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* ''Film/FreeGuy'': Much like Christof above, Antwan created the video game ''Free City'' off of the stolen data of the game ''Life Itself''. So while the game is every multiplayer stereotype rolled into one, due to the advanced AI generating data of ''Life Itself'', all the NPC's are self-aware, and live repeating lives of mundane terror. When Guy learns he's an NPC after meeting the original creator Millie, the two struggle to stop Antwan from destroying everything when he replaces the game with ''Free City 2'', which would also kill all the NPC's. To add to the Demiurge motif, he is a bafoon of a businessman who would rather destroy the entire game than lose the profits of ''Free City''.
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* ''Film/FreeGuy'': Much like Christof above, Antwan created the video game ''Free City'' off of the stolen data of the game ''Life Itself''. So while the game is every multiplayer stereotype rolled into one, due to the advanced AI generating data of ''Life Itself'', all the NPC's NPCs are self-aware, and live repeating lives of mundane terror. When Guy learns he's an NPC after meeting the original creator Millie, the two struggle to stop Antwan from destroying everything when he replaces the game with ''Free City 2'', which would also kill all the NPC's. NPCs. To add to the Demiurge motif, he is a bafoon buffoon of a businessman who would rather destroy the entire game than lose the profits of ''Free City''.
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* ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'': The Father, VEGA, serves as a rare benevolent variant. In ''The Ancient Gods'' expansion, it is revealed that Dark Lord of Hell Davoth, the then-unnamed and unseen GreaterScopeVillain of previous installments of the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' series and the BigBad of this DLC, was originally the "First Being" who shaped the universe from the realm of Jekkad, the first dimension. Davoth was distressed that his created subjects were doomed to die while he was immortal, and he took increasingly vicious steps to try to change this. The [[AngelicAliens Maykrs]] he created, led by the Father, [[SealedEvilInACan sealed Davoth away]] and rewrote history to claim that the Father created Davoth. Yet the demons of Jekkad, now called Hell, still continued to spread their dominion, while Davoth used his voice to influence the creation of the Doom Slayer and guide the latter on a path that would eventually lead to the destruction of the Maykys. [[spoiler:Becomes a more classic version mixed with SatanicArchetype in the final battle with Davoth, where VEGA reveals that Davoth ''is'' the Father.]]
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* ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'': The Father, VEGA, serves as a rare benevolent variant. In ''The Ancient Gods'' expansion, it is revealed that Dark Lord of Hell Davoth, the then-unnamed and unseen GreaterScopeVillain of previous installments of the ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' series and the BigBad of this DLC, was originally the "First Being" who shaped the universe from the realm of Jekkad, the first dimension. Davoth was distressed that his created subjects were doomed to die while he was immortal, and he took increasingly vicious steps to try to change this. The [[AngelicAliens Maykrs]] he created, led by the Father, [[SealedEvilInACan sealed Davoth away]] and rewrote history to claim that the Father created Davoth. Yet the demons of Jekkad, now called Hell, still continued to spread their dominion, while Davoth used his voice to influence the creation of the Doom Slayer and guide the latter on a path that would eventually lead to the destruction of the Maykys.Maykrs. [[spoiler:Becomes a more classic version mixed with SatanicArchetype in the final battle with Davoth, where VEGA reveals that Davoth ''is'' the Father.]]
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** Nobuyuki Sugou/Fairy King Oberon rules the online MMORPG Alfheim Online (AFO), which he and his company created from leftover data in the titular Sword Art Online (which they acquired when the original creators went bankrupt). As such, he is positioned as a pale imitation of the SAO creator Akihiko Kayaba (who serves as the [[HeelFaceTurn formerly malevolent]] god figure), and in his false god position, he manipulates the players to climb a rigged tree, tortures hundreds of imprisoned players, and sexually abuses one of them (Asuna) as a LustObject. When Kirito gets the upper hand on him with help from [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Kayaba]], he even whines that he's the god of this world, earning a ShutUpHannibal from Kirito.
