History Main / KillTheGod

* At the end of Volume 9 of ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'', [[spoiler:Arthur Leywin, who ever since the previous volume has recognized that [[JerkassGods the Asuras]] are his true enemies for their role in the conflict that ravaged his homeland and harmed his loved ones, has now killed at least two Asuras. The first one being the Scythe Cadell Vritra, who was one of [[BigBad Agrona's]] top generals and the one responsible for killing Arthur's [[ParentalSubstitute honorary grandmother]]/mentor Sylvia. The second one being Taci, a former sparring partner of his during his time in Epheotus who had been tasked by [[GodIsEvil Kezess]] to exterminate Arthur's remaining friends and family in the Dicathian Resistance after he deemed that [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness they had outlived their usefulness]] to him and who [[TheseWereOnlyTheirScouts despite being a boy by Asuran standards]] nonetheless managed to overpower and slaughter a good portion of the Resistance prior to Arthur's arrival. Of course, as the story continues these two will only be the beginning as the war against the Asuras will inevitably see Arthur add more deities to his kill count]].
--> [[spoiler:'''Arthur''']]: You want to know what I've become? Godkiller would be more appropriate.

* This is what [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin God Slayer Magic]] is all about in ''Manga/FairyTail'', though ironically the one time we actually ''do'' get to see a god slain, it's by resident Dragon Slayer Natsu punching the mountain-sized behemoth in the face with an explosion of fire that blows it up. [[spoiler:Though God Slayer [[BlowYouAway Sherria]] manages to defeat an ''even stronger'' god channeled through one of the strongest wizards in the world.]]

-->-- '''Loki to Thor''' (before dropping him out of a helicarrier), ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}''

* Happens to practically all of the Magic Gods in ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' after [[BigBad Aleister]] [[Creator/AleisterCrowley Crowley]] [[OutGambitted outgambits]] them and forces them all to [[BroughtDownToNormal a human level.]]

* The main premise of ''{{LightNovel/Campione}}'' is that when somebody kills a god, they get CursedWithAwesome to receive that god's ComboPlatterPowers. Thus, deicide pretty much happens [[OncePerEpisode once an Arc.]]

* [[MainCharacter Satou Pendragon]] from ''LightNovel/DeathMarchToTheParallelWorldRhapsody'' wakes up in another world and is beset by a group of LizardFolk that try to attack him; Satou creates a [[DeathFromAbove Meteor]] [[ColonyDrop Storm]] which not only wipes out his attackers, but also manages to ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance accidentally]]'' [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kill the unseen Dragon God]] that was living in the area: earning Satou the Title of ''God-Killer''.

* ''Franchise/{{Nasuverse}}'': Stated to be possible, albeit extraordinarily difficult due to the level of power Divine Spirits can possess compared to just about everything else (though even this isn't ironclad, as there exist Divine Spirits so weak even a common Heroic Spirit would stand a good chance). Even Gilgamesh's completely overpowered weapon Ea is said to not be capable of killing a god, even though it could wipe out all life on Earth if used at full power (but even then he has several Anti-Divine Noble Phantasms stored in his Gate). [[LightNovel/FateApocrypha Karna]], however, possesses a one-time-use Noble Phantasm that can do it (Vasavi Shakti, which borrows the power of Indra for a brief moment), [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder Scathach]] has earned particular renown for being a godslayer by virtue of being [[TheAce just that good]] (and her immortality), and [[LethalJokeCharacter Oda Nobunaga]] (at least in her DemonKingNobunaga form) is a specialized Anti-Divine Servant who can kill gods. In the backstory of ''VideoGame/FateExtellaTheUmbralStar'', the primordial God of War himself was killed in battle against the White Titan (Altera), who took his sword as a trophy, and then she went on to slaughter the other primordial gods before being slain herself by the fully-unsealed power of {{Excalibur}}.

** ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' eventually leads to this, with the final showdown being against [[spoiler:the god of Bionis and perpetual creator and destroyer of the world, Zanza]]. After beating him, however, the end-game cutscene reveals that [[spoiler:he used to be a mortal human working in a research facility in orbit around Earth, meant to attempt creating a universe -- set in our world sometime in the future. When he initiated the creation, the existing universe was destroyed, and he ended up being a god in the new one]].
** In ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', the ''villains'' are attempting to do this. [[spoiler: Specifically Malos and Jin.]] Come the end of the game and [[spoiler: it fails, though by that point Malos' goals change from 'killing his creator' to 'destroy all of humanity with giant mechas']].

