| 1 | [[quoteright:350:[[TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/killthegod_9003.jpg]]]] |
| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:"It is done." Elspeth [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=380395 kills]] the God of Revels.]] |
| 3 | |
| 4 | ->''"The humans think us immortal. Should we test that?"'' |
| 5 | -->-- '''Loki to Thor''' (before dropping him out of a helicarrier), ''Film/TheAvengers2012'' |
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| 7 | Deicide, meaning '''killing a god'''. |
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| 9 | To kill the [[OurGodsAreDifferent gods]][=/=]{{God}}[=/=]CrystalDragonJesus is a daunting task. You're often dealing with an [[CompleteImmortality Immortal]], [[NighInvulnerability Nigh-Invulnerable]], PhysicalGod that can probably snuff the life out of you in an instant. |
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| 11 | However, in fiction, you may have a setting where you can Kill the Gods. This makes sense if the character who kills the god is its equal or [[TheOldGods greater]] in power, [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu although it's not unheard of to see someone who's weaker than the god kill them anyway]]. |
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| 13 | If the GodsNeedPrayerBadly, this could be accomplished by everybody ceasing worship at once (or, in a setting with multiple gods and/or religions, [[FinalSolution slaughtering the god's followers]]) and letting the god just shrivel up. The more direct method may need acquiring an ImmortalBreaker weapon. |
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| 15 | Make sure, by the way, that you are killing the entire god, and not just a projection of the GodInHumanForm. Otherwise this is FightingAShadow. |
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| 17 | Of course, once you do this, the GodIsDead, with possible consequences aplenty. See also RageAgainstTheHeavens. Compare DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu, which their cause of death qualifies for if the god-killer is a mortal or otherwise much less powerful than the god that was killed. A warning for those warrior nay-sayers; in a setting where there are multiple gods, slaying one of them is a powerful indicator of the threat posed to them, and may result in some pre-emptive retribution for their own safety (and possibly to punish the arrogance of mortals who act outside their perceived place). |
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| 19 | See TheDeathOfDeath if someone takes down TheGrimReaper. When it involves [[ImAHumanitarian eating the god during/afterwards the kill]] or inflicting a FateWorseThanDeath, see GodEating. |
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| 21 | Do not confuse with CreatorKiller. |
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| 23 | !!Examples: |
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| 26 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 27 | * Happens to practically all of the Magic Gods in ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'' after Creator/AleisterCrowley [[OutGambitted out-gambits]] them and forces them all to [[BroughtDownToNormal a human level]]. |
| 28 | * Almost happens to [[spoiler:Haruhi at the hands of Kuyo and Fujiwara]] at the climax of ''[[Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya The Astonishment of Haruhi Suzumiya Vol. 2]]''. |
| 29 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': |
| 30 | ** The pre-timeskip’s climax focuses on Aizen's obsession with [[GodhoodSeeker reaching and surpassing the realm of divinity]]. However, his target ([[{{god}} the Soul 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. And unfortunately for Gin, [[GoodThingYouCanHeal death didn't quite take for Aizen]].]] |
| 31 | ** Yhwach, the Quincy King and Emperor of the Vandenreich, seeks to [[spoiler:kill the Soul King, who [[CosmicKeystone serves as the linchpin holding the realms together]],]] in order to merge all the realms together and eliminate the very concept of Death. After [[PiecesOfGod Mimihagi]] opposes him in this, Yhwach decides to [[spoiler:[[TheAssimilator assimilate both the Soul King's corpse and Mimihagi]]]] in order to [[PowerParasite absorb their power]], turning him into a transcendent being with the power to merge the realms himself. Ultimately [[spoiler:Ichigo is able to kill him after Uryu shoots Yhwach with a [[KryptoniteFactor Still Silver arrow]] that [[PowerNullifier temporarily de-powers him]] and prevents him from using [[RealityWarper The Almighty]] to [[ResurrectiveImmortality resurrect himself]]]]. For added irony, [[spoiler:[[FateWorseThanDeath his corpse is used to replace the Soul King as the new linchpin]]]]. |
| 32 | * The main premise of ''Literature/{{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]]. |
| 33 | * A variation occurs in ''Anime/CodeGeass.'' [[spoiler: Emperor Charles]] and [[spoiler: his brother, V.V.]], having lost their parents to the machinations of their DecadentCourt, promised each other as children that if there was a god that made people fight and scheme against each other for power, they would kill him. By the time they are older and in a position to put their plan into action, their understanding of the situation has sufficiently evolved that they're no longer trying to ''kill'' the "god" they have discovered, but they are planning to ''use'' it to [[spoiler: enact an AssimilationPlot where all human consciousness, past and present, will unite so the fighting will stop and the dead will return]]. |
| 34 | * ''Manga/DeadRock'': The main protagonist Yakuto’s goal is to kill God [[spoiler: for revenge for destroying his village and killing his parents]]. |
| 35 | * Satou Pendragon from ''Literature/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''. |
| 36 | * This can happen in ''Manga/DeathNote'' when a Shinigami kills someone with their notebooks to [[HeroicSacrifice selflessly save]] another person's life. [[spoiler:This happens to Gelus and Rem when they save Misa's life.]] |
| 37 | * Majin Buu kills plenty of Kais, which are basically the Gods of the ''Franchise/DragonBall'' universe. In fact, he became Fat Buu after absorbing the Grand Supreme Kai, who was the ruler of not only the Kais, but the ''Dragon Ball'' universe as a whole. |
| 38 | ** In ''Anime/DragonBallSuper'' Zamasu and Goku Black killed all the gods of the multiverse in Future Trunks's timeline (with the exception of Universe 7's Supreme Kai, which the manga shows was killed by Dabura) so no one would stop their [[FinalSolution Zero Mortals Plan]]. |
| 39 | ** In ''Anime/SuperDragonBallHeroes'', Hearts the God Hater wants to kill every god in existence, believing they are tyrants. He succeeds in killing [[spoiler:Fused Zamasu]], but is stopped before he can get any others. |
| 40 | * ''Anime/EdensBowy'' centers on the God Hunters, whose explicit ability - and instinct, apparently - is to, well, kill gods. [[TheRival Spike]]'s StartOfDarkness happens when he unintentionally kills his lover, a descended goddess, because of his instinct overpowering him. [[spoiler:He later kills the BigBad, a fish-like god named Lumezavia.]] |
| 41 | * Mimori questing to find a way to do this is the main premise behind ''[[Literature/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. |
| 42 | * 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, specifically the god [[TimeMaster Chronos]] through the God-Soul Takeover mage [[SmugSuper DiMaria Yesta]], even if [[BrokeYourArmPunchingOutCthulhu she sacrificed her magic]] in order to empower herself to that point.]] |
| 43 | * ''[[Manga/GetterRobo New Getter Robo]]'' the final fight has the Getter team fighting four beings who describe themselves as gods and accomplish feats no less then bringing themselves back from death come to destroy the Getter Robo before it evolves into the terrifying Getter Emperor. |
| 44 | * In ''Anime/PokemonArceusAndTheJewelOfLife'', the BigBad attempts to kill [[OlympusMons Arceus]], the [[TheMaker creator god]] of the Pokémon universe, by drowning it in mercury/molten silver once it's weakened after Ash and his friends go back in time to SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong. He almost succeeds, but Ash manages to return it to full strength using the Jewel of Life. |
| 45 | * In ''Anime/PrincessMononoke'', Lady Eboshi kills the forest spirit, which is a sort of PhysicalGod. The results, however, aren't quite what she intended. |
| 46 | * The whole premise of ''Manga/RecordOfRagnarok'' is this trope in TournamentArc form: thirteen gods from different religions fight thirteen legendary humans from throughout history in a series of one-on-one death matches before an audience of all gods and all humanity. If the gods take home the most victories, humanity will be wiped out; if the human champions do, humanity lives on. And to make it a slightly more even playing field, the humans are given special divine weapons known as Volund (actually valkyries who have taken humanity's side and transformed themselves into weapons) that are capable of wounding gods in a way mortals normally wouldn't be able to. Despite the vast power gap in every round, quite a few gods ''do'' meet their end, including [[spoiler: Poseidon, Hercules, Bishamonten/Zerofuku, and Hades]]. |
| 47 | * An extremely difficult proposition in ''Manga/SaintSeiya'', as the gods (with the exception of Eris in the first OVA) are really powerful, but possible with the right means. The real problem is getting them to STAY dead: Poseidon apparently died millennia before the series, but still managed to operate as a spirit and by GrandTheftMe. |
| 48 | * In ''Anime/{{Symphogear}} [=AXZ=]'', protagonist Hibiki Tachibana's Gungnir is revealed to have a connection to the Spear of Longinus, meaning that it has the unique ability to allow her punches to kill any divine being that the team is forced to fight against. |
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| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 52 | * ''ComicBook/{{Aquila}}'': Several gods are killed throughout the comic, including the guardian deity of Rome, who happens to be a giant wolf bitch living in the sewers beneath the capital of the world. |
| 53 | * ''ComicBook/TheAuthority'' manage to kill the Maker of Earth, a planet-sized alien being, at the stroke of midnight on January 1st 2000. |
| 54 | * ''ComicBook/BlackMoonChronicles'': Deicide is apparently possible in the setting. When Lucifer's demons rampage around the world after [[BigBad Haazheel]] opens the HellGate between their dimensions, they attack the Oracle's sanctuary intending to destroy the Oracle before Wismerhill intervenes and slays the demons. On the other hand, [[TheArchmage Methraton]] later specifically [[SealedEvilInACan seals Lucifer away]] after his defeat because he doesn't know of any way to kill a god. |
| 55 | * [[Characters/NewGodsDarkseid Darkseid]] sees other gods besides his ComicBook/{{New God|s}} underlings as threats to his conquest of everything, so he kills them and takes their powers. |
| 56 | -->[[ComicBook/FinalCrisis "There was a war in Heaven.]] [[BadassBoast I won."]] |
| 57 | * In Franchise/TheDCU it happens often enough to [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Godlike space beings]] that the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Guardians of the Universe]] call it a [[PoliceCodeForEverything 1011]]. |
| 58 | * The title character of ''Harry Kipling (Deceased)'' does this on a regular basis. He can do it because he's technically a god himself. |
| 59 | * ''ComicBook/TheLastGod'' is about what happens when the group of heroes who apparently saved the world by killing the last of the gods turn out to have lied, resulting in a new generation of heroes having to finish the job 30 years later. |
| 60 | * In ''ComicBook/MarvelZombies'' [[Characters/MarvelComicsGalactus Galactus]] himself gets eaten by the Zombies. |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/TheMightyThor'': |
| 62 | ** Desak wants to kill every god in the universe because of the actions of his home planet's JerkassGods. |
| 63 | ** [[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 [[ArtifactOfPower weapon 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. |
| 64 | * In ''ComicBook/NewAvengers'', this happens to the Living Tribunal, after the [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Beyonders]] kill it, sending its corpse across the multiverse. In ''The Ultimates'', this happens ''again'' to the new Tribunal (a version of [[Characters/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]]) at the hands of Master Order and Lord Chaos, but he's resurrected after the cosmic ResetButton is pushed. |
| 65 | * It happens in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}''. [[spoiler:The Saint of Killers]] REALLY lived up to his name. |
| 66 | * The ComicBook/SuperiorSpiderMan does this to the Master Weaver in ''ComicBook/SpiderVerse'', then proceeds to try to destroy the Web of Life and Destiny in an attempt to ScrewDestiny. |
| 67 | * In ''ComicBook/{{Thorgal}}'', Ogotai [[spoiler: gets shot in the back with his own plasma gun. He wasn't a real god, just a dangerously delusional and terribly powerful alien psychic, but from the characters' [[PhysicalGod power level]], he certainly counts. And he did have a {{Mayincatec}} civilization doing mass human sacrifices for him]]. |
| 68 | * Franchise/WonderWoman has killed [[Characters/WonderWomanAres Ares]] in multiple continuities, though as she explained to [[Characters/WonderWomanAllies Steve Trevor]] the first time they did so generally a human killing an Olympian only weakens them as their physical forms are only a part of their power. In ''ComicBook/WonderWoman2011'' it actually sticks and his title and power as God of War passes on to Diana. |
| 69 | [[/folder]] |
| 70 | |
