History Main / GodIsEvil

* ''Film/GodOnTrial'': Subverted. The Jews were ''not'' discussing God's character - such banter was irrelevant to the trial, and stripped from the record. The jury ultimately decides God is in breach of contract, although whether they find him evil is not stated. The final monologue, however, features a man who is unequivocally of this position.

* ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' introduces Zeno, who hosts a tournament between entire universes that will destroy all but the winner, [[spoiler:[[SubvertedTrope and which turns out to actually be a]] SecretTestOfCharacter [[EverybodyLives at the end of which all universes involved are restored]]. That being said, he ''did'' destroy six other universes for real over an unspecified, implied-to-be-trivial cause at a much earlier point in time.]]

* Deus Ex Machina from ''Manga/FutureDiary''. Sure, he's about to die and is taking the world down with him, but picking his successor by forcing mostly innocent people to fight a battle royale for the lulz? Not to mention telling a 4-year-old to kill (semi)-innocent people. [[spoiler: Later revealed to be the result of a BatmanGambit by another of the Diary Holders, John Bacchus, who told Deus to have a last conflict before he died, and hence took all the winning cards with him as a reward. Eventually Subverted in the Third Continuity, where [[GodIsGood Deus]] just makes Yuno Gasai the God without any bloodshed.]]

* ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' has the eccentric sadist Drosselmeyer to contend with: a dead writer whose influence, and love of tragedy, still haunt Kinkan Town.

* God in ''ComicBook/TheChroniclesOfWormwood'' (by [[RunningGag ...you guessed it,]] Creator/GarthEnnis) is another example, as He's apparently [[spoiler:[[MadGod insane]] or severely mentally deficient]]; then there's also the fact that [[spoiler: he's in league with Satan to bring about the biblical Apocalypse, over the objections of their much nicer sons [[JesusWasWayCool Jay]] and [[AntiAntiChrist Wormwood]]]]. Also of note: This version of God seems [[spoiler:to really, really, really love masturbating]] (something of a RunningGag in Ennis' works).

* ''ComicBook/CliveBarkersNextTestament'' has Wick, the Father of Colors. [[EvilIsPetty He's petty]], he seeps the life force out of people, levitates them and lets them plummet to their death, makes their heads explode, forces them to build monuments in his honor and ultimately [[spoiler:becomes an OmnicidalManiac]]. Also, he fucking hates free will.

* ''ComicBook/Nameless2015'' by Creator/GrantMorrison: [[spoiler: An EldritchAbomination MadeOfEvil imprisoned on an asteroid is directly responsible for the very concept of God in the human psyche.]]

* [[BigBad Titan]] from ''Fanfic/TheImmortalGame''. Imagine [[spoiler:O'Brien]] from ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' with the powers of an elder god. And his wife[[spoiler:[[VillainousIncest /daughter]]]] [[EvilMatriarch Terra]] is almost as bad.

* ''Film/TheRapture'': Sharon comes to believe this. [[spoiler: The film explores this question, since not only believers but atheists get a chance to enter heaven but only if they accept God. Sharon is only left out by her own choice.]]

* The Music/{{Vocaloid}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHffjNbWmig "Honey I'm Home"]] features an evil god with an incredibly creepy appearance who [[spoiler: literally ''vivisects'' the protagonist.]]

* In "How Do You Do?" Music/{{Shakira}} has an honest conversation with God about His cruelties. However, she forgives Him.

* "Remnant (March of the Undead IV)" by Music/MachinaeSupremacy uses a ZombieApocalypse as a metaphor to criticize religious followers who insist that God is benevolent despite doing nothing to keep horrible things from happening. The song even implies that God enjoys watching the destruction he causes through inaction.

%%% The adherents of the [[http://oglaf.com/sithrak/ Cult of Sithrak the Blind Gibberer]] believe that Sithrak is a cruel and gruesome god who tortures his worshippers for all eternity. This is actually the main draw of the religion, since it completely absolves you of moral quandries. Doesn't matter if you're good or evil, Sithrak will torture you either way. [[spoiler:Of course, it turns out that Sithrak is actually a decent guy, and the cult is based on some angsty teenage poetry of his]].

* ''Webcomic/SaturdayMorningBreakfastCereal'' seems to be quite fond of this trope and frequently uses it for jokes. It varies between this, GodIsFlawed and MadGod. For example, there is a strip where an atheist argues against the idea of Hell, by stating that, being omnipotent, God already knows any action a human will take in their lifetime, so it makes no sense to punish them for it. So either, Hell doesn't exist, or God is a jerk.
--> '''Satan''': Struck by lightning?
--> '''Atheist''': Struck by lightning...

