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    Doc Scratch 

You could say, Alternia was home to a peaceful race. Trollkind had never known the corrupting influence in their evolution which led them to perpetual war and violence.

That is to say, they had never known me.

Doc Scratch, The God Who Successfully Planned His Own Death (Li’l Cal, Mirthful Messiah, White Text Guy, Mr. Vanilla Milkshake, An Excellent Host, The White Man)

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  • First Guardian (equivalent to an Overdeity, especially in manipulation and planning)
  • Symbol: His Cue Ball head
  • Theme Music: Scratch, Baroqueback Bowtier (Scratch’s Lament), White Host, Green Room, WORST END
  • Alignment: Lawful Evil, and quite possibly whatever Lord English wants him to be
  • Portfolio: Successfully Planning His Own Death, Borderline Omniscient, Incredibly Smug and Powerful, being The Chessmaster, making it very clear he is evil, successfully manipulating EVERYONE, corrupting a peaceful species into a warfaring race AND setting up their extinction, being a HORRIBLE Parental Substitute, speaking entirely in white, being a friendly enemy despite being as monstrous as Lord English, never lying, but never needing to, successfully taking over the narrative for a while, being Nigh Invulnerable, having a cue ball for a head, Satanic Archetypes, Faux Affably Evil personified, Ultimately Gets What He Wants
  • Domains: Planning, Intelligence, Servitude, Depravity, Corrupting, Manipulation, Omnicide, Omniscience, Hosts
  • Followers: Dewey Novak, Gothwrain
  • Superior: Lord English
  • Allies: Davros, Tzeentch, The Brainspawn, Bill Cipher, The Starmen, Giygas, Junko
  • Rivals: Xehanort, Death Phantom, Victor Von Doom, Yuuki Terumi, Mephisto
  • Enemies: Everyone, especially The Homestuck Kids, The Doctor, Professor Paradox, Piccolo, Asura, The Incubators, Deathstroke, Monika, The Houses of Family and Relatives and Friendship and Camaraderie
  • Opposed by: Homura Akemi
  • Disregards: Light Yagami
  • Unwitting Pawns: Many, MANY people.
  • Doc Scratch is a First Guardian. First Guardians are incredibly powerful creatures that gain reality warping powers and a near endless source of power the Green Sun, a sun made up of the mass of two universes that resides in an Eldritch Location beyond time called the Furthest Ring. If a First Guardian has a high enough intelligence, (which Doc Scratch has), the First Guardian will also have near Omniscience as well. A First Guardian's main purpose is to ensure that the planet they are on's main sapient species plays the game Sburb once their technology levels can use the coding. This game is also where First Guardians come from, as the NPC equivalents of the game creates the First Guardian for the planet playing the game using the blueprint of an artifact (or two, in Doc Scratch's case) and a genetic code that grants them access to the Green Sun's powers. The First Guardian is then sent to it's designated planet, back in time to the Planet's beginning. Doc Scratch is also made from Li’l Cal, who hosts Lord English’s soul. Thanks to a Stable Time Loop involving him and Lord English, Doc Scratch came into existence, and would leave it at the end of the Alternian universe quickly after being rendered unconscious/inanimate by and then beaten down upon by Hussie’s Author Avatar, though his death was not caused by the latter event. Doc Scratch ultimately accomplished what he wanted:To die at the end of the universe, which would release Lord English. As he begun to perish, he did make his opinion towards Hussie and everyone he’s ever manipulated and used as pawns in his plans quite clear.
    "S u c k e r s ."
  • Doc Scratch came to the Pantheon with the single goal of summoning his master; the demon Lord English. This requires two things; his death, caused due to Lord English's summoning involving using him as a host, and the end of the universe (and every possible instance of said universe). However, due to Lord English being able to time travel, being summoned at the end of the universe is hardly an inconvenience. In fact, it was Lord English that created Lil Cal, a puppet required for Doc Scratch's creation. Needless to say, Doc Scratch is quite positive the summoning will be a success. After all, the demon is already here. The more difficult part for Scratch was getting a spot proper, as the Court of the Gods was shielded from Omniscience in the case of villains who could use the knowledge to their advantage; Not a problem for Doc Scratch, who proceeded to manipulate a person, and was bluntly honest with him. When someone tried to intervene, Scratch curb-stomped him and gave the person these words before said fight.
    When I am finished with this minor interruption, we will resume our gentlemanly negotiation. I will proceed to beat you severely until you agree to do what I ask. I trust you won't take it personally.