| 71 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 72 | * In ''Fanfic/AbsolutePowerSucksAbsolutely'', Maxime comes within a hairs-breadth Zeus when the latter makes it clear that he wants to "teach [him his] place" by [[spoiler:[[RevengeByProxy torturing one of Maxime's elves]] for working in Greece. Diana saves Maxime the trouble and stabs Zeus to death when it's clear that the situation would end in a bloodbath otherwise.]] |
| 73 | * ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' has Doctor Strange murder [[spoiler: Camazotz]], a god of blood and night, in a ritual to commit genocide on his spawn, [[spoiler: the Red Court of Vampires]]. Since they're AlwaysChaoticEvil, no one is particularly bothered, more shocked that he could pull it off. |
| 74 | * ''Fanfic/CodexEquus'' deconstructs this. [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/819168411/4890079201 According to BrutalityInc]], killing a god, while extremely difficult, would have catastrophic consequences based on what domains they have. This is because gods are products of both the elements of the natural world and abstract concepts created by sapientkind. For example, killing a Water god would cause massive floods, while killing a War god would birth rampant conflicts, and killing a Wind god would cause uncontrollable storms. This is largely the reason why gods tend to resort to either sealing away or devouring other gods because actually killing one is a cost too great to handle. However, it is possible to contain the catastrophic meltdown that follows if one has the power or means to do so. |
| 75 | ** A [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/861846716/4890078569 Codexverse drabble]] provides an InUniverse example inspired by the mechanics of the ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries''. In a session of ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons Ogres & Oubliettes]]'' hosted by Spike, the BigBad is a god who [[IntriguedByHumanity loved mortal sapientkind]] so much that he tried killing off every other god in the universe (save for himself) so he could give them [[RealityWarper the power to literally change the world as they wished to]]. It's deconstructed as with every god killed, the universe is robbed of vital Concepts that keep it stable and thriving. Once the god is defeated and [[RetGone erased from existence]] (with divine help), many people had to replace the murdered gods by adopting their mantles to keep the universe from falling apart; one of said people is Moon Ray Vaughoof's character avatar, a {{Necromancer}} who takes on the mantle of a [[GodOfTheDead Death god]]. |
| 76 | * In ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/67180/crucible Crucible]]'', this (or an attempt thereof) is stated to be the only crime on the [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Equestrian]] books which carries the death penalty. [[spoiler:Unfortunately for Twilight Sparkle, she accidentally caused [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia]] [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu to fry herself nearly to death]].]] |
| 77 | * ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'' is leaning towards this. Ami has discussed some plans (some even viable, apparently) for killing Metallia. It appears she may have to resort to this sooner, however, as both ''Crowned Death'' and ''Azzaratha, the Mighty Tyrant'', are baying for her blood due to her many offenses against them and her general attitude to being a keeper in general. |
| 78 | ** ''The Unraveler of Mysteries'' has moved in opposition to her at least once, but it seems that she is less inclined to seek vengeance against Ami, and intends to study or recruit her instead. |
| 79 | * It's believed in-universe that the world of ''Fanfic/{{Fledglings}}'' was formed following the death of most legendaries save for Arceus at the hands of selfish Pokémon using the power of the "Star of Destruction". |
| 80 | * In ''Fanfic/TheImmortalGame'', Alicorns are considered as the equivalent of deities. [[spoiler:And [[TopGod King]] [[BigBad Titan]] ends up kicking the bucket.]] |
| 81 | * The main story arc of ''Fanfic/LeftBeyond'' concerns a plan of this nature. It's averted, though, since the Omega organization's plan to kill both God and Satan in order to preserve humanity's free will ultimately fails. True to their modus operandi, the Omega simply move on to the next backup plan. |
| 82 | * ''Fanfic/PonyPOVSeries'': |
| 83 | ** This technically ''is'' possible, but ''not'' easy nor recommended. The deities don't just rule over concepts of existence, they [[AnthropomorphicPersonification are concepts of existence]]. Killing one of them results in their concept being RetGone from time, along with anyone who was alive ''because'' of that Concept. The only true example of this happening was the pony who killed Cupid, and it was second only in destruction to the universe to Nightmare Eclipse's plans. |
| 84 | ** During the finale arc, the villains invoke this by making digital clones of several video game heroes with a habit of doing this (VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}, [[VideoGame/AsurasWrath Asura]], [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]], and [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei Demi-Fiend]]) to guard their castle. [[spoiler:Subverted, when the gods they end up going up against are [[TopGod the Elders]]. [[CurbStompBattle Because they were just digital clones, not the real deal, the so-called 'god-killers' didn't stand a chance.]]]] |
| 85 | * ''Fanfic/ThePrayerWarriors'' do this to every god they meet, in rather quick ways. |
| 86 | * In ''Fanfic/TheWeaverOption'' the Emperor uses Taylor's forces to kill [[spoiler:the Chaos God Slaanesh]] by first destroying its main source of power and then luring it into a place where it will be vulnerable to attack with an anti-daemon weapon. |
| 87 | * Discussed in ''Fanfic/WhenReasonFails''. Demi-Powers are god-like yet theoretically slayable by humanity, it just takes a lot of resources to do and generally considered not worth it unless they are rampaging Disasters. [[spoiler:Shoto explains that due to Aiko being a relatively young god, it is easier to slay her without an equal loss of potential gains from achieving the feat, which is why Izuku's Cabal have to keep her nature a secret from anyone they don't trust or can't keep a secret from anyway or UA would become a battle ground for various organisations going after the Outsider of Existence]]. |
| 88 | [[/folder]] |
| 89 | |
| 90 | [[folder:Films — Animated]] |
| 91 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}'', [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades]] attempts to kill Hercules by forcing him to drink [[ImmortalBreaker poison that will turn him mortal]]. Herc ends up drinking all but the last drop, so he keeps [[SuperStrength one aspect of his godhood]]. |
| 92 | [[/folder]] |
| 93 | |
| 94 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 95 | * ''Film/{{Star Trek V|The Final Frontier}}'''s climax involves going to the heart of the galaxy and meeting an [[TheOmnipotent omnipotent]], godlike being in need of a starship, and then shooting it in the face. |
| 96 | * In ''Film/ClashOfTheTitans2010'', various rulers are trying to do this to the Olympians by [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly destroying their temples and denying them worship]]. While it does weaken them, the gods are still powerful enough to inflict misery on the commonfolk, whose suffering their arrogant rulers ignore. It also doesn't do anything to weaken Hades, since he draws power from their fear of death. |
| 97 | * The climax of ''Film/{{Dogma}}'' involves the protagonist finding and killing God[[note]]God has currently taken human form, and the body is in a coma on life support, so incapacitated from doing anything[[/note]], in order to allow Her to return to Heaven and appear at the place She needs to be to stop the villain from destroying the universe. |
| 98 | * Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse: |
| 99 | ** In ''Film/ThorTheDarkWorld'', Thor's mother Frigga gets killed by Kurse. Subverted somewhat in that the Asgardians [[AGodIAmNot don't see themselves as gods]], but were [[GodGuise worshipped by humans as such]]. |
| 100 | ** Thanos in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' casually {{Neck Lift}}s and chokes Loki, the God of Mischief, to death right after curb-stomping Thor and Hulk. |
| 101 | ** ''Film/{{Eternals}}'': Initially, the Eternals planned to [[spoiler:put Tiamut to sleep and figure out how to save humanity in the meantime. After Druig is blasted by Ikaris, Sersi has to change plans and opts for turning Tiamut to stone.]] |
| 102 | ** The entire motivation of Gorr the God Butcher, the villain of ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder''. After his god Rapu, whom he and his now-deceased people devoutly worshipped, turns out to be a {{Jerkass God|s}} who doesn't give a shit about the deaths 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. |
| 103 | * In ''Film/WonderWoman2017'', the ultimate purpose of the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin aptly named]] "God Killer" is to slay Ares, who himself had killed the rest of the Greek Pantheon. [[spoiler:Diana was told it was [[VillainBeatingArtifact a sword]], which she stole to fulfill its supposed purpose, only for Ares to destroy it easily. He then reveals that only a god can kill another god, and that the actual "God Killer" is Diana herself, as a child purposefully conceived by Zeus to kill Ares.]] |
| 104 | [[/folder]] |
| 105 | |
| 106 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 107 | |
| 108 | * ''Literature/TheBeginningAfterTheEnd'': |
| 109 | ** At the end of Volume 9, [[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 one. The Asura in question 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 [[ThoseWereOnlyTheirScouts despite being very young 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 Taci's death is only just the beginning as the war against the Asuras will inevitably see Arthur add more deities to his kill count]]. |
| 110 | --> [[spoiler:'''Arthur''']]: You want to know what I've become? Godkiller should be appropriate. |
| 111 | ** In Volume 10, [[spoiler:Seris Vritra ends up capturing the Sovereign Orlaeth Vritra and keeps him incapacitated for use in her rebellion against the Vritra. At the end of the volume, she broadcasts herself executing him in front of all of Alacrya to show the mortal populace that the Sovereigns can bleed and to encourage them to rise up against their Vritra overlords]]. |
| 112 | * ''Literature/TheBlueWorld'' 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? |
| 113 | * Several gods are slain using the eponymous items in the ''Literature/BookOfSwords'' series by Creator/FredSaberhagen. In fact, once humans realize gods are not immortal, [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve they start not believing in them]], [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly and the rest die from disbelief]]. |
| 114 | * ''Literature/TheCosmere'': |
| 115 | ** At the climax of the first ''Literature/{{Mistborn|TheOriginalTrilogy}}'' novel, [[ActionGirl Vin]] kills [[GodEmperor the Lord Ruler]], an immortal tyrant most of humanity regards as God [[spoiler: though he's really just a very powerful, very intelligent human]]. Then at the end of the last book [[spoiler: she offs a ''real'' god, [[OmnicidalManiac Ruin]]. In this case, Vin had just ascended to godhood herself as Ruin's equal and opposite, and [[TakingYouWithMe she was able to destroy him by sacrificing herself to do it]]]]. |
| 116 | ** The setting as a whole features Adonalsium, who is splintered into 16 shards, Hoid and the 16 Shardholders killed Adonalsium, with the Shardholders each holding a specific aspect of Adonalsium, raising those 16 to godhood. At least 4 have been since murdered. |
| 117 | ** In ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'' [[spoiler: Taravangian kills Rayse, Vessel of Odium, and ascends to godhood, becoming the new Odium]]. |
| 118 | * In ''Literature/CraftSequence'', the human Craftsmen started a war with the gods. They managed to kill most of them. |
| 119 | * [[EvilSorcerer Sebastian Steer]] in''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'' boasts, in a throwaway line, of having killed [[Literature/CthulhuMythos the Old God Nyarlathotep]]. Of course, TheMultiverse is in effect, allowing a different version of Nyarlathotep to show up in a later, perfectly fine, to [[DidWeJustHaveTeaWithCthulhu attend Thymon's birthday party]], but it's still viewed as a rather impressive feat. |
| 120 | * This happens in ''Literature/TheCrocodileGod,'' when a Spaniard kills the Tagalog sea-god Haik's daughter. Since the "deicide" in question was basically [[ImperiledInPregnancy shooting a pregnant woman in front of her husband]], this pushes Haik over the DespairEventHorizon--it's not only a personal loss of a child, but heralds the DeathOfTheOldGods in the Philippines. Later on it's revealed that even before then, Haik thought [[EverybodysDeadDave the REST of the Tagalog gods were dead as well]], including his many cousins and his sister, which [[TraumaCongaLine no doubt made his trauma worse]]. |
| 121 | * In ''Literature/DarkHeart'', the gods of Caliel were once mortals who rose to power after rebelling against and overthrowing the selfish, power-hungry elder gods. |
| 122 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 123 | ** In ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'', the plot is driven by an attempt to assassinate the SantaClaus {{Expy}}, the Hogfather, by [[spoiler:[[GodsNeedPrayerBadly using magic to keep children from believing in him]]]]. At one point the protagonist stops to consider that the Hogfather really ''is'' a god when you get down to it (leave snacks as a sacrifice, he bestows gifts as blessings), and indeed, the story explains that he's basically the modern incarnation of an old solstice deity. |
