Physical God / Western Animation

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• Avatar: The Last Airbender:
  • Avatars are a vergence of spirit and human: of Raava, the great spirit of peace and harmony, and the latest human incarnate she blends with. As such, the living Avatar is the only individual capable of wielding all four Elemental Powers in the form of Supernatural Martial Arts, and of channeling cosmic energies to amplify these elemental powers to epic levels. This is quite necessary, as they lack invulnerability and need to actively defend themselves like anyone else. The second season of The Legend of Korra introduced the "Dark Avatar", the fusion of Raava's eternal foe Vaatu, spirit of chaos and darkness, and Korra's Evil Uncle Unalaq.
  • Before the era of the Avatar, the massive Lion Turtles were this. They protected humans from the spirits. They were responsible for the creation of the Avatar when they granted the power of the four elements to a teenager named Wan. Unfortunately different factions of humans waged wars on each other and slaughtered the Lion Turtles to weaken other factions. Only one managed to survive and lived long enough to meet Aang. The Lion Turtle taught Aang Energybending, a skill rare even among the Avatars.
• Ben 10: Ultimate Alien:
  • In the Grand Finale, Ben possesses the powers of the Ultimatrix, Ascalon, and Dagon. Vilgax tries to corrupt him into becoming a universe-conquering tyrant by pointing out that Ben could do anything, and fix everything with that much power at his fingertips. Ultimately, Ben's girlfriend Julie convinces him not to abuse the power. Ben only uses his powers to restore Earth's population back to normal before relinquishing them to Azmuth.
  • Dagon was also this, considering that he is a half-mile-wide octopus thing who can change size, mind control people, control the weather, and a few other godly things. His first move was to turn everyone in the world into Esoterica.
  • Celestialsapiens could be considered a god species, since they could remake all of reality with a single thought. Then recall that Ben can turn into one using the Omnitrix.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Though referred to as a "spirit", Gaia qualifies. She's only physical on Hope Island, though. Her nastier counterpart, Zarm, generally doesn't have that problem, though he sometimes needs a spaceship.
• Final Space: The Titans. They're mostly humanoid-shaped eldritch abominations who can manipulate their size at will, but in their default state are each about the size of a very large planet. They were responsible for constructing the universe before Invictus poisoned their minds, they can physically sprint to get around through zero gravity in space, they can manipulate their size to make themselves anywhere from human-sized to larger than a star (with their default size being closer to the latter than the former), and they can manipulate the fabric of space-time to the point of folding stars to forge weapons and clawing through the walls between dimensions.
• Futurama:
  • One episode features an odd example: a galaxy-sized space anomaly who admits it may or may not be God (it's not sure itself). It does have incredible power and apparently receives a portion of God's worship, though.
  • Yivo from The Beast With a Billion Backs qualifies. Shkle is a planet-sized entity from another universe who possesses nigh-invulnerable tentacles capable of destroying or breaking any form of matter from our universe due to being made of electromatter, a primordial form of matter. Yivo can also resurrect the dead, travel between universes at will, alter matter and energy and shkle's body is literally Heaven itself, capable of providing resources and room for all life in our universe. The only things that can kill Yivo is electromatter or exiting shkler's universe.
• Gargoyles:
  • Oberon's Children (and especially Oberon himself) are really The Fair Folk, but due to their immense power, they were worshipped as gods. Anubis and Odin are a few other examples, but not Jesus of course.
  • Goliath becomes one for an episode after donning the Eye of Odin in a desperate attempt to stop Odin from killing him and his companions in his bid to retrieve the Eye. He becomes even more powerful than Odin himself thanks to the Eye's ability to drain Odin's power. Unfortunately, With Great Power Comes Great Insanity.
• Generator Rex: In the Grand Finale, Rex gains the power of the united Meta-Nanites. When he ponders what he should do with his newfound power, Black Knight says "You're a god now Rex. You can do anything you want." Fortunately, Rex only uses that power once to initiate a global Cure event before ordering the Meta-Nanites to shut down. He doesn't want anyone to have access to such power again, including himself.
• Justice League: Amazo's animated counterpart, more specific when he came back in Justice League Unlimited, having travelled through galaxies and collected as many powers and as much knowledge as he could. This resulted in him being able to accomplish Godlike feats like being able to "think" planets out of his way without technically being a God. He also manages to battle against all available JLU members like they were nothing. He was only stopped because JLU's reasons to fight him were all a misunderstanding, he wasn't returning to Earth for revenge but simply to find a purpose in his life. (He put everything he moved back in place by just "thinking it" again, showing he was a good guy after all). He then he left to play chess along with other absurd beings.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • The Winged Unicorn Princesses Celestia and Luna are the closest things the ponies have to gods, not directly worshipped but invoked as if they were. They control the sun and the moon, and seem to be immortal (both are over a thousand years old). The comics imply that the show has not depicted their true power yet. In My Little Pony: FIENDship Is Magic, it's shown that Celestia fought Chrysalis and her entire army once. The battle ended with the Changelings utterly defeated, scarred with their holes, and sealed in a volcano.