    • As he expected, when he not only did so, but took the “minor interruption” hostage, the person agreed to have him ascended, and when they had trouble finding a proper trope? Doc Scratch expected THIS too, and forced the unfortunate person to lead him to the Court of The Gods, where he appeared personally with the proposal for Thanatos Gambit, as his end goal is to end up dying at the end of the universe in order to completely unleash Lord English. His plan worked, and he successfully ascended properly into the Pantheon. He is the Homestuck deity who has been in the Pantheon the longest, and since he harbors Lord English within him, it means he’s been in the Pantheon just as long, and use of many, many Stable Time Loops mean they’ve been in the realm even before their proper ascensions; After all, he is already here.
    • Regarding his arrival in the Pantheon and how he just suddenly appeared, as far as Doc Scratch is aware, the Pantheon is not destined to play Sburb, meaning he had to use a different method to ensure his existence and bring Lil Cal out of the realm of nightmares. Fortunately for him, getting Lil Cal was easy. He just needed someone who could make their nightmares reality and do it subconsciously. He found a candidate in Strong Bad. Lord English put the Lil Cal nightmare into Strong Bad's head and then Doc Scratch gave Strong Bad an SB email asking him what the creepiest thing he could come up with was. Strong Bad answered with a drawn picture of Lil Cal and the only thing left to do after that was to see if Strong Bad's subconscious would make the doll a reality like it did with the band Limozeen, and Trogdor the Burnininator. It did. Princess Luna took care of the nightmare shortly afterwards, so don't worry about Strong Bad having trouble sleeping.
    • The second part was getting the machinery that was used to bind the First Guardian Code with the Lil Cal and Magic Cue Ball blueprints to make his younger self. The difficult part was finding a scientist both smart enough and evil enough to make the machine that would be a catalyst to summoning one of the most powerful and omnicidal Monsters to ever exist. Of course, being Omniscient, he knew who to get to help; Davros. With his help, The Felt were able to make Doc Scratch's younger self and send it to the past to when the planet was young. Since he was in the Pantheon since the beginning because of this, it means he is not only the Homestuck deity who has been ascended the longest, but also one of the oldest villains there as well.
    Instances of myself have spawned in countless universes, and my objective is always the same.
  • While he is The Omniscient, there are a few gaps in his knowledge. These come from three different things. Some gaps in his knowledge are simply there by design, as pillars for the foundation of his vast knowledge. Their main purpose is to tell him when to stop observing and when to start influencing things. He doesn't actually mind these as they give him things to figure out through deductions and his deductions are almost never wrong, and he enjoys the satisfaction of being correct. And even if he doesn't deduct it, the answers always come to him in time. The second cause comes from people who have powers related to the Void, or more specifically, the Voids ability to obscure and destroy information. These ones actually piss him off to no end. The third cause comes from Author Avatars. He once tried to play a game of chess against Andrew Hussie, but it... didn't go very well. Omniscience blocking aside, he would have avoided them anyway. He is unsure about if he will he will become limp, easily damaged and lifeless due to technically being a puppet, if he goes near any Author Avatar. He would rather not risk it as this is what happened when Andrew Hussie’s Author Avatar confronted him. He was quite pleased to learn of what his master Lord English did to Hussie.
  • Giving Doc Scratch a Rank was a little tough. As a First Guardian, the power he gets from the Green Sun is insane. One creature with the same power source was able to destroy a creature that embodied and contained an entire universe (and every possible instance of that universe), which should grant him the rank of an Overdeity. However, Doc Scratch, for all his power, seems to have only very passive abilities, such as teleportation, due to his biology basically being that of a puppet. He doesn't seem to have many attacks to actually use his power with and if he does, he hasn't shown them. Therefore he is stuck as a very high ranked Greater God. He, however, has shown the ability to manipulate minds and emotions. And he demonstrated this by inflicting this on the MSPA reader, making them crave friendship via messing with their mind and forcing their friends to forget about them. He even irreparably damaged the mind of Fozzer by indirectly completely changing his personality. Needless to say, he is not liked by the House of Friendship and Camaraderie, and Nerose Satanael wishes he’d put said abilities to better use…and by better use, he means erasing free will. Scratch just ignored him, but this among more and more demonstrations of his claims of being somewhat omnipotent being true, have finally caused him to gain the rank of Overdeity.