* ''Webcomic/{{Wulffmorgenthaler}}'': God and Satan agree on God being the evil one after [[http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/2010/02/15/ flipping a coin]].

* Some interpretations of WebVideo/MrDeity are this. He's not so much actively evil as tremendously uncaring.

* In ''Series/WonderShowzen''. God appears as an evil, creepy voice. Of course, that's not surprising considering [[BlackComedy what kind of show it is]]...

* ''ComicBook/CerebusTheAardvark'' crossed the line into CerebusSyndrome when its author began proposing such theories [[WriterOnBoard through the mouth of his barbarian-turned-intellectual main character]]. To be more precise (and yet dumb down the theories), Sim's argument isn't that God is evil, [[spoiler:it's that the YHWH of the Old Testament and God are two separate entities, and the conflict between them stems from the YHWH having a '''massive''' inferiority complex.]]

* ''TabletopGame/{{KULT}}'' is a Gnostic horror game, so you know this trope's in the cards. The Demiurge/Creator put the curse of death on mankind, stripping away their immortality and most of their powers. Then, he disappeared, and Astaroth/Satan is looking for him, since the Demiurge is the only one who gave his life some sense. The devil is quite alone in this search -- nobody else wants God to come back. It is also stated that God did ''not'' create the true world, and it's implied that it was a great place to live in until God came along and ruined it.

* In Creator/WarrenEllis's comic ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'', the main superhero team actually fight "God," which turns out to be a gigantic pyramid-like entity which created the Earth as a "retirement home" (unfortunately, its home environment looks like {{Mordor}} crossed with a [[{{Film/Alien}} Xenomorph hive]]) and is bugged when it returns to find humanity has since evolved (life on Earth was a total accident caused by a random meteor strike billions of years ago) and intends to keep on living there. They end up frying its brains out, assuring the civilization of sentient intestinal parasites living in it that only the higher brain functions will be affected, letting them survive. Unusual for this trope, this alien "God" has nothing to do with humans, just with planet Earth itself.

* The song "War is my Destiny" by rapper Ill Bill implies that the Devil (not [[{{Satan}} that one]] -- when the War in Heaven ended, the Fallen Angels dethroned Satan and crowned a new leader in his place) convinced humanity that he was God and proceeded to make their lives miserable. Whenever God sent prophets to save the people (yes, there were multiple messiahs), the fallen angels hunted them down and burned them. Eventually God unleashed the Flood and destroyed the kingdoms of the fallen. After the flood, the Devil allowed the prophets to live, only so he could twist the word of God and humanity would worship him once again, thinking they were worshipping God. Basically what it boils down to is that while GodIsGood, the guy that everyone ''thinks'' is God is very, very evil.

* In Andrew Kepple's {{Animutation}} trilogy ''WebAnimation/ColinMochrieVsJesusHChrist'', after saving everyone from Colin Mochrie [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext after he gets turned into a rampaging Scotsman]], Jesus takes over the world and starts persecuting characters from "fanimutations". At the end of Part 3, [[spoiler: it turns out "Jesus" is actually [[Series/TheBradyBunch Mike Brady]], who starred alongside Colin in Neil Cicirega's "The Japanese Pokerap" but was jealous that Colin became a BreakoutCharacter, and orchestrated the whole thing in order to get revenge.]]

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': The First Evil is older than the universe as exists since before the Big Bang. This is the reason why creepy serial murderer priest Caleb considers it to be God.

* The concept of the game ''TabletopGame/Midnight2003'' is fighting hopelessly against the Evil God Izrador who rules the world. However, Izrador is not the Creator, but merely the evil member of a pantheon exiled to the mortal world. However Izrador, being a god of chaos and corruption, screwed up the seal that locked him into the world. Instead of being a world where every being except Izrador could enter and leave at will (by normal ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' standards), nobody is free to enter or leave, not even the other gods of the pantheon.

* The ''TabletopGame/ShadowOfTheDemonLord'' RPG from Schwalb Entertainment, has TabletopGame/WarhammerFantasy as one of its biggest influences. In this CrapsackWorld, CosmicHorror DarkFantasy RPG, the universe is under threat from the all-consuming, near omnipotent Demon Lord, the most powerful being in existence. The Demon Lord is [[spoiler:actually God himself, but with his best bits removed by ambitious genies when he was taking a break after creation. Sure he's a lot less powerful now, but he's all spite and rage with plenty of sadism mixed in too.]]