| 124 | ** In ''Literature/TheLastHero'', Cohen the Barbarian and the Silver Horde, remembering how the first Hero of legend, Fingers-Mazda, stole fire from the gods, decide, as their final act, to head to Cori Celesti, the home of the gods, and return the stolen fire. [[StuffBlowingUp With interest]]. |
| 125 | * In the ''{{Literature/Dragonlance}}'' novels, a BadFuture shows how [[TheArchmage Raistlin]] managed to not only kill all the other Gods of Krynn but rise to godhood himself, but at a [[ApocalypseHow horrible]] [[GoneHorriblyWrong cost]] to the rest of the world where he ended up killing everything, leaving him trapped alone for eternity in a world that will never know the touch of life again. A large part of the ''Legends'' trilogy is making sure this never comes to pass in the main timeline. |
| 126 | * ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': |
| 127 | ** Immortal gods and Fae are a pain to kill. Even chopping off their head or grinding them into nothing won't keep them dead forever. Only two conditions are known where gods can surely be killed. First, when a plane of existence is created to permit it. Second [[spoiler:on Halloween until the first birdsong is heard the next morning]]. |
| 128 | ** In ''Literature/SummerKnight'' [[spoiler:Harry killed the Summer Lady Aurora]]. |
| 129 | ** In ''Literature/ColdDays'', Harry is given an assignment to kill an Immortal, namely [[spoiler:Maeve, the Winter Lady]]. He is less than pleased with this daunting task. [[spoiler:But Murphy is the one who ends up killing Maeve.]] And before that, [[spoiler:Maeve kills Lily, the Summer Lady, with a bullet to her head. According to Bob, even THIS does not technically stick. Maeve may be dead, but this just means someone ELSE becomes the Winter Lady, and eventually becoming, if not Maeve, something very close]]. |
| 130 | * Creator/DavidEddings: |
| 131 | ** In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'', Belgarion of Riva has "Godslayer" as one of his official titles, and it ''isn't'' honorary. |
| 132 | ** Sparhawk kills a god at the end of both ''Literature/TheElenium'' and ''Literature/TheTamuli''. The gods were even aware this was a danger, because Sparhawk was born ImmuneToFate. |
| 133 | ** The BigBad of ''Literature/TheTamuli'' goes for a variant on the GodsNeedPrayerBadly method -- he orders his minions to kill off Aphrael's worshipers, because without them Aphrael will herself die. |
| 134 | * In ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' gods can't be killed by mortal means, but they can be killed by other gods or godly weapons. [[spoiler:Or modern weapons from our world]]. There's also the EldritchAbomination Ka Anor, an alien god who ''eats'' other gods and is basically trying to genocide the whole holy race. |
| 135 | * In ''Literature/FactoryOfTheGods'', Julian has to kill multiple gods throughout the series. Fortunately, its possible to kill them by just hitting them hard enough, or in the right way that bypasses their resistances. |
| 136 | * ''Literature/ForestKingdom'': In the ''Hawk & Fisher'' spinoff series' book 3 (''The God Killer''), this is the goal of the title character... or at least, to kill beings that are worshipped as gods, yet don't have the power to save the titular killer from dying of cancer, and whom the killer thus considers to be only pretenders and thus deserving of death. |
| 137 | * Found very appropriately in ''Literature/TheGodEaters''. Keiran and Ashleigh are forced to kill [[spoiler: 3 (though 1 only loses a body)]] god(s) to ensure their freedom and safety. It might help that these are [[spoiler: actually [[DeityofHumanOrigin deities of human origin]]]]. The [[spoiler: worst one will probably come back]]. |
| 138 | * ''Literature/HelenAndTroysEpicRoadQuest'': The only way a God can actually die is when a mortal kills it with a MagicalWeapon not on orders from another god, but by their own free will. [[spoiler:Nigel manages to kill the Lost God (in Franklin's body) with his grandfather's magic ax.]] |
| 139 | * In ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'', this is Asriel's mission. There's also a knife which is properly called the [[MeaningfulName god-destroyer]]. [[spoiler:Subverted in the end: when "[[{{God}} The Authority]]" does actually die, it's more out of extreme old age than any deliberate effort on anyone's part.]] |
| 140 | * In the second book of the ''Literature/InheritanceTrilogy'', an order of people fanatically loyal to the god [[TopGod Itempas]] attempt to kill his brother/lover/rival (it's complicated) Nahadoth. |
| 141 | * ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'': Kallen Selios' airship, ''Albatros IX'', has a "smite gods" button. It channels divine power that she received from various events [[spoiler: such as the Siduban Chaos Explosion]]. It only took two direct hits for this thing to kill a low-rung [[TheGrimReaper Grim Reaper]]. Emily points out the BullyingADragon aspect of this but Kallen does no care. |
| 142 | * The goal of Nicolae Carpathia's Global Community One World Unity Army at the battle of Armageddon in the ''Literature/LeftBehind'' book ''Glorious Appearing'', and also that of The Other Light at the end of the Millennium Kingdom in ''Kingdom Come'' -- [[YouCantFightFate neither of which was achieved]] [[CurbStompBattle as God and Jesus wiped out both armies]]. |
| 143 | * The Emperor, a.k.a. John, of ''Literature/TheLockedTomb'' is revered 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)]]. |
| 144 | ** ''Literature/HarrowTheNinth'' even broadcasts throughout that he's going to be killed, since several chapters start with "[X amount of time] before the Emperor's murder", but leaves it a mystery as to ''who'' will kill him: the Resurrection Beasts, or someone else. [[spoiler:Mercymorn, one of God's saints/Lyctors, is the one to do it as part of a plan with Augustine, another Lyctor; however, John ultimately revives from the attempt after a few minutes and kills her instead (and in her case, it actually sticks).]] |
| 145 | ** ''Literature/NonaTheNinth'', which goes into John's backstory, we learn that [[spoiler:he himself basically did this to Gaia, the spirit of the Earth itself who was a god in her own right. As thanks for John always trying to save the Earth, she gave him his necromancy powers, only for him to destroy her and all the other planets, and resurrect her as Alecto, his cavalier. At the end of the book, when Alecto is awakened from the Locked Tomb, one of the first things she does is travel through the River and stab John]]. |
| 146 | * ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'': |
| 147 | ** WarGod Fener is on the receiving end of this from Karsa Orlong towards the end of ''Literature/TheCrippledGod''. Karsa Orlong shatters a statue of him in his last remaining temple, giving Fener, who has been on a downward spiral ever since Heboric inadvertently yanked him out of the heavens, the last push. |
| 148 | ** Traveller's main goal in life is to [[EnemiesWithDeath kill the God of Death]] in {{revenge}} for what happened to his daughter. It almost works, but [[spoiler:Anomander Rake]] gets to it first, then taunts Traveller into a duel if he still wants to get Hood. |
| 149 | * In the ''Literature/{{Nightside}}'' series, Belle acquired her SuperSpeed by killing and skinning a minor Greek godling, then making boots out of his skin. Bad Penny killed Herne the Hunter for telling John Taylor information that Walker wants kept quiet. [[spoiler: And in the short story "Razor Eddie's Big Night Out", it's revealed that the Punk God of the Straight Razor attained his divinity by killing the war-god Mithras in defense of a priest who'd been kind to him.]] |
| 150 | * In ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', Pan is killed because of [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly a lack of people who believe in him]], which also doubled as a GreenAesop. |
| 151 | * ''Literature/APracticalGuideToEvil'': |
| 152 | ** [[TheBigGuy Sabah]] killed an Ork God when claiming her new Name as Captain. |
| 153 | --> '''Captain''': You’re going to need another god. I broke this one. |
| 154 | ** [[EvilGenius Wekesa]] seems to have killed some (lesser) gods, too - he stores them in the basement of his MageTower for experimentation. |
| 155 | ** When going to the Everdark, [[VillainProtagonist Catherine]] offers the invading dwarves to kill the Drows' goddesses, the Sve Noc in exchange for free passage, gold, and an army. It doesn't work, [[spoiler:and she (as the [[TheFairFolk Queen of Winter]] of godlike power herself) only escapes the fate of being made a sacrifice by allying with the Sve Noc and willingly trading her power away]]. |
| 156 | * ''Literature/RaiseSomeHell'' : Or more aptly, kill the [[spoiler: Devil]]. |
| 157 | * The gods of ''Literature/RavellingWrath'' are too alien to be killed in any normal sense, but they can be slowly weakened if their human Ravellers are killed. And if this goes on long enough… Well, [[spoiler:the Blood God]] refers to it as "being erased", and the secret goal of [[spoiler:the Waiting God]] is to make this happen. |
| 158 | --> '''Rinn:''' The word ''killed'' felt wrong – killing was something that happened to humans, not gods. But I wasn’t sure what else to say. There ''wasn’t'' a word for eliminating a god, because that wasn’t something that ever happened. |
| 159 | * ''Literature/TheRavenTower'': |
| 160 | ** GodsNeedPrayerBadly, performing miracles expends that power, and losing all of it is the simplest way a god can die. |
| 161 | ** One god can speak another's death, but this is immensely draining, even if the target is already weakened. The Strength and Patience of the Hill gets knocked out for two years when it does so, and another god is surprised that it survived the attempt at all. |
| 162 | ** Mortals can't do much to harm a god directly, but might be able to [[LoopholeAbuse exploit loopholes in the god's own words]] to deadly effect. The ploy to kill the Raven relies on forcing it to drain itself upholding its promises to the city while denying it HumanSacrifice that it relies on. |
| 163 | ** The Strength and Patience of the Hill relates a story about a god who blessed a spear carried by a certain hunter so that, once a day, it would kill anything it was thrown at. When one of the hunter's descendants turned out to be capable of activating the spear's properties (because they had the same name, an loophole in the ExactWords of the blessing), the god asked for it back, since it wasn't supposed to do that. The guy tossed the spear to the god, and it hadn't been used that day. |
| 164 | * ''Literature/TheRippleSystem'': Newly-summoned gods are relatively vulnerable, and Ned tries to figure out if they can kill Tyrann's god before it becomes permanent. [[spoiler:Turns out they can. By using the PortalNetwork, they jump behind the defensive lines, kill the god, and render the entire cult severely weakened]]. |
| 165 | * ''Literature/SaintessSummonsSkeletons'': Sofia is given a quest to defeat [[spoiler:the god of Scripture -- of whom she is technically the unwilling Saintess. Since Scripture's previous interactions with her have involved kidnapping and enslaving her, infecting all his church leadership with soul parasites that turn them into undead, and massacring the orphanage where Sofia grew up, she's happy to oblige. The fact that the quest has a 100-year time limit is indicative, though, of the difficulty of killing even a minor god.]] |
| 166 | * In ''{{Literature/Silverwing}}'', Nocturna has been killed by the more vicious Bat God named Zotz. This is revealed in the Firewing book. |
| 167 | * In ''Literature/TheTraitorSonCycle'', [[spoiler:Harmodius]] eventually gets fed up with the machinations of his world's {{Physical God}}s and decides that he wants to have them all murder each other and kill what's left - only for other characters to point out that they can't even win against ''one'' of them on their own without the aid of another, so perhaps Harmodius might want to put his masterplan on hold. |
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| 169 | |
| 170 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 171 | * The ''Series/BlackMirror'' episode ''[[Recap/BlackMirrorUSSCallister USS Callister]]'' is about a sadistic game designer who cools off from work with an RPG of his creation inspired by the in-universe ''Franchise/StarTrek'' knockoff. There, he acts as the {{Jerkass God|s}} of that world, inflicting VideoGameCrueltyPotential on sapient clones of his co-workers. The episode ends with the characters of the game staging a rebellion and trapping him within the game, killing off his real-world self as if he were a JRPG FinalBoss, and leaving them free to explore the game universe as they please. |
| 172 | * The entire fifth season of ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' revolves around killing Glory, a seemingly unstoppable hellgod [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan trapped in a mortal body.]] |
| 173 | * Done quite a few times in ''Series/DoctorWho'' with [[SufficientlyAdvancedAlien Sufficiently-Advanced Aliens]]: |
| 174 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS13E3PyramidsOfMars "Pyramids of Mars"]]: The 4th Doctor kills Sutekh the Destroyer, last of the godlike Osirians who inspired the Egyptian Gods. |
| 175 | ** The 7th Doctor could be quite good at this. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E4TheGreatestShowInTheGalaxy "The Greatest Show in the Galaxy"]] has him defeat the Gods of Ragnarok. In ''WebAnimation/DeathComesToTime'', generally thought of as non-canon, [[spoiler: he kills the rogue Time Lord General Tannis and seemingly dies in [[HeroicSacrifice the process]] (here the Time Lords all have RealityWarper capabilities and are referred to as Gods of the Fourth)]]. |
