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->''"I had a dream the other night. Or maybe it was a memory. I was a god somewhere, in a another universe. A smaller universe. There were people there. I must have made them once a long time ago, but I didn't remember that part. They prayed a lot. I could do anything. But I already had. I was bored. I needed a bigger universe. Then I woke up in my bed. Pretty soon, though, I got to thinking about those little fellows, back in the other universe. They don't know I left. They could still be praying to me. I bet they can't even tell the difference."''
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->''"I had a dream the other night. Or maybe it was a memory. I was [[TitleDrop a god somewhere, somewhere]], in a another universe. A smaller universe. There were people there. I must have made them once a long time ago, but I didn't remember that part. They prayed a lot. I could do anything. But I already had. I was bored. I needed a bigger universe. Then I woke up in my bed. Pretty soon, though, I got to thinking about those little fellows, back in the other universe. They don't know I left. They could still be praying to me. I bet they can't even tell the difference."''
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* AnachronicOrder: The narrative is presented in a somewhat jumbled order, regularly jumping back and forth between four general time periods; Sam and Eric's time in high school and college, the days leading up to and after Eric gets his powers, the last year of Eric's rampage, and the year after [[spoiler:Eric's death]].
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* AnachronicOrder: The narrative is presented in a somewhat jumbled order, regularly jumping back and forth between four general time periods; Sam and Eric's time in high school and college, the days leading up to and after Eric gets his powers, the last year of Eric's rampage, and the [[spoiler:the year after [[spoiler:Eric's Eric's death]].
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* AnachronicOrder: The narrative is presented in a somewhat jumbled order, regularly jumping back and forth between four general time periods; Sam and Eric's time in high school and college, the days leading up to and after Eric gets his powers, the last year of Eric's rampage, and the year after Eric's [[spoiler:death]].
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* AnachronicOrder: The narrative is presented in a somewhat jumbled order, regularly jumping back and forth between four general time periods; Sam and Eric's time in high school and college, the days leading up to and after Eric gets his powers, the last year of Eric's rampage, and the year after Eric's [[spoiler:death]].[[spoiler:Eric's death]].
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* ImplacableMan: Eric generally tears through whatever comes at him to the point only a military issue laser cannon designed to kill him was the only thing shown to be able to do him harm.
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* ImplacableMan: Eric generally tears through whatever comes at him him, to the point that only a military issue military-issue laser cannon designed to kill him ([[spoiler:and later, a pair of nukes]]) was the only thing shown to be able to do him harm.
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->''"I had a dream the other night. Or maybe it was a memory. I was a god somewhere, in a another universe. A smaller universe. There were people there. I must have made them once a long time ago, but I didn't remember that part. They prayed a lot. I could do anything. But I already had. I was bored. I needed a bigger universe. Then I woke up in my bed. Pretty soon, though, I got to thinking about those little fellows, back in the other universe. They don't know I left. They could still be praying to me. I bet they can't even tell the difference."''
-->-- '''Eric Forster'''
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It's unclear if Eric is killed by the nuke because even his powers couldn't stop it, or because he allowed it to happen for whatever reason. Likewise, Sam is left unsure as to why Eric saves him from dying and does it in the specific way he does. Really, a lot of stuff about Eric after his powers manifest qualify.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It's unclear if Eric is killed by the nuke because even his powers couldn't stop it, or because he allowed it to happen for whatever reason.reason, or even because he purposefully used it to commit suicide. Likewise, Sam is left unsure as to why Eric saves him from dying and does it in the specific way he does. Really, a lot of stuff about Eric after his powers manifest qualify.qualify; we're never really shown what he's thinking or his perspective on what's happening.]]
* AnachronicOrder: The narrative is presented in a somewhat jumbled order, regularly jumping back and forth between four general time periods; Sam and Eric's time in high school and college, the days leading up to and after Eric gets his powers, the last year of Eric's rampage, and the year after Eric's [[spoiler:death]].
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of humanity as contemptible toys and decides to break them, while also taking on a downright strange view of the world in general.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this a view of the rest of humanity as contemptible toys and decides to break them, while also taking on a downright strange view of them... and that's just the world in general.start.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Lampshaded. The woman that Eric rescues on the night he gets his powers is later widowed because her husband just happened to be one of the soldiers sent to fight Eric in the final battle and was killed during it. She's shown in the epilogue to have written a book about her experiences and struggle to come to terms with the bizarre coincidence, while Sam is visibly unnerved by it.
* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: InUniverse. Sam is immensely disturbed when his article about Eric's descent in madness ends up inspiring a cult/gang who somehow see his brutal and amoral behavior as something to aspire to.
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* MindOverMatter: Telekinesis, which is explained how Eric can control objects without touching them and render himself impervious to damage without the trappings of superhuman durability that would make soft human organs inoperable.
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* InsultToRocks: In their final encounter, Sam accuses Eric of seeing people as bugs. Eric responds that he finds bugs infinitely more fascinating and worthy of preservation than humans.
* LooksLikeJesus: After getting his powers, Eric starts growing a beard and letting his hair grow out, leaving him looking a bit like a white, blond-haired Jesus; something that doesn't particularly help with his burgeoning messiah complex. Then it grows out even more, he begins braiding it, and his hair inexplicably starts turning white as if bleached, yet another unexplained aspect of his transformation, leaving him looking less like Jesus and more like stereotypical depictions of Zeus. A symbol of his change from a kindhearted NiceGuy to a brutal BloodKnight.
* MindOverMatter:Telekinesis, Eric's powers, while superficially FlyingBrick in nature, turn out to actually be more like tactile telekinesis, which is explained explains how Eric can control objects without touching them and render himself impervious to damage without the trappings of superhuman durability that would make soft human organs inoperable.
* LooksLikeJesus: After getting his powers, Eric starts growing a beard and letting his hair grow out, leaving him looking a bit like a white, blond-haired Jesus; something that doesn't particularly help with his burgeoning messiah complex. Then it grows out even more, he begins braiding it, and his hair inexplicably starts turning white as if bleached, yet another unexplained aspect of his transformation, leaving him looking less like Jesus and more like stereotypical depictions of Zeus. A symbol of his change from a kindhearted NiceGuy to a brutal BloodKnight.
* MindOverMatter:
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* NoEndorHolocaust: Horrifically averted. The comic takes great care to show how much death and damage comes from any display of violence, especially when superpowers are concerned... and while Eric initially makes a concerted effort to avoid such collateral, the more unhinged he becomes, the more he stops caring to even try.
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* NoEndorHolocaust: Horrifically averted. The comic takes great care to show how much death and damage destruction comes from any display of violence, especially when superpowers are concerned... and while Eric initially makes a concerted effort to avoid such collateral, collateral damage, the more unhinged he becomes, the more he stops caring to even try.
* TitleDrop: The title comes from the start of Eric's monologue about a dream he had, saying that in the dream he was "a god somewhere".
* TranshumanTreachery: One of the most horrifying examples put to paper. The more Eric comes into his superpowers, the more he stops thinking of himself as human. And the more he does that, the less hesitation he feels about treating the people around him like bugs to be stepped on.
* TranshumanTreachery: One of the most horrifying examples put to paper. The more Eric comes into his superpowers, the more he stops thinking of himself as human. And the more he does that, the less hesitation he feels about treating the people around him like bugs to be stepped on.
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Eric is finally brought down once the military brings in a powerful laser canon, the moment the first shot tears his right leg apart he panics at feeling pain for the first time in a long time. The once near-invincible man is left crawling in fear and desperation as the soldiers blast him again and again.]]
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* VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Eric is finally brought down wounded once the military brings in a powerful laser canon, the canon. The moment the first shot tears his right leg apart he panics at feeling pain for the first time in a long time. The once near-invincible man is left crawling in fear and desperation as the soldiers blast him again and again.]]
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It's unclear if Eric is killed by the nuke because even his powers couldn't stop it, or because he allowed it to happen for whatever reason.]]
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: What precisely causes Eric to start seeing other humans as lesser and to become evil is left very fuzzy and unclear, as we never really get to see things from his perspective. He tries to explain it to Sam near the end, but it quickly becomes apparent that he can't get the point across. The story also leaves it ambiguous as to how much push Eric really needed to become a monster; even before he got powers, he was kind of a weird guy.
* BewareTheSuperman: Eric becomes this for the United States after he goes berserk and tears through town after town for three years.
