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An Iranian supergod forged to make an angel.
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* BitCharacter: Is introduced and killed in the course of at best five or six pages, mostly to show Jerry Craven's abilities.
* {{Cyborg}}: A much larger one than Jerry Craven, but one nonetheless.
* FlatCharacter: We learn next to nothing about the individual, aside from that they are a cosmonaut cyborg from the Soviet Union.
* NinjaZombiePirateRobot: By Reddin's admission, he was an undead cosmonaut.
* OffWithHisHead: Jerry Craven punches his head off.
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* FlatCharacter: We learn next to nothing about the individual, aside from that they are a cosmonaut cyborg from the Soviet Union.
* NinjaZombiePirateRobot: By Reddin's admission, he was an undead cosmonaut.
* OffWithHisHead: Jerry Craven punches his head off.
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* BullyingADragon: ''Repeatedly''. The devastation caused by the death of [[spoiler:Malak]] in particular could have been avoided if he hadn't gone out to attack.
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* BullyingADragon: ''Repeatedly''.''Repeatedly'' targeted in this manner. The devastation caused by the death of [[spoiler:Malak]] in particular could have been avoided if he hadn't gone out to attack.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Literally. Upon his defeat, he panics so much that [[spoiler:he expands his destructive tendencies to their ultimate extent, tearing through and [[DetonationMoon disassembling the moon as he tears through it]], killing countless people on Earth]].
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* VillainousBreakdown: Literally. Upon SinisterNudity: A glowing, perpetually-nude being, albeit with no genitals... and just to make him even creepier, he ends up driving his defeat, he panics so much that [[spoiler:he expands creators to suicidal insanity and destroying most of Tehran in his destructive tendencies to their ultimate extent, tearing through and [[DetonationMoon disassembling escape from the moon as he tears through it]], killing countless people on Earth]].lab.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Literally. Upon his defeat, he panics so much that [[spoiler:he expands his destructive tendencies to their ultimate extent, tearing through and [[DetonationMoon disassembling the moon as he tears through it]], killing countless people on Earth]].
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* SinisterNudity: Always naked - and unlike many of the other deities, he wasn't manufactured from scratch but WasOnceAMan. As such, it's made abundantly clear that he's still anatomically correct, though [[CensorShadow his groin is kept in shadow]]... and he's also one of the most disturbingly ''organic'' of the gods, using his powers of {{biomanipulation}} for numerous displays of BodyHorror.
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* AnAxeToGrind: His weapon, which he [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation creates]].
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* OrganicTechnology: It is identified by the narrator to possibly be a mycological computer on a meat substrate, essentially a fungal computer. To wit, when not deciding to use sound to speak, it sometimes would communicate by emitting radio signals, and other times would "eject spores, a 4-phosporolated indole full of digital code".
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* OrganicTechnology: It is identified by the narrator to possibly be a mycological computer on a meat substrate, essentially a fungal computer. To wit, when not deciding to use sound to speak, it sometimes would communicate by emitting radio signals, and other times would "eject spores, a 4-phosporolated 4-phosphorylated indole full of digital code".
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* AnAxeToGrind: His WeaponOfChoice, weapon, which he [[SpontaneousWeaponCreation creates]].
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* TokenHeroicOrc: Subverted. Morrigan Lugus is initially presented as the only supergod who is, if not "good," then at least not [[BewareTheSuperman a threat to the world at large.]] All it does is sit on a chair and let itself be worshiped by a mere handful of scientists, and Reddin says that the idea of sending it into battle seemed sacreligious. When it does get put to use, it's to negotiate a peace treaty with the other supergods instead of attacking them, seeming to further cement its status as the nice one. [[spoiler: It may in fact be the most evil and dangerous supergod of all.]]
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* OnlySaneMan: He's the only one of the superhuman beings to ''not'' try to attack Krishna, which would just make the situation even worse than it already was.
** Ironically he is insane, but only as a means of holding onto whatever humanity he has left. By believing that he's a good man who has died and gone to Heaven, he can cope with what has happened to him.