| 176 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E13ThePartingOfTheWays "The Parting of the Ways"]]: Rose, temporarily powered up as the Bad Wolf entity, destroys the GodEmperor of the Daleks. |
| 177 | ** Although not necessarily a god, [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E9TheSatanPit "The Satan Pit"]] has the Doctor do this to an entity who looks like and claims to be Satan. |
| 178 | ** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E7TheRingsOfAkhaten "The Rings of Akhaten"]] has Clara do this to Akhaten, an EldritchAbomination GeniusLoci which feeds on stories. |
| 179 | *** This seems partially based on the audio drama "Phobos", where the 8th Doctor kills a Godlike being living inside a wormhole that feeds on fear by showing it his fears. |
| 180 | * ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'': In the Season 5 finale, the Legends kill Atropos (one of the Greek Fates) by throwing her into the Loom of Fate and strangling her with her own fate thread as it's added to the Loom. This causes the whole thing to explode, taking her with it. |
| 181 | * ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower'': Adar, a Dark Elf and ancestor to the Orcs, claims to have managed the impossible and slain the EvilSorcerer, Sauron, for how badly he treated his kin. Sauron is a Maia, a weaker member of the same race as the Valar who serve as the setting's gods. Unbeknownst to Adar, [[spoiler:Sauron is alive in the form of a human. WordOfGod says that his race see bodies of flesh and blood the way we see clothes, though it's more complex for evil members, so it's possible that Adar actually did destroy Sauron's body and weaken him.]] |
| 182 | * In ''Series/StargateSG1'', a device is created that is capable of killing [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascended]] [[PowersThatBe beings]]. In the Ori galaxy, the Ori themselves are ascended beings who have convinced their followers that they are gods. The device is sent through a stargate to the Ori galaxy, where it goes off, destroying all of the Ori. It is [=SG-1=]'s impressive tally of dead Goa'uld that starts enslaved humans and Jaffa thinking that maybe the Goa'uld aren't truly gods after all. |
| 183 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 184 | ** [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Worf]] claims that Klingons have no gods, because they killed them centuries ago. Apparently they were "more trouble than they were worth." We later learn that this was actually a joke. The gods were ''really'' all killed almost immediately after the first two Klingons were created; this partnership is the core of the Klingon ideal of marriage. |
| 185 | ** In the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS]]'' episode, "[[Recap/StarTrekS2E2WhoMournsForAdonais Who Mourns for Adonais]]", an alien claiming to be the Greek god Apollo captures the [[CoolStarship Enterprise]]. They destroy the source of his powers and he "spreads himself upon the winds" to join his fellow gods that had passed on. |
| 186 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 187 | ** In season five, [[{{Satan}} Lucifer]] wipes out a hotel full of gods in about five minutes. |
| 188 | ** [[TheGrimReaper Death]] claims he will reap {{God}} at the end of time. |
| 189 | ** In "[[Recap/SupernaturalS07E01MeetTheNewBoss Meet the New Boss]]", the Winchesters [[spoiler:[[SummonBiggerFish bind Death]]]] to try to kill [[spoiler:Castiel]], who has become an outright god. [[spoiler:Death does dispute this by calling him a "mutated angel", but right before he's about to take him, Castiel solves the stand-off by freeing Death.]] |
| 190 | ** The Winchesters have killed a number of pagan gods, including a Vanir. |
| 191 | ** In the Season 10 finale [[spoiler: Dean kills Death with his own scythe]]. |
| 192 | ** The Winchesters spend most of season 11 trying to figure out how to kill [[spoiler:Amara, who is God's sister and His equal in power]]. And during one attempt near the end of the season, [[spoiler:Amara almost kills God]]. Since they're actually primordial entities predating creation, either of them being killed would have [[RealityBreakingParadox some dire consequences to the universe at large]]. |
| 193 | ** In the season 14 finale, God creates a special gun, "the Equalizer", which he claims has enough power to kill an increasingly deranged [[spoiler:Jack, the half-angel son of Lucifer. When [[GodIsEvil God's own manipulations]] come to light and He opts to smite Jack personally when Dean refuses, Sam picks up the gun in a desperate attempt to kill God. It seemingly has no effect, but the next season shows that it did damage Him, as it ties his essence to that of Sam and traps him in one universe. He eventually manages to repair himself after pushing Sam over the DespairEventHorizon]]. |
| 194 | ** In season 15, it transpires that [[spoiler:Death is planning to kill God after he truly goes off the deep end. She thinks that Jack could potentially become powerful enough to actually succeed, especially since God has an AchillesHeel: in order to create the universe, he had to write himself into its make-up, which also made him mortal. The brothers still worry whether killing him with Amara still around could [[BalanceBetweenGoodAndEvil throw reality out of whack]]. If they do go through with it, they'll both have to go. Ultimately, after Death is revealed to have been [[ManipulativeBitch playing them]] and is taken off the board herself, Jack manages to steal all of God's powers and leave him trapped as a GodInHumanForm, doomed to die of old age someday]]. |
| 195 | * In ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', the title character gains the Power to Kill Gods in the season 5 finale, and uses it so often that she is billed as "[[http://hercxena.wikia.com/wiki/Xena Xena of Amphipolis, the Warrior Princess, Slayer of Gods and Defender of the Elijans]]." |
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| 197 | |
| 198 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 199 | * The third act of Music/{{Fireaxe}}'s epic four hour metal album ''Music/FoodForTheGods'' centers around {{Satan}} leading an army of demons and damned in a full-on assault of Heaven with this goal. [[spoiler:And it works! [[PyrrhicVictory Sort of]].]] |
| 200 | * ''Music/{{Aviators}}'''s album Godhunter. At the end of the world, the immortal ruler of the last city on earth sits on his throne, awaiting the Godhunter who will put an end to his eternal reign. |
| 201 | -->''When you see the hunter coming''\ |
| 202 | ''Then you hide or keep on running''\ |
| 203 | ''Cause she's slain the gods before.'' |
| 204 | [[/folder]] |
| 205 | |
| 206 | [[folder:Mythology and Religion]] |
| 207 | * According to Literature/TheBible, this is the result of the crucifixion of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Christ in 33 A.D. From the same source, this act was [[BackFromTheDead subverted three days after its commission]]. |
| 208 | * OlderThanDirt: In Myth/EgyptianMythology, Set chopped up his brother Osiris and threw all the pieces into the Nile. [[spoiler: His sister put him back together.]] |
| 209 | * In [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]], the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiotaurus Ophiotaurus]] was said to grant the power to defeat the gods to anyone who burned its entrails. The Titans managed to kill it, but Zeus sent an eagle to snatch its entrails before they could be burned. |
| 210 | * In Myth/PacificMythology, the prophet Lanikaula defeated and killed the Pahulu, gods of sorcery that used to dwell on the island of Moloka'i. |
| 211 | * In Myth/JapaneseMythology, the goddess Izanami died by [[GroinAttack giving birth to a god of fire]]. Her husband, Izanagi, [[OffingTheOffspring killed the child Kagutsuchi out of grief]]. After her death, Izanami fell into the underworld and became a zombie goddess. The ''Kojiki'' also has cases where mythical Japanese emperors fought and killed the 'gods of the earth', probably allusion to the pacification of rival tribes. However, the emperors themselves were descended from Amaterasu, the Sun Goddess of the Heaven, so these are probably cases of takes one to kill one. |
| 212 | * Myth/NorseMythology: |
| 213 | ** Balder is killed by an arrow (or spear) through the heart shot by Hodr, but he was set up by Loki. He knew Balder's only weakness: [[WeaksauceWeakness mistletoe]]. In ''Literature/GestaDanorum'''s version, Baldr dies via a sword ''called'' mistletoe. |
| 214 | ** At [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Ragnarok]], Odin, Thor, Loki, Heimdall, Frey, and most of the Aesir bite it at the hands of giants, trolls, Fenrir, Jormungandr, and Surtr. |
| 215 | * In Odinani religion, every god except for the Superior one who is the origin of all things, only exists to serve a specific purpose. Once 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. |
| 216 | * Two of the most important characters in ''Navaho mythology'' are twin miracle-performing sons of White-Shell Woman, Yolkai Estsan, chief goddess, named Nayenezgani (whose name literally means Slayer of Alien Gods) and Tobadzischini who killed numerous divine bird, animal, rock, and human monsters, typifying evils, that wantonly destroyed human life. |
| 217 | [[/folder]] |
| 218 | |
| 219 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 220 | * It's actually possible to do this in ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'', but it's very difficult to do so. One method involves summoning the God without his consent, which pisses it off but temporarily weakens it enough to be killed by extreme means. Case in point: Fanfic/OldManHenderson summoning Hastur (which was possible because Henderson was his greatest enemy at the time) and then detonating "enough explosives wired to make [[{{Creator/MICHAELBAY}} Michael Bay]] blush". |
| 221 | * ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': |
| 222 | ** 1st Edition |
| 223 | *** Under the rules (Deities and Demigods Cyclopedia) it was possible to kill deities, which led to bizarre results. One example was a letter to Dragon magazine in which a PC killed the Myth/NorseMythology god Thor by pushing him off the top of a wall and getting Thor's magical hammer {{Mjolnir}} as booty. |
| 224 | *** Module Q1 ''Queen of the Demonweb Pits''. A high level {{P|layerCharacter}}C group could kill Lolth, the Demon Queen of Spiders, who was a lesser deity under the rules. If they did so her spider ship would cease to exist, but they would be saved and returned to the Prime Material Plane by ''their'' deities. |
| 225 | ** 2nd Edition |
| 226 | *** ''Legends and Lore'' supplement. Deities could only be killed by a more powerful deity or any deity using an artifact. Mortals could never kill a deity. Deities sometimes created avatars (lesser versions of themselves) to act on the Prime Material Plane. Avatars ''could'' be destroyed by mortals. |
| 227 | *** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Planescape}}'' setting, the Lady of Pain slew Aoskar, Greater God of Portals. She then killed everyone who worshipped him, razed his temple and destroyed all written lore about him and mazed anyone who thereafter joined his faith, leaving only one priest alive (perhaps as a reminder). The priest? Was one of her own servants who turned from her to worship Aoskar, which is what kicked off her deicidal fit. She bars all gods from Sigil now, though Aoskar was really the only exception in the past anyway. |
| 228 | *** In the ''Dead Gods'' module for ''Planescape'', the demon prince Orcus, after being slain by the drow demigoddess Kiaransalee, somehow returned as an ''undead'' demon prince under the name Tenebrous. Worse, he learned the Last Word, an utterance capable of slaying deities, and used it on Primus, god of the modrons, and the illithid deity Maanzecorian. A group of adventurers was able to use the power of the Last Word against Tenebrous, after which a group of greater deities nullified the Last Word's power. |
| 229 | ** The Vasharan, an [[AlwaysChaoticEvil Always Evil]] HumanSubspecies introduced in the ''Book of Vile Darkness'', are the descendents of mankind's PsychoPrototype, who upon being created by the deities almost immediately turned around and tried to murder them. Since the Vasharan are utterly amoral sociopaths, their desire to find a way to kill the gods is the only thing that holds their society together. |
| 230 | ** The 3.0 version of the ''Deities and Demigods'' book gave stats for many deities from a variety of pantheons, and made "god-hunting" a semi-popular sport among high-level parties. This was due to the fact that their stat blocks were poorly-optimized, making them far less of a challenge than their raw levels would suggest. An average high-level party could reliably kill pretty much any deity in the book, and walk away with a ton of xp for their trouble. |
| 231 | ** 4E has a few deities statted up (Bahamut, Tiamat, Torog, Lolth at least), and usually require you meet some special condition to permanently beat them down (either affecting them in some way that violates their portfolio, using something against their iconic material, or getting a bunch of Primordials/Demon Lords and having them gang up on them). |
| 232 | ** 5e largely did away with statting out gods. However, the edition's rules for the TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms say it's technically possible to kill a god, but virtually impossible in practice. You'd need to go to the god's lair/domain, where they'd have HomeFieldAdvantage in the form of Lair Actions. Then you'd have to kill them when they're both there and at full strength; should the god flee or force you leave their realm, you're out of luck. Even then, gods are immune to all but the most powerful of magic spells. What few stat blocks exist make the gods difficult for even a max-level character -- they have a challenge rating of 30, and the max level for a PlayerCharacter is 20. And dying to a god in their realm means [[YourSoulIsMine your soul is theirs to do with as they please]]. You might get a KlingonPromotion and their power for killing a god in the Forgotten Realms, but good luck pulling it off. |
