History AGodAmI / LiveActionTV

* ''Series/{{Bonanza}}'': The Season 4 episode "Thunder Man" has that episode's villain, munitions expert William Poole [[spoiler:– he had raped and killed several women, including the girlfriend of one the show's main protagonists, Little Joe Cartwright –]] threaten to use a vial of a new, highly-explosive and destructive substance called nitroglycerin to kill Joe (after Joe was able to finger Poole as a killer, rather than the seemingly amiable man he presented himself as). Poole dares Joe to take him into custody but then, revealing the power he holds in his hands, declares he is invincible: "I'm a Thunder Man, and not a force in Heaven and Earth can even begin to move me!" A split second before Poole throws the vial's contents at Joe, Joe is able to retrieve a gun he discarded and shoot Poole, killing him after the nitro spills onto him and explodes.

* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': A Catholic Priest who gains superpowers starts proclaiming himself to be the Second Coming of Jesus. [[JesusWasCrazy He uses his new-found powers to rape and pillage his way through the local population]].

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone'':

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LiveActionTV lives and breathes on SerialEscalation, so sooner or later the bad guys (and the occasional good guy) are going to have to start calling themselves gods.

->''"'[[AGodAmI I am God!]], and my ambitions..... are IMMORTAL!'"''

*** [[spoiler: Kuroto Dan]], aka Kamen Rider Genm, is definitely showing delusions of godhood , as his master plan of [[spoiler: turning the world into a “game” where ordinary citizens fight for survival against monsters]] gets closer to fruition. [[spoiler:Even after his death, resurrection, and HazyFaceTurn, he still keeps call himself a god]].

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS19E2FourToDoomsday "Four to Doomsday"]] focuses an alien who not only believes himself to be a god but, in fact, destroyed his home planet in an attempt to travel back in time to the creation of the universe to see how he had created it.

---> '''Vorlon Race Memories:''' [...] We appeared to them as beings of light. They saw us as emissaries of the universe. They saw us as gods. And we, in our pride, begin to believe them. We believed that we were superior to the universe that gave us birth. [...] in terms you can understand, we resolved to storm the gates of heaven it's self. [...] We would touch the face of God and in so doing become gods ourselves.

* ''Series/{{Boss|2000}}'': The villain in episode 2.

-->'''Shooter''': I am God. Now who is brave enough to look God in the eye?
* ''Series/{{Coupling}}'': In the episode "Faithless", Jane learns that James, who she's attracted to, hosts a religion program. In the course of DiggingHerselfDeeper, she comes out with:
-->'''Jane''': You see, I find religion very relevant to my work. When you spend your days in a helicopter dicing with actual death, sometimes you look down at the ground so far below you, and you find yourself thinking, "I'm a bit like God."\\
'''James''': Okay.\\
'''Jane''': Only without the omnipotence and the [[{{Superman}} X-ray vision]].\\
'''James''' I... don't think God's the one with the X-ray vision.

** In "The Aztecs" Barbara is [[GodGuise mistaken for a god incarnation of a dead Aztec priest, Yetaxa]]. The Doctor encourages her at first to use her sudden power to give him and the other companions free reign to explore and have a good time. Barbara has other ideas and decides to start manipulating Aztec politics to abolish HumanSacrifice, getting increasingly power-crazy all the time. She claims that she might as well be a god as she knows what will happen to the Aztecs, and once, when the Doctor gives her a lecture about the dangers of trying to change history, shoots him down by announcing "not Barbara - [[BecomingTheMask Yetaxa]]".
** In "Genesis of the Daleks," [[OmnicidalManiac Davros]] is asked, if he had in his possession a virus that would wipe out all life, would he release it? His response:

** Played with in the original series serial "The Armageddon Factor", when the Doctor, possessing the full power of the Key To Time, starts making an A God Am I speech, much to Romana's alarm. [[spoiler:He's just kidding/making a point about how dangerous the power is, in anyone's hands.]]
** Omega in "The Three Doctors," whose world of anti-matter created through his sheer force of will and untold years of isolation have left him quite mad and prone to making such speeches
** The 1982 story "Four to Doomsday" focuses an alien who not only believes himself to be a god but, in fact, destroyed his home planet in an attempt to travel back in time to the creation of the universe to see how he had created it.
** In the new series, the Dalek Emperor had a pretty high opinion of itself. So much so that insulting it would trigger the now-famous line, "those words are blasphemy!" and a chorus of "Do not blaspheme! Do not blaspheme!" from his subordinate Daleks.
** Also, in the same episode, Rose Tyler absorbs the heart of the TARDIS and is turned into a godlike hybrid called ''Bad Wolf'', who disproves the Dalek Emperor's "I am God" hypothesis by disintegrating him.
--->'''The Doctor:''' This is wrong. You can't control life and death!
--->'''Rose:''' But I can.
** In "The Waters of Mars", the Doctor snaps after being pushed to the limit and declares himself to be, in essence, a god. And he is not under any sort of mind control--nor can he be said to be having delusions of grandeur, since his claim to godlike power is entirely accurate. Rather, he's giving us a glimpse of what [[spoiler:the last of the Time Lords could become without the restraint that his Companions give him.]] Having said that, he is promptly snapped back after [[spoiler:Brooke commits suicide]] rather than muck around with her destiny, so it worked out in the end. Sort of. (In the episode, the Doctor declares himself to be "The Time Lord Victorious", which has since been invoked by fandom to refer to rare other occasions in which the Doctor begins to slip towards applying this trope to himself, such as...
** In "Hell Bent", due to a SanitySlippage brought on by ''billions'' of years of torture and his mounting frustration at being unable to undo the death of his beloved companion, Clara, the Doctor makes one last attempt at saving her by piloting his TARDIS to the very end of time itself, at which point, when challenged by Clara to let her die, he delivers this outburst:

--> '''Arlene:''' In the clinic, you were a complete schmendrick. But once you knew I was Lisa's mother, you held your tongue. That's because you love her. I still think you're a pain in the ass with a God complex, and I'll kill you if you hurt her, but I'm glad she has you.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder'': A [[DrJerk jerkass doctor]] is investigated and he says in a meeting "God doesn't [[spoiler:make babies]] I do.

-->'''Second Suspect:''' You got a lot of nerve claiming to be God!
-->'''Judge Stone:''' Who's this?
-->'''Second Suspect:''' ''I'm'' God!
-->'''First Suspect:''' How'd you like a lightning bolt where the sun don't shine?
* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': A Catholic Priest who gains superpowers starts proclaiming himself to be the Second Coming of Jesus. [[JesusWasCrazy He uses his new-found powers to rape and pillage his way through the local population]].
* ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'', "The Sixth Finger," combines both versions. An illiterate miner is put through a process that quickly [[EvolutionPowerUp evolves him]], resulting in increased intelligence and psychokinetic power, which he unleashes on the pathetic lesser beings around him; but then he evolves even further and rises above such petty emotions, realizing the true nobility of existence.

* ''Series/SirArthurConanDoylesTheLostWorld'': There was an episode where the character Challenger gains omnipotence. He quickly demands that everyone worship him, acts bored when confronted with his friends' problems, and generally acts like a JerkAss. He changes his tune with two of his friends get killed, and finds that he can't bring the dead back to life, [[TearJerker crying and screaming that he's sorry and that he will give up anything to have them back]]. [[spoiler:It was AllJustADream]]
* ''Series/StargateAtlantis'': Played with. The Wraith do not openly claim to be gods, but they happily allow themselves to be worshipped as deity-like beings by their brainwashed human followers.
* ''Series/StargateSG1'':
** The Goa'uld not only fit this trope perfectly, but are also ''really'' extreme cases. Although they are just [[SufficientlyAdvancedAliens highly advanced aliens]], they do ''pose'' as god in front of their primitive slaves. Many -- like Ra, Cronus, and Apophis -- seem to buy into their own propaganda and think they really ''are'' gods, though Ba'al is aware he is just a parasitic snake with a host and Yu never proclaimed himself a god, instead setting himself up as a legendary emperor. Both Ba'al and Yu have disdain for those who buy into their delusions (although Yu grows generally delusional at a certain point on account of his senility), and Ba'al manages to outlive all the others and obtain the greatest degree of power. Anubis is... ambiguous, though out of all the Goa'uld, he has the best case for calling himself one--being that unlike other Goa'uld, he AscendedToAHigherPlaneOfExistence, and, despite being rejected by the other Ascended beings, remained a half-Ascended EnergyBeing. The Goa'uld in general border on a {{deconstruction}}, as this hubris quite frequently leads to their doom.
** The Ori take this far enough that it becomes ridiculous when people insist that they're ''not'' gods, since, well, everything a god can do the Ori can do. (Including Virgin Birth) If that's not a god, one has to wonder what people would accept as a god. Teal'c later suggests that acts, rather than power, make gods. Or at least, that being a god is not the same as being worthy of worship. They couldn't [[spoiler:stop the team from killing them]]. Adria explicitly states in ''Film/TheArkOfTruth'' that the Ark can only make people believe what is true, which is why she can't use it. Since the Ark makes the Priors believe that the Ori are not gods, clearly the Ori are actually not gods. Although she fully believes she could use it if it weren't for the existence of Ancients undermining her by being just as high up in the grand scheme.