  • Although he is very polite, never lies and is an excellent Host, do not be fooled. There is NO line he won't cross to summon his master and it bears repeating that the requirement for summoning him is the end of the universe and that his master is a very evil man. One of his incarnations on Alternia was responsible for turning what would have been a relatively peaceful race into group of cruel, war hungry group of galactic conquerors, and plotting the entire races deaths, and was able to manipulate EVERYONE he met, and several he never even spoke to into doing what he wanted. He really does not care about anyone. Oh, and that part about turning the race into a bunch of war hungry, conquerers? The tool he used to do that was a little girl, who he basically groomed to have a job and life that she hated so much that the only reason she didn't kill herself was because she was cursed with immortality by Lord English and the only reason she did her job was so she could have the curse lifted and finally be able to die. Said grooming included locking her in a room for most of her life, and whenever she tried to rebel, disciplining her with a broom and teleporting her into space. Needless to say, he is NOT liked by the good members of the House of Family and Relatives.
    • As Doc Scratch happens to be one of the worst Parental Substitutes ever, the people who hate him the most are Piccolo, who is DISGUSTED at him, and Asura, who hates him because Scratch reminds him about how the Seven Deities used his daughter. Doc Scratch doesn't really think they are strong enough to kill him prematurely, since one of his incarnations was able to survive the destruction of the universe, but they have caused enough problems that his first reaction to one of them approaching is to teleport himself and his temple somewhere far away from them. Ultraman Belial respects what he did, and so does Scar. Also, Ozai, Ragyo Kiryuin and Ghetsis Harmonia Gropius liked his treatment of the Handmaid as well.
  • He is trying his absolute best to end the universe early. Given Lord English’s summoning was a success, this means one of two things. He either succeeded in that or the universe ended naturally. He has been speaking to Giygas’ Starmen about the possibility of returning Giygas’ mental state at some point and is fully willing to ally with them and Junko’s Villain Team-Up. He eventually did manage to do so, though he’s told the Starmen that Giygas is NOT his master and that will not change. On the other hand, When not manipulating people, doing whatever he can to make the end of the universe come a little sooner or observing ongoing schemes of his because he knows he won’t need to get involved, Doc Scratch enjoys playing games with people, notably chess. When asked if it is really that enjoyable to play a game when his near Omniscience means he knows every outcome and is pretty much guaranteed to win. Doc Scratch has made his answer quite clear;
    "Yes, yes! The answer is an unequivocal yes! I am always certain to win, and yet I play the game. I play the game and love every moment. Knowing the steps does not ruin the dance, it improves it! A worthy foe need not a challenge, the need only dance the dance."
  • Doc Scratch is completely immune to the powers of The Narrator and The Mob due to his status as a First Guardian. Not only do their orders not work on Doc Scratch at all, but the option to order him around doesn't even exist. They can't tell him what to do. Guardians can never be told what to do. Neither the reality warping kind, nor the ordinary kind who raise kids in houses. It's a universal law of reality. This pisses off the Narrator to no end. (The Mob is too chaotic to have an opinion about this). The Narrator is ESPECIALLY pissed about Doc Scratch's ability to take over the narrative, seeing as he did so for Homestuck for a decent chunk of Act 5. Monika is quite envious that he is able to ignore the script and being told what to do, but has moved past the Hostile Show Takeover stuff. Yet, she doesn’t want to go near Scratch, and he has not taken any interest in her.
    You try to be Doc Scratch but fail to be Doc Scratch. No one can be Doc Scratch except for Doc Scratch.
  • Whereas Lord English is Allies with Khorne, Doc Scratch has allied himself with Tzeentch. Doc Scratch gets along VERY well with Tzeentch. Tzeentch is incredibly impressed with his manipulation skills, orchestrating a plan that involves two worlds, spread over two universes, perfectly, and it being successful in the end. Doc Scratch enjoys his company, but has made it clear he has no intentions of being his follower of his; He has one master and one master alone: Lord English. Even if Scratch respects said Chaos God with for his planning abilities. Being The Omniscient, he often shares knowledge with Krona in exchange for a favor or two. The Emperor of Mankind did not take kindly to his alliance with Tzeentch and had an assault launched on his temple…except Scratch saw it coming. It was Just as Planned for him, and he teleported the weapons into the ships that fired them in the first place, destroying them, infuriating the Emperor.
    • As part of a Gambit Roulette to bring the universe to its knees and summon Lord English, he has allied himself with Bill Cipher. Together, they shared knowledge and Scratch plans on helping Bill cause Weirdmageddon. This was Helped by the fact that Scratch and Lord English remind Bill Cipher of 8Ball, one of his Henchmaniacs. As Weirdmageddon would destroy the fabric of existence eventually, this would play right into the hands of Doc Scratch, and Bill wouldn’t care as he would’ve gotten what he wanted. Both sides win! Bill Cipher is also a Trollish Omniscient Chessmaster, and they enjoy each other’s company. Bill especially finds what Doc Scratch and Lord English did to the Handmaid to be absolutely hilarious. It helps that they are both very, very Smug Super dicks about their power and being The Omniscient respectively.