| 233 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'' is full of {{exaggerat|edTrope}}ion, and this trope is no exception. You can trivially kill the vast majority of gods right out of chargen. And not only you can kill typical day-to-day house-spirit gods, you can also kill the Incarnae, who are the big bosses of the gods. And ultimately you can kill the [[OurTitansAreDifferent Primordials]], who are ''the'' [[TheOldGods gods of the gods]]. In fact, that last one was the very reason why the Exalted were created. |
| 234 | * For an RPG based on Gnosticism, this trope is {{averted|Trope}} in ''TabletopGame/{{KULT}}''. But only because ''GodIsDead''. |
| 235 | * In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', the gods of Theros and Amonkhet [[GameplayAndStoryIntegration have Indestructible]], meaning they're immune to most effects that would destroy them (including damage). That said, Magic is notorious for its extreme literal rule set, meaning that [[DeaderThanDead exiling]] them still works (but see below). |
| 236 | ** In a more flavorful example, Deicide (whose art is the current trope image) is a card in Journey into Nyx that exiles an enchantment, where if you choose to exile an opponent's god, all other copies of that god in your opponent's hand, deck, and graveyard also get exiled. |
| 237 | *** Storywise, this is exactly what Elspeth does to the recently ascended Xenagos. |
| 238 | *** A fun fact: While this works on Therosian gods, it doesn't on Amonkhetu gods, since those gods are simply indestructible creatures, not enchantment creatures like their counterparts on Theros. It's still very possible to kill them via other means, however. |
| 239 | ** One way to deal with indestructible creatures like the gods of Amonkhet is by reducing their toughness to 0 with -1/-1 counters, which usually represent some form of infection or venom. [[spoiler:This is how the gods of Amonkhet meet their end once Nicol Bolas' endgame for the plane is set in motion. He corrupted one of the brother gods by brainwashing him and ''replacing his head with a giant scorpion'' and then unleashed him against them. Even the gods are not immune to The Scorpion God's venom. In gameplay, this is shown by The Scorpion God's ability to place -1/-1 counters on any creature.]] |
| 240 | ** The story of ''Hour of Devastation'' sees [[BigBad Nicol Bolas]] kill four of the five gods of Amonkhet. |
| 241 | *** He later reanimates them into Eternals, super-powered zombies being used for the invasion of the plane of Ravnica. Unlike their living versions, the God-Eternals can be destroyed...but their controller has the option to tuck that God-Eternal back into their deck, third from the top, instead of letting them die. Uniquely, this also happens if the God-Eternal is exiled. |
| 242 | ** Unlike the gods of Theros and Amonkhet, the gods of Kaldheim aren't any more resilient than an average creature with their stats. |
| 243 | * The possibility of this is one of the major dividing lines between demigods and true deities in ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}''. Demigods, such as the various DemonLordsAndArchdevils, all have stats and can be killed like any other powerful monster. They're pretty tough, and many of them have to be killed twice in quick succession before it'll stick, but the LordBritishPostulate is in full effect for them. True deities, on the other hand, explicitly do not have stats and cannot be meaningfully harmed or otherwise affected by even the most powerful player characters. Gods ''can'' die in the setting, and have in the past, but it's a rare occurrence, and tends to involve events of world-shaking impact[[note]]And note that, in this context, "world-shaking" is frequently NotHyperbole[[/note]]. It doesn't happen because a high-level party loaded up on GameBreaker tactics, bamfed into the god's sanctum, and nuked their [=HP=] down to zero. |
| 244 | * Creator/GamesWorkshop: |
| 245 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}''; During ''The End Times'', [[EvilSorcerer Nagash]] entered the Nehekharan Land of the Dead and killed Usirian, taking his place as Nehekhara's God of Death. He also planned on doing this with the Chaos Gods themselves, but their power and circumstance foiled Nagash's plans... at least until ''Age of Sigmar'' came around, and Nagash is back to his old plans again. |
| 246 | ** ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': |
| 247 | *** When [[GodOfEvil Slaanesh]] was born, he made straight for the [[SpaceElves Eldar]] pantheon and easily slaughtered all of them save for three. Isha, the goddess of healing, was saved by Nurgle (although given he's a Chaos god of disease who is physically repulsive in the worst possible way, madly in love with her and shows his affection by infecting her with disease, her current situation is arguably [[FateWorseThanDeath worse than death]]), [[GreatGazoo Cegorach]] [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere got away]], and [[WarGod Khaine]] tried to fight him, [[FlipFlopOfGod either]] [[CurbStompBattle got his ass kicked]] or held his own until Chaos God Khorne arrived and knocked him out of the way so he could get a shot at Slaanesh, [[LiterallyShatteredLives literally getting shattered into pieces]], and now survives as a fragment in the heart of every one of the Eldar's craftworlds. Just a quick aside on the Isha/Nurgle thing. Yes, Nurgle does the whole 'infection' thing with Isha... but Isha in return does the whole 'curing' thing (which Nurgle does allow, of sorts). |
| 248 | *** The C'Tan, the [[PhysicalGod "gods"]] of the Necrons, were almost wiped out by their former followers and several of their own, resulting in the last surviving C'Tan being broken into "shards". In the previous edition when the Necrons were still slaves to the C'tan, this was their ultimate goal: killing all life in the galaxy means no more emotion, meaning no more Warp, and therefore no more Chaos gods. |
| 249 | *** Although [[ContinuitySnarl the exact details are hard to pin down]], [[ShrugOfGod perhaps deliberately]], this was the unstated goals of [[TheEmperor the Emperor]] at the beginning of his secular Imperium with his doctrine of his secular [[OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions "Imperial Truth"]]. Ironically, it was a lie, albeit well-intentioned, but still a lie. The Emperor had at least a middling knowledge of Chaos and the Chaos Gods, and hoped to [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly quench them out]] by using this doctrine to ruthlessly suppress religious worship, particularly of the Chaos Gods (and possibly to prevent new gods bring born from the [[ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve faith of believers]]). What he didn't count on was that the Chaos Gods could thrive on actions and feelings as well, nor would they be powerful enough and willing to meddle in material affairs to split his Imperium and bring him to death's door. Nearly ten millennia of cruising on the momentum of his initial crusade through the galaxy, without the Emperor's guidance, his Imperium has become a theocratic, dark parody of his vision. And the greatest irony of all is that the downfall was all started by his son Lorgar, who worshiped the Emperor as a god and inspired countless others to do the same, but Lorgar's rebuke by the Emperor made him turn to his people's old gods, the Chaos Gods, letting Chaos get its foot in the door and bring about the current state of affairs. |
| 250 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Mythender}}'' is about people who have somehow gotten the power to kill gods (and godlike monsters) and are on a quest to rid the world of the whole lot of them. |
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| 253 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 254 | * This trope, combined with a SaveTheWorldClimax, has become so ubiquitous in [=JRPGs=] that a meme pokes fun at these games starting with a mundane errand and then escalating to defeating god in its climax. |
| 255 | -->[[EasternRPG JRPGs]] be like\ |
| 256 | Chapter 1: save a kitty\ |
| 257 | Final chapter: KILL GOD |
| 258 | * ''VideoGame/ArcRiseFantasia'' has the main characters kill the god of their world. [[spoiler: Unlike the other examples however, [[GodIsGood God is most definitely NOT evil]], but saving the world means that either they kill her, or she just disappears.]] |
| 259 | * ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'' has this as well. The Seven Deities started out as {{Magitek}} {{Cyborg}} members of a race known as "Demigods" -- a HumanSubspecies that is descended from humans who underwent BioAugmentation to manipulate {{Man|a}}tra, an ambient PowerSource for the setting's FunctionalMagic, [[KiManipulation Ki Attacks]], and {{Magitek}} -- who decided to elevate themselves to full-on godhood by assassinating the emperor and pinning the murder on Asura, then kidnapping his daughter because of her unique ability at controlling Mantra. Asura is betrayed, his wife is murdered, and he is killed. [[EscapedFromHell He comes back]], and he is '''[[UnstoppableRage pissed.]]''' [[SerialEscalation Elevated]] to really [[ExaggeratedTrope ridiculous levels]] with Asura killing [[spoiler: Chakravartin, a being that's not only the source of Mantra, and the embodiment of the Wheel of life and Samsara, but also is stated to have been the creator of ''the universe itself'']]. |
| 260 | * 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 "an endangered species"]]. |
| 261 | * ''Franchise/BlazBlue'': Ragna [[spoiler:''finally'' gets to kill Terumi (who turns out to have been none other than ''Takehaya Susanoo'')]] during the climactic fight of ''[[VideoGame/BlazBlueCentralFiction Central Fiction]]''. |
| 262 | * After being free of its influence, Shu Shirakawa in ''[[VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsOriginalGeneration Dark Prison]]'' has one thing in mind: kill the god who bound him in the first place. [[spoiler: Surprisingly enough, killing said god was only a DiscOneFinalBoss.]] |
| 263 | * In ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'', you end up killing all of the deities [[spoiler: save for the Furtive Pygmy]] mentioned in the opening cutscene. Granted, most of them are in pretty bad shape by the time you actually meet them. A few of the other bosses are minor gods as well, but they can be killed like any other enemy in the game. It helps that [[spoiler: you're toting a chunk of the Dark Soul around, being a descendant of the Pygmy]]. |
| 264 | * 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 an OptionalBoss 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.]] |
| 265 | * ''VideoGame/DishonoredDeathOfTheOutsider'' has this as the premise in its title. It features a quest for Billie Lurk, reteamed with Daud, to find the artifacts that could kill the God of the Void. [[spoiler:Being ''Dishonored'', there's also an option to simply remove the Outsider as a god and make him a mortal once more.]] |
| 266 | * This is the purpose of the strategy games ''VideoGame/{{Dominions}}'', currently in its fifth incarnation. You control a nation with a lesser physical god, be it a Titan, a Vampire Queen, or a Stone Monolith, as a playable unit. The goal is to eliminate all other gods and enforce monotheism, your theism. However, killing the physical form of the god is not permanent, belief will bring them back. Instead, the only way to truly kill a god is to get rid of its followers, whether through conquest or [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly starvation]]. |
| 267 | * Overlapping with DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu, this is the entire reason the Grey Wardens were created in the ''Franchise/DragonAge'' [[TheVerse 'verse]]: the [[BigBad archdemons]] are the slumbering gods of the [[TheEmpire Tevinter]] [[VestigialEmpire Imperium]], awoken by darkspawn. If killed by a normal mortal, they'll come back to life via {{body surf}}ing to the nearest darkspawn. If a Grey Warden is in proximity, however, it'll jump to the Warden and their souls will [[MutualKill mutually annihilate]]. |
| 268 | * ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' |
| 269 | ** Near the end of the original campaign, the Doom Slayer casts down the Khan Maykr, the being who was once known as the Mother God of the Sentinel faith, making her pay for every soul that she's condemned to Hell for the sake of the Argent Energy that she made [[DealWithTheDevil her deal with the Dark Lord of Hell]] for. |
| 270 | ** In the final battle of the Ancient Gods DLC, [[spoiler:the Doom Slayer kills the Dark Lord of Hell himself, 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 and replaced with the being that we've known as The Father.]] |
| 271 | * ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'': At the end of each game, you're given an opportunity to hunt down an avatar of the gods. In 1 and 3, you can murder the real deal, though to the player it might be frustrating and unrewarding because the final battles are rhythm hell musical buttons minigames. |
| 272 | ** On a lesser note, [[VideoGame/NierAutomata 2B]] wonders about the god who created the cycle of life and death, implemented it in all things, ''especially'' androids (whose memories can be backed up but have developed serious neuroses about being killed and reprogrammed over and over), and hopes she can find this god and murder him. [[spoiler: She never gets the chance, but depending on how one interprets [[NoFourthWall shooting Yoko Taro's name]] in the GoldenEnding, Pod 042 might have.]] |
| 273 | * In ''VideoGame/DungeonCrawl'', GodsNeedPrayerBadly. Gods without intelligent followers will fade away. This makes it possible to kill [[spoiler:Jiyva, the god of slime, by killing Royal Jelly, the only slime intelligent enough to worship]]. The other gods have enough followers to not be susceptible to this. |
