History Characters / AmericanGods2017OtherDeitiesAndMythicalFigures

* DivineRaceLift: InUniverse. Because belief in Jesus is so prevalent in Christians of every race and denomination imaginable, there is a different version of Jesus for all of them than the more accurate Palestinian-Jesus, all of whom show up for Ostara's Easter party.

!!Jesus

* SemiDivine: Played with, as we don't know what the Jesuses' true nature is, and these may even vary depending which denomination or culture spawned each Jesus. Wednesday [[InsistentTerminology refuses to call him]] a "god" as he and Ostara are.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Jesus is currently one of the most powerful gods in existence in America, but he is remarkably uninvolved in Wednesday and Mr World's brewing war.

* HumanoidAbomination: It is made quite clear that the Penny Scouts are not just a normal trio of Girl Scouts selling candy. They all SpeakInUnison, they address statements like an electronic security system, they seem to possess some level of Omnipresence and when they hear a statement that they don't like, all of the lights in the Motel America turn off instantly.

!!The Jinn

* BenevolentGenie: Despite his claim that he doesn't grant wishes, he does grant Salim his heart's desire: [[spoiler:by swapping his and Salim's identities, the Ifrit frees Salim from a life he found utterly miserable and gives him a chance to start anew.]]

* AmbiguousDisorder: Due to the lack of belief keeping him and the other dwarves around, his mind has degenerated in a manner similar to onset dementia, requiring the residue power of Lous Reed's jacket to recharge the runes of Wednesday's spear.

* DivineRaceLift: InUniverse. Because belief in Jesus is so prevalent in Christians of every race and denomination imaginable, there is a different version of Jesus for all of them, all of whom show up for Ostara's Easter party.
-->'''Mr. Wednesday:''' There's a Jesus for everybody. Why, you got your white Jesuit-style Jesus, you got your black African Jesus, you got your brown Mexican Jesus, you got your swarthy Greek Jesus.\\
'''Shadow:''' That's a lotta Jesus.\\
'''Mr. Wednesday:''' There's a lotta need for Jesus, so there's a lotta Jesus.

* NiceGuy: Of all the supernatural beings in his world, he's easily among the nicest ones. This doesn't mean that he's averse to swearing or the occasional moment of dickery, but he generally treats the whole cast including the humans with respect and often comes to the latter's defense when the other gods treat them like crap.

* {{Unperson}}: Nunyunnini dies after his last priestess, sacrifices herself to a buffalo so the children of her tribe may be fed and adopted by the worshippers of the local tribe.

-->'''Wednesday''': ''[derisively]'' They're "son's of", they're men who walk the streets! They shake hands, they take shits!

* WalkOnWater: Mexican Jesus does this to save one of his believers from drowning, while one of the White Jesuses sits cross-legged on Easter's swimming pool in "Come To Jesus". He tries to put his glass down on the surface and it of course sinks to the bottom.

* AmbiguousSituation: It's stated repeatedly the gods (Old or New) need at the very least to be remembered in order to not fade from existence and at the most prayers to have any type of power. Yet it's implied that he's been around since Prehistoric times despite similar beings such as Nunyunnini ceasing to exist all together. It's also not clear if he's on the sides of the Old Gods, the New, or so old that he's simply indifferent to the whole conflict.
* AnimalMotif: Duh, he is one. Appropriately, a bison represents fortitude and change among other things which shows in not only the symbolism of appearing Shadow's dreams just before his life got very strange but the fact he's been around so long despite long having stopped having any followers or worshippers.
** As a bonus, the Buffalo was, and still is, sacred to the Native Americans along with the Prehistoric inhabitants of the continent, nowadays its one of the animals most often connected to the image of America. Meaning The Buffalo could very well be an American God.

* TheOldGods: In a show where the gods of mythology refer to '''themselves''' as the "old gods" he is this to them: case in point, it's implied that he's the being worshiped by the tribe that Nunyunnini's people encounter... during the ''Ice Age.''
* WhamShot: It's first implied that he's one of the Old Gods like Wednesday, then the "Coming to America" segment from "Lemon Scented You" shows a tribe of Prehistoric humans that appears to worship him establishing The Buffalo to be older than '''all''' of the so-called Old Gods.

* GreenThumb: He seems to have this ability, using it to make a living as a weed farmer and sprouts a seedling for Wednesday.

The Penny-Scouts are a trio of girl-scouts that look normal at face value, but in reality, they are the heralds to the Bookkeeper.

* HumanoidAbomination: It is made quite clear that the Penny-Scouts are not just a normal trio of girl-scouts selling candy. They all SpeakInUnison, they address statements like an electronic security system, they seem to possess some level of Omnipresence and when they hear a statement that they don't like, all of the lights in the Motel America turn off instantly.

* SpeakInUnison: All three of them speak at once, cluing everyone in that whatever they are, innocent little girls scouts they are ''not''.

* TheAlmightyDollar: The idea of economic transactions are as old as the oldest of the Old Gods and is as powerful as ever in a society that values money as strongly as Capitalist America, so even the God of Globalization Mr. World tries cutting a deal with the Bookkeeper, for nothing if not to let Mr. Wednesday take the advantage.
* AmbiguousSituation: The Bookkeeper refers to "Money" in third-person, which implies either a case of ThirdPersonPerson or that he is just the middleman to the ''actual'' god of money, though no word on which case is correct.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Mousa Kraish

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Jesus by all rights should be one of, if not the most powerful god(s) in existence owing to the prevalence of Christianity, but despite this, they are remarkably uninvolved in Wednesday and Mr World's brewing war. Being an AllLovingHero, they probably wouldn't be ones to fight anyway, but you'd expect they'd want to maybe do some sort of mediating between the two.

* NotSoDifferent: The Jinn refers to him as being very much like Nancy, as both are [[SneakySpider shapeshifting spider tricksters]].

->'''Portrayed By:''' [[Wrestling/Kurrgan Robert Maillet]]

A Nordic dwarf tasked with recharging the runes of gungnir.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Robert Maillet

* SigilSpam:

The Penny-Scouts are a trio of girl-scouts that look normal at face value, they are actually the heralds to the Bookkeeper.

!!The Bookkeeper

* AmbiguousSituation: The Bookkeeper refers to "Money" in third-person, implying that he is just the middleman to the ''actual'' god of money, though no word on which case is correct.

* ActorAllusion: The King of the Dwarves is played by Lee Arenberg, who is most famous for playing Grumpy (of the Seven Dwarves) in ''Series/OnceUponATime''.

Spider and trickster of the Native American faith.

* WeUsedToBeFriends: Being from the same mythology, Alviss may have known Wednesday longer than any character in the series. With that said, he is the most familiar with Wednesday's tricks and cons and rejects whatever he is proposing before it is even proposed.

An African American that was famously lynched for (allegedly) killing a white woman and now haunts the streets of Cairo, Illinois.

A nordic dwarf tasked with recharging the runes of gungnir.

->'''Portrayed By:''' Lee Arenberg