* The Morce from "Space Blood" has two evil sides with its two god-like incarnations being evil. [[spoiler:It is also a bit of an inversion as the Morce is made of [[http://space-blood.thecomicseries.com/comics/20/ Evil]] as a case of Evil Is God.]]

* In ''Comicbook/{{Spawn}}'', God [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks and Satan]] are portrayed as, though not exactly "evil," essentially the cosmic equivalent of spoiled teenagers who enjoy breaking each other's stuff. It's the fact that this includes ''us'' that causes this to become a problem. [[spoiler:Oh, and He's not actually the Creator]].

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* {{Played with}} in ''Theatre/AngelsInAmerica'': God isn't evil ''per se'', but [[spoiler: he is a serious JerkAss who abandoned Heaven a couple decades back, leaving the Angels in disarray and despair. It takes Prior, who has had a similar bad experience recently with a man walking out on him, to knock some sense into them, and say "Screw him!".]]
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* ''Webcomic/InWilysDefense'' features Sphere. He isn't exactly evil but he's basically a lazy, irresponsible, and petty {{Jerkass}} who is apathetic towards the actions of his destructive children. He shows more concern over a random guy calling himself the "God Of Flames" than he does over the angels of death and destruction going to war with each other.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' mostly uses the idea that GodIsFlawed, but on a few occasions, does show him to be a real jerk, such as people with disabilities on Earth remaining disabled in Heaven for some reason (which looks like a Sandals resort). He's also been shown to be rather short and annoyed with his followers.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': God has appeared in person a few times (for some reason, He looks like a chimpanzee with a hippo's head), and while not portrayed as outright evil, does seem rather annoyed with how whiny and needy his creations are, even Satan (who has gone from a badass rebel to a wimpy loser stuck in unhealthy relationships) and Jesus (who has completely lost his ability to inspire humanity and relies on rehashing his old teachings).

* In ''{{Wulffmorgenthaler}}'', God and Satan agree on God being the evil one after [[http://wulffmorgenthaler.com/2010/02/15/ flipping a coin]].

* Eppy Thatcher from ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'' subscribes to this trope, and has "God hates me" as his catchphrase. Then again, this is a guy who's so messed up that he believes [[spoiler: he ''killed'' God]] at the end of his run as Grendel.

* In the comic book ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' (which Ennis did a lot of writing for), The First of the Fallen (a leader of Hell) tells John Constantine that God is completely insane. John also works out that The First is actually God's conscience, removed at the dawn of creation because he kept nagging at Him. God himself never appears, but from what little is seen of His work through the Angels doesnt exactly paint Him in the best light. For example, the Archangel Michael himself assisted in the creation of Jesus by raping Mary, and commited genocide against the first-born of Egypt, all on God's orders. You can probably tell that Ennis isnt crazy about Christianity.

** Ironically, the [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]] villain [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Gorr the God-Butcher]] both ''believes this'', being a HollywoodAtheist with a TraumaCongaLine background, and ''is this'', as he's empowered by an uber-divine god-killing weapon - created by an actual evil God - that he uses to take RageAgainstTheHeavens to the level of hunting down, torturing and murdering every god he can find.

* Creator/GarthEnnis' ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'': "Sometimes I'd like to get my hands on God."

* Windfall and Twister have something of a heart to heart in an issue of ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad''.
-->'''Windfall:''' Excuse me -- you're a nun, right?\\
'''Twister:''' Oh yes. Sister Mary Ignatius. They used to call me Twister. And you're Windfall. We're going to do God's work together.\\
'''Windfall:''' Do you mind if I ask you a question about God, Sister?\\
'''Twister:''' Of course not, child!\\
'''Windfall:''' Why -- why does God hate me?\\
'''Twister:''' Oh, Windfall! God doesn't hate just you! God hates everybody.\\
'''Windfall:''' ... What?!\\
'''Twister:''' Well, look at me! Look at you! Look at the state of the world! Do you see the loving hand of a kindly God or somebody's idea of a sick joke? Don't take it personally.

* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': When talking about [[https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/650547/part-23-of-the-palaververse-world-faiths Saddle Arabian religion]], they have gone GodIsEvil, due to the horrific nature of the wildlife that encompasses their land:
--> the Saddle Arabians long ago looked at the hostile hellscape they lived in, and couldn’t help but wonder how any thinking being could come to any other conclusion than that there is a Creator, and it ''hates'' its Creation with a savage and tyrannical hatred. Nothing of a benevolent disposition could have created or permitted wind scorpions or flecks or the like to exist, after all

* ''Film/TheDevilsAdvocate'' (though, [[UnreliableNarrator as given by]] {{Satan}}):
-->''"Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch. He's a prankster. Think about it: he gives man '''''INSTINCTS'''''. He gives you this extraordinary gift, and then what does he do - I swear, for his own amusement, his own private cosmic gag reel - he sets the rules in opposition. It's the goof of all-time. Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste! Taste; don't swallow. And while you're jumping from one foot to the next, what is he doing? He's laughing his '''''SICK, FUCKING ASS OFF'''''! He's a tight ass! He's a '''''SADIST!''''' He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? Never!"''

* ''Film/FeastOfLove'': Harry sadly suggests God either doesn't exist or else despises humanity in the wake of [[spoiler:Oscar's tragic sudden death]] after he already lost his son as well. Bradley rejects this idea, and Harry doesn't seem to believe it firmly himself.
* In ''Film/FightClub'' the narrator and Tyler Durden discuss this when Tyler tries to 'enlighten' the narrator by means of [[spoiler:burning his hand with lye]].
--> '''Tyler Durden:''' Our fathers were our models for God. If our fathers bailed, what does that tell you about God?
--> '''Narrator:''' No, no, I... don't...
--> '''Tyler Durden:''' Listen to me! You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, He hates you. This is not the worst thing that can happen.
--> '''Narrator:''' It isn't?
--> '''Tyler Durden:''' We don't need Him!

* ''{{Film/Manhunter}}'': Lektor insists this is the case, along with AGodAmI.
-->'''Lektor:''' Did you really feel depressed after you shot Mr. Garrett Jacob Hobbes to death? I think you probably did. But it wasn't the act that got to you. Didn't you feel so bad, because killing him felt so good? And why shouldn't it feel good? It must feel good to God. He does it all the time. God's terrific! He dropped a church roof on 34 of his worshipers in Texas last Wednesday night, just as they were groveling through a hymn to his majesty. Don't you think that felt good?
-->'''Will:''' Why does it feel good, Dr. Lektor?
-->'''Lektor:''' It feels good because God has power. [[AGodAmI If one does what God does enough times, one will become as God is.]] God's a champ. He always stays ahead. He got 140 Filipinos in one plane crash last year. Remember that earthquake in Italy last spring?

* Quoted from Riddick in ''Film/PitchBlack'' when questioned about his belief in God:
-->''"Think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? Think he could start out in some liquor-store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe? Got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in God... And I absolutely hate the fucker."''

* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Butcher argues this to a Christian at the Believe Expo, saying if God exists he's cruel and hates humanity given how much suffering the world has.

* ''Series/HandOfGod'': Pernell rants that God is malicious and sadistic [[spoiler: after PJ doesn't come out of his coma.]]

* On ''{{Series/Hannibal}}'', this is Lecter's view: "Killing must feel good to God too-he does it all the time."
** Later, he speculates whether, if God exists, his killing people could actually be called [[AboveGoodAndEvil "good" or "evil"]].
** In "Ko No Mono" Hannibal also states that his own "modest actions" pale in comparison with God's.
** {{Discussed}} once again in "Tome-Wan", where Hannibal speculates that to God innocence is offensive, thereby explaining the suffering of innocents.

* This trope, when applied to the Big Guy Himself, is a main source of {{Religion Rant Song}}s of the Type 1 variety.

%%Specific examples below:

* [[{{Creator/MontyPython}} Monty Python]]'s [[{{AudioPlay/MontyPythonsContractualObligationAlbum}} "All things Dull and Ugly"]] parodies a Christian hymn, praising god for a number of bad things he created.

* As might be surmised from the name, every other song by DeathMetal band Music/{{Deicide}} deals with how much they hate God. Whether or not frontman Glenn Benton actually believes in God's existence or is simply trolling Christians remains unclear.

* Music/DepecheMode did not want to start any blasphemous rumours, but they think that God has a sick sense of humour (and when they die, they expect to find him... laughing).

* Music/{{XTC}}'s "Dear God" from ''Music/{{Skylarking}}'': "Did you make disease...", "You're always letting us humans down/The wars you bring, the babes you drown..."

* Extremely common in BlackMetal songs. Music/DeathspellOmega in particular has basically made a career of this (though it should be noted that this does ''not'' mean they think SatanIsGood). Some black metal groups go even further - straight into RefugeInAudacity territory - by portraying God as weak and pathetic, and writing songs about humiliating Him.