* In ''VideoGame/DarkSoulsIII'', one of the Lords of Cinder is Aldrich the Devourer of Gods. That title isn't just for show either -- he's eaten at least one god [[spoiler:namely Gwyndolin]]. The Ashen One also becomes a god-slayer over the course of the game. The Nameless King is one of the last deities left in the world [[spoiler:being the firstborn son of Gwyn whose identity was stricken from history as punishment for his betrayal]], and he's a BonusBoss that can be fought and killed like any other enemy. [[spoiler:The final boss is the Soul of Cinder: the embodiment of all those who Linked the Fire, including Gwyn himself. It is essentially the First Flame incarnate.]]

** The entire motivation of Gorr the God Butcher, the villain of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. After his god Rapu, whom he and his people devoutly worshipped, turns out to be a {{Jerkass God|s}} who doesn't give a shit about the death of any of his subjects (including Gorr's daughter), Gorr renounces him, and uses the Necrosword to slay him. The sword corrupts Gorr enough that he decides to take out his hatred by killing ''all'' the gods in the universe, regardless of whether they're JerkassGods or not, including Thor and the rest of the Asgardians.

* The Emperor, a.k.a. John, of ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'' is revealed by his Nine Houses as "the man who became God and the God who became man", and Harrow's narration often directly refers to him as "God". Multiple characters have made attempts in his life, starting with the Resurrection Beasts, made up of the souls of the planets he killed [[spoiler:(those of our solar system)]].

** [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Gorr the God Butcher]] from ''[[ComicBook/ThorGodOfThunder2012 Thor: God of Thunder]]'' acts much like Desak, except he indulges in ColdBloodedTorture because his home planet's Jerkass Gods didn't do anything to alleviate the TraumaCongaLine of himself and his people. Then he got hold of the weapon of an Elder God, which is essentially like a GreenLanternRing of dark energy. Only worse. NightmareFuel ensues. Ironically, the Necrosword itself may very well have been the reason Gorr's gods never answered his world's prayers -- they were all slain by it. Thor claims that the Necrosword was forged for the purpose of killing gods, something later confirmed - it was forged out of the primordial darkness by Knull, an Elder God who also spawned the Klyntar, the species that produced the Venom symbiote. The ancestral memory of the heat of the forge and the sound of forging are apparently why they're vulnerable to heat and sound.

* ''The Blue World'' by Creator/JackVance where descendants of a crashed prison ship live on an ocean world and worship a giant "kragens". This originally started as them feeding one of them so it would become bigger and drive off the others, and now a corrupt priesthood is keeping this going. Even though it's not a real god the protagonist still has problems, like where is he going to get enough metal to forge weapons on an ocean world?

** In ''VideoGame/TheFinalFantasyLegend''. You kill God. With a {{chainsaw|Good}}.

** When you reach the end of ''VideoGame/TheFinalFantasyLegend'', your characters are not happy to discover that their entire adventure was a "game" the Creator set up for his own amusement, and demand to fight him. Thanks to a GoodBadBug, the SAW weapon, which shows [[ChainsawGood a chainsaw]] in its attack animation, can kill the Creator in one hit, and the Creator's death animation looks like he's being cut in half vertically. Because of this, ''The Final Fantasy Legend'' has [[MemeticMutation become notorious]] for being the game in which you kill God with a chainsaw.
** ''FinalFantasyLegendII'' doesn't include "God" as an enemy, but the MAGI your party are searching for are capable of transforming people into "new" gods, and you do fight and kill several of them.

** Somewhat subverted in the ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' series. As in many other ShinMegamiTensei games and spinoffs, God (this time with a Hindu rather than Abrahamic flavor) is indeed the FinalBoss of the last game, but this time he's not evil and the main characters don't even want to fight him. They just came to ask him to please put the Earth back in orbit and return everyone's souls from the afterlife, but God insists on having a battle first.

** Somewhat subverted in the ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' series where god is the final boss and he is actively destroying the world yet the characters don't intend to kill him. They just want to ask him nicely to leave the world alone.

* In Odinani religion, every god except for the Superior one who is the origin of all things, only exists to serve a specific purpose. One that purpose has been fulfilled they die. In this case "killing" them would be a good thing, as it means you are becoming more self sufficient.

* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': The pre-timeskip’s climax focuses on Aizen's obsession with reaching and surpassing the realm of divinity. However, his target (the Spirit King) is officially regarded as a king by most characters. [[spoiler:The arc ends with Aizen's defeat and the death of Gin, who used his own [[MeaningfulName God-Killing Spear]] to try and [[BestServedCold slay]] Aizen. Like the Spirit King, Aizen is not a god; he simply reached a power level too great for most characters to comprehend. And unfortunately for Gin, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal death didn't quite take for Aizen]].]]

* [[MainCharacter Satou Pendragon]] from ''LightNovel/DeathMarchToTheParallelWorldRhapsody'' wakes up in another world and is beset by a group of LizardFolk that try to attack him; Satou creates a [[DeathFromAbove Meteor]] [[ColonyDrop Storm]] which not only wipes out his attackers, but also manages to ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance accidentally]]'' [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kill the unseen Dragon God]] that was living in the area: earning Satou the Title of: ''God-Killer''.

* [[MainCharacter Satou Pendragon]] from ''LightNovel/DeathMarchToTheParallelWorldRhapsody'' wakes up in another world and is beset by a group of LizardFolk that try to attack him; Satou creates a [[DeathFromAbove Meteor]] [[ColonyDrop Storm]] which not only wipes out his attackers, but also manages to ''[[AchievementsInIgnorance accidentally]]'' [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kill the unseen Dragon God]] that was living in the area: earning Satou the ''God-Killer'' Title.

* Almost happens to [[spoiler:Haruhi at the hands of Kuyo and Fujiwara]] at the climax of ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya Vol. 2]]''.

* Mimori questing to find a way to do this is the main premise behind ''[[LightNovel/FailureFrame Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything With Low-Level Spells]]'' as goddess Vysis is completely morally bankrupt and sentenced him to die for the crime of ''existing'' in her world, after she summoned him in the first place, without regard for his, or the rest of his class's consent.

* In ''FanFic/TheImmortalGame'', Alicorns are considered as the equivalent of deities. [[spoiler:And [[TopGod King]] [[BigBad Titan]] ends up kicking the bucket.]]

* In ''Videogame/DarkSoulsIII'', one of the Lords of Cinder is Aldrich the Devourer of Gods. That title isn't just for show either -- he's eaten at least one god [[spoiler:namely Gwyndolin]]. The Ashen One also becomes a god-slayer over the course of the game. The Nameless King is one of the last deities left in the world [[spoiler:being the firstborn son of Gwyn whose identity was stricken from history as punishment for his betrayal]], and he's a BonusBoss that can be fought and killed like any other enemy. [[spoiler:The final boss is the Soul of Cinder: the embodiment of all those who Linked the Fire, including Gwyn himself. It is essentially the First Flame incarnate.]]

** The ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' series continues this trend, with the main characters fighting [[VideoGame/{{Persona 2}} Nyarlathotep]], [[VideoGame/{{Persona 3}} Nyx]], and [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/{{Persona 4}} Izanami]]. Of course, it takes two whole games to banish Nyarlathotep, you don't kill Nyx so much as seal her away, and Izanami seems rather pleased to have been defeated - though that doesn't diminish the sheer accomplishment of the main character killing her in a ''single blow'']].

* In the WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} episode ''The Lost Fable'', [[spoiler:Salem]] convinced the kings and queen of the world raise an army to help [[spoiler:her]] kill the brother gods. It backfired big time.

* In the final battle of the Ancient Gods DLC of ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'', [[spoiler:the Doom Slayer kills the Dark Lord of Hell, who is revealed midway through the final boss fight to be the original creator of the Doom universe, who was cast down by the Maykrs who feared what he would become.]]

* In the ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' series, the titular angel-slaying witch manages this feat, with [[SummonBiggerFish some assistance]]. [[spoiler:Twice, in fact. Once against Jubileus, God of Light, and once against Aesir, the God of Chaos. Each is the FinalBoss; Jubileus of the first game, Aesir of the second.]] In the trailer for her GuestFighter appearance in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'', she references this, referring to Palutena, the Goddess of Light in the ''VideoGame/KidIcarus'' series, [[ImpliedDeathThreat as a "an endangered species"]].

* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', It is possible to deal with the indestructible gods of Theros by exiling them in one way or another.

** Nicol Bolas also kills [[spoiler:Bontu]] directly by blasting her with a necrotic spell.

* In the Wiki/SCPFoundation universe, the Global Occult Coalition (an organization devoted to destroying the supernatural) traces its origin, in part, from a [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/goc-supplemental-threat-entities group of German occultists that supposedly killed the biblical God.]][[labelnote:*]] It's on the tab marked "LTE: Liquidated Threat Entity", under "Access LTE-0913-Ex-Machina".[[/labelnote]] (The article's more of a {{Feghoot}} actually.) Muddled by the fact that several SCP entries relating to Abrahamic religion seem perfectly fine, including [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-343 an individual who may or may not be God Himself]].

* Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary has the entry [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/ascendor-storming-the-gates-tour-2014 Ascendor: Storming the Gates Tour 2014]], which describes a band so metal that they kill a god at each concert they perform.

* The ultimate goal of ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal'' was to fight and defeat [[OlympusMons Lord Helix]] and his followers. On the way there AJ and his team [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu has casually downed Suicune, the Dome, and a fake Helix]].