more like Earth's Evil Twin than anything else.
• The planet is named after the Roman goddess of love, known to the Greeks as Aphrodite. But the ancient Babylonians were the first to record the planet's existence and they named it after their love-war goddess Innana/Ishtar. As both goddesses are in the Pantheon both of them value the place as sacred to both of them (though they often compete for who's in charge). Due to it's link to these goddesses many sci-fi writers imagined the aliens of Venus to be a Matriarchy or Lady Land. It wasn't, but that doesn't stop Aphrodite and Inanna/Ishtar from dropping by to make it a bit more habitable. The rivalry between the two goddesses manifests here, too, as they compete over who gets which parts of the place.
• A somewhat lesser-known name for Venus is the Morning Star (or Evening Star), known in Latin as Lucifer. Yes, you read that right, Lucifer. The reason the name 'Lucifer' is associated with the Devil is a passage in Isaiah 14 in The Bible, where the prophet compares the fall of a king from grace to how Venus appears to 'fall' in the night sky. While the fallen king is identified as the king of Babylon, readers throughout the ages have (at least through typology) identified him as Satan. As a result the planet holds a special place in the hearts of the fallen angels Lucifer (SMT), Lucifer (Supernatural), Satan (Paradise Lost), Satan (Castlevania) Satan (South Park), Samael, Alternate!Gabriel, Dis, and Lucemon for being their namesake.
• Yet another heavenly being linked with the planet is Quetzalcoatl, the Feathered Serpent of the ancient Aztecs. In fact, the ancient Aztecs believed Quetzalcoatl was the Morning Star. While he's not interchangeable with the planet, he still likes visiting it anyways. At times he adopts a female form (either Rider or Lucoa) to fit in with the goddesses of the planet. What's more? There might be a fourth: it was maybe believed by the Egyptians that Horus' two eyes were the Morning and Evening Stars (although this one is slightly less clear as his eye is more associated with the Moon in later texts).
• The different factions above described - roughly sorted into "The Goddesses" (Aphrodite, Inanna/Ishtar, and Quetzalcoatl) and "The Devils" (Lucifers 1 & 2, Satans 1, 2 & 3, "Gabriel", Dis, and Samael) - all find themselves fighting with each other over who has a right to the planet. Some of the "Goddesses" want to see the planet terraformed into the tropical paradise people have dreamed of, and some of the "Devils" are fine with the planet saying a hellscape, but it's more so a conflict over rulership than anything else (given how both the "Goddesses" and "Devils" sometimes clash with those in the same group). Aphrodite has sometimes called her daughter Piper McLean to quests on the planet, even if Piper isn't a huge fan of fighting all the Satans. We should also note that none of them live there permanently; they just have getaways there.
• There's a bit of confusion about what the adjective for something of or from Venus is. Most people stick with "Venusian", which gets the point across but is weird grammar-wise. It used to be "Venerian" for a while, which works grammar-wise but sounds a bit too much like "venerial". The science community likes the term "Cytherean", named after the island of Cythera that the goddess Venus (Aphrodite) was reported to be born on - but that sounds nothing like 'Venus' so it's uncommon. Of course, names like "Aphrodisial" and "Luciferian" are only going to cause more confusion, and we hopefully don't need to explain why "Venerial" doesn't work.
• Believe it or not, Venus might have actually once been wet in the past. According to a 2016 paper from Cornell University, Venus might have had a habitable climate at least 715 million years ago. So if any deity has a time machine (which many indeed do), they could just go reeeeeaaally far back in time and they might see a tropical planet there.
• There are plenty more people who covet the planet. Both The Vex and The Corpus have invaded Venus at times, and have tried to do so again - round two was less successful than the original tries since multiple people had the same idea at once so the invasions were tripping over each other. Unsurprisingly, Ghidorah is not allowed near the place by anyone, since he destroyed the early civilization living there and turned it to be the uninhabitable wasteland it is now. The "Goddesses" and even the "Devils" have all done work to defend their sacred planet Venus from them.
• It's commonly said women are from here, and men are from Mars. This is because the symbols of male and female gender are also the Greek symbols for Mars and Venus. Plus, there's the fact that it's the only planet in the solar system named after a lady (unless you count Earth being called Gaia/Terra).
• Marvin the Martian is enamored with the planet - so enamored in fact, that he wants to destroy Earth just because it's blocking his view of Venus. Why he likes it so much is unknown; maybe Venus is a bright 'Morning Star' on the Red Planet too, or maybe he still thinks it's a green paradise under the clouds (he's from the 1940s after all), or maybe he wants to get a look at the hot godessess who drop by there. Whatever the reason, he's partial to the planet even though he hasn't been there but just looks at it through his telescope.
• Pharaoh Rameses II actually claims equality with the planet - namely via his role as Horus incarnate. The news of the planet's ascension naturally peaked his interest, as Rameses used it as an opportunity to brag about his power. The symbol of his royal divinity has ascended, proving his relevance to all the world! (or so he says). Of course, that other people in the Pantheon also use the Morning Star has not stopped him.
  "I am the morning and the evening star! I am Pharaoh!
• Diana / Wonder Woman has good relationships with the planet and its inhabitants. Queen Desira, a local ruler on the planet, is one of Diana's friends. She's helped defend the planet multiple times, and Desira has helped her defend Earth too. Because of this she sometimes visits the place to meet the Goddesses while visiting there.
• Wonder Woman isn't the only member of the Justice League who has visited the planet. Superman for instance once visited the place and encountered plant-based life forms. Hal Jordan of the Green Lanterns too has a good reputation among the citizens of the planet. As told in "Summons From Space!" (Showcase Vol. 1 #23), Hal once defended the planet's primitive people from an attack of dinosaurs. Naturally, the people are thankful for his deeds.
• Namor the Sub-Mariner has a worse relationship with the planet Venus. Sure, you can say that for plenty of places, but this time it's actually not his fault. At one point in the past, planet Earth was invaded by a race of amphibious Venusian creatures. Namor to his credit defended Earth from the alien invaders, and thus is rather suspicious of anything that comes from Venus. Though the people Diana and Hal defended weren't the same people who invaded Earth, Namor still doesn't trust anything from that place, and so stays away from it.
• Spike Spiegel, Faye Valentine, and Jet Black know a version of the planet very different from the idealized one typically seen in older sci-fi. To start, their Venus is a desolate wasteland that humans were able to colonize in spite of it's climate. There's also a little something called the "Venus Sickness"; a disease native to the place that makes people blind. Rocco's sister Stella got infected with the disease, so Rocco and Spike had to find a cure. Neither of them really like the place, understandably.

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