* The song "Father, You're Not a Father" by the DeathMetal band Music/{{Immolation}} is about God being a rapist and a betrayer of men.

* Music/AliceInChains was responsible for the song "God Am," in which lead singer Layne Staley vents about how much God has abandoned him. Staley was once reported to have said of God, "I didn't make me. I would've done a better job." There's also a line in the Music/AliceInChains song "Man In The Box" that says, "Jesus Christ (Deny Your Maker)." The first couple lines being "I'm the man in the box, buried in my shit, won't you come and save me". Apparently someone crying out to God and their cries are met with silence?

* Music/{{IAMX}}'s "I Salute You Christopher" - which is dedicated to Creator/ChristopherHitchens - "Control yourselves,/ 'cause the man in the sky is a tyrant and a lonely psychopath/ Dreamed up to steal your minds."

* A frequent theme in progressive sludge metal group [[{{Music/TheOcean}} The Ocean]]'s lyrics. They even dedicated two albums to tearing down Christianity. Just look at some of their lyrics:
-->"A world with God would be even more disturbing than a universe without him
-->For if He tolerates atrocities
-->If he condones such cruelty
-->Who would want to worship such a maker anyway?"
-->'''Roots & Locusts'''

* ''Theatre/TheBookOfMormon'' has African villagers that blame God for all of their (legitimate) problems, such as AIDS, famine, and the tyrannical local Warlord. This is all detailed in the upbeat song Hasa Diga Eebowai.
-->'''Mafala''': When the world is getting you down, there's nobody else to blame.
-->Raise your middle finger to the sky, and curse His rotten name!

* The Creator/ReducedShakespeareCompany's ''Complete Millennium Musical'' has the parody Gospel song "Blame it on the Lord":
-->Blame it on the Lord,\\
When all of your prayers go completely ignored.\\
Blame it on the Lord,\\
When you and your family get put to the sword.\\
Praise the Lord for the good he can do,\\
But he can take the rap for the bad crap too.

* ''Theatre/KingLear'': "As flies to wanton boys are we to th'gods/They kill us for their sport." Though by the end of the play, Gloucester's had ANOTHER HeelFaithTurn.

* In ''Webcomic/ATaleOfTwoRulers'', this is one of Zelda's two theories on the truth regarding Hyrule's patron trio: either [[GodGuise they're long-dead mages still profiting from the world's biggest scam]]... or they're evil for letting Hyrule become so [[CrapsackWorld crapsack]] on their watch.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''WebAnimation/SocietyOfVirtue'' where the superhero community treats the Second Coming of Christ like a typical "PhysicalGod trying to bring about TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt" [[MetaphoricallyTrue scenario]].

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'':
** There was the episode where Stan asked Chef about God (because Kenny was dying... again) and their conversation went like this:
--->'''Stan''': Why would God let Kenny die, Chef? Why? Kenny's my friend. Why can't God take someone else's friend?\\
'''Chef''': Stan, sometimes God takes those closest to us, because it makes him feel better about himself. He is a very vengeful God, Stan. He's all pissed off about something we did thousands of years ago. He just can't get over it, so he doesn't care who he takes. Children, puppies, it don't matter to him, so long as it makes us sad. Do you understand?\\
'''Stan''': But then, why does God give us anything to start with?\\
'''Chef''': Well, look at it this way: if you want to make a baby cry, first you give it a lollipop. Then you take it away. If you never give it a lollipop to begin with, then you would have nothin' to cry about. That's like God, who gives us life and love and help just so that he can tear it all away and make us cry, so he can drink the sweet milk of our tears. You see, it's our tears, Stan, that give God his great power.\\
'''Stan''': I think I understand.
** In another episode, the local priest, during a eulogy for yet another person killed by geriatric drivers, takes the view that God just finds it funny, and leads the group in praying that God's had enough of a laugh and will stop killing people already.
** God has appeared in person a few times (for some reason, He looks like a chimpanzee with a hippo's head), and while not portrayed as outright evil, does seem rather annoyed with how whiny and needy his creations are, even Satan (who has gone from a badass rebel to a wimpy loser stuck in unhealthy relationships) and Jesus (who has completely lost his ability to inspire humanity and relies on rehashing his old teachings).

* Morganna from ''Franchise/DotHack''. She manifests as a godlike being; a disembodied voice and psychic presence.
* ''Manga/AngelSanctuary''. Technically a spoiler, but between the state of Heaven and the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil, it's pretty obvious.

* The premise of the post-Rapture graphic novel ''ComicBook/ThereforeRepent''.