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: What precisely causes Eric to start seeing other humans as lesser and to become evil is left very fuzzy and unclear, as we never really get to see things from his perspective. He tries to explain it to Sam near the end, but it quickly becomes apparent that he can't get the point across. The story also leaves it ambiguous as to how much push Eric really needed to become a monster; even before he got powers, he was kind of a weird guy.
* BewareTheSuperman: Eric becomes this for the United States after he goes berserk and tears through town after town for three years.
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It's unclear if Eric is killed by the nuke because even his powers couldn't stop it, or because he allowed it to happen for whatever reason. Likewise, Sam is left unsure as to why Eric saves him from dying and does it in the specific way he does. Really, a lot of stuff about Eric after his powers manifest qualify.]]
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: What precisely causes Eric to start seeing other humans as lesser and to become evil is left very fuzzy and unclear, as we never really get to see things from his perspective. He tries to explain it to Sam near the end, but it quickly becomes apparent that he can't get the point across. The story also leaves it ambiguous as to how much push Eric really needed to become a monster; even before he got powers, he was kind of a weirdguy.
guy and already rather quick to jump to violence, if only in the defense of others.
* AssholeVictim: Deconstructed. Shortly after getting powers, Eric stops a pair of would-be spree killers in a shootout with the police, and the fact that they were evil ends up causing most people to overlook the needless brutality he uses in the process. Said brutality serves as one of the earliest hints of his onset madness. Later on, ''a few'' of Eric's victims are shown to be jerks, but not in anyway that justifies what he does to him, and the story portrays the idea that violence and cruelty becomes justified when done to the "right" targets as insane.
* BewareTheSuperman: Eric becomes this for the United States after he goes berserk and tears through town after town for three years. He can't be stopped by anything but the most extreme weapons and certainly can't be bargained with. After a point, he seems to barely qualify as human anymore, certainly not in thought process.
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: What precisely causes Eric to start seeing other humans as lesser and to become evil is left very fuzzy and unclear, as we never really get to see things from his perspective. He tries to explain it to Sam near the end, but it quickly becomes apparent that he can't get the point across. The story also leaves it ambiguous as to how much push Eric really needed to become a monster; even before he got powers, he was kind of a weird
* AssholeVictim: Deconstructed. Shortly after getting powers, Eric stops a pair of would-be spree killers in a shootout with the police, and the fact that they were evil ends up causing most people to overlook the needless brutality he uses in the process. Said brutality serves as one of the earliest hints of his onset madness. Later on, ''a few'' of Eric's victims are shown to be jerks, but not in anyway that justifies what he does to him, and the story portrays the idea that violence and cruelty becomes justified when done to the "right" targets as insane.
* BewareTheSuperman: Eric becomes this for the United States after he goes berserk and tears through town after town for three years. He can't be stopped by anything but the most extreme weapons and certainly can't be bargained with. After a point, he seems to barely qualify as human anymore, certainly not in thought process.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of humanity as contemptible toys and decides to break them, amongst other strange world views.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of humanity as contemptible toys and decides to break them, amongst other while also taking on a downright strange view of the world views.in general.
* CategoryTraitor: He doesn't outright say it, but Kelvin is clearly implying this trope when he claims Sam always hangs out with white people and not "fellow brothers". Sam tries to act unmoved and intellectually knows the accusation is ridiculous, but is clearly bothered by it nonetheless.
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* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: One of the major markers of Eric's descent in BewareTheSuperman territory is how he stops being jovial and funny and instead starts viewing everything with stoic boredom, even brutal violence.
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* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: One of the major markers of Eric's descent in into BewareTheSuperman territory is how he stops being jovial and funny and instead starts viewing everything with either stoic boredom, even brutal violence.boredom or seething rage.
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* GenreDeconstruction: Of superhero comics, portraying a standard superhero origin as a horror story about a man becoming an inhuman monster who sees others as beneath him, while also showing that, in real life, the NoEndorHolocaust endemic to the genre is oh so gruesomely subverted and exploring the perspective of the family and friends of the superhuman as they watch him change.
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* GenreDeconstruction: Of superhero comics, portraying a standard superhero origin as a horror story about a man becoming an inhuman monster who sees others as beneath him, while also showing that, in real life, gruesomely averting the NoEndorHolocaust endemic to the genre is oh so gruesomely subverted and exploring the perspective of the family and friends of the superhuman as they watch him change.