  • There are some other alicorns, who have powerful magic but nothing godlike, and some other beings that can challenge the power of the ruling sisters at least temporarily — but these, too, fall short of godlike, with some exceptions:
  • Discord, the spirit of chaos, is older than the royal sisters and capable of doing just about anything with a snap of his claws, much like Q. He's also on a higher tier than the sisters as an Anthropomorphic Personification; an abstract concept instead of a celestial body. The sisters could only defeat him using the Elements of Harmony.
  • In the Season 4 finale, Tirek becomes this after draining Discord's magic along with the magic of every pony in Equestria. Twilight Sparkle also becomes one after the other princesses give her their magic.
• The Owl House: "Edge of the World" reveals that the Collector is worshipped as a god called the Huntsman on a different Titan corpse. In "King's Tide" once freed he proceeds to demonstrate his capabilities as this when he moves the moon by simply dragging it like a touchscreen, flicking it away from the sun to stop the draining spell, then proceeds to level Belos' lair by lifting his arms while levitating and summoning King back to him. They're so powerful that the only thing capable of defeating and imprisoning them was a fully grown Titan, a being the size of an island with immense magical power, and even then it's heavily implied that the Titan died in the process.
• In Project G.e.e.K.e.R., Geeker is an artificial lifeform who has complete mastery over his own molecular structure. That makes him very powerful. His only limitation is that he was freed before the loyalty and intelligence program could be installed, making him a Cloudcuckoolander who is blissfully unaware of how powerful he actually is.
• Rick and Morty:
  • Rick builds a micro universe with sentient life in 'The Ricks must be crazy.' And yes, the inhabitants venerate Rick (i.e., celebrations such as 'Ricksgiving'). Further, the President explicitly refers to Rick as a 'Living God' in 'The Rickchurian Mortydate.' Given Rick's sufficiently advanced technology, its probably an accurate description.
  • Rick is friends with Hephaestus, who has never turned down an offer for "a job".
  • "Childrick of Mort" sees Rick do battle with a Zeus-like God named Reggie. After the battle he tells the others Reggie was just a God: if it were "the real thing", it would be a whole different story.
• South Park:
  • Apparently, Mickey Mouse is a powerful godlike entity limited only by his need to slumber in Valhalla after his destructive, fire-breathing rampages.
  • Cthulhu also makes an appearance.
  • So does Jesus, if you're into that whole Trinity thing.
• Star Wars: The Clone Wars: The Force is usually portrayed as a nonspecific Sentient Cosmic Force, but "The One" arc in this series introduced Son, Daughter, and Father, who were, apparently, aspects of the Force that had taken on humanoid form. Unless they were just very powerful Force Adepts whose relationship perfectly mirrored the nature of Balance... it is very ambiguous. In Star Wars Rebels, Veris Hydan refers to them as gods implying that they were believed to be gods at some point in the past. Star Wars Legends revealed them to be the Last of His Kind of a race of Precursors known as the Celestials.
• Steven Universe: The four Diamonds. They are physical giants; they appear to have powers far beyond ordinary Gems; it is implied that there are multiple copies of all other Gem-types while the Diamonds are each one-of-a-kind; Gems are a manufactured race, but the question of who 'made' the Diamonds has yet to be raised; and they are capable of living forever unless shattered, which is an eventuality so unthinkable that the shattering of Pink Diamond was a cataclysmic event in Gem history, as well as a source of great mystery as to how it actually 'happened', even to the Diamonds themselves. And it turns out she was never actually shattered in the first place — she faked her own shattering using a handful of counterfeit gem shards. Truly shattering a Diamond may actually be impossible.
  • It's worth noting that Gem Homeworld society appears to be a Cult of Personality built around depicting the Diamonds as living gods, so how much of this is truth and how much of this is good PR is anyone's guess.
  • This essentially means that Steven Universe also counts as one since he inherited Pink Diamond's gem, though he has yet to realize his full potential.
  • When we finally see Yellow and Blue fight themselves, it proves to be more than simply PR: they possess immense sheer power and strength, a Superpower Lottery, and are Nigh-Invulnerable enough that buildings and entire miles long warships falling on their heads is considered a minor inconvenience.