* ''Fanfic/WithThisRing'': Paul already had a poor view of the Abrahamic God from his original life in our reality (where it's heavily implied He didn't even exist since Paul didn't originally have a soul), and it doesn't improve one bit once he ends up in the DC-verse where ''all religions'' are true. While The Presence never appears "in person", Christianity does NOT come off good in the series, and only gets worse when he's drawn into some of the angels trying to pull off a coup in Heaven.

* [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] delights in imagining God this way, most notably in [[http://media.heavy.com/media/2013/03/bill4.gif this]] strip.

* ''Webcomic/{{Locus}}'': Meittron was [[http://locus.keenspot.com/d/20091009.html driven]] [[http://locus.keenspot.com/d/20091012.html to it]]. Nor is [[{{Satan}} Sammael]] an UnreliableNarrator, as WordOfGod [[http://forums.keenspot.com/viewtopic.php?f=129&t=107801 confirms his story]].

* ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' [[http://oglaf.com/howtheygetyou proves the point]]. (SFW page on site where most pages are NSFW.)
** The adherents of the [[http://oglaf.com/sithrak/ Cult of Sithrak the Blind Gibberer]] believe that Sithrak is a cruel and gruesome god who tortures his worshippers for all eternity. This is actually the main draw of the religion, since it completely absolves you of moral quandries. Doesn't matter if you're good or evil, Sithrak will torture you either way. [[spoiler:Of course, it turns out that Sithrak is actually a decent guy, and the cult is based on some angsty teenage poetry of his]].
** And again: "[[http://oglaf.com/assorted-fruits/ God is on their side. But I've been reading their holy book, and I think that God may be a psycho.]] (SFW)

* ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'' discusses maltheism, slightly tongue-in-cheek, in a series of strips starting [[http://wondermark.com/804/ here]].

* [[spoiler:The Archangel]] from ''Franchise/TheFearMythos''. [[spoiler:He ''is'' the afterlife. The whole damn thing.]]

* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/collected-excerpts-on-the-sea-mother The Sea Mother]] from Website/TheWanderersLibrary [[spoiler:Or maybe she's just insane from feeling us moving through her "skin".]]

* Loki of ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'' is often called and self-titled the "god of evil." Other gods or godlike beings from the MarvelUniverse are very much about evil including [[OmnicidalManiac Seth]] and the elder god Chthon. However, the actual highest being of the MarvelUniverse is almost certainly benevolent, and is usually referred to as The-One-Above-All, though it's [[TheUnseen debatable if he's ever actually been seen]] (though an entity that may or may not have been Him bore a striking similarity to Creator/JackKirby). His higher subordinates (whom all three of the above characters would be like dust mites to) have been known to drift into LawfulNeutral JerkassGods on occasion, though.

* In ''ComicBook/GhostRider'', and thus the MarvelUniverse as a whole, the evil angel Zadkiel finally succeeded in his violent coup to seize the throne of Heaven. The horrors of a Heaven run by Zadkiel are so great that many who are in the know would sooner kill themselves and take their chances in Hell.

** Exaggerated in an ''JustForFun/TheItchyAndScratchyShow'' episode [[ShowWithinAShow seen]] in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day The Violence Died]]". In it, the traditional Judeo-Christian God, is depicted as a {{Sadist}}ic madman that answers the PrayerOfMalice from Itchy, a SerialKiller, by personally murdering Itchy's escaped victim, Scratchy, the show's hero. Not only that, God also sends Scratchy to {{Hell}} along with a bunch of other random innocent people [[ForTheEvulz for no reason other than his sick amusement]]!
** This appears to be the case in the Joan of Arc segment in the episode "[[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E14TalesFromThePublicDomain Tales from the Public Domain]]".

** Exaggerated in an ''JustForFun/ItchyAndScratchyShow'' episode [[ShowWithinAShow seen]] in [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day The Violence Died]]". In it, the traditional Judeo-Christian God is depicted as a {{Sadist}]ic madman that answers the PrayerOfMalice from Itchy, a SerialKiller, by murdering Scratchy, the show's hero, whom had escaped Itchy's murder attempt. Not only that, God also sends Scratchy to {{Hell}} along with a bunch of other innocent people for no reason other than his sick amusement!

* This appears to be the case in the Joan of Arc segment of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' episode "Tales from the Public Domain."