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* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Sam never truly understands why Eric becomes evil, despite the latter making a real effort to explain it to him. The closest he ever comes is a brief feeling of blissful disconnect from the world as Eric flies him to safety before the military's final attack, but that's about it.
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* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Sam never truly understands why Eric becomes evil, despite the latter making a real effort to explain it to him. The closest he ever comes is a brief feeling of blissful disconnect from the world as Eric flies him to safety before the military's final attack, but that's about it.]
* HappilyMarried: Alma and Hugh are this at the start. [[spoiler:After Eric cripples the latter and rapes the former? The relationship goes downhill, to put it mildly.]]
* HappilyMarried: Alma and Hugh are this at the start. [[spoiler:After Eric cripples the latter and rapes the former? The relationship goes downhill, to put it mildly.]]
* MisanthropeSupreme: The more Eric comes into his powers, the more he grows to seemingly despise humans as a whole, claiming to Sam that they're transparent, "ugly", and choose to make themselves miserable with sin when they can be truly happy.
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* NoEndorHolocaust: Horrifically averted. The comic takes great care to show how much death comes with even the most slightly reckless usage of Eric's powers... and while Eric initially makes a concerted effort to avoid that, the more unhinged he becomes, the more he stops caring to even try.
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* NoEndorHolocaust: Horrifically averted. The comic takes great care to show how much death and damage comes with even the most slightly reckless usage from any display of Eric's powers... violence, especially when superpowers are concerned... and while Eric initially makes a concerted effort to avoid that, such collateral, the more unhinged he becomes, the more he stops caring to even try.try.
* NotSoStoic: Eric is mostly disturbingly calm and stoic after going insane and beginning his rampage and only loses his cool twice; a moment of rage where he rants at a group of soldiers for attacking him and [[spoiler:freaking out when the laser cannon blasts his leg off]].
* NotSoStoic: Eric is mostly disturbingly calm and stoic after going insane and beginning his rampage and only loses his cool twice; a moment of rage where he rants at a group of soldiers for attacking him and [[spoiler:freaking out when the laser cannon blasts his leg off]].
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* RiddleForTheAges: The source of Eric's powers and the mysterious explosion that seemingly triggered them are never explained. We do get a ''possible'' explanation in the form of a dream or possible memory Eric describes having - in which he is a deity from another, smaller world who grows bored and decides to find a "bigger" world - but that's about it, and nothing is ever really confirmed. It's just something that happens.
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* RiddleForTheAges: The source of Eric's powers and the mysterious explosion that seemingly triggered them are never explained. We do get a ''possible'' explanation in the form of a dream or possible memory (or maybe memory) that Eric describes having - in which he is a deity from another, smaller world who grows bored and decides to find a "bigger" world - but that's about it, and nothing is ever really confirmed. It's just something that happens.
* SiblingRivalry: Hugh and Eric have a very subdued one at the start, with Hugh being jealous of both Eric's life and Sam's close friendship with him, while Eric liked Alma back in high school and is implied to be jealous Hugh dated and married her first. [[spoiler:It stops being subdued when Eric goes off the deep end by crippling Hugh and raping Alma in front of him.]]
* TraumaButton: After being [[spoiler:raped]], Alma becomes adverse to being touched by any man, even ones she trusts like her husband. She's still struggling to overcome this years later in the epilogue.
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* WhatIsEvil: When called out for raping his sister-in-law and crippling his brother, Eric justifies his actions by saying "Wrong is just a word people made up. It has nothing to do with the real world."
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* WhatIsEvil: When called out for raping [[spoiler:raping his sister-in-law and crippling his brother, brother]], Eric justifies his actions by saying "Wrong is just a word people made up. It has nothing to do with the real world."
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* AmbiguousSituation: [[spoiler:It's unclear if Eric is killed by the nuke because even his powers couldn't stop it, or because he allowed it to happen for whatever reason.]]
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: What precisely causes Eric to start seeing other humans as lesser and to become evil is left very fuzzy and unclear, as we never really get to see things from his perspective. He tries to explain it to Sam near the end, but it quickly becomes apparent that he can't get the point across. The story also leaves it ambiguous as to how much push Eric really needed to become a monster; even before he got powers, he was kind of a weird guy.