  • When Steven's Gem is removed by White Diamond, his Gem reforms not as Pink Diamond or even Rose Quartz but as a pink Hard Light version of Steven. "Pink Steven" shows just how powerful Steven's Gem really is by easily overcoming even White Diamond herself in his attempts to reunite with Steven.
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003): The Ninja Tribunal consists of four humans turned gods after intensive, if unspecified, training; when we first see them in the present, they are shown to possess immortality, limited omniscience, and the ability to reshape reality, among other perks.
• Teen Titans: Trigon the Terrible turned the world into a fiery wasteland as part of his dramatic entrance, is big enough to use the T-tower as an interimistic throne, and he reminds you that you are only an insignificant insect compared to him. Then Raven presumably kills him.
• Transformers:
  • Primus and Unicron in various generations, the latter of whom is a space-traveling planet-sized eater of worlds and the former of whom either lives in or actually is the Transformers' home planet of Cybertron and created them to battle Unicron.
  • The Original Thirteen Transformers could count here. Prima, Vector Prime, Nexus Prime, Megatronus (The Fallen), Alpha Trion, Solus Prime, Liege Maximo, Micronus Prime, Onyx Prime, Amalgamous Prime, Alchemist Prime, Quintus Prime and the Thirteenth Prime Optimus Prime. Each of them has some kind of god-like power.
  • Whoever possesses the Matrix of Leadership, which is basically a piece of Primus, would not only become a Prime, but also gain a portion of Primus' godly power.
• In Wakfu, anyone who taps into the power of artifacts such as the Eliacube or the 12 Dofus will gain power equal to or even surpassing that of the official deities of the World of Twelve. For more specific examples:
  • Ogrest, the being responsible for the flood that shaped the World of Twelve into what it is now. Originally a relatively harmless infant created from Ogrine by the demigod alchemist Otomai, he consumed the six Elemental Dofus while being manipulated by the doll Dathura. The six Dofus transformed Ogrest into an incredibly powerful monster whose might surpassed that of the Twelve, but he was reduced to a near mindless raging beast in the process. Even better, he can command the loyalty of the six elemental Dragons linked to the Dofus he possesses, each one just barely below deity levels of strength themselves.
  • Nox was once a harmless Xelor clock and toy maker who lacked talent in the Time Master magic of his race. Discovering the Eliacube changed that. The Eliacube made him far more powerful, intelligent, and crazy. In the end, he accomplished something that was originally deemed impossible even by the gods by reversing the flow of time. Albeit by a mere twenty minutes, but rewinding time for the entire Krosmos (read, the universe) for any length of time is no small feat. The only beings capable of matching him power-wise once he went all-out were one of the Eliatrope dragons and Yugo after he tapped into the Eliacube's power himself.
  • The Dragons born from the Eliatrope Dofus are technically "only" demigods, being among the firstborn of the Wakfu goddess Eliatrope and the Stasis god Great Dragon. Compared to the mortal denizens of the World of Twelve, they are effectively deities in their own right. Similar rankings can seen with the strongest elemental Dragons created through the hand of the god Osamodas.
  • Qilby effectively becomes one after merging with the Eliacube, displaying Eliatrope powers of a far greater magnitude than Yugo's own, even after Phaeris unlocked Yugo's potential. Even the combined might of the rest of the Eliatropes isn't enough to stop him. He is only foiled when a Dofus explodes right in his face, separating him from the Eliacube.
  • Rushu, the strongest of the Shushu who resides in the pure Stasis dimension of Shukrute. He wants to be recognized as a fellow deity by the Twelve, but they refuse on the grounds that a being of pure Stasis would upset the balance between Wafku and Stasis that exists on the World of Twelve. He's already regarded as a deity in his own dimension, having eaten any would-be competitors (his brothers no less), but that's not enough for him. He's managed to gain a few followers in the World of Twelve such as the city of Brakmar (which unsurprisingly is something of a Wretched Hive).
  • Goultard the Barbarian started out as a demigod, being the son of Iop and the mortal woman Catrine. He eventually became the immortal steward to Iop's power while Iop himself is on leave reincarnating into mortal incarnations and is effectively the new Iop. He's strong enough to fight the aforementioned Rushu on an even footing and in the OVA he defeats Rushu and uses the would-be god as a footrest.
  • Sadlygrove, being the current incarnation of Iop briefly becomes a physical god again when he reclaims his power so he can fight Ogrest in the OVA. By the end of it, he is glad to hand the power back to Goultard for keeps having remembered why he gave up godhood in the first place.