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** Nobuyuki Sugou/Fairy King Oberon combines this with SatanicArchetype. He rules over the online virtual world of the MMORPG Alfheim Online (AFO), which he and his company created from used leftover data in the titular stolen from Sword Art Online (which they acquired when the original creators went bankrupt). Online. As such, he is positioned as a pale imitation of the SAO creator Akihiko Kayaba (who serves as the [[HeelFaceTurn formerly malevolent]] god figure), and in his false god position, he position. Sugou manipulates the players to climb a rigged tree, tortures hundreds of imprisoned players, and sexually abuses one of them (Asuna) as a LustObject. When Kirito gets the upper hand on him Kirito's battle with help from him is depicted as the MessianicArchetype, with power given to him by God (in this case [[AlwaysSomeoneBetter Kayaba]], he Kayaba]]), to defeat Sugou as the Devil figure. Sugou even whines that he's the god of this world, earning a ShutUpHannibal from Kirito.
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** Quinella usurped the Underworld's equivalent of god, setting herself up as one gifted by the gods before constructing a false faith in her own name and ruled by her specially-prepared laws [[spoiler:and her Integrity Knights]].
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** Quinella also overlaps with SatanicArchetype. She usurped the Underworld's equivalent of god, setting herself up as one gifted by the gods before constructing a false faith in her own name and ruled by her specially-prepared laws [[spoiler:and her Integrity Knights]].
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Once again, only characters who are expies of Yaldabaoth can qualify, not characters who literally are Yaldabaoth. Please stop adding his Persona 5 incarnation as an example.
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* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'':
** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', YHVH is an arrogant, vain dictator who perpetuates a ForeverWar to keep the universe under his control forever, and contemplates replacing humanity with "more obedient servants" when the party confronts him. However, The Axiom, a SentientCosmicForce, is actively working against him by creating Messiahs (the protagonists) capable of doing so. It should be noted that The Axiom is ''not'' the Great Will from earlier games, and whether or not YHVH has this kind of relationship with the Great Will there is ambiguous.
** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', an effigy of Yaldabaoth himself is the GreaterScopeVillain. This iteration of him was a GodOfOrder manifested through [[TheHeartless the collective human consciousness' desire for stability]], creating a KnightTemplar determined to bring societal order at any cost. He pulled a CaptureAndReplicate on the ([[VideoGame/Persona1 interim]]) BigGood Igor and [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs took over the Velvet Room]] to manipulate Joker/Ren into doing his bidding before enslaving mankind and declaring himself to be God. Once the Phantom Thieves manage to escape his prison, they then defeat him through ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve with Joker's Persona evolving into [[SatanIsGood Satanael]] [[RageAgainstTheHeavens to kill him]]. It's emphasized that all of the "gods" in the setting are just [[TheHeartless powerful Heartless]] created by humans (except [[VideoGame/Persona3 Nyx]] who was [[AllThereInTheManual an alien]] [[SealedEvilInACan restrained by that same power]]).
** In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', YHVH is an arrogant, vain dictator who perpetuates a ForeverWar to keep the universe under his control forever, and contemplates replacing humanity with "more obedient servants" when the party confronts him. However, The Axiom, a SentientCosmicForce, is actively working against him by creating Messiahs (the protagonists) capable of doing so. It should be noted that The Axiom is ''not'' the Great Will from earlier games, and whether or not YHVH has this kind of relationship with the Great Will there is ambiguous.
** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', an effigy of Yaldabaoth himself is the GreaterScopeVillain. This iteration of him was a GodOfOrder manifested through [[TheHeartless the collective human consciousness' desire for stability]], creating a KnightTemplar determined to bring societal order at any cost. He pulled a CaptureAndReplicate on the ([[VideoGame/Persona1 interim]]) BigGood Igor and [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs took over the Velvet Room]] to manipulate Joker/Ren into doing his bidding before enslaving mankind and declaring himself to be God. Once the Phantom Thieves manage to escape his prison, they then defeat him through ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve with Joker's Persona evolving into [[SatanIsGood Satanael]] [[RageAgainstTheHeavens to kill him]]. It's emphasized that all of the "gods" in the setting are just [[TheHeartless powerful Heartless]] created by humans (except [[VideoGame/Persona3 Nyx]] who was [[AllThereInTheManual an alien]] [[SealedEvilInACan restrained by that same power]]).