| 274 | * In ''VideoGame/DungeonSiege'' 3 [[spoiler: Jeyne Kassinder revives one of the creator gods to fight the 10th Legion, but it's been corrupted by her rage and you kill it as the {{final boss}}]]. |
| 275 | * ''VideoGame/EldenRing'' has Smithing Master Hewg, who has been given a task to forge a weapon capable of killing a god. [[spoiler:You eventually do that by defeating the Elden Beast in the game's climax, likely using the weapons that Hewg has helped to upgrade.]] |
| 276 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': |
| 277 | ** As part of the series' primary CreationMyth, Lorkhan, one of the et'Ada ("original spirits") convinced/tricked some of his fellow et'Ada to create Mundus, the mortal plane. However, this act caused these et'Ada to sacrifice a large portion of their divine power. As punishment for his perceived treachery, these et'Ada (now known as the Aedra, or "our ancestors" in [[ClassicalTongue Old Aldmeris]]), [[GodIsDead "killed"]] Lorkhan, tore his divine center ("heart") from his body, and cast it down into the mortal world he made them create where his spirit is forced to wander. (According to some myths, this was [[ThanatosGambit Lorkhan's plan all the long]]: to "die" and have his spirit "impregnate" the mortal world.) |
| 278 | ** In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind Morrowind]]'', you'll be required to kill two, with a third being optional. In the main quest, your goal is to defeat [[BigBad Dagoth Ur]]. He actually ''is'' a [[CompleteImmortality truly immortal]] PhysicalGod, and you ''cannot'' kill him in the standard way. Instead, you must cut of him off from his source of power, which kills him thanks to him having NoImmortalInertia. The second is [[spoiler:Almalexia]] in the ''Tribunal'' main quest. Destroying Dagoth Ur's divine power source also cuts [[spoiler: Almalexia]] off, allowing her to be killed in the normal sense. However, she's still a 4000 year old MagicKnight who was merely BroughtDownToBadass, so it's still a god-level battle. Finally, [[spoiler: Vivec]] is optional. Like [[spoiler:Almalexia]], he's an incredibly tough opponent (though, as revealed in later works, he was not canonically killed by the [[PlayerCharacter Nerevarine]]). |
| 279 | ** Killing [[BigBad Mehrunes Dagon]] in ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIVOblivion Oblivion]]'' is ''supposed'' to be impossible (he's got something like 10,000 HP and can stomp you to death without half-trying), but can be done if you A) abuse the Alchemy and Enchant skills to make a {{Game Break|er}}ing enchanted weapon, or B) get lucky with [[LethalJokeItem Wabbajack]]. Since it's not supposed to be possible, he has no actual death animation and most of his ragdoll doesn't even have ''physics'', leading to his body collapsing directly downward into what's somehow both a puddle and a pile. Storywise, of course, he'll just respawn on the planes of Oblivion, like all Daedra do. |
| 280 | ** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'': |
| 281 | *** The ending of the main quest subverts this. [[BigBad Alduin]] is defeated, but [[spoiler:his soul is not absorbed by the [[PlayerCharacter Dragonborn]]]]. He ''will'' return, but [[BeastOfTheApocalypse only when he's meant to]], at TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt proper. |
| 282 | *** This is also part of the plan of the [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Thalmor]]-led [[AntiHumanAlliance Aldmeri]] [[GreaterScopeVillain Dominion]] toward Talos, the DeityOfHumanOrigin who was formerly [[GodEmperor Tiber]] [[FounderOfTheKingdom Septim]] (possibly [[MergerOfSouls among others]]). Their "official" explanation for banning his worship in the White-Gold Concordat, which ended the Great War between the Dominion and the [[VestigialEmpire Vestigial Third Empire]], is that the Altmer believe they descend from the Aedra, and a man [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence ascending]] to join their ranks is unacceptable to them. While it's only hinted at in-game, [[AllThereInTheManual supplementary materials]] reveal that the ''real'' reason is because [[spoiler:they believe the existence of Talos is the last thing holding Mundus, the mortal plane, together. They believe his existence in turn, depends on [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly the worship of the races of Men]]. The Thalmor are religious extremists who play up the [[OurElvesAreDifferent Altmeri]] religious belief that [[TricksterGod Lorkhan]] [[GodIsEvil really screwed their divine ancestors over when creating the material world]] [[OmnicidalManiac and that they should work to destroy that world]] [[GodhoodSeeker to restore the divinity they had before there was a material world]], and are seeking to KillAllHumans to accomplish that]]. Terrifyingly, there is some evidence in the series' lore that they may be ''right'' about this, however, opinions differ over whether the "unchanging stasis" of pre-creation is [[HellOfAHeaven really "divine" at all]]. |
| 283 | * In ''VideoGame/EvilQuest'', [[VillainProtagonist Galvis]] kills God himself before destroying the world. |
| 284 | * ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'': |
| 285 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' has this, as well. The playable characters kill the three gods of magic; Goddess, Demon and Fiend, in order to [[{{depower}} bereave]] Kefka of his magical powers. However, it turns out after the Warring Triad had been felled that Kefka had drained them of so much of their powers, he was sustaining magic by himself, making ''him'' the [[PhysicalGod God of Magic]]. He proceeds to lay waste the the world for shits and giggles - only to grow bored and [[NothingLeftToDoButDie mull over how he wants to go out and how many people he wants to kill doing so]]. Then the playable characters proceed to kill him, even able to use the very magic that is his domain because he's ''that'' suicidal. |
| 286 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', if you have Odin on your side when you fight Seifer, he up and kills the poor guy right at the get-go. [[DiscardAndDraw Fortunately, Gilgamesh shows up to finish him off, taking up Odin's sword.]] |
| 287 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX'': ''Whatever'' Necron is, it represents the concept of Death. While Kuja is the ClimaxBoss, his unstable powers in Trance mode inadvertently cause ''something'' to happen that presents the party with a rare opportunity to meet the avatar of an abstract concept. They quickly discover his nature and motivations ''pisses them off'' and kill him. |
| 288 | ** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIII2'', this is what the villain is trying to do. [[spoiler:He succeeds, partially because of you, causing TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Yet there's still [[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII a third game....]]]] [[spoiler: Said [[VideoGame/LightningReturnsFinalFantasyXIII third game]] does it again, except this time it's the ''TopGod'' who gets taken out!]] |
| 289 | ** Depending on whether you consider ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'''s Primals to be gods, [[PlayerCharacter the Warrior of Light]] outright makes a ''habit'' of this. (Albeit somewhat {{downplayed|Trope}}, given that Primals are established as being capable of coming back to life if [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly they get enough prayer and aether]].) |
| 290 | -->'''Warrior of Light''': "Know that I'll kill your god if I have to. Maybe even if I don't." |
| 291 | ** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXVI'': Ultima, a hive mind of [[PhysicalGod immortal fae]], created the world of Valisthea as an aether farm and a testament to his ego. His grand scheme was to create a physical vessel that could absorb the power of every elemental avatar for him to inhabit. It never occurred to him that he was creating the very being that could ''kill him''. His narcissism was so great that when he discovered he was magically ''inferior'' to his vessel, he merged all his hive bodies and even unleashed his limit break - which exhausted his energy reserves and spare bodies, making him permanently killable. |
| 292 | ** ''Final Fantasy Dissidia'' involves the heroes and villains of different ''Final Fantasy'' titles on teams for Cosmos, the Goddess of Harmony, and Chaos, the God of Disorder. So that's a team of non-gods who have killed gods in their respective universes, under the command of a goddess versus wannabe gods, under the command of another god. Although, picking a single's battle with the all-powerful God of Chaos [[spoiler: who easily kills off his opposite]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg0tMLB5Al8 offers some entertaining exchanges.]] |
| 293 | -->Chaos: Do not atone. JUST PERISH! |
| 294 | * ''Franchise/FireEmblem'': |
| 295 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden'' ends with the protagonist Alm stabbing the God of Power, Duma, right in [[GoForTheEye his eye]]. However he is not killed, but rather [[GracefulLoser accepts his defeat]] and withdraws from the affairs of humans. |
| 296 | *** The ''Gaiden'' remake, ''VideoGame/FireEmblemEchoesShadowsOfValentia'', changes things around a bit: [[spoiler: Duma ''does'' die at Alm's hand, since he's falling victim to insanity and corruption; his last words have him warning Alm and Celica not to fall into his and Mila's mistakes]]. |
| 297 | ** ''VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn'' ends with Ike striking down [[spoiler:the goddess Ashera, who petrified every living thing in the world except for those strong enough to endure it (aka, Ike and Micaiah's armies, among a very few others). However, she is not gone for good, and it's revealed postgame (if you partook in a [[GuideDangIt pretty lengthy and obscure sidequest]]) that she returns several millennia after the game's end, merged back into her original form as Ashunera]]. |
| 298 | ** Subverted, in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening.'' While the player can kill [[spoiler: Grima]], who is worshipped as a god by an evil cult, it is also revealed that [[spoiler: Grima isn't really a god at all but rather a powerful dragon [[GodGuise pretending to be one]]]]. Years later, ''Echoes'' explains the rather complicated reasons behind this: [[spoiler: Grima is actually an UltimateLifeForm, created by the MadScientist Forneus]]. |
| 299 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' the GreaterScopeVillain, [[spoiler: Anankos]], is a Dragon God that ends up being slain [[spoiler: in the GoldenPath]]. |
| 300 | ** In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemThreeHouses'' it's revealed that Sothis [[spoiler: was another dragon god who was butchered by [[GreaterScopeVillain Those Who Slither In The Dark and King Nemesis]] a thousand years before the events of the game [[WorfHadTheFlu when she was unconscious and in no condition to defend herself]],]] although it's shown early on that she ended up being NotQuiteDead. In ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriorsThreeHopes'', [[spoiler:if you prioritize Shez's revenge on Byleth over allying with them]], events will conspire that see [[spoiler:Sothis dying again as a spirit in control of Byleth's body courtesy of ''the player'']]. |
| 301 | * This is the crux of the Fontaine arc in ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'', and an exaggerated version. More specifically, [[spoiler:the God of Justice orders the execution of herself, along with the very throne of the God of Justice itself.]] All in an effort to twist the prophecy of Fontaine's doom and save the nation. Needless to say, this is one of the biggest WhamEpisode of the game, since [[spoiler:The Seven is now permanently The Six.]] |
| 302 | * ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'', [[ExaggeratedTrope of course]]. [[SociopathicHero Kratos]] goes on a killing spree in Olympus as well as many other legends from [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek Mythology]]. Of course, killing the gods that govern the elements or the guy that guards the souls of the dead may have [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt small inconveniences]], but hey, no plan is perfect! By the time of ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'' Kratos has matured and regrets what he did due to the damage he inflicted upon the world. Though he still hates gods on principle, he is more wary of the consequences of killing them. [[spoiler:And he ''still'' ends up killing three gods in that game, though one was killed at his own request (and later reanimated anyway).]] |
| 303 | * ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'': [[spoiler:Sindri, technically a mortal, deals the killing blow on Odin for murdering his brother by smashing [[SoulJar the marble containing his soul]], leaving Odin DeaderThanDead.]] |
| 304 | * One of the branching paths in ''VideoGame/GuardianHeroes'' allows you to [[RageAgainstTheHeavens storm the gates of Heaven]] and kill God. |
| 305 | * ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'': The Godseeker considers literally any boss to be a "God," but beings that could actually be considered this are far rarer. [[spoiler: The Nightmare's Heart has an avatar who can be killed, but this is apparently part of how the Heart's life cycle works. The Pale King is found dead, presumably by the Radiance, and the best ending is gotten by killing the Radiance, permanently ending the Infection she gave as consequence for not worshipping her, and can only be gotten by obtaining the Void Heart, which allows you to control a black substance implied to be some kind of Anti-God]]. |