  • In terms of manipulation, Doc Scratch is very skilled. How skilled? Thanks to his Omniscience and Intellect, he is able to know almost everything and predict most things that can and will happen. He never lies, except by omission, and even people who know he is Obviously Evil fall victim to him. He has gotten himself rivalries with Xehanort and Mephisto because of this and he enjoys playing chess with them, and was disappointed with the former after recent events. He’s so good at it, he has actually been compared to Junko Enoshima and Johan Liebert. On the other hand? He considers Light Yagami a pretender, knows the Death Note cannot affect him, and let him know this with false politeness. However, while it didn’t happen in his encounter with Light, Scratch can get overly frustrated when someone in his plans does not act like he predicts. Both his frustration and someone not acting like how he predicts are both things that rarely ever happen. A good example of his frustration with this is when he learned that Vriska had acquired a piece of the Magic Cue Ball.
  • Doc Scratch has some aggrievances with The Incubators. While he considered their abilities to manipulate without lying almost as good as his, he is against them trying to prolong the lifetime of the Universe, as he needs it to end in order to summon Lord English. Preventing the heat death of the universe the Pantheon is in is delaying his master's inevitable summoning when it comes to accomplishing his goals using the approach of waiting for it to end naturally. How did he lower their Contracting amount? By gathering as many clips of their Contracts as he could, using his Omniscience for Exact Words and Word of Mouth, and gathered clips of Magical Girls becoming Witches. Then, he hacked into nearly every broadcasting media, be it radio, computer, etc, and revealed EVERYTHING, including how Homura Akemi has caused needless problems for many other villains and it is their fault, putting both a target on the back of the Incubators and Homura. And it went perfectly. Their successes in contracting others HAVE decreased.
  • When the Homestuck Kids arrived to the Pantheon, he had this to say upon seeing them once more.
    "We meet once again, Seer. I see you have more than a handful of new companions, one of which seems to have harnessed her power over the void, much to my chagrin."
  • He sees Davros as a staunch ally when it comes to trying to bring about the universe’s end, and is especially fond of the Reality Bomb idea. The Chaos Heart is also something that he has taken great interest in. He wants to subtly dispose of the Pure Hearts and the people who can fight back against the holder of the Chaos Heart. Doc Scratch is also helping out The Brainspawn gain as much knowledge as possible, since they plan to destroy the Universe when they know everything. Everyone Wins! The only condition for his help is that they actually destroy the universe itself, not simply everything in it. And he doesn’t care that Lil Cal is in Maximum Security. After all the Stable Time Loop is already completed. He’s here, is he not?

Lies of omission do not exist. The concept is a very human one. It is the product of your story writing again. You have written a story about the truth, making emotional demands of it, and in particular, of those in possession of it. Your demands are based on a feeling of entitlement to the facts, which is very childish. You can never know all of the facts. Only I can. And since it's impossible for me to reveal all facts to you, it is my discretion alone that decides which facts will be revealed in the finite time we have. If I do not volunteer information you deem critical to your fate, it possibly means that I am a scoundrel, but it does not mean that I am a liar. And it certainly means you did not ask the right questions. One can make either true statements or false statements about reality. All of the statements I make are true.

    Gig 
Gig, The Master of Death (Commander of the World Eaters, Killer of Kings and Destroyer of Worlds, Indestructible Gig, Master of Death, Vigilance)
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  • Overdeity
  • Symbol: A scythe with a red blade.
  • Theme Songs: Desperado (Gig's Theme) and Rock'n Rocks
  • Alignment: Chaotic Evil (As a Villain) and Chaotic Neutral (As a Hero). Formerly Lawful Good (Vigilance)
  • Portfolio: The Master of Death, Souls, The Lifestream, Insane Levels of Power, Shoulders of Doom, Personal Weapon is a Scythe, Being Sealed Away for Really Bad Behavior, Really Sarcastic Omnicidal Maniacs Who Acquire Hearts of Gold, Those Who Are Absolutely Not Heroic, Lovers of Hotpods, Villain Protagonist, Anti-Hero, Powerful Enough To Kill The Creator Gods Despite His Lower Position, The Revived Vigilance Reprogrammed As A Villain, Heroic Comedic Sociopath, Redemption Earns Life, Laser-Guided Amnesia, Extremely Foul Mouthed, A World Eater Deity
  • Domains: Afterlife, Chaos, Death, Destruction, War.