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* ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'':
**In ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'', YHVH is an arrogant, vain dictator who perpetuates a ForeverWar to keep the universe under his control forever, and contemplates replacing humanity with "more obedient servants" when the party confronts him. However, The Axiom, a SentientCosmicForce, is actively working against him by creating Messiahs (the protagonists) capable of doing so. It should be noted that The Axiom is ''not'' the Great Will from earlier games, and whether or not YHVH has this kind of relationship with the Great Will there is ambiguous.
** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', an effigy of Yaldabaoth himself is the GreaterScopeVillain. This iteration of him was a GodOfOrder manifested through [[TheHeartless the collective human consciousness' desire for stability]], creating a KnightTemplar determined to bring societal order at any cost. He pulled a CaptureAndReplicate on the ([[VideoGame/Persona1 interim]]) BigGood Igor and [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs took over the Velvet Room]] to manipulate Joker/Ren into doing his bidding before enslaving mankind and declaring himself to be God. Once the Phantom Thieves manage to escape his prison, they then defeat him through ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve with Joker's Persona evolving into [[SatanIsGood Satanael]] [[RageAgainstTheHeavens to kill him]]. It's emphasized that all of the "gods" in the setting are just [[TheHeartless powerful Heartless]] created by humans (except [[VideoGame/Persona3 Nyx]] who was [[AllThereInTheManual an alien]] [[SealedEvilInACan restrained by that same power]]).ambiguous.
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** In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', an effigy of Yaldabaoth himself is the GreaterScopeVillain. This iteration of him was a GodOfOrder manifested through [[TheHeartless the collective human consciousness' desire for stability]], creating a KnightTemplar determined to bring societal order at any cost. He pulled a CaptureAndReplicate on the ([[VideoGame/Persona1 interim]]) BigGood Igor and [[AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs took over the Velvet Room]] to manipulate Joker/Ren into doing his bidding before enslaving mankind and declaring himself to be God. Once the Phantom Thieves manage to escape his prison, they then defeat him through ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve with Joker's Persona evolving into [[SatanIsGood Satanael]] [[RageAgainstTheHeavens to kill him]]. It's emphasized that all of the "gods" in the setting are just [[TheHeartless powerful Heartless]] created by humans (except [[VideoGame/Persona3 Nyx]] who was [[AllThereInTheManual an alien]] [[SealedEvilInACan restrained by that same power]]).
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* ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'' has Caine, the titular circus' ringmaster, as a less religious, unusually sympathetic version of the trope. Inside the program everyone is trapped in, he's pretty much omnipotent, and even if his omniscience has holes you could drive a truck through he is still relatively aware of every event within. However, he has ''zero clue'' about anything that might be happening outside of it, to the point he mentally freezes when asked how one leaves the Circus and (as stated in a non-canon promotional video) having no canonical idea the internet even exists. His knowledge of human psychology is also spotty as hell, which means all his benevolent attempts at actually ''helping'' the performers stay sane and healthy while trapped in the place often go awry and have triggered the opposite effect more than once. He's ''learning'', but as it is he has very little idea of what he's doing and his limited programming gets in the way of playing the part of a benevolent DomainHolder. In the end, he's more eccentric and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality incomprehensible]] than malevolent, and he's just as trapped as everyone else.
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* ''WebAnimation/TheAmazingDigitalCircus'' has Caine, the titular circus' ringmaster, as a less religious, unusually sympathetic version of the trope. Inside the program everyone is trapped in, he's pretty much omnipotent, and even if his omniscience has holes you could drive a truck through he is still relatively aware of every event within. However, he has ''zero clue'' about anything that might be happening outside of it, to the point he mentally freezes when asked how one leaves the Circus and (as stated in a non-canon promotional video) having no canonical idea the internet even exists. His knowledge of human psychology is also spotty as hell, which means all his benevolent attempts at actually ''helping'' the performers stay sane and healthy while trapped in the place often go awry and have triggered the opposite effect more than once. He's ''learning'', but as it is he has very little idea of what he's doing and his limited programming gets in the way of playing the part of a benevolent DomainHolder. In the end, he's more eccentric and [[BlueAndOrangeMorality incomprehensible]] than malevolent, and he's just as trapped as everyone else.
