History Main / TheMaker

* Invoked at the end of ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'': Just before Dr. Manhattan leaves Earth for good, he mentions that he finds human life sufficiently interesting that he might "create some" where he's going.

* Franklin Richards, of Creator/{{Marvel|Comics}}'s ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', who once created a pocket universe in order to reincarnate his family and the Avengers after they "died" fighting ComicBook/{{Onslaught}}.
** The second issue of the 2018 series brings this up to 11:[[spoiler: Franklin not only recreated most if not all of the worlds lost to the Incursions but with the help of Molecule Man, Franklin created over a thousand brand new universes whole cloth. When the Richards explain it to someone in one of the worlds Franklin made, he explicitly calls himself [[AGodAmI "Your God"]].]]
** Ultimate Reed Richards also creates a pocket universe, one that's positively utopian... then tries to use it to replace the real world. Oh, and he's actually called 'The Maker'.
* Comicbook/{{Superman}}, who creates an entire pocket universe in ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman''.
* In the Mega CrisisCrossover ''DC vs Marvel'' each of the two universes was created by one of two [[TheOmnipotent superdeities]] called The Brothers. [[WildMassGuessing Presumably]] they have a father & mother, as well as some other siblings to oversee Creator/DarkHorseComics, Creator/ImageComics, etc.
* The titular ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'' is often referred to as the Maker or the Creator by the denizens of the universe he creates, although [[StopWorshippingMe he forbids them to actually worship him]].

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The main plot takes place on Remnant, a world with a mysterious past that is known by only a few characters. The world was originally created by the [[Characters/RWBYRemnantMythos "Brother Gods"]], twins who represent [[LightDarknessJuxtaposition Light and Darkness]] and respectively created living things and forces of destruction. Together, they combined their powers to create humanity as their "final masterpiece". In Volume 9, the heroes learn of [[TheWonderland the Ever After]], another world that was created by the Brothers. [[spoiler:The Ever After is dominated by a [[WorldTree great Tree]], which controls the ability of the Afterans to [[{{reincarnation}} reincarnate]] and communicates via an avatar known only as "the Blacksmith", who receives souls that have left their old lives and reforges them into their new lives in a process known as Ascension. While there, the heroes learn that the Ever After was created before Remnant, and that the Brother Gods were the Tree's very first creations. As a result, the Blacksmith tells the heroes that, as the creations of its own creations, the people of Remnant are as welcome to come to the Tree as the Afterans are.]]

* Franz Hopper in ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko'' is the creator of the titular Lyoko. Specifically, he's the programmer of the virtual space within a supercomputer, which [[BodyUploading can be entered] much like Tron, but with a more naturalized setting emulating real life biomes.

* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Remnant, where the first eight volumes of the series are set, was originally created by [[Characters/RWBYWorldOfRemnant a pair of "Brother Gods" representing Light and Darkness respectively]], who created living things and forces of destruction respectively before combining their powers to create humanity as their "final masterpiece". It's also heavily implied, and confirmed by Word of God, that they're the same beings who created the Ever After and its inhabitants in Volume 9.

* In ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'', {{God}} is YISUN. YISUN split themselves into two beings, YIS and UN, who again split themselves until there were 777,777 gods. These gods existed on their own for a while, until they all committed suicide and, with their deaths, created the 777,777 universes.

* Franz Hopper in ''WesternAnimation/CodeLyoko''.

* The creator god in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII'' is identified as the Maker. [[spoiler: It turns out that the entire conflict between Pulse and Cocoon has been engineered by the fal'Cie in an attempt to summon him back to fix their mistakes.]]
** And by the end of the story, [[spoiler:the creator god is revealed to be a LivingWeapon of the TopGod, who immediately summons him in seconds as an ultimate weapon after being pissed off too many times by his chosen disciples, making the Fal'Cie's attempts at reviving their maker a ShootTheShaggyDog story]]. The heroes react to this screwed-up twist by punching him to death.

A common subtype has a being that personally created the [[OurMonstersAreDifferent monsters]] of the setting, which is usually inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echidna_%28mythology%29 Echidna]], who mothered so many of the monsters found throughout Myth/GreekMythology to earn the title "Mother of Monsters."

* ''LightNovel/ThatTimeIGotReincarnatedAsASlime'': Star King Dragon Veldanava, first of the [[DragonsAreDivine True Dragons]], is the one responsible for the creation of TheMultiverse through the use of his [[RealityWarper Ultimate Skill]] [[ThePowerOfCreation Creation Lord Ahura Mazda]] [[spoiler:and his Origin Skill Information Lord AkashicRecords]].

* The character at the end of ''Film/FinalDeployment4QueenBattleWalkthrough'', who apparently runs all the simulations.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Davros is effectively this to the Daleks, directing the mutation of his own species the Thals (and then the wiping out of the rest of them). Being {{Absolute Xenophobe}}s, their attitude toward even ''him'' is frequently contentious, which he's come to accept in his own twisted fashion ("you know how children get sometimes").
* ''Series/LegendOfTheSeeker'': The Creator, of course, who made all living things. A woman claiming to be the Creator appears in season 2. The Keeper of the Underworld seeks to reunite with her.
* [[spoiler:Eras]] in ''Series/KishiryuSentaiRyusoulger'' [[spoiler:created both the Ryusoul Tribe and Druidon Tribe, the former to protect the planet and the latter to destroy the former when they began fighting amongst themselves.]]

* {{Superman}}, who creates an entire pocket universe in ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman''.