| 306 | * The point of ''VideoGame/KidIcarus1986'' is to go from a [[TookALevelInBadass weakling putto to badass]] so you can kill the goddess of darkness and save the goddesses of light. No wonder it's a difficult game. In ''VideoGame/KidIcarusUprising'', you get to fight [[EverybodyHatesHades Hades]]. |
| 307 | * In ''VideoGame/KultHereticKingdoms'', the world's God was killed by a hero some time prior to the game. The player character belongs to an Inquisition which aims to stamp out any vestiges of worship. The sword which the hero used is an important item, as it seems to have been empowered by the act of killing God with it — and the game starts when it's stolen. |
| 308 | * Aatrox of ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' is out to [[OmnicidalManiac kill anything that lives]] on Runeterra, including the Gods. And as revealed in Pantheon's backstory, ''he can''. As he killed the Deity known as Pantheon in a fight, tearing the very stars out of the sky in doing so. |
| 309 | * The Sinistrals in the ''VideoGame/{{Lufia}}'' series claim to be gods, and they've got the power to back up that claim. They're also [[GodOfEvil embodiments of evil]], so the plot of the games usually revolves around finding the [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Dual Blade]], a sword which can kill gods, and then kicking the Sinistrals' asses with it. |
| 310 | * ''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). [[Literature/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}}. |
| 311 | * ''VideoGame/NeverwinterNights2: [[ExpansionPack Mask of the Betrayer]]'' [[spoiler:gives you the opportunity to finish off Myrkul with the Spirit-Eater curse. This is also DeathByIrony. Depending on the ending you get, you can become an unholy abomination of soul eating wrath. A large number of gods attempt to take you down as an affront to all existence but it's heavily implied that you consume so many, that they just decide to leave you alone]]. |
| 312 | * Androxus from ''VideoGame/{{Paladins}}'' gained his demonic powers from killing a malicious goddess. Who the goddess was, we don't know yet. |
| 313 | * ''VideoGame/PathOfExile'' goes ''hard'' into this trope with the ''Fall of Oriath'' expansion. Over the course of acts 5 through 10 the player characters kill a total of 14 gods. It helps that all the gods that appear were once human and ascended through their own power and ambition. |
| 314 | * The episodic series of ''[[VideoGame/PennyArcadeAdventures Penny Arcade's On the Rain-Slick Precipice of Darkness]]'' has the protagonists kill a god per episode. Exactly how dead they are afterwards is up for debate, though killing the last one triggers [[spoiler:an EndOfTheWorldSpecial]]. |
| 315 | * One of the earliest examples of deicide in a game, was SSI's ''Phantasie'' series. While your true enemy was the EvilOverlord, you can and should kill Anubis and Zeus whenever you have the opportunity. At various temples, there are statues of a lesser god or a greater god. If you start screwing around with the statues, eventually the god in question will get angry and incarnate to attack you. However if you kill the god, you get the best armour in the game (the godrobe) and the best or 2nd best weapon (the godsword if you take out Zeus and the godknife if it was Anubis). Since you can keep on blaspheming with these statues, eventually you can have a party completely kitted with divine equipment and making the fight with the dark lord a cakewalk. |
| 316 | * This is part of the immediate backstory in ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity'' where, 20 years before the events of the game, Eothas, god of redemption, walked the earth in physical form. He led a Raedceran army to invade Dyrwood so the Dyrwoodans prayed for the aid of Magran, goddess of war and fire. With her help their greatest smiths built a magic bomb called the Godhammer. It slew Eothas's physical manifestation and, even though his priests still wield divine power, he himself has not been heard from since and is presumed dead. [[spoiler:One of your possible companions, Durance, is the last surviving member of the group that detonated the Godhammer, so he is the closest thing this world has to a god-killer.]] In the sequel ''Videogame/PillarsOfEternityIIDeadfire'' DLC ''Breath of Winter'', you learn more about the event. [[spoiler:It turns out Eothas knew about the Godhammer all along but chose to let himself be hit by it to show kith that the gods were not invincible. His vessel Saint Waidwen willingly went along with this since he trusted in Eothas.]] |
| 317 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Poacher}}'', [[spoiler:every religion's divine judge of the dead is actually the same entity: the Judge Of All The Earth, who is killed by Derek in the secret ending]]. |
| 318 | * ''[[VideoGame/AgarestSenki2 Record of Agarest War 2]]'' has Weiss, the first generation protagonist who kills a god and now must pay the price. [[spoiler: Although he didn't get to actually kill Chaos because the real Weiss has been DeadAllAlong]]. |
| 319 | * The [[spoiler: [[GoldenEnding True Ending]] path]] of ''[[VideoGame/AgarestSenki Record of Agarest War]]'' involves [[spoiler: killing all six Dark Gods/Goddesses of Agarest to obtain true peace and happiness from an otherwise ill-fated '''false world of Agarest''']]. |
| 320 | * This is the goal of [[spoiler:the dwarf Doug]] in ''VideoGame/RuneFactory4'', as he was led to believe that she [[spoiler:murdered his entire family]]. Luckily, he eventually learns better. |
| 321 | * This has been accomplished a few times in ''VideoGame/{{RuneScape}}''. |
| 322 | ** A few of the setting's gods [[YouKillItYouBoughtIt gained their divinity through acts of deicide]]: Guthix by killing Skargaroth, Bandos by killing Jododu Otoku and Zamorak by killing Zaros, although [[spoiler:[[ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated Zaros survived]] and regained his power after millennia]]. |
| 323 | ** More recently, [[spoiler:Guthix the God of Balance was assassinated by [[WildCard Sliske]] (even though the rest of the Zarosian Mahjarrat had expressly declared they did not want to kill him), Bandos the WarGod was killed after [[DivineConflict a lengthy stand-off against Armadyl, a rival god]], [[AlmightyIdiot Tuska the World Eater]] was killed by [[GaiasVengeance Vorago]] after Tuska was sufficiently weakened by [[NayTheist the Godless]], and the [[TheOldGods Elder God]] Mah was [[MercyKill euthanized]] by Seren after Zaros led a ritual to drain her power and transfer it to himself and the remaining Mahjarrat, [[FateWorseThanDeath which left Mah permanently comatose]]]]. |
| 324 | * ''VideoGame/{{Sacrifice}}'' sees the five gods of the world dropping like flies as the story goes on: Eldred kills at least two in every campaign, and [[OmnicidalManiac Marduk]] inevitably kills the rest. It's explained to you that the gods you killed may return with a new name later as long as there are people to believe in the forces they represent, but the process takes centuries at best. |
| 325 | * ''[[VideoGame/SaGaRPG SaGa]]'' series: |
| 326 | ** 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''. |
| 327 | ** ''VideoGame/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. |
| 328 | * The ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' games let you spawn anything by writing its name, and that includes God. He is very strong and is a friendly NPC, but you can indeed kill him, with no particular consequence. |
| 329 | * The ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'' series has this alongside DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu, what with being able to fuse gods like [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Pallas Athena]], [[Myth/HinduMythology Vishnu]], or [[Myth/JapaneseMythology Amaterasu]] and getting them to fight other demons based on deities. |
| 330 | ** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiII'' ends with the protagonist slaying [[spoiler:YHVH, an egotistical caricature of ''the'' Judeo-Christian {{God}}]]. He pays ''[[FateWorseThanDeath dearly]]'' for this after [[spoiler:YHVH]] [[AsLongAsThereIsEvil comes back]]. |
| 331 | ** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIIINocturne'' has the protagonist defeat [[spoiler:Kagutsuchi]], a mere avatar of [[spoiler:YHVH]]. However, by completing the secret True Demon ending, [[spoiler:he ultimately becomes the general of a demonic army aiming to take down YHVH once and for all]]. |
| 332 | ** In the ''VideoGame/DigitalDevilSaga'' series, as in many other games in the greater Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei franchise, God (this time with a Hindu rather than Judeo-Christian flavor) is indeed the FinalBoss of the series, 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 that they fight him. |
| 333 | ** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' has this as a central theme. The pagan god [[Myth/CelticMythology Dagda]] resurrects the protagonist with the express purpose to slay not only Merkabah and Lucifer, but the alliance of polytheistic gods led by [[Myth/HinduMythology Krishna]]. [[spoiler:And by the end, YHVH falls by his hand, too.]] |
| 334 | ** The ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'' series continues this trend, with the main characters fighting [[VideoGame/Persona2 Nyarlathotep]], [[VideoGame/Persona3 Nyx]], and [[spoiler: [[VideoGame/Persona4 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'']]. |
| 335 | *** A straighter example occurs at the end of ''VideoGame/Persona5'', where the Phantom Thieves go up against [[spoiler:Yaldabaoth, a god of control formed from the public's collective distorted desire to have their lives and decisions made for them and not have to think for themselves. He can be described as having the personality of YHVH and the methods and motivation of Nyarlathotep. You eventually defeat him by getting the public to believe in you rather than him, allowing you to break your initial Persona Arsene's chains, causing him to turn into Satanael and gain a ''skyscraper-sized railgun'' which he [[BoomHeadshot shoots Yaldabaoth in the head with]]. All on Christmas Eve, to boot]]. And in the UpdatedRerelease ''Royal,'' he's not even the final boss! |
| 336 | %%* ''Franchise/SilentHill'': The ending of the first and third games. |
| 337 | * ''VideoGame/{{Smite}}'': 'Deicide' is the term for TotalPartyKill. As the game's theme is about Gods fighting each other, it fits. Though 'Deicide' only lasts until at least one God respawns at home base. |
| 338 | * ''VideoGame/StarOceanTillTheEndOfTime'': The second half of the plot deals with the party trying to stop [[TheMaker The Creator]] from destroying the galaxy. [[spoiler: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted in that he's actually a computer programmer]], but he's still the closest thing to a god that the Star Ocean universe has]] |
| 339 | * ''VideoGame/SunlessSkies'': The backstory involves a SteamPunk London escaping to the heavens and killing a sun, which are the closest thing to deities in the ''VideoGame/FallenLondon'' setting it spun off from. Multiple plot threads are spun into discovering ''how'' this happened, and "The Truth" ambition allows the PlayerCharacter to not only get to the truth of the matter but also [[spoiler:perform the deed on your own, slaying The Sapphir'd King with aid from [[HunterOfTheirOwnKind The Halved]] and the Spider-Senate in The White Well]]. |
| 340 | * ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny2'': The heroes resolve to do this in the later half of the game. Especially [[MadScientist Ha]][[ItAmusedMe rold]]. They succeed after [[GodsNeedPrayerBadly rejecting her presence]] and [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu beating her down.]] |
| 341 | * ''VideoGame/TerrariaCalamity'' features the Devourer of Gods, a massive, purple worm that does exactly what its name implies. Despite its name, it considers itself to be a god, though given that it assimilates the powers of those it eats, that may not be far from the truth. |
| 342 | * ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerIII'': At some point in the past, the bear god Ursun was imprisoned within the Realm of Chaos. A mortal Kislevite prince went to save him, but at the last moment [[FaceHeelTurn turned to Chaos]] and shot Ursun with a magical bullet, seemingly killing the god. Some time later, it's revealed that Ursun survives albeit badly wounded, a prisoner of the Daemon Prince Be'lakor who seeks to drain his life and power as part of a revenge scheme against the Chaos Gods. The mission of the various factions is to find Ursun's prison and defeat Be'lakor, either to free Ursun and restore him to health or kill him and take his power for themselves -- or, in the case of the Ogres, eat him. |
| 343 | * ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}'': The Orokin were feared by the Martian Sand People as greedy gods who stole their children. The Martians soon worshiped Inaros instead as the "Skykiller" after he began pushing the Orokin back and rescuing the stolen children, making him their [[GodEmperor god-king]]. |
| 344 | * The ''Xeno'' meta-series games usually have this as a plot staple: |
| 345 | ** ''VideoGame/{{Xenogears}}'''s plot comes down to this, with the main party facing off against [[spoiler:the PhysicalGod that created "humanity" from the genetic material of actual humans millennia ago]]. |
| 346 | ** The ''VideoGame/{{Xenosaga}}'' trilogy has a different twist on this with [[spoiler:"God" actually being a benign, vaguely supportive force while the villain is a PhysicalGod who's taken his self-imposed role as caretaker of the universe a step too far and has begun doing more harm than good]]. |
| 347 | ** ''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 named Klaus 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 seemingly destroyed, and he ended up being a god in the new one]]. |