* AmbiguousStartOfDarkness: What precisely causes Eric to start seeing other humans as lesser and to become evil is left very fuzzy and unclear, as we never really get to see things from his perspective. He tries to explain it to Sam near the end, but it quickly becomes apparent that he can't get the point across. The story also leaves it ambiguous as to how much push Eric really needed to become a monster; even before he got powers, he was kind of a weird guy.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of humanity as contemptible toys and decides to break them.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of humanity as contemptible toys and decides to break them.them, amongst other strange world views.
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* DarkMessiah: Eric becomes this for a cult after his death who take on his appearance and commit brutality against others to emulate Eric's own vicious amorality.
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* CapePunk: A classic example, twisting your typical superhero plot into a nightmarish horror story that explores the impact of a superhuman being on global society.
* CentralTheme: Violence and how it changes people.
* DarkMessiah: Eric becomes this for a cult afterhis death [[spoiler:his death]] who take on his appearance and commit brutality against others to emulate Eric's own vicious amorality.amorality.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: One of the major markers of Eric's descent in BewareTheSuperman territory is how he stops being jovial and funny and instead starts viewing everything with stoic boredom, even brutal violence.
* EvilIsPetty: The moment it becomes clear just how well and truly insane Eric has become is when he gruesomely slaughters the soldiers imprisoning him and causes massive destruction in seeming retaliation for the former detaining him, despite being fully capable of just leaving whenever.
* FlyingBrick: Eric's basic power set, though he's more faking it through tactile telekinesis than actually being super durable.
* ForTheEvulz: Sam repeatedly asks Eric why he's doing all these destructive things and acting so inhuman. The way Eric tries to describe makes it seem like he doesn't actually have much reason to his actions at all; he does these things just because he can do them, and sees doing them as no more pointless than not doing them.
* GenreDeconstruction: Of superhero comics, portraying a standard superhero origin as a horror story about a man becoming an inhuman monster who sees others as beneath him, while also showing that, in real life, the NoEndorHolocaust endemic to the genre is oh so gruesomely subverted and exploring the perspective of the family and friends of the superhuman as they watch him change.
* CentralTheme: Violence and how it changes people.
* DarkMessiah: Eric becomes this for a cult after
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: One of the major markers of Eric's descent in BewareTheSuperman territory is how he stops being jovial and funny and instead starts viewing everything with stoic boredom, even brutal violence.
* EvilIsPetty: The moment it becomes clear just how well and truly insane Eric has become is when he gruesomely slaughters the soldiers imprisoning him and causes massive destruction in seeming retaliation for the former detaining him, despite being fully capable of just leaving whenever.
* FlyingBrick: Eric's basic power set, though he's more faking it through tactile telekinesis than actually being super durable.
* ForTheEvulz: Sam repeatedly asks Eric why he's doing all these destructive things and acting so inhuman. The way Eric tries to describe makes it seem like he doesn't actually have much reason to his actions at all; he does these things just because he can do them, and sees doing them as no more pointless than not doing them.
* GenreDeconstruction: Of superhero comics, portraying a standard superhero origin as a horror story about a man becoming an inhuman monster who sees others as beneath him, while also showing that, in real life, the NoEndorHolocaust endemic to the genre is oh so gruesomely subverted and exploring the perspective of the family and friends of the superhuman as they watch him change.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: Sam never truly understands why Eric becomes evil, despite the latter making a real effort to explain it to him. The closest he ever comes is a brief feeling of blissful disconnect from the world as Eric flies him to safety before the military's final attack, but that's about it.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Eric and Sam are this at the start of stories, being best friends for years who love one another like brothers, to the point that Eric often seems more brotherly with Sam than with his actual biological brother. Even after Eric goes mad, Sam is just about the only person he '''never''' hurts and who he speaks to like an equal.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Eric and Sam are this at the start of stories, being best friends for years who love one another like brothers, to the point that Eric often seems more brotherly with Sam than with his actual biological brother. Even after Eric goes mad, Sam is just about the only person he '''never''' hurts and who he speaks to like an equal.
* InexplicablyAwesome: There's no explanation given for why Eric gets superpowers. He just ''does''.
