History ComicBook / GodIsDead

* CoitusEnsues: Shown many times in the series. More so with Tansy to gain favor with several gods, but a more random case would be with Gaby and Paul. Paul was tasked with finding and protecting Gaby from turning into Gaia once more after being resurrected, but ended up having sex with her not more than two minutes after meeting her.

Originally a limited series coauthored by Creator/JonathanHickman (best known for works such as ''ComicBook/TheManhattanProjects'' and ''ComicBook/EastOfWest'', among others) and Mike Costa. After the conclusion of the initial six issue arc, ''God Is Dead'' has since become an ongoing series with Mike Costa as the sole writer.

Picture this scene: one day after a summer filled with strange, unnatural weather and staggering natural disasters, a very tall and muscular old man with a head of long white hair and a white beard is walking through Vatican City. He steps into the Art/SistineChapel and looks up at that most famous of paintings on the ceiling, The Creation of Adam, where God stretches forward his hand to pass life into Adam. The old man with the flowing white hair and beard considers it for a moment... and then declares it to be ridiculous, and says that he will never be satisfied with such a bloodless and tame form of worship. He [[BoltOfDivineRetribution calls down a lightning bolt]] that strikes right through the roof of the chapel, and as he makes himself a throne there he declares his identity for the first time: Zeus, King of the Gods.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The first arc was written in September of 2013, with the story starting in 2015.

* {{Beelzebub}}: Portrayed as one of the demons and chthonian gods aligned with {{Satan}}.

* AllMythsAreTrue: Although the first arc deals with only a few pantheons (with a seemingly arbitrary limit of 3 figures from each pantheon) further arcs have given time to more pantheons and more figures within previous introduced ones.

* EmotionBomb: Thammuz is capable of overwhelming any woman (including divine beings) with longing so powerful that it kills them, as demonstrated when he made an army of valkyries spontaneously combust.
* EthicalSlut / TheIngenue: Tansy fits both tropes to a T. Though she is polite, kind, a strong believer in "love conquers all", and empathetic to those around her, she is also willing to use sex as a means of getting what she wants or simply to appease aggressors.

* JesusWasWayCool: A bit of a hippy but easily one of the most compassionate and benevolent divine figures in the setting.

* AndIMustScream: After Jesus revives the Earth and everybody that died from the Second Coming is revived, [[TheDeathOfDeath death is all but wiped from existence]]. Unfortunately, RealityEnsues and it is elaborated that this is not a good thing. Starvation, sickness, aging and other forms of hardships and suffering associated with living are still very much a thing, but anything with a soul (humans, gods and mythical creatures) cannot die. This causes a sizable number of humans to go mad (leading to self-cannibalism and failed suicides), as with conflicts and supernatural beings that are more than happy to harm humans leaving mankind literally broken. [[spoiler:It takes the combined might of Thanatos's many demi-god bastards and Jesus sacrificing himself to Baphomet to reverse this.]]

Picture this scene: one day after a summer filled with strange, unnatural weather and staggering natural disasters, a very tall and muscular old man with a head of long white hair and a white beard is walking through Vatican City. He steps into the Art/SistineChapel and looks up at that most famous of paintings on the ceiling, The Creation of Adam, where God stretches forward his hand to pass life into Adam. The old man with the flowing white hair and beard considers it for a moment... and then declares it to be ridiculous, and says that he will never be satisfied with such a bloodless and tame form of worship. He [[BoltOfDivineRetribution calls down a lightning bolt]] that strikes right through the roof of the chapel, and as he makes himself a throne there he declares his identity for the first time: [[OhCrap Zeus, King of the Gods]].

* TheTrickster: Loki has a fairly prominent role in the first volume, and the second shows other mythological tricksters such as Coyote and Anansi getting into the act.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: All the Chinese dragon wants is peace for the world. Sounds good, right? Keep in mind that killing everyone who is fighting does result in peace.

* KillTheGod: Done in copious degrees between gods duking it out and humans killing gods using divine weaponry.

** The Collective try and [[DeityOfHumanOrigin create their own God]] through injection of the blood of their own failed creation Mammon. This turns all three of the willing test-subjects into demon-esq gods with the same narcissistic AGodIAm personality as the natural born gods.

Picture this scene: one day after a summer filled with strange, unnatural weather and staggering natural disasters, a very tall and muscular old man with head of long white hair and a white beard is walking through Vatican City. He steps into the Art/SistineChapel and looks up at that most famous of paintings on the ceiling, The Creation of Adam, where God stretches forward his hand to pass life into Adam. The old man with the flowing white hair and beard considers it for a moment... and then declares it to be ridiculous, and says that he will never be satisfied with such a bloodless and tame form of worship. He [[BoltOfDivineRetribution calls down a lightning bolt]] that strikes right through the roof of the chapel, and as he makes himself a throne there he declares his identity for the first time: [[OhCrap Zeus, King of the Gods]].

* NighInvulnerability: Baldur has this without misteltoe to bypass his invulnerability, which is actually a plot point as it makes him one of the only gods to survive combat with the gods of other pantheons until the very end.

* ReallyGetsAround: Thanatos, with help his love god companion, Eros, manages to bed countless women during his time on Earth and unknowingly produces scores of demigod progeny.

** A decontruction of the trope appears later when a cabal of trickster gods ban together to stop the newly deified Gaia from throwing all of existence out of balance. They're completely unable to stop her because as trickster gods they rely on subterfuge and deception to act instead of direct action and Gaia's literally too single-minded and oblivious they can't get any leverage on her. They end up having to rely on the idiotic and reckless Thanatos and Eros for help since they're constrained by their natures to not directly solve their own problems.