Basic Trope Description: A (usually primitive) group of people worships a totally mundane non-animate object.
- Straight: The primitive Troperenny tribe worships the god Bo-Ig, who turns out to be a plane wreck.
- Exaggerated: The Troperenny have a whole, eight-million strong pantheon of deities who are all perfectly mundane things.
- Downplayed: The Troperenny believe that the plane wreck they worship is the house of a god named Bo-Ig.
- Justified:
- To the Troperenny, the plane Bo-Ig looks exactly like descriptions of a powerful air god from their mythology, and they mistake the plane for him since they don't know about planes.
- The Troperenny live in a world After the End, and planes are Lost Technology and therefore very outerworldly to them.
- Inverted: Bo-Ig, a plane, is a member of a cult of planes that views humans as deities and worships them as such, based on such experiences like humans building (they are their creators) and steering them (they have the planes' fate under their control).
- Subverted:
- The Troperenny worship a plane they call Bo-Ig...but Bo-Ig is a real god and incarnated as a plane.
- The missionaries Alice and Bob discover the cult and try to explain planes to the Troperenny. The Troperenny priest counters that they know about planes and use the wreck as a temple for their god Bo-Ig.
- Double Subverted:
- Bo-Ig dies, leaving behind the plane wreck as his corpse. Now, it is nothing but a normal plane wreck.
- Their knowledge about the house of Bo-Ig makes the Troperenny think that Alice and Bob are sent by him, and their descriptions of planes sounded outerworldly enough to most Troperenny to think that the plane wreck is in fact Bo-Ig's body.
- Enforced: The author of the show thinks that Belief Makes You Stupid and puts this in as An Aesop about this trope.
- Averted: None of the religions shown worships a mundane thing as a god.
- Parodied:
- Bo-Ig's holy ceremony consists of people jumping around the plane naked, stretching their arms to the side and imitating plane sounds not getting that it looks like Blowing a Raspberry.
- Zig-zagged: Some of the gods worshiped by the Troperenny prove to be rather mundane things, some are obscure beings that are in heaven, and some even prove to be very real Physical Gods.
- Invoked: Crew and passengers of a crashed plane are mistaken for gods by the Troperenny and play along with their worship to survive in the jungle until they are saved. After they are saved, their visit lives on in Troperenny legends, creating a cult around their crashed plane.
- Exploited: The explorers Alice and Bob, who know about planes, explain planes to the Troperenny to paint themselves as sent by Bo-Ig and to adopt a God Guise this way.
- Defied: Thanks to the missionaries Alice and Bob explaining planes to the Troperenny, Bo-Ig is recognized as a mundane plane wreck, and his worship dies out.
- Lampshaded: "Here is our place of worship. This is Bo-Ig, our god of air..." "But that's nothing but some old plane!"
- Discussed: Hara, a member of the Troperenny, discusses her faith with Alice. Alice gets that they worship a plane and tries to point that out, but Hara insists on Bo-Ig being a deity.
- Conversed: "To be honest, if I didn't knew what planes are and how they worked, I would maybe view a plane as something supernatural too."
- Implied: A plane wreck is frequently decorated by members of the Troperenny tribe, and burnt incense and meat are also frequently discovered around.
- Deconstructed: After a heavy storm that destroys their village, the Troperenny believe that Bo-Ig is angry and start sacrificing people to him to pacify him, and many lose their lives for nothing. Also, someone trying to explain that Bo-Ig is only a mundane plane wreck triggers a This Means War! response in them.
- Reconstructed: Some people from a charity who believe in Culture Justifies Anything motivate the Troperenny to continue worshiping Bo-Ig, up to and even their regular Human Sacrifice.
- Played for Laughs: Alice, a Fish out of Water, understands that Bo-Ig is only a plane wreck. She tries to point that out, but is frequently rebutted.
- Played for Drama: Hara regularly prays to Bo-Ig, and hopes for him to heal her sick family. Nevertheless, her family dies, what makes her desperate and sends her into a Crisis of Faith.
- Played for Horror: Bloody, cruel Human Sacrifice ceremonies were created only to pacify Bo-Ig, an old plane wreck.
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