* InnocentBystanderSeries: While superhuman Eric is the focal point of the plot, the story is mostly conveyed from the perspective of the normal people around him and how they respond to his behavior.
* InnocentBystanderSeries: While superhuman Eric is the focal point of the plot, the story is mostly conveyed from the perspective of the normal people around him and how they respond to his behavior.
* NiceGuy: Eric before he gets his powers is one of the friendliest, most cheerful people around and an AllLovingHero who never hesitates to help people in trouble. In a lot of respects, he's the kind of person you'd think would make a great superhero... until he actually becomes one.
* NoEndorHolocaust: Horrifically averted. The comic takes great care to show how much death comes with even the most slightly reckless usage of Eric's powers... and while Eric initially makes a concerted effort to avoid that, the more unhinged he becomes, the more he stops caring to even try.
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* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Once Eric realizes the people he wants to save so desperately fear him because of his power he goes completely manic and decides to treat people as ants to be squashed under his whims. His first act was to cripple his brother Hugh and brutally rape Hugh's wife Alma.
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* RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Eric's first act of villainy is [[spoiler:raping his sister-in-law after brutally beating his brother.]]
* ReligiousBruiser: Eric is a religiously devout man prior to getting his powers and becomes even more so in the period just after he gets them. But then as he goes mad, this gets warped into an outright god complex in which he seems to stop worshiping anything other than himself.
* RiddleForTheAges: The source of Eric's powers and the mysterious explosion that seemingly triggered them are never explained. We do get a ''possible'' explanation in the form of a dream or possible memory Eric describes having - in which he is a deity from another, smaller world who grows bored and decides to find a "bigger" world - but that's about it, and nothing is ever really confirmed. It's just something that happens.
* SecondHandStorytelling: Part of the idea of the story is that you don't see things from Eric's perspective; instead you see him and his actions from the view of those around him. As a result, quite a few things are more described or implied than actually seen.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: The first while after getting his powers, Eric is largely unchanged in terms of personality; he continues to be his usual friendly self and uses his powers to try and help people. But very gradually, he starts slipping further and further away from a standard human viewpoint and becomes increasingly amoral as he does so.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil:Once Eric realizes realizing that the people he wants to save so desperately fear him because of his power is the moment he goes completely manic and decides to treat people as ants to be squashed under his whims. His first act was to cripple [[spoiler:cripple his brother Hugh and brutally rape Hugh's wife Alma.Alma]].
* ReligiousBruiser: Eric is a religiously devout man prior to getting his powers and becomes even more so in the period just after he gets them. But then as he goes mad, this gets warped into an outright god complex in which he seems to stop worshiping anything other than himself.
* RiddleForTheAges: The source of Eric's powers and the mysterious explosion that seemingly triggered them are never explained. We do get a ''possible'' explanation in the form of a dream or possible memory Eric describes having - in which he is a deity from another, smaller world who grows bored and decides to find a "bigger" world - but that's about it, and nothing is ever really confirmed. It's just something that happens.
* SecondHandStorytelling: Part of the idea of the story is that you don't see things from Eric's perspective; instead you see him and his actions from the view of those around him. As a result, quite a few things are more described or implied than actually seen.
* SlowlySlippingIntoEvil: The first while after getting his powers, Eric is largely unchanged in terms of personality; he continues to be his usual friendly self and uses his powers to try and help people. But very gradually, he starts slipping further and further away from a standard human viewpoint and becomes increasingly amoral as he does so.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil:
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* MindOverMatter: Telekinesis, which is explained how Eric can control objects without touching them and render himself impervious to damage without the trappings of superhuman durability that would make soft human organs inoperable.
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* NighInvulnerability: Eric naturally creates a telekinetic "barrier" around himself, protecting them from physical damage. Emphasis on the "nigh" in this case; he is injured at various points by attacks he doesn't see coming like the military laser cannon.
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* NighInvulnerability: Eric naturally creates a telekinetic "barrier" around himself, protecting them him from physical damage. Emphasis on the "nigh" in this case; he is injured at various points by attacks he doesn't see coming like the military laser cannon.
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* PsychicPowers: Telekinesis, which is explained how Eric can control objects without touching them and render himself impervious to damage without the trappings of superhuman durability that would make soft human organs inoperable.