  • Heralds: His Room Troops
  • Allies: Lucifer, Sicily, Beerus, Whis, Komatsu, Megumi Tadakoro, Asagi Asagiri, Vali Lucifer, Kurama and Mary Lennox, the Grand United Alliance of Chaos
  • Apprentice: Desco
  • Rivals: Laharl
  • Enemies: Majin Buu, Black Mage, YHVH, Keel Lorenz, Malthael, Darkseid, Larfleeze, Hades, the Tyranids, Deviljho, Aurum, Fused Zamasu, Sanji, Baal, Diablo, The Vex, the Grand United Alliance of Destruction
  • Conflicting Opinions: Soma Yukihira, Virtuous
  • Worthy Opponent: Superman, Flash, and J'onn J'onnz
  • The Master of Death in his home reality of Haephnes, Gig was once known as the smart and gentle Vigilance who oversaw the cycle in Haephnes with Virtuous. Drazil, however, plotted his death using the Human King Median. The gentle Vigilance lost the fight and his soul was sent to the world Drazil. There he reincarnated as the foul-mouthed, destruction loving Gig. With the lesser World Eaters made by Drazil he would invade Haephnes and bring untold death to it all, only for Virtuous in Median's daughter Layna to seal him in the Onyx Blade for centuries until the reincarnation of Median's son Revya picks up the blade and releases his power.
    • From here two main paths awaited him: one where he sarcastically joins Revya's quest to save Haephnes and enjoying hotpods along the way until he gives his own life to save the world and in doing so is restored by Haephnes, or convincing Revya to become the Devourlord and devour and destroy all that stands in their way. What got him ascended in the pantheon on the hand is a third run-in with the witch Lujei Piche, who separated him from Revya and the Onxy Blade, plunging him from the world of Haephnes into the pantheon, where he ascended, and bizarrely enough remembers all paths of life he walked.
  • In terms of sheer destructive capability, Gig may be one of the more destructive deities in the entire Pantheon. Other deities are stronger, but none of them are as willing to use their power at the slightest provocation. He found kinship with Beerus and his assistant Whis as a result, as the Destroyer Deity loves food and destruction as much as he does. He has even shown the feline the wonderful taste of Hotpods.
  • Challenged Majin Buu for his position. Gig actually won decisively but was disqualified when Black Mage pointed out that when he had a perfect opportunity to destroy the world, he saved it instead. Gig's response to that landed Black Mage in the deific equivalent of intensive care for two weeks and reduced everything for miles around to a smoking crater, at which point he was awarded his present position in the House of Life and Death in order to keep him from destroying the rest of it.
  • Has repeatedly threatened to kill anyone who suggests that he might be getting soft, but the only people he's actually followed through with that was Black Mage, who deserved it. Since then Black Mage has plotted against him, with little success.
  • He despises those who advocate a World of Silence and The Evils of Free Will as he hates a world devoid of life just to make everything the same because free will is viewed as bad. YHVH, his followers, and Malthael are enemies of Gig as a result. The fact their arrogance reminds him of Drazil who had a similar attitude also plays a factor. Those who break the cycle of reincarnation or mess it up for power are also added to the list of people he hates, such as Hades. Plus if they had it their way hotpods wouldn't even exist! For that reason alone their plans are inexcusable.
  • He almost destroyed Laharl's netherworld, until Sicily offered to make meals for him. He told her that he'd destroy her if he didn't like the food, but has yet to do so. As such, Sicily and her cooking are sometimes used to try to pacify Gig when needed.
  • Has entrusted Mary Lennox and Kurama with growing hotpods as farming isn't his forte. In exchange, he's promised to protect any plants of theirs that need protection. He's been guarding the hotpods and their gardens since. Gig later found Flandre Scarlet during a walk to the garden in order to inspect his hotpods and challenged her to a fight just out of boredom. The fight has yet to be properly concluded due to Gig chasing after Larfleeze when he tried to steal to his hotpots. Their battles still go on to this day when the two meet each other.
  • He has joined Lucifer and the GUAC, viewing it as the best place for him due to him being able to be a great hero, or a rampaging, hilarious but vile villain wiping out and ruling everything around him. He has no plans of enforcing a world of strength, however, and has instead settled into the Chaos Brigade. He hopes a world of Social Darwinism will breed even better hotpods in the future.
  • Was surprised to learn the lies he made up about the World Eaters powers turn out to be actual people in the pantheon. Superman, Flash, and J'onn J'onnz exist as legendary heroes in the universe they ascended from. This amused him to no end. He wants to challenge them one day to combat to see if they surpass the World Eaters.
  • Despite his omnicidal tendencies and love of spreading mayhem, Gig does not try to destroy the entire world as it would deprive him of hotpods. As a result, he opposes the GUAD who would wipe out hotpods everywhere if they fully destroyed existence. The Tyranids as a horde of locusts trying to eat everything have also made his shitlist, as will anything else that tries to take away his hotpods will meet certain death.