** Ironically he is insane, but only as a means of holding onto whatever humanity he has left. By believing that he's a good man who has died and gone to Heaven, he can cope with what has happened to him.
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* OnlySaneMan: OnlySaneByComparison: Jerry Craven lives in a fantasy where he's in Heaven and goes back to Earth to help the government, when really they brought him back to life as a cyborg against his will after he died. Nonetheless, he's the only Supergod to treat humans with respect and compassion rather than apathetically killing them by the thousands. He's also the only one of the superhuman beings to ''not'' try to attack Krishna, which would just make the situation even worse than it already was.
** Ironically he is insane, butwho recognizes that fighting Krishna will only as a means of holding onto whatever humanity he has left. By believing that he's a good man who has died cause massive civilian casualties and gone to Heaven, he can cope with what has happened to him.should be avoided at all costs.
** Ironically he is insane, but
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* DietyOfHumanOrigin: With possible exception of Morrigan Lugus.
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* DietyOfHumanOrigin: DeityOfHumanOrigin: With possible exception of Morrigan Lugus.
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* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Subverted; Reddin thinks that the original consciousness of the astronauts is still within Morrigan Lugus, and so when it comes down to it they will protect their country. [[spoiler:At the end of the series, he comes to the conclusion that they might want revenge instead on the people who used them ForScience]]
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* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Subverted; Reddin thinks that the original consciousness of the astronauts is still within Morrigan Lugus, and so when it comes down to it they will protect their country. [[spoiler:At the end of the series, he comes to the conclusion that they might want revenge instead on the people who used them ForScience]]ForScience.]]
* MagicMushroom: Lugus is a massive humanoid covered in thousands of alien mushrooms that compels everyone around it to worship it. Before the scientists studying it began taking anti-fungal medications, several of them died because it began to spawn ''hundreds of fungal growths shaped like human heads inside their bodies''.
* MushroomMan: Morrigan Lugus is a very nightmarish example, a three-faced giant formed from the bodies of three astronauts and a mass of alien mushrooms. The mushrooms are the driving intelligence of the entity acting as a fungal supercomputer. [[spoiler:Everything that happens in the series, culminating in the deaths of every living thing on Earth, was planned by Morrigan Lugus (its appearance is basically what kicked off the disastrous superhuman arms race). All so that its spores would have plenty of raw dead material.]]
* MagicMushroom: Lugus is a massive humanoid covered in thousands of alien mushrooms that compels everyone around it to worship it. Before the scientists studying it began taking anti-fungal medications, several of them died because it began to spawn ''hundreds of fungal growths shaped like human heads inside their bodies''.
* MushroomMan: Morrigan Lugus is a very nightmarish example, a three-faced giant formed from the bodies of three astronauts and a mass of alien mushrooms. The mushrooms are the driving intelligence of the entity acting as a fungal supercomputer. [[spoiler:Everything that happens in the series, culminating in the deaths of every living thing on Earth, was planned by Morrigan Lugus (its appearance is basically what kicked off the disastrous superhuman arms race). All so that its spores would have plenty of raw dead material.]]
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* PosthumanNudism: Having been naked at the time of the experiment that gave him his powers, he remains naked for the rest of the story, and is easily distinguished by his hairless BarbieDollAnatomy.
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* MediumAwareness: During his introduction, he hears Reddin's narration from the past and corrects it.
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* TalkativeLoon: Out of context, a creature without sanity babbling incessantly to itself in an empty building would fit the bill pretty firmly. ''In'' context, he's still rambling on to people listening and people who ''aren't'' listening, like Reddin talking in the future whom he corrects.
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* ParasitesAreEvil: A mass of sentient parasitic fungi, Morrigan Lugus is the most malevolent of the gods appearing in this story. Along with his power to infest anyone in breathing range and make them worship it until they die of fungal growths in their lungs, Lugus actually gets a speech in which he gloats over the weaknesses of humanity, decrying its worthlessness for still obsessing over gods.