| 348 | ** 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']]. Although it turns out [[spoiler:said god, The Architect, is already awaiting his death, as he's the other half of Klaus that remained on the devastated Earth and in the original universe after his experiment, and he knows that when Zanza dies he will as well.]] |
| 349 | * One ending in ''VideoGame/YggdraUnion'' has the eponymous character head to heaven to do just that. |
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| 352 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 353 | * 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. |
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| 356 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 357 | * Attempted twice in ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'' with the Author, who is essentially the God of the comic's universe. At the end of the first game storyline Dr Wily captures and seemingly kills the Author, erasing the comic from existence. It was quickly established the Author was only injured and recovered (at the time this was done because the Mega Man strips were meant to be filler and the Author did intend to stop them, but then wound up going back to them and they became the main story). In the final storyline, Bob attempts the same plan but takes it [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]] by arranging for the Author to get killed in three time periods, ensuring his destruction. When George points out that Wily already tried killing the Author and failed, the Shadowy Author reminds him that since it's already known the comic is coming to an end there's no guarantee Bob's plan will fail this time (it does, but the point is still valid). |
| 358 | * A major plot point in ''Webcomic/{{Digger}}'', though it doesn't come up until late into the comic's run. Interestingly, it's actually a MercyKill; the god in question is not the BigBad, but its victim and host. |
| 359 | * [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle's]] goal for [[PhysicalGod Princess Celestia]] in ''Webcomic/FriendshipIsBetrayal''. [[spoiler:Already done with Luna.]] |
| 360 | * ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': |
| 361 | ** The old gods engaged in deicide amongst themselves on occasion, with at least one god (Hansa, god of cynics) being slain by another. |
| 362 | ** Provided [[GodOfHumanOrigin Demiurges]] count, Allison will end up doing this. The title of the comic refers to the true name of a prophesized champion who will wield the ultimate weapon (a reality-warping brain implant), slay the ruling pantheon, and of course, cause the deaths of six billion 'demons'.[[note]]The hell-spawned are typically called 'Devils' and not demons, so it's implied that all the death and devastation the protagonist and her party directly/indirectly cause by instigating chaos in the homes of the gods is where the death count comes from. As of book four, the protagonist indirectly doomed one goddess by ''destroying her personal fountain of immortality''.[[/note]] |
| 363 | ** The current ruling pantheon of Demiurges came about because of a GreatOffScreenWar DivineConflict in which all the Demiurges (mortals who had become god by planeswalking into heaven and obtaining one of God's 777,777 voices) went to war with each other to become sole ruler of Creation, winnowing their number down from almost a million to seven. This means all of the [[BigBadEnsemble Seven Black Emperors]] are god-killers, and one of them, [[TheJuggernaut Jagganoth]], [[RedBaron is known as the]] [[GodEating "God-Eater"]]. [[EarnYourTitle He very likely earned it]]. |
| 364 | ** A recurring character is the drunken mendicant knight Maya, whose true name means "Murder the Gods and Topple Their Thrones". She is eventually revealed to be [[spoiler:a former champion of the god-war and a former member of the Black Emperors]], and [[SemanticSuperpower Student of the Principle Art of Cutting]]. [[spoiler:Her life's goal is now to slay Incubus, her former friend and one of the Seven.]] |
| 365 | ** In ''Breaker of Infinities'', [[spoiler:Jagganoth lives up to his title by slaying two of the Seven and maiming the others. Solomon then reveals his DangerousForbiddenTechnique, a martial arts move designed to kill the actual gods [[CrazyPrepared should they somehow ever return]]. Despite literally puncing Jagganoth through four universes and trapping him in a magical black hole that imprisons souls, this is heavily implied to not be enough to stop him.]] |
| 366 | * In ''Webcomic/TheLostOracle'', one of the titular Oracles, a bridge between mortals and deities, slew a God. To say the Gods were displeased was an understatement. They nearly drove humanity to extinction before a compromise was reached. |
| 367 | * In ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', the [[EldritchAbomination Snarl]] outright killed the Eastern Pantheon (aka the Greek gods) immediately after it emerged. No wonder the remaining gods are pretty wary of it. |
| 368 | * In ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' Tycho recommends killing the gods of Gabe's ludicrously powerful ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' group in an attempt to find something to frighten them. Unfortunately... |
| 369 | --> '''Gabe:''' ''They'' killed their gods. |
| 370 | --> '''Tycho:''' Why would they do that? |
| 371 | --> '''Gabe:''' To ingest their godseeds. |
| 372 | * ''Webcomic/ReturnToPlayer'': Probably Sehan's goal. He named the Guild he formed ''Deicide''. |
| 373 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': The talking sword Chaz can kill just about anything when powered by innocent blood. It claims it could easily kill the Demon King, a GodOfEvil, and suggests that Torg use it to do that. [[spoiler: We don't get to see this happen, but less direct contact with Chaz does scar the Demon King.]] In "Mohkadun", [[spoiler: it's revealed that Chaz was brought into the mortal world for King Farahn to take revenge by killing the demigod Kron -- which he did]]. {{Subverted|Trope}} earlier in the same story when [[spoiler: [[TheAntiGod Kozoaku]]]] impales Symachus the ({{physical|God}}) god of justice; Symachus even thinks he's killing him, but that's not his intention, and the god's HealingFactor saves him. [[spoiler: That's what Chaz is needed to get around with Kron.]] |
| 374 | * ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': Enryu killed the [[PhysicalGod Guardian of the 43rd Floor]], forever banishing the idea that the Guardians were immortal. |
| 375 | * In "Useless Dumb Fuck's redo" William pulls depth in words of the possibility of being a god who has killed a beast or that he his a beast who killed god [[spoiler: only to have actually killed one]]. |
| 376 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Unsounded}}'' the Ssaelit religion agrees that the world was created by the Gefendur gods, but claims that when Ssael was killed he resisted the normal reincarnation mechanisms, traveled through the khert to find the Gefendur gods, and slew them. Ssael is considered the one god, having ascended to their former position. |
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| 379 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 380 | * This article from ''Website/TheOnion'': [[http://www.theonion.com/articles/nasa-completes-52year-mission-to-find-kill-god,19263/ Nasa Completes 52-Year Mission to Find, Kill God]]. |
| 381 | * ''Literature/TalesOfMU'' gives us Gillian "Gottmorder" Callahan. |
| 382 | -->'''Imperial Agent''': The charges against you include three counts of attempted deicide... |
| 383 | -->'''Callahan''': One of those succeeded. |
| 384 | -->'''Imperial Agent''': We don't have a law that covers successful deicide. |
| 385 | * ''Literature/TheSalvationWar'': The first story has humanity go to war with Hell ''and win so hard that it is later referred to as the [[CurbstompBattle Curbstomp War.]]'' Then we kill Satan with cruise missiles. The next story, we go to war with Heaven. The only reason that we don't personally kill God there... well... [[spoiler: [[TheStarscream someone]] beat us to it.]] |
| 386 | ** The second chapter is even called ''Pantheocide''. |
| 387 | * In the Website/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]]. |
| 388 | ** The [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/rat-s-nest-hub Rat's Nest canon]] is a WhatIf story revolving around the GOC successfully killing God, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero which causes reality itself]] [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ to gradually self-destruct]]. |
| 389 | * From ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'', Linkara is against the entity which is [[spoiler: Missingno]], who is described as an elder God. Linkara acknowledges that conventional combat does not work and only by [[TalkingTheMonsterToDeath critiquing is he able to defeat the entity.]] |
| 390 | * In the ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'' skit of ''WebAnimation/HowItShouldHaveEnded'', Kratos decides to move onto other gods after destroying the Greek Pantheon. He starts with Thor and Anubis and has a list that includes Creator/LRonHubbard, [[Franchise/MortalKombat Raiden]] and even Franchise/{{Cthulhu|Mythos}}. He draws the line at Creator/MorganFreeman though. |
| 391 | * Website/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. |
| 392 | * The ultimate goal of ''WebVideo/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]]. |
| 393 | * In ''Roleplay/TheGamersAlliance'', what made [[AntiVillain Kagetsu]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Dark Andain]] notorious was not only his open [[UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans rebellion against the gods]] but also the fact that he was the first person in the Land of the Living to ever [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu slay a god]], which demonstrated that gods can in fact be killed even by mortals and demigods if the gods are fatally wounded while they're in their corporeal form. |
| 394 | * Agents of the WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum who specialize in hunting poorly written powerhouses occasionally have to kill those who happen to be gods or goddesses. This is especially common when it comes to ''[[Literature/TheCampHalfBloodSeries Percy Jackson]]''-verse Sues, who almost always end up being [[FateWorseThanDeath chopped up and thrown into Tartarus]]. |
| 395 | * ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': During an ancient DivineConflict that devastated the globe, TheMagocracy of Aeor achieved the unprecedented feat of creating {{Magitek}} weapons that could destroy gods. The good and evil gods [[EnemyMine joined forces]] just long enough to wipe the city-state off the map before the knowledge could be used. |
| 396 | * ''WebVideo/SMPEarth'': |
| 397 | ** The Ender Dragon, nicknamed Big Bertha, killed [[spoiler:[=JoshA20=]]], a server admin, who of course has near, if not full control over the server, making that the death of a PhysicalGod. |
| 398 | ** [[spoiler:[=TommyInnit=] also kills [=JoshA20=]]] and then receives a [[ArtifactOfPower command block]], which he first uses to be a GravityMaster. |
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| 400 | |
| 401 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 402 | * Admiral Zhao in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' declares his ultimate goal to be the death of the Moon Spirit. [[spoiler:He does succeed in this, but the Ocean Spirit [[DraggedOffToHell takes its revenge on Zhao]], and the Moon Spirit is quickly replaced/resurrected.]] |
| 403 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'': |
| 404 | ** [[LightEmUp Raava]] and [[CastingAShadow Vaatu]] fight to the death every ten thousand years, though obviously it isn't permanent. [[spoiler: Unalaq brutally slaughters Raava, while Korra later kills Vaatu via [[ReviveKillsZombie purification]].]] |
| 405 | ** Attempted at the end of Book 3. [[spoiler: Zaheer and the Red Lotus restrain and poison Korra in order to force her into the Avatar State and kill her, ending the Avatar Cycle. Korra manages to resist going into the Avatar State for some time, but once she does, breaks her chains and lays a feral beatdown on Zaheer until the poison finally does its work, only being saved at the last minute by Suyin metal-bending the metallic poison out.]] |
| 406 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': [[GodEmperor The Diamonds are regarded as gods by Homeworld.]] During the Battle for Earth, [[spoiler:Pink Diamond was slain by Rose Quartz]]. This may have been what instilled enough spite in the others to create the Cluster [[spoiler:and to corrupt every single Gem on Earth, friend or foe]]. Ultimately, [[spoiler:it turns [[FakingTheDead no one killed her]], though [[{{Reincarnation}} she is sort of]] [[DeathOfPersonality dead]].]] |
| 407 | * In some ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'' continuities, planet Cybertron is either destroyed or rendered uninhabitable because of a war between the Autobots and Decepticons. Keep in mind that Cybertron is, in some adaptations, their god Primus in disguise... |
| 408 | * This happens completely by accident and is PlayedForLaughs in ''WesternAnimation/TrippingTheRift.'' Chode travels to [[TimeTravel the beginning of time]] to find out the true origin of the universe [[spoiler:and unwittingly runs over God with his spaceship]]. He fixes it at the end of the episode, though. |
| 409 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'': This is the major goal of Season 3 BigBad Oropo, who wants to wipe out what he views as a corrupt JerkassGods pantheon and replace them with "better" candidates pooled among the gods' own demigod children (though even InUniverse some of his choices are...questionable). His plan can be summed up as [[spoiler:"open a portal to the homeworld of the gods, and then drop a FantasticNuke in there to cause an EarthShatteringKaboom"]]. |
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