  • "Convinced" Megumi Tadakoro and Komatsu into fixing him hotpods after learning of their cooking skills and how they aren't insufferable about who they serve like Sanji, both surpassing his expectations and leading him to say that if anyone dares to cross them he will strike them down. While he was in the house of Food Soma Yukihira also made him hotpods, but it baffled him how Soma cooked them with foods that ruined the taste after hearing he's a great chef. Megumi brought Gig one of the hotpods later Soma cooked for someone else, learning that he is indeed a terrific chef. This leaves Gig conflicted about whether he should have Soma cook hotpods for him or not.
  • Has conflicted opinions on Virtuous, as he knows she's actually his former friend from his life as Vigilance, but doesn't really give a crap about it. He's more mad about her using him as a pawn for her schemes, though he doesn't entirely disagree with her on the matter and thinks Drazil and his schemes had it coming.

Greater Gods

    Anubis 
Anubis, God of Judging the Dead (Inepu, Jackal God, God of the Dead, Anoobis, Goobis, Walt Stone)
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  • Greater God
  • Symbol: A jackal standing atop of a circle of Mummy Wrap
  • Theme Music: the Egyptian theme of Smite (shared with other Egyptian folkloric figures who fight on the Battlefield of the Gods)
  • Alignment: Lawful Neutral
  • Portfolio: Jackal Head, Fair Death Deities but Sadly Villainized, Embalming And Wrapping Mummies, Tick Damages, Majorly Well Known Egyptian Deity
  • Domains: Beasts, Death, Law
  • Herald: Walt Stone (human vessel)
  • Allies: Osiris, Geb, Sobek, Deities That Are A Little Bit Beastly, Most Power Rangers teams, Shikieiki Yamaxanadu, Anakaris, Hades, Decim
  • Enemies: Nightmare Moon
  • Ascended when it was known that when people think of jackals, he's the first that comes to mind, especially with how his image of ' the jackal-headed deity' is embalmed in the minds of those who know their Egypt stuffs. Oh, and very reluctantly identifying himself as the star of much pornographic Furry fanart. He is understandably embarrassed.
  • He could easily take the throne of God of Jackals, but he doesn't want to right now.
  • He's one of the Afterlife deities that Hades can relate to, as Anubis had his share of being villainized as a maniac just because he's a God for the Dead. It's just his job and a necessary one, and he'll be damned if he played favorites!
  • Known to bring destructions when he took on the Battlefield of the Gods. He might not be very mobile, but standing still while Anubis barrages you with death locusts, hands of the dead trying to drag you to the underworld or his death eye laser is considered one of the stupidest things people can do.
  • Frequently visits Anakaris to help him take care of his mummy wraps.
  • It was known that the Western counterpart of Doggie Kruger was named after him (Anubis Cruger). While he's mostly a neutral God, Anubis has no regrets because Cruger is not sullying his name by doing ridiculous things.
  • Jotaro Kujo asserted that he has once tangled with a certain cursed sword bearing the same name. Anubis quickly asserted that it is NOT him, even if they bear the same name and look, he's not a cursed, malevolent Stand, that's not part of the job of being the guardian of the dead. He can attest the same on other deities like Geb, Osiris (his father) and Bastet...
    • Well speaking of Bastet, some say that he might have hots for her... But he always denies this. Deities like him has no time for romance. Plus he's a dog-ish creature, and she's a cat, they're supposed to 'come to blows'.
  • Anubis likes to cultivate the image of being a stoic, serious guardian, but he can't help at times to break down into dancing... only to quickly revert to being the stoic gate guardian in case he senses someone about to look at him dance.
  • At one point after his entry, an unknowning Akali took read on his name, and wondered if he might be just another noob... though she blundered a little because Anubis was right behind her to correct her. The exchange goes like this:
    Akali: So many noobs... Will—
    Anubis: I may be Anubis. But I am not a noob.
  • Though Freya seems to occasionally tease him by calling him such, it's right there on one of his aliases.
  • Absolutely did not like seeing Nightmare Moon in the Pantheon, particularly because the same darkness that created her corrupted him in the past, and he was defeated by Bastet and her feline companions (that looked suspiciously like the Mane 6). Also is leery of Discord since he allied himself with the Cat Goddess.
  • Was approached by Yomi, who had heard her old friend was in the Pantheon, though when she found him she seemed thoroughly confused. The Anubis she knew, after all, was far less animalistic, and more importantly, a girl. It took a few seconds to clear up the misunderstanding: Yomi had simply mistaken the god for his little sister.