* ''Franchise/Yu-Gi-Oh'' has a weird example based vaguely off Gnotism. In the World of Duel Terminal a being known as Sophia repeatedly resets the universe via the Vylons and until Sombre Lapis and Kerykion stopped her. But as it turns out she was actually doing this to stop Tierra from blowing up the word, so it's more or less [[PlayingWith]]

* In the comic book ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' ([[RuleOfThree which Ennis did a lot of writing for]]), The First of the Fallen (a leader of Hell) tells John Constantine that God is completely insane. John also works out that The First is actually God's conscience, removed at the dawn of creation because he kept nagging at Him. God himself never appears, but from what little is seen of His work through the Angels doesnt exactly paint Him in the best light. For example, the Archangel Michael himself assisted in the creation of Jesus by raping Mary, and commited genocide against the first-born of Egypt, all on God's orders. You can probably tell that Ennis isnt crazy about Christianity.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' (also by Ennis), God is shown to be a pathetic creature who has a pathological need to be loved, and is willing to destroy anyone who turns their back on Him. [[spoiler:As it turns out, He isn't even omnipotent; it's His ''throne'' that gives Him limitless power, and in the final issue He's tricked into leaving it and ends up reaped by His own [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reaper]], who as it turns out WasOnceAMan whom God had ''massively'' screwed over in his mortal life ''so that'' he'd replace the current Angel of Death]].

* Eppy Thatcher from ''ComicBook/{{Grendel}}'' subscribes to this trope, and has "God hates me" as his CatchPhrase. Then again, this is a guy who's so messed up that he believes [[spoiler: he ''killed'' God]] at the end of his run as Grendel.

* ''Fanfic/TheShapeOfTheNightmareToCome'', a ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' fic, has a particularly horrifying take on the "Star Child" theory: the Astronomicon fails and the Emperor dies, causing his immensely powerful soul to go into the Warp and become the so-called Star Father, a ''[[EldritchAbomination Chaos God]]''. '''''[[LawfulEvil Of Order]]'''''. The Star Father is so ridiculously powerful that with his birth it took the combined efforts of the other four Chaos Gods just to stop him from crushing them all outright, and he has a vast army of [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angyls]] with [[spoiler:the ascended head of the Grey Knights, Kaldor Draigo]] at its head. Also, his CatchPhrase: "OBEY!!"

Compare and contrast UsefulNotes/{{Gnosticism}} and the DemiurgeArchetype, [[note]]In short, Gnostics believed that the God worshiped by Jews and by the other early Christian sects was evil...but that he also wasn't really God, just a lesser celestial being with delusions of godhood.[[/note]] EverybodyHatesHades, GodOfEvil[[note]]which this trope is not to be confused with; a God of Evil is a deity, not necessarily the chief deity of the setting, that represents the concept of evil, while the trope God is Evil is about a deity that is the chief deity of a setting that is evil but whose domain is not necessarily specifically the concept of evil[[/note]], GodIsInept, GodIsFlawed, OrderIsNotGood. The flip side is SatanIsGood. See also: GodAndSatanAreBothJerks, DevilButNoGod, NeglectfulPrecursors, JerkassGods for when the deities are not really evil but just neglectful, AbusivePrecursors for when this so called creator is beyond just guilty. Definitely the polar opposite of GodIsGood. May or may not happen with a CorruptChurch - with that, the god is not guaranteed be evil, but those who serve (or claim to serve) him are. UnfeelingHeavens is where God is incapable of understanding or feeling mortal suffering.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjU5PH5xVng&ab_channel=SLAMWORLDWIDE "Sacramentum ov Filicide"]] portrays God as a CompleteMonster responsible for the ills of man so He can receive their unyielding supplication and worship as their supposed "savior" while doing nothing to save his son [[MessianicArchetype Jesus]] from his crucifixion just to satisfy His sadistic pleasure.

* The central metaphor of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' can be described as "lesbians kill God", with "God" being Horde Prime: an omniscient being who values purity and demands absolute devotion from his followers who serve him as vessels. He even uses language reminiscent of the Christian God such as when he tells Catra she is "still beloved in [his] sight" and his initiation ritual strongly resembles a baptism. Show creator Noelle Steven's Catholic upbringing certainly had an influence on the show's themes.

* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' mostly uses the idea that GodIsFlawed, but on a few occasions, does show him to be a real jerk, such as the revelation that for some reason, people who are handicapped on Earth remain handicapped in Heaven (which looks like a Sandals resort). He's also been shown to be rather short and annoyed with his followers.

* The central metaphor of ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'' can essentially be described as "lesbians kill God", with "God" being Horde Prime: an omniscient being who values purity and demands absolute devotion from his followers who serve him as vessels. He even uses language reminiscent of the Christian God such as when he tells Catra she is "still beloved in [his] sight" and his initiation ritual strongly resembles a baptism. Show creator Noelle Steven's Catholic upbringing certainly had an influence on the show's themes.