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* AGodAmI: Discovering his powers causes Eric to become more religious than he already was, believing he has been chosen to act as God's messenger in a manner reminiscent to the Biblical Samson or Jesus. This quickly develops into megalomania as Eric starts regarding himself as an ''actual'' god and decides that regular humans are far, far beneath him.
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* AGodAmI: Discovering his powers causes Eric to become more religious than he already was, believing he has been chosen to act as God's messenger in a manner reminiscent to the Biblical Samson or Jesus. This quickly develops into megalomania as Eric starts regarding himself as an ''actual'' god and decides that regular humans are far, far beneath him.
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* NighInvulnerability: Eric naturally creates a telekinetic "barrier" around himself , protecting them from physical damage. Emphasis on the "nigh" in this case; he is injured at various points by attacks he doesn't see coming like the military laser cannon.
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* NighInvulnerability: Eric naturally creates a telekinetic "barrier" around himself , himself, protecting them from physical damage. Emphasis on the "nigh" in this case; he is injured at various points by attacks he doesn't see coming like the military laser cannon.
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* VillanousBreakdown: Eric is finally brought down once the military brings in a powerful laser canon, the moment the first shot tears his right leg apart he panics at finally feeling pain for the first time in a long time. The once near-invincible man is left crawling in fear and desperation as the soldiers blast him again and again.
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* VillanousBreakdown: Eric VillainousBreakdown: [[spoiler:Eric is finally brought down once the military brings in a powerful laser canon, the moment the first shot tears his right leg apart he panics at finally feeling pain for the first time in a long time. The once near-invincible man is left crawling in fear and desperation as the soldiers blast him again and again.]]
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*VillanousBreakdown: Eric is finally brought down once the military brings in a powerful laser canon, the moment the first shot tears his right leg apart he panics at finally feeling pain for the first time in a long time. The once near-invincible man is left crawling in fear and desperation as the soldiers blast him again and again.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of humanity and decides to breaks them as contemptible toys.
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* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of humanity and decides to breaks them as contemptible toys.toys and decides to break them.
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* WhatIsEvil: When called out for raping his sister-in-law and crippling his brother, Eric justifies his actions by saying "Wrong is just a word people made up. It has nothing to do with the real world."
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* MookHorrorShow: U.S. Soldiers are shown being torn apart, smashed, and ripped to shreds by Eric in gory detail.
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* AGodAmI: Discovering his powers causes Eric to become more religious than he already was, believing he has been chosen to act as God's messenger
in a manner reminiscent to the Biblical Samson or Jesus. This quickly develops into megalomania as Eric starts regarding himself as an ''actual'' god and decides that regular humans are far, far beneath him.
in a manner reminiscent to the Biblical Samson or Jesus. This quickly develops into megalomania as Eric starts regarding himself as an ''actual'' god and decides that regular humans are far, far beneath him.
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* AGodAmI: Discovering his powers causes Eric to become more religious than he already was, believing he has been chosen to act as God's messenger
messenger in a manner reminiscent to the Biblical Samson or Jesus. This quickly develops into megalomania as Eric starts regarding himself as an ''actual'' god and decides that regular humans are far, far beneath him.
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* PsychicPowers: Telekinesis, which is explained how Eric can control objects without touching them and render himself impervious to damage without the trappings of superhuman durability that would make soft human organs inoperable.
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* DarkMessiah: Eric becomes this for a cult after his death who take on his appearance and commit brutality against others to emulate Eric's own vicious amorality.
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* PersonOfMassDestruction: In the final act, Eric becomes so powerful that he can lay waste to entire towns by himself. A government declaration was even ratified that the entire country would declare war against him as a national-level threat.
* PersonOfMassDestruction: In the final act, Eric becomes so powerful that he can lay waste to entire towns by himself. A government declaration was even ratified that the entire country would declare war against him as a national-level threat.
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* AGodAmI: Discovering his powers causes Eric to become more religious, believing he has been chosen to act as God's messenger. This quickly develops into megalomania as Eric starts regarding himself as an ''actual'' god and decides that regular humans are far, far beneath him.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Eric has been defeated, but he went on a rampage of death and destruction across the U.S. before he was put down. And the friends he left behind continue to be negatively affected by his actions; Alma, who was raped by Eric, suffers from PTSD while Sam abandons his journalism career.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of humanity.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Eric has been defeated, but he went on a rampage of death and destruction across the U.S. before he was put down. And the friends he left behind continue to be negatively affected by his actions; Alma, who was raped by Eric, suffers from PTSD while Sam abandons his journalism career.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of humanity.