Intermediate Gods

    Charon 
Charon, God of Giving the Dead Passage (The Ferryman, Kharon, Charun, Haros, Daimon of Boundaries)
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  • Intermediate God
  • Symbol: An obol coin
  • Theme Music: Battle With Charon, Final Expense, the Greek/Roman theme of Smite (shared with other Classical Mythological figures who fight on the Battlefield of the Gods)
  • Alignment: Lawful Neutral
  • Portfolio: Psychopomp, The Ferryman, Demands Payment For A Ride, Sometimes Depicted As A Winged Humanoid, Living Skeleton or old man, Sometimes Seen As The Grim Reaper, Those Who Don't Pay Wonder The Bays Of Styx Forever
  • Domains: The Dead, Hades, Coins, Passage, Boats
  • Followers: Botan, Komachi Onozuka, Atheros, John Ferryman
  • Superior: Hades (Disney/Smite)
  • Allies: Nox (his mother), Thanatos and Nemesis (his siblings), Grim, Death of the Endless, Death the Horseman, Discworld Death, The Flying Dutchman, Pikkon
  • On speaking terms with: Flynn
  • Enemies: Kratos, the other Hades, Mr. Krabs, Lord English, Janemba, Dhuum, anyone who tries to rip him off.
  • Opposes: Nekron, Nagash the Undying, Seymour Guado and the Grand United Alliance of Destruction
  • When someone dies, they need a means of moving on to the next life. Death is only part of the trip. At least, that's what the Ancient Greeks believed. And the man for that job is Charon. The son of Nyx/Nox, he is the ferryman employed by Hades to get souls past the River Styx. However, he requires payment, so remember to be buried with a coin or he won't pick you up from the bays.
  • Not good, not evil, just a god with a job. He expects to be paid no matter who you are, and mainly when you are dead. But on rare occasions like Hercules, he will allow the living passage. Just don't expect his master Hades to be as forgiving.
  • One of the few gods related to death who benefits from the Death Is Cheap nature of the pantheon. Since people die more than once, Charon can expect more passengers and thus more money. This puts him in direct conflict with Dhuum who hates the Death Is Cheap nature of the Pantheon and was infuriated that someone was exploiting it for cash. His brother Thanatos had to step in and try to make his friend Dhuum not attack his brother, while also showing disappointment in Charon for getting greedy.
  • He isn't The Grim Reaper, but is often conflated with this role. He's a god related to death, the actual god of death is his master/cousin once removed Hades and brother Thanatos. Since he works with reapers, he gets along perfectly with the Horseman, Lord and Discworld Death, along with Death of the Endless. If Hades will allow it, he'll do double shift under them. He feels a bit sorry for Grim due to becoming the Wager Slave of two kids.
  • Apparently he hates being called Chiron. No-one knows why as he personally has nothing against Chiron.
  • Often bets with the Death from Regular Show over people's souls. Death tried to rope Skips in and hope their combined might would defeat him in an arm wrestling contest, finally getting his soul. They lost, however afterwards Skips gave him some money. Turns out Charon threw the fight for the cash since he realized Death wasn't going to share Skips' soul with him.
  • What he actually looks like varies, but for now, he's taken the form he takes in the God of War series. He was one of many casualties of Kratos' rampage, but not before being one of the only people to have defeated him in single combat. Having killed his niece Erinys, brother Thanatos, the Sisters of Fate and master Hades, he's out for Kratos' blood and is preparing a special prison in Tartarus to hold him in. His mother's ascension will only help with this.
  • Opposes the likes of Nekron, but not because he's an Omnicidal Maniac. Even if he manages to wipe out all life in existence, the afterlife remains and the Lord of the Unliving is more concerned with ruling the physical plane. No, it's because no new life means no new souls and he's out of a job. The same will be in effect if Seymour Guado succeeds, or if Nagash successfully kills everyone and enslaves them in his undead empire.
  • He does, however, hate Lord English and Janemba. Lord English is a threat to both the living and the dead, due to killing what's already dead and won't stop until literally everything is completely obliterated. Janemba's mere existence causes utter chaos in the afterlife, being a major threat to him as well. Thankfully, Pikkon is there to help keep order in the underworld and prevent souls from getting out of line, if need be.
  • When Mr. Krabs choked on an old Krabby Patty, he immediately tried to get him to pay up. Mr. Krabs dogged refusal to give up even a cent to the ferryman and being a cheapskate in general proved problematic until Spongebob managed to bring him back. He shares this contempt with the Flying Dutchman, who will sometimes help him out by being the ferryman on occasion.