* Quoted from Riddick in ''Film/PitchBlack'' when questioned about his belief in God;

* ''Literature/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': In the webnovel version, the final antagonist (and the one behind most of the catastrophes in the story) is [[spoiler:Medea, a self-proclaimed goddess that causes the waves by merging multiple worlds together, so she can drain their energy for their own use, and causes untold levels of suffering for her own entertainment]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{KULT}}'': The Demiurge/Creator put the curse of death on mankind, stripping away their immortality and most of their powers. Then, he disappeared, and Astaroth/Satan is looking for him, since the Demiurge is the only one who gave his life some sense. The devil is quite alone in this search -- nobody else wants God to come back. It is also stated that God did ''not'' create the true world, and it's implied that it was a great place to live in until God came along and ruined it.

-->'''God:''' What's this? Someone in a bad mood on my son's birthday? Bullshit! [[MoralEventHorizon Give that kid's mom cancer!]] Make sure he's in front of him in line, make him seven cents short for the shoes! This guy'll buy them, then he'll be in a good mood!
-->'''Jesus:''' I don't think we need to give the mother cancer...
-->'''God:''' You shut the fuck up! This is gonna be the best birthday you ever had!

* In the "World's End" storyline in ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'', one of the nested stories is a take on ''[[ComicBook/{{Prez1973}} Prez: First Teenage President]]''. In this version when Prez Rickard dies, Death takes him to meet the Prince of the World (although she says he didn't ''create'' the world, he just "runs the local franchise"). Prez is horrified to discover this is Boss Smiley, the corrupt politician he's been fighting against his whole career. Instead of taking his place at Smiley's right hand, he goes off to find other Americas with Morpheus.

* [[BigBad Titan]] from ''FanFic/TheImmortalGame''. Imagine [[spoiler:O'Brien]] from ''Literature/NineteenEightyFour'' with the powers of an elder god. And his wife[[spoiler:[[VillainousIncest /daughter]]]] [[EvilMatriarch Terra]] is almost as bad.

** God is a cruel, capricious being who is subjecting the protagonists (not to mention the rest of the world) to [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking pain, horror and]] [[spoiler: [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking bad writing]]]] [[ForTheEvulz for his own sadistic entertainment.]] [[spoiler: [[SarcasticConfession He said so himself.]]]]

** ''Manga/{{Devilman}}'' implies that God exterminated and sealed away the demons because he disapproved of the way his first shot at creating life turned out. And he's basically an EldritchAbomination that [[TakenForGranite turns humans into pillars of salt]] [[BrownNote from merely looking upon him]]. Interestingly enough, however, in the original manga and the original manga alone, God wasn't really portrayed as evil in the Devilman Universe (or at least a completely and utterly irredeemable asshole yet). He originally created the world, left for a while, then found the Demons, who were not part of his plans, and considered them abominations. [[AlwaysChaoticEvil And in all brutal fairness, it's very easy to see why he hated them]], even if he's in the wrong for hating them just because it wasn't part of the plan, but seemed content to just let the tides of fate roll out once they began to free their icy prison. In what could have been seen as a massive PetTheDog and even HopeSpot for humanity in such a CrapsackWorld, God personally intervened in the story by saving the human race from a [[spoiler:nuclear holocaust launched by a Demon possessing the president of Russia, who had launched Russia's entire nuclear payload in an attempt to destroy all of humanity,]] [[AMillionIsAStatistic albeit at the cost of turning every last human in Russia (or the USSR in the original manga) into salt with his mere presence.]] He may not have been friendly, but at least it might have seemed like he actually wanted the human race to win and survive the conflict against the Demons. But then...

* ''LightNovel/FateZero'':

* In ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' God gives monsters and people his power to destroy humanity, and free him from his dimensional prison, and has no concerns with taking those powers back, along with the lives of those he granted power to, to ensure that they cannot reveal his presence.

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': In the webnovel version, the final antagonist (and the one behind most of the catastrophes in the story) is [[spoiler:Medea, a self-proclaimed goddess that causes the waves by merging multiple worlds together, so she can drain their energy for their own use, and causes untold levels of suffering for her own entertainment]].

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', while he's only a "god" in the sense that he created the cybernetic world of Aincrad, Akihiko Kayaba's god complex causes him to trap ten thousand people in his world, where if they die they're dead in real life as well, just so that he could rule over a world of his own creation.