--> "I'm not [[spoiler:an angel]] anymore. I'm your new God. A better one. So you will bow down and profess your love unto me, your Lord...or I shall destroy you."

--> '''Chuck''': Well, there's only one explanation. Obviously I'm a god.
--> '''Sam''': You're not a god.
--> '''Chuck''': How else do you explain it? I write things and then they come to life? Yeah, no, I'm deinitely a god. A cruel, cruel, capricious god. The things I've put you through ...
--> [[spoiler: Eric Kripke, the creator of Supernatural, and Rob Benedict, the actor who portrayed Chuck, have confirmed that Chuck is indeed God.]]

-->'''Volmer:''' It felt like I was immortal.
-->'''[[spoiler: Hitler:]]''' Mr. Volmer, we ''are'' immortal!
* One episode of ''Series/Wilfred'' has Wilfred go through this, but PlayedForLaughs.
-->'''Ryan''': You've lost your mind! It's like you have some sort of God complex!
-->'''Wilfred''': I'll let you in on a little secret, Ryan. I don't have a God complex. [[SuddenlyShouting I AM GOD!]] [[LargeHam THUNDER!]]
-->''(thunder strikes)''
-->'''Ryan''': HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!
-->'''Wilfred''': LUCKY COINCIDENCE!

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** The First Evil, posing as Warren, convinces Andrew that they will all live as gods ([[CrowningMomentOfFunny complete with]] Andrew dreaming of them all dancing about in a field of flowers, wearing togas, and playing a lyre, while singing "We are as gods!") All Andrew has to do to bring this about is kill his only friend, Jonathan.

** The king of this trope for the franchise is The Great Leader of Shocker who wants to transform the entire of humanity into [[MonsterOfTheWeek kaijin]] who would serve under him and has tried numerous times to TakeOverTheWorld to achive it. Hes even even tried to exterminate all of humanity if they don't bow down to him.

** The king of this trope for the franchise is The Great Leader of Shocker who wants to transform the entire of humanity into [[MonsterOfTheWeek kaijin]] who would serve under him and has tried numerous times to TakeOverTheWorld to achive it. Hes even even tried to exterminate all of humanity if they dont bow down to him.

** [[BigBad Princess Meadow]]/[[Spoiler:really Vulgyre]] of Series/ChikyuuSentaiFiveman'' plans on destroying 1000 planets and draining there life force to become immortal and become the ''God of the Milky Way''.

** Savitar boasts that he's the God of Speed, demands everyone bow down and worship him, and sees all other speedsters as insults and pretenders (given how far he outclasses every other speedster, he has a point). According to folklore, he's the first human in the multiverse to ever gain SuperSpeed, and he's seemingly haven't aged since ancient times.

** ''Series/KamenRiderBlade'': Hiroshi Tennoji's ultimate goal is to win the Battle Fight and gain the power to reshape the world in his own twisted image with him in control.
** ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'': Ryoma Sengoku/Kamen Rider Duke's ultimate motive is to the achievement of godhood and fulfillment of his desire to become a being that surpasses humanity.

** In "Genesis of the Daleks," OmnicidalManiac Davros is asked, if he had in his possession a virus that would wipe out all life, would he release it? His response:

* Many ''Franchise/KamenRider'' villains tends to show signs of god complex. Specific examples are:
** [[spoiler: Kuroto Dan]], aka Kamen Rider Genm, is definitely showing delusions of godhood in ''[[Series/KamenRiderExAid Kamen Rider Ex-Aid]]'', as his master plan of [[spoiler: turning the world into a “game” where ordinary citizens fight for survival against monsters]] gets closer to fruition. [[spoiler:Even after his death, resurrection, and HazyFaceTurn, he still keeps call himself a god]].
*** And [[spoiler:his father]] is quite possibly ''even worse'' after he becomes [[spoiler: Kamen Rider Chronos/Cronus]].

* Many ''Franchise/KamenRider'' villains in the Heisei era tends to show signs of god complex. Specific examples are: