History Sandbox / GodIsEvilWickCheck

# Characters.BlazBlueIzanami: She is the malicious God Empress
# Monster.ComicBooksIToZ: Troy Hicks is a comic book artist who gets arrested for raping and killing eight children. Using an occult ritual to contact the world he created, Hicks proceeds to introduce his creations to sex and violence, eventually filling the world's prison with murderers and rapists. Troy eventually convinces local mailman Frosty Pete to switch places with him and leaves him to fry in the electric chair before sexually blackmailing Birdseed Betty, a desperate woman whose husband he corrupted with child porn. He then restarts his child murders until the police catch up to him. Hicks then uses his occult powers to massacre the entire police department, cementing himself as the god of this world. His first act is to give Betty's family a chance at a happy life before crushing them with an anvil, ending the comic completely successful.
# VideoGame.DragonQuestVII: Subverted. The Almighty, after being resurrected, orders everyone to worship Him and only Him, threatening divine wrath upon anyone who disagrees, and seals off four continents. Then it's revealed He's actually Orgodemir in disguise. Also, the real Almighty is a Superboss, and when you fight him, it's just a friendly test of strength in combat. He even looks pretty friendly.
# Characters.{{Gone}}: To Astrid, as both are Christians who begin to question their devotion. While Astrid becomes increasingly atheistic, Brittany decides the Gaiaphage is God.
# WMG.GrandUnifyingGuessesNeonGenesisEvangelion: Haruhi would eventually discover her omnipotence, and destroy and recreate the universe as a Cosmic Horror Story with Herself as Yahweh. Thus, the Fourth Impact.
# Characters.Persona5Joker: Discussed when Satanael is summoned for the first time: When God is acting up, it's a demon lord's duty to step in and punish him.
# NightmareFuel.SandraAndWoo: Thomas J. God being the human god. If you're unclear as to why this is Nightmare Fuel, consider that strip. He is perfectly willing to have an innocent child killed and her love interest's life completely ruined, without a second thought. Even the Devil is appalled at this.
# Film.ASeriousMan: Or at least appears that way as a result of being completely incomprehensible. Alternately, He is just, expecting that humankind only "be good," but is harsh to Old Testament levels against even seemingly inconsequential sins. Or maybe he is just working in mysterious ways. The short term format of the film means that the consequences of our characters actions are left ambiguous- and that is assuming that God exists/is involved in the plot at all.
# Characters.FireEmblemThreeHousesClaude: Discussed. He says that if the goddess was truly responsible for burning away the forest at Ailell, turning it into a volcanic wasteland, then she must be a monster.
# TropesThatWillNeverHappen.SillyPuns: Atua Is Good An Atua Am I Atuahood Seeker Kill The Atua Atua Needs Prayer Badly Atua Is Evil Atua Is Dead
# VideoGame.TheTouristMinecraft: God actually works against you, although he's more generally annoyed than actually evil.
# Characters.CounterSideCountersideAntagonists: They all have Divinity.
# Fridge.{{Okami}}: There's Yami. Yes, he looks harmless, even with his armor, but consider the fact that he has weapons that people didn't have access to at the time, put yourself back into that age, think about what happens when Yami wins and pretty much destroys the world...And he may be based on this guy.Goes straight into Nightmare Fuel with the possibility that the first being in existence was pure evil.
# Pantheon.{{Logic}}: Shekinah and Jyggalag do not get along in the slightest. Shekinah does not have faith in Jyggalag’s role in the GUAL command, criticizing him for not using his power to outright destroy their opponents, a move that Jyggalag does not approve of due to how it will be harmful to the GUAL‘s already pretty low popularity because of members like Shekinah. At least they find common ground when it comes to Mem Aleph and the Three Wise Men are much better to talk to for the Daedric Prince.
# EnfantTerrible.AnimeAndManga: The Fifth diary holder, Reisuke Houjou in Future Diary, is one of these, being an adorable four-year-old who uses his magic picture diary to adorably kill people (i.e., asks a girl to take a bath with him, and then tries to electrocute her). He has a Freudian Excuse that his parents didn't love him enough (they never "slept like a river", next to each other with him in between) due to the influence of the Omekata cult. Well, that and God is telling him to kill people. No, not as in he's Hearing Voices that he attributes to God, but as in God exists, and he's telling a four-year-old to kill people. And he tells that to other people, too. Because he's THAT much of a prick.
# Memes.ThorLoveAndThunder: the fact that Omnipotence City is a gilded cesspool when Jerkass Gods indulge themselves while callously letting their believers suffer would have very disturbing religious implications, to the point of outright blasphemy.
# VillainSong.LiveActionFilms: Last but certainly not least, The Author gets "Bells of the Black Sunday, where He gloats about turning loose natural disasters on unbelievers while simultaneously praising Himself for being supposedly so kind and merciful.
# Webcomic.CastleSwimmer: An unusual example in that the God of the Surface does appear as The Voice during the first episode, erasing ambiguity as to His existence. However, after informing the newly-hatched Kappa that he is The Chosen One, He mysteriously cuts off all contact, leaving the newborn infant to wander the dangerous oceans alone and figure out the prophecies through guesswork. So far, there is no indication as to whether his absence is due to indifference, inability, a larger plan or simple ignorance.
# Characters.DemonLegacy: Though an unusual Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds variant. He created the Demi-Gods and loved them as well as humanity, but was betrayed by them and split into a good and evil half by Apollo, who sealed the evil half in the Firebrand sword. Because of this, he sought vengeance on those who cast him away, and wants to devour the world.
# Manga.SilverDiamond: Hoshinomikoto is either this or evil. No one's figured out which of them yet.
# Fanfic.TheLionKingAdventures: Averted with You-Know-Who, the technical 'God' of the universe, but played deathly straight with The Writer.
# EyeBeams.VideoGames: Nocturne has these as his ultimate attack in the form of Fire of Sinai, in which he lets out an Evil Laugh beforehand. He's supposed to be the voice of God.The Demi-Fiend can get some of his own near the end of the game with the Freikugel skill. It's one of the best endgame skills you can have, especially if you're going for the True Demon Ending.
# Creator.JamesMorrow: The "Godhead" trilogyTowing Jehovah, mentioned above, is the first in the series. The novel focuses on how the various characters deal with the fact of God's death and what that means for the world and their lives. Blameless In Abaddon is the next in the series, featuring different characters. A small town lawyer, after suffering many hardships in life, finally snaps and decides to sue God. The resulting trial, including a defense lawyer for God resembling a parody C.S. Lewis, is an extended discussion of "theodicy" (i.e. the problem of evil), with various biblical figures such as Jesus and the Devil making appearances. The Eternal Footman is the conclusion to the series, in which a plague of "Death Awareness" sweeps the globe.
# Headscratchers.HisDarkMaterials: Answer to first question is no, but there are various ways of handwaving that away, touched on at Main.GodIsEvil. Apparently whoever Christ was in the HDM verse, he wasn't someone who made a big difference in the scheme of things; maybe a human reformer who created a movement that turned out to be convenient for the Authority to highjack.
# Analysis.{{Cult}}: These are the stereotypical Satan worshipers, but it's a bit more complicated than that. These groups define themselves in opposition to an established religion and use their Big Bads as a way of criticizing them. Satan worship, in particular, has less to do with admiration of Satan as it does with disgust with God. (And given the nature of religious warfare throughout history, they have a point.) But Hollywood Satanism is not about that — it's about going the extra mile and doing all the evil Black Magic things associated with Satan worship. This is common with leaders who love violence and control; rituals tend to be violent and invasive, ranging from tattoos to branding to blood rituals to outright Human Sacrifice. Media often props up Hollywood Satanism as a Straw Man to take down all of Satanism.
# LetsPlay.{{Vaults}}: The God Behind the Vault is Rurast, a dwarven goddess of dreams and torture.
# Characters.FireEmblemGenealogyOfTheHolyWarLoptousians: Tried to Take a Third Option by having people worship Loptous willingly, and not as an evil God but as a divine savior. It didn't work for him, but worked wonders for his legacy: He's saintified as the only good Loptr ever, and his descendants faced less severe persecutions compared to Gair's.
# Sandbox.TropesByWickCount1500To4000: 2024
# Characters.MortalKombatDeception: It is the most powerful being in Mortal Kombat universe, and its goal is to destroy all of existence in order to restore its body.
# Fridge.TheDevilsAdvocate: Mary Ann: I told Kevin the only thing worse than not having a father was having mine. Milton: I can relate, I can really.
# VideoGame.BugFables: The leadup to the Chapter 2 boss has a lot of Foreshadowing that the goddess Venus is really a Venus flytrap and is using Aria to feed her sacrifices. Her name, the flytraps around the rest of the level, the fact that no one has seen her face, the emphasis placed on "feeding her", etc. In reality, she's named "Venus" because of her Theme Naming of the Roman gods with her unseen siblings, and that while she is a sentient plant, she isn't a flytrap. She's actually more like an orchid, the stuff about feeding her is because she actually really likes non-bug food, is actually Good All Along, and only attacks because she wants to reprimand Vi for her bratty behavior in Snakemouth Den.
# Literature.{{Desperation}}: CruelMercy: See GodIsEvil.
# Characters.VinesauceTomodachiLifeIslandersEpisode27AndLater: Whatever god he is or represents, it's a vengeful and petty one.
# Music.{{Daughters}}: "The Lords Song" posits that God is a sadist who created humans just so they could suffer.
# Sandbox.MonsterLiteratureTToZ: Artor, The Plow God and the God of the Acharites, was once a Sufficiently Advanced Alien who saw the Land of Tencendor and decided he wanted it for himself. To that end, he imprisoned the Star Gods and led the humans, whom he called Acharites, into a racist war against the Icarii and the Avar. When the Acharites won the war he proceeded to have them cut nearly all of the Avar's forests down to reduce the power of a competing goddess, the Mother. When a prophecy threatens the destruction of his people, he does nothing, not seeing it as his problem and blaming rival gods when naturally his people's belief in him begins to fade. He shows no care at all for the well-being of his worshippers, enjoying torturing one to give him power, stepping on another, and brainwashing a village to perform blood sacrifices in his name before he is killed.
# MagnificentBastard.VideoGamesAToL: Proteus, the god of the world, once created a paradise for humanity and his demi-god children, but after being imprisoned and split into a good and evil half, the latter half became infuriated with his creation's ingratitude and resolved to wipe them out. Manipulating Rhea into becoming his pawn, the evil half of Proteus uses her to eliminate his enemies, getting the drop on Shadar and forcing his good half to engage the heroes personally to test their strength. When faced directly as the Final Boss, the evil Proteus remains undaunted and, even in his loss, merely questions if humanity is able to live on without him. Even then, he returns in the sequel under the alias Dalmar, attempting to destroy the new heroes and take back the world one last time.
# VisualNovel.KajiriKamuiKagura: Hajun, wanting to destroy everything in existence definitely counts.
# Music.{{Motorhead}}: "God Was Never on Your Side" from Kiss of Death. "Orgasmatron" is pretty much a Badass Boast from a malevolent god, who also represents politicians and conquerors.
# Characters.{{Blaseball}}: The first powerful extradimensional entity to appear in Blaseball, it declared vengeance against the playerbase for their legume-based sins including peanut fraud and tributing peanuts to the Hall of Flame.

# Fanfic.CatchABriefReflection: Nihilanth created ChalkZone. Now he wants to destroy it.
# YMMV.TheWayfarerRedemption: Artor, The Plow God and the God of the Acharites, was once a Sufficiently Advanced Alien who saw the Land of Tencendor and decided he wanted it for himself. To that end, he imprisoned the Star Gods and led the humans, whom he called Acharites, into a racist war against the Icarii and the Avar. When the Acharites won the war he proceeded to have them cut nearly all of the Avar's forests down to reduce the power of a competing goddess, the Mother. When a prophecy threatens the destruction of his people, he does nothing, not seeing it as his problem and blaming rival gods when naturally his people's belief in him begins to fade. He shows no care at all for the well-being of his worshippers, enjoying torturing one to give him power, stepping on another, and brainwashing a village to perform blood sacrifices in his name before he is killed.
# Pantheon.VillainousAppearances: While many death gods have been vilified for their occupation, Ah Puch is one death god who even in his original myth was portrayed as malevolent and the Mayans hated and feared him. He's a less Omnicidal Maniac equivalent of Apophis. Ah Puch can relate to their shared position as the dark god everyone hates, but considers the monstrous serpent to be competition as it would rather devour the souls that he wishes to torment.
# Monster.FilmC: The titular "Cruiser" is a religious fanatic who believes that GodIsEvil and gleefully embraces his murderous actions as "God's will". The Cruiser arrives in a small Georgia town and immediately murders a cop to steal his uniform and prowl the streets for further victims. After kidnapping an innocent woman named Tara, the Cruiser forces her to watch as he shoots a man in the head; butchers two teenagers; terrorizes and humiliates a group of kids; and uses a hatchet and pistol to slaughter an entire convenience store of people. The Cruiser wipes out the police squad sent to stop him, and then murders Tara and vanishes into the night to continue his spree across the country.
# Characters.SupernaturalArchangels: BecameTheirOwnAntithesis: Lucifer went from being God's favorite son, the most beautiful angel ever created and Heaven's most beloved angel to a highly angry, hateful, vengeful and evil Fallen Angel who formerly calls Heaven his home and now resides in Hell. Ironically, he would later end up taking over Heaven outright with the consent of the other angels, and at the very end of the series, after it is revealed that GodIsEvil, he becomes his father's favorite again. His beauty is still a thing of the past because Evil Makes You Ugly—his true form, when summoned from the Empty, is decrepit and rotten.
# TheJuggernaut.VideoGames: In Asura's Wrath... Asura himself. The intro sequence of the game involves him fighting alongside an entire fleet of warships numbering in the tens of thousands, and he's doing more damage than all of them with his bare hands as he tears apart the Gohma fleets. Later on, when he is killed and cast into Naraka, he climbs his way out, propelled by nothing but pure hatred. From that point on, he starts punching out city-sized spaceships, entire armies, and a planet-sized Buddha without ever really slowing down except to die. No, really, about all that can slow down Asura by the midpoint of the game is literally killing him, and he comes back faster each time he dies. And this is topped by the final level of the DLC, where he is plowing through entire planets and stars at faster-than-light speeds just to punch God in the face.
# Recap.XenaS06E08TheRing: Odin has become obsessed with obtaining the ring for himself.
# Characters.TFSAtTheTableNaturalOnedersPlayerCharacters: In a very weird, comedic sense. His people worship "Ol' Lady Big Rock Mountain", the personification of their mountainous homeland; Eloy himself admits that most of their prayers to her boil down to "Please don't kill us all with falling rocks." Early religious texts from Eloy's tribe refer to her simply as "bitch", and the prayer recited when someone dies in a rockslide is "Would you please just fuckin' STOP?!"
# Characters.SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters: JerkassGods: He's pretty much a walking example of GodIsEvil on his world.
# Literature.StarMaker: Or at least remarkably callous toward the suffering of his creations.
# WarpThatAesop.TheBindingOfIsaac: God Is Evil and wants your child dead. The voices in your head are not a sign of failing mental health. In fact, you should obey whatever they tell you, because this is the only way to go to Heaven.
# YMMV.ClassicalMythology: The ancient Greeks never intended for Ares, Hades, or Hephaestus to be sympathetic - they never even really liked them. Although it was more justifiable in Ares' case, Hades was hated by the Greeks because they feared death, and Hephaestus was loathed because he was an ugly cripple. To modern audiences, however, Hades and Hephaestus are often viewed as the nicest of the Greek Gods, while the gods the Greeks adored, such as Zeus and Hera, often come across as Jerkass Gods at best or tyrants at worst.
# Pantheon.{{Demons}}: Is a close friend to the other Fallen Angel Lucifer, and can relate to his goals. YHVH is concerned about their alliance, since having to deal with one devil was difficult enough to deal with(plus Lucifer Morningstar's) pretty disgusted by His tyranny. The Satans, on the other hand? He looks down on the one from Castlevania for being stereotypical, along with the Beast (who considers him a rival for power, being one of the other two Overdeity-level members of the House of Demons). He's neutral on the South Park and SMT versions, but respects the former's idea of Hell and the latter's tendency to stand up to his boss.
# Anime.DigimonDataSquad: Drasil appears, and as per usual, he's a major baddie. In this case, however, he has a specific example to point to as a justification for his belief that Humans Are the Real Monsters. Having a monster like Kurata attempt a massive genocide on your subjects is a very valid reason to be ticked off. And he makes a deathbed apology anyway.
# VileVillainSaccharineShow.VideoGames: For the most part, Dragalia Lost is a lighthearted adventure about a prince living in a castle with his friends, as they try to Save the Princess with some Monster of the Week side events. Despite this, the game is actually has a few dangerous villains, with Morsayati and Satan getting special mentions. However, the one to top them all off would have to be that game’s true Big Bad, Xenos. His ultimate goal is to create a world in which humanity has no free will. At first, the heroes actually lose to him, and he engulfs the city of Grams into darkness, then eventually, he actually succeeds in destroying the entire multiverse! It takes some of his own power, as well as a lot of friendship, to finally take him down.
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# Characters.YuGiOh5DsYliaster: He compares himself to God and is, if Knight Templar-ish, definitely evil.
# Music.{{Lordi}}: Depending on the song, either humanity is devoured by the eponymous "Scare Force One" airship or, on a more Biblical route, a rain of brimstone and fire is unleashed by God in "Heavengeance".
# EvilCannotComprehendGood.VideoGames: Navarre from Shin Megami Tensei IV isn't necessarily "evil" so much as "classist douchebag", but when he and some of his friends try to lure Flynn, a Casualry, into a trap, one of his subordinates sees Luxurors Jonathan and Isabeau come to Flynn's aid, and can't comprehend why a Luxuror would come to the aid of a Casualry. Jonathan points out that the role of a Samurai is to help out others, regardless of their social standing. While Krishna from Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse is whole-heartedly justified to rebel against YHVH, the ways he goes about it makes him no better than Merkabah or Lucifer since he's basically giving people one of two choices: join him and the rest of the Divine Powers or be left to rot in the wake of his new world.
# VideoGame.GodOfWar: Even before everything that happens in God of War III, life in Greece wasn't exactly peaches and cream, thanks in no small part to the Jerkass Gods running the place. If you're a human, you have two choices; Lawful Evil gods who view you as little more than a plaything or possession, and are only good in that they represent stability, or a demigod who's Chaotic Evil at worst and a Nominal Hero at best and might kill you for no other reason than you're in his way while he's having a bad day, which is often. The Norse setting is no picnic either being a Grim Up North land filled with monsters, and it's implied some kind of disaster happened that left several settlements and villages deserted with only undead. Not only are its local gods just as bad (if not worse, since its implied the ruined state of the world is their doing), but Ragnarök - the end of the world - is just around the corner.
# TabletopGame.{{Kult}}: CrapsackWorld: Most horror settings have at least one faction who are not pure evil, even if it's just the mundane police. In Kult, ALL the governments, religions, and armies of the world are puppets of the lictors or the Angels of Death, who want to keep mankind ignorant. Worse still, GodIsEvil... and this is not a world where Satan Is Good.
# PlayerPunch.RolePlayingGames: all three children are beaten to unconsciousness, their treehouse torched, and they're separated for years. After a Time Skip, Ryu manages to find Rei, who is haunted by the experience but otherwise unharmed. Teepo, on the other hand, has become the (literal) Dragon to resident Big Bad Myria, and you're forced to kill him. In his dying breath, he says that all he ever wanted was to be with Ryu and Rei, his family. Made worse by the fact that the final confrontation with Balio and Sunder has them combining into their "true form", Stallion. The resulting boss fight, consequently, is against a Shout-Out of Ultraman rather than the sneering, brutal enforcers you've grown to hate, and is much less satisfying as a result.
# Characters.FireEmblemOnForumsNumberedGames: Between the Old Gods destroying the world and feeling like the church was more interested in its own power, Cetus had a Crisis of Faith and converted to the teaching of Undine without believing in her divinity. Discovering that the Old Gods were Ancient Astronauts didn't help matters.
# YMMV.{{Blip}}: THE FIXER. Oh GOD. At first it was very cute... and then it starred in its own panel with a set of fairly innocuous tools that none the less had me recoiling in horror. It's SCARY.K has GOD trying to censor her. She has an omnipotent being sending angels to personally prevent her from ever achieving anything in life, by ruining it if necessary. Think about that.
# Fridge.Castlevania2017: Not that it was hard to imagine a powerful, hardline church treating fringe minority groups like the Speakers as scapegoats in the first place, but it makes even more sense in Season 2 when Sypha explains to Trevor and Alucard that the Speakers are a Nay-Theist order. They consider themselves enemies of God because, in their version of the Tower of Babel story, God destroyed the tower and removed humanity's ability to unify because He was jealous of human achievements.
# VideoGame.Bayonetta2: Loptr, who is revealed to be responsible for Balder becoming the villain of the first game via possession.
# Sandbox.RJArchive: to her, YHVH is still good, with the main difference between her and Metatron is that everyone not aligned with him isn't evil in her opinion. Though sometimes her faith in His goodness can be stretched. Because of this, many good-aligned law deities are trying to convince her to leave YHVH. It hasn't had as much success as they thought
# JustForFun.SuperWeightVideoGamesNToZ: YHVH, Flynn and Nanashi by the endgame of Apocalypse, Messiahs in the Diamond Realm (The Hero, Aleph, Demi-fiend, and Flynn), Transcendents (Stephen, Mido, and the Count of Saint Germain) note Above all the others in this level, as they're stated to occupy a state of existence outside of and higher than the vicious cycle of Order and Chaos, something which doesn't even apply to YHVH. Stephen, the only one shown fighting, is on equal footing with all of the Messiahs on this level combined.
# Characters.UndeadUnluckGodAndTheSuperiorRules: Is the creator of Earth, but is also constantly putting it in danger by adding new rules to it via UMA, whom it explicitly tells to use their rules to make humans suffer. It's destroyed countless Earths from previous loops as well, yet continues to recreate the world just to try and destroy it again. Then there's the fact it forces Spring into a more aggressive form because of the UMA purposely not using its full strength to torment humans. Not to mention it's heavily implied Sun is purposely ensuring humanity will always be on the losing end, such as making Akira Unknown to ensure he couldn't reveal anything he learned from touching G-Liner.
# Film.TheBeliever: Danny is shown discussing the Binding of Isaac story in the yeshiva, saying that it was not really about Abraham having faith in God, but rather God trying to get unquestioning obedience, and concludes God is really a malevolent bully. This, along with his claim that Jews are an essentially feminine, weak race, was the only hint which we get as to why he turned against his heritage.
# WMG.ShinMegamiTensei: Since GodIsEvil and you kill Him in Apocalypse, and there wasn't any controversy over that, there's no reason not to release SMT 2. Besides, well, remaking and retranslating the whole thing.
# Pantheon.MotivationsForEvil: Big Bad, God of Evil, those who had crossed the Despair Event Horizon, Being Pushed Into Villainy, The Evils of Man, Misanthrope Supreme, Omniversal-scale Annihilation, Existing So Long As Hatred Exists, Name Means "I Hate", Graceful Loser, Tragic Monster Odo: Terrifying Tyrannosaur, Last of His Kind In His Time Ou Di Wan Lee: Wuxia incarnation, Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, Hypocrite Ode Iou: Warlord, Frogsnake Demon Form O. Dio: A Horse Possessed by Ghosts, Gatling Good, The Only Non-Malicious One of Odio's Incarnations Odie O'Bright: Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy, Bald of Evil, Serial Killer Odeo: Evil Deity OD-10: A.I. Is a Crapshoot, Spaceship Girl (And Therefore The Only Female One Of Odio's Incarnations) Oersted: Former Knight in Shining Armor, Break the Cutie, Futile Hero's Journey, Driven to Villainy, From Nobody to Nightmare, Alone In The End, Deconstructed Iron Butt Monkey, Trauma Conga Line, Protagonist Journey to Villain, Finding Redemption In The End
# Sandbox.MonsterFilmMToN: Him, Mother's husband, is a poet who values only the insatiable adoration of all around him. Hungry for the love of his fans, Him lures in numerous fans and allows them to descend into violence, slavery, sexual assault, and murder. Abusing his devoted wife, Him takes their child and allows his followers to rip the baby apart and eat it. At the end, with everyone dead, Him murders Mother as well and begins the cycle over again, as he has done countless times before.
# Pantheon.ComicBooksOther: Wick, God Of Yaldabaoth Stand-Ins (Wycke, Father of Colors, Lord of Colors, Your Lord, God) as a Greater God in the Hall of Real and Legendary Pastiches (House of Derivatives)
# Characters.BayonettaParadiso: This god is not benevolent at all.
# VideoGame.WillRock: Zeus. Not really surprising though, since he was a Jerkass God in greek Mythology.
# YMMV.RandyNewman: In "God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind)", God himself is a cackling narcissist endlessly laughing at the joke he's played upon humanity, committing atrocity after atrocity—-like the pointless murder of Israel's children, the burning of cities and an existence full of "squalor and filth and misery"-—while saying man means utterly nothing to him. The reason why he "loves" mankind, as God concludes, is because of the blind reverence they show toward him, even as he continues to torment them endlessly.
# Characters.TheWanderingInnFreeAntinium: Klbkch knows that at least one Demigod is real. But she keeps creating monsters and the more people who know about her the more power she gains. Klbkch has spent thousands of years working towards her death for the deaths of Antinium and specifically the First Queen.
# Music.{{Shakira}}: "How Do You Do?" holds no punches about God's cruelty. However, Shakira forgives Him.
# Literature.EscapeFromHell2008: Everything that happens in Hell happens with his blessing.
# VideoGame.OblitusCasa: MOTHER is actually a god and represents Discovery Island itself.
# ChekhovsGun.VideoGames: In Duel Savior Destiny Taiga has the oddly named sword Traitor, which seems odd since it's not even really a true character. However, the meaning becomes obvious in the final route where it turns out Traitor defines himself by being in opposition to God and that's where his name comes from. By the time this shows up, the name probably just seems like random Gratuitous English without any meaning.
# BrokenBird.VideoGames: Lightning from the Final Fantasy XIII series is a tough-talking soldier who has been burdened by the death of her parents and the subsequent responsibility to be the head of her household and take care of her younger sister Serah. The painstaking journey she's forced to go through to defy the gods and save the world only serves to increase her sufferings.In addition, Hope becomes one of these by the end of Final Fantasy XIII-2. After working so hard to save not only his friends but the entire world, and then watch it go down in flames around him it's no wonder he went from optimistic to completely shutting down. And then the events preceding Lightning Returns break him down even more by having Bhunivelze slowly wreck his sanity by conjuring phantoms of Lightning, then kidnapping him, and finally destroying his emotions through 169 years of torture so the evil god can take over his body. Just... damn. Hope really needs some hugs after all of this.
# PlayingWith.SatanIsGood: God Is Good Satan is the biggest force of evil. GodIsEvil
# Literature.HannibalRising: HollywoodAtheist: In another gratuitous retcon, Hannibal is made into one of these, giving his sister Mischa a blasphemous (if morbidly funny) funeral upon discovering her remains. Presumably he acquired his later faith (albeit faith that GodIsEvil) after the events of this story.
# Monster.DungeonsAndDragons: Takhisis, the Queen of Darkness, is the head of the Pantheon of evil deities. Unlike her fellow evil gods, who may have people they care for, Takhisis cares only for her lusts, greed and power. After mothering the second generation of Chromatic dragons, Takhisis brutally killed two of them solely to make a point to the others. Takhisis threatened the world multiple times, sending her armies out to commit a host of atrocities, with her servants enslaving whole countries in living nightmares. Takhisis betrayed all her gods by stealing the world of Krynn at the conclusion of the Chaos Wars against Father Chaos after she abandoned her followers and forced every soul of those who died into an army of the dead. Not even her own followers are safe from her.
# EnsembleDarkhorse.SmilingFriends: God became a favorite despite his brief appearance for two main reasons. First, he's voiced by the acclaimed comedian Gilbert Gottfried who goes all out with his signature voice for the Lord. Second, viewers expressed surprise that the show averted GodIsEvil and God Is Inept as is common to portray him in modern media, especially adult comedies, noting that it was more subversive and surprising to just straight up go with the God Is Good and almighty approach. When Gilbert Gottfried sadly passed away not long after his role as God in Smiling Friends, God's status as an Ensemble Dark Horse increased tenfold as fans were touched that his final voice acting role was a positive depiction of the Lord.
# Pantheon.GemsAndJewellery: All malevolent demons, Vlad Dracula Ţepeş, prejudiced demon hunters/monster killers who care not for their condition or circumstances, Jubileus, the Angels of Paradiso, the Demons of Inferno, those who selfishly seek godhood for evil reasons, whose who attempted/committed deicide (unless said GodIsEvil), YHVH, Chuck Shurley, Judge Frollo, William Stryker
# Literature.TheHeroLaughsWhileWalkingThePathOfVengeanceASecondTime: If Alesia's internal monologue can be believed, the local god, "The Great Spirit" ordered her to summon Kaito, knowing what the summoning would require.
# VideoGame.GodsWillBeWatching: Burden theorizes that the loop he's stuck in is the gods' idea of a joke.
# Literature.TheElricSaga: The Gods of Chaos are pretty much Always Chaotic Evil, though one may come up now and then that's Chaotic Neutral. Other stories set in the Multiverse, but on characters other than Elric, focus more on the Singularity (the evil faction of the Lords of Order) and the Chaos Engineers (the Chaotic Good Gods of Chaos).
# Characters.LegacyOfKain: Ambiguous since it is hinted that the Elder God may not be a god, but instead a very, very powerful Eldritch Abomination. However, since all other "gods" in the series are also shown to be some variation of demonic creature, and Nosgoth is a Crapsack World, a genuine god being an Eldritch Abomination fits right in.
# Creator.HarlanEllison: Probably the best way to explain "The Region Between." He wrote a whole collection - Deathbird Stories- around this trope. "I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream" qualifies, that is, if you consider AM to be a God.
# Film.TheVoormanProblem: Voorman tells Williams that wars amuse him. And at the end he switches places with Williams, leaving to have sex with Williams's wife while Williams is locked in prison. Oh, and he literally wipes Belgium off the map.
# TabletopGame.BloodOnTheClocktower: If there is an Atheist in the game, none of the players are evil and they must execute the Storyteller — who chooses the deaths at night and can break the rules whenever and wherever they want in an Atheist game — to win. (In this case, if the town gets down to two players alive and the Storyteller hasn't been executed, then evil wins.) However, if the players do execute the Storyteller and it isn't an Atheist game, then good loses.
# PlayingWith.PalsWithJesus: "We are particularly tired of those works portraying God as an unsympathetic jerkass, so we went along to incorporate Jesus into the show, as an affable and rather human person, to defy this pejorative convention."
# Music.MachinaeSupremacy: Several, including "A View From the End of the World," "Violator," and "Dreadnaught".This is also the theme of the "March of the Undead" series, which compares religious followers to zombies. Specifically, "March of the Undead, pt II" criticizes those who push their religions on others and states that religion is used to control the masses, "Reanimator (March of the Undead, pt III)" criticizes heaven seekers and "Remnant (March of the Undead, pt IV)" criticizes the idea that God is benevolent, but still allows horrible things to happen.
# Music.{{Disturbed}}: CrapsackWorld: Common theme in their music. Examples include:"Down with the Sickness": like an Abusive Parent, "mother society" beats down those who are different until they submit... or snap. In "Prayer," GodIsEvil and enjoys making you suffer for no good reason. Another dream that will never come true Just to compliment your sorrow Another life that I've taken from you A gift to add on to your pain and suffering "The goddamned world / Of the dead and the lonely" in "Breathe." "A Welcome Burden". Gather your psychotic masses and bring them to me To a world devoid of sanity Another time and another place And let the violent ones crave calamity Rip away her disguise and you will realize that ya find The truth is sickening!
# VideoGame.XenobladeChronicles1: Zanza, the god of Bionis, is most certainly a complete and utter bastard...
# VideoGame.SoulSacrifice: The game starts very deeply in the cynical end of the scale, thanks to a Crapsack World setting filled with Eldritch Abominations caused by malevolent gods, and one of the gods entices mortals to make horrific sacrifices for their desires. Then little by little, notions like companionship, friendship, and especially hope, make their way into the plot, finally becoming a powerful force by the ending. As of Delta, the game finally climbs its top to the idealistic end, as humanity triumphs over the Gods, and the world is free from the Eternal Recurrence, all thanks to the efforts of the Player Character, Magusar, and Similia. While the game steps back a little from the idealistic end with a Hope Is Scary message, the idea of hope and changing the world for the better are ultimately the game's themes.