"If the president does it, then it is not a crime. "
— President Callahan, Transmetropolitan
"I look down on existence from a much higher perspective than you do. I witness this world, this universe and the truth of all things. That yields deeper understanding. Wisdom. The realization that all mortals should be destroyed. The one and only mistake among all divine creations. That is what mortals are. And this mistake is egregious. To shape existence into the beautiful utopia it was always meant to be, the mistake must be corrected. I will purge all mortals from existence. In place of the gods WHO REFUSE TO ADMIT FAILURE!"
— Goku Black, Dragon Ball Super
Larry: Are you really saying that the deity can do something immoral?
Mr. Deity: I'm saying when the deity does it, it's not immoral.
Mr. Deity: I'm saying when the deity does it, it's not immoral.
Gregor: I would never question your morals. I know you have none. I merely wonder why you are so confident you will succeed in all of this, that you will save the world and you will achieve your new world order and your parahuman leadership.
Doctor Mother: We have a parahuman that sees the path to victory. The alternative to traveling this path, to walking it as it grows cloudier and narrower every day, is to stand by while each and every person on this planet dies a grisly and violent death.
Weaver: You know how the world ends?
Doctor Mother: Of course. We already saved it once.
Doctor Mother: We have a parahuman that sees the path to victory. The alternative to traveling this path, to walking it as it grows cloudier and narrower every day, is to stand by while each and every person on this planet dies a grisly and violent death.
Weaver: You know how the world ends?
Doctor Mother: Of course. We already saved it once.
— Worm
God: What is the source of your anger, child?
Alucard: Oh, fuck you! You're omniscient, you already know.
God: Yes. I want you to say it. [Beat] ...Was it the ten years of ra—
Alucard: IT WAS THE TEN YEARS OF RAPE! Nailed it like the FUCKING Romans! Let me ask you something, Yahweh. Which set of prints were yours in the sand? The handprints, the kneeprints, OR THE FOOTPRINTS BEHIND THOSE!?
God: I have a plan for everyone.
Alucard: And what's the plan for all those starving children in... oh I don't know: in "Name-An-African-Country"? Is it for them to die? Because if so, killer plan!
Alucard: Oh, fuck you! You're omniscient, you already know.
God: Yes. I want you to say it. [Beat] ...Was it the ten years of ra—
Alucard: IT WAS THE TEN YEARS OF RAPE! Nailed it like the FUCKING Romans! Let me ask you something, Yahweh. Which set of prints were yours in the sand? The handprints, the kneeprints, OR THE FOOTPRINTS BEHIND THOSE!?
God: I have a plan for everyone.
Alucard: And what's the plan for all those starving children in... oh I don't know: in "Name-An-African-Country"? Is it for them to die? Because if so, killer plan!
"I'm the Doctor. And if you don't like it... if you want to take it to a higher authority, then there isn't one. It stops with me."
— 10th Doctor, Doctor Who, "New Earth"
"This is wrong, Doctor! I don't care who you are: the Time Lord Victorious is wrong!"
—Adelaide Brooke (shortly before revoking an Omniscient Morality License), Doctor Who, "The Waters of Mars"
"In my stories superior beings — truly superior beings — can do things that if a lesser being, like a human, were to do, it would indeed be evil."
"You just act like you know stuff I don't know and that makes everything you do OK..."
— Delirium calling out Morpheus on this, The Sandman (1989)
"I keep looking into the future, when all of this has already been solved, as if it doesn't matter how you feel in the present. No wonder you think I don't care!"
— Sapphire, Steven Universe
Mithra: Why would you do such a thing?
Chakravartin: To find my heir. The one who will guide this world in my stead.
Mithra: Why do you not just let us be? We finally have found peace!
Chakravartin: Your peace is but a fleeting moment in the eternal span of time. One who can guide your kind on the right path must be chosen.
Mithra: If it is a fleeting moment, why do you not leave us to savor it?
Chakravartin: It is my destiny as the one who possesses power.
Mithra: In that case... your power is not needed!
Chakravartin: Not needed, you say? Your precious Mantra, born from prayers and souls, was bestowed upon you by none other than me. If the wheel of life which I control is lost, so is the Mantra. What do you think will happen to your kind then?
Chakravartin: To find my heir. The one who will guide this world in my stead.
Mithra: Why do you not just let us be? We finally have found peace!
Chakravartin: Your peace is but a fleeting moment in the eternal span of time. One who can guide your kind on the right path must be chosen.
Mithra: If it is a fleeting moment, why do you not leave us to savor it?
Chakravartin: It is my destiny as the one who possesses power.
Mithra: In that case... your power is not needed!
Chakravartin: Not needed, you say? Your precious Mantra, born from prayers and souls, was bestowed upon you by none other than me. If the wheel of life which I control is lost, so is the Mantra. What do you think will happen to your kind then?
Urza: Have there been any serious injuries?
Karn: Not yet, but if we continue these experiments, there will be injuries, and perhaps deaths, across the whole island.
Urza: (blinks incredulously) If we don't continue these experiments, there will be injuries and deaths across the whole world. You don't understand, Karn. You have lived mere moments. You have seen only a hundred square miles of land. I have lived millennia. I have seen worlds and worlds of worlds. There are evils at the door, Karn, evils beyond anything you can imagine. I alone know they are there and knocking. I alone am devising a way to keep them forever out or destroy them when they get in. I alone stand between this world and utter destruction, and you come to me like a nurse-maid for these children and old dotards and demand they get goat's milk and nap times?
Karn: Not yet, but if we continue these experiments, there will be injuries, and perhaps deaths, across the whole island.
Urza: (blinks incredulously) If we don't continue these experiments, there will be injuries and deaths across the whole world. You don't understand, Karn. You have lived mere moments. You have seen only a hundred square miles of land. I have lived millennia. I have seen worlds and worlds of worlds. There are evils at the door, Karn, evils beyond anything you can imagine. I alone know they are there and knocking. I alone am devising a way to keep them forever out or destroy them when they get in. I alone stand between this world and utter destruction, and you come to me like a nurse-maid for these children and old dotards and demand they get goat's milk and nap times?