  • Yugo is already a demigod, being the firstborn child of Eliatrope and Great Dragon. But when he taps into the power of all six Eliatrope Dofus in the OVA, he becomes so powerful that he is able to fight Ogrest and his six Dragons. Too powerful unfortunately, since just channeling that much wafku threatens to tear the World of Twelve apart. He also kind of breaks the timestream a bit, allowing humans in the Dofus era to see him. Said humans start to worship Yugo as a new god, which retroactively creates a new race in the World of Twelve, the Eliotropes.
  • In Season 3, Adamai is already very powerful, being the strongest of the aforementioned Eliatrope Dragons when fully grown. When channeling all six of the Eliatrope Dofus like Yugo did, he's bar none the most powerful being in the series, even stronger than the actual Twelve Gods. Unfortunately, he's an antagonist this season.
  • Also from Season 3, there's the Big Bad Oropo. Oropo is the last Eliotrope, having inherited the wakfu of all of the others when they passed. He's had centuries to hone the same powers his "creator" Yugo wields. He also has possession of the Eliacube. Near the end of the season, he absorbs the power of the Eliacube and the six Eliatrope Dofus to become a massive owl-like giant made of pure wakfu that curb stomps the heroes with ease, with even Goultard himself barely able to do much more than deflect his attacks.
  • In Season 4, we finally see how the Mechasms were able to drive the Eliatropes to near extinction. A single Mechasm, Lokus, resides in Inglorium and is strongly implied to have defeated the Twelve Gods. Qilby is barely able to steal Lokus' heart to forge another Amplifier Artifact like the Eliacube, the Eliasphere. The Eliasphere is even more powerful than the Eliacube, a sign of just how powerful Lokus is.
  • And then there's Season 4's Big Bad the Necros King Toross Mordral. Like Ogrest, Adamai, and Yugo, Toross wields the power of the Six Dofus (from his world). He's also a Necros, meaning he's a Wakfu vampire who simply absorbs any Wakfu thrown at him. He also wields the incredibly dangerous and destructive Stasis energy. His main weakness is that like all Necros he's starved of Wakfu and needs to absorb a lot of it just to move. When he's charged with enough Wakfu to get off his throne and fight, he gives the World of Twelve's strongest champions the fight of their lives. It takes a team effort between Yugo — aged to his physical prime and granted the experience of the Eliotropes' spirits and wielding the Eliatrope Dofus — and Goultard — fully tapping into the power of the god Iop — to defeat Toross.
• Winx Club:
  • The second season introduces the Great Dragon's (the god of creation and magic) evil counterpart: the Shadow Phoenix, currently going by the name of Lord Darkar. He can absorb magic, shape-shift from an armored skeleton to a creepy phoenix, create hordes of tar monsters whose only weakness is light, corrupt fairies, grant power boosts to witches, summon demonic creatures, and manipulate dark energy. He was born from the void in conjunction with the Great Dragon right at the beginning of the universe. Ironically, it only took a very powerful convergence from six mid-tier fairies to defeat him.
  • The third season brings the Elders of Magix to the mix. They are eternal magical beings who guard the Water Stars (the elemental counterpart of the Great Dragon) and inhabit the Golden Kingdom, a dimension isolated from the rest of the universe and outside of time. Overall, they are a downplayed example seeing they seem to be more demigods than anything. Although Arcadia, the first fairy to ever exist, has reality-warping powers over at least the Golden Kingdom. Arcadia is also the most "divine-looking" with her glittering, pale blue skin, her gold eyes, and her large wings.
  • The fourth season has a much more straight example — the three almighty Ethereal Fairies. They are similar in appearance to Arcadia and, like her, they exist outside time and space, therefore being immortal. The trio, however, seems to be tied to Earth rather than the Enchanted Dimension. The Ethereal Fairies are implied to be able to predict the future and pick their own Chosen Ones, granting these champions with the Gifts of Destiny. Two of the latter (Wisdom and Heart) are transformation boosts for fairies while the third, the Black Gift, is a powerful spell that can bring any living being back from death.
  • The seventh season, produced after a soft-recon, has the Infinity Swan, keeper of the Ultimate Power of the Fairy Animals. Ignoring the mouthful, this being is a glowing, majestic swan born from the magical convergence of six bonded fairy animals, erasing them from existence. The Infinity Swan guards the greatest Beastmaster magic — the ability to control and summon all fairy animals which, in turn, gives access to the Mini Worlds (miniature, pocket dimensions) and to all of the Wild Magic.
• W.I.T.C.H. has Elyon, Queen of Meridian, one of the most powerful beings in the Infinite Dimensions, so powerful she had to be tricked into an impenetrable prison for most of the second season so that the main characters had something to do.

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