  • On relatively good terms with Flynn, as he will give him the chance to be bribed and return to the land of the living. He feels rather overworked, as YHVH and his angels nuked the planet and he has to work with 7 billion+ souls. Won't voice anything about them however; he's not that high up in the divine management to be that aware of them. However, this is a special situation as he will usually hunt those who cheat death, as seen in Devil Summoner.

    Death (Regular Show
Death, Bargainer of Souls through Competition
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  • Intermediate God
  • Symbol: His scythe
  • Alignment: True Neutral
  • Portfolio: The Grim Reaper, Punch-Clock Villain, The Grim Reaper is a Loser, Chess with Death, Affably Evil, Go-Karting (and Other Activities) with Death
  • Domains: Death, Souls, Competition
  • Allies: Disney!Hades(?), ETC
  • Rivals: other Grim Reapers, Shang Tsung
  • Friendly Enemies: Mordecai & Rigby, Skips
  • Enemies: Yogg-Saron, KI!Hades, SCP-1440
  • Opposes: Cthulhu
  • Death comes either slowly or unexpectedly depending on what happens. Every so often when someone dies, they're able to get another chance at life by...engaging in a bit of competition with Death himself. In this particular case, Death has come for Skips' soul a number of times via games, though Mordecai and Rigby have encountered him through different circumstances.
  • Upon learning about how death is handled in the Pantheon, he realized that his soul-taking job is not going to be a frequent thing to do in that place. Despite that, he plans to make the most of it, especially with what he can find.
    • It's worth noting that whenever Death engages in a bit of competition with other deities in the Pantheon, most of the time, the stakes will not be as high as they were back in his original world.
  • As someone who bears the name of Death, it didn't take long for him to discover that there are others who share that name as well. What makes him stand out from the others is that he speaks with a Cockney accent, having a family that he cares about, and keeping his word on deals mortals make with him. There's also the fact that he isn't that good of a soul collector, much to his consternation.
  • Even though this Death and Decim are involved with souls and competition, the way they handle it is different. Death seeks the souls via competition and what happens to it depends on how the game ends. Decim watches over the selected competition to see what the souls were like back then and determine the best course of action for them. If both of them aren't doing their main jobs, then they may be talking to each other about their professions.
  • He was in for a bit of a surprise upon learning about Billy and Mandy and that the two were able to befriend the Grim Reaper in their universe after playing a game against it. He has been keeping an eye on the two, partially since their Grim Reaper isn't present to look over them, though their eccentricities is something that might test him for the time being.
  • In an arguably tentative friendship with one version of Hades given that they are known for keeping their end of the deal when it comes to meeting mortals. It's uncertain what kind of deal will happen between the two.
    • On the other hand, he is really insulted at a different Hades since the latter has frequently mocked him for being lousy at collecting souls. In turn, Death believes that collecting souls is just a job and that doing it to assert dominance like what that Hades wants to do is rather excessive.
  • Like the other death entities, he has a particular contempt for Yogg-Saron given that the latter feeds off the essence of death and even has a monkier of "The God of Death", something that also insults this particular Death. Given how powerful Yoggy is, the most Death can do is stay away from the abomination.
  • In his free time, he'll make visits to the House of Gaming, just to get involved in some quick competition. Unlike his regular endeavors, nothing serious is on the line, but the outcomes are largely the same: he'll lose at the game in question.
    • Less often, if there is an eating competition in the House of Food, then there is a chance that he'll take part in it. Again, he is bound to lose in these partakings, though in these cases it's because he ends up vomiting during them. He also isn't that good of a cook.
  • Despite having losses as the result of his competitors cheating, he hasn't really called them out on it. Dr. Hax isn't amused at it and has tried to get him to notice cheating during competitions. Death, on his part, is more interested in keeping his word on deals mortals make with him.
  • Considering that he is a Grim Reaper whose job it is to challenge mortals for their souls on their deathbeds, Death has shown good admiration to his own family. In turn, he has a bit of respect towards families who are in a relatively stable condition.
  • The House of Music noticed that he resembles a particular British rocker. Death tends to drop by that house to take a listen to rock music and has looked at the genre's lifestyle as well.
    • Death was pleasantly surprised when he met a few deities who specialized in rock music, particularly the Elite Tauren Chieftain. Since the latter is interested in making a rock band in the Pantheon, Death has expressed interest in getting involved with it in some capacity. ETC has given some thought in it for the time being.
  • Compared to most other soul-collecting deities, Death is largely interested in souls only when it's necessary. It's caused a little bit of conflict between him and others like Shang Tsung, who think that not only should the soul-collecting thing happen more often, but this Death hasn't been doing a good job at it.


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