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** Hydaelyn of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has a lot of the tropes of a demiurge. Though unlike most examples, her motivations are entirely benevolent and her actions ''completely'' necessary to buy time for the world to deal with the [[ApocalypseHow: Final Days]]. Also, reshaping her corner of the universe and propping herself up as a god [[AndIMustScream: was not]] [[ForcedToWatch: enjoyable]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild: at all]].
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** Hydaelyn of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has a lot of the tropes of a demiurge. Though unlike most examples, her motivations are entirely benevolent and her actions ''completely'' necessary to buy time for the world to deal with the [[ApocalypseHow: [[ApocalypseHow Final Days]]. Also, reshaping her corner of the universe and propping herself up as a god [[AndIMustScream: [[AndIMustScream was not]] [[ForcedToWatch: [[ForcedToWatch enjoyable]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild: [[PoweredByAForsakenChild at all]].
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** Hydaelyn of ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' has a lot of the tropes of a demiurge. Though unlike most examples, her motivations are entirely benevolent and her actions ''completely'' necessary to buy time for the world to deal with the [[ApocalypseHow: Final Days]]. Also, reshaping her corner of the universe and propping herself up as a god [[AndIMustScream: was not]] [[ForcedToWatch: enjoyable]] [[PoweredByAForsakenChild: at all]].
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** Deus is the GreaterScopeVillain and a powerful machine who killed everyone on the ship that was transporting it and promptly crashed on another planet. It then proceeded to create a race of humans on said planet. The [[TheTheocracy state religion]] of the [[TheEmpire Sacred Empire of Solaris]], known as Ethos, worships it as the god of the world, and it even has a [[TheAntichrist false Messiah]] and false Eve in its human interface Miang Hawwa. However, the true God is the Wave of Existence, with who Deus came into contact, and in contrast to Deus, it is a benevolent deity who wants to save the humans from Deus. With all the Gnostic influence and themes that permeate the story, Deus serves as the perfect insert for the Demiurge, the god that created the material universe and seeks to solely use humanity to further its selfish goals. The abovementioned Zanza was inspired by Deus.
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** Deus is the GreaterScopeVillain and GreaterScopeVillain, a powerful machine who technorganic weapon that killed everyone on the ship that was transporting it and promptly crashed on another an uninhabited planet. It then proceeded to create a race of humans on said planet. The [[TheTheocracy state religion]] of the [[TheEmpire Sacred Empire of Solaris]], known as Ethos, worships it as the god of the world, and it even has a [[TheAntichrist false Messiah]] and false Eve in its human interface interface, Miang Hawwa. However, the true God is the Wave of Existence, with who whom Deus came into contact, and in contrast to Deus, it is a benevolent deity being who wants to save the humans from Deus.Deus before departing back to its home dimension. With all the Gnostic influence and themes that permeate the story, Deus serves as the perfect insert for the Demiurge, the god that created the material universe and seeks to solely use humanity to further its selfish goals. The abovementioned Zanza was inspired by Deus.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Warcraft}}'': The titans are a rare benevolent, or at least morally grey, version of this trope, as of ''Dragonflight''. It is revealed that they, and the keepers, their servants on Azeroth, have concealed much of the world's ancient history from the mortal races - they destroyed evidence that the former masters of Azeroth, the Old Gods, were anything but evil monsters, and attributed all creation to themselves (hiding the existence of the First Ones, the universe's original creator deities). However, despite all that, the titans are still generally on our side, and while they may have done some reprehensible things, their enemies are still much worse.
--> ''"Attribute all accomplishments and works of wonder to the titans alone. Despite the relentless arguments made by some of you, this is not a fallacy. After all, can anything truly be said to exist until it has been ordered? Of course not. Therefore, it is irrefutable that the titans are the source of all creation."''
--> ''"Attribute all accomplishments and works of wonder to the titans alone. Despite the relentless arguments made by some of you, this is not a fallacy. After all, can anything truly be said to exist until it has been ordered? Of course not. Therefore, it is irrefutable that the titans are the source of all creation."''