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* AGodAmI: Discovering his powers causes Eric to become more religious, religious than he already was, believing he has been chosen to act as God's messenger.messenger
in a manner reminiscent to the Biblical Samson or Jesus. This quickly develops into megalomania as Eric starts regarding himself as an ''actual'' god and decides that regular humans are far, far beneath him.
* BewareTheSuperman: Eric becomes this for the United States after he goes berserk and tears through town after town for three years.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Eric has been defeated, but he went on a rampage of death and destruction across the U.S. for three years before he was put down.And the The friends he left behind continue to be negatively affected by his actions; Alma, who was raped by Eric, suffers from PTSD while and remains adverse to any physical contact from males, Hugh remains as a quadriplegic, and Sam abandons his journalism career.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest ofhumanity.humanity and decides to breaks them as contemptible toys.
in a manner reminiscent to the Biblical Samson or Jesus. This quickly develops into megalomania as Eric starts regarding himself as an ''actual'' god and decides that regular humans are far, far beneath him.
* BewareTheSuperman: Eric becomes this for the United States after he goes berserk and tears through town after town for three years.
* BittersweetEnding: [[spoiler:Eric has been defeated, but he went on a rampage of death and destruction across the U.S. for three years before he was put down.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of
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* ImplacableMan: Eric generally tears through whatever comes at him to the point only a military issue laser cannon designed to kill him was the only thing shown to be able to do him harm.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Once Eric realizes the people he wants to save so desperately fear him because of his power he goes completely manic and decides to treat people as ants to be squashed under his whims. His first act was to cripple his brother Hugh and brutally rape Hugh's wife Alma.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The more of his power Eric manages to access, the more his sanity takes a downhill drop.
* ThenLetMeBeEvil: Once Eric realizes the people he wants to save so desperately fear him because of his power he goes completely manic and decides to treat people as ants to be squashed under his whims. His first act was to cripple his brother Hugh and brutally rape Hugh's wife Alma.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: The more of his power Eric manages to access, the more his sanity takes a downhill drop.
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'''''A God Somewhere''''' is a 2010 graphic novel by John Arcudi and Peter Snejbjerg which [[{{Deconstruction}} deconstructs]] the idea of the real-life superhero. It tells the story of Eric Forster, who is discovered to be the first human being with superpowers after he survives an explosion in his apartment building. After using his new powers to rescue other survivors in full view of TV cameras, Eric becomes an immediate sensation. [[FromBadToWorse Things go downhill from there]].
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!!This graphic novel provides examples of:
* AGodAmI: Discovering his powers causes Eric to become more religious, believing he has been chosen to act as God's messenger. This quickly develops into megalomania as Eric starts regarding himself as an ''actual'' god and decides that regular humans are far, far beneath him.
* Bittersweet Ending: [[spoiler:Eric has been defeated, but he went on a rampage of death and destruction across the U.S. before he was put down. And the friends he left behind continue to be negatively affected by his actions; Alma, who was raped by Eric, suffers from PTSD while Sam abandons his journalism career.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of humanity.
* CainAndAbel: Eric's Cain to Hugh's Abel. Though fortunately for Hugh, he doesn't end up getting killed.
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!!This graphic novel provides examples of:
* AGodAmI: Discovering his powers causes Eric to become more religious, believing he has been chosen to act as God's messenger. This quickly develops into megalomania as Eric starts regarding himself as an ''actual'' god and decides that regular humans are far, far beneath him.
* Bittersweet Ending: [[spoiler:Eric has been defeated, but he went on a rampage of death and destruction across the U.S. before he was put down. And the friends he left behind continue to be negatively affected by his actions; Alma, who was raped by Eric, suffers from PTSD while Sam abandons his journalism career.]]
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: The more Eric regards himself as a god, the more he takes this view of the rest of humanity.
* CainAndAbel: Eric's Cain to Hugh's Abel. Though fortunately for Hugh, he doesn't end